Welcome to the MAGA Police State.

Elephants circle to protect the most vulnerable.

Welcome to the MAGA Police State.

You don’t have to wonder when.

By Keith Thomas

https://substack.com/@bykeiththomas

5/2/2025

It’s already here.

            How do you define a “Police State?” Here’s what Merriam-Webster says: 

Police state, noun: a political unit characterized by repressive governmental control of political, economic, and social life usually by an arbitrary exercise of power by police and especially secret police in place of regular operation of administrative and judicial organs of the government according to publicly known legal procedures.[1]

            Here’s what’s going on in the United States of America right now.

• Trump said that he wanted to be dictator and now he is.
• Chief Justice Robert’s court gave Trump complete immunity.
• MAGA Republicans in the House and Senate have given their authority to Trump.
• Trump is openly defying court orders including those of his Supreme Court.
• Due process guaranteed by our Constitution is being ignored.
• The DOJ under Pam Bondi is threatening anyone and any group that is perceived as an enemy of the state, including elected officials and private citizens.
• The military is being purged of women and people of color.
• Media is being threatened for reporting the truth.
• The destruction of our civil rights.
• Discrimination against immigrants, LGBTQIA, minorities, and women is being encouraged.
• Constitutional freedoms are being suspended by the state.
• Books along with certain words and phrases like women, underprivileged, discrimination, equality, diversity, equity, inclusion, climate change are being banned and removed.[2]
• Civil servants are being fired for appearing to be disloyal to MAGA.
• Masked government agents are grabbing American citizens off the streets and disappearing them.
• People are being arrested for speaking out against the state.
• The United States at Trump’s direction now has a gulag in El Salvador that can hold up to 40,000 people under inhumane conditions.
• Alienating America from our democracy allies.
• Science and all the benefits it has provided are being discredited.
• Medical research is being curtailed.
• Voter suppression laws are being passed in MAGA states.
• MAGA is asserting control of schools and their ideology is being forced upon education.
• Contributions of minorities and women are being erased from history and white culture emphasized.
• The fascist Christian Nationalists of the Heritage foundation, creators of Project 2025, are working to support their dictator.
• The constitutional separation of church and state is being removed in order to teach Trump fascist MAGA Christianity and Nazi Jesus.

            An administration dominated by elite billionaires and incompetence is taking our country back to a time when ignorance ruled and large groups of people like women, minorities, gays, people of color, and the poor were oppressed.

What do you think?

Is it happening now?

Think we are there yet?

Or do we have a ways to go?

It’s only a matter of time.

What can we do?

Circle the wagons to protect the most vulnerable.

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[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/police%20state

[2] https://newrepublic.com/article/192631/trump-speech-code-deleted-words

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Trumptanic

Trumptanic

AKA The Trump Depression

By Keith Thomas

4/30/25

There’s more than one way to be depressed

Okay, passengers on the bad ship Trumptanic, it’s time! The Trumptanic is heading for the economy berg at full speed. The MAGAunaires are loading up as much loot as they can on their personal lifeboats.

How about you? What do you have to load onto your lifeboat?

Since average Americans are in steerage probably the same as us. No bags of cash to load. No economic safe havens. No fail-safe houses of prosperity for the working class. We just wait for the economic crash to happen and will do what we can to survive and minimize the damage. The poor have it even worse.

Meanwhile Captain Trump of the Trumptanic is NOT going down with the ship. Trump and his fellow billionaires are looting the country. The so-called “Captains of Industry” are true to form stuffing their pockets with as much cash as they can grift off of the economy.[1] Historian Heather Cox Richardson provides an excellent breakdown here. Trump spawn, just like their daddy, are grifting right out in the open with incredible pay to play schemes and pump and dump stock market manipulation.[2]

Buy low, sell high.

Upcoming events.

            Recession? Depression? Which comes first? Do you know the difference.[3] Odds are high that you soon will. Real high. It’s already started.

Not coming soon to store shelves near you![4] Warehouses are emptying of inventory.[5] In addition to building the most ships[6] (The US ranks 14^th) China also dominates the container ship market.[7] Container ship traffic to US ports is already down 45%.[8] To provide an idea of what that means is there are 700,000 fewer truckloads of goods to be delivered.[9] (Ships spend around 30 days in transit.)

            MAGA cultists are now saying that they’re willing to suffer through some pain and belt tightening in order to accomplish their Führer’s goals as he along with his Red State Congress members work to establish the Trump Reich. The problem is that their Führer didn’t campaign on causing them pain. He campaigned on a Golden Age from the git-go.

            When industry starts laying people off due to supply chain shortages because people don’t have the money to purchase goods and services or pay for their internet there will be a ripple effect throughout the entire country. People will lose homes, savings and livelihood. There will be food shortages.

There is zero way to predict what is going to happen if no one stops Trump, but one thing we know for sure.

It will be way ugly.

The other side.

And after this Trumptanic debacle runs its course the cost of everything will stay higher. Prices will roll back some but won’t go all the way back to where this started; they never do. Corporations will make up for their losses as much as they can. We consumers will pay the price.

            Our nation will have made enemies out of other nations and people that will last for generations. People in the world will remember family members and others starving to death. People will remember all that they lost.

Especially the loss of trust in the US’s government.

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[1] https://www.forbes.com/sites/beccabratcher/2025/01/19/trump-coin-sparks-fury-as-industry-grapples-with-pump-and-dump-dread/

[2] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-market-manipulation-tariffs-pump-dump-b2730783.html

[3] https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/economic-recession-vs-depression-difference

[4] https://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/this-is-why-empty-shelves-and-painful-shortages-of-certain-items-are-coming/

[5] https://thehill.com/business/domestic-taxes/5267850-us-china-tariff-disruptions/

[6] https://www.visualcapitalist.com/countries-dominate-global-shipbuilding/

[7] https://www.scmp.com/economy/global-economy/article/3155405/china-shipping-its-monopoly-containers-its-critical-role

[8] https://www.jalopnik.com/1845467/west-coast-port-shipping-declining-tariffs/

[9] https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/22/busiest-us-ports-see-big-drop-in-chinese-freight-vessel-traffic.html

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Making Aryans Great Again

Making Aryans Great Again

MAGA racism

By Keith Thomas

4/27/2025, 2 pages

Core values

            The MAGA movement of Trump is racist.

            Being anti-DEI is racist. Anti-DEI people are essentially saying that they’re against hiring qualified people of color, other minorities or women before hiring a less qualified white man to a position. MAGA wants to discriminate. MAGA needs to discriminate. MAGA wants a white American history taught. That’s why they’re banning anything that has an emphasis on women or minorities and erasing their history.[1] It’s why the Trump administration has so many racists in its employ.[2]

Misogyny is another core MAGA Christo-fascist value. One of the first people fired, along with a black General Charles Q. Brown Jr., was the woman commandant of the Coast Guard, Admiral Linda Lee Fagan, as well as 4 other top military leaders.[3] [4] [5]

            A cornerstone of Trump’s MAGA movement is doing away with protections provided by the Civil Rights Act. MAGA opposes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. MAGA OPPOSES People of Color because they are all less qualified than white people in their white supremacist world view.

            Here’s what the title of the Civil Rights Act says:

An Act to enforce the constitutional right to vote, to confer jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States of America to provide injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, to authorize the Attorney General to institute suits to protect constitutional rights in public facilities and public education, to extend the Commission on Civil Rights, to prevent discrimination in federally assisted programs, to establish a Commission on Equal Employment Opportunity, and for other purposes.[6]

The entire point of the act is to prevent qualified people of color, women, and minorities from being discriminated against and passed over simply because they aren’t white.

            Racism is at the very core of Trump’s MAGA movement and Trump himself. He will accept wealthy people of color since the worship of money is another core MAGA value. That’s why Trump voters have NOT wavered in their support of Trump.[7] They do NOT have buyers’ remorse. They absolutely do not care if Trump fucks them over. Their “suffering” is for the greater good of white supremacy. It’s their way of…

Taking one for Team Racist MAGA.

No amateurs

Racism isn’t new to Trump’s family. Trump’s father Fred Trump was arrested at a KKK rally but that’s about all that is known regarding his direct involvement.[8] Remember Fred and Donald Trump violated the Fair Housing Act by not renting apartments to black people?[9] Trump and his father, Fred Trump, were charged with racial discrimination under the Fair Housing Act regarding them not letting “colored” people rent apartments. They settled with the government without admitting guilt.

I’m not going to bother with end notes linking all of the racist comments and actions of Trump over the years though there have been some standout videos. I would be remiss though if I didn’t mention all of the fascist neo-Nazis and white supremacists that keep popping up in his administration and cult of followers.[10]

Now MAGA is imposing their racist world view on America. They want schools to teach the history of white people. MAGA wants less government by putting the Führer Trump MAGA government overseer of everything from education to the military and all that’s in between.

MAGA for a whiter fascist America.

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[1] https://orlandoadvocate.com/the-smithsonian-purge-trump-team-removes-artifacts-of-black-resistance/

[2] https://www.splcenter.org/resources/hatewatch/bigoted-beliefs-racist-ties-found-among-president-trumps-appointees/

[3] https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/01/21/trump-administration-fires-coast-guard-commandant-adm-linda-fagan.html

[4] https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-fires-coast-guard-commandant-over-dei-security-fox-news-reports-2025-01-21/

[5] https://www.npr.org/2025/02/22/nx-s1-5305781/president-trump-fires-6-top-level-military-officers-a-retired-rear-admiral-reacts

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964

[7] https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2025/04/16/cnns_enten_if_theres_some_idea_out_there_that_trump_supporters_are_regretting_their_vote_it_does_not_exist.html

[8] https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-father-kkk-1927/

[9] https://clearinghouse.net/case/15342/

[10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_and_fascism

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