Something has changed in America, and pretending otherwise is no longer safe. If a sitting president can deny, delay, or obfuscate the outcome of an election, then democracy itself is in jeopardy. And if one political team claims the right to question or refuse legitimate election results, then the opposing side logically inherits the same right. That is not a threat —it is a consequence. Just like in a football game, there has to be an level playing field with the same rules for both teams in order for the true winner to gain the moral highground to take the reigns of government in a democracy.
If Team Trump were to deny, delay, or obfuscate the procedures or results of the 2026 midterm elections, then Team Democracy would face a choice: accept a broken democracy, or prepare a constitutional, collective response. The publishing of said constitutional, collective response should be created now, well ahead of the midterms, so there is no chance of getting caught flat-footed in November.
One possibility is for the Democratic Governors Association — or a similar alliance of state leaders — to announce today that they are standing together to defend free and fair American elections. An Article Five–style pledge — “you come for one, you come for all” — would signal unity and strength. The purpose would be to prevent foul play and its resulting mayhem in November.
Let me lay out the logic plainly. Many Americans believe the country is already in a political war — a conflict not of weapons but of institutions, trust, and power. Democracy, once a radical idea, depends on citizens choosing representatives who argue and negotiate within agreed rules. Authoritarian systems do not operate that way.
The Founders wrote about “self-evident truths” for a reason. Evidence literally means from what is seen; video hides in the word evidence. And today’s polls reveal most Americans feel they have seen enough. With the midterms approaching, the question is not whether citizens should reject results they don’t like; they should not, of course. Elections carried out by longstanding rules, with broad participation and lawful procedures, must be accepted regardless of outcome. Americans have done this before. Many disliked prior results, but the system held because people respected the process.
The fear today is totally different: that elections may be contested not through law but through power. If attempts are made to delay or undermine the midterms, states should be prepared to respond lawfully and collectively. Governors could announce that, in the event of clear election interference, they would enact their emergency powers to protect their citizens and institutions — including reconsidering how and to whom federal tax dollars are paid and managed until constitutional order is restored.
This would not be a declaration of separation, nor the creation of a new country. It would be a conditional safeguard ; a contingency plan meant to preserve constitutional norms if they are threatened.
Such a stance might resonate with many Americans across the political spectrum. Distrust of federal power is not new; it has appeared in movements from the Tea Party to modern progressive coalitions. The idea of states asserting greater autonomy has deep roots in American history.
And here is the strategic point: if citizens know there is a peaceful, organized, constitutional backup plan, attempts to manipulate elections lose much of their power. Deterrence works when the consequences are clear and there is a feeling of reassurance. History shows that would-be strongmen respect strength. Institutions survive only when people are willing to defend them collectively.
This is not a call for chaos or refusal to accept legitimate outcomes. It is a call to prepare calmly, lawfully, and transparently ,so that no leader, from any party, can undermine the rules that make democracy possible.
Because if a sitting president can deny or delay the outcome of an election, then democracy itself is already in checkmate; and Americans of every political belief should refuse to accept that future.
Send this letter to Republicans in Goverment in your state.
Amplify this letter . Post it in editorial news. On social media. Any way you can.
Dear Congressman ___________,
I am writing as a deeply concerned constituent. Much of what I am seeing and hearing from President Trump in his second term has shaken my confidence that our government is acting in the best interests of American families.
The President speaks about tariffs as if Americans do not pay for them. But we do — through higher grocery prices, higher household costs, and increasing financial strain. He ran on making life better at home. For many of us, life is not better, either economically or in terms of community safety.
I support lawful immigration enforcement and the removal of individuals who pose a real danger. What I do not support is profiling people based on accent or appearance, or policies that undermine basic due process. I am a Republican, and I am not a racist. These actions do not reflect American values.
I am also deeply troubled by the continued lack of transparency around the Epstein matter, and by repeated statements from the President that contradict publicly available facts. Trust in leadership depends on honesty, and that trust is eroding rapidly.
Foreign policy statements and actions have added to my concern. Talk of acquiring Greenland, strained relations with NATO allies, and unexplained financial dealings abroad project instability rather than strength. America is less respected internationally than it was, and that has real consequences for our security.
I believe our country is heading toward either severe political backlash in the midterms or a broader constitutional crisis. Neither outcome is good for the Republican Party or for the nation.
One action I have imagined is to use the 25th Amendment and install JD Vance before midterm campaigning begins. Just say based on a year of what Trump has said and done in his first year of 2.0 we deem Donald Trump is no longer fit to lead our great nation, our military and be our commander-in-chief. Call it dementia if you must. As I see it, it comes down to finding a way to reign Trump in – or replacing him.
I am asking you to take seriously the constitutional responsibilities of checks and balances. The world is becoming more dangerous, not safer, and our leadership should be reducing risk, not amplifying it. I want a future where my children, my neighbors, and yours are safer and more secure.
If meaningful steps are not taken to rein in these actions, I cannot continue to support candidates who refuse to uphold constitutional norms. I believe many Americans — across party lines — feel the same way.
Something has changed in America, and pretending otherwise is no longer safe. If a sitting president can deny, delay, or obstruct the outcome of an election, then democracy itself is in jeopardy. And if one political team claims the right to question or refuse legitimate election results, then the opposing side logically inherits the same right. That is not a threat —it is a consequence.
If Team Trump were to deny, delay, or obfuscate the procedures or results of the 2026 midterm elections, then Team Democracy would face a choice: accept a broken system, or prepare a constitutional, collective response. The publishing of said conditional response should be made well ahead of the midterms.
One possibility is clear. The Democratic Governors Association — or a similar alliance of state leaders — could announce ahead of time that they will stand together to defend free and fair elections. An Article Five–style pledge — “you come for one, you come for all” — would signal unity and deterrence. The purpose would not be confrontation but prevention.
Let me lay out the logic plainly.
Many Americans believe the country is already in a political war — a conflict not of weapons but of institutions, trust, and power. Democracy, once a radical idea, depended on citizens choosing representatives who argued and negotiated within agreed rules. Authoritarian systems do not operate that way.
The Founders wrote about “self-evident truths” for a reason. Evidence comes from what we see. And many Americans feel they have seen enough. With the midterms approaching, the question is not whether citizens should reject legitimate results; they should not. Elections carried out by longstanding rules, with broad participation and lawful procedures, must be accepted regardless of outcome. Americans have done this before. Many disliked prior results, but the system held because people respected the process.
The fear today is different: that future elections may be contested not through law but through power. If attempts are made to delay or undermine the midterms, states should be prepared to respond lawfully and collectively. Governors could announce that, in the event of clear election interference, they would explore emergency powers to protect their citizens and institutions — including reconsidering how and to whom federal tax dollars are paid and managed until constitutional order is restored.
This would not be a declaration of separation, nor the creation of a new country. It would be a conditional safeguard ; a contingency plan meant to preserve constitutional norms if they are threatened.
Such a stance might resonate with many Americans across the political spectrum. Distrust of federal power is not new; it has appeared in movements from the Tea Party to modern progressive coalitions. The idea of states asserting greater autonomy has deep roots in American history.
And here is the strategic point: if citizens know there is a peaceful, organized, constitutional backup plan, attempts to manipulate elections lose much of their power. Deterrence works when the consequences are clear and there is a feeling of reassurance. History shows that would-be strongmen respect strength. Institutions survive only when people are willing to defend them collectively.
This is not a call for chaos or refusal to accept legitimate outcomes. It is a call to prepare calmly, lawfully, and transparently, so that no leader, from any party, can undermine the rules that make democracy possible.
Because if a sitting president can deny or delay the outcome of an election, then democracy itself is already in checkmate; and Americans of every political belief should refuse to accept that future.
A Call for a Union of Governors to Protect Citizens from Federal Overreach
And Continued Resistance
Across the country, people are watching federal power being used in ways that feel increasingly detached from constitutional limits: aggressive immigration enforcement without clear judicial oversight, sweeping tariffs imposed without Congressional approval, and rhetoric that treats political opposition not as fellow citizens, but as enemies.
When force replaces our Constitution, and subdues representation, democracy fails — not all at once, but quietly, via normalization, pressure and time.
This post is not about left versus right. We really are all in this together now. It is about whether our constitutional government will continue to function as it was originally crafted to do.
Waiting for elections may not be enough
Elections matter — but we are seeing blatant attempts to affect the midterms just like they do in Russia and other fascist countries around the world. We need to be fully prepared well ahead of the midterms to survive this. So all tools and strategies need to be on the table. Hoping for the best while preparing for the worst applies when all is at stake, and it is.
Further, elections are not the only safeguards the Constitution provides. The American system of governance was designed with the safeguard of shared sovereignty. States are not subsidiaries of the federal executive. Governors are not required to enforce federal actions that violate their citizens’ constitutional rights. In fact, they have a sworn duty to protect their citizens’ rights.
When executive power exceeds constitutional bounds, the states were meant to act as a stabilizing force, not as silent accomplices.
We have seen the Trump administration is willing to openly lie to the public. January 6th is being framed as a peaceful protest, and peaceful protestors are being called radicals and shot dead.
What will happen if the midterm results are framed as phony or rigged, and our purchased Supreme Court majority rules for the administration? We cannot wait for elections with this administration in power. Just as he has done all his life, Donald Trump cheats in public and buys off the heat. He shows no respect for our Constitution and is even on record saying he would like to end the Constitution.
Two peaceful, constitutional pressure points
There are two areas where unlawful federal overreach is very visible — and where lawful, non-violent resistance can restore balance quickly.
1. Immigration enforcement without warrants
Border security at the border is popular with most Americans. But federal agents do not have unlimited authority inside states. When arrests or detentions occur by masked men without proper judicial warrants, state governors are within their rights to refuse cooperation and even arrest said ICE agents. This is not obstruction of justice; it is constitutional compliance. Communities are safer when fear is not used as policy. Public safety improves when law enforcement operates transparently and lawfully. It is a governors sworn duty to protect his citizens.
2. Tariffs imposed without Congressional approval
The Constitution gives Congress — not the executive — the power to levy taxes and tariffs. When tariffs are imposed unilaterally, they function as a hidden national sales tax, raising prices for everyone while bypassing representation.
Sovereign state governors can decline to collect tariffs through their ports until Congress approves them as per the Constitution. Prices would fall on goods coming through their ports. One would think that could be good for those state’s citizens.
Citizens in these states would feel the difference with lower prices in real time, and red state citizens would get jealous very quickly. The tariff scam would be exposed in a way that Fox News can’t spin away. Note: As of February 21, 2026, the Supreme Court ruled that Trump’s tariffs were illegal, as if we needed a SCOTUS to decide that. It is clear in the Constitution. And this 150-day exception, we should have no respect for that. After 150 days, Trump can restart the 150 days again. Yep. And he will. So I give no respect for that workaround to tax the public, which is what tariffs are.
Refusing to collect tariffs is plan with teeth. It would get popular so quickly Trump couldn’t stop it and be the party pooper. Will he go to physical war about this money? I doubt it. But if he does, he won’t have public support and it would mean a physical war is happening at midterms anyway. So it’s better to initiate real resistance now. Talk in back rooms, but spring it suddenly.
And like Republicans, worry later about the legality of it all. The Constitution and the public are on our side on tariffs. If Supreme Court justices say no, we can say they are aiding an insurrectionist, hence disqualified to serve hence rule in our states; and it will be true. This is also pocketbook economics citizens in all states will appreciate. It’s populism in an FDR way; and he became a populist because he knew he was up against domestic enemies as well as foreign enemies, just as we are today.
Why this matters right now
Authoritarian systems thrive when people feel powerless and divided. Our enemies abroad has gotten influence here, and they want our population just as subdued as theirs are. Why? Because phones connect the world now, and people all over the world believe their eyes. The existence of well-functiong democracies, where people have a say in how they are governed, taxed and rewarded, makes it harder for autocrats to survive, as they want as little as possible to flow to the people; their prime goal being wealth for the ruling class.
Democracy survives this challenge only when its citizens insist — peacefully, lawfully, and in great numbers — that power flows from the Constitution, not from loyalty to any single leader.
Russia and Hungary do have elections, but their results do not matter. Democratic backsliding rarely ends at the ballot box. Democracy will prevail only when institutions and key agents in our government refuse to participate in illegal, unconstitutional actions. And that includes these tariffs which Trump has lied about. Citizens in all states know tariffs are a tax by now.
The goal is de-escalation, not conflict
This is a call for governors to reclaim their sworn duty to protect their citizens from federal overreach and create some constitutional equilibrium as the founders of our nation intended. This is not a call for violence. It is not a call for chaos. But if our enemies are going this route anyway, we need to prepare ahead of time.
If the unlawful ICE actions stop, street tensions will drop. After the unapproved tariffs stop and the savings passed on to consumers, prices will fall and financial anger will cool. When constitutional law replaces fear, democracy will begin to regain its footing.
America does not need a “strongman” or king. It was formed to get away from that way of governance. It just needs the Constitution to be enforced as written. State power to balance federal overreach is built in to the constitution to protect the consitution. So now, well before midterms, is the time for that governors union.
Why a union of aligned governors is critical right now
Imagine if Tim Walz announced he would no longer allow ICE agents to enter his state, nor be quartered in the state, if they came without warrants to arrest specific people. He would need the power to enforce said action if Trump sent ICE without warrants anyway. But Minnesota is just one state. They were over-powered and outnumbered. If the federal government knew 50% of the states, many of which surround Washington DC, were in a mutual self-defense union much like NATO, Trump would have cause to re-think military actions against Minnesota. There is real strength in unified numbers.
“We must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” Benjamin Franklin, 1776, as the Constitution was being crafted.
What governors can do today
Blue state governors and any others inclined to resist the debasement of our Constitutional can call each other and form a union. I like to call said union States United, dedicated to protect the member states from federal overreach. Announce said union. The announcement of its creation will be an instantaneous comfort to Americans in all states, blue and red. As we stand today, most US citizens feel there is no one in government to protect them from federal government overreach. Their plan is working because Democrats refuse to call this a war, and are going to gamble our entire existence on the results of an election run by a man who does not admit he lost 2020, which makes him a 3rd term president, looking for four, in his own fantasy. And that’s the only place this man lives folks.
What citizens can do today
Write your governor, online and on paper, and ask where they stand on warrantless federal enforcement. Ask them to form a union with other like minded governors, much like NATO, so that an attack on one is an attack on all.
Ask why your governor why he is collectingtariffs that Congress has not approved and if he will consider refusing to collect tariffs until they are approved by Congress as per the Constitution.
Ask your governor if he believes he has a duty to protect his state’s citizens from the dangers and costs of Trump’s unconstitutional executive actions
Make it clear you will not support your governor is he does nothing to stop tariffs and warrantless arrests.
Continue to protest peacefully.
Share this plea on social media. Get this plea to citizens and governors going viral.
About the author: Joseph Aronesty was a classmate to Donald Trump at Wharton in 1968 and worked in his orbit from 1986-99 in Atlantic City NJ. He has been warning Americans about the danger Trump poses for our country since 2016.
1/7/26 Today a citizen, Renee Nicole Good , was killed in Minnesota in her car, trying not to get detained by ICE. She was no danger to ICE. You can watch the clip. Of course, Trump is lying about it. Always this way, since college, where I first knew him. See clip at Trump’s Untruths Social site:
This will not stop until Trump is removed from office by popular demand. It does not have to wait for 2028. We won’t last that long. Below is the way out.
Once again, I plead with the governors of blue states and any red states that want to honor the true miracle of America – to form a union – and refuse to allow ICE agents in their states without warrants, and refuse to collect tariffs in their ports until Congress approves tariffs . Those two actions ( not words ) will end Trumpism in two weeks. How? Popular demand. We will all notice together the prices dropping by refusing to collect tariffs, and the peace in our streets, and no one will want to go back.
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In Des Moines, Iowa, on July 3, 2025, Donald Trump said “I hate them” in reference to Democrats. During his speech, he said Democrats did not vote for his “Big Beautiful Bill” because “they hate Trump” and added, “I hate them, too”.
For the record, Democrats did not vote for his bill because it does very little to help average working-class Americans, and favors the uber-wealthy. But with the words, “I hate Democrats” Donald Trump officially declared war on the Democratic Party which represents 53.5%* of the registered voters in the USA. (*Gallup poll June 2025) That means Trump has declared war on 53.5% of American citizens of voting age and more like 2 out of 3 if you count children.
Why we must now declare war vs. Trumpism, and strategies to keep it a cold war, is what follows. First some history.
Before 1776, ruling kings had been the standard way to govern countries for the previous 5000 years. Some kingdoms and autocracies autocracies have done well for its citizens, but they have been rare. Most exaggerate and perpetuate wealth gaps. They all create tiered societies wherein only those who are loyal to “the king” or dictator can move up the social ladder. For the vast majority living under autocratic rule, life becomes harder. The middle and lower classes are subjugated, thrown under. That’s why kings called their citizens, subjects.
Oligarchy is rule by one man and his chosen businessmen. Oligarchy is what Donald Trump is in the process of executing right in front of our own eyes. He admires men like Putin, MBS, and Xi because they get what they want. That has always been Donald Trump’s goal: to get what he wants. Whether it was women, money or power, that has been the life of Donald Trump since I knew him at age twenty at Wharton.
I chose the subject word executioner, because Donald Trump is not educated enough to be the architect of this plan to end American democracy. But, because he is heartless and willing to do or say anything to get his way, he is an ideal executioner of this plan, which began in foreign autocracies many years ago.
The road map to supplant democracy with autocracy in not new. It has been paved by other dictators in recent history. Germany was a democracy in 1932. More recently, Putin took Russia, a country that recently had become a democracy, back to an autocracy, which it had pre-1917 and back to the Middle Ages.
Look at this world map . If America succumbs turns red towards fascism, the rest of the world has no chance of staying democratic. The fascists will have the planet. That’s been the goal, especially since 1996, when the internet made instant communication between peoples across the planet much easier. Fascists don’t want their subjects aware how things fare a little better for citizens in democracies.
In 2016, before being chosen to be the GOP candidate, Donald Trump was just a businessman. But he had been in contact with Russia years before during his Miss World contests. In June of 2016, right after he was the Republican candidate, he said” Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you find the missing Hillary Clinton tapes.” That means he knew they were listening. There was no reason to bring up Russia at that point, unless he knew Russia was going to be a player in the election. And in the 2016 presidential election, Russia was, at the very least, a substantial player in social media campaigns designed to convince Americans that Hillary was evil, and a pedophile – of all things.
In 2016, Putin sold Trump on the idea of becoming the first king of America. Donald had no clue where to begin that potentially very dangerous journey. But Vladimir Putin had done it before, and in the largest country on Earth.
Putin was a disciple of Khrushchev. In the fifties Cold War Era, Nikita Khrushchev said, “we will defeat the United States without firing a single bullet.” When Obama did not indict Trump for asking for foreign help in our most sacred institution, our elections, foreign interference in elections became normalized. Obama, like Biden, grossly underestimated how determined Russia was to defeat the USA.
Donald Trump openly admired Putin and indeed got Russian election help. He owes Putin for life now. Putin makes sure Trump knows he would never have become president without his help. You’ll never see Trump cross Putin on Ukraine, or anything. Connect the dots. Trump is the side of the dictators for life now, whether he likes it or not. This all sums to the undeniable conclusion that we have a traitor in the White House who must do Putin’s bidding.
Take a good lo0k at that map again. The dictators and monarchs have the majority of the land and the majority of the people. Those in power can change the laws of democracy and we have a traitor to democracy as commander-in-chief. In effect, we have already lost this war. If we proceed as if all is normal, our democracy will be pronounced dead after midterms 2026. Democracy is not the favorite to survive this disease.
So now we must commit to a war against the Trump “regime” to regain our democracy. If we are afraid to fight back, if we are afraid to die for this cause, the planet’s five-thousand years of autocratic rule will resume.
I’d like you to listen to this YouTube from 2017, which you may have seen on the news. Putin is at a hockey game, about to go on the ice. A reporter asks why Trump fired James Comey. Putin answers in effect, “he is just following the laws of his country”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1NKWYepioA
That’s how fascists pull it off when they are successful at taking over a country. It’s not done with guns. Certainly not at first. They say they are “following the laws”. Once they get enoough laws on their side, they can and will proceed a little further down the military autocratic road.
Being a traitor to democracy is worse than being a traitor in a war. In a war, democracy is what we are fighting to preserve. Trump is already dismantling the agencies that keep our citizens and children safe from human predators and nature’s wrath. Germany banned their fascists from holding office post WW2, and they cited the American constitution, while doing so. The blue states should do the same now.
The fascist goal is to make life harder for every citizen in America who is not part of the oligarchy. If people who are not okay with that don’t speak up and practice peaceful civil disobedience, democracy’s demise is inevitable. If our state governors do not band together and declare we are at war with this iteration of Republican Party and protect its citizens from unconstitutional executive orders, Trumpism will prevail. Waiting or hoping for elections is a fool’s game.
Today Pritzker seemed disappointed he did not get all fifty state governors to support Illinois over Trumpism. He needs to start thinking in terms of creating a second sovereign power until these MAGA nationalists are removed, en masse, from their seats, as per the 14th sec 3. We need a new temporary union of states that refuse to blindly follow Trump’s orders.
These fascists will never willingly surrender power. Their crimes are too large now. They fear reprisal if they lose power now, and rightly so. Citizens cannot challenge this power alone. It’s too easy for them to be whisked away, or sued, like you see happening to Adam Schiff, Leticia James and many others.
State governors have sovereign power. If governors will declare we at war with the fascists in our government, they can declare an emergency, and order, for example, that Trump’s tariffs not be collected in their ports until such time that the Congress votes on the tariffs, in accordance with the Constitution. They could declare the fourteenth renders the entire Republican side of our government unconstitutional and set up a union of states and a temporary new government to run our agencies the way they are supposed to run, and even divert enough taxes that their citizens pay to the federal government to fund such agencies.
And that union has begun. The West Coast Health Alliance formed by California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii was just created to issue unified health guidance that is grounded in science. I’d rename it the American Health Alliance and get Pritzker, Hochul and any other states that want health care run by scientists. not politicians, on board.
Then the only step left would be to ask their citizens, who are nationally 80% of board with scientists to run health care, to reduce their tax payments to the federal government by the percentage of the federal budget we spend on health, and also state they will defend their citizens from any suits or actions from the federal government regarding that underpayment. If 80% of Americans want scientists in charge of health care, not politicians, and Trump continues to place non-doctors like RFK Jr. as the stewards of their health care, that is not democratic representational government. That is funding the enemy.
Are governors beginning to talk quietly about a corruption-free new government? The talk of it alone, would be healthy. Maybe some on the fringes of the right would begin to think they don’t like how Trump is steering our government if they see states willing to financially divorce from the union.
Then, agency by agency, we can claw back our government until we can vote out the insurrectionists and traitors aligned with the dictators in the world who want Americans dead, without firing a single bullet.
Trump’s Tariffs Create The Seminal Event to Unify the Country
Campaigning for elections and waiting for election results is fine, but it’s not a war plan. We need to create a seminal event that unifies the country. It’s not Epstein. The country is united on justice for Epstein, but it’s not a pocketbook issue. Tariffs act like a sales tax on everyone. It affects the uber-wealthy the least. The first battle cry of American democracy was “taxation without representation is tyranny”. The desire to get government to serve us as a reward for being taxed is in the American DNA.
People will soon be feeling what I call tarifflation. It is inflation made worse by Trump’s tariffs. I am paying them myself in my own business. I believe the other proper strategy is for governors of CA, IL and NY to declare their ports will not collect these unconstitutionally enacted tariffs until such time as they are voted on in Congress.
If this were to happen, play out Trump’s predictable reaction in your mind. You will conclude, this action would create a seminal event, “the day Trump’s tariffs ended in blue states“, that logically ends with all the people unified against Trumpism. Trump will kneejerk respond and try to use ICE agents to collect tariffs. When the 80% of Americans see him trying that, even once, he is done, and so is Trumpism nation-wide.
Trump will take this bait and quickly. I cannot claim to know what tariffs are doing for Trump personally. He’s probably getting paid off left and right by countries and businesses. That is his style of being. So not collecting tariffs hits him in his Achilles Heel, his wallet. He won’t wait a day to send in his goons to collect tariffs. We need all Americans to see the specter of Trump using troops to raise their grocery prices.
We are in a war without bombs. We have been in that space since 2016. When Putin sent emissaries to the GOP Convention in 2016, an alliance was formed based on mutual interests, the Russo-Republican Alliance of 2016 . That is democracy’s real enemy. Donald Trump is not its architect; he is its executioner. This enemy’s weapons are words, executive orders and actions; not guns and bombs. We’d best get into that game now, as we are losing the funds and muscle to defeat this alliance every day we sit on the sidelines and pretend the demise of America is not unwinding in front of our eyes.
It’s not as if this is new. Trump has been trying to end democracy, as per his boss, Vladimir Putin, since “Russia if you’re listening.” When Trump took election help from a fascist, he became a fascist for life. There is no going back on that.
For nine years, I’ve been speaking out—loudly and consistently—about the threat Donald Trump poses to American democracy and the free world.
But credit should be given where it’s due. Iran has never demonstrated the responsibility required to possess nuclear weapons, and firm action was needed. A significant portion of global instability stems from Iran-backed terrorism. So in this case—good job. Good decoy. Good on listening to your generals. And good on not making it all about yourself, Donnie.
We now find ourselves in a new world, much like the one after 9/11. If Trump plays this moment wisely, he’ll pull ICE agents off the streets, stop manufacturing domestic enemies, and begin preparing the homeland for real threats—such as potential attacks from Iranian-backed terrorist networks, possibly even on U.S. soil.
If he can pivot away from his anti-democratic, anti-immigrant, anti-classic-American rhetoric and adopt a “one nation, working together” message, Americans will notice. Only then can the political divide that’s been paralyzing our country begin to heal. And only then can the greatness he so often speaks of emerge organically—because true national greatness can’t be forced. It grows from unity and shared purpose.
Donald Trump has a chance—this very week—to evolve. But if he starts taking personal credit for this mission, as though he masterminded it himself, and keeps belittling Joe Biden (who likely would have listened to the same generals), it will be clear he’s still more interested in division than unity. That mindset only makes it easier for our enemies to succeed—and pushes America closer to a dangerous precipice.
So the question remains: Can Donald Trump evolve as a president, or even as an actor playing the role of a president—into a unifier? Maybe. Maybe he’s tired of being the Divider-in-Chief. Maybe he’s starting to think about his legacy, as any mature mortal should.
I sincerely hope so. We all want to get back to our lives and feel confident that our democracy—and our country—are in steady, caring hands.
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 Defiance to Court Orders Marks a Shot Across the Bow
The war on American democracy, first attempted in 2016 by a man who got election help from our country’s mortal enemy, Vladimir Putin, is on and metastatic now.
We don’t have time to wait and see what happens in 2026 and 2028 now. Trump’s laws and orders must be rejected. All of them. The 14th sec 3, says no insurectionists can hold any governmental office, even military and judicial. And 51% of our government’s office holders are insurrectionists in that all the current Republicans in Congress aid and comfort insurrectionists. The 14th sec 3 is written into the Constitution, just as clearly as the First Amendment. And we must remain a nation of laws, or we truly have nothing.
So we cannot stand by and watch this sick, mad would-be king destroy our country, its economy and its history, without real resistance, legal and physical. It’s going to have to come down to a physical showdown. Donnie has no quit button. We cannot gamble and wait for 2026. We will have to deal withthe insurrectionists even if we win in 2026 and 2028. Might as well start now.
The GOP have a war room, and they are working on ending real elections here right now. It is the only way they can get away with their crimes, which are now so large they know they cannot risk losing power ever again.
The easy way is to for blue state governors to form a pact and temporarily secede from the union, financially and legally. That means federal taxes start going only to the states. What can they do versus a union of California, New York, Illinois, Indianapolis, Colorado, Washington, New Mexico, Maine, Hawaii and any others that want to pay no tariffs though their ports, or let ICE agents mess with their citizens sense of security? Get physical? I don’t think so.
I wrote a way out manifesto of sorts at the bottom of this infinite scroll format. Check it out. This map from over a year ago would be very different now.
I also wonder why there is no musical concert dedicated to preserving democracy. Top artists can convene and sing their best songs about hope, love, and resisting our oppressors. This should be like the Summer of ’69 here. Engaging and enrolling our youth is super important. Many sat it out in 2024.
Dems and Media Are Enabling Trump’s Gestapo
April 5th, 2025. Hands Off protest Saturday. Many did their share with posters and voices today. But these are my thoughts on this tariff war Trump started Wednesday. These tariffs are all about money for Donnie and his team of high value paid supporters and con men. Trump’s self-created tariff war will cost the average family $4000 a year. Let’s estimate that’s for an average family of four. So Trump’s tariffs will be a tax of $1000 per person, man, woman and child, per year. There are 350 million Americans, so this is roughly a piggy bank of 350 billion dollars a year coming into the US treasury from US citizens. That is a tax, people. TARIFF, TAX and TAKE are historically related words.
Hey guess what? The tariffs are going away. Thanks to the protests. Keep it up.
T BTW . Laura Loomer just asked Trump to fire the National Security Agency, a 30 year military man. She said it should be done because these people are loyal to the Constitution, and not Trump. I think Laura is phishing for a job in national security herself.
This cannot end well. If you voted for Trump, it’s time to say you made a mistake, and you will not support him, his administration or his party members ever again. I’d be happy to say Kamala Harris was not ideal. Can our MAGA brothers and sisters start saying maybe they are done with Trump’s “agenda”? It will affect them most. But no one will be spared in a global recession, left, right, or center.
April 2nd, 2025. Liberation Day. Wisconsin elects a Democratic Justice, in spite of Elon Musk’s million spent. People are saying Cory Booker is the super hero we need. He certainly did his part and more. But the only super hero that can save us is all of us acting with unity, boycotting everything Trump touches; boycotting the billionaire businesses that align with Trump, making him be seen as a poison. It can happen, if we raise our voices.
Step one is to openly declare and recognize we are at war with the Republican Party and their authoritarian allies abroad. Step two is to cite the 14th Amendment and declare that no one in government who aided or comforted insurrectionists has any authority to be in office, hence their words, orders and laws have no validity. Step three is to refuse to admit ICE agents and DOGE agents in their states without court orders. Yes, that means resisting them with force, if need be. When the Federal government brings military power to the states, which is coming, whether we do nothing but wait for the 2026 midterms, or fight back now, we need to have the spine and force to say “no, you have no juridicion in this state because you supported an insurrectionist as per the 14th Amendment’. And if they cite the SCOTUS pooh poohing the 14th, as they have done, we must say, they also have two insurrection supporters in their fold, so current Supreme Court rulings mean nothing in the blue states that have united in opposition to Trump and his allies.
We must internalize that we are at war. This war will come to blows eventually, because nothing, not even elections lost, will stop this criminal president and his GOP party. They will never willingly surrender power. The GOP have also gone so far that now this entire GOP is in that boat Trump created that must run at full throttle to stay in power and avoid prosecution.
March 30th, 2025: It’s good to see resistance, not only from the democrats but from Republicans. Trump and Musk are not popular. But nothing will change until state Governors unite and simply refuse to allow ICE AGENTS and DOGE into their states without court orders.
It has come to the point that federal taxes should be paid to the states to fund the branches of government the Trump is illegally dismantling. Blue state governors have to unite on that issue and protect their citizens from legal or punitive actions by this illegal administration.
MARCH 8, 2025: This is a link to one of my first posts exposing Trump as a traitor. It shows the DICTATOR MAP, and explains why dictators want to end all democracies, and to do so they need the USA to switch sides. Donnie is trying his best to please his boss, Vladimir Putin. His base is starting to catch on as they see their government dismantled with no benefits accruing to the US people. Of course, dictators want a struggling middle class – too busy and broke to fight back. There is a map in this post that all should see. The struggle is much more like the board game RISK than people realize.
Play out the political chess game to end democracy. Trump has made nearly all the moves so far. Trump’s motives are clearly not beneficial to America, its history, its way of governance for 250 years, or the Ameican people. And he’s upside down because they know it.
The pace of change is so quick and almost panicked. Many believe Trump is breaking the economy on purpose. Why? If tariffs drive the cost of goods up, and unemployment trends up, the result is a depression where businesses and consumers both suffer. At that point, Trump can tell the same lie that Castro told Cubans. Castro said he would give the businesses to the people, in a sort of communistic way. It was a lie. Cuba went fascist. Same in Hungary. That’s the real way tis can happen. Cookie cutter cyber war government takeover.
Trump’s hinted at this phony communistic scheme once already. He says he’ll save money with DOGE by ending federal jobs and share the wealth with Americans. But when companies fail and people cannot afford essentials, he and his billionaire buddies will force industry to sell out to Trump and his allies by using that lie. It all works because the companies are public companies, and beholden to their stock holders. But I believe that will be the lie that breaks Trump’s hold on the MAGA base. Big business is bigger than MAGA. I believe a quasi-Scarface last act is coming. I hope its not a cyber attack. But its very likely. Cyber wars end when they get physical, – like a grid or national banking system going down.
Having said that, this is not a game. This is serious. This will be the last act in effectuating Trump’s mission to end the United States. Think chess moves ahead. They are.
Please. If you have not read this post before, pass it on. Wrap your head around it. It’s sloppy. But we are cattle in the pen, Jews in the ghettos, if we just continue to have Oscars, watch TV and welcome baseball. We are at war, Americans. Act like you know it. Our foreign enemies and their opportunistic domestic allies know they are at war with democracy. Democracy is ruining their take the world plans.
MARCH 1, 2025: The Zelensky debacle, broadcasted world-wide, embarrases America and the Americans who voted for him. House Speaker Mike Johnson says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy may have to resign following a heated exchange in the Oval Office last week.
Acually, it is the opposite. Trump, Vance and Johnson should step down after the clown show they put with Zelensky. No respectful leader should ever visit with Trump again. And they may not. Oh sure, the dictators will be kocking at the White House door soon enough, but those treasonous meetings will be all behind closed doors.
Europe is certainly getting the Ukraine mineral deal now. They are organizing for it right now. Britain is ON BOARD for nuclear help. They have given up on the USA until this dunce and his sycophants are out of office. And so has the rest of the free world.
The American dollar will tank. Inflation will become worse here than it is in Europe, which will experience a revival. And of course, we will be closer to WW3 under Trump because that guy actually believes if he has to die, it’s okay of the rest of the world dies with him.
The movie in Donnie’s mind, which we have all been forced to watch for the last eight years, mainly due to not recognizing the enemies in our midst in governnment and media, ends two ways: with Trump as the hero, or with Trump riding the nuclear bomb to blow the world up, yelling yipee-i-oh, like in the last scene of It’s a Mad Mad World.
Again, I ask all people of good will to read my post on the easiest solution for the United States. I call it STATES UNITED. Resistance starts with you, and then the governors and state power. There’s plenty of that if we organize and insist.
I ask people who voted for Trump to publicly admit they may have made a mistake – unless of course, they are okay with losing their “social security” – and I mean that in the literal sense, of feeling secure as a society.
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Everything the new Trump/DOGE administration is doing, without exception, has been designed to make things worse for all Americans because Russia’s goal is to destroy America since about 1956. Donald Trump is negating the efforts of the greatest generation quickly. Who closes the Consumer Protection Agency? The enemies of everyday Americans, that’s who. All because we don’t see bombs, does not mean we are not at war. We are. We are losing fast. But it does not have to be that way. Action before April 15 is needed. I am revealing a subtle plan to end Trumpism in 60 days.
The visual meme below was branded in 2017 at the Helsinki summit. The Supreme Court is the the ultimate protection that Donald Trump and his dictator friends are relying on. That means part of any successful counter cyber war effort must insist that certain rulings of this Supreme Court not be respected. This alone will prove we mean business. That requires governors take charge and create laws that instruct their citizens to pay for the services that Trump and DOGE are ending out of taxes previously paid the the federal government. The meme can be “taxation without representation is thievery”.
The firing of FBI agents; the firing of federal employees; the ending of aid to our allies, while stating that Russia is no longer the enemy; the lack of attention to public health, the mere threat of tariffs, all are killing the US economy, raising inflation and making it clear Trump does not care about Americans and is working to fulfill our enemies agenda.
America’s enemies now have a man who they have compromised. We must assume Trump has been taped during his traitorous discussions with dictators. Think like the greatest generation had to people. This means Trump must do what Putin wants to keep the full truth about the depth of his compromat from coming out. In general, Trump will now do anything to keep the full truth from going public, because he knows, if the full truth came, out he will be branded as a traitor, even among his supporters.
I will be adding the latest entries at the top of this post, and bolddating them. Trump is stumbling our country into a fascist oligarcy, like they have in Hungary and Russia. Those new to my post may want to read this by dated posts from the bottom up.
In January of 2017, I warned my readers and representatives that treason was afoot at Russia if you’re listening. Below is our last best hope to stave off complete surrender via force. It is coming, – like a stage four cancer, if we continue to just talk, hoping for 2016, without launching a pro-active plan as radical as our domestic enemies are rolling out right now.
2/18 What is Donald Trump’s Greatest Strength, and How Do We Take It Away?
Tonight Rachel Maddow proved she gets how to fight Trumpism . I sent her this email:
Political science. Someone finally said it. Where is our political science war room? The GOP has one. It may be in Russia, but some mastermind is chess moves ahead of the dems in strategy. It’s good you started the political science discussion tonight. More on this thought line is sorely needed.
Trump’s biggest strength is his ability convince his base that he speaks the truth, cares about his them, and is working to make things better for them. Selling that lie is Trump’s “Sampson’s hair”.
What could make the people who voted for Trump not like him? What news event can be created by political scientists with good intentions that could amplify the sentiment that Donald Trump is not to be trusted?
Large political changes always come down to a confrontation or shootout. It can be a physical showdown, but usually many people die in those. I prefer this cyber counter attack to be a transactional showdown. If done right, it can end Trumpism in sixty days. Hitler undid Germany’s democracy in just under two months. Fascicts move fast, grab offices. and then, think “what are they going to do to stop us?”
Suppose the governors of blue states formed a union to hire the fired FBI agents. The federal government can’t tell a state not to hire people to keep their citizens safe. Well, they could say that, but it won’t land well with most people in any states, including red states.
How do we pay for this “States United” line in the sand, called the State’s United Bureau of Investigation? It comes down to a transactional adjustment to the states united tax policies. They write in that .6% of any tax payer’s federal tax is to be sent to the state, not the Federal Government, for the state’s treasury to be paid to staff a constitutionally legitimate bureaus of investigations. That’s what the federal government spends on the FBI – .6% of the budget. So it is legit. No double taxation. The blue states don’t want to be protected b Kash Patel, an insurrectionist loyal to a traitorous Jefferson Davis of our times. And they do not have to.
And then, the States United warrant that they will protect and defend any citizen who, having made that .6% payment to the state, and withheld it from the Federal government, and is subsequently sued or subpoenaed by the federal government. What can Trump’s feds do about an entire state withholding .6% of their taxes to pay for needed protection? Not much. The states united can protect them from all law suits by the govenment and from abeing arrested, and they can’t sue 50 million households in California, New York and Illinois.
What states form this union? Basically, it will be the blue states. First should be the big blue states of California, New York and Illinois. Those three alone are nearly 30% of the country. Colorado will join next. Think of them like the original colonies. Before you know it, Trumpism will be financially dead and then dead in reality.
The people of America will wake up and see through Trumpism, as soon as they see hope that it can be defeated. We must create an event to give the people hope and the hope we inspire empowers people to speak out without fear.
Hitler rallied his movement with a fire in the German Congress. Trump’s J6 event was the tip of the spear for his fascist movement. We need to create a moment of total resistance, in a way like J6, but not violent – on principle and finances. That moment will inspire a movement to fight the domestic enemies we see in our government – all of whom are disqualified by the 14th Amendment to hold any government, military or judicial office. Hiring the FBI agents can be such a moment.
Going along won’t work. Legalise is way too slow. We need to grab the hearts of dems and Trump voters, and I think hiring the fired in the FBI is a good place to start. Everybody knows we need good people in our Bureaus of Investigation, and not people loyal to a would-be king.
2/18 Donald Trump Seems to be Trying To End the Russia-Ukraine War without Ukraine at the Table.
Today Thom Hartmann wrote : Why are so many Republican politicians and their friends adopting and promoting openly Nazi symbols and slogans?
Is it a shout-out to the hardcore racists and haters that make up the GOP’s base? Or a proclamation that the end-goal of Republican governance is the destruction of American democracy, perhaps in deference to Vladimir Putin? How about it’s being an attempt to scare people old or well-educated enough to remember or know what Nazism inevitably leads to?
And why are America’s mainstream media so unwilling to even report on, much less discuss, all the Nazi and neo-Nazi references surrounding Trump and today’s captive Republicans?
I just want to remind my readers that this was apparent to me in June of 2016, when Trump said “Russia, if you’re listening”. It was ignored by Obama, his AG, Holder, HRC and Biden. That was the easest moment to detect and brand Trump’s movement as a political cancer and that a real political science mastermind, Vladimir Putin, was calling the shots.
So it should come as no surprise that Putin is meeting with Trump again. Be assured, Putin is chess moves ahead. He probably already has our nuclear secrets. The USA is over folks. 1776-2024. Nice run.
However the the States United are not yet conquered, unless the states accept that we must “endure” four years of a party that is constitutionally disqualified to serve via the 14th sec 3 and don’t fight back creatively. They can’t be afraid to break some eggs. The enemy certainly is not.
It’s time for blue state governors to form a union. Their citizens will cheer this on. So will many in red states. Americans are scared and they should be. We must reject everything the GOP is trying to do as if it has no effect at all in the states that voted against Trump and have governors willing to fight this cyber war. California. New York. Illinois. Colorado. It’s time to state the entire GOP is barred from having any effect in the states that hold the 14th was violated. It’s time to declare that it’s not only Trump that is barred from holding office, but every politician, justice or judge that has supported, aided or comforted Trump’s movement. It’s time now to form this union and tell ICE they are not allowed in their states. without search warrants. It’s time to hire the fired FBI agents and form our own FBI.
This GOP party will not allow the 2026 election to be fair. This is our last chance. Newsome. Pritzger. Houchul. Start this today.
REAL RESISTANCE THAT OUR DOMESTIC ENEMIES CANNOT STOP, STARTS HERE >
2/12/2025 Democratic Leaders Will Soon Be Trump’s Navalnys
Blue State Governors – Start Hiring the Federal Agents and Civil Servants Trump is Firing!
2/10/2025Blue State governors need to be able to declare victory over Trumpism in the states that want no part of Trumpism. Let the states that voted for Trump, keep Donnie, Musk and his band on marauding Musketeers. Let the red state centrists worry that the blue states are about to abandon them! If MAGA people did not feel empowered to hate dems, they would have the time to focus on how little Trumpism does for them. Smoke and mirrors.
Let the red states have the president and policies they voted for, but let the blue states have their own agendas and policies. It can be done without breaking up. Just let the states pay for their own agencies and let the tax dollars that went to the federal government to cover said closed or assaulted agencies, go to all the states. More state taxes, less federal taxes. Everyone can get their way. Red state citizens will sooner learn they made poor choices, than if left to stew in Trump’s pot of hate for four more years.
It starts with one issue, just as it did with the Boston Tea Party in 1773. That protest was against the Tea Act of 1773, which taxed tea imported from the East India Company. The colonists believed the tax was an example of “taxation without representation”. That act became the iconic symbol of American independence and protest.
What I am about to say next is hard to configure so it lands softly. Donald Trump’s January 6th event is to MAGA people what the Boston Tea Act was to the colonists. In that one way, it was genius – evil genius, but genius. The problem is, it was unconstitutional as the 14th Amendment states clearly that no one who took place in J6, or supported those that did, or even “comforted” insurrectionists, cannot hold any government office in the USA. The SCOTUS members that ignored the constitution all lost their status as justices onthe day they issued thier rulings that J6 was not an insurrection, and comforted the actual insurrectionists we all saw on that day, including Trump. SO the only way out, for now, is to declare we will not respect the authority of any government officials who back Trump.
There is still an opportunity for the governors of blue states to form a union, just as the colonists did, and insist they do not recognize any member of the Republican Party who supports Donnie Trump as actual office holders. That renders everything the GOP says, and actions they or Trump take, as words and actions of mere citizens with no authority in our constitutional government. January 6th is a gift to democrats, but so far, they have failed to unwrap the present. They seem to be afraid to unwrap that present. And, by the way, the Germans did exactly what I described above to the Nazi party members, and many cited the US Constitution in their arguments.
Republicans in Congress are not respecting what American courts or the constitution says. Fortunately, there is neither a need nor reason to waste time getting all legal on the Republicans. Their incompetence is creating opportunities to fight back, but only if we can popularize our cause because of these “events”.
The firing of tens of thousands of long-trusted public agents presents another January 6th present for those who prefer a country based on laws and justice for all. There are twenty-two states suing the Trump Administration over ending the NIH to the detriment of their citizens. The union has already begun. Just take it further.
Agents at the NHI, FBI, USAID, the DOE are out of work, making America less safe. The governors of states that don’t like Trump’s firing of American federal employees who were doing their jobs to keep us all safer, heathier and smarter, can re-hire these agents and form their own State run Bureau of Investigations, Departments of Health and Education and USAID Departments? They can! So thats not really a break up, is it? It’s a financial and govermental distancing from the party that we deem to be insurrection comforters. They cannot deny they are insurrection supporters. Their president just pardoned insurrectionists. That’s beyond comforting. That’s basically enrolling them in your personal vendetta. And if the SCOTUS disagrees, they can also state they don’t recognize two or three justices because they also comfort insurrectionsists by their prior rulings.
If the agents could afford to work for free, there would be no reason for the next step in the ending of Trumpism. But agents are people, and they have survival needs, just as we all do. So they will need to be funded. That I am suggesting is for state governors to pardon any citizens who deduct certain allowed percentages from their April 15 tax reform, to pay for the agents that Trump is firing to come and work in the blue states.
I did some math. its not a very large percentage. USAID was .6% of the budget. The FBI closer to .2%. The US Department of Education spent 268 Billion in 2024 which was about 3.7 % of the federal government’s total spending. This made it the sixth highest-funded federal agency. The National Institute of Health (NIH) has a budget of 48 Billion.
Elon Musk can afford to pay the workers at all those four institutions for a full year, and still be worth over 200 billion.
All five of these necessary institutions could be funded by states making a laws that allow their citizens to deduct 5% from their federal taxes to pay for these institutions to stay open – and protect them if their citizens get sued, or arrested for follwing their states laws and guidance. The blue states’ police forces will not allow such arrests and their courts will not honor red state subpoenas on matters of deducting federal taxes to pay for these needed institutions.
And that pretty much does it.What can they do? MAGA will be just as handicapped as we seem to be now with such an out-of-the-box response to our country’s constittional crises. We can say, go ahead, enforce it back to Trump.
it will never come to bullets sent back our way, just as it did not come down to bullets send the way of J6 protestors and insurrectionists. Once they back down on violence, the fight reaches its climax, the dovorce is announced – not along party lines – but along the lines of hiring those they are firing and keeping our country running.
By 2026, this could become very poular with people on all sides of the American political spectrum. Let s start something they don’t expect – something the world does not expect, but quietly wishes it would happen. Start this conversation and then do something big. Yes. Big, the way j6 was, I guess. But for the right reason. To save our democracy.
2/8/2025 Last night I called into John Fugelsang’s Tell Me Everything radio show. John is a fierce fighter for the causes of the actual citizens of the USA, regardless of party affiliation. I spoke about my two-state solution, and he countered with the USA is like a Siamese twin with two bodies but one heart, so it cannot be separated and survive. I had to reflect on that metaphor. I concluded some partial break up is the fastest and surest way back to one united country. This is what I came up with.
The break up can be issue-to-issue, step-by-step, or on-demand. In fact, I now think that’s the better way, so let me explain by example.
Let’s take the latest issue of USAID. Right now there are thousands of workers who were doing good things for others in foreign countries, who lost their jobs. A union of governors declare they will pay them to stay on their jobs and continue their good work. How they pay the workers becomes the issue.
The budget of USAID is 50 billion. In fiscal year 2024, the US federal government spent 6.75 trillion, which was more than it collected in revenue. This resulted in a deficit of $1.8 trillion. So we spent 8.5 trillion. The math is that we spent .06% of our tax dollars on helping other countries, about half of 1%.
The union of states declares that .06% of tax their citizens tax dollars due April 15 be withheld for the federal government taxes, and be paid to the states who disburse it to the US AID workers. That same formula is then used to sustain whatever agencies Trump’s gang of government destroyers seek to break up or restructure with loyalists, which we deem to be both unconstitutional and unsafe. That keeps a real FBI going in blue states ( not an FBI where the agents are loyal to Trump.) Those displaced by Trump’s purge get immediately re-hired by the states to protect their states alone, and that group of united states.
The red states can keep the loyalists. Their citizens wont like it. They will wise up fast and Trumpism will die within a few months. The elections on 2026 will a landslide so large they can’t rig it. It comes down to states declaring they will defend their citizens in court if they withhold the % of taxes needed to keep the agencies that Trump is closing or restructuring with loyalists. Or them saying, go ahead “try to enforce it” . We won’t allow your police in our states.
“Taxation without representation is tyranny” was a slogan used by American Colonists to protest British Rule before the American Revolution. It expressed the colonists’ belief that being taxed by a government they didn’t have a say in was unconstitutional. Americans on both sides understand this. Government is all about how to spend tax dollars. So this is how we fight back, for real.
And that pretty much does it.What can they do? MAGA will be just as handicapped as we seem to be now with such an out-of-the-box response to our country’s constittional crises. We can say, go ahead, enforce it back to Trump.
it will never come to bullets sent back our way, just as it did not come down to bullets send the way of J6 protestors and insurrectionists. Once they back down on violence, the fight reaches its climax, the dovorce is announced – not along party lines – but along the lines of hiring those they are firing and keeping our country running.
And you know? by 2026, that could become very poular with people on all sides of the American political spectrum. let s start something they don’t expect – something the world does not expect, but quietly wishes it would happen. Start this conversation and then do something big. Yes. Big, the way j6 was, I guess. But for the right reason. To save our democracy.
2/8/2025 Last night I called into John Fugelsang’s Tell Me Everything radio show. John is a fierce fighter for the causes of the actual citizens of the USA, regardless of party affiliation. I spoke about my two-state solution, and he countered with the USA is like a Siamese twin with two bodies but one heart, so it cannot be separated and survive. I had to reflect on that metaphor. I concluded some partial break up is the fastest and surest way back to one united country. This is what I came up with.
The break up can be issue-to-issue, step-by-step, or on-demand. In fact, I now think that’s the better way, so let me explain by example.
Let’s take the latest issue of USAID. Right now there are thousands of workers who were doing good things for others in foreign countries, who lost their jobs. A union of governors declare they will pay them to stay on their jobs and continue their good work. How they pay the workers becomes the issue.
The budget of USAID is 50 billion. In fiscal year 2024, the US federal government spent 6.75 trillion, which was more than it collected in revenue. This resulted in a deficit of $1.8 trillion. So we spent 8.5 trillion. The math is that we spent .06% of our tax dollars on helping other countries, about half of 1%.
The union of states declares that .06% of tax their citizens tax dollars due April 15 be withheld for the federal government taxes, and be paid to the states who disburse it to the US AID workers. That same formula is then used to sustain whatever agencies Trump’s gang of government destroyers seek to break up or restructure with loyalists, which we deem to be both unconstitutional and unsafe. That keeps a real FBI going in blue states ( not an FBI where the agents are loyal to Trump.) Those displaced by Trump’s purge get immediately re-hired by the states to protect their states alone, and that group of united states.
The red states can keep the loyalists. Their citizens wont like it. They will wise up fast and Trumpism will die within a few months. The elections on 2026 will a landslide so large they can’t rig it. It comes down to states declaring they will defend their citizens in court if they withhold the % of taxes needed to keep the agencies that Trump is closing or restructuring with loyalists. Or them saying, go ahead “try to enforce it” . We won’t allow your police in our states.
“Taxation without representation is tyranny” was a slogan used by American Colonists to protest British Rule before the American Revolution. It expressed the colonists’ belief that being taxed by a government they didn’t have a say in was unconstitutional. Americans on both sides understand this. Government is all about how to spend tax dollars. So this is how we fight back for real.
Trump will, by force destroy America. It is his mission now, whether he wants it or not, because he took election aid from Putin, and so did the GOP. They are all constitutionally disqualified to serve via their support of the J6 insurrection.
If the dems don’t have to nerve to do a full break up, then break up on the issues that matter most to them. This may result in law suits, but they are coming anyway. In the end, blue states need to be able to say: “fine, you keep your Trump as president, Trump loyalists and DOGE teenagers. We’re going to keep the professionals in security hired and engaged for our own state’s security, in national defense, foreign aid, teachers, and whatever the jobs may be.
I am 100% sure this will result in the citizens of the red states waking up and realizing they are being misled and lied to much quicker than going the full fascist/nazi route, which is where this is heading very quickly if we don’t get creative in the ways I am outlining. The firing of the head of the Federal Election Committee should re-enforce what I have been saying: the elections of 2026 will not be allowed to be fair. The GOP is a gang of criminals now. All of them. They know they are supporting the end of our country as it has been for the last 250 years. They are in too deep and cannot back away.
We are already in a Civil War. Dems just don’t know ityet.
The surest way out is to start the fight, by a union of governors ordering their citizens to stop paying taxes to Trump’s government on the taxation without representation meme and refusing to cooperate with ICE agents. It worked in 1770’s for the same basic reasons it would work today. The red states need the blue states more than the other way around. Go to the last post for more inspiration on this strategy. The discussion of this is critical. It can’t be only the right that shoots memes across the bow.
Elon Musk’s fork in the roadis the turn to authoritarianism. That movement is traitorous, and they know it. They have already broken laws and commited crimes ( at least against the current Constitution) and cannot turn back. They would fear scrutiny on their crimes, if the dems ever get back in power, and they always will. So they cannot allow this. That’s why they are gathering information.
Therefore, this cannot resolve with an election because they cannot afford to lose. Just like Putin, they cannot let elections ever be fair ever again. Therein lays the treason to our founding principles. Those outraged in media and politics will be punished and banished. That’s why they are gathering information on US citizens right now. I can’t say this enough. They can leak read only data. A crooked AG and IRS can put people in jail without real evidence.
We need a union of governors. I am blue in the face from saying this. There must be a physical resistance, and that should be tomorrow, before their CIA and FBI people get confirmed any more. Their motives are clear. They will be turning off CNN and MSNBC and anyone who says “nasty” thing about Trump. We will have many Navalny’s here. No one will be safe.
Are Americans Like Dodo Birds?
( This widely known historical account is basically from Wikipedia ) The last sighting of the now extinct dodo bird was in 1662.The dodo bird lived in isolation on an island in the East Indian Ocean near Madagascar. They had no predators nor did they recognize humans as predators when sailors began to visit that island in the 1600’s. The inability to recognize enemies, coupled with the inability to fly, made the dodo and their eggs easy prey for sailors and the animals they brought with them.
We don’t want US history to record this: The last widely accepted sighting of an American democracy was in 2024. Americans at that time were collectively unable to recognize Trumpism as a traitorous enemy with its focus on the destruction of the democratic party and democracy itself in order to hold on to power forever by force for generations.
So wake up Americans – on both sides! ( Whatever “both sides” means. I don’t see two sides in our hospitals or grocery stores. Do you?)
This is the last chance we are going to get save what began here in 1776.
2/6/25 After lying to America about project 2025, Donald Trump and his Republican minions voted to install Russell Vought as head of the budget in the Congress. It’s an attempt to rob the majority of Americans of any representation in their government on the issues they care about most, for success and/or survival of their familes. Taxation without representation was the foundation for the movement to create for this country in 1776. Ben Franklin would not approve of the power grab we are witnessing today. But he would not be surprised. He actually warned us. Look it up.
2/3/25 Trump announces a trade war with Mexico and Canada. The market crashes. Bitcoin crashes. When Trump hears the outcry from the public and realizes that he was lowering the value of his own BTC and meme coins, Donnie calls it off. The market restored. He and Musk take a profit because they knew ahead of time. It’s like knowing the outcome of the Super Bowl, before it happens. There will be more false announcements.
Now Trump’s pretending he did it all to get drugs off the streets. What would get drugs off the streets would be to offer our youngsters a real shot at a life. And btw, the kids that OD the most are rich spoiled kids in GOP states. But he does not want to do make things better for people because creating wealth and opportunity is the last thing Trump and his billionaire buddies, here and in Russia, do for anyone who is not financially allied.
This is not a president. This is a would-be king acting entitled, like a king. Freedom or a kingdom? It’s time to choose. But freedom came first. It’s why the word first resembles free. FR People knew when the word free was created, that before they were conquered, they were more free to steer and enjoy their own lives. Freedom and kingdom are opposite words. It’s time to choose.
1/31/24Trump pauses MLK Day and Federal Holidays that mark celebrations of minority causes. Then he announced tariffs to start or increase Monday. Trump’s tariffs will increase the cost of living for all Americans, but particularly for his voters. This will be felt next week, and the stock market is reacting already. I just got out totally.
Clearly, Trump is on a mission to destroy America. Should it come as a surprise? No. Ask yourself this: do you think you can ask for election help from a dictator who murders his political opposition, Vladimir Putin, and then walk away without repaying him? Do you think Putin is a friend to Americans, and our 250 year-old democracy? It follows that Trump and his allies are traitors to our country, and we have given them immense power. But as a union of independent states, we can refuse to accept the results of an election that does not comply with the 14th.
1/29/24 What Trump did today, by trying to create a universe wherein projects that “do not align” with his fascist agenda do not get funded, is his way of saying blue states will not be treated the same as red states. After all, the red states usually align with Trump’s agenda, ( sometimes not) while the blue states rarely align.
Blue States must distance themselves from Trump’s federal government ASAP.
It would be one thing if we were living in an age wherein American’s personal economy is on solid foundation, as it was in the 1950s, – but we are not. No need to prove that. We know that in our bones.
But not only are US citizens under financial pressure, the US treasury is as well, with record debt. The money pie is only so big and Trump has promised to pay off his billionaire donor class. He’s not making more pie. So Trump’s plan must be to take from the democratic states and given to the red states that voted for him. If his base suffers the same as or more than the blue states, Trump and the GOP are done in 2026. They already know that.
And that means that the entire GOP must remain loyal to Trump, not to save his neck, but to save their own necks during the 2026 elections. The GOP simply cannot allow democrats to take back power, – and they will not. ( Google Joseph Goebbel on democracy. I have wriiten it too many times. ) The 2026 elections will be as rigged as the vote for Pete Hegeseth was.
Therefore, the quicker we stop allowing federal troops to enter into blue states to carry on business that their voters do not approve of, the better. Someone has to show some spine. A blue state governor or senator, or an alliance of said statesmen, must be formed. A firewall. They must refuse to acknowledge Trump is president due to the 14th which clearly says he is not legitimate. And that two members of the court are also not legitimate for the same reasons: supporting, aiding, pardoning or comforting insurrectionists has no place in power in a legitimate United States. They are as disqualified as an eight-year old brat holding the POTUS office.
We must call for a new special presidential election, and disqualify any candidates to serve in this new union who have backed the head insurrectionist, or his allies. Other parties are fine. Cheney is fine. We take all our seated congressmen with us convene elsewhere. And we offer to split the payments to the DOD, and if they refuse, we will create our own DOD. California is a powerhouse by itself.
1/18/25/ We all hear Donald Trump broadcasting things that will not likely happen: buying Greenland, ending birthright citizenship, annexing Canada, invading Panama, etc. But he does have a strategy. It gets people talking about Trump, his brand. In his carnival-barker mind, any advertising is good advertising, and certainly when it’s free. Read on >
I hear dems, MSNBC and CNN making believe their idle chatter alone with get decent Americans to vote Trumpism out in 2026. But I say look to Hungary, where I have known some hard-working people there for twenty five years. They have elections, but it does not matter who you vote for- Orban and his people win. One Hungarian woman I know who helped produce the Oscar-winning movie Midsommar told me “it was amazing how quickly everyone’s spirit was broken. Orban quickly controlled the media, purse strings and police, just like Hiter did. But did not go the route of rounding up and persecuting Jews. People were still afraid to speak up. And now, there is no way back that we can even envision. So we do not even try. We have our lives to live. Things are tough enough without speaking out against Orban.
What makes Americans think are different than Hungarians or Russians?
Tonight, Trump’s Senate voted to confirm a recovering alcoholic to be America’s Secretary of Defense. Trump can’t be thinking that was the best man for the job. So what is he thinking? We should know the answer. It is as obvious as J6 was an insurrection attempt and not a peaceful protest. Trump prefers someone unqualified and with baggage, because that is the type of person that has nowhere else to go. Trump can control him. Fox News also seeks to hire the less qualified newscasters because the Murdochs want to control the message. Billionaires don’t want to hire people who can think for themselves. That’s the take away. That way they get their agenda.
I really cannot stomach another two years of Democrats asking for money, blah blah on TV, and spinning their wheels defending our democracy in the courts. I can already tell 2026 won’t likely go any better than the Hegeseth nomination. Until I hear a better plan that can work, and not rely on 2026 elections, I won’t support anything but a two-state solution. I think this is the only way, or at least it is the surest way back to a united America.
The main problem is, and has been since 2016: the GOP has declared war on the US constitution, citizens’s rights, equal justice onder the law, women’s rights and the right to pursue happiness in the manner on chooses, immigrants and more. They have declared war on America as we have known it. And Democrats have neither declared war back nor even recognized that we are at war.
Biden also could have declared war any GOP who even “comforted ” insurrrectionists. It would have been more legal than much of what Trump is doing today, one week into his presidency. Biden made no bold moves because someone convinced him he would lose at the SCOTUS level, as they made it clear they would not defend the 14th. But Biden did not need the SCOTUS. Two justices, Thomas and Alito, also comforted insurrectionists. He could have arrested them in the name of national security, just like Trump is doing to brown people who are found without citizenship papers.
So why can’t Trump be president of the Red States, and someone else be president of the Blue States? Blue States can announce a special election and elect their own president. They can also tell their people to stop paying taxes to “Trumplandia” or “America Red, and then the blue states get all their consitutents tax money. They could form a pact. They could pay the military for protection or self protect. California makes the greatest percent of the weaponry anyway.
I’d like to hear serious media people and politicians, who want to keep America a democracy, start talking about a two-state solution for the United States. If it sounds outlandish, all the better.
A serious conversation about a national divorce would serve as guardrails against the most severe actions and crimes by Trump and his oligarchal allies within red states. That is one main goal of crafting such a pact, – to create barriers for would-be fascists. The other is creating hope. You can’t win an argument in our current congress. It’s purchased by Trump and company.
Even if a national divorce, did not come to pass, the conversation itself would be a major plus in the war versus fascism.
This is not hindsight. Many reporters, and political scientists, warned Biden to declare war on what appeared to be Russian interference in our 2016 elections, welcomed by a candidate and a political party. When Biden and Obama allowed that to go unchallenged, they opened the floodgates to oligarchy. Germany in 1945 immediately declared no member of the Nazi party could even be in their government again. I’d say no Trump supporter can be in the new America blue country, whatever we call it.
Most everyday Americans now know we have become divided as a nation. Our unique citizens divided syndrome has always been here on some level. But, we have never had a president who led an insurrection and calls decent tax-paying Americans who don’t respect him “enemies of the state”. Trump is a divider, not a uniter. He cannot be allowed to run the USA because he does not intend to do good for its people and he has never intended to do good for other people.
And so, the United States cannot function well under Trumpism unless blue states suck up and go along with him. I hope that is not going to happen.
We must learn from history faster than Trump can roll out executive orders. Therefore, we have no choice but to start the conversation about a national divorce. The purpose of this post is to start a conversation as means of regain political power. It’s not easy to heal a broken marriage. But that is what we are dealing with today: “the Untied States of America” .
Trump has already pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord and the World Health Organization. This does not represent the blue states. More than 50% of Americans want most of the things the blue state voters want. We have a mandate on most of the policies. And team blue was bamboozled by the Electoral College, the two senators per state thing, and SCOTUS games. We can do better and I do not think we can afford to wait. The climate and health issues won’t wait for sure.
Talking Points for the Conversation
The far west and northeast states are blue. The rest of the USA is pretty much red, except for Georgia, which is split very closely. My sense is that each country, say America Blue and America Red, votes for their own presidents, Houses and Congresses. Both the new country’s constitutions start the same. Nothing changes for citizens on day one. There can be no interstate taxes. Freedom to travel is guaranteed. If each country’s federal constitution and state laws change, that is when things change for citizens. People still vote to have their own presidents every four years. There can even be a other parties in the elections.
The logical states to start this strategic conversation are California, Illinois and New York. The governors of those states should immediately form abreak glass in case of emergency pact. Public letters should be sent to the governors of states that voted for Biden to help stimulate the pact. It does not have to be enacted unless Trump crosses the line with an action blue states deem a bridge too far. Bu the is already doing that every day. Do we really want Pete Hegeseth in charge of the our blue states defense? We can do better.
I won’t pretend to know all the actions Trump could order, which should be deemed grounds for divorce. ICE raids that don’t insist that immigrants who have not committed crimes against US citizens before deporting them, could be a bridge too far. Others might include: Refusing to help citizens stricken with national disasters. Going after his political enemies, who have committed no crimes. Invading Greenland or the Panama Canal. Lowering taxes on billionaires without also lowering taxes on everyday people in the same ratio.
So a two state solution is the safest, smartest way to get the country back together again. Declare Trump is not a legitimate President due to the 14th. Declare the SCOTUS is not a legitimate SCOTUS because two of its members have comforted insurrectionists. Declare the blue states have formed a union and will not obey the wishes of Donald Trump, and neither will their citizens be asked to pay taxes to a fascist. Declare blue states collect their own taxes, and pay for their own defenses, roads, etc. Freedom to pass people and products from country to country without borders is a given.
Let Trump rule the red states. Let’s see if they like his way of governing. If they do, they can keep him and his family as their lords as long as they like. My sense it that they will be back in two years, not four.
The Fastest Way Back to Making Up is Breaking Up
There is far more wealth in the blue states than the red states. If we had a national divorce, it’s the people in the red states that would come crying back out of necessity. Every two years, reps would get a chance to run on what color they align with, and every six years, same for senators. And of course, America Blue welcomes back Red States but with the proviso than the 14th amendment, sec 3, be enforced in their states, and that no insurrection supporters be allowed to ron for or hold any office, executive, judicial, federal or within their state legislatures – exactly how it is written. That becomes our deal breaker for admission into America Blue.
Today red states are still hopeful Trump will care about them But not caring about others is the Trump family motto. They will know soon. And hispolls are sinking. That started the moment he was sworn in btw.
The big idea is to let Darwinian survival of the fittest states thrive, so that states that are not doing as well for their citizens are forced to learn better ways, or get voted out. This makes a lot more sense than what we have now. Let Trump states experience pure Trumpsim for two years and see how they like who they voted for. The conversation itself would be very healing. The more serious, and the more controversial, the better.
I prepared this graph from non-partisan government statistics. Blue states produce 10% more than red states. We have them financially. Let them have Trump. We don’t have to accept him as our president. He is constitutionaly disqualified. This is different than Bush v Gore. This is democracy vs autocracy and it began at Russia if you’re listening.
Written January 8 2025, twelve days to the end of America, as we have known it.
The resistance has failed. Our cowardly president is afraid to go to war with a president-elect allied with Russia and the dictators of the world. The autocrats are out-numbered , so it is not a written alliance. It is the spoken alliance of a few sociopathic men who share the same vision for their own lives; a vision of being at the very top of the monetary chain in a country. It’s a kings dream as well; taxing the middle class to make them relatively poorer than the uber-wealthy, and render their progeny, to be more ignorant and compliant. The majority of the SCOTUS is in on the deal.
Before I knew about the 14th Amendment, sec 3, – which bars insurrectionists or those who aid or comfort them, from holding any office, including any judges or justices who aid and comfort the enemies of democracy, I wrote about the Espionage Act. It is still on the books. Julian Assange was indicted under the Espionage Act. I hold Donald Trump can be arrested under the Espionage Act as well, right up until J20.
Biden is still commander-in-chief today. He can announce a national emergency any day between now and J20, the day the earth will change forever, if he does nothing. It would be nice to hear Jack Smith’s reports, as we were told we would, but whether the Jack Smith report is aired or blocked by DOJ fear, Biden can declare war on our home-grown terrorists, which is essentially what Project 2025 will be.
Biden can broadcast his own version of FDR’s I hate war speech. He can arrest, or sequester Donald Trump for treason. He can say that he deems that Trump’s actions and words have created a national emergency that threatens all Americans. He can state, with constitutional certainty, that the 14th Amendment, sec 3. renders Donald Trump disqualified to serve, even if he was elected. He can “sorry pals” to the GOP, and tell them they should have run a candidate who was eligible to serve.
Right up until J20, Joe Biden can declare war on Trump and those allied with him within our government. Does Joe understand what Trump 2.0 will do to America? Does he think the elections of 2026 will be fair? Does he see how elections work in Russia and Hungary. They don’t. Do MAGA people see how the Russian people live under the thumb of a dictator? They don’t.
Biden can stop Trump from being president via his sworn oath to protect the Constitution and the American people as commander-in-chief. He can ask his DOD to court-martial Trump for keeping and sharing classified documents. That’s also a crime in the actual Espionage Act, copied below. He can say Trump’s current alliance with Putin, as reported in RT media, is an act of treason under The Espionage Act because we are currently in a war with Russia over the fate of Ukraine.
Does Joe Biden realize that cyber war is the only way to war against nuclear powers and that Putin has been at war versus democracy from the election of 2016 when he gave help to his recruited ally?
If Joe won’t do it, he can step down and give Kamala Harris a try, but she’d have to declare she will not seek the presidency or become the president by default. We actually will need a new special election, likely about April 1 of 2025. I believe, once MAGA people hear that, many of them will be okay with this. His cabinet picks and threats have many of his voters scared as well. In April of 2024, 75% of Americans wanted neither Trump nor Biden.
Why the Worst Is Inevitable If Trump 2.0 Is Not Stopped Before J20
Political crimes always escalate quickly when fascists take office. After all, fascism is the union of business and government, where the leaders profit from that relationship. Once the inevitable crimes against “the people” escalate, those involved in those escalated crimes must fight to stay in power forever to hide their crimes, just the way Trump did when he lost in 2020. Our resisters, our Navalny’s, will be tactically silenced because their words represent truth. By 2028, the resistance will be over after getting very bloody.
Perhaps California and key states will unite, secede, and form their own country, which might be the fastest way back to a culturally united America. Survival of the fittest states would work to unite Americans soon after the divide. Americans will have learned their lesson. It would be easier than surviving after we give autocrats military might.
It has occurred to me that Trump probably wants Greenland, so he can have his own Siberia for dems who won't bend the knee. He can't use Alaska. The dems in office will logically become the new "Jews in Nazi Germany", along with brown-skinned people. But he can't gas them. Sure, some will fall out of windows and helicopters, - sending a message. Fear will be instilled in those who just want to survive, which is what most people want and always has been. But there will be so many of resisters. So Greenland is sort of a perfect place to keep millions of the resisters. Gotta keep up with Vlad. After all, Putin replaced Roy Cohn in Trump's ambitious sociopathic brain, as the man to emulate.
January 7th, 2017
On July 27th, 2016, in Doral Florida, Donald Trump said “Russia, if you are listening, I hope you are able to find the 30,000 emails … you will be mightily rewarded by our press”. I hold that broadcasting an invitation to a known foreign enemy state to influence America’s free and fair elections was a violation of the Espionage and Sedition Act. This is why. It had better have not be okay, or this democracy will not long survive.
Though much of the Espionage Act seems to refer to communication technology we rarely use any more, and focuses on acts committed during war times, the heart and soul of the act applies today’s times. War is not defined in the Constitution and the nature of war has changed since WW1, when the Espionage Act was written into law. Cyber war against countries that have the bomb has replaced wars with bombs.
Putin is the world’s pioneer and the leading expert in cyber war. Cyber warmongers use words as weapons and install loyalists into foreign governments who can get the master the nearly same result he might desire from physical wars. Russian malware called Fancy Bear has been targeting governments and military organizations for years, especially NATO states like France and Germany.
Section 2 of Espionage Act: Link to the full 1918 Espionage Act Five minute read.
Whoever, with intent or reason to believe that it is to be used to the injury of the United States or to the advantage of a foreign nationcommunicated, delivers, or transmits, or attempts to, or aids, or induces another to communicate, deliver or transmit, to any foreign government, or to any faction or party or military or naval force within a foreign country, whether recognized or unrecognized by the United States, or to any representative, officer, agent, employee, subject, or citizen thereof, either directly or indirectly and document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blue print, plan, map, model, note, instrument, appliance, or information relating to the national defense, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than twenty years.
Tampering with or even affecting free and fair elections, by subverting the will of the American people must be defined as an injury to the US. It is the will of the American people that votes in elections. Citizens are part of our government. In a democracy, they are the most important part of the government. In a fascist country they are the least important members of the government. Citizens rights were the the reason the US Constitution was created – a government of, by and for the people.
Therefore, misinformation via broadcast media or social media cannot be categorized as protected personal free speech for this reason. Misinformation by media must be a crime, just as it is for false claims for any product. Trump asked on national TV for a known enemy to hack his opponent’s computer and release what might be found. He also suggested that person, or any would-be-hacker would be mightily rewarded.
Since Donald Trump invited Russia to hack a presidential candidate’s computer on national TV, I believe he is guilty of espionage. I believe our current commander-in-chief can, and should act immediately, citing the Espionage Act of 1918 and the 14th Amendment sec 3, and his sworn duty to protect Americans and the Constitution and arrest Trump, in the minimum sense of sequestering him with an ankle bracelet. Our commander-in-chief can declare war on those who have meddled in elections or aided insurrectionists. The same people advocate for these two positions. He can say we will have new special elections in April and that Kamala Harris will not run, but neither will anyone who has openly comforted insurrections.
I argue that inviting a foreign enemy to affect an American election does indeed do harm to the USA; that America is more than just the sum of our communal land, people and resources. The USA is also our way of governance. And the bedrock of our government is free, fair, unhampered, unhacked elections.
An invitation to commit a crime is, and must be a criminal act for the rule of law to prevail in the USA. I’d like to remind people that Charles Manson did not commit murder; he encouraged others go after his perceived enemies, and he got life for doing that when his cult members committed crimes.
Free and fair elections define our democracy. An invitation to hack any political election is therefore, a criminal, seditious act that does real harm to the United States. Should we lose free and fair elections, the USA, and the world, will never be the same. This is not hyperbole.
Your job as a citizen is to contact your representative and Senator, and tell them these words or close to it: (copy paste is fine ) Dear , Representing my will, is your job and responsibility. I want Joe Biden to use his sworn duty to protect the American people and to uphold the US Constitution and its laws, including the Espionage and Sedition and and the 14th Amendment, and arrest Donald Trump for national security reasons and bar him from holding office. I want a new special election with no one permitted to run who has openly aided or comforted insurrectionists.
Ask him to broadcast that he will also bar any in congress who come to the aid of Donald Trump, a traitor and insurrectionist, because they too will be aiding an insurrectionist and traitor, in plain view and that this includes judges and justices. Ask him to say he is cleaning house of any insurrectionists who will not distance themselves from Donald Trump, for the good of the national security.
Thank You for doing your share as a citizen and speak up to your reps. This weekend, we should start publicly protesting the transition of power to a fascist treasonous mob.
In this post below, I also speak about starting the conversation about National Divorce. That’s the other easy way back to a united America. Let the red states have their president. We will select our own. We will share the military costs based on population in the states. Their people will come running back to the real American center, which we know wants not to surrender to fascism.
This autocracy vs. democracy map has been at my blog for seven years. Trump as potus was part of the struggle you see in the map that resembles a RISK board. I do wish others would post a map like this so more people would get a visual on what is at stake. Pretty sure even MAGA people won’t like their lives better in a fasict state.
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.
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 14th 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 14th 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 20th surrendering democracy date only happens. if we let it happen without using the 14th.
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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