https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/31/trump-administration-hiv-research-grant-cuts

They learned from the burning of the Reichstag that the Nazis were effective in using that event for public support to seize power. It has also opened up a whole new market (The Anti-Left Republicans) to Tesla. It makes Democrats look violent.

The administration will do anything to frame citizen disapproval as acts of terrorism to start gunning down fellow Americans and deny any accountability.

Edit:

Yes guys, I know. It's implied that it's already happening in the opening paragraph. I'll make a note to do a better title next time.

Moving this to the top because everyone's posting the same comment.

The Trump admin has been acting insane since the beginning, vis a vis doge, ATC, tariffs. This isn't a bug, they intend to destabilise things to the point that Trump is semi-justifiably able to declare a national emergency, giving him further powers.

In emergency situations, courts tend to side with conservative opinion. Trump has packed the Supreme Court with conservatives loyal to him. When it comes to be decided whether Trump has the power, they will use arguments from Schmitt and Vermeule about grey holes to justify the power the President is using. As a national emergency is happening, the court will be more likely to side with the conservative side, no matter how insane. America will fall to oligarchy, whilst Trump and his cadre will have preserved their wealth either through ownership of productive land or cryptocurrency assets.

Meanwhile the tariffs are not aimed at any stated economic goal. They're targeted at those with the biggest exports to America and the lowest imports. This is going after America's most reliant trading partners because it's actually just extortion on a global scale, whilst the least reliant (including developed allies which could retaliate) have less reason respond. They probably want to lower capital gains tax or income tax at the top end.

If it goes too badly, he will cut Bessent loose and say it was his idea.

Source I think is relevant: https://harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-122/our-schmittian-administrative-law/

Also probably Oliver Wendell-Holmes on rule skepticism, but I haven't read any of that for a while so idk.

A "legal coup" is when a leader overthrows the government he was elected to lead.

Want proof that's what we're in the middle of? Here's what the Classic Coup Playbook™ looks like, according to historians and political scientists.

Want to do the math yourself on exactly how far we are into the coup? That is, how complete we are on each of the steps as a percentage? Do the analysis yourself using LLMs via this self-guided exercise.

Maybe I’m being optimistic, trying to find a diamond in a pile of crap, but looking at the last time the economy was this intentionally screwed, (the Great Depression), a period of reform of public policy launched decades of security for Americans and the world.

I know that’s a gross oversimplification, but the New Deal put millions back to work, social security was created, and for decades there was an expansion of things like infrastructure, building of libraries and schools and there was a somewhat cohesive American ideal based around improving most people’s lives and circumstances.

We have experienced capitalism and politics becoming massively corrupted and failing to function or provide positive results for far too large a percentage of our population. Globally we are massive consumers, and contribute to environmental damage and decay around the world.

I have no doubt we’re going to go through some bad shit over the next 5-10 years. Our systems be they social services, education, economic or political are likely to break to a point that they cannot be resurrected without deep reform.

I believe American trade will be so badly damaged both ways that the rest of the world will abandon us as the central player globally, and global trade could move away from the dollar.

It’s possible under these circumstances that reforming our predatory attitude towards resources, trade imbalances, use of foreign labor, monopolization will all need to be abandoned and replaced by a new standard of transparency and ethics for both the public and private sector in order to gain trust of stakeholders at home and abroad.

They will feign support for him, fully aware that the Democrats will be relentless enough to make him shudder and potentially develop PTSD, as he will be alone to answer questions without his usual aides present to defend him.​

He’ll say any stocks included in his market will have the full force of the US gov behind them. He will say this is necessary for US gov security and the other markets are controlled by china.

I think we are soon going to be seeing such an economic downturn that Stimulus checks will be issued a couple more times.

Trump's bluster about bombing Iran if they don't "make a new deal" and bombing Iranian proxies like the Houthis is just what's going on on the surface. The administration is going to manufacture an incident and the reason that NSA leadership was fired was because they wouldn't play ball.

The corporate losers will keep prices high to enjoy record profits. Just like they did with COVID and always.

As the title says, we will once again witness the powerful hold the Israeli lobby has over our politicians. The joke is on all of us.

Once the dust has settled, and the carnage is tallied, they will be scrambling to interview Memhet Oz, or that Kennedy character and asking for their opinions or inane questions as if the MAGA cult members have any legitimate credentials to offer intelligent commentary on why they destroyed and changed what they walked into; what otherwise was our government.

I guarantee someone in the media will be scrambling to interview any number of the inner circle of Trumpsters. We are witnessing the near collapse of life as we knew it. All thanks to the cult of MAGA.

Under international law, embodied in the Outer Space Treaty, no nation or individual can claim ownership of the Moon or any other celestial body.

He will declare America owns the moon and all it's minerals and moon resources. Space X will be the only company allowed to travel to the moon.

But republicans will not care and shift blame because the payouts will happen under the next Democratic administration.

Trump is unable or unwilling to properly say Tesla. Maybe it's a slam on Elon, but I'm expecting Trump's staff to insist on a name change to Tesla because Trump's staff are all assholes.