You are watching a slow-motion coup taking place to replace our democracy with a Trump dictatorship that cares nothing for the American people, just his billionaire cronies and giant corporate suck-ups. You are also watching Trump’s slow-motion treason right there in public for all to see, handing the Ukraine to Putin, after Putin could not conquer it in 3 years of war.
Coup to establish dictatorship
Under our Constitution, the three branches of government
(the Executive, Congress, and the Judiciary) are supposed to hold each other in
check.
Congress has been effectively dysfunctional for some decades
now, unable even to pass a budget as required by the Constitution. Instead, we
have seen only continuing resolution after continuing resolution, year after
year, in violation of the law of the land. This comes from party power
out-prioritizing the people’s business, in violation of their oaths of office
(that violation ought to be a prosecutable crime), and Trump’s party now
controls the vote in Congress.
In recent years, several courts have been packed with
right-wing idealogues and Trump minions who will do what Trump says instead of
following the law. The most egregious example is Trump-appointed federal judge
Aileen Cannon in Florida, who gave Trump’s lawyers every delay and anything
else they asked for, ultimately dismissing-entirely the classified documents
case against him. This totally-egregious case would have been a slam-dunk
conviction for any ordinary citizen!
She’s not the only example: with the collusion of Senate
Republicans, Trump packed the Supreme Court with three more “arch-conservative”
justices, which in concert with the other “arch-conservatives” then ruled he is
immune from prosecution for any “official act” as president! That decision was
in violation of over two centuries of federal law and precedent. “Official act”
is up to interpretation, and they who committed this travesty are the ones
who will interpret what is an “official act”.
Since the beginning of our Republic, our only safeguards against
a President trying to be a dictator were Congress and the Courts. With
both of them rendered ineffective, who’s to stop him? A military
counter-coup? Trump’s been cashiering all the high-ranking military officers
who don’t rabidly support him. Now you know why!
Trump has been packing the Executive branch high offices
with minions who will do his bidding instead of what is legal, or with choices who
are so incompetent and unqualified as to render their agencies completely dysfunctional.
That dysfunctionality is by design: a dysfunctional government looks bad
compared to the strongman dictatorship Trump offers! The rest (minions who will
do his bidding, even illegally) is how he will complete the consolidation of all
federal power into the Executive branch, which is by definition a
dictatorship!
The most egregious example of minions doing Trump’s bidding,
even if illegal, is Elon Musk and the supposed Department of Government
Efficiency (DOGE) that he commands. Musk was not elected by anyone, and he was not
confirmed by the Senate. His supposed department was NOT created by Congress! All
in violation of the Constitution!
Most of what Musk and his DOGE have done firing federal
workers is illegal under the Constitution and two centuries of federal law. Yet
NO ONE among the majority Republicans in Congress is stepping up to oppose this
travesty! And only those courts not yet packed will oppose that.
Musk has revealed himself in public to have exactly the same
bad character as Donald Trump: he is an arrogant, egotistical, conscience-less
narcissist, bent only on increasing his own power and wealth by any means legal
or illegal, and caring nothing for the American people, who will be severely
damaged by all the resulting chaos.
The treason issue
Vladimir Putin is the absolute dictator of Russia, make no
mistake about that! His publicly-known goal is to reconstitute the old Soviet
empire as the new Russian empire, and maybe more. He wants to dominate as much
of Europe as he possibly can, by intimidation and invasion. That makes him
the enemy of every country in NATO, make no mistake about that, either!
If he succeeds in Ukraine, he will next attack former Soviet
countries that are now part of NATO. Which would trigger World War 3 in Europe
if NATO were still intact! And Xi in China will invade Taiwan if Putin succeeds
in Ukraine. That starts World War 3 in the Pacific!
Ukraine is not a member of NATO, nor has it received any official
help from NATO, but it has been doing NATO’s job resisting the
conquests of Putin for 3 years now! It has been doing this with direct
help from the countries that make up NATO, including the US until now. And make
no mistake, it is Putin who annexed the Crimea in 2014, and who invaded the
rest of Ukraine 3 years ago. Putin’s forces have been committing war crimes
against civilians in Ukraine ever since. Putin’s Russia is the enemy of
us all, make NO mistake about that!
Meanwhile, Trump has been doing everything he can to undo
the NATO alliance and our participation in that treaty. He has offended and
insulted all of our allies. That is doing Putin’s job for him!
Breaking apart NATO is something Putin has been unable to do for himself, and
was what the old Soviet Union was unable to do during the decades of the Cold
War.
Trump has suspended our aid to Ukraine, and staged a hostile
confrontation with that White House meeting, as a set-up to make Zelenskyy out
to be the bad guy. He did this to distract attention from the fact that he
wants to give Ukraine to Putin as soon as he can. There was never any intention
on Trump’s part to sign any deal for US aid, any acquisition of mineral
resources notwithstanding.
Trump has also suspended all the economic sanctions on
Putin’s Russia, so that their economy won’t crash so badly, and they might better
win despite still receiving aid from European countries. By handing
victory over Ukraine to Putin, Trump is so very clearly doing Putin’s job for
him, something Putin has been unable to do for himself in 3 years of war there.
And in the news today, Pete Hegseth, the Trump-appointed and
Senate-confirmed Secretary of Defense, has suspended all offensive cyber
actions against Russia, despite them increasing theirs against us! Defeating
the US cyber offensive is another job Putin wants done. Trump and Hegseth
have just done it for him!
Doing
Putin’s job for him is (by definition) providing aid to an enemy. Which inherently also
provides comfort to that enemy. We’ve already seen Russian officials
celebrating Trump’s actions regarding Ukraine and NATO.
“Providing
aid and comfort to the enemy” is one of only two definitions of treason,
written directly into our Constitution. That document also provides the standard for conviction:
two testifying witnesses to the actual act.
Millions have seen all of this happening before their
very eyes on live television! That satisfies the standard for conviction. And
yet I still see nobody using that word “treason” in public about the actions of
Trump and his minions, despite how accurately and succinctly it characterizes
them!
Final comments
Knowingly or not, the American people seem to have elected
their very first dictator, who is already well along his way in creating that
dictatorship! And your “elected dictator” is actively committing treason
right in front of your very eyes! Who’s to stop him? A Congress dominated
by the party he controls? The Department of Justice that he has packed with
minions and weaponized?
All I can offer is that individually we are powerless, but
together we might still have great power. Rise up and put a stop to this evil!
Please!
Start by contacting your Representatives and
Senators and let them know that (1) you see the dictatorship and the treason
happening, and that (2) they are complicit in those crimes if they do not act
to stop them.
I already did.
An overwhelming flood of such contacts might induce the
non-minion Republicans to stand with the Democrats and try to stop this with impeachment.
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