• TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.worldOP
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    8 hours ago

    I don’t disagree with you, but I feel like people jump to that scenario without describing the steps to get there. How do you see unfolding? How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC? What about blue states? How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus? Does it even matter? If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

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      4 hours ago

      Trump is sending “election observers” to California because of prop 50 and to New York because of Mamdani. It’s reasonable to be very concerned about future election integrity. ICE has a larger budget than the Marines. They’ve openly ignored courts. They have fully abandoned the rule of law.

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        2 hours ago

        Like I said, I don’t disagree that this is a possibility, but I’m curious how people see it unfolding. I like to leverage other minds to develop my thinking.

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      While the whole world is focused on Epstein files, thinking it’s going to be his downfall (why would it?), he’s replacing the leaders of many institutions with yes men, that emergency meeting Hegseth had calling in all the military generals should honestly be the most alarming thing in recent US history, and yet we aren’t even a quarter of the way through his term.

      Kinda hard not to be alarmist

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      5 hours ago

      How do you see unfolding?

      Martial law to respond to ice agents being killed or police turning against them.

      How do different opposition groups respond such as the DNC?

      “The Supreme Court says it’s ok, so our hands are tied, but we’re very upset.”

      What about blue states?

      Governors will either roll over or start a hot civil war. Which do you think?

      How does the administration handle it without losing popular consensus?

      By arresting and murdering protesters.

      If they use the military, how do they get the military stay the path when the populous begins to reject their intervention?

      If you give ICE a large enough budget, they can act as a new military. And by firing non-loyal brass for not being able to do enough pushups and replacing them with loyalists, you can keep the military from intervening under the guise of neutrality.