You’re Already at War

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.

The tangerine palpatine was trained by Roy Cohn, one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever walk the streets of New York, and that’s saying something.

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 indeed want 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.
  • Get my book Basic Survival Prepping by Kevin Trent Boswell.
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(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.

dead, bloated cow

and that sickly, ugly war
raged through the streets,
unhinged and unhappy,
all too costly and unaware
of the damage it deals

it blisters the skin and boils the blood,
ripping down foundations,
blasting apart buildings,
making vehicles cease to exist,
filling the air with a foul stench
of fear and anger

its reward? only carnage
and arrogant blustering,
nothing of validity or consequence;
nothing positive or loving or logical

only the bellowing roar of endless warring

a hotdog cart burning in the road,
and fat, half-dead cow by the river,
making horrible noises of pain,
as it hopelessly calls out for attention

and to think, how everything
could have been peaceful, happy, and quiet

but some will always find it absolutely
unacceptable to have anything other than
their way


©2025 Kevin Trent Boswell 

Good Luck, Liberal

Liberals need to get a grip on the facts
Democracy has come right off the tracks
Get it through your Progressive head
This doesn’t end without bloodshed

The Epstein list, it just doesn’t matter
Scandals don’t cause tyrants to scatter
The “schism” should cause you no elation
But you’re not ready for that conversation

Maybe you’ll get lucky; I don’t know
Like the British, saying, “You guys can go”
King George set us free just to be nice
And we didn’t even have to ask twice

Or how Southern States just up and quit,
No need for the Union to do actual shit
Confederacy said, “Hey, let’s not fight”
“We’re sorry. We want to make it right”

When that guy with the funny mustache
Apologized for being grumpy and rash
He regretted invading Poland and France,
Gave it right back when he had a chance

But good luck with the nonviolent protest
If boycotts and letters are your very best
You should persuade them any day now
Although, in truth, I don’t know how

Those authoritarian fashy-types,
Don’t yield power over grumbles or gripes
To beat fascism without ending up dead
Get over yourself, and embrace bloodshed


©2025 Kevin Trent Boswell 

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.

soldier

stiff upper lip,
thick-skinned baller,
rolling with the punches,
and all that other
factitious bullshit

the bliss of liar’s cup
is but a cup of blissful lies

dreams of
copious other things,
receding like melting wax,
into the past
fading away,
leaving behind the sweet perfume
of burning plastic and ammonia

hairlines

fissures in consciousness,
blessings of intermittent sleep

control panel fuses
all crisp, and awry of order

all correspondence
resides now in dwellings
other than original
intentions

settle for
smaller and smaller
portions,
pieces

easter egg fractals
of memory

“didn’t there used to be
something that went right here?
didn’t something or someone
occupy this space?”

now, quiet dogs
bed down in the
cold, wet trenches

stale toast and seagull meat
empty ammo box for one
in the center of the house

unseen earthworms,
misunderstood by
all the happy eagles
and fish

whole continents fall,
and yet, not an inch
of ground is gained

roll off the edge of the map,
and onto the floor,
to lie in the dust,
with all the broken grease pencils,
and first draft plans of attack,
torn angrily into ribbons,
and bursting into flame

siphon off
the last sour dregs
of wedding wine

no guest sits at the table
to taste it

it is useful now,
only as vinegar
for cleaning the stains
left behind
by revelers
who dwell in the
realm of the living

wines and cakes
are wasted
on the forgotten dead

celebration farce,
ersatz holy words
of hollow power

the gut pinches up
and knots
at the thought
of each new
sunrise


©2023 Kevin Trent Boswell

Most

Most stories don’t have happy endings
The brutal truth is that most do not
For each hero who makes it home,
In unknown ditches, a hundred more rot

For every song about some brave champion,
There are endless graves without any bones
For there was no body which they could bury
Only lost names engraved on stones

We must admit if we’re honest about it,
Eventually, Death claims them all
Those who we celebrate after a battle
And those who on the battlefield fall

Those who seem to be safe back at home
Are also short candles in a night so late
None escape the long-armed grasp,
Of those pitiless stranglers, time and fate


©2022 Kevin Trent Boswell


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