I'm pretty sure this is also why they want to annex Canada, Greenland, and Panama (maybe Mexico if they think they can get away with it). It's the exact same strategy the Nazis used, and I'm not invoking that lightly: when their economy was absolute dogshit, the Nazis made it look WAY better by A) going to a war footing and B) invading other countries and stealing everything that wasn't nailed down (then stealing everything else, including the nails.)
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Pretty much this. For many, up until basically right now, working in the federal government all but guaranteed employment for years. I tried very, very hard to be employed at my local NIOSH branch (sadly didn't make the cut) because of this fact.
Honestly might just be that, especially if they were working in DC proper.
He's already ordered the military to plan an invasion of Panama to seize the canal (likely because Panama is the weaker target between them and Canada).
A TOASTER IS JUST A DEATH RAY WITH A SMALLER POWER SUPPLY!
Zion and Badlands too, I'll bet.
You don't know that they aren't conducting zero-g battles.
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
This is not ENTIRELY the case. These would effectively be sovereign states in all but name. They would have full autonomy and exemption from US law and state law. Further, they would have abilities to set laws in these cities with real, actual criminal penalties, and enforce them via their own monopoly on force.
I'll also throw in Black Me Out.
Ahh, but you're missing the bigger part of the equation: one of Trump's first EOs this time was the requirement, by April 20, for the Pentagon to put together a recommendation on whether or not to utilize the Insurrection Act to declare martial law. I, and most others, are thinking this is purely a formality with the departmental purges - and once he's done that, it hardly matters whether you like them invading Canada or not.
Now, THAT BEING SAID, the military already has a manpower issue, has for a decent while. I do not think we could effectively lock down a country the size of the US, or even the major metros on both coasts, AND fight a war of invasion. Even unofficially deputizing all the various militia types, AND bringing local/state PDs and Nat Guard under federal control, I don't think they have enough.
The whole situation is absurd. She's officially the admin, but Trump keeps saying Musk is in charge, Musk keeps saying he's NOT in charge, and her appointment is likely a smokescreen so they have someone to throw under the bus when the lawsuits come rolling in.
That's why "may or may not". She's the admin until legally tested, because the administration can't actually even bother to lie well.
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OSHA has been pretty toothless for a long time at the federal and state levels both. It takes months, years sometimes to take enforcement actions because a single regulator might have ten or more cases working at any one time, and the courts that are supposed to handle enforcement are deliberately understaffed and overworked.