I have never been prouder to be anti-facsist than right now. Truly. I look forward to my day in court. How many left wing lunaticks and anti-facsists died storming the beaches of Normandy? Or in the literal trenches? Suddenly Nazis and fascists have feelings we should respect and give space for?
I'll face my pre-crime convictions with my head held high and a smile on my face, for my sentencing, I likely face a firing squad.
I envy your humor and courage Mike. I'm terrified. This document serves to further legitimize threats Trump tested out on the campaign trail. He pledged to rid the country of the enemy within and to deport pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Now he has emboldened a cast of ghouls like Gorka and the infrastructure of Homeland Security, DOJ, and DOD to back him up.
By dehumanizing the opposition, the administration doesn't have to give us a day in court or the luxury of re-education camps. Labeling us terrorists, nullifies our traditional defenses.
This morning Ruth Ben Ghiat was on air speaking with Mary Trump. Mary predicted the Administration is poised to loot Social Security. They will roll out an ad campaign saying true patriots will sacrifice their benefits in the interest of making the country great again.
Ruth interjected that during DOGE's reign, her 94-year-old mother with dementia lost her social security for four months. Benefits were withheld while they investigated her for fraud!
DOGE has unlocked many new pathways to neutralize the resistance. Picture this: Certain folks stop receiving their sole income (social security or disability benefits for instance). They inquire, but can't reach anyone. Eventually they learn they are being investigated for fraud. By then, they may be facing eviction and have no rational means to defend themselves. Or, the government could declare them "legally dead." This nullifies their bank accounts and credit cards.
Here is what I think the rest of us need to fear: We are arrested for being terrorists. Once you are declared a terrorist, the government can seize your assets. They can freeze our bank accounts. We will turn to our friends, or the ACLU but those avenues will be overloaded. In the interim, we can be quietly deported or die in captivity. Those who remain won't know what became of us. We just disappear.
If I learned anything from civics and from reading about the Founders of this country, it's that some fights - even fights against something as powerful as a god ordained king - are worth the insurmountable odds, especially when the desired outcome is Liberty and Justice for All.
It is very difficult to bottle up these anti terrorism measures, so they mind civil libertarian niceties. They are like viruses that mutate and become a medical emergency. While we are hyperventilating about Gorka and the Beast in the White House, remember that all the administrations since 9-11 have had a hand in developing this strategy. The police state gene exists in all governments. Though I have always argued with anarchists about the state, on this they have a point. We are not going to breath easy until this administration ends, or when they find Donald's earth box and perform the appropriate rites. Garlic necklaces for everyone until then!
I hope the Homeland Security re education centers will have nice facilities, if USA home grown "terrorists" aren't to be droned or shot out of hand.
Identifying "terrorists" (any dissidents to regime who open their mouths) is what AI data centers (plus Palantir et alia's witch hunting algorithms) are actually for. They are stuffed full of every online activity, personal contact metadata & electronic transaction you have ever made. Think "what would a STUPID and MALEVOLENT cop assume from my records"? Because that's who will be in charge of going after those the algorithm target.
Israel already selects missile & bomb targets on such basis- If you are reading this, you too are probably "on the list".
“President Trump has affected a complete revision… [with] the objective of destroying the groups who would kill Americans or hurt our interests as a free nation.”
That last line is something else. Good old-fashioned “we’re abolishing freedom of expression because you might organize against us” type shit. At least they’re doing it in the open I guess…?
Thank you Ken, I just subbed because this is top-notch journalism: not only do you provide insight on the document, you have the decency to share said document with us!
As for the subject, it reminds me of Hannah Arendt's notion of colonial boomerang. Hopefully the peoples of the United States manage to push back against the consolidation of totalitarianism!
Certainly the global war on terror was bound to come home. Sooner or later the violence and lawlessness of America Inc. abroad had to boomerang. Because the corrupt cads behind our overseas follies and the majority of their minions care no more about American citizens or workers than they do the "collateral damage" in their crusades waged in foreign lands. Big Brother is here, he is white, male and Judeo-Christian and he wants all of your milkshakes.
My predictions when the Patriot Act was enacted have all come to pass. It took 25 years and four presidents to get where we are today, each president chipping away at our civil liberties. And if I never hear the word “homeland” again, it will be too soon. I’m glad I’m an old anti-fascist.
I can’t decide on an adjective to describe my feelings about the disaster and danger we are living in. I finally subscribed, Ken, because I trust you.
I also wonder when it is time to leave. I have citizenship in Switzerland and Austria, both pretty conservative countries. But they are not dangerous places to live. And it would make me sad not only to leave my 4 grown kids, but to leave a country both of my parents fought for (dad for 33 years as an AF pilot through 3 wars; mom, a Marine and an immigrant escapee from Nazis in Vienna).
I am a professor of both leadership and of sociology. I talk freely about the dangers of Trump, of unfettered capitalism, of Israel’s genocidal and land grab machinations, and of the hypocrisy of loud mouthed Christians. If I weren’t teaching at such a small college, maybe I would have already been targeted.
I am so angry at our supposed leaders and representatives who want to keep their jobs and donors more than they can conjure up their consciences to do what is right because of fear and greed.
Do we get the country we deserve? The government we deserve? Is that what is hitting us in the face?
You can count on Corporate Democrats supporting this strategy; their only real - as opposed to theatrical - political enemies are actual leftists who just advocate for liberal democracy. Recall how they piled on Zohran, and observe how they currently are piling on Piker with their Republican pals.
I am terrified an Israel first candidate will win the democratic primary in US house MI-01 after an encounter I had with her. Please help me promote Kyle Blomquist.
I have never been prouder to be anti-facsist than right now. Truly. I look forward to my day in court. How many left wing lunaticks and anti-facsists died storming the beaches of Normandy? Or in the literal trenches? Suddenly Nazis and fascists have feelings we should respect and give space for?
I'll face my pre-crime convictions with my head held high and a smile on my face, for my sentencing, I likely face a firing squad.
Ffs, People, don't look away.
I envy your humor and courage Mike. I'm terrified. This document serves to further legitimize threats Trump tested out on the campaign trail. He pledged to rid the country of the enemy within and to deport pro-Palestinian demonstrators. Now he has emboldened a cast of ghouls like Gorka and the infrastructure of Homeland Security, DOJ, and DOD to back him up.
By dehumanizing the opposition, the administration doesn't have to give us a day in court or the luxury of re-education camps. Labeling us terrorists, nullifies our traditional defenses.
This morning Ruth Ben Ghiat was on air speaking with Mary Trump. Mary predicted the Administration is poised to loot Social Security. They will roll out an ad campaign saying true patriots will sacrifice their benefits in the interest of making the country great again.
Ruth interjected that during DOGE's reign, her 94-year-old mother with dementia lost her social security for four months. Benefits were withheld while they investigated her for fraud!
DOGE has unlocked many new pathways to neutralize the resistance. Picture this: Certain folks stop receiving their sole income (social security or disability benefits for instance). They inquire, but can't reach anyone. Eventually they learn they are being investigated for fraud. By then, they may be facing eviction and have no rational means to defend themselves. Or, the government could declare them "legally dead." This nullifies their bank accounts and credit cards.
Here is what I think the rest of us need to fear: We are arrested for being terrorists. Once you are declared a terrorist, the government can seize your assets. They can freeze our bank accounts. We will turn to our friends, or the ACLU but those avenues will be overloaded. In the interim, we can be quietly deported or die in captivity. Those who remain won't know what became of us. We just disappear.
If I learned anything from civics and from reading about the Founders of this country, it's that some fights - even fights against something as powerful as a god ordained king - are worth the insurmountable odds, especially when the desired outcome is Liberty and Justice for All.
It is very difficult to bottle up these anti terrorism measures, so they mind civil libertarian niceties. They are like viruses that mutate and become a medical emergency. While we are hyperventilating about Gorka and the Beast in the White House, remember that all the administrations since 9-11 have had a hand in developing this strategy. The police state gene exists in all governments. Though I have always argued with anarchists about the state, on this they have a point. We are not going to breath easy until this administration ends, or when they find Donald's earth box and perform the appropriate rites. Garlic necklaces for everyone until then!
I hope the Homeland Security re education centers will have nice facilities, if USA home grown "terrorists" aren't to be droned or shot out of hand.
Identifying "terrorists" (any dissidents to regime who open their mouths) is what AI data centers (plus Palantir et alia's witch hunting algorithms) are actually for. They are stuffed full of every online activity, personal contact metadata & electronic transaction you have ever made. Think "what would a STUPID and MALEVOLENT cop assume from my records"? Because that's who will be in charge of going after those the algorithm target.
Israel already selects missile & bomb targets on such basis- If you are reading this, you too are probably "on the list".
I call top bunk!
That's the easy one to hang yourself from...
Better to die on your feet than on your knees
“President Trump has affected a complete revision… [with] the objective of destroying the groups who would kill Americans or hurt our interests as a free nation.”
That last line is something else. Good old-fashioned “we’re abolishing freedom of expression because you might organize against us” type shit. At least they’re doing it in the open I guess…?
Thank you Ken, I just subbed because this is top-notch journalism: not only do you provide insight on the document, you have the decency to share said document with us!
As for the subject, it reminds me of Hannah Arendt's notion of colonial boomerang. Hopefully the peoples of the United States manage to push back against the consolidation of totalitarianism!
Appreciate your support!!
Certainly the global war on terror was bound to come home. Sooner or later the violence and lawlessness of America Inc. abroad had to boomerang. Because the corrupt cads behind our overseas follies and the majority of their minions care no more about American citizens or workers than they do the "collateral damage" in their crusades waged in foreign lands. Big Brother is here, he is white, male and Judeo-Christian and he wants all of your milkshakes.
I know we've left the realm of facts when our government thinks we have a radical left in this country.
No doubt Gorka, like the rest of the crypto-slime, tossed his few bits into monuments declaring the Third Reich as a "victim of Communism" . . . .
My predictions when the Patriot Act was enacted have all come to pass. It took 25 years and four presidents to get where we are today, each president chipping away at our civil liberties. And if I never hear the word “homeland” again, it will be too soon. I’m glad I’m an old anti-fascist.
Thank you, Ken. I never doubted your reporting.
I’m shocked someone who would wear his dad’s Nazi medal would be so worried about people who are antifa. Another grave I look forward to pissing on.
I can’t decide on an adjective to describe my feelings about the disaster and danger we are living in. I finally subscribed, Ken, because I trust you.
I also wonder when it is time to leave. I have citizenship in Switzerland and Austria, both pretty conservative countries. But they are not dangerous places to live. And it would make me sad not only to leave my 4 grown kids, but to leave a country both of my parents fought for (dad for 33 years as an AF pilot through 3 wars; mom, a Marine and an immigrant escapee from Nazis in Vienna).
I am a professor of both leadership and of sociology. I talk freely about the dangers of Trump, of unfettered capitalism, of Israel’s genocidal and land grab machinations, and of the hypocrisy of loud mouthed Christians. If I weren’t teaching at such a small college, maybe I would have already been targeted.
I am so angry at our supposed leaders and representatives who want to keep their jobs and donors more than they can conjure up their consciences to do what is right because of fear and greed.
Do we get the country we deserve? The government we deserve? Is that what is hitting us in the face?
Thanks for your support professor!
You can count on Corporate Democrats supporting this strategy; their only real - as opposed to theatrical - political enemies are actual leftists who just advocate for liberal democracy. Recall how they piled on Zohran, and observe how they currently are piling on Piker with their Republican pals.
I am terrified an Israel first candidate will win the democratic primary in US house MI-01 after an encounter I had with her. Please help me promote Kyle Blomquist.
Free Palestine! 🇯🇴🍉