Under the Rose, 66th Day of Autumn, 525 M.E. (Castor): All the news is appalling, and the latest appalling news is that the Stable Genius is strongly considering invoking the 1807 Insurrection Act to federalize the National Guard and even utilize the national army to suppress protest and dissent. NBC reports that while the decision to invoke the act is not expected to be imminent, the administration is deeply exploring how and when the act might be invoked.

I doubt invoking the Insurrection Act was ever debated. It feels like is was the plan all along, that mobilizing federalized troops was always the endgame. Provoke and outrage the masses with deliberately cruel ICE arrests, rile up urban communities and then send in the national guard to upset them even more, claim protesters to be "terrorists" and declare antifa the equivalent of Hamas and ISIS, and then finally invoke the Insurrection Act in the name of "law and order." It's the classic authoritarian playbook.

The system is now so broken that the federal government has been shutdown for almost two weeks with no end in sight, and today the Stable Genius and OMB have laid off more than 4,000 of the idle government workers. The SG claims he has some sort of right during a shutdown to lay off workers without a possibility of return, but I'm old enough to have lived through several shutdowns and never heard a chief executive, Democrat or Republican, make this claim before. It's only fiscally responsible, they claim, we have to make adjustments since no revenue is coming in. What? No revenue? I don't have to pay taxes during a shutdown? That's a new one on me and I've never heard that one before, but I'll take it. And what about tariffs? No one's collecting tariffs during the shutdown? Great, can't wait to see prices start dropping at the supermarket . . .  

The Stable Genius is openly bragging that the layoffs are intended to hurt "Democrat programs," as he mobilizes federal troops from red states into blue ones and weaponizes the Justice Department to persecute (not prosecute) Democratic AGs and others who have brought charges against him for his previous crimes. The SG clearly has no interest in even pretending to represent half of the nation he was elected to serve, is clearly violating his oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution, and is actively and vigorously sowing dissent and unrest so he can make a power move against the American people via the military.

I told you the news is appalling.