Thomas Duvernay

De-escalation

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My Facebook post on #Gyeongju my Korean hometown

What Lord Dampnuts probably doesn't know is that the crown was a funerary item; it was not used by living monarchs...

So maybe we are not only in 1938. We may already be standing at the edge of 1939. The fuse is there, waiting to be lit. And when it is, it will not be an accident. It will be the moment tRump has been working toward all along.

nd here is the part that should chill every one of us. What took the Nazis years to do, tRump has shoved into just seven months. If he could consolidate that much power this quickly, what do the next seven months look like? Do we even have a chance of reaching a free and fair 2026 midterm election?

Red states are gerrymandering to lock in permanent majorities. The checks and balances that people put their hope in are either captured or helping him.

Some still cling to the belief that the courts or Congress will stop him. That is not realistic. Republicans (now, effectively, the American Fascist Party) control Congress. tRump controls the Republicans. He controls the executive. With six justices, he controls the Supreme Court.

sending in more troops, and red-state governors falling in line behind him.

that was the rapid Nazi expansion into Denmark, Norway, Belgium, and France. Here it could mean tRump expanding his control into other cities like Chicago and New York, which he has already named, with tRump's other DUI hire, Hogsbreath,

That is where we are now. The American version of 1939 could be a violent clash in D.C., maybe between civilians carrying long guns and the Guard, that becomes the excuse for sweeping new emergency powers. Once that happens, the 1940 stage comes into view. In Europe,

handing him the Sudetenland, the regime was firmly in control and waiting for the spark to move further.

By 1935 the Nuremberg Laws had redefined citizenship and stripped away rights. The remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936 was a gamble that succeeded and showed that no one would stop him. By 1938, with the Anschluss in Austria and then the Munich Agreement

This is exactly why I have said it looks like 1938 in the WWII timeline. In Germany, Hitler had already consolidated power by then. The Reichstag Fire of 1933 had been used to crush political opponents and justify the Enabling Act. The Night of the Long Knives in 1934 eliminated internal rivals.

For years, many of us warned that tRump was aiming to become a dictator. We pointed to Project 2025 and to the way he was stacking the institutions to his side. We were called alarmists. We were not. We were seeing things clearly. What is unfolding in D.C. proves it.

announced that federal prosecutors will no longer bring felony charges against people openly carrying rifles or shotguns in the city. That means we now have armed civilians and armed troops on the streets together. This is not about reducing crime. It's about preparing for something much larger.

What is happening in Washington is not just another fight between parties. tRump has taken over the D.C. police under a so-called crime emergency (even though crime is at a decades-long low), brought in the National Guard, and armed them. And one of his DUI hires, Jeanine Pirro,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, seen here meeting with the President of Tackystan

Flashback to the absolute LEGEND who held up a photo of Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump and at his rally in Duluth Minnesota.

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This is from my hometown newspaper in Northern Michigan. My second sister holds the lion. My late father made it decades ago for a chorale performance. He would be proud.

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Wife of US Coast Guard member arrested over expired visa after security check for military housing U.S. officials say the wife of an active-duty Coast Guardsman was arrested earlier this week by federal immigration authorities inside the family residential section of the U.S.

AP has picked up the news (thanks for the heads up @fpwellman.bsky.social)

apnews.com/article/coas...

The time for polite concern is over. Democracy itself hangs in the balance.

foreign and domestic" by becoming that domestic enemy himself. The American people will then face the same challenge South Koreans confronted four decades ago: the urgent necessity to replace an illegitimate regime and restore authentic democratic governance before it's too late.

When - not if - Trump openly defies an actionable court order, even from the Supreme Court, his presidency becomes constitutionally null and void. At that moment, he will have completely abandoned his oath to "preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution from all enemies,