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Paul Stone's avatar

He’s letting everyone know that if someone commits violence on his behalf, he will protect them from prosecution.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

Now he has armed killers who will wipe out his enemies, real or imaginary, personal or political.

They will commit horrific murders (starting with Bolton and Pompeo), and seconds after they are arrested, he will pardon the killers.

We live in a nation of one man, not many laws.

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Shoshana's avatar

The pardons created Trump's Brown Shirts. Totally loyal and armed and ready. Elon Musk, raised by Nazi loving grandparents, giving the Nazi salute 2x at Sundays rally and for the last few weeks disrupting German elections by promoting their right wing Nazi party. Stephen Miller also a full blown Nazi. Both work closely with Trump. So now, when local police or the military refuse trump's directives to turn on their own people based on their oath, trump can call on his private militia and send them in.This is exactly his plan. He has invited them to the White House and people are outraged, but he's inviting them to the White House so he can give them the plan, the codes or the words he'll use to call them in, possibly burner phones and put them on standby alert. I fully suspect that the meeting with them will be private. Possibly trump musk and miller only- that way, there will be no traces, no phone calls, no emails, no text messages. Musk's rally salute - hail victory (Sig Heil) was pretty clear!!

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cats1912's avatar

From the decoration of independence

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed

by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the

pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of

Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to

abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and

organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to eect their Safety and

Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be

changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that

mankind are more disposed to suer, while evils are suerable, than to right themselves by

abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and

usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under

absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw o such Government, and to

provide new Guards for their future security.--Such has been the patient suerance of these

Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of

Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and

usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these

States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world

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Soso's avatar

Its such a relief to know we have decent and reasonable gun control laws in Canada. Your assessment of what is going on in the US should alarm everyone. THIS IS NOT NORMAL. I hope police and law enforcement agencies hold their ground despite the treason of the POTUS. This is reckless and insane. Trump has always been unfit to be president, but this tops it all!!! Thank you for your valuable insights.

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Canadian Returnee's avatar

Sadly none of this surprises me.

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Melba's avatar

"Building coalition while simultaneously eroding system meant to hold them accountable". Spot on whole article. Chilling. Thanks Olga.

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Crystal Stanton's avatar

He’s building his militia to use when he declares Marshall law and requests illegal acts.

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

They will be his version of the SA Stormtroopers.

Oddly enough, Hitler whacked the original SA men in the 1934 "Night of the Long Knives."

Their boss, Ernst Rohm was both gay and a pedophile. Adolf ignored Rohm's behavior until he had him shot. After that, Der Fuehrer was a committed homophobe.

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Crystal Stanton's avatar

Margaret Atwood discusses this in a recent interview. I wish I could share it here. She said in the Fascist playbook the first thing that happens is a purge of the “believers”, they would be anyone Trump sees as a rival because they believe and follow him but pose a threat

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

Revolutions are always nourished by the blood of their makers.

Stalin whacked everybody who worked for him except those who outlived him. He even gave Leon Trotsky the axe.

Hitler had the Night of the Long Knives a year after taking power. He shot the leadership of the SA Brownshirt bullyboys, including their boss, Ernst Rohm. Also facing firing squads were some of the right-wing politicians who put him into power, and, because of a similar name, a music critic. The critic’s widow got flowers from Der Fuehrer after the fact.

Mao, of course, had the “Cultural Revolution” and the “Great Leap Forward,” which sent a great many of is loyal followers to prison camps and their deaths. Eventually his widow was named a traitor, too.

Dr. Field Marshal Al-Hajj President-for-Life Idi Amin Dada, holder of the British Victoria Cross, and last king of Scotland, put the heads of his supporters in his freezer.

The Bloated Yam will whack anyone he thinks is a menace to him, real or imaginary.

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Chiqui Reyes-Gavilan's avatar

"Mussolini started his time in power by buying support from both the working class and the industrial bosses.

"Mussolini ... introduced a Fascist Grand Council which would decide policy for Italy without consulting the non-fascists in the government first.

"In February 1923, Mussolini and the Fascist Grand Council introduced the Acerbo Law. This law changed election results. Now if one party got just 25% (or more) of the votes cast in an election, they would get 66%of the seats in parliament.

"When it came for Parliament to vote on the Acerbo Law, many politicians agreed to a law that would almost certainly end their political careers if they were not fascists. Why did they do this?

"The gallery in the hall in which the politicians voted was filled with armed fascist thugs who had a good view of anybody who spoke out against the law. The threat was clear and real. If you voted for the law, you would be fine. If you did not, then you were certainly in danger from fascist thugs."

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Kiwiwriter47's avatar

This is bloody terrifying....we have just empowered the insurrectionists and traitors, and they will come to kill us all...

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