Like Lewis' fictional Minute Men, TOM creates a specialized branch of Natl Guard

 

Aug 26, 2025 (218/1461)

It Can’t Happen Here. And yet it is. Before our very eyes. Just as Sinclair Lewis predicted and scripted. TOM is now establishing “specialized” National Guard units. With the stroke of a pen, he is weaponizing our military against us. Lewis writes: “Windrip outlaws dissent, incarcerates political enemies in concentration camps, and trains and arms a paramilitary force called the "Minute Men" (named after the Revolutionary War militias of the same name), who terrorize citizens and enforce the policies of a corporatist regime.” Sound familiar? Yes, this is the plot of a piece of fiction which is coming to life every day. “The Minute Men respond to protests harshly, attacking demonstrators with bayonets.” And here we have “specialized” National Guard forces who are also being allowed to carry sidearms.

“President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday tasking his secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, with establishing “specialized units” in the National Guard that will be “specifically trained and equipped to deal with public order issues” — the clearest sign yet he intends to expand the US military’s role in domestic law enforcement activities across the country.

Under the newly signed order, Hegseth is charged with “ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law.” A primary mission of the National Guard is already to be trained and available to assist law enforcement with public safety, often at the request of their state’s governor.”

TOMs new tactic against Fed Chair J Powell is to go after his people. TOM sent a letter to Fed Governor Lisa Cook, informing her she was fired. As of now. For no cause.

“In his monthslong battle to take control of the Federal Reserve, President Trump has tried threats, name-calling and — in one particularly memorable news conference with a hard-hat-wearing Jerome H. Powell — public humiliation. But he has always stopped short of the step that advisers warned could roil financial markets and upend a pillar of the global economy: attempting to fire a Fed official. Mr. Trump’s target was not Mr. Powell, the Fed chair, at least for now. Instead it was Lisa Cook, one of the Fed’s six other governors. The president, in a letter, said he was removing Ms. Cook “for cause,” citing allegations of mortgage fraud. Ms. Cook has not been charged with any crime.

But Mr. Trump has made little secret of his true aim. He wants to control the Fed.

Janet L. Yellen, who was Mr. Powell’s immediate predecessor as Fed chair and later served as Treasury secretary under President Joseph R. Biden Jr., said she was “utterly alarmed” by the move.

“I feel this is now turned into an all-out assault on the Federal Reserve and an attempt by President Trump to really gain control over decision-making at the Fed,” she said.” Cook is of course standing her ground, having done nothing wrong. And is turning around and filing a suit against TOM. As she should. The dollar tanked on the news and the stock market will make its statement as the day comes to an end.

The Revenge Tour will continue in Maryland, and this time against a TOM judicial appointee who handed down a big NO for him. “A federal judge on Tuesday threw out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Maryland’s entire federal bench in an emphatic ruling that underscored the extraordinary nature of the suit, slamming it as “potentially calamitous.”

U.S. District Judge Thomas Cullen, who was nominated by President Donald Trump, also criticized the administration’s attacks on the judiciary, highlighting in a footnote that White House officials in recent months had described judges as “rogue,” “unhinged” and “crooked,” among other epithets. At issue in the lawsuit was an order by the chief judge of the Maryland district court that stopped the immediate deportation of migrants challenging their removals. The Justice Department said the automatic pause impeded the president’s authority to enforce immigration laws, and it sought a court order blocking it.

Cullen said allowing the suit to continue “would run counter to overwhelming precedent, depart from longstanding constitutional tradition, and offend the rule of law.” Bravo, Judge Cullen. You will likely pay a hefty verbal-assault price for sticking to your guns, the law, and your ethics, but all the D’s are on your side.

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