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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • It’s amazing this was never fixed. In Korematsu v United States, a Japanese-American citizen didn’t report to Manzanar concentration camp and was imprisoned. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that it was legal to imprison citizens for national security reasons. That case still stands. And a similar executive order could be issued to do the same at any time, and Congress would be the only thing stopping it.

    The order was based on the Alien Enemies and Sedition act of 1798, which was also already involved by Trump on this term.

    I would love to be wrong, but I feel like more camps are in our future. CECOT is just the beginning.


  • I wish there was more. Nothing I’ve done seems very effective. Being in Oklahoma, that’s how I’ve felt my whole life. Anyone I vote for loses. Any time I protest, it happens anyway. Any time I volunteer, it’s too small.

    My friends and I have recently started a small support group to share survival skills, gardening, canning, and basic marksmanship to recently threatened, marginalized, and like minded people but that doesn’t fix the overall problem. I’ve taught a lot, learned a lot, but I just don’t see it getting better.

    I feel powerless, and I guess that’s the intent.


  • It also depends on what access they have. Easiest would be to axe subsidies to oil companies, but no way they’re be able to just do something like that. There’s too much protection around that money.

    Of course, if they’re doing exactly as DOGE, they suck and I’m glad they’re blocked because DOGE has made terrible decisions.








  • They kind of have to, I suspect. But it won’t work. They’ll see things go bad, put in their sound bite as “we need to do something about ___!” And the average American won’t see it, and instead be inundated with right wing “Democrats are screwing it all up!” And not think of the logic that the Democratic party can’t do anything. And they’ll vote Republican again.

    Democrats need to get better at media.