"Donald Trump isn't a 'king' and we won't let him use New Yorkers as roadkill on his revenge tour. We'll see him in court."- NY Governor Kathy Hochul, after Trump proclaimed himself a "king" of New York
The path to Adolf Hitler's dictatorship and trashing of Germany as well as demolition of Europe and World War II, occurred in multiple steps - any one of which - if blocked, could have spared the world the decades of trauma wrought by the Nazis, and Third Reich. As Illinois governor J.B. Pritzker noted, the fall of the Weimar Republic basically took place in one month, three weeks and eight days. The fall of the American democratic experiment is on pace to occur even more rapidly unless Americans wake up and resist.
Basically, there have been seven barriers over two years to stopping our current nightmare of Trump unleashed. Any one of those - if effective - would have derailed the Traitor's return to unchecked power and a potential dictatorship.
We look at these again;
Barrier One Breached: Following his first impeachment - his quid pro quo telephone call to Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy - the Senate could have convicted the maggot and that would have ended any further presidential runs right there. They didn't and he moved on.
Barrier Two Breached: Following his 2nd impeachment, after fomenting the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol e.g.
the Senate again could have convicted the imp and prevented his return to power. Instead, the votes to do this fell 7 short and he continued his march toward an American autocracy.
Barrier Three Breached: The Colorado Supreme Court's ruling (under the 14th amendment, Section 3) to disqualify Trump from ever running again - was scotched by the Supreme Court.
The ruling, issued on Dec. 19, 2023, said in part:
“We conclude that because President Trump is disqualified from holding the office of President under Section Three (of the 14th Amendment), it would be a wrongful act under the Election Code for the Secretary to list President Trump as a candidate on the presidential primary ballot,” the court’s majority opinion says. “Therefore, the Secretary may not list President Trump’s name on the 2024 presidential primary ballot, nor may she count any write-in votes cast for him.”
This was a blockbuster decision to say the least and could have led to other states disqualifying the traitor from running. Instead, the 6 conservo cowards on the Supreme Court jettisoned the ruling claiming Trump could not be so disqualified given the president is not an official.
Barrier Four Breached: The failure to sentence Trump promptly after his conviction as a felon in the hush money case, e.g.
The prompt sentencing of this thug, in whatever real guise, would have delivered the proverbial 'scarlet letter' and made voters think twice before casting a ballot for him. This was not done.
Barrier Five Breached: Biden's disastrous debate performance against Trump in June 2024, e.g.
Biden One-Upped By Trump's "Flood The Zone With Lies" Strategy - But Don't Look For A 2nd Debate
Delivered renewed 'life' to a campaign by making the orange traitor appear more energetic and mentally able than Biden. The latter's subsequent backing out did not leave enough time for Kamala Harris to do what she needed to do to win.
Barrier Six Breached: The Supreme Court's granting Trump total immunity for all "official acts" while in office, e.g.
The ruling in July 2024 - effectively a months delay paralyzing other courts - indicated how far the court’s renegades ruthlessly abandoned the rule of law and the Constitution. Indeed, this single ruling of ‘presumptive immunity for official acts’ is similar in many ways to the changes made to the Weimar justice system after Hitler ascended to the Chancellorship in 1933. There followed the mutation to the Reich courts and the multifold ways the Nazis perverted state power - just as Trump is on the verge of doing now.
Barrier Seven Breached: The failure of American voters (on Nov. 5th, 2024) to finally put a check on Trump's aspirations to autocracy by doing what the Reep Senate and Supreme Court did not do. This, by voting him out once and for all. This they did not do, i.e.
Brane Space: How I Lost All Respect For My Country In The Space Of Four Hours
instead opting to put the cost of their eggs and other groceries over protecting democracy - a choice which they will rue for the rest of their days - given Trump will never make good on his "vow" to bring inflation down.
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by C.J. Polychroniou | February 22, 2025 - 6:34am | permalink
During his first month in office, President Donald Trump has signed a plethora of executive orders that have proclaimed a dramatic expansion of the powers of the executive branch. In his latest, issued on February 18 and entitled Ensuring Accountability for all Agencies, Trump aims to bring all independent federal regulatory agencies under the direct control of the chief executive. Unsurprisingly, the 47th president of the United States has already referred to himself as the “king” and may even envision himself as emperor, making the Napoleonic statement “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law” after several judges blocked a slew of his executive actions.
David M. Driesen, university professor at Syracuse University College of Law, says that Trump’s executive order to curb the authority of independent agencies is illegal and that the president is using unitary executive theory to establish a dictatorship. In the interview that follows, Driesen addresses Trump’s recent actions as well as the debate over unitary executive theory — a legal theory which says that the U.S. president can rule over the executive branch with absolute power. In two recent cases the far right Supreme Court has signaled increasing openness to this theory, once considered a fringe interpretation of the Constitution. Legal scholars and advocates, including Driesen, are now sounding the alarm that Trump’s seizure of dictatorial executive power may succeed with the court’s approval.
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by Robert Reich | February 25, 2025 - 6:25am | permalink
— from Robert Reich's Substack
Friends,
What is occurring now in the United States has very little to do with making the government more “efficient,” or rooting out “incompetence,” or “depoliticizing” parts of government that should be nonpartisan.
Nor is it motivated chiefly by Trump’s desire get rid of “D.E.I.” and “woke,” or “weaponize” law enforcement, or establish white Christian nationalism, or wreak vengeance on his enemies.
The real story is this.
In every part of the government that involves the use of force — the military, the investigation and prosecution of crimes, the authority to arrest, the capacity to hold individuals in jail — Trump is putting into power people who are more loyal to him than they are to the United States.
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Brane Space: Trump Declares He's Now Beyond All Laws Because Of "Divine Orders" - He's Flat Wrong
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by Henry Giroux | February 21, 2025 - 6:13am | permalink
This is reprinted from the introduction to Henry Giroux’s latest book, The Burden of Conscience.
“We live in a world where the funeral matters more than the dead, the wedding more than love and the physical rather than the intellect. We live in the container culture, which despises the content.”
—Eduardo Galeano
At the heart of this book lies a stark truth: Americans, and people worldwide, are facing a moment of grave danger. This is not just a political crisis but a moral one, demanding that the search for truth be met with an urgent recognition—both individual and collective—that democracy itself is under siege. The United States is embroiled in a historic battle over the soul of democracy, the values that sustain it, and the institutions that create citizens ready to defend it. Civic culture, shared values, and the commitment to the public good are being dismantled by the rise of twenty-first-century authoritarians who camouflage their disdain for democracy by championing unreservedly for “illiberal democracy”—a deceptive code for a new breed of fascism. In an age of shrinking political horizons, the unpalatable and unthinkable have not only been normalized but airbrushed into acceptability.
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by Thom Hartmann | February 22, 2025 - 6:27am | permalink
Former Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger asks a question no current Republican politician appears willing to say out loud for fear that Musk, Trump, or other rightwing billionaires will use the corrupt Citizens United decision to blow them out of the water politically with a multimillion-dollar primary challenge:
“[A]s I watch the behavior of our political leaders, the comments of an ever-increasingly unhinged Trump, and the growing indifference of many Americans toward our role in the world, I have to ask a painful question: Are we now the bad guys?”
It’s a helluva question.
Our nation’s Founders overthrew a king in 1776, and paid a huge price for it. Altogether, seventeen of the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence were wiped out by the war they declared.
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