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  • My particular flavor of that is he realizes he was going to prison or worse based on all the legal proceedings against him. The only way to prevent that was to become president and redirect the DOJ. He was desperate.

    Now, his goal is to remain president because if he loses office, he’ll be prosecuted again, at least at the state level where he can’t self-pardon. Therefore he will do literally anything to remain in the presidency until he dies. I think that’s his plan and nothing else really matters to him.

    What follows from that is he needs enough people around him to support the plan until he can disarm any part of the government that would remove him from office. He’s willing to do anything Musk wants because Musk demonstrated that Musk will dump a practically unlimited amount of money into any political race as needed, and Trump needs that to hold Congressional seats and eventually governorships and state legislatures.

    The rest of it is Trump playing out his vindictive nature, the side effect being the fewer people in government, the more likely they’re able to maintain control, perhaps by suspended elections, martial law, etc.

    There’s going to be plenty of unemployed people in DC with time on their hands. We’ll see if that turns into a situation like the Bonus Army.















  • The point of making stuff that lots of people do illegal is that it makes selective enforcement much easier. Protesting hippies in the 60’s? Make weed illegal and you can bust them for that. Plant the weed on them if you have to.

    Black folks getting out of line and demanding equal rights? I hear jazz musicians like to do heroin, let’s make that illegal with harsher penalties. Later, do t the same thing for crack cocaine.

    “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and Black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or Black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and Blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”

    https://eji.org/news/nixon-war-on-drugs-designed-to-criminalize-black-people/