Sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
Oh, this is just a perfect example of the unqualified passing judgment on military leadership. Trump wouldn’t recognize a good leader if his life depended on it. It would certainly accelerate our decline into 3rd world status.
That’s how Mexico got out of paying for that big, beautiful wall, after all.
There’s always conscription (and don’t think the brain trust behind Project 2025 will be too fastidious to consider it in one form or another).
And it’s not just the big picture things but little things that add up and affect everybody regardless of who they are.
Think about the number of food safety issues we’ve had the last few years (onions in McDonald’s burgers, listeria in ice cream, bird flu affecting egg production, etc).
That’s no coincidence. The first Trump term saw a rejection or downgrading of FDA inspectors - less money to hire, job cuts, fewer inspections. COVID exacerbated this trend. But the philosophy - to the extent one exists - is that regulations are bad and industry will police itself to maintain their business (HA!).
Things have recovered slightly in the last couple years but not to pre-Trump levels. And now that he’s back? Goodbye 20th century food safety standards, welcome back to Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle”.
Ok, so maybe some of that happens. But we still have the CDC around to identify and track salmonella and e. coli outbreaks, right? …oh wait, they don’t like the CDC, either, do they?
No, we’re not going to hit a dystopian nightmare overnight, but the little creeping bits of awfulness in food safety have been accumulating for years and the brief reprieve they’ve gotten is going away again.
Good luck getting a dozen safe eggs for $0.89 when bird flu devastates millions of chickens and the remaining eggs are contaminated with salmonella and there’s nobody around to figure any of that out.
And that’s just in food safety.
What about the NHC or NOAA or the NWS or any number of other organizations that we actually do rely upon in subtle ways that have more of an impact than we realize? They’ve already been weakened and haven’t recovered from the first go around. Remaining staffers are doing their best, but they’re about to be hit again.
So, yeah, there’s the big global strategic picture. And the philosophical bits about protecting the most vulnerable of us. And maybe average straight white dudes don’t see an immediate effect from those.
But those straight white guys are still going to be affected, whether they realize it or not (generally, not - most Americans are kinda dumb) by all the mundane daily stuff they take for granted that is already slightly worse than it used to be and will continue getting ever so slightly worse until one day they realize it’s all gone to shit.
And I bet they still blame Democrats when that happens and still grouse about unions and unnecessary bureaucracy and regulations.
If only. The story is from2011. This more recent story indicates the state’s Republicans have doubled down after most of HB56 was struck down by Federal courts. How crops, if any, are being harvested is not mentioned.
HB 7, sponsored by Rep. Ernie Yarbrough, R-Trinity, allows local law enforcement agencies, such as sheriffs and police departments throughout the state, to enter into MOUs with the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies to enforce the nation’s immigration laws.
HB 3, sponsored by Rep. Chip Brown, R-Hollinger’s Island, would enhance penalties for undocumented immigrants convicted of crimes.
The bills come as former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for president, has called for “mass deportation” of undocumented immigrants. Alabama in 2011 passed HB 56, a law that aimed at criminalizing every aspect of an undocumented immigrant’s existence. Among other provisions, the statute allowed law enforcement to detain those they suspected of being in the country unlawfully. Most of HB 56 was later overturned by federal courts.
And, like with brexit, the LEFP voters will be claiming that they knew exactly what
they were voting for as their faces are being eaten.
I’m reading would do things. Have they actually been enacted yet?
It is. And farmers faced severe difficulties then. I don’t see why it would be any different today.
And the new bills do the same thing. Except for the beholden Supreme Court, the provisions are still unconstitutional.
The point I was trying to make is that they, Republican legislators and voters, had fourteen years to figure things out and demonstrably have not. My guess is up to now the migrant workers were back in the fields under the table and will disappear again.
But that’s my point. While most Americans will suffer from a tariff jump due to increased prices, a handful of Americans will benefit from a tariff jump because they’ll be the ones pocketing the money.
And guess which ones will be in the room talking to Trump?
And I get the response will be “what if he just ignores it”, but the above is a very bright line with no wiggle room. 2 terms and you’re done.
He could of course declare a candidacy, but a very large number of states would have to agree to put him on the ballot unconstitutionally, and survive those court challenges, and then Congress would have to unconstitutionally certify that election results, and then that certification would have to survive a legal challenge that would sit before SCOTUS.
And yes, our current crop of politicians are definitely that corrupt, but there are so many moving parts here that it would almost certainly not work, so nobody would try it.
As far as the idea that Trump can violate the constitution whenever he feels like it, I mean yeah, but that will generally take the form of doing things and not getting punished. Making a bunch of people and states do unconstitutional things in a coordinated fashion is a very heavy lift.
I think Trump will follow the money, and I think most business will be actively harmed from tariffs, and this would overcome any small minority that expects to benefit from tariffs. The man still needs donors to play ball.
Again to reiterate, yes I think he’ll do a symbolic tariff that will definitely hurt some interests within America, but I simply don’t think he’ll be permitted to crash the entire economy.
Yes. It’s human nature, unfortunately. Millions of Trump voters will suffer because of Trump’s actions–and only a tiny fraction of them will make the connection (and regret their vote).
Expect to see Bezos make even MORE money selling European-produced food to America’s top one percent. It will become quite the trend. I can already hear the chirpy reports about The Newest Fashion on the morning news shows.
I wonder if it was Vlad or Xi who suggested this plan to Donald? (Think of how they’ll cry when the USA is reduced to third-world status!)
I am guessing that this is the part they didn’t dare write down in Project 2025: Trump NEEDS a war. He can’t really get away with declaring martial law on faked reports of “Antifa” attacks going on; only a tiny portion of even Fox-only viewers would believe it.
But a good foreign attack–that’s the only way for the Trumpites to achieve full dictatorship quickly. No incremental, frog-in-the-water-on-the boil stuff: just a quick shut down of all free communication, gunning down of protesters, and imprisonment of political opponents.
(The new ‘fire officers who don’t bow down to Trump’ board will be an excellent prelude to the “foreign attack”—it will clear the way for the firing-on-protesters part, which is so very necessary to consolidating power.)
Not if there’s a National Emergency. In that situation, regretfully, elections would have to be cancelled. And Donald–the ONLY one who can fix it–will have to put aside his own wishes and remain in office, due to his immense patriotism. He will do his duty!
And all the Leopard-Eating Faces Party voters will do all they can to support their dear leader in this terrible crisis.
You’d better believe that there WILL be a National Emergency. (I mean, why wouldn’t there be?)
No law, even Constitutional law, enforces itself.
Except that Trump literally already tried that and was completely ignored, because the federal government has no power to cancel elections that are run by the states.
Then Constitution Man will zoom in from the heavens to save America.
Nothing to worry about here.
In anticipation of these glib and inane knee-jerk responses, I already explained in some detail why this isn’t about stopping Trump from doing something illegitimate, but about getting every branch of every state and federal government to agree to nullify the 22nd Amendment.
Not necessarily. It is still an open question if he could be Vice-President and become President upon a vacancy since he was not elected. As for the 12th Amendment
But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
I am sure that that refers only to
No person except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen Years a resident within the United States.
As we have seen in a couple of elections, there are few if any guardrails in place to prevent an ineligible candidate from being elected President.
The 22nd amendment supercedes the 12th.