Oh? I'll add that one to the pile.
At a minimum, at the very best, he's providing cover to dismantle the USPS and enforce in-person voting.
Just par example: Chad Wolf can't legally be the acting secretary of homeland security. He can't legally give orders to federal police forces, who can't legally obey.
Now, if the GOP sees a rout coming their way in November, their guiding principle of Hold Onto Power At All Costs kicks in and maybe they start to see this desperate gambit as less desperate than holding an election.
In an election that half the country's government doesn't recognize as legitimate.
It's not worth telling each other, in order to reassure ourselves that the monster is not real and cannot hurt us.
Go look up his job title on Wikipedia. Call the DHS switchboard and ask who the secretary is.
Does Trump care?
Sometimes the people closest to him can stop him with words.
Hope is not a noun, hope is a verb. Hope is an action. It is not a thing you have, it is a thing that you do. It is not time to abandon hope. It is time to start hoping with both hands.
MOTHER. FUCKER. YES. I. AM.
I'm not going to tell you to *just* anything. Strike that word from your vocabulary. Nothing Trump does is *just* a distraction, even if it distracts. We should not do *just* anything.
Do all things justly; do just nothing.
But fundamentally, even more than he's a nihilist? Trump is a coward.
So we hope. So we plan. So we vote.
Tell Trump. Tell your electeds.
I'm known in a certain crowd as the Sunny Optimist.
And I'm the Sunny Optimist.
"If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do."
Or if it is real, that it's not located in dead words on dead paper written by dead men, but in the hands and hearts and voices and minds of people like you and me.
"Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of civic participation."
Right now, those dogs are well and truly unleashed.
At the same time he's establishing a precedent that any and all federal forces can be deployed to protect any federal facility.
Think about that.
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