Hegseth ordered 800-plus generals and admirals to Quantico, Virginia from across the vast American global empire to hear them say that America’ s real adversary is“ the enemy within,” meaning the residents of the nation’ s majority nonwhite and“ radical left” cities. Trump told the stone-faced brass that American cities need to become“ training grounds” for the US military.
In his emergency request for a Supreme Court shadow docket ruling that will green-light the military takeover of Chicago and other cities, Trump has dispensed with his past invocations of federal statutes that supposedly permit him to bypass the Posse Comitatus Act and the 10th Amendment to the Constitution and argued instead that the judicial branch has no constitutional right to opine on his power to deploy the military anywhere he wants for whatever reason.
If he doesn’ t get what he wants from the Christian fascist court he molded during his first term he will likely invoke the ancient slaveowners’ Insurrection Act to put troops in Democratic Party-run majority nonwhite cities.
The Trump regime is moving in numerous ways to rig the 2026 midterms, which may well take place in the intimidating, vote-suppressing presence of occupying troops in US cities. Even without National Guard or regular duty troops deployed, the direct federal gendarmes of ICE and its junior partner Border Patrol— unencumbered by the 10th Amendment and Posse Comitatus law and filled in its ranks with the most racist and reactionary thugs in the federal state— have already this year undertaken a federal military attack on US cities, replete with advanced weaponry and Black Hawk attack helicopters. The nation’ s cities, and most especially those cities’ Latino sections, are already under de facto military occupation.
But what did we expect? Is any of this surprising? Trump45 led an insurrectionist coup attempt on January 6. 2021. He campaigned on political“ retribution” and a promise of racist mass deportations animated by his Hitlerian claim that brownskinned immigrants are“ poisoning our blood.” On his first day in office, he pardoned more than 1,500 January 6 putschists and criminals, commuted the long prison sentences handed down to the nation’ s top two paramilitary fascist leaders for their roles in the Capitol Riot, and signed an executive order purporting to end the explicit constitutional right of birthright citizenship.
On July 1, 2024, Trump’ s Christian fascist Supreme Court granted him forever immunity from prosecution for any crime he committed past or future under the rubric of“ official presidential duties.”
Trump and the key people around him, including above all Stephen“ We Are the Storm!” Miller, are dedicated sociopathic fascists eager to stamp out the last embers of American democracy, decency, deliberation, and rule of law by any and all means“ necessary.” The Trump regime and the Trump party’ s wild denunciation of the second No Kings Day protests as“ radical left,”“ Marxist”( I’ m one), and“ terrorist” rallies dedicated to“ hating America” is symptomatic of their fascist ideology, which requires socialist, Marxist, and communist enemies even when such enemies do not exist to any significant degree, as in the US today( unlike in Germany in the early 1930s).
The Trump regime’ s obsessive hatred of“ the left” more than merely echoes Hitler and Goebbels’ fanatical calls and pledges to“ restore German greatness” by saving it in from dreaded Marxists and“ Judeo Bolsheviks” who had supposedly“ stabbed the nation in the back” during and after World War I.
The former Fatherland News co-host and current“ Secretary of War” Pete“ I’ ll Stop Drinking if You put Me Atop the Pentagon” Hegseth( member of a far-right church whose pastor says that the best period in American race relations was the era of Black chattel slavery) is a“ Christian” white nationalist zealot who salivates over the prospect of unleashing the US military on US cities. He holds his position despite his monumental incompetence in great part because Trump47 is counting on him to do what Trump45’ s military chiefs wouldn’ t do: Use bloody force against US citizens and residents on US soil. A recently leaked Signal chat shows that Hegseth has been thinking about sending the elite US Army 82nd Airborne to crush anti-ICE protests in Portland.
In a sign of how insane and depraved things have gotten atop the US government( and how lame and Weimar-like some top Dems are), I recently put up this Onion-style spoof online:
Unnamed sources report that Donald Trump has ordered the Secretary of War Pete Hegseth to present a plan for the nuclear annihilation of every US city with a population of 500,000 or more. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer( D-N. Y.) says that“ any such plans would be contrary to the national interest and inconsistent with the Democrats signing on to a budget agreement to end the government shutdown.” Asked for comment, former President Barack Obama said that“ the nuking of our major cities by our own military would be a major setback for our great nation.” Obama cautioned that“ Democrats should seek bipartisan support for a congressional resolution questioning the legality of a US nuclear attack on major US cities. I know it can sometimes be difficult to win votes on the other side of the aisle,” Obama added,“ but the genius of America is that at the end of the day we’ re all on the same team. It would be terrible to lose Chicago or St. Louis, of course, but we’ re still all Americans at the end of life on Earth.”
Crazy, right? And yet serious, intelligent people understandably felt the need to make sure it wasn’ t for real. As one of my brilliant readers commented:“ My first thought was to laugh, my second thought was‘ Let me Google this and make sure it’ s a joke.’ I was relieved to discover it was not a real story but disturbed that I felt the need to check because it sounded like something he might consider.”
That’ s because there really are no limits to the depravity of this fascist regime. There is no rock bottom.
After understanding this, the next and obvious question is what to do about it?
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