The pattern is unmistakable. In just 72 hours, we've witnessed the systematic dismantling of truth, the military occupation of our capital, and the burial of the biggest intelligence scandal in history. But the most horrifying development? Trump is building concentration camps for homeless Americans. Europeans who've seen this movie before are waving their hands in warning.
5️⃣ Killing the Numbers That Matter
Trump's new Bureau of Labor Statistics nominee E.J. Antoni wants to suspend the monthly jobs reports that have guided American business decisions since 1915. When the data makes you look bad, kill the data. Without these reports, Wall Street and the Fed make trillion-dollar decisions blind while Trump's cronies hold the only compass. This is about keeping Americans ignorant of economic reality while the administration loots what's left.
4️⃣ The Alaska Summit: Carving Up the World
Trump and Putin meet Friday in Alaska, with Ukraine's fate on the table but Zelenskyy nowhere in sight. Russian state media tells their people Putin is marching to Alaska to reclaim it for Russia. The choice of Alaska – Russia's former territory sold for $7.2 million in 1867 – isn't random. While Putin's propaganda machine pumps out stories of children singing about Alaska's return, 84% of Ukrainians say they won't cede an inch after three years of bombardment. This summit is theater designed to normalize war crimes and territorial conquest.
3️⃣ The $3 Billion Epstein Empire Vanishes from Coverage
Media searches for Epstein plummeted 90% in three weeks, despite our exposing a $3 billion intelligence operation at Narativ.org. Epstein and Maxwell controlled Robert Maxwell's arms dealing empire from the 1980s – not the 1990s as claimed – with backdoor access to global banking through stolen PROMIS software. The handoff wasn't a romantic rescue but transfer of a criminal empire. Iran-Contra slush funds, Soviet collapse billions, banking system backdoors – all memory-holed while manufactured crises dominate headlines.
2️⃣ Criminalizing Homelessness: Fines or Jail for Being Poor
Press Secretary Leavitt announced the choice for D.C.'s homeless: accept shelter and services, or face fines and jail time. Think about that – fining people who eat from garbage cans, imprisoning people who sleep on grates. Trump called the city "disgusting" and wants these human beings disappeared before his motorcade passes.
But Trump's broader vision is even darker. He's repeatedly called for relocating homeless people to camps on "cheap land outside cities" with tents and "basic facilities" for "rehabilitation." He frames trauma survivors as "mentally unstable" to justify forced relocation. Not housing. Not healthcare. Not addressing the trauma that creates homelessness. Camps.
Trump literally can't stand seeing homeless people on his way to Andrews Air Force Base – the same disgust he showed at Arlington when he asked to have wounded veterans removed from his sight.
Eight hundred fifty federal agents and National Guard troops now patrol D.C. streets to round them up, despite violent crime hitting 30-year lows. The troops can't even figure out jurisdiction over a fender bender, but they're ready to disappear the poor.
1️⃣ The Dress Rehearsal for Nationwide Horror
This isn't about D.C. – it's the blueprint for every American city. They're normalizing federal takeover of local policing, practicing how to crush dissent before it starts. But more terrifying: they're normalizing concentration camps for "undesirables." Today it's the homeless. Tomorrow it's protesters. Next week it's anyone who makes Trump feel "disgusted."
The pattern connects everything: control the data so no one knows the truth, control the narrative by burying real scandals, control the streets with military occupation, control the "undesirables" with camps. This is how it started in 1935 Germany – not with death camps, but with "rehabilitation centers" for those deemed mentally unstable or socially unfit.
Dean Blundell returned from France with Germans explicitly warning: "We've been through this before. We know where it goes." They weren't being dramatic. They were recognizing the exact playbook Hitler used – purge the truth-tellers, occupy the cities, build camps for "undesirables."
While Trump builds concentration camps, Mark Carney is building actual housing communities with prefabricated homes for Canada's homeless. One leader solves problems; the other disappears the victims.
The homeless aren't "mentally unstable" – they're trauma survivors failed by society. They're veterans Trump calls "disgusting." They're human beings who sleep on grates in winter rather than submit to authority because trauma taught them authority means abuse. Trump's response? More trauma, more authority, more abuse.
When they start with society's most vulnerable – those without bank accounts to pay fines, without lawyers to fight detention, without homes to return to – they're testing how much horror Americans will tolerate. The answer so far? Too much.
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