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Michael Wallace's avatar

And so there it is. Opinions in a free country make you an extremist and terrorist so decreed the regime. Folks, we are in a full throated fascist government.

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Randy's avatar

Totalitarian and autocratic also.

"Nice republic if you can keep it" someone once said.

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Dallas's avatar

This orange babyhanded chudlord is living inside his phone, oblivious to the fact that 2/3rds of the country is done with his nonsense. As scary as this is, he is flailing and in full free-fall. Thank you for the coverage!

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Discount Gentleman's avatar

It really troubles me that people are still living in the fantasy that Trump is weak. He is completely unopposed in Washington. He has the entire apparatus of the federal government at his beck and call, many state governments backing him, major corporations are supporting him or cowed into silence (my own law firm has taken the position of "stay silent on everything and hope to be ignored"). He is extremely powerful and is moving extremely quickly to violently suppress anything and everything in this country that could ever constitute or contribute to alternate loci of political power.

People need to let go of the fantasy and accept the (bitter) reality if we are to have any hope of resisting this.

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SAM's avatar

they've been fed the fantasy of voting harder in 2028. apparently, when they said "democracy is on the line" they didn't really believe it. hence, their sorry presidential candidate.

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Eric Schlecht's avatar

Spitting in the wind and messing with Jim. Everything this regime does backfires on itself and is evidence in future trials. We need to be careful not to use violence but the resistance is hurting them and inspiring other leaders to fight.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Why 'be careful' not to use violence.

Get a grip.

Violence is coming for all of you.

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Cynthia T Jeffries's avatar

How much more 1984 can you get? The only solution is for all 70% of the country who aren’t rabid Trumpers to loudly and constantly disobey. Even Miller/Trump admin can’t imprison 200 million people.

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Marian Gillis's avatar

Bonechilling.

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Discount Gentleman's avatar

This is open fascism. Liberals will snicker that it is too vague to be properly enforceable, while Trump's ever-expanding army of goons (including the literal army deployed to Portland and other cities) makes shows of arrest people to cow everyone else into silence.

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Dierk Groeneman's avatar

Where do you even begin? The Trump admin alone will decide who is American. Anyone not meeting the definition faces serious consequences.

It starts right away with Democrats. Gorka has determined they haven't sufficiently condemned political violence. Apparently there is some minimum degree of condemnation required to qualify as American.

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Richard Hennick's avatar

"... White House counter-terrorism czar Sebastian Gorka told Newsmax after NSPM-7 was signed."

That would be the same Sebastian Gorka "who lost his job [as Trump 1.0 counter-terrorism advisor] after revelations about his public support for, and membership of, several Nazi-allied antisemitic groups in Hungary."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sebastian-gorka-made-nazi-linked-virezi-proud-wearing-its-n742851

(Someone should probably archive that page before it gets disappeared.)

The above quote and link are both from "Alt Reich" by Nafeez Ahmed, p.250, which happens to be exactly where my bookmark already was. That book was written *before* Trump 2.0, but it is truly chilling to see so many names from it resurfacing now. A great read, but really needs an index.

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Andrew Akason's avatar

Somewhere in the depths of Hades J. Edgar Hoover smirks. Bring back the glory days of COINTELPRO! All manner of groups should expect new recruits at their real and virtual doors. Healthy youngish of several genders and ethnicities. Always ready to pay for this thing or that, always able to spend hours at the group's purposes, always with transportation easily available, and so very eager to talk on and on and on about how cool some sort of dramatic gesture would be. And why yes, they do know somebody who could easily procure this or that illegal thing or expertise. And sure a meeting could be arranged where us inner coolest ones could really get into the possibilities of overt acts.

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Discount Gentleman's avatar

COINTELPRO was a secret program, because it couldn't stand the light of day. This is, in many ways, the opposite of that. It is done in broad daylight, in large part to make everyone complicit.

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Richard Hennick's avatar

Well, I guess I'd be guilty on at least three of those Ten Commandments (not saying which ones). It looks like even posting a comment on this substack counts against me, along with the rest of you who are reading it.

As if I needed any more reasons not to cross the southern border from home here in Canada, for the indefinite future...

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Discount Gentleman's avatar

Anyone remember when Trump fired all the JAGs in the US military? Just thought about that today for no reason.

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Lori's avatar

I am convinced this is pretext to start arresting any kind of protestors or any kind of push back against next steps.

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RealNoDeuces's avatar

It's not great, but if anti-Christian laws mean zionists go to jail, i guess it is ok.

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JennyStokes's avatar

Come on Trump......keep going with your "Executive Orders."

I have said this time and time again BUT Americans don't seem to think they will be prosecuted!

IF you have half a brain (you people) get your guns out and start a Revolution.

NOBODY is safe in the US and if you think you are............GOOD LUCK.

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Sterling Dunham's avatar

One of the scariest implications of this to me is how the security apparatus will enforce this EO after Supreme Court decisions like Colorado v Seymour from 2023. They're going to use google searches like "unionizing" or "united health insurance price hikes" to justify surveilling people for "anti-capitalist" views. Good thing we have young Democrats like Chuck Schumer and Gerry Connolly* who I'm sure will speak coherently about it.

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Cyn Mich's avatar

Gerry Connolly is Deceased.

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Sterling Dunham's avatar

Yes he earned his asterisk!

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