ICE is already removing US citizens, and the military is explicitly conditioned to obey orders. Attacking a (previously allied) foreign power isn’t a stretch, IMO.
The military won’t be ordered into Canada next week. There will be a pretense requiring America to defend itself. Maybe Canada will begin “causing” terror incidents in America. There will be some threat shoved down our throats just like WMDs in Iraq.
The Vietnam War could never happen. People wouldn’t willingly slaughter innocents.
How about some battleships in the Great Lakes? Be a shame if somethin’ would happen to 'em.
Very much this. Not being paranoid at all. In my daydreams of post-lottery win schemes traveling to China to visit fireworks manufacturers I knew I’d need a burner phone. Now I will be getting one for any foreign travel.
Obligatory, even noting sarcasm:
Have you met people?
I can imagine two incidents:
If those incidents occurred in a short span of time, and the Fox News / OANN propaganda machines played it up, there’d be enough support to initiate military action against Canada.
This will likely also move conferences out of the country.
It is easy to start a war even when based on lies
On March 15, the president signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which has only been used three times before — all during wartime — in order to target noncitizens who can then be “apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”
Now, The New York Times reports that senior Justice Department lawyers are interpreting the act as a free pass for immigration officials to enter homes without warrants in order to search for suspected “alien enemies.”
4th Amendment to the Constitution:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Sadly, the 4th Amendment has been whittled down to used toilet paper over the last 25 years. Way too many Americans endorsed it on the quaint notion that it would only be used against “the bad guys” and then doubled down on it during the War on Terror so that we could all stay safe.
China is Musk’s most important partner, so of course the government should reveal anything he would like to know.
Trump threatens to send Tesla vandals to an El Salvador prison. I figured it wouldn’t be too long before he made an argument he could use the same methods on American citizens.
American Association of University Professors
“The subjugation of universities to state power is a hallmark of autocracy. Columbia University’s immediate submission and betrayal…reflects cowardice and capitulation to a government that seems intent on destroying US higher education.”
Personal apology required from the Governor of Maine or Federal funding for colleges in the state is cut off.
The last US poll I saw showed about 90% of Republicans currently view Trump favourably and 90% of Democrats view him unfavourably. Republicans are not worried about authoritarianism as long as it is their man at the top. Trump has a free rein from his party.
Legal Eagle reviews the administration’s tactics to discourage lawyers from taking cases against the government.
Republicans aren’t concerned because its a feature in their mind.
Any moment now a charismatic opponent is going to rise up and all the patriotic, Constitution loving Americans will rally!
Actually, I think among the non-rabid/non-cultist Republicans, the concerns we’ve been raising here are dismissed as exaggeration, liberal spin, hysteria, paranoia, or even outright lies.
The gap between supporters of the two major parties has widened enough that we’re starting to live in different realities.
