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Weaken the courts, weaken the army are good steps to undermining democracy especially if he fills the senior generals  with his own cronies after the cull. The Republicans maybe aghast at this development but considering how supportive Trump's following is it is hard to imagine a Republican going against him. At least openly. I suppose if the cuts get too wild inside forces may work so Trump "accidentally" fall out a window... With his pal Elon also meeting an unfortunate demise or face some trumped up charge.

He doesn't even have to fill positions with cronies, just fire the ones who don't follow orders.  He is the Commander-in-Chief.  The question is, if he orders say an invasion of Greenland, will they follow the orders without CONgress making a declaration of war?  Obviously, it wouldn't take many marines to capture Greenland.  So, the question is, how many Generals want a dictatorship with Trump as Der Fuehrer?

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File this under unforseen consequences or blowback.

All those federal employees in Washington who just lost their jobs can't pay their mortgages.  Everybody's trying to GTFO of Dodge at the same time.  What happens when everybody in a market wants to sell at the same time?

A real estate crash throws another monkey wrench into the chaos. Fun.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/real-estate-market-crash-fears-in-washington-dc-as-netizens-claim-1-000s-selling-homes-leaving-city-grok-answers-101739612154919.html

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File this under unforseen consequences or blowback.

All those federal employees in Washington who just lost their jobs can't pay their mortgages.  Everybody's trying to GTFO of Dodge at the same time.  What happens when everybody in a market wants to sell at the same time?

A real estate crash throws another monkey wrench into the chaos. Fun.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/business/real-estate-market-crash-fears-in-washington-dc-as-netizens-claim-1-000s-selling-homes-leaving-city-grok-answers-101739612154919.html

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Nobody will want to buy their Tesla carz either.  In January, sales of Tesla cars slumped across five European countries.

Is Tesla's sales slump down to Elon Musk ?

Used Tesla for Sale in Washington, DC.

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As protests go, it's not much, but at least it's a start.  They'll need a couple of more orders of magnitude boots on the ground to be meaningful in any way.

So far, the cuts haven't been to agancies most people deal with.  When he gets around to hitting on Social Security and Medicare, that may wake up a few more people.

Idaho joins nationwide 'No Kings' protests, target Trump Administration on Presidents Day

https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/local/people-rally-in-idaho-and-nationwide-against-federal-overreach-on-presidents-day-protest-politics/277-addbe4af-7dda-4516-adff-8bbad167ab6b

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Obviously this ruling gets appealed, and Der Fuehrer probably tries to have the Judge impeached.  Question is, can they delay rehiring until it gets to the SCOTUS?  Whether they get rehired or not, as long as this chaos is going on nobody in any of these jobs will be getting much work done.  If they're at work, mainly they'll be at the water cooler or coffee machine bitching to each other.  Anything they do probably gets reversed or cancelled the next day.  The strategy here is to cause so much chaos that it renders all these agencies ineffective no matter what the outcome in the courts.  Plus everything is so confused you don't even have a place to start to fix it.  It's whack-a-mole, as soon as you address one issue, a new one comes up.  A few more months of this and the Federal Goobermint won't be able to get anything done at all.  Which pretty much is the objective.


Thousands of fired federal workers must be rehired immediately, judge rules

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/13/fired-federal-probationary-employees-court-ruling-00228721

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Chief Statistician not reporting the results you want?  Find somebody new to cook the books.  Of course with the Trumpenator this is nothing new, and neither is the ridiculous reporting of it.

"The big picture: The overwhelming, all-consuming nature of Trump-driven news cycles makes it difficult to discern partisan hysteria from true democratic backsliding. "

Who are they kidding?  It's not difficult at all, it has nothing to do with "partisan hysteria" at all and is TOTALLY about destroying even a window dressing of "democracy" into a totalitarian state, a dictatorship directed by one narcissistic megalomaniac empowered by a mob of idiots and syncophants.  Yet the "newz media" reports it as though there is some aambiguity and two sides to the story.

"The bottom line: Trump is only six months into his term, and he has already stretched the limits of executive power further than any modern president."

Stretched?  Uh, no.  The elastic limit of this rubber band was exceeded way back when he started targeting law firms that sued him and shit canned FBI agents who investigated him and fined Universities for teaching about Israeli genocide.  There is no ambiguity in the message he has telegraphed from Day 1 in office, which is you either toe his line or "You're FIRED!".  It's Trump's Way or the Highway.  No dissent, no free speech, no constitutional protection, do not pass go, do not collect $200 and go straight to the fucking airport and disappear into a Nicaraguan jail.

Next up: Any climate scientist who claims greenhouse gases are a threat to the environment will be deported also.

https://www.axios.com/2025/08/02/trump-authoritarian-jobs-report-bls-economy

Trump's authoritarian streak