Collapse & Coronation: A Tale of Two Shitties
April 28, 2025
It was the worst of times and it was the worst of times.
He Believes He Rules The World
Donald Trump told The Atlantic today, without hesitation, “I run the country and the world.” It is not a campaign slogan and it is not bluster. This is the plain voice of a man who believes the United States and everything beyond it already belongs to him by birthright. You do not get quotes like this from politicians. You get them from emperors clawing their way back into the palace. Tonight’s report starts here, with a simple truth too many people are still pretending not to see: Donald Trump is not simply running for office and an illegal third term. He is running for the crown.
Royal Edicts Pulled From His Ass That Stink Like Shit
Terrifying Shit, But Still Shit
Two executive orders were signed into law today that, when read together, reveal a coordinated and dangerous strategy for reshaping policing and immigration enforcement in the United States. Individually, neither can be dismissed. Each one carries its own set of threats and consequences. Together, they build something more deliberate and more dangerous.
The first, "Strengthening and Unleashing America's Law Enforcement," retools local policing into a heavily militarized operation, insulated from public oversight and real consequences. Section 4(a) orders the Attorney General and Secretary of Defense to "increase the provision of excess military and national security assets in local jurisdictions to assist State and local law enforcement." Put simply, the federal government is dumping military gear and national security resources into local police departments.
Section 3(b) directs the Attorney General to "modify, rescind, or move to conclude" consent decrees that "unduly impede the performance of law enforcement functions." In short, this targets agreements like those that require body camera mandates, restrict the use of chokeholds, limit no-knock raids, enforce de-escalation protocols, or impose civilian oversight boards. These court-ordered reforms, often put in place after patterns of civil rights abuses, are being dismantled to remove barriers to aggressive policing.
Legal shields are reinforced through Section 2, which requires the Attorney General to create a mechanism to provide "legal resources and indemnification" for law enforcement officers "who unjustly incur expenses and liabilities" in the course of duty. To be clear, this means police will be given free legal defense and financial protection even if they are sued for violating citizens' rights.
The second, "Protecting the American People Against Invasion," reframes immigration policy as an act of war, casting immigrants and the cities that protect them as enemies to be repelled. The framing of immigrants as a threat is cemented in its title and language, and Section 6 directs Homeland Security to establish Homeland Security Task Forces (HSTFs) to coordinate enforcement operations across states, blending immigration and domestic policing functions. In effect, immigration enforcement squads are being given authority and coordination tools to operate across state lines, further merging immigration crackdowns with domestic policing.
Federal agencies are ordered to flood local police with military equipment, national security assets, and Department of Defense resources. Section 4(b) of the law enforcement order mandates that the Department of Defense determine "how military and national security assets, training, non-lethal capabilities, and personnel can most effectively be utilized to prevent crime." Put another way, the Pentagon is being asked to figure out how to embed soldiers, military technology, and "non-lethal" weapons into domestic policing operations.
The Homeland Security Task Forces, created under the invasion order, are formally incorporated into domestic law enforcement operations by Section 6 of the law enforcement order. In practice, federal immigration and security forces are being folded into everyday policing at the local level.
The rhetoric is transparent. Immigrants are framed as invaders, while cities that attempt to reform their police or shield their residents from mass detention are labeled as obstructors of justice. A recent example illustrates the point: Wisconsin Judge Hannah Dugan was arrested and publicly perp-walked in her judicial robe, hands cuffed behind her back, after allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid ICE agents by directing them through a side exit. The optics of the arrest were splashed across national media, a deliberate message to any local official who might think about challenging federal enforcement priorities.
Section 5(a) of the law enforcement order authorizes prosecution of any local officials who "willfully and unlawfully direct the obstruction of criminal law," a provision that can be used against officials pursuing progressive reforms. In plain terms, this allows the federal government to criminally charge mayors, city councils, and prosecutors who enact policies limiting aggressive policing. This turns on its head the very idea of state’s rights and independence on which the majority of conservative rhetoric revolves.
Section 5(b) extends this to officials who "unlawfully engage in discrimination or civil-rights violations under the guise of 'diversity, equity, and inclusion' initiatives." Simply put, this is a threat to sue or prosecute officials who promote racial equity or reform policing standards if it conflicts with federal directives. What is most telling here is the shift in language: "discrimination" and "civil-rights violations," once terms used to describe aggressions against marginalized communities, are now being redefined to target efforts aimed at defending the less fortunate. Protection itself is being reframed as the violation.
Together, these orders do not simply adjust priorities or reallocate funding. They construct a system. A system where local police answer not to their cities, but to federal enforcers empowered through Homeland Security Task Forces and Department of Defense support. A system where immigrants, minorities, and political opponents are grouped into a single category: threats to public order. A system where oversight is gutted and dissent is met with prosecution, framed under criminal obstruction or bogus civil rights violations. These moves do not reflect ordinary policy shifts. They are structural changes, built to endure, regardless of who notices or protests while there is still time.
What Was Weeks May Now Be Days
The third executive order, titled "Enforcing Commonsense Rules of the Road for America's Truck Drivers," is a quieter but no less devastating strike against the stability of the American economy. On its surface, the order claims to strengthen trucking regulations by requiring all commercial drivers to demonstrate English language proficiency and revoking licenses and certifications from those who fail to meet the new standards. In practice, it amounts to a mass disqualification of a significant portion of the current trucking workforce.
Thousands of commercial drivers in the United States are non-native English speakers, many of whom legally obtained their credentials under long-established federal standards that recognize language support and job-specific communication skills. Under this new trucking order, their presence on the road is reclassified as illegal. Their certifications are void. Their livelihoods are erased overnight. Just as with tariffs, this move will have immediate consequences with absolutely no planning for ramping down or scaling up sufficient replacement drivers or logistical networks.
The timing of this move is not accidental. With Trump's tariff policies already strangling supply chains and causing shipping slowdowns at major ports, the removal of tens of thousands of truck drivers from the workforce will deliver an immediate and catastrophic blow to the distribution system. Goods that do manage to reach American ports will sit idle, unable to move inland. Supermarket shelves, pharmacies, and critical industries that rely on just-in-time delivery will feel the effects within days, not weeks.
There is no honest way to interpret this order as a neutral regulatory action. It is sabotage by design. When essential goods fail to reach cities and towns, when local businesses shutter because inventory stops moving, and when basic necessities grow scarce, the resulting unrest will be both predictable and widespread. State and local governments, already strained, will face collapse under the weight of public anger and basic survival pressures.
One can only assume that is the intended result. The collapse of local order will provide the federal government with exactly the justification it needs to escalate further: deploying Homeland Security Task Forces, flooding communities with militarized policing, suspending normal civil protections, and framing justified protests as criminal uprisings. The groundwork laid by the previous executive orders is not theoretical. It is preparation for what happens next.
The trucking order does not stand alone. It is another spoke in the wheel that is already turning.
Final Thoughts
The truth is not in the noise. It is in the pattern that the noise conceals. You do not have to squint or tilt your head to see it anymore. The framework is not theoretical. It is already in place, and it is already moving.
There are times when the facts plainly carry their own alarm. Tonight is one of those times. I take no pleasure in the roughness of this report, but I am not going to sand it down. We are standing inside a system that has already been repurposed, and the machinery is running exactly as intended.
We are no longer a nation of laws, at least not in the way people pretend we are. We are a nation ruled by proclamation. One man writes edicts, signs them in private, and with the stroke of a pen, reshapes every part of life from the courthouse to the grocery store. There is no debate or vote. There is no real resistance. Donald Trump does not govern, he commands. Like a king who believes the throne is his by birthright.
I do not promote panic. I promote clarity of sight. The collapse, when it comes, will not be because the system failed. It will be because the system was redesigned, signed into being one executive order at a time, until nobody could quite remember when they stopped questioning and started adjusting.
There is a kind of mercy in being clear: The shortages, the unrest and the crackdowns will be a mistake or accidental. And none of it will be corrected by the same hand that caused it.
I cannot downplay it. To do so would be the real disservice. The facts stand where they stand. They do not need exaggeration. They are already heavy enough to break the ground under our feet.
Call it what it is. Prepare however you must. And remember that the slow grind of collapse always feels like nothing until it feels like everything all at once.
What is broken now will not be fixed. It will be buried.