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Destroying Democracy: Trump Admin using Stochastic Terrorism against Judges [1]
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Date: 2025-05-18
Trump and his people are specifically targeting Judges who oppose him for intimidation and harm.
In an article published on May 17, The Guardian's Peter Stone describes the threats of violence and intimidation tactics that federal judges are facing when they challenge Trump's executive orders. "The Trump Administration's escalating fight with the courts has come as more than 200 lawsuits have challenged executive orders and policies on multiple issues, including immigrant deportations, penalizing law firms with links to political foes, agency spending and workforce cuts, and other matters," Stone explains. "The wave of litigation has resulted in more than 100 executive orders by Trump and other initiatives being halted temporarily or paused by court rulings from judges appointed by both Democrats and Republicans, including some by Trump. Increasingly, ex-judges and legal experts warn the verbal attacks by Trump, his attorney general, Pam Bondi, and MAGA allies, are creating a hostile climate that endangers the safety of judges and their families." John Jones, president of Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, believes that the demonization of federal judges by MAGA Republicans is making them unsafe. Jones told The Guardian, "The constant mischaracterization by Trump and his allies of judicial rulings as political in nature, together with their false, vituperative and ad hominem attacks on individual judges who make them, skews the public’s perception of the work of the federal judiciary. These attacks foment a climate where the safety of judges and their families is at high risk." Judges who challenge Trump are not only facing threats of violence — they are facing criminal prosecutions. In Milwaukee on May 13, Judge Hannah C. Dugan was arrested for allegedly helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest. Nancy Gertner, a law professor at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, told The Guardian, "The circumstances of the arrest of the Milwaukee judge — her arrest, the perp walk, the picture of her handcuffs, the comments of the FBI director and the attorney general — was so far out of line with accepted practice and rules. It clearly was intended to intimidate other judges; there was no justification for it whatsoever."
The overall strategy of the Trump regime is to paint anyone who disagrees with them, particularly about the law and constitution, as obsessed with “Trump Derangement Syndrome” and being “Radical Marxists” is a long-term strategy to delegitimize and dehumanize their critics. They aren’t opposing him for real reasons, they’re just “Evil” and “mentally demented.”
This means that you can’t reason with them, you can only threaten, intimidate and kill them.
MTG has said these Judges have committed “Treason” when the punishment for Treason — is death.
And at the same time, they accuse James Comey of a “death threat” for a picture of “86 47” seashells. It’s pure projection.
This type of thing is particularly ironic when we have someone bombing a fertility clinic.
The car bombing outside a California fertility clinic that killed one person and injured four others appears to have been driven by anti-natalist ideology, according to two senior law enforcement officials briefed on the incident. Anti-natalism refers to the belief that no one should have children. Investigators are focusing on social media posts made by the suspect, including a 30-minute audio recording, which they say support anti-natalist views. While the posts and the recording are still being verified, officials believe they reflect the ideology behind the bombing. The same person may also be linked to an online forum post from earlier this month in which the individual contemplated suicide using an explosive device, the sources said. They are also investigating a YouTube account, under the same moniker, that features videos of experiments with homemade explosives.
Are there more people like this who are likely to let their particular ideology lead to violence?
Hell, yes.
Perhaps you shouldn’t egg that type of person on. And you shouldn’t suggest that we send “Terrorist” after Judges.
x Yes.
We should send these “Maryland fathers” where they will feel safe and protected:
Wealthy white liberal enclaves, like Chevy Chase and Martha’s Vineyard.
Instead of working-class minority neighborhoods, like Aurora.
Then let’s see how much “due process” you liberals want.
https://t.co/nnVVkeeWfE — 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) May 17, 2025 Former GOP staffer Mike Davis has made headlines for his social media comments in the past, and was rumored to be on Trump's list for attorney general. Recently, he posted a plan to get back at the Supreme Court justices for not ruling in line with MAGA. "The Supreme Court still has an illegal injunction on the President of the United States, preventing him from commanding military operations to expel these foreign terrorists," Davis wrote. "The President should house these terrorists near the Chevy Chase Country Club, with daytime release." Chevy Chase Club is "an elite country club that counts Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. among its members," the Washington Post reports. Trump "re-Truthed" that remark on Saturday. This led former Obama speechwriter Jon Favreau to say, "The President re-posts a suggestion from an adviser that he release 'terrorists' near the homes of Supreme Court justices who’ve merely ruled that the government can’t send people to a foreign gulag without due process." Davis weighed in on Favreau's statement, writing, "Yes." "We should send these 'Maryland fathers' where they will feel safe and protected: Wealthy white liberal enclaves, like Chevy Chase and Martha’s Vineyard," he added. "Instead of working-class minority neighborhoods, like Aurora. Then let’s see how much 'due process' you liberals want."
So we’re going to send the Secret Service to James Comey’s house about a bunch of seashells, while Trump people are saying we should send terrorists after judges?
Does anyone remember when Ted Nugent threatened to kill Hillary Clinton? Do they remember when he said Barack Obama and Eric Holder should “have their heads cut off?”
Speaking during an interview at the National Rifle Association’s convention over the weekend, Nugent said that conservatives need to recruit hundreds, if not thousands, of voters for presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney if they want any chance of beating President Obama — who is leading a government that Nugent says is “wiping his ass with the constitution.” In addition to recruiting those voters, Nugent said that winning required them to “ride into that battlefield and chop their heads off in November.”
And that violent rhetoric was over gun rights, which Obama expanded by overturning a rule banning weapons in national parks.
Talk about “deranged.”
Remember that Sarah Palin just again lost her lawsuit against the New York Times after she fostered violence against several democratic House offices by targeting them on a map.
A jury on Tuesday shot down Sarah Palin’s second bid against The New York Times, almost eight years after the former Alaska governor first filed her complaint. [...] Representatives for Palin did not immediately respond to a request for comment. However, the former governor took to X shortly after the ruling to lament her loss in court. “But please keep fighting for integrity in media,” she wrote. “I’ll keep asking the press to quit making things up.” The retrial’s outcome comes as little surprise, however, given both Rakoff and a federal jury ruled against Palin the first time around. Still, the media landscape has changed over the past few years as trust in media has declined, setting up a situation that was potentially less favorable to the Times. Palin first filed her lawsuit against the Times and former editor James Bennet in June 2017 after the paper ran an editorial alleging Palin had engaged in “political incitement” ahead of the 2011 shooting of Gabby Giffords. According to Palin’s lawsuit, the editorial incorrectly claimed an advertisement run by the former governor’s political action committee placed “Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs.”
Palin wasn’t responsible for the shooting of Giffords, but her ad was linked to the vandalization of her office. And the person who made that link — Was Gabby Giffords herself just before the shooting.
Since this happened, there was the Christchurch mass murder which was directly inspired by Donald Trump — “savior of the white race” — that killed 51 people. There was the El Paso Walmart massacre that killed 21 people, the Tree of Life massacre which killed 11, the Buffalo Tops Market massacre that killed 10 people, and the Texas Mall massacre that killed 8 people all of which were inspired by the “Great Replacement Theory.”
The same theory that is driving Trump’s mass deportation plan.
And It’s not like attacks on Judges and their families haven’t happened before, they have.
x x YouTube Video Law enforcement officers say a gunman dressed as a delivery man shot Judge Ester Salas’ husband Sunday as he answered the door, and then killed their only child as he tried to help his father. The suspect died of an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
This Judge was targeted because she was a Latina. That’s it, that’s all.
Just imagine how some people will honestly react to Judges blocking Trump from “protecting America by deporting terrorists”?
It can’t possibly be good.
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