Originally published at: Trump Reminds Everyone: He Wants US Soldiers in US Streets - TPM – Talking Points Memo
At 4:03 a.m. ET, the President-elect was online. He was thinking about “military assets” and mass deportations. Tom Fitton, the right-wing activist and Judicial Watch leader, had written a post on the incoming President’s proprietary social network, Truth Social, saying citing “reports” that the new administration was “prepared to declare a national emergency and will…
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And some idiot in this forum told me that Trump cannot be a fascist, because fascism is a movement not an individual ideology which is inexistent in the US.
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He wants the U.S. out of only foreign wars.
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He wants the US out of wars…until he wants it in.
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Soldiers in the street: Trial balloon of sorts–or a veiled threat? I don’t think Trump thinks of much by himself. I think he’s a useful idiot for those looking to cede us into an autocracy modeled on, say, Hungary – or worse, Russia. Or call it an oligarchy. Whatever the term we use, the state becomes central and serves the few at the top. The rest of us are at the whims of that state. That’s fascism.
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Can we stop gasping and sputtering about what an affront to tradition this would be - it is exactly what he has made clear he wants to do - he wants to obliterate “tradition” - he hates the idea of equitable treatment under the law… he absolutely wants ABSOLUTE POWER - he wants to be a fucking dictator - and rule like a KING - it is like a psychopathic child’s fantasy …
and yet we never cease to be hysterically apoplectic about the outrageous audacity of this megalomanic - see him for exactly what he is - he is every bit as craven as Putin, Stalin, Mussolini - - - and disregard his “Patriotism” rubbish - he absolutely HATES the Constitution - he wants “Might Makes Right” and he craves being able to grind his heel on any & every less powerful person - just for the satisfaction of doing it.
- here’s a question -
- how long before he decides that it is imperative to take Canada by force?
Don’t laugh … who would stop him? and just think of how it would inflate his ego … He and He alone virtually doubles the size of the USA
Why not - Trump just sees the whole world as a giant board game !
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trump doing a bunch of deeply unpopular shit sows the seeds of his own demise.
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I’d like to remind people that during the civil rights struggles of the 1950’s and 1960’s there were troops in the streets sent by Eisenhower Johnson and Nixon. Memphis after King’s assassination and to enforce Brown vs. Board of ed – so while horrifying not unheard of. As a child of the 60’s the violence in the streets and on the campus’s then should serve as a reminder that we have been here before. We need Phil Ochs now.
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Let’s not forget that most of us already live where ICE can do its thing unimpeded.
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But using the military to conduct mass deportations — a law enforcement task that takes place in interior — would involve U.S. soldiers deploying across the country, a breach without any recent precedent in American history.
It’s more perverse than any of that – one purpose would simply be to flesh out one party’s propaganda campaign. It creates the appearance of a danger the right’s been advertising rather than addressing any existential emergency in the country.
Where’s the cookie tossing emoji when I need it?
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“Under that law, Trump has broad, virtually unchecked ability to deploy troops domestically. He considered invoking it in response to the 2020 George Floyd protests, purportedly asking at one point why soldiers don’t ‘just shoot’ protestors.”
Gonna make Kent State look like bean bag.
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I’ll consider this a done deal when it happens, but I refuse to go quietly.
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Against his will, I share a lot of this with Dear Hubby. He continues in his thought-process to deny that the President Elect can do any of this.
Last night, after another discussion about Gabbard and her conduit to our enemies (which he pooh-pooh’ed), I reminded him that he also insisted the President Elect had no chance of being elected in November.
He shut down after that.
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And more likely taking some Americans down with him. That’s the part that bothers me. He ain’t goin’ quietly into that dark night. No, sir.
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Don’t worry, he’s not a Nazi. His father said never to use the term. And they never said Hitler - unless it was in reverential tones. Or he hasn’t heard of Hitler, except for the generals. Hmm. Not sure, now that I’m writing this… But most assuredly NOT fascist. 100% not that.
Fascism (/ˈfæʃɪzəm/ FASH-iz-əm) is a far-right, authoritarian, and ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy. Opposed to anarchism, democracy, pluralism, egalitarianism, liberalism, socialism, and Marxism, fascism is at the far right of the traditional left–right spectrum.
Not that. Nope.
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And, someone will split hairs and tell you the bullyboys at your door aren’t bullyboys because they’re wearing uniforms have a warrant were empowered by the government have shiny boots – “Whatever!” (ed.)
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“We have always been at war with East Asia.”
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Difficult to be an authoritarian without a show of force.
Of course, my fellow citizens propensity for asking for the beatings to continue until their morale improves suggests we might be surprised by the general response of the wider population.
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Maybe, but isn’t that what the soldiers in the streets are for? Squelching dissent and resistance is largely accomplished through the optics and presence of armed forces in your town, even if they’re cloaked in a “mission” called immigration control.
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The problem is, he’s just crazy enough to do it. I think it will quickly end up in court, but these days, it’s the finest judges Leonard Leo’s money can buy.
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