The main body of this article is almost exactly as I submitted it 7 August 2025 to the Waco Tribune-Herald newspaper (the “Trib”), as a board-of-contributors item. It is a final wake-up warning for anyone who bothers to look at it.
The appended image below was not part of the submittal to
the “Trib”, it is something I found
on-line at Getty images. That photo was
taken in Spain, which is why the
leftmost figure is their former dictator,
General Franco. Left-to-right, they are the dictators Franco, Stalin,
Hitler, and Trump. (Missing:
Mussolini, Putin, Xi,
and many more.) It would appear
that most in Europe are very well aware of the evil that is happening to
America! They’ve seen this many times before!
I would only add that Trump subverting the Constitution he
swore to uphold, may not be treason per
the two (and only two) definitions in that Constitution, but it is something edging very close to
treason! Especially when throwing that
Constitution away to impose a dictatorship upon America. That imposition is now almost complete.
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Original article (highlighting added for posting here):
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Noah Feldman wrote an excellent column that appeared in the
“Trib” on Thursday 7 August 2025. While
he did not use the same words as me to name what is going on, he quite accurately described the ongoing
imposition of a Trump dictatorship. That
is exactly what consolidating all federal power into the executive branch
really means!
The Supreme Court majority has been giving Trump everything
he wants, no matter how
unconstitutional, by over-ruling those
lower courts’ rulings that go against him.
The Court’s minority dissent opinions clearly indicate this, and they do indeed highlight the danger to
our democracy, if you bother to read
them! My voice is not alone!
The majority of Congress has essentially abdicated all its
power to Trump, by giving him anything
he wants, even when he tries to
dismantle institutions Congress set up,
and refuses to spend funds Congress already allocated. Both of those outcomes are entirely
unconstitutional, by the way! Read it for yourself, including all the amendments. Congress’s last power, the power of the purse, is now no more!
Between
the Supreme Court and Congress, the
checks and balances have effectively already been destroyed! That was the real point of Feldman’s column!
Trump has begun muzzling the free press and academic
institutions, as well as large
corporations that might otherwise oppose what he does. You’ve all seen this taking place in the
news! Almost no entity has stood up to
him, excepting Harvard, and acting alone, they have no chance! Shame on those who failed to resist: you have helped destroy our democracy! Controlling all information is a hallmark of
every dictatorship this world has ever seen!
Trump has weaponized ICE to do his bidding instead of
following the law, and greatly expanded
it. This is going to be his secret
police to intimidate and oppress you all,
fulfilling the same role as Stalin’s KGB, and Hitler’s Gestapo and SS. Right now, it is deporting everyone it can find with
brown or dark skin, legal or not, and making them disappear to overseas
prisons, totally out of sight and beyond
help!
Hear my
warning: citizens of any color who
oppose him are next! The machinery to make
people disappear is already in place!
That is another hallmark of dictatorship.
Trump has weaponized multiple government departments and
agencies with minions as their heads who will do his bidding, not follow the law. This,
too, is a hallmark of every
dictatorship the world has ever seen.
One of the evils is misusing executive power to punish opponents or
people who say or do things Trump does not like, such as the head of the bureau of labor
statistics, among many, many others.
You are
about to lose your vote, your clean air
and water, your medical care, and your middle-class economy! Trump and his minions have proven that they
care not one whit about your life or anyone else’s, they only care about staying in power to have
control over all others! Putting an
incompetent vaccine denier in charge of your health care, and gutting all the science budgets and
environmental regulations, is proof
enough of this.
Don’t listen to the lies,
look instead at what they have actually done! Trump pardoned all the rioters that he
incited to attack the halls of Congress,
actually starting before he lost the 2020 election. You saw what they did, live on television, and you saw that Trump did not do anything to
stop the rioters, until it was clear
that his congressional opponents would not be killed. Why did he pardon the rioters? Because they were well-demonstrated by their
criminal actions to be supporters,
simple as that! Some of whom have
already gone on to commit more crimes after he pardoned them.
Why did Trump not want the Epstein files released? Two simple reasons: (1) he’s named in there multiple times, which should surprise no one, since he is an adjudged (and self-confessed) sex
abuser, in addition to being a convicted
criminal (which he is now trying to overturn),
and (2) he and his minions have been lying to you for years about how
the majority of their “deep state” opponents would be exposed there, when the truth really is that they are mostly
not listed. Trump and his minions are
actually the real “deep state”, and they
do not want you to know that, before
they can grab full dictatorial power over you!
The current between-census political gerrymandering talking
place here in Texas (and a few other places) is part of the larger effort to
rig the outcomes of all future elections.
This is exactly how the sham elections work in Putin’s Russia and in
Iran, among many others, that being a hallmark of many dictatorships. You’ve already seen this process start with
the 2016 election: the only elections
not falsely claimed to be rigged are the ones Trump or his minions win. The ones they lose, they try to overturn. Simple as that!
Your
last chance to stop this is the 2026 mid-term election. That is,
assuming their election-rigging efforts haven’t already rendered it a
sham by then, a very real risk!
Once your vote is no more,
your only remaining choice to stay free is revolution in the streets! And Trump knows that: he has been cashiering all the high-ranking
military officers who might choose to help you overthrow him. Surprise,
surprise!
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Appended image:
L to R: Spain’s
Franco, Russia’s Stalin, Germany’s Hitler, and America’s Trump. Photo is from Getty
images, freely available as a
downloadable jpg file. Taken at some
sort of protest in Spain: small figures
being thrown into the fire.
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