Subject: Re: January 6, Part Deux

Alarmists thought that the Trump Administration would be out here banning abortion right and left, clamping down with the Comstock Act and running roughshod over access to reproductive health...and that hasn't really happened.

Maybe he really doesn't give a hoot about "abortion". He paid lip service to keep the religious nutters on board.

Similarly, we were concerned that the Administration would simply ignore any court orders they disliked,

I posted a link about ICE ignoring 96 court orders, just over the last couple months, just in Minnesota.

We also were concerned that the Administration would just ignore Congressional appropriations and willfully violate the Impoundment Act.

Yesterday, I posted about Trump bypassing Congress and sending another $6.5B in weapons to Israel. This is the third time he has done that in a year.

We haven't seen Trump leave NATO, abandon aid for Ukraine, or invade Greenland (or Panama).

Then there is the Venezuelan op, and constant war mongering wrt Iran, complete with military buildup in the area.

His Administration went to court, got a warrant from a judge, and served the warrant.

ICE has decreed that it doesn't need a judicial warrant. They can write their own warrant, or dispense with warrants entirely.

Expanding on the assault on voting. He has complained, loud and long, about "mail in voting". Why? It's harder to intimidate voters when they mail in their ballots, rather than standing in line at a polling place. And what is with the demand for detailed voter registration information from many states? How could detailed information be used?

scenario: sift the voter registration roles for non-white sounding names. See what precinct those non-white sounding people vote in. See if that precinct skews Dem or GOP. If it skews Dem, dispatch a squad of storm troopers to the polling place, with a list of all the non-white sounding people that vote there. Then they approach every non-white looking person standing in line, demanding name and address. They find the non-white person on their "list", pull them out of line, and detain them for "questioning" until after the polls close.

We have seem some remarkable things over the last few years. Don't bank on no more remarkable things happening.

Steve