The battlefield is no longer overseas. It’s your city. Your rights. Your voice. And the military is no longer standing guard: it’s standing in the way…
Does anyone really disagree that Dictator Donny is setting the groundwork for a radically controlled 2026 mid-terms that will be conducted under some type of Marshall law that may allow voting but only under very controlled circumstances. Already significant voter suppression efforts are taking place throughout the country, not to mention random gerrymandering efforts to produce more Republican congressional districts, and the Democrats must fight back on every front. The Democrats in the past have shown themselves to be gutless in response to the Republican treachery that has served the Republican Party so well in the past. The odds are probably less than 50% that 2026 will be a free and fair election but possibly the most chaotic and corrupt in American history.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 empowers the president to deploy the military and to federalize the National Guard units of the individual states in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection, and of armed rebellion against the federal government of the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807
Trump operates on pretext -- that there is a national emergeny. The Insurrection Act is an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act's restrictions against using the military for domestic law enforcement.
If I didn't know better, Trump is retaliating for Reconstruction.....
During the period 1966-1967, before and after I served in Viet Nam, I was stationed in South Carolina, when we trained for domestic civil distress. In 1968, in response to the riots that followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Army and the National Guard units were deployed to more than 100 cities, when LBJ ordered mobilization, particularly in Washington, D.C.. Over 21,000 federal soldiers and 34,000 National Guardsmen were called out to restore order.
Also Exercise Jade Helm 15 was a large-scale US military training exercise conducted in 2015 across several states, including Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. While primarily a training exercise focused on unconventional warfare and special operations, it sparked significant controversy and conspiracy theories due to its scale and the involvement of Special Operations Forces
Hard to believe they are so scared of an "invading army" of foreigners carrying their children, not weapons, and whose idea of undermining our country is to contribute to its productivity. I think they just want cops everywhere unbridled by human or civil rights protections. The enemy is us.
They don't care about the who and why. They care because they're not white and they hate them. If it wasn't their skin color, there would be another reason.
Turning the military against the people is a great way to start a Civil War. The military would have to decide whether to obey unconstitutional orders or not. It could easily split into factions over that. We could even see fighting between ICE stormtroopers and military units.
Yes, an invading army of foreigners carrying their children is so threatening that they might come here and contribute to our productivity. Wait. To diminish productivity is what they want to do. I am thankful that I can read these eloquent Substacks like Thom's and comments that don't shy from the truth.
I am a retired Navy Captain with two combat tours and 32 years of service. I was drafted in 1968, and went through Navy basic at Great Lakes. In 1970, I went through OCS at NAS Pensacola run entirely by the Marines. Both of those Navy indoctrination programs hammered home the importance of adhering to a fairness honor code and keeping politics out of the armed services.
During my service (much of it in direct support of the Pentagon leadership and the WH), I never witnessed any openness to civilian efforts to misuse the military as a domestic police force nor violate security measures. Then came Trump.
I was shocked by General Flynn's flagrant lack of adherence to the military honor code and our oaths. Then there was Admiral Ronny Jackson, Trump's toady doctor who told the world that our fat slob President was a picture of health. Then there was the Mar-a-Lago top-secret documents scandal. Today, we have a Secretary of Defence who was separated from the National Guard at the rank of Major for poor security judgment. One of his first actions in charge of the military was to create a national security leak scandal.
It sure seems that the moral fiber and adherence to the military officers' oath to the Constitution is crumbling before our eyes. More recently, our failed reserve major and TV celebrity, SECDEF Hegseth, is relieving generals and admirals of their commands because of things like their gender, not performance failure. AND, nobody in uniform or in Congress has made any fuss about it. Nor has there been much fuss about the LA deployments over non-existent migrant lawlessness. It is hard to have faith that our office corps will demonstrate the integrity to protect our democracy in light of recent events.
It is worse than that Tom. No sooner than the AF Academy opened it's doors in Colorado Spring, than the megachurches rolled in. The military has a Chapel Guide program for trainees. There job is to advise trainees of schedules, act as liason with chaplain and march trainees to chapel or church on Sunday.
The AF Academy has one such program, and their own very expensive and large chapel, but after the first year, they get to go to church off campus, and there they became infected with Dominionism, which is Taliban on steroids, only under the guise of their Jesus.
I am sure that AF graduates of the Academy are infected (for example: Martha McSalley)
and the current Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, a Lt Gen pulled out of obscurity, promoted to 4 stars (and not one Democratic Senator has put a hold on his promotion,not one, in fact why have Democratic Senators not put a hold on all of Trump's appointees...hmmm._
I assume the Dominionist virus has spread to other academies.
Here is what Dominionism is about, other names Christian Reconstruction, Founded by Rj Rushdoony and Ted Cruz father, Rafael (his bith name is Rafael Jr). 7 Mountains Dominionism, New Apostolic Reformation, People of Prayer it is non denominational Christian
The part in your comments Tomonthebeach that made me sit up straight is that no one in uniform or in Congress has made a ‘fuss’ about this dispensing of generals and admirals of their commands by Hegseth.
That is shocking because these are individuals who were indoctrinated as you wer and have the evidence they need to go to the press en masse and expose the injustice / hypocrisy.
I was shocked that for more than two decades the military surveillance has been employed by covert manner against me used for ‘political’ reasons which includes the politics of mysoginistic revenge. I can name the individuals in the military connected to this terrorizing of me in my private life. This is no lie. This is no joke.
250 Years of sacrifice and THIS is what TRump does to The Army
TRump can't recruit fast enough to fill the ranks of ICE. He wanted to use the troops all along. Do you think he's going to use any of that Big Bullshit Bill money to pay them or take care of them? Look how the Dictator In Chief and Hegseth treated those sent to LA.
It's worth mentioning that the services have tech equipment us old vets could have only dreamed of. So much easier to spy on and keep records of people. They can scan crowds for cell phone numbers and record license plates by a demonstration.
Meanwhile, Hegseth is screwing the trans troops they are kicking out. There will be no accommodation for those with 15 yrs and more service to our nation. They will simply lose their pensions. That's utter crap! It's another thing to add to the list of what we must restore when we TAKE BACK OUR DEMOCRACY.
Guess I'll have to get one of those veteran hats for the Army. Maybe pin a pic to my jacket---I'm going to want the occupation troops to know WHO we are while demonstrating against the TRump regime. See you in the streets, any damn way!
Good idea, Alis, to identify yourself (ourselves). I had not thought of that before. That way, we all know who is who in public and keep the mouther fuckers on their toes. I can't hardly believe that they intend to take away pensions from anyone who served.
"And unless we act — loudly, urgently, relentlessly — it will become a permanent force in American civic life. Not a protector of freedom, but a tool of control, just like in Orbán’s Hungary or Putin’s Russia."
Please propose what kind of action to take that will actually work against this blatant takeover of our democracy? What effective action can a Hungarian or Russian take who opposes their authoritarian regime without ending up jailed, poisoned, or thrown off of a balcony??
Sophia,I wish I had the answer to you're question about what to do with the blatant takeover of our democracy. We may have another civil war. One thing we might think about is
1.Going after Stephen Miller and Russell Voight,protests should include those names.Trump is not bothered by the protests,he lives in a world far removed from reality.
2.Boycott every big business whose CEO made campaign contributions to Trump.
3.Boycott businesses that advertize on CNBC and Fox and if possible on X.
Sophia: "what kind of action to take that will actually work?"
1. Thom and others cite that nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – need a threshold of 3.5% of the population per Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard. Need 12 million.
2. We can outregister Republicans. E.G. Less than 42% of the population of Texas is white, yet they control the entire state.
3. I posted this several times. On an individual basis, some Congressional Republicans are vulnerable, morally and politically.
Of the 33 regularly scheduled elections in 2026, 13 seats are held by Democrats and 20 are held by Republicans. Four senators announced they will not seek re-election in 2026. Imagine a Democrat taking McConnell's seat in KY.
Of the 33 states holding regularly scheduled elections in 2026, Trump (R) won 21 of those states in 2024 and Harris won 12.
In 2026, Democrats will be defending two states that Trump won in 2024: Georgia and Michigan. Republicans will be defending one seat in a state Harris won: Maine. The last time the 20 Republican-held seats were up for election in 2020, four were decided by a margin of less than 10 percentage points: Iowa (6.6), Maine (8.6), North Carolina (1.8), and Texas (9.6). The last time the 13 Democratic-held seats were up for election in 2020, five were decided by a margin of less than 10 percentage points: Colorado (9.3), Georgia (1.2), Michigan (1.7), Minnesota (5.3), and New Mexico (6.1). What our candidates have failed to do is analyize them rationally.
Neutralize their strengths. Compete for donors.
If Medicare and Medicaid cuts will kill their local health care, we should seek support from hospitals and other medical providers.
If Trump tariffs are killing agriculture, we should support the agricultural sector.
We should have a book on: Capito, Shelley Moore (R-WV) Cassidy, Bill (R-LA) Collins, Susan M. (R-ME) Cornyn, John (R-TX) Cotton, Tom (R-AR) Daines, Steve (R-MT) Ernst, Joni (R-IA) Graham, Lindsey (R-SC) Hagerty, Bill (R-TN) Hyde-Smith, Cindy (R-MS) Lummis, Cynthia M. (R-WY) Marshall, Roger (R-KS) McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Mullin, Markwayne (R-OK) Ricketts, Pete (R-NE) Risch, James E. (R-ID) Rounds, Mike (R-SD) Sullivan, Dan (R-AK) Tuberville, Tommy (R-AL)
It's getting to be a habit that I repost the Hartmann Report on LinkedIn, Facebook and Blue Sky. The columns are so very good that I want ever more people to read them.
It is revealing and instructive that the entire Republican Party - and almost certainly the Supreme Court majority - is just hunky-dory with all of this.
People seem to forget that there are a lot of older veterans with guns who are not afraid to stand up to the kids wearing the uniforms right now. A lot of us are combat veterans who won't shy away from doing the hard things, if that's what's needed to get the military to stand down if they are mobilized on domestic soil. A lot of active duty military will also split off knowing the difference between the UCMJ and what Donald trump wants.
Things will get really ugly if we end up with active duty troops on the streets of the U.S. The little insurrection on 01/06/2021 will be nothing compared to a civil war between the republicans and everyone else.
What are the career military men and women -- those who took an oath to protect the Constitution saying -- publicly or quietly? What are they doing, or planning to do?
These are the only things that matter, at this point.
I have been saying for over a year that Trump will deploy the army and marines against us, and have been met with nay sayers who can't believe that would happen. I guess I mostly posted this on Robert Reichs substack.
They can't believe the soldiers will turn against the people, they don't understand the military, and the fact that most of the recruits are from the south and rural America.
I have seen photo's and video's of unmasked ICE agents and some are Asian, appear to be non white Hispanic and even black.
All of this is so depressing. Even the protests don’t seem to work. Remember the Women’s March (wearing pussy hats) when Trump was elected the first time? Something like 350 thousand in Seattle. What changed except that Roe/Wade was reversed? Now there are the No Kings protests yet things keep getting worse. I have participated in the protests, given as much money as I can and given much of my time and yet it feels like we are losing. No, I’m not giving up because I want democracy to exist for my 10 year old granddaughter but our Democratic and Independent Congress must be speaking, shouting from the rooftops, employing every tactic, Gerrymandering all blue states and then getting every breathing Dem to vote in the midterms. If we stay silent we will pay with the loss of our freedom.
The first indication of failure of the Constitution and the rule of law came in 1980 when Reagan violated the Logan Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act) by making a deal with the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election. If you're looking to the military to balk at acting against its own countrymen, don't. The senior military commanders are corrupt, only faithful to the Military Industrial Complex. The junior ranks are brainwashed and live in fear of punishment for any deviation from "the mission". I say this after 42 years in the system, 21 enlisted and 21 working in military contracts.
"The line between foreign combat and domestic suppression is being erased. On purpose. By design."
Without a doubt. The GOP and enabling powers are executing a very well designed multifaceted war against America. It is astounding that such scarce resistance has been put up. And beyond resistance, we must become offensive. That is how we might survive.
There is an article in "the Lever" today about gerrymandering and leans very much against it. I hope others have read it. To them I say that it is not the Democratic party purging voters who will normally vote "D". Wisconsin Republicans were infamous for gerrymandering in that state for years. As I see it, if altering the districts in favor of Democrats is necessary to save our democratic republic, then do it! Do it damned well!!
"...and you’ve just named the paradox at the heart of modern civilization: the illusion is the architecture, and propaganda is the scaffolding that holds it all together"
Does anyone really disagree that Dictator Donny is setting the groundwork for a radically controlled 2026 mid-terms that will be conducted under some type of Marshall law that may allow voting but only under very controlled circumstances. Already significant voter suppression efforts are taking place throughout the country, not to mention random gerrymandering efforts to produce more Republican congressional districts, and the Democrats must fight back on every front. The Democrats in the past have shown themselves to be gutless in response to the Republican treachery that has served the Republican Party so well in the past. The odds are probably less than 50% that 2026 will be a free and fair election but possibly the most chaotic and corrupt in American history.
The Insurrection Act of 1807 empowers the president to deploy the military and to federalize the National Guard units of the individual states in specific circumstances, such as the suppression of civil disorder, of insurrection, and of armed rebellion against the federal government of the U.S. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insurrection_Act_of_1807
Trump operates on pretext -- that there is a national emergeny. The Insurrection Act is an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act's restrictions against using the military for domestic law enforcement.
If I didn't know better, Trump is retaliating for Reconstruction.....
https://www.armyheritage.org/soldier-stories-information/the-occupation-of-the-south/
During the period 1966-1967, before and after I served in Viet Nam, I was stationed in South Carolina, when we trained for domestic civil distress. In 1968, in response to the riots that followed Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, Army and the National Guard units were deployed to more than 100 cities, when LBJ ordered mobilization, particularly in Washington, D.C.. Over 21,000 federal soldiers and 34,000 National Guardsmen were called out to restore order.
And then, once "order" was restored, they were withdrawn. Any bets, this time?
Also Exercise Jade Helm 15 was a large-scale US military training exercise conducted in 2015 across several states, including Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. While primarily a training exercise focused on unconventional warfare and special operations, it sparked significant controversy and conspiracy theories due to its scale and the involvement of Special Operations Forces
Hard to believe they are so scared of an "invading army" of foreigners carrying their children, not weapons, and whose idea of undermining our country is to contribute to its productivity. I think they just want cops everywhere unbridled by human or civil rights protections. The enemy is us.
They don't care about the who and why. They care because they're not white and they hate them. If it wasn't their skin color, there would be another reason.
Turning the military against the people is a great way to start a Civil War. The military would have to decide whether to obey unconstitutional orders or not. It could easily split into factions over that. We could even see fighting between ICE stormtroopers and military units.
I see the divide and conquer as their goal. You are right - a great way to start a Civil War.
Yes, an invading army of foreigners carrying their children is so threatening that they might come here and contribute to our productivity. Wait. To diminish productivity is what they want to do. I am thankful that I can read these eloquent Substacks like Thom's and comments that don't shy from the truth.
I am a retired Navy Captain with two combat tours and 32 years of service. I was drafted in 1968, and went through Navy basic at Great Lakes. In 1970, I went through OCS at NAS Pensacola run entirely by the Marines. Both of those Navy indoctrination programs hammered home the importance of adhering to a fairness honor code and keeping politics out of the armed services.
During my service (much of it in direct support of the Pentagon leadership and the WH), I never witnessed any openness to civilian efforts to misuse the military as a domestic police force nor violate security measures. Then came Trump.
I was shocked by General Flynn's flagrant lack of adherence to the military honor code and our oaths. Then there was Admiral Ronny Jackson, Trump's toady doctor who told the world that our fat slob President was a picture of health. Then there was the Mar-a-Lago top-secret documents scandal. Today, we have a Secretary of Defence who was separated from the National Guard at the rank of Major for poor security judgment. One of his first actions in charge of the military was to create a national security leak scandal.
It sure seems that the moral fiber and adherence to the military officers' oath to the Constitution is crumbling before our eyes. More recently, our failed reserve major and TV celebrity, SECDEF Hegseth, is relieving generals and admirals of their commands because of things like their gender, not performance failure. AND, nobody in uniform or in Congress has made any fuss about it. Nor has there been much fuss about the LA deployments over non-existent migrant lawlessness. It is hard to have faith that our office corps will demonstrate the integrity to protect our democracy in light of recent events.
It is worse than that Tom. No sooner than the AF Academy opened it's doors in Colorado Spring, than the megachurches rolled in. The military has a Chapel Guide program for trainees. There job is to advise trainees of schedules, act as liason with chaplain and march trainees to chapel or church on Sunday.
The AF Academy has one such program, and their own very expensive and large chapel, but after the first year, they get to go to church off campus, and there they became infected with Dominionism, which is Taliban on steroids, only under the guise of their Jesus.
I am sure that AF graduates of the Academy are infected (for example: Martha McSalley)
and the current Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces, a Lt Gen pulled out of obscurity, promoted to 4 stars (and not one Democratic Senator has put a hold on his promotion,not one, in fact why have Democratic Senators not put a hold on all of Trump's appointees...hmmm._
I assume the Dominionist virus has spread to other academies.
Here is what Dominionism is about, other names Christian Reconstruction, Founded by Rj Rushdoony and Ted Cruz father, Rafael (his bith name is Rafael Jr). 7 Mountains Dominionism, New Apostolic Reformation, People of Prayer it is non denominational Christian
Here is an overview: https://www.sullivan-county.com/nf0/fundienazis/royal_race.htm
Oh, hegseth has fired all of the JAG'sand replaced Insprector Generals with loyalists.
Result, troops will be court martialed (and maybe shot) for not following orders.
Enlisted oath besides protecting the Constitution,is to obey the orders of the President and officers appointed over them.
Officers oath is to defend the Constitution, and that is now rubbish.
Our services bring together the best and the worst. Vets need to keep sharing and caring like you, Captain.
We're gonna die trying, that was the deal.
The part in your comments Tomonthebeach that made me sit up straight is that no one in uniform or in Congress has made a ‘fuss’ about this dispensing of generals and admirals of their commands by Hegseth.
That is shocking because these are individuals who were indoctrinated as you wer and have the evidence they need to go to the press en masse and expose the injustice / hypocrisy.
I was shocked that for more than two decades the military surveillance has been employed by covert manner against me used for ‘political’ reasons which includes the politics of mysoginistic revenge. I can name the individuals in the military connected to this terrorizing of me in my private life. This is no lie. This is no joke.
250 Years of sacrifice and THIS is what TRump does to The Army
TRump can't recruit fast enough to fill the ranks of ICE. He wanted to use the troops all along. Do you think he's going to use any of that Big Bullshit Bill money to pay them or take care of them? Look how the Dictator In Chief and Hegseth treated those sent to LA.
It's worth mentioning that the services have tech equipment us old vets could have only dreamed of. So much easier to spy on and keep records of people. They can scan crowds for cell phone numbers and record license plates by a demonstration.
Meanwhile, Hegseth is screwing the trans troops they are kicking out. There will be no accommodation for those with 15 yrs and more service to our nation. They will simply lose their pensions. That's utter crap! It's another thing to add to the list of what we must restore when we TAKE BACK OUR DEMOCRACY.
Guess I'll have to get one of those veteran hats for the Army. Maybe pin a pic to my jacket---I'm going to want the occupation troops to know WHO we are while demonstrating against the TRump regime. See you in the streets, any damn way!
Good idea, Alis, to identify yourself (ourselves). I had not thought of that before. That way, we all know who is who in public and keep the mouther fuckers on their toes. I can't hardly believe that they intend to take away pensions from anyone who served.
"And unless we act — loudly, urgently, relentlessly — it will become a permanent force in American civic life. Not a protector of freedom, but a tool of control, just like in Orbán’s Hungary or Putin’s Russia."
Please propose what kind of action to take that will actually work against this blatant takeover of our democracy? What effective action can a Hungarian or Russian take who opposes their authoritarian regime without ending up jailed, poisoned, or thrown off of a balcony??
Sophia,I wish I had the answer to you're question about what to do with the blatant takeover of our democracy. We may have another civil war. One thing we might think about is
1.Going after Stephen Miller and Russell Voight,protests should include those names.Trump is not bothered by the protests,he lives in a world far removed from reality.
2.Boycott every big business whose CEO made campaign contributions to Trump.
3.Boycott businesses that advertize on CNBC and Fox and if possible on X.
Sophia: "what kind of action to take that will actually work?"
1. Thom and others cite that nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – need a threshold of 3.5% of the population per Erica Chenoweth, a political scientist at Harvard. Need 12 million.
2. We can outregister Republicans. E.G. Less than 42% of the population of Texas is white, yet they control the entire state.
3. I posted this several times. On an individual basis, some Congressional Republicans are vulnerable, morally and politically.
Of the 33 regularly scheduled elections in 2026, 13 seats are held by Democrats and 20 are held by Republicans. Four senators announced they will not seek re-election in 2026. Imagine a Democrat taking McConnell's seat in KY.
Of the 33 states holding regularly scheduled elections in 2026, Trump (R) won 21 of those states in 2024 and Harris won 12.
In 2026, Democrats will be defending two states that Trump won in 2024: Georgia and Michigan. Republicans will be defending one seat in a state Harris won: Maine. The last time the 20 Republican-held seats were up for election in 2020, four were decided by a margin of less than 10 percentage points: Iowa (6.6), Maine (8.6), North Carolina (1.8), and Texas (9.6). The last time the 13 Democratic-held seats were up for election in 2020, five were decided by a margin of less than 10 percentage points: Colorado (9.3), Georgia (1.2), Michigan (1.7), Minnesota (5.3), and New Mexico (6.1). What our candidates have failed to do is analyize them rationally.
Neutralize their strengths. Compete for donors.
If Medicare and Medicaid cuts will kill their local health care, we should seek support from hospitals and other medical providers.
If Trump tariffs are killing agriculture, we should support the agricultural sector.
We should have a book on: Capito, Shelley Moore (R-WV) Cassidy, Bill (R-LA) Collins, Susan M. (R-ME) Cornyn, John (R-TX) Cotton, Tom (R-AR) Daines, Steve (R-MT) Ernst, Joni (R-IA) Graham, Lindsey (R-SC) Hagerty, Bill (R-TN) Hyde-Smith, Cindy (R-MS) Lummis, Cynthia M. (R-WY) Marshall, Roger (R-KS) McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) Mullin, Markwayne (R-OK) Ricketts, Pete (R-NE) Risch, James E. (R-ID) Rounds, Mike (R-SD) Sullivan, Dan (R-AK) Tuberville, Tommy (R-AL)
Yea! I am boycotting those businesses. I cut off Amazon.com and others.
Rise. We have protests to do now. Good trouble. Here are 100 signs.
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/100-free-protest-signs?r=3m1bs
It's getting to be a habit that I repost the Hartmann Report on LinkedIn, Facebook and Blue Sky. The columns are so very good that I want ever more people to read them.
It is revealing and instructive that the entire Republican Party - and almost certainly the Supreme Court majority - is just hunky-dory with all of this.
People seem to forget that there are a lot of older veterans with guns who are not afraid to stand up to the kids wearing the uniforms right now. A lot of us are combat veterans who won't shy away from doing the hard things, if that's what's needed to get the military to stand down if they are mobilized on domestic soil. A lot of active duty military will also split off knowing the difference between the UCMJ and what Donald trump wants.
Things will get really ugly if we end up with active duty troops on the streets of the U.S. The little insurrection on 01/06/2021 will be nothing compared to a civil war between the republicans and everyone else.
What are the career military men and women -- those who took an oath to protect the Constitution saying -- publicly or quietly? What are they doing, or planning to do?
These are the only things that matter, at this point.
Will the center hold?
D.
https://www.ausa.org/soldiers-creed
I have been saying for over a year that Trump will deploy the army and marines against us, and have been met with nay sayers who can't believe that would happen. I guess I mostly posted this on Robert Reichs substack.
They can't believe the soldiers will turn against the people, they don't understand the military, and the fact that most of the recruits are from the south and rural America.
I have seen photo's and video's of unmasked ICE agents and some are Asian, appear to be non white Hispanic and even black.
When contractors were hired under the Defense Base Act, many were foreigners.
See ICE jobs in SAM.GOV.https://sam.gov/opportunities
All of this is so depressing. Even the protests don’t seem to work. Remember the Women’s March (wearing pussy hats) when Trump was elected the first time? Something like 350 thousand in Seattle. What changed except that Roe/Wade was reversed? Now there are the No Kings protests yet things keep getting worse. I have participated in the protests, given as much money as I can and given much of my time and yet it feels like we are losing. No, I’m not giving up because I want democracy to exist for my 10 year old granddaughter but our Democratic and Independent Congress must be speaking, shouting from the rooftops, employing every tactic, Gerrymandering all blue states and then getting every breathing Dem to vote in the midterms. If we stay silent we will pay with the loss of our freedom.
Protests so far haven't been big enough and aren't threatening Congressional Republicans.
The first indication of failure of the Constitution and the rule of law came in 1980 when Reagan violated the Logan Act (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan_Act) by making a deal with the Iranians to hold the hostages until after the election. If you're looking to the military to balk at acting against its own countrymen, don't. The senior military commanders are corrupt, only faithful to the Military Industrial Complex. The junior ranks are brainwashed and live in fear of punishment for any deviation from "the mission". I say this after 42 years in the system, 21 enlisted and 21 working in military contracts.
"The line between foreign combat and domestic suppression is being erased. On purpose. By design."
Without a doubt. The GOP and enabling powers are executing a very well designed multifaceted war against America. It is astounding that such scarce resistance has been put up. And beyond resistance, we must become offensive. That is how we might survive.
There is an article in "the Lever" today about gerrymandering and leans very much against it. I hope others have read it. To them I say that it is not the Democratic party purging voters who will normally vote "D". Wisconsin Republicans were infamous for gerrymandering in that state for years. As I see it, if altering the districts in favor of Democrats is necessary to save our democratic republic, then do it! Do it damned well!!
"...and you’ve just named the paradox at the heart of modern civilization: the illusion is the architecture, and propaganda is the scaffolding that holds it all together"