Trump’s fantasy of commanding the world with bluster is collapsing. As Xi, Putin, and Modi gather strength, America risks isolation, irrelevance, and danger under his failed foreign policy.
In whatever trade negotiations existed beyond those execrable tariff letters, Narenda Modi was lobbied unsuccessfully by Jason Miller, for which he received $1.5 million. You may recognize Jason Miller as the staffer who kept his job when the Hispanic campaign liaison whom he’d impregnated in 2016 had to leave the White House. (She’s raising her son in Miami.) Miller fed a subsequent girlfriend a mifepristone smoothie that ended the pregnancy and sent her to an ER. TrumpPAC paid MAGA Miller’s back child support.
EMERGENCY, not!. BLUE state governors hold the key to stop the assault of constituents. Too much is at risk to wait! Mobilize Blue state National Guards when threatened. Wait until then. The invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize their National Guards to resist an UNLAWFUL assault. The U.S. military should not accept UNLAWFUL orders, and should not be present no matter how good they are at spreading mulch and collecting trash. The sooner we get this over with, the better. This confrontation is coming. It is coming! REMEMBER JANARY 6th! They started this civil war right then. We are stronger now than we will be tomorrow. The confrontation is not a battle or a war. It is a standoff at State borders. One state would be trying to invade another. One is the offender. The other, the defender. Spare me the “you are inciting violence”. We all know TACO. Blocking a road at the border is not advocating violence, it is moving the conflict from the cities to the border, a much safer place for the state’s citizens.
Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly PREEMPTIVE strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? NO EXCUSE! Change your state Constitution. Pritzker. What are you doing?
At John Kennedy’s Instagram, I asked him why he doesn’t help Shreveport, or any red cities and states with much higher murder and crime rates than D.C., LA, and Chicago. Other people in the thread began badgering him about sending the National Guard away from red places that could use them, lol.
I’m not sure about the legalities, but in my opinion, every Democratic governor should declare an emergency & deploy their state National Guard, before trump can,to protect their state from the Tyranny of the trump Regime’s military takeover. It’s the only way to fight fire with fire and avoid a civil war involving citizen combatants. You have to FORCE bullies to stand down. Going to court won’t cut it. There will have to be a confrontation, and hopefully a stalemate, that will preempt the violence trump hopes for.
I'm with you. This should have been done prior to Trump coming into L.A. Why are we not playing offense instead of defense? Trump is all over the place all the time.
Take all actions possible - this sounds plausible, court actions are not off the table just because other actions are gearing up. Newsom's exhibiting another, Mike Walz is picking up his end..."fired" folks are standing up to the Miller/Trump crap. (wishing for the lance movement against Miller - make his life a living hell - a new sport)
LEGALITIES? What a joke! Is that COWARDLY DRAFT DODGING PEDOPHILE in CHIEF concerned about law? Only when he can USE it to expand his agenda. THE ONLY thing a COWARD understands is any STRENGTH greater than his. SHOW THAT COWARD! THEN WATCH HIM RUN!
We need a national boycott of business supporting Trump as well as a red state boycott of all businesses of any kind. Buy no gas, no groceries, clothing, no athletic purchases, etc. Plus, no on-line purchase of any kind.
It needs to occur on a specific day or weekend. Constitution Day, September 17, is perfect.
The advantages are 1) the one thing Republicans (and maybe Trump) is business. If they howl at the losses occasioned by a known boycott against Trump, there might be a reaction that we can only hope for. And 2), it’s safe. No ICE or federalized National Guard can come after you. Their gangster-like activities may create fear in the streets, but a national behavior of passivity cannot be touched by them.
Will post this again.......the magic number is 12 million protesters/activists workng/marching round the clock!!! 5 million was a good start for NOKINGS.
The clock is ticking America.......action over angst.
My body is in horrible shape. I rarely leave my home. But I believe in what you are doing. September 17? Sounds great. One grocery down the street is employee owned. If I need anything then that's where I'll go. Good luck!!!
A great idea. We need Indivisible or Move on or Women’s March to organize it & rally the troops. I keep hoping the government agencies the Felon has targeted would walk out in protest, a general strike. It almost happened at the CDC after the recent firing & resignations. Nothing gets attention like shutting down an entire agency & they can’t fire them all if they stand together. It’s time to play hardball.
Excellent article, Michael. This is all crucial information for everyone to listen to. And to wake up the apathetic and those who continue to put their heads in the sand, because none of this affects them. Yet.
We have our own little baby wanna be trumpster in Canada, who is now leader of the opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. With a Maple MAGA following. Many of Poilievre’s words parrot trump’s, exactly. He lost the Prime Minister race to Marc Carney, Liberal. If Carney can deal so effectively with trump, then I think he will have to expend much less energy in keeping this vile person in his own lane. So everything happening in the US is affecting us directly. And it’s f’n scary. 🇨🇦
Yes and no. The grammar is not difficult at all. But the tones are. So depending on the tone you use, you're talking about your mother...or your horse. Still, English is a tonal language (just consider how many different tones the letter "A" has) and English-speakers can learn correct usage of this concept with practice. As Grandma used to say, with practice you can learn to do anything...
Hey Michael ! Thanks for the excellent article. Meidas Touch Network and all the other info I read from you and the rest of the team is irreplaceable. I'm still listening.
It continues to amaze me how much devastation one man is causing our 250 year old Constitution-based democracy. As a natural born U.S. citizen I’ve always thought this republic was a rock under my feet. I thought the Congress and SCOTUS were real. I thought we had an iron clad “rule of law.” I thought we were a relatively peaceful, safe, democratic country. I am ashamed now of my total naïveté and ignorance. Our democratic republic was actually just a state of mind.
We’ve always had mostly honorable leaders, until now. We never had to worry about someone gaining office that was this deceitful. Trying to exploit every weakness & unspoken rule that any normal leader would never take advantage of. We are in uncharted territory. Decency truly is a virtue.
Inevitably, twenty-years from now when the next generation takes power, they will clearly see how Trump and Trumpism's neo-isolationism drove the USA into a position of a second class economy. The emerging economies are on their way to eclipsing the American Century.
This is everything journalism should be. Thank you for not putting this post behind a paywall. My only income is my social security check once a month.
It is Trumps selfish pursuit of grifts, money and personal gain that is killing this country. He is living in such a fantasy, and his admin people just feed him so he stays in that unreal world. Such a shortsighted man, but he is blinded by his desires to become a trillionaire. This article really said it straight. You hit right on the reality. Thanks for writing this excellent piece.
Sometimes called the "unofficial end of summer," Labor Day is an annual celebration of the economic and social achievements of American workers. Before it was a federal holiday, Labor Day was recognized by labor activists and individual states. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey, proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. New York was the first state to introduce a bill, but Oregon was the first to pass a law recognizing Labor Day, on February 21, 1887. By 1894, 23 more states had adopted the holiday. Following the resulting growth of the labor movement, on June 22, 1894, Senator James Henderson Kyle of South Dakota introduced Bill S. 730 to the 53rd Congress to make Labor Day a legal holiday, and on June 28, 1894 it was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland … making the first Monday in September of each year a national holiday.
In whatever trade negotiations existed beyond those execrable tariff letters, Narenda Modi was lobbied unsuccessfully by Jason Miller, for which he received $1.5 million. You may recognize Jason Miller as the staffer who kept his job when the Hispanic campaign liaison whom he’d impregnated in 2016 had to leave the White House. (She’s raising her son in Miami.) Miller fed a subsequent girlfriend a mifepristone smoothie that ended the pregnancy and sent her to an ER. TrumpPAC paid MAGA Miller’s back child support.
EMERGENCY, not!. BLUE state governors hold the key to stop the assault of constituents. Too much is at risk to wait! Mobilize Blue state National Guards when threatened. Wait until then. The invasion of one state by another is a call to state Governors to mobilize their National Guards to resist an UNLAWFUL assault. The U.S. military should not accept UNLAWFUL orders, and should not be present no matter how good they are at spreading mulch and collecting trash. The sooner we get this over with, the better. This confrontation is coming. It is coming! REMEMBER JANARY 6th! They started this civil war right then. We are stronger now than we will be tomorrow. The confrontation is not a battle or a war. It is a standoff at State borders. One state would be trying to invade another. One is the offender. The other, the defender. Spare me the “you are inciting violence”. We all know TACO. Blocking a road at the border is not advocating violence, it is moving the conflict from the cities to the border, a much safer place for the state’s citizens.
Also, the gerrymander fight is on. There is a new playbook. The old rules have been struck down by the Supreme Court. We need to change the gears here as fast as possible for deadly PREEMPTIVE strikes. Newsom has moved out on this already. Who is next? Hochul. Where are you? NO EXCUSE! Change your state Constitution. Pritzker. What are you doing?
https://hotbuttons.substack.com/p/gerrymander-fight?r=3m1bs
At John Kennedy’s Instagram, I asked him why he doesn’t help Shreveport, or any red cities and states with much higher murder and crime rates than D.C., LA, and Chicago. Other people in the thread began badgering him about sending the National Guard away from red places that could use them, lol.
I have been thinking along the same lines:
I’m not sure about the legalities, but in my opinion, every Democratic governor should declare an emergency & deploy their state National Guard, before trump can,to protect their state from the Tyranny of the trump Regime’s military takeover. It’s the only way to fight fire with fire and avoid a civil war involving citizen combatants. You have to FORCE bullies to stand down. Going to court won’t cut it. There will have to be a confrontation, and hopefully a stalemate, that will preempt the violence trump hopes for.
I'm with you. This should have been done prior to Trump coming into L.A. Why are we not playing offense instead of defense? Trump is all over the place all the time.
Take all actions possible - this sounds plausible, court actions are not off the table just because other actions are gearing up. Newsom's exhibiting another, Mike Walz is picking up his end..."fired" folks are standing up to the Miller/Trump crap. (wishing for the lance movement against Miller - make his life a living hell - a new sport)
LEGALITIES? What a joke! Is that COWARDLY DRAFT DODGING PEDOPHILE in CHIEF concerned about law? Only when he can USE it to expand his agenda. THE ONLY thing a COWARD understands is any STRENGTH greater than his. SHOW THAT COWARD! THEN WATCH HIM RUN!
Governors do not need an emergency. This their state’s militia. The stalemate at the border will force the issue into court.
Jason Miller is the one who resembles an inflated balloon with eyes and a goatee painted on it.
We need a national boycott of business supporting Trump as well as a red state boycott of all businesses of any kind. Buy no gas, no groceries, clothing, no athletic purchases, etc. Plus, no on-line purchase of any kind.
It needs to occur on a specific day or weekend. Constitution Day, September 17, is perfect.
The advantages are 1) the one thing Republicans (and maybe Trump) is business. If they howl at the losses occasioned by a known boycott against Trump, there might be a reaction that we can only hope for. And 2), it’s safe. No ICE or federalized National Guard can come after you. Their gangster-like activities may create fear in the streets, but a national behavior of passivity cannot be touched by them.
Will post this again.......the magic number is 12 million protesters/activists workng/marching round the clock!!! 5 million was a good start for NOKINGS.
The clock is ticking America.......action over angst.
My body is in horrible shape. I rarely leave my home. But I believe in what you are doing. September 17? Sounds great. One grocery down the street is employee owned. If I need anything then that's where I'll go. Good luck!!!
A great idea. We need Indivisible or Move on or Women’s March to organize it & rally the troops. I keep hoping the government agencies the Felon has targeted would walk out in protest, a general strike. It almost happened at the CDC after the recent firing & resignations. Nothing gets attention like shutting down an entire agency & they can’t fire them all if they stand together. It’s time to play hardball.
Excellent article, Michael. This is all crucial information for everyone to listen to. And to wake up the apathetic and those who continue to put their heads in the sand, because none of this affects them. Yet.
We have our own little baby wanna be trumpster in Canada, who is now leader of the opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. With a Maple MAGA following. Many of Poilievre’s words parrot trump’s, exactly. He lost the Prime Minister race to Marc Carney, Liberal. If Carney can deal so effectively with trump, then I think he will have to expend much less energy in keeping this vile person in his own lane. So everything happening in the US is affecting us directly. And it’s f’n scary. 🇨🇦
Like I’ve been saying all year, thank God I am learning Mandarin.
Great idea
That’s a difficult language to learn, isn’t it?
Yes and no. The grammar is not difficult at all. But the tones are. So depending on the tone you use, you're talking about your mother...or your horse. Still, English is a tonal language (just consider how many different tones the letter "A" has) and English-speakers can learn correct usage of this concept with practice. As Grandma used to say, with practice you can learn to do anything...
Indeed. Cannot say with any confidence that I’m any good at it, yet.
Anything like Aspirin?
America is already isolated because of the orange jagoff and his department incels...THEY'RE STUPID, UNQUALIFIED SLAGS!!!
Hey Michael ! Thanks for the excellent article. Meidas Touch Network and all the other info I read from you and the rest of the team is irreplaceable. I'm still listening.
Excellent article! trumpers better pay attention! He’s not leading anyone in the right direction!!
I am "SORRY", it is NOT his diplomacy that is "his weakness" , it is HIS PRESIDENCY.
It continues to amaze me how much devastation one man is causing our 250 year old Constitution-based democracy. As a natural born U.S. citizen I’ve always thought this republic was a rock under my feet. I thought the Congress and SCOTUS were real. I thought we had an iron clad “rule of law.” I thought we were a relatively peaceful, safe, democratic country. I am ashamed now of my total naïveté and ignorance. Our democratic republic was actually just a state of mind.
We’ve always had mostly honorable leaders, until now. We never had to worry about someone gaining office that was this deceitful. Trying to exploit every weakness & unspoken rule that any normal leader would never take advantage of. We are in uncharted territory. Decency truly is a virtue.
Inevitably, twenty-years from now when the next generation takes power, they will clearly see how Trump and Trumpism's neo-isolationism drove the USA into a position of a second class economy. The emerging economies are on their way to eclipsing the American Century.
This is everything journalism should be. Thank you for not putting this post behind a paywall. My only income is my social security check once a month.
Me too Ms. Douglas
Glad to know you, Ms.Metcalf! These folks who put up paywalls can’t imagine what life is like for those of us who are really struggling!
It is Trumps selfish pursuit of grifts, money and personal gain that is killing this country. He is living in such a fantasy, and his admin people just feed him so he stays in that unreal world. Such a shortsighted man, but he is blinded by his desires to become a trillionaire. This article really said it straight. You hit right on the reality. Thanks for writing this excellent piece.
PROTEST! But protest Project 2025 or Vance, or Stephen Miller or Russell Vought. Bring the slime to the surface. Trump us irrelevant mire and more.
Protest Project 2025, The Heritage Foundation, their sister organization Heritage and Curtis Yarvin!!!
Sometimes called the "unofficial end of summer," Labor Day is an annual celebration of the economic and social achievements of American workers. Before it was a federal holiday, Labor Day was recognized by labor activists and individual states. Recent research seems to support the contention that Matthew Maguire, later the secretary of Local 344 of the International Association of Machinists in Paterson, New Jersey, proposed the holiday in 1882 while serving as secretary of the Central Labor Union in New York. New York was the first state to introduce a bill, but Oregon was the first to pass a law recognizing Labor Day, on February 21, 1887. By 1894, 23 more states had adopted the holiday. Following the resulting growth of the labor movement, on June 22, 1894, Senator James Henderson Kyle of South Dakota introduced Bill S. 730 to the 53rd Congress to make Labor Day a legal holiday, and on June 28, 1894 it was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland … making the first Monday in September of each year a national holiday.
Sources: (accessed on 30 August 2025)
https://www.govinfo.gov/features/labor-day-2024
https://www.dol.gov/general/laborday/history
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/STATUTE-28/pdf/STATUTE-28-Pg96.pdf
Do must know that he is a Russian asset.
It becomes clearer everyday that Trump is a Russian asset sent to obliterate the USA’s leadership role in world affairs.