fascism – Kevin Trent Boswell

An Imminent but Winnable War

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.

This is not hyperbole. You have Keith Self, a Texas Congressman quoting Joseph Goebbels on the floor of the House.

You have Elon Musk giving not one but two Nazi salutes at the inauguration.

You have the president of the United States posting the Nazi pink triangle (used to distinguish LGBTQ people in the ghettos) on Truth Social.

And yes, it was fact-checked.

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?

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?

Why haven’t you rebelled?!

The Founding Fathers didn’t have one-tenth 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-fourth of the reasons to revolt that you do.

The Founders waged the Revolutionary War for reasons such as:

The Stamp Act
The Sugar Act
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.

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?

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

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.

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 the traitors in Congress may suddenly grow a conscience and a 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.

Sincerely,

Kevin Trent Boswell

(aka John Muthafuckin Hancock)

Portland, OR

May 9th, 2025

Republicans Mean to Kill You

I will be the unpopular voice in the room. We’re dealing with psychopaths who will NEVER respect anyone else, listen to reason, or consider logic that doesn’t work in their favor.

“Violence” is what perpetrators do. It’s why we have police and military, to protect us against violent people.

“Force,” even deadly force, is what we use to stop violence against ourselves, our families, neighbors, and our country.

What happens when the people at the highest levels of government are themselves violent, selfish, and sociopathic?

When the politicians who are supposed to represent you have no respect for human rights, the Constitution, due process, habeas corpus, or the law of the land?

What then?

Do we roll over and refuse to protect ourselves? Do we refuse to defend our neighbors, families, children, livelihoods, freedoms, or nation?

Do we erroneously cling to our failure to distinguish between force and violence?

We are like children who, having never seen a chicken killed and plucked, sit at the table and eat, calling it delicious.

But upon witnessing the act of killing the bird, we recoil in horror, chastising the one who did the deed, calling them a brute.

But when they stop, and there is no fresh fried chicken on the table for our supper, we moan and complain.

The people of Ukraine, civilians, immediately began training in military tactics when they learned that Russia was preparing to invade.

The United States of America is a nation born of rebellion. It was not a “violent” revolution, but a courageous act of self-defense.

The Founders knew King George was a tyrant and cared nothing for their welfare. They knew that no one would come along and save them.

They knew that if they did not stand for themselves, no one would stand for them, and they would be ground beneath the boot heel of tyranny.

The courts are buying you some time. However, that’s the extent of their power. The time they are buying you is time you are wasting.

The reason the regime is not making more fuss about the “losses” in court is simple:

They have already won the biggest court battle, but they did so without technically winning.

They know they don’t have to return anyone from El Salvador because no one will make them do it.

They don’t have to stop abducting people off the streets, even full citizens, because no one is going to force them to stop.

You are dealing with sociopaths. They are the equivalent of serial killers in three-piece suits.
They only speak the language of violence.

They only respond to the language of force.
Continuing to state your case verbally is ridiculous. They already know they’re wrong; they DON’T CARE.

We already know they are wrong; we don’t need to hear it seven hundred sixty-three times.

The only people who can save the American people are the American people.

If you need a model, use the neighborhood watch of Lincoln Heights, OH. They understood the assignment.

They are the Black community, and they have never been able to naively expect that someone in uniform, or an expensive suit, would come along and protect them.

Like the people of Ukraine, they knew they must stand for themselves.

Despite being the “more educated” party, Liberals, Democrats, and Progressives seem to be woefully ignorant of history.

Our present moment is NOT parallel to the Civil Rights movement.

The beautiful strategies of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi are impractical in this current state of American affairs.

The opposite of the Civil Rights movement was merely preserving the status quo.

It wasn’t about the total subjugation of every single American citizen who is not already a billionaire.

Therefore, it is not accurate or wise to assume that “non-violent” forms of protest will protect the people of this country from a violent dictator.

We have already witnessed them snatching people off the streets and sending them to foreign prisons, where standards are well outside the acceptable standards of the Geneva Conventions.

Then, we witnessed two dictators sit in the Oval Office and laugh at all of us. They cracked jokes about “homegrown criminals.”

Each of them smirking as they said, “I can’t do anything about it. Can you?” And the other responds, “Who, me? No. I don’t have the power to do that!”

They’re mocking you because you allow them to.

They’re the schoolyard bullies who never learn. That is, they don’t learn until some new kid they pick on turns out to be tougher than they are, and unwilling to put up with them.

When that new kid thoroughly whips their punk asses, they slink back under the rocks they crawled out from beneath.

But they will not retreat one single moment sooner than that. Bullies must always be physically put in their place.

The only exception is when a strong disciplinarian teacher or principal steps in and ends the conflict.

But our Congress, Supreme Court, State governors, and most of our mayors have proven that they are not up to the job.

We need wartime leadership, leaders who are willing to take bold steps, such as calling out the National Guard to deter ICE, instructing State Police to protect every citizen and legal immigrant, or face termination.

Steps are needed such as governors and mayors allowing and encouraging citizens to organize neighborhood watch groups like the one in Lincoln Heights, Ohio.⠀

Local officials should not only be encouraging this, they should be funding it and overseeing training, by bringing in former military personnel and law enforcement experts.

Such experts can teach citizens how to be safe and proficient with firearms, and how to de-escalate conflicts when possible.

But they can also teach them how to use force when necessary, using the least drastic measures necessary.

I consider it absolutely essential that we be greatly expanding access to trauma first aid courses, such as TECC. That’s Tactical Emergency Casualty Care.

If citizens don’t end up shooting someone who they view as a kidnapper, then certainly we still run the risk that one of these fake, cosplay ICE agents ends up seriously harming someone through their complete lack of training, experience, or integrity.

There should be at least one person on every city block who is certified in trauma medicine, or at least familiar with it.

The alternative is not pretty, citizenry, full of pure, unbridled rage, rising up in small, unofficial vigilante groups and causing chaos and destruction.

It’s only a matter of time before this occurs. Setting up a series of dominoes in a line and tipping the first one denotes a predictable outcome, not a wildly speculative slippery slope fallacy. Seeing how such events will soon begin to take shape is merely common sense.

Local governments could easily take genuinely effective action by channeling the rage of the people into effective safe training of local militias, instilling in them the sense of duty that would constrain them against making rash decisions.

But someone must stand. The courts are doing their best, but they have no real teeth.

However, Democrats will likely not take the initiative and do these things. I expect no such bravery from any of them.

So, I beseech each and every person who stands against this tyrannical fascist regime to do it themselves.

Be safe. Be responsible. But be fearless and be determined.

Responsible citizenship behooves us to be proactive and protect our neighbors, our communities, and our freedoms.

The sycophants in Congress are loving their new levels of power, as well as the occasional extreme profits of the president’s insider trading schemes. They will not budge from their shyster positions of extreme privilege.

Nothing about this regime’s actions over the last hundred days says “respect for democracy and democratic freedoms.”

To believe that they will take away your due process and rob you of your right of habeas corpus, but that they will allow you to have free and fair elections is the height of naïveté.

To think that they will illegally pitch autos on the White House lawn, but will not rig elections is dumb.

You are watching them offer influence over US government decisions to foreign nationals through contributions to an illegal bitcoin account. To think they are not planning to jail anyone who speaks out is just plain stupid.

They’re already in the process of rigging future elections, so they will appear to have integrity on the surface, but will have nothing underneath.

If you cannot bring yourself to believe this, then either you are gullible, or the president truly is 6’ 3” tall.

The military is bound by oath not to interfere in civilian politics, even when the politicians are trampling on the Constitution.

Unless the military forgets their oath, unless they fire on the people or unlawfully arrest them, then they are the only blameless party in all of this, so far.

Every train of thought leads

Until you stand for yourself, America, your situation will deteriorate daily.

I repeat, why would they take away your rights of due process and habeas corpus, unless they intend to subject you to terrible things?

A Mother Bear and Her Cubs

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.

Get some skin in the game.

Easy Answers

There’s a video going around about how right-wing media is successful because they offer people easy answers.

I have no problem with the video or what the people in it are saying. I think they’re correct.

You know what else is an easy answer? The easiest answer of all is the one that we so desperately want and need to hear:

“Peaceful Resistance is the way!”

Peaceful Resistance Is Surrender

It’s easy because it involves very little effort. It’s simple things like boycotting specific companies, calling (corrupt) politicians, attending marches, or organizing a national strike that will be a drop in the profit bucket for oligarchs who already have more money than God.

Peaceful resistance is easy because it requires no changes in our typical, day-to-day thinking of “Be kind.” And the “Be kind” way is how I strive to live, too.

But when someone is literally kidnapping your neighbors and sending innocent people to the most horrible prison on earth (that we know of), is saying, “We need to remain peaceful!” really still the kindest thing to do?

Really?

Does that help any of the families who have had their loved ones abducted? If your friends or family members had been stolen, would you want to hear about more peaceful protests?

Or would you want to see someone gearing up like goddamn Delta Force, armed to the teeth, ready to go get them back at any cost?

Unless you genuinely placed your real-life loved ones into that hypothetical scenario, and then really thought it through, you won’t answer the question honestly.

Change of Venue

But that would require letting go of some of our preconceived notions about how the world works. It would require considering the possibility that perhaps our democracy has already fallen, and now, the only hope is to steal it back and restore it.

But these are not easy answers.

I assert that it is foolish to believe that a regime like the Republican Party is willing to allow us to have free and fair elections in the future.

Seriously?!

Do you really think that the same people who are arresting judges and mayors are somehow above rigging elections?

You think the same sociopaths who laugh about putting innocent people into the worst prison on the planet are simply too democratic to even consider tampering with your right to vote?

You think the psycho who sits in the Oval Office, mocking heroes like Zelenskyy, and chuckling at sick jokes with a tyrant like Nayib Bukele, that turd, is going to respect your voting rights?

The one who repeated the Big Lie, over and over, a la Joseph Goebbels and Adolf Hitler… that one?

The one that incited the January 6th riot, and was refusing to leave the White House. That turd?

It Can’t Happen Here

People will say, “That’s ridiculous! Our democracy cannot fail!”

But consider what was recently said by one of the Yale professors who just permanently left the US because of her fears about the rise of fascism here.

She said (paraphrasing) that:

Everyone is saying, ‘Let’s just step back and take a breath. We have guardrails to protect us against these things.’

But we’re like people on the Titanic, insisting that our ship cannot possibly sink. But there’s no such thing as an unsinkable ship.

What Actually Works

Physical force is not only sometimes necessary, it’s FREQUENTLY necessary.

It’s the whole reason we have an Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and National Guard, plus a police force, FBI, CIA, DOD, CSS, DHS, SWAT, NSA, and all the other agencies.

If a person is interested in Successful Resistance, they will look over this diagram and decide where they fit into it.

They will save the image, begin studying something that we, everyday civilized civilians normally pay no attention to, the Art of War.

Because the enemy has already captured the capital, and they have no intention of stopping until they have ground you and I into the dirt.

“But It Doesn’t Make Sense!”

You tell yourself, “But this cannot be! They can’t possibly be that cruel, selfish, and willing to cheat!”

And you believe this precisely because you are a decent person.

But you will always be at the mercy of terrible people until you acknowledge the existence of terrible people.

You must do more than simply admit that they exist. You must admit to yourself that they are everywhere, even right here in the good old USA.

You must accept the harsh reality that they are willing to harm, threaten, imprison, and even kill you in order to get what they want.

Know Thy Enemy

And unless you’re willing to take the gloves off and get your hands dirty, unless you’re willing to spill blood in the defense of your family, community, your nation, your freedoms, and common decency, they WILL prevail.

They are already in the big chair in Washington.

You have to change your entire mindset. If you would defeat evil, then you must learn how evil operates.

And not every example of “fight fire with fire” is an oxymoron, nonsense argument.

Physical force is frequently the ONLY THING that will stop a violent person from harming others.

And physical force is sometimes DEADLY.

Again… But Why?!

Why would they do this?

Because they are hateful and greedy.

And THAT, my friend, is the ONLY easy answer that you’ll get about any of this mess.

Making memes has become a real problem for me. If I survive this fascist regime, I will need to seek help.

It Is Time

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.

Secede.

Do it NOW.

Sincerely,

Kevin Trent Boswell

Age of the Joker

“See, their morals, their code… it’s a bad joke. Dropped at the first sign of trouble. They’re only as good as the world allows them to be. I’ll show you, when the chips are down, these… these civilized people? They’ll eat each other. See, I’m not a monster, I’m just ahead of the curve.”
—The Joker, from the film, The Dark Knight

The school went on lockdown today

A report came in about an armed student
Roaming the campus

Students were immediately instructed
To go to their dorms, and stay put

After some five or ten, agonizing minutes,
The determination was made,
It was only a hoax

This is an old gag
Kids get bored,
Call in a bomb threat
Just for giggles
Or, to get out of a test

Maybe, it’s to cover their tardiness,
When, one more late-show
Would have caused them to
Fail a particular class

But, these days,
On the national level,
There are more mass shootings
Than there are
Days in the year

Who’s to know
When to be truly concerned?
Or, when to be
Merely annoyed?

The young girl on the news said
The thing that bothered her most
Was how no one talked about it,
After the all-clear signal was given;
She said it went on like a normal day,
As if nothing had happened

She said it was as if
Everything was fine,
When really, underneath,
Everyone knew that
Nothing about it was normal,
Much less, fine

The teachers didn’t address the issue
The students didn’t speak
To each other about it, either

One has to wonder,
How many false alarms can occur,
Before the security guards begin
Dropping their guard?
How many, before they stop
Taking the threats seriously?

What happens, when
The real thing goes down,
And they don’t stop it, because
They got sloppy,
Because of too many
False alarms?

This was one of several such incidents
That took place on multiple campuses,
All on this one, particular day

But, at the heart of it all,
This was not one incident,
Nor was it two, or even five

This, is the new normal
The regular, daily pattern of
Life in the United States,
The common thread
In the tapestry of America

This is the age of the Joker

Every card is wild

It’s not always an active shooter
It’s not always a bomb threat
It’s not even always about
An event at a school

It’s sometimes a threat of
Imminent war against other countries

It’s the news weather forecast
It’s the stories of tornado victims,
The death tolls of flash floods,
Hurricanes, landslides, heatstroke

It’s the rumors, dog whistles, and
Outright cries for civil war in America

It’s the empty shelves at the grocery store

It’s the ongoing, never-ending
Supply chain problems

It’s requisite new vocabulary,
Terms like “doomerism,”
And the dusting off of classic, 70s hits, like
“Collapse,” and, The Limits to Growth

It’s the shortages of needed medications

It’s learning the heart-wrenching truth about
The children of Somalia,⠀
And many other nations like it

It’s the mounting lies that
Erode faith in the system
It’s the creeping groan of fascism,
Sinking its fangs into
The Statue of Liberty’s jugular,
Insisting that she report her periods
To the school nurse

That she burn all those lurid copies of
And Tango Makes Three,
The Bluest Eye, and
Out of Darkness

Slapping the “woke” beer out of her hand,
Making her spit out that “woke” chocolate candy

Making her subject to laws that
Relegate her to the status of cattle,
Demanding that she inform on her friends,
Should they seek to cross state lines
For any health care that involves
Their naughty parts

Insisting that she never speak the
Dreaded crimson words,
Words telling of the flowing of blood,
From the sacred place that
Spawned each of us,
Even those who, now,
Refuse to speak of the cycle of life
That is responsible for their
Entire existence

She is soon to be muzzled,
Disallowed from speaking anything
Beyond, a pained statement of duress…
“Yes, I am happy to bear your seed.”

She will wear a red burka,
Shaped like a baseball cap,
Peppersprayed with meaningless words,
About a mythical nation that ever existed,
One built on the backs of slaves,
Slaves who she must never mention
To her children

Ruby is only a gem, and a color,
Bridges are but things we drive over,
In our carbon-spitting SUVs

Parks is not a name,
It is a noun, describing a place where
People go to enjoy nature;
Good, upstanding white folk,
Standing on the skulls of
Nameless hordes of ghosts

These ghosts whisper foul incantations,
“We are here, too! We have names!”

They seek to possess good, caucasian children,
Swaying them into the unacceptable madness
Of admitting various lunacies, such as,
“Yes, these are human beings. They have proud names, rich heritages, and incredible stories of
Overcoming adversity.”

Insisting that the children
Not be allowed to become
The fodder of the Devil’s history,
Declaring, as if it were true,
“These were the Sioux, the Wichita, the Apache,
The Chinese, Pakistani, the Mexican,
The African, the transgender, and
The women, who monthly bleed,
As God saw fit for them to bleed.”

Surely, all will fall into ruin and chaos,
Were the children to speak about
Such horrors as boys, kissing other boys,
Or, girls, kissing other girls

These are not things good folks discuss
At the dinner table, or in places of learning
No, these are things that must never
See the light of day

After all, the clergy, and the Congressmen,
They had the common decency
To perform their fellatios on each other,
And on the young children,
Under the cover of darkness

“Why can’t these godless teachers
Shut their fucking mouths?!
Sorry, I cursed… forgive me, Jesus
I just become so incredibly angry,
When people have the unmitigated gall
To tell our children that
A huge, astonishing, astounding percentage
Of the world’s population
Thinks and behaves
Differently than us”

Oh, the unruly, unkempt insanity
Of spilling the beans about our actual,
True history, soaked as it is,
In the blood of slaves, migrants,
And silently suffering “others,”
Who we would not abide
Who we would not allow
To follow their natures,
However discreetly they sought to do so

“Isn’t it clear? Don’t they see it?
Don’t they see how immigrants
Are coming to invade us?
How these foreigners want to
Take over this proud land that was
Inhabited only by pure, white blood,
For thousands of years?”

This is the golden age of the false narrative,
Wiggling in “lies” about Murika being built
By “people” from Ireland, Scotland, France,
Africa, Spain, and even many other
Godless lands

“They want our children to believe that
We enslaved an entire race of coloreds
I mean, obviously, we did, but…
What the hell else were we going to do?
That cotton and tobacco wasn’t going to
Pick itself

“They want to murder
The memory of our heroes,
Our General Custer’s, and
Our great General John Wayne
Replace them, with lies about us
Slaughtering innocents, and taking their lands
I mean, obviously, we did do that, but…
What kind of monsters want
The children to know
The truth of it?!”

They have enough to worry about,
Trying to sort out who is the real President,
Whether or not our elections are rigged;
The same election process that put
The other guy in the big chair, last time

Trying to decide if the man
Walking toward them will offer help,
Or rape, or murder

We can’t protect our children from
Being shot at school, or from
Getting high-powered weapons,
And irreparably harming others,

Instead, we focus on preventing them from
Getting a hold of far more dangerous items,
Like condoms, and birth control pills

We rabidly foam on about the
Tyranny of ideas, and events
That are common knowledge

Mandatory background checks,
For anyone who is trying to buy
A semiautomatic weapon?
Unacceptable

Clearly, anyone sensible enough to know
That they need the protection of an AR-15
Is sensible enough to keep their names
Off government lists!

It’s really quite simple…
Childhood pregnancy? good
Females bleeding? not good

Books, scary
Bibles, awesomeness

Ar-15s, yes
Disney, a total mess

Migrants (or women) crossing borders? No
Barbara’s Bleeding Logbook? God bless

The collapsing climate?
Must suppress.

Tax cuts for billionaires, they do impress

Lose an election? Just don’t confess
More than two genders?
We must redress.

The economy, must never recess
Historical facts… “His story,” nonetheless

See? I told you it was simple.
Try to keep up, stupid.

But, anyway,
The school went on lockdown today

But, it was only a prank

So, everything is
Just fine

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