shit is hitting the fan right now

[solarbird]

Okay, so, Vance is out there saying that the courts have no authority over the executive branch’s “legitimate power” – as defined by the executive branch – so we’re ramping up into full-on, overt refusal to comply with court rulings.

It’s a great time – if you’re them – to be moving on this kind of shit, because nobody’s paying attention. It’s Super Bowl Sunday. Nobody’s watching and nobody cares about anything but the championship.

So what’s going to need to happen is that rank and file workers and management are going to have to be the ones saying “no, the courts said that’s illegal,” and they’re going to need to be ready to do that first thing Monday morning.

That’s going to get real scary when DOGE and Project 2025 people call the US Marshals in, like they threatened at USAID in order to force employees to give them illegal access to systems.

Would the Marshals do it? Are they ready to act as the local shock troops for an illegal Trump regime? That’s going to be a wildly important question in the next week or so.

States are going to have to be ready to refuse executive orders too. If your state has a law preventing National Guard from other states being deployed to your state without your governor’s permission, that’s a good thing right now. If your state doesn’t have this, it might be a good law to get into place immediately, if you can. (Washington State is in the latter category, and is actively putting said law into place at Governor Ferguson’s insistance, which is good. It means he’s aware.)

I’m not sure how to say “there is no Constitution if they do this,” or how to say “there is no United States if there is no Constitution,” but that’s basically the situation, and maybe that’s how to say it. This dissolves the compact, de facto if not de jure, and I they’re hoping to conquer the several states through emergency decrees, intimidation, and maybe just outright force of arms.

Trump wants to invoke the insurrection act. Trump wants to suspend the Constitution.

This is probably as good a way to do it as any.

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Comments

[dewline]

Vance is certainly deadly earnest in saying that shit, and it's still shit that he was saying.

All of what you say is true enough to worry about and prepare for. I have no doubt that Hegseth was picked as SecDef in order to ensure a military willing to commit war crimes in Mexico, Panama, Greenland, Gaza and Canada. I continue to wear a bullseye as consequence, per Trump's interview on Fox "News" when he was asked about the Canada situation today.

[solarbird]

And use the army against American citizens. Absolute loyalty is the only qualification for being in this administration.