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BOYCOTT EVERY STATION THAT BROADCASTS TRUMP'S FRAGILE EGO PARADE!

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People are not facing just how close Trump is to taking over. They either do not want to or cannot admit the full depth of his evil. Getting over this reticence is our only hope of overcoming the full measure of his threat.

Trump wants total power. To get total power, he has only one option: To impose Martial Law. This will not only crack the whole country wide open for him to pillage and loot, but it will enable him to cancel elections—which will not go well for him considering the massive unpopularity of him and his administration

To get Martial Law, he needs chaos in the streets. His imposition of Federal troops in L.A. is calculated to incite protests to violence, and he has been accomplishing that goal. He is claiming that the protests are being incited by paid, outside aggitators. “Very bad, bad people.” Has it occurred to no one that Trump regularly acuses others of what he is guity of? If there are outside agitators, he is sending them.

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The chaos in L.A. will need to be exported to other states. conviently, when he federalized the California National Guard, he extended it to all 50 states. He is beginning with the Blue states he hates. My guess is that Minnesota is next. He already did a test run on Sunday by sending in Federal law enforcement, complete with armored vehicles rolling down a main street in a Latino district, supposedly to make some drug cartel or human trafficing arrests. Next it will be ICE raids. The community is already totally agitated.

But he needs more mayhem yet. I am expecting that he will not hesitate to order the Federal troops to live fire on protesters that are throwing rocks or interfering with an ICE raid. That will, I believe, escalate the degree of protests nation-wide.

Once he gets a lot of rioting going, he can send his Proud Boys and Oath Keepers (who are standing by, remember) to clash with the protesters. This is the exact tactic Hitler used to declare Martial Law and take over Germany. There will be brawling in the streets, and Trump will have a clear path to Martial Law.

One would think that all this would arouse such anger on the part of the American people that they would just clog the streets until Trump just gave up and went to live in Saudi Arabia. But Trump has a back up plan to keep them out of the streets. All the data that Musk was able to steel from all the agencies he invaded has been combined into a single data base that has a record of every interaction every citizen has had with the Federal government—meaning everyone. He knows who’s receiving social security, who is depending on student loans, who could have their taxes audited. Threat of loss of livelihood will keep people controlled and off the streets.

Of course, Trump’s authoritarian control does not stop there, but I hope this is enough to make people realize the depth of the psychopathic mind we are dealing with. But I should mention that there is one, and only one, strength that we have in this Pandora's box of evils that can overcome all this, and it isn’t hope. IT IS NON VIOLENCE. NON VIOLENT RESISTANCE WILL KEEP THE PUBLIC’S BLAME ON THE PERPETRATOR AND THEIR SYMPATHY ON THE VICTIMS WHO WILL BE SEEN AS PEOPLE SACRIFICING FOR AN IMPORTANT CAUSE. But will the American people be able to show the self-restraint necessary to maintain non violence in the face of attack? I doubt it. But who knows. Maybe some form of leadership will emerge that brings all the diverse factions together and shepherds us to safety. I’ve already updated my passport.

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