Yeah, going back to his previous term.
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This time I don’t think anyone will stop him though 
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This will absolutely lead to an incident where a busload of women and children are blown up and the cabinet will be texting each other fist bumps over it. Ugh.
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Right below a reddit post about Jesse Watters and other fascists claiming that the tariffs will restore masculinity to America is an add for pills to keep men from cumming too soon. I swear to God, all of these right wing men need gender affirming care so bad.
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Ending paragraph:
When the likes of Timothy Snyder, Jason Stanley, and other leading experts of authoritarianism have concluded that it is time to leave the United States, all Americans should be very afraid. The American people have been warned. Again.
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n a parenthetical buried in his new memoir, Graydon Carter recounts the story of how his 1984 GQ cover story of Donald Trump — which sold well on newsstands — convinced Condé Nast owner Si Newhouse to publish The Art of the Deal. That book led to The Apprentice, which led to the second half of Trump’s career as media personality and then president.
“As they say, a butterfly’s wings,” Carter writes.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/04/06/graydon-carter-interview-canada-trump-00272641
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So Curtis Yarvin is the new Graydon Carter? 
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He’s not pro-Trump.
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Something that was bugging me that I think I finally put some words to that might make sense:
A big part of the problem with modern media is that competence in government is boring. When you have an administration that just does it’s job well every day, there’s nothing dramatic or fun or exciting about that to capture people’s attention. In contrast, people fixate on the dumpster fire. They gravitate to the horrendous car accident. That is T****’s core strength in the current media environment. Every time he says or does something awful, it’s newsworthy. Then the right wing media frames it as something done to him by “libs” or some phantom problem he’s solving by being a tough guy. Meanwhile, when government does a great job solving an actual problem, it’s ignored.
This is a problem that has to be solved before we can move on as a country. It might even be in line before getting rid of voter suppression/gerrymandering or cleaning up judicial corruption. It’s a conundrum. It’s like we’re caught in a trap where the first step to recovery is blocked by not having completed the second step. Can’t fix the courts until we have a supermajority in the Senate, but we can’t even dream of that until we fix voting rights, but the court will just shoot down any serious reform in that area. And fixing media bias (and Citizens United) seems like it is needed even before voting rights, because a misinformed populace just votes for the cult leader until they can be deprogrammed.
Sorry if that’s depressing. I still think the first step is voting rights, maybe with a side of adding DC & PR statehood to counter-balance the bias of the Electoral College. That needed to be priority 1 in Biden’s term, but it was set aside in the dual emergencies of COVID and economic recovery. Sinema and Manchin caused SO MUCH SUFFERING!
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Can you imagine Mexico bombing gun traffickers off Rio Grande in retaliation?
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In an unsigned opinion and without addressing the question of whether the terminations themselves were lawful, the court said the nonprofits that brought the case did not have legal standing to sue over federal employees’ firings.
The vote was 7 to 2. Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson would have kept the firings paused while the case plays out in the lower courts, according to the order.
Son of a bitch…
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I read somewhere that the ban on US films had already been declared.
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So, NOTHING will be enough.
So, every thing you said applies.
“…the emergency is … something he’s building”
It’s about redefining the boundaries of executive power. Imagine if this economic crisis keeps getting worse — the amount of power he will gain.
Yes he is building it with the intent of creating a situation where he has to declare a formal state of emergency, military rule, absolute presidential power and declare the start of the American reich. I wonder what he’ll call it? He is surrounded by people who will absolutely support and enable this. Project 2025 is just the beginning.
Military rule increases the probability of subsequent military coups and attempted coups.
Or maybe insurrection or civil war.
We can but hope.
Absolutely both.
Unknown = Other = Not Them = Bad!
Perhaps they do, and it’s what they want. They want what Trump is making.
But Israel has demonstrated perfectly well that drone strikes and air strikes are how to beat these sorts of urban ‘terrorists’. What could Trump and Netanyahu have been chatting about, I wonder?
Catch-22. By design.
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Maybe look it up? 
I just did because I too thought I’d seen that, but all the latest articles I could find are still saying that “China” is only in the “considering it” stage.
Edit: This might be where we got that impression:
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