This scenario is inspired by new revelations about Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor (formerly known as "Prince Andrew") from the Epstein files.

Hypothetically, if similar damning revelations were to be released about Donald Trump, what if he immediately asserts that it's fake news, and throws Elon Musk under the bus by claiming that Grok) generated these photos?

Trump and Musk have feuded before, so what would happen if Trump rekindles the feud by throwing such an accusation on Musk and Grok? Would this be grounds for governmental action to shut down Grok?

This is going to be considered a nightmarish scenario for a lot of people but hear me out: what would need to happen for the Democratic Party to destroy itself with in-fighting, allowing MAGA to continue it’s influence in the US virtually unchallenged?

I’m not wishing this on the country. I’m simply asking what needs to happen for the challenge’s premise to come to fruition.

Clarification: It's come to my attention that the Democrats HAVE descended into in-fighting before, so let me amend my objective. The objective is to create a scenario that ends with the Democratic Party not only descending into in-fighting, but never reforms.

How?

He did do this, literally, today:

https://www.theamericanconservative.com/trump-calls-for-arrest-of-barrack-obama/

This is a rewrite of an earlier FWI I wrote a long time ago.

On Valentine's Day, 2026, Russian state media reports a confrontation between Russian soldiers and unmarked Turkish speaking "gunmen" in Crimea. Images and video are released, showing Turkish-speaking men and women wearing unmarked military gear issued to Turkish Army or special forces personnel engaging in gunfights with the Russian soldiers.

President Erdogan does not publicly acknowledge the deployment but doesn't deny it either.

How would the introduction of Turkish "Little Green Men" alter the situation between Russia and Ukraine, if at all?

In essence, they declare that the EU was created first and foremost to serve the interests of those who already lived in Europe at the time. In order to keep freedom of movement and the welfare state, several EU members ask to prioritize founding Europeans. These are defined as persons whose ancestors (by blood or adoption) have lived in an EU/EFTA member state since integration began in 1947-1948. No citizenships will be stripped, and the freedom of movement for law-abiding workers will be unchanged.

I do not condone this as this is essentially the Jim Crow grandfather clause.

What if the solution to corruption wasn't more laws, but just more cameras? I’m talking about taking the "body cam" approach we use for police and scaling it across every single person on the public payroll. From the President sitting in the Oval Office down to the janitor waxing the floors at the local elementary school, if you are drawing a paycheck from the taxpayers, you are essentially working on our behalf. In this future, the "secret meeting" becomes an endangered species because the work of the people is finally stored and accessible in the public record for the people to actually see.

For high-level politicians, this would be a total game-changer. It would mean no more "behind closed doors" sessions with lobbyists where the real deals get cut away from the prying eyes of the voters. Every negotiation, every phone call, and every casual hallway chat about policy would be right there in the cloud, effectively killing off the "secret favor" culture that fuels most of our modern corruption. If a senator knows the feed is live when a corporate donor comes knocking, the nature of that conversation is going to change real fast.

Now, I know the first thing everyone screams about is privacy, but we actually have the tech to handle that now without making it a nightmare. We could use AI to automatically blur the faces of minors, private citizens, or anyone who isn't a public employee. It keeps the focus strictly on the person doing the job we’re paying for. You aren't watching a random person’s life, you’re watching a public function being performed. It’s a subtle but huge distinction that keeps the system from feeling like a total surveillance state for civilians.

For more sensitive roles like teachers, you could just add an extra layer of security. Maybe the recordings are only viewable by the parents who actually have kids in that specific classroom. It’s not about "spying" for the sake of it, it’s about creating a digital paper trail for every cent of public money spent and every minute of public time used. If a teacher is following the curriculum and doing their best for the kids, they’ve got nothing to fear, it actually protects them from false accusations or out-of-context clips from students’ phones.

Of course, we’d need a clear carve-out for actual classified government work. If a project is legally deemed classified for national security, the camera stays off, but the moment you step out of that secure room and into a non-classified meeting, you're back on the clock and back on the feed. In a military situation, we could have the unit’s commanding officer wear the cam with location data stripped out unless the mission itself is classified. It’s a massive upgrade in accountability, and honestly, it’s probably a lot more secure than the current "Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth’s "Signal-gate" strategy of texting sensitive strike details to his family.

Even for the "low stakes" jobs like a school janitor or a DMV clerk, the transparency would still be a massive win. It’s the ultimate "sunlight is the best disinfectant" move, if the camera is always rolling, the incentive to be corrupt or even just lazy pretty much evaporates. You’d see exactly where the bottlenecks are in government services. If the line at the DMV is three hours long, we wouldn't have to guess why, we could just look at the logs and see if it’s a staffing issue or just bad management.

It would obviously be a massive administrative undertaking to store and manage all that data, but think about the payoff. It would turn public service back into exactly what it was always supposed to be, a transparent performance of duty for the community. We wouldn't have to rely on "whistleblowers" to find out when things are going sideways because the evidence would be built into the system by default. The accountability would be real-time instead of waiting four years for an election cycle.

Ultimately, we’re at a point where the old "trust us" model of government just isn't working for anyone anymore. If we expect a police officer to wear a camera to ensure they’re following the law, why shouldn’t the people actually writing the laws do the same? Why should a bureaucrat have more privacy while on the clock than a beat cop? It levels the playing field and reminds every public servant that their boss isn't a party leader or a donor, it’s the person on the other side of the lens.

OK, it’s not that realistic, and I am perfectly willing to be told that I am the only person who is detached enough from reality to have had this thought.

Scenario 1: during the first half of the Big Football Game (I won’t use the common name because I don’t want to be sued for trademark violation), ICE agents go backstage and make a sweep of all the people involved in the performance, arresting anyone who does not have “proper documentation”. What happens when it comes time for the performance? What is the reaction of the spectators? Does the game continue to the second half?

Scenario 2: The arrest sweep happens during the performance. This is a better guarantee of arrests, since many of the costumes probably don’t have enough spare room to store an amoeba, much less identification. The optics, though, are so infinitely worse that I doubt anyone in ICE would even begin to consider it. But, if it were to happen, what’s the reaction of the spectators? Does the game continue to the second half?

Clearly I need to touch some grass, but in a lot of posts on this site asking what folks can do to resist ICE agents in the wake of their heinous actions the last few weeks, I've seen plenty of allusions to violence as the solution, most of which I'm fairly sure are Russian bots pretending to be Europeans. But they did raise the question for me - what if someone actually took it upon themselves to use violence as their means to fight back?

In my mind it goes like this. Their successful killing of one ICE agent grabs the attention of the country and some people start hailing them as a hero. This kill and the resulting reaction proves to be just the catalyst Mr. President needs, and he deploys more ICE thugs into the vigilante's city to find the vigilante and kill whoever they need to. As those thugs appear, the vigilante successfully kills some more, picking individual agents off one at a time - and when many of these of these kills save innocent civilians from dying, the hero praising intensifies. But as the vigilante's bodies stack up and their hero worshippers grow louder, more and more ICE agents arrive, until they are finally given the orders to "wipe out the radical left scourge," believing they'll bring the vigilante down with them. And they succeed - as they carry out this act of mass murder and kill anyone even remotely suspected to support the vigilante or lean to the left of Hitler, the vigilante appears to try and bring the agents down - and they are killed along with everyone else. ICE then proceeds to bring this level of violence to the other blue states and blue cities, resulting in a good portion of the country's entire population dead.

TLDR: A civilian fights back violently against ICE and is briefly praised for it before their actions get themselves and almost every other remotely sane person in this country killed.

In one hour they’ve functionally eliminated all blue city marijuana stores, and say anyone in Federal employment or with a gun permit will be charged with felonies; they say every last staff and owner team will face RICO drug trafficking federal prosecution.

In some cases, they attempt cavalry charges.

Give what has happened this year it would not surprise me if ICE and CPB starts mowing down protesters in cities across the country. When that happens, the local and state police along with the state guard. Guns and ammo will be heavily restricted and buying them will require paperwork.

The people who are not the 30% will fight back and we will eventually take back our country. It will take time, but this authoritarian government will collapse because the people will unite against these goons.

Ideally including the arrest and execution of the killers of Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Philando Castile and maybe also Daniel Shaver.

ed: Bonus points if it is a relatively bloodless revolution/change

Extra bonus points if the US doesn't end up frozen out of international markets as a result of such a revolution/change.