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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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Jimmy Roe's avatar

Yeah, and then everyone shit on both her and Kamala Harris and decided they were too good to vote for Democrats so here we are. The Democrats suck ass, but the Republicans have always been worse.

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Discount Gentleman's avatar

Attributing a Benjamin Franklin quote to Hillary Clinton so perfectly encapsulates American liberalism that I might hang this on my wall.

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Jimmy Roe's avatar

Actually, I was thinking of Nancy Pelosi on Colbert. And she was pretty explicit that she was quoting Franklin, but you know, keep shitting on women while you’re building the death star. Maybe we can get the birth rate to 0?

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Discount Gentleman's avatar

No one shat on women, I shat on you for pretending Benjamin Franklin was endorsing 2024 centrism. The fact that you have to hide behind women rather than fight your own battles is tragic, but also comical.

But either way, bland centrism got us here, and bland centrism won't get us out of this.

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Jimmy Roe's avatar

You open the door for fascism with your idiotic ideology. Good job moron. And yes, you ARE doing that by shitting on women.

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Jimmy Roe's avatar

I’ve been hearing this argument since 2016. It’s a lie, it’s for stupid people, and by the time you figure that out literally everything will be gone. It will all have been burned down. You won’t even be able to discuss these issues openly for fear of political repression. What a great climate to organize in. Genius plan. 🙄

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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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Eric Schlecht's avatar

I mean, let the violent fascists own the violence. Let the peaceful protestors own peace, and spread it!

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JennyStokes's avatar

You are living in 'cloud cuckoo land!'

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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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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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Marian Gillis's avatar

Bonechilling.

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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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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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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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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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Clif Brown's avatar

A person came up to me as I was demonstrating on the street, a woman smiling sweetly the entire time she talked to me. She wanted to know if I am demonstrating on my own or if there is a group I work with or could recommend. It was likely a harmless interview, but...

In the year I have been demonstrating against Zionism it has become obvious that I cannot be removed by the police. No longer do Zionists call them about me. But NSPM-7 appears to be going after organizations. If it could be established that I am working with some organization that Trump doesn't like, then the chances of shutting me down would increase. Food for thought for anyone considering doing what I am doing. Take action with what I write here in mind.

Our president has gone off the rails. If you haven't already, check out any candidates running for the seats in Congress for your district or state, determine if they are anti-Trump/anti-Zionist and, if so, start helping their campaigns. They will be faced with campaign advertising that will be the best that money can buy. Your financial contributions will be swamped by corporate and billionaire contributions for Republicans. By all means do not support anyone who is running as a Democrat for that reason alone; there are plenty of DP candidates that are not for we the people.

Trump appears to be building up an entirely phony claim that we are in a national emergency that will allow him to declare martial law to prevent the midterm elections next year. Just like his fellow war criminal Netanyahu, he is capable of anything to keep himself in power, using his authority as chief executive as a personal tool. As the tide has turned against him, he will become more frantic to stop we the people from removing him from the White House and he has proven himself to act regardless of law.

Trump is an internal menace to the United States greater than any the country has faced before and he is aided by the astronomical wealth of supporters of a foreign country, Isreal. All Americans should be alarmed that over a year remains before his control of Congress can be ended, and a terrible 3 years before he can be shown the White House door. Get active, NOW.

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lizzm's avatar

damn i got a lot of indica

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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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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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Tom's avatar
Sep 28Edited

I can't imagine any of this shit standing up in court, but then again there are several things happening right now that I previously couldn't imagine. Shame on me.

That said, this probably isn't designed to result in any actual prosecutions or criminal convictions, but rather the intent is persecutions and a chilling effect. As with all Trump orders (and "Truth Social" post w/ ALL CAPS and every other adjective treated as a proper noun) a secondary purpose is "flooding the zone (with bullshit)" to keep people on their heels.

Oh, and what happened to those Epstein files, again?

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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Michael McSharry's avatar

We need to remember that Stephan Miller

is an ultra Zionist extremist and that his boss thinks that the sun shines out of his ass.

His angle on this is to stop any criticism of the Netanyahu project in Gaza so you can imagine the AIPAC threats being made to all the legislators who have been bribed/ blackmailed into supporting Israel no mater what. So in effect the US is being driven towards civil war by the Israeli Zionist government and nobody cares.

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Tom's avatar
Sep 28Edited

As much as I cannot stand the NYT, they published a podcaster interview that is looking quite prescient at the moment, in which they call the current Trumpian climate "the Blue Scare" (obvious allusion to the Red Scare(s)).

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-corey-robin.html

And speaking to the bombings and other violent acts of those eras, who puts it past Trump, Miller and Gorka to engage in a little bit of Gladio or Years of Lead false-flagging, which of course will be blamed on "the left"?

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