Dictatorship

 

I was predicting the reason for the Draft-dodging Criminal President Trump’s “Day of the Generals” would be either his laying the groundwork for martial law, purging the ranking officers, or announcing an invasion of Venezuela.

It turns out the first two were close to the mark.

Opening act "Pickled" Pete Hegseth complained, “Frankly, it’s tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops, Likewise, it’s completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals.”

Gee, Pete. Is it equally unacceptable to see a fat Commander-in-Chief? Do you think maybe your boss could set an example and lead the troop formations in push-ups? After all, we’re told he’s the “healthiest president” in history.

The Draft-dodging Criminal President Trump made it clear where their loyalties should lie. “If I don’t like you, if you don’t agree with what I tell you, I’ll fire you on the spot.”

Then the Draft-dodging Criminal President ludicrously tried to lecture those career military personnel that Portland looked like a "war zone". 

In his address to “his generals”, Trump has decreed that Hegseth "should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military”. And "This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room, because it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. The ones that are run by radical left Democrats -- what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles. They're very unsafe places and we're gonna straighten them out one by one. And this is gonna be a major part for some people in this room. That's a war too. It's war from within...Our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. That's what the oath says -- foreign and domestic. Well we also have domestic."

Yeah, that's called a military dictatorship in any other country. It is the inevitable step a dictator takes, especially in the context of his forming a military "quick reaction force” to deal with the “enemies within”, who just happen to be “insurrectionists”.

We know by now that the “enemies within” are whoever the Draft-dodging Criminal President Trump says they are. The “enemies within” are “communist” Democrats, journalists,  news media (the “enemy of the people”), educators, scientists, entertainers, and of course any FBI/DOJ employee who worked to hold Trump, his cronies, and his J6 thugs accountable to our laws.

The Posse Comitatus Act bars federal troops from participating in civilian law enforcement except when expressly authorized by law:

“Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, or the Space Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.”

This is why a federal judge in California ruled that Trump violated federal law with how troops were deployed in Los Angeles this summer.

But since when has the Draft-dodging Criminal President ever followed the law? He makes up his own laws through Executive Orders:

ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE

CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

Executive Orders

August 25, 2025

(d)(i)  The Secretary of Defense shall, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit within the District of Columbia National Guard, subject to activation under Title 32 of the United States Code, that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital.  As appropriate and consistent with applicable law, the Attorney General, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Secretary of Homeland Security, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall each deputize the members of this unit to enforce Federal law.

(ii)  The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law.  In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes.  In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.

We’re seeing previews of what this will look like in incident after incident of physical abuses by ICE officers and detention facilities across the country. We saw it in Chicago when ICE officers yelled, "Get him!' and chased after a bike messenger for just saying, "Fuck Trump!" He narrowly escaped a violent beating and being dragged to a detention center.

It’s understood by rational observers that by “quelling civil disturbances” the Draft-dodging Criminal President Trump means silencing anyone who protests or speaks out against him. He’s called every one of us “vermin”, “radical leftists who hate America”, “communists”, and of course, the “enemy within”.

One ray of hope could be in those commanding officers seeing how likely the bumbling babble and sheer idiocy from Trump and Hegseth could result in their issuing illegal orders that they can legally refuse. 

Otherwise we may as well get ready to say hello to dictatorship and martial law, and goodbye to habeas corpus, elections, and the rule of law.

Feel free to assure me that I’m over-reacting…

Good vs Evil

 A Post demonizing Democrats was shared by His Exalted Goodness Donald Trump:

It’s all over the news and social media. 

“They killed Charlie Kirk!” “YOU killed Charlie Kirk!” “Democrats killed Charlie Kirk!” 

But who are “they”? Who is “you”?

After “they” killed him, Trump declared, "Our greatest evangelist for American liberty became immortal. He's a martyr now for American freedom."

Clearly “they” are the evil ones. Not us real MAGA Americans. THEY are. Not Trump and Republicans, for they are the true patriots and pure-of-heart Christians.

But hate is still OK if you’re a white Republican like Charlie Kirk, Stephen Miller, and our Leader. As Trump stated at Kirk’s love-filled memorial, “I HATE my opponents”. And if you’re a “good American” you will join in his hatred of the “evil ones” who would disagree with Trump, or worse yet, OPPOSE him. Those evil people need to be severely PUNISHED and SILENCED! 

Trump’s Chief Political Enforcer, propagandist, and "Royal Messenger of the Good Guys" Stephen Miller’s neo-Nazi rhetoric is perfect for the MAGA message.

"Children will be taught to love America. Children will be taught to be patriots. Children will be taught civic values for schools that want federal taxpayer funding…We’re going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology. For any nation to be successful, it cannot teach its children to hate themselves and to hate their country. These are a few of the areas in which President Trump has fought the cancerous, communist, woke culture which is destroying this country.”

Get the message? “Communists…  communist ideology...teach its children to hate themselves and to hate our country…cancerous, communist, woke culture that is destroying this country”.

(Hmm. Everyone but neo-Nazis, Proud Boys, the Klan, Oath Keepers, J6 thugs, white supremacist mass murderers, and assassins who kill Democrats. An oversight, I'm sure.) 

"Royal Messenger of the Good Guys" Stephen Miller again warned the “evil ones” at Charlie Kirk’s memorial service/Trump rally.

Our enemies cannot comprehend our strength, our determination, our resolve, our passion, our lineage, and our legacy hails back to Athens, to Rome, to Philadelphia, to Monticello. Our ancestors built the cities. They produced the art and architecture, they built the industry. (Hmm #2. Nobody but white Europeans and white Americans. Another oversight, I’m sure.)

We stand for what is good, what is virtuous, what is noble. (Like PRAISING and PARDONING thugs for beating cops bloody to overturn a fair election Trump LOST.) And for those trying to incite violence against us, those trying to foment hatred against us. (By actually QUOTING Charlie Kirk.) What do you have? You have nothing. You are nothing. You are wickedness, you are jealousy! You are envy! You are hatred! You are nothing! You can build nothing. You can produce nothing. You can create nothing. (The Royal Messenger of the Good Guys shows us how to express love and compassion.) We are the ones who build. We are the ones who create. We are the ones who lift up humanity. 

(“You are nothing”? But Trump said we’re “leftist commie vermin destroying America”! In his Pure Goodness, he would NEVER lie or say hateful things, amirite?)

You thought you could kill Charlie Kirk? You have made him immortal. You have immortalized Charlie Kirk and now millions will carry on his legacy. And we will devote the rest of our lives to finishing the causes for which Charlie gave his last measure of devotion. You cannot defeat us. You cannot slow us. You cannot stop us. You cannot deter us. (As I asked above, who is “you”?)

We will carry Charlie and Erika in our heart every single day and fight that much harder because of what you did to us. You have no idea the dragon you have awakened. You have no idea how determined we will be to save this civilization. To save the West, to save this republic. (Dog whistle to white supremacists.)

To our enemies, you have nothing to give, you have nothing to offer, you have nothing to share, but bitterness. We have beauty, we have light, we have goodness, we have determination, we have vision, we have strength. We built the world that we inhabit now. 

“Mein Kampf” or “Mein Trump”? Hard to tell the difference, isn’t it?

(Um, again, who exactly is “you”? I’m starting to think it’s every American who doesn't support Trump.)

It sounds ominously like it’s time for those “Good Americans” who “have goodness” to build the camps and exterminate the "evil vermin" and "domestic terrorists" who speak out against Trump.

Again, the message is quite clear:

“The America-hating commie Democrats, Black Lives Matter protesters, minorities, Jews, atheists, immigrants, educators, scientists, historians, and comedians are the EVIL ones. We need Trump and Project 2025 to SILENCE them if they refuse to deny their wrongful evil and swear fealty to Trump, the ONLY one who knows more than all of them combined. The ONLY hero who dares to defend real Americans and our Constitution with God’s own Truths.”

Clearly they FEEL every American but the CRIMINAL Trump and his cult have lost their moral compass. They are not like the “others”.

The “Good Guy”, aka the CRIMINAL, malevolent mendacious messiah of fascist white nationalism, hoping his thugs will overturn the 2020 election:

 

But despair not ye non-MAGA “unhumans”*. We have a beacon of goodness and light to guide us into the sacred “Temple of MAGA” where Donald Trump knows best about everything. But mostly, he knows who to hate and who to tell his followers to hate, for it is the most high and sacred form of hate, blessed by MAGA’s own white Jesus in the White House.

We of little faith need the fellowship and wisdom of a “good” conservative, who knows how evil we truly are. We are the “they” who shot Charlie Kirk. We are the “they” who tried to assassinate Trump. We are the “Satanic Democrat arsonists, looters, and MURDERERS out to DESTROY America”.

We are “they”. Every individual opposed to Trump is “they" who must be silenced.

For “they” are the “evil” ones, according to Trump, Miller, and our pal Darrell’s new blog post, “When We Call Evil Good and Good Evil”.

Darrell’s leading crusader for the good guys is Donald Trump. For only a good man would assure women lose their reproductive rights. And only that good man would tell a raped, pregnant, and febrile women, "Don't take Tylenol!" (Never mind fever can cause a miscarriage.) Darrell believes Trump has restored “Constitutional order” (Ordering his FBI to terminate or arrest those who investigated and charged him, his cronies, and his J6 thugs.) to our country. (All it took was his Big Lie, J6 insurrection, and immunity for his crimes from his partisan defenders on the Supreme Court.)

Oh, the hate that MAGA victims have to suffer. It’s all on the “the party of hate, evil, and Satan” Democrats. Nothing evil from Trump on his end, for he is the measure and defender of good in the war on evil.

I love it when Darrell writes one of his rare new blog posts. The wisdom from his deep well of inner goodness elevates me in spirit. I am humbled and humiliated at my communist ideology that only Darrell can detect. Only Darrell understands how my words don’t really mean what they say. He clearly sees what I cannot; my hate for America, hate for families, and hate for all that is decent and good about America.

Since his words have opened my FEELINGS and refreshed my soul, I may just take a moment to reflect on some of them.

I’ll examine just two of his outrageous assertions that target the “evil” Americans who protested racist cops who kill unarmed Blacks and free speech proponents critical of MAGA censorship and Charlie Kirk’s racism.  

The murder of George Floyd was horrific, but the response of millions of people was to destroy, burn, loot, and even kill others because of this – even destroying livelihoods and taking lives of other people of color they were purportedly championing by this rioting. - Darrell

OH MY GOD!! MILLIONS of Satanic Democrat arsonists, looters, and MURDERERS out to DESTROY America!! It’s a good thing His Blessed Magnificence drove them away just by waving an upside down Bible. (After a "good pre-curfew teargassing" of the non-violent protesters.)

How can anyone NOT see all that BLM EVIL?  Don’t they know ALL lives matter? I’m sure Darrell would NEVER lie about MILLIONS of Satanic Democrat arsonists, looters, and MURDERERS set out to DESTROY America. He knows his facts, or at least his FEELINGS, which matter far more.

But, wait, there’s MORE evil we need to know about.

Today we have some people that cheer and celebrate the assassination of Charlie Kirk, a good, kind Christian man because of his politics. They falsely attribute racism and authoritarianism to him in order to justify their ghoulish behavior. They become far more upset about Jimmy Kimmel losing his job than the assassination of the butt of his sick “joke”. – Darrell

I understand that, to the radical Right, freedom of speech is just for them. I understand conservatives don’t have the same grasp of humor as Jews and other Democrats do. Darrell mistakenly believes Kirk was the butt of the joke, when in fact, it was Trump. Maybe Darrell never even heard it. Who cares? It’s not like anyone needs to know the actual words Kimmel said. Heck, we don’t even need to know what Kirk said about Democrats, Blacks and Jews! It’s about someone’s delicate FEELINGS getting hurt.

Heaven forbid we say anything about a person killed by an assassin. Unless you’re Charlie Kirk saying, “Actually MLK was awful. OK? He's not a good person." He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.” I’m sure Good Americans like Darrell understand this isn’t speaking ill of the dead or even slightly racist at all.

It’s entirely reasonable and “not racist” to agree with all the racists who opposed the Civil Rights Act. As Charlie the white Christian Nationalist Martyr declared, “The Civil Rights Act, though, let's be clear, created a beast, and that beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon.”

Cue fear, loathing, racism, hate and bigotry. But this is different. Whites are the REAL victims of racism. That kind of racism against people of color is gone; Trump’s special Supreme Court Justices have made it clear by gutting the Voting Rights Act.

Charlie Kirk was a REAL victim of racism! The “Civil Rights Act BEAST” was out to get him! The evil Black woman Ketanji Brown Jackson – “is an embodiment of the tyranny that we currently live under”. The evil Black woman Jasmine Crockett represents the “attempt to eliminate the white population in this country”.

* And obviously it’s fine for all neo-Nazis and Republicans to refer to people they hate as “unhumans”, as in Charlie and Jack Posobiec's conversation from The People's Convention, where they discuss Jack's new book, 'Unhumans,' alongside Joshua Lisec. “They dive into the history of Communist revolutions, socialism and Marxism, the links between Communists and today's liberals, and other history you may not know, but should.”

“Unhumans”. Nothing remotely Nazi about that, I'm sure.

Let’s be fair and balanced here and let the "martyr for American freedom" and voice of MAGA goodness Charlie Kirk have the last words:

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Joe Biden is a bumbling, dementia-filled Alzheimer's, corrupt, tyrant who should honestly be put in prison and/or given the death penalty for his crimes against America.

Kamala Harris says her values haven't changed. So your Marxist values haven't changed?... She has deep father issues. Her father, who is a communist... 

“Woke is the new word for Communism. And Trump needs to exploit that Kamala Harris is a communist.”

The great replacement of white people is far more sinister than any redistricting project. That is at the core of the Democrat project, at the core. And Jasmine Crockett is just some circus act in that entire operation. But it's deathly serious. She — you shouldn't take what she says seriously. It's just a joke. What she represents is very serious, which is the continue attempt to eliminate the white population in this country.

Ketanji Brown Jackson - is what your country looks like on critical race theory. KBJ is your country on CRT. KBJ - Ketanji Brown Jackson - is an embodiment of the tyranny that we currently live under. She's an ideological, unintelligent, yet confident fanatic who is so dismissive that you might even ask the question of what a woman is.

“Jews have been some of the largest funders of cultural Marxist ideas and supporters of those ideas over the last 30 or 40 years…Jewish communities have been pushing the exact kind of hatred against whites that they claim to want people to stop using against them. The philosophical foundation of anti-whiteness has been largely financed by Jewish donors."

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These actual words of a "good, kind Christian man", are echoed at every Klan meeting, Trump rally, and other neo-Nazi gatherings.  

I have been saying all along that racism isn’t racism to racists. Or to MAGA Republicans. Or to white nationalists. Or to Trump. (Or am I being redundant?) Or to Charlie Kirk. Or maybe even to Darrell. For there is no beam in their eyes.

"Nazi Rhetoric"

 

As readers have no doubt noticed, I enjoy interacting with those whose views are radically opposed to mine. You could even say I share that with Charlie Kirk, but do it online instead of in public appearances.

It’s not easy. Most of those on the Right would rather engage in ad hominem sniping and then fleeing from any opportunity for discourse.

I try to steer them to the subject at hand by offering an easy-to-use template:

“Dave, I have to say you are stating falsehoods by claiming (_____) and (_______). These verifiable facts and evidence (_____) and (____) suggest you are quite mistaken. 

So far, not one of them made use of it, except to make it about me or themselves.

I was pleasantly surprised when my estranged fellow Blogger Darrell commented at my “MAGA Martyrs” post. Something moved him to return to this blog shortly after Charlie Kirk was murdered. Maybe he expected my reaction to be celebratory?

I used to infuriate him whenever I’d point to the fact that Trump’s radical Right share the same tactic Hitler’s Nazis used in demonizing, scapegoating and smearing opponents by labeling them “communists”. Back then, Jews were all painted by the Fuhrer as communists. Today Democrats and progressives are demonized in exactly the same dishonest, and clearly fascist, manner.

True to form, after generously allowing my “seemingly obligatory statement” in condemnation of the murder and condolences to the family, Darrell took issue with the post as a “what about” story. OK, but the piece WAS titled “MAGA Martyrs” and was actually about that subject.

Yes, instead of discussing the subject of the piece, good ol’ Darrell quickly made it about me personally, as in being “part of the problem”. That’s what I get for noting the similarities between Trump and Hitler, or MAGA with German fascism.

So, he accused me of spewing “Nazi rhetoric”, by saying Nazis smear opponents as communists. Yes, they did, as do Trump and MAGA.

That’s pretty weird way to describe “Nazi rhetoric”. I would think, “Jews will not replace us!” is actual Nazi rhetoric. Falsely accusing opponents as communists and racist tropes about the “great replacement” also sink to the level of Nazi rhetoric.

But, hey, we’ve all learned by now that ONLY the radical Right is allowed to unilaterally define and redefine terms in political discourse. (I just call them out on it.)

Thus am I charged through Darrell’s projection, that I, “demonize and dehumanize others that disagree with you by calling them Nazis and authoritarians”.

It’s a good thing Darrell wouldn’t demonize someone by saying they are a "leftist who hates America", and a "communist who spews Nazi rhetoric"…Wait. He actually did that. How authoritarian of him is that?

Anyway, if anyone shares my slightly sick pleasure of interacting with the radical MAGA Right, I’ll share our exchange.

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Darrell wrote:

I don't know why your post even surprises me, Dave. We should denounce all political violence, regardless of the political party of the assailant. I guess you did your seemingly obligatory statement regarding that though before moving on to the all Nazi rhetoric you always spew.

Vance Boelter and Tyler Robinson both should spend the rest of their lives in prison at the very least. And yet you take the story of the political assassination of a conservative and somehow twist this into a "what about" story.

I realize that there are plenty of people on the right that are guilty of this too, but when you demonize and dehumanize others that disagree with you by calling them Nazis and authoritarians, while ironically turning a blind eye to the very party you support of doing authoritarian things in their governance, then you sir, are part of the problem.

I long put up with you on my blog in the hope of building bridges or finding some common ground with someone who thought differently than I did politically. (Kind of like Charlie Kirk used to do.) All you have ever wanted to do is to try to win the argument and denounce in juvenile fashion anyone that had the temerity to be even slightly right of center in disagreeing with you.

How about we all condemn ALL political violence, regardless of the source as a starting point, instead of backhandedly justifying it because the other side is also guilty of the same. I wish you well, sir, but you are just the flip (left) side to the coin of hatred, my friend.

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Dave Dubya:

 Hi, Darrell.

I'm glad to see you're still with us.

Actually, the post was titled "MAGA Martyrs". It's not a "what about" story. It's a "what is happening" story.

You didn't seem to find any of my points false, or you'd have questioned them or pointed them out with the convenient form I provided above. Of course you need to sneer at my historical comparisons. I learned some things from my father-in-law who served in Patton’s 3rd Army and liberated Buchenwald. I became a serious World War Two History buff and happen to know a lot more about the war and the tyrants who started it than 95% or more of Americans.

I'm with you for condemning all political violence.

But you endorsed political violence by voting for Trump.

Go ahead and get angry and rationalize your beliefs, but I'm stating facts here. These are not false accusations like when you called me a communist, while being unable to cite ANY of my words that endorse communism. Yes, that was exactly what Hitler and his Nazis did to anyone who opposed them. Trump and his Radical Right Republicans do it all the time. WE ARE SICK OF A FASCIST CRIMINAL’S DEMONIZATION, SCAPEGOATING AND LYING! You played the same damn commie card, Darrell. You have no shame because you convince yourself you are correct.

I never directly called you a Nazi, but you actually called me a communist. You allowed your pal unlimited freedom to personally insult me. I don’t take these insults personally, knowing the deep ignorance and animosity behind them

When I say Nazis historically played their demonizing commie card and report Republicans doing the same, you don’t like it. But again, this is REALITY. YOU’VE done it to me.

Darrell, I recall you once stating how much you condemn racists. That would be our common ground.

Another reality you can’t face is Kirk’s racist white nationalism. Yeah, like the Klan and every neo-Nazi, he spews the same racist hate. READ his own words I provided. Refusing to do so just keeps your head in the sand as you desperately cling to the idea Kirk is a “great American”. His glorification and martyrdom will reek of more hate and lies. Count on it.

I believe your psyche isn’t stable enough to reconcile your support for a thug-praising criminal in the White House and his racist propagandist.

The delicate sensibilities of white conservatives are so easily offended. Watch how they spew their bile, lies and hate for Democrats. As I have noted, they can dish it out but can’t take it.

I understand why you need to resort to such a black and white view of reality. It comforts you the feeling YOUR beliefs are the only correct ones, and only America-hating communists disagree with you and Trump. 

The difference between us is YOU voted for a CRIMINAL who praised and pardoned thugs for beating cops bloody to overturn a fair election he LIED about being cheated out of by "dementia Joe"?

What kind of people have such an indifference or even support for such vile evil? Fascists and their dupes. Does that still include you? (Still waiting for evidence that the 2020 election was stolen. Still waiting for evidence “They're eating the dogs in Springfield”.)

Those are horrible destructive LIES, Darrell, and Kirk was a racist white nationalist. I keep hoping deep down you realize it. Keep examining your conscience if you haven’t surrendered it completely to Trump.

Then we will truly find common ground in opposing racists and criminals embarrassing and degrading our country. After that we can discuss why tax cuts for the rich, cutting medical research, gutting Medicaid, and decimating the VA aren’t as good for Americans as public education and healthcare. Once again, I am the one supporting our Constitutional taxes, regulation of commerce, and provision for the general welfare.

I invite you to return to the principles that made America great before Americans installed the aspiring dictator, Donald Trump. And Trump is being a dictator, as he accuses journalists for being “enemies of the people”, and “America-hating commie” Democrats for “destroying America”, and DICTATES what colleges can teach, what museums can display, and fly OUR flag at half-staff for a racist.

 

Thank you for your attention to this matter. ;-)

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For some reason I don’t think Darrell will return to make his rebuttal.

But I can share a couple snapshots of him that show when he was finally radicalized enough to drink Trump’s koolade.

This is what Darrell wrote at my blog on Jan 8, 2021:

“Dave, Trump was wrong to give encouragement and a wink and a nod to the protestors and delaying any attempt to rein them back. He was complicit. Sadly this ego maniacal narcissist tarnished the myriad of good things he has done for our country with this latest escapade.”

This is what Darrell wrote on May 15, 2021: 

"Trump instigates a riot according to the left and the media, but then I repeat myself. (He didn’t.)”

I'll close with some final words from Darrell about yours truly:

 "Oh, and by the way, when I called you a communist, it wasn’t necessarily meant as a pejorative but rather more as a descriptive term. You support many of the very tenets of the communist creed according to what you have written in the past that are antithetical to America, its values, and its Constitution."

And from the deep dark recesses of his over-active and enlarged amygdala, Darrell determined I am "championing modern day Nazis hoping to exterminate the Jews that Hitler couldn’t."

End of Democracy

 

They are setting the stage for their fascist lockdown.

MAGA Reichsfuhrer Stephen Miller said on 'Hannity': “The Democrat Party is not a political party. It is a domestic extremist organization."

Trump was quite clear in his Hitlerian rant, “The radicals on the right oftentimes are radical because they don’t want to see crime. They don’t want to see crime, they’re saying, ‘We don’t want these people coming in. We don’t want you burning our shopping centers. We don’t want you shooting our people in the middle of the street.’ The radicals on the left are the problem, and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy."

Whatever happened to "Compassionate conservatism"? FOX Fascist Brian Kilmeade endorsed euthanizing homeless people: "Involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill them."

Ach, so! We're seeing a preview of the MAGA "final solution".

Mehdi Hasan nailed it with, “Trump Is Weaponizing the Murder of Charlie Kirk to Go After the Left”.

President Obama noted, “This is precisely the kind of government coercion that the First Amendment was designed to prevent — and media companies need to start standing up rather than capitulating to it. After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.”

We need President Obama's leadership now more than ever. I hope he holds rallies and keeps up with television appearances...while he still can.

Jimmy Kimmel was CENSORED and DENIED his First Amendment right to mock Trump. He DID NOT mock Kirk. He was censored by Trump's henchman at the FCC Brendan Carr.

He threatened ABC with action against them, using the power of the government. This silencing of free speech is exactly what authoritarians do.

Carr said, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way. These companies can find ways to change conduct and take actions on Kimmel, or there’s going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." Carr also encouraged local affiliates to stop running Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Trump's "Media political enforcer" Carr ordered investigations into diversity, equity, and inclusion practices at Comcast, Bloomberg, Paramount Global, Disney and other outlets. They were all bullied into shutting down their DEI measures.

This is the destruction of our First Amendment in real time.

Destruction.

That is the bottom line "qualification" in the MAGA Reich.

The ONLY “competence” required for MAGA is fealty to Trump and the eagerness to DESTROY what makes America great.

They have DESTROYED our tradition of peaceful transfer of power. They have DESTROYED our ideal of "equal justice under law". They have DESTROYED public trust in elections. They have DESTROYED public trust in any source of information not controlled by the fascists.

They are DESTROYING our First Amendment. They are DESTROYING truth itself.

This is how they're DESTROYING our democratic republic.

They are bullying, extorting, and suppressing educational institutions, news media, law firms, judges, courts, and even museums into serving the demands of their Felonious Fuhrer.

Now the MAGAts are launching a full-on Stalinist Purge and Maoist Cultural Revolution to eradicate any democratic or progressive entity they choose to smear as "terrorists". All because they won’t mourn a MAGA racist.

By their hateful rhetoric, incessant demonization, whining fake “victimhood”, and sweeping power grabs they are revealing the sociopathic neo-Nazi essence at their core. They're NO different from the originals, except racist Jews like Stephen Miller are welcome in their criminal authoritarian regime.

MAGA Martyrs

 

Trump has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff until Sunday. Another MAGA martyr has joined Ashli “Q-Anon” Babbitt in the sacred Valhalla of MAGA Martyrdom.

MAGA has been demanding that their female martyr receives the full military honors the Pentagon rightfully denied her. After all, Trump granted her clemency and therefore restored her honor, right? One Democrat wants Republicans to go on the record for this travesty and insult to military honor.

Raw Story reports:

Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) will introduce a formal resolution to prevent the Department of Defense from offering full military honors to Ashli Babbitt, who was shot and killed by a Capitol police officer as she attempted to crawl through a smashed window into the House Speaker's Lobby as Donald Trump supporters tried to overturn his 2020 election loss, reported CBS News.

"The idea that they're giving this to a person who actively tried to overthrow the government, who was violent in nature, who knowingly was entering a restrictive zone while we were trying to conduct the safe passage of democracy, and the idea that they're just going to give this without a fight, it's just not going to happen," Gallego said.

The Pentagon initially denied the Babbitt family's request for a military funeral, stating that she was killed after "illegally" entering the Capitol, but the right-wing Judicial Watch lobbied Hegseth to reconsider, pointing to Trump's immediate pardon for more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants upon returning to office.

"[The government's] refusal to provide military funeral honors was part of the 'grave national injustice' that President Trump ended by granting clemency," Judicial Watch wrote in its request. "The 'process of national reconciliation' that began with presidential clemency demands a new determination granting military funeral honor for Ashli and her family."

But Gallego said those honors are meant "for those who defend the Constitution, not traitors," and his resolution cites the specific violation of federal law she was committing when she was killed.

"Ashli Babbitt's actions on January 6, 2021, constitute disqualifying conduct under section 985 of 4 title 10, United States Code, the rendering of military funeral honors to her would bring discredit upon the Air Force, and she is not eligible for such honors," Gallego's resolution reads.

The murder of Kirk is absolutely inexcusable. I too, extend condolences to his family. Nobody should have to suffer such horrible grief. They deserve our empathy. 

Now we’re hearing the usual chorus, mostly from Democrats, “There’s no place for political violence”.

But that ship sailed on January 6, 2021. Political violence is here to stay since Americans REWARDED a Criminal who incited a violent coup. Our next Medal of Freedom winner Charlie Kirk urged his fans to help bail out Nancy Pelosi's husband's assailant. 

Some Republicans have also echoed the condemnation of political violence, but none of them, including the extremists on the Supreme Court, seem to have a problem with Trump inciting, praising, and pardoning his thugs for beating cops bloody in their attempt to steal the 2020 election for him.

But that doesn’t mute their blatant hypocrisy. House Speaker Mike Johnson once told reporters. “And we need every political leader to decry the violence and to do it loudly. The problem is in the human heart, and it’s gotten out of hand.”

Gee, why IS that, Mr. Speaker?

But with Trump and his white Christian nationalist base, political violence ISN’T really denounced. It’s in their wheelhouse. It’s ALWAYS about demonizing and punishing people they hate.

After his standard fascist smear of him, Johnson advocated violence upon the Democratic California governor, Gavin Newsom.

“He is applauding the bad guys and standing in the way of the good guys,” Johnson said. “He is a participant, an accomplice.”

“I’m not going to give you legal analysis on whether Gavin Newsom should be arrested. But he ought to be tarred and feathered, I’ll say that.”

Newsom aptly replied: “Good to know we’re skipping the arrest and going straight for the 1700’s style forms of punishment. A fitting threat given the [Republicans] want to bring our country back to the 18th century.” 

Newsom’s response to Kirk’s murder demonstrated a level of empathy, (the word Kirk can’t stand,) we never hear from Trump and his MAGA mob.

“The best way to honor Charlie’s memory is to continue his work: engage with each other, across ideology, through spirited discourse. In a democracy, ideas are tested through words and good-faith debate – never through violence.”

Let’s contrast that with what Trump had to say after a Minnesota state representative and her husband were killed, while another state legislator and his wife were wounded. "I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out. I'm not calling him," Trump said. "Why would I call him? I could call and say, 'Hi, how you doing?' Uh, the guy doesn't have a clue. He's a mess. I could be nice and call, but why waste time?"

Yes, like Kirk, Trump can’t stand the word “empathy”. Tyrants and authoritarians along with their followers have no use for empathy. It neither enriches nor empowers them.

Ignoring what happened in Minnesota and his cold-blooded hateful response to the assassinations, Trump doubled down on his fascist rhetoric and projection in praise of his propagandist, "Radical left political violence has hurt too many innocent people and taken too many lives. Tonight, I ask all Americans to commit themselves to the American values for which Charlie Kirk lived and died. For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis ("very fine people") and the world's worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we're seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.”

This comes from the neo-Nazi fascist whose "values" include smearing Democrats as "communists destroying America" and "vermin". I can almost hear the strains of the "Horst Wessel Song" in the background. That was the Nazi Party anthem to their most famous early martyr and Brownshirt thug.

Now what concerns me are the rabid neo-Nazi elements of MAGA who would be emboldened to become vigilantes hunting Democrats, like the assassin in Minnesota.

Let the radical Right and corporate media dutifully sing their accolades for Kirk, for I have come to bury Kirk, not to praise him.

His own vile neo-Nazi white nationalist words will suffice for this memorial. As Kirk framed his speaking tour, "Prove me wrong".

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Kamala Harris says her values haven't changed. So your Marxist values haven't changed?... She has deep father issues. Her father, who is a communist.

(Economist Donald Harris is married to Carol Kirlew, a former communications specialist for the World Bank.)

In August 2024, Kirk published an episode of The Charlie Kirk Show titled "Kamala the Communist Wants Soviet-Style Grocery Stores".

“Woke is the new word for Communism. And Trump needs to exploit that Kamala Harris is a communist.”

The great replacement of white people is far more sinister than any redistricting project. That is at the core of the Democrat project, at the core. And Jasmine Crockett is just some circus act in that entire operation. But it's deathly serious. She — you shouldn't take what she says seriously. It's just a joke. What she represents is very serious, which is the continue attempt to eliminate the white population in this country.

Enjoy Charlie and Jack Posobiec's conversation from The People's Convention, where they discuss Jack's new book, 'Unhumans,' alongside Joshua Lisec. They dive into the history of Communist revolutions, socialism and Marxism, the links between Communists and today's liberals, and other history you may not know, but should.

Ketanji Brown Jackson - is what your country looks like on critical race theory. KBJ is your country on CRT. KBJ - Ketanji Brown Jackson - is an embodiment of the tyranny that we currently live under. She's an ideological, unintelligent, yet confident fanatic who is so dismissive that you might even ask the question of what a woman is.

Actually MLK was awful. OK? He's not a good person. He said one good thing he actually didn't believe.

The Civil Rights Act, though, let's be clear, created a beast, and that beast has now turned into an anti-white weapon. 

And:

"I think it's worth it. I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights."

Is it really worth it to his family? Maybe if you hate the word "empathy", I suppose. 

PS

Moral Cowardice

 

The last honorable Republican president left office over three score years ago. No other Republican since then has cautioned the country of the “undue influence of the military/industrial complex”. For his opposition to AK-47s Ronald Reagan would be cast aside as a RINO in Trump’s criminal dictatorship.

FDR was labeled a "traitor to his class” for reigning in the abuses of Wall Street banks and greedy industrialists and economic elites. As with today’s MAGA Republicans, FDR and his party were, and are, hated by the economic elites as well the most racist and fascistic elements in our country.

The radical Right has constantly been at odds with our Constitution, from corrupting elections, suppressing minority voters, demonizing the press, to eliminating our Constitutional taxes, regulation of commerce, and provision for the general welfare. Just look at their targets. Urban voters, news media, universities, the IRS, the NIH, the VA, and CDC, to mention only a few, have been decimated by their neo-fascist ideology.

The indoctrination is reaching public schools. Oklahoma is mandating the defense of Trump’s Big Lie that the 2020 election was rigged against him. Hitler Youth indoctrination is now manifested as Trump Youth indoctrination.

Public health, public education, and even the Smithsonian museums are being coerced into an ideological prison of conformity to authoritarian radical right ideology. There is no moral grounding in Trumpistan. It’s always about power and punishment for those they fear and hate. It is fascism wrapped in an American flag and paraded by vulgar red hats covering duped and hateful minds.

Every Republican has surrendered to Trump what remnants they had of free will and a conscience. As with Nazi Germany, “Fealty to the Fuhrer” is their path to power and only requirement to remain in Congress, to be appointed to the bench, and to manage federal agencies. Few dare to consider any other option, let alone question or challenge their CRIMINAL mob boss.

Massachusetts Democratic Congressman Jim McGovern spells it out in the New Republic:

"I think that they’re scared shitless of Trump—period. Every Republican is. One of the most disappointing realities that we’re dealing with here is that Republicans who we used to be able to work with in a bipartisan way, who always seem reasonable on stuff and could be dependent on to do the right thing occasionally, they’re no longer there. They’re all afraid of a primary challenge. They’re all afraid of being on the wrong side of this president’s favor. And so they’re terrified.

I’ll tell you a story. When we were debating the big ugly bill that Trump was pushing, I was handling the debate on the rule side. I had a number of Republicans come up to me and tell me that I was right. This is a terrible bill. This is going to screw their constituents over. This is an awful thing to do to the American people. And I responded to them by saying, Look, I’m not wearing a collar. I’m not a priest. I don’t do confessions. And I certainly don’t do absolution. But I’d respect you more if you told me you actually believe in this crap and that’s why you were supporting the bill. But to tell me you don’t believe in this stuff, you think it’s going to hurt your own constituents, and vote for it anyway, that’s cowardice. That’s moral cowardice."

"Specialized Units"

 

A little History:

New York Times, August 7, 1936

HITLER SEES PEACE 'BY COMMON SENSE'; Would Supplant League System With New One 'Based on Reason and Justice.'

BERLIN, Aug. 6. -- Chancellor Adolf Hitler believes that a general European war can be averted "by common sense," and he is also convinced that a new peace system "based on reason and justice" must supplant the League of Nations.

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Meanwhile in 21^st Century USA, a little news:

The Daily Beast, August 25, 2025

Three weeks into his federal takeover in Washington D.C., the president signed new executive orders tasking Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to establish “specialized units” in the National Guard to assist officers in the city, and potentially across the country, to quell civil disturbances and boost public safety “whenever the circumstances necessitate.”

“Freedom. Freedom. He's a dictator," Trump paraphrased those opposed to military occupation. "A lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator,” Trump told reporters.

“I don’t like a dictator. I’m not a dictator. I’m a man with common sense and a very smart person.”

Trump’s executive order also authorizes Attorney General Pam Bondi to unwind metropolitan police orders in D.C. if she believes they are impeding the administration’s crackdown.

In addition, federal agencies will be given more power to surge officers into the capital, potentially adding to the thousands of troops that have already been deployed.

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Trump's "Common Sense" = “Specialized Units” = America's Schutzstaffel (SS)

Trump proudly showing off his gift photo from Putin a week after praising him and greeting him with a red carpet, and days before saying, “I don’t like a dictator."

Right.

Just ask Kim Jong Don:

And also today, August 25, 2025:

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung knows how Trump’s fondness for dictators gets easily played in the Oval Office. “I look forward to your meeting with the chairman Kim Jong-un and construction of a Trump Tower in North Korea and playing golf at that place.”

Of course this clever trolling went completely over Trump's ego-swelled "very smart" head.

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August 26, 2025 Update:

Indicted and convicted criminal Trump: "The line is that I'm a dictator, but I stop crime. So a lot of people say, 'You know, if that's the case, I'd rather have a dictator.'"

Trump on deploying the National Guard to Chicago: "I have the right to do anything I want to do. I'm the president of the United States."