It is a waking nightmare,
This modern world
Obsessed with self,
All greed and lust
A dream, inescapable,
The curse was hurled;
A black flower bloomed,
Unwise, unjust
©2025 Kevin Trent Boswell
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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.
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.
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.
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-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 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.
The next one was made well before Biden dropped out of the race, but the speculations are still relevant.
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 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.
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?
Hay Day
I tasted your harvest
Held you in the fall
I heard the strange changes
Saw no one at all
The tea leaves aren’t telling
The wax drips no words
The chords are atonal;
They’re not stacked in thirds
Hey, hey, hey
Play in the hay day
Swallow the bruises
The pain goes away
Hey, hey, hey
Today is a school day;
Just as tomorrow,
And every other day, too
Wheels will slow down,
And hammers go fall
The chains all fall off
There’s no reason to call
A mouth slams shut
For lack of a solver
Birdcage flies open
A willful revolver
Hey, hey, hey
Make rain on a sun day
All the swallows got bruises
A rose fades away
Hey, hey, hey
Today is a school day;
Just as tomorrow,
And every other day, too
I screamed at the empty
You clawed at the door
We kindled a fire
And burned out the floor
Pleading with empty
We gnawed a bit more
We ate the inferno
Lost sight of the score
There’s always more learning
What was already known
Lessons learned again
Are again to be shown
©2025 Kevin Trent Boswell
Little Despot
Empty-headed blood scepter
Rails on about rights and privileges
But the angel-faced baboon
Will have none of it
Garrison bone hides
Rancid jowls in its ivory jar
Circus clown juggler
Tilts at the mills of wind,
Falls of water, and the
Endless static screen
Burn all that useless crap
In the trash barrel
Out back
Reach in the candy dish
And pull out a fresh squid
This tiny line of chalk
Guides the anchor to its resting place
Cranial trauma
This, too, shall never pass
But the not-subsiding
Should subside
Within a few thousand years or so
Your head only hurts because
We’ve removed it;
Imminent domain
The lumpy piece of flesh
That used to be inside of it
Is now an air freshener
Hanging from the rear view mirror
In the Devil’s Cadillac
He says it reminds him of home
One last thing,
Please sign here:
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©2025 Kevin Trent Boswell
encroaching
that taste
will not always
haunt the lips
or will it?
it is certain that
other hungers
will swarm the palate
and strangle
the familiar flavor
or is it?
the trail is littered
with the swollen corpses
of fabled monsters
and brittle heroes
the valley is cursed
and the sky is burnt
hedgerows of thorn bushes
quietly weep blood
in the shadows
they sing mournful songs
of blistered eyes,
salted fields full of silk roses,
wolfsbane and hellebore,
the broken teeth of clockwork dolls,
and a thousand crushed hearts
of little bluebirds
overflowing from the
mortar and pestle
beckoning mirage,
a courtyard fountain
that sprays only gossip,
a wishing well
of screaming sad sirens,
hungry to drown
all careless passersby
my history’s pages
are all made of dust
the cap is of old tile,
the gown is a shroud,
and the tassels are all
desiccated worms
guts of tapioca
and bones of papier-mâché
any junior scout
with a compass and a crayon
could’ve easily mapped out
my imminent demise
it would have
saved a great deal
of yet more useless time
had I set my fool’s course
directly for the rocks,
instead taking such
a circuitous route
surely, this was
how I stumbled;
once, at least
craving the honorifics
of a conqueror,
a king
chasing wispy legends,
a haunted city of gold
that lay in the heart
of an untamed jungle
on a remote little island
only rumored to exist
a gnarled patch of land
that only surged up
from deep ocean trenches
in the craven imaginings
of a syphilitic madman
a derelict scoundrel
who scrawled dark heresies
onto pages of black dust
in an ink made from octopus,
the dried blood of
slaughtered griffins,
slain wyverns,
and fallen angels
an El Dorado of oblivion,
always just over the horizon
swelling in the overheated
cranium of a lunatic
drunk on malaria
and a dry, bitter wine
made from red poison berries
any wobbly toddler
could have rightfully discerned
that it was only a cruel game of
peek-a-boo and goodbye
the face keeps disappearing,
disappointing, disapproving,
and daily disavowing
and never allowing
deeper mysteries
to be known
any toy soldier could have
made short work
of my defenses
the walls of my fortress
were destined to fail
and crumble
and be swallowed up
by the ruthless, ever-empty,
ceaseless cravings
of jaws that lust
for everything
and nothing
any busted clock
could have
told the tale
of how I was
out of time
before I ever
began
of how I would,
without doubt,
be swept from the decks
of the good ship of memory,
into the raging sea
it has always been a given,
that I would be erased
from the blackboard of thought,
and cast out of
the picture
it was always
understood,
a given,
a known
or was it?
©2025 Kevin Trent Boswell
Kevin Trent Boswell 