I have learned that the Asshole-in-chief has lined up a series of executive orders — he loves EOs, they allow him to bypass the pretense of democracy — to militarize the border. There will be more coming, no doubt to begin rounding up and throwing into cages anyone with brown skin and an accent.
Donald Trump will sign 11 border-related executive orders, including one authorizing the deployment of US troops to the border, Fox News reports.
The outlet reports that in one order, Trump will immediately direct the federal government to resume construction of the border wall, end Biden-era parole policies including the CBP One app, and bring back the so-called Remain in Mexico policy, under which asylum seekers were forced to wait in dangerous border cities while their applications were processed.
Another second order will order American troops to be deployed to the border under US Northern Command and “instruct the military to prioritize our own borders and territorial integrity in strategic planning for its operations,” according to Fox.
A third order will designate international cartels and organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs) and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGT), which will allow for targeted action against members, including financial penalties.
The main thing he’s about, though, is grifting. They announced a new memecoin, named after Melania, to steal more money from American citizens. Jesus. It’s just a naked cash grab out there.
OK, I’m going to get my shoes on and dress up in many warm layers — it’s really, really cold out there — and shuffle over to the lab and spend the morning with my spiders, who have been refusing to lay any eggs for me. Even the spiders are refusing to bring more children into this awful damned world.
Oh, wait. There’s more.
Direct the military to prioritize the US border and territorial integrity
End the “catch and release” policy
Move to end birthright citizenship
End asylum and close the border to immigrants entering illegally
Reinstate “remain in Mexico” policy and building the border wall
10 executive orders on the border to be issued on Monday
Sign an executive order declaring a national energy emergency
Sign a memorandum on inflation which envisions an ‘all of government response’ to inflation
Sign an executive order saying that US policy will recognize two sexes: male and female
Will ensure official government documents, such as passports and visas, reflect sex accurately
Establish Department of Government Efficiency (Doge)
Restore death penalty in public safety
Has no specific target for the oil price
Sign an executive order ending federal government DEI programs
Will suspend refugee resettlement for at least four months
Will put an end to the electric vehicle mandate
Designate criminal cartels as global terrorists
Close the border, end DEI, the death penalty, ignore climate change, and declare by government fiat that there are only two sexes.
OK, now I’m closing my browser and getting the hell out of the house.
Hey, isn’t birthright citizenship right there in the Constitution?
Trans genocide on day 1 and the Bidens are having tea with him. Spineless pieces of shit, all of them
Good idea.
I feel more like we are watching the funeral of the US Democracy rather than the inauguration of a wacko orange fascist.
This isn’t a funeral I really wanted to see.
If anyone tells me to pray for our “prezzinit”, I offer this. It’s Psalms 109:
8 May his days be few;
may another take his place of leadership.
9 May his children be fatherless
and his wife a widow.
10 May his children be wandering beggars;
may they be driven from their ruined homes.
11 May a creditor seize all he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his labor.
12 May no one extend kindness to him
or take pity on his fatherless children.
13 May his descendants be cut off,
their names blotted out from the next generation.
Ending birthright citizenship jumped out at me, too. It’s in the 14th Amendment. There’s no way to change that without amending the Constitution, which would, I believe, require a Constitutional convention. The corrupt SCOTUS could weigh in, I suppose. Scalia single-handedly reinterpreted the 2nd Amendment to exclude that pesky “well-regulated militia” business. Perhaps they could reinterpret the 14th in a similar manner. Though the wording seems fairly ironclad to me:
“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.”
This is probably blatantly illegal.
It is and has been illegal to use the Federal US military for domestic law enforcement for over a century.
The idea here is to prevent a wannabe dictator from using the US military against the USA and its citizens.
The GOP and Trump aren’t at all concerned about following the laws of the USA any more. Rule of Law dies today.
Anyone with an accent would in theory include almost everyone, since nobody speaks without an accent.
The one remaining ray of hope is that Trump and the oligarchs will overreach and most Americans will realize it in time for the 2026 midterms, or 2028 at the latest. My hopes have been dashed repeatedly and recently.
Maybe TikTok will be a clue. If Trump does indeed refrain from enforcing the law that they have to sell*, then he’ll want something in return. Might that make the grifting obvious enough?
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*I agree with Adam Lee that it’s a bad law for the same reasons he states.
With these Executive Orders, the GOP is just throwing crap against the wall and seeing what sticks. Some of it will, some of it won’t.
LOL.
Does that mean we can take away the citizenship of Elon Musk, Melanie Trump, Barron Trump his kid, Donald Trump whose mother was a Scottish citizen, Peter Thiel, etc..
I don’t see how this will make it even with the corrupt US Supreme court.
If they remove birthright citizenship, anyone could lose their US citizenship.
This hits Elon Musk right in the gonads.
This is meaningless and just for show.
Who is for inflation?
Who with the relevant powers isn’t right now fighting inflation with some successes?
ICE: “What’s your name, man?”
Man: My name José Jiménez.
@John Watts
(emphasis mine)
I think that’s where originalists like Scalia would start to unpick the protection this amendment affords.Find a way to say that the Founders did not mean that someone born in the US is automatically subject to its jurisdiction (e.g. if their parents are not citizens of the US) and you can do whatever you like with them.
That’s what these Humpty Dumpty’s do: “When I use a word,… it means just what I choose it to mean – neither more nor less.”
Where is that list from? Anyway, half that stuff can’t be done by executive order, and some of the items are completely meaningless.
@M’thew #11:
I guess we should be glad Scalia’s dead, then? On the other hand, at least Scalia acknowledged stare decisis. I’ll always remember one case — one of the many attempts to overturn Roe v. Wade, IIRC — where he said “If that’s all you have, that the [Supreme] Court was wrong, then you have nothing.” The current bunch, not so much.
But yeah, the SC had already interpreted this to mean what we all think it means, so they’d have to throw out those decisions too.
I couldn’t quite see what this is for.
Or try very hard. Decoding Trump’s gibberish isn’t all that interesting.
We don’t have a national energy emergency.
In fact, the USA is the world’s largest oil producer. Here is what Paul Krugman had to say on Bluesky.
Follow the money.
That is probably part of it.
I thought that maybe this would be an attack on windmills.
Trump hates windmills for trivial reasons.
Or it could be both.
@ 9
Maybe not. I’ve suspected for a long time that Musk is going to dump Tesla or stop producing EVs. Remember when he said that Tesla was really an “AI and robotics company?”