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      My conspiracy theory, and I’m uneducated in these matters, is that they’ve done something with that emergency fund. Since the money isn’t there anymore they’re caught between admitting they misapropriated/stole it or starving people.

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        Or they want people to starve to incite the riots that allows them to apply more military pressure. I hate that that’s a sentence I said with so sense of irony

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          Yep, this is my belief. Trump has been looking for a reason to enact martial law. He’s been making up excuses to extend his enforcement groups throughout the US, and large protests/riots would give them the opportunity.

          This isn’t to say they shouldn’t be done. I’d argue they should. That’s their plan, and their hand should be forced if that’s the way it’s going to go. If it doesn’t happen over this, it’ll be something else, and the imagery of them clamping down on starving people is about the best we could hope for. There is just about no one who doesn’t at least see their plight. It’d be the best rallying cry for all Americans, and potentially to outsiders who would help as well.

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        They already diverted FEMA aid funding toward building concentration camps, everything Elon did with DOGE was so amazingly illegal that he’d be in jail for centuries if convincted of all of it, Trump refused to send money to NYC/NY, other states…

        Yeah, the convicted rapist conman fraudster bankruptor in chief?

        Turns out he doesn’t give a fuck about rules, he does what he wants because no one has ever stopped him, and our system and society are built to reward and enable sociopathic behavior, or at the very least, are very very far from robust enough to stop him.

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        My conspiracy theory is they’re pulling a coup. Billionaires to donate money to trump to fund ICE and national guard. Every other position can get fucked

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        It went into the President’s new ballroom. They haven’t actually spent it yet, nor have they made any building plans, but they’ve already decided it will be spent.