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Into the Storm [1]
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Date: 2025-02-03
Trump lies.
The first tragedy occurred less than two weeks into his second term. On the heels of firing 400 FAA senior officials, the TSA head, and 3,000 air traffic controllers, 67 innocent people died in the worst midair collision in 16 years. Trump knowingly murdered these people because of his greed and incompetence. He will lie about his guilt and complicity.
He lied about fixing inflated food prices. No cuts to Medicare and Social Security he said. Cuts to every social program including Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security are on the table, another lie. He has ordered tariffs on Mexico, Canada, and China (our three largest trading partners). This will send prices soaring. There are executive orders to end constitutional birthright citizenship, kill clean energy, double down on climate changing fossil fuels, end job protections for civil servants, sign Transgender people out of existence, withdraw the U.S. from the Paris Climate Accords and the World Health Organization and much more. Project 2025, which he denied knowing anything about, is coming to every neighborhood in America.
Pete Hegseth, a drunken abusive philanderer, who merits advancement solely because he is a white Christian male Fox News celebrity, now heads the Department of Defense. Others, who choose Trump over the Constitution, run the Justice Department, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security. Elected Democrats helped confirm these clearly unqualified appointees.
Registered Democrats across this nation will watch as an unqualified psychopath bent on revenge is confirmed as Director of the FBI, a Russian asset/agent as the head of National Intelligence, and a brain worm addled anti-vax, conspiracist will lead the health department... with votes from apathetic Democrat Senators. Members of the 1932 Reichstag snickered and joked about Hitler’s unqualified nominees.
Politically we are careening headlong into tornado alley.
Incarcerated January 6 offenders, Red Hats (Hitler’s Brown Shirts), were freed with a blanket pardon. It was ‘too hard and time consuming’ to separate out the violent offenders. This same mindset consumes immigration raids. Legal, illegal, and citizen alike are being collected and deported. No one ‘has time’ to check documentation.
What happens when they start rounding up LGBTQ+ people, Muslims, atheists? Then anyone who dares speak out? How long before foreign countries stop accepting plane loads of people not from their nation? Before concentration camps spring up? And extermination facilities appear in those camps? Remember, lurking around out of sight, unelected, is Stephen Miller who has the same amiable sensibilities as Hitler’s henchmen: Josef Mengele and Adolph Eichman.
Elected Democrats will be powerless to stop a national abortion and contraception ban. Red capes and white bonnets will follow as pregnant women are forced out of the workplace. Cancellation of the minimum wage, 40-hour work week, overtime pay, vacations, sick leave, and the right to Unionize will soon follow. Then Americans will find themselves forced to fill the jobs of deported immigrants at any wage under any conditions.
Who will stop this madness? The courts? A drooling syphilitic half-wit can see how ineffective the courts have been at containing pre- and post-inaugural Trump and his agenda.
The truth about what he wants.
I believed him when he told followers at a campaign rally, “You won’t have to vote anymore.” We have had the last free election in America. The appearance of Constitutional adherence will continue only until loyalists are in place deep into each government agency and at the head of each branch of the military. Then the charade will be over. Trump and Vance will be free to shanghai the rest of America into Project 2025 using police, military, and the courts as weapons. They will not stop until America is returned to a mythical version of the 1950s, a walled-off white Christian Theocracy.
WAKE UP! This nightmare you are experiencing is real.
Stop pretending that we still live in a democracy. Our elected representation has no power. The struggle for our rights, our liberties, our very lives has begun. It is playing out in our cities right now. Soon there will be battle lines down the middle of every street in America.
“When in the course of human events...”
I am more afraid than I have ever been, but there is no going back. Our only hope is to move forward and Into the Storm. To quote Benjamin Franklin, “We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.” I will not fire the first shot in the coming conflict, but once fired upon, may the gates of hell open and swallow them whole.
To our freedom, to this democracy, I pledge my life, my fortune, and my sacred honor.
Thomas Crown
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