In the final analysis, the Second Amendment provides your only real hope for protection, and without your willingness to forcefully, perhaps even lethally, exert your rights under that amendment, you are indeed at the whims of the madman and his toadies. If a gulag is really to be your fate, what do you have to lose by sending some of them to meet their maker?
Thank you for shining the light on this. The only way to fight this, IMO, is for there to be SO MANY people on the enemy list that we can break them with numbers. Resistance of any kind always fails if each person stands alone.
Julie, I think someone is falsely using my name on Facebook and your comment sections. I am just an old, fat white guy from New Jersey not that that commie fascist using my name to criticize our Dear Leader.
I read your post today, This is Really Frightening. The enforcement of denaturalization would likely fall to ICE. I want to help fund a lawsuit against DHS for unlawful ICE enforcement, and deliberately spreading fear in communities. I am willing to commit my own resources, up to ten thousand ($10, 000), if there is a chance that a District Court could set a precedent of any kind to stop this madness against mostly innocent people. I live in New York, and am a member of Hudson Valley Strong Indivisible. You previously responded to an earlier comment of mine.
To be clear, I want to fund a lawsuit focused only on ICE’s tactics: wearing masks, refusing to properly identify themselves, not having judicial warrants, committing battery - even on pregnant women, kidnapping people, etc. I am not interested in a lawsuit that includes the much broader blocking of removals under the Alien Enemies Act.
To this effect, I want to contact someone in the NYCLU that can assist me in doing this. Can you refer me to someone at the NYCLU?
Thanks for your message. I don't know anyone at the NYCLU but you can probably just visit their website, get their contact information and call them. If you don't have any success reaching anyone, let me know and I will do some more digging.
Saw it coming months ago I was told wake up , trump has your brain yada yada yada Tell trum call reps but our senators are democratic both Our courts will stop him I see scotus really stopping anything wtf happened I don’t know passing big beautiful bill and you know it’s wrong hmmm or taking away birth right citizenship Americans elected him
Democrats already standing together except fetterman and he wants to go to beach 2 democratic senators and blue state don’t think I would have influence over people that are liked minded red states republican reps do not care about constituents no town halls and liens
I can’t pretend I’m not scared, but as I’ve told several other journalist, including Olga and Aaron Parnas, the following: Just have a plan B, a safe house because all the journalist could be come for so easily all at once. It could be a big surprise. I’m sorry maybe I’m being paranoid but I’m also very scared.🩵
We knew this was what was coming. God knows we cried it from the tree tops. Trump is clearly planning to get rid of anyone he dislikes, naturalized or native born (homegrown). If birthright citizenship doesn’t protect you then logically nothing does. We homegrowns can only claim citizenship based on our birth.
This cannot be allowed to go forward. If the courts won’t protect us we will have to find other ways. I strongly advise people to consider moving overseas. I don’t think we will have midterm elections, and Trump will be with us until he dies.
This is a really scary read, but important for everyone to understand. This is not about migrants, its about seizing power. I do hope people have a plan, have an out strategy in place, a just in case as these times are so unpredictable. Can you imagine a refugee crisis coming to Europe and Canada from the US? Its insane. Its Gilead.
All the talk about what’s going to happen in the 2026 elections has been striking me as premature and a bit naive. What are the odds of having free and fair elections in 2026? Will every major city be occupied by the federalized National Guard by then? Will Democratic governors, mayors, and state attorney generals be arrested? Will the data supplied through DOGE to Palantir allow for the creation of political watch lists of dissidents (having voted Democratic will be enough to get one classified as such) who will be threatened with prosecution, denaturalization, and deportation to foreign gulags? This doesn’t seem crazy now, does it?
Olga Lautman just reported that they are creating a national database of citizens to insure free and fair elections. If they federalize election administration then presumably they can also know who everyone voted for.
Actually your voting registration by party is public record—at least in my state it is. But yes, Olga was among the first to call out the database issue, what was really going on with DOGE, and the dangers that paralleled what she knows from Putin’s Russia. I heard her months ago, and it spooked me.
Yes, they’re definitely going to put together data that previously had been compartmented in different agencies so they can “profile” anyone in great detail, from tax and financial information to voting records and health records, etc. This is the complete destruction of privacy and state terrorism.
Unfortunately, the situations you discuss are a potential for any form of government. We have always been "taught" that the system of checks and balances would mitigate against a dictator assuming total control. That may be true as far as it goes, but it only works when the "check and balance" branches assume their role. Obviously the Legislative branch is, if not firmly under the control of the executive, at least close to it. The judicial branch holds out the remaining hope for meaningful checking of executive abuse. Even the most recent ruling on the birthright "case" did not affirm the executive order; it only said that a single judge did not have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions. I realize that one side is bemoaning even that right now, but they wouldn't have several years ago when a single judge attempted to rescind FDA approval of that abortion drug.
Unfortunately, the system will have to work the way it was designed--in other words, slow, cumbersome, and inefficient, favoring only the legal profession--before we know how that perticular issue will be resolved.
As for denaturalization, unfortunately, 8 U.S.C. § 1451 - U.S. Code - "Unannotated Title 8. Aliens and Nationality § 1451. Revocation of naturalization," is written in typical vague legalese and could be applied as a political weapon. Once again, the judiciary would have to take its glacial time in review. I appreciate that that is little comfort for those who may be facing such a situation, but that is the best that can be done under the prevailing conditions.
Oh, and careful consideration in the selection of future candidates might not be a bad thing to keep in mind.
And for those who might be thinking of espousing more drastic measures, keep in mind that no matter how crazy their leader is, his followers are much worse! And FAR better armed than a few "antifas" with smoke bombs.
I believe that the basic truth is that Donald Trump just really, really hates America. He has never been able to get the ‘respect’ he thinks he deserves. He’s not out to make America great again. He’s out to make America grovel at his feet. https://open.substack.com/pub/jonthinks/p/donald-trump-hates-america?r=mrvx1&utm_medium=ios
Get out of my country.
In the final analysis, the Second Amendment provides your only real hope for protection, and without your willingness to forcefully, perhaps even lethally, exert your rights under that amendment, you are indeed at the whims of the madman and his toadies. If a gulag is really to be your fate, what do you have to lose by sending some of them to meet their maker?
So, join a well regulated militia. I hear that Idaho has loads of them.
And, do you really think that will be an effective strategy? How'd that work out for the Symbionese Liberation Army, or the Weather Underground?
Thank you for shining the light on this. The only way to fight this, IMO, is for there to be SO MANY people on the enemy list that we can break them with numbers. Resistance of any kind always fails if each person stands alone.
Julie, I think someone is falsely using my name on Facebook and your comment sections. I am just an old, fat white guy from New Jersey not that that commie fascist using my name to criticize our Dear Leader.
Exhausting and depressing. Alas, that’s part of the plan.
Hi Julie,
I read your post today, This is Really Frightening. The enforcement of denaturalization would likely fall to ICE. I want to help fund a lawsuit against DHS for unlawful ICE enforcement, and deliberately spreading fear in communities. I am willing to commit my own resources, up to ten thousand ($10, 000), if there is a chance that a District Court could set a precedent of any kind to stop this madness against mostly innocent people. I live in New York, and am a member of Hudson Valley Strong Indivisible. You previously responded to an earlier comment of mine.
To be clear, I want to fund a lawsuit focused only on ICE’s tactics: wearing masks, refusing to properly identify themselves, not having judicial warrants, committing battery - even on pregnant women, kidnapping people, etc. I am not interested in a lawsuit that includes the much broader blocking of removals under the Alien Enemies Act.
To this effect, I want to contact someone in the NYCLU that can assist me in doing this. Can you refer me to someone at the NYCLU?
Thanks Julie,
Nick Sussillo
Paid Subscriber
(c) 575-654-0690
nick52rc@gmail.com
Hi Nick,
Thanks for your message. I don't know anyone at the NYCLU but you can probably just visit their website, get their contact information and call them. If you don't have any success reaching anyone, let me know and I will do some more digging.
Hi Julie,
I contacted NYCLU.
Their cases require a plaintiff and cost several hundred thousand each.
States Attorneys do not need a plaintiff.
If you google: what are BLUE State Attorneys General doing to restrain ICE,
you will see current plans for this.
for now, I am going to do some volunteering for NYCLU.
Thanks Julie,
I will contact Donna Lieberman, NYCLU Executive Director, as well as the number for donations andl et you know what I find out.
Nick
Saw it coming months ago I was told wake up , trump has your brain yada yada yada Tell trum call reps but our senators are democratic both Our courts will stop him I see scotus really stopping anything wtf happened I don’t know passing big beautiful bill and you know it’s wrong hmmm or taking away birth right citizenship Americans elected him
Democrats already standing together except fetterman and he wants to go to beach 2 democratic senators and blue state don’t think I would have influence over people that are liked minded red states republican reps do not care about constituents no town halls and liens
I can’t pretend I’m not scared, but as I’ve told several other journalist, including Olga and Aaron Parnas, the following: Just have a plan B, a safe house because all the journalist could be come for so easily all at once. It could be a big surprise. I’m sorry maybe I’m being paranoid but I’m also very scared.🩵
We knew this was what was coming. God knows we cried it from the tree tops. Trump is clearly planning to get rid of anyone he dislikes, naturalized or native born (homegrown). If birthright citizenship doesn’t protect you then logically nothing does. We homegrowns can only claim citizenship based on our birth.
This cannot be allowed to go forward. If the courts won’t protect us we will have to find other ways. I strongly advise people to consider moving overseas. I don’t think we will have midterm elections, and Trump will be with us until he dies.
This is a really scary read, but important for everyone to understand. This is not about migrants, its about seizing power. I do hope people have a plan, have an out strategy in place, a just in case as these times are so unpredictable. Can you imagine a refugee crisis coming to Europe and Canada from the US? Its insane. Its Gilead.
How do we stop this? Is the next step a Maidan type war in the streets?
All the talk about what’s going to happen in the 2026 elections has been striking me as premature and a bit naive. What are the odds of having free and fair elections in 2026? Will every major city be occupied by the federalized National Guard by then? Will Democratic governors, mayors, and state attorney generals be arrested? Will the data supplied through DOGE to Palantir allow for the creation of political watch lists of dissidents (having voted Democratic will be enough to get one classified as such) who will be threatened with prosecution, denaturalization, and deportation to foreign gulags? This doesn’t seem crazy now, does it?
Olga Lautman just reported that they are creating a national database of citizens to insure free and fair elections. If they federalize election administration then presumably they can also know who everyone voted for.
Actually your voting registration by party is public record—at least in my state it is. But yes, Olga was among the first to call out the database issue, what was really going on with DOGE, and the dangers that paralleled what she knows from Putin’s Russia. I heard her months ago, and it spooked me.
Oops youre right it is public. I think whats new is the consolidation of this information at the federal level.
Yes, they’re definitely going to put together data that previously had been compartmented in different agencies so they can “profile” anyone in great detail, from tax and financial information to voting records and health records, etc. This is the complete destruction of privacy and state terrorism.
https://substack.com/@hansmeyer360/note/p-167213571?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=x9kj
Unfortunately, the situations you discuss are a potential for any form of government. We have always been "taught" that the system of checks and balances would mitigate against a dictator assuming total control. That may be true as far as it goes, but it only works when the "check and balance" branches assume their role. Obviously the Legislative branch is, if not firmly under the control of the executive, at least close to it. The judicial branch holds out the remaining hope for meaningful checking of executive abuse. Even the most recent ruling on the birthright "case" did not affirm the executive order; it only said that a single judge did not have the authority to issue nationwide injunctions. I realize that one side is bemoaning even that right now, but they wouldn't have several years ago when a single judge attempted to rescind FDA approval of that abortion drug.
Unfortunately, the system will have to work the way it was designed--in other words, slow, cumbersome, and inefficient, favoring only the legal profession--before we know how that perticular issue will be resolved.
As for denaturalization, unfortunately, 8 U.S.C. § 1451 - U.S. Code - "Unannotated Title 8. Aliens and Nationality § 1451. Revocation of naturalization," is written in typical vague legalese and could be applied as a political weapon. Once again, the judiciary would have to take its glacial time in review. I appreciate that that is little comfort for those who may be facing such a situation, but that is the best that can be done under the prevailing conditions.
Oh, and careful consideration in the selection of future candidates might not be a bad thing to keep in mind.
And for those who might be thinking of espousing more drastic measures, keep in mind that no matter how crazy their leader is, his followers are much worse! And FAR better armed than a few "antifas" with smoke bombs.
And as a favor for Bukele,& his "loyalty" he's dropping charges against MS-13 members & sending them back, so they won't testify against Bukele! 😡