The Bloody Doors Off

Yeah, my blood’s so mad, feels like coagulatin’
I’m sittin’ here just contemplatin’
I can’t twist the truth, it knows no regulation
Handful of senators don’t pass legislation
And marches alone can’t bring integration
When human respect is disintegratin’
This whole crazy world is just too frustratin’
And you tell me
Over and over and over again, my friend
How you don’t believe
We’re on the eve of destruction

Barry Mcguire, Eve of Destruction
Songwriter: P. F. Sloan

At a rally tonight, the Orange Cheeto said he was going to invoke the Aliens Enemies Act of 1798.

A quick synopsis below, courtesy of the National Constitution Center:

“In 1798, Congress passed the Alien and Sedition Acts with the support of the Adams Administration. The Alien Act granted the President unilateral authority to deport non-citizens who were subjects of foreign enemies. The Sedition Act attacked the core of free speech and a free press—the right to criticize the government. The atmosphere of partisan politics was particularly fraught in the 1790s—with the rise of the partisan press and the development of rival political parties. The Alien and Sedition Acts stacked the deck against the political opposition, criminalizing criticism of Federalist President John Adams, but not Vice President Thomas Jefferson—the leader of the political opposition. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison fought back, arguing in the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions that the Acts violated the First Amendment’s protection of free speech and a free press. While the Supreme Court never ruled on the constitutionality of the Alien and Sedition Acts, Jefferson defeated Adams in the election of 1800. Once in office, President Jefferson allowed the Acts to expire and pardoned those convicted under them.”

So this would give him — if elected less than a month from now — the power to expel any landed, illegal and (I’m sure he’d add legal) immigrants with a snap of his fingers. All he’d have to do is declare their home country an enemy of the US.

If he also ran the Seditions Act in tandem, it would also him power over the free press. He could shut down any and all media that isn’t favourable to him. One very right-wing media streamer Right Side Broadcasting, who filled the vacuum left by Fox News, who sometimes fact check the president, had a “reporter” covering the rally, telling viewers that the Springfield, Ohio migrants, who are there legally, are demonic, and raping and killing men, women and children. So I guess they’re safe.

Now, the Act expired soon thereafter, and the case was never heard by the Supreme Court at the time. But Trump can sign an executive order reinstating it, and as he’s got the majority of the Supreme Court in his back pocket, the same justices who said an official act by the President automatically gives him immunity, even for the worst crimes.

You can see where this is going.

People wonder why I am ‘obsessed’ with this election.

Because it might be their last.

And we’ve got a CONservative leader, Pierre Poillievre, who wants to “take Canada back”. (Was “Make Canada Great Again” already trademarked?) He’s a milquetoast version of the Orange Cheeto.

His party are leading in opinion polls. The ruling Liberals have a minority government, and their partnership with the NDP was recently dissolved. The first chance he got, ol’ Pollievre called for a non-confidence motion, which failed. He tried again, and also failed. But the bugger is chomping at the bit for an early election while the political winds blow out of his ass.

Which means, it could just as easily happen here.

And it makes me sick to my stomach that, come November 6th, the first domino may fall.