almost a year ago martin armstrong said his computer shows no elections here in the empire after the trump win; 

 

Author’s note: This article was written ten days ago and published yesterday in the March issue of Crescent International. Since it was written before Trump’s disastrous attack on Iran, it understates the likelihood that a genuine national emergency, driven by economic collapse, will provide a pretext for Trump to cancel the 2026 elections. -KB

Donald Trump would like to be a dictator, and isn’t shy about saying so. Last month in Davos, Trump said of his critics: “Usually they say, ‘He’s a horrible dictator-type person’… but sometimes you need a dictator.” In August 2025, while discussing the deployment of hostile federal troops to Democrat-majority cities, Trump remarked that “a lot of people are saying maybe we’d like a dictator” because they want to “stop crime.” And back in 2017, Trump spoke enviously of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s authority: “He speaks and his people sit up at attention. I want my people to do the same.”

It isn’t just talk. Trump has seized near-dictatorial powers in several policy areas and dared the courts to do something about it. Upon taking office on January 20, 2025, Trump declared a national emergency as a flimsy pretext for using the military for mass deportations—and for occupying cities that don’t like him. He has repeatedly floated invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 to “get around” court rulings. And he has used the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to unilaterally impose, withdraw, and re-impose a bewildering variety of punitive tariffs on a long list of nations. Those tariffs, imposed by executive order, are a blatant violation of the Constitution, which clearly states that the power to “lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises” belongs exclusively to Congress. When the Supreme Court ruled on February 20 that Trump’s use of the IEEPA is clearly unconstitutional, Trump called the ruling “a disgrace” and claimed the right to ignore the court and the Constitution...........more..........