What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Minsky Moment]

No no no. Clearly, they've been sent to infiltrate the USA. "Real" refugees are prevented from leaving by Maduro.

Ok but the immigration judges aren't going to buy that.

You know, the immigration judges.  The ones that have been fired en masse despite massive case backloads. 

The ones that preside over the immigration hearings.

The immigration hearings that provide the due process that migrants don't attend, because if they do they will be arrested by ICE camping outside the courtroom.

OK, yeah, that is going to be the play.

[Syt]

Didn't Hegseth send a bunch of Pentagon lawyers to act as immigration judges?

[Zoupa]

Pete Kegstand posted this earlier:



Apart from the AI slop and admission of war crimes, it's fun to note that Franklin is firing a RPG-7, a Soviet/Russian weapon.

[Razgovory]

This is pretty fucked up.  It's clear Trump doesn't have a plan, or at least one that he has told the State Department or the military.  It's not like we have a force set up to invade Venezuela.  So what, are we closing their airspace until they pay Donald Trump money?

[Tamas]

The fuck is up with these fucking morons
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/dec/04/us-politics-live-donald-trump-latest-news-updates-democrats-republicans

Once Farage is PM he and his idiots will start parroting all this American nonsense over here as well.

[Jacob]

Interesting breakdown of the authoritarian tech complex: https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

Cross-posting this with the EU thread since it's about the America based tech oligarch capture of the US state, and how much of a risk it poses to Europe.

My question to folks in this thread is how successfully has the authoritarian tech complex captured the US state, and what sort of effort would it take to counter it?

[The Minsky Moment]

This goes further—commissioning Silicon Valley executives directly into military ranks. In June 2025, four tech executives were sworn in as lieutenant colonels

That I did not know. Insane.

[HisMajestyBOB]

Interesting breakdown of the authoritarian tech complex: https://www.authoritarian-stack.info/

Cross-posting this with the EU thread since it's about the America based tech oligarch capture of the US state, and how much of a risk it poses to Europe.

My question to folks in this thread is how successfully has the authoritarian tech complex captured the US state, and what sort of effort would it take to counter it?

Fairly successfully, and the first step would be for the Democratic party to start making any sort of motions towards countering it. Instead they seem just as happy to suck up to the techbros.

[Razgovory]

Grand Jury declines to indict Leticia James.

[The Brain]

This goes further—commissioning Silicon Valley executives directly into military ranks. In June 2025, four tech executives were sworn in as lieutenant colonels

That I did not know. Insane.

I don't know. Now they'll support and defend the Constitution.

[Zoupa]

 

[Syt]

This goes further—commissioning Silicon Valley executives directly into military ranks. In June 2025, four tech executives were sworn in as lieutenant colonels

That I did not know. Insane.

So, can they be court martialed?

[Tonitrus]

This goes further—commissioning Silicon Valley executives directly into military ranks. In June 2025, four tech executives were sworn in as lieutenant colonels

That I did not know. Insane.

So, can they be court martialed?

Yes, but within limits.

My understanding is they were commissioned in the Reserves, which has some restrictions under 10 USC 802.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/802