TUESDAY, JANUARY 13, 2026
Personally, we would not: Friend, go ahead and riddle us this:
Is Donald J. Trump a fascist?
In her new column for the New York Times, Michelle Goldberg tackles that question. Tomorrow morning, we'll probably start with that column—with that question.
We'll tease our own instinct below. First, let the word go forth to the nations:
In this morning's report, we mused about historical figures who may imaginably come to mind when we consider the peculiar headlines President Trump is now generating. In this morning's report, we listed four such banners:
‘I Should Have’: Trump Says He Regrets Not Seizing Voting Machines In 2020 To Overturn Election
Maggie Haberman Offers Grim Warning About Trump: ‘He Is Emboldened in a Way I Don’t Think We’ve Ever Seen Before’
Trump Promises to ‘Do Something on Greenland’: ‘Whether They Like It Or Not’
Trump Tells NY Times the Only Limit On His Power is His ‘Own Morality’: ‘I Don’t Need International Law’
He regrets not seizing the voting machines—and Greenland, here we come!
We probably should have included this additional headline. This involves a type of speculation by John Bolton, but it fits a certain pattern:
John Bolton Reveals He ‘Always Worried Trump Would’ Steal Teddy Roosevelt’s Peace Prize From White House
To peruse that report by Mediaite, you can just click here.
Bolton may just have been snarking a bit at President Trump's expense. On the other hand, we recall being struck, all the way back in 2017, by the Time magazine cover—purportedly from 2009—which was on display at Mar-a-Lago and at four other Trump locations.
The Time cover featured pre-president Trump. Except there had been no such Time magazine cover. The whole thing was totally fake.
"Grandiosity" and "narcissism" can be medical terms. We recall being struck by that unfortunate degree of those attributes when this oddity first hit the fan.
Meanwhile, would you call President Trump a fascist? Goldberg's (very intriguing) column starts exactly as shown:
The Resistance Libs Were Right
For the last decade there’s been a debate, among people who don’t like Donald Trump, about whether he’s a fascist.
The argument that he isn’t often hinges on two things...
For ourselves, we wouldn't say that he's a fascist. We think there are very good reasons for adopting that stance. We expect to go there tomorrow.
"Back out of all this now too much for us?" Is there a guide out there who can help us Americans, Red and Blue, find a road back out of this mess?
(That road will likely be hard to find. The poem is difficult too.)
BalasPadamHa-ha, thanks for the laughs, Bob. Nobody cares whom you BlueAnons call (or don't call) "fascist", Bob.
Everyone understands that you BlueAnons are sick puppies, if not clinical idiots, and that whatever words you say it's just a word-salad.
Somerby is not a blue-anon.
PadamHe certainly talks like one, so as far as I'm concerned he is. ymmv
PadamNo, he doesn’t. He says he wouldn’t call Trump a fascist. No blue-anon would decline to call Trump fascist in chief.
PadamI disagree. That's not in the BlueAnon definition, and Bob's TDS credentials are impeccable.
PadamSomerby is not blue.
PadamLike many right wingers, he supports some of Trump's actions, but finds Trump boorish and thinks that is bad for branding and is ruining the Republican Party.
Anonymouse 4:39pm, “boorish”? Bob is trying to stoke up the meme that Trump is too mentally unbalanced to be in office and all anonymices see is that Bob is too unreliable to tell them that they’re precious.
PadamAnd you, Cecelia, reject everything Bob says. What a fool you are.
PadamSomerby heard Trump say there was a Republican voter who isn't a bigot, and now he thinks Trump is mentally unbalanced and not just a typical Right-wing bullshitter.
PadamA woman gets shot in the head 3 times, murdered on the street that she lives on by Gestapo goons, and the FBI decides to investigate her domestic partner.
BalasPadamGo fuck yourselves you motherfucking nazi bastards.
Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow
Joseph H. Thompson, a career federal prosecutor who was the acting U.S. attorney for Minnesota last year, was among those who resigned as the Justice Department sought to examine the woman’s supposed ties to activist groups.
Your Democrat bosses sent those women to obstruct law enforcement procedures, Soros-monkey. Consequently, your Democrat bosses are fully responsible for everything happening to these stupid dykes.
PadamIt is against the law to belong to activist groups now. That includes NAMBLA, 3:44, better cancel your platinum membership .
PadamI'm not a Democrat, to be in NAMBLA, Soros-monkey.
PadamIt didn’t take Somerby long to drop the subject of ICE abuses. He backed right out of that.
BalasPadamReminds me of how Hegseth pulled out to ejaculate when he raped that Republican woman, in order to avoid culpability.
PadamInvesting someone who may have violated federal law doesn’t make you a fascist.
BalasPadamWhat are you trying to say? This is gibberish.
PadamHypertechnical debates about whether Trump meets some textbook definition of "fascist" aren't useful or productive. A casual observer of the news can recognize that he is a self-acknowledged authoritarian ("I don't need international law. Only my own morality.")
BalasPadamWe have masked agents in our cities taking people off the street and going door-to-door looking for "illegals." Trump has claimed for himself the authority to levy taxes and price controls without legislation. He orders deadly strikes against boats he says are piloted by "narcoterrorists." He threatens to rupture the military alliance that has protected Europe for the past 80 years.
And I've barely scratched the surface of his weird, dictatorial impulses. Does this mean his beliefs or behaviors are fascist? It doesn't matter. They are destructive to the American system of law and government.
Openly disregarding international law doesn't make one "self-acknowledged authoritarian", Soros-monkey. Not at all.
PadamI would say, it makes one sovereigntist. As in "sovereignism".
Okay, but the "only my own morality" part is the verbal equivalent of a gorilla throwing his feces against the wall.
PadamYou're flattering yourself, Soros-gorilla.
PadamScott Adam has died.
BalasPadamI just can't stop crying.
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BalasPadamAnonymouse 4:33pm, we’re all aware of how empathetic you are, dear.
BalasPadamAnd you are?
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Discuss.
Stick with the Danish king. Trump is a flatulent turdball.
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"Republicans (77 – 10 percent) think the shooting was justified, while Democrats (92 – 4 percent) and independents (59 – 28 percent) think the shooting was not justified."
BalasPadamhttps://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/01/the-bad-advice-that-you-gladly-wont-take
Republicans exist in an alternate reality.
PadamI suspect it was legally justified. Not so sure it was morally justified.
PadamOn the other hand, the shooting of Charlie Kirk was both legally and morally justified.
PadamIs it Day One yet?
BalasPadamDavid, here's a Supreme Court from this year that addresses the justification for the use of deadly force.
BalasPadamBarnes v. Felix (2025): In a recent decision, the Court reaffirmed that the "totality of the circumstances" inquiry for excessive force cases has no arbitrary time limit. It explicitly rejected the "moment of the threat" rule, which limited the analysis to the precise moment force was used. Instead, courts "must look too... at any relevant events coming before" that moment to provide full context to the officer's actions and perceptions.
BalasPadamYou, Hillary, on these here pages, denounced people so passionately for refusing to testify under oath.
And now you and your accomplice Bubba refuse to testify before the congressional committee investigating L'affaire Epstein?
What gives, Hillary?
Hahahaha. The MAGAts would like Hillary Clinton to provide them with the details about Epstein that Trump's personal lawyers at the DOJ are withholding from them. It's Hillary's fault that they are being kept in the dark about Trump's best buddy for 15 years. The midterms are coming up and it's time for Comer to rile up the base with talk about Hillary Clinton. Works every time.
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