What Happened

 

A friend recently lamented the state of our nation. “We’re all fucked. I never expected it all to end this way.”

 

I don’t think my response cheered him up.

 

What happened to the United States of America? In two words, authoritarianism and greed. From those most negative of human traits, malevolence and cruelty inevitably ensue.

 

The growing darkness under a criminal president and MAGA evil has been painful and draining to witness.

 

Women have lost their reproductive freedom. The CDC has been gutted and medical research has been shut down. Americans will pay more for health insurance and Medicaid patients will be out of luck.

Regurgitating Trump’s Big Lie about “massive voter fraud” as their justification, Republican states are enacting sweeping voter suppression laws and targeting minority districts for gerrymandering. They know they must cheat to win so they’re doing everything they can to dismantle what we have left of a representative democracy.

 

Out of sheer spite tens of thousands of Americans have been summarily fired from their jobs without cause. Pretending to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, the Criminal president decided to have the taxpayers build him an ostentatious ballroom. Yeah, just what the country needed, an exclusive private club for oligarchs and autocrats at our expense.

 

Universities, law firms, media corporations, billionaires, and even museums are being bullied, bribed, and blackmailed into submitting to the Criminal President Trump’s dictates.

 

Secret police are unleashed into communities, abducting and incarcerating non-violent immigrants, while terrorizing citizens, non-citizens, and zip-tied children. Even American citizens have been scooped up in their fascist frenzy. Remember their LIE about just going after the “worst of the worst”?

 

Tens of thousands of non-violent immigrants are suffering the severe and intentional cruelties of detention and family separation.

 

The Criminal President is deploying the military to occupy cities over the objections of mayors and governors. They are justifiably concerned that the secret police and troops will be used for election monitoring and voter intimidation.

 

The Criminal President has ordered extra-judicial killings on the open sea, as only dictators would do.

 

The insurrectionist Criminal President follows Hitler’s playbook, demonizing all who oppose him politically or ideologically as “communists” and the “enemy within”.

 

How did this despotism take hold of our country?

 

Some of us have been watching the erosion of our democracy since Ronald Reagan told us, “Government is the problem”. Anarchists, swindlers, corrupt capitalists, oligarchs, and gangsters would agree. He ended the fairness doctrine in media and brought in Rupert Murdoch.

 

Murdoch became the Republicans’ first corporate media propagandist and America’s first foreign oligarch.

 

Their war on truth has been relentless and expanding ever since. They understood from the history of Nazi Germany that Big Lies, fearmongering, and scapegoating works. They never appeal to reason because emotional manipulation is far easier and more effective.

 

Cheney and Bush Jr. proved Americans could be lied into invading a country that had nothing to do with al-Qaeda or 9-11. We remember Dick Cheney’s fearmongering just before the 2004 election. “It‘s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today on November 2, we make the right choice, because, if we make the wrong choice, then the danger is that we‘ll get hit again.”

 

It worked. The Lying President installed by conservatives on the Supreme Court and who invaded Iraq on false pretenses was reelected. The radical Right was now on top of their game.

 

Then the US military got bogged down in the inevitable quagmire of occupation. The American people finally had enough when they saw thousands of Americans returned home in body bags.

 

After Republicans deregulated the insatiable greedy bankers on Wall Street the subprime mortgage crisis trigged the Bush Recession.

 

In 2008 Americans finally voted for change. For just winning, Obama enraged the white Christian nationalists, who proceeded to build their racist Tea Party movement that eventually empowered the Criminal President Trump.

 

The constant firehose of disinformation flooded the country’s TV, radio, and internet as the increasingly fascist Republican propaganda network eventually duped enough Americans once again.

 

Criminals, racists and oligarchs finally rejoiced in their Triumph of the Will. The Biden Presidency was merely a temporary restraint for them. By breaking his promise to serve one term and bungling an important debate, Biden gave them their next opening.

 

In 2016 the American Axis of Evil prevailed by exploiting our flawed and antiquated Electoral College, the undemocratic and unrepresentative Senate, and a gerrymandered House. By 2024 the Republican campaign of disinformation paid off in winning a rare popular vote for president.

 

But America’s “final judgment” was made before the 2024 election. Would justice prevail over a criminal president?

 

No.

 

The six most corrupt and partisan Supreme Court Justices nullified the 14th Amendment that disqualifies the insurrectionist Criminal Trump and granted him unconstitutional and dictatorial “presidential immunity”. This assured the dominance of the Criminal Trump and his military police state over our country. The Court is actively facilitating a Trump dictatorship and Republican one-party rule.

 

And that’s how the American experiment in democracy failed.

 

The ONLY way out, or through this, is for the Criminal President to finally face justice and for enough Americans to wake up and vote Republicans completely out of power for at least the next 12 years. 2026 is the next test. The final test will be 2028.

 

After that, I’ll just be grateful for being old enough to remember when America was at least marginally great. 

No Nobel for Tyrants

 

President Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize “for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development” 

Hmm. There seems to be a characteristic in Nobel Peace Prize winners that the Criminal President Trump is utterly lacking. 

NPR reports:

Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has won this year's Nobel Peace Prize for "her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy."

The announcement of Machado as winner of the prestigious award came as a surprise after intense speculation that President Trump could be a wildcard winner after negotiating a Gaza ceasefire this week.

But the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday that Machado's tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela was "one of the most extraordinary examples of civilian courage in Latin America in recent times."

A Venezuelan! And a woman! The Great White Criminal President LOST to a Venezuelan woman! I bet that really stung his delicate racist ego.

President Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize for his "extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. President Obama showed himself to be a strong spokesman for human rights and democracy, and as a constructive supporter of the work being done to put effective measures in place to combat the climate crisis."

This annoys the Criminal President Trump like a burr up his butt which explains his absurd boasting about "ending seven wars". Bombing Iran counts, apparently. Unlike María Corina Machado, President Obama, and Jimmy Carter, Trump never was, and never will be, "a strong spokesman for human rights and democracy".

This is why Trump didn't win the Nobel Peace Prize this year and never will.

I’m fairly confident that we may reasonably doubt the fraudulent, multiple indicted, convicted felon, obsessively vengeful, insurrectionist, and Criminal President Trump will be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize. Also, it’s not lost on the Nobel Committee that he praises dictators, pardons thugs, orders extrajudicial killings on the open sea, sends the military to occupy Democratic cities over the objections of mayors and governors, accuses the political opposition of being the “communist, terrorist enemy within”, orders Black representative districts to be eradicated by racist gerrymandering, and weaponizes the Justice Department for his personal retribution against public servants who honorably performed their jobs.

Also, Trump's LIE that climate change is a "hoax" won't win any Nobel prizes either. History will judge him for that alone.

The list just keeps getting longer.

Of course, the Criminal Crybaby President was distressed about not being chosen, despite endorsements from his fans Netanyahu and Putin. "Thank you to President Putin!" Trump wrote on Truth Social on Friday alongside a video of Putin saying, "this award has lost credibility".

Well, there you go. When it comes to credibility, none take a back seat to Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump, amirite?

The Nobel Committee awards the Peace Prize to leaders who champion "arms control and disarmament, peace negotiation, democracy and human rights, and work aimed at creating a better organized and more peaceful world," according to its website.

Tyrants do NOT deserve the prize, and the Nobel Committee knows it:

“Democracy is a precondition for lasting peace. However, we live in a world where democracy is in retreat, where more and more authoritarian regimes are challenging norms and resorting to violence.”

Heil, MAGA!

 

Since learning my father-in-law served in Patton’s Third Army in the Battle of the Bulge through the liberation of Buchenwald, I have become a serious student of World War Two history and Nazi Germany.

 

It didn’t start with camps and rounding up Jews. It started with HATE, lies, demonization and a 1923 coup, known as the “Beer Hall Putsch” or the “Munich Putsch”.

 

Ten years later Germans made the foolish and fatal decision to install the criminal coup leader as Chancellor.  The criminal Putsch Leader proceeded to seize control of the press and media, to demonize and scapegoat political opponents, Jews, liberals, educators, homosexuals, Roma, unions, and communists. In fact, ALL of those groups would be smeared as “communists”, “vermin”, and the “enemy within”.

The German Nazis used the term “Lügenpresse”, or lying press, in their campaign to destroy journalism. Now American fascists cry “liberal media” and “fake news” when the truth threatens their agenda. It was their favorite Big Lie for decades. But more were coming. 

Hillary’s “pizza parlor pedophile ring” was a doozy. Then came the Criminal President Trump’s BIG LIE, that the 2020 election was “rigged” against him. And let’s not forget their favorite racist lie, “They’re eating the dogs in Springfield”.

And this isn’t even the tip of their iceberg of lies. No wonder we learned from Ivanna that Trump kept ONE book in his bedroom. It was a book of Hitler’s speeches. 

Hitler understood how to manipulate people. Pander to anger, fear and resentment for the “enemy within”. He said, “I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.” Hmm. No wonder the Criminal President Trump said, “I love the poorly educated”, and “Smart people don’t like me”.

In other words, “What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.” – Adolf Hitler

Let’s review some historical context and the disturbing similarities between Hitler’s Nazi Party and the Criminal President’s Republican Party. (Hint: They are both known for HATING democracy, equality, and a fair representative government. Scapegoating minorities, smearing those they hate as communists, DENYING women their reproductive freedom and pandering to Christian nationalists are just a few glaring similarities. But there’s more. Much more.) 

First up, the OG Nazis:

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Pandering to Christians

On October 10, 1936, Heinrich Himmler created the Reich Central Office for Combating Homosexuality and Abortion, or Special Office (II S), a sub-department of Executive Department II of the Gestapo.

"The National Government will regard it as its first and foremost duty to revive in the nation the spirit of unity and cooperation. It will preserve and defend those basic principles on which our nation has been built. It regards Christianity as the foundation of our national morality, and the family as the basis of national life." - Adolf Hitler "My New World Order" - Proclamation to the German Nation, Berlin, February 1, 1933

"We tolerate no one in our ranks who attacks the ideas of Christianity ... in fact our movement is Christian."  Hitler’s Speech in Passau 27 October 1928

“Harnessing mass media”

A newly created Ministry of Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels centrally co-ordinated the themes of Nazi propaganda. Subsequently, his ministry spread these core messages through the mass media like the press, the radio or party rallies in order to influence public opinion… They also created fear around the idea of an enemy within. To this end, Nazis produced antisemitic propaganda.

The Enemy Within, “Jewish Communists”

In the 1920s and 1930s, Nazis were, in part, defined by their opposition to communism. After the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Germany seemed vulnerable to the spread of communism, particularly after a communist uprising in Berlin. The Weimar democratic government was unstable, and its economy was in shambles. In their struggle against socialists and communists, fascists and other right-wing groups exploited the fact some prominent communists were Jews to harness antisemitism for their cause. Longstanding false links between Jews and Communism also underscored antisemitic conspiracy theories about Jewish global domination.

“The Enemy Within: Homosexuality in the Third Reich, 1933-1945”

From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi regime in Germany ruthlessly targeted homosexuals, particularly men, as enemies of the state.

“Labor History: Nazis Destroy Labor Unions in 1933”

On May 2, 1933, Adolf Hitler’s storm troopers occupied all trade union headquarters across Germany, and union leaders were arrested and put in prison or concentration camps. Many were beaten and tortured. All of the unions’ funds – in other words, the workers’ money – were confiscated.

Hitler’s seizure of the judicial system is the template for Trump.

“I expect the legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them but they are here for the nation… From now on, I shall intervene in these cases and remove from office those judges who evidently do not understand the demand of the hour.”  - Hitler in 1942. 

Immigration

Hitler decreed there will be no more immigrants. "Any further immigration of non-citizens is to be prevented. We demand that all non-Germans, who have immigrated to Germany since the 2nd of August 1914, be forced immediately to leave the Reich."

The Nazi war on higher education and call for “law and order” started here:

The streets of our country are in turmoil. The Universities are filled with students rebelling and rioting. Communists are seeking to destroy our country. Russia is threatening us with her might and the republic is in danger. Yes, danger from within and without. We need law and order. Yes, without law and order our nation cannot survive. Elect us and we shall restore law and order." Adolph Hitler, Hamburg, Germany, 1932.

This should give anyone a basic understanding of how Hitler’s Nazis crushed or controlled justice, freedom, education, and democracy.

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"Outrageous Progressive Communist, Democrats" is the lie that neo-Nazis spew to demonize people who disagree with them. When you're a MAGA neo-Nazi or OG Nazi, everybody to your left looks like a Communist. And when you're a MAGA neo-Nazi or OG Nazi, everybody IS to your left.

And now we examine Trump’s MAGA neo-Nazi tactics.

Trump's violent January 6, 2021 insurrection was America's version of Hitler's 1923 violent Putsch. Both criminal tyrants would rise to power afterwards. Americans failed to learn what the Germans only learned too late. It is already too late for America. The destruction of government and the rule of law are ongoing every day.

Pandering to Christians

“Eradicating Anti-Christian Bias”

It is the policy of the United States, and the purpose of this order, to protect the religious freedoms of Americans and end the anti-Christian weaponization of government…Yet the previous Administration engaged in an egregious pattern of targeting peaceful Christians, while ignoring violent, anti-Christian offenses.

The “Communist Enemy Within”

Trump and MAGA echo Hitler’s demonization again and again. The more MAGA shouts “communist Democrats”, the more they sound like lying Nazis.

The VILE Senator Mike Lee when he HATEFULLY LIED and gloated about the Minnesota Republican who murdered Minnesota Democrats, “This is what happens when Marxists don’t get their way.”

The Criminal President Trump: “I always say, we have two enemies. We have the outside enemy, and then we have the enemy from within, and the enemy from within, in my opinion, is more dangerous than China, Russia and all these countries. They’re Marxists and communists and fascists, and they’re sick… We must stop the communists, Marxists and fascist ‘pigs’ at every turn and, Make America Great Again!”

To be clear:

When Trump says “Communists, Marxists, and Fascists,” he doesn’t mean actual communists or fascists. He means Democrats. - Sarah Posner, author of "Unholy: How White Christian Nationalists Powered the Trump Presidency, and the Devastating Legacy They Left Behind."

Trump’s Uncle Adolf would heartily approve, as he would when Ted Nugent called President Obama a " communist-raised, communist-educated, communist-nurtured subhuman mongrel". Just don’t call him a Nazi. He hates that.

Trump’s weaponization of law enforcement and war on the judicial system reflects Hitler’s own war on the rule of law. Trump's corrupt radical Right Justices on the Supreme Court negated our 14th Amendment's ban on insurrectionists holding office. After Trump's desperate plea to evade justice for his crimes the same corrupt betrayers of our Constitution granted the Criminal President immunity. "Equal justice under law" is "legally" dead in America.

Trump was given his nuclear-grade weapons to politicize law enforcement,  and wage his war on our rule of law. Americans shouldn't be surprised when he invokes the Insurrection Act to suppress dissent and deny habeas corpus. This will cement his dictatorship over the FORMER Constitutional Republic known as the United States of America. 

"We cannot allow a handful of communist radical-left judges to obstruct the enforcement of our laws and assume the duties that belong solely to the president of the United States.” – The Criminal President Trump

The DOJ and FBI have been purged of everyone deemed insufficiently loyal to Trump. Anyone who assisted in bringing Trump's January 6 thugs to justice has been fired.  Law firms such as Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP  who represented people Trump hates have been bullied, threatened, and extorted. Former Director James Comey was ordered arrested by Trump. New York Attorney General  Letitia James is facing Trump's vengeful wrath. 

Immigration

One would have to be blind not to see how Trump and Hitler would see eye-to-eye on immigration, especially by "those people". No more "scum and vermin eating the dogs in Springfield". In fact he even reinstated restrictions on legal immigration. 

The fascist MAGA war on education and media is in full force.

Universities and news media are being extorted by bogus lawsuits to fall in line with Trump. Museums are being bullied into showing only what meets Trump’s approval. 

Trump posted, "The Museums throughout Washington, but all over the Country are, essentially, the last remaining segment of "WOKE". The Smithsonian is OUT OF CONTROL, where everything discussed is how horrible our Country is, how bad Slavery was, and how unaccomplished the downtrodden have been --Nothing about Success, nothing about Brightness, nothing about the Future. We are not going to allow this to happen, and I have instructed my attorneys to go through the Museums, and start the exact same process that has been done with Colleges and Universities where tremendous progress has been made." 

Trump threatened and extorted Columbia University out of $221 million. He is pressuring Harvard to pay $500 million to settle inflated accusations of campus antisemitism.

Trump's Vice President JD Vance joined the neo-Nazi chorus with, "The professors are the enemy"

Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, settled a lawsuit with Donald Trump over a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris that aired in October 2024, because they EDITED the interview, like almost every TV program does. (It’s entirely OK for FOX to lie and edit all they want in Trump’s favor.) Paramount agreed to pay $16 million as part of the settlement.

Damn right, that’s fascism. Does anyone wonder why J.D. Vance once said, "I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn't be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he's America's Hitler."  

Let’s not leave Trump’s Reichsfuhrer of propaganda, political enforcement, and punishment out of the discussion.

Stephen Miller:

"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.”

And just today the MAGA neo-Nazi Miller LIED and threatened Democrats with this:

The Democrat Party has filled our legal and judicial system with radicals who protect leftwing terrorists. This is a very real and dire crisis for our Republican form of government. The issue before is now very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. It is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors, and attorneys  general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.  

And there it is. Democrats are "terrorists". We knew it would come down to this total Nazi-level persecution of the only party that can resist their tyranny.

It’s obvious the MAGA neo-Nazi solution is a “final solution”.

They intend to eliminate, or exterminate, by "legitimate state power" ALL political opposition. Who’s so naïve as to think they wouldn’t round us up, deny us due process by a fair trial, and send us to the camps?

This is who they are. 

Trump’s own words reveal his true nature:

 

“Comrade Kamala Harris is terrible for our Country. She is a Communist, has been a Communist, and will always be a Communist.”

“Reports are the Marxist Special Prosecutor, DOJ, & FBI, want to Indict me on the BOXES HOAX.”

We will Root out the Communists, Marxists, Fascists, and Radical Left Thugs that live like vermin within the confines of our country…

They’re poisoning the blood of our country. That’s what they’ve done.

Just a quick reminder for liberal Jews who voted to destroy America and Israel because you believed false narratives!

Let's hope you learned from your mistake and make better choices moving forward!

Any Jewish person that votes for Democrats hates their religion.

Would you rather have the Black president or the white president?

I think they want the white guy.

Hitler did a lot of good things.

We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. (Trump, Jan. 6, 2021, before he watched his goons beating cops for HOURS on TV hoping they would succeed, then he PRAISED and PARDONED his THUGS for trying to overturn an election.)

Sounds pretty damn Nazi to me.

The World’s Sorest Loser whined that the Constitution should be terminated because he lost.

“Do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 OUT and declare the RIGHTFUL WINNER, or do you have a NEW ELECTION? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution,” Trump wrote in a post on “Truth Social”.

And there you have it. Thanks to corporate media meekly normalizing a Criminal President, con-servative and duped voters, corrupt Justices, authoritarian Republicans, and greedy oligarchs we are witnessing the end of the republic. Sounds pretty damn Nazi to me.

As composer Frank Wilhoit said: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.”

This is what American con-servatism has wrought. History shows con-servatism reveres wealth and the wealthy and tolerates corruption by the economic elites. It always has. Democracy and equality have always been a threat to con-servatism. 

The bottom line:

MAGA Neo-Nazi Fascism is here, and it wouldn’t have happened if not for the eager and generous support from wealthy con-servatives. 

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."