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I will say this. Once that phrase is uttered by the right official, Title 10 authorities activate. The Insurrection Act becomes available. The military can deploy domestically without Posse Comitatus constraints. Emergency spending flows without congressional approval. And the President assumes authorities that are designed for invasion-level threats, not software glitches.
Markwayne Mullin is not a career bureaucrat. He's a former MMA fighter turned politician who was placed at DHS specifically because he would not hesitate to use the emergency declaration authority when the moment came.
He's not there to manage border crossings. He's there to be the hinge point that swings the door open for the next phase. And for all intent & purposes he just swung it.
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The Chain Of Events Going On Right Now Is Insane
Microsoft went down yesterday. That's not a glitch that's a foundational layer of the digital economy taking a knee. When Redmond catches a cold, the entire government catches pneumonia. Then the internet starts hiccupping last night.
Then 911 systems 911 start showing signs of degradation in multiple states. These aren't isolated failures. They're probes. Someone is testing how much pressure the grid can take before something snaps, or they're running a live-fire exercise to see which systems fail under coordinated stress.
Then on top of that D. Trump is a creature of habit. He leaves Washington on Friday afternoons and goes to Mar-a-Lago, Bedminster, or one of his clubs. It's his decompression ritual. If he's in DC all weekend with no press events, that means he's either being advised that travel is unsafe or he's being kept at the table for something that requires immediate presidential input.
The absence of public events is the tell. When a president who likes attention more than he does food goes silent, it's not because he's relaxing. It's because he's being briefed on something that can't wait.
The Workday Outage Is the Supply Chain Canary
Workday is the payroll and HR backbone for major retailers. Walmart, Target, Chipotle, Skechers these are not banks. They don't get caught in financial infrastructure attacks. But Workday going down means the same infrastructure that's being used to test the financial system is also being used to disrupt commercial operations. That's not collateral damage.
That's a test of how far the disruption can spread before it triggers supply chain collapse. If you can knock out payroll for half the country's retail workforce, you can create a labor panic that diverts attention from whatever is happening at the government level.
But that's not all folks. The national weather radar system going offline is the perfect finishing touch on a cascading infrastructure attack. Weather radar is unclassified, publicly accessible, and used by everyone from airline dispatchers to local news.
When it goes down, the public narrative becomes "the whole system is failing." It amplifies the sense that nothing is working, that the government has lost control, that the infrastructure itself is crumbling. That perception is more valuable than any actual damage the radar outage causes.
Thinking Out Loud Here
Also, when European aviation authorities suspend flights to the US, they're not acting on the FAA's technical explanation. They're acting on their own threat assessments likely shared via intelligence channels that the public never sees. Europe knows something about why the US is grounded, and they've decided that sending aircraft into American airspace is unacceptable risk. I would say that is not a routine precaution. That's a coordinated international aviation security measure triggered by the same intelligence that caused the FAA to issue the ground stop.
Are New System's Being Put In Place?
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Oh… now everyone is talking about being prepared.
2 years we were all about it. Giving away spam, emergency food kits, talking about emergency kits and water filtration.
I just can’t believe people actually said it was dumb. I know people who have 1 day of food in their house and hundreds of thousands in fiat in their banks.
I sure hope people yielded the advice. But if not, we have the community all watching and ready to help!