Is that a laser dot on your back?
What else is there to say? Trump 2.0 has declared war on anyone non-MAGA (CNN):
A remarkable scene unfolded in the White House State Dining Room on Wednesday as the Trump administration convened a group of independent journalists and online commentators to share stories of violence at the hands of Antifa, an anti-fascist movement with no leadership or organization.
President Donald Trump and top officials vowed to use the full weight of the federal government to bring down Antifa – comparing it to major gangs and drug cartels who they’ve attacked with the US military. They said they’d go after Antifa’s finances and designate it an “international” terrorist organization as they moved to dismantle it.
This is like Bush II’s “global war on terror,” or GWOT. No nation. No central command. TERROR is not an organization. Neither is the non-organization known as ANTIFA, short for anti-fascist. Antifa is Trump 2.0’s imaginary monster under the bed. Imaginary except that if they choose, you are in it.
But just as it was not an impediment for Bush II’s international anti-terror marauders, Antifa being a non-organization is no impediment to the second Trump administration. Trump 2.0 is reprising the Bush approach to brand anyone non-MAGA a potential target for summary execution by Hellfire missile fired from a drone. Trump’s attorney general suggested as much.
Attorney General Pamela Bondi compared the movement to the administration’s effort to target cartels.
“Fighting crime is more than just getting the bad guy off the streets. It’s breaking down the organization brick by brick, just like we did with cartels. We’re going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa, destroy the entire organization, from top to bottom. We’re going to take them apart,” Bondi said.
Mehdi Hasan noticed, “So he is going to drone strike American citizens?”
Sure, just so long as it’s captured on video. Good for ratings.
George Soros owes me so-o-o-o much back pay.
Trump’s use of “insurrectionists” above is no accident, Natasha Lennard argues at The Intercept:
… members of Trump’s Cabinet have repeatedly used the term “insurrection” and “insurrectionists” to describe the protesters standing up to U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Gestapo-style operations. And Stephen Miller, the ghoulish architect of Trump’s deportation machine, described the Oregon judge’s ruling as “legal insurrection.”
Like an incantation, they call the notion of insurrection into being to justify the Insurrection Act’s invocation when no such justification exists in material reality.
“The Trump administration is following a playbook: cause chaos, create fear and confusion, make it seem like peaceful protesters are a mob by firing gas pellets and tear gas canisters at them,” JB Pritzker, the Democratic governor of Illinois, where Trump’s storm troopers already wreaking havoc in Chicago, said on Monday. “Why? To create the pretext for invoking the Insurrection Act so that he can send the military to our city.”
It’s coming. The questions I have now are 1) What can we do to stop it? and 2) What do we do if we can’t?
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