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.
If we Americans on the Left had any backbone, we’d all start talking to our neighbors today about forming armed “neighborhood watches.”
We would follow the brave and inspiring example of the good people of Lincoln Heights, Ohio.
Lincoln Heights, Ohio
The Black community has been in danger in the United States since before it was technically a nation. When Nazis demonstrated in Lincoln Heights, the people of that neighborhood knew that no one was coming to save them.
Unlike White Liberal Americans, who are clutching their pearls and waiting for the courts and corrupt politicians to save them, the Black community of Lincoln Heights immediately kicked into gear. They knew that if they did not stand up for themselves, then no one would stand for them.
Yeah, So?
But why would you bother to form an armed neighborhood watch in your community, when you (probably) haven’t had Nazi or KKK or Proud Boy demonstrations in your local area?
You should be doing so because actual Nazis have infiltrated your government at the highest levels.
If this doesn’t inspire you to fight, then there’s just no fight in you.
You have RFK suggesting the first stage of a Aktion T4 style eugenics program, a national autism registry.
You have ICE, the new Gestapo snatching people off the streets and sending them to super prisons in El Salvador, without proof of any crimes, or any due process.
Often, they arrest the wrong people, and in some cases, still deport them or put them in a death prison, all without proof of having committed any crimes.
I made this. Nazi lives don’t matter. Those fuckers know where to find me. Nobody is going to tell me that anyone needs a job bad enough to be a Gestapo agent. Fuck those guys. They betrayed their country.
If you’re still laboring under the delusion that you will just “vote them out” in the midterms and in 2028, then you have not been paying attention.
Nothing about the actions of the last hundred days says “respect for democratic principles.” The regime does not believe that you deserve DUE PROCESS. What in God’s name makes you think they intend to allow you fair elections?!
Have you asked yourself why any government officials would take such murderous and cruel actions against their citizens, if they had any intention of ever leaving office and living amongst those same citizens?
A meme I made
Unless we’re willing to live perpetually in an authoritarian dystopia very similar to North Korea, then we will have to fight, sooner or later.
The Supreme Court is never going to strongly rule against the king they so recently crowned.
Even if they did, who would they send?
The Department of Justice sends the US Marshals to enforce its orders. However, the president appoints the head of DoJ, and that brings Pam Bondi into the mix.
The situation is incredibly complicated, but suffice to say, I have not yet seen any compelling evidence that any court has the right to arrest the president, especially after that nightmare ruling by the Supreme Court.
The ultimate authority over the US Marshals belongs to the president, whether it is obvious or not. They’re technically under the authority of the Department of Justice.
But Republicans have been seeking out constitutional weaknesses for decades, and they have finally found enough of them to exploit them for their attempt to finally finish off democracy, once and for all.
As we’ve all seen, despite all the ranting by orange traitor about “weaponizing the DoJ,” it’s truly being weaponized now, going so far as to arrest judges and threaten law firms with criminal prosecution.
If the Supreme Court can’t enforce orders, then what makes us think that ultimately the lower courts will be able to enforce theirs?
Those Who Fought Before
If you would happily abandon the sacrifices of nearly a half-million service members during WWII, it would still stand to reason that self-interest would implore you to act now.
Even if you chose to ignore the millions of lives lost all across the globe because of Nazis, certainly you wouldn’t ignore it in your own backyard, would you?
The D-Day Invasion of Normandy
Why haven’t you rebelled?!
A meme that I made
The Founding Fathers didn’t have one-fourth of the causes for revolution that you do.
Surely, commonly decency impels us to defend our immigrant neighbors, the health and safety of the women who are your mothers, sisters, wives, cousins, coworkers, and friends?
If you will not fight for the LGBTQ community, then you still must recognize that the regime is breaking the economy over its knee, then taking a baseball bat to its skull.
Doesn’t your pocketbook at least compel you? Does NOTHING persuade you to fight?!
I do understand that the US military is the finest killing machine on Earth, and nobody is dumb enough to try to go head-to-head with them.
But the stench of fear coming off of you clouds your mind, and you fail to understand that the Founding Fathers openly discussed the same dangers.
They asked each other, “Gentlemen, do you realize that, by signing this document, we are signing our death warrants?”
This is why John Hancock famously stated that he was signing large enough to ensure King George could read his name.
But you tell yourself that our present situation is somehow different than theirs.
It is not.
The details are different, but the essential situation is very similar.
However, it is not even remotely comparable in one sense. That is to say, the Founding Fathers didn’t have one-tenth of the reasons to revolt that you do.
The Townsend Acts (essentially a series of tariffs)
And perhaps most importantly:
The Boston Port Act
The Massachusetts Government Act
The Administration of Justice Act
The Quartering Act
The Quebec Act
All of these things combined pale in comparison to The Crimes Committed, all of the insufferable horrors thrust upon the American people by the Republican Party within the first hundred days of this fascist regime.
Yup, another meme I made.
Your belly-aching fear prevents you from asking questions of anyone who might understand the real situation.
But How?!
I could tell you that, yes, you could win, if you were willing to fight, if you were willing to take the same risks that the Founders took for liberty.
If you were willing to take the risks that you daily ask your police and military to take, then you could be free of the tyranny.
Any intelligence analyst, who is worth their salt, from the CIA, NSA, DoD, DHS, CSS, DIA, NGA, or the NRO could tell you the same thing:
Even a half-hearted, sustained guerrilla warfare campaign waged by the people would be devastating, even against the US military.
Let’s be honest, they wouldn’t tell you that.
It wouldn’t be in their best interests to reveal such a potentially volatile and dangerous reality. But if you were good friends with one of them, they might let the truth slip out.
Such an admission might perhaps occur after you plied them with a couple of beers and told a couple of particularly funny jokes.
How is that true that you could win a war against the most devastating military force on the planet?
How? When they have a million active duty troops and almost a million reservists? When they have automatic weapons, grenades, Blackhawk helicopters, drones, and tanks?
Another meme I made
Simple.
Consider the following:
If the Blue states seceded, they would isolate the Red states from the oceans on the West Coast, as well as the ports of the North Atlantic
The United States has more guns than people, and far more Liberals own guns than you think
Here are a couple of YouTube videos that illustrate some of the basic concepts of how a new civil war might unfold, and how radically different it would be from the first one.
These videos are far from perfect.
There are plenty of unknowns in such a theoretical scenario.
Second Civil War
The next one was made well before Biden dropped out of the race, but the speculations are still relevant.
Who Will Win?
If you think a guerrilla warfare campaign can’t succeed, you need to talk to some veterans of Vietnam, Korea, Afghanistan, Iraq, or any of the “secret wars” like Nicaragua or Ukraine.
Yes, we regularly send “operators,” ex-military intelligence operatives, into battle in non-official war zones. They know.
Of the one million active duty troops, they are:
Scattered across the entire country and the entire world, on foreign bases
Not entirely in support of the regime; even if 75% were rabid MAGA, and they completely ignore their oaths, that’s still a quarter million who would fight alongside YOU; I’m willing to bet that it would be many more than that
They’re not able to secure the terrain of every house, barn, garage, factory, warehouse, office building, or apartment complex in every town, city, or hamlet across a country as large and diverse as the United States
They cannot possibly patrol every national park, forest, lake, or valley; look at the complexities of patrolling just the Southern and Northern borders
The people of Canada and Mexico (and most of the world) are on OUR SIDE. They will happily assist us in smuggling supplies to us, to aid our fight; seeing the fascist regime fall is in their best interests
Insurgency Is a Bitch
Yet another meme that I made
If the military were suddenly forced to deal with the American population rising against them, all across the entire nation, they wouldn’t stand a chance.
If even a tenth of the population decided to fight, the fascist regime wouldn’t have a chance to resist.
While it’s true that the right wing is keen on military service, gun ownership, and being survivalists, they’re not automatically victorious because of these things.
The Left are the ones who have a deeper understanding of history, and therefore strategy, and what actually works in warfare.
While right-wingers are usually the ones on the battlefield, using weapons, left wingers are usually the ones designing those weapons.
The Left has the chemists, engineers, and thinkers.
The Left has many of the computer programmers and hackers. The doge douchebags have shown us that we don’t have all of them, but we still have more.
Pen & Sword
The pure brawn and brute force of a right wing soldier is imposing and impressive. But even Genghis Khan knew that this was only half the battle. Superior strategy regularly prevails over brute force, and sometimes over superior numbers.
And the Right, despite what they would have you believe, does NOT have the superior numbers.
Even with psycho riot cops, hired Blackwater militias, Proud Boys, Neo-Nazi groups, and the KKK, they do NOT have the numbers.
And frankly,
they don’t have
even half
the brain power.
The ambushes they’d walk into.
The internal power schisms within the military and the police forces would keep them in constant damage control mode and paranoia.
They would exhaust untold resources, trying in vain to locate the heads of “terrorist cells” (what the regime would label them).
There might not even be an official army to stand against them. It would not matter. They’d be doomed.
Consider the fallout of situations like the Red Brigades of Italy, the French Revolution, the French Resistance of WWII, the Troubles of Northern Ireland, the Battle of Algiers, or Che Guevara’s guerrilla war in Cuba.
I might have a meme-making problem
The United States military is the most dangerous military machine on Earth. Still, the fact remains that counterinsurgency is a fool’s errand.
And you, my fellow Americans, are the insurgents. Or rather, you could be, if only you were willing to place a higher premium on liberty than you do on your precious stock market.
If only you cherished the freedoms and protections of your sons and daughters, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives, friends and neighbors, as you do your freedom from prison or the threat of death.
Occam’s Razor basically posits the idea that we should look for answers that have the smallest set of elements.
In other words, “the simplest answer is usually the correct one.”
If You Always Do What You’ve Always Done…
You can choose to believe that you will vote the bad guys out in the future, but I don’t share your optimism.
You might choose to believe that the traitors in Congress will suddenly grow a conscience and a spine.
If they somehow did both, then perhaps they would impeach. However, most Americans are entirely ignorant of how difficult it is to remove a sitting president from power.
The Supreme Court, Congress, the oligarchs (with their Dark Enlightenment and End Times Fascism) who bankroll the fascists, the Heritage Foundation, and the rabid MAGA base who still support this madness, all of them are to blame.
You might think that peaceful protests are going to change their minds, but I don’t.
You might think that a national strike would make a difference. But I don’t personally believe that the oligarchs, who have more money than God, and who now want to play God with human lives, are unwilling to forfeit some monetary benefits in exchange for the raw power that fascism affords them. I think it’s foolish to expect to starve them out. They have the advantage, to say the least.
Even if you think there’s such a thing as “a bridge too far” for Supreme Court justices like Alito and Thomas, I don’t. Even if they believed that all Americans wanted impeachment or conviction, they are well past the point of return. They can’t afford to change course now.
The lower court rulings are being partially respected, yes. But the Republican regime is still fighting those battles, which tells you who they are.
And they’re allowing you to witness them “obey” the courts on small matters, so you will hopefully forget how they are completely ignoring the much larger, far more important issues, like the Supreme Court’s ruling that they must “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
I can’t even say the words, “Call or write your Representatives!” without throwing up in my mouth. They know what you want. They know what you need. The ones who would help you if they could cannot. The ones who could help you will not. Don’t be ridiculous.
What Then?
Back to Occam’s Razor, I have pondered this and pondered it, until I can’t ponder how I might ponder any more. For the life of me, I cannot see any way in which the American people escape this situation without a revolution. Not an economic boycott or strike, not another protest, not anything of the sort. An actual, old school revolution, just like the Founding Fathers.
Maybe you can see something that I don’t see. Let me know what I am missing here. Speak slowly and use small words.
Put yourself in this hypothetical situation. Say your young child was walking down the street, and a pedophile tried to abduct them.
If a full-grown adult were standing there when it happened, would you accept anything less than their one hundred percent effort to stop the abduction?
I doubt it.
I’m willing to bet that if you saw the video played back and saw that adult beat the hell out of that would-be attacker, you would shower the defender with loving, thank-you praise and probably offers of money, food, friendship, etc.
You would tell the story of that brave defender for the rest of your life.
But if the video showed you that this person merely stood by and shouted at the abductor, I’m willing to bet that you would be furious.
You might even go so far as to physically attack that person yourself, screaming at them, “Why didn’t you do more to stop them?!”
Well, guess what.
This fascist regime IS abducting people off the streets of America, and you and I are merely standing by and watching, and consoling ourselves that we are doing enough… because we rage-posted about it online.
But I am asking you right now, in the name of whatever you might believe in, why are you not doing more to stop it?
Whether you believe in some deity, the Constitution, your country, basic decency, or just the love of your family, why are you not throwing yourself physically between the innocent and their attackers?
I say to you, no, you have not done enough. You have not done nearly enough. You have not even begun to think about doing enough.
Until you are willing to fight tooth and nail to defend your neighbors, you forfeit the right to complain about anything that this regime has taken from you.
You’re not doing enough until you are willing to show the fierceness of a mother bear defending her cubs.
You must be willing to extend a mother bear’s fierceness beyond your cubs and extend that circle of protection to your neighbor’s cubs.
It does not matter that your neighbor is an immigrant. It does not matter that you do not even know your neighbor’s name.
If you would call yourself an American, then you will get off of your delicate little ass and throw yourself in between that immigrant or his wife or his child and their would-be abductors.
You will not allow yourself the opportunity to hesitate and tell yourself, “Oh, but I could go to prison! I could get hurt or even killed!”
You will not coddle yourself with selfish thoughts such as, “But then who would take care of my children?”
We are either a tribe or we are a random bunch of strangers.
If you will not defend your neighbor or your neighbor’s family, then you forfeit the right to complain when others will not defend you or yours.
To hell with all your rage-posting. Screw your phone calls, emails, and letters to corrupt politicians who already know good and goddamn well what you want and need.
I don’t care how many protests you marched in. If you are not willing to risk life and limb, then I spit on your protest sign.
Fuck your stupid boycotts, unless you are willing to boycott AND throw yourself in harm’s way to defend another American from Nazis.
If you’re willing to do both, then we can be friends.
Kevin Trent Boswell 