On this 'liberation day' I'm reminded of Norm's clip about going to war ... with the World.

Maybe just start with a hemisphere or some ripe continent spoiling for a fight and see how that goes first.https://t.co/Qque9xdxQ2

— Marchmaine (@Marchmaine) April 2, 2025

Well here comes the big f- you to working families everywhere. I predict hard lessons are about to be learned when everything gets way more expensive and any new investment in the US in return is minimal.

It's also right after we were breathlessly and repeatedly told Biden was showing no signs of age.

The other massive issue is: How big a problem is this? It could be first-sign-of-fascism-torture... or it could be extreme outliers selected for being extreme outliers.

Trump's people could illegally arrest/imprison/deport 100 US citizens this year and it would be a serious improvement because the system averages 200.

We have about 11 million illegal immigrants living in the USA at the moment. In a normal year ICE will deport about a quarter of a million. If Trump tries to deport our way out of this mess then we will see a massive uptick in deportations that will be easily noticeable, negatively affect the economy, and won't be hidable.

If you want to worry about illegal immigrants then worry about hundreds of thousands, not dozens.

The Bar Associations still control access to the courts through licensing and since most legislators have a lawyer background, that isn't going away. Plus the attempts at using AI in law have been an utter disaster, especially in the Court room but I'm guessing AI will make a muck of contracts, wills, and other legal documents as well.

One of the big problems that is going to have to be overcome is the whole "that's not true! That's a conspiracy theory!" thing.

Remember when TDA being in charge of an apartment complex in Aurora was a conspiracy theory? Well, as it turns out, it ended up being true. The authorities (including the 4th Estate, for some reason) was very interested in making sure that we all knew that the rumors of TDA being in Denver were exaggerations.

Oh, so now as part of the cleanup, we find out that TDA was here and all that? And in getting rid of TDA, we're getting rid of people who aren't part of TDA?

You're going to have to get the really good people in charge of asking for empathy. Having them be the same people as the folks who sneered at the conspiracy theorists is going to have results that you're not going to like.

It's more vague that just "8".

"...if a person scores 8 points or higher based on symbolism but has no points from other categories like criminal behavior, authorities must consult a supervisor and the Office of Principal Legal Advisor before proceeding..."

All of the "auto convict" boxes are "10" and Leavitt says in that interview that they're not used this way.

DavidTC: We HAVE an immigration court in this country. They are completely ignoring it because they have decided to pretend a law says something different.

We have a lot of chaos in the system and people who don't know what they're doing. I am reluctant to take a case or three selected for being extreme outliers and say they're the norm.