Trump, Musk, Bannon, Flynn, and Project 2025's Kevin Roberts are actively transforming the structure of our government. When, and how, will we fight back?
Excellent! There appears to be momentum in the opposition to MAGA. Hopefully it will grow & that the courts will oppose their lawless behavior. Hopefully the weak GOP members of Congress will see that there is a way out of this disaster & that they can side with their opposition & finally impeach this sorry excuse for a President. If MAGA can be defeated at the midterms, then there will be hope that our nation will survive. But punishment for those who have lied in support of MAGA must pay a price so they don’t rise up again.
I just hope we can make it that long, and that a critical mass of Americans who hate what's happening can make it all stop. SCOTUS is now in the process of taking away our right to due process, though, so we're not far from a US citizen being rounded up and sent to El Salvador without cause, trial, warning, etc
“The irony is that the Second American Revolution seeks to resurrect the tyranny the First American Revolution stamped out…”
Isn’t that the undeniable truth?
DT’s and MAGA’s perverse methods and message have forever reflected the Roy-Cohn-tactics of deflection/projection declaring black is white and/or vice versa — “when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead…” and all that JA jazz.
Personally, I believe that there is a significant portion of Americans who fell for whatever it is/was that attracted them to Dark Cheeto that actually now recognize that ironic truth, but that their egos are perhaps too sensitive to admit their now noted gullibility.
Those are the sorts that are distinguished from our perfidious POTUS’s sycophantic soldiers of sedition.
Perhaps they will see the light before the thread by which our democratically legislated constitutional republic now precariously dangles frays and gives way…
It is so very hard to admit you're wrong, especially when you were duped by a guy the fascism scholars all said was Hitler who turned out to be Hitler. But I hope they are roused from the stupor. Maybe the loss of money will do it?
[[You’ve got some great key factors to keep us focused]]
This “second American Revolution seeks to resurrect the tyranny the First American Revolution stamped out. ………..But before we can possibly build a viable resistance movement, we have to face five key facts:
1. The Second American Revolution is a war.
2. Every day Trump stays in power it becomes harder to dislodge him.
3. There is no viable constitutional remedy to correct course.
4. Some of the damage is irreversible.
5. The country cannot survive four years of this.”
It’s TUESDAY🎉It is crystal clear that WE, the citizens, must do the work to protect and improve our democracy. To do that we need to get loud and throw as much sand in the GOP gears as possible. Make calls, get out there and join the protests, let legacy media know they are failing us by supporting indie journalists. Do something Every. Single. Day.
Thank you Greg, I just started reading From Dictatorship to Democracy. by Gene Sharp.
…”This book was just recommended by Greg Olear, Prevail.
This excerpt comes from the chapter: The Danger of Negotiations page 18
The offer by a Dictatorship of “peace” through negotiations with the Democratic opposition is, of course, rather disingenuous. The violence could be ended immediately by the dictators themselves, if only they would stop waging war on their own people. They could at their own initiative without any bargaining restore respect for human dignity and rights, free political prisoners, end torture, halt military operations, withdraw from the government and apologize to the people.” This seems very relevant on Wednesday afternoon as trump calls for all nations to speak with him. Thank you for the book recommendation
I forget who first said it this way: "Trump is the neutron bomb warhead of the missile that was launched at America." Neutron weapons irradiate the land & atmosphere for miles around, leaving man-made buildings standing but making living in their area impossible.
Greg, brilliant, insightful and 100% accurate as usual. Plus you make so many wonderful points and say what I wish I could. You speak for and to me. Thank you.
Of all the things that break my heart and my spirit these past ten years, the willful and calculated decision to call the immoral, moral, the wrong, right, and the evil, good, has been the most terrifying. Seeing my fellow Christians justify and celebrate the most vile and perverse and Satanic lies and cruelties and insanities has been disorienting and surreal. It is enervating and painful to experience, and frightening for us 70 year olds to contemplate the future for all our children and grandchildren……..This will never make any rational or moral sense. Never……Trump is truly just the vessel. It is the Steve Bannons and the Kevin Roberts and Stephen Millers who are the truly evil ones.
Thanks, Rick. I agree, I think the people who have the capacity to understand what Trump is but merrily go along anyway -- Rubio is a glaring example -- deserve the highest circle of hell.
The subjugation is in full swing Greg, you’ve brilliantly laid bare the truth!
The act of war against the people and our constitution is treason, as defined in article 3 section 3 of said constitution.
The problem is well defined in this piece. The numbers of complicit politicians and judges, mainly SCOTUS, are a huge obstacle that must be shattered by a more powerful and organized revolution… We the People!!
President AOC has a nice ring to it, I applaud your well crafted thoughts on this exceptional piece, Sla’inte!!
Thanks, Patrick. Yes: treason. Insurrection. Illegal, all of it.
I'd be fine with President Liz Cheney, too, as long as she did what needs to be done to protect, preserve, and expand democracy. It would be poetic if the father fucked us up badly and the daughter helped correct the problems...
Meantime, SCOTUS is dangerously close to abolishing due process, so...
SCOTUS needs to be held accountable for their actions and feckless behavio! Robert’s, Alito and most certainly Thomas are enabling the corruption… Citizens United has always been the harbinger of where this court was headed…
Our Supreme Court will do nothing. Looking to the courts is not a realistic plan I fear. Their immunity decision made that clear. Roberts’ “stay” this week shows that clearly. There’s no longer a rule of law here……………..
Presidential immunity is not in the Constitution. It stems from an opinion by the Office of Legal Council in DOJ which merely said a president (Nixon when issued) shouldn't be prosecuted for minor offenses.
Otherwise, the president is fully liable for most all felonies and can be prosecuted while in office. As it is, DJT is a criminal defendant awaiting his court judgment to be fulfilled re: a verdict of guilty on 39 counts of fraud. As it is, he is walking a fine line now in the terms of this 'interim probation', so it seems to me. However, no one seems to notice or care...but it is there.
Mr. Becker, I am a retired lawyer. I do realize the irony of “presidential immunity” and that it started with DOJ. This makes the 6 month delayed SC “immunity” ruling last summer so, so obscene. That abomination would be embarrassing if it were not so dangerous and frightening. That ruling was the day my hope for the future was finally extinguished, and I felt the election was our last chance.
Well said. I remember the "...bloodless if the Left allows it to be" speach. Nothing penetrated the Kool-Aid. Democracy lies near-fatally wounded at the mercy solely of the god Money, and even He may not be stronger than the Kool-Aid. But if there ever is another free election, and the Democrats run AOC, I'd be sure they were hopeless.
I like to think that, in the Aftermath, the political parties would be no more. After what happened to HRC and Kamala, I also like to think that AOC would win bc the third time's a charm...
“What fresh horrors await us? Hyperinflation? Martial law imposed on April 20? Roundup of dissidents and free transport to El Salvador? A deadlier pandemic? Nuclear war? It’s like heading into the finale of White Lotus: anything is possible, but the only thing we know for sure is that people we love are going to die.”
My fresh horror is realizing that the people I love are fine with sacrificing my life to their cults perception of their religious and economic dogmas.
Brilliant. My favorite: Kill Citizens United like Kristi Noem's puppy.
Agreed Nina, Greg nailed this one perfectly!!
Thanks, Nina! God, the pictures of her cosplaying tough are so disgusting...
I’m ready, LFG ✊🏼
[cue up the Marseillaise]
Excellent! There appears to be momentum in the opposition to MAGA. Hopefully it will grow & that the courts will oppose their lawless behavior. Hopefully the weak GOP members of Congress will see that there is a way out of this disaster & that they can side with their opposition & finally impeach this sorry excuse for a President. If MAGA can be defeated at the midterms, then there will be hope that our nation will survive. But punishment for those who have lied in support of MAGA must pay a price so they don’t rise up again.
Sublime thoughts Jean!!
I just hope we can make it that long, and that a critical mass of Americans who hate what's happening can make it all stop. SCOTUS is now in the process of taking away our right to due process, though, so we're not far from a US citizen being rounded up and sent to El Salvador without cause, trial, warning, etc
Leo and Koch sue! Sounds like your open letter was read!
https://ablink.editorial.theguardian.com/ss/c/u001.Yw_JkLMEmFuifc_XG18IRyTNtZQ7fIEMgszcCSneHEAkCD247PEzzJghnkN7Siw60RsYmtOGUE67PZ161GiGkqahUikEOU4SWetQRhi54sfhle2jiHuSD9eFzoVFDGt0iw6398yHxAcU59tf-PVusG6QlmzWQF-OxXK6VVglxneNgbYUlPzeKwU29svDvSrAbJk6FRTFf9qegi7K0ZXbcRFMZ3Rz2jtNreMjLMyAJkppp7atYFd8erWlkIgwUN_XnxtzKUyz-4vriFlGwMU9eg/4fh/8NDW-3jVQc-UVZxVjnOqAg/h49/h001.wVsAjpo97MD4slFNLPUaFlKv77b0fBI9Q9FazFZGJQQ
I like to think so, Lisa, but they must have ulterior motives. I checked the PO box yesterday, and no response...
“The irony is that the Second American Revolution seeks to resurrect the tyranny the First American Revolution stamped out…”
Isn’t that the undeniable truth?
DT’s and MAGA’s perverse methods and message have forever reflected the Roy-Cohn-tactics of deflection/projection declaring black is white and/or vice versa — “when logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead…” and all that JA jazz.
Personally, I believe that there is a significant portion of Americans who fell for whatever it is/was that attracted them to Dark Cheeto that actually now recognize that ironic truth, but that their egos are perhaps too sensitive to admit their now noted gullibility.
Those are the sorts that are distinguished from our perfidious POTUS’s sycophantic soldiers of sedition.
Perhaps they will see the light before the thread by which our democratically legislated constitutional republic now precariously dangles frays and gives way…
Well said Doc!!
It is so very hard to admit you're wrong, especially when you were duped by a guy the fascism scholars all said was Hitler who turned out to be Hitler. But I hope they are roused from the stupor. Maybe the loss of money will do it?
Also: "Dark Cheeto" is very good!
hopefully he will wilt away with some proper April showers and the smear of his wilted orange self will wash away down some gutter drain
or, perhaps if he goes forward with the insurrection act, etc. and yes as fortunes fade
[[You’ve got some great key factors to keep us focused]]
This “second American Revolution seeks to resurrect the tyranny the First American Revolution stamped out. ………..But before we can possibly build a viable resistance movement, we have to face five key facts:
1. The Second American Revolution is a war.
2. Every day Trump stays in power it becomes harder to dislodge him.
3. There is no viable constitutional remedy to correct course.
4. Some of the damage is irreversible.
5. The country cannot survive four years of this.”
✊✊✊✊🙏🙏
Thanks, Diane. LOL, I was going to write a short piece just about those factors...
Only two paragraphs in, and SO glad you chose to write on THIS TOPIC.
Image and title: 💯
Thank you!
It’s TUESDAY🎉It is crystal clear that WE, the citizens, must do the work to protect and improve our democracy. To do that we need to get loud and throw as much sand in the GOP gears as possible. Make calls, get out there and join the protests, let legacy media know they are failing us by supporting indie journalists. Do something Every. Single. Day.
So much sand in the gears it buries them in it!
Tremendous! Thank you, Greg
Thanks, Sara!
Thank you Greg, I just started reading From Dictatorship to Democracy. by Gene Sharp.
…”This book was just recommended by Greg Olear, Prevail.
This excerpt comes from the chapter: The Danger of Negotiations page 18
The offer by a Dictatorship of “peace” through negotiations with the Democratic opposition is, of course, rather disingenuous. The violence could be ended immediately by the dictators themselves, if only they would stop waging war on their own people. They could at their own initiative without any bargaining restore respect for human dignity and rights, free political prisoners, end torture, halt military operations, withdraw from the government and apologize to the people.” This seems very relevant on Wednesday afternoon as trump calls for all nations to speak with him. Thank you for the book recommendation
I forget who first said it this way: "Trump is the neutron bomb warhead of the missile that was launched at America." Neutron weapons irradiate the land & atmosphere for miles around, leaving man-made buildings standing but making living in their area impossible.
Ugh. That's a perfect analogy, and a terrible one.
Greg, brilliant, insightful and 100% accurate as usual. Plus you make so many wonderful points and say what I wish I could. You speak for and to me. Thank you.
Of all the things that break my heart and my spirit these past ten years, the willful and calculated decision to call the immoral, moral, the wrong, right, and the evil, good, has been the most terrifying. Seeing my fellow Christians justify and celebrate the most vile and perverse and Satanic lies and cruelties and insanities has been disorienting and surreal. It is enervating and painful to experience, and frightening for us 70 year olds to contemplate the future for all our children and grandchildren……..This will never make any rational or moral sense. Never……Trump is truly just the vessel. It is the Steve Bannons and the Kevin Roberts and Stephen Millers who are the truly evil ones.
Chump equals evil also.. never give him a pass
Thanks, Rick. I agree, I think the people who have the capacity to understand what Trump is but merrily go along anyway -- Rubio is a glaring example -- deserve the highest circle of hell.
The subjugation is in full swing Greg, you’ve brilliantly laid bare the truth!
The act of war against the people and our constitution is treason, as defined in article 3 section 3 of said constitution.
The problem is well defined in this piece. The numbers of complicit politicians and judges, mainly SCOTUS, are a huge obstacle that must be shattered by a more powerful and organized revolution… We the People!!
President AOC has a nice ring to it, I applaud your well crafted thoughts on this exceptional piece, Sla’inte!!
Thanks, Patrick. Yes: treason. Insurrection. Illegal, all of it.
I'd be fine with President Liz Cheney, too, as long as she did what needs to be done to protect, preserve, and expand democracy. It would be poetic if the father fucked us up badly and the daughter helped correct the problems...
Meantime, SCOTUS is dangerously close to abolishing due process, so...
SCOTUS needs to be held accountable for their actions and feckless behavio! Robert’s, Alito and most certainly Thomas are enabling the corruption… Citizens United has always been the harbinger of where this court was headed…
Our Supreme Court will do nothing. Looking to the courts is not a realistic plan I fear. Their immunity decision made that clear. Roberts’ “stay” this week shows that clearly. There’s no longer a rule of law here……………..
Presidential immunity is not in the Constitution. It stems from an opinion by the Office of Legal Council in DOJ which merely said a president (Nixon when issued) shouldn't be prosecuted for minor offenses.
Otherwise, the president is fully liable for most all felonies and can be prosecuted while in office. As it is, DJT is a criminal defendant awaiting his court judgment to be fulfilled re: a verdict of guilty on 39 counts of fraud. As it is, he is walking a fine line now in the terms of this 'interim probation', so it seems to me. However, no one seems to notice or care...but it is there.
Mr. Becker, I am a retired lawyer. I do realize the irony of “presidential immunity” and that it started with DOJ. This makes the 6 month delayed SC “immunity” ruling last summer so, so obscene. That abomination would be embarrassing if it were not so dangerous and frightening. That ruling was the day my hope for the future was finally extinguished, and I felt the election was our last chance.
[nods sadly]
In complete agreement William!!
As SCOTUS flirts with the idea of abolishing due process, it is ironic that Trump seeks to avoid the trials other people don't even get to have.
Actuarial tables + eye test suggest we will have President Vance before Trump sees any of that.
I hate him so much, and I hope his downfall is humiliating and that I'm alive to watch it.
Well said. I remember the "...bloodless if the Left allows it to be" speach. Nothing penetrated the Kool-Aid. Democracy lies near-fatally wounded at the mercy solely of the god Money, and even He may not be stronger than the Kool-Aid. But if there ever is another free election, and the Democrats run AOC, I'd be sure they were hopeless.
I like to think that, in the Aftermath, the political parties would be no more. After what happened to HRC and Kamala, I also like to think that AOC would win bc the third time's a charm...
Probably it would be Murphy or Pritzker.
“What fresh horrors await us? Hyperinflation? Martial law imposed on April 20? Roundup of dissidents and free transport to El Salvador? A deadlier pandemic? Nuclear war? It’s like heading into the finale of White Lotus: anything is possible, but the only thing we know for sure is that people we love are going to die.”
My fresh horror is realizing that the people I love are fine with sacrificing my life to their cults perception of their religious and economic dogmas.
Well said, Teri, and I agree.
Don't think we're going to see "bloodless" much longer. Do you?
No