Refuse Defeat
Deny Distraction
Donald John Trump refuses to lose. He currently is engaged in rewriting history to remember him well in the instant. And to develop a case of happy amnesia about his past crimes and misdemeanors.
He is a corrupt businessman and convicted felon with a lucrative side hustle as 47th president of these barely United States. All things are required to work to the benefit of his brand and the increase of his wealth. Right now, he has a public relations problem that keeps living past its 24-hour news cycle expiration date.
He may have sexually abused a little girl. Or boy. And, if so, maybe proof of the crime is held by Russia and/or the Mossad. Among others. He cares who knows. Or says they do.
The scandal just will not die. He is throwing every distraction he can conjure into public view.
While fending off factual reporting on the nature and results of the first 200 days of his second term in high office.
Like a really bad jobs report.
Here is the shiny object de jure.
Another National Emergency. On 07 Aug 25, Donald John Trump called the White House press pool to the Oval Office. He had an emergency economic announcement to make.
Jacob Bogage attended, representing The Washington Post. The emergency was revealed to be “an eight-minute pep rally on Trump’s economy vs. that of his predecessor.” The urgent economic news was that “these numbers…were just released. I mean, literally just released.”
Steve Moore conducted the briefing. He and his team style themselves The Committee to Unleash Prosperity (Committee). They claim to be a “nonpartisan advocacy group for conservative economic ideas.” Steve used visual aids to explain the results of a new economic model devised by the Committee. The method uses “Census Bureau monthly data surveys to predict future releases of national economic data with a 3 percent error rate.”
How pathetic.
1. As to the Committee: Look at its Doublespeak description of its nature and mission. An advocacy group for conservative economic ideas cannot fairly bill itself as “nonpartisan.” It is an insult to every inquiring mind to fly that false flag.
As to the “innovative” Committee method: It is void. The Big Man destroyed the Committee model the same day Steve Moore presented it. A new census is mandated.
Credit. Mecury News This new census will exclude residents who are not citizens. Future Census Bureau monthly data surveys will be propaganda, not fact. An economic model based on that data will be fake. Its results will be misleading.
3. As to the “emergency” nature of the briefing: Statistics are not a national emergency. Especially false statistics.
Manifesto
The Guy is no good when he is caught with his pants down. Literally or fugitively. He panics.
He mishandled the pandemic. On national television he turned to, and recommended, a solution other than one that was fact-based.
As he attempts to escape charges of pedophilia, let us all rejoice that the Tyrant Trump did not use this moment of national emergency to require injections of bleach in lieu of annual flu shots.
Anthem
As to his call for a census that flies in the face of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and reverses fair voting rights—he will pursue any personal and/or political advantage to the point of its denial or defeat.
Credit. The Week
The two coequal branches of our government of the people, by the people, and for the people have betrayed their oaths of office.
There is nothing to stop the implementation of the horrific Project 2025 playbook except Resistance 2.0.
That would be me and you. And every one of We the People unhappy with the results and consequences of Election 2024.
The dog days of summer are upon us. Congress and the Supreme Court are in recess. But the damage continues. FEMA is redirecting provisional staff cut by DOGE to assignments with ICE. The Department of Defense is coordinating with the Department of Homeland Security to surveil citizens gathering peacefully to protest illegal takings and holdings of fellow residents.
Our Dear Leader refuses to lose. Let us do likewise.
There is no room for despair or time for delay. 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.
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 require faithless representatives to repent, reform, or retire.
Let us:
Rise
Resist
Persist
Prevail
Go, team, go.
This is hard. Very hard. I want to kill the swine.
Great points in this article to put attention on the distractions and tricks meant to throw us off the scent. Humans have a default setting in their brains that triggers a fear response — fight or flee. That's the only thing the predator cares about. Your fear. Fortunately, we've evolved and learned a lot more about our brains and how to tell whether something is really a danger or just a manufactured piece of propaganda. One good thing happening in recent months is the stronger Bullshit detector in our brains.
Just as your body gets stronger with increased motion and exercise.... just as your critical thinking gets stronger with increased exposure to truths and writing (without AI), so too will your Bullshit detector get more reliable and faster with questions instead of statements.
The questions are: Is that true? How do you know it's true? How do you react if you believe that thought or those words? Who would you be if that thought was not true?