Sometimes I think about a future where ICE has Enforced all the Immigration it can, and gets down to enforcing the Customs. And the law around imports is an inscrutable mess because tariffs are constantly being decreed, fluctuating and being carved out for friends of the regime
they're building the camps. they're telling mainstream reporters they'll invoke the insurrection act to use military assets to effect arrests once they've built the camps. it's all happening here, right now.
There is a very prohibition-era world imaginable in my lifetime, but instead of booze creating violence it's everything, and instead of Eliot Ness versus Al Capone it's a masked, militarized national police force versus anyone who didn't pay the taxes and/or fealty. Imagine prohibition but backwards
Just to be clear I DON'T think this is that likely, and I DO have the movie The Untouchables burned into my memory because it was in the box of VHS tapes that raised me
But it feels possible, and is not very different from the reality in other countries I've lived in, primarily/ironically Venezuela
Apr 29, 2025 18:39
