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It took decades to build this regime. It can be undone in a matter of days. The taste of victory is sweet and success begets success. You can just do things. We can win. So are you going to fight? Are you going to fight for the future you want? It's not something that just happens once every four years. It's a choice you make.
People are never going back. Whatever the future looks like is different now. The future belongs to people inspired by Trump
No, it can't. Not with legal mechanisms, anyway.
No, you can't. Because you need people able and willing to carry things out. Only one side has that.
No, we probably can't.
No, I can't imagine people actually doing so. They'll do a lot of pointless stuff that feels like fighting — and winning — in the moment, but doesn't actually amount to anything. (See Yarvin here and here).
Of course they are. They have every time before; if only because they'll be forced to.
Every executive agency has dismantled its DEI program overnight. Every DEI program employee is on leave pending termination. Remember the FAA hiring scandal from a while ago? Every [edit]critical[/edit] FAA employee will be subject to a mandatory performance review. At least one Biden/Harris appointee who attempted to hide herself in the "non-political appointees" pool was exposed and fired.
ICE arrested 583 people and issued almost 400 requests for detention in one day. This represents a near-doubling of the average daily arrests from September last year which stand at 282 arrests per day, the last month we have data for. The Remain in Mexico policy has been officially reinstated, and the Department of Justice has officially prioritized immigration enforcement. Deportation flights have already begun. Mexico is preparing to receive waves of deportees. Many people with dubious immigrant status are already choosing to self-deport. I say dubious because I have seen reports that people who were here legally are also choosing to leave.
It has been four days.
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And on the fourth day, ICE made 593 arrests with 449 detainment requests made. Again, average arrests made per day under Biden were under 300.
*Every FAA employee in a critical safety position (presumably including every air traffic controller)
Whoops, good catch.
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Loser mindset. You've decided it's impossible to win. We haven't! That's why we're winning
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That realization was the most striking aspect of Trump’s first term. It hit me when he moved the embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. Bush had talked about doing it for years but somehow it never happened, just like he somehow never got us Supreme Court Justices that would overturn Roe, or a hundred other things. Then Trump comes along and just does it. It could have been done all along. You can just do things.
Thanks for reminding me that Dobbs happened. Everyone predicted it would be a disaster for the GOP Then they still won. Amazing
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Alito, author of Dobbs, was a bush appointee.
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We'll see. The birthright citizenship order and the stop-energy-efficiency order run up against statutes (and in the former case, the Constitution), so this Trump train will likely derail the way the Obamacare repeal did.
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The big asset price crash we’ve been putting off since 2018, some fiery class-first rhetoric from the Dems, and all this comes crashing down very quickly. Once they’re back in power, the decolonize-the-establishment types reassume their positions in all key cultural functions (even if the class warriors don’t care for them) and so on and so on.
We very desperately need the global big asset price crash, preferably applied to housing more than stocks (but American stocks also need a good hammering, less so other countries' stocks).
Is there a reason other than “number too big”? I thought the same as well. Ten years ago I bought into this thinking and observed that half the world’s market cap was outside the US, so I went 50% into an international index fund with my equities allocation. And my net worth is a good deal lower than it would have been if I stuck with the US!
India has been on the cusp of a breakout for decades. It somehow never happens. South America looks like it will remain chronically economically retarded. China is a power strip plugged into itself, subsidizing current industries using taxes on past and future industry. And Europe?
I think @jeroboam said it best that your adoptive continent has been sitting in a cafe, idly increasing pension benefits. They dream up extractive fines on American industries while they watch their villages turn into open-air museums and their cities turn into jumbo international airports.
In America we have armies of people vocationally dedicated to making my retirement account balances increase.
American stocks are more and more overvalued relative to earnings. This can change is AI boom actually materializes into….something. But it hasn’t, except allowing more efficient coding monkeys and cheating on college essays
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