There is no ineffective opposition and a lot of allies, so it’s pretty damn easy. The dems and the left need to get their shit together and take meaningful steps. Not just politically but economically. Trump’s tech and business allies must be weakened alongside his and the GOP. I’m not sure the addiction and psychological dependencies people now have to the technologies his allies control make it possible anymore to do that. People need to vote with their wallets, their engagement and their politics and nobody is even close to organizing that. We still don’t have an effective political opposition, Newsom is the closest we’ve gotten so far.
I think there’s a reason he finally pumped the breaks on that idea. What would one call the act of one state sending their militia into another state against their express refusal in order to enforce laws without being under control of and indeed acting against the state’s elected governor? Man, the words for that activity slip my mind right now.
And remind me why Texans care that much about what’s going on 2000 miles away from them? Ask them if their state tax dollars should be going toward sending their militia outside their state borders to clean up someone else’s mess.
Things are getting bad. I keep hoping things will cool off, but it’s just not the way things are headed, is it?
This is why they’re giving more tax breaks, incentives, and contracts to their co-conspirators. Tesla sales dropped? Looks like Grok needs another $200B to integrate with and optimize air traffic control. If Congress doesn’t turn off the spigot (it won’t be this Congress, that’s assured) and the courts don’t hobble his efforts the only thing left is to stop sending money to DC.
Individually no, that won’t fly. An entire state would have to take the extraordinary measure to stop the transfer of funds to the federal government (also not gonna go off without a hitch) or the black market economy needs to take off.
Zeihan’s take is basically that Trump is speedrunning what took Putin and Xi each ~10 years in their own countries.
He’s created an information bubble around himself and removed anybody competent several layers from the top down, replacing expertise with sycophancy.
He’s often wrong about details, but I think in this case he’s pretty much nailed it.
There is no ineffective opposition and a lot of allies, so it’s pretty damn easy. The dems and the left need to get their shit together and take meaningful steps. Not just politically but economically. Trump’s tech and business allies must be weakened alongside his and the GOP. I’m not sure the addiction and psychological dependencies people now have to the technologies his allies control make it possible anymore to do that. People need to vote with their wallets, their engagement and their politics and nobody is even close to organizing that. We still don’t have an effective political opposition, Newsom is the closest we’ve gotten so far.
To be fair Pritzker just got Trump to avoid Illinois (for now) with the national guard.
I think there’s a reason he finally pumped the breaks on that idea. What would one call the act of one state sending their militia into another state against their express refusal in order to enforce laws without being under control of and indeed acting against the state’s elected governor? Man, the words for that activity slip my mind right now.
And remind me why Texans care that much about what’s going on 2000 miles away from them? Ask them if their state tax dollars should be going toward sending their militia outside their state borders to clean up someone else’s mess.
Things are getting bad. I keep hoping things will cool off, but it’s just not the way things are headed, is it?
Your in a civil war and the left doesn’t know it. Just like project 2025 wanted. And by the time the citizens wake up it well be to late.
This is why they’re giving more tax breaks, incentives, and contracts to their co-conspirators. Tesla sales dropped? Looks like Grok needs another $200B to integrate with and optimize air traffic control. If Congress doesn’t turn off the spigot (it won’t be this Congress, that’s assured) and the courts don’t hobble his efforts the only thing left is to stop sending money to DC.
Actually that’s been tried and it always ends very badly
Individually no, that won’t fly. An entire state would have to take the extraordinary measure to stop the transfer of funds to the federal government (also not gonna go off without a hitch) or the black market economy needs to take off.
oh jfc tell me you’re not a free-stater