Breaking: Trump Declares War on American Citizens [View all]
They flew our top military brass in to get buy-in for their plan to declare war on American citizens.
There is a lot to unpack from the meeting Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth held this morning with hundreds of generals and admirals in Quantico but the most important is this: the United States government is going to war against American citizens, on American soil.
We are witnessing the authoritarian takeover of the nation by a duly elected president who no longer wants to bother with dissent, protests or even the First Amendment. It will turn into a civil war only if we refuse to submit. Make no mistake: this war was declared today by the president of the United States from a stage at a Virginia marine base, before the top echelon of the United States military.
You wont hear the paper of record ringing this alarm. Once again, The New York Times has missed the boat on how another administration is taking us to war before its very eyes. In its write-up, the Times argued:
There does not seem to be a clear point or purpose in President Trumps address to military generals today. Its a garden variety tear; hes talking about tariffs, Joe Biden and the autopen, the southern border, CNN, his personal feelings about President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia and his anxieties that he wont be given a Nobel Peace Prize he feels he deserves. These are things he talks about almost every day regardless of audience or setting. Every so often he throws in a statistic or observation he has about the military. I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships by the way he said at one point in the middle of a riff about tariffs. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea.
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