I honestly don’t disagree with people who point out that we need to get massive protests. General strikes, campaigns to grind entire cities to a halt. Take a look at France, at Italy, even at the modern conservative movements in the US - we could and arguably should shut down the entire country until things get WAY better. Days without a government might not matter to a lot of people, a day without work might not impact much, but when you even get 5% of the population just not doing their jobs, not contributing to the economy, or out in the streets actively making it harder for OTHER PEOPLE to do their jobs, suddenly the impact magnifies immensely.

Don’t forget DISRUPTIVE. Italy and France show us that making it not just “uncomfortable”, but actual hell to work with, works.

Also don’t forget a sitting judge just had their house set on fire this week, and there’s still a website doxxing antifascist activitists (and not just them, but their families). Having a wife and possibly kids who have a high probability of becoming collateral damage in a terror campaign changes the math SIGNIFICANTLY - especially when an arm of the federal government (ICE) is already using the implicit threat of harm to children as leverage.

So “plenary authority” is a legal term meaning you have unrestricted, complete and total power over an issue. Interstate commerce is an example of a semi-plenary power granted to Congress. Declarations of war and peace are examples of actual plenary Congressional authority - Congress has total authority to declare war, or rescind those declarations.

A good example of plenary Executive powers within the US are presidential pardons. Once the President pardons someone for a federal offense, that pardon, and that crime, are unable to be subjected to further judicial review at the federal level.

What Miller said, which is likely what he truly believes, is that the President has true unrestricted power to do whatever the fuck he wants, because he’s the President. Miller just said the President is a dictator.

These became popular in the 2000s as a direct result of a lot of Stranger Danger propaganda.

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I agree with the other commenters that he’s just not that smart. I legitimately cannot see an administration of, basically, bullies trying to blackmail anyone into anything, because it doesn’t fit their MO. They don’t go for emotional blackmail, it’s all threats because that’s what they’re best at. Kidnap and implicitly threaten the kids or the wife so the guy you’re trying to deport comes out. Threaten the reporters or the onlookers with implied violent force. Threaten the people being mean to you on social media with that same violent force. It’s all they know how to do, and they know it works very well so long as you have what they’ve had most or all of their lives: privilege and power to back it up.

Trump was right in that he could’ve shot someone in broad daylight and gotten off. Any of these rich fascist fucks could - RFK Jr might have, allegedly. Not because they have millions of adoring fans, but because they’re bullies and can monetarily and violently threaten people into silence pretty easily with the wealth, access, and privilege that they have.

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Honestly, fear of death/aging/illness is an EXTREMELY powerful motivator. With a deep enough fear, you’ll override a lot of things like rationality. At some point, especially with a parent or loved one or yourself suffering from an incurable illness, especially a terminal illness, there’s a good chance you’ll try shotgunning solutions because it feels better than doing nothing.

There’s also the third option of “we saw a diagram of a monopolar electrosurgical unit at one point and decided that was magic that can cure stuff”.

Not just the elderly, there’s a LOT of chronically and terminally ill people who fall for these scams because at some point, there’s a lot of people who are willing to flail your arms and try anything, regardless of how dumb it sounds, rather than having to hear the doctors say “well we can try X for 3 weeks and see what we get out of it” for the 50th time.

Basically, yes. This is quite literally what he’s thinking of it as, I think - the grand throne room at Versailles, where the corporate nobility and other world leaders come to grovel at his feet for his mercy.

No no, the nuclear-armed Gundam doesn’t come until after the war with Zeon.

If you watch something like the Charlie Kirk service, sometimes he can’t even string a complete sentence together without losing his train of thought, or at least forgetting the words he wants to use. He sounds like my granddad before he died - he’ll talk coherently for a minute or two, but if he has to talk for more than 2 or 3 minutes at a stretch, he starts falling apart and can’t string words or concepts together.

Why bother aside from tax exemption? Unless you’re independently wealthy enough to not need to work, you’re literally rolling the dice on being arrested or killed by ICE, police, or some random white power jackboot.

FORMER print guy. Office Depot fired him before this.

He’s treating shit like Civ V. He thinks that by doing this, he can get Venezuela to attack back, and this will provide him the perfect pretext to wage a ground war.

Sounds like it was a metal towing cable, like from a winch? I could definitely see that taking a head off easier than a sturdy rope.

Pretty much, yes, complete with Judges - except they get to make up the laws, and summarily execute anyone they like because it’s a lot harder to interrogate a corpse.

No no Guardian, don’t play their game. Ethnic cleansing was literally not a term until the 90s. The Clinton admin made it up out of nothing to justify why the US didn’t have to intervene in Rwanda, and everyone else went with it because it was convenient for them, because everyone else was trying to figure out how they didn’t have to intervene as well. “Ethnic cleansing” is just genocide in a wrapper.