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…Then they came for the journalists…
Dictatorships require the elimination of four things: the government, the press, the courts, and the people.
The regime currently hunkered down at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. has got the republican-majority House and Senate completely cowed. Republican lawmakers, state and federal, have abdicated their commitment to the oaths they took for fear of MAGA brown shirts doxing them and their families, attacking their homes, or — heaven forbid — primarying them, which may result in them losing their seats like former reps Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, who both lost their re-elections to MAGA sycophants.
So the government is gone.
Last week’s arrest of federal judge Hannah Dugan for allegedly “misdirecting federal agents away from the subject to be arrested in her courthouse, allowing the subject — an illegal alien — to evade arrest” is attempting to send the message to other judges and lawyers they dare not even think about following this thing called the “rule of law” if it in any way flies in the face of political ideology.
While Hannah Dugan is the first, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt warned the press that arresting Supreme Court justices is not off the table.
And speaking of the press…
