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.”

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.”

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…