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Federal employees are being asked who they voted for.

This is not hyperbole.

Is the US turning into "fourth Reich"?

My hopes aren't high at this point. Trump and the GOP are hellbent on implementing all of the P2025 agenda - many of the flurry of Eos this week were either literally cribbed from the P2025 document or strongly appear to AI-generated adaptations of the same.

Give it 6-12 months and we'll see how the courts react to challenges and if Congress suddenly grows a spine. And if a mid-term swing back to normalcy seems likely.

Luckily we have enough remaining guardrails that it's unlikely to happen within the next 4 years. But we're getting closer, that's for sure. And the Supreme Court's disastrous decision on presidential immunity is allowing Trump to play Generalissimo.

What guardrails are you talking about? Even ignoring the presidential immunity ruling that explicitly makes him Fuhrer, if Trump has ICE arrest all brown people tomorrow, what exactly is going to stop him? The courts? A judge can say whatever the hell they want from their bench, it won't stop an ICE agent from physically forcing you onto a C130 and taking you wherever.

Trump already "deported" legal american citizens his first term. Trump supporters openly insist on "deporting" a legal american citizen who dared to tell Trump that he's a meany.

The Constitution is just a piece of paper. None of the people in the Trump admin care about it or respect it. It will not save us. The guardrails are all gone.

I guess I've still been somewhat hopeful that the Legislative and Judicial branches will do their job and curb the worst of Trump's excesses or power grabs. But you're right that it's not looking good so far with the GOP Senate seeming to allow anything Trump wants so far. Hesgeth's confirmation was a really bad sign.

And you're right, ICE could well be on its way to turning into the Stasi.

10% from each party support deporting legal immigrants.

Source?

Don't anger Orange Adolf.

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