The consent decree is a weapon. Not a tool of justice, not a mechanism for reform, but a weapon wielded by the federal government against cities that refuse to bend the knee.
Merrick Garland stood at the podium yesterday and uttered the fateful words. The Department of Justice will investigate the Minneapolis police for a pattern of unconstitutional policing. Unconstitutional. Racist. If such a pattern is found—and with the fixers running this game, it will be found—then the city will receive a list of recommendations. Accept them, or face an endless war of litigation. Unlimited DOJ lawyer time, billing the clock at taxpayer expense, bleeding the city dry until bankruptcy looms. Then the city surrenders. Then the consent decree is signed. Then the feds run the place.
This was a favorite play in the Obama-Holder era. They ran it against police departments across the country, extracting concessions, imposing oversight, transforming local law enforcement into an arm of federal policy. The cities that resisted learned the hard way that resistance is expensive. The ones that surrendered learned that federal control is permanent.
Now Garland is reviving the playbook. Minneapolis is just the beginning.
The Democrats are trying to make DC a state. Never mind that the Constitution clearly envisions a federal district separate from any state. Never mind that the Founders specifically designed it this way to prevent the national government from being held hostage by any one jurisdiction. None of that matters. They have the votes in the House. They have a majority in the Senate, barely. They have a president who will sign anything placed in front of him. The only obstacle is the filibuster, which they are actively trying to kill.
Perhaps they know something we don’t. Perhaps they have reason to believe the Supreme Court will not insist on a constitutional amendment. Perhaps they’ve counted votes we haven’t seen. But the drive to make DC a state is not about democracy or representation. It’s about power. Two new senators, almost certainly Democratic. A lock on the Senate for a generation.
And then there’s China Joe, proposing a fifty percent reduction in carbon emissions by 2030. Fifty percent. In nine years. This would require shutting down entire industries, stranding workers, destroying communities, and reducing the United States to the living standards of a shithole country in Africa. Not figuratively. Literally. The energy that powers modern life would be rationed, priced beyond reach, or simply eliminated.
The people proposing this don’t care. They don’t live in communities that depend on coal or oil. They don’t work in factories that require reliable power. They don’t worry about whether the lights stay on or the heat works in winter. They live in a world of abstract virtue signaling, where feeling good about yourself matters more than actually keeping the country running.
Kamala Harris and Joe Biden can now be clearly seen as enemies of the United States. Not political opponents. Not people with different ideas about governance. Enemies. They are using federal power to crush local autonomy. They are subverting the constitutional order to entrench themselves permanently. They are committing economic suicide in the name of climate religion.
I did not come to this conclusion lightly. I have spent my life serving this country, defending its institutions, believing that the people who lead it, however mistaken they might be, are acting in good faith. That belief is gone.
What remains is the recognition that we are governed by people who hate what we are and want to remake us into something else. Something unrecognizable. Something weaker. Something that cannot defend itself, cannot provide for itself, cannot sustain itself.
And they will use every tool at their disposal to make it happen. Consent decrees. Statehood for districts. Climate mandates. Endless litigation. Whatever works.
We’re so fucking screwed.
