April 15th, 2025
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.
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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.
MARCH 5, 2025:
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 bold dating 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!
2/10/2025 Blue 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 it yet.
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 road is 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.
1/31/24 Trump 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 a break 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.
GET THIS DISCUSSION GOING!
Most relevant prior posts:
Hitler had less support than Trump and changed Germany in 60 days. This is not my post, but it is brilliant.
Protest songs I have written and recorded for America:
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