No. If you're going for permanent rule *and actually think it's possible* you do a slow boil like Hungary or India You don't intentionally trigger thermostatic backlash bsky.app/profile/huds...
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The rush job is entirely to make parts of the agenda a fait accompli that are hard to undo when the other side takes power in a couple years, hoping that the effort to unfuck it is never spent b/c of other priorities 2/2 @hudsonrivercroc.bsky.social
aug 23, 2025, 6:23 pm • 27 4 • view
I don't think they're doing this as a rush job in that sense. I think they're still ratcheting up the absurdity and/or severity of what they're doing to see if they can get away with it, with Trump '28 as an ideal end point. I think they're rushing because there's limited time to get there.
aug 23, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
Like I fully believe many of them WANT to make that kind of craven power play for permanent control, but they want to know they'll be able to get away with it before they actually take that step.
aug 23, 2025, 6:31 pm • 0 0 • view
That argument works for Trump, Kegseth, etc. IMO it doesn't work for Miller, Vought, and most of the Project 2025 crowd They're evil, not stupid bsky.app/profile/post...
aug 23, 2025, 6:24 pm • 32 3 • view
This too. About a third of the active-duty military voted Harris bsky.app/profile/mike...
aug 23, 2025, 6:52 pm • 20 3 • view
"Culling the loyalists" == reducing the number of available bodies to carry out orders This makes their logistics problems worse, not better bsky.app/profile/fuba...
aug 23, 2025, 7:04 pm • 21 5 • view
If the new Congress allows them to do that, sure That's a tradition, not a legal requirement bsky.app/profile/shab...
aug 23, 2025, 7:05 pm • 16 3 • view
States determine what voting locations exist. The federal government has zero role in it. There are not enough physical bodies employed by ICE + CBP + the military to have "a few people at each location" The city of Charlotte NC alone would need an entire battalion bsky.app/profile/dooo...
aug 23, 2025, 7:25 pm • 19 2 • view
Whoever the new President chooses to remove him The Presidency leaves Trump no later than noon on 20 January 2029. Whether Trump leaves the Presidency is irrelevant. bsky.app/profile/judy...
aug 23, 2025, 7:28 pm • 18 3 • view
"A person with 10 guns can create 9 gun owners in an afternoon" is an underappreciated reality bsky.app/profile/cres...
aug 23, 2025, 7:31 pm • 27 3 • view
People are far more likely to ignore – or assault – randos attempting intimidation at a polling place than they are the military The idea there's going to be mass MAGA militias at blue polling locations is just silly bsky.app/profile/dooo...
aug 23, 2025, 7:33 pm • 16 1 • view
I have had otherwise-normal white people in rural areas around where I live insist to me that gun violence is so bad in Durham (my city) that 3-5 people are shot every day There aren't enough of them willing to go into town to be easy targets at polling places
aug 23, 2025, 7:35 pm • 32 2 • view
@gregdoucette.bsky.social Also, Trump is probably the only American ignorant of the constitutional fact that in the US, the states run the elections under congressional legislation. They, and nobody else. Citizens know it, state officials know it, the military and national guardsmen have sworn […]
aug 23, 2025, 7:44 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope you're right. At the last federal election in Canada, I volunteered to be a polling place scrutineer for one of the candidates. Basically watching to make sure the rules were followed. Volunteers from the other parties were there too. If people were paid, there would be more signing up.
aug 23, 2025, 7:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Except that they don't need to be at every blue polling location? Wouldn't a few key locations in swing states do the trick?
aug 23, 2025, 7:37 pm • 0 0 • view
Potentially even 10
aug 23, 2025, 7:36 pm • 1 0 • view
And if we ever get into that extremely unpleasant situation, FP-45 Liberator logic applies (that a cheap, one-shot limited-life gun is enough to let you upgrade from your occupier's stores). Which boy howdy I hope we don't get there. It's bad enough as it is.
aug 25, 2025, 7:09 pm • 0 0 • view
Something something orange juice concentrate & gas
aug 23, 2025, 7:33 pm • 0 0 • view
I truly hope you are right.
aug 23, 2025, 7:52 pm • 0 0 • view
States also determine if they accept mail-in ballots. I hope that the fed gov doesn't mess with any of that. He could intimidate red states into complying. As for voting day, Musk or some other oligarch could advertise $1K for MAGAts to stand outside voting areas. He's bribed for votes before.
aug 23, 2025, 7:31 pm • 0 0 • view
Using local LEO would help, but still, not nearly enough. (and not all would go along, either)
aug 23, 2025, 7:26 pm • 0 0 • view
I think the worry would be the concentration of Army/NG/CBP/ICE in certain states to swing important delegations in the R direction through intimidation; don't know how successful it would be, but it's clearly a better plan than just spreading all the guys w guns out
aug 23, 2025, 7:41 pm • 0 0 • view
There is not nearly enugh of any of them to make that a workable plan, and remember there is no telling what the reaction from the military when they pull what is essentially a coup
aug 23, 2025, 7:47 pm • 0 0 • view
I hope you're right, but in the end most soldiers obey orders without a strong incentive not to; I'm not sure how pro- or anti-Trump the officer corps is, but a lot of things will likely hinge on that
aug 23, 2025, 7:49 pm • 0 0 • view
There is no way for Trump to replace even a majority of even the top generals/admirals to garanti a significant number of the military won't follow illegal orders, No this would have to be a civilian only "coup" wither by something like Ice or "militais"
aug 23, 2025, 8:00 pm • 0 0 • view
DC will be filled with National Guard n other military + fed n state law-enforcement. All swore an oath to defend the Constitution. A significant % will be Maga. Like J6, they may use disinfo, force n chaos in attempt to block power transfer. What will it take to keep the republic?
aug 23, 2025, 7:15 pm • 0 0 • view
They are culling the non loyalists as quickly as they can, same as all other government agencies.
aug 23, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
We’ll have zampolit soon
aug 23, 2025, 7:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Honestly, thats kind of alarmingly low.
aug 23, 2025, 8:14 pm • 0 0 • view
I can’t figure out where to start a new question… but can Supreme Court “shadow docket” rulings be cited for precedent later? If not, could this be why they are using it so often so they can reverse course for Democrats?
aug 23, 2025, 7:06 pm • 0 0 • view
They don't see themselves as evil. I think that Miller, Voight, etc, think they can be a part of a popular movement. They truly believe in their bullcrap. I think they expect that they will be popular by the election. If not, they will hold on thinking they just need "a few more months".
aug 23, 2025, 6:45 pm • 0 0 • view
Vought, absolutely. Miller strikes me as a classic case of someone who decided he knew everything there is to know in middle school and never even attempted to disabuse himself of that notion.
aug 23, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
The 2025 guys may not be stupid, but their ideas are so abhorrent that they need to find stupid people like Trump to hide behind.
aug 23, 2025, 7:50 pm • 0 0 • view
And a base primed to believe that any action taken against them is based on animus rather than they are evil lawbreaking fscks. At some point it would be nice if people started to accept that reality doesn't care about feelings or vague hazy wishful memories.
aug 23, 2025, 6:30 pm • 0 0 • view
I think you overestimate their intelligence and underestimate their aggression and ambition spiraling with each success.
aug 23, 2025, 6:24 pm • 0 0 • view
Okay but what if you're going for permanent autocracy and you're really, really stupid?
aug 23, 2025, 6:23 pm • 0 0 • view
I just don't think you can discount the fact that not a one of them has ever cracked a serious history book or considered that they might know less than the complete sum of all human knowledge plus a few yet-unrealized universal truths.
aug 23, 2025, 6:25 pm • 1 0 • view