Trump's Police State

 

A recent photo of integrity being scrubbed from the FBI Academy at Quantico.

Over that past few decades I’ve been predicting, “When fascism comes to America, we will vote for it, and it will be welcomed and embraced”. America’s march into fascism is now well under way. The radical Right propaganda empire founded by Rupert Murdoch, with allies like Rush Limbaugh, will have done its job. We have more radical Right propaganda outlets than even corporate media outlets, which have already hosted radical Right voices.

 

This isn’t new for White Nationalist America. These propagandists continue a heritage left them by the likes of the hugely popular pre-WWII radio personality and Nazi sympathizer Father Coughlin. 

The grandchildren of his fans are now all on board the Trump Train to chaos, cruelty and ultimately an economic collapse, if he has his way. So what can we expect to happen to justice and law enforcement under the authoritarian rule of a convicted felon?

We can expect with certainty institutionalized corruption and criminal malfeasance after Trump’s mass firing of independent inspectors general at several federal agencies and of Justice Department/FBI lawyers. We’re seeing the beginning of a massive politically motivated purge of capable public servants whose only “fault” was honest performance of their duty and to not be Trump loyalists. This is the only reason they are being eliminated, and likely to be replaced by loyalist radical Right enablers.

Trump Derangement Syndrome has been institutionalized and infected all branches of the Federal Government. 

The purging of the DOJ and FBI of employees who swore an oath to the Constitution but refuse to swear loyalty to the Felonious Fuhrer is a glaring red flag of fascism. They were sent a letter under the subject “Notice of Removal from Federal Service”. The letter from acting Attorney General James McHenry to the DOJ officials said they cannot be “trusted” to “faithfully” implement Trump’s agenda.

“You played a significant role in prosecuting President Trump. The proper functioning of government critically depends on the trust superior officials place in their subordinates,” McHenry wrote. “Given your significant role in prosecuting the President, I do not believe that the leadership of the Department can trust you to assist in implementing the President’s agenda faithfully.”

And there it is. The mission of the DOJ and FBI is no longer enforcing the law and indicting criminals by gathering evidence that would stand in a court of law.

It’s now about “implementing Trump’s agenda”. 

For Trump and his authoritarian cartel, upholding the Constitution clearly isn’t their priority.

From the New York Times:

The top agent at the F.B.I.’s New York City field office vowed in a defiant email to his staff to “dig in” after the Trump administration targeted officials involved in the investigations into the Jan. 6 attack — and praised the bureau’s interim leaders for defending its independence.

“Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a battle of our own, as good people are being walked out of the F.B.I. and others are being targeted because they did their jobs in accordance with the law and F.B.I. policy,” wrote James E. Dennehy, a veteran and highly-respected agent who has run the largest and most important field office in the bureau since last September.

An F.B.I. spokeswoman declined to comment on internal bureau communications.

The email came after the Justice Department ordered the F.B.I. on Friday to collect the names of bureau personnel who helped investigate the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, raising the possibility that Mr. Trump’s political appointees plan to purge career bureau officials, including rank-and-file field agents. That number could reach 6,000 — or about a sixth of the bureau’s 38,000 employees, according to the F.B.I.

In Trump’s Swamp of liars, criminals, sociopaths, and other such reptilians the FBI’s mission statement no longer applies.

Mission

Our mission encompasses all that we do as an organization—protect the American people and uphold the Constitution of the United States.

No more of that. Trump wants a police state to enforce his will and to prosecute and punish those he hates. And it has nothing to do with the rule of law. It is purely a dictator’s purge to facilitate his totalitarian ambitions.

Another red flag was the whole-hearted endorsement of Trump by the Fraternal of Order of Police.

Note how this endorsement completely ignores the fact that they endorsed a convicted felon who had a large number of additional evidence-supported felony indictments. This is the madness that begets tyranny.

How deranged is that? Here we have an extreme case of mass law enforcement Trump Derangement Syndrome. It is the same deranged extremism that sent a violent mob to overturn an election. It is as toxic as the case of the deranged Red Hats on the Supreme Court granting immunity to their fellow corrupt radical Right authoritarian and serial criminal. He just happened to be the career advancement benefactor for enough of them to demolish our nation's core democratic value of equal justice under law. 

And how could they have not known Trump had been promising to pardon his thugs he called “hostages” all along? They certainly had no objection to Trump’s other promise to weaponize law enforcement against officers and lawyers who were honorably performing their jobs by gathered evidence, due process, and restraint.

Ah, but soon the very fine police officers would be troubled when their Felonious Fuhrer did what he clearly intended to do.

The hypocrites at the Fraternal Order of Police KNEW about Trump’s felony conviction, indictments, and attempts to overturn the 2020 election in addition to his promise to release his thugs, but they endorsed him anyway. Note how they "both sides" the issue with false equivalence on Biden.

There was reasonable doubt and trial issues for Biden's pardon cases. There was no doubt as to the guilt of Trump's unrepentant thugs.

Unfortunately, there is also no doubt that there is disturbing percentage of police officers ready to enforce a tyrant’s rule. You can’t have a police state without willing police accomplices who inevitably embrace fascism.  Any dissenting officers will be purged.

Americans voted for a fascist presidency, and it has arrived. Will they learn from this mistake? Probably not, but the next two elections will tell us how much worse it could be,  how many people will suffer, and how much longer this tragedy will darken our republic.

Never Forget!

"Don't take for granted how quiet the Capitol will be today.

It's because today in America, tragically, only one party respects elections. The other party uses and justifies violence to keep power.

Had Harris won, today likely would have been another bloodbath." ~  Senator Chris Murphey

January 6, 2021 was America’s Domestic Day of Infamy. The reaction of the party of Trump and more recently the indifference by the voting public brought the deepest shame and dishonor to our nation since the era of slavery.

We now have a convicted felon and insurrectionist for president! 

Well done, America, home of the duped MAGA cult, low-information voters, and apathetic masses.

The greatest American tragedy of the 21^st Century has been welcomed back, only to be compounded.

Just one example of the turncoat behavior is found in the words and actions of U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).

He once delivered the following remarks on the Senate floor:

 

January 6th was a disgrace. American citizens attacked their own government. They used terrorism to try to stop a specific piece of democratic business they did not like.             

Fellow Americans beat and bloodied our own police. They stormed the Senate floor. They tried to hunt down the Speaker of the House. They built a gallows and chanted about murdering the Vice President. They did this because they had been fed wild falsehoods by the most powerful man on Earth — because he was angry he’d lost an election.

Former President Trump’s actions preceding the riot were a disgraceful dereliction of duty. There is no question, none, that President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of that day.

The people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their President. And their having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole which the defeated President kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet Earth.

The issue is not only the President’s intemperate language on January 6th. It is not just his endorsement of remarks in which an associate urged “trial by combat”. It was also the entire manufactured atmosphere of looming catastrophe; the increasingly wild myths about a reverse landslide election that was being stolen in some secret coup by our now-President.

I defended the President’s right to bring any complaints to our legal system. The legal system spoke. The Electoral College spoke. As I stood up and said clearly at the time, the election was settled.

But that reality just opened a new chapter of even wilder and more unfounded claims.

The leader of the free world cannot spend weeks thundering that shadowy forces are stealing our country and then feign surprise when people believe him and do reckless things. Sadly, many politicians sometimes make overheated comments or use metaphors that unhinged listeners might take literally.

This was different. This was an intensifying crescendo of conspiracy theories, orchestrated by an outgoing president who seemed determined to either overturn the voters’ decision or else torch our institutions on the way out.

 

Those are some noble and honest words, long since evaporated into the fascist void of MAGA.

But McConnell’s actions spoke louder. He stole and filled two Supreme Court seats with Trump loyalists who defied our Constitution and destroyed our ideal of equal justice under law. 

Then the morally feeble and spineless hypocrite proceeded to vote “not guilty” in Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate. Finally he supported the convicted felon for reelection. The Republican Party and corrupt Supreme Court went on to renounce truth, decency, and the rule of law.

Sadly, America will not soon recover from their treachery, if ever.

It is up to the people of consciousness and conscience to endure and ultimately prevail over the evil darkness of lies and hate in the halls of power. If not, Putin won and America is lost.

Never forget!

Officer Daniel Hodges

Officer Michael Fanone

An Omen?

Perhaps a metaphor foreshadowing tragedies to come under the imminent Musk and Trump regime, a Tesla Cybertruck exploded outside the Las Vegas Trump Hotel.

We're waiting to learn if it was an act of terrorism or not. (CNN reports: "The Cybertruck was rented on the same platform used to obtain the truck involved in a vehicle attack in New Orleans early on Wednesday. Authorities are investigating the possible links between the two incidents.)

1 person died, 7 others suffered minor injuries from the Cybertruck explosion at Trump International today, per LVMPD.

Meanwhile, related to the Las Vegas explosion or not,  another dire omen emerges as Trump attacks immigrants in his reaction to the New Orleans terror attack by a radicalized ex-US Army individual.