Nina-Bytes: A Portable Pork Reich Dictatorship

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A Dictatorship Anywhere, Is a Dictatorship Everywhere

Recently I’ve been writing a lot on my Fediverse blog about the larger issues around the Trumpenreich’s ongoing invasion of LA, as it pertains to the Swine Emperor’s clear intention to transform the United States into a fascist dictatorship. There is no insurrection in Los Angeles. Right now most of the soldiers the regime has sent to the city are standing guard outside the federal building in downtown LA,  looking bored and uncomfortable, which raises the question of what the hell is Trump actually doing here? As I laid out over the course of numerous posts, I believe that Stephen Miller’s invasion is a tip of the spear action that has already intentionally established a repeatable legal, logistical, and political framework for transforming the National Guard and indeed the US military, into the enforcement arm of a permanent authoritarian police state under the constant threat of something akin to martial law.

While it’s certainly no cause to celebrate, it turns out I wouldn’t have to wait long for my hypothesis to be proven correct. During a recent congressional oversight hearing, Trump’s overmatched crusader Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, all but admitted that a ready to activate militarized invasion force controlled entirely by the fascist federal government is precisely what the Trumpenreich is trying to assemble and sanctify in real time. For more details about the Trump Regime and in particular hate goblin Stephen Miller’s plans to create a portable police state dictatorship, let’s turn to this report by Jake Johnson, published by Common Dreams on June 10th, 2025.

Hegseth Lays Out a Case for Troop Deployments in ‘Any Jurisdiction in the Country’

“U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told members of Congress on Tuesday that he believes Immigration and Customs Enforcement “has the right to safely conduct operations in any state and any jurisdiction in the country.”

Given that Hegseth and President Donald Trump have cast the National Guard and U.S. Marine deployments to Los Angeles as an effort to protect ICE personnel as they carry out the administration’s mass deportation campaign, the Pentagon chief’s testimony to lawmakers represented a justification for troop mobilizations to any part of the nation where protests against ICE are deemed a potential threat.”

To completely understand what Trump’s crusader Secretary of Defense is getting at here, you have to place it in the larger context of the regime’s fascist mass deportation project, and the conditions which administration officials, including President Trump himself have outlined to “justify” escalation and additional military involvement. Crucially, this includes accounting for the Trump regime’s ability to coordinate multiple security forces, including the ICE Gestapo, the Kash Patel-run FBI, and ideologically sympathetic local law enforcement agencies. With Hegseth’s proposal in place, and a little cooperation among Trump-loyal actors, the regime can both cause the inciting incidents that allow them to summon the Army to a given location, and then use those military forces to essentially enforce Trump’s (often illegal) policies even over the objections of local elected officials. The rough process by which the regime is arguing it can now actively conduct a fascist takeover of the broader American state at every level of government, looks a bit like this:

A) Send ICE Gestapo squads along with other federal agents to any city Trump regards as ideologically opposed to his fascist agenda, then begin kidnapping brown people while very publicly and aggressively violating civil rights.

B) Declare any protests or opposition to those nazi ICE raids and tactics, no matter how nonviolent, lawful or peaceful they may be, to be an insurrection and an attack on federal law enforcement. Use that attack, even if you have to make it up whole cloth, to justify commandeering a state’s own National Guard to enforce Trump’s rule militarily, while actively tasking them with protecting ICE Gestapo agents conducting raids. This of course conveniently gets around the legal restrictions that have previously prevented Trump from using the army to conduct ethno-nationalist immigration enforcement policies and mass deportations.

C) As Trump himself has proposed, respond to any “attack” (which again, we know they can just make up) on National Guard forces, by sending in the US Military and presumably invoking the Insurrection Act to place the targeted city under martial law and Trump’s de facto command.

Please note that the only part of this outline that’s still hypothetical is invoking the Insurrection Act; and while Trump hasn’t actually done it yet, numerous powerful nazis in his administration have hinted that is the direction they’re heading, including Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth himself, and Trump’s press secretary Karoline Leavitt who at least in theory speaks for the president. Are these assclowns seriously about to go full Franco and start invading parts of the country that won’t align ideologically with Trump’s fascist agenda? I don’t know, but are you prepared to bet they aren’t, given what we’re watching happen in LA? With my deepest apologies to Maya Angelou for repeating her words so often, “when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.” How many times does Trump’s fascist movement have to prove they are dead serious about installing Der Leader as a dictator, before the reality sinks in that while these guys might not be capable of grasping as much power as they desire, they abso-fucking-lutely mean to try regardless?

What Hegseth just openly described to Congress is an arbitrarily deployable framework for a fascist police state enforced by a US military that answers only to Trump, which can be conjured up out of thin air and portably deployed around the country at will. The Trumpenreich is arguing that they can effectively commandeer the National Guard troops necessary to enforce Trump’s edicts as law virtually anywhere, which in essence means they already have troops to enforce Der Leader’s edicts everywhere. As such the Swine Emperor is effectively announcing his immanent takeover of the entire country, by demonstrating on the streets of LA that he can instantly take over any given part of that country and unless local officials are prepared to fight the fucking National Guard and or US Army, there’s sweet fuck all they can do about it; or at least, so the regime openly says.

Folks, I am not a gambling woman and analysis isn’t prophecy, but this situation is really starting to have a fait accompli vibe to it. Trump already has troops on the ground in LA, they’re already accompanying Gestapo pigs on raids and training to detain American protestors, and local authorities are already coordinating to suppress antifascist protests even while decrying the Klepto Kaiser’s invasion. When I listen to powerful regime figures speak to the media, watch Trump activate the California National Guard to stop an insurrection we all saw not happening on livestream, and see the LAPD gleefully join with the nazis to argue stopping fascist ICE raids is a justification to revoke civil rights and engage in unconscionable security state violence, this doesn’t sound like we’re talking about a hypothetical or impeding fascist dictatorship anymore.

At least so far as the regime believes, the absolute reign of Swing Emperor Trump is clearly already here.

 

 

– Nina Illingworth

 

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