Felicia Muftic
@feliciamuftic.bsky.social
blogger, substack poster, veteran opinion writer, author, former public official
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-r... MAGA has a new line to rationalize Trump's autocratic behavior." We have a republic; we are not a democracy". Poli sci 101: We are both a republic and democracy called a representative democracy. Trump supports neither. He thinks he is an autocrat.
Going bonkers: MAGA claims our republic is not a democracy anyway
Benjamin Franklin defined the new Constitutional form of government as a Republic ..with a warning, "If we can keep it." I just ran ac...
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December 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-r... MAGA has a new line to rationalize Trump's autocratic behavior." We have a republic; we are not a democracy". Poli sci 101: We are both a republic and democracy called a representative democracy. Trump supports neither. He thinks he is an autocrat.
Trump touts his great economy, but 40% who can't afford the basics." Affordability" rings their bell.
That the economy is great sounds like Trump is disconnected. Both are true at the same time. Trump policies created a wealth shift to the rich.
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That the economy is great sounds like Trump is disconnected. Both are true at the same time. Trump policies created a wealth shift to the rich.
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Affordability vs economy is not about semantics; both are true at the same time
Affordability vs. Economy. Why the disconnect? Trump may be touting his great economy, but those concerned about having enough money to p...
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December 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Trump touts his great economy, but 40% who can't afford the basics." Affordability" rings their bell.
That the economy is great sounds like Trump is disconnected. Both are true at the same time. Trump policies created a wealth shift to the rich.
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/affo...
That the economy is great sounds like Trump is disconnected. Both are true at the same time. Trump policies created a wealth shift to the rich.
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The GOP is planning a bait and switch on healthcare insurance. They want to bait you into thinking they have a viable alternative to Obamacare and switch you to a pile of fluff. In the meantime, you are left in the lurch.
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Health savings account instead of Obamacare? A trojan horse
Update: 12/6/2025 So once again...health savings accounts to replace Obamacare? What if a catastrophic disease like cancer happens and the ...
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December 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
The GOP is planning a bait and switch on healthcare insurance. They want to bait you into thinking they have a viable alternative to Obamacare and switch you to a pile of fluff. In the meantime, you are left in the lurch.
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In acts, words, and deeds, Putin and Trump are dividing up the world into spheres of influence...repeating historical disasters. Trump to abandon Ukraine, gets the Western Hemisphere. Putin gets Eastern and Western Europe. Did you vote for this? mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/trum...
Trump and Putin: dividing up the world. Did you vote for this?
In February 1945, at the Yalta conference, the US, UK, USSR, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin met and came to an agreement that virtually ...
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December 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
In acts, words, and deeds, Putin and Trump are dividing up the world into spheres of influence...repeating historical disasters. Trump to abandon Ukraine, gets the Western Hemisphere. Putin gets Eastern and Western Europe. Did you vote for this? mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/trum...
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... This is the symptom of a larger problem: the pattern of the Trump
administration's strategy to avoid accountability for any unpopular or controversial act .
administration's strategy to avoid accountability for any unpopular or controversial act .
The accountability for Venezuelan boat attack: symptom of a larger problem
W ho can be held accountable for the two-tap Venezuelan drug boat hit? This is a symptom of a larger problem: the pattern of the Trump admi...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:56 PM
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... This is the symptom of a larger problem: the pattern of the Trump
administration's strategy to avoid accountability for any unpopular or controversial act .
administration's strategy to avoid accountability for any unpopular or controversial act .
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/heal... updated to reflect Trump's newest idea
Health savings account instead of Obamacare? A trojan horse
Update: 12/6/2025 So once again...health savings accounts to replace Obamacare? What if a catastrophic disease like cancer happens and the ...
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December 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/heal... updated to reflect Trump's newest idea
In 11 months, Trump has consolidated enough powers to act like a tyrant King.AKA dictator. We often lose sight in day to day issues, but the big picture of what he has accomplished since he began his 2nd term is breathtaking. Here is my list:
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How Trump has consolidated dictatorial powers
My list of particulars
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December 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
In 11 months, Trump has consolidated enough powers to act like a tyrant King.AKA dictator. We often lose sight in day to day issues, but the big picture of what he has accomplished since he began his 2nd term is breathtaking. Here is my list:
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The ultimate Catch 22. What is considered an "illegal order" is a judgment call. The president has already fired the top three JAGs (military lawyers) in the Pentagon. If the Constitution still is supreme, Trump considers SCOTUS "his".
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The ultimate Catch 22 in the question if the military should obey illegal orders: a corrupted chain of command
The ultimate Catch 22: What do you do when the whole chain of command is corrupted? The reason the clause was inserted in the Code of Mili...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The ultimate Catch 22. What is considered an "illegal order" is a judgment call. The president has already fired the top three JAGs (military lawyers) in the Pentagon. If the Constitution still is supreme, Trump considers SCOTUS "his".
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We, the people, get the kind of rulers we deserve... and we do not deserve this. It is also time to add corruption to the list of reasons, affordability, and NO KINGS for a serious regime change in Washington, DC. mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/time...
Time to make corruption a resistance issue, as powerful as affordability and NO KINGS
Corruption is corruption whether committed in secret or in plain view. The difference is that a significant number of American voters do ...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
We, the people, get the kind of rulers we deserve... and we do not deserve this. It is also time to add corruption to the list of reasons, affordability, and NO KINGS for a serious regime change in Washington, DC. mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/time...
It appears the GOP may try to replace Obamacare/ACA with health savings accounts. This is a Trojan horse. What happens if you have a catastrophic illness like cancer? Plan to go bankrupt. In the meantime, what?
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Health savings account instead of Obamacare? A trojan horse
It looks like the GOP is going to try to substitute Obamacare with a health savings account...a long-time conservative proposal. The probl...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
It appears the GOP may try to replace Obamacare/ACA with health savings accounts. This is a Trojan horse. What happens if you have a catastrophic illness like cancer? Plan to go bankrupt. In the meantime, what?
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mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo.... There are two themes that all Democrats can place their views and talking points under: making health care and living more affordable and being pro-democracy. Local issues can also be adapted to these themes. Just communicate it.
Democrats do have their act together if they just realize it and communicate it
In the wake of the shutdown's ugly ending and griping by Democrats,"... when will Democrats ever get their act together.".."Schumer must g...
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November 10, 2025 at 10:28 PM
mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/11/demo.... There are two themes that all Democrats can place their views and talking points under: making health care and living more affordable and being pro-democracy. Local issues can also be adapted to these themes. Just communicate it.
The stubborn GOP wants to kill off Obamacare, and their subversive plan is to remove subsidies, making it unaffordable. Ironically, that hurts those who need it the most....their own constituents in red states that have the worst life expectancy.
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Killing off OBAMA care: GOP's stubborn subversion plan: remove subsidies
Those killing off Obamacare are from those states that need it the most. These GOP-controlled states ought to look after improving the hea...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:57 PM
The stubborn GOP wants to kill off Obamacare, and their subversive plan is to remove subsidies, making it unaffordable. Ironically, that hurts those who need it the most....their own constituents in red states that have the worst life expectancy.
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Can we call NO KINGS a political movement yet? Yes, and it is approaching enough strength to effect political change. It is a pro-democracy/anti-autocracy movement gathering momentum, and its concerns are justified.
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Is NO KINGS a political movement yet? Yes
It meets the definition and is reaching strength to effect change
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November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Can we call NO KINGS a political movement yet? Yes, and it is approaching enough strength to effect political change. It is a pro-democracy/anti-autocracy movement gathering momentum, and its concerns are justified.
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Holding ICE agents to the rule of law. The rough treatment of a protester will now be investigated by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Poorly trained, poorly screened ICE agent hires have acted like thugs...and violent ones at that.
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November 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Holding ICE agents to the rule of law. The rough treatment of a protester will now be investigated by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Poorly trained, poorly screened ICE agent hires have acted like thugs...and violent ones at that.
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How secure is your vote? Why is MAGA so opposed to mail-in voting? , Colorado is held up as the gold standard in mail-in votes How do you know if your ballot has been counted? What about poll watcher harassment? What about the military interfering in voting?
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How secure are our votes
with talks of military and unease with mail-in voting
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November 2, 2025 at 2:49 PM
How secure is your vote? Why is MAGA so opposed to mail-in voting? , Colorado is held up as the gold standard in mail-in votes How do you know if your ballot has been counted? What about poll watcher harassment? What about the military interfering in voting?
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A multilingual international businessman made a passing comment to me recently. It shook me up a bit. Watching both FOX and Russian state television, he was struck by how similar their productions sound. We need to verify what we trust. But how?
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Fact based information no longer is reliable as Trump ascends to his throne
A businessman who is multilingual and often travels the world made a passing comment to me recently. It shook me up a bit. Watching both FO...
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October 26, 2025 at 3:56 PM
A multilingual international businessman made a passing comment to me recently. It shook me up a bit. Watching both FOX and Russian state television, he was struck by how similar their productions sound. We need to verify what we trust. But how?
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I have not heard the kind of slurs, the exact words, that these future leaders of a political party spoke since my young days in Jim Crow Oklahoma. The question is, where did this trash speak come from: their parents? Their peer group? mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
The Young Republicans spouting racial tropes are descendants of a horrible tradition
The Young Republicans spouting racial tropes are descendants of a horrible tradition. I have not heard the kind of slurs, the exact words,...
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October 24, 2025 at 1:42 PM
I have not heard the kind of slurs, the exact words, that these future leaders of a political party spoke since my young days in Jim Crow Oklahoma. The question is, where did this trash speak come from: their parents? Their peer group? mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...
What's the impact of the NO KINGS protest? It exposed a lie, developed new ways to peacefully protest, laid the groundwork for a fight in November 2026, and shows potential to grow.
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What's the impact of NO KINGS? More than you think
It exposed a lie, developed new ways to peacefully protest, laid the groundwork for a fight in November 2026, and shows potential to grow.
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October 19, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What's the impact of the NO KINGS protest? It exposed a lie, developed new ways to peacefully protest, laid the groundwork for a fight in November 2026, and shows potential to grow.
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I was a political science major long before there was a MAGA and I have always been confused about how political movements are tagged by the media. Here is my case for calling MAGA radical reactionaries, but they are definitely not conservatives.
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What is MAGA? Whatever you call it, it is not conservative, but something else.
Reaching back into a college course way before MAGA even existed, this political science major has always been confused about how politi...
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October 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I was a political science major long before there was a MAGA and I have always been confused about how political movements are tagged by the media. Here is my case for calling MAGA radical reactionaries, but they are definitely not conservatives.
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Democrats are right to make health care costs the issue for now and 2026, sticking the GOP with the blame. Democrats must do more and tell what they would do if they won control of Congress . They need to tell how they would fix it. Some ideas
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How Democrats are messaging the shutdown: A good start but they need to do more.
Democrats could message on the shutdown better. It should be easy. It is a good start so far, but they need and can do more. They are rig...
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October 3, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Democrats are right to make health care costs the issue for now and 2026, sticking the GOP with the blame. Democrats must do more and tell what they would do if they won control of Congress . They need to tell how they would fix it. Some ideas
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While the GOP claims sending military into cities cuts crime when they are there, therefore it is justified to do it, the DOJ cut $500 million in grant funding to improve police forces since January.
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The GOP defense of sending military to cities stops crime. Seriously?
Rep. Lisa McClain(R-MI) on Morning Joe this AM made a spirited defense for using the military to stop crime in major cities (those with De...
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October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
While the GOP claims sending military into cities cuts crime when they are there, therefore it is justified to do it, the DOJ cut $500 million in grant funding to improve police forces since January.
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Trump just signed a National Security Directive NSPM-7 that will secretly get you on a hit list for future prosecution if you even speak "anti American", or "anti-Christian" This is not just anti free speech, not even fascism: it is Stalinism.
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This isn't just anti free speech, or fascism; this is stalinism
As Trump directs his DOJ and others in his regime to take revenge and retribution, to go and find something he can get or make their lives...
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September 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Trump just signed a National Security Directive NSPM-7 that will secretly get you on a hit list for future prosecution if you even speak "anti American", or "anti-Christian" This is not just anti free speech, not even fascism: it is Stalinism.
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A tool of a dictator: provoking violence to justify their use of superior power to commit overwhelming violence, a strategy successfully used in history. It could explain both Trump's and Putin's puzzling actions as they set a trap using provocation.
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A method in Putin's and Trump's madness: provoking violence to justify their use of greater violence
A tool of a dictator and a dictator consolidating power: provoking violence to justify their use of superior power to commit violence is a...
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September 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
A tool of a dictator: provoking violence to justify their use of superior power to commit overwhelming violence, a strategy successfully used in history. It could explain both Trump's and Putin's puzzling actions as they set a trap using provocation.
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Is what Viktor Orban did to become Hungary's dictator compared with what Trump's actions and words appear to mirror?..CPAC in 2022 began the drive. Significant differences: 97% of Hungarians of same ethnic group; Trump promotes violence; Orban didn't. mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...
September 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Is what Viktor Orban did to become Hungary's dictator compared with what Trump's actions and words appear to mirror?..CPAC in 2022 began the drive. Significant differences: 97% of Hungarians of same ethnic group; Trump promotes violence; Orban didn't. mufticforumblog.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-...