Mark my words, the military will overthrow local government, someplace. The administration will declare the city "failed," and appoint a private corporation to govern.
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This already sort of happened in Texas where the state claimed that cities like Houston had "failed school systems" then appointed right wing toadies to run the district. In several schools they eliminated libraries, replacing them with Discipline Centers. They also make life hell for teachers or just fire them outright and replace them with unqualified ideologues.
The Republicans will definitely use that same process to deprive state and local governments of their autonomy.
i thought history was supposed to rhyme, not repeat itself
Pitbull rhymed Kodak with Kodak
A corporation? California will be renamed, “Kirkland” or “Wal-World”, and we’ll all have to get new drivers licenses.
Walt Disney would be fucking fuming right about now. Had he just lived 70 years later, he could've had his privately owned "Disney-State"
Democrats waiting for that other shoe:
they are too busy doing nothing and wishing they were in power so they could have the chance to do nothing to avoid this and do a genocide
In this scenario, the upstairs neighbor is a millipede. Several shoes have dropped. Many more will follow.
Hitler calls in the Wehrmacht to support the Brown shirts. This shit needs to end now. Trump’s fascist regime needs to end now.
Hitler had the brown shirts, trump has the brown pants
There is nothing for them to do.
Wasting our tax dollars so Trump can pretend to be a strong man.
Blatant corruption and deliberate misinterpretation of law.
believing that the US will apply its laws, is like believing in Santa Claus
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