Everyone’s eating it up, not only his supporters. He got a solid like, 2 to 3 day’s worth of news cycle out of an absolute nothingburger, while everyone is safely diverted away from analyzing all the other shit he’s been doing, say, through executive orders. I think he’s just throwing a massive amount of shit at the wall, seeing what sticks, seeing what he can get away with. Media will not contest him shitting on trans people, or removing DEI from all the government websites, or forcing government employees back into offices that don’t exist, among any number of other things.
It doesn’t even really matter if the things he proposes are even possible at all. The only way he’d be able to invade gaza with US troops in order to forcibly relocate the palestinians, conceivably, is by overthrowing jordon, which could be something they’ve been cooking up for a while, or pressuring egypt into doing so which would probably completely fuck over egypt’s domestic politics and flip the region into an uncontrollable civil war which would be another actor in the region that’s no longer amenable to israel, and the resulting blowback might even cause the total collapse of israel. Even with that excuse, which is ultimately what it would be, it would basically just be a full US backed genocide, both in the literal sense of having to kill basically everyone, and under the academic definition. That would probably kill any domestic US support for israel, and again, would maybe result in their collapse. Outside of that, outside of a full US backing and ground invasion, Israel can only really do what they’ve already been doing, to a mixed amount of success.
Despite the improbability, he might still go through with all of that. It’s not even really up to him in terms of sort of, just whether or not he’s dumb enough to do that, which he probably also is, but it’s mostly just whether or not everyone else in the administration is actually planning to do that. Will the concentration camp in guantanamo that libs failed to shut down before it got to this point get off the ground? Will the ICE officers actually be capable of running around and arresting everyone, or will that be utterly stupid as an idea for the same exact reasons that it’s always been utterly stupid, and for the same reasons that the foundation of the system is basically non-functional? Is this all just a bunch of bullshit until trump can justifiably pass almost uncontested another round of tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy? Who could say.
I mostly just find myself hoping that the admin goes careening off a cliff after the internal contradictions of the system begin to fully bear their weight, and something better emerges in the wake of that. It’s not really up to us, at the bottom, and it never really has been. It’s maybe up to, how hard the pharoah lets his heart become, or what have you.
Everyone’s eating it up, not only his supporters. He got a solid like, 2 to 3 day’s worth of news cycle out of an absolute nothingburger, while everyone is safely diverted away from analyzing all the other shit he’s been doing, say, through executive orders. I think he’s just throwing a massive amount of shit at the wall, seeing what sticks, seeing what he can get away with. Media will not contest him shitting on trans people, or removing DEI from all the government websites, or forcing government employees back into offices that don’t exist, among any number of other things.
It doesn’t even really matter if the things he proposes are even possible at all. The only way he’d be able to invade gaza with US troops in order to forcibly relocate the palestinians, conceivably, is by overthrowing jordon, which could be something they’ve been cooking up for a while, or pressuring egypt into doing so which would probably completely fuck over egypt’s domestic politics and flip the region into an uncontrollable civil war which would be another actor in the region that’s no longer amenable to israel, and the resulting blowback might even cause the total collapse of israel. Even with that excuse, which is ultimately what it would be, it would basically just be a full US backed genocide, both in the literal sense of having to kill basically everyone, and under the academic definition. That would probably kill any domestic US support for israel, and again, would maybe result in their collapse. Outside of that, outside of a full US backing and ground invasion, Israel can only really do what they’ve already been doing, to a mixed amount of success.
Despite the improbability, he might still go through with all of that. It’s not even really up to him in terms of sort of, just whether or not he’s dumb enough to do that, which he probably also is, but it’s mostly just whether or not everyone else in the administration is actually planning to do that. Will the concentration camp in guantanamo that libs failed to shut down before it got to this point get off the ground? Will the ICE officers actually be capable of running around and arresting everyone, or will that be utterly stupid as an idea for the same exact reasons that it’s always been utterly stupid, and for the same reasons that the foundation of the system is basically non-functional? Is this all just a bunch of bullshit until trump can justifiably pass almost uncontested another round of tax cuts to the ultra-wealthy? Who could say.
I mostly just find myself hoping that the admin goes careening off a cliff after the internal contradictions of the system begin to fully bear their weight, and something better emerges in the wake of that. It’s not really up to us, at the bottom, and it never really has been. It’s maybe up to, how hard the pharoah lets his heart become, or what have you.