took it much more broadly and much more seriously. oh, and of course it always helps to put a guy in charge of implementing all of it who has no regard for any laws whatsoever.

because they think their mandate gives them the prerogative to determine what’s legal and what’s not: the final piece of this puzzle was the despicable supreme court decision where everyone entertained themselves with “hurr sure i guess biden can just sic the seal team 6 on trump”, but they …

approach - they think they cannot do any of it above board because the “deep state” will somehow negate all their efforts, so they have to operate completely outside the formal structure of government. the legality of any of it doesn’t actually factor into their decision-making process at all …

works directly for someone who has is a hostile agent who will do everything possible to thwart their mandate, and that they consider their mandate to be “anything we have ever said or thought we wanted to do”. using people who are specifically *not* government employees is a core part of this …

we were warned about something pretty close to this in the excellent documentary Live Free or Die Hard

notice how it’s twitter and not truth social