THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

Heard anything about Greenland recently? It’s been pretty much out of the news for a while, now. I suspect that’s because it was never about Greenland. We never saw a U.S. military build-up in the North Sea, no carrier group, no fleet armada like we’ve seen in the Caribbean and Persian Gulf. T**** talks a good game, but BS is still BS.

And there’s a simple reason for that. Right now, the United States has one base in a very remote corner of the island. But under an obscure Cold War agreement, the United States already enjoys sweeping military access in Greenland.

The agreement allows us to “construct, install, maintain, and operate” military bases across Greenland, “house personnel” and “control landings, takeoffs, anchorages, moorings, movements, and operation of ships, aircraft, and waterborne craft.”

It was signed in 1951 by the United States and Denmark, which colonized Greenland more than 300 years ago and still controls some of its affairs.

The U.S. has such a free hand in Greenland right now that it can pretty much do what it wants. Donald T**** could get everything he covets except outright ownership of the island if he just asked nicely.

However, being an uncivilized jerk, The Tdrumpfenfürher doesn’t know how to ask nicely. Instead, like his Nazi idol, he simply wants to bully, bomb and kill, and take what is not his.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

President T****’s administration released a document bemoaning “civilizational erasure” in Europe. It is little more than a dog whistle to White Nationalists.

The report purports to be a national security plan about maintaining American dominance in the Western world. It suggests that European nations aren’t strong allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, citing a racially diversifying Europe as the cause.

T**** argues that “within a few decades at the latest, certain NATO members will become majority non-European. ” (ie: not white). It further claims that “Should present trends continue, the continent will be unrecognizable in 20 years or less.” (again, non-white) There are no citations or evidence offered for any of these assertions.

The Tdrumphenfùhrer further warns “whether they will view their place in the world, or their alliance with the United States in the same way as the when they signed the NATO charter.” The administration’s report was full dire warnings about Europe’s “loss of national identities,” and the need for American diplomacy to uphold European countries’ Individual character and history.” (ie: white and Christian).

“We want Europe to remain European,” (again, read: white) the document states, using language from racist groups including and Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán, who has decried the existence of mixed race people and called for “ethnic homogeny.” (read: ethnic cleansing) T**** also warns about “migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife.” (ie: Brown, Muslim immigrants)

T**** also celebrates the rise of “the growing influence of patriotic European parties,” (these being White Nationalist, anti-Muslim and neo-Nazis), saying they’re “cause for great optimism.” That includes Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany party, a group with similar tenets.

These assertions are designed to stoke fear of Brown people and non-Christians becoming predominant in Europe. . The sentiment behind the words is intended to stoke fear of migrants and an adherence to an idealized, old-world Europe that is questionable at best.

In truth, this is all little more than a T****ian extension of the conspiratorial “replacement theory” which permeates the paranoid world of the American far-Right. And fully exposes Donald T**** as a flaming racist, bigot, White Supremacist and Christian Nationalist.

Time for him to go.

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

The good people of Minneapolis are falling into T****’s sinister trap. He has deployed thousands of his private militia of masked, unidentifiable armed brownshirts. Their job is not to arrest criminal immigrants. It is to create panic and chaos, to terrify the population and goad them into retaliation. This will give him the justification he wants to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in thousands more soldiers, declare martial law, cancel elections and subjugate the civilian population.

A more appropriate path forward responding to these clear and present provocations comes from John Lennon in 1969: “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” But it is time to act. As Thunderclap Newman sang:

“Call out the instigators,
Because there’s something in the air.
We got to get together sooner or later,
Because the revolution’s here
And you know that it’s right.”

However, with 12.000 ICE agents, some 20,000 CBP agents and all the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Christian Nationalists he can enlist in his insidious cause, T*** has a huge private army, all armed zealots who are not afraid to maim and kill. Again, we would be playing right into the Trumpfenführer’s hand if we try to match up with these killers.

A better way forward comes from a speech delivered by Mario Savio during the UC Berkeley Free Speech Protests in1964 as he stood atop a police car surrounded by hundreds of angry students. This is how patriots peacefully confront tyranny:

“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gearS and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

Those of us who march against him now are too few. Our strength is tries to suppresses the people, he suppresses our will as well. That will must awaken before we can confront and beat this madman. And so I wonder, in the words of John Kay as sung by Steppenwolf in 1969:

“America, where are you now
Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
Don’t you know we need you now
We can’t fight alone against the monster.”

We can beat you, Donald T****. It is our country, not yours. We let you run it in our name. But unless we are free, we can prevent the country from running at all. As John Kay reminded tyrant wannabes like you”:
“Remember, if you plan to stay,
Those who give can take away.
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” And so I say:

ON ON STRIKE, SHUT IT DOWN

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

The good people of Minneapolis are falling into T****’s sinister trap. He has deployed thousands of his private militia of masked, unidentifiable armed brownshirts. Their job is not to arrest criminal immigrants. It is to create panic and chaos, to terrify the population and goad them into retaliation. This will give him the justification he wants to invoke the Insurrection Act and send in thousands more soldiers, declare martial law, and subjugate the civilian population. 

A more nuanced response to clear and present provocations comes from John Lennon:  “When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system’s game. The establishment will irritate you – pull your beard, flick your face – to make you fight. Because once they’ve got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don’t know how to handle is non-violence and humor.” 1969

But it is time to act. As Thunderclap Newman sang in 1969:

“Call out the instigators,

Because there’s something in the air.

We got to get together sooner or later,

Because the revolution’s here

And you know that it’s right.” 

However, with 12.000 ICE agents, some  20,000 CBP agents and all the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and Christian Nationalists he enlist in his “cause,” T*** has a huge private army, all armed zealots who are not afraid to maim and kill. Again, we would be playing right into the Trumpfenführer’s hand if we try to match up with these killers. 

The solution comes from a speech delivered by Mario Savio during the UC Berkeley Free Speech Protests in 1964 as he stood atop a police car surrounded by hundreds of angry students. This is how patriots peacefully confront tyranny:

“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gearS and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who own it, to the people who run it, that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

Those of us who march against him now, are too few. Our strength is numbers. We need many tens of millions in the streets. As T**** tries to suppress the people, he suppresses our will as well. That will must awaken before we can confront and beat this madman. And so I wonder, in the words of John Kay as sung by Steppenwolf in 1969: 

“America, where are you now

Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?

Don’t you know we need you now

We can’t fight alone against the monster.” 

We can beat you, Donald T****. It is our country, not yours. We let you run it in our name. But unless we are free, we can prevent the country from running at all. As John Kay reminded tyrant wannabes like you”:

“Remember, if you plan to stay, 

Those who give can take away. 

Don’t bite the hand that feeds you.” And so I say:

                            ON  ON STRIKE,  SHUT IT DOWN

THE BERNHARD PERSPECTIVE

A 37-year-old was an American citizen and mother of a kindergarten-aged child was shot and killed by an ICE agent. Do people disagree with her views on immigration? Yes. But that shouldn’t matter. Despite the horrendous lies told by T****, Noem, Hegseth, et al., this woman got shot in the face because of what she believed. And the MAGA conservatives agree with the fabricated fantasy as seen through Donald T****’s twisted, lying eyes.

These same MAGA conservatives hit the ceiling when Charlie Kirk was shot. Did people disagree with his views on American politics? Yes. And yes, his death was a tragedy, regardless of his partisan affiliations, ideological beliefs, or who pulled the trigger. And yes, American conservatives were absolutely certain of that.

The idea that simply because the Minnesota woman “disobeyed an order” she can be shot in the face at point blank range is just plain wrong. Murder is murder. What’s more egregious is that she was killed by an officer who was acting in our name as judge, jury and executioner. That’s not the law in the United States of America. That’s not the way is is supposed to be.

Unless, of course, you are an America conservative.

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****.