Refuse
To Condone Criminality
New York society treats Donald John Trump with that level of sustained contempt generally reserved for and exhibited toward the unwashed. It’s not because he is a criminal. Many a New York fortune used a criminal act to come into existence. No, New York distains Mr. Big because he is just too common to bear, my dear.
And, because he cannot make it there, our Dear Leader is compelled to try to make it everywhere else.
He takes his callous attitude and criminal conduct to every endeavor and interaction. The whole globe is a marketing opportunity and potential real estate deal. He is working one right now that requires urgent and immediate attention, condemnation, and defeat.
That Was Then (2019-2020)
On 25 July 2019, Donald John Trump held what he styled as a “perfect” telephone conversation with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the newly elected president of Ukraine. Zelenskyy had taken office in the fifth year of the ongoing Russo-Ukrainian War, which started in 2014 with Russia’s invasion of the Donbas and annexation of Crimea.
The Great Negotiator set the stage for this “perfect” transactional call by blocking, before the conversation occurred, payment of a $400 million congressionally mandated military aid (emphasis added) package. The self-proclaimed master of the Art of the Steal used this “perfect” conversation to ask Zelenskyy to find evidence of misconduct of Joe Biden, a political rival in the Election 2020 campaign.
Zelenskyy did not agree immediately to “earn” the aid. Less than two hours later, on behalf of the President, senior executive budget official Michael Duffey discreetly instructed the Pentagon to continue withholding military aid to Ukraine.[25][26][27][e]
This act of extortion was an abuse of executive power. And a total betrayal of American character and purpose. It was the basis of the first article of impeachment brought by the House to the Senate on 15 Jan 2020. On 05 Feb 20, the Senate acquitted Mr. Big on a 47-53 count.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump
Interregnum (2021-2025)
While Mr. Big was out of office, two events occurred of relevance to this discussion.
1. On 24 Feb 22, Russia invaded Ukraine in a “special military operation”. The international community viewed this act with alarm and condemnation. Russia was continuing to breach the Budapest Memorandum of 05 Dec 1994, in which:
a. Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine (BKU) agreed to give up their Soviet-era nuclear weapons; in exchange for
b. Security assurances from the United States, the United Kingdom, and Russia (UUR) guaranteeing:
1.) The independence, sovereignty, and existing borders of BKU signatories; and,
2.) No threat or use of force against BKU by UUR signatories.
Previously, the international community had tried to discipline Putin’s territorial misconduct by evicting Russia from the Group of Eight, a political forum of highly industrialized countries. Russia was allowed to join it in 1997 and was suspended from it in 2014 because of its annexation of Crimea. Our Dear Leader keeps trying to get NATO and the G7 to readmit Putin to councils of privilege and power still available to the United States of America.
2. On 01 July 24, four months before the casting and counting of ballots in Election 2024, the Supreme Court ruled in a 6–3 decision that:
a. Presidents have absolute immunity for acts committed as president within their core constitutional purview;
b. At least presumptive immunity for official acts within the outer perimeter of their official responsibility; and,
c. No immunity for unofficial acts.[5][6][7][8]
In the first of what has become signature preferential treatment for executive branch, the court declined to rule on the scope of immunity for some criminal acts alleged of Trump.
Instead, it vacated the appellate decision and remanded the case to the district court for further proceedings. This decision was a moment of judicial infamy. It was a betrayal of oath, duty, and trust that set the table for implementation of the Project 2025 playbook.
This Is Now (2025 So Far)
Donald John Trump refers to his intermeddling in international affairs as peace keeping. He is miffed that the Nobel Foundation does not share his view and/or support his claim. One of his Trump 2.0 diplomatic boondoggles is inserting himself into the on-going war between Russia and Ukraine.
It is useful to recall two aspects of Trump 1.0:
1. Mr. Big characterizes abuses of the power of the presidency as more than acceptable. In fact, “perfect.”
2. Putin’s Patsy is tied to Russia in ways and to personal purposes never disclosed.
Since his return to high office, Mr. Big has insulted President Zelenskyy as a person and mischaracterized Ukraine’s role in its war with Russia. He also has moved America from an historic position of freely aiding Ukraine in its effort to restore its 1994 borders to a new position of extorting Ukraine’s natural resources as “payment” for release of appropriated defense funding.
While domestic attention was focused on the passage of his signature One Big Beautiful Bill, the Great Negotiator once again moved to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine. He:
1. Caused the lifting of sanctions on banks financing Russian military operations;
2. Caused the rollback of missile systems staged at the Polish boarder meant for Ukraine;
3. On 02 July 25, held a private conversation with Putin;
4. On 03 July 25, took no action when Putin launched the deadliest attack on Ukraine in over a year; and,
5. Is reported to be preparing for a call to Zelenskyy to pressure him to accept some sort of deal tantamount to a surrender to the demands of Russia. Which incidentally enrich Mr. Big’s sovereign wealth fund strategy.
Lev Parnas notes that extortion is not diplomacy. That Mr. Big does not negotiate. He shakes down the victim of his Art of the Steal. “This is what happens when criminal minds run foreign policy. (He) isn’t brokering peace. He’s brokering capitalism. This is not just an attack on Ukraine. This is a test of American resolve.”
Manifesto
We the People unhappy with the results and consequences of Election 2024 are committed to resisting the implementation of the Project 2025 playbook.
We want no king.
We also want no part of a betrayal of Ukraine and/or our NATO partners.
We can walk and chew gum at the same time.
We can continue to use our persons and our purses every day, everywhere, all the time:
1. To resist the notion that masked and armed persons may detain, incarcerate, and deport residents of our country without a warrant or due process;
2. To demand full, free, and timely aid to Ukraine in its righteous defense of its sovereignty.
Anthem
Putin is playing our Dear Leader for a fool.
.He claims he needs Ukraine to protect Russia from NATO. NATO and nations sharing a boundary with Russia believe Ukraine is today what Poland was in 1939—the gateway to a global conflict.
In 1999, Russia signed the Charter for European Security, affirming the right of each state "to choose or change its security arrangements" and to join alliances.[32] In 2002, Putin said Ukraine's relations with NATO were "a matter for those two partners".[33] In 2005, Putin said that if Ukraine wanted to join NATO, "we will respect their choice, because it is their sovereign right to decide their own defence policy, and this will not worsen relations between our countries". In 2014, Putin invaded Ukraine without provocation and to the purpose of expanding the Russian land holdings and political influence. Putin now styles Ukraine’s desire to join NATO as a threat to Russian security.
Our traditional allies have no reason to trust the toxic relationship of Our Diplomatic Dunce to The Big Bad Bear. Nor should our own intelligence and security services.
Our idiot has escaped the village.
No secret is safe.
Our jugular is being offered to our enemies as a trading chip in deals being made to advantage the business interests and bolster the brand of Donald John Trump.
We the People resisting Trump 2.0 are not going to “get over” the current state and effects of betrayal of trust of all three branches of our government.
Before and beyond a commitment to our form of government, our rational resort to self-defense compels us to exercise every natural and constitutional right to protect our persons, our purses, our principles, and our property from attack.
Hope ain’t so hard when it is the only viable option other than surrender to the unacceptable.
Integrity has a better flavor than remorse.
Good trouble has more power and better shelf life than oppression.
Humanity generally and America specifically have stared into the abyss of chaos more than once and even within live memory.
These days of betrayal and infamy are hard to stomach.
We the People unhappy with the results and consequences of Election 2024 are just going to have to continue to eat the vegetables of resolve and persistent peaceful protest to qualify for dessert--a favorable midterm election result.
Rise up. Resist. Prevail.
1. Demand your elected representatives resume their Article One duties and exercise their constitutional powers immediately. Require them to:
· Renew commitments to Ukraine and NATO. Cause immediate release of impounded funds intended to support Ukraine in its fight to reclaim ALL of its lands seized by Russia since 2014. Cause immediate release of military aid presently withheld. Cause immediate lifting on delays on delivery of material essential to Ukraine’s righteous attempt to reclaim and restore its 1994 boundaries.
. Dump the SAVE Act.
· Justify a vote against the most recently proposed articles of impeachment. Get on board with efforts to remove Mr. Big from public office now and forevermore.
· Regain control of the purse.
· Reverse the force and remedy the effect of each illegal executive order, memorandum, proclamation, and/or social media order issued by the sitting president.
· Scare corrupt Supreme Court justices silly. Bring articles of impeachment against corrupt justices.
2. Continue to exercise the power of your person. Organize and hold new and larger peaceful public protests on and after 17 July 25. Give the Mad King and his troops of terror no rest or comfort. Continue to punish Musk and harass DOGE.
3. Continue to use the power of your purse to damage the brand and bottom line of organizations abandoning DEI commitments.
Dismantle and defeat Trump 2.0. Disavow and repair the damage done by the cruel, clumsy, and dangerous implementation of the Project 2025 playbook.
Go, team, go.
So disgusting and so consistent. Everything (democracy, things, people) Trump does is about making a profit that goes into his bank account. He acts like he owns everything and it's all for sale. The only reason I can think of as to why Trump does this every day, without slowing down, is that people around him are participating in the crimes for a cut of the money.