Stalin
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Since the US is already a well-disguised military dictatorship, frumps grand plan might be easier than anyone thinks...
Trump has seized near-dictatorial powers in several policy areas and dared the courts to do something about it. Upon taking office on January 20, 2025, Trump declared a national emergency as a flimsy pretext for using the military for mass deportations—and for occupying cities that don’t like him. He has repeatedly floated invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to “get around” court rulings. And he has used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to unilaterally impose, withdraw, and re-impose a bewildering variety of punitive tariffs on a long list of nations. Those tariffs, imposed by executive order, are a blatant violation of the Constitution, which clearly states that the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” belongs exclusively to Congress. When the Supreme Court ruled on February 20 that Trump’s use of the IEEPA is clearly unconstitutional, Trump called the ruling “a disgrace” and claimed the right to ignore the court and the Constitution.
Trump’s war on the Constitution has specifically targeted the Bill of Rights, the firewall that protects Americans from the worst abuses of their ever-worsening presidential dictatorship. Many foreign students in the US, including Tufts graduate Rumeysa Ozturk, have been arrested and “disappeared” because they expressed support for Palestinians—a clear violation of the First Amendment. Likewise, citizen journalists and anti-ICE protesters have had their First Amendment rights trampled by Trump’s ICE brownshirts. These masked, untrained thugs who carry no badges or identification numbers routinely violate the Fourth Amendment by arresting and imprisoning people who had no warrant for their arrest. Trump’s secret police have also revoked the Second Amendment: They claim that Alex Pretti, a protester brutally assaulted and murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis, deserved to be executed because he was carrying a gun in accordance with what used to be his Second Amendment rights. Trump himself echoed those grotesquely unconstitutional sentiments, saying “you can’t have guns” at protests.
Trump’s bizarre, clownish assertions of unilateral powers remind some observers of Alfred Jarry’s satirical character Père Ubu, and others of the Roman emperor Caligula. Apparently the orange buffoon wasn’t joking when he threatened to invade and annex Greenland, Canada and Panama. He unilaterally and without warning bulldozed the historic East Wing of the White House to build a structure that humorists have dubbed the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom. Trump has endlessly whined about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, strong-armed the recipient into giving her ill-gotten Prize to him, and then snarled at the president of Norway that since he wasn’t awarded the Prize he would forget about peace and become an avid warmonger. He created a “Board of Peace” to replace the United Nations and crowned himself chair-for-life—the equivalent, in his eyes, of dictator-of-the-world. Trump kidnaps presidents, passes gas and falls asleep at public functions, and lashes out madly when anyone mentions the Jeffrey Epstein files. In short, we are seeing a pathological megalomaniacal narcissist and probable child-rapist descend into paranoid senility while the world humors him in his delusions of grandeur.
comrade stalin
moscow
Trump has seized near-dictatorial powers in several policy areas and dared the courts to do something about it. Upon taking office on January 20, 2025, Trump declared a national emergency as a flimsy pretext for using the military for mass deportations—and for occupying cities that don’t like him. He has repeatedly floated invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to “get around” court rulings. And he has used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to unilaterally impose, withdraw, and re-impose a bewildering variety of punitive tariffs on a long list of nations. Those tariffs, imposed by executive order, are a blatant violation of the Constitution, which clearly states that the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” belongs exclusively to Congress. When the Supreme Court ruled on February 20 that Trump’s use of the IEEPA is clearly unconstitutional, Trump called the ruling “a disgrace” and claimed the right to ignore the court and the Constitution.
Trump’s war on the Constitution has specifically targeted the Bill of Rights, the firewall that protects Americans from the worst abuses of their ever-worsening presidential dictatorship. Many foreign students in the US, including Tufts graduate Rumeysa Ozturk, have been arrested and “disappeared” because they expressed support for Palestinians—a clear violation of the First Amendment. Likewise, citizen journalists and anti-ICE protesters have had their First Amendment rights trampled by Trump’s ICE brownshirts. These masked, untrained thugs who carry no badges or identification numbers routinely violate the Fourth Amendment by arresting and imprisoning people who had no warrant for their arrest. Trump’s secret police have also revoked the Second Amendment: They claim that Alex Pretti, a protester brutally assaulted and murdered by ICE agents in Minneapolis, deserved to be executed because he was carrying a gun in accordance with what used to be his Second Amendment rights. Trump himself echoed those grotesquely unconstitutional sentiments, saying “you can’t have guns” at protests.
Trump’s bizarre, clownish assertions of unilateral powers remind some observers of Alfred Jarry’s satirical character Père Ubu, and others of the Roman emperor Caligula. Apparently the orange buffoon wasn’t joking when he threatened to invade and annex Greenland, Canada and Panama. He unilaterally and without warning bulldozed the historic East Wing of the White House to build a structure that humorists have dubbed the Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Ballroom. Trump has endlessly whined about not getting the Nobel Peace Prize, strong-armed the recipient into giving her ill-gotten Prize to him, and then snarled at the president of Norway that since he wasn’t awarded the Prize he would forget about peace and become an avid warmonger. He created a “Board of Peace” to replace the United Nations and crowned himself chair-for-life—the equivalent, in his eyes, of dictator-of-the-world. Trump kidnaps presidents, passes gas and falls asleep at public functions, and lashes out madly when anyone mentions the Jeffrey Epstein files. In short, we are seeing a pathological megalomaniacal narcissist and probable child-rapist descend into paranoid senility while the world humors him in his delusions of grandeur.
comrade stalin
moscow
