I read another essay from Chris Armitage this morning and it made me think about everything that's going on in general stemming from the lawless U.S. government.

Trump now wants 1.5 trillion dollars to fund the U.S. military industrial complex next year, and given what he's doing with the current budget, that can't be good for anyone else around the world. He wants some kind of Trump mega battleship now, he also wants a so called "Golden Dome" continental missile defence system, and I'm sure there's more.

Denmark is now vowing to fight any American soldiers who show up in Greenland to take over the country. Not that Denmark could effectively take on the U.S. military in a stand up fight, but they would probably be able to convince other NATO countries to stand with them. So, we have a stand off. Is Trump so foolish as to pick a shooting fight with Europe over Greenland, which would surely cost a lot of lives on both sides?

I think congress would definitely have something to say about that. Well, maybe not people like Lindsay Graham or Tom Cotton, but there would be enough others, from both parties, that would stand up and say no. Not to mention the American people.

Then there is the ever increasing problem with Trump's new private domestic militia, called ICE. The people in the U.S. are nearing the point of violent protests against these ICE agents running rampant across the country with little oversight, and now, a declared immunity from prosecution for anything, I mean anything, done while carrying out their duties? To include manslaughter against American citizens apparently.

This whole business in Minnesota will come to a head once the federal government officially exonerates this ICE agent from prosecution in the death of this young woman from Minneapolis. The state government is barely able to keep a lid on things as it is right now. Especially when the FBI has told the state of Minnesota that they're not allowed to investigate this murder. So, we have the feds telling the state to stand down, and Trump's DOJ telling the country that this ICE agent was defending himself from a domestic terrorist, which all of the current public videos are refuting.

Obviously, the state law enforcement will have to run a parallel investigation on their own and prosecute accordingly within the confines of Minnesota state law. Do I think the feds will let this man stand trial? Not on your life.

I saw on TikTok that people are already doxing this agent by pointing out his house in Minnesota. I wonder what the feds are going to do about that? Are we all going to be labelled domestic terrorists for sharing videos of ICE agents houses on social media now? That's one way to fight back though.

Chris Armitage, who's article from today I will link at the bottom of this post, writes that the states are going to have to step up and do more to defend their states rights with regard to what the federal government, by law, is allowed to get away with when it comes to committing crimes against the people in their states. Manslaughter being one of them.

The bigger existential question for the American republic, is where do the states draw the line with regard to states rights versus federal jurisdiction over states. Trump seems to think he's omnipotent and can do whatever he wants, to anyone he wants around the world and no one can stop him. According to his recent interview with the New York Times, the only thing restraining him is himself. He wants to play god to the rest of the world. Or at least to everyone in the western hemisphere of the planet.

As Chris Armitage tells us, there is only one thing the American people can do is impeach him at this point since he has taken over all of the other federal government institutions. Especially the supreme court. I don't see that happening because only the congress can impeach a president and this congress is useless with regard to standing up to this wannabe mobster. They will never get enough votes in the house of representatives to even consider a vote, much less allow articles to be published.

As for ICE, there is only one way to deal with them also. Take them out. Start with taking out the soldiers kidnapping people off the streets, in schools, in churches, immigration offices and so on. If enough people with guns were to surround a squad of ICE soldiers and remove them from the place they're kidnapping people, and do this enough times around the country to put a serious dent in their manpower, they will step back. Removal can be either stuffing them in the backs of vans or by force, if the ICE agents try to use guns to defend themselves. Which is likely until enough of them get taken out.

Of course, Trump and company will try to invoke the Insurrection clause and declare Martial Law, but that only works if the people allow it to happen. If things escalate to this point, the states will step in and defy Trump's government. Not all of them but enough to force a stand-off between the states and the feds.

Trump's abusive government would come to a halt. The downside is that the economy will crash hard, much like the Covid shutdown days of early 2020. There will be clashes between federal forces and state forces. Trump will want to federalise the state national guards and use them to try and force states to comply to his wishes.

And that is where things would get sticky. Would the state national guard commanders follow Trump's orders or their state governors? There has been some speculation about that in the independent news feeds. Would the United States descend into chaos as states exercise their sovereign rights over the feds demands?

I realise that I'm imagining a total breakdown of government under Trump if he keeps pushing, but this isn't so far fetched anymore by we're witnessing in Minnesota. Illinois would back Minnesota, along with several other states in the region. I can imagine the west coast states reaching out to help with logistics, if Minnesota and Illinois take on the federal government over its abuses against the people in their states.

Before all of that happens, congress has to step in and tell Trump to stop the nonsense. But I don't see that happening until Minnesota stands up for itself, with Illinois backing them, along with maybe a handful of other states in the mid-west. They are pushing back a little bit recently but they're woefully short of doing their jobs.

Which is going to be part of next week's podcast. I plan to use my own state's politicians as examples of how they're not doing what we elected them to do. In so many ways, they are as much of the problem with the federal government as Trump and his executive branch are. Which I plan to point out as best as I can.

I don't imagine many people will read this because this blog isn't well known. I'm trying to change that this year, with some help from my friends. They aren't many as I'm not much of a social media influencer but I'm trying to do better. We'll see how well I do in the coming months ahead.

For anyone else who may stumble across this website when randomly scrolling the search engines for political reading content, share this with anyone you may think would be interested in my political discourse. The more people we engage with who want to put a stop to Trump and his oligarch donors, the better. Otherwise, the ending of the American republic will happen without a shot and most people won't know its gone until it's too late. We will lose so many things, such as free speech and other civil rights. We're almost there now.

A lot of pundits are starting to compare Trump and his government to the oligarchies in Russian, Hungary, and other places around the world. We're so very close to that right now and the only way to stop the madness, is to stand up and say no. And be prepared to accept the consequences, like Ms. Renee Goode and so many others in the last year. That's the downside of war. People get hurt and die. Just like in the first American revolution. A lot of people died back then in order to throw off the yoke of English tyranny. We're nearly there once again. More people may have to die before we throw off Trump's yoke once and for all.

How many of you are willing to stand up and fight for your rights as granted by the U.S. constitution? I know I am and I know how to use a gun.