This is the behavior of a security apparatus that’s slipped its leash and started treating the public as an occupied population.
When masked federal agents roam a city with impunity, firing into cars and smearing the dead as justification, you’re not looking at public safety, you’re looking at a domestic intimidation force that’s learned it can operate without consequence.
Call it whatever you want: a parallel police state, a rogue internal militia, an unaccountable enforcement caste. The label matters less than the function, and the function is fear.
And the irony is almost too on‑the‑nose: a country that lectures the world about authoritarianism is now running operations that mirror the very regimes it claims to oppose.
If another nation deployed masked federal units to terrorize its own citizens, Washington would call it a human‑rights crisis. When it happens here, it’s rebranded as “security.” The cognitive dissonance is doing more work than the agencies themselves.
This isn’t drift, it’s design. A state that treats oversight as optional and violence as administrative routine eventually stops resembling a democracy and starts resembling something far more familiar to people who’ve lived under coercive rule.
And the most telling part? The people in power don’t even bother hiding it anymore. They assume the public will adapt to the new normal. That’s the real danger.
I’m working on a new piece about this from a behavioral standpoint that will drop later today. I invite you all to check it out and thank you for writing this piece.
Do we really need any more information than Trump's threat to use the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis? This is the start of militarizing Democratic leaning cities before the mid-term elections.
Cheeto is getting a little help from his friends(https://bit.ly/45IFkUS) Russian hackers got involved supporting the ICE Gestapo and helped shut down an anti ICE site that identified 4500 names of ICE and CBP agents gained from a DHS leak
Obviously Cheeto and his regime don’t want to have their goons identified That would make recruitment more difficult but also open up these disgusting agents to legal challenges in the future So enter the Russians who by massively increasing searches onto the site’s servers shut down the site IP addresses were tracked back to Russia No problem with loss of information which was archived
So make no mistake Cheeto is creating political ties to Russia under the table and expect that this is a trial balloon for the midterms
The violence/racist past has always been there for other weaker nation and now is being brought back home. We are now getting a small taste of what has been done to other people.
If you are a non-racist white, or any person of color, pay attention, harangue your elected folks, call out racism when you see it, and buckle up. We are now fully exposed as the racist-leaning nation that we have always been. If we do not push back soon, and firmly, we are finished as a democracy…because the incompetent white men in charge will see to it.
This is a good summary of why we are where we are now — now what we really need is a plan to get past this, dismantle it all and restore democracy and equal rights again. The sooner the better.
"Competent white men must be in charge"? WTF! Then ALL of the current regime must be drawn & quartered as they are the most incompetent bunch of a-holes to ever walk the earth. As for the south African nazi, apartheid lover, that WAS nazi salute! He should be deported, lose all his wealth & then be drawn & quartered!
The dreamscape after 100 million deportations looks like somebody stole some East L.A. homeboy's car and drove it to the beach. You can have that now. We have beaches and you can come here and buy a low rider if you want. Problem solved.
Didn't really see this aspect of the Trump administration too clearly until I read this article. Just goes to show you that racism is a function of ignorance, arrogance, and stupidity.
All part of Trump's plan to dominate not only America, but now the world. And he does what Roy Cohn trained him to do - attack all the time anyone who gets in your way. He is only about his Revenge, Retribution, and Extortion for his benefit. And he uses people, like he always does to get what he wants......ICE (another reason he doesn't want them well trained because then they might have to have a conscience) as Gang style Enforcers of his goals and the goals of the sick people around him - like Stephen Miller.... They flocked to him because in him they see their chance to get what they always have wanted. He uses them and they use him and everyone else suffers, and they do NOT care one bit. Just like his buddy Adolph Hitler.
This is the behavior of a security apparatus that’s slipped its leash and started treating the public as an occupied population.
When masked federal agents roam a city with impunity, firing into cars and smearing the dead as justification, you’re not looking at public safety, you’re looking at a domestic intimidation force that’s learned it can operate without consequence.
Call it whatever you want: a parallel police state, a rogue internal militia, an unaccountable enforcement caste. The label matters less than the function, and the function is fear.
And the irony is almost too on‑the‑nose: a country that lectures the world about authoritarianism is now running operations that mirror the very regimes it claims to oppose.
If another nation deployed masked federal units to terrorize its own citizens, Washington would call it a human‑rights crisis. When it happens here, it’s rebranded as “security.” The cognitive dissonance is doing more work than the agencies themselves.
This isn’t drift, it’s design. A state that treats oversight as optional and violence as administrative routine eventually stops resembling a democracy and starts resembling something far more familiar to people who’ve lived under coercive rule.
And the most telling part? The people in power don’t even bother hiding it anymore. They assume the public will adapt to the new normal. That’s the real danger.
I’m working on a new piece about this from a behavioral standpoint that will drop later today. I invite you all to check it out and thank you for writing this piece.
—Johan
Former foreign service officer
Even the January 6 insurrection was part of Trump’s rebellion against a multiracial, multicultural America.
The civil war never really ended. Trump has allowed it in all its disgusting glory to resume.
Do we really need any more information than Trump's threat to use the Insurrection Act in Minneapolis? This is the start of militarizing Democratic leaning cities before the mid-term elections.
Russians Getting Involved In Aiding Cheeto
Cheeto is getting a little help from his friends(https://bit.ly/45IFkUS) Russian hackers got involved supporting the ICE Gestapo and helped shut down an anti ICE site that identified 4500 names of ICE and CBP agents gained from a DHS leak
Obviously Cheeto and his regime don’t want to have their goons identified That would make recruitment more difficult but also open up these disgusting agents to legal challenges in the future So enter the Russians who by massively increasing searches onto the site’s servers shut down the site IP addresses were tracked back to Russia No problem with loss of information which was archived
So make no mistake Cheeto is creating political ties to Russia under the table and expect that this is a trial balloon for the midterms
The violence/racist past has always been there for other weaker nation and now is being brought back home. We are now getting a small taste of what has been done to other people.
If you are a non-racist white, or any person of color, pay attention, harangue your elected folks, call out racism when you see it, and buckle up. We are now fully exposed as the racist-leaning nation that we have always been. If we do not push back soon, and firmly, we are finished as a democracy…because the incompetent white men in charge will see to it.
This is a good summary of why we are where we are now — now what we really need is a plan to get past this, dismantle it all and restore democracy and equal rights again. The sooner the better.
"Competent white men must be in charge"? WTF! Then ALL of the current regime must be drawn & quartered as they are the most incompetent bunch of a-holes to ever walk the earth. As for the south African nazi, apartheid lover, that WAS nazi salute! He should be deported, lose all his wealth & then be drawn & quartered!
One man ? I say it’s them all allowing this. They fold , they useless. It’s all of em .
The dreamscape after 100 million deportations looks like somebody stole some East L.A. homeboy's car and drove it to the beach. You can have that now. We have beaches and you can come here and buy a low rider if you want. Problem solved.
Didn't really see this aspect of the Trump administration too clearly until I read this article. Just goes to show you that racism is a function of ignorance, arrogance, and stupidity.
All part of Trump's plan to dominate not only America, but now the world. And he does what Roy Cohn trained him to do - attack all the time anyone who gets in your way. He is only about his Revenge, Retribution, and Extortion for his benefit. And he uses people, like he always does to get what he wants......ICE (another reason he doesn't want them well trained because then they might have to have a conscience) as Gang style Enforcers of his goals and the goals of the sick people around him - like Stephen Miller.... They flocked to him because in him they see their chance to get what they always have wanted. He uses them and they use him and everyone else suffers, and they do NOT care one bit. Just like his buddy Adolph Hitler.
Horrifying to read, but vital. Thank you.