Slavery was not an American invention. In Ancient Egypt, as early 26th century BC, documented evidence exists that prisoners of war would be forced be used to perform labor. Slavery made things good for the entitled families of Ancient Egypt. The same was true here in the United States from 1619 until 1865. One could extend that date to 1965 and the Civil Rights movement. Plantation owners had it good because of the institution of legal slavery. They fought a war to try and keep that way of life here. It was America’s bloodiest war.
In the Bible, it is said that twelve tribes of people who would later become the founders of the monotheistic Jewish people, were among the Egyptian slaves; an enslavement that lasted 400 years. In Exodus Moses, who had become close to the Pharoah Ramses, demanded that he set his people free. Exodus is the uplifting story of an enslaved people being liberated.
You would not expect Pharoah to agree to set his slaves free. Pharoahs were the entitled royalty and enjoyed a better life style than the slaves owing directly to the free work that slaves did for them. Enslaved people need a brave champion for thier causes.
And this is why America needs a member of an oppressed group to lead it forward during this crisis we, and the rest of the world is facing right now. What crisis? There are a few, but the big one is income inequality.
Income Inequality
Money has become the way people can afford not to be slaves today. If you don’t have enough income or stored money to pay for your home and food, you are forced to work longer hours. There is nothing wrong with work, or serving others. Work is how humans acquire their value to others. However, in a capitalistic society, when the gap between between what people earn for serving others becomes so large that working normal hours for a living does not provide for the good things in life and a retirement for the majority of people, then that societal structure begins to border on a form of slavery – economic slavery. And that is where too many world-citizens find themselves today.
When you think about the past presidents of the United States, one thing is certainly true of them all: they were entitled from youth. Yes, Barack Obama was bi-racial, but his mother, Anne Durham, was the vice-president of a bank. Obama went to the best private school in Hawaii. He grew up in the middle class. He got a scholarship to Harvard undergrad, and borrowed $43,000 to get his law degree. For many reasons, Obama never became a great champion for working people during his presidency.
The best days for the middle-class in the USA were enjoyed by my generation, the baby boomers. Starting about during the Reagan presidency, during the eighties, laws changed that allowed corporations and personal wealth to grow almost unchecked. The wealth gap began to spiral and the gripes of the “forgotten men” began in the 80’s. Forty years later, those economic gripes resonate not only among working class people, but in the middle class as well.
And just like you would not expect the Pharoahs to willingly let his slaves go, the wealthiest people today don’t want their financial slaves to be set free. Trump serves as their champion to keep the status quo.
Donald Trump grew up as one of the richest young men in America. He never had to work for a living or experienced financial struggling. So why on earth would someone expect him to have empathy with people that must work two jobs to get by? Trump knows that’s why his life has existed on easy street. Others work, so I don’t have to is his way of thinking.
I grew up in the same generation as Donald Trump. I knew him from Wharton and AC NJ. He was so entitled, I don’t think he’s ever cooked himself breakfast. I have no idea why anyone, even a MAGA person, thinks Donald Trump is a champion for their gripes. He is the opposite.
After forty years of our governement selling out to the wealthy, white working-class people, men and women, need a person who can indentify with and has empathy for their struggles. You would not expect the Pharoahs to set their people free, would you? So why would anyone expect Trump to liberate the working class people of America.
Specifically because Kamala Harris did not grow up with a sense of entitlement, she understands the plight of the working class. That is only half of the formula. Does she have a track record of helping people in financial need? Yes! She did deliver to Calfornians when during the 2008 financial meltdown, banks wanted the right to take the homes of people they wronged.
There are two groups of people that do not have a stake in seeing others fare better in this country; the heartless within the entitled ruling class or top one percent and the greedy heartless within our government. Donald Trump belonged to both those groups during his presidency.
After forty years of Congress bending tax policies and laws to benefit those who have the most wealth, Kamala Harris, a person with a heart for our hardest working people and a resume of helping others, is exactly what America needs now. This applies to all Americans – Blacks, Hispanics, Asians, Middle Easterners, Native Americans, and any minority class. But it also particularly applies for hard-working white folks in the middle class, who have not had a real champion for their causes in a very long time.
The Coming of the Third Reich”, p. 451 . Joseph Goebbels, Nazi media czar: It will always remain one of democracy’s best jokes that it provides its deadly enemies with the means to destroy it.
If you have missed Trump speaking to his Christian base, late July 2024, the above takes a minute.
Fellow Americans of good faith on both sides,
Joe Biden got a lot of work done for the American people in his 3.5 years as president. Here are some of his top accomplishments.
The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law: rebuilding our nation’s roads and bridges, upgrading public transit, cleaning up pollution, and providing high-speed internet to every American.
The CHIPS Act: Bringing back manufacturing from overseas and creating better-paying union jobs here at home.
The Inflation Reduction Act: Legislation brought down costs for families via lower prescription drug prices, and historic investments in American clean energy jobs and manufacturing. Those who vote for Republicans, please take note: every Republican in Congress voted against it. Look it up.
Protecting Reproductive Rights: In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and strip a constitutional right from the American people, executive orders were issued to preserve access to reproductive care and protect the right to travel across state lines to receive care.
Historic Climate Action: America rejoined the Paris Climate Accords on Biden’s first day in office. Biden delivered historic investments in clean energy and understands that scientists, not businessmen, need to make these decisions.
Student Debt Relief: Biden understands many colleges have become predatory businesses. He cancelled of billions in student loan debt for millions of Americans, in spite of Republican opposition to help our youth.
The Affordable Care Act: Millions of Americans are saving $800 per year on their health insurance and 4-in-5 Americans can find coverage for $10 a month or less through the ACA.
Changed our Failed Approach on Marijuana: Biden pardoned all prior federal offenses of simple marijuana possession, removing a burden to employment, housing, and educational opportunities for thousands of Americans.
Joe Biden’s Failures Also Count
Joe Biden did not unite Americans, and he totally failed to prosecute the enemies of our democracy. I have always felt that had Biden prosecuted Trump with vigor, he would have won the hearts of centrists. Now, because of those failures, we are forced to win an election which is is already a bit rigged for the smaller, predominantly Republican states via the electoral college. It’s tails we lose the way America has functioned for the last 250 years and heads we win the right to keep fighting – unless we win three chambers. Then we really can fix all this. Overall, this is not a good gamble. We have much more to lose than win. How did we get here?
The Cyber War of 2016
Since, Russia if your listening in June 2016, we have been at war with Vladimir Putin and the autocrats of the world. This is a new kind of war. It is not waged with bullets or bombs. Our enemies know they cannot beat the USA with conventional warfare. This is a war of words, laws and media control: cyber war. The world has never seen a war like this. I wrote about this in 2019, here.
Since the Supreme Court seems to have been purchased by the democracy enders, America is the betting line underdog to survive another 100 days. Think about how crazy that is. We have spilled blood to create and defend this country at least five times: The Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, The Civil War, and the two World Wars. We have been victorious every time. Today, the American democracy is the betting underdog to survive another three to six months, and the aggressor shot no bullets.
Such is cyber war. Such is Putin’s genius. If he gets what he wants, a fascist America that is Russia’s ally, he will be remembered as the greatest general of all time – the G.O.A.T. of dictators. Putin wins if the GOP wins control of two of three chambers in the United States in three months. The alliance he made in 2016 at the GOP convention is for life. Maybe the GOP did not think about the long-term consequences of making a deal with Putin to help win an election. It’s too late to turn back now.
The 14th Amendment Failure by AG Garland
The American Constitution clearly states that no one who takes part in an insurrection attempt, or aids or comforts those that have taken part in such an attempt, shall not hold office. This was ignored by Biden’s AG, Merritt Garland, who thought it proper to ask the Supreme Court if what is written should be taken seriously. However, at least two members of said court have comforted insurrectionists themselves. They are also not allowed to be in our government. So how can they have a say? It’s like asking a thief to rule in his own case. Grland’s failure to get ahead of this problem is why we are where we are today.
October Surprises Are Coming
Joe Biden does not need to worry about running again. He did say at least once, that he would not let Trump be president – over his dead body. This is an excerpt transcript from a Biden speech given in Detroit, July 12th, 2024.
Look, he says, if he loses, there will be a “bloodbath” when he loses. And the United States Supreme Court said there’s virtually no limit on the power of a president. Trump said if he wins, he’ll be a dictator on day one. He means it, folks. We’re not going to let that happen. Over my dead body will it happen.
That last sentence was the first time in eight years I heard a Democrat in government allude to the stark fact that we are currently at war with the MAGA Republican Party.
I don’t know what kind of October surprises are coming this year. My guess is when it is clear that Trump/Vance will lose to Harris, Trump will start dog whistling for violence against her. The word “fight” is deemed kosher in political speech, but to many in Trump’s base, it means act out with violence. And that is not legal protected speech. Consider what the effective fascist Goebbels said at this point.
Trump just leaked out, as he often does, that they have it all “fixed” and plan to win the election even if they lose both the popular and electoral vote.
War is not defined in the Constitution. The nature of war has changed. Our conventional weapons are now too dangerous to use. But the goals of war are the same as they have always been: to take things away from sovereign countries. The booty can be territory which is the most typical reason wars start; but it can also be endingthe way their perceived enemies function. That is exactly what Project 2025 promises to do. In the body politic metaphor, the election of Donald Trump can be a fatal cancer for democracy, as we know it.
The Cyber War of 2016: The Final Showdown
Sadly, it is not only Putin we are fighting. An alliance between Russia and the Republican party was formed at the 2016 GOP Convention. Sanctions against Russian oligarchs with US holding were taken out the the Republican party’s platform after that alliance. This is the elephant in the room. Once you make a deal with Putin, you are allied for life. He does not allow people to walk away and stay alive. And Putin always gets dirt on his allies- taped recordings – which explains why the GOP never disowned Trump or Putin. They have been compromised for eighy years,
I hope Joe Biden meant “over my dead body” when he said he won’t let Trump be president. I hope he has the resolve to use the 14th and his commander in chief powers to protect America as it is currently constituted, and vanquish its enemies, should whatever “fix” Trump spoke of rear its head. I hope the DOJ and FBI are monitoring Trump’s electronic communications right now because whatever our enemies are planning they are talking about it right now. But Biden’s FBI is probably not doing this. They have yet to show me they know how to recognize and fight domestic fascism.
We have no idea what top secrets have been shared with Putin.The FBI should not be monitoring Trump’s communciations after he said ” we have it so fixed“. Who are his partners in said fix? I have even thought that the prisoner exchange was done now, because Putin knows something very serious is about to happen and it wouldn’t be possible in the near future. And after 911, did not the government get the right to spy on us all? So why not Trump?
Trump Cannot Be Allowed to Become POTUS Again
In essence, the GOP is running someone who is not even qualified to be president via the 14th amendment. That is their foolishness. Even if he wins, Trump cannot be allowed to be president again. Then the United States of America will have lost the Cyber War of 2016 and it will never, in our lifteimes, be a country that offers ample freedom and opportunity for its citizens.
I do not know what kind of October surprises are coming, but they are coming. I hope Joe Biden meant “over my dead body” when he said it. That would mean that if it is necessary, Biden is willing to go to war versus Trumpism at last.
This simple plan, put into action, can save the United States from what is now projected as a risk of falling prey to fascism should Trumpism prevail. This race will be women vs men, in a way Barbie vs Oppenehimer. But there are plenty of men who identify with saving our democracy. The question is will there be more women standing by their “man” who are sold on to taking America backwards in time, than men who are brave and smart enough to embrace the future.
So here we are, fellow Americans. We are in a domestic war, but there are no bombs. It’s a cyber war. Putin’s genius really. He knew he could never beat the USA with bombs. The weapons of his cyber war arewords.
And with three weeks left it is coming down to a few states and therein – their men versus their women. Sad, but very true. It’s coming out in the press now. Obama spoke of it today. I called this Barbie vs Oppenheimer months ago.
This post was a lot longer a year ago, but I am paring it down to its bare structure because there is no time left for complicated processes. Women are the largest class of people that are polling for Harris now.
The newest Pew Research poll found found 51% of male registered voters supporting Trump, and 43% supporting Harris. Among female registered voters, that is effectively reversed: 52% of female registered voters support Harris, while 43% support Trump.
Why Women United?
Women United starts with women because they have a natural bond this election season due to the GOP removing women’s rights constitutionally guaranteed for fifty years by the Roe v Wade SCOTUS decision. But we are open to dedicated men as well, of course. *Men Welcome is a super important part of the brand. We want to unite all Americans, men and women, of course. Women United is not racist or sexist. It is a place for real patriotism to awaken from its long slumber here in America.
There are women’s groups in most cities of a decent size. College towns are also ideal. I have reached out to a few of these groups and gotten positive feedback. Indivisible is a perfect nationwide organization to deploy this strategy by next Tuesday nationwide. I will make my efforts here in Los Angeles. Swing state reader, reach out to your local Indivisible chapter with this idea.
SAVE DEMOCRACY TUESDAY NIGHT MIXERS
That’s right. Throw a party. Strewn the walls with pictures of Trump and Putin and some of his worst quotes. Sparsely add some Kamala ads on the walls. The idea is to scare people. Kid you not. That’s what they are doing for the wrong reasons. But – it is a party. Hire a band. Alcohol is a good idea if its legal. If not cater it lightly with sexy food. We need men to align with women and nothing does that like a mixer.
At some point a speaker reads for no more that two minutes. Maybe once an hour. A three to four hour event. And then invite them to come back next Tuesday. On that Tuesday you can give them some chores or assignments but still have a band or DJ and make it fun. The banner reads Women United to Save American Democracy – men welcome. The women will be the honey that attracts men voters to see the light about Trumpism. I don’t think you have to tell them what to say. They know. But they are encouraged to talk to men about why they want to preserve their bodily autonomy. Men, especially young men, could stand the education. But, keep it fun. Be joyous warriors.
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Our Potential Allies in this War
The people we need to reach in this war of words are Republican centrists, independents, and Democratic voters who may lost their enthusiasm for Biden.
The main focus of “Women United” is to find ways to convince men, regardless of their past party affiliation, that this time they need to vote to support their local women. Since the GOP alliance can always brand truth as “fake news”, the re-orientation program must come from the mouths of their own people.
And yes, we’ll have to show the MAGA and centrist GOP voters that we are not vermin. We’ll have to be likeable to them. Is that so hard? I don’t think so. It certainly beats what the WW2 generation had to do to save this democracy.
Women* United to Save American Democracy – *Men Welcome is designed as a cannot lose project. It should function as a Green Bay sweep in its own right. Our enemies can see it coming, but they can do nothing to stop it.
Supporting Logic: All Politics is Local
We recommend the tools be created on about an 8th grade level. A historical synopsis of the miracle of American democracy in posters on the walls is a good idea too. Start with the Boston Tea Party.
Why Women United?
Women United starts with women because they have a natural bond this election season due to the GOP removing women’s rights constitutionally guaranteed for fifty years by the Roe v Wade SCOTUS decision. But we are open to dedicated men as well, of course. *Men Welcome is a super important part of the brand. We want to unite all Americans, men and women, of course. Women United is not racist or sexist. It is a place for real patriotism to awaken from its long slumber here in America.
There are women’s groups in most cities of a decent size. College towns are also ideal. We have reached out to a few of these groups and gotten positive feedback. We’d like to see if we can get a commitment from a few groups in each of the swing states.
There are 438 womens’s groups that just marched, January of 2024. They need to be contacted and asked to see if they would be okay for advocating for small d democracy this year by having three Save Democracy Mixers. The fourth one is voting day, and then those groups are united on November 5th and can do much good. Focus should be on swing states first, then red states, then purple cities in blue states.
Why the Reorientation Must Come from Local Influencers
The line between truth lies has been blurred for media. The fake news meme may have started with Russian propaganda during the 2016 election, but is still with us … and growing. AI is not making this any easier. However, it will be harder for husbands, sons, boyfriends, associates, and friends to categorize words as “fake news” when those words are coming from people they know and respect in their own towns. MAGA people are by nature followers – sycophants. They were easily influenced by right-wing media and Trump’s lies. That means they are more malleable than Democrats. We can take advantage of that.
Trump was caught on a hot mic saying “they only know what we tell them”. Finding a way to tell Republican voters something else to know or believe in may be more effective on Republican voters than Democrats and Independents.
Qualifications For Holding Office Must Be Part of the Education
A majority of GOP voters still believe Trump won the 2020 election. For that reason, Women United cannot be a Democratic or Republican endeavor. Kamala is framed as pro-Democracy , pro people first, pro country over party – even over the Democratic party.
The enemies of democracy don’t expect such creativity and energy this election season. But if this project evolves from written words and thoughts into action and it spreads through red states, they are checkmated. The fake news meme that has worked so well for “trumpism” for the last seven years will have met its match via love, education, and reorientation. It’s time teach old-fashioned civics and history to rural America and spread some real truth and light.
Branding the Struggle
*Build That Wall was nothing more than selling or branding. Branding seeks to create a vision fused with a few words that are hard to forget. Branding works like a song – words and music together are easy to remember. Words and tunes alone? They are soon forgotten. Strategic branding is something the enemies of democracy do very well. We can do better at this. Sales has been my life’s work.
Deployment Strategy – Seven Swing States
In the ideal version of democracy, the majority should have their collective will represented in Congress. We do have to contend with the Electoral College which does not function as a true democracy, and creates the space for a few key “swing states” have more power than the rest of the country. Women United can fix inequity, and many other pressing issues, but first we must save the functioning of our democracy. Without a functioning democracy nothing good will get done for any of us.
Seven states that need Women United chapters the most are in purple
Wilkes-Barre 44,000, Altoona 44,000, State College 41,000
My sense is that this list can be refocused and shortened a bit by using a filter based on preaching less to the choir. We’ll need to focus more in cities where the anticipated margin of loss to Trump is currently is between 1% and 10% and where the anticipated margin of victory by Biden is between 1% and 5%. The most important groups to enroll with be the first in each of the swing states.
The Tutorial Installation – rough draft
The walls of Women United field offices all tell the story of democracy. That story starts with the causes of the Revolutionary War, some words on King George, (who has been compared to Donald Trump) and the colonists resistance to King George’s taxes and tyranny.
The Boston Tea Party
The Boston Tea Party was the culmination of a resistance movement throughout British America against the Tea Act, a tax passed by the British Parliament in 1773. Colonists objected to the Tea Act believing it violated their right as Englishmen to “no taxation without representation”, that is, to be taxed only by their own elected representatives and not by a foreign parliament in which they were not represented.
The lesson of the Boston Tea Party will engage middle-of-the-road Republicans as well as Democrats. America was born with proud intentions. Ironically, Americans today still lack a Congress that truly represents their needs and not the needs of big business. The parallel to today’s times is there and worth pointing out. Women’s United seeks to restore pride in American democracy.
The next installation can be about the Constitution as it was formed and the amendments that evolved over time, highlighting the Bill of Rights and specific amendments. The National Constitution Center covers the US Constitution nicely. We can select the amendments to focus on. I think we start with the first amendment, and focus on the 14th after the Civil War. But we leave the constitution all out there for the curious. People need education on US history to become free thinkers able to recognize how poor a choice Donald Trump would be for president. Women’s United does not tell people who to vote for or against. We seek to make the right path become self-evident.
Since this is about saving democracy, focusing on amendments that concern voting rights seems proper. Since the Civil War, many constitutional amendments address voting, but there are specific amendments written to prohibit denying the vote to some people once the vote is extended to others.
Field Offices Must Remain Bipartisan
It is also important to declare this effort is neither Democratic nor Republican; it must be American. The division between the parties is what keeps the people of America feeling like we are in a cyber war with our brothers and sisters in other states. If we can undo the undercurrent of national division – fear of the other – and restore pride in American democracy there will be no inner space for Trumpism to exist within the hearts of our citizenry. Older people remember fascisim had not quarter in the American soul until the 80s. Is not that feeling of division and fear of others really the cause of our fascist Trumpism problem?
Right now, a large percentage of Republicans are okay with what Trump did on January 6th including hanging Mike Pence for not “doing his job” to end the peaceful transfer of power, according to Trump’s speech that day. The qualification for holding office in the USA 14th Amendment is that no elected official can be in an insurrection or aid or comfort those that are. So Women United is okay with Republicans as long as they renounce January 6th, the Big Lie and Stop the Steal. If that comes off as partisan, so be it.
The belief in many GOP voters that “the left” is their enemy, is what needs to change. But we can’t do it by using distant media. It’s not going to penetrate those who live in information silos. We should know this after eight years of right wing media chanting fake news. We need to re-orient Americans attitude to its government up close and personal, one person at a time, and start a sort of chain reaction – a reverse metastatic cancer -a metatstatic healing!
The idea is to help our Republican friends and neighbors find new candidates in their midst who are conservative but not insurrectionists. There are plenty. They just have no place to convene and air their thoughts because Trump, the salesaman, leaves no oxygen for their transformations. Enroll Republican centrists to convene with Women United. They will become America’s best allies in the effort to save democracy.
“It will always remain one of democracy’s best jokes that it provided its deadly enemies with the means by which it was destroyed.”
Joseph Goebbels, Hitler’s Propaganda Minister
The First Fascist
We are fighting a fascist organization but most people don’t know fascism’s history. A brief history of fascism is actually necessary. Mussolini is historically referred to as the first fascist. Mussolini Trailer on this page is worth a watch. Rachel Maddow’s new book, Prequel, relays some interesting American history on our US industrialists aligning with the Europe’s fascist movements. It’s worth making sure people know what Mussolini did to his own people if they protested any part of his agenda. I’d like to have movie night. There are some great WW2 movies worth group watch. The new movie Amsterdam was panned butit depicted the danger we are in today very well.
Long before Putin posed bare-chested in snow, Mussolini created this “look”.
German fascism began with Hitler trying to adapt what Mussolini had created. Hitler was a huge fan of Mussolini, even trying to get an autographed picture.
Civil Rights Era and the 1960s. It wiil be wise to cover the freedoms that were gained during the Civil Rights movement during Johnson’s presidency – and here is very okay to mention Roe v Wade. The right to vote was also very clearly defined and Jim Crow was officially a crminal action after the Civil Rights Act. . The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.
an example of news on the walls of the installations
The Trump Era
Even though we are non-partisan, we do recognize the criminal and treasonous activity of Donald Trump. Trump is why we need to save democracy. So our stance is not that we don’t want Republicans, we just don’t want Republicans who align with a coup to overturn the will of the majority and install a fascist back into the White House.
Trump is about to make his announcement that Mexicans are bringing rapists
The installation can have snippets from videos of Trump’s campaign speeches: the Mexicans are bring rapists ( ironic advise from a known convicted serial rapist ) and including Russia if you’re listening and other gems from his rallies. There’s no shortage of material:Trump’s inauguration speech, the firing of Comey, Helsinki, two impechments and the obstruction by Bill Barr during his impeachments, the firing of Secretary of Defense, Mark Esper, Helsinki, Trump’s covid vaccine success derailing when he learned covid was killing more people in Blue states. The installation culminates with January 6th, and current campaign snippets about poisoning the blood of our country and Project 2025.
Activity at the Field Offices – The Original Gripe of Conservative America
Being part of a democracy has to evolve to become more than just showing up to vote. Women’s United field offices need to be engaging and/or a bit fun to attend. Field office managers need to report to a central core group. We need to get people to start believing they can affect their governments decisions and laws. Honestly, this is the original gripe of people in flyover country, is it not? They feel abandoned by their government. Spoiler alert, so do many on the left. It does feel like nothing we can do will change how government treats us. Many Americans are resigned to sub-par treatment in many arenas of life, including quality of food and air, housing, education, healthcare, decent pay, cost of living and paying more taxes percentage-wise than billionaire overlords.( I don’t like that billionaires pay less tax percentagewise than I do. )
We have eight months to make a dent. Besides the get out the vote effort which amplifes in the last 60 days, we have six months to discuss and I think mock vote on the issues that concern all Americans. People should walk away from these reorientation courses masked as Women United For Democracy * Men Welcome feeling empowered and enthusaistic about making real changes in the next presidential term. The changes needed most are on what can be called out top ten issues.
Income Inequality and Tax Fairness. The Border. Health Care Affordability. Right to Choose. Gun Violence. Education Affordablity. Climate Science. The Electoral College. Corruption in Government, including legal corruption like corporate lobbying, voter discrimination and Gerrymandering, the Supreme Court. There’s ten right there. This list can be amended of course.
Suppose we invite experts to lecture – perhaps from a single source – like a huge zoom. The Big Zoom seems like an idea. A set time, and we all watch a 20 minute lecture or debate on any of the top subjects. Then we talk about what we heard for an hour. Then we mock vote for the solutions the way we see them on the first Tuesday of every month. Chapters record their voting as indelible records for how each chapter saw best to solve the issues facing America.
Finally, field offices ask their reps in Congress to come to a meeting and ask that they vote in Congress the way the majority in their field office ask them to vote. They present the results of their mock voting; they ask that their representatives re-present their ideas to Congress. That seems to be what represent means, to re-present what has already been presented. So let’s do some solution presenting ourselves Americans, and stop relying of representatives to tell us how to think or vote.
This way the local chapters get a feeling when their representative is in politics just for their own self interests. They can shop for a better candidate for their needs if they sense that. All politics is local underpins this entire strategy.
Maybe there has to be some music, movies and guest speakers at these field office some nights.We may be able to get some really top iconic people, like Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce to address the field office members across the nation in one fell swoop.
Sounds like a dream. But this can all happen in 2024 if we just start. We need to literally enlist in this cyber war and be soldiers in this cyber war. And if we make this happen, we will have saved our democracy by ourselves, without politcians, and a great new era of American pride and acheivement will begin.
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Once one allies with Putin, they must remain loyal for life. If you think otherwise, ask Prigozhin on that. Oh yeah, you can’t.
Joseph Aronesty
PPS. PS. Some new improved version of this autocracy vs democracy map, which has been at my blog since Helsinki, should be part of the “kit”. Many people don’t know what autocracy really means. But a ten-year-old with no prior knoweledge of world geography gets the struggle when they first see a RISK board.
About the author:
Joseph Aronesty is the 75-year-old son of a WW2 vet, an ecom pioneer with passion for songwriting and word history and author of a book on the history of language. “I’ve had a blessed life due to the sacrifices of those WW2 vets and I’ll be damned ( actually, we all will be damned ) if we just give it all away to con artists.”
Mr. Aronesty was classmate to Donnie Trump in 1968 at Wharton , worked in Trump’s business associate orbit from 86-99 in AC NJ. He has wriiten over 1100 pages on Trumpism starting at “Russia, if you’re listening” which he still feels should disqualify a candidate to run for president because it asks an enemy state to take a part in our sacred American elections.
75% of all Americans think both are too old to serve as president
42% of independents think neither will make a good president
This is not about the debate. Joe Biden has not been popular with the majority of Americans for a while, and presidential elections have become more of popularity contests than capability contests, sadly. But that is reality. Biden did not rid us of the threat of Trumpism. You can blame AG Garland, but he was hired and allowed to stay on board even though, had he acted faster, Trump could have been convicted sentenced for the January 6th and documents case by now. And Garland is still there. The buck stops with Joe. I believe this is underlying reason Joe is not more popular with Democrats. Americans do not feel safe.
The Origins of the Cyber War We Are In
We have been at war with members of the Russo-Republican Alliance that occurred at the GOP convention in 2016 when it was decided that the Republican Party would not press for sanctions against Russians oligarchs known to have US investments, in return for election help in the form of an army of Russian bloggers and digital newsmakers.
The alliance strategy worked. It created the needed boost to get Trump over the finish line and elected. Trump now owes Putin for life for that election help. He has been compromised and is still Putin’s loyal disciple. The alliance’s involved leaders in the GOP are also allied for life; that includes many in Congress today. Both sides of that alliance equation are trying to end this country’s way of governing, representative democracy.
Why? Money. They prefer fascism because it’s very lucrative for criminally-minded politicians. They can legalize stealing. They are a nasty, determined group. The rank and file of the MAGA movement have bought the Big Lie hook, line and sinker. Many actually think “the left” is their personal enemy. They are in battle mode, standing back, but standing by their dear leader. Trump is way more popular with his party than Biden is with the dems. It is thought today that Trump is the favorite to win in November.
Gretchen Whitmer and Josh Shapiro both very popular Governors of Purple States – MI and PA
Trump recently said: Biden is not getting out, he is more popular than Gavin Newsom. Trump really wants to run against Biden/Harris or Harris. Why? He believes he can beat them. They are the enemy he knows. His media focus has been to spew hate for Biden, Harris and even Obama for years. It is a racist campaign of course, but it has been effective. Trump won’t be able to sell this level of hate for a more centrist ticket in just a few months. He also knows 75% of Americans thinking they are both too old and ageism is a real thing in the USA. Neither candidate can’t beat a younger smart centrist ticket. That should tell us all we need to know.
The Party or Our Country?
The Democratic “party” is a big ship. It generally turns slowly and mainly moves forward propelled by the momentum of yesterday. There is talk of giving Kamala Harris her shot, without any thought to whether she can beat Trump. With democracy on the line, and given the current level of racism in the USA, I would not run a black/Asian woman from California for president this critical year. She is capable of course. But not popular in middle America; sort of like HRC that way. Tactically, it is an error. If we survive this year, it will be fine soon.
The brilliant John Fugelsang blurted out that he loved Joe Biden and wished he had run and not Hillary on July 10th. He quipped, “maybe, some of the misogynists in the right would have voted for Joe”. I agreed. But why is that still not true of racists on the right for Harris? It is, of course.
It is sad still we have so many misogynists ( or people who think a woman’s place is only in the home ) and racists, but we must face reality. I personally think Americans are ready to evolve, but first we have to get through this election, be victorious and fully prosecute the traitors to our way of governance, within our government – or this internal fight will continue.
About Democracy’s Enemies
Trump sees the polls. He wants nothing to change. Leaving this ticket to save democracy is a bit like not changing the medicine or environment for cancer and expecting it to stop. Trumpism worked like a cancer, because that is the way to defeat any complex organsism or body politic. It starts with a single cell. The defenses don’t recognize the cell as dangerous. It gets a foothold. It metastasizes. We are at stage four now, and we feel that pressure at last. We have to be smart. It is a beatable cancer. It may be up to all of us. That is where we are, “folks”.
The sole focus of the Republican Party is to win by any and all means possible. The focus of the Democratic party has generally been to help people. But dems will also need to win or they wont be able to help anyone. Why is this race is even close -a convicted felon and wanna-be dictator versus a president with a good heart- and the dictator is winning? In America? We should and could be up by at least by 10% with the right ticket. The math is easy and obvious. 75% want neither, but the race is even in numbers. That means 1/3 of those who want neither are settling for a ticket they did not want. That’s the 75% we campaign to. The rest are baked in. Let’s see if Biden can convince those who want neither.
Trump has figured out that Biden/Harris is the easiest candidate to beat. Here is one reason no one is talking about.
It is Harder to Hate New Candidates
The hate for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris has been cultivated on right-wing media for a long time. There is not enough time for the GOP to pivot the focus of that “Biden/Harris hate” to other candidates and have that hate or disrespect’s amplitude loom as large as it does today in the souls of right-wing media consumers. Hate for Biden and Harris is a prime motivator for many Americans to vote GOP.
Shake It Up
Charlie Sykes sort of said it. Taylor Swift sang about it. Shake it up. It’s how you fight cancer too. I know from personal experience. You change the environment for the cancer and your medicines. The cancer likes things to stay the same. So does Trump. He is even saying it. He wants to run against Biden or Harris because he believes he can beat them. It was way too close last time – 70,000 votes. Running against a convicted felon, we should be way up now. So what is our best startegy to ensure we prevail?
A/B Testinga New Ticket
Imagine a new ticket. I imagined the Whitmer / Shapiro ticket even though those two are not discussing running or running. But I chose them because each is a very popular Governor in a “purple” state. We should be open to other imagined tickets. Josh Shapiro has a 61% approval rate and it nearly twice has high as Biden’s approval in Pennsylvania. Gretchen Whitmer has a 56% approval rating in a purple state and is a very popular governor. These people know how to appeal to both sides. That is something neither Biden nor Trump have been able to do so far. Trump won’t try if he wins. If Biden could have united the country, we would know that by now. If either ticket wins, it’s either nothing changes or it’s a turn for the worse.
And that is the most important thing folks. It’s not the war in Ukraine or Israel – or even our many internal wars over the border, women’s rights, gun and envi policies, etc. The two warring political parties monster has to come to an end if America is to survive. It is even how we got this terrible Supreme Court, is it not?
We need to forge a potential politcal ticket that appeals to both sides. Both sides can be happy to vote for the same ticket, or no Americans are going to get what they really want whoever wins. We’ll sink further down, making only one man happy – Vladimir Putin, who started this all.
The first thing that has to happen is the new ticket needs to be imagined and the candidates engaged and enrolled. Without that step, we are getting nowhere slow. We can test that imagined ticket with polling data, and AI before it is widelly announced. It is incumbent upon us to see what ticket could do 10% better than the Biden-Harris ticket. It seems to me, not to try is to gamble with bad odds with the entire history of the USA.
I will end with, if we do this and Biden-Harris is still the best ticket, we of course will support that ticket vigorously. There is another option I’d like to suggest.
Biden should fire Garland tomorrow for his failure to move quickly and let this Trumpism cancer fester. Why was Kevin Roberts allowed to say “The revolution will be bloodless, if the left allows it” and not be arrested on the spot by our AG for threatenning all of us with a bloody war? I think Biden’s polls will go up if he replaces Garland and shows he knows how to shake it up and fight Trumpism. We all know Trump knew how to fire people for the wrong reasons; Biden could show he can fire someone for the right reasons.
Keeping Kamala On The Ticket and In The War Does At Least Five Things
I suggest Kamala should be the AG and replace Garland. Trumpism needs prosecuting and elimination if the country is to survive.
I think this new ticket would win in a landslide. Trump has almost no way to foster hate for it. He’s been a hate monger since the Central Park Five. And that’s how he maintains support.
1. Gives the 75% on both sides who think Trump and Biden are too old or not right for the job a ticket to vote for. Unifies the country that way.
2. Appeals to centrists and independants, with it’s Mid-Western slant. Gets us Pennsylania and Michigan, keys to a victory in Roevember.
3.Garland is gone. Puts Lady Justice in the hands of the now First Lady, where she can do more than a VP anyway. Kamala was an AG, and will prosecute Trumpism vigorously.
4. Heals the American political divide.
5. Turns the page.
Hold On To Love, America. We can make it through this long dark night.
Thanks and weigh in.
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PS.
I just asked CHAT GTP about the Whitmer Shapiro ticket. The response was optimistic:
A Gretchen Whitmer – Josh Shapiro ticket could indeed present an interesting dynamic in a hypothetical matchup against Donald Trump. Here are some factors to consider:
Gretchen Whitmer’s Appeal: As the governor of Michigan, a key swing state, Gretchen Whitmer has garnered attention for her handling of issues like healthcare and infrastructure. Her experience in state governance and potential appeal to Midwestern voters could be advantageous in a national campaign.
Josh Shapiro’s Profile: As the previous Attorney General and now Governor another crucial swing state, Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro has built a reputation for consumer protection and legal advocacy. His experience in law enforcement and his political profile within Pennsylvania could bolster the ticket’s appeal in the Rust Belt and beyond.
… as we have known her since at least the Civil War.
People. I don’t want elaborate on why “Russia, if your listening” cannot be treated like there’s nothing wrong with enrolling active foreign enemies as allies in US presidential elections. That was the first shot across the bow in the Cyber War of 2016 which blossomed into getting a traitor to democracy into the White House. And it was brilliant. Trump says something to announce a Russo-Republican alliance to see if there is a reaction. If the administration treats it as all’s fair in love, war and politics, – they know they can keep ramping it up. And they have. We have done little to stop them.
Estimating how far Putin and his ally Donald Trump will go to end democracy should be easy. Look at what Putin is doing in the Ukraine an dhas done to his polltical rivals. He’s not afraid to kill people to get his way. Putin’s another one of those ” I don’t really care, do you?” presidents.
There’s no point is trying to school the Biden administration on how to deal with a seemingly manicial foreign president. So far, they’re not listening to me – and many others. Putin is a KGB-trained master strategist. It would be naive to think Vladimir Putin has not recorded strategy sessions with Donald Trump and his inner circle. Therefore, the smart US citizen’s assumption should be that Trump has been compromised and is an ally of the same man the USA is currently fighting against in Ukraine. We are at war with Putin. And we know Trump and the GOP are his allies. Why that does not mean we are at war with Trump and the GOP is beyond me.
The relationship with the GOP predates the formal aliiance with Donald Trump. There were Russian emmisaries at the 2016 GOP convention. Once again, assume those who made deals with Russians have been taped and rewarded. The reward was Putin conducted a relentless media attack versus Hillary Clinton, his sworn enemy, and it worked.
Are not allies of our enemies on the battlefield traitors any more? I recall in WW2 that’s how it was. But it’s a different kind if war now: cyber war. The goals are the same as in WW2: end democracy and rule the planet. But there are no bombs this time. That is Putin’s genius. I wrote about it here. Trump and his allies have declared war and are engaged in an active battle versus our democracy – and our women. Joe Biden has not declared war back.
Joe Biden should declare war againt any person, party or organization, foreign or domestic, that seeks to corrupt or sow distrust in our sacred elections. In war, we arrest perpetrators for their crimes aginst the USA immediately.There are no delays for trials. They cannot be afforded. Keeping traitors to democracy jailed at least until the election is over is the opposite of blocking the wheels of justice for traitors in all of Donald Trump’s trials. They take actions – we do not. Democracy’s enemies are winning. Leaving the war up to the electorate is not smart. This is heads the war goes on, tails we lose democracy.
I know the democrats in power have read Project 2025. They know what is coming our way if we give this Russo-Republican Alliance access to our government. Any politician who still says the last election was rigged, even though sixty courts found no evidence of could have their powers taken away if Biden declares we ar at war as framed in bold above. Biden also needs to investigate the top Republicans who spoke with Putin’s emmisaries early in 2016. If not done, he’s underestimating how far these people will go to get their way. Trump is not kidding when he says this is their last chance to take America. Trump and his allies know that much. The next few months are also our last chance to save democracy.
These people were fine with Hang Mike Pence. They will sleep like babies while planning Bump Off Biden. They’re doing in now in their own way by riling up hate against democrats. And who knows what goes on behind closed doors? Trump believes he can beat Kamala. It’s the only reason I think Biden should have someone who can beat Trump as his VP.
Enough said? Never enough. If declaring war against those who would attack or foster distrust in our elections were treated as the acts of treason that they are, none of this would ever have happened.
Joseph Goebbels: “The big joke on democracy is that it gives its mortal enemies the tools to enable its own destruction.”
Joe Biden: Declare war on any person, organization, or government official who uses words that attack or seed distrust in our sacred elections. That includes Fox News and social media.Then it’s all good. Just don’t relax until the threat is truly put to rest.
I got to thinking about the most notorious leaders in today’s dictatorships: Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, King and Mohammed bin Salmon of Saudi Arabia, Bashar al-Assad of Syria, Ayatollah Khomeini of Iran, and China’s Xi Jinping. Not one of them are stupid enough to be caught saying I grab women by the p*ssy because I’m a star and they let me do it. Trump’s total lack of class or dignity stands alone, even among despots. Sometimes his immature verbal potty mouth is touted by media as an attribute for his “fans”.
Access Hollywood was arguably the biggest gaff in presidential election history and it bounced off Trump like water off a duck’s back. People began to say in flyover over country they liked this locker room talk stuff – so it was a good thing for Trump. But that’s too easy. There is more to understand. Sloughing it off on Trump’s garish style truly misses the mark.
Americans have endured eight years of Republicans fighting with Democrats during our first not-pure-white president’s terms; then four years of a president who never thought a day in his life about serving anyone but his own self; then covid; then inflation, finally leaving us with high interest rates in a nation with too many debtors. Americans have gripes. Both sides. And to make matters worse, all of these crises are left to be dealt with by a seemingly intentional do-nothing Congress.
This is why the flyover country developed an appetite for a guy like Trump in the first place. It was not about trash talk and Trump’s divisive American vs. American hate speech. Many people were just weary and sick of the people in Washington DC for years of ignoring their needs and taxing them in so many ways, while giving back the bare minimum.
The vampires in DC are skimming our common wealth. It is corruption. That was the first gripe of middle America. It is still a valid gripe. The meme is: all politicians are corrupt so what is the difference? We hear of the Big Lie. Well this is the Big Gripe. It stretches back to the Reagan meme that the government is the enemy. It is why Biden does not get credit for being a better man and president than Trump.
And the corruption exists on both sides. We all know politicians – no need to mention names – whose family members reap benefits from advance knowledge of government dealings. That is corruption, and to make it legal is to day its is okay to be corrupt and that fuels an appetite for a new kind of politician – which Biden is not. Trump, in many ways, just does the quiet part of corruption out loud. In some ways, it’s less sneaky than what Biden does.
We have endured about forty years of government officials governing by the greed is good mantra. MAGA folks were unified in one thing; hating the people in our government, and the way government treats them. They wanted something that felt like change. Trump gave them that hope. But he had four years to drain the swamp, and instead it just got swampier.
Polls tell us the Democrats want change too. I do.I was one of the first to recognize Trump was allied with Russia because I knew him from AC NJ, and there was a Russian mob component active there in that “carney” town in the 80s. He fell in love with Putin during the Miss World pageants in Moscow. Everyone who knew him knew that. Atlantic City is a small town. Everyone knew what Donnie was up to.
2024 presents voters with the starkest contrast between two agendas since the Civil War. Biden is trying to preserve the functioning of the institution of free and fair elections – of people deciding who should make the laws we all must agree to live by. Trump is fighting for his life to stay out of jail, and says he will create an agenda to run America a new way. But most Americans know he is running to keep himself and his family out of jail for life.
I stand with the MAGA people on their complaint that we need a change. Most Americans do. My big gripe against the “establishment” is interest rates. Contrary to the FED, high rates will not curb inflation this time around. This is not the 70s. In the 70s people had almost no credit card debt. Credit cards were relatively new back then. Many owned their homes with VA loans post WW2.
This time, higher rates are raising financial pressure on working people by causing higher prices. The price of money, in a nation that is living week to week, causes the inflation high rates are advertised to curb. High rates favor those that have the money to lend. Landlords must raise rents to pay off their loans; and mortgages and college loan costs take up much more of a family’s income these days. It feels like a plot to destroy the middle class to me. Same thing the new American oligarchs will do if we elect Trump. Soon, banks will be foreclosing on properties due to these high rates.
SO yea, I have my gripes against the way the US government favors corporations over working people. That however does not cloud my assessment of Donald Trump. I know him too well to believe he cares about anyone but himself.
Economic justice should count as much as criminal justice; in fact more so because criminal behavior involves a small percentage of Americans, while economic justice involves us all. So, equal justice under the law is basically a lie. The word tax is a form of the word take. If a billionaire pays a lower tax rate than a working person, how is that equal justice under the law?
It’s not the institutions themselves that Americans disrespect. No one is going around saying free and fair elections is a bad idea. What we are all saying is that the people in government don’t work for us much anymore. And the the voices of the fully honest politicans are drowned out by the chorus of corruption that has existed in DC since anyone living can remember.
We know there is a better way. It starts with ending corruption. It does not start with making a president immune from criminal prosecution. The way out of this mess is to make Americans proud of the people in their government again. That begins with qualifications for holding office being upped and careful vetting of any candidates financial ties and past work ethics and experience. That cannot begin with a more authoritarian government.
We must never forget one of Trump’s first acts as president was to lower corporate taxes, which forces working people to shoulder a larger percentage of the expense to run a government.
Biden can function fine as the gateway to a new America. Unlike Trump, he knows he is mortal and takes pride in trying to turn the wheels of government over to a new generation. Then it will be up to the new generation to fix what is broken for working people in this country.
I do think Biden needs to grow a pair, as they say. Leaving Merrick Garland in as AG is something no real Americans respect. He’s done a lousy job prosecuting government corruption. Trump will not be tried for the crimes against this country before Novemeber. The biggest crime in US history was filmed live on January 6th. If the man Biden has in the position to see justice done for that crime cannot bring about a trial in three years, he needed to be fired. I ask all people who love this country to find a way to complian loudly about Merricak Garland staying on as our AG.
Trump knew how to fire people at least. Yes, for the wrong reasons, but he knew how to do it. Biden seems not to be able to fire anybody for the right reasons. All we can do now is hope the sheer unchristian ugliness of the Trump, his alies – domestic and foreign, and the spewing of their hateful, vengeful, divisive words will get Americans to wake up when it counts the most, in November.
Absent of an actual bloodbath, which Donnie* Trump amplified and telegraphed was coming if he lost, we still have a semi-functional democracy. If it comes down to people voting, motivating people to vote is going to super important. That involves selling people, something Donnie is very experienced with from his pre-president businesses. Democrats are not losing on issues; they are losing in the meme wars. The pro-democracy media must be smarter about the words they use.
As author or Deciphering the English Code, a book which traces English back the time we transitioned from body-sign language to spoken language, I herein present unique ways of understanding the way certain very important words we will be using during this battle of words will land and stick in the human psyche. Trump has turned elections into a popularity contest. We must stop that trend. Global tensions demand a steady hand.
CHOOSE or DECIDE
The proper word is “decide”. “cide” is the univeral word for killing, – as in homocide and suicide. The act of deciding involves killing off the other potential choices. That means the other choices are defeated and dead. With a choice, you can always choose again. Choosing is a playful word. What’s your choice, sir? Choosing Biden or Trump lands in a less serious spot in the human psyche that deciding. So this is not the time for media to color the 2024 elections as a choice, or say Americans must choose.
Americans have a decision to make. Americans must decide.
Wharton 1968. We shared a class at Wharton called International Finance. When I aksed a friend why he missed so many classes, he rubbed his fingers together to signify dollar bills, and said “don’t you worry about Donnie”. His inner circle still refer to him as Donnie sometimes. Donnie has a childish gangstery sound that cannot land well with moderate Americans.
This Lions Niners game is so cool so far in the first half of the game. Lions are big dogs and have a commanding early lead. I get to thinking about how nature works, how earth’s creatures evolve to their environments and the cultural importance of sports.
The beautiful thing about football (and sports) is that it tries to be as fair as humanly possible. There are rules of engagement and a rule book. All play by the same rules. No one is supposed to get killed or suffer a life-threatening injuries to emerge victorious. It’s a game of war, but not a war. The winners get the pre-arranged spoils of the war game, and the losers accept the results and go home without crying that refs fixed the game.
If the world ran like this, there would be no wars. I’m thinking on how much the human experience on Earth has changed in my lifetime. And yes, stayed the same. And i find myself hoping that we find a way to resolve our differences wihout war on day soon, like we do in sports, because its getting way too dangerous on the planet and there are decent odds we won’t survive as a species much longer.
We’d feel safer in a world run like football, because it would be safer. We all know, from age nine the planet is currently skating on this ice, on many levels. Do I have to enumerate the dangers. I don’t think so.
Kids know it without saying. It’s too sad to put into words for them. But they feel it. And they are evolving in front of our eyes to accomodate their new environment. There are more and more children identifying as birth sex because their spirits are telling them it might be cruel to bring children into the world they see unwinding ahead of them. This is an undercurrent in everyone’s life on Earth today. Our animal friends feel it too.
It’s always been true that we are all passengers on a sort of Titanic and we’re not getting off the ship alive. But we never had to think the ship was going down killing everyone. It was more like we all would fall in the ocean one day and slip away. Everything that lives goes away one day. That’s never going to change.
The Saddest Meme in A Million Years
Today, a substantial percentage of young humans now feel the entire ship will go down taking everyone with it. Many are choosing not to procreate and bring up a new generation, the way its been done for a million years. This is the saddest meme in a million years. Our species is self-destructing and we are watching it happen “live on Facebook” – broadcasted worldwide on our media.
The struggle between democracy and autocracy aggravates the problem, increasing the odds of annihilation. Putin’s autocracy is particulary to blame because he has the most nuclear weapons and is imperialistic and aggressive.
Why America Seems to Ignore the Danger
There is a faction in the Evangelist Church that welcomes Armageddon. They believe words in their book of rules. it says they will go to heaven after Armageddon. And they have their man running for the president of the United States -again. They are fine with the end of the world.
The Russo-Republican Alliance
An alliance exists between the Republican Party and our declared enemy in a proxy war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin. We all saw the alliance begin at the Republican Convention is 2016. Donald Trump was just a candidate then. The Republicans reduced sanctions on Putin. For that, Putin launched the Fancy Bear cyber war, convinced disillusioned Americans Hillary was a criminal, and got Trump, a sociopathic lifelong criminal, elected president of the United States of America. A private investigation into the 2016 Republican Convention is long overdo. Right now – early 2024 – is the time for that to happen. The Russo-Republican Alliance should be branded as such.
the Friend to Our Enemy is Our Enemy
it is no wonder the Republicans now want to end aid to Ukraine. They are allied. And a friend to our enemy must be our enemy or we are just stupid. Donald Trump and Putin have made human existence more dangerous for all eight billion of us.
The saddest thing is that many of our children know this, - straight kids and those who are making other choices. This is also why this Evangelist cult push “don’t even say gay”. Those that think outside of their book’s guidelines are a danger to their book. Eventually they will want to stop everyone from believing anything but what is in their fifteen hundred year old book; Jesus. Armageddon. Rapture. They say they are trying to help their kids, but the way to hlep is to make the underlying reaons this cultural chift is happening trend in another direction. That takes work, coordination between countries, arms reductions, peace treaties, and running the planet more like a football game.
The alliance between Donald Trump and Putin has sailed our Titanic to a clear and presently dangerous sea. It it’s the saddest meme in a million years because there are so many ways the world could end now – every day. There’seven a thing called the doomsday clock. The animals, the climate, the news, our children are telling us. One wrong moment and it is over for all of us now.
Religion and Politics Do Not Mix Well
Our Founding Fathers warned us not to mix religion and politics. But they could not imagine there would one day be weapons that could destroy all life on earth. Some of these men are criminal madmen, killers, drug dealers, convicted rapists and sociopaths. Sounds like Trump’s Mexican immigrant warning. it’s more about him and his friends though.
Our Constitution is our country’s rule book. Our president and our miltary swear an oath to honor and protect America and the US Constitution. They are not doing a great job at protecting us. They are leaving that up to us this November. But don’t they see that won’t stop the Russo-Republican Alliance?
Those in Congress who side with our declared enemies, like Putin, Hammas, Iran, and our domestic insurrectionists too, must have their offices and seats locked followin the 14th Amendment in the rule book of our country. It’s not up to the Supreme Court either. The language is clear. Further, we are at war with an ally of the Republican Party, – so we are indeed at war with the Republican Party, just as Germany was in 1945. You know what they did? They banned their Nationalist Party from politics, Brazil did the same to Bolsonaro.
New special elections can be organized before November.
I could go on. But it’s fourth quarter and very exciting. Looks like a bad call by the Lions’ coach could have cost Detroit a fifty-fifty chance at winning. It’s going to be San Francisco vs Kansas City.
Hmm . The iconic Democratic California versus iconic Republican Kansas. Anyone want to play a football game for for the presidency? But we have to agree, the loser goes home.
I wish the news media would stop reporting that they are astonished or don’t understand why the GOP cannot abandon Trumpism. Yes, there is their carrers, and the cultish hate-based nationalistic base that Trump created. But there is one important piece of the puzzle they are missing. And it is important to identify because there are things that can be done about this.
First we must clearly understand how we got here. This cult was not created by Donald Trump alone. He knew nothing about politics and government when he took office. On his first week as president he was on TV trying to sell his steaks, wines and his “brand”. There was someone else who had done this before who knew political strategy from lived experience and also knew Donnie would love to be a dictator. He started schooling him on how he took over a large country and became”president for life”, something Trump said he thought was agreat thing when he spoke of Xi and China.
The GOP knows Trump is not their best candidate to go up against Biden in 2024. But they stay loyal, even as Trump makes a total fool of himself and faci charges of fraud, tax evasion, rape, insurrection and basically treason in the documents case. So, why don’t they break away? The answer is part greed, a sense of continuing the grifts they indulge in.
But what all the reporters seem to miss is that even if Republican congressmen wanted to break away – they cannot. They are in Trump’s “thick as thieves” grifters club now. Those that did not want to join it, were forced out.
This current GOPs border policy flip is no different than when McCarthy flipped on his anti-Trump stance post Jan6. People say Republicans are “afraid of Trump and his base”. I don’t think that’s close to all of it. They’d be better off without Trump and say it privately.
So, when did this begin and how we got here? Trumpism began at the Republican Convention in 2016. Who was at the GOP Convention?
Putin sent emmissaries to the 2016 Republican convention.
We know the GOP changed their stance on Russian sanctions after those meetings. In return, they got Putin’s support of Trump and the Fancy Bear media campaign that followed. The startegy worked, and there was much celebration in Russia, November 2016. Putin made 100% sure the GOP will owe him for life for that effort.
Putin was not physically at the convention, but he wanted to oversee and control for sure. So how does Putin listen in on the negotiations? Does he just take a WhatsApp from his emissaries? No way! This was way too important. World changing. Putin thinks chess moves ahead. We just react, if we do anything at all.
PUTIN SECRETLY TAPED NEGOTIATIONS, OF COURSE. Not only to listen to every word and coach and weigh in, but to use them later to keep his new American team loyal. How hard was that? Not at all. He taped Trump in Helsinki too. Hence his subserviant posture, which we’ve never saw once before from Donald Trump, or hence.
Those taped recordings would expose the entire GOP as engaging in traitorous negotiations with a known enemy. Even the MAGA base would not like that. Remember also that Trump was caught destroying his Helsinki notes and now classified documents are missing as well.
So, McCarthy goes down to Mar-a-Lago after Jan 6 – and Trump plays snippets of the damning tapes for him. Checkmate. McCarthy reverses his stance immediately. The GOP is now essentially taking orders from Vladimir Putin, through Trump, who is also suborned.
Getting dirt on people to suborn them is a staple in criminal organizations, from the Mafia, to the Russian KGB to Trump with his vengeance mentality. The National Enquirer and David Pecker operated this wayas well. This is standard operations for criminal organizations, not only now, but throughout history. It’s human nature stuff. Its why the meme “thick as thieves” exists.
Democrats no longer control the Intellgence Committe in the House. But a world-class investigative reporter could look into the 2016 Republican Convention and find out who talked to whom about what. It could spell the end of the GOP. Of course, Republicans got rid of Adam Schiff on the Intelligence committee and control that body now. They all know what went on in 2016.
Think the way Putin thinks people. This is freaking obvious. The GOP must now remain loyal to PUTIN fo rlife or they end up like Prighozin. The same is true for Trump, whose not only trying to win the presidency to stay out of jail, he’s trying to stay alive as well. Putin might as well be our president if the GOP regain total power. This cannot end well for the USA. We’ve been through seven years of hell because of this Russo-Republican alliance. We cannot quit now.
By rights and rules set out in our Constitution, the entire GOP should be declared unqualified to hold office via the 14th.
Will some investigative reporters get into the weeds on that GOP 2016 Convention and get some evidence of who talked to who? It may be impossible to get the tapes., but who talked to who about what might lead to something that leads to a Russian arrested on our soil, and some admissions and evidence. We’ve heard almost nothing about the Russians at the 2016 convention. Bob Woodward. Rachel Maddow. Ronan Farrow. Can you guys lend a hand here?
I am sending this around. You do the same if it makes sense to you. Ripples in the pond have a way of making waves.
Please BLOW THIS UP with your connections, and get an investigation of the 2016 GOP Convention going.
Joseph Aronesty
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The scariest part is that Trump very likely cannot win. In time, Trump will know this. He’ll then conclude there is only one sure way he can win. pay someone to assassinate Biden late in the game, RFK style so it looks like a lone wolf, and leave us with Harris as the 2024 Democratic candidate. This is why our 2024 VP candidate should be someone who can win on his or her own right.
The above is nothing I like to say. But Trump was just fine with Hang Mike Pence and we’ve seen what happens to Putin’s adversaries. There was, and therefore still is a Russo-Republican alliance. Think chess moves ahead people. The enemies of American democracy are.
Joseph Aronesty
I worked in Trump’s orbit in AC NJ from 86-99 . The 80s Russian mob operated this way too. I know from whence I speak.
On the two-year anniversary of the attack that changed the world, it is important that media echo this obvious conclusion.
Putin waited for Trump’s January 6th coup attempt to fully fail before attacking Ukraine because, if it had succeeded it would have been much easier to take Ukraine with no USA support from Trump.
Donald Trump has now said he would encourage Putin to do whatever the hell he wants to our NATO allies in Europe. This is coordination with an enemy state during war times. The Espionage Act fully applies. This is not “just politics” or “Trump being Trump”.
Russia is getting supplies from Iran and North Korea. Ukraine is getting supplies from NATO countries and the USA. But now the Republican House is blocking that aid. That is also treasonous during war times.
We are clearly in the midst of a cyber war with Putin since its 2016 Fancy Bear election interference. Trump’s statement has already done serious tactical military damage to the United States. Trump also shared nuclear secrets about U.S. nuclear submarines with an Australian billionaire, Anthony Pratt, a member of Mar-a-Lago. The Espionage Act was created to protect Americans from traitors. It applies during war times, and we are at actually at war now.
Joe Bidencandeclare war on those who would undo our democracy, whether they be overseas, allied with our enemies, or sitting in Congress. This should have been done at Russia, if you’re listening. That was warning one. If Biden’s not up for this war, he needs to step aside, and let someone who in our military take the reigns. Nothing about age. Think Golda Meir. It’s about attitude, brains, and knowing your enemy.
War is not defined in the Constitution. The ways to war have changed over the years but the objectives of war are always the same: to take something from a sovereign state. It used to be that could only be done with force. Today, one can take from a democratically run country bloodlessly, with information wars during election cycles, and getting loyalists into the governments of one’s enemies – cyber war. We have been in a state of cyber war with Putin since Fancy Bear election misinformation attacks of 2016. Cyber is the new way to war and Putin is the world’s first master of Cyber War.
The strange thing is, both the left and right base would respect Biden more if he were tougher on Trump. The MAGA base views the impending Trump vs. Biden election like a WWF wrestling match. Biden is losing only because he lets the chaos continue as if Trump has a right to align with Putin. Does he have that right during war times?. No. That’s treason. So declare war vs. Putin but state we are in a Cyber War, and will retaliate with the enemies of democracy whethere they are overseas or here in our Congress.
Putin is effectively running 5o% of our government now. Putin has compromised Trump and key GOP from the 2016 Convention. His emmisaries certainly have taped recordings of the 2016 GOP Alliance discussions. I don’t see an investigaton into that alliance. Putin is three steps ahead in this war. If you don’t believe me, ask Michael Cohen. He knows too.
Garland needs to be replaced tomorrow. He’s dragged his feet, and that’s also why democracy is on the ropes in the USA. We need someone like Glenn Kirschner – laser focused on seeing justice for Trump’s crimes versus democracy – and others in our Congress who aided or comforted the insurrectionists or align with Russian talking points during war times.
DECLARING CYBER WAR VERSUS PUTIN WOULD ALSO MEANS MEDIA CANNOT ALIGN WITH PUTIN.
Fancy Bear spiked with AI Technology is being planned right now. Fox News is in on the deal to sell out Americans to Putin. You only have enforcement mehcanisms in a state of war. Get into it now, Joe Biden. Americans and Europeans are counting on you.
Dear NATO friends. Help us get rid of the unhinged deranged person we regretably elected. You have real history in making the same error. You learned the hard way. We came to your rescue 80 years. It’s time to come ours. That good America is is still here. Our system of justice is moving too slow.
There are ways you can help. Please get vocal about it. It will help. Even MAGA people don’t like Putin. That’s not what they were there for at Jan 6th either. They think they are patriots to save America from the left. But the left and right are not that far apart on issues. The big money is afraid the left and the right will figure that out. They don’t want Americans unified on anything.
Americans need to feel like we could lose our European friends. Americans have many more friends in NATO countries that Russia. So in the end, people will vote during hard times for their families. Get tough now. The media is listening now.
Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels, said: “It will always remain one of democracy’s best jokes that it provided its deadly enemies with the means by which it was destroyed.”
Today Donald Trump basically said NATO countries, our allies post 911, should be cannon fodder for Putin’s attacks. That was not just a private person airing his first amendment opinion. This is a traitorous dangerous statement coming from a person with a lot of power. We are at war with Russia. I think we need to treat insurrectionists and those who ally with Russia in government as traitors.
14th Amendment:
“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any state, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.“
Biden Must Start Using His War Powers as Commander-in-Chief
Our president has a lot on his hands. The enemies of democracy like it that way. Besides defending democracy, Biden is also trying to defend Ukraine vs Russia and Israel vs Hammas/Iran in physical wars.
But is Biden trying to protect America and Americans from the threats to democracy in Congress? I don’t think so. Most democratic voters don’t think so either. And turth be told, that’s why there are calls for Biden to step aside and leave the job to someone who knows how to deal with a traitorous criminal party.
Biden’s choice for Attorney General turned out to be about as good as Bob Mueller for the Russia probe. Kamala Harris is hurting Biden’s chances of re-election as well. Many Republican voters wouldn’t vote for a black woman if her name was “god”, especially if they deem Biden may not make it through another four years. Frankly, he should place her in the AG position, which was her expertise, and place someone like Gretchen Whitmer as his running mate. Those would be tactical steps and many would feel he knows what’s at stake and is starting to fight back. Glenn Kisrchner has also shown us he would do a better job defending democracy than Merritt Garland.
Nearly eight years ago I told my Represetative Ted Lieu, we had to declare war against enemies of democracy or this would never stop. That is still 100% true. Even if Democrats won three houses of government, the attack versus democracy would not end if we continue to treat enemies of democracy as if they deserve a say in our government. That is the essence of the protections the 14th amendment provides for Americans. But they only work if they are used.
The Russo-Republican Alliance
A Friend to My Enemy is My Enemy.
An alliance exists between the Republican Party and our undeclared enemy in the current proxy war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin. We all saw the alliance begin at the Republican Convention is 2016. Donald Trump was just a candidate then. The Republicans reduced sanctions on Putin. For that, Putin launched the Fancy Bear cyber war, convinced disillusioned Americans Hillary was a criminal, and got Trump, an actual sociopathic lifelong criminal, elected president of the United States of America.
A private investigation into the 2016 Republican Convention is long overdo. Right now – early 2024 – is the time for that to happen. The Russo-Republican Alliance should be branded as such. My sense is that Putin would have had his emissaries make tapes of discussions with the GOP brass so he could weigh in on the conversations and use the tapes to compromise the congressmen and party leaders engaged in those talks. People ask why the GOP won’t leave Trump. This is one very good reason not to leave. They cannot. They have been compromised.
it is no wonder the Republicans now want to end aid to Ukraine. They are allied with Putin. It is as if Vladimir has a large voice in our Congress now. And that must stop – soon. A friend to our enemy must be declared our enemy, or we are just stupid. The aliance between Donald Trump, the MAGA GOP and Putin have made human existence more dangerous not only for all Americans, but for the entire planet.
If Biden delcares war versus the enemies of democracy, a proper AG have the ability to simply lock the offices of Congresspeople citing public aired quotes and videos of any congresspeople that have given “comfort” to insurrectionists or publicly aligned with Russian taking points. US citizens should not have the choice to vote for traitors aligned with Vladimir Putin. These people have self-disqualifed themselves to be public servants in the USA.
This is not because I or any person says so. This is what is very clearly written into the US charter, its Constitution and the Espionage Act. Failure to enforce our laws is a derelection of the president’s sworn oath and duty. Marjorie Taylor Greene went to the jail and comforted insurrectionists. Donald Trump sang with them. And we all know most of the GOP in Congress have stated that Biden was not duly elected and Trump won, which was the rallying cry of the Jan 6th insurrection attempt.
The 14th Amendment words “No person shall be an office holder” are striking. Yes, it does not say “shall not run for office”. But can you run for an office when you are disqualified to serve? We saw the tea leaves in the SCOTUS words on the Colorado request to get Trump off the ballot. They basically said one can run for an office one cannot hold – and that decision would be made only after that person won. But when that person wins, on day one, he gets pardon powers. You can’t run for president if you are 21 or born in Africa. Comforting insurrectionists disqualifies candidates. There is no need for judicial review. In this case, Dems can be originalists. The words of the Constitution are clear. Dems can enforce the 14th and stop this circus. But they don’t.
I created these images during the Helsinki summit when Putin reminded Trump that he helped hin win the election of 2016 and therefore would be beholden to Putin for life. You could see that when Trump cowered as he walked on stage, something he had never done before or since.
Project 2025
If the Biden Administration is afraid to use the 14th now and declare war vs the enemies of democracy, foreign and democracy, you can see how the words of Goebbels and Vladimir Putin, who has been coaching our sold out dunce, Donald Trump, on how to take over a large country since 2016, ring deadly against the survival of the United States democracy.
Enforce the 14th Amendment now. Use it, or lose it – all.
THE ENGLISH CODE 