https://x.com/brianstelter/status/1968449834697834591 They're not even putting a veneer of legality on their actions anymore.
Serious question for you smart people on the board; What's your prediction on the US in a few years? I heard an analogy a bit back about Trump being the drunk uncle at Thanksgiving doing karate moves and everyone was like "yeah, yeah tough guy, let's get you another serving of gravy." And now it seems like he's the drunk uncle doing karate moves and has kicked a few people's heads off and everyone is terrified of him.
I think the next six months is going to tell us a lot. The Trump Administration clearly intends to ratchet things up. They've made a martyr out of Kirk in a way that would make Horst Wessel blush, they clearly feel comfortable breaking the law in a variety of ways, and they're getting to run the football down the field. If they succeed with little opposition, and implement the kind of country they're looking to implement, we are straight fucked. If however they stumble, if the country broadly gets very uncomfortable with what they're doing, and if places and individuals have success in pushing them back and frustrating their aims, we may survive long enough to get to a real midterm election. tl;dr: as gross as it feels, pray that Harvard, Gavin Newsom, and Pfizer get what they want.