THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

Listen to Donald T****.

“For years, those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today, and it must stop right now.

“That kind of speech is now subject to a person or entity potentially being deemed a domestic terrorism threat. Anyone who espouses ‘anti-Americanism,’ anti-capitalism, and anti-Christianity, support for the overthrow of the United States Government; extremism on migration, race, and gender; and hostility towards those who hold traditional American views on family, religion, and morality is subject to suspicion.  I can do it. I’m the president of the United States. I have the right to do whatever i want.”

Dictatorship. Fascism. Suppression of the 1st Amendment freedoms. Terrorizing and cowing the population. It’s all out in there his own words. He thinks he can do anything he wants. Break any law, do anything. And up to now, that may be true. 

Article 1 provisions of the Constitution regarding Congressional control of the pursestrings and international commerce are not suggestions. They represent the highest law in the land. Yet at his whim T****  breaks those laws.  

He believes he has the authority to murder citizens of other countries on the high seas, kidnap the leaders of sovereign nations, deploy masked, unidentifiable persons onto American streets to detain, arrest,  murder, incarcerate, “disappear” and deport anyone he pleases without even the pretense of due proc

T**** alibis these through the expedient of declaring a “national emergency, As of November 2025, he has declared over a dozen such declarations: a cybersecurity emergency, trade-related emergencies against Canada, Mexico, Canada, China, and Brazil, drug cartel emergencies, a trade deficit emergency (which the US has been running for some 50 years), and crime emergencies in American “blue” cities. 

The Constitution does not define what constitutes a national  emergency, thus leaving the matter to Congress. Over time, Congress has passed laws that formalize presidential and federal emergency power. These definitions and mechanisms exist in only in federal law.

But since T**** believes he can violate any law he wants whenever he wants to, federal statues have little or no meaning to him. And so we are left with a government run by an autocratic wannabe who believes he holds the reins of government in his hands alone.  

So far, the lower courts have done a tolerably good job at reigning in many of T***’s most egregious transgressions. The jury is still out on which side his hand-picked Supreme Court justices will fall. However, let’s not forget his court-given power to break any law he wishes without being held accountable. 

Elections? Will of the people? Not a problem for Donald T****. In truth, there may never be another national election, fair or otherwise. His people are already talking up the possibility of him remaining in office after January 2028. Ignoring the 22nd Amendment, they have begun a “T**** in 2028” movement. They sell “T**** in ’28” merch and have raised millions of dollars in pursuit of this unconstitutional goal. 

Their plan to control the electoral outcomes is part of their “Project 2025” master plan and has been in play since the Republican’s election defeat on 2020. T****’s MAGA’s hold both houses of legislature in 28 states. There are 26 Republican governors and 23 states in which the Republicans hold a “trifecta: both houses and the governorship. Some dozen of these have passed harsh and racially-biased laws suppressing the rights of Black and Brown people to vote. And in well over half the states, the MAGA’s have infiltrated their people into virtually all essential operations of the election processes, up to and including who counts and certifies the votes. 

T****’s plan is out in the open. In the run-up to the fall elections, T**** will start a war or two, create a crisis or two, and through his ICE Brownshirts provoke massive violence in the streets in order to cause the erosion of social and civil order. He will then invoke the Insurrection Act, declare a national emergency and invoke martial law. The plan is already in the works. 

Multiple reputable outlets have identified an internal Administration memo that T**** is planning a “National Guard Response Force” trained in crowd control and civl unrest, to be deployed across all 50 states. These are intended to be rapid-response units with civil-disturbance/crowd-control capabilities. The target date for this cannot be confirmed but is presumed to be by April 2026.

To what purpose does Donald want riot-trained soldiers ready to deploy across the country? A summary look at next year’s mid-term elections is educational. April is just two months before the June primaries, and the election season will heat up and reach a fever point by October. T****’s popularity doesn’t extend much past the roughly 35% of the electorate that constitutes his base, and MAGA’s outlook in the off-season elections looks bad.

The specter of masked ICE and customs agents roaming the streets and shooting down innocent citizens is already a reality. They will be patrolling long lines of voters created by Republican voter-suppression legislation at voting precincts, terrorizing targeted populations which, as approved by the Supreme Court, includes all profiled Hispanic-looking and Spanish speaking people. Add to that the vision of armed soldiers, with weapons at port-arms, standing guard at polling places to intimidate voters, and you have T****’s version of “free and fair” elections. 

And finally, do not doubt for a minute that JD Vance will refuse to perform his constitutional duty and certify the 2028 election if the Democrats win. Nor should anyone doubt that T**** will refuse to vacate the Oval Office if the Republicans lose. He tried that once before and almost got away with it. 

This is what we’re looking at: neither the Constitution or any law matters to T**** or his MAGA cronies who are running our government. These people play by their own rules and do not plan to give up their power voluntarily. They know that if they become just plain citizens again, a lot of them are going to jail.

Free and fair elections in 2026 and 2028? As it stands now, that just ain’t going to happen. 

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

IF IT WALKS LIKE A DUCK

You can call it what you want, but what’s happening here, this mass deportation business, is not really about deportation at all. Let’s face it:

When people are captured off the street and thrown into a place where nobody knows where they are and they can’t get out of, that’s kidnapping.

When people are held incognito in unidentified facilities and are denied proper food, medical attention, access to lawyers and visitors, that’s not prison, it’s a concentration camp.

When people are sent to another country against their will, that’s not deportation, it’s human trafficking.

When this is all done without even a pretense of due process, that’s not justice, it’s tyranny.

When the leaders of a country do these things, they are doing exactly what the Nazis did in Germany in 1935.

At his command, T****’s army of immigration agents is doing all of these things.

Therefore, the T****’s administration is doing exactly what the Nazis in Germany in 1935.

The logic is inescapable: Donald T**** is a Nazi.

Period.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

(Notre:) This was written the day after ICE agents murdered an innocent woman in Minneapolis

Minneapolis Public Schools announced that classes will be canceled for the rest of the week after armed, masked Border Patrol agents violently attacked people coming out of a high school following ICE’s deadly shooting of a woman that same day.

Officials at Roosevelt High School said the agents descended on the property during dismissal on Wednesday and started tackling people, handcuffing two staff members and pepper spraying bystanders.

There is no question as to who the villains are here and why it’s happening. T****’s Brownshirts are in “blue” American cities to create havoc and provoke violence, thereby giving his little doxie Christi Nome an excuse for allowing her Gestapo agents to murder innocent civilians. 

And then, after thalf the country has seen the truth in the videos, they lie their fool heads off, invoke conspiratorial BS and then ask, “So who you gonna believe, me or your lying eyes?”

Well, just like the lies they tell about January 6, I believe what I see. And I believe that along with their fawning little puppy Pete Hegseth, they are all lying scum.

And all beneath contempt.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE.

I saw a lady T****azoid on TV the other day claiming that Donald was committed to the truth and never lies. I don’t know how these people are able to survive in such a fantasy world. T**** lies about everything. For example, T**** blames Joe Biden for the entire Afghanistan withdrawal catastrophe. However: 

It was T**** not Biden who negotiated directly with the Taliban terrorists and excluded the Afghan army.

It was T**** not Biden who drew U.S. forces down from 13,000 to 2,500, making them vulnerable to attack.

It was Trump not Biden who ordered the release of some 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison.

It was T*** not Biden who wanted to secretly invite Taliban leaders to Camp David on the 18th anniversary of 9/11 (seriously).

It was T**** not Biden who agreed to a May 1st exit from Afghanistan and then bragged that he didn’t need an exit strategy.

It was T**** not Biden who shut down every airbase in Afghanistan except one, thus crippling America’s ability to extract its assets safely.

And finally, it was T**** who refused to brief Biden’s transition team on the situation in Afghanistan.

It is conceivable that Joe Biden could have done a better job of extracting Americans and our Afghani assets if his people had a clue as to what the situation was when he took office. But they didn’t, T**** made sure of that. And of course, T**** goes and lies about the whole thing.

And as usual, the MAGA’s believe him. Not wanting to see their entire world of T****-inspired fantasy come crashing down around them, they are afraid to question anything he says or does. 

 But I’m not.  

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

If you look closely it’s not hard to see just who Donald T**** is. Yes, he is almost casually identified as a 34-count convicted felon, failed businessman, con man, cheap hustler, grifter, pedophile, ignorant in virtually all matters pertaining to his position, and a consummate liar. 

But that’s just his outward, public persona. Based on those criterion it is almost impossible to understand how he could have been elected president once, let alone twice. So who are these MAGA’s who support and believe in him; what do they see in him? 

The answer is, they see themselves. For Donald T**** is the personification of their worst instincts, darkest fears and deeply hidden hatreds. In T**** they have found a kindred spirit in their darkness. 

If they are racists, misogynists, or if all they care about is money, he’s their guy. If they secretly make fun of disabled people, mock people’s physical appearances or hate intelligent people, T**** appeals to them. Serial cheaters and rapists hold him in secret admiration. 

If they envy hustlers, conmen and those have not done an honest day’s work in their lives, they envy Donald T****. If  they are unconscionable liars and do so day and night, he is their model. If they are white supremacists, sociopaths or anti-Semitic, and care not one iota about humans who live a lifestyle they don’t like, he is their man. 

Now. If he only had two or three of these issues, he never would have been elected. Rather, it is the fact that he has virtually all of them, and apparently millions of Americans are as toxic as he is. They relate to him in one form or another; he is one of theirs.

In truth, it’s never been about T**** at all. It’s always been about the people who finally have their most secret feelings about others validated. He has given “those people” their voices and permission to disparage and hate their fellow human beings without guilt or consequence. 

Donald is only symptomatic of a much larger issue. If there is a single truth that characterizes Donald T****’s loyal followers it is this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”

That may be what is so terrifying about Donald T****. Who knew that so many Americans were thinking unconscionable things about their fellow Americans?

Who knew that after years of seeming progress on race and gender, tens of millions of mostly white Americans lived in quiet, seething resentment, waiting for a demagogue to arrive who would legitimize their worst selves? Because that is precisely what Donald T**** does. 

That is the essence of Donald T****.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE.

The last U.S. battleship, the USS Missouri, was commissioned in 1944. These huge ships were primarily tasked with shore bombardment during WW II. U.S. battleships saw combat for the last time in the 1991 Gulf War, when the USS Missouri and USS Wisconsin provided naval gunfire support and launched cruise missiles against Iraqi targets.


Now, Donald T**** has announced plans for a new “T**** class” of very large surface vessels as part of a so‑called Golden Fleet, describing them in public as new U.S. “battleships.” Public descriptions of these vessels emphasize size, prestige and advanced weapons but do not define clear Navy doctrine beyond generic roles like deterrence, power projection, and fleet strengthening.

No-one will probably ever see one. Designing and building a new generation of navy ships isn’t cheap. The aircraft carrier USS H. W. Bush, an advanced Nimitz-class carrier commissioned in 2009, took over ten years to build at a cost of some $13 billion, and T****will have to ask Congress for funding. He can’t just take his tariff money.

Money from tariffs goes into the U S. Treasury’s general fund and is used for general government expenses. And no matter how much he may want to, T**** can’t just use those funds for whatever he wants. Besides, the next administration can kill the project before it’s off the drawing board.

Trump has bragged that the vessels will be larger, faster and “100 times more powerful” than any previous navy vessel ever built. But it’s just bragging. Ships this huge, including just about all of America’s aircraft carries, are anachronistic in the 21st century.

A recent NY Times article described how these huge, lumbering ships can easily be taken out by weapons such as hypersonic missiles, which both Russia and China have in their military arsenals but we don’t. These things fly at Mach 5, that’s five times the speed of sound. At that rate, they can cover a distance of 100 miles in less than a minute, making traditional reaction times impossible. 


T****- class battleships? Golden Fleet? Don’t bet on it. It’s just Delusional Donnie’s brain dribbling nonsense in public, one more time.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

December 19 was the day the DOJ was to have released all of the Epstein files. Of course that full release did not happen, and many documents were almost if not completely redacted. All we have now is AG Bondi’s promise that they will release the rest in a month or so. 

The DOJ is now in violation of the law. This was probably to have been expected, because when the law was written there was a loophole. It did not include any specific enforcement procedure. And we really cannot expect the DOJ to investigate itself to find out why there has not been a “full drop.”

The remedies for non-disclosure are of no consequence to T**** or his people. These include avenues such as Congressional oversight, including hearing and subpoenas, and federal court motions demanding full release. Such remedies are of no consequence for T**** and his MAGA’s.

They typically ignore and/or appeal Congressional subpoenas, and court orders which go against them are subject to appeal a well. These court procedures can drag on for months. No wonder the Republicans had no problem passing the law and T**** had no problem signing it. 

They knew it had no teeth and that as written was designed to allow the prolonged delay of what T**** fears most: full disclosure. So as of now, there is still no way, no law, for anyone to expect or force the release of the full Epstein files any time soon. 

Don’t look now, but, we have just been had. 

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

MAGA’s and Trumpazoids get almost apoplectic when they are called fascists and Nazis. They get all kinds of nasty and accuse those those who do as being the real fascists, that such talk leads to violence or worse, and that such talk is seditions or treasonous or whatever. In truth, they are just being pathetically in self-denial. denial.

So the next time you hear some right-wing jerk-off get his or her panties all in a bunch for being called a fascist, acquaint them with this quotation:

“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of the day and night, poor helpless people are being dragged from their homes….Families are torn apart. Men, women and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Then remind them it is true that ICE and Border Patrol agents, often masked and often unidentifiable, have kidnapped people from the streets, sometimes smashing car windows to extract the occupants.

Remind them that it is also true that a large number of these disappeared people have been held without warrants in concentration camps and then deported. And all this is done without any pretense of due process.

This is the truth. They are MAGA’s, so be sure to have them affirm that they are OK with this kind of activity.

Then remind them that it was the Nazi fascists in Germany who kidnapped and “disappeared” people, held them in in concentration camps and then deported them.

And before they go into their denial mode, when they finally calm down, tell them that the above quote is not a description of an ICE raid in Chicago or of any one of hundreds of ICE and Border Patrol agents.

Look them in the eye and tell them that the above quotation comes from the Diary of Anne Frank, written on January 13, 1943.

Then tell them that by their own admission they are are in total agreement with what the Nazi fascists did in Germany.

Finally, tell them that if the shoe fits, they damn well have to wear it.

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Just listen to him go on about a pair of women. It is almost fcrightening.
“They have Jasmine Crockett, a low IQ person. They have AOC’s low IQ. Have her passed, like, the exams that I decided to take when I was at Walter Reed. I took, those are very hard, they’re really aptitude tests, I guess, at a certain point, but they’re cognitive tests. Let AOC go against T****.
“Let Jasmine go against T****. The first couple of questions are easy, a tiger, an elephant, a giraffe, you know. When you get up to about five or six, and then when you get up to 10 and 20 and 25, they couldn’t come close to answering what Donald any of those questions.”

Aside from his being unable to articulate his thoughts in complete, grammatically correct sentences, these attempted takedowns of these women demonstrate that T***** really doesn’t comprehend that those are in fact specifically DEMENTIA tests.

They called him back for an MRI after just six months because the doctors are concerned about something. And as he himself admitted, he doesn’t know that part of him they scanned. But then, he is a liar.

Perhaps they’re looking for evidence that his brain has turned to mush, which would be understandable. I suspect Donald thinks those tests are hard because his 79-year-old brain is drowning in burger grease and lost its grip on reality a long time ago.

And there is no reason to believe him when he says the MRI was perfect because, of course, he is a liar. The truth will probably not out because the doctors are all sworn to silence, just like the doctors who treated him after he was shot in Pennsylvania.

However, considering his rambling pejorative assessments of two sitting Congresswomen who have both achieved much higher academic accomplishments than he, one of the few things his brain is still capable of doing s demonstrating his abject racism and bigotry.

For indeed, this is at the core of his “low IQ” talk about two Democratic women of color. This is not the first time he’s gone off on this pair, and projection is everything in T****’s world. So the fact that he’s constantly bringing them up to disparage their intelligence tells us a lot more about hm than it does them.

It shows how much he fears them.

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When Charlie Kirk was killed the MAGA’s elevated him to almost sainthood status. T**** orders flags flown at half mast. Eulogies abound. Statues appear out of nowhere, and Turning Point USA chapters become mandatory in Oklahoma high schools. 

Two National Guardsmen are shot and again, the MAGA’a are incensed. To them it is a “crime against humanity.” Clearly the tragic deaths of these three people caused heart-wrenching angst and apoplexy among the MAGA’s.

However. Consider these statistics on mass shootings in America since 2000. This list is not intended to be comprehensive and only includes incidents where more than ten people died. 

Las Vegas, Nevada (2017), 60 people killed at random , 13 killed by a white supramcist outside a grocery store;and hundreds injured;

Orlando, Florida (June 2016), 49 people killed and more than 50 injured in an attack on an LGBTQ nightclub; 

Blacksburg Virginia (April, 007), 32 people killed and over 20 injured on Virginia Tech campus; October, 

Newtown, Connecticut, Sandy Hook Elementary School (December, 2012), 27 people killed at the school;

Sutherland Springs, Texas (November, 2017), 26 people killed during a Sunday church service; 

Uvalde, Texas, (May, 2022), 21 people killed at Robb Elementary School; 

El Paso, Texas (August ,2019). 23 dead at Walmart shooting;

Buffalo, New York, (May, 2022) 13 dead outside a grocery store;

Brookfield, Wisconsin (Oct 2007) Living church of God shooting, 11 dead;

DeKalb, Illinois (Oct, 2007) Northern Ilinois shooting. 11 dead.

That’s a total of 240 Americans dead  in mass shootings, at at least 60 of them were children. 

Indeed, if we include the dead in the some 30 other incidents of mass shootings that left at least 10 dead, we’re already over 370, and that’s not even counting the hundreds of shootings that killed a mere handful. The overwhelming majority of these nameless dead are simply innocent victims of random, senseless violence. 

And why did they die? 

Social theories abound on this subject. However, Kirk an acknowledged font of MAGA wisdom, alibied these killings in a truly heartless manner when he claimed that “Having an armed citizenry comes with a price. You will never live in a society when you have an armed citizenry and you won’t have a single gun death. I think it’s worth it. I think it’s worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights.” Indeed, right wing commentators such as Tim Pool and other pro‑gun influencers have explicitly insisted that no amount of dead children justifies limiting gun rights. 

This may account for the fact that the best we often seem to get from the from the right wing after a mass shooting is thoughts and prayers, followed by politically-charged accusations and innuendo. For example:

Following the 2023 Nashville Christian school shooting, senior Republicans expressed outrage about attacks on Christians and schools, used the event to attack “woke” culture and trans people.

After the 2022 Uvalde massacre, Texas Republicans and national right‑wing figures responded with intense anger at the local police, the school system, and “soft” security, demanding more armed personnel, fortified schools, and crackdowns on mental health.

The overall pattern of MAGA responses to mass killings is that when conservatives habitually move beyond “thoughts and prayers” to some combination of demanding more armed security and policing in schools, churches, and public spaces, harsher and expedited  criminal penalties, expanded “good guy with a gun” responses, culture‑war attacks on liberals and minorities, and even “godlessness,” all framed as the real cause of the shootings.

This is all in directly opposed to what has generally become the left-wing response to these events: a kinder, gentler nation, a humane response to the violence and support for federal gun‑control legislation. 

The truth here seems to me to be that besides the fact that the America public in general has become inured to this level of slaughter by firearms, American conservatives seem to get aroused to more than their standard, off-the-shelf responses only when they identify with the victims. 

The rest of the dead are deemed expendable to the god of the 2nd Amendment, or more simply because of who they are. They serve only to create a platform for political rhetoric aimed at perceived political and cultural targets. There is something fundamentally wrong with this picture.

And that is reflected in the politically-charged and cold-hearted response of the conservative right which does not weep out loud for long over the untold thousands who fall victim to mass shootings. Instead, they respond emotionally with knee-jerk angst, then continue with heartless, soulless bullshit. Their lack of humanity is apparent and appalling.

And that’s what is wrong, here.