Donald Trump has been accused alternately of being a Russian agent, a puppet of Vladimir Putin, a wannabe dictator in the same mold as Putin, or even the subject of blackmail by Putin.
He has done little to dispel those accusations and in fact, some of his actions have only served to veriify and underscore the disturbing claims.
Take, for example a story that The Washington Post broke around 11:00 a.m. today.
Most of my close associates refuse to subscribe to or have canceled their subscriptions to the Post because of owner Jeff Bezos’s decisions to (1) refrain from making an endorsement in the 2024 presidential election and (2) dictating the editorial content of the Post.
I have to admit that their concerns over Bezos’s interference in the Post’s newsroom operations are legitimate. It’s a disturbing development to be sure.
But, it seems, the paper still can hit Trump where it hurts when occasions dictate, Bezos’s lingering presence notwithstanding.
Take that bombshell that hit my in-box today at midmorning:
Trump, it seems has nominated interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin for the permanent role.
That, despite the fact that Martin has appeared more than 150 times on RT and Sputnik, networks funded and directed by the Russian government, as a guest commentator between August 2016 and April 2024.
He told an interviewer on RT in early 2022 that there was “no evidence” of a Russian military buildup on Ukraine’s borders. Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, just nine days after that incredulous claim. Instead, he criticized U.S. officials as warmongering and of ignoring Russia’s security concerns.
When nominated, he had to complete a questionnaire which, among other things, asks nominees to list all media interviews. Somehow, he neglected to mention those 150-plus Russian network appearances. Obviously, they just slipped his mind.
Not only did he fail to disclose the appearances, but some national security analysists have accused him of amplifying anti-American propaganda on the Russian networks and the State Department last years said he had moved “beyond disinformation” to engage in covert influence activities aimed at undermining democracies on behalf of Putin’s administration.
This, folks, is way beyond squirreling away classified documents in Mar-a-Lago’s bathroom.
The U.S. attorney’s office in D.C. is the largest in the nation and has almost unbridled jurisdiction to prosecute important national security offenses.
Think about that for just a nano-second.
With those prosecutorial powers coupled with Trump’s “2025 retribution tour,” what odds would you give any dissident in or out of the Trump administration?
It’s a recipe for the purge of anyone with an original thought and of a frightening attack on the media, on academia, on gays, on women, on blacks, on Latinos, on Middle Easterners and anyone or anything else that might stand in this monster’s path.
A White House official told the Post that Trump had made “a brilliant choice in selecting Ed Martin to serve a full, permanent term as United States Attorney for the District of Columbia,” and noted that Martin had “a distinguished record of service,” and as such, was the perfect choice “to restore law and order…”
The kind of law-and-order Trump has in mind should send chills down all our backs.
Project 2025? Forget that. Yes, Project 2025 is a playbook for an attack on our very economic and social structure. It seeks to implement a system beneficial to the ultra-wealthy would-be oligarchs and reduce the rest of society to peonage status.
But that aside, what this nomination does easily transcends Project 2025 in its severity, its threat to democracy and a free society. If Trump can plant one such person in the most powerful U.S. attorney’s office in the nation, what do you expect him to attempt next? Do you seriously believe he’ll stop there? This is just a preview, the opening act, if you will, of what’s to come.
Folks, Trump is as dangerous as a snake – a deadly venemous snake.
He is either (a) a knowing and willing agent of Russia, (b) an aspiring dictator willing to stop at nothing to assert complete control over Congress, the Supreme Court and each of our lives, (c) a total incompetent, in over his head with no idea what he’s doing or (d) a combination of two or all three.
Take your pick: either way we’re doomed if we allow him to continue to run amok, shredding the Constitution and ignoring the courts and the rule of law.
We can sit back and enjoy our SUVs, our flat screen TVs and our Z-turn mowers in a happy little vacuum of obliviousness or we can get off our asses and demand the return of our government to us, the ones to whom it was endowed in the first place, nearly 250 years ago.
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So what can we do? Here are a few obvious suggestions.
1) Email a letter to both senators and your representative. Write more than one. Write a different email for each issue that concerns you. Use every invective you’re comfortable with and a few you aren’t. Excoriate the fascist cowards for betraying America. It’s true neither Cassidy, Kennedy or your representative is likely to read the letters. Probably some staff flunky will get a paragraph in and then delete it. But 50,000 email letters will get someone’s attention. It’s important to be heard.
2) March and protest at every opportunity and if there is no opportunity do it by yourself. It’s important to be seen.
3) Here’s a tough one. Confront fascism, or at least do not legitimize it. I don’t mean get in a fistfight with MAGA fascists, though that might happen. What I mean is never let fascism go unchallenged. In the line at the grocery and hear some MAGA moron wallowing in their stupidity? Call it out. Don’t debate. There is no debate over the legitimacy of fascism. Call out the fascism, label the fascist, publicly reject both. Stand up for the principles America was founded on. It’s important for the fascist to know they’re illegitimate and the resistance is everywhere 24/7.
4) If you are able, donate to a cause or a candidate that appeals to you. If you’ve ever considered running for office now is the time.
5) Arm yourself. Know how to use your weapon and be prepared to kill or die for your country, your children/grandchildren, and the future. This isn’t going to end in a peaceful election.
I’m sure there are other paths to resistance. Just start. Somewhere. And don’t stop until MAGA fascism is shameful history. Throughout the history of America men and women have been asked to step up to defend freedom and the Constitution. Now it’s our turn to repay that debt.
Snakes are venomous not poisonous.
You are absolutely correce. Correction made. Thanks.
Thank you for this, Tom. Hopely people will begin to wake up. There are several grassroots organizations that I have learned about over the last several weeks.
10,000 Louisiana Women. Helped sponsor the empty chair town halls. Have met with legislators. Very organized and very professional. They are starting to address state issues as well.
Indivisible works with 10,000 Louisiana Women. This group protested in front of Bill Cassidy’s office the day before he was to vote on RFK, Jr. Didn’t help much but they did something. I have attended a meeting. It, too, is very organized and professional and has some good things planned.
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Louisiana Families for Vaccines
There is an app called 5 calls. It’s free. You download the app and it gives you topics to call about as well as the number of each of your specific legislator. Gives you talking points if you need them. Very easy to use.
50501 which has had protests across the country.
You can google these and you can find out all you need to know. It helps me to feel like I am doing something to stop this madness.
Like Mr. Spillman suggested, call your legislators every day and send emails/letters. Whether they read them or not, it helps to express your opinion, especially since they refuse to have town hall meetings and blame all the protests on trouble makers, paid protestors, and Democratic plant. The more they hear from us, the louder we will speak.
Lawfare and Leviathan: How the Bureaucratic State Became the Real Sovereign. The Prosecution Presidency: Biden, Trump, and the Death of Neutral Law. Justice or Anarchy? The Weaponization of Law in a Post-Constitutional America. Who Runs America? Bureaucrats, Billionaires, and the Puppets They Fund. From Republic to Regime: How Corporate Donors and Unelected Agencies Usurped the Constitution. The Invisible Coup: How Corporate Power and Federal Bureaucracy Replaced the Voter. The New Liberalism Is Conservative: How Populism Became Revolutionary. Anarchists in Suits: When the Left Became the Defenders of Empire. Trump the Radical, AOC the Conservative: The Great American Role Reversal. Rule by Indictment: The Fall of the American Constitutional Order. Soft Tyranny in the Age of Biden: Law, Lobbyists, and the Loss of Liberty. Technocracy Unmasked: The Corruption of Courts, Congress, and the Corporate State.
The U.S. no longer operates as a republic but as a technocratic, bureaucratic regime controlled by unelected officials, lobbyists, and billionaires. Legal warfare (“lawfare”) is not just a symptom but a strategy used by this managerial class to maintain power — and Donald Trump’s prosecution marks its most radical form. The American republic has fallen not with a coup, but with a quiet regime change. The new regime maintains democratic aesthetics, but behind them lies a fusion of lawfare, corporate oligarchy, and bureaucratic inertia.
The attempt to develop a provocative and thematically coherent framework that blends political theory, populist critique, and institutional analysis into a meta-narrative about the decline of the American republic and the rise of a technocratic-managerial regime. The titles and framing devices — such as “Lawfare and Leviathan,” “The Invisible Coup,” and “Anarchists in Suits” — effectively dramatize what many populists and dissidents perceive: that the traditional Left-Right spectrum has inverted, and that power now flows through informal, unelected, and often opaque networks of influence.
The United States no longer functions as a constitutional republic but as a bureaucratic-managerial regime, where unelected actors — from federal agencies and corporate lobbies to tech billionaires — exert de facto control through mechanisms like lawfare, regulatory capture, and financial influence. This regime maintains the appearance of democracy while insulating itself from genuine democratic accountability.
Anarchism is typically anti-state — yet the accusation here is that the state is growing too powerful. This legalistic anarchy, where the rule of law is no longer predictable or binding but selectively applied to punish dissent. Biden’s figurehead governance or executive inertia, compares to the Wilson Administration after he suffered a stroke and collapsed.
Clinton’s prostitution of MSM like Maddow’s chirping for three years the Russia-gate scandal slander of President Trump, Pelosi’s twice attempt to impeach the President, the Jan 6 Democratic committee lynch mob, Tom Homan vs AOC, or the Hunter Biden laptop suppression. Each anchor, abstract critiques in concrete controversies. The EU’s technocracy, Trudeau’s Emergencies Act, WEF influence show how the “invisible coup”, not uniquely American but part of a global managerial turn.
The United States no longer functions as a constitutional republic. It has undergone a silent regime change, not through armed insurrection or revolution, but via the incremental expansion of an unelected managerial class — one composed of federal agencies, tech oligarchs, corporate lobbyists, and judicial partisans who enforce their will through a new weapon: lawfare.
This new regime maintains the aesthetics of democracy — elections, laws, and televised debate — while insulating itself from true democratic accountability. The real power lies in what the public never votes for: the bureaucrats who write regulations, the judges who interpret law by ideological alignment, and the billionaires who fund narratives, campaigns, and policies from behind the scenes.
The hallmark of this new regime is the politicization of justice. When courts cease to be impartial and prosecutions become tools of political suppression, the republic dies by a thousand subpoenas. Trump’s legal troubles, regardless of personal guilt, are emblematic of this transformation: trials as political theater, indictments as electoral strategies.
The managerial state rules by inertia. Congressional deadlock, executive figureheads, and judicial activism have created a vacuum filled by alphabet agencies and “public-private partnerships.” These unaccountable bureaucracies write binding policy with the force of law — but without a single vote cast. The merger of tech censorship, legal persecution, and bureaucratic overreach simply not some ‘democratic oversight’ — but oligarchic enforcement dolled-up in liberal clothing.
Today, populists who challenge the bureaucratic order branded as “criminal radicals,” while those defending entrenched power modelled as whores advertising their trade behind window-panes, as “progressives.” The roles have reversed: dismantling unaccountable federal agencies, restoring legislative primacy, and enforcing transparency, now exist as “revolutionary” ideas. Meanwhile, defending a bloated alien blob infested federal apparatus has become the hallmark of “liberal” governance.
Anarchy doesn’t always burn like Molotov cocktails thrown at SS soldiers at the Warsaw Ghetto revolt. Today, anarchy wears a suit, like as does the current dictator of Syria, or sits on some judicial bench. Law in America, no longer consistent, Court prosecutions politically selective, the consequence of this political corruption — legalistic anarchy — an unstable bankrupt regime cloaked in all manner of legal pretense. This, simply not a critique of the Biden administration alone. That would make it shallow reactionary Trump derangement syndrome stupid. Nor does it limit its condemnation only to the Democratic Party. Republicans too have become fat and sassy comfortable puppets of the same donor class and administrative inertia. The crisis confronting our American Constitutional Republic – structural.
If America rejects the Bush slander of the US Constitution, calling it just a GD piece of paper! We the People of the United States must confront this Leviathan perversion of our Constitutional Republic unto a bureaucratic dictatorship — not just by winning elections, but by dismantling the unelected machinery of governance that makes elections irrelevant, and restore the autonomy of the States to bureaucratically regulate all Industry and commerce transactions within each and every State of the Union without Washington Big Brother. The original Constitution, designed for a limited, representative republic, not Carpet Bagger Federal unelected bureaucrats employing more Americans than does private industry. This bloated post American Civil War technocratic regime, cloaked in democratic ritual, governed by lawfare, money, and media manipulation as replaced the power of the State Legislatures to hold elected Senators and Congressmen accountable to represent the States which appoint them to power in Washington in the first place.
Previous Biden administration’s multiple legal confrontations with Trump (including criminal trials and accusations of politically motivated prosecutions) could be seen as “anarchist in political orientation” — taps into a widespread right-wing concern about the politicization of the justice system.
Supporters of these prosecutions, both State & Federal, argue no one is above the law — and Trump’s actions legitimately warrant investigation. Yet this ignores the historical fact that the manner the Democratic Party conducts itself while in power – totally unprecedented in American history.
This “arrest your political opponents” smacks of socialist/communist Anarchism. Have no heard any defense made by any Democratic leader which contends and rejects this observation made by an outsider US citizen living abroad. Anarchism typically means the rejection of law, order, and authority, often aimed at dismantling state structures, and the Federal and State Court systems together with the entire Federal bureaucracy, based upon all the corruption which Elon Musk has uncovered and exposed, totally corrupt and debased.
Especially under the mentally handicapped Biden Administration the suspicion stands: “Who operates and controls the Government? The President, Congress, and Supreme Court vs the Federal bureaucrats in alliance with the lobbies/Corporate monopoly donors who make huge “investments” which Democrat or Republican or Independent leaders get elected to Office. This infusion of “corporate investments” into the political election process” has cause the costs to elect or run for political office to force political candidates of all stripes – left or right – to prostitute themselves as the whores of the Corporate monopolies! Hence the question stands: “Who actually runs the Federal and State Governments? Do the Constitutional bodies/legislature in the States\ run State and Federal Government OR do the CEOs of corporate monopolies pull the strings of the elected official puppets?
Tom Homan vs AOC serves as an example. Does the Trump Administration seek to dismantle the huge Federal bureaucracy vs AOC who promotes maintaining the old order status quo? This conflict in effect reverses the roles of liberals vs conservatives! Maintaining the status quo – Conservatism. While dismantling the expensive Federal Bureaucracy and holding judges accountable for their legal rulings qualifies as “Liberal”.
Lawfare and Leviathan: How the Bureaucratic State Became the Real Sovereign
The rise of legal warfare, political prosecutions, and the triumph of unelected power in post-constitutional America. The Prosecution Presidency: Biden, Trump, and the Death of Neutral Law. How weaponized justice marks the collapse of bipartisan legitimacy and opens the gates to civil unraveling.
Justice or Anarchy? The Weaponization of Law in a Post-Constitutional America
When courts become political actors and elections become proxy wars for bureaucratic control. Who Runs America? Bureaucrats, Billionaires, and the Puppets They Fund? Inside the shadow regime that governs Washington — and the illusion of electoral choice. Trump the Radical, AOC the Conservative: The Great American Role Reversal. How populist revolt threatens the administrative state — and why today’s “liberals” are defending empire.
The Invisible Coup: How Corporate Power and Federal Bureaucracy Replaced the Voter. A diagnosis of American democracy in decline — and the managerial elite who stage-manage consent. Anarchists in Suits: When the Left Became the Defenders of Empire. The paradox of order through chaos — and how progressive rhetoric now masks the enforcement arm of oligarchy.
A polemical, politically charged analysis of America’s transformation from a constitutional republic to a bureaucratic-technocratic regime. The American Republic has not fallen through revolution, but through a bureaucratic-technocratic quiet coup — one that hides behind the façade of law, elections, and democratic rhetoric while consolidating power in unelected, unaccountable networks of billionaires, lobbyists, and federal agencies. States Rights bureaucrat Washington bites.