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France did what the United States couldn’t: It banned its popular rightwing populist presidential candidate from running for president after she was found guilty of corruption. Because corrupt people — especially those found guilty of a crime by a court of law — shouldn’t be allowed to be president.

Reprint excerpt from Article found at:  France just showed us how we should have dealt with Donald Trump

If Putin wanted to kill America, how would he best do it? Exactly like this:

— Install a puppet or ally inside the government; as Lincoln foresaw, a tyrant doesn’t need to invade. He just needs to rise from within. Trump has repeatedly echoed Kremlin talking points, undermined NATO, attacked Ukraine, praised autocrats, and created chaos at home. If Putin picked a candidate, it would be Trump — and the intelligence community has confirmed Russian efforts to help him win in both 2016 and 2020.

— Dismantle American institutions from the inside; Putin’s best move would be to encourage the erosion of U.S. government capacity: devalue science, underfund law enforcement, defund agencies, destroy trust in elections, and sabotage public health. All are happening as you read these words.

— Stoke internal division; a divided America is a weak America. Putin’s cyber and propaganda ops have long stoked racial hatred, anti-government sentiment, anti-vax ideology, and far-right extremism. Trump accelerates all of it. Musk’s X (Twitter) has become a vector for disinformation, propaganda, and fascist apologia.

— Weaken U.S. alliances around the world; Trump has repeatedly threatened to pull out of NATO, praised Putin’s invasions, and undermined Western alliances. Now he is threatening our allies with the possibility of invasion. This is textbook Kremlin strategy — divide the West, and conquer its influence.

Whether Trump and Musk are taking direct instructions from Putin or simply operating in ideological lockstep is a question of degree, not direction. The destruction they are today inflicting on America is strategic, not accidental; coordinated, not chaotic; and oligarchic, not populist.

And whether Trump and Musk are doing it on Putin’s instructions, acting out the Dark Enlightenment vision of a CEO America, or simply trying to wipe out any institutions that might challenge their exercise of raw power, that’s exactly what’s happening right now. The outcome is the same: the deliberate disempowerment of the American people and the dismantling of a liberal democratic order that has stood for 240 years.

These two men and their enablers in the Trump regime are quite literally taking apart our American government while, at the same time, doing away with our protections against wealthy predators and destroying our international alliances.

The Founders had this noble idea that, as I detail in The Hidden History of American Democracy, they’d largely borrowed from the Iroquois Confederacy and other northeastern tribes: people can govern themselves when power-hungry psychopaths are kept in check.

It animated George Washington when he wrote:

“As mankind become more liberal, they will be more apt to allow, that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community, are equally entitled to the protection of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations in examples of justice and liberality.”

And Abraham Lincoln, who rescued our nation from the fascist Confederate oligarchs who’d taken over the South and then dared try to bring down our democracy through warfare:

“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us; it cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher.”

And here we are. So far, Trump and Musk have or are in the process of:

— Gutting the IRS so badly that the country will lose an estimated $500 billion to morbidly rich tax cheats

— Killing off the EPA, so polluters can run free and profit from giving us cancer

— Disbanded the Public Integrity Section that once prosecuted corrupt politicians

— Shut down the DOJ unit that was prosecuting violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act

— Moved the ATF under Kash Patel’s overview with the goal of neutering it

— Crippling the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau (CFPB) that stops big banks and insurance companies from ripping off average people

— Taking a hatchet to NASA, presumably to hand more power and money to SpaceX

— Dismantling the Department of Education to create more demand for private for-profit schools

— Paralyzing the Department of Health and Human Services that protects us from disease and pandemics

— Mutilating the National Labor Relations Board that protects workers’ rights

— Proclaiming their intention to end FEMA, so Americans are on their own when climate-change-driven disasters strike

— Tearing apart the Social Security Administration so seniors will have to rely on big banks for retirement options

— Demolishing the National Institutes of Health that develops new drugs and cures for disease

— Seizing control of the FCC so they can end net neutrality and dictate content of radio and TV programming

— Stripping NOAA of its workers so we’ll have to rely on for-profit companies for our weather reports and storm warnings

— Kneecapping the Department of Transportation to block new public transportation projects and deregulate big trucking companies and self-driving cars

— Ripping up the Department of Energy so it can’t fund any more “green” energy projects

— Wiping out the Department of Housing and Urban Development to prevent any new low-income housing projects

— Attacking the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to leave Americans defenseless

— Largely ending the ability of the Office of Civil Rights within the DOE to enforce anti-discrimination laws in education— Defunded the National Institute of Justice that works against terrorism and far-right extremism

— Eviscerating the Department of Veterans Affairs and other programs that help our veterans (including shutting down the suicide prevention hotlines)

— Defunding the Department of Agriculture to gut food stamps/SNAP, school lunch programs, and supports for small family farms

— Paralyzing the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) that oversees the executive branch to make sure anti-terrorism efforts don’t violate civil rights

— Weakening the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) so it can’t do its job of protecting minority or disabled workers and job applicants

— Firing scientists at the FDA, gutting oversight of drug manufacturers.

And that’s just a partial “so far” list.

Meanwhile, Trump is snatching students off the streets and transporting them to a brutal private for-profit prison in Louisiana with no due process whatsoever in clear defiance of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; proposing changes to voting laws that will prevent tens of millions of married women from casting a ballot; and threatening to seize foreign, sovereign lands by force.

There are several factions at work here.

— First, there’s Trump himself, who’s so filled with hate against the government that once threatened to imprison him for his crimes that he’s more than happy to hand a meataxe to anybody who’ll make government workers squeal in pain.

— Next come Musk and the so-called PayPal Mafia of German, South African and homegrown billionaires who think women should not be allowed to vote, capitalism and democracy are incompatible with each other, and appear to have fantasies of ruling over a whites-only ethnonationalist state run like a corporation.

— And finally, there are the old fashioned rightwing billionaires who simply don’t want to pay their fair share in taxes or have their companies regulated; these are the guys who, for over 50 years, have been following the Powell Memo to build the infrastructure — media, legal, lobbying, think tanks, etc. — that has made all this possible today.

Americans are starting to wake up to the damage these men (the ones driving the process are all white men) are doing and this weekend millions of protestors will show up in the streets of every city in America to make their discomfort and anger known.

It’s a beginning. If public opinion becomes too strong to ignore, it’s possible some Republicans will decide that protecting our republic is more important than fearing a primary challenge funded by the richest man in the world; that could stop much of what Trump’s doing dead in its tracks.

On the other hand, it’s entirely possible that such demonstrations could provoke Trump to fulfill his previous threats to follow the examples of Putin, Lukashenko, and Erdoğan and declare a state of insurrection, mobilizing the military against the citizens of America.

At that point, all bets are off and the window to save American democracy will have shrunk to a matter of weeks or months.

Whether Putin is running this show — as those who point to his reportedly regular phone conversations with Trump and Musk argue — or it’s a homegrown effort to cripple our nation is almost irrelevant; the reality is that they’re well down the road in a way that may be irreparable, at least within a generation or more.

As my old friend Rob Kall points out over at OpEdNews.com, institutional knowledge is a critical resource for both companies and governments, and these mass firings are ripping it out of our nation’s systems of governance leaving a hole that will take decades to re-fill.

Thus, with Congress neutered and the courts half-paralyzed and moving slowly, it falls to us to stop this anti-American destruction spree. And that will require massive public expressions of outrage, demands for action, and relentless pressure on our politicians.

The key to mobilizing public pressure is to make clear to Americans exactly what Trump and Musk are really up to. To help people understand that this regime’s real agenda — which they are ruthlessly executing right in front of us — is to destroy the United States of America as it was and turn our country into something much more like Hungary or Russia.

And, to the extent that our corporate media is too timid or too bought-off to raise the alarm, that work falls to us, to me and you.

Tag, we’re it. Pass it along.

Above Article Link:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/how-to-collapse-america-from-the-inside-out-opinion/ar-AA1C0umr?ocid=BingNewsSerp

If Trump does/did NOT want to stay and operate within the power level of the President, he should NOT have run for or been elected President.  He knew the power level before running for a second term.

The government is set up the way it is so no one section of the government gets too powerful.  The founding founders did not want anyone to become king or dictator in America.

If Judges are blocking Trump’s agenda, then Trump’s agenda is illegal and should not be implemented.  Trump should change his agenda instead of bitching at the judges.

A President should operate within the law.

Solutions:

• Increase taxes on everyone especially the rich. Do not eliminate IRS or taxes.  You need them. This includes increase any payments into Soc. Security.  If tariffs implemented, do both increase taxes and the tariffs.
• Know what you are doing or going to do BEFORE doing anything.  All actions should be an improvement without destroying anything.  Know the daisy-chains BEFORE doing anything.
• Have a functioning government even during changes.  If you cannot do this, don’t make any changes.  USA citizens need a FUNCTIONING government not chaos.
• Stay within your power parameters.  The founding fathers of the USA set up the system so that the three divisions of government would keep one from gaining too much power.
• Keep laws and courts in place and function within them.  The laws and courts do not and are not to exist to play politics with the law but to evaluate issues according to the existing law.  Just because a court does not agree with a political party, it cannot/should not be eliminated or changed.  A judge is to evaluate the laws as they exist and conclude accordingly.  Even the President of the USA should show due respect of/to judges throughout the system even if they consider such as wrong.  The judges decision stands.  It should not be determined according to political policies or agendas.
• Stay within the Constitution parameters.  Read the constitution and amendments and adhere to them.  To not ignore them or throw out the constitution or its meanings.
• Strengthen Soc. Sec., HUD, EPIC, Medicare, Medicaid, etc as they are needed.  If you are in Congress or other governmental agencies, you are suppose to know how to do your job.  Find a way to do these things without destruction of the system.  You should not have run for a position or been elected if you do not know how to do such.  Do your jobs and stop asking for pay raises until you actually do the job you were elected to do.
• Fix some governmental agencies or functions without destroying them.  FEMA being one to be fixed and not destroyed.  It definitely needs fixing. The American citizens are being told that our elected governmental people are not competent and able to do their jobs which includes fixing the functioning of government without destroying it.

We voters do NOT want to hear about Republicans or Democrats, we want to hear consideration of solutions that work and keep things functioning based on the merit of the issue.

America has 3 parts to its government:  White House President/staff, Congress House and Senate, and Supreme Court.  The Constitution is mandatory as well.

You cannot have America without the above.  America also has laws and consequences.  Without such, there is no America.  You cannot eliminate Congress or the Court System and just have the White House

Members of Congress take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Everything following “support”—the part aboutdefending the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic”—was added during the Civil War.

Article:  The duty to impeach Mad King Donald | Opinion

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Members of Congress take an oath to “support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.” Everything following “support”—the part about defending the Constitution “against all enemies, foreign and domestic”—was added during the Civil War. And Donald Trump is exactly what they were talking about: an enemy of the Constitution who seeks to set himself up as a virtual king, above the law and accountable to no one. Their oaths make it clear that members of Congress have a sworn duty to protect the Constitution from him, and “Impeachment is a remedy for a runaway president,” as Texas Representative Al Green told Democracy Now! On March 7.

Curiously missing from this list was Trump’s efforts to intimidate, if not jail or silence critical voices in the press, an oversight that Trump himself underscored two days later when he illegally delivered a political speech at the Department of Justice, where he called CNN, MSNBC, and unspecified newspapers illegal, signally his intention to silence, if not imprison, his critics. “They’re really corrupt and they’re illegal. What they do is illegal,” he said of the cable channels, adding, “These networks and these newspapers are really no different than a highly paid political operative. And it has to stop. It has to be illegal.”

While all the above reflect Trump’s dictatorial ambitions that Congress has a duty to defend against, they don’t exhaust the list of his impeachable conduct. Other specific charges from impeachtrumpagain.org include:

・Abusing the pardon power

・Abusing the emergency power

・Receiving foreign and domestic emoluments

・Depriving citizens of their birthright citizenship

・Corruptly dismissing criminal charges against New York Mayor Eric Adams

・Blocking efforts to secure U.S. elections

・Engaging in unlawful, corrupt practices during the 2024 presidential campaign

But even these do not exhaust the list. Trump’s sweeping efforts to wantonly slash the federal government aren’t just a violation of Congress’s power of the purse, they’re also a profound injury to the American people, in violation of the Constitution’s preamble: that it was established to “promote the general welfare and provide for the common defense.”

Green appeared on Democracy Now! the day after the House censured him for daring to challenge Trump during his address to Congress, saying Trump had “no mandate to cut Medicaid!” But Trump is going much further than cutting Medicaid—he’s going after Social Security and Medicare, which are bedrocks in promoting the general welfare, in addition to numerous other injuries to the general welfare, such as defunding biomedical research, shutting down national parks, slashing the National Weather Service, and much more.

Trump’s attacks on Social Security are being led by unelected co-president Elon Musk, whose false claims of massive fraud (a 10,000% exaggeration) have already justified terminating payments to recipients, while an internal memo obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency, simultaneously slashing staff and closing offices, while forcing hundreds of thousands if not millions of beneficiaries to go to extraordinary lengths to secure the benefits they’re entitled to.

The endgame—shared by right wing ideologues for generations—is to make the system so dysfunctional that people will agree to privatize it, resulting in billions, if not trillions of dollars being transferred from people who paid into the system into the pockets of Wall Street billionaire oligarchs—if not Musk himself, as he expands his financial interests. Such a wealth transfer is the exact opposite of promoting the general welfare — a direct violation of the Constitution’s preamble.

But there’s another way in which Trump’s actions are impeachable: as violations of the Constitution’s “Take Care” clause. Article II, Section 3 states that, among other things, the President “shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This is exactly the opposite of what Trump has done. He’s sought to turn the laws inside out to serve his own narrow interests, and those of close allies like Musk, who’s seen dozens of investigations into his businesses shut down since Trump’s inauguration.

In Trump’s first term, it took a long time for Green to build support for impeachment, until Trump blatantly crossed the line, withholding congressionally appropriated funds in an attempt to blackmail Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy into opening a phony investigation into Joe Biden. This term, Trump began similar efforts almost immediately. Impounding Congressionally-approved funds have garnered the most attention by far, thanks to Musk’s chainsaw approach. But Trump is also blackmailing Zelenskyy with a different end in mind: Rewarding his Russian handler, Vladimir Putin, for his murderous invasion of Ukraine. And in the wake of his recent DOJ speech, he’s made clear his intention to continue phony investigations against Biden and those Trump sees as aligned with him.

On social media Trump said he no longer considered valid the pardons Biden granted to people Trump might target because they were signed using an autopen, which is not merely an uncontroversial method of affixing a presidential signature that Trump himself has used, it’s the modern version of a device first used and praised by Thomas Jefferson.

All this shows that Trump is completely undeterred from the kind of conduct he was impeached for in his first term—conduct that culminated with an armed attack on the Capitol, a failed coup. It’s clear that such conduct warrants impeachment again. “But what’s the point?” you might ask, given how little effect it had last time.

The answer lies in the streets, rather than in Congress or the Courts. As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail; without it, nothing can succeed.” Recent research has shown that nonviolent protest movements almost inevitably drive autocrats from power once they reach a threshold of 3.5% of the population. That’s what a study of 323 violent and nonviolent movements from 1900 to 2006 showed, described in the 2011 book, “Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict” by Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. “There weren’t any campaigns that had failed after they had achieved 3.5% participation during a peak event,” Chenoweth told the BBC in 2019.

As Rachel Maddow noted on her March 17 show, such movements are now surging in response to the autocratic wave that Trump is a part of. Other countries, like Hungary and Syria, are well ahead of us because their autocrats have been in power much longer. But protests here in America are mushrooming at an astonishing speed, in a wide variety of venues for a wide variety of specific causes. Adding the broad call for Trump’s impeachment to the specifics of each local protest is a logical way for Americans to do what others have done before them to get rid of autocratic authoritarian leaders. Congress has a duty to impeach Trump. And the people have the power to make that happen. It may not be clear from American history. But world history holds out more promise.

Why does no one stop Trump/Musk from misusing their positions?  It is Congress’s job to stop the President from taking more power than he should have.  It it the Supreme Court’s job to enforce keeping the President from assuming too much power.

The Constitution and System is set up to keep what is happening from happening so why is it being allowed?

No one, not even his supporters at the time voted for him to be a dictator or king so why is he allowed to assume such power?

He should be stopped at all costs and immediately.  He was elected President under the powers of President at the time and he was not elected to change our government system.

SOMEONE STOP THIS NONSENSE!

America and the Western countries should have given and should now give Ukraine more help both militarily and economically.  Also, America and Western countries should have and should now give Ukraine boots on the ground

It does not help America to give into the demands of Communistic countries when they are in the wrong.  Russia invaded Ukraine and was unprovoked to do so.

Democracy should be defended to the death even in America itself.

“Whenever law ends, tyranny begins.” —John Locke

When a president declares an “invasion” to justify shredding the Constitution, he’s not defending the nation—he’s declaring war on democracy itself.

The United States of America has long been defined by its commitment to the rule of law. For over 240 years, this nation has stood as a beacon of justice, due process, and constitutional order. Yet today, we are witnessing a grotesque and unprecedented assault on those very principles.

from article:   This is not a drill: Trump’s new attack on America means no one is safe | Opinion

My opinion is that Trump breaks the laws of the land anytime anyway he wants and gets away with it.  He disobeys courts.  He is a bad example of being a good citizen let alone a President of the Country.  If anyone in the past did what he does, he would be in jail for treason or at least as a criminal.