New Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets
New Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets
www.thedailybeast.com
New Hegseth Leak Reveals Secret Plan for Years of Troops on U.S. Streets
Archive article: https://archive.is/ksXfx
The Department of Homeland Security is looking to boost its deployment of the military on the streets of the U.S. in order to help carry out Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a leaked memo written by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s brother.
Usually this form of dictatorship falls pretty quickly.
Wish I had your optimism. It takes work to pull the fucking grubby mitts of authoritarians out of the machine, it doesn't always happen automatically.
The bigger issue is that even if this does collapse quickly, the damage is largely done. Who knows how much data and accumulated years of knowledge are gone, to say nothing of all the agencies and policies that are just burnt to the ground. It took DECADES to get the EPA to even a level that was largely useful. Even if we come out the other side of this, it'll be in a radically changed form, possibly not even as the United States. I can very easily see a power vacuum and federal collapse from the fact that the federal government, aside from the actual levers of power like the judiciary and the military, is just a skeleton now.
Plus the people who are suppose to protect us the people only want to protect the lesser majority that likes to hate, because the protectors are haters also.
It takes a mere handful of decades.
This is the reality (look at Russia for those in denial).
There's still a good chance he chickens out and holds actual elections this mid season and in 3 1/2 years.
We'll find out either way.
Not sure they'll matter. The only party viably able to unseat some of the Republicans right now is shit on by the right, left, and center daily. Meaning the odds that people will show up in droves during a midterm to vote for them is minimal. And when the Republicans hold the Senate, they'll get Roberts, Thomas, and Alito to retire and Trump to replace them with far right justices who owe their lifelong cushy jobs to those Republicans. So we'll have ~16 years of Republican support in the Judicial branch all but guaranteed. When 33% of the government is owned by a party, all they have to do is secure 1 half on Congress and they can prevent the country from moving left.
The last administration "led" with 50% majority control of the government. This one leads with 100% majority control. It won't be easy to come back from.