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denem

(11,045 posts)
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 10:42 AM Jul 2020

A 'rolling Reichstag fire': Steve Schmidt on the deployment of 'Federal Agent thugs'.

I respect those DU'ers who have no time for Republicans/former Republicans in the Lincoln Project and other dissident groups. Activists have witnessed first hand how the depredations of the Republican Party have inflicted untold misery, destitution and yes, death on ordinary working people, the endless war on a woman's right to chose, and the denial of Medicaid, being obvious examples.

With our backs against the wall, I personally find common cause in the sort of patriotism that was non controversial back in the day, before the Russian bounties on U.S. service men and women, the wholesale assault on American democratic institutions by foreign powers and the Administration itself, and the depreciation of internationalism in favor of 'America First'. There are no patriots worth counting in the GOP. I am thankful that outside it, dissidents are still prepared to defend the Constitution.


Steve Schmidt
January 23, 2020

There is an urgent necessity for Congress and the media to investigate if there are ANY security contractors deployed alongside Federal “Agents” thugs in any American city. There should be no opaqueness around this operation. Who are these men armed with M-4’s equipped with Suppressors.

This is not law enforcement. We are witnessing state ordered violence being loosed on the citizens of our Constitutional Republic. This is an outrage in a nation “ Of the People, By the People and For the People”. The mission of these men is not to secure the peace. Their objective is to spread chaos and incite fear. This is Trump’s rolling Reichstag fire.

This is about one thing and one thing only. It is about [trump's] failing reelection campaign and his looming repudiation at the hands of the American people who have suffered terribly under his incompetence, malfeasance, ineptitude and stupidity. 142,000 Americans are dead and many more will soon join them. These are unnecessary deaths, our fellow Americans have perished from the Trump Virus that could have been controlled as it has been in every other advanced country. The American economy is shattered and Trump is prepared to burn everything down.

We have arrived at an hour of profound crisis in this country. Make no mistake about it, American liberty is under threat, siege and assault. Before the electoral repudiation of the Trump Regime and its cowardly Congressional enablers in 2018, Trump deployed the worlds most powerful military force to the Southern border to fight an imaginary “caravan” of desperate refugees and migrants. It was a type of performance porn for the right wing media that serves as his propagandists. There were too few voices raised in alarm at that unprecedented action and the bundle of White House lies that surrounded it. The migrants were turned into some type of invading Panzer division by right wing media that now tries to tell us that unarmed Mom’s are a threat.

The actions we are witnessing are an escalation from what has come before. The winking Attorney General of the United States has assumed the role of America’s first Interior Minister. In essence, he is America’s first thug now. Chad Wolf, the Acting Secretary of Homeland Security is a former hill staffer and lobbyist with no Law Enforcement background or training. He is as profoundly unqualified as Kushner and Ivanka for life and death responsibilities. He is utterly unconfirmable and has no business in his job. He is now functioning as the American equivalent of Ernst Rohm. He has taken command of an American Sturmabteilung. The men he commands are thuggish, violent and dangerous. They are an untrained illiberal and dangerous force. This must be stopped. This is what Trumpistan looks like.

100 days from now we must end it forever. If we don’t we lose America.




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A 'rolling Reichstag fire': Steve Schmidt on the deployment of 'Federal Agent thugs'. (Original Post) denem Jul 2020 OP
Schmidt sharply helpful here empedocles Jul 2020 #1
'This is Trump's rolling Reichstag fire.' denem Jul 2020 #2
Steve Schmidt is one of my all-time favorite republicans, because he really is a patriot. BComplex Jul 2020 #3
Steve wears his heart on his sleeve. denem Jul 2020 #6
A perfect metaphor, except it isn't a metaphor, it is reality n/t Tom Rinaldo Jul 2020 #4
KNR niyad Jul 2020 #5
I hope Steve doesn't mind.... Sogo Jul 2020 #7
Well, let me quote him ... denem Jul 2020 #8

BComplex

(7,984 posts)
3. Steve Schmidt is one of my all-time favorite republicans, because he really is a patriot.
Thu Jul 23, 2020, 11:22 AM
Jul 2020

Not a fake patriot like 99% of those assholes.

And his disdain for president trump is real and palpable. His words are right on.

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