Tides of Tyranny: "Resistance" Facts Yesterday and Today Part 2 of ...

Tides of Tyranny: "Resistance" Facts Yesterday and Today Part 2 of ...: Any “resistance” aimed at removing a president would also involve the proverbial street and popular culture. A good way might be to implan...

"Resistance" Facts Yesterday and Today Part 2 of 5

Any “resistance” aimed at removing a president would also involve the proverbial street and popular culture. A good way might be to implant to such a degree the idea of harming the president that it would become something more than just a sick fantasy but become contextualized as an act of near patriotism across the broader culture. Celebrities accordingly might dream out loud at rallies of blowing up the White House. Or, a movie star might announce to his/her audience his/her hopes for a repeat of a John Wilkes Booth-style assassination. Or, a state legislator might post hopes that the unthinkable might befall President Trump. Or ,a rapper might release a video in which the president is depicted as shot. Or a comedian on camera might hold up a facsimile of the bloody severed head of the president. Or a New York troupe might perform public plays in which the president each evening is ritually skewered to death. Have we not heard or observed via media the just mentioned sick fantasy's during Trump's first fifteen months in office? Even now, a former Vice President desires to "Beat the Hell out of him."

We might also see and hear ad nauseam from actors and other celebrities expressing desires to beat him to a pulp, or hang him, or shoot him—all the insidious efforts not of those easily disregarded as unhinged, but of those with public personas, and with the effect of incrementally normalizing violence against the president. Late night comedians might vie with each other in their profanity and scatology, ridiculing the president with references to him fellating a foreign leader. Who knows, a secret service agent might even post a brag that she would not be willing to “take a bullet” to defend the likes of this president. Or a left-wing zealot might think shooting Republican congressmen was doing his part to thwart the evil Trump agenda. Have we not heard or observed all the above occur during Trump’s first fifteen months in office?

Blue, anti-Trump states might seek to nullify federal law, in the fashion that the states of the Old South insisted that they were not subject to federal jurisdictions. California, for example, might declare itself a sanctuary state, a declaration that would forbid federal immigration agents from enforcing fully the law. Or the states might incessantly sue the president’s administration on everything from immigration to environmental policy; such that every two weeks California is ritually filing a new law suit in a friendly court to curtail federal government jurisdiction over state residents. The California Governor might declare the president an immoral agent who had no fear of God, as peerage in his state talked of Calexit, a secession from the president’s United States. Or the California legislature might dream of subverting the new federal code curtailing state tax deductions in adolescent ways that would earn any taxpayer who tried such a con an IRS indictment. In fact, has not all the just mentioned transpired in Trump’s first fifteen months as president?

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Any stunning, factual recitation of events which have occurred since and prior to President Trump’s election should surprise no one, notwithstanding Trump’s promise to “Drain the Swamp.” One must remember not all conspiracy theorists are unhinged paranoids. This becomes more apparent when these conspiracy theoreticians insist there was a loosely organized if not sometimes incoherent effort to destroy Trump’s candidacy over and above normal political maneuvering and later a renewed and thus far unprecedented endeavor to abort his presidency.  

After all, did anyone believe that in the year 2017 the losing side in an American election would immediately dub itself the “Resistance.” Is that not kin to channeling the World War II nomenclature of the guerrilla campaign against the Wehrmacht occupation of France? Or that the defeated candidate, Hillary Clinton would formally embrace the imagery of liberationist patriots battling a Nazi-like Trump occupation of America?  

An opposition effort might embrace trying to subvert the Constitution by pressuring state electors not to honor their constitutionally defined responsibilities to vote IAW the popular vote in their respective states. It might also include an effort to introduce articles of impeachment in the House of Representatives. 

A resistance might file suit under the 25^th Amendment to find the president ‘not right of mind’, accompanied by a popular campaign to clinically diagnose the president as mentally unfit or physically feeble or disabled. Or a resistance might sue the courts to seek removal of an elected president on grounds he was a involved in excessive profiteering and had thus violated the U.S. Constitution. Or a resistance would file suits with hand-picked liberal judges to delay and halt the president’s executive orders. On the petty side, an organized effort to discredit a president would range from boycotting an inauguration and a State of the Union address to deliberately holding and delaying confirmation of his appointees. In fact, have we not seen in Trump’s First year all these things and more?

Tides of Tyranny: Opinion: Congressional Lawmakers Fiduciary Obligat...

Tides of Tyranny: Opinion: Congressional Lawmakers Fiduciary Obligat...:   G ranted, the GOP tax cuts already are boosting local economies and more help may be on the way. However, should we not get serious a...

Opinion: Congressional Lawmakers Fiduciary Obligation to America

 

Granted, the GOP tax cuts already are boosting local economies and more help may be on the way. However, should we not get serious about cutting spending and eliminating the national debt, too? Fact; Congress has not managed to restrain spending. Did not Congress recently forge a budget agreement that will increase both military and domestic spending and create trillion-dollar deficits for years to come? When is it unacceptable for lawmakers to look the other way on debt and deficits? Researching various debt statistics/charts, I became knowledgeable enough to recognize that we are borrowing, in the neighborhood of two million dollars every minute, every day of the year. That’s what a trillion dollars is.

How do we counter this debt as a people? First, we begin by insisting Congressional Representatives measure the effectiveness of every government program. Second, scrap those programs, projects and government grants that are not beneficial and relevant to the majority of tax payers. Third, to even the playing field, initiate and/or raise tariffs as necessary. Fourth, top-down welfare reform. Fifth, immigration reform to include elimination of Chain Migration, Diversity Immigration Visa program (lottery) and building the Wall to secure America's Southern border from entry of illegal immigrants, drugs, criminals and terrorists. Lastly, pass legislation to ensure future budgets are balanced.