Behold and Begone
The Willing Puppet
Donald John Trump is so self-serving that he gladly, openly, and aggressively acts as the poster child for the horrific Project 2025 Presidential Transition playbook.
The pointy-headed traitors at the Heritage Foundation who authored that audacious rebuttal of every complaint listed in our Declaration of Independence are counting on We the People, aka The Governed, to have as little empathy, attention span, and/or moral compass as do Trump, Miller, Homan, Rubio, and darn near every other person in the Trump 2.0 clown car of morally bankrupt lickspittles too unqualified, incompetent, and vainglorious to pour piss out of a boot with instructions written on its heel..
Purposeful Chaos
Give Steve Bannon his due.
He is an educated evil genius. He devised and delivered the strategy to “flood the zone” of recognition, attention, and measured response to the dismantling of our democratic republic. His strategy, in this terrible season, is thriving. It will not survive.
The Solution
What We the People otherwise may lack, we each and all retain an abiding interest in survival on the best terms offered
Limit Trump 2.0 Shelf Life
The daily damage done to persons and institutions by implementation of the Project 2025 playbook is vast, ongoing, indescribable, indefensible, unsustainable, and illegal.
It also is a misuse of public funds and a betrayal of public trust that history cannot fail to remember. It falls to We the People to rise. To demand respect for our consent to be governed. To correct and remedy the fact and effect of disrespect.
This Week
The Epstein file scandal refuses to die.
The TACO Tyrant is making two diversionary appearances this week.
1. On Monday, 11 Aug 25, the Dear Leader trumpeted more abuses of human and constitutional rights. This time affecting persons marginalized by mental illness, despair, or simple bad luck in a predatory economy.
2. On Friday, 15 Aug 25, Putin’s Pawn will allow an international criminal to convince him to use the economic and military power of America to burnish his brand and increase his wealth at the expense of world peace, national honor, and simple human decency.
Monday: Civil Commitment of the Mentally Ill
On 24 July 25, the self-proclaimed King of America signed Executive Order 14321. It is grandly titled, in true Doublespeak fashion, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets.” It directs the Attorney General and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to “seek, in appropriate cases, the reversal of Federal or State judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees that impede the United States' policy of encouraging civil commitment of individuals with mental illness who pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.” (Emphasis added.)
On Sunday, 10 Aug 25, the Tyrant Trump sent FBI and Border Patrol officers into the streets of the nation’s capital to scatter the homeless out of his view along the road between the White House and his tee time at the nearest golf course.
On Monday, 11 Aug 25, he declared “special conditions of an emergency nature” existed on the streets of Washington, D.C. He spun a yarn of deceit and distraction. He invoked Section 740 of the Home Rule Act to place the city’s police department under federal control. He mentioned his intention to deploy some 800 National Guard troops to assist in clearing homeless persons from the city streets. He announced the possibility of calling active-duty military troops into service “if needed.” He suggested similar actions might prove necessary in other U.S. cities.
He did not acknowledge this horrific initiative—to capture and warehouse targeted population-- to be as illegal, unconstitutional, unworkable, and unsustainable as his other proposals to ignore the Writ of Habeas Corpus, as well as legal and customary protections of human, civil, and constitutional rights.
Friday: Playing Chicken with a Raptor
Donald John Trump is just a pathetic puppet of one of America’s most dangerous historic and present enemies.
This meeting with Putin on American soil is lousy optics. How Susie Wiles ever allowed Donny the Deluded to escape her crib of careful containment for this moment of political self-immolation is a possibly consequential mystery.
Putin has no intention of returning to Ukraine any territory presently occupied by Russian forces. He is using Hitler’s playbook to scare Europe into a “coalition of the willing” to support Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity. While the Traitor Trump undermines the effectiveness of support of Ukraine by terrorizing the globe in furtherance of his whim of the moment by means of his abuse of terms of trading partnerships. The Guy is a national disgrace and a global danger,
Putin’s Puppet is trying to escape responsibility for sexual misconduct by throwing a pair of loaded dice against a moment of political infamy.
He intends to paint the sacrifice of Ukrainian sovereignty and territory as a diplomatic victory worthy of recognition by the Norwegian Nobel Committee. Valdimir is happy to give the American Idiot a photo op in exchange for pressure on Ukraine and Europe to allow Russian aggression.
Zelensky has not been invited to the “Alaska Summit.”
Ann Richards, the last Democratic governor of Texas, famously observed, “If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.” So far, Volodymyr is showing national spunk and regional leadership. He says Ukraine will not agree to surrender one square meter of territory currently occupied by Russia. Including Crimea. Give it back.
Europe is falling behind his resolve and offsetting American betrayal with a “coalition of the willing” which aims to limit Putin’s terrible reprise of Hitler’s Poland.
A Little Background on the Nuclear Moment
On 05 Dec 1994 December, Ukraine agreed to surrender its capability as a nuclear power. It disarmed. In exchange and as compensation, Russia, the United States, and the United Kingdom promised to:
Keep it safe from attack or invasion;
Respect its sovereignty; and,
Protect its territorial integrity.
France and China gave individual assurances to the same effect.
It is doubtful that Donald John Trump was aware of the Budapest Memorandum on Security Assurances--in either fact or import. There were no real estate, gambling, or hospitality opportunities in that place, wherever in the world it was located. It is very likely that Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin had an inside view of the treaty and every intention of breaking it at the first opportune moment. Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy was a 16-year-old student displaying intellectual promise.
Certainly no one was noticing or mentioning rare earth deposits.
Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and our Mad King are making headlines with too-loose talk about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries.
Manifesto
History is holding casting calls for 15-Minute Heroes.
There is nothing to stop Trump 2.0 but you and me and our insistence upon resistance.
Let us covenant that each will pick the one item in the Project 2025 playbook that instantly affects, threatens, and/or offends us. Let us vow to find and band with like minds to target the delay, diminishment, and destruction of that unacceptable policy or practice.
Let us promise each other to meet each of the 1000 cuts of Trump 2.0 chaos with a thousand acts of spontaneous, specific, and strategic resistance.
Let us vow to refuse to be governed by faithless office holders. Let us require them to repent, reform, or retire.
Anthem
There is no room for despair or time for delay.
200 days into Trump 2.0, the tide of public opinion is turning against the administration’s use of armed force against marginalized residents. And military surveillance of peaceful citizen gatherings and protests. Let us each continue to exercise our indivisible Power of One. Let us continue to use our persons and our purses every day everywhere in every legal way to deny, delay, disassemble, defeat, and destroy Trump 2.0. Let us increase the volume, intensity, size, and effectiveness of peaceful public protests.
Election 2026 is critical. Let us covenant with each other to remember ourselves well as we refuse to be discouraged or side tracked. Let us keep the pressure on DEI deniers and the breakers of private, public, and constitutional oaths. Let us demand respect for our presence and our power.
Let us:
Rise
Resist
Persist
Prevail
Go, team, go.
Thank you for this clear record of current history.
The problem is we've all lost our minds. Correction, we've lost our memory.
My neighbor just returned from a trip to Germany, to study history and artifacts. The neighbor said, "What is happening in the US is exactly what Hitler did. It's the same playbook, day by day, incremental steps to the horrors. January 1933 and 200 days later--it's the same. The problem is we lost our memory. Anyone still living that experienced it is past 90 and too few of them left to stop it, right here in the US."
So with the whole Russia/Russia/Russia investigation proving Trump's ties to Putin, his selling out, and his treason, has it occurred to anyone that Trump is doing what Putin bought and paid for him to do? And if he does NOT do it, Putin reveals the plan, which does nothing to Putin but hangs Trump for treason? And THAT is why everything that is happening seems to be at Putin's hand? Has anyone thought about that enough to follow the dots?