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This is a November 20th, 2024 reminder that on March 4th, 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States ordered donald j. trump to have 87 Democrats in both houses of Congress remove his insurrectionist disqualification from ever holding any federal office again; because if he didn't, nothing, including MAGA SCOTUS, could stop Democrats in the House and Senate from disqualifying him; even if he wins the 2024 presidential election. He failed to do so prior to November 5, 2024. He's now counted down to his last 13 congressional business days of opportunity to resolve this matter.

*** Just wanted to include a huge thank you to everyone who is liking and reblogging this post and engaging by writing to your congressional representatives AND Democratic Leaders Schumer and Jeffries. You're all amazing and I appreciate you so much! For those asking when we'll be seeing this in the news, I'm working on that every day; and every time anyone here on Tumblr engages like I mentioned above, it increases the chances that Leaders Schumer and Jeffries will speak about it on major media outlets. For everyone wanting to see this in the news sooner than later, please copy and paste this entire message into an email and send it to everyone you know, and then please also share this information with Marc Elias of Democracy Docket and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington via info@democracydocket.com and info@citizensforethics.org; because if enough people contact those attorneys, those attorneys have all of the media contacts they need to gain even more support for this effort.

I'm being asked what people can do once they've contacted their representatives and Democratic Leaders Schumer and Jeffries. The next step is lawyering up for United States vs. trump et. al. (donald trump and every state elector in the Electoral College who attempts to engage in and further insurrection against the United States by voting for disqualified insurrectionist donald j. trump). MAGA and trump are constantly being defeated in court by Marc Elias and his Democracy Docket team across the United States, and Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington are the attorneys from the Anderson vs. trump case and numerous other cases against MAGA, donald trump, and the trump administration. Those attorneys can and will represent the United States, alongside the actual U.S. Department of Justice, in stopping donald trump from being elected by the Electoral College on December 17, 2024.

I'm so thankful that people here on Tumblr are feeling more hopeful after reading this post; because it was heartbreaking for me to witness the extent of the trauma and misery around this site immediately after the election. I hope this message finds everyone in a much better situation than they were in November 6th. Have a great day, everyone! ***

Between today, November 20th, 2024 and December 17th, 2024, donald j. trump has no choice but to go to Congress and have 70 Democrats in the House of Representatives and 17 Democrats in the Senate vote to remove his insurrectionist disqualification, as he was ordered to do by SCOTUS on March 4th, 2024, or he's not legally the President Elect and cannot be inaugurated, sworn in, or hold federal office again on January 20, 2025. The clock is ticking!

What will happen on December 17th, 2024 if donald j. trump hasn't cleared his insurrectionist disqualification via a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress? Every Elector attempting to elect a known insurrectionist will be disqualified from being an Elector for engaging in and furthering insurrection against the United States. It is impossible for donald j. trump to remain as President Elect on December 17th, 2024; because every Elector in every state who attempts to vote for donald j. trump for President would then have to be immediately cleared of their insurrectionist disqualification by a two-thirds vote of their state legislature so that they could then vote for the only remaining legal, non-insurrectionist candidate. If donald j. trump hasn't cleared his insurrectionist disqualification by December 17, 2024, the only legal presidential candidate the Electoral College can vote for is Kamala Harris.

Article 2: Clause 3: Electoral College See also: Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Contingent election, Electoral College abolition amendment, Efforts to reform the United States Electoral College, and National Popular Vote Interstate Compact The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same State with themselves. And they shall make a List of all the Persons voted for, and of the Number of Votes for each; which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President, if such Number be a Majority of the whole Number of Electors appointed; and if there be more than one who have such Majority, and have an equal Number of Votes, then the House of Representatives shall immediately chuse [sic] by Ballot one of them for President; and if no Person have a Majority, then from the five highest on the List the said House shall in like Manner chuse [sic] the President. But in chusing [sic] the President, the Votes shall be taken by States, the Representation from each State having one Vote; A quorum for this Purpose shall consist of a Member or Members from two thirds of the States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse [sic] from them by Ballot the Vice President.

Electoral College Elector Selection Process Article II, Section 1, Clause 2 of the Constitution requires each state legislature to determine how electors for the state are to be chosen, but it disqualifies any person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, from being an elector. Under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment, any person who has sworn an oath to support the United States Constitution in order to hold either a state or federal office, and later rebelled against the United States directly or by giving assistance to those doing so, is disqualified from being an elector. Congress may remove this disqualification by a two-thirds vote in each house. (Wikipedia)

For those who would argue this is misinformation due to donald trump's MAGA cult allies in the Senate preventing him from being convicted, the bipartisan congressional J6 Committee investigated donald j. trump for insurrection, found him guilty of insurrection, referred him for criminal prosecution for insurrection, and donald j. trump was indicted and is currently being prosecuted for insurrection by the Department of Justice (unless the case gets dropped). Section 3 of the 14th Amendment doesn't require a formal conviction, so the congressional investigation, finding of insurrection, and the congressional committee referral for criminal prosecution, along with the federal indictment and prosecution for insurrection, can easily be used to keep donald j. trump from ever holding federal office again. Per the Supreme Court of the United States' own Berger Test to disqualify judges, the ridiculous, nonsensical, unethical and illegal MAGA SCOTUS majority "ruling" pertaining to their attempted declaration of donald j. trump's permanent immunity from federal enforcement of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment means absolutely nothing for him, or any other insurrectionist; because it lacks standing in precedent, law, constitutionality, and relevance.

The three dissenting justices clarify that the only matter that was actually legally settled and, therefore, legally enforceable, pertained to state actions, not federal law enforcement actions against a disqualified insurrectionist presidential or federal candidate, such as donald j. trump, committing the federal crime of being an insurrectionist attempting to hold office without having their insurrectionist disqualification removed via a two-thirds vote of both houses. And so it is legal fact that the Supreme Court did, in fact, order donald j. trump to have his insurrectionist disqualification removed by a two-thirds vote of both houses on March 4th, 2024; it's just that donald j. trump and his legal team were too illiterate and unintelligent to actually read what was legal and had standing (state enforcement against federal candidates), and what didn't (MAGA SCOTUS whining and crying about federal enforcement against federal candidates/their presidential candidate). And MAGA SCOTUS is now permanently legally barred from ever addressing any matter pertaining to federal enforcement of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against donald j. trump, so they can't even try to interfere on his behalf again should Democrats in the House of Representatives and the Senate demand and force a vote on the matter of donald j. trump's disqualification for holding federal office.

Berger v. United States, 255 U.S. 22 (1921), is a United States Supreme Court decision overruling a trial court decision by U.S. District Court Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis against Rep. Victor L. Berger, a Congressman for Wisconsin's 5th district and the founder of the Social Democratic Party of America, and several other German-American defendants who were convicted of violating the Espionage Act by publicizing anti-interventionist views during World War I.

The case was argued on December 9, 1920, and decided on January 31, 1921, with an opinion by Justice Joseph McKenna and dissents by Justices William R. Day, James Clark McReynolds, and Mahlon Pitney. The Supreme Court held that Judge Landis was properly disqualified as trial judge based on an affidavit filed by the German defendants asserting that Judge Landis' public anti-German statements should disqualify him from presiding over the trial of the defendants.

The House of Representatives twice denied Berger his seat in the House due to his original conviction for espionage using Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution regarding denying office to those who supported "insurrection or rebellion". The Supreme Court overturned the verdict in 1921 in Berger v. U.S., and Berger won three successive terms in the House in the 1920s.

Per the United States Supreme Court's "Berger test" that states that to disqualify ANY judge in the United States of America: 1) a party files an affidavit claiming personal bias or prejudice demonstrating an "objectionable inclination or disposition of the judge" and 2) claim of bias is based on facts antedating the trial.

All 6 criminal MAGA insurrectionist and trump-loyalist U.S. Supreme Court Justices who've repeatedly and illegally ruled in donald j. trump's favor are as disqualified from issuing any rulings pertaining to donald j. trump (a German immigrant) as the United States Supreme Court ruled U.S. District Court Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was when he attempted to deny Victor L. Berger (a German immigrant) from holding office for violating the Espionage Act and supporting or engaging in insurrection or rebellion against the United States of America.

RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES Rule 8. Disbarment and Disciplinary Action

Whenever a member of the Bar of this Court has been disbarred or suspended from practice in any court of record, or has engaged in conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar of this Court, the Court will enter an order suspending that member from practice before this Court and affording the member an opportunity to show cause, within 40 days, why a disbarment order should not be entered. Upon response, or if no response is timely filed, the Court will enter an appropriate order.

After reasonable notice and an opportunity to show cause why disciplinary action should not be taken, and after a hearing if material facts are in dispute, the Court may take any appropriate disciplinary action against any attorney who is admitted to practice before it for conduct unbecoming a member of the Bar or for failure to comply with these Rules or any Rule or order of the Court.

The only misinformation that exists surrounding the Anderson vs. trump ruling is the belief that the MAGA SCOTUS ruling on federal enforcement of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against donald j. trump settled the matter and handed him permanent immunity from prosecution should he ever commit the federal crime of attempting to hold federal office. In legal fact, MAGA SCOTUS' nonsensical ruling attempting to grant donald j. trump permanent immunity from prosecution for insurrection is grounds for immediate and permanent disbarment; as they're clearly attempting to legislate from the bench and prevent Congress from legislating in a way that's unfavorable to their presidential candidate.

This is the only pertinent and legally important part of the Anderson vs. trump ruling with regards to federal enforcement of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment against donald j. trump or any other insurrectionist committing the federal crime of attempting to hold office without first having their insurrectionist disqualification removed by a two-thirds vote of both houses:

Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson Opinion on the Majority Ruling (supremecourt.gov):

Yet the majority goes further. Even though “[a]ll nine Members of the Court” agree that this independent and sufficient rationale resolves this case, five Justices go on. They decide novel constitutional questions to insulate this Court and petitioner from future controversy. Ante, at 13. Although only an individual State’s action is at issue here, the majority opines on which federal actors can enforce Section 3, and how they must do so. The majority announces that a disqualification for insurrection can occur only when Congress enacts a particular kind of legislation pursuant to Section 5 of the Fourteenth Amendment. In doing so, the majority shuts the door on other potential means of federal enforcement. We cannot join an opinion that decides momentous and difficult issues unnecessarily, and we therefore concur only in the judgment.

Yet the Court continues on to resolve questions not before us. In a case involving no federal action whatsoever, the Court opines on how federal enforcement of Section 3 must proceed. Congress, the majority says, must enact legislation under Section 5 prescribing the procedures to “ ‘ “ascertain[ ] what particular individuals” ’ ” should be disqualified. Ante, at 5 (quoting Griffin’s Case, 11 F. Cas. 7, 26 (No. 5,815) (CC Va. 1869) (Chase, Circuit Justice)). These musings are as inadequately supported as they are gratuitous.

To start, nothing in Section 3’s text supports the majority’s view of how federal disqualification efforts must operate. Section 3 states simply that “[n]o person shall” hold certain positions and offices if they are oathbreaking insurrectionists. Amdt. 14. Nothing in that unequivocal bar suggests that implementing legislation enacted under Section 5 is “critical” (or, for that matter, what that word means in this context). Ante, at 5. In fact, the text cuts the opposite way. Section 3 provides that when an oathbreaking insurrectionist is disqualified, “Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.” It is hard to understand why the Constitution would require a congressional supermajority to remove a disqualification if a simple majority could nullify Section 3’s operation by repealing or declining to pass implementing legislation. Even petitioner’s lawyer acknowledged the “tension” in Section 3 that the majority’s view creates. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 31.

Similarly, nothing else in the rest of the Fourteenth Amendment supports the majority’s view. Section 5 gives Congress the “power to enforce [the Amendment] by appropriate legislation.” Remedial legislation of any kind, however, is not required. All the Reconstruction Amendments (including the due process and equal protection guarantees and prohibition of slavery) “are self-executing,” meaning that they do not depend on legislation. City of Boerne v. Flores, 521 U.S. 507, 524 (1997); see Civil Rights Cases, 109 U.S. 3, 20 (1883). Similarly, other constitutional rules of disqualification, like the two-term limit on the Presidency, do not require implementing legislation. See, e.g., Art. II, §1, cl. 5 (Presidential Qualifications); Amdt. 22 (Presidential Term Limits). Nor does the majority suggest otherwise. It simply creates a special rule for the insurrection disability in Section 3.

The majority is left with next to no support for its requirement that a Section 3 disqualification can occur only pursuant to legislation enacted for that purpose. It cites Griffin’s Case, but that is a nonprecedential, lower court opinion by a single Justice in his capacity as a circuit judge. See ante, at 5 (quoting 11 F. Cas., at 26). Once again, even petitioner’s lawyer distanced himself from fully embracing this case as probative of Section 3’s meaning. See Tr. of Oral Arg. 35–36. The majority also cites Senator Trumbull’s statements that Section 3 “ ‘provide[d] no means for enforcing’ ” itself. Ante, at 5 (quoting Cong. Globe, 41st Cong., 1st Sess., 626 (1869)). The majority, however, neglects to mention the Senator’s view that “[i]t is the [F]ourteenth [A]mendment that prevents a person from holding office,” with the proposed legislation simply “affor[ding] a more efficient and speedy remedy” for effecting the disqualification. Cong. Globe, 41st Cong., 1st Sess., at 626–627.

Ultimately, under the guise of providing a more “complete explanation for the judgment,” ante, at 13, the majority resolves many unsettled questions about Section 3. It forecloses judicial enforcement of that provision, such as might occur when a party is prosecuted by an insurrectionist and raises a defense on that score. The majority further holds that any legislation to enforce this provision must prescribe certain procedures “ ‘tailor[ed]’ ” to Section 3, ante, at 10, ruling out enforcement under general federal statutes requiring the government to comply with the law. By resolving these and other questions, the majority attempts to insulate all alleged insurrectionists from future challenges to their holding federal office.

“What it does today, the Court should have left undone.” Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98, 158 (2000) (Breyer, J., dissenting). The Court today needed to resolve only a single question: whether an individual State may keep a Presidential candidate found to have engaged in insurrection off its ballot. The majority resolves much more than the case before us. Although federal enforcement of Section 3 is in no way at issue, the majority announces novel rules for how that enforcement must operate. It reaches out to decide Section 3 questions not before us, and to foreclose future efforts to disqualify a Presidential candidate under that provision. In a sensitive case crying out for judicial restraint, it abandons that course.

Section 3 serves an important, though rarely needed, role in our democracy. The American people have the power to vote for and elect candidates for national office, and that is a great and glorious thing. The men who drafted and ratified the Fourteenth Amendment, however, had witnessed an “insurrection [and] rebellion” to defend slavery. §3. They wanted to ensure that those who had participated in that insurrection, and in possible future insurrections, could not return to prominent roles. Today, the majority goes beyond the necessities of this case to limit how Section 3 can bar an oathbreaking insurrectionist from becoming President. Although we agree that Colorado cannot enforce Section 3, we protest the majority’s effort to use this case to define the limits of federal enforcement of that provision. Because we would decide only the issue before us, we concur only in the judgment.

What all of that means is that between now and December 17th, 2024, donald j. trump has no choice but to go to Congress and have 70 Democrats in the House of Representatives and 17 Democrats in the Senate vote to remove his insurrectionist disqualification, as he was ordered to do by SCOTUS on March 4th, 2024, or he's not legally the President Elect and cannot be inaugurated, sworn in, or hold federal office again on January 20, 2025. The clock is down to 13 days, and ticking!

Here's why this will work: donald trump's legal tactics are deny, attempt to wiggle out of it on technicalities, and delay, delay, delay. Well, from November 2023 to March 4, 2024, donald trump not only said that he was never an officer of the United States, but that he also never swore an oath to support the United States Constitution. And then he said that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment says nothing about running for office, only holding office, and since he's only running for office, nothing can keep him off the ballot. And that's where this has finally caught up to him.

SCOTUS illegally took the case to begin with. Per the U.S. Constitution, SCOTUS was required to kick the case back to Congress immediately to force a two-thirds vote of both houses to remove or enforce donald trump's insurrectionist disqualification, and that would've settled the entire matter within a day. But they illegally denied Congress the ability to vote on it at the time, illegally legislated from the bench to keep donald trump on the ballot by illegally amending Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the United States Constitution, and dismissed the clear two-thirds vote requirement to replace it with "Congress must pass new legislation and amend Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in order to keep insurrectionists off of the ballot and out of office in the future. All six MAGA SCOTUS injustices can now be immediately and permanently disbarred from ever judging or practicing law anywhere in the United States now and in the future for that illegal legislating from the bench; because the U.S. Constitution clearly says that the Judiciary can never interfere with Congress legislating, or with the President enforcing the laws of the United States.

donald trump and his allies figured that was a win, that SCOTUS couldn't be challenged, that the Democrats could never get legislation passed to keep him off the ballot or from holding office again, and the matter was dropped. But that's where he was wrong; because Section 3 of the 14th Amendment still reads, and only legally reads, that the only way an insurrectionist can hold federal office again is by a two-thirds vote removing their insurrectionist disqualification in both the House of Representatives and the Senate; and that means that now that donald trump can't try and use the technicality of "I'm not even trying to hold office, I'm just running for office," and he's actively trying to hold office with no technicality wiggle room, donald trump's only path to the White House is to have 70 Democrats in the House of Representatives and 17 Democrats in the Senate vote to remove his insurrectionist disqualification by December 17th, 2017; and his favorite tactic of delay, delay, delay won't work because delaying means he can't be inaugurated, sworn in, and serve as the 47th President of the United States; and that means Kamala Harris would become 47th President of the United States by default.

donald j. trump is actively engaging in the federal crime of attempting to hold federal office while being an impeached and criminally indicted insurrectionist. Chuck Schumer can easily force the Section 3 vote in the Senate; and if donald j. trump gets no Democrat votes in the Senate, then the House vote is unnecessary. If MAGA mike johnson refuses to allow a House vote, then that's an instant disqualification for insurrectionist donald j. trump.

Hakeem Jeffries Democratic Leader of the House of Representatives https://www.congress.gov/member/hakeem-jeffries/J000294 https://democraticleader.house.gov/contact

Chuck Schumer Democratic Leader of the Senate https://www.congress.gov/member/charles-schumer/S000148 https://www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/message-chuck

Here's a form letter that'll be under 1980 characters no matter if you're contacting House Democratic Leader Jeffries or Senate Democratic Leader Schumer. Just copy and paste the text into the contact form. If these Democratic leaders receive hundreds of these messages from different IP/Internet addresses, we'll have their attemtion. If they receive thousands of these messages from different IP/Internet addresses, we might see this in the news. If they receive tens of thousands of these messages from different IP/Internet addresses, we might finally be free from the threat of another donald trump presidency (turnout is everything in this fight for our human and civil rights, freedoms, and literal survival as non-trump supporters and non-MAGA cult members).

Dear Democratic Leader Jeffries,

My family, loved ones, friends, and I are greatly concerned that Donald J. Trump and all of his MAGA allies, supporters, enablers, donors, and voters have what clearly appear to be genocidal intentions to all American non-Trump supporters and voters whom they call, "traitors, anti-American, enemies from within, very bad people, very dangerous people, racists, radicals, extremists, communists, Marxists, fascists, thugs, liars, sick, ugly, stupid, mindless, thoughtless, brainless, disabled, deranged, criminals, rapists, cheaters, sleazebags, low-lifes, scum, trash, genetically inferior, weak, poison, insects, animals, rats, snakes, and vermin" on a regular basis. As I'm sure that you and all elected Democrat representatives at every level across the United States are aware, Donald J. Trump was not granted permanent immunity from federal enforcement of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in the SCOTUS ruling for Anderson vs. Trump on March 4, 2024; and the moment Donald J. Trump was declared the President Elect, he was committing the federal crime of attempting to hold office while being an impeached and indicted insurrectionist without first having that insurrectionist disqualification removed by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. Donald J. Trump and his MAGA cult appear to intend to not only deport 15 million people, but to also engage in undeniable genocide and ethnic and cultural cleansing against half the population of the United States (using voter registration as a "vermin" purge mechanism). Thankfully, per the Supreme Court's own Berger Test to disqualify judges, Donald J. Trump's MAGA SCOTUS allies can never intervene on any of his legal cases again, so if you would please bring the matter of a two-thirds vote to the House of Representatives for an immediate vote by no later than December 11th, 2024, my fellow Americans and I would greatly appreciate it.

Respectully,

An American patriot

Dear Democratic Leader Schumer,

My family, loved ones, friends, and I are greatly concerned that Donald J. Trump and all of his MAGA allies, supporters, enablers, donors, and voters have what clearly appear to be genocidal intentions to all American non-Trump supporters and voters whom they call, "traitors, anti-American, enemies from within, very bad people, very dangerous people, racists, radicals, extremists, communists, Marxists, fascists, thugs, liars, sick, ugly, stupid, mindless, thoughtless, brainless, disabled, deranged, criminals, rapists, cheaters, sleazebags, low-lifes, scum, trash, genetically inferior, weak, poison, insects, animals, rats, snakes, and vermin" on a regular basis. As I'm sure that you and all elected Democrat representatives at every level across the United States are aware, Donald J. Trump was not granted permanent immunity from federal enforcement of Section 3 of the 14th Amendment in the SCOTUS ruling for Anderson vs. Trump on March 4, 2024; and the moment Donald J. Trump was declared the President Elect, he was committing the federal crime of attempting to hold office while being an impeached and indicted insurrectionist without first having that insurrectionist disqualification removed by a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress. Donald J. Trump and his MAGA cult appear to intend to not only deport 15 million people, but to also engage in undeniable genocide and ethnic and cultural cleansing against half the population of the United States (using voter registration as a "vermin" purge mechanism). Thankfully, per the Supreme Court's own Berger Test to disqualify judges, Donald J. Trump's MAGA SCOTUS allies can never intervene on any of his legal cases again, so if you would please bring the matter of a two-thirds vote to the Senate for an immediate vote by no later than December 11th, 2024, my fellow Americans and I would greatly appreciate it.

Respectully,

An American patriot

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When the party of inclusion and equality is shunned by half the country it means one of two things. Either half the population is a bunch a pricks, which is highly possible, or somewhere along the way that party went largely astray.

Think about it. Other than racists, bigots and homophobes, who’s going to look at a sect of the populous and be like ‘ God! I hate those guys, always being open minded and trying to embrace all peoples! They suck!’. Yes. There probably is maybe a quarter of Americans who may think that way due to prejudices and intolerance, but that means somewhere along the way we lost the other 75%.

How did that happen?

I grew up in a very liberal environment and turned out as such. My first election was Gore v Bush, and I have voted Dem ever since. There came a time though when I wasn’t all that proud to pronounce that I was a Democrat.

I can’t pinpoint the dates exactly, but it was after the Me Too movement, which I believe was justified and appropriate. There was this shift in culture though.

I remember going to protests against the invasion of Iraq under the second Bush regime and liberals where dirty hippies (like myself) anti establishment punk faulkers (like the majority of my friends) blue collar workers (which I turned out to be) and intellectuals, scholars and teachers (alas, not myself).

Then liberal causes became these young, whether male of female, Karens. Offended by every word anyone said. Like the overly dramatic character in an old movie that faints when they see something mildly disturbing.

When the term “woke” entered the scene, it became an incredible trigger for some. There’s whole opposition to it, the “war on woke”. Woke triggers me and I’m a liberal! Can we PLEASE drop that word and go back to liberal!? Liberal; adjective. willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas. The definition of liberal is beautiful, and fits like a glove our perspective and purpose.

There is a time, a cause, and a place to be offended and stand up to injustice. Ab-so-fuckin-lutly! That time is when injustice is happening.

We all heard the story, the boy who cried wolf. That story holds relevance to what I’m trying to pontificate here. By decrying everything as a grave injustice, by ostracizing people as bigots for the slightest thing, by creating a cancel culture where everyone has to tiptoe about, the power that once was in the pursuit of justice and equality had gotten diluted.

Like I said. I’m very liberal. A bit rough around the edges and sh*t talky, but I believe in equality. I believe in acceptance and inclusion, I believe that, as long as you’re not hurting others, you should be who and what you want to be without being afraid to do so.

It got to a point where my liberal ass would feel like I engaged in a hate crime if I called someone mam, or sir. Like, ‘sh*t I don’t know if that’s what they go by’, but in reality I was being polite. ‘Yes mam!’, ‘yes sir’. Not trying to be insensitive or rude, simply expressing common courtesy. When did that become inappropriate?

Think about it. Me. An open minded, inclusive, caring liberal, feeling like I was walking on eggshells with every random interaction. Now imagine you aren’t some bleeding heart liberal. You’re more center of the road, maybe leaning right, have your opinions on things, but mostly keep them to yourself, you go out and call someone sir and get disapproving looks. It’s not going to sit well with you. No one likes being told what to do, and no one likes being publicly called out for their mistakes. If it’s a friend or family member and they perhaps were a bit insensitive, express that to them later and in private.

In my late teens, early twenties, my friend group was eclectic to say the least. This lesbian couple, who the one girl was my best friend, we’d poke smot, eat dose, play hackysack, and chill. Her partner became a mentor to me, “kidnapping” me and taking me on Phish tour when I was 16. We’d sit around, listen to music and just talk, try and solve the world’s problems.

A topic that often came up was the concept of free will. Can free will exist when one person exercising their free will, impedes on another person’s free will. It’s a topic I still often ponder.

Where I think liberals went wrong, is in our pursuit of justice and equality, we demanded perfection. No ifs, ands, or buts, about it. We insisted everyone, all the time, be this picturesque version of an American citizen without question. If they faltered in this mold we constructed to fit them inside of, they were targeted and labeled as a racist, or a sexist, or xenophobic, or homophobic, when in actuality their transgression did not fit the punishment received.

Thats not to say that some people aren’t all those things and deserving of the criticism and consequences therein. I’m simply saying, by making everyone whose ever told a racial joke, or used a pronoun, or said some sh*t they probably shouldn’t have said in the heat of the moment out to be a tyrant, we have both lessened the power of calling out social injustice and alienated large swathes of society. When I say “we”, I mean some of y’all.

Now! Because of the crusade for justice being turned into a cancel culture movement, the puch is so watered down with crying wolf, ACTUAL, injustice is happening. Nazis, openly and without masks (some of them), having f*ckin parades, waving swastica flags, weekly in Nashville for months and months, recently at a showing of the play, The Dairy of Anne Frank, then again parading around Ohio. They have boat parades and storm the f*ckin capital.

WHERES THE CULTURE WARRIORS CALLING THAT OUT!?!

It seems like a good amount of that social injustice campaign was for show. A facade to get clicks and likes and make people feel superior to the lowly bigots who would dare tell a harmless joke. Thats where we went wrong.

Standing up for what’s right, what’s good, what’s just, should have ZERO to do with this, popularity contest, social media, vain exercise of self indulgence. Put your damn phone in your pocket!

I’ve been to a few, and seen a good amount of coverage of various protests, marches and rallies of late, and it’s embarrassing to see nearly every single younger person has their phone out, videoing. It’s one thing to record the event, or if things are getting wild, or there is brutally, but to just be selfie recording yourself during a march for justice to impress people you don’t know, or do, contaminates the whole movement. It gives the appearance that you’re there for the self gratification of showing people you were there, as opposed to being there because you felt strongly about the cause, the movement. Again! Cheapening and diluting the reasons behind it.

I know there wasn’t cell phones at the time, but think if in the footage of the march to Selma, a huge amount of the participants were selfie recording themselves to later post the video on some social media platform. It would lessen the potency of the struggle.

I’ve always felt that helping someone who will never be able to return the favor, without anyone but you and them knowing about it, makes it the purest, and strongest act of kindness one can engage in. Do what’s right because it’s the right thing to do. Not for bragging rights and to appear like a kind hearted philanthropist. Otherwise the act is tainted and a gesture is for oneself as opposed to being out of doing good.

As liberals. We need to do some soul searching. Our cause is just. Our approach is off. We’ve become what we were in opposition to. Discriminative.

Shunning, and alienating our fellow Americans, and humans, will not bode well for us. Acting elitist and entitled, will only hurt our cause. Scolding and correcting everyone for every little thing, will only push people farther away.

If we are the party of inclusion as we claim to be, it’s time we include people. Engage with them. Rather than criticize from afar, diplomatically debate as to the reasons why. Why they feel immigrants are poisoning blood, why they feel America isn’t great already. Converse as to why they’re so angry and hostile. INCLUDE them in the conversation.

We have segregated them, or ourselves, from the discussion for a while now. Unless we want to end up like the open minded, non hate filled, German people in the 1930’s, we better do that soon. Because with the way the tide is turning, with the hostile, rising populist movement at hand, if we don’t, it will get real bad real quick.

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Balance is a key part of life. From an ecosystem, to one’s health, from a work/life balance, to physically being able to balance. Balance is imperative for good mental health. Can’t just be all hunky dori all the time, pretending everything perfect, but you can’t stay in the dark too long being consumed by gloom and despair.

Balance is how one addresses the financial situations in life, you bring in roughly this much, this costs this much, my spending needs to be in this range. Even balanced substance abuse is how one can do a little something something, but not spend all their money and time on it, and still go to work. It’s ok to have a drink, or a puff here and there, it has to stay in balance with the other aspects of life or it becomes a problem.

Balance can be broke down on a global scale, rain is good, but too much rain is bad. Certain creatures on the lower levels of the food chain are important to feed creatures higher on the food chain, but too many lower level creatures are an infestation.

Balance brings harmony. The ying and the yang of existence. Everything In equipoise brings stability to its surroundings.

The United States basks in a state of asymmetric volatility on nearly every aspect except the split down the middle of political affiliation. There’s no concinnity harmonizing vital elements of society, justice, governance or economics.

The top 10% of earners own 67% of the wealth in this country, and the top 1% earn 31% of the nations wealth. It’s complicated with percentile vs percentile, so let’s break it down to a more conceivable scenario. Let’s say the earners in America is 100 people, and Americans yearly generated income was $100. Off the top $67 goes to ten people, with ninety people still needing their cut of the remaining $33. From the 90%-50% range of earners in our scenario, that’s 40 people, they split between them $30. That leaves us with 50 people who still need compensation for their labor from the 50% mark, to the lowest percentile, to split between them the remaining $3.

To recap. In our 100 person America, with $100 wealth distribution, 1 person gets $31. Nine people split $36, evenly distributed that $4 per person. Then 40 people split $30, which evenly distributed is 75 cents per person. Then 50 people split $3, which evenly distributed is 6 cents per person. There’s nearly 345 million people in the United States so those numbers are obviously massively simplified but you see what I’m getting at.

In our scenario as someone of 50 people receiving $0.06 I’m pissed! Even the next 40 people receiving $0.75 I’m not pumped about it. Take those top 9 earners making $4 each while one guy gets $31! It’s like, what the heck!?

That distribution is the lack of balance, and the very example of disproportion.

Now let’s take a look at incarceration.

The United States has the highest rates of incarceration in the world. While only representing 4% of the world’s population it harbors 25% of the world incarcerated people’s.

Let’s be clear. There are crimes that warrant (no pun intended) severe consequences. There are some crimes that ruin or take lives of the victims upon which they were conducted. Sex crimes, hate crimes, crimes against children, certain assaults, domestic violence, murder, drug related vehicular manslaughter, and some variations of fraud, are life altering or ending and should be judged as such. Yet one in five inmates being incarcerated for drug offenses is absurd.

Let’s be honest. Imprisonment equals profit. In 2023 the cost of incarceration to the American taxpayer was nearly $80 billion. Every state has different costs, and there’s different security levels of prisons, but the U.S. average per inmate is over $39,000 yearly.

Then There’s the nearly 10% of prisons that are “for profit prisons”, meaning they’re owned by private corporations and not only do they receive subsidies from the federal government but they charge up to $24 a phone call, they have unpaid inmate labor, selling the goods or services for profit, and charge exorbitant amounts for over the counter medications such as Tylenol or antihistamines.

The statistics change yearly and the variation of “crimes” is immense. Statistics show that between 44%-65% of incarcerations are drug related. The numbers for violent offenses are similar, 41%-68%. I realize these are more than 100%, and/or in contrast with each other but there’s county jails, local jails, state jails, state prisons, federal prisons, men prisons, female prisons, a significant amount of people in jail who have yet to be sentenced, migrant camps and so on. So finding solid, it’s THIS percent that makes up THAT percentage is nearly impossible. But hey! The price of admission for the article was fair 😉

Overall roughly half the jailed population is for drug offenders. Roughly. Drug use, and most drugs, were not wholly illegal until the 1970’s with Nixon declaring drugs as “public enemy number one”, thus began the war on drugs.

In 1994, Richard Nixon’s Domestic Policy Chief John Ehrlichman, would tell journalist Dan Baum, that the policy was primarily for Nixon’s reelection, saying Nixon had two major obstacles, “the antiwar left, and black people”. He would go on to say in the interview, “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course, we did.”

The population of Black Americans is a little over 12%, and Caucasian is a touch over 60%.

In 2022 the prison population by race was, 32% black, 31% white, 23% hispanic, 10 % multiracial, 2% Native American/Native Alaskan and 1% Asian.

If 12% of the population is Black American, that’s roughly 42 million Black Americans. Of those 42 million black Americans, 13,440,000 are or will be incarcerated. At 32% of the incarcerated population that breaks down to almost 30% of the Black population as a whole, are, or will end up incarcerated. White people are 60% of the population in America at 210 million. Of those 210 million white people 31% of 210 million is 65,100,000 that equates to 6.5% of whites are incarcerated per capita in comparison to 30% of the 12% out of 350 million. I think... I’m a plumber not a statistician, and that math was friggin painful so we’re just going to leave it at that.

So, even if my math is off a bit, it’s plain to see how the disproportionate incarceration percentage of black people being a smaller portion of the overall population, than the larger populations percentage in comparison to the incarceration rate. 😵‍💫 If that makes sense.

The balance between the two races outweighs one another significantly.

Moving on!….

Let’s take a look at political power in this country. We’re going to make this one a little less mathy. 😅

As of November of 2024, there have been 2,004 people who have served in the United States Senate. There’s been over 11,000 members who served in the United States House of Representatives. There’s has been 45 individuals who’ve had the honor of serving as The President of the United States of America.

Of those 2,004 individuals who have served in the Senate, with the addition of two excellent women of color in the 2024 election, by my count, 14 have been of African descent. With the addition of 3 new female members to the Senate, there has been 63 women who have served this nation as a U.S. Senator.

My brains all mushy from the statistical math from the incarceration segment, so we’re going to stay away from percentages but, it’s obvious the disproportionate amount of white men who have served in the Senate versus women and those of color.

Of the more than 11,000 Americans who have served in the United States House of Representatives, only 167 have been African American. With 6 of those being from either D.C. or U.S. territories. Of the more than 11,000 representatives 385 have been women, with the first trans woman elected to the House in 2024 making it 386.

Lastly, and sadly. Of the 45 people who have served as President of the United States of America, 45 of them were men, with one of those men who served two terms being that of African descent. There has been only 2 major party candidates that were women to run for the highest office in the land. And, in a incredibly messed up and cruel twist of fate, both were “defeated” by one of the most grossly incompetent, misogynistic, sexist, racist, conman, cheat, sexual assailant, fraudster, B-list reality tv personality, piece of garbage f*ck, Donald J. Trump.

When things are in balance, everything sits just precisely where it belongs. Beyond a physical realm, beyond what’s known. Harmony and peace coincide as one in a state of euphoria. Like being weightless on a cloud. Not overly ecstatic, but more than content.

Personally I think I’ve seen this most in nature (particularly with a little psychedelic accompaniment) everything existing in its own realm, doing what it’s intended to, unaware of its importance while simultaneous insignificance. Just being, together as one, perfect wistful bliss.

That is certainly not where we find ourselves today. Both as Americans and humanity. We are seemingly in endless conflict. Conflict with each other, conflict with ideology, conflict of nations, religions, practices. We even find we are in conflict with ourselves.

If we could find that balance, one day the endless turmoil would cease to be. Yet. That seems to be in contrast to human nature.

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How’s that protest vote working out for you? Trump will let Bibi raise Gaza to the ground! You want to say Genocide Joe? You ain’t seen NOTHING yet! Trump will not only allow the slaughter of Palestinians, once they’re out of the way, Kushner will be there to erect luxury condos in their place. Maybe we deserve this. A lesson to not be so reactionary, entitled and uninformed.

It’s going to be a LOOOONG 4 years… 😐🔫

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If you can’t win. Cheat! That seems to be the platform for the once, Grand Ol Party. That party died with Eisenhower. Nixon was a paranoid, racist criminal, who would do what it took to keep power. The “Reagan Revolution” was nothing more than a script written for a literal actor to do the bidding of Wall Street and big banks. W. Bush was more of the same , but at least he was a war hero. H.W. Bush was the least qualified candidate for president until his maga successor would stumble into the oval office 16 years later.

The Republican Party is the same racist fucks that use to head the Democratic Party before the 1964 Civil Rights Act. It’s not blue or red, Democrat or Republican. It’s conservative v liberal. The conservative holding on to “the good ol days”. Yea!? What were those!? When you could treat a person of color like a second class citizen and all your other white friends would smile with approval. Tradition. What tradition is that conservatives?! Do we need to go farther back than that?! How bout when you could own another human being and make him do the work while you sat around and reaped the rewards? If that boy get outta line he’ll be gettin the whip! Fucking disgusting! Conservative. What the fuck you conserving!? Sure ain’t morality! Sure ain’t the rule of law! Sure ain’t the planet! Sure ain’t “family values”! Sure ain’t the Constitution, or our democracy, or our institutions, the courts, the balance of power, ethics, honor, dignity, pride! WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU CONSERVING!?!? Because from where I’m standing, it’s hate. Because from where I’m standing, it’s voter suppression. Because from where I’m standing it’s corruption. Just like Reconstruction, just like the Jim Crow south, same shit. Different time. Same assholes!

Prove me wrong……

I’m almost as pissed At liberals as conservatives! (Not really) Do you want to make a change for good in this world?! Do you want to see equality as the law of the land!? Do you want acceptance and love to be the norm!? Where everyone is taken care of, we’re kind to those we know, and those we don’t. A place where corporate greed isn’t the main itinerary. Where being well educated is achievable to all Americans regardless of socioeconomic status? Do you want to live in a country where the bottom 50% of earners make more than 3% of the wealth?! Do you want fair banking and lending practices? A clean environment to live in, to be able to buy a house, raise a family, in a nation where the air is safe to breathe, where the water is safe to drink, where you don’t have to worry if your kid is going to get shot up at school?! Do you want civil rights, woman’s rights, LGBTQ rights, human rights, elderly protection, environmental protection, liberty, freedom, the right to pursue happiness?! Is that something you would like?!

Then toughen the fuck up! Quit this cancel culture, delicate snowflake bullshit! We’re not woke!!! We’re liberals!. The racist are coming with torches to lynch a motha fucker, you gunna stand up and fight, or curl up in a ball and cry!? The fuckin rules have been thrown out long ago. These pricks DONT FUCKING CARE! They will burn this shit down and wait for us to put it out with our liberal tears. Fuck that! If they’re going to burn this shit down we’re locking them In the fucking building while it burns to the ground. The gloves are off. No more going in to the boxing ring holding true to the sport while our opponent has a baseball bat and is ready to swing for the fences at us.

The high road has got us nowhere but low. So let’s stay there. If they’re want to play dirty and skirt the rules, so can we. If we don’t! And fuckin soon! They’ll be nothing left to fight for.

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Trust me! There’s so very little I’d want to share similarities with when it comes to maga. I also have faith in the institutions that serve as the bedrock of our democracy. What I do not have faith in is Donald Trump’s integrity, honesty, or willingness to play by the rules. This is the 3rd article I’ve ran across that seemed credible. I checked the site, small independent journalism, no red flags when checking on its credibility. I’m not saying the election was rigged! While at the same time I’m not saying it wasn’t.

The thing is… We all saw that train wreck of a campaign. We all saw the apparent cognitive decline. We saw Trump ostracize, alienate, and discriminate against SO MANY different voting blocks. Saying, “They’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs, they’re eating the pets!”. He was called out on, and we saw and heard, him echo words of that German dictator from WWII, Mussolini and Stalin. We heard the promises to be a dictator on day one. His heavy lean towards authoritarianism. Him calling for the licenses of CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, The Washington Post, The NY Times, pretty much everyone except OAN, Newsmax and Fox News. His calls for across the board tariffs were labeled as detrimental, and recession bound, by nearly every major economic think tank. He got DESTROYED during the debate. We saw hundreds of prominent Republican figures come out in opposition to Trump. Whole movements to ensure his defeat. Almost every single person in his previous administration say they wouldn’t support him, including, for good reasons, his own vice president.

The man’s an American traitor! We all saw the lead up to Jan 6th, then what occurred. I made it my life’s goal, as well as many others, on many platforms to remind everyone of it, and the fake electors scheme, and the theft and retention of classified documents, long after he knew he had last the election. The phone calls with Putin. The sending of vital pandemic relief supplies to Putin in the hype of the epidemic. All the f*ckin Russian ties. I know a lot of Americans ain’t that bright but. Really!? No one else put that together!?

Put on top of that his pressuring of Brad Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” and all the conspiring behind that. Not to mention the rape and definition charges. Not to mention his company being convicted of fraud. Not to mention HIM being convicted of fraud and a convicted felon because of it.

Add to that the strange bromance with Elon Musk the owner of Tesla. Trump HATES renewable anything!! He would go off about batteries and sharks habitually! Windmills!! Hates em! Talking all kinds of sh*t on electric cars, saying they would just run out of power, that there wasn’t any charging stations, then if there was you’d be there for hours, that the army wanted electric tanks, typical Trump fabrications. Just ALL the sudden him and the richest man in the world, who just happens to be in constant contact with Putin, who just happened to call for Ukraine to surrender, who just happened to buy a major social media platform, again or whatever. Musk who just happens to own Starlink, who just happens to offer free internet service in nearly every swing state.

On top of all that the numbers just don’t add up. You’re saying that 400,000 people, went in the voting booth, ONLY voted Trump and just walked out? Didn’t vote for the Republican senator, didn’t vote for the Republican representative, didn’t vote on any of the referendums or bills? Just “bullet” voted trump? Even dumbass Tommy Tuberville said in an interview, trying to accuse the left of fuckery, “It’s just weird how, the Democratic candidate, in a state Trump won, would be elected to congress”. Yea! Sure is “weird”, Tommy!

Then, the cocky statements from Trump and the right. I was watching this sh*t like, ‘these MFers are up to something’. Then, Him saying numerous times, he doesn’t need the votes. His “little secret” with Mike Johnson. The straight arrogance from Kevin Roberts, not only in publishing project 2025 but in his statements like, “there’s a second American revolution coming” leading to “and it will be bloodless, if the left allows it to be”. Then, there’s Joe Rogan, who lets it slip on his pod that Elon had an app on his phone where he knew the election results 4 hours before anyone else. Then why did he tell Tucker Carlson he would end up in jail?

You’re telling me, that guy, running that “prestigious” a campaign, with all the shinanigans after and during his first administration, a felon, hated by his own party, that fuckin guy won all 7 swing states, which hasn’t been done by anyone in 40 fuckin years, that guy, who literally said at a town hall, “no more questions, who wants to hear anymore damn questions” then proceeded to sway on stage for 40 mins to tunes, that guy won the popular vote too!? The popular vote that a Republican has only one once since Reagan!? That fuckin guy won all 7 swing states and the popular!? I don’t know if I can buy that.

I guess what I’m getting at is, forensic audits and hand recounts in the swing states would put all that unease to rest. It should be done, and soon! Trump has cheated at everything he’s done in the past, why would that change now?

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Reconstruction in the Present

Reading the Declaration of Independence, The United States Constitution, even the Federalist Papers, one can almost feel the excitement of those who wrote and drafted them. This energetic, hopeful, nervous energy dawned on every page, sometimes every word. For there had never been anything quite like it. There still has never been anything quite like it since.

Not only were they casting aside the shackles of a tyrannical government, they were initiating the birth of a new nation. One can feel the pride behind their words, knowing, that if executed with the proper mindfulness, their concept might work.

Then to have the foresight to enlist amendments, knowing that the wheel of time forever moves forward, and inevitably society will change. They had a few of their own amendments they wanted enshrined on the citizens of this new and beautiful republic. The first 10 amendments, also known as, The Bill of Rights.

The first amendment alone gives privileges that some nations today are not blessed with. The initial thought in the first amendment was to ensure the freedom to practice or believe in whatever religion one held, and stating that the state shall force none onto any of its people. This was magnificent! Many had fled Europe to get away from state sponsored and enforced religion. Giving those the ability to worship who, and as they pleased, or not to worship at all, was a colossal freedom.

In this same proclamation the freedom of speech, and the press, as well as the freedom to assemble to petition the government was gifted. In the old world one could have their tongue removed, or life ended, for nothing more than speaking their mind. To remove that fear from the perspective of society was a fervent display of granted liberty.

A free press is given. This would seek to enlighten and inform the populace without pressure from the state to influence it one way or another, not only conveying the happenings of the time, but also holding the representation of the branches of government accountable.

Finally it gives the ability to gather en mass, to show the position of the people concerning what matter was at hand, without concerns of incarceration for doing so.

The endowments go on. Granting American citizens with such freedom, such liberty, such possibility to thrive, as an individual, as a collective, as a nation. There was one major hypocritical practice and mindset that would, did, and does, create friction that burns the very intent for which this whole experiment boasted.

The enslavement of humans from the continent of Africa.

To be fair, America did not invent the notion of slavery, it had been around since the beginnings of civilization. America did immensely profit and benefit from it. So much so that our landmass may not have been as vast as it encompasses without it. It would become the source of a false belief of superiority in some of Americas white countrymen, a source of violence from those in opposition to, and those for it, a source of shame, and a festering blemish that infects our country to this day.

Acknowledging, admitting, and owning the mistakes and wrongdoings of the past does not make one a foe of themselves, nor of their nation. There are many today who do not wish to teach these atrocities to the youth. As if shielding them from the truth is somehow patriotic. As if pretending it didn’t happen will make it just go away.

It was George Orwell who said. “Totalitarianism demands the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run, probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth”. A warning that to avoid and change events that since transcribed, is to initiate an unnatural control over the people whose history it represents.

There is not a person, most certainly no nations that is without its own missteps, horrific acts, grave misgivings, and the unavoidable consequences that followed.

Ours was, and is, racism and white supremacy. The reverberations of which are clearly seen and felt in the present.

Since Americas beginnings there were those who knew the hypocrisy in which the words they wrote in our founding documents contradicted the practices of the time. Some who wrote, ‘all men are created equal’ owned humans themselves. Many opposed it, but for the sake of, ironically, unification, security, and progress, compromises were conducted, and morals overlooked.

With the Louisiana purchase, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, and the Gadsden purchase, the United States more than doubled its size, now spreading from coast to coast.

Although some states, like Pennsylvania, had outlawed slavery as early as 1780, the southern states were adamant in its use. As westward expansion commenced, southern states feared the abolishment of their free labor. This can be seen in the Missouri Compromise of 1821, as well as proceeding “compromises” up to the Civil War, which would end the practice.

Because of the way representation was/is given in the Senate, the slave states (southern states) insisted that for every free state entered in to the union, a slave state must follow as to not give a majority to the free states. This is also reflected in the 3/5 compromise, where slave states wanted what they considered to be their property in some occasions, (the fugitive slave act of 1793, and 1850 bearing the same name) but wanted them to be considered full persons when part of the census, providing representation in the House of Representatives, as well as an increase in their electoral votes for the presidency. Whereas the free states (northern states) felt that any enslaved person should not count in instances such as they decried, unless they were enfranchised as freemen with the constitutional protections therein.

This kinetic energy would come to a boil with the assistance of the Supreme Court ruling in, Dred Scott v Sandford.

Scott was born a slave to a plantation owner in Alabama. He was sold to a man named John Emerson, who, upon purchasing him, (it just feels wrong to even write that) took him to his home in Missouri. Emerson would move from Missouri to the Wisconsin Territory, now present day Minnesota to be precise, where he would reside for several years.

The Wisconsin Territory held the title of a free state. Upon moving with Emerson, Scott met a woman who was previously owned by another man, they would fall in love, get married and have two children.

In 1845 Emerson had planned to move. He took Scott and his family back to St. Louis MS, where slavery was permitted. Scott was aware of the “Once Free, Always Free” doctrine inherent in the northern states. He would sue for his freedom under that pretense.

The case would make it to the Supreme Court where in a 7-2 decision the majority wrote that enslaved persons “Were not included, and were not intended to be included, under the word ‘citizen’ in the Constitution, and therefore claim none of the rights and privileges which that instrument provides for, and secures for, citizens of the United States.” Also adding that blacks did not have rights as citizens in Federal Courts, that, southern states did not have to honor the “Once Free, Always Free” doctrine, and that congress should not have eliminated slavery. It’s prudent to point out that all justices in the majority owned slaves themselves, and that in our history of the Supreme Court, that 30 of the 116 justices that have served, owned humans.

The tension came to a head with the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, where upon his victory, starting with South Carolina, 7 states succeeded from the union and formed The Confederacy. The official start of the war was April 12, 1861, with the bombardment of Ft. Sumter on the South Carolina coast.

On January 1, 1863, Lincoln would declare the abolishment of slavery in his Emancipation Proclamation speech. It had been 2 years of a harsh and bloody war over slavery, with more than 2 years of the conflict still to come.

Throughout history most civil wars are fought to overthrow a government system, or over grievances, whether social, economic, historical, or political. Whereas Americas Civil War was to free an enslaved population from the bondage of their “masters”. This does not wash away the transgression, yet it’s worth addressing.

After the Civil War was what is known as The Reconstruction Period. Where Confederate states were under a type of marshal law and occupation by union soldiers to advert any continuing conflicts. Southern whites felt as if their whole way of life had been attacked (perhaps the same way Africans forced on to ships then enslaved may have felt? 🤷‍♂️) their contempt for African Americans loomed large.

Slavery was abolished in the United States with the enactment of 13th Amendment, on January 31, 1865, shortly before the start of Lincoln’s second term as president. Lincoln would take the oath of office again on March 4, 1865.

The south had suffered innumerable defeats throughout the last year of the war. Not long after Union troops overtook Savanna George, the war was all but done for the confederacy. On April 8, 1865, General Robert E Lee would surrender, ending the bloodshed of the Civil War. Estimates range from 750,000 to a million Americans killed.

Now the monumental task of integrating the free peoples into society, as well as the dilemma of what to do to, and with, the “rebel” slave states after the war, was at hand. It would be a strenuous and difficult task ahead. Lincoln had been pondering these questions for some time as the war drew to a close. Yet he would not be able to implement any of his ideas.

On April 14, 1865, Lincoln would go with his wife to Fords theater in Washington D.C., where prominent actor, and confederate sympathizer, John Wilkes Booth, would sneak into the upper box where Lincoln was watching the play, pull a pistol, and shoot Abe in the back of the head. Lincoln would die from the wound on the following day, April 15, 1865. The grave task of integrating the freeman and unifying the nation would fall on a crass, unqualified man in his successor, Andrew Johnson.

Reconstruction, as it would be deemed, would be an arduous endeavor that would entail grace and strength, finesse with unadulterated power. The consensus was that harsh penalties or treatment of the insurrectionist states would only alienate the southern states more, causing the reunification process to lengthen, yet their actions couldn’t be tolerated.

A series of demands was proposed to southern states in regards to regaining their representation in congress, and for the eventual withdrawal of the military occupation of the former slave states.

First each state would have to accept the 13th amendment ending all enslavement of any persons. Each state would have their leaders formally renounce succession, and swear loyalty to the Union. They would have to reimburse debts incurred to the Union due to the Civil War. As well as rewrite their state constitutions to abide with the newly enacted 14th amendment in which citizenship, and all the rights enjoyed therein, including the right to vote, was granted to all native born persons despite their former servitude or status. Section 3 of the 14th amendment, prohibited any persons who had swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution, then “engaged in Insurrection or rebellion against the same” (cough Trump cough ahem cough). They would also have to show a willingness to accept and carry out these ultimatums.

(I swear there’s a point in all this. I realize it’s aversion to brevity, but bear with me and I’ll attempt to wrap up this drawn out history lesson all back to a singular perspective 😁)

This did not come without resistance. The slave states had come to harbor an entitled sense of superiority over blacks. Their arrogance through ignorance and sloth, in having an unpaid, purposely uneducated, vast workforce had given rise to the notion they were above the African Americans who labored, creating the wealth they would secure due to it.

The loss of the Civil War, the abolition of slavery, the demands for fealty, the reparations, the mandatory alterations of their state constitutions, the acceptance of suffrage to their former subservients, and the annihilation of their false sense of grandeur and self importance was too taxing for their fragile egos and petty hubristic illusions of white domineering to bear.

Their once overinflated pride, much like a hemorrhoid, needed soothed. The ass cream to remedy this uncomfortable situation was the enactment and inception of white supremacist organizations like, The Knights of the White Camelia, the White Brotherhood, the Red Shirts, the White League, and the the largest collection of bigoted cowardice terrorists, the Klu Klux Klan. It’s estimated that these pusillanimous, sheet wearing, cosplay, B-list antiheroes killed over a thousand innocent African American souls in 1868 alone. In a cruel irony, wearing hoods to hide their faces, they would threaten, brutalize, torture, maim and murder, the very immolations abducted to acquire the wealth they so deeply coveted.

Johnson, Lincoln’s successor, would end his presidency with whimper. He would become the first president to be impeached by congress, narrowly escaping his expulsion. He would infuriate the Republicans by vetoing numerous attempts to enshrine civil rights and suffrage to the freemen in southern states, and restrict “black codes”. His final hurrah would be his campaigning, where he compared himself to Jesus, gave hour plus long speeches, ramble incoherently, and would often fall prey to engaging in verbal fights with supporters and naysayers (sounds like he’d be elected to a second term these days 😑…). Johnson would run on a different ticket than the Republican platform he had inherited the White House from, but would lose miserably to decorated war general Ulysses S Grant.

Grant’s decisive victory in the 1868 election was on account of his popularity as a war hero. His skills on the battlefield far outweighed that of his skills as a politician. Grant was sworn in March 4, 1869. Upon his inauguration Grant proclaimed the need to ratify the 15th Amendment, something his predecessor wouldn’t. His swearing in was attended by many African Americans. He made it clear that the Reconstitution efforts were of top priority. He called for bonds that were issued during the war be paid out in gold, and specified the need for “proper treatment” in regards to relations with Native Americans.

Grant was known as an honest man, and in so, gave that same assumption to those he dealt with. As many of us with integrity know, not all can be trusted or held to thier word. His administration would be fraught with scandals and corruption, though none involved Grant himself.

Grant was ahead of his time when it came to his views on race relations. He advocated for equality and fairness regardless race, status or religion (although he did get into some hot water with General Order #11 during the war). He pioneered for civil rights, shortly after the start of his first term on March 18, 1869, he signed into law an equal rights bill allowing black Americans to serve on juries, and to hold federal office. Again championing equality, in 1870 he signed the Naturalization Act, granting foreign black peoples citizenship.

On February 3, 1870, Georgia finally conceded to the terms for re-entering the Union, including acknowledging and complying to the 15th Amendment, which stated that neither the federal government nor any state, could abridge or deny any male citizens right to vote “on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”

Grant would serve two terms as president, spearheading Reconstruction. Great progress was achieved, but as the saying goes, old habits die hard, and the south’s feelings over white superiority were rooted deep.

As Reconstruction trudged forward, certain leniency’s were given to southern democrats. Just as the case with disobedient kids, you give them an inch, they take a mile.

As soon as military presence rescinded out of the former slave states, is as soon as southern whites began subjugating blacks and disavowing laws enacted to enshrine their liberty and protect their person.

The 1876 presidential election between Samuel J Tilden and Rutherford B Hayes was ripe with controversy and corruption. Although accounts are sketchy, and no documents exist confirming anything, a compromise was made. It held many names like, The Compromise of 1877, the Wormley Agreement, The Bargain of 1877, and the Corrupt Bargain.

The preferred Democratic candidate, Tilden, received 184 electoral votes to Hayes’ 165, with 185 winner take all. Yet the territories hadn’t had their electoral votes certified.

Long story shortened a bit. The South was less interested in who was in the Oval Office as they were with the federal government interfering with the way in which they governed their own states, and in particular, the way in which they dealt with their black “constituents”.

After backroom deals and compromises on both sides, Hayes was declared winner and president elect, and the former confederate states were relinquished from federal control and oversight. So after more than 12 years of efforts, 12 years of progress, 12 years of strife and struggle, the southern Reconstruction was ended with a default victory by the former slave states.

Almost immediately southern whites began to roll back protections and liberties, while enacting oppressive laws of their own. Many of the provisions, programs and protections not only enfranchised, benefited and protected those of color, the same rang true for poor whites. Sharecropper controls were deregulated, basically creating scores of both black and white indentured servants, who worked land they didn’t own, made next to nothing, and enriched the already wealthy landowners.

Any programs that were affiliated with Reconstruction were eliminated. This included schools and education programs. Hospitals and healthcare, and benefits for families like food assistance, housing assistance and other social services.

To poor southern whites in which these services would be helpful and accessible, it made no difference. Their intolerance to black equality far outweighed the empty bellies of themselves and their children. It far outweighed their personal health and the health of their offspring. The oppression of black Americans was far more significant than their children receiving an education, having decent accommodations, or whether they themselves were basically conned into servitude themselves.

After Reconstruction was when “Lilly White” laws and “Jim Crow” laws became the status quo. Nothing cemented this more so than the 1886 Supreme Court ruling in Plessy v Ferguson which allowed the concept of “separate but equal” to stand as not violating the 13th, 14th, or 15th amendments, stating the “Constitution is color blind and knows, nor tolerates classes among citizens”. This gave way to long standing segregation in the south. From drinking fountains to lunch counters, from schools to public transportation. It also enabled the rise of literacy tests, poll taxes, ownership and/or employment clauses in order to cast a vote. This disenfranchised the white poor and middle class just as much as the African Americans.

Southern Democrats, also known as Dixiecrats, would dominate the political landscape in the south throughout the later part of the 19th century till midway through the twentieth when Dixiecrats vanished. Well! What caused this political mass extinction event to, just as an asteroid did to the dinosaurs, wipe Dixiecrats into oblivion?

Maybe taking a look into the career of the oldest sitting senator in U.S. history may give us some insight.

Strom Thurman was 100 years old when he died, still serving as senator from the “great” state of South Carolina. He served as the Democratic Governor of that state from 1947-1951. In 1948 Thurman threw his hat in the ring as a presidential candidate under a branch of the Democratic Party that advocated for robust states rights, known as Dixiecrats. Him and his running mate, Mississippi Governor Feilding Lewis Wright took 39 electoral votes in the 1948 election, carrying Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, and, you guessed it, South Carolina. They ran as staunch segregationist, pushing adamantly for state sovereignty and independence. Harry Truman would go on to win the 48 election, but Strom’s political career had barely begun.

Thurman would become the first major political office candidate to seek and win an election as a write in, for senator representing South Carolina. He was very vocal in his opposition to civil rights. In 1957 when Eisenhower’s administration attempted a civil rights bill, the first since the 1875 bill passed nearing the end of Reconstruction, Thurman would filibuster for over 24 hours, (back when you couldn’t just call for the filibuster, you actually had to be in the floor speaking to filibuster a bill) alas he was unsuccessful and the bill passed.

Strom had been a Democrat his whole career. Until one fateful day, July 2, 1964 when Thurman confessed that the Democratic Party had changed and no longer represented the same values it once stood for and he could no longer consider himself a Democratic.

Hmmmm. Whats the significance of July 2 1964? It’s either some wild, one in a billion chance coincidence, or it has to do with Linden Johnson signing the most extensive and sweeping civil rights legislation in the, Civil Rights Act, into law.

Linden Johnson is noted as saying to a young staffer of his, Bill Moyers after seeing some racially charged, degrading political signs while campaigning in Tennessee, “I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell! Give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you!”

There’s a certain portion of Americans, where it’s never been about policy. It’s never been, who’s more fiscally responsible, whose economic plan is better moving forward, which candidate do I think is most qualified?… It’s about, who holds the same perspective of white superiority? Who thinks minorities are a threat to my white nationalist identity? Who HATES that people of color are allowed to prosper more than me!? A white person!

That is what MAGA is all about. That was the platform they ran on, all the MAGA candidates. They may try and gaslight you and say otherwise. The darkness of the color of skin may have lightened a touch when it comes to their discriminatory rhetoric, but it’s the same shit.

In my liberal naivety I truly thought those days were behind us as Americans. That those who experienced segregation, Jim Crow laws, open, blatant racism, were slipping the mortal coil and taking that garbage with them to the grave. To see how many GenZ males voted for the openly racist, misogynistic, xenophobic, homophobic, antisemitic, anti-immigrant, cruel, hateful, dictator admiring, Hitler Sympathizer, rapist, conman, fraudster, felon, FUCK! Donald Trump, it’s clear the discrimination of the past is very much alive and kicking.

It holds no relevance whether Republican or Democratic. It harbors no reverence whether it’s anti-black, or anti-immigrant. It isn’t in relation to a remnant of time. It’s the same racist assholes, with the same discriminative shit.

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Life is a series of lessons. Trial and error. Success and failure. Despite copious amounts of planning, regardless the itinerary one had planned, even with all one’s efforts. The winds of the great magnet will ultimately choose the way.

I once told a friend, going through a rough time, ‘Man! You can swim against the current all day and you’ll end up in the same place you started. If you go with the flow, it’ll bring you to the sea.” I surprised myself with how prophetic it sounded.

Just go with the flow.

What happens when that flow takes you and those you care for, through rapids, white water, crashing and tossing the cargo most dear, you and those dearest to yous, safety, happiness, and well being?

Maybe that was the point. If you were to follow my theory, the flow was taking you where you belonged. Through the turmoil, through the chaos, through the uncertainty, so you weren’t stationary. Yet when you look upstream, that position once stagnant, looks peaceful and inviting.

If you look at it through the lens of eastern philosophy, being present in the moment because moments are eternity. From a, want is the root of all suffering and, through suffering comes enlightenment perspective, the tumultuous times are the very essence of existence.

The thing is.

It’s not me where my concern lies. My life has been a series of pain, loss , abandonment, and struggle. I’ve had to start from nothing a couple times. I am use to nothing coming easy, to everything having to be done the hard way. It’s toughened me, aided in an ability to adapt, to survive. It’s made me who I am.

It’s those who are vulnerable. Those who are easy targets. Those who are marginalized. Those who are unable, unwilling, incapable of properly defending themselves from the rapids of existence or the cruelty of others.

I can’t stand a bully. I’m a pretty big, blue collar, tradesman who has used his body to make a living for over 20 years now. There’s not a whole lot of people where, face to face, are going to try and push me around, physically threaten me. It’s not a great idea. People who bully, degrade, discriminate, or pick on others are not something that I’ve had to deal with since grade school.

Yet I see it often. I see people hurt and take advantage of people who don’t deserve it, sometimes don’t even realize it’s happening. It pisses me off! Those people who would push around someone they know do not pose a danger to them, those people, I can see right through them. Insecure and hurt children, despite the age, who, as a defense mechanism for what happened, or didn’t happen, to them, put this tough guy mask on, overly aggressive and macho. It reeks of a lack of self confidence.

They express this frustration, this anger, this lack of self worth by making others miserable, by making it hard on them because life has been hard on themselves, and why should others have it easy when everything was such a struggle in their lives. By making others feel small and powerless, for whatever reason, makes them feel the opposite. Powerful, strong, tough.

I think that’s one of the, if not the, hardest things in the outcome of the 2024 election. To know, that the most vulnerable, easiest to target, kindest people, are the ones in the line of fire. The ones who already singled out for their differences, status, or preferences in society. They are now who will be isolated to receive the blunt force of the victors.

Immigrants and their families, working hard for a better future, paying into a system they will not reap the benefits from down the line. The LGBTQ community, already ostracized for who they are. Minorities, unable to hide or pretend they aren’t the color they are, disenfranchised for years, and scapegoated unjustly. Women, treated like second class citizens for millennia, given the right to vote after those of color, or trusted to even control their own bodies by a patriarchal culture. Those with disabilities. The young. The old. The marginalized masses of America. Now more vulnerable than ever before.

It’s said that, “the cruelty is the point” when it came to Donald Trump and MAGA. I don’t disagree. These people didn’t hide their prejudices. They didn’t hide their hatred, their anger. Some politicians, some movements, will put a front on, use dog whistle. They were using a blow horn to announce their dislike of transgender people, their dislike of immigrants, their dislike of women. Their dislike of equal treatment. They ran on that shit.

The worst people, with the worst perspective, with the worst intentions, now validated in their plight. Given assurance that their xenophobic, anti-immigrant, racist tendencies and behaviors are credible. They are vindicated in their actions and hate speech.

Thats what hurts. The thought that these bullies, these assholes, these racist pricks, are given legitimacy to continue that tradition.

That those who are already unguarded in this world are now left in a place with even less protection.

It’s not fair to them! It’s not acceptable to hurt those who are the most sensitive and open. It’s not fair to isolate those who were already isolated in this turbulent world. Now it will be even harder. The current of existence submersing them in the riptide of a populous focus. How is that ok!?

It’s not. Martin Luther King Jr once said, “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of Convenience and comfort, but where he stand in times of challenge and controversy”. Thats where those of us who can defend, must defend.

Those of us with the capability to stand up against the wrongs done to others. To defend those who are cornered and scared. To protect the rights of our fellow human, regardless whether it directly affects ourselves or not.

To protect and defend the Constitution. To safeguard democracy. To secure the rights and liberties that so many, gave so much for us to have.

Things are going to get worse before they get better. Just last week a group of Nazis where waving swastica flags outside of an Anne Frank play. The Trump administration hasn’t even began yet, but these pricks are validated that this behavior is acceptable, it’s condoned even. It’s going to get worse.

That’s why it’s important that if we can, we do. This treacherous journey has just begun, but when we come out the other side. May we be all the more better for it. All the more strong and tougher due to it. May we show that being good is far more rewarding than being a jerk.

Only through this will we get the world we want to see. Through our actions through our kindness. John Adams once said, “To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do”.

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Tomorrow we show the world who we are. Tomorrow will decide the direction this nation traverses in the foreseeable future. Tomorrow, we choose.

We choose whether or not to cling to a past. A past set on retribution. A past focused on revenge. Revenge on those who dared to speak out against the shame being done to, and done by our country, in our name. Will we decide to harbor the anger and hate that has plagued our nation for far too long? Will we continue the trend of violence and hostility? Will we accept the discriminative dialogue of old? Will we allow our country to be overcome by a minority rule? Will we condone autocracy in the land of the free?

Or will we move forward? Will we break the shackles of a past that marginalized those of color, and the fairer sex, women? Will we stand for a future where the middle class gets relieved of some of the weight of taxation that we have been burdened with, insisting that corporations and the wealthy contribute more than the fraction we do? Will we embrace tomorrow with hope in our hearts, and joy in our eyes. Seeing the diversity around us for the beautiful thing that it is? Will we condemn fascism? Will we demand that our leaders have grace and class? Will we hold tight to a moral compass that has guided us through the rugged road of oppression to a pasture of inclusion? Will we stop seeing our fellow American as the enemy, and respect their opinion, whether we agree or not. Back to a time not long ago. When civility was the way to interact, where courtesy was commonplace, where kindness was the norm.

That’s the America I want to live in. One of tolerance and love. Of togetherness and hope. One where we can come together and celebrate this country, that so many gave so much for us to enjoy. We are not enemies friends. We are countrymen. United by our admiration for freedom, for liberty, for tomorrow. We are The United States. We are the land of the free. The home of the brave. The ones who stand for democracy. For dignity, for progress.

Tomorrow. We show the world who we are. Let’s show them the fearless, honest, powerful, righteous, intelligent, diverse, beautiful, kind people we have come to be.

Tomorrow. Vote Kamala Harris for President of the United States of America. Vote the only healthy party in America right now, and vote blue down ballot.

Let’s show them who we are!

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Some mistook our criticism of this nation as disrespect. They have accused liberals of hating America. They have said we were coming, Marxist, pinkos. All because we held our country to a higher standard. There’s is a certain amount of accountability we demand. When you love something, you want it to be the best version of itself that it can be. And we love our nation!

We did not do this to disparage her. We did it because of what we know she’s capable of. For America is the land of the free and the home of the brave! Our independence came from a ragtag bunch of miscrieants, fighting against the worlds strongest military might, yet hell bent on freedom! Our Civil War was fought, not over a disagreement in governance, not over what leader should be in power, but over the concept that all peoples deserve to be free. After shattering the bondage of slavery we were asked to assist democratic nations overseas. In our first involvement in a world war. Again fascism rose in Europe and Asia, and again we intervened, all but annihilating fascism and imperialism at the roots. We have been there when small nations needed assistance, we have stood up for democracy, helped out in natural disasters, demanded change for the climate crisis, fed the poor, helped the needy, spread democracy, promoted freedom, condemned oppression, stood up for human rights, led the world in the notion that all are created equal and that all deserve dignity.

Be proud to be a citizen in the greatest, freest, most influential, powerful nation on earth!!!

America. 

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The hits keep coming folks! Here on; Things Fascists Say!!!!

Accountability!? Not for a dictator! Ha!! Our psychotic sociopath, Dementia Don the diapered wonder f*ck boy tyrant, goes after anyone who would dare show people the things he says or does. How dare the press show the insane things I say and do!? There will be no criticism of the supreme leader! Honestly, I’ve had tacos more supreme than cook!

I want to thank all my pro-democracy friends out there! Together we stand, divided we fall, and together we shall stand! For our nation! For our freedom! For our rights and the rights of those who come after us. Because these American people, we don’t believe in oppression, we don’t believe that any man is above the law. We believe in hope! Liberty! Our right to pursue happiness. We believe in a brighter tomorrow! We believe in each other. Friends. Thank you 🙏 Get out there and show the world what we’re made of. My brothers, my sisters, my fellow Americans. 🇺🇸

Together we will keep fascism where it belongs, not in America!!!

Vote Kamala Harris for President

Vote blue down ballot

And let’s make a future together

One of unity and joy

Of personal freedom and success

One where we all get our shot at the American dream ☮️🇺🇸🇺🇸

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Pennsylvania Lt. Governor, Austin Adam’s, “The election was free and fair in 2016 when he (Trump) won, it was free and fair in 2020 when he lost, and it will be free and fair in 2024.”

As a previous sports player I can tell you. You can’t just love the game when you win. You are not going to always win. Losses are part of the experience. They’re part of life. Sportsmanship is a life lesson. You win some, you lose some. Either way, you’ll be out on the field ready to go next chance you get.

That is where Trump fails as an adult, as a role model, a politician and a leader. Being gracious in defeat. Defeat is inevitable, doesn’t mean it has to be often, but it is inevitable. To do that takes humility. A trait Trump lacks.

You can’t just love your country when you win. You can’t just be the president of the people who voted for you. You can’t say you’re American, then do all you can to tear down the core of our nation.

This is why anyone with moderate knowledge of history and/or political science would call Donald Trump a fascist. He claims every news organization is “fake news”, except which ones? OAN, NewsMax, and a branch of his campaign, Fox News. That gives away the game right there! So the press is fine as long as they aren’t critical of you? Your policies and actions are fine to be covered, as long as they’re not controversial. That’s part of a fascist political stance. Ask any of those reporters Putin had thrown out a window!

If you have any background studying nineteenth century through twentieth century Europe and Asia it’s clear to see the similarities in the rhetoric, the perceived problems, and the way to fix them. For too long, centuries, fear has been used as a tool to subdue the masses. Whether that’s fear of a military or police state, fear of invasion from a foreign enemy, fear of higher taxes, fear of immigrants. Fear is a powerful emotion. It grips your chest to where it’s hard to breathe but you could jump over a small building at the same time. It’s a natural instinct. All things feel fear at one point or another. It’s a survival tactic. Fascists, and many politicians, use fear as a tool to sway their population or voters towards them. Using such a raw and visceral human instinct.

That fear is often about a thing, a movement or a group. Far too often in modern society this fear, which transmutes into anger, is directed at those different than the majority of the population. Mostly directed at immigrants. From WWII to the genocides in Africa. An enemy is created for the people to extrapolate their anger upon. Donald Trump is a master at this. This is fascism

Before a single vote was cast in 2016, Trump was telling his supporters at rallies that, “The only way we’re going to lose, is if they cheat”. Coincidently he did win, and no fuss was made, no recounts ordered, no lawsuits filed. In 2020, when he botched the pandemic response, made an ass of himself, and us, on the  world stage, when he wouldn’t condemn racism or white supremacist groups and told them to “stand back and stand by”, when he had added nearly $8 trillion to the deficit, when he had broken every rule, every norm, all etiquette and ethics, there was no way he would “win in a landslide”, as it was said.

The American people were sick, broke, couldn’t work, dying by the thousands, stuck at home, frustrated. For him and his supporters to have the slightest doubt that he had the chance of losing is preposterous! Of course he had a chance! He dropped the damn ball numerous times!

His continued lies about the election system is the most damaging thing a “leader” has ever done to our democracy. He has sown seeds of doubt, that, just like weeds, will take a long time to eradicate. For over 200 years we have been the symbol for free and fair elections, the model for the peaceful transfer of power. Now, because Trump lost, we’re all the sudden not!? We’re a 3rd world country!? Or as Trump puts it, we’re the world’s garbage can!? That’s fascism too!

Na tho! It’s him that is garbage. It’s him who can’t be trusted. It’s him that is poisoning the blood of our nation. It’s him who is thin skinned, yet always putting others down. And it’s us.

It’s us who are going to show the world that we still are the America we portray ourselves to be. Leaders! Thinkers! Good, honest people! Kind! Compassionate! Empathetic! Strong.

Let’s show this wanna be dictator and the rest of the world who we are! Let’s show our dignity and self determination. Let’s vote Kamala Harris as the President of the United States of America!🇺🇸



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How is this not sedition!? How is Bannon and others not locked up, more so than 4 months!? He says how they’re going to steal the election! Not sure how I missed this audio back when but damn!! This is treason! This stands against everything our country is! The MAGA atrocity must be stopped…

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Welcome back folks! Looks like we have yet another; Things Fascists Say!!!

No dictator wants to be unseated! Thats one of the perks of being a dictator. On Trump’s last days in office a binder containing the most highly classified information of ourselves, NATO and other allies mysteriously went missing. Secrets so high level even lawmakers and aides with top security clearances had to go to CIA headquarters to look at them. In a fit of rage Trump decided to declassify this information out of spite. Putting the lives of informants, sources, and agents in jeopardy. Slow down Donny! You’ll give the game away and everyone will know you’re a Russian asset with talk like that.

Thanks for tuning in! Not sure if they’ll be more; Things Fascists Say!!

But as always, keep fascism where it belongs, not in America!

And vote Kamala Harris as well as blue all down ballot.

A shout out to democracy here on; Things Fascists Say!!!

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“No prior President has ever abased himself more abjectly before a tyrant” Were the words spoken by the late Senator from Arizona, John McCain after the July 2018 summit between President Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin. His fellow Arizonan Senator Jeff Flake would say, “I never thought I would see the day when our American President would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression. This is shameful.”

McCain would pass away from an aggressive brain cancer on August 25, 2018. His fellow statesmen would not seek reelection, giving a lengthy em passionate speech condemning “new normal” of the Trump era, saying,  “the personal attacks, the threats against principles, freedoms, and institutions; the flagrant disregard for truth or decency, the reckless provocations, most often for the pettiest and most personal reasons, reasons having nothing whatsoever to do with the fortunes of the people that we have all been elected to serve.”

Look at those pictures of Donald Trump! Have you ever seen that lack of overbearing arrogance on his face before!? Putin either makes him soil his diaper with fear, he has dirt on Trump, or our tiny handed tyrant is in love! This has little to do with what we’ll dive into but, just happened to run across Flake’s announcement for not seeking reelection. It was pretty good! Anyway…

With our short attention spans and constant distractions, we may only remember a phrase when we associate the word Russia, and the word Trump. That being the former President’s response to a reporter, saying “Oh! Russia Russia Russia”, that’s my word association image anyway. But yes. Russia Russia Russia.

We’ll go in a reverse chronologicalish order, or most relevant recent order, or whatever order it ends up as. There’s a lot to cover, see how long you make it… 😆

Trump has long had affairs overseas, and no, not the kind he’s known for, but business dealings. After making a series of bad decisions in the later 80’s early 90’s American banks were hesitant to loan to Trump. As it turns out, the Kremlin had their eye on Trump, and had Czech spies working for the Kremlin covertly tail him as early as 1987. Throughout the years Trump Would rely on Russian assistance quite often. From the financial and business side to the political and personal side.

Upon the merger of Trump’s, Truth Social and Digital World Acquisition Corp, Truth Social became, Trump Media and Technology Group. Before the merger Truth Social had been hemorrhaging money, showing significant losses on all quarterly reports.

In late 2021 the social media platform seemed as if it was doomed. In December of 2021, a Christmas miracle occurred in the form of two loans totaling eight million dollars, acting as a lifeline to the failing site.

These loans came as one for $2 million and another $6 million. The $2 million loan was from Paxum Bank, an entity tied with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Paxum Bank is partially owned by a man named Anton Postolnikov, who is related to a man named Aleksandr Smirinov (not the same As Alexander Smirinov that tried to relay Russian misinformation to the FBI, and was subsequently arrested for doing so in the House, Biden impeachment inquiry, political theater headed by James Comer of KY, but a different Smirinov) a former Russian government official, who runs Rosmorport, a Russian shipping company. There was $6 million loan paid by a separate entity by the name of ES Family Trust, who’s director at the time was the very same man who held the title of director at Paxum Bank, the same bank who loaned the smaller $2 million loan. You almost need a poster board with pictures, some tacks and yarn with that one!

In 2023 prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York began an investigation into the Russian based financial backing and Trump Media and Technology Group (TMTG). The case is still ongoing.

We’re going to skip out of order here because this is already lacking brevity, so. Let’s turn to the end of Trump’s presidency, in the waning days, after the insurrection, Jan 16-20th.

After the disgraceful behavior Trump had engaged in upon losing the 2020 election to Joe Biden, Trump and his remaining staff were scrambling to exit the White House. On Jan the 18th, just two days from Biden’s inauguration, Trump requested the delivery of a binder.

This ten inch thick, treasure trove of documents contained some of the United States most closely guarded information and secrets. So much so that even lawmakers and congressional aides with top secret clearance could only view the binder, and information within, at the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) headquarters in Langley Virginia. Inside were the highest levels of confidentiality and secret information from the United States, its allies, and top secret NATO intelligence as well. It was a collection on Russia, assets working for or against the Kremlin, sources, methods in which the U.S. government received its information and even an assessment of the Russian President Vladimir V. Putin.

Trump’s request was carried out under the care of the Presidents Chief of Staff Mark Meadows. Trump’s sociopathic narcissist disorder caused the exiting, disgraced President to feel the need to declassify a host of documents, including the FBI’s investigation into himself and Russia.

White House lawyers and aides hurriedly redacted names, dates, locations as fast as they could knowing the erratic behavior of Trump. His top administration officials would attempt to block the publication of the classified information. The day before leaving office, on Jan 19th, despite pleas from White House officials, aides and staff, as well as out of spite, Trump issued the declassification of nearly all the sensitive material, putting the lives of agents, informants, and sources in jeopardy. Multiple copies of the initial redacted version were printed out and were set to be distributed throughout Washington to Republicans in Congress and to right wing media outlets. The copies that did get sent out were quickly recovered by White House lawyers, demanding that further redactions were necessary.

Minutes before the inauguration of President elect Biden, Meadows rushed to get approval from the Justice Department, hand delivering the redacted copy for final approval.

Suspiciously, in all the chaos of the final 48 hours, and Trump’s temper tantrum, the original, unredacted, ten inch thick binder of the most sensitive material regarding the U.S. and its allies went missing. There’s a redacted copy in the National Archives, but the whereabouts of the original binder remains a mystery.

During the hearings on the criminality that occurred in Trump’s final weeks in office, aide, Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she saw Chief of Staff MarkMeadows leave the White House with the binder, suggesting that her assumption was that he had put the top secret information in a safe, located at his home.

This brings us to our next act… Of sedition.

The declassification and illegal retention of the world’s most secretive binder was not the only act of treason Trump would engage in. After his loss in November and into December Trump had authorized the removal and transport of dozens of boxes of classified information, state secrets, nuclear secrets, U.S. and its allies war plans to various properties he owned.

The FBI was aware of the taking of the documents, after requesting their return several times a warrant was issued to Trump’s Florida “home” Mar-a-lago. It was coordinated out of respect, safety and to not make a spectacle of the raid, that Trump would not be present when the FBI searched his club/home.

What the FBI found was dozens of boxes containing the classified documents as well as other trinkets like magazines and newspaper articles, strewn around, knocked over and spilling in various locations such as a closet, bathroom, his youngest child Barrons’s room and a hidden room containing surveillance equipment for the property.

In thier assessment of the evidence they found 43 empty folders with tabs labeled, Classified, 28 empty folders labeled, Return to Staff Secretary or Military Aide. In the boxes, folders that weren’t empty included, 18 documents marked, Top Secret, 54 marked as, secret, 31 marked as, Confidential, and 11,179 other Government documents, some with photos that weren’t marked.

This case is the most egregious act of sedition of American President in our nations history. A Special Prosecutor, Jack Smith, was tasked by the DOJ of heading the case. In a stunning move of partisanship and a complete disregard of standing Jurisprudence, Federal Judge Aileen Cannon, a Trump appointee, would go against 50 years of precedent and dismiss the case under the grounds the the special counsel was improperly funded. The American people would be denied their right to get the truth about who, what, when and why these documents were retained, missing, and in the condition they were found. The binder talked about earlier was not in the trove of documents found at Mar-a-lago, its location remains unknown.

So yea! Russia Russia Russia… There’s SO much more Russian ties, scandals, shady business dealings to show but. If this is nearly as long to read as it was to write, I’m proud you made it all the way through.

I’ve been saying it for years, Trump is a Russian asset, I even made a bet saying in 20 years if it doesn’t come out that Trump was a Russian asset I owed this person a sloppy, dentureless blowjob (because I’ll be kinda old in 20 years and I assume I’ll have dentures).

Don’t be conned by Americans most notorious conman and give him the chance to steal and share even more of our state secrets. Vote Kamala Harris for President. Blue down ballot for real change in our country.

I may finish this and post the whole thing from 2013 to what we dove in to on my substack, which I’ll try to remember to leave a link in the comments section. Until next time. Let’s hope for the sake of our democracy Trump loses here in 2024 or maybe I’ll see some of you f*cks in Gitmo 😉😅😆☮️🇺🇸

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One of the beautiful things about how our representative democratic constitutional republic works is the varying opinions. The array of views and theories, the proposals and approaches, from the patchwork of ideology America has attracted, gives us the opportunity to select the peak ideas of so many backgrounds and cultures. Many of the founders, Washington in particular, were against the formation of political parties. Because of such contrasting views this was unavoidable.

There used to be a dozen or more political parties in the U.S. Wigs, federalist, socialists, labor and others brought their perspectives and that of their constituency to Congress. This enabled a more zoomed in viewpoint of the issues across the nation.

Our Population in this country, and the planet as a whole, has BOOMED! With it, so have perspectives, concerns and opinions. It becomes harder and harder to address everyone’s needs when the diversity and size of those you’re representing is so vast. This becomes even more burdensome when there’s red and blue to choose from. The puppet on the left or the puppet on the right.

I’ll have to do more research into why exactly but some time between the beginning on the twentieth century and 1940’s the cluster of political parties that had existed before pretty much consolidated in the two that dominate now. Sure, there are other parties out there, but not with much influence, or power as there was before the Second World War.

From a business perspective this makes sense, you buy out your rival for less competition so you can set market value to your liking. But this is not a business, some will argue the federal government is the largest business on earth. It goes beyond the financial side to the personal level. These are policies and practices that have real world implications. That affect real people lives in droves.

This “big tent” approach sounds wonderful in theory, but when you start looking at the details it becomes much more complicated. The extremes of both sides tend to be the loudest voices while representing the smallest fraction of the party.

It has proven to be detrimental to the functioning or our democracy! With just the two sides, when one side is unhealthy, unhappy and unwilling to compromise the system bogs. This last House term being an excellent example. These MAGA obstructionist sinking the ship. Making an ass out of themselves and the entire Republican Party. A party that used to be a proud, noble group, resorted to lacking leadership for months, failed vote counts and the title as the least productive Congress in this century. The “big tent” approach for the Republican Party has the loudest voices being heard while the mature, responsible, more centered Republicans are lumped in with them.

The same can be true of the left to an extent. Dems will kick those with unacceptable behavior words or conduct to the curb though, which is a huge difference. Yet there are extremes on the left that don’t necessarily reflect the views of most Democrats.

This, winner take all grasp for power has lessened the effectiveness and stature of the political spheres in this country. So it’s down to the puppet on the left or the puppet in the right. A brown paper bag with a name on it.

So we have the two parties with the two extremes. One party despite its downfalls wants to govern. Wants to see progress. Wants to enact change.

The other is fighting culture wars, denying science, and tiptoeing a line on bigotry that is stepped over habitually. Their method as the “party of no” which they labeled themselves during the Obama years does NOTHING for the citizens of this country. The obstructionist approach of saying no because the other side proposed it is not helpful, if you’d call it governing at all! The “war on woke” and this owning the libs thing is some childish, useless sh*t! Cutting off your nose to spite your face. Can we have representatives who actually work together and find compromise to accomplish SOMETHING!!!?

Anyway… There’s only one healthy party in America right now. And it sure ain’t the Republican MAGA Party…

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When we look back at dictatorships, whether in fascist regimes, communist states, autocratic rule, and totalitarianism, ect. the philosophy’s don’t have all that much in common. One thing they do have in common is a “great leader” or an “emperor”, and more so nowadays a “strongman” who lords over the population with ”an iron fist”, a fancy way of saying they oppress thier people.

Let’s look at WWII. What did Germany’s leader (I heard we weren’t supposed to use the H word but you know who I’m referring to) and the emperor of Japan share in similarities? Not much, if anything at all. After Pearl Harbor America declared war with Japan and as a result of the treaty between Japan and Germany, Germany declared war with America (DUMB!!). What did germanys leader and the emperor of Japan have in common? Did they share any common ground other than the leader was almighty and the subjects were expendable? No. What they had in common is their oppressive rule and the fact that the free countries condemned their style of governance. So whether you have any similarities or not, as an oppressive regime, your only allies are other oppressive regimes. The idiom, your enemies, enemy, is your friend.

Fast forward to now and we don’t have the same style of fascism and dictatorships, in the more developed countries, as back then. Hence it’s not the same kind of harsh oppressive system. More of a soft autocracy. Orban in Hungary and Erdogan in Turkey are a prime example of the “soft autocracy”. Russia is an authoritarian state. Their sham government is a front for the pleasing of the world but, Putin rules Russia as a dictator.

The last thing these authoritarians want is their people to get any wild ideas of individual freedom and liberty. We did screw Russia over good after WWII, and I promise they didn’t forget, but beyond that, they want any democracy to fail. They don’t want their people to see that it is possible to have a thriving free nation. Who is the most power, wealthiest, freest nation on the planet? The United States of America.

China, Russia, Turkey, Hungary, North Korea, they would LOVE to see us destroy ourselves. All that they can do without invoking a military conflict, they will to undermine us, make us seem as if our system of government is feeble, flawed, corrupted, they will, and are. They want to rule over their citizens with fear and divisiveness. Making the population too scared to rise up against them.

This is why, in particular, Russia has been caught meddling in elections all throughout Europe and here in America. It is also why it’s so troubling that Republicans, and Trump in particular, are so keen on people such as Orban and not willing to help a democracy like Ukraine. Trump and Putin being “friends” is not a good thing. Trump is the easiest person to manipulate! All you have to do is complement him or offer him money and he’ll do whatever you want. Orban is an authoritarian! Why is he going and having private meetings with Trump directly after he met with Putin. This isn’t a Sherlock Holmes mystery here! It’s pretty damn easy to see!

Long story shorter than it could be. Russia will be putting out all kinds of misinformation and deepfakes, false stories and made up articles. Check the source! Despite what Trump says, because he only says it due to them being critical of him and covering him appropriately, the established sources, your NBC’s, CBS, ABC, CNN, Washington Post, NY Times, ect. these are credible sources. Are they corporate money making organizations? Yes. Does the press situation in this country need an overhaul? Yes. But these aren’t fake news (I had to laugh while typing that because that’s LITERALLY what Trump calls them) their flawed news but they aren’t social media deepfake, made up, complete fabrications to throw our democracy into turmoil. They will tell you the story as it is happening. The first step in autocratic rule is to limit information to what suits your narrative. Thats why Trump calls them fake. I can’t believe I’m sticking up for the media so much right now but , for reals!…

Check your sources. Know that their is forces that want to see us fail. Want us to be angry and rioting and questioning if democracy works. It does. Trump is a Russian asset, that’s why all this nonsense is amplified the way it is. In 248 years, 60 presidential elections, only the three involving Trump has this whole fraud, stolen election, noncitizen voting bullsh*t ever came up. Just Trump being a traitor. Don’t let the country’s most notorious conman con ya.