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The Department of Homeland Security is looking to boost its deployment of the military on the streets of the U.S. in order to help carry out Donald Trump’s immigration policies, according to a leaked memo written by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s brother.
Wish I had your optimism. It takes work to pull the fucking grubby mitts of authoritarians out of the machine, it doesn’t always happen automatically.
The bigger issue is that even if this does collapse quickly, the damage is largely done. Who knows how much data and accumulated years of knowledge are gone, to say nothing of all the agencies and policies that are just burnt to the ground. It took DECADES to get the EPA to even a level that was largely useful. Even if we come out the other side of this, it’ll be in a radically changed form, possibly not even as the United States. I can very easily see a power vacuum and federal collapse from the fact that the federal government, aside from the actual levers of power like the judiciary and the military, is just a skeleton now.
An actually competent government could get the EPA kicking ass, fast. It’s absolutely doable. The same group that’s motivated enough to fix shit would be likely to keep going and undo damage as fast or faster than it was done.
Talk about plans and options everybody.
Frankly I could see far worse than federal collapse, as in I wouldn’t be surprised if some areas devolved into city states at best. The economy is rat fucked to the point where anything coming out the other side that isn’t already exceptionally robust is unlikely, which basically is a list of the Western states, North East, and the Mid West Ohio not withstanding.
That’s what the billionaires want, billionaires can own city-states.
I feel like they’re missing the fact that most of them will be wholly irrelevant if USD collapses remember most of them hold their wealth in stocks and the ones who don’t have no practical way of enforcing their power. They aren’t the patricians of the late Western Roman empire who were both oligarchs and generals with loyal house troops, they are closer to the Italian city state patricians chucking around mercenaries and backstabbing.
They own enough other shit to survive a dollar collapse, they buy up everything they want on the cheap.
Yeah how’d that work for the Romans in the East when the Visigoths, Franks, and Ostrogoths ripped apart the West and the Easts investments collapsed. You are assuming that American society holds up in any practical way, I don’t think it will I think the USD will be worth only as much as it’s good for toilet paper. The US economy is too weak as a whole to support itself if it faulters anytime soon, everything is top down and much like a top heavy ship itll flip and sink.
Not if they’re dead.
Plus the people who are suppose to protect us the people only want to protect the lesser majority that likes to hate, because the protectors are haters also.