You still think they are going to support the use of the 25th Amendment?
By the way, I don’t expect anyone to actually read the links I provided on these two issues, because Americans can’t be bothered to read, which is why we’re here.
Republicans have systematically destroyed our educational system over decades of voting against funding it, precisely so that we would arrive at this moment. They wanted an uneducated, easily-led population, and they got it. And it’s our fault. Yes, ours, because we don’t read anything unless we have to. Well, guess what—now, we have to.
You think Republicans are going to suddenly change direction and stop supporting the agenda of hatred and authoritarianism and ripping the Constitution into tiny pieces?
Even if they did, what would it matter, if they are still there when the dust settles?
They obviously WANT all of this. They’re not simply being polite or playing politics. They want this madness. They want fascism in America.
You watched as the Supreme Kangaroo Court tried unsuccessfully to put a leash on the monster it created.
The only way you get out of this mess is through violent revolution.
You’ll be tempted to tell yourself that violence is what I’m hoping for. But that’s stupid. I’m going to be 53 years old this year, and I have a long list of things I would rather be doing, and none of them involve a revolution that will undoubtedly sow chaos and destruction in our lives in ways we can’t even imagine.
But I know what the alternative looks like. It looks like North Korea. It looks like Cambodia, or the current events in Iran. It looks like Hungary and Russia and Turkey. It looks like the dozens of other authoritarian regimes around the globe. It’s far uglier than any civil war.
It’s an intolerable day-to-day dystopian nightmare.
Even if the president and the vice president and half the current Republican Congress were suddenly gone, you would still have a huge problem in this country.
Because scenes like the one in this photo don’t just happen. There’s still massive support for this bullshit. The most dramatic polls say that only 68% of Americans have an unfavorable view of the president.
Think about that for a moment.
That’s a problem. That’s a huge problem.
You have huge numbers of Americans who refuse to fact-check anything. They still get their news here:
That should tell you that nobody is getting out of this the easy way.
Despite Jon Oliver’s criticism of right-wingers saying “Civil war is inevitable,” I assert that any reasonable person, a person who’s head is not buried in the dirt, should come to precisely that conclusion.
There’s no reasoning with people this hateful and stupid. There’s no debating, no middle ground to be had.
That’s not my choice. It’s their choice.
You cannot reason with someone who doesn’t understand logic and rejects facts.
Continuing to insist that diplomacy always wins the day isn’t merely naive, it’s outright dangerous.
Nobody is getting a pony.
Authoritarians don’t allow free and fair elections.
If you are still telling yourself the lie that they can’t stop the elections, then you’re delusional and you are missing the point.
They don’t have to stop the elections.
They only have to interfere with them, sway the elections through gerrymandering and other tactics, dissuade people from voting through intimidation, stop the counting of votes, deny the results, and there are other methods that we won’t even discuss.
You’re not voting your way out of this.
And you’re not going to learn to live with the new order; it’s going to be absolutely insufferable.
If you want to watch a really fantastic movie that perfectly illustrates how intolerable fascism is, while also managing to make you laugh and smile, then watch this on Netflix:
The Penguin Lessons
You won’t believe what I’m saying. You’ll continue to watch and wait and complain and do nothing. You’ll be nervous but hopeful when the midterms are closer.
But then, you’ll watch them go sideways. And then you’ll act like no one warned you that this could happen.
You’ve been repeatedly warned.
You’ve heard it before—you want to know what you would have done in 1930s Germany?
You’re doing it right now.
All because you never took the time to study history, the American Revolution, the Civil War, World War I and II. You never read the writings of the Founding Fathers. They warned us that we would have to fight the same battles again in the future.
But you were so sure that we’ve evolved, become more educated, empathetic, and that we’ve “outgrown all that.”
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
It has been said that history does not repeat itself, but it rhymes perfectly.
There are many in this nation who are laboring under the delusion that they will sort out their political differences at the polls during the midterms and all the way out as far as November of 2028, as if that date were not an impossible millennium away.
Many Americans are, however, waking up to the fact that their vote is not going to matter as long as this regime continues its reign of terror. If the elections go forward as scheduled, the regime will simply seize the ballots, as they did in their recent dress rehearsal in Georgia.
Anyone who thinks that the seizure of those ballots was really about the 2020 election is not paying attention to what is happening.
But even those who are slowly rousing from their slumber and realizing that democracy is lying flat on its back, too many of these are failing to grasp the moral weight of the trial which this perilous hourpresents us.
Let it be known by all Americans, this slide into tyranny will be nothing whatsoever like life under Communism. For the average despot is concerned mainly with holding onto power regardless of the consequences.
But it is the exceptional tyrants of history who we must be extra cautious of, those who are driven by two equally despicable motives, those of power and hatred. We have such a monster in our midst.
In the beginning, even Hitler managed to make things better for the average German citizen—the ones he deemed worthy in his warped view. But in the end, his hatred of the Jews drove him to fling even Berlin itself into the flames.
Many dictators at least somehow managed to strengthen their countries in some manner, before eventually destroying them through a toxic stew of avarice and hate.
But America’s current “leadership” is a comic farce, nothing but the rising costs of everything, the disappearance of all hope for a stable climate and the education of our children, senseless violence, and the emergence of World War Three being only a hair’s breadth away from us.
Absolutely nothing good has come from Republican governance. Nothing even remotely close to useful has arisen from this nightmare dystopian fever dream of useful idiots.
Our American rendezvous with darkness will be more like the wholesale slaughter of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, or the genocides which have so often ravaged African nations and Muslim countries. [See list of genocides.]
If you believe this untrue, then ask yourself why, why in the name of all things holy, would the “president” of the United States send innocent people to CECOT?
If this was not a litmus test for what is to come, then what else could it be?
The Southern States never fully yielded the war of 1861, and they vowed to rise and fight again.
And this is what we face now on this expanded ground, all of it stolen from Native peoples, and drenched in the blood of all races and religions.
And the festering boil of Neo-Nazi philosophy is even now raising its ugly head, right in front of us.
The pseudo “philosophy” of White Supremacy, an idea so thoroughly stupid that it may be adequately summarized in a mere Fourteen Words, is promising to annihilate all semblance of the country in which you have lived your entire life.
If these people (a bastardized word, as used here) should succeed in holding power in this nation, then we shall, all of us, have failed.
We will not have failed to win the midterms. We will not have failed to win the White House.
We will have failed the ultimate test, the test of Good versus Evil.
We will have quietly surrendered the last vestiges of our very humanity.
I beg you, do not surrender this effort unless you and I both are lying mortally wounded in the streets, having given what Lincoln called “The last full measure of devotion.”
Only then, will we have the justification of saying that we did our best to stem the tide of what can only be called the purest form of evil that we are likely to ever bear direct witness to with our own eyes.
Anything less is the failure which cannot be stomached, can’t be slept with, and cannot bear to look upon itself in the mirror.
The following quote is attributed to a French officer who was serving in the Union Army during the American Civil War. He was reflecting on the profound shift in the war’s purpose, following the Emancipation Proclamation.
It was no longer a question of the Union, as it was, that was to be reestablished. It was the Union as it should be, that is to say, washed clean from its original sin. We were no longer merely the soldiers of a political controversy. We were now the missionaries of a great work of redemption, the armed liberators of millions. The war was ennobled. The object was higher.
I’ll Just Leave This Right Here
The Battle Hymn of the Republic
by Julia Ward Howe
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord: He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored; He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,⠀ They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;⠀ I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel: “As ye deal with my contemners, so with you my grace shall deal; Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with his heel,⠀
Since God is marching on.”
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat; He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat: Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea, With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me: As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave, He is Wisdom to the mighty, He is Succour to the brave, So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! Glory, glory, hallelujah! His truth is marching on.
I have made myself abundantly clear in this space, many times. I believe there are only two likely outcomes in the near future, and I have been very open about it, despite the criticism I receive from most people.
One outcome is the solidification of an oppressive authoritarian regime in the United States of America. Critics will argue that the US has always been an oppressive regime, and they are not incorrect. However, they are foolish to think that it’s not about to become a hundred times worse if nothing is done to stop it. We will see something akin to a Fourth Reich.
And despite everyone having watched January 6th in real time, the average citizen is hiding their head in the sand, pretending that it could not possibly happen again, much less be worse. But it will be worse, much worse.
The other potential outcome is an uprising, and it’s hard to predict what such a thing would look like. But it’s clear that the citizens would themselves be taking up arms against the government. No one in the Democratic Party has the backbone to stand up to this laying low of the Constitution. Anyone trying to stop it doesn’t have the necessary support.
But rather than try to persuade anyone, yet again, why I believe these are the only likely outcomes, I’m going to give you different perspectives, the opinions of others. I don’t know that I have anything new to add, at least, not right now.
So, in no particular order, I give you some videos and articles that I’ve collected over the last several weeks.
The SAVE America Act
The bill, called the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility, or SAVE America Act, would require Americans to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, mostly through a valid U.S. passport or birth certificate. It would also require a valid photo identification before voters can cast ballots, which some states already demand. It was approved on a mostly party-line vote, 218-213.
“would require Americans to prove they are citizens when they register to vote, mostly through a valid U.S. passport or birth certificate. It would also require a valid photo identification before voters can cast ballots…”
In addition to your driver’s license or State ID Card (which are fairly standard IDs) you might also be required to present your birth certificate or passport.
And there’s zero guarantee that they will not seize the ballots from any number of polling stations, insisting they (the Republican Party) count the ballots themselves. Who’s going to stop them? The same people who stopped them from seizing ballots in Georgia? (Because that was NOBODY)
Good article about how ICE is exactly what you’re afraid it is, a private army for a dictator.
And the only rational conclusion to arrive at is:
THE WORST POSSIBLE DECISION YOU CAN MAKE IS TO WAIT FOR IT TO GET STRONGER.
Should People on the Left Arm Themselves?
Who’s Silly Enough
to Think That They’ll
Do All of This?
The author of the article below is an incredibly intelligent man, and his work has proven to be disturbingly prophetic in the past. On the one hand, he is saying that it’s not too late to prevent the orange blob from subverting the midterms. On the other hand, he gives a laundry list of things that Democrats would need to do in order to prevent it.
I’m, shall we say, skeptical, at best.
Who’s going to stop them from doing it? The same people who are stopping the new Nazi SA/SS goon squads from terrorizing the country and killing innocent people? Who, exactly, is going to do all of these things that this author says we should do? Again, I agree with his assertions. But I disagree with his optimism.
NewsWeek article about the “nationalization” of elections
Once again, the Black Panthers are standing up, while the rest of us Americans slink around in shame, afraid of taking up arms.
But the Black population of America has NEVER been safe in this country. They already understand the assignment. They know that no one is coming to rescue them.
If the rest of the people who are so busy peacefully protesting would do the same, then you might actually see some positive results, possibly even without violence, although I wouldn’t count on it. But yes, it is possible, because it would be REAL PRESSURE, and not just performance art.
If You’re Still Here…
If you’re still here, and this is the first time you’ve read anything from me about this topic, you might want to know my thoughts.
I don’t know, maybe you’re mentally unstable or something. [A little self-deprecating humor to make the fascism go down easier.]
If you have gone through all that material and you want more, then here are the links to the pieces that I wrote about this situation (just the best ones).
I sent the piece below to every politician in my state (Oregon) that I could find an email address for. Of course, no one replied. They would never consider the ideas presented here in a serious manner, but I expected that.
I mention this because it’s only fair to warn you, don’t ever say to me, “Call your representatives!” If you do, I will likely not respond in a kind fashion.
If you went through all of those pieces and you still want more, then you should know two things. First, you are not well. You should seek help.
Second, you already know everything you could possibly need to know about what we’re facing. The only thing left to do is either get on your knees and practice kissing New Nazi ass, or take the advice given and start preparing yourself to fight.
America, you are already at war. You have been for over a year, you just didn’t know it.
I have been saying since November 6th, 2024, “Well, there it is. We’re going to slide into full-blown authoritarianism, unless we fight it out in the streets. We will not get free and fair elections unless we revolt.”
People said I was just being paranoid.
But here we are:
The gerrymandering race has begun
Threats of “federalizing the elections”
Saying “We shouldn’t even have an election”
Threatening to have ICE SA goons at all the polling stations to scare away voters of color
Threats of the Insurrection Act
Threats of war on multiple fronts (Iran, Venezuela, Greenland, etc.), so they can use martial law to suspend elections
Impeachment
I also have been saying that impeachment is a pipe dream. It has never once removed a president from office. It takes two-thirds of Congress to convict, and it’s a Republican majority.
The 25th Amendment
The 25th Amendment is also a pipe dream; not going to happen.
A National Strike
A national strike will hurt the workers more than the oligarchs. The average American can’t afford to risk losing their job, and can’t afford to miss a single day of work. In fact, the average American worker is one or two sick days away from financial disaster.
The people who push this idea the hardest are always the most privileged people, the ones who can’t understand why others KNOW they can’t participate in it.
For a day? Sure. For a week? Maybe. Probably not.
Long enough to do real damage to the system, to make the oligarchs cave? Fat chance.
It’s a ridiculous strategy.
Lawsuits
Lawsuits are the dumbest strategy of all. The orange toddler king has 34 felonies and didn’t do a single day of time. it is immune to lawsuits.
Grow up. The clown turd cheated its way to the top, suing people, cheating people out of money it owed them, and basically skating away laughing every time.
And that, as you know, is why that disgusting reject from Housewives of New Jersey is worshipped by the most horrible, hateful, disgusting people in America. They love the thing because the thing gets away with everything it does.
Contacting Your Representatives
Writing letters and emails to corrupt politicians who already know what you want? Nope. Not going to help. Phone calls? Same thing.
The ones who need to do the right thing are already dug in too deep. They can’t reverse course now. They know the American people will never forgive them. They have to win, or they know they will do prison time or worse.
I vote for WORSE.
The ones who are trying to do the right thing (like Bernie Sanders and AOC) are simply powerless, outnumbered. They don’t need to hear from you. They can’t do anything. They would if they could.
Boycotts
Boycotts? Nope. Temporary hits to the pocketbooks of the insanely rich. You can’t starve out people who have more money than God. You do not simply try to lay siege to billionaires. That’s not a Sun-Tzu-approved strategy.
You attempt to starve out people who can’t afford to miss any profits. That describes the American people, not the oligarchs.
The richest ones will pay handsomely for power. They will happily kick money downstream to pay their henchmen to use heavy-handed tactics to keep the workers in line.
Video and Whistles
Whistles and cellphones don’t stop Nazis. That’s a nice gesture, but that is all that it is… a gesture. When you blow a whistle, you buy a little time for the immigrants you alert with your whistles. But where will they go to be truly safe?
It will make you feel better, like you’re doing something. But it’s a half-measure:
Think through the steps. Always ask yourself the question, “And then what? What happens after that? Okay, and then what happens after that happens?” And so on.
The immigrants are not safe until the tyrants are out of power and ICE is disbanded, they’re all fired and then new people are hired under stringent rules, background checks, careful training, and put under strict rules of conduct that are enforced.
And that will never happen as long as the orange garbage bag of diarrhea and vomit is in office.
What’s Left?
America, you are at WAR. Time to grow up and accept the harsh realities of our current situation.
It’s time to gear up and be ready to do what your forefathers did. I don’t say this lightly. I am studied in the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, and other wars.
The Revolutionary War had fewer casualties because of a lower population, and more primitive weapons.
The Civil War had both a much larger population and rapid advances in the technology of warfare, hence the first major (large scale) battle of the war, Shiloh, had more deaths (around 23,000 or more) than all previous battles in American history. Before the war was over, there would be at least 600,000 dead.
A war today, however, would be thoroughly unpredictable. It would most likely be incredibly costly, in terms of lives lost and casualties suffered.
But it would be asymmetrical warfare, with no clear lines of battle. It would be violence springing up here and there, and otherwise, life would remain relatively normal for most people.
That doesn’t mean that it wouldn’t be horrific, because it most certainly would be. But you have to consider several things:
First, you’re already there. The experts all agree that all the conditions have been met. It’s just a matter of which event on which day is going to set the powder keg off. Here’s just one such person: author of The Next Civil War.
What is the alternative? The only alternative is to bend the knee to a pedophile felon who wants you to have no healthcare, no science, no education, no access to vaccines, no allies in the world, and no future.
You will have to turn a blind eye to the rape and murder of immigrants, the imprisonment of the orange shit stain’s political opponents, and you will have to be content letting them hijack your elections and your democracy.
You will be spitting and pissing on the graves of every single person who died in every American war, the people who fought Britain for Independence, the people who fought the Confederacy to end slavery, the people who fought Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito in WWII, and the people who fought in all other wars.
You will be mocking their sacrifices, through your cowardice, your unwillingness to risk your life and your freedom.
And if you do that, then you deserve to live in horrible conditions and awful, terrible, miserable shame for the rest of your worthless existence.
Think this “isn’t your job?” Think again. Well before the fighting became intense in the Revolutionary War, as early as 1771-1773, every male Colonist between the ages of sixteen to sixty was expected to serve in the militia.
What modern Democrats have failed to understand is that the “well-regulated militia” mentioned in the Second Amendment has ALWAYS been about the citizenry.
The Founders were constantly saying that it was essential for the people, the individual citizens to retain their rights to keep and bear arms. They made no confusing statements, no cryptic arguments that might be interpreted in multiple ways.
Rather than quote the Founders, I’m just going to quote the Second Amendment and encourage you to look for the examples yourself. Americans are entirely too used to having information spoon fed to them these days. Use search engines to search for facts for yourself.
Of course, if you’re reading my work, you probably already do that. Because people who have the patience to sift through my articles and poetry are generally intelligent people because I demand more from my readers.
Unfortunately, most people still hear, “Look it up!” and they never actually do it. But you are probably smarter than that, so please, search for examples that show how the Founders did indeedwant the individual citizens to retain their rights to keep and bear arms, precisely because of the kinds of danger from tyranny that we now find ourselves facing.
The Second Amendment of the United States Constitution reads: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
Side Note: Perhaps the greatest disservice that organizations like MOVEON.org have done is to “flood the zone” (deliberately using the language of that PoS, Steve Bannon) with messages that are counterproductive. They make memes and videos that always say things like,
“So and So [name of celebrity or Democrat] DESTROYS [name of orange abomination]!”
My response to this garbage is, “No, jackass. Destroy? Really? Destroy means to strip all power and efficiency from a person or thing, to obliterate it. Last I checked, the orange monstrosity was DESTROYING us, daily. So, shut up.
Also, the expression T.A.C.O. isn’t helping anyone. That’s NOT what is happening, anyway. Yes, there are lots of temporary changes in direction, but orange turd always comes back and does it again. The tariffs, the third term talk, you name it.
it temporarily changes course to get YOU, the American people, to relax and focus on other things. Then, later, the terror threats resume again, as if they’d never ended.
What to Do?
Organize with people who are willing to die over this. You need nut jobs like me, people who hate Nazis so much that they’d rather die than see a fucking Nazi continue to breathe.
Arm yourself and train. Practice your Second Amendment rights, and do it legally. Go to the range. Get a concealed carry permit. Learn to field-strip and clean your weapon. Learn how to clear a jammed weapon. Get lessons if you need them.
Want to train with non-fascists? Find your local Socialist Rifle Association. They don’t care if you’re not a Socialist, just as long as you’re not an active-duty cop, a domestic abuser, or a fascist. They’re very LGBTQ-friendly and very responsible gun owners. They will train you. They’re really nice people.
Prep. Store shelf-stable food, water, and water purification methods. Stock up on first aid supplies and medications and medical manuals.
Also, start collecting military manuals and books about tactics, particularly guerrilla warfare tactics, you know, for the um… historical value, like for schoolwork and stuff. Yeah, that’s it, schoolwork.
Available on Amazon (even though, yes, they ARE the ENEMY)
This little light of mine, I’m gonna let it shine.
None of this discussion is pleasant. To be perfectly honest, I think I am looking at my last days. I don’t expect to survive this bullshit. But I promise you, I don’t write that sitting here, wiping tears away. No, nothing of the sort. It’s more of a bitter scowling frustration, because I know that if this proceeds unchecked, there will be no real quality of life in America.
What I mean is that I would bet everything that I own that the tyrants will not stop, but rather, they will escalate.
Since I’m unwilling to sit back and watch that unfold, I don’t see how I have any other real option than to do whatever I can, play my part, whatever way is most effective. There’s not much I can do until everyone finally realizes that none of the options discussed above are viable, except for revolt.
I would rather read books, watch movies, eat good food, chase girls, play guitar, listen to music, write poetry, and pretty much anything else, anything that doesn’t involve fighting Nazis in the streets.
But there are Nazis in the streets, and they hurting people. There are Nazis on the Hill, and they’re hurting people.
Chuck Schumer and other Democrats are foolishly laboring under the delusion that this is a presidential administration. Rather than being a run-of-the-mill administration, it is the textbook definition of a fascist regime.
Granted, they haven’t finished solidifying their position, but they are proceeding well within the necessary timeframe to finish the job.
Never in the history of the United States has a president or a political party held so many Americans in such daily fear. The orange stain and the Republican Party are nothing short of a terrorist organization.
The majority of Americans fear for their safety and the safety of their families and communities. As long as Republicans remain in power, there is no faith in the American dream.
Words like fairness, protection, law, and justice have lost all meaning. The Democratic Party is trying to play by rules that no longer exist.
It does not matter whether one is playing chess or checkers. Once your opponent knocks the board off the table, you are no longer engaged in chess or checkers.
The idea of turning the other cheek only applies when one person slaps you across the face. If you choose to overlook the offense, it might be noble or admirable.
However, when it is not just you, but an entire nation being assaulted, there’s nothing noble about overlooking the offense. When it is not merely a simple slap across the face, but rather attempted murder through systematic imprisonment and class warfare, there is nothing ethical about “playing the long game.”
For God’s sake, the time for war is not only here, it is now well behind us. Will none of you exert any true stewardship or courage?
Anyone within the Democratic Party who is still sane should stand up and take action.
The Founding Fathers are shaking their heads in disgust, scowling at you from beyond the grave.
It is time to talk about secession. But before you say, “That’s utterly ridiculous. That would raze this country to the ground,” ask yourself this:
Is there any part of American ideology that is not already under direct assault by the Republican Party?
Will you never wake up and realize that you are being mugged? Will it never dawn on you that your attacker has no intention of stopping?
A sane person, one not completely paralyzed by cowardice would choose to fight, rather than to surrender to an attacker who is already in the process of murdering them.
I am not speaking as the typical citizen who might mean well but has a poor grasp of history. Since grade school, I have studied the art of war and the rise and fall of empires. I didn’t do it for school credit; I learned about these things out of fascination.
When the Democrats began talking about Biden pulling out of the race, I scoured the history of American politics for any successful precedent of such a move. I found none.
Because I have no mouthpiece or political clout, I could not persuade anyone that it was a horrible idea. But it was, and I knew it. Still, Democrats are spoiled children, and they got what they asked for.
Even though we’ve never had a female President, and even though we already unsuccessfully attempted to run a woman against that disgusting orange stain the first time, we proceeded.
Harris would have made a fantastic President. Still, it was the most ridiculous decision that Democrats have ever made to switch candidates so late in the race. Wait. I take that back. It’s the second. The first is Schumer and other key Democrats supporting the budget resolution.
Because of the last few months, there is no longer the slightest inkling of doubt about the lengths to which Republicans are willing to go for complete authoritarian control.
I have been scrambling to find any historical precedent for removing a dictator from power without bloodshed or, at the very least, some serious behind-the-scenes coercion. I have found none.
The closest examples are:
Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines. However, the military refused to fire on civilians, enabling them to prevail. I do not know whether Americans would be so lucky.
Daniel Ortega and the Sandinistas. Yet, the exit came after the CIA supplied the Contra guerrillas for years. Even then, Ortega publicly stated that he intended to “rule from below” if possible.
South Korea was able to reverse its recent declaration of martial law only because the people of their congress were willing to scale the fences and face being shot by the military. I can’t even imagine our Congress officials doing anything like that.
One can find multiple “sources” that paint other regimes as ending peacefully, but they’re naive accounts. For example, I encountered an article that claimed Pinochet left power willingly. This retelling of events conveniently ignores such a staggering number of critical details that there is no time to get into it. Suffice it to say that these two I’ve mentioned are as close as it gets.
The Supreme Court is a toothless guard dog with no power to enforce its rulings. The US Marshals are under the control of the Executive Branch.
The Republicans hold the majority in both houses of Congress.
They pulled the Alien Enemies Act card within the first hundred days.
DOGE’s tampering with governmental software screams the setting up of fixing future elections. The bloodcurdling scream is loud enough for the people to hear it. So, why don’t you?
In 2020, the orange thing swore that the election would be fake unless we had all paper ballots and no mail-in ballots. Suddenly, in 2024, it was all excited about Elon Musk’s computer savvy and these “great new voting machines.”
Has no one in the Democratic Party ever played poker before? Are none of you familiar with the concept of a “tell?” The 2024 election was probably the first rigged election in American history. Yet it will not serve us to speak of this because we went to such great lengths to clarify that the 2020 election was secure.
We can’t discuss the likelihood of a stolen election; this would only bring scorn and mockery. It would achieve nothing without smoking gun evidence, evidence which I seriously doubt anyone possesses. Therefore, we must (as golfers say) “play the ball where it lies.” We must move forward from here.
Steve Bannon’s remark about “muzzle velocity” best summarizes the goal of all this chaos.
They are putting so much stress on the American people in such a short time that it’s clear what the goal is:
Incite riots in the streets and then invoke the Insurrection Act. The saber-rattling against China, Panama, Denmark, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico is an obvious sign of the intention to wage war solely to invoke martial law and suspend elections.
The Mueller Report and the January 6th Committee were correct. The orange stain technically forfeited the right to run again; the Constitution forbids it. Yet Democrats failed to enforce this.
Kilmar Abrego Garcia is but one of many who have been illegally sent to what we all know are essentially death camps.
Robert King was arrested for no crime. He spoke the obvious truth, but no one is talking about him.
You have allowed them to destroy Medicaid and attack Medicare and Social Security. How many planes have they crashed? There is no time to list the roster of human rights violations and financial catastrophes; we’d be here all night.
The oligarchs are waging class warfare against us.
We, the American people, do not expect you, the Democrats, to do much of anything. It is evident to us that you all lack the fortitude, conviction, courage, and backbone to stand up and do the job that needs doing.
However, you can at least admit that we will never have peace with the ruthless mad dogs of the Republican Party.
Secede from the Union, for God’s sake.
At least you would be giving us a fighting chance. I can assure you of this: Many Americans will begin acting on their own volition in the spirit of our forefathers, who, unlike yourselves, absolutely refused to bow to a tyrant.
You are already at war; you cannot escape your incompetence long enough to accept that harsh reality.
I don’t expect you to recall that Pol Pot’s Khmer Rouge was a mere 50 years ago and that it resulted in the death of more than one and a half million Cambodians.
Nor do I expect you to recollect that their targets were the same as the modern-day Republican Party those such as journalists, political enemies (such as yourselves), teachers, artists, those who spoke multiple languages, engineers, etc.
However, I do expect you to be able to understand that the rule of law is gone. You must know that no one in Washington, DC, is following the Constitution anymore. You would be incapable of having gotten yourselves elected in the first place if you didn’t at least grasp that much.
We, the people, require wartime consiglieres.
You owe us that much. Step aside and allow someone up to the task to do the job. We could literally roll the dice and do better than what the Democratic Party has given us.
We will begin to act on our own orders.
This inevitability is apparent from the murmuring of the streets. You would be wise to understand that you will do better if you are in control of the Resistance. It’s much more difficult to control the chaos of a military rebellion when you are not communicating with the generals because they are merely citizens acting out of their own capacity.
Do you want to orchestrate a second Civil War?
Or would you rather have a modern-day Weather Underground scenario to the power of ten?
There is no third choice.
I have one ear to the ground and one to the wind. It is clear to me that the people of this great nation will not much longer stomach your fearful inaction and bellyaching.
It’s time for secession. If you don’t proceed now, you will soon be unable to do anything. Our citizens will not even be able to flee the country safely.
Americans don’t play enough chess It’s the reason we’re in this political mess The Right has carefully studied for years Constitutional weaknesses, racist fears
They’ve put in long hours, learning the game Motivating their base, pointing the blame Spinning problems as the fault of their foes Scuttling each bill that would end those woes
Like Morphy, Alekhine, Karpov, Nimzowitsch Dangling carrots; a cheap bait-and-switch A Fischer sacrifice; playing the long-game The board no longer looks quite the same
Their rooks and bishops, now in key places We watch with horror, mud on our faces We slept through opening, developing play Their knights are posted; it seems they’ll stay
Kiss of Death at the Opera, then it’s too late Anastasia smiles, threatens Legal’s mate A double-bishop pin, a dovetail, strategic Is needed, or our king will be quadriplegic
Having good pawn structure is fundamental And theirs is proving to be quite instrumental Mate is possible with any piece on the board Except the other king, who may be ignored
Unless, that is, he works his way up the file Blocking the enemy king’s movement, while The officers sweep in to deliver last blows A game is often over before the loser knows
We’d better learn the game, or we’ll be through It’s less checkmate, more authoritarian coup A king can be smothered by his own pieces It only takes a few with deceptive caprices
If the game may be saved, our wits must return Or “How to lose everything” is all we will learn We scoffed at haughty, four-dimensional claims But, with distractions, they hit all their true aims
We’re playing an opponent who is happy to win By legal means, if possible; they’ll nod and grin Beaten fairly, he gives no handshake reward But balls up his fists, and knocks over the board
The only way to beat a cheating, spoiled brat Is to win fairly, but be ready to pick up a bat For this one believes they must win at all cost And will not admit or accept that they lost
The one sitting on the other side of this table Is wily, unscrupulous; cheats when he’s able Demanding to rewrite how the game is played Promoting a pawn, says “A new king is made!”
Yes, win… but don’t be surprised if the liar Pulls a gun or a knife, upon losing their desire We all must fight hard to get out of this mess We must become better at political chess
Kevin Trent Boswell 