Years ago, I used to wonder just how the good people of Germany in the 1930s allowed Hitler to take power, an allowance that directly resulted in the deaths of ~17 million people—military and civilian men, women and children. This included six million innocent Jews for having committed the crime of being born into the Hebrew culture.

Of course, Hitler also had a strong influence on the other two Axis nations, Japan and Italy, both autocratic governments. The WW2 death toll in all was between 70 million and 85 million people, including tens of millions of military and civilian casualties on all sides. Note that Trump tends to side with dictators of other countries and against NATO and the European Union. Hmm, seems to be a pattern here.

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Addemdems:

Prediction No. 2, Trump will not willingly leave the White House in 2029.

Trump is going to use the massive, peaceful protest on OCTOBER 18 (which I intend to join) as an excuse to declare a national emergency, invoke the Insurrection Act, and attempt to suspend, or more likely, forcefully control the mid-term elections by intimidating voters with a show of military might and possibly seize the voting machines in predominantly Democratic districts.

If the judiciary orders him to stop his autocratic power grab, he will ignore them. At that point, we can count only on commanding officers of the military to refuse to assist him by citing their pledge to the Constitution.

I expect, then, that some trumped-up (pun intended), goosestepping, heel clicking loyalist commanders whom Trump has installed will heed his call to trample, or even shoot the protesters, which he once suggested in his first term (per Mark Esper, Trump’s Secretary of Defense in his first term, during an interview with Norah O’Donnell).

We can only hope at that point that commanders of honor, true patriots, will intervene, depose Trump and (my wet dream) install Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, or AOC as president (any combination of the three) and one other of the three as vice president.

This addendum will unfold, but likely in various ways. However, the core prediction—his declaration of the Insurrection Act and national emergency—will still come to pass. I’m curious to see if his SCOTUS will attempt to stop him.

PREDICTIONS:

1. I read a piece about Artificial Intelligence in “The Guardian” the other day ‘My son genuinely believed it was real’: Parents are letting little kids play with AI. Are they wrong?. It occurred to me that Trump and his loyalist appointees will team with AI billionaires to use, and likely already are using Artificial Intelligence to groom very young children and teens to love the macho manosphere—Friedrich Nietzsche’s and the evangelical dream of muscular supermen who are “meant” to rule over and use women, dominate the weak, have no empathy for those less mentally or physically or financially fortunate, (especially if they are not of anglo decent) and have no regard for whom they hurt, even the children left traumatized. Diversity, empathy, and inclusion are to be eradicated from society, and praise for “ze Leadah” is to be all we hear.

We see this growing daily now as Trump builds his MAGA army of unidentified masked thugs and urges the armed forces to use American cities to hone their battle skills by terrorizing migrants and citizens alike.

As I’ve said many times before, while most people continue to say, “it can’t happen here,” it damn well indeed is happening here, and the more we ignore it, the worse it will get. Yes, it is happening to other people right now, but it’s just getting started. The appetites of brutal, narcissistic, picture-posting leaders can never be satisfied.

So, how much are we going to give him? Our free speech is already under full assault. The free press is now caving to his demands. He ignores the Constitution with impunity because he has completely politicised the Justice Department and the Supreme Court. He has now been given approval by the SCOTUS for his army of masked thugs to terrorize the populations of a growing number of cities. He controls all three branches of government thanks to his sycophantic Republican party denying approval of constitutionally loyal democratic appointees and appointing only justices loyal only to him. The SCOTUS has effectively become an arm of the White House.

2. Trump will not willingly leave the White House in 2029. The second insurrection is already ongoing. The only caveat will be if Trump decides to pass his bloody sword over to Donald Trump Jr. The next presidential election, if it happens, will not matter even if the Democrats win the House and Senate in 2026. Trump will use his masked, MAGA Gestapo, and the military, soon to be staffed with loyalist leaders, to keep his family in power. There will be blood in 2028, or sooner.

3. There will never be a two-state solution to the Gaza-Israel debacle. The Likud Party of Netanyahu will occupy Gaza and the West Bank for a few years, then annex them and push most or all Palestinians out of their homes, confiscating their land just as they did within a few years after England and the USA appropriated Palestinian land to create the nation of Israel, sparking over three-quarters of a century of bitter hatred and bloodshed.