The President’s Private Army
"Congress and the courts must step in. Otherwise, having found his army, Trump is sure to use it again in coming months. Bullying Democratic mayors and governors plays well with his base, whose support was beginning to waver due to Trump’s disastrous mishandling of Covid-19. More chilling, he could deploy his paramilitary forces in Democratic strongholds on Election Day as a means of suppressing voter turnout.
With DHS acting as a paramilitary force, the deployment violates the fundamental principle behind the law.
President Trump has already used federal forces to undermine local sovereignty and the rights of protesters. This practice must be stopped, lest he use these same tactics to undermine"
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@journeywithme2, I heard a few bits and pieces of Barr sleazing his way through the hearing. No real surprises. When asked about mail-in voting, he supported what his boss has been claiming, i.e. mail-in votes are more suspectable to fraud. So we know what he's planning to do with the 2020 election.
Any recent readings on Barr? Out or still in before the election?
@susane I've been saying since 2016 that I felt that this is what will happen if Trump decides he has no other way of staying in office. I had this message on the main prediction page for two years. It's still in the forum somewhere. Now it is starting to show signs that it could happen.
@jeanne-mayell Will we be able to get past the pending doom? Will justice prevail?
@jeanne-mayell: I've been saying since 2016 that I felt that this is what will happen if Trump decides he has no other way of staying in office. I had this message on the main prediction page for two years. It's still in the forum somewhere. Now it is starting to show signs that it could happen."
I joined officially one month to the day from when Jeanne launched this newest site and you, @jeanne-mayell, Graham, and @LB and @natalie were posters that all made me really interested in this amazing site.
And that warning about Trump and future tactics for re-election was indeed a mainstay of your primary predictions and imprinted in my brain to stay alert and never take the outcome of the 2020 election for granted just as we all learned we shouldn't have trusted the 2016 one.
Talk about pre-sentience! I remember all kinds of civil unrest discussions that could distract us all, make it challenging, or impossible for many to vote in 2020 all being brought up as well, so Trump could keep control (with help) over the process.
@jeanne-mayell:
Ultimately the future is a mystery, but I believe with all my heart that justice and goodness will prevail once people are done with the darkness. Women will rise. People of color will rise. All honest working people will rise. You, Enkasongwriter, have already risen.
Everyone must vote and vote early enough to be sure their vote is counted. And help others to vote too!
Yes Yes Yes to all of this! Keep positive faith and do all we can to help keep the energies focused and positive while still keeping an eye on the all of the manipulative powers in play.
@enkasongwriter I know we will be okay down the road. I pray it works out this election but only spirit knows. Many here have seen good outcomes for the election -- I even got a good card reading recently-- but I still have that vision for the 2020's six years ago that showed it would take several years to turn things around. That vision didn't tell me what the election outcome would be however, just that it's going to be a few years before the Great Unraveling makes way for the Great Turning.
Ultimately the future is a mystery, but I believe with all my heart that justice and goodness will prevail once people are done with the darkness. Women will rise. People of color will rise. All honest working people will rise. You, Enkasongwriter, have already risen.
Everyone must vote and vote early enough to be sure their vote is counted. And help others to vote too!
@michele-b I like your attitude that we just have to use our awareness of these dark tactics that are afoot to be extra alert, to get everyone to vote. To help unseat the GOP control of the Senate and this president. Send positive energy, do all we can.
I heard a few bits and pieces of Barr sleazing his way through the hearing.
Thanks for putting a big smile on my face. Sleazy Barr...
@jeanne-mayell Will we be able to get past the pending doom? Will justice prevail?
I remember reading somewhere (no link -- sorry) that mass demonstrations are the only way to put a stop to authoritarian rule.
With that in mind, I think things look hopeful, considering the current state of affairs. If people are protesting this much NOW -- and there are no signs of it slowing down -- imagine what will happen come November if he refuses to leave office.
The reason I think that trump will lose in November is because if ultimately things are going to work themselves out, and we get past all this, well I don't see how that can possibly happen if he IS reelected. I don't see how our democracy, our economy, our society can bounce back from it. That said, this is just my head talking, not instinct or intuition. On that level I'm too freaked out today to know how I feel. Yesterday's Barr hearings alarmed me even more. It's not news that he's a smug, condescending jerk, but his level of lawlessness, and his lack of shame at flashing it before the world on TV is both depressing and frightening. Why is he so confident? What does he know, and what is he planning? As far as distractions, there's more to come.