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Linda Griffin Fox's avatar

Miles Taylor has the real inside story about Trump because he served in his first administration. I read Miles book Blowback years ago. It was a warning of what would happen if Trump got a second term. The book is exactly spot on and now we suffer daily the consequences of this evil ignorant dictator in our precious White House.

Star Aasved's avatar

The question remains: Who or what will stop Trump if he chooses not to follow a legal determination? He has already shown a lack of respect for the law.

Dawn's avatar

Star, I appreciate the "what if" worst-case-scenario question. However, in my own personal experience with these type of personality types, I have discovered there is always a crack giving us an opening for another option even when you think you are "trapped". This is not just rose-colored glass writing either. Their biggest weakness is their flagrant arrogance and ego. Continually, the Trump regime makes unforced tactical errors. Also, American citizens greatly outnumber them, and the pro-democracy movement is not only much smarter now, it has become anticipatory & proactive.

Star Aasved's avatar

A hopeful answer, Dawn, and much appreciated. We can hope a loophole will allow a way in.

Mike Hammer's avatar

“Courts should strike this down” doesn’t comport with how Kavanaugh and his ilk on SCOTUS were cool with racial profiling.

A Glass-1/8th-Full Perspective's avatar

What if we were to approach our current nightmare from a different perspective?

Here is the direct path to end the #ICEoverreachRampage. We need to #FlipTheHouseEarly AS IN THIS MONTH. Just get three House Republicans who are already too underwater to retain their seats as Republicans to choose to declare as independent NOW and rise as true American heroes by caucusing with Democrats to end this madness before more harm is done.

This is the #ImmediateFlipMovement and DNC Chair Ken Martin can make this option far more appealing if he vows not to back or fund any Dem against these new independents as long as they remain caucusing with Dems into 2027.

It's a great deal for both sides. Martin gets the gavel, they get job security and a lead role in GOP 2.0 - what will rise from the ashes after a GOP implosion.

That strategy is Part 1 of what I call #ProjectCarrot. There are other phases after Dems take pawer, including passing #ForThePeopleAct2, fortified with new restrictions not in the first version, H.R. 1 in 2021, to counter all the new GOP and Trumpian tricks for election theft.

Included in that will be a mandate for public not private campaign funding, good news for new allies that fear what billionaire blowback could mean to their reelection in Nov.

Once the flip is confirmed, the #BlueHouse can do more than just start to impeach Kristi Noem. They can use investigations across multiple committees to clamp down on all the unconstitutional processes within every aspect of ICE extraction, detention, and confinement. They can use former inspectors general to define what should be the limiting guidelines, and for every transgression throughout the hierarchy of the ICE infrastructure there will be a subpoena.

The House can form a committee to review every single abuse of these rules, and require documentation including identities on every single abuse in the field.

Every current ICE agent must know that their lives will be changed forever for the travesties they've done. It's just a matter of how long it takes for their number to come up for when they must face the music.

My hope is that other investigations across the board yield our first #DoubleImpeachment leading to the promotion directly to the Oval Office of Speaker Jamie Raskin. Isn't that just what our nation deserves after all we've been through?

I ask that you please address these possibilities in future posts, perhaps after visiting this link to my Substack to get the full picture that I'm trying to present.

It includes scripts for those that want to speak directly to the offices of potential defectors. And doing that effectively will not be easy, because anger and frustration cannot be present. This is not a decision that you can guilt a politician into. This has to be introduced as a net positive option, both for the nation and for a candidate’s political future - when they emerge eventually as a celebrated hero.

Thank you for seeing and perhaps sharing my whole vision. Feels far better than anything else churning in our guts at the moment, doesn’t it?

https://open.substack.com/pub/toddtelford/p/this-is-how-marianne-williamsons?r=13imj&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Edward Jay Allan's avatar

People should LONG since have learned that whenever Degenerate Don, one of the stupidest, most self-indulgent, scummiest, sadistic psychopaths ever to infest this continent, learns of a nasty rotten way he can hurt people, he will keep it in what passes for a brain “file for future reference.”

KittyKat Lo's avatar

We need to continue to pressure our representatives to do these actions. I’m done with strongly worded letters. It’s time to act!!!!

Ana Maria's avatar

Thank you Miles! I appreciate your work and your writing. I am grateful for and admire your courage.

Dawn's avatar

To get inside the abnormally evil and depraved brains of Trump & Miller is not a place that most Americans want to venture. After the masks are dropped, people are shocked about the utter depravity and sadism of this regime's acts. (As well as their their thinly specious cover- up lies). After all, our US Constitution, albeit imperfect (ie; its dismissiveness of the rights of African-Americans and women) assumes a high water mark of character & honor for American's representatives. The Trump regime is all about tyrannical power and graft worldwide, which represents the greatest concern of our founders. Therefore, Americans should take heed of the Clarion calls of pro-democracy advocates, like Mike's Taylor, today who were "in the room" during Trump 1.0 when they walked Trump back from his worst unconstitutional and depraved impulses. Unlawfully instituting the Insurrection Act is Trump's diabolical "wet dream" beginning to control the 🌎, but he can't control the world if he can not control American citizens. We owe it not only to ourselves, but to all of humanity to be SMARTLY DEFIANT. Certainly, we should never give in to the baiting traps, because if we back down we become their slaves. We need to face the demon with a stone cold face (no emotion) and take action. We can do this: We know how to outsmart the surveillance apparatus. Certainly, we outnumber the Trump goons in numbers and brain power!

Larry Wegrzyn's avatar

Some lawyer needs to stop this mad man. Our Congress is worthless because the fraternity is more interested in protecting the pedophiles. liars, thieves , insurrectionists, war mongers, immigrant haters, and newbies desiring Trump benefits ( like abuse of campaign funds).

The weakest links are still the corrupt Senate and House Judiciary committees with the insurrectionists Hawley, Cruz, Graham, Grassley, Cornyn, Jordan, Roy, and Biggs to name a few - and of course SCOTUS - thanks to Barre Seid's $1.6b to Leonard Leo - which was protected by Jordan - a very corrupt web of greedy Trump loyalists. Corruption rules and needs all our lawyers to step up - especially the Texas lawyers that let Abbott and Paxton rule without constituent support. The Dems could reintroduce bills to impeach Thomas and Alito for a start - and call in Noem for the killings. And for kicks - reintroduce the immigration bill and the Floyd bill.

Even the Dems are spineless

Teresa Shinkle's avatar

How do the states get this information? How can we assure this doesn’t happen? The steps that need to happen- how do we insure this is taken to the correct people. I’m sharing with other Substack members to help share.

IllinoisImYourBoy's avatar

Great, practical advice to stop the madness and chaos of Trump’s regime! Thank you!🕊️

Kenneth Gilbert's avatar

Miles informs us of another telegraphed strategy by Trumpy and his boys. Forewarned is forearmed.

Have you all seen the misogynistic stereotyping of the "white liberal women" by the obviously intimidated reactionaries? Perhaps what they fear is the nurturing that women lovingly give, in contrast to the hatred so abundantly exhibited by by the bigoted, sexually-denied incels in this administration. Keep building our wall of resistance, one brick at a time.

Jody Gorran's avatar

As of this moment, where is the activated MN National Guard? They should be immediately visible in Minneapolis.

Alice's avatar

Slippery slope.

MM Harris's avatar

As we've seen, Walz has been trying to keep protestors calm and orderly but last night he also reported that the Minnesota Nat'l Guard are on call and ready to come in as soon as he requests them. The challenge may be the orange-backed instigators in the crowds...

Goldfinger Is Toast's avatar

Nothing that a hammer can’t fix.