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State Governors Must Protect Our Citizens and Our Democracy Now

A Call for States to Unite Against Authoritarianism

Aug 29, 2025

Dear Reader. Trump’s tariff driven inflation is hitting Americans of all stripes right now and is about to escalate in the fall. Runaway inflation creates the perfect climate for expansion of fascism . A happy, secure, well-to-do citizenry has time, money, dreams and no good reasons to turn to fascism to upset their lives. When Hitler took over, Germany was experiencing hyper-inflation. Russia is a financial mess now. The people behind this unconstitutional insurrectionist coup, know these things. They have a big stake in things not going well for the middle class here.

What I worry about is democrats seem singularly focused on recapturing a majority in the House and Senate. I hope it happens, of course. But we’ve given this administration the guns and the purse strings. And I am 100% sure Trump will allowing cheating on the GOP side, and call the outcome a “steal” if he loses.

I spoke with Ted Lieu last night at the Kiwanas Club in Hermosa. He mentioned that the Trump administration is sensitive to public sentiment. They might be. But that won’t affect Trump’s resolve to stay in power. Trump cannot surrender. Putin will release what he has on him the day he is out of power, or betrays Putin. That’s also why he will never fully commit to Ukraine.

This plan to end Trumpism well before the elections is a two-step strategy. Step one is what Ted Lieu suggested: influence public sentiment. Just so you think about this properly, this is what Trump did in the weeks leading up to J6. J6 was Trump’s seminal event to return to power.

Step two is create our seminal event to rally all Americans to take up the cause to end tarifflation. The Boston Tea Party was the seminal event that led to the creation of the United States. A union of thirteen colonies was created based on a written set of rules called the Constitution, which literally means “stand together”. We need an event we can all stand together on. Ending tarifflation is the best candidate for that unity.

All Americans, left and right, can sense this now. And I hope media starts saying “end tarifflation“, because no one can credibly blame tarifflation on Biden. Trump fully owns that meme. That’s the big idea. We brand the financial stress of inflation in such a way that Trump personally owns it all. We sell it, the way Trump sold Build That Wall. But this meme actually helps Americans.

Once the meme spreads, – and these days that does not take but a few days, the governors of blue states with ports should announce they will stop collecting tariffs until such time Trump’s tariffs are voted on by and approved by Congress as it is written in the Constitution.

I have sent this plan to Newsom, Pritzker and Hochul – and now you have it too.

Gavin Newsom,

The U.S. Constitution grants the power to impose and regulate tariffs to the U.S. Congress, not individual states or the President. Trump has violated that law.

States are sovereign powers. State governors can declare emergencies. They can declare that ports of their states will revert to pre-Trump tariff status until such time that Congress votes to approve the tariffs as the constitution says. What can Trump do about that? Send in his goons to collect unlawful taxes, which is what tariffs are? No American will support that spectre.

Tariffs are very unpopular – both sides. The law suit versus tariffs route is way too long a process. The courts are too easily influenced. Tarifflation is a unique meme four our unique times. The idea to stop collecting tariffs until Congress votes on it has not been floated or tested. Its time for fiscal resistance. Its time for blue state governors to put our money where their mouths are.

Red states may even go along. Their citizens don’t like tariffs either and are beginning to feel the pinch. You end Trumpism quickest by ending his popularity with his own voters.

Tarifflation is a meme that can do this. It’s a cyber war. Words are the weapons.

By ending the collection of Trump’s tariffs and declaring them unconstitutional and illegal until Congress votes on them, you also force the GOP in Congress to cast votes against their own people.

Governors can cease collecting tariffs tomorrow, stating when Congress approves tariffs, they will abide with the all tariffs they approve. That’s a meme that can help in the battle to end Trumpism and save our democracy.

………. end letter to Newsom

There are smarter ways to end Trumpism than waiting for elections that may not be fair or accepted. Key Governors must now step up financially and be willing to organize for financial resistance. They’ll need to form a union, and have one message:

We will not fund democracy’s demise one more day!

……….end tarifflation post

Rejecting ICE without warrants

This masked version of ICE is not popular on either side. They don’t have warrants. They work for an insurrectionist comforter, which Trump became the moment he pardoned convicted insurrectionsists. You dont have to be in the insurrection, to be barred from holding offices in these united states. See Constitution, 14th amendment sec.3 . Many in media know about that, and don’t talk enough about it enough. But democracy’s enemies get it. That’s why Trump is going after Obama. They know this is the legal tree they may likely die on. It’s also why they ban books and want kids to be blind to history. But it all adds to: it’s easier to start the resistance vs Trump as a resistance to ICE.

The justices that ruled J6 was not an insurrection, or that Congress had to vote on the 14th the amendment to enforce it, are also insurrection aiders. The rulings of at least two of nine can be ignored. And their seats should, by rights, be taken from them. Perhaps in due time.

A STATE OF EMERGENCY MUST BE DECLARED IN AUGUST BY GOVERNORS

We need blue state governors to step up now, during summer, when more people are off, and state there is an emergency in their states, and declare they will use all the powers given to state governors to protect their citizens.

With the intention of protecting the peace, and their citizens, and using the 14th sec 3 and emergency power executive orders as legal backup, ICE agents can be met with physical resistance if they come without warrants.

And further, whatever the percentage of the federal budget that ICE is costing the citizens of the dissenting blue states, that same percent the governors can declare to be paid to the states and withheld from the federal government to be used to amp up the state’s defenses and police forces. And they must defend their citizens should the federal government sue. That’s just numbers, – dollars. Not an act of war. But it feels as different was what we are feeling right now about fasicm rising. It feels like democracy fighting back, at last. It should have starfted at “Russia, if you’re listening”. That meant he knew they were.

Ending warrantless ICE can be our seminal political event to end fascism, the way January 6th was to initiute it, and our Boston Tea Party was to end it, or the burning of the German capitol for Hitler, to kick off WW2. Big cycles.

Lesson: New political movements need seminal events.

What’s Trump really going to do if we stop paying for ICE ? Did he worry about what dems would do if he asked people to attack police on J6? He can’t win if he sends the army in vs the police forces of NY, IL, CA, CO, VT, NJ, and any other states that want to start ending this fascist takeover of our country. He can’t win if he actually sends the army in vs the police forces of NY, IL, CA, CO, VT, NJ, and any other states that want to start ending the political cancer that is Trumpism. He loses that game of chicken and Trumpism dies by the dawn’s early light, imo.

And it’s going to get physical anyway, in time. This resistance will not be bloodless. If we are afraid to get hurt, they will find out and use force.

I know Donny. Neither he nor his sons will be there in any conflict zone,so its all good for the Trumps if others end up dead via his orders. And when people see that he is not moved, that becomes his Joey vs Johnny Friendly moment in On the Waterfront. Rachel said to think cinematically. Better now while the people are largely behind ending fascism and many have the summer off.

I would like to see this sort of thing happen this Labor Day weekend too. Filled with speakers and entertainers. At state capitols and online.

Yes. Use the word Liberation. They always use the meme they want the people not to use against them. Citizens United, would be a great name for a new political party right now, but its taken by those who dont want citizens to unite.

A CALL FOR STATE GOVERNORS TO UNITE TO DEFEAT AN AUTHORITARIAN TAKEOVER OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | MAY 2025

The attack on American democracy, initiated in 2016 with foreign enemy assistance, has metastasized into a widespread, coordinated effort to undermine America’s 250-year-old constitutional order. Donald Trump and his allies in the Republican Party continue to push this agenda, and waiting until 2026 or 2028 is no longer a viable option.

The 14th Amendment, Section 3, explicitly bars insurrectionists—and those who aid or comfort them—from holding public office. Yet many current Republican officials in Congress have supported or defended the January 6 insurrection, violating this clause. If we truly value the rule of law, this must be acknowledged and acted upon.

Trump and the GOP have created a machine that cannot afford to lose power; doing so would expose them to legal accountability. Their current strategy involves gutting federal institutions, rigging elections, and ensuring permanent one-party control. This is not speculative—it is unfolding before our eyes.

A Blueprint for Peaceful Resistance

Blue state governors must act now. The path forward doesn’t require civil war, but it does require coordinated and assertive legal and financial resistance.

Step 1: Form a Governors’ Pact
States like California, New York, and Illinois should form a constitutional alliance—“States United”—to protect democratic governance, federal workers, and core public institutions.

Step 2: Redirect Taxation with Representation
Governors should allow their citizens to redirect financially justified portions of their federal tax contributions to fund state-controlled versions of federal agencies being dismantled or decimated by Trump. This is not tax evasion—it’s a constitutional stand against illegitimate federal authority. If they are concerned about the legality of such a move, they should be reminded that Trump routinely calls certain situations “emergencies” when they are not, and then uses his power to “protect” the people, to do things that harm and will harm US citizens. further, states are also sovereign seats of powers, like the federal government, and their governors swear oaths to protect state citizens.

Step 3: Rehire Fired Federal Agents
Create state-based equivalents of agencies like the FBI, DOJ, USAID, and the Department of Education. These agencies can be staffed by professionals purged by the Trump administration. States have the right to protect their citizens and enforce their laws.

Step 4: Limit Federal Overreach
Refuse cooperation with ICE and other federal forces acting without court orders or violating constitutional rights. If the federal government attempts to intervene, states must stand united, even if physically, and defend their citizens and sovereignty under the Constitution.

Why Now?

Trumpism thrives on fear and misinformation. Its leaders will not stop until all opposition is silenced. The GOP knows they cannot win fairly, so they are rewriting the rules. We must meet this moment with decisive action—not symbolic gestures and discussions. Waiting for midterms is not a game plan.

This is not about secession. It’s about using the state’s sovereign power to preserve constitutional governance and provide a legal, moral, and operational alternative to authoritarian rule. No one voted for fascism, but that’s what we are getting if we just wait and see. The elections of 2026 will either be rigged, Gerrymandered, or its results simply ignored by this power-crazed Republican party.

Precedent and Urgency

Just as the Boston Tea Party protested taxation without representation, Americans today must oppose being governed by those who have violated the Constitution. January 6 was not just a riot—it was a fascist assault on our republic. The Supreme Court’s refusal to act on Section 3 of the 14th Amendment further erodes its legitimacy. Supreme Court justices are also not exempt from the provisions of the 14th Amendment. Their anti-democratic rulings can be ignored by states on that basis.

Blue states have the people, the economy, and the moral authority. By forming a union of democratic governance, we can create a peaceful but powerful resistance that weakens Trumpism at its core.

Final Thoughts

Trump’s efforts have created a national emergency. It is the largest emergency we have faced since WW2. The longer we wait, the more power Trump’s anti-democratic armed assault gains power. Let red state politicians embrace Trump if they so choose—but blue state governors and congressmen should protect their citizens by respecting and enforcing the constitution as it is written.

The majority of citizens within red states are no longer supportive of Trump’s agenda. If we lead with courage and clarity, the people will demand that their interests, not the interests of billionaires and corporations, be supported with their tax dollars. That’s the populist movement that can turn this around so democracy prevails in America.

Joseph Aronesty is an ecom pioneer who shared a class with Donald Trump at Wharton in 1968 and worked in his orbit from 1986-99 in Atlantic City NJ. He has been writing about the danger Trump poses since 1996.

The Dictator Map. A dictator map was first posted at this blog in 2017, when Trump was in Helsinki. It was then I was 100% sure Trump was compromised and who did it. And this is why Trump will never cross Putin and never should have been given a chance to hold any office in the USA.

Trump’s Firing of Mark Esper is Part of a Plan to Subvert Our Democracy

Three Things We Must Be Prepared to Do to Save Our Democracy

I just asked CHAT GTP if America will still be a functioning democracy in 2028. Go ahead. Try it yourself.

It’s not guaranteed that America will remain a perfectly functioning democracy in 2028, but it is still within the realm of possibility if the country takes steps to address its most pressing challenges.

“CHAT GTP” 11/16/24

Under the cover of the 2024 holiday season, we are witnessing the end game of the Russo-Republican Alliance play out and met with no resistance at all. Trump’s agenda has nothing to do with what America is about. His cabinet picks confirm that he is working to end America as we know it. There will be a ruling class, chosen oligarchs based on their loyalty, and there’s no better way to ensure loyalty than having dirt on your cabinet members.

Everyone else will be lower class. If citizens do not fawn over Trump or stay silent, I suspect they will be attacked by his loyal cabinet members. There will be a ruling class. That’s how it is in China and Russia. Dictators know that if our way of life is seen by their people, it will be harder for them to hold power. They wish the entire planet was one big autocratic, wild free-for-all. And they are getting their wish come true in Donald Trump if we do not stop him now. This election was more of an act of war we permitted to happen under our rules.

But not all our rules. We have one rule that Trump and most of his party members violated: the 14th Amendment. Many candidates and current congresspeople are constitutionally disqualified to hold office under the 14th Amendment for having aided or comforted insurrectionists. Some took part in the January 16th event. And while we have the power, we must use this tool, written into our constitution in the aftermath of the Civil War.

We have little time. So, it’s now or never. I’d like to see Biden actually defend this sacred democracy for the good of our people, our way of life and the planet. I do not think there is a way back. Or maybe it’s like a long shot bad gamble we would never take in real life.

Ask yourself this question: if your family was about to board a plane, and the pilot said the is a 5% chance the plane would go down, would you let your family board that plane? Ask CHAT GTP: do you think America will be a functioning democracy in 2028. I did. It suggests there’s a chance of it, if we act now. Russia is held for over twenty years. Hungary is taken and there seems to be no resistance to speak of. It is there. But it’s unspoken. People are survivalists.

This strategy needs to get to journalists and TV news media. They can reach the most people quickly. They are the ones that can instigate a need to act now or a need to accept this defeat. Right now, they are broadcasting submission. Fox News instigates their people to feel like they are under attack though they are not. We can instigate people to defend our country when we are under attack.

Since Russia if you’re listening, I have been confident Trump made a deal with Putin for election help. We did not need Mueller’s report to know that. We saw plenty of election help all three elections, on TV and SM. No Russian help, no president Trump.

Russian election help was not free. It came in return for at least two things: removal of economic sanctions from Russia, and lifetime loyalty to Putin. No one does business with Vladimir Putin and then turns his back on him. Ask Prigozhin. Oh,we can’t.

We all think there is some chance this last election was different than all the others. I am going to say the quiet part out very loud now. It is. We’ve had plenty of scoundrel presidents before . But we have never had a president potentially indebted for life to the dictator of an enemy state with which we are engaged in a live war. That feels like treason to me. I can’t prove that. But my father’s generation would have considered this treason. They executed the Rosenbergs for far less. It should be treason to coddle to an enemy country with whom we are engaged in a live war – albeit through Ukraine. But we do not need it to be treason; we have the 14th, sec 3 .

What I can prove is something every American has seen, January 6th. Donald Trump called a mob to Washington DC broadcasting “it would be wild”. There was an attempt to stop the election process, which included breaking into the Capitol and attacking officers, threatening the vice-president and congresspeople – and people ending up dead.

Trump did not even try immediately call it off. He said maybe Pence had it coming in so much words. This was an attempt at insurrection, and we watched on live on TV. You don’t have to know how gravity works to know if you drop a ball, it will fall. That act forever made Donald Trump constitutionally unqualified to serve in any government office.

The 14th Amendment, sec 3, declares that no one may hold any office in our government, state, federal, judicial or military having been party to an insurrection, or having aided or given comfort to insurrectionists or the enemies of our country. It is our constitutional right, and the current president’s sworn constitutional duty, to not allow many of the current GOP to hold office.

We have powers if we are not afraid to use them. And I for one, prefer to fight while we have weapons. These nation destroyers are ready to take women’s rights away. Do you think they will care about silencing dissent after we give them real power over us all? They will not! When Trump said he was running against very stupid people, he was right. It is us, if we ignore the 14th and let this happen.

Donald Trump has done all three of those constitutionally forbidden things. He was party to an attempt to an insurrection attempt; he was its organizer. He was the Osama Bid Laden of the 911 attack; not on the plane, but masterminding it all with help from allies, foreign and domestic. He has aided others who were part of the insurrection. He has given comfort to convicted insurrectionists. He sang with them. It is no wonder Trump wants to pardon them all. In his mind, that gets him out of a constitutional disqualification. It does not. We all saw what went down that day.

So why are we afraid to simply not allow him to be president stating he was never qualified? Our current executive office can do that. But no one is currently asking Joe Biden to do this. It’s as if we the people are afraid to win this war, when it is possible only now, while we have the power. And it will not be easy after we cede power to this gang on J20. Putin has held Russia for over twenty years. Hungary is not longer a democracy. I sincerely fear this is a total surrender to Russia. I see it on the faces of many of our best and brightest newscasters.

To accomplish not allowing Trump to be president via #ENFORCINGTHE14th we need large public support for this idea now folks. This is not the time to get all holiday happy. Never mind the cries from the MAGA people that we would be stopping the peaceful transfer of power. We can do this without a mob or violence, but with our constitution fully backing us. And also, after these cabinet picks, I dare say Trump tipped his hand and has lost about 10% of his support already. I think most Americans would be relieved. There is even a chance it will be cheered on by both sides provided we demand a new special election with no disqualified candidates. An April election, with two fresh faces would be cheered on right now. I am sure of it. 75% of Americans wanted neither Biden nor Trump. And to many, Harris was Biden.

To accomplish saving our country from this defeat, we need to do some things now, as CHAT GTP suggested.

First. We’ll need public support for enforcing the 14th, sec 3 now. That’s why I am submitting this to newspapers and media people. Pressure must be put on Biden, Harris and the Democratic Party leaders. They represent us. If we the people have surrendered to Trump and his allies and/or are “tired” ( which I fear the most ) they have no impetus to push for this.

Second. We cannot be afraid of our SCOTUS. Some part of me knew, in Helsinki 2017, that the importance of a Supreme Court majority was well understood by Putin. ( He owns his courts and Donald admires that. ) Donald is not a student of history and I feel Putin passed on advice on how to take a country to the GOP and Trump. The Helsinki translator notes Trump ripped up was a big tell. Trump quickly got three justices on his side – preparing for what we have seen evolve.

That court majority served like a move made early in a chess game that seals the fate of the opposing king. The brains behind all this is not Trump. He was intentionally not educated in affairs of state because fighting government in business was what he learned from his father growing up.

However, if justices are on Trump’s side, they are also aiding an insurrectionist and subject to disqualification. That is the attitude we must have. We need not fear the SCOTUS. The 14th does not say SCOTUS members are immune. It says no one shall hold any office under the United States if they even comforted insurrectionists or enemies to our country.

Clarence Thomas lives with a known insurrection planner. He comforts her every day. He will need to be told he will also be unseated via the 14th if he objects to the current administration using the 14th to remove insurrection comforters from our government. Thomas is just one man. This is easy. No one needs to get hurt. The Sargent-of-arms locks his files and removes them from his office, Biden nominates a new justice, our senate majority confirms, done.

First to be unseated should be some of the worst 14th offenders in the House, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert and Mo Brooks. Unseat until dems have the majority and we have a dem speaker. It is all constitutional. If SCOTUS objects, we start unseating them. That’s the war plan to defend our country before we turn the guns over to Donald Trump.

I realize this should have been done before the election. But it is not our fault the GOP ran constitutionally unqualified candidates, is it? I also wonder if Harris might be more inclined to use this tactic than Joe Biden, fully stating she does not intend to assume the presidency without new special elections, and therefore making a path for Biden to resign now. She can appoint a new AG. Garland was and is still a wimp against our enemies. He knows it too. We don’t need Joe to be sleepy now. Sorry to sound cute or cruel; not intended. But I have long thought Donald used the word sleepy to define Biden in his mind as one who would not fight him back. Biden’s agenda was not sleepy; his prosecution of the traitors to our government was.

Third, we must openly discuss and prepare for the possibility a national divorce.

The governors of Blue States could refuse to accept an insurrectionist as their president claiming the 14th does not allow insurrection supporters to serve. We could split into two American tactically allied countries, bound by trade and travel agreements both protected by one military. This is the fast way back to a United States if we cannot stop Trump from becoming POTUS again. Red states rely more and the blue states than vice-versa. Their people will come crying back in a few years. We cannot be afraid of advancing this concept and feel forced to accept the craziness of another four years of Trumpism. And there is no telling it will just be four years.

Imagine if America was two allied countries, each with its own national government, Congress, House, President with cabinet and Judiciary. The rules for the cooperation between the Blue America and Red America are set in a binding agreement which stipulates, among other things, that travel and trade between the Red and Blue states, is free for all citizens in either state. And there are no interstate taxes permitted. Nothing changes on local levels. But, the states get a larger share of income tax of course. That will end the red states feeding of the blue states, and then feeling indignant about the blue states liberalism. If red states want to not allow abortions, its fine for them. The people can move if they don’t like it. No travel restrictions. One country with two sets of rules, both protected by the same military.

We need to know what the DOD thinks about this, now. They might be okay with defending both nations and letting people who are conservative in nature have their space, while progressive states have theirs.

Your job is to reach out to your representatives next chance you get, and tell him or her that you want to #ENFORCETHE14THNOW.

About me: I am Joseph Aronesty, 76 year-old internet pioneer. In 1968, I was a classmate to Donald Trump at Wharton School. My hometown was Margate NJ, outside of Atlantic City. I was a boardwalk jeweler from 1980 to 1999 . I got to know Donnie better in AC.

I knew his authoritarian self was what he would become because I understood selling, and could see that was Trump was only interested in selling people and having a good time in life. When he hired Bill Barr, he repeated that good times mantra at the Rose Garden. Something along the lines of “here’s to a nice life, Bill Barr.”

He also was enamored, or even jealous of Putin since the Miss World contests, because Putin ran his country the way Trump ran his businesses. Donald has never cared about other people unless it accrued to his benefit. That’s not a good fit for giving any man power over people. I had hoped he would change or evolve, and wrote but from his cabinet picks, change is coming, but for the worse.

Do you know Hitler had 20% less support when he took power than Trump has now. Sixty days later, German Storm Troopers were rounding up Jews and 80% of the economy was working on the war effort.

Using the 14th Amendment to Save Our Democracy – NOW

I just asked CHAT GTP if America will still be a functioning democracy in 2028. Go ahead. Try it yourself.

Chat GTP: It’s not guaranteed that America will remain a perfectly functioning democracy in 2028, but it is still within the realm of possibility if the country takes steps to address its most pressing challenges.

Even artificial intelligence knows we must act now to save our democracy. But all we hear now is surrender to a tyrant who won an election, though he was constitutionally disqualified, by his own words and actions, to hold the office he won – and wait to see if things get better. Better? How?

Donald Trump said he was running against some very stupid people. He is right about that. We will be very stupid people if we let him assume the great powers of the presidency again. And we don’t have to. Nor do we need an insurrection. We have the 14^th Amendment of our Constitution to back us.

Under the cover of the 2024 holiday season, we are witnessing the end game of the 2016 Russo-Republican Alliance strategy play out and met with no real resistance. Trump has officially tipped his hand with his cabinet picks. They confirm that he is working to end America, as we know it. There will soon be a ruling class, chosen oligarchs based on their loyalty to Trump, and the rest of us. That’s how it is in China, Russia, Hungary, North Korea and all the countries run by people Trump admires.

Dictators wish the entire planet was one big autocratic, wild free-for-all. And on January 20th, they are getting their wish come true, if we do not stop Trumpism now. And we can. The presidential election of 2024 was a battle in an act of war we permitted to happen under our democratic rules.* It does not have to be our last battle, but that’s what our new rulers will want.

But, not all our rules. We have one rule that Trump and most of his party members violated: the 14th Amendment. Many candidates and current congresspeople are constitutionally disqualified to hold office under the 14th Amendment for having aided or comforted insurrectionists. Some also physically took part in the J6 event.

Joseph Goebbels was the German media czar during World War II. This is what he said about democracies that play by its own rules: “It will always remain one of democracy’s best jokes that it provides for its deadly enemies the means by which it can be destroyed.”

While we still have the power, we can and must use this tool written into our constitution during the aftermath of the Civil War, to prevent the enemies of our country from taking away our right to self-govern.

The 14th Amendment, sec 3, declares that no one may hold any office in our government, state, federal, judicial or military having been party to an insurrection, or having aided or given comfort to insurrectionists or the enemies of our country. All Americans should please google 14th Amendment, sec 3.

As tax-paying citizens, it is our constitutional right, and the current president’s sworn constitutional duty, to demand Donald Trump not be sworn into office on J20.

Many of his allies in the current GOP congress, and some of those who were elected, are also barred from holding office. Even Supreme Court members are included in the disqualifying statement of the 14th Amendment. But the most important person to bar from office is the ring leader, would-be dictator, and ally to our country’s foreign enemies, Donald Trump.

Absent of his J6 activity, Donald Trump would have every right to be president. Now, Trump has no constitutional right whatsoever to be president, even if he won the election. It’s as if the GOP ran a candidate who said he was thirty-five years old and we found out he was thirty. The Constitution is very clear about the qualifications to hold any office in the United States.

Why Trump is Constitutionally Barred from Being President

Donald Trump called a mob to Washington DC broadcasting “it would be wild”. We do not need FBI, lawyers, justices, or politicians to tell “we the people“ what we saw that day. There was an attempt to stop the election process, which included breaking into the Capitol and attacking officers, threatening the vice-president and congresspeople – and people ending up dead. Trump did not even try immediately call it off. He watched it on TV for hours, like we did. He said maybe Pence had it coming in so much words.

J6 was clearly an attempt at insurrection. We do not need to examine every curve and motive of this act. It was a bank robbery gone bad, caught on film. Trump’s actions and words on J6 made him constitutionally unqualified to serve in any government office, local, state, federal or judicial at any level.

We have little time. So, it’s now or never. There may not be a way back for the foreseeable future. Putin has held Russia for over twenty years. Hungary is no longer a democracy. Three times, Trump took election help from Putin, our enemy in a live war. For that help, he owes Putin for life. At least, that is how Putin thinks of his relationship with Donald. Putin does not allow people who deal with him to get away. Ask Prigozhin. Oh, we can’t.

If Donald Trump, a person constitutionally barred from holding any office in the USA, takes office on J20, by the end of January, we should know if he will be going into full-on fascist mode. Trump’s personal political opponents were targeted during his candidacy. If he verbally continues with that line of attack, we will know what he intends to do about the “revenge” he made a talking point during his campaign. It’s not a gamble we need to take, but Biden seems to be willing to overlook the 14th Amendment as if it does not exist.

Ask yourself this question: If your family was about to board a plane, and the pilot said there is a small five percent chance the plane would go down, would you let your family board that plane? Do you currently think there is a five percent chance we lose our democracy? Then why are we letting it happen, when we have the 14th to protect us? We are boarding that plane on J20, if we do nothing. AI also seems to think there’s a good chance we become something less than a functioning democracy by 2028.

BLANKET PARDONS FOR REPORTERS AND BLOGGERS

If Biden is not going to fight as if we are at war, then, at the very least, he should issue blanket pardons for all reporters and bloggers who ever wrote anything negative about Donald Trump, the president.

But, this post is not about surrender. It lays out the simple steps we can take now, to ensure we do not risk ending democracy in the USA. after all, oligarchy is what America set out to end when it broke away from the tyranny of King George.

FDR said there is nothing to fear, but fear itself. We have the power now to avoid this fate, if we are not afraid to use it. We must fight while we have the weapon called the 14th Amendment. These politicians have said they intend to destroy the “deep state”, a phrase they invented, and one they do not define. But they are ready to take our women’s rights away. Do you think they will care a whit about silencing dissent after we give them absolute power over us all? Biden saw fit to pardon turkeys, but so far, he has not pardoned the people who will need protection from Trump.

After Trump’s telling cabinet picks, more Americans today would be relieved if Trump were barred from holding office than they were on November 5th. There is even a chance it would be cheered on by the majority of voters on both sides, provided we demand a new special presidential election with no candidates permitted to run who are unqualified by the plain language of the 14th Amendment. That means no Trump.

And it means no Kamala Harris as well, but for a different reason. She did lose. We should not rub it in the faces of those who voted more for no black woman to be POTUS, than for Trump, to place her on the ballot again.

Once in power, the MAGA GOP crimes will naturally escalate to such heights that they will realize they must stay in power to stay out of jail. That’s why Trump could not afford to stop fighting to be president. The increase in government corruption is a certainty under Trump because his ambitious new administration people are given free for all passes, provided they protect the king.

In an April 2024 poll, seventy-five percent of Americans wanted neither Biden nor Trump. And to many, Harris was Biden, inside a female POC body.

An April 2025 special election, with two fresh faces would likely be cheered on by the general public. Trump’s cabinet picks even have many MAGA voters scared, as they should be. Billionaires who can pay off Trump, and loyalists, are getting top posts. MAGA people are figuring out they may have been duped.

To actually accomplish barring Trump from being president via #ENFORCINGTHE14th, we’ll need to do some things.

First. We immediately need vast public support for enforcing the 14th, sec 3. That’s why this manifesto should be submitted to newspapers and media people. Help me do this now. I am easy to reach. Pressure must be put on Biden, Harris and the Democratic Party leaders. They represent us. If we the people have surrendered to Trump and his allies, or are “tired” of fighting, which we should fear the most, our reps have no impetus to push for this.

Second. We need Biden or Garland to call for some of the worst 14th offenders in the House to be unseated, right now. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and a few others, are good starters. This will serve as a test balloon for Trump and SCOTUS members to be barred. Democrats could have the majority in the House now, if we unseat glaring House insurrection comforters. It’s crucial for line of succession too.

If SCOTUS members object, we can start unseating them. It is all constitutional. No one gets hurt. We just pack up their files and send them home and nominate new SCOTUS members.

We must treat this like a war, because what Trump has done is a war against the American way. And democracy’s enemies are not all domestic. Being engaged in a war with Russia through Ukraine, makes it easier for a president to do things to protect our country.

I’d also like to suggest Jack Smith should just release or leak evidence he has on Trump. If Mueller held anything back, he should as well. (Sadly, it looks like Jack Smith surrendered on 11.25 as well.) That should only amplify the need to act now. There’s no help coming past J20.

Third. We cannot be afraid of our SCOTUS. The importance of a Supreme Court majority was well understood by Putin, who owns his courts and Donald admires that. The Helsinki translator notes Trump being ripped up was a big tell. Trump quickly got three justices on his side, in preparation for what we are seeing now.

Women’s rights? Out the window. Separation of church and state? This Supreme Court is on the side of fascism and oligarchy. Pay them, and they do your bidding.

The Supreme Court super majority served like a move made early in a chess game. The goal being to seal the fate of the opposing king during the end game. However, if justices are on Trump’s side, they are also aiding an insurrectionist and subject to disqualification.

That is the attitude we must have. We need not fear the SCOTUS. The 14th does not say SCOTUS members are immune. It says no one shall hold any office under the United States if they even comforted an insurrectionist or the enemies of our country. It is plain language.

Justice Clarence Thomas is most vulnerable justice. He lives with a known insurrection planner. He comforts her every day. He has taken bribes from wealthy GOP donors. He needs to be told he will also be unseated via the 14th if he objects to the current administration using the 14th to remove insurrection comforters from our government.

No one needs to get hurt. The Sergeant-of-arms locks his files, removes them from his offices, Biden nominates a new justice. For unseated congresspeople, our current president just calls for special elections to replace them with candidates who are not on public record of beininsurrection supporters.

Fourth. We must openly discuss and prepare for the possibility of a national divorce. It’s possible the plan will not work, even though if implemented with the resolve that Project 2025 seems to have, I don’t see why it would fail.

In that case, the governors of Blue States must be ready to say they will not be ruled in any way – including by federal taxation – by an insurrectionist allied with Russia.

We should start serious discussions on splitting into two American tactically allied countries, bound by trade and travel agreements both protected by one military. Both countries pay a military protection and common infrastructure tax of about seventeen percent. Seventeen percent of budget is close to the amount we pay for military and infrastructure now. The rest of taxes are paid to the individual states. Since, red states rely more than blue states on federal funds, the citizens in red states will come crying back in a few years. This may actually be the fastest way back to a truly United States, if we allow Trump to be POTUS. Just say we want nothing to do with a president who organized an insurrection, and be done with it.

We cannot feel forced to accept the craziness of another four years of Trumpism. There is no telling it will just be four years. This discussion of a two-state will serve to temper the craziness of the GOP. If they cross hard lines, we implement the divorce. We are sort of culturally divided anyway. Maybe it’s best, for a while.

Joe Biden: You are still the commander-in-chief. Do so some commanding for god’s sake. You don’t have to go to battle with a gun and a helmet like our brave fathers did in 1943. Your tools are the Constitution you have sworn to protect, your resolve to defend democracy and the American people you profess to love, and your spoken words.

My father taught me the difference between men is primarily the words they speak. The nothing burger we have heard from you, post-election, feels like you have given up on democracy.

Are you afraid that the Republican Party will do the same thing if you bar Trump from being president? Spoiler alert. They are doing it anyway.

Republican voters and independent brothers and sisters: Today, Trump said he will be putting tariffs on Mexico and Canada on day one. That will cause the cost of mushrooms and avocados go up. He has chosen relatives with no experience to be ambassadors. He has billionaires as allies. Have you figured out yet, that Donald trump does not care about us. I knew him since age eighteen at Wharton. He never cared about others. Trump is do into his own self that as a billionaire he hardly ever gave money to charities. He speaks well of the dictators, Putin, Kim and others, who brutally kill their own citizens should they speak out. And worst of all, Trump accepted election help from Russia, three times. He now owes Putin for that help. Putin’s mission has always been to destroy America, and make it be more like Russia. I say no, thanks.

Joe Biden: The Supreme Court is not checkmate, unless you think it is. Do you want to be remembered as the cowardly, meek president who surrendered democracy to fascists? The plans in this post, along with what you know having been on the inside of government all your life, are all you need to save the American democracy. You said you would not surrender to Trumpism “over my dead body”. Is that body already dead, sir? If so, step down and give your VP a chance to defend this country.

We the people demand that you bar Trump from holding office, in accordance with the plain language of the 14^th Amendment, and call for a new special presidential election in April, with no insurrection aiders or comforters allowed on the ballot as per the Constitution. Become a real commander-in-chief, the way FDR was, and you potentially will go from being the last, and therefore worst, president of the original United States, to one of its greatest commanders-in-chief. We are at war, sir. You seemed to know that. Act like a war president then, for god’s sake.

We The People: Tell your representatives to #EnforceThe14thNow. Start this conversation, today! That is how the ball starts rolling in a representative democracy. Talk to MAGA voters and independents as well. Tell them a new special election can be with two fresh faces. Call into talk shows. Organize #ENFORCETHE14TH protests. Use that hashtag. Trump has tipped his fascist bent agenda with his cabinet picks. The time is now, while we can without risking our lives, to resist Trumpism. Christmas can wait.

Our beautiful American women: Are you ready to surrender your bodily autonomy to a party that nominates rapists and racists to wield power over you? The holidays may be sidetracking you. But this is not the time to pretend all is well and holly jolly. We need to hear from you now about using the 14th to bar disqualified humans from holding office. It can happen, but only if we all speak up now! Use #EnforceThe 14thNow as a hashtag in all your SM posts. It’s not too late to resist Trumpism. The January 20^th surrendering democracy date only happens. if we let it happen without using the 14^th.

Thank You all and may God bless the American spirit.

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12/13/24 :

PREPARE TO BE RULED IN THE NEW UNTIED STATES OF TRUMPLANDIA

We lost the popular vote. That tells me that more than 50% of our countrymen have succumbed the cancer of Trumpism. In a human body, 20% cancer cells is way too much to bear. The situation for our body politic is dire, to say the least. Hitler had 25% less people behind him on his day one, than Trump does now. (source: Dan Simon‘s brilliant piece )

Losing the popular vote will give these fascists the chutzpah to say they can do whatever they want. The alliances that those who don’t wish to be ruled by a fascist elite mob should be making right now are not with dems, but with the people who voted for Trump. Many are beginning to see they made a mistake. It’s no small percentage of people. I speak to many Trump voters who already know he’s not going to do much of anything to help them in their own lives.

Do some Google searching about Google searches. Things could change. We need someone brave enough to start the ball rolling. It cannot be Harris, of course. I wonder why it is not Jack Smith, sometimes.

Where have you gone, Jack Smith? A nation turns its weary eyes to you.

Jack Smith seemed like the guy who was not afraid to go on the offensive versus Trump. Did they get to him too? Doesn’t feel like anytime someone wants to uncover the real political truth, they suddenly surrender as if they were never that serious to begin with? That’s what makes people think all politics is dirty, and just back away from it all.

So I’d like to add Jack Smith to my list of cop-outs if he does not fully release all he knows about Trump’s crimes for his New Years Resolution. I wish Jack Smith find the courage of Michael Cohen, and just do what is right. Where is our Joe DiMaggio?

I am a mere citizen who had some contact with Trump in my younger days, but that was enough to inform me that 100% Donnie has been compromised by his intellectual superior, Vladimir Putin. Donald Trump simply does not have the kind of soul that can get close to another man with more power that he has, and not want to learn how to attain that power himself. His role model used to be his father, now it’s dictators, – not that there was that much of a difference. Why? With no allegiance to anyone but self, Trump’s life is empty without the adventurous scenes he creates in his mind. He was ripe for the picking.

I am sure Smith knows Trump has been compromised. We cannot have a compromised US president. There is too much to lose here. Smith can do a lot to start the ball rolling to save this country before it is too late. If J6 began their insurrection, J20 is their victory day. Do not surrender in advance.

And can someone open a government hot-line for MAGA voters who have been already turned off by Trump’s cabinet picks which includes sex traffickers ex-cons and relatives, – and sometimes the ex-cons are relatives? These people can be talked back into reality, especially after the cabinets picks. I called for this in June, but it fell of deaf ears. Everything we ever needed to keep America a free country has been posted in my blogs since 2016. I am not surrendering. But I will get off Twitter soon. Resistance is going to have to go underground soon. It’s not a good sign.

Putin’s war vs democracy began in 2016 with help to get Trump elected. His plan is working, – not only here, but now in Hungary, and today Trudeau said her would step down in Canada. Country by country, Putin is getting his way to become autocrat of the world. This will not end well.

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