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Chemotherapy drip?

Actually, Vance is next in line, and considering Vance is as much of a spineless worm as Mike Johnson...

I think they're more saying "will this have any actual teeth to enforce it". Trump has made a routine habit through his life of ignoring the courts entirely when it suits him.

Bingo, it's a Mafia boondoggle. You pay Company [exorbitant amount of money] to build an ever larger, ever more complex project so you can funnel cash to them without it looking like a gift. All Company has to do is have 4 or 5 guys be up on scaffolding "building the wall" a couple days a week to make it look like progress is being made.

ICE gets new cars

Which they will proceed to never use because the terror of "oh shit is THAT the black SUV full of Men With Guns" is the fucking point. They're quite literally turning themselves into the Stasi - they are Anywhere, Anytime, and you will not know they're ICE until you're being shoved onto a plane. I wouldn't be surprised if dozens of white terror cells across the US are using the confusion to mask up, throw a plate carrier on, sling up a rifle, and kidnap minorities to kill/worse because this is basically all but an invitation to do so if you're a white supremacist terrorist.

Ahh, but we've never really had such top-to-bottom corruption like this. A president who thinks himself a king, and everyone from congresspeople to governors to state secretaries to city officials who want him to stay that way. Sure, Bush might not have suspended elections, or Obama, but I can definitely see Trump trying.

"Police action", because even with the current climate, it might be hard to get Congress to declare an actual war.

They had a DEI/nondiscrimination campaign because of several high profile stories where restaurants were accused of racism (black diners being asked to move away from seats visible from the entrance, at least one black person being told "we don't serve your kind" or words to that effect.)

Don't breathe too big a sigh of relief, they've already made noises like they want to find ways to strip naturalization for a LOT more people than they already have.

Nah, we funded both Iran and the Taliban. We even elected a guy who illegally funneled weapon sales to Iran in order to take that money and give it to Nicaraguan death squads. Arguably, without US support, neither gets the critical mass it needs to effect regime change or become anything more than an upstart.

No, but we're doing a fantastic job exporting a lot of the doctrine and repackaging it.

There's also the armed nonviolent wing that gets left out, like the Deacons and the various unaffiliated armed people who literally did have to be ready to kill in order to defend some of the nonviolent protestors - one SNCC person in an interview mentioned they and a few friends were staying at an old black woman's home after a march in Alabama, and she had half of the local black community entrenched, quite literally, with their guns in her front yard all night, because the police had shown up with what amounted to a lynch mob for the protestors.

I also think a lot of people confuse moral nonviolence with strategic nonviolence or pacifism. You can be nonviolent and still be absolutely armed, trained, and ready to do violence if needed.

There's a fantastic book, This Nonviolent Stuff Will Get You Killed, that really hits the lost portions of the civil rights movement, including the armed wing of the movement.