"This isn't the Trump America elected? Sorry. What did they expect? They already had four years of his first administration -- including two impeachments, to know what he was about. And Jan 6th, when he had his mob storm and desecrate the Capitol surely must have meant something. Then during the 2024 campaign he boasted often what he planned as retribution. Nope. The problem isn't Trump this time. It's the blind, complacent and stupid Americans who reelected him thinking he had changed." NY Times comment
"Trump’s action in the capital — the first time a president invoked the D.C. Home Rule Act of 1973 to take over the city’s police — is just the latest in a long list of so-called emergencies he has conjured up to claim unilateral authority over the American people....In a nation made supposedly of laws, we have gambled on the discretion of men to keep the use of crisis authority in check. With Trump, we played a bad hand. Rather than treat emergency powers as a dangerous tool to be wielded with care and caution, this president has used them with reckless abandon as a toy — a means through which he can live his fantasies of strength, domination and authoritarian control.
"- Jamelle Bouie, Why Trump Always Wants A Crisis, NY Times
The very first paragraphs of The Wall Street Journal article yesterday: 'Trump Orders Takeover Of D.C. Police' (p. A1) were like a shot over the bow of the nation facing the greatest threat of fascism since the Weimar Republic faced Hitler in 1932-33 elections. And as the Journal's own piece noted:
"Violent crime in the city was down 35% last year from 2023, Justice Department data show, the lowest in more than 30 years."
So there was really no need for this Sturm and Drang bullshit bravado display. But the piece also points out Dotard da Dictator escalated his attacks on the city in recent days, especially since an attack on a twerp named Edward Coristine, aka "Big Balls" - who had worked for Musk's team of anti-government DOGE dogs. Big Balls evidently was attacked by two 15 year olds (a boy and a girl), who left him "beaten and bloodied" in a carjacking attempt. This was all Trump the Traitor needed to declare "a crime emergency" in the district and to implement a military- style takeover. He's also vowed to go after other 'blue' cities if he sees the need to stop any emerging crime emergencies.
But let's get our heads on straight: all of these takeover efforts as well as rhetoric are merely an excuse to further implement his fascist agenda while also distracting from his Epstein files problem - which just won't go away. But the real irony is how this tinhorn tyrant could even remotely yap about violent crime in D.C. when he pardoned over 1,000 violent Jan. 6th insurrectionists barely 6 months ago. See e.g.
Brane Space: Remembering That Day Of Infamy Four Years Ago
At the same time The Washington Post noted;
Pentagon plan would create National Guard ‘reaction force’ for civil unrest - The Washington Post
Documents reviewed by The Post detail a prospective National Guard mission that, if adopted, would require hundreds of troops to be ready round-the-clock.
Hitler juniors, anyone? How about Mussolini the 2nd? And let's be clear we were warned about this fucker getting power again, long before the Nov. 5 election, e.g.
But 77 million morons - believing he'd get them lower inflation, cheaper housing or free IVF procedures for pregnancy - cast votes for the felon and January 6th insurrection instigating traitor. So now we're all having to live in a national (and world) history that never should have happened.
And as Financial Times columnist Edward Luce pointed out in his column ('America is staring into an Abyss’) the day after the attempted July 13, 2024 assassination:
"No honest accounting of America’s fetid climate can ignore the fact that the former president himself is the country’s most influential exponent of political violence. "
This statement is worth emphasizing in the context of his current political stunt, designed as much to posture as to distract. But as Rep. Joe Neguse (D, CO) noted on All In last night, no serious person will take what he's done in D.C. (and previously in LA) as anything more than a hollow effort to try to intimidate. Because no one who pardons felons on his first day in office can be regarded a a serious advocate for justice, law or protection of the vulnerable citizens. The man is a human rat, pure and simple, and we were fully warned about his ambitions for retribution by Gen. John Kelly, Gen. Mark Milley, former Defense Secretary Mar Esper and others. (Esper nixing the notion the swine "could shoot protestors in the legs" in a June, 2020 showdown.)
Yet over 77 million pseudo-American baboons didn't take the message seriously.
This orange fecal fungus, make no mistake, will turn this nation into a shithole if we let him normalize military takeovers as in DC. .It is time to rise up and be counted - either you are for a criminal Trump dictatorship or against it. And if you assert you are against crime and criminals you have no choice other than to be against the most powerful current criminal on Earth: Donald J. Trump.
In the meantime readers will be well-served by getting hld of the (1948) book:
“Constitutional Dictatorship: Crisis Government in the Modern Democracies,”
It will add much needed perspective to the perversions of power we see manifesting now.
See Also:
Excerpt:
The heart of D.C. was in a state of lawlessness. Roving mobs
of wild men smashed windows, threatened murder and attacked the police.
One rioter struck an officer in the face with a baton.
Another threw a chair at police officers and pepper-sprayed them. Others beat
and used a stun gun on an officer, nearly killing him.
On Jan. 6, 2021, a pro-Trump mob committed a month’s worth
of crime in the span of about three hours.
The F.B.I. has estimated that around 2,000 people took part
in criminal acts that day, and more than 600 people were charged with
assaulting, resisting or interfering with the police. (Citywide, Washington
currently averages
about 70 crimes a day.)
But President Trump’s handling of the most lawless day in
recent Washington history stands in sharp contrast to his announcement on
Monday that he needed to use the full force of the federal government to crack
down on “violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals” in the nation’s capital.
After a prominent member of the Department of Government
Efficiency, known by his online pseudonym, “Big Balls,” was
assaulted this month, the president took federal control of Washington’s
police force and mobilized National Guard troops. His team passed out a packet
of mug shots, and Mr. Trump described “roving mobs of wild youth, drugged-out
maniacs and homeless people.”
That was nothing like the message he delivered to the mob of
his supporters on Jan. 6, when he told them, as tear gas filled the hallways of
the Capitol: “We love you. You’re very special.”
“If we want to look at marauding mobs, look at Jan. 6,” said Mary McCord, the director of the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection at Georgetown Law and a former federal prosecutor. “If you want to look at criminal mobs, we had a criminal mob and he called them peaceful protesters."
In one of his first actions upon retaking the presidency, Mr. Trump issued a sweeping grant of clemency to all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack.
And:
He says he’s deploying the military to Washington DC because of a “crime emergency,” but armies don’t do policing: Their job, and their training, is to blow things up and kill people.
They have no training in evidence-chain-of-custody, arrest procedures, civil rights protections, criminal investigation, or any other aspect of policing. Sending a militia to do policing is like inviting the neighborhood butcher to perform your brain surgery.
In America, it’s also illegal. Under Posse Comitatus, the American military is explicitly forbidden from engaging in any police activities against civilian populations. Even though the Trump administration is bragging that the National Guard arrested almost 50 people yesterday in DC, the Posse Comitatus Act consists of just one sentence:
And:
by Thom Hartmann | August 12, 2025 - 5:48am | permalink
There’s no sugarcoating the truth: As fascism‘s grip tightens under Trump and the GOP, America’s government no longer operates as a constitutional republic.
The ostensible oaths to “support and defend the Constitution” are hollow, a ghost script read aloud while the regime marches America toward authoritarian collapse in the mode of Russia and Hungary.
Every federal institution now performs in synchronous mimicry of Dear Orange Leader’s unraveling psyche: false justifications, lop-sided pretenses of accountability, cosplay theater designed more for emotional spectacle than legal legitimacy, accelerating escalation at every turn.
Nothing — literally nothing organized or passed by Republicans in the last 44 years — was built to uplift average Americans. It’s all been engineered for power consolidation, GOP single-party rule, the wealth of the morbidly rich, and narrative control.
And:
by Harvey Wasserman | August 12, 2025 - 4:57am | permalink
LOS ANGELES— Trump is doing his best to force the 2028 Olympics out of Los Angeles. He may succeed. Montreal (1976) and Mexico City (1968) both held previous Games, and may be the likeliest inheritors once Trump destroys Los Angeles as a viable venue.
Trump certainly harbors visions of himself sieg heiling from the supreme podium, as did Adolph Hitler in Berlin, 1936. But there are crucial differences.
Hitler’s hatreds of blacks, Jews and other untermenschen were horrifying. Likewise, Trump’s Reichmarshall, JD Vance, has already issued nasty warnings against visitors coming from “shit hole countries.” Even if they are certified competitors in the upcoming Games, Vance says, they’re here on shaky ground.
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