Welcome to North Korea

      It didn't happen all at once, but rather it's been happening day by day.
​      Law firms required to pay a punitive tribute to President Trump in order to stay in business. Our country's elite universities under attack and defunded by  President Trump and required to bend to his will and  pay his Government to get their funding back. 
      President Trump and his family using Trump's presidency to make billions from cryptocurrency

     
​      President Trump throwing himself a gargantuan military parade for his birthday.

     
​     Masked Federal agents decked out like storm troopers crashing into workplaces and in mass sweeps rounding up people who've committed no crime and who may or may not have proper legal documentation.

     
​       Cruel and unusual treatment of immigrant detainees.

   
​     Armed soldiers patrolling the streets of Washington, D.C.,

...with threats from President Trump of more soldiers to be stationed in other American cities whose mayors and governors are not of his political party.
      Powerful businesses and media companies bowing and scraping to President Trump's commands and paying him billions to settle his personal lawsuits against them.
     President Trump vowing to exact harsh retribution from his perceived political enemies and from the public servants that he's put on his payback list.

     
​       President Trump using the United States Justice department as his personal tool of revenge,

​...and reminding us that he hates his opponents and doesn't want the best for them.

      People great and small  losing their jobs and careers for opinions they've voiced in public or posted on social media because their employers live in fear of being targeted by President Trump. Or because they've been explicitly threatened by Trump's henchmen.

        People now being afraid to speak or post their minds because under President Trump, our First Amendment rights are no longer protected. 
        All those things and more have been happening in our country day by day, over the weeks and months. But what it took for it all to truly come together for me were the images of these banners that now hang over two federal buildings, 

...with the news that more banners are on track to be hung on other federal buildings.
​      And when I saw those images, what I actually saw were these images:

       Sometimes a picture is more frightening than a thousand words.

​References​
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/18/politics/corporate-america-jimmy-kimmel-trump?iid=cnn_buildContentRecirc_end_recirc&recs_exp=up-next-article-end&tenant_id=related.en

​https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/04/07/us/trump-revenge-list.html