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Richard France, Ph.D.'s avatar

WELCOME TO THE FOURTH REICH, AMERICA !!!

Dr. Richard France

Public Servant's avatar

I live in DC with my partner, who was fired by the fascists from her DEI civil service career. We will resist. The occupation of DC is an illegal and immoral threat to our democracy: https://democracydefender2025.substack.com/p/washington-dc-trump-fascism

Jerilyn Famighetti's avatar

Harry (if I may presume), would you please write something on what the law says about when martial law may be declared. I am very much afraid that should the gerrymandered election in 2026 not secure Congress for Trump, he will seek to overturn it, as you have suggested, by claiming that there was massive fraud and that he will then simply invoke martial law and declare the election null and void.

And/or that he will use such a declaration to remain in power without election in 2029.

So: can he do this? And if he does, is there any realistic hope of stopping him?

Thank you for your (at least surface) calm in the face of the various horrors out there. All of us are simply terrified.

A faithful reader

David A Pitock's avatar

Valid questions I wonder as well.

Wayne RN's avatar

So the White House press secretary said they want to get pedophiles off the streets. That’s an excellent idea. Let’s start with the one that currently occupies the Oval Office.

Rosanne F Klarer's avatar

My hope is that the president will be held accountable before our Democratic republic is gone.

Claire's avatar

When will the news media accurately report on the obvious fact that this person is rapidly sinking into full blown dementia?? Listen to his speeches. He’s completely incoherent. He said three times he was meeting Putin on Friday in RUSSIA!

Protect the Vote's avatar

Cheeto Is Becoming the 21st Century Neville Chamberlain

Neville Chamberlain the right wing prime minister of England infamously made an appeasement deal with Hitler in September 1938 ceding the Sudentenland of Czechslovakia to Germany hoping that it would stop the madman dictator from invading other countries But one year later in September 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and was the beginning of WWII

Now Cheeto hoping for a Nobel Peace Prize is trying to negotiate with another Hitler, this time in the form of Putin in Alaska this Friday offering land swaps, maybe some kind of a mineral deal, all at a time when the fatigued war torn country they are talking about has no seat at the table The difference is that Cheeto, the man who wants to Neville, is so much more flawed than his predecessor Cheeto will not only bankrupt the country but with his “Putin mistake” give Russia permission to begin an eventual European invasion, testing article 5 of the NATO agreement

History doesn’t repeat itself but it certainly rhymes

Robyn Chauvin's avatar

He is not Chamberlain, he’s a wannabe Hitler trying to make a deal with a wannabe Stalin

Angela Gentry's avatar

Well we did the same with protests of the Vietnam War against Kent State students that were killed. We’ve been here before and those were white students. Which immediately ended that war in months. But I worry now the ones getting disproportionately killed will be black people. I do not want a repeat of what we witnessed during his last reign. Which is also why you don’t see many of us in the streets now. We will not be on your frontline because most don’t care about our men, women and boys getting shot or killed and arrested. This seems strategic since the cities he’s discussed this week are where we are. This is their plan and we will not be the “rioting robbing thugs” again when we know how the crowds were antagonized. We are telling our people to stand down. We’ve been killed enough. We said don’t vote for him they did anyway. They’re changing laws we’ve fought hundreds of years for and no one says anything about how it is affecting us personally. Jobs we fought so hard for taken from us on a whim. Colonels, Generals dismissed. Federal workers etc. I haven’t even got into the immigrants who voted against themselves thinking he didn’t mean them if they had a green card, if they were doing everything legally when we told them he did mean them. I’m a super sad rn.

😒😞

JBVT's avatar

Sad to see nazi’s infesting our capitol…

WTH Is Going On?! Chris Berrie's avatar

Remember this in 2020? This is not Trump‘s first foray into illegal martial law. My nephew had friends who were kidnapped while walking down the street by military FBI in an unmarked van. They were handcuffed, hooded, had their cell phones taken and were driven around for over an hour, not knowing where they were or where they were being taken. They were later released miles from home and their cell phones were returned. Pure, unadulterated, unconstitutional bullshit.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53453077

Swbv's avatar

Harry, Harry, Harry, You're so old school. You probably even think that the AG, the Head of the FBI and the Secretary of Defense work to support and are faithful to our Constitution. You must have noticed that the Roberts' Court is working hand in hand with Chuck Grassley to ensure loyalties to the Chief Executive are what counts. After all - - that's what Project 2025 dictates That's the manifesto that Trump said he knew nothing about. I almost believe him - I'm certain he didn't read it. It's whatever FOX says t is on the news last night.

David A Pitock's avatar

My favorite protest sign read : its all fun and games till the peasants wheel out the guillotine. Donnys ripe for a fitting.

David A Pitock's avatar

The best way to deal with a dictator is to cut them off completely.

Jeff Lazar's avatar

Harry, you keep mentioning Trump this and Trump that. I, for one, do not believe that Demented Donnie Two-Dolls has or has ever had the intelligence to pull this off. Whom do you think is really running things here? And the other part of my response is two words: French Revolution

David A Pitock's avatar

Stephen Miller and Haritage foundation and billionaire tech geeks is my guess 🤔.

Patricia K's avatar

Or- THE SUMMER OF DIVERSION! Trump is a PEDOPHILE!

Bob Lewis's avatar

Good article, important topic.

Thanks Harry.