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President Trump has ordered the White House host a UFC match.

If Trump wasn’t Mr. America before, he is now.

It’s the dream that we all share. It’s the hope for tomorrow. (Fuck yeah!)

This goes really well with the news that Shigeru Ishiba’s wife, Yoshiko spent two hours with Trump pretending not to comprehend English so as to not have to engage him.

A lot of vengeance is due Leonard Leo.

The whole Federalist Society is due a third-act housecleaning montage.

Or a third-season pre-season finalé season-climax montage, if you prefer.

The thing is what I wish for immigrants and refugees, I wish for absolutely everyone.

But I see fascism, autocratic tyranny and the hoarding of wealth and power as sickness rather than character flaws.

Well, the signs are ideological, in that they conflict with the state-enforced ideology. Curiously, churches are getting in trouble discussing the beatitudes, since they (yes, Jesus’ own words) are in conflict with the state-enforced ideology.

What is scary is when there’s insufficient resistance to the state-enforced ideology that runs contrary to classic virtues / traditions of compassion, hospitality, mercy, etc. This is the banal evil that lets abductions, renderings, concentration camps and eventually genocide happen.

If you don’t fight with banners today, you’ll have to fight with guns tomorrow.

New parties are useless at the federal level so long as elections are First-Past-The-Post. Even the Ross Perot’s Reform Party in 1992 and 1996 only served as a spoiler for the Republican party, and his was an immensely strong attempt at forming a new party, featuring a reasoned platform which Perot showcased with charts every night on television.

This is why Musk’s America party is laughable, even if he really, really meant it, and offered a platform of sound governance.

While Sanders caucuses with the Democratic party, and they make him sit at the kids’ table with AOC and the other Socialist Democrats, he has been able to get a lot of legislation in or blocked with skilled use of Senate procedure.

But the current situation is well beyond even his powers of procedural mischief. We can’t rely on officials or left-wing news media to save the US from oligarchy and eventually monarchy.

Violent or non-violent, we’ll have to do it ourselves, and it’s almost certain that if we pressure them nonviolently (say with massive demonstrations or with a general strike), then Trump will try to do January 6th once again, probably with more guns and explosives. He’ll certainly bring out his ICE Stormtroopers (now in fancy armor) and try to invoke the military.

So we need to expect a fight, and preferably do what the lords did with John of England, make it super clear that he is out-manned and out-armed and will be given no quarter, if it comes down to violence. (Even the Magna Carta took a few tries)

27+ dead little girls at Camp Mystic has shown us it’s ugly already, but non-violence makes it more difficult for bystanders to dismiss the resistance as terrorists. (FOX News, etc. will paint us as terrorists anyway.)

I don’t know how we get to an organized general strike at speed (usually it takes years, and we don’t have years), and there are groups like indivisible that are trying. I don’t know if it’s enough, especially once ICE gets its massive infusion of equipment, manpower and fancy trenchcoats.

Remember the meme about everyone could have a 32 hour work week and three-day weekends (and a productivity boost) but the billionaires are opposed?

Well everyone could have post-scarcity communism but the billionaires are opposed.

When assessing the degree and quality of liberty in a country, one of the factors considered in academic political science is the requirement of personal identification by law enforcement. It [used] to be a trope of Hollywood cinema that takes place in the Eastern Bloc (Warsaw Pact countries) that ordinary citizens and obvious tourists were routinely harassed by law enforcement for their papers, a stark reminder that here in the states you can even cross state lines without identifying yourself.

It’s getting more interesting as law enforcement is pre-emptively collecting biometric data on school kids and other vulnerable demographics.

Currently wending through state courts is the controversy of using biometric data to identify suspects, which may be regarded as an [unreasonable] search from which we (all, citizens or otherwise) are supposed to be protected, according to the fourth amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

In this specific incident, the NYPD is notoriously racist and aggressive, so this may be contempt of cop while black As the adage goes, you can beat the rap but you can’t beat the ride. This assures these young men will have a bad week regardless of their guilt of any wrongdoing.