The Official Blog of Indie Author Ahmed Al-Sheikh

fuck trump and fuck everyone who voted for him

The cleanest and simplest expression of this perspective that we saw goes like this: "I don't support the things that led to Charlie Kirk's death. But Charlie Kirk did."

“Under the American constitutional order, states and localities are entitled to local control of civil policing, administration of elections and various other features of state and local government. President Trump is trying to upend that part of the federal order not because he thinks he can run this or that local government service or administration any better, but to deprive those states and localities of their liberty and right to self-government. Because he wants that power for himself. […] Most Americans intuitively know this isn’t the deal on which our government is based and they don’t like it. Again, it’s deeply woven into the fabric of the country’s civic tradition. It wouldn’t become fine just become some dork at the Claremont Institute came up with some over-clever interpretation of law or the Constitution that made it fine. All that is beside the point. In this sense Trump and his degenerate advisors are doing us a favor by making face masks a part of the standard ICE and CBP uniform. It marks them out as something different. They’re not soldiers precisely. But they are occupiers. They function in the same way. Masks are for secret police and criminal gangs. They have no place in any kind of legitimate policing authority.”