I write this under the assumption that you, who are reading this post, are aware of threats against Sen. Mark Kelly and the five other lawmakers. The Republicans in power are angry at them for posting a video on X reminding our military that their oath is to the U.S. Constitution and not to any one leader. Further, the video reminded members of the military may refuse to obey an unlawful order. So, the right-wing is apoplectic. But why? Because Sen. Kelly and the four other patriots wanted to make sure that the members of the armed forces understood they shouldn’t side with Trump come the attempted coup or civil war.
A few days later, the “Pentagon” announced that it’s investigating Kelly with re-activation for the purpose of court marshaling him on, for now, unspecified charges. And breaking this afternoon, the FBI has asked to interview the six solons about the video. This will be another constitutional crisis because the courts will have to determine if these lawmakers have somehow lost their “privilege” of protected speech in the act of being a legislator. And the U.S. Supreme Court is already corrupted.
Take a breath and think about this. I didn’t slip in the possible coup and civil war as some silly guesswork. If anything speaks the loudest to support this prediction, it is Jan. 6, 2021. That demonstrated that (a) Trump didn’t have to directly urge the mob to attack the Capitol; and (b) civil and civic norms don’t matter. This time Trump and his alt-right allies have more in their arsenal. They have place their loyalists in key positions of power. This attack on the patriotic six is only one part of the movement to dismantle our democracy.
This comes on the heels of former FBI Director James Comey and former New York Attorney General Leticia James being charged by a grand jury, as prosecution was clearly at the behest of Trump and Kash Patel, corrupt FBI director. Those charges, whatever they were, have been thrown out by an honest and thoughtful jurist.
We know that any of the several legal setbacks the administration has suffered will go to SCOTUS and we know where that will end.
It’s clear that the “shock and awe” tactics are still the right-wing agenda. The Republicans have played hardball silently for seven decades. You may have not noticed the part of destroying our constitutional republic the MAGA movement is weakening our populace. The debacle at the CDC over vaccines is a tiny part and fits into the scheme by making more people sick and disabled. The abortion law aren’t really pro-life. They are designed to let women die from preeclampsia,clampsia, ectopic pregnancies, postpartum disseminated intravascular coagulation or any number of disasters that can be averted by terminating the pregnancy. And so it goes, Kurt Vonnegut reminds us in “Slaughterhouse Five.”
The Democrats? How sad it is that Democratic operative James Carville’s op-ed piece in the Nov. 24, 2025, New York Times comes with this advice 70 years too late, “It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss.”
Let’s see if the country wants real freedom and not the faux freedom from Mr. Trump and Co.
I write this under the assumption that you, who are reading this post, are aware of threats against Sen. Mark Kelly and the five other lawmakers. The Republicans in power are angry at them for posting a video on X reminding our military that their oath is to the U.S. Constitution and not to any one leader. Further, the video reminded members of the military may refuse to obey an unlawful order. So, the right-wing is apoplectic. But why? Because Sen. Kelly and the four other patriots wanted to make sure that the members of the armed forces understood they shouldn’t side with Trump come the attempted coup or civil war.
A few days later, the “Pentagon” announced that it’s investigating Kelly with re-activation for the purpose of court marshaling him on, for now, unspecified charges. And breaking this afternoon, the FBI has asked to interview the six solons about the video. This will be another constitutional crisis because the courts will have to determine if these lawmakers have somehow lost their “privilege” of protected speech in the act of being a legislator. And the U.S. Supreme Court is already corrupted.
Take a breath and think about this. I didn’t slip in the possible coup and civil war as some silly guesswork. If anything speaks the loudest to support this prediction, it is Jan. 6, 2021. That demonstrated that (a) Trump didn’t have to directly urge the mob to attack the Capitol; and (b) civil and civic norms don’t matter. This time Trump and his alt-right allies have more in their arsenal. They have place their loyalists in key positions of power. This attack on the patriotic six is only one part of the movement to dismantle our democracy.
This comes on the heels of former FBI Director James Comey and former New York Attorney General Leticia James being charged by a grand jury, as prosecution was clearly at the behest of Trump and Kash Patel, corrupt FBI director. Those charges, whatever they were, have been thrown out by an honest and thoughtful jurist.
We know that any of the several legal setbacks the administration has suffered will go to SCOTUS and we know where that will end.
The Democrats? How sad it is that Democratic operative James Carville’s op-ed piece in the Nov. 24, 2025, New York Times comes with this advice 70 years too late, “It is time for Democrats to embrace a sweeping, aggressive, unvarnished, unapologetic and altogether unmistakable platform of pure economic rage. This is our only way out of the abyss.”
Let’s see if the
country wants real freedom and not the faux freedom from Mr. Trump
and Co.
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