Seriously? It’s a city in a red state. Nothing is likely to happen.
It’s a blue city in a sea of red so who knows. The Republicans in Nashville hate us and would love nothing better than to see the city punished, and the rest of the state would cheer it on. Again, we are the most violent city in the country. If Trump wants to pretend he’s serious about being tough on crime, it would be a good opportunity for him to show out here. Governor Lee would be all for it. But Tennessee doesn’t usually get a lot of attention, and Trump seems to prefer going after blue states so he can piss off their governors, so I’m not too concerned at this point.
Memphis is an interesting place. I don’t go there very often, but when I do I stop by the Cozy Corner for some ribs, and the neighborhoods are fascinating. I swear I can drive through a lovely neighborhood, blink, and suddenly I’m surrounded by grinding poverty. I’m sure Memphis isn’t the only city like that, but it fascinated me the first time I was there in the late 1990s.
Who knows? Maybe the people of Tennessee will be just fine with Trump punishing the blue city of Memphis?
I’ll sometimes listen to a snippet of the Orange Buffoon just for the hilarious comedy value. He’s going to “re-grass” Washington parks. He knows more about grass than anyone human being in the world. Did you know that grass has life? He knows that. I doubt anyone else does. 
Hmmm…but he un-grassed the WH Rose Garden. What’s up with that? 
Clearly, that grass had outlived its allotted span and needed to be buried.
Send Lawyers, guns and money.
I really don’t know what to say about how bad this shit show has gotten. I’m from Chicago. Though in the 60’s. I doubt they will put up with this BS.
“The shit has hit the fan!”
As my dad said, ‘The feces has hit the rotating oscillator.’
So far today there are three executive orders that fit the thread:
Trump ordered that flag burning is again a crime despite SCOTUS having ruled otherwise.
He also ordered states to require cash bail for a range of crimes including vandalism. This is a classic unfunded mandate, since it will require more jail cells.
Trump doesn’t control the states.
Yet.
Yet, I say.
This is an often overlooked point – “executive order” doesn’t mean “new law”. Haven’t many of his executive orders generally been ignored, and doubly so in blue states? No cite, though.
For indigent defendants, there is rarely a cash component to a federal bail. For whatever reason, Trump didn’t monkey with that. The executive order just applies to states and localities.
The way the executive order reads, Trump will enforce the order with threats of withholding federal funds. I suppose we will find out if TACO here.
I posted this link in a P&E thread:
To fight the fascist government (and yes, we are officially fascist country now), the author gives four options. The first one is to create a Blue state coalition that renders the federal government irrelevant. The third one is secession. (The author says a serious threat might be enough.) The fourth option is international intervention
The second option is this:
Option 2: Selective Compliance and Irish Democracy
The Irish called it “Irish Democracy” when they were under British rule, the silent, dogged resistance of millions who simply ignored laws they found illegitimate. Don’t protest. Don’t riot. Just don’t comply.Red states need blue state money. Blue state taxes fund red state governments. What if millions of people in blue states simultaneously decided to claim exempt on their W-4s and simply… stopped paying federal taxes? Not as protest but as a coordinated “forgetting.” Overwhelm the IRS. Make enforcement impossible.
Doctors in blue states could ignore abortion restrictions. Teachers could ignore curriculum mandates. State police could refuse to enforce federal laws. Not dramatically, just… incompetently. “Sorry, we couldn’t find them.” “The paperwork got lost.” “Our systems are down.”
Make every single act of authoritarian control require physical enforcement, then make that enforcement impossibly expensive and difficult.
So, yeah. Just ignore laws that are illegitimate.
It’s been posted elsewhere, but when Trump doesn’t have the legal/extralegal authority to get his way, he just resorts to straight-up threats:
She’s pretty much every bit as bad as the J6 marauders, and was prosecuted and found guilty by the constituents of her deep red County.
The start of saying the quiet part out loud.
Some people are saying, “Maybe we would like a dictator”
To pick a nit: Executive orders that are illegitimate. Otherwise, point very much taken.
To be clear, an EO cannot criminalize an act or behavior, right?
Whadda ya gonna do about it, if he does?