Does he also LOVE Disney while actually hating everything about it (other than the 40s era racism)?
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‘A state of emergency’: Republican speechwriter lays out how Trump could derail mid-terms
Story by Adam Lynch
Former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum said U.S. democracy contains holes that a certain “criminal mind” could exploit to either postpone or derail mid-term elections if he so wanted. And if that same criminal mind is willing to sic the U.S. military on Americans—and happens to have installed bootlicks and enablers over the military—those holes get a lot more wide.
“Donald Trump in 2020 had a military around him that was not likely to obey illegal orders,” Frum said on today’s edition of ‘The David Frum Show.’ “… [His] Defense Department had said, Look—we will follow any lawful order of the president. But when the president suggests shooting protesters—as he did during the George Floyd riots—we’re going say, ‘Mr. President, are you quite sure?’”
In Trump’s first term, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and chairman of the Joint Chiefs Mark Milley were unwilling to fire on Americans without express orders in writing in the event of a court martial, just so they could show, “The president told me to shoot those people,” Frum said. Trump always “backed down” because he couldn’t rely on Esper and Milley “to take the hint about what he wanted done.”
But that was the old administration, said Frum. In 2026, he’s got a very different kind of administration around him.
“He’s got a former talk-show host as a secretary of defense, one with a long list of allegations of heavy drinking and allegations of sexual abuse against him, who’s completely beholden to Donald Trump,” said Frum. “There are similarly beholden people running the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI. There’s a striking lack of independent voices of people with substantial reputations and long-proven integrity—and, for that matter, proven loyalty to the law of the United States.”
“He’s got the administration of his dreams, and he’s got the problem of a lifetime: the risk of losing the House of Representatives,” Frum continued. “So, what’s the plan: A state of emergency. And that was tested in California.”
Frum explained U.S. law has allowed presidents to delay or stop elections in states before. During Reconstruction, the Grant administration sent federal troops into areas of Ku Klux Klan activity to postpone, reorganize and redo racist elections that excluded whole groups of voters.
“Again, that was Reconstruction; they were facing terroristic violence that was threatening the rights of … half the population of [some] state[s]. But there are precedents here. Now, imagine this in 2026: President Trump provokes some kind of outbreak in California or in some other blue state. He declares a state of emergency. He sends the National Guard. And he says ‘elections have to be postponed until order is restored.’ That may be weeks; it may be months.”
In the meantime, Frum said there would be no representatives from California in the U.S. House of Representatives. And with missing blue-state representatives, the red-state reps would continue a majority that they would likely lose in a free and fair election in 2026
“I’m not saying this is something that will happen, but it’s something that could happen, and I think it was something we just saw tested.
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I’ll check. Should be easy given he has an opinion on absolutely everything.
He’s an interesting case openly admitting to be a labour voter in the past but is now openly spouting populist bullcrap thick and fast.
Two articles here (free to read) from NYT broadly addressing the unintended consequences of the Trump administration’s economic policy. Anyone buying his latest assertion that ‘the deal is done’ with China really hasn’t been paying attention , and when the upcoming G7 is now being talked about as ‘G6 + 1’ then you have to wonder just where this policy of isolation leaves the US.
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https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/1932886231450309018
Propaganda movie made by the White House
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Hillary saying that half of Trump’s supporters were unreachable, deplorable, as part of explaining why she understood why the other half of them felt the way they did and what her pitch to those people was, was a national scandal that dominated the final months of a campaign.
This is what the actual government is now able to state from an official account and it not even raise an eyebrow - it was posted by the official DHS account.
This is not about it being a different time, but simply the complete lack of standards the press hold Republicans to and the fake standards they pretend to think Dems should be held accountable to, such that Dems are not even allowed to say things that are objectively right if it appears slightly impolite.
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It’s come to the point that the US will need a purge of all the fascist anti-democratic elements on the right. Chilling and brutal but it will be necessary if this continues much longer.
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I was so furious just before. Saw a little bit of the news on tv. I usually don’t. It wasn’t a partisan channel like Fox or something. It was NBC national news. And their coverage was appalling, talking about violent protests, how many were arrested, Molotov cocktails, etc.
It is a total power grab by Trump. He is lighting a match to prompt a response to then smack it down with a ridiculous display of force, with the goal to seize more power.
It is appalling.
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Just watched a clip of a woman on her way home in LA stopped before a bunch of thoroughly gutless cops, was standing still, then one of the bastards shot her with " a non lethal "bullet.
Trump is out of control ,you can bet the US has had their last election.
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Interesting use of bicycles 
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So protest is now illegal in the US?
Does anyone there still think they live in a democracy?
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Yet a good amount of people will still walk through the day utterly convinced by the perception that this is the free speech candidate and they just could not vote for a Dem because of something to do with censorship and cancel culture
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