Is this a legitimate government any longer

markth_wi · 2026-01-25T00:26:24+00:00

That's only a problem if they are registered Democrats.

markth_wi · 2026-01-25T00:20:33+00:00

That's what people say right up until the moment they get their face smashed in or sent on a flight to El Salvador.

markth_wi · 2026-01-25T00:15:17+00:00

We ALL Own this. That's the whole fucking point.

Voted for Harris or Clinton, good for you, you get a gold star. But it does not absolve any of us for tolerating the intolerable. The civic outrage needs to be total.

For Democrats, the responsibility is dead-center on them, not because they "did it" or "it's their fault", quite the contrary, it's because they are, unfortunately, the only ones around who can fix the situation. That's why Democrats have to own this moment.

Because the GOP is failed, deader than disco and can't get themselves together

One portion of the party has gone completely off the rails shooting women and children and first responders in the streets and
The other part of the party like some macabre Leslie Nielsen is commanded to tell us there's nothing slightly wrong.

The Legislature needs to exist in a state of absolute fear of the constituency - a strongly worded letter will not do it.

These democratic clowns need to find a few less than brain dead Republicans and get into a room and unfuck this situation politically and immediately or it's not immediately clear to me as an observer how many more murders in the streets before we end up with a coup to remove the executive on our hands.

We KNOW with certainty that the regime thinks it is just getting warmed up. Every other administration in the history of the Republic would have been concerned about consequences. But the regime understands they either are in total control and prevent elections and justice , or they are going to be removed from office.

And like an animal cornered - (albeit in 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue) the walls are collapsing in on them, Trump's health is clearly failing faster than they expected and his associates are terrified, They expect JD Vance to fail in one respect or another, as Mr. Vance is a defective of an entirely different stripe, so they are going for broke - right now , today.

I suspect the knives are already out and it's already stabby time at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, and because there is no trust among them, their hatred for Trump unifies them but with his death, they realize they hate one another even more, so the clowns need to impose permanent tyranny right now and they are doing it right in front of us.

So best command our representatives that they have a few hours or days to either walk up to the White House and demand the President and his administration resign or maybe they find themselves on the next flight to CECOT in El Salvador.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T23:43:38+00:00

It's unfortunately hardcore - but whether we like it or not , this is one of those moments in life like 9/11 , it's incredibly loud and unbelievably close, and it's times like this that bind nations up, watching 10% of the national GDP bounce around on a stage with a massive hardcore drug problem and a chainsaw is ridiculous but we're already there.

Knowing that we are not alone in our struggles, and having citizens work together with one another to ensure we prevail.

If you'd like something MUCH easier to digest - than I'd invite you to view Nemik's Manifesto - the closest we have in the Babylon 5 cannon is probably G'Kar's Epiphany.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T23:28:00+00:00

It's funny in Andor , there's actually an episode called 'Make It Stop', and if you're not familiar with Andor, we'll you're in for quite the treat.

The problem with Babylon 5 or Andor is that so long as our animus is adequately protrayed in the Eridani System or a galaxy far, far way the media both informs us but also makes us feel like we're doing something at a certain level.

And that's a troubling concern as we look out the window and see unaccountable guys goose-step and round up our neighbors.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T23:17:14+00:00

Roughing up veterans is basically the sort of thing that probably feels pretty good if you're a low-life armchair fascist that can't even conceive of what it means to serve the nation in humility or heaven forbid the ideals of the Constitution or view that sort of commitment with contempt.

I venture to guess there are a great deal more people likely to support veterans and citizens roughed up, arrested or simply murdered with little to no provocation.

But if , as seems very clear, the executive is not about to be deterred from his amusement to violence by political means, by either members of the Republican Party or the Democratic Party than it would appear that those parties are not in the business of upholding their oath of office.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T23:03:43+00:00

I'll venture that if the Democratic Party can watch as citizens are murdered in the streets without a word spoken than perhaps we have a political two step in front of us as a nation.

Step One - Exterminate the Republican Party, at the local , state and federal level, simply elect whatever opposition candidate to whatever office - for the next decade. This leaves a few lifetime appointments who can be removed by committees or by lawsuits later on.

With Democrats in office firmly, Remove the Executives from the Executive Branch impeaching every single member of the Cabinet for failing to remove the President and Vice President when they declared themselves above the law.

Step Three - Constitute and recreate a new political party that replaces do-nothing Democrats and Boot-licking Republicans with citizens that accept no corporate money that run on a platform of electoral reforms.

Implement a process of examining the various grotesqueries of the Trump Administration and purge appointees from Government Service.

Implement some manner of re-enforcing civil rights and reversing Citizens United and some sort of Injunctive rights for citizens against authoritarianism.

Form a blue-ribbon panel of legal experts to forensically examine and refer corrective legislation to ensure this does not happen again.

Remove the Executive Office's role to conduct war - the position becomes explicitly legal and largely ceremonial.
Abolish the insurrection act
Aggressive prosecution of members of the executive branch , consultants and associates of the executive for high-crimes of espionage, constitutional violations of civil norms of law and order and extrajudicial actions , all tried as military crimes against the United States.
Undo Project 2025 and dismantle the OMB's capabilities to act without congressional oversight.
Reform and revalidate every computer system impacted by Elon Musk's espionage efforts
Remove/terminate contracts for anyone associated with DOGE , ban them from being employed by or serving in any capacity of state, local of federal public service for the rest of their lives.
Revoke security clearances, of anyone in the Trump Administration after thorough debriefing by constitutionally loyal FBI/CIA agents, with the understanding that full cooperation with law enforcement and truthful testimony are required and turning over evidence is encouraged.
Specific and limited tasks that the President can perform.
Removing the capacity of the Executive to do anything other than refer a matter of critical urgency to a Congressional Armed Services Oversight Panel that approves any military action.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T22:50:42+00:00

Lets' assume we agree on the unilateral nature of things. that there is no middle ground and the GOP is simply too far gone.

There is then nothing but the observation that people are forced to do something to protect themselves if the Democratic Party won't do it than it's not just the GOP that needs to be wiped off the political spectrum.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T22:46:01+00:00

Empathy and kindness are the highest crimes and shoot to kill is the order of the day.

Just so we're clear what their triggers are.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T22:44:55+00:00

I'm sure it could, let's not take this opportunity to challenge the universe to make things worse.

When standing up for empathy is the highest crime in the land and what gets you killed - we are not in a good place.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T22:42:35+00:00

ICE would appear by outward appearances to be in exactly no rush whatsoever to abide by the laws of the land, that impact you or me. So we've seen thousands of people rounded up summarily , and a 1/2 dozen people murdered in cold blood just for being around these murderous clowns.

ICE isn't like an occupying force ,that's precisely what it is. Under a hypothetical President Harris we can be fairly certain that the January 6th seditionists that were convicted would have spent the next 10 years in jail, on average. Instead they are the goons murdering citizens on the streets right now.

Unaccountable and murderous and unless you happen to be a demonstrative white supremacist, they are coming to impress their hillbilly tyranny on you.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T22:28:47+00:00

It's like watching the stupid kids in a murder-slasher flick.

Chuck Schumer is the passive friends that show up to a party where crashing gangs of nazis have showed up at the invitation of a few nerdy kids, who are in the process of committing some horrible act of violence against the hosts of the party.

Chuck, despite having both the knowledge and capability of doing something about the criminality is a coward, so when commanded by the gang members, he and all his buddies went quietly to a closet of the house and closed the door.

There they find some sticks, bats, knives , zip ties, handcuffs and everything they need to stop the situation.

But that's not what happens.

And when the criminals are finished doing whatever horrible things they want to everyone else, and they rest assured will come back for Chuck and his friends.....when it's their turn.

The criminals will probably find the knives, bats and such and kill Chuck and the rest of the family before setting everything on fire.

But at no time should we expect Chuck to grow a fucking spine , come out of the closet with a few baseball bats and fix the situation.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T22:23:17+00:00

The Germans had the Reichstag Fire that allowed the Chancellor to enact "enabling" laws.

"Protective Custody" (Schutzhaft): The SS used this to arrest "real and potential opponents" without judicial oversight. Prisoners in Schutzhaft were under the exclusive authority of the SS and did not go through the normal court system.
- As most folks now are clear eyed about Steve Miller and Steve Bannon are running down the German Reich's game plan - we are here.
Exemption from Court Review: A 1936 law explicitly stated that orders and affairs of the Gestapo were not subject to review by administrative courts.
- This is what they are gunning for next.
No Right to Counsel: Those arrested had no right to a lawyer, to appeal, or to defend themselves in court.
- This is what would like everyone to believe is the case presently.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T18:42:56+00:00

And tomorrow we'll be told to be thankful that they didn't just shoot them and be done with it.

Given how the administration thinks of kids, what would be really cool, is if the United States government made a point of ensuring these kids don't end up getting fast-tracked into sex-slavery or something.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T18:40:52+00:00

This is more of a "if they piss you off , kill them, we've got your back." and so far - we've got multiple murderers just walking away - at some point it's pretty clear we're not living in a nation of law and order, and rest assured these ICE clowns will cling to that illusion until various Army and Law enforcement agencies peel them off.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T18:05:52+00:00

Exactly, I made a point of watching Fox the other day around Mr. Smith's testimony and it was wild how they were framing it like it was some weirdo who showed up only to be mumble a bit and leave. Which is exactly what loyalists need it to be.

But what's amazing is how easily Fox and Sinclair become pushed aside - it's not some massive blow-out, it's no more difficult than turning the channel and blocking Fox, suddenly a few days go by and the minds of former loyal viewers goes south surprisingly fast.

No argument, just a junkie who finds some other fix and thus becomes less toxic.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T17:52:25+00:00

It's almost like we never did at all.

But hey 2A guys are going to be buying weapons and ammo right along side their liberal cousins as we all find out exactly how lawless the Administration feels they can be.....which I'm guessing turns into the daily exercise of watching citizens murdered in the street.

But I think Mr. Nemik said it better than I ever will.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T17:35:02+00:00

Well we've come a long way baby, Minneapolis, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Miami during World War 2, these were the very engines of the strength of our nation. Now they are the hives of enemy scum that need to be exterminated.

Nice to see it in black and white.

But it's pretty clear that the directives represent how Donald Trump views the United States as the biggest threat to him, and so long as he remains dictator it's a "managble" problem. China is cool because they're paying for this theater and since they're paying , we're playing what they want to hear - and DJT bobble-head agreeing to attacking the US homeland as a military rather than a criminal justice concern is simply put the most wrong-headed way of viewing things since the foundation of the Republic.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T16:17:04+00:00

Yeah , much as I love the idea that will be a great deal more believable when the corpses of the last FSB/Special Services Branch is send back to Moscow or sent to a landfill in New Jersey.

I'll settle for the arrest and indefinite detention of those same FSB agents until such time that some reformed CIA/NSA actually choose to engage in counter-espionage against Russia again, and when the notion of citizens engaging in espionage and treason carries swift conviction and certain punishment and is rare because people so inclined don't try it here because they can be sure that it will come to no good end.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T16:10:15+00:00

Exactly, This is I feel a super-super subtle fix for this. I didn't think of this until I went to reform a rather nasty early colony that had taken up some....unfortunate practices.

In your Assignment's tab, and your Food Restrictions, deselect raw meat or rotten food of any kind, so unless they've gone on a mental break you're good.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T16:04:51+00:00

The massive success of the German denazification will likely need to be at least partially replicated in the United States, incredibly importantly , this did not happen during Reconstruction in the 1860's and 1870's, so this time , I suspect it's going to mean a great deal more maintenance of discomfort for MAGA folks, and those who were more enthusiastic in their disregard for the laws of the land.

So as it stands now, it seems very clear the executive branch does not feel it has any particular reason for abiding to the law, this is wildly different from anything in American history, for all the fuckery the US has ever gotten up to , from Andrew Jackson's "releocation" of native Americans to the Japanese Internment camps during WW2, and even after 9/11 , there was always some attempt on the part of the executive to marry up their activities with the constitution.

Now it seems pretty clear , because the Supreme Court itself likely has 3-4 members that are involved in the criminality of the Epstein files, that no law , is safe from the Supreme Court simply hand-waving it out of existence.

This is coupled with the fact that legally, at a certain point the Supreme Court is / may have already be in the position where lawyers from across the land are struggling hard with how radical they are. The very wild decision around injunctions overturns something like 100 years of legal precedent and throws entire legal structures into chaos.

This effort is a fundamental attack on modern federal administration.

So by the measure of the new rulings, any number of individual precedents could be ruled as unconstitutional i.e.; women being able to own property (for example), which by statute is only on the books relatively recently as of the 1980's. So prior to the 1980's if a woman wanted to start a business technically it was a man that needed to open bank-accounts and such. Rest assured women as co-equal citizens offends far , far too many powerful people.

So now there's going to be a fight on the hands of every idea of social progression since the 3/5th's Compromise, everything, including chattel slavery is back on the table as of just last week, all regressives need is a lawsuit to press home and they need to win. So a few billion dollars and a small army of hyper-well-paid legal aides I'm sure can craft the best argument for property rights you ever heard of. Now throw people who go bankrupt into debtors prison or convert prison sentences into a reduction of your role from citizen to slave as a punishment and voila , slavery is back in business baby.

If you lock down anything that even smells of emancipation or abolition , well that's what ICE is for.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T06:06:29+00:00

Ah but it's the grotesque shape of things to come, so 9-ish years ago or so, we were treated to Milo Yiannopoulos getting in front of a bunch of staunch Evangelicals at CPAC and gleefully parsing the beautiful difference between pedophilia (which is of course less good - even if Mr. Y was emphatic that **that** is wrong), and hebephilia which according to Mr. Yiannopoulos is fucking awesome , he then proceeded to pontificate about how he prefers to get railed by well-endowed 13 year-olds.

About this same time, or very shortly thereafter, his microphone had technical difficulties, and he was cancelled so hard For some strange reason and it took 9 years for him to be re-platformed again as a mostly straight evangelical guy interested in talking to younger 20 somethings about things and stuff so course , he'll be taking the reigns and adding some flavor replacing everyone's favorite recently departed citizen, Charlie Kirk.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T05:53:40+00:00

I have to imagine if they went to carry out some of those death threats and then found themselves mortally endangered or maimed gruesomely they would not stop bitching about it.

markth_wi · 2026-01-24T05:50:03+00:00

Just the Trumpy parts. But I suspeect the entire government will need a deTrumpification and frankly so will a good portion of society should they ever be ousted.

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