What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[viper37]

Trump to declare "illicit" fentanyl "Weapon of Mass Destruction," per draft EO


Seems like the war is coming sooner than we expected.

The EO may be published as early as next week, the Department of State source tells me, but the timeline isn't confirmed. The source speculates the purpose is a combination of designating fentanyl cartels as terrorist organizations and creating justification for conducting military operations in Mexico and Canada. They also suspect that it will be used domestically as justification for rounding up homeless encampments and deporting drug users who are not citizens. 

[The Minsky Moment]

So the Sackler family will be sent to Gitmo and their assets confiscated?

This is a sad sick joke.  If fentanyl is a terrorist weapon of mass destruction, that makes the USA the most dangerous rogue terrorist nation.  We'd have to sanction ourselves.  Starting with the addicts in the White House.

Orwell did not have sufficient imagination for this level of doublespeak.

[crazy canuck]

Military operations in Canada eh.

[Baron von Schtinkenbutt]

You know, I was finally getting comfortable with the idea that I had been paranoid 20-ish years ago when I feared the post-9/11 security apparatus would be warped into a fascist security state.  I really didn't want to be proven right, but Cheetos Locos seems to be speedrunning it.

[Grey Fox]

It's not too late you can still fight it. Start right now.


I didn't expect after 911 that I would become a terrorist and yet the Orange Cheetos is speed running it.

[DGuller]

Has 9/11 been the most successful act of terror ever?  Bin Laden didn't get to profit from it, but surely he's got a hell of an accomplishment to put on his resume if he applies to anything in hell.  The few thousand civilian deaths was just a drop in the bucket of damage his attack inflicted on US, or tricked US into inflicting on itself.

[Neil]

Maybe January 6th.

[mongers]

Where are the protests that should be involving 100s of thousands* of American at a time?



*Serbs managed 300 thousand the other day, protesting against their 'Kremlin friendly' president.

[PJL]

Talking of protests, I saw an article the other day regarding a study that worked out that non-violent protests tend to become successful once 3.5% of the population has participated in it. Also violent resistance tends to be less successful than non-violent. So you need about 11 million Americans to protest peacefully to topple the current administration.

[Admiral Yi]

Talking of protests, I saw an article the other day regarding a study that worked out that non-violent protests tend to become successful once 3.5% of the population has participated in it. Also violent resistance tends to be less successful than non-violent. So you need about 11 million Americans to protest peacefully to topple the current administration.

Is that how the study defined successful, toppling the current administration?

[PJL]

Talking of protests, I saw an article the other day regarding a study that worked out that non-violent protests tend to become successful once 3.5% of the population has participated in it. Also violent resistance tends to be less successful than non-violent. So you need about 11 million Americans to protest peacefully to topple the current administration.

Is that how the study defined successful, toppling the current administration?

Article says being successful means serious political change which does mean a change of regime.

The full article is here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world

[Razgovory]

So if Trump had gotten just 11 million people to protest at once he could have overthrown Biden and made himself President?  That's not a comforting thought.

[Jacob]

Talking of protests, I saw an article the other day regarding a study that worked out that non-violent protests tend to become successful once 3.5% of the population has participated in it. Also violent resistance tends to be less successful than non-violent. So you need about 11 million Americans to protest peacefully to topple the current administration.

You probably saw it on languish when I posted the link a few days ago

[viper37]

Lawyers say ICE 'disappeared' 48 New Mexico residents: 'Serious human rights violation'


Sounds like Russia to me.

[HVC]

It's fine. I've been assured that we shouldn't worry because trump is only trolling.