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Honestly, I am not sure and tbh most of us will hopefully never have to find out. That said, I can tell you what I did when the raids were happening in Chicagoland. I stayed home and when I did go out, I took papers with. Why? Because there is one sure way to not get oneself in trouble: not being where trouble are. That is why my first question is: why was she there to begin with? I won't lie. It is a concern. Look a…
> That is why my first question is: why was she there to begin with? It's my understanding she and the other onlookers live there in that city. Unlike the masked bandits airdropped in from elsewhere. Further, IIRC, there was a note on Letters from an American to the effect that the woman had registered herself and had some minimal credentials at least as Constitutional Observer (?) and was there to watch and record t…
Yep. It has become more and more obvious that there just isn't any actual mechanism to resolve the executive branch just doing whatever it wants the way things currently stand. As a US citizen, the rest of this term and the term or two after it are going to determine whether I remain in the country or not. How much farther do we slip? Do we realize this is all an awful idea? If the opposition takes power next time, do they use it to actually resolve the underlying issues, or do they just wield that same power against the other side?
If the presidency and congress don't work to fundamentally implement an actual enforceable division of powers over the next decade, even if things don't "get worse" from here, I don't think it's a place that makes sense for me to stick around.