We must “shut down the country” with peaceful protests. The first incidence of violence will be taken as an excuse to declare martial law and end elections. That will be the last nail in the coffin of democracy. People have suggested rolling strikes, a week of calling off work, a week of boycotting Amazon, then Facebook. This is the only action that remains. Enough of wishful thinking that “this will blow over”. We are in the midst of a full blown authoritarian takeover. The idea of waiting until the midterm elections is absurd. There won’t be elections by then.
Excellent piece. None of what is going on has anything to do with tax breaks. The super wealthy don’t need nor care about them. So if it isn’t tax breaks then what ? As in sane as this is about to sound I think it has to with Palantir , AI and brain mapping. I haven’t put in the rest of the variables yet.
Thinking about buying an AR15, body armor, and an arsenal for protection, or moving to Canada. One or the other, can't keep pretending this is all normal and it won't get worse.
America is well down the path to being totally fucked. Marines are now heading to Florida to assist ICE.
You need to celebrate what remains of your independence by hitting the streets. Your last chance before this evolves into a lengthy civil war is to STRIKE. Shut down the flow of money that they use to control you. Stop productivity. Stop compliance. STRIKE. I would also advise exercising your 2nd amendment rights before they are stripped from you. Nobody wants a bloody civil war, but it is not an impossibility unfortunately, and I wouldn’t want to show up at a gun fight carrying only a protest sign, if it happens. It pains me to feel these words are necessary.
The United States is now Nazi Germany-lite. That this vote was on the eve of July 4 is especially galling. Jim, hope we can focus on this further slide into Tyranny this coming Sunday. This is worse than even I, somewhat of a Doomer, imagined it would be even a few months ago.
There may be elections, but i fear that there will be mass disruptions. They may come though some national emergency, like, war against Canada or Greenland, therefore martial law. Or false flag events. There are many options for them…
Only answer I have come up with for this is to get in the street and be surveilled in dissent as ofteln as possible. July 4th has a rally in St Petersburg through Indivisible-13, where I live and protest 24/7 with my rally/yard signs. Find one near you!
I wrote a short essay called "Sleepwalking into Authoritarianism" long before the Canadian election and before I discovered Jim's prescient writing. It's the only piece on my Substack if anyone is interested. I included an awesome photo of an Orca bagging a seal, which is an appropriate metaphor. The essay got me banned from YouTube and resulted in my complete deletion from the platform. No warning or appeal...I just became a persona non grata. I'm very proud of my wife, who helped me write it. We were able to fit the pieces together(several months ago) from our living room on Vancouver Island. Jim's writing has been an affirmation that our intuition was right. The surveillance state has become a juggernaut.
Build networks! Build slowly, first, those you trust with your life and vice versa.
Also, keep in light touch with neighbors to make sure nobody is “in trouble” (that is, to ensure everyone has food, medical care, someone to call in an emergency).
Finally, build outward, slowly, contact circles. That is, maybe not neighbors and not your “most trusted,” but folks with who you can work on local problems.
The other thing separating the United States from Russia and China is that Second Amendment!!!!
In neither of those countries were the civilian population able to ARM themselves!
Read the Declaration of Independence and remember Who We the People are!
That Second Amendment was put into the Constitution by the men who were the authors of that Declaration of Independence. They KNEW someone would try to do EXACTLY what Trumpverse is trying to do now. They put the Second Amendment in the Constitution to make sure We would be armed to take them on when they attempted to take our country from us!
The Project 2025 crew have planned a Project Esther - but the Actual Biblical Esther made sure her people, the Jews, were armed when Hamas’ order was carried out. Many people under Xerxes rule were so frightened of the armed Jews who had the favor of the king that they didn’t attack but instead stood with the Jews to gain favor.
The Grand Jury system is the only thing stopping Trump's DOJ from prosecuting his political opponents. It's the one guardrail and uniquely American that is going to hold.
You don’t need a grand jury if you can have masked men stop and arrest (i.e. kidnap) people on the street, ship them to a Texas concentration camp and then put them on a plane to deport them to an overseas concentration camp. Without ever having to call a judge. Citizenship and institutions protections no longer apply.
Only US citizens are entitled to a Grand Jury, the enforcement of Immigration law sidesteps that process and is a loophole that the Trump admin is fully aware of. The Grand Jury process is the only reason why they haven't ginned up charges and indicted their political opponents, despite their base frothing at the mouth to see it happen.
Here's a .pdf of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's civil complaint against Kristi Noem, 3 ICE underlings/enablers, Marco Rubio, and Pam Bondi, as filed on July 2, 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. It's a 40-page story of the details we were all trying to get --
We must “shut down the country” with peaceful protests. The first incidence of violence will be taken as an excuse to declare martial law and end elections. That will be the last nail in the coffin of democracy. People have suggested rolling strikes, a week of calling off work, a week of boycotting Amazon, then Facebook. This is the only action that remains. Enough of wishful thinking that “this will blow over”. We are in the midst of a full blown authoritarian takeover. The idea of waiting until the midterm elections is absurd. There won’t be elections by then.
Excellent piece. None of what is going on has anything to do with tax breaks. The super wealthy don’t need nor care about them. So if it isn’t tax breaks then what ? As in sane as this is about to sound I think it has to with Palantir , AI and brain mapping. I haven’t put in the rest of the variables yet.
Americans, it is time to embrace your inner Ukrainian spirit. Slava America. Slava Ukraini. Let the actual reality show begin.
Thinking about buying an AR15, body armor, and an arsenal for protection, or moving to Canada. One or the other, can't keep pretending this is all normal and it won't get worse.
America is well down the path to being totally fucked. Marines are now heading to Florida to assist ICE.
You need to celebrate what remains of your independence by hitting the streets. Your last chance before this evolves into a lengthy civil war is to STRIKE. Shut down the flow of money that they use to control you. Stop productivity. Stop compliance. STRIKE. I would also advise exercising your 2nd amendment rights before they are stripped from you. Nobody wants a bloody civil war, but it is not an impossibility unfortunately, and I wouldn’t want to show up at a gun fight carrying only a protest sign, if it happens. It pains me to feel these words are necessary.
The United States is now Nazi Germany-lite. That this vote was on the eve of July 4 is especially galling. Jim, hope we can focus on this further slide into Tyranny this coming Sunday. This is worse than even I, somewhat of a Doomer, imagined it would be even a few months ago.
Do you think that there will be elections next fall? I’m skeptical.
Or maybe massive voter suppression.
There may be elections, but i fear that there will be mass disruptions. They may come though some national emergency, like, war against Canada or Greenland, therefore martial law. Or false flag events. There are many options for them…
Is this the trigger to create the Second USA Civil War? I need to get a firearm. Libbie G Morgan
If possible, find a place that teaches Krav Maga for self defense, too
Bein'80 this year ,maybe,but unlikely.
Well, crap. I hear ya.
Only answer I have come up with for this is to get in the street and be surveilled in dissent as ofteln as possible. July 4th has a rally in St Petersburg through Indivisible-13, where I live and protest 24/7 with my rally/yard signs. Find one near you!
I wrote a short essay called "Sleepwalking into Authoritarianism" long before the Canadian election and before I discovered Jim's prescient writing. It's the only piece on my Substack if anyone is interested. I included an awesome photo of an Orca bagging a seal, which is an appropriate metaphor. The essay got me banned from YouTube and resulted in my complete deletion from the platform. No warning or appeal...I just became a persona non grata. I'm very proud of my wife, who helped me write it. We were able to fit the pieces together(several months ago) from our living room on Vancouver Island. Jim's writing has been an affirmation that our intuition was right. The surveillance state has become a juggernaut.
Build networks! Build slowly, first, those you trust with your life and vice versa.
Also, keep in light touch with neighbors to make sure nobody is “in trouble” (that is, to ensure everyone has food, medical care, someone to call in an emergency).
Finally, build outward, slowly, contact circles. That is, maybe not neighbors and not your “most trusted,” but folks with who you can work on local problems.
The other thing separating the United States from Russia and China is that Second Amendment!!!!
In neither of those countries were the civilian population able to ARM themselves!
Read the Declaration of Independence and remember Who We the People are!
That Second Amendment was put into the Constitution by the men who were the authors of that Declaration of Independence. They KNEW someone would try to do EXACTLY what Trumpverse is trying to do now. They put the Second Amendment in the Constitution to make sure We would be armed to take them on when they attempted to take our country from us!
The Project 2025 crew have planned a Project Esther - but the Actual Biblical Esther made sure her people, the Jews, were armed when Hamas’ order was carried out. Many people under Xerxes rule were so frightened of the armed Jews who had the favor of the king that they didn’t attack but instead stood with the Jews to gain favor.
Embrace the Second Amendment
The Grand Jury system is the only thing stopping Trump's DOJ from prosecuting his political opponents. It's the one guardrail and uniquely American that is going to hold.
You don’t need a grand jury if you can have masked men stop and arrest (i.e. kidnap) people on the street, ship them to a Texas concentration camp and then put them on a plane to deport them to an overseas concentration camp. Without ever having to call a judge. Citizenship and institutions protections no longer apply.
Only US citizens are entitled to a Grand Jury, the enforcement of Immigration law sidesteps that process and is a loophole that the Trump admin is fully aware of. The Grand Jury process is the only reason why they haven't ginned up charges and indicted their political opponents, despite their base frothing at the mouth to see it happen.
Here's a .pdf of Kilmar Abrego Garcia's civil complaint against Kristi Noem, 3 ICE underlings/enablers, Marco Rubio, and Pam Bondi, as filed on July 2, 2025 in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland. It's a 40-page story of the details we were all trying to get --
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815/gov.uscourts.mdd.578815.211.3.pdf
Thank you.