While everyone was busy discussing Greenland and Canada:
And I gather by now that the corporations that own the Party Duopoly are cool with the US evolving into a Banana Republic.
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People at JFK Jr.'s hearing were shouting. But the most powerful and consequential appointment was not challenged by the gallery. We can have a lousy health secretary and be left standing in 4 years. But if civil unrest grows and then Trumpty Dumpty resorts to the military as a domestic police force, the consequences could be well past 4 years!
[As is often the case with the Left, the priorities are misplaced…]
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What a relief Hegseth can now deploy the military as a domestic police force!
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Spot on analysis!
Some of the [now corporate] Dems are thinking: “This is great! All these protests…It could swing back to us by the midterms!”
No. It is SO over (has been since the Supreme, now Kangaroo, Court said Trump is a King…) We are now forced to enter a period of anarchy -we’ll see where it goes!
They are brazenly breaking laws and sneering at you, saying: “You know what? You guys will be too weak to do anything about us. The Kangaroo Court will ALWAYS back us (albeit it in a false equivalent and cosmetically appealing way…)”
Seeing as how Musk and Stupid Hitler are so into Nazism (and remember: even though he hates to read, Trump had kept a copy of Mein Kampf on his night table…), they might want to take in viewings of Der Untergang, to see how the real life movie will go:
My regrets I couldn’t give them a link to the long-playing Blueray version, which has lots of banal scenes, to demonstrate the banality of Evil -that’s them to a T!
Better figure someone has stocked up their bunker with lots of supplies.
We’ll see what happens now to guys like Musk, private military security, Hegseth, and DHS trying to protect him notwithstanding…
[You will note I said Hegseth, and not the DoD; there may be a number of generals who will not be tools like Hegseth and will band together, stand up, and do the right thing when the time comes -which is now looking like soon…]
[No, this is NOT a test…of Godwin’s Law! It’s the real deal Neil, albeit with the WWII weapons being replaced by the abuse of new tech…]
Cenk: joke time is over; the United States is now having an unconstitutional overthrow. Get on the right side of history.
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Yeah, yeah, sure: maybe this will all get sorted out with some protests and strikes; and then the midterms will change everything!
When has a president in peace time fired senior military officers CONCURRENTLY??
Hope you all enjoyed that cup of coffee…
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To all the Dems (and Indies?) waiting for a counterswing at the midterms: the Repubs KNOW that the cut of Medicaid (now committed to in the proposed budget) will turn a majority of voters in most States against the Repubs (even with a DOGE refund check!) So do you think they’re going to now calmly wait to lose in 2026?
They have already decided to go full dictator; that’s what the Department of Defense moves done in a rush are all about…
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Here comes the 2026 coup!!
“Since it’s now pretty clear very few people will vote for us, let’s start talking this up to justify throwing out many votes in the 2026 midterms…”
If I understood Murphy correctly, during his appearance on The Daily Show, the new CR contains provisions that allow POTUS to, UNIMOTHERFUCKINGLATERALLY, form ‘new military organizations’. He can form these “organizations” without the knowledge, approval and/or funding of congress. What in all dystopian hell does that even mean? We do not seem to understand the moment we are in. He is AB testing us into, actual, fascism. At every opportunity he ignores the courts.
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States step up!
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Looks like we will be getting a do-over on a DoD chief, thanks to his incompetence.
Now we can see the Congressional vote on a nomination go the way the first one SHOULD have gone! Somebody who’s a career military person should be in the batter’s box; any other freak should be summarily dismissed. Merely having done some service does NOT qualify one to run the DoD.
If we get a career military person, promotions of neo-Nazis inside the ranks are not likely to happen, and thus the danger of a military junta will be greatly diminished.
At that point, Bunker Boy will only have one play left for a power grab: massive voter suppression at the State level…
For any thinking I’m being hyperbolic about an insider neo-Nazi threat in the US military, enjoy this documentary…
<joke>I wasn’t expecting THAT!</joke>
Just in time for food prices going up because of his inept tariff policies.
My bet? Hegseth has not had enough time to convert the military to an Einsatzgruppen. Career military people will push back if he orders a Kent State…
Turks Segment:
Who would have thunk it??
You will note I opened this thread on JANUARY 26th!
Take a bow, Dems, for going along with confirming Hegseth. He won by ONE VOTE. All it took was one Dem to stand up!
We have two things putting the brakes on this:
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Hegseth is incompetent; he has not succeeded in converting DoD staff into the Waffen SS.
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The career military WILL stand up to Bunker Boy.
Now that the Dems endorsed Hegseth, all they can do is jump down his throat every time he screws up -and he WILL screw up more.
LA: My guess is Miller and Trump did sudden escalatory ICE actions in LA to provoke a riot and then use it as an excuse to do a junta. Please don’t take the bait, LA migrants and Trump protesters; keep it to cameras and Ghandi. If somebody arrests you, comply; it’s what Ghandi would do (even if there is a clear risk of deportation; can’t risk that loss? -then lie low…) CELEBRITIES, SHOW UP AND CALL FOR NO VIOLENCE! Time to take a stand in your life and be counted.
The Trump Thugs will not know how to handle mass non-violent demonstrations with lots of cameras rolling and celebrities showing up.
Team Trump cherry-picked LA for the ICE escalation (Watts, LA Riots, etc.) They are seeking to counter all the MAGA (and Indie…) disaffection about the tariff policy failing (we are NOW seeing food prices starting to go up because of them!), Epstein lies, more Billionaire Boys Club tax cuts, etc. “See?! We will save you from Antifa!!”
Here: chill out and watch the movie!
(Migrants: you can activate subtitles for the language of your choice…)
Share the movie at this time of extreme crisis. It’s not time for an extremely risky French Revolution (yet?); given that many of the courts have done their job, it’s time for a Ghandi one.
“If violence continues, active-duty Marines at Camp Pendleton will also be mobilized — they are on high alert,” Hegseth said.
Newscaster: “What we’re seeing here is…”
Me: a fucking attempted junta.
From the people who brought you J6!
NY Post screaming headline: LA WAR!
Just helping out Bunker Boy any way they can, to later justify martial law!
I’m sure Bessent has told Trump this is bad for the economy (though of course he would never cop to that…) You think foreign investors turning on their TVs will be saying: “Oh yeah, I want to invest THERE!” Of course Miller and Trump would say: “We’re preserving Law and Order by fighting Antifa! We’re helping the economy…”
And even after market feedback is in and proves them dead wrong, they won’t care that Americans are getting hurt. Trump is a sick puppy who gets off on seeing others suffer who are not in his Billionaires Boys Club. He has a LaZBoy all set up in his bunker, as Thiel and the Inauguration Tech Bros have in theirs…
I myself am not a Newsom fan, with his recent cosplaying to come off as a MAGA bro, but it is incontrovertible that he is dead to rights in this interview…
Good legal exposition on what is in play…
It’s official! Marines deployed 2 hours ago.
That didn’t take too long! I opened this thread on January 26th. Maybe it’s not a full junta yet, but the military being used as a domestic police force is a solid step to a junta.
Just looked up the senate record; all Dems did not vote for Hegseth. Hooray: they did their job that time.
Next stop: declaration of martial law. I would say we’re in a junta at that point, and it will then be near impossible to salvage this economy.
Markets flat; my take: they are in serious denial.
I think it will be time for national strikes at that point, with rolling boycotts. With few foreign investors wanting to invest in a country that is under martial law, I think workers would have little to lose at that point. It would be more of an attempt to apply pressure to Repubs to kick him out ASAP (should they awake from their fever dream that at this point they can still ““win””…)
I could be wrong; but my suspicion is that the Budget will not pass and get a rewrite, with the eventual cooperation of the House.
Sean O’Brien of the Teamsters should start mulling over if he will have to sign onto national strikes. But first: let’s see if or when Bunker Boy declares martial law…
Turks segment:
Question: if/when federal ICE agents got stuff thrown at them, was a conference call made with:
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ICE;
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the Governor;
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the State Guard;
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Homeland Security; and
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the Los Angeles Police Department
asking what steps could be taken to protect ICE officers in the execution of their lawful duties? (even though you might not like the law!)
If the answer was unsatisfactory, the administration could then have still opted to deploy the Guard thanks to the rollback of Posse Comitatus during the Obama admin (see video above; link…)
But was that done? No; Bunker Boy needed a massive distraction from all his failures.
He is now signalling he is more than willing to burn down the economy and harm most Americans. If there is a call for martial law, it’s time for multiple national strikes -workers will be screwed anyway at that point, until they crowbar him out of office…