A Song
Of Commoners and Kings
Donald John Trump came to high office in 2017 as a failed business man shunned by the powerful and influential persons in his hometown of New York City. He rode to political success as the star of a television series that portrayed him as a tough and successful entrepreneur. He was elected even though, or perhaps because of, his destain for rules of law and custom that would hamper his whims and objectives. Even his blatant boasting as an unapologetic serial abuser of women was acceptable to a majority of the voters.
He was impeached by the House of Representatives three times during his first term in office. He denied then fumbled a response to COVID-19. He refused to accept the results of the 2020 election and left office in disgrace and dishonor.
During the next four years he was tried in open state and federal courts for criminal acts and misdemeanor conduct before, during, and after his first term in office. He cast himself as a victim of partisan politics and a weaponized justice system. He sued the United States for immunity from his bad acts. The corrupt and partisan high court granted him protections never contemplated in the constitution or previous holdings on the issue in law.
He ran for a second term in high office. A plurality of the voters awarded him a way to escape punishment for previous misconduct. He left office as a disgraced commoner. He returned to office an angry king promising to smite his enemies with a Time of Terror and a Tour of Revenge.
His hand never touched the bible when he took his second oath of office in 2025.
A Plague Upon the Land
Donald John Trump is a very dangerous loser. He has a mob boss mentality.
His standard mode of operation allows him to exercise authority while escaping accountability for the immoral, illegal, and indefensible consequences of his self-serving corruption and cruelty.
Sneaky R Him
The Mad King delegates his will with a wink and a nod. He uses plausible deniability to escape punishment for his criminal acts and misdemeanor conduct.
The shell game Trump 2.0 is playing with immigrants is a good example of his aggressively egregious nature. His administration performed a purposeful end run around an order to return some 200 detainees aboard three military jets to American soil for proper deportation proceedings. Resistance 2.0 probed for the facts of the matter and published the sordid details of the administration’s determination to make a political point regardless of law, custom, or international agreements. The administration now is defying the Supreme Court to enforce compliance with orders that do not align with the will of the Mad King.
Letters, Loopholes, and First Impression Emergencies
The law has a spirit intended in the letters describing it. The Project 2025 playbook mocks the spirit of the law. Attorneys representing Trump 2.0 in lower court appearances depend upon MAGA rhetoric to grease their arguments through whatever loophole the law as written may allow.
The name of the game is Appeal to the Supremes.
Both sides take advantage of the opportunity to complain about an adverse ruling at the next level of judicial review, opinion, and action.
The blizzard of questionable executive orders and their hasty, ham-handed implementation makes every pleading of damage to named targets of opportunity a true emergency. The Department of Trump Justice fashions cases of first impression from every avaiable loophole and drives adverse rulings through the appeal process as questions of executive privilege under conditions which suspend due process or immediate congressional oversight. Irritated by successful resistance to his lawless implementation of the Project 2025 playbook, Donnie the Devious now proposes to suspend the writ of habeas corpus. This threat is just another talking point until and unless the Mad King uses force of arms to implement it.
High Court Hypocrisy
This war of words would be bothersome when not boring if human lives were not being damaged or lost while the judicial kabuki theatre act drones toward the beckoning arms of the corrupt and partisan Roberts Court
The Trump adminstration is flooding the high court with requests for dismissal of numerous adverse lower court rulings. The court is using its shadow docket to accept emergency appeals related to disputed constitutional issues. It has issued tortured arguments that disarm, deny, delay, or dilute lower court rulings favoring the plaintiffs pleading damage due to illegal executive orders and actions.
The court’s avoidance of its proper role in containing the monster its previous rulings have created likely must crumble under the weight and force of incoming objections to Trump 2.0.
1. In recent court decisions involving Venezuelan immigration issues, U.S. District Judge Edward Chen in San Francisco temporarily paused the Trump administration's plan to end temporary legal protections for Venezuelans. Judge Chen's order, issued on March 31, 2025, temporarily reinstated Venezuela's 2023 Temporary Protected Status (TPS) designation, and extended the 18-month extension for the 2021 and 2023 TPS designations. This order, in the case National TPS Alliance v. Noem, is pending further litigation.
2. Additionally, U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez, Jr., also a Trump appointee, on 01 May 25 blocked the use of the Alien Enemies Act for Venezuelans in South Texas, ruling that the administration lacked the authority to use this wartime law for deportation purposes.
3. While not directly involved in the recent Venezuelan immigration cases, other federal judges like Judge Boasberg have also been involved in disputes related to immigration and the Trump administration's policies, as highlighted in articles about the use of the Alien Enemies Act.
4. On a separate track and directly on point, on 06 May 25, Baltimire U.S. District Judge Stephanie Gallager rejected the government’s request that she amend an earlier order to return Daniel Lozano-Carnargo, a 20-year-old Venezuelan asylum seeker, to U.S. soil. She paused her ruling for 48 hours to allow the government to appeal her ruling to 4th circuit court.
The Chief Justice is going public with condemnation of the Mad King’s suggestion that judges unfavorable to the Trump 2.0 agenda should face impeachment proceedings. His comely outrage is a self-serving and disingenuous misdirection. The executive branch has no authority to impeach a member of the judicial branch. The legislative branch can bring articles of impeachment against justices breaking their oaths of office. John Roberts is premptively defending unfavorable opinions by his court in an attempt to escape inevitable charges of underlying corrupt conduct.
Reaping the Results of Apathy
America allowed The Heritage Foundation, Mitch McConnell, and the Roberts court to create a political monster. The Mad King is one scary piece of business. He is flagrantly corrupt and self-serving. He is a manifestation of every weak, angry, and ugly aspect of our national character
He is openly in contempt of court orders he does not like. And his administration actively attempts to circumvent restrictions on deportations by shell games of what types of carriers (public or private) are used to transport detainees (with or without warning or opportunity to object) overseas to places of known injustice, abuse, and torture.
Harry C writes a blog entitled “How I See It.” His posting of 24 Apr 25 is worth a full reading. Briefly, he starts by noting that Trump 2.0 “is moving on several fronts to change how the US is governed. They have already shown that the Executive has almost total power to structure and manage itself and operate independently …of any Congressional financial or organizational directives.
“They are now in the process of exploiting a fundamental flaw in the Constitution: Congress and the Courts have no enforcers.”
Harry C believes that the administration can defend its actions toward the arrest, detention, deportation, and imprisonment of Kilmar Abrego-Garcia in El Salvador. Unless 1021 and 1022 of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) and 8USC1189/1182 are appealed or found unconstitutional, the 47th president and the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agency may be argued to be operating legally to detain indefinitely any member of a “terrorist” organization without trial, even at out-of-country prisons (looking at you, Guantanamo).
The Department of Trump Justice has not pulled NDAA/8USC rabbit out of its pleadings hat to date. It is consumed with defending the right of a sitting president to declare a national emergency where a threat to national security is perceived. Legal minds posit that Trump 2.0 is using the case to establish the precedent demonstrating that the courts, and by extension Congress, cannot enforce their decisions on an unwilling president.
This type of thinking is misdirection.Congress and the high court already are complicit in the Project 2025 attempt to transition from a democracy to a monarchy. There is no resistance at the highest levels of Article One and Article Three powers.
Resistance is in actions of all of the citizens who are offended by oath breakers. Who refuse to be governed by a tyrant. Who complain timely in the lower courts. Who assemble publicly and protest peacefully. Who boycott Quisling businesses and enterprises.
What is more alarming than the Mad King’s attitude toward immigrants is how readily he can extend those abuses to citizens who oppose his whims and wishes. On 24 May 25 Paul Butler published an article in the Washington Post well worth the effort and time to read in full. Paul highlights select comments made by Donald the Demented in an interview with Fox News on 15 Apr 25. He claimed to be “all in” on the notion of exiling to prisons overseas citizens found guilty of commiting a violent crime. This was his secure and cost-effective way to deal with America’s “huge prison population.” He “would love to do it.” Just how citizens would be accused and tried did not enter the discussion. One does not feel completely comfortable in assuming that the process of habeas corpus and applicable protections under the constitution, its amendments, and applicable law would apply.
Anthem
Hats off to those who are planning, supporting, and attending visible signs of a growing resistance to Trump 2.0. And all honor and glory to the educational institutions, lower court justices, politicians, lawyers, journalists, and media spokespersons defying implementation of the illegal aspects of the Project 2025 playbook.
And praise all gods great and small for the reporters and editors at The Washington Post for trailing the smoke back to the trigger finger on the hot Trump 2.0 gun.
The early strengthening of Resistance 2.0 is a precious and fragile early spring flower. It needs constant care and close attention to survive and thrive. Do not let the 04 May 25 Washington Post reporting disappear.
These are interesting times. Articles of impeachment against Trump and Thomas are active or promised. These accusations need favorable 2026 midterm results to have any hope for life.
We the People await the next exciting chapter in the Clash of the Titans (between the imperial executive and his corrupt high court). Will the 7-2 margin of sanity and sound jurisprudence hold? Will Thomas and Alito be allowed to continue to participate? Stand by time on these questions likely will be brief.
It is important to remember that Donald John Trump believes “only the weak will fail.”
Let us continue to be faithful, strategic, and strong in our resistance to the fact and effects of his Reign of Terror and Tour of Revenge.
Let us continue to pull up our socks and step into the breach now, every Power of One person dissatisfied with the results and consequences of Election 2024.
Let us continue to put into play our persons and our purses every day in every peaceful way everywhere all at once to demand:
A return to positions of principle those persons, institutions, and organizations betraying a public trust in their integrity when bending a knee, kissing the ring, funding the personal wealth, or furthering the ambitions of Donald John Trump.
The bringing of criminal charges against Musk and articles of impeachment against Trump.
Resumption of support of Ukraine, NATO, WHO, IMF and related international organizations and accords dedicated to the proposition of global peace, health, and prosperity.
The bringing of articles of impeachment against corrupt justices now contaminating the opinions of the high court.
Referendum and recall of congressional representatives not faithful to their oath of office and/or unresponsive to the concerns and wishes of their constituents.
Creation of a Shadow Cabinet charged with daily briefings of administrative assaults upon the rule of law, the health, safety, and welfare of We the People, and simple decency.
Course correction on the conduct of matters related to national security.
I truly believe that right is might.
Resist. Persist. Prevail.
In a world where “only the weak will fail,” let us continue to be strong.
We cannot, we will not, fail.
Go, team, go.
Do you ever fantasize that F47 will come face-to-face with accountability? I do. Those fantasies keep me going as the realities stretch on and on and on and on…
Resist, persist, prevail!
A rallying cry and good reason for it. Thank you Susan.