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Republicans can support even an unpopular or losing war because emergency powers, voter ID rules, and a draft could help them delay, suspend, or manipulate elections.
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Emergency powers
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Key Notes
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Netanyahu's domestic survival is tied to permanent war because October 7 and emergency powers interrupted a protest movement that could have removed him over corruption.
prediction
Jiang predicts emergency powers could let Trump bypass midterm elections and obtain a third term.
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Jiang says ICE's real function is not immigration enforcement but a loyal Trumpist secret-police force whose violence can help incite civil war and justify emergency rule.
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Jiang says Trump is on the offensive in the second term and points to ICE raids, National Guard deployments, possible war theaters, and emergency authorities as signs of a more consolidated executive posture.
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The host says preparedness-minded people fear precisely the moment when petty officials gain emergency powers, because the same psychology seen during COVID would scale into crisis management.
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"...the National Guard is in place then Trump can declare the Emergency Powers Act right and then he will get his third term and..."
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"...in a time of war, the president has something called the Emergency Powers Act. Okay? Emergency powers. Emergency powers allows the president to essentially..."
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"To have police officers there to scare minorities. And that's traditionally how racism was enforced in America. Okay? So, in other words, the Republicans..."
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"Right? So, they're going to fight over who bails who out. Okay? If the Democrats can win the House and the presidency into 2028,..."
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"...and then Israel is now in permanent war that gives him emergency powers. Okay? All right. To give you a sense of how divided..."
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"And look, if he were not running for a third term, we cannot possibly explain the speed and the force by which he is..."
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"And that helps us explain the incredible unprecedented violence that is happening in the streets of Minneapolis right now. These are extrajudicial executions, okay?..."
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"The Democrats impeached him twice. After Trump lost the midterms, the Democrats immediately started impeaching proceedings. So Trump was really on the defensive in..."
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"Trump has discussed the possibility of invoking the Insurrection Act. Trump has played around the idea of running for a third term. I don't..."
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"...happens in a disaster. When those people are empowered with like emergency powers. So when you see that on steroids, where we kind of..."
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"...likely to be a midterm because he's going to use this emergency powers, right? At the rate that, you know, midterms are at the..."
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Relevant Lectures And Readings
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Redacted asks Jiang whether the Iran war is already out of control.
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The lecture names the law of proximity: people and nations play many games at once, but the nearest game is the one that governs action.
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Jiang opens by saying the American empire is no longer even pretending to run a liberal order.
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The interview starts with an optimistic claim about a China-US reset, then widens into a harsher model of late-order politics: China and America still need each other, but both systems are drifting toward state...
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Canadian Prepper keeps pulling Jiang from immediate war forecasting into theology, bureaucracy, civil unrest, Canadian overmanagement, disaster culture, and Taiwan.
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