After “So What”
And “Who Cares”
Donald John Trump is a dangerous jerk.
He will not hesitate to toss his hand grenade of repression into the middle of a picnic of resistance.
During his interregnum, various persons, institutions, standards, and processes pursued and prosecuted him for criminal acts and misdemeanor conduct before, during, and after his first term in high office. He was humiliated in public view by fact of standard law enforcement processing of a private citizen accused of wrongdoing. This treatment embarrassed and threatened him. He did not like it. It enraged his insecure mind and troubled his vainglorious brand.
In his moments of trial and tribulation, he wailed against his accusers and railed against the rule of law.
He has kept every malignant campaign promise of retribution and revenge against those who offended and embarrassed him. He has broken most constitutional guardrails. He has crowned himself king. He has suspended habeas corpus protections. He has abused the myth and fact of America to his own personal advantage.
Through imprudent, ill-advised, and impulsive international policies, he has forfeited our investment in global peace and national welfare.
He is an unlovely man with a cult following that makes him tough to manage.
Pundits, politicians, and private citizens are alarmed by his Oval Office reality show of 14 Apr 25. The one where he defied even the suggestion of lawful conduct and suggested arrest, detention, and deportation (to a foreign country without due process or any hope of return) of persons “acting badly” according to his standards of obeisance.
What Is the Problem?
The Better Minds seem to want to consider the possibility that Ding Dong Donny has transformed America in form and function as well as degraded its character and reputation in just 100 short days into his second term in high office.
Bollocks.
He is not intrinsically that smart or strong.
He and his toxic brand have been with us for decades. Project 2025 is a playbook for implantation of abuses centuries old.
Anyone who has suffered acne knows that the subsurface impurities eventually make it to the surface and beg for excising.
Today’s “constitutional crisis” came over on the boat. It gained permission in the clever loopholes of our founding documents. It is a noxious phoenix back to challenge failures at Appomattox and the ballot box in Election 2002.
The question is less “how did we get here?’ than “who wants to do what?” about the current situation.
Metastasis
Donald John Trump owns a terrified congress and successfully has compromised our justice system. Project 2025 has co-opted two of the three co-equal branches of our constitutionally-constructed balance of power.
The guy just told the Supreme Court to stuff it where the sun don’t shine.
I say there are not “good people on both sides” of what to do with suspension of all pretense of lawful conduct and good intent.
The past offers precious little reliable guidance on how to deal with Trump 2.0 in an effective manner.
Only one option remains available to those who object to the results and consequences of Election 2024. Withdraw consent to be governed by a criminal who would be king.
Beware the False Flag
Don’t be silly.
It more than probable that Donald John Trump will pursue and prosecute persons participating in public resistance to him.
If MAGA and white supremacists do not voluntarily disrupt peaceful protests. If damage to property and loss of life does not occur spontaneously. Then Trump 2.0 may have to resort to false flag tactics.
The Mad King needs a basis for claiming yet another “emergency.” The one where he must use force to “ensure domestic tranquility.” To move against domestic “bad actors.”
Anthem
It is getting serious, folks. “Someday” arrived yesterday.
Those of We the People who would resist Trump 2.0 need to perform personal risk-reward exercises.
Many of us wish to remember ourselves well.
At what cost to our personal life and liberty? And to fates and fortunes of those associated with us by blood, belief, and/or action?
Bravo to those who have closed their purses against injustice. Hooray for those exposing their persons and their smartphones to capture and consequence. Good for those clearing attics against the awful possibility of harboring fugitives fleeing from what Robert Hubble described on 07 Apr25 as the “disordered mind of a profoundly ignorant man.”
I say—let us hope for the best and plan for the worst.
Let us exercise every freedom and liberty, every right still ours to own and deploy.
Be not paralyzed or faithless.
Rise from shock and despair. Cease the wringing of hands, the holding of heads, and/or the clutching of pearls. Action is the antidote. Resistance is required. Be thoughtful. Be strategic.
Encourage and support inquiries by state attorneys general into fraudulent and criminal conduct of Trump 2.0 within their jurisdictions. This is a more promising platform for and mode of institutional opposition than is presently available at the federal level.
Let us 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 put into play our persons and our purses 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.
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.
In a world where “only the weak will fail,” let us be strong.
Go, team, go.
I'm curious to see what rabbit the courts will pull out of their hats. They are starting with depositions. Meanwhile, I am FREAKING DELIGHTED to see Dem. Congressmen say they are going to El Salvador to get Garcia. ACTION! Just what is needed.
Thank you for the context and clarity to find our way through the chaos.
I'm back on my WHO question. It's a clear path to end the madness with a difficult barrier to climb over.
The path is everyone in the streets, stop going to work, stop paying taxes, and just say no. The WHO is you--well, 99% of you who are NOT Billionaires, and when those WHOs realize they are not exempt, not protected, and totally included in the master plan to take all freedoms and income sources from you, that's when the 99% will stop going along with the regime. The high barrier to climb is the belief that Trump doesn't mean THEM. When that wall of false protection goes, nobody will be left to help the last ones, still clutching their MAGA hat. That's WHO he has to hurt for them to stop following and stop the lies.