My Ideas for Improving our Cities and County

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My List as an Example:

1. Expand the Asheville City Police Force to be able to deal with street crimes that have plagued our city.

2. Publicize the city and county budget priorities, in priority order.

3. Provide a zero-based budget plan for every year.

4. Make the Mayor a full-time position.

5. Make a separate bike lane along River Road in Woodfin

6. Remove the three rusted out railroad cars on the tracks along River Road

7. Provide city-wide free parking in Asheville.

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What Professional Integrity Traits Should All Elected Officials Exhibit at All Times: Include as many lines as you see fit

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My List as an Example:

1. Every official will explain their position on all bills proposed for the city or county.

2. Every official will explain to all voters why they voted the way they did.

3. Every official will present evidence or facts to support their positions.

4. All position changes by officials will be explained to all voters

5. No candidate for office will intentionally lie to the voters during a campaign

6. No Official will lie to constituents after elected and in office

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Improving our Community and The Integrity Challenge:

Welcome to what I hope will be many meetings like this one. I would like to thank ___________ _____________ for making this space available.

Let me tell you why I have asked you to attend today. I am concerned about the lack of professional integrity on the part of our elected officials and the fact that most people’s opinions are never heard. My concern is for local, statewide and national elected officials. Some, though I fear a too small number, display excellent integrity in their dealings with voters and even go out of the way to solicit our opinions, regardless of party affiliation or lack of affiliation. Too many unfortunately do not. This manifests itself on an almost daily basis, especially on the national stage, though the local stage is not immune.

The second part of why I have invited you here is to get your opinions on what we can do to improve our community. The city and county get suggestions all the time, however they typically come from special interest groups like Asheville Greenworks, G5 Trail Collective and Progressive Democrats of Buncombe. All these groups do a good job of bringing attention to the city and county officials, items that are of interest to their group. The downside is these groups represent a small percentage of the county and city residents and a narrow range of issues.

My purpose today is to get YOUR opinion on two very important initiatives. What do you want from your county and city office holders with respect to their professional integrity and what do you think they should focus on to improve our community, both at the city and county level.

Here is my strategy for getting candidates that meet your standards for integrity.

First, I will gather the opinions of as many residents of Buncombe County as I can, regardless of political affiliation that answers the question, “what does professional integrity mean to you as it applies to our elected officials?”

Second, I will gather all your inputs and condense them into the top five to ten traits you demand that every political official and candidate abide by. I will not toss out your input, but I feel we will need to emphasize our most often cited. Those that are the most frequent will be our priority list

Third, I will send this list out to every participant asking for comments and/or approval. I will personally answer every question or comment. Once I have a reasonable consensus on the traits, I will send out to everyone who desires, a final version.

Fourth, I will enlist the help of a respected attorney who would be willing to put together an agreement telling all political candidates and office holders what we expect them to adhere to or lose our vote. Because of my lack of ability to pay them, I will ask for this gratis.

Five, I will then send this to everyone who approved the list for their final comments and approval. Again, I will personally answer every comment or question. For those who agree, I will build a data base of emails and names that I will share with no one without your specific approval. This will allow me to keep everyone informed of where we stand with respect to garnering signatures from candidates.

Six, once I have the approval from everyone who agrees with sending the letter to all elected officials and candidates, I will gather the names of all our elected officials and send each one a copy of this agreement asking them to sign. I will make it clear that, to secure our vote, they must agree to abide by our standards of professional integrity at all times in their political career.

Seven, I will give them a relatively short time frame to respond. Once they return the signed agreement, I will put together the names of all who agreed to sign the agreement and more importantly, those who refused to sign it.

Eight, I will send out a list of all those who agreed or did not agree to your demands. The agreement will clearly state that the members of Our Voice, that’s everyone who agrees with the expectation letter, expects all professional integrity traits to be followed at all times in their political careers or risk losing our vote.

I will do a similar initiative for your input on how we can improve our community. Instead of demanding action on these, I will inform our office holders and political candidates that these are the items that are the most important to your constituents. I will tell them I recommend addressing these in you campaigns and during your term of office to show your constituents that you are listening to their desires and taking action, not just paying lip service to your desires.

I will develop a website that will track the candidates’ agreement on the professional integrity standards that you demand and how they are doing with respect to accomplishing what you think is best for our community. I want to give you a voice in our community that the leaders will listen to. There is nothing more powerful than your vote and when we put hundreds or thousands of those voices together in one unified message, that carries significant weight.

Agree with our integrity demand and acknowledge our desires for our community or we will vote for someone else.

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In my last post, I discussed the number of unaligned voters in the country. That number is staggering and is indicative of the voter’s frustration that their concerns are not being heard. This article will present my thoughts on what we can do about it. How we can fix this epidemic problem. The operative word here is we. I can come up with an idea, but I can’t accomplish this alone. At least not in my lifetime. Some more quick math, if I could get 1000 people together in one place to get their thoughts, it would take 50,000 meetings. At one meeting per week, that would take me 5,000 weeks or a mere 96 years. I would then complete my task at the ripe age of 174. Conclusion, it is highly unlikely that I can do this alone.

I therefore have created a template for gaining the voter’s opinions and am publishing it here, in the hopes that I can interest enough people in the project to get this done in less than 96 years. How many do I need? Ideally, I would like to interest at least one person per county or its equivalent. As there are 3007 political subdivisions officially called counties and 137 others (parishes, boroughs, census areas, independent cities and one federal district). This gives us 3144. Adding in territories, we get 3244. As not all counties, cities, boroughs parishes and other entities are of equal size, I will assume that each county will take an average of 20 meetings to reach those voters interested in participating. If my math is reasonable it would take, on average, 64 sessions to reach 50M people. So, at one session per week it will take slightly more than a year to complete the task. This is not a quick fix! The time needed can be reduced by leaders recruiting additional volunteers or doing meeting more frequently, but you get the picture.

Here then is the basic idea. Get the voter’s opinions, present their opinions to elected officials and candidates for office. Have each sign a promise that they will abide by the wishes of the voters as presented to them or risk losing the votes of the people involved. The number would depend on the office level of the official or that the candidate is seeking and the number of voters opinions we would be able to gather per county. This template, which I will post in my next three articles will give you the following. A template for the basic message to be delivered to each group. A form to be given to each participant to record their opinions on the topics we are interested in.

Keep in mind, that his is just a template. My first question, in my opinion, a critical one because its results cannot be argued against without demonstrating a lack of ethical behavior. The second question you can play with as you would like. The who reason for this is to get people’s voices heard that have, to this date, been ignored by all parties.

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, I decided to write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis.

Posting of February 1, 2026

A good summary of state laws relative to unregulated militias vs. regulated ones. I conclude with the DOJ’s definition of militias

Grade 3.85 as some of the information I cite may be dated.

Posting of February 2, 2026

My opinion covering the 15^th and 19^th Amendments to the US Constitution. I finish by showing how voting restrictions have played out in the recent past. I use Ballotpedia data.

Grade: 3.60 as many more state restrictions have been put in place, especially in Republican controlled states.

Posting of February 4, 2026

This information is a valid today as it was last February.

Grade 4.00

Posting of February 4, 2026

My underlying assumption is still valid. I have yet to hear one politician or political candidate address this in a context that makes sense. But I haven’t heard from every politician either.

Grade 3.50

Posting of February 5, 2026

My opinion on keeping medical decisions out of the government. I have seen no lawmaker willing to take this on yet, so this may not have been as effective a post as I had hoped for.

Grade 2.75

Posting of February 5, 2026

I commented on Jack Hopkins excellent posting of February 5^th. The lesson’s learned apply to today more than they did last February. My comments are even more valid today than they were back in February.

Grade 3.90 – my article was too long.

Posting of February 6, 2026

This article is even more applicable today as we try and struggle with how we corral an unsustainable national debt and an out of control Federal budget. This provides soe basic guidelines on how to derermine if something should be taken on by the Federal government and what should be delegated to the States and local governments.

Grade 4.00

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Promises, promises, promises; tis the season for promises. We sit in front of our televisions, some of us more than others, and consume an almost non-stop barrage of promises.

During the mid-term election primaries, I was subjected to an almost uninterrupted stream of promises from Republican candidates running for governor and the US Senate in the State of South Carolina. Night after night I was exposed to Republican Candidates for Governor promising to eliminate the state income tax, lower property taxes and carry out President Trump’s inspired national agenda. The one thing you never heard. How will I accomplish these promises?

I asked myself, why? I could come up with three reasons. First, election year politics is played out in thirty second to one minute sound bites. There simply isn’t enough time to explain how. Second, there is no plan or third, the people calling the shots don’t care if there is or will ever be a plan.

Looking at each of these reasons individually. Not enough time to tell voters how they will accomplish what they are promising. This is the most ridiculous reason of the three. Every candidate has a website, so they could put their plan on it for all to see. But they don’t which takes me to reason two, there is no plan. This is clear. There is and never was a plan. Once we are elected, we will either forget the promise or try to wing its execution. Donald Trump, during his second term used the first strategy, forget the promises made. For his first two years, it has worked like a charm. The media will cover his failures to deliver on his promises, but he just doesn’t care, because the promises were simply a means to an end.

Local politicians don’t typically have the hidden agenda Trump clearly had so they will typically opt for strategy two. Wing it and hope for the best. This way they can enjoy the power and blame their congress or the state courts or global warming and tell their constituents that they tried but those damned Democrats or damned Republicans wouldn’t cooperate. Media coverage maybe lasts a day and then it is forgotten.

Meanwhile, reason three has been playing out right before us. The people calling the shots simply don’t care what you or I think or say or do. Who are these people? The people paying for the election campaigns. Not the poor citizen contributing a few bucks to help “their candidate” get elected, but the moneyed folks who control the PACs and Super PACs who are the main source of funding for every political party – Republican, Democratic and now even the DSA or Democratic Socialists of America. These people want access or even control over the office holders to promote their own agendas. These usually involve personal or corporate profits which eventually will trickle down into personal profits for the wealthy donors. To find out who these ultra rich people are you need only look at the bottom of every political ad where is says this ad was paid for by. Look for the “bys” and see who the major contributors are. Unfortunately, the real power is in the dark money. Those contributions the government has conveniently allowed to exist without disclosing their contributors.

Tough question. What do we do about this? Answer that doesn’t really satisfy, vote in the mid term elections. Do your research and vote for the candidate you think best will represent your desires. That takes care of 10% of the voting population. The rest, at least those who decide to vote, will rely on their emotional response to billboards, media stories and those dreadful political TV ads. The reason this answer doesn’t satisfy is that it doesn’t address the root cause of the problem, getting the money out of politics. This will be difficult because the people who control the wheels of government now won’t let the political parties take the necessary steps to limit their own power and influence.

All is not hopeless, however. Ask yourself, what are these oligarchs trying to do with their multimillion-dollar contributions? The answer is really simple. They are trying to buy your vote. Not by offering you money but by controlling who the political parties put up as candidates and what those party platforms are. So, any fix has to not include any of the political parties. How will that work, you might ask? Imagine 50 million voters all saying to the candidates, here are the 5 or 10 or whatever number works, issues that you must agree to. These are things we want done and if you are unwilling to agree to our demands, we won’t vote for you. 50 million voters speaking with one voice is hard to ignore and even harder to buy off.

In 2024 we had 173,824,000 registered voters in the United States. The total eligible to vote was 236,214,000. This meant that 62,690,000 people didn’t even bother to register. 154,208,00 of the registered voters actually voted. So, there were, just among the people who did register, 19,616,000 who didn’t bother to vote. So, the non-voters come to 82,306,000. These numbers are from KFF, an endowed non-profit organization. So, 50M is about 61% of the people eligible to vote. And this doesn’t count the people registered in a party that consider themselves Independent and not affiliated with any political party. Adding more to the heap, a Gallop Pole done in 2023 asked registered voters is they considered themselves a Democrat, Republican or independent. Only 44% considered themselves affiliated with one of the major parties and 43% claimed to be independent. The remaining were aligned with other parties like the Libertarian, Communist, Nazi or whatever else is out there. So, of those that took the time to vote, 74,744,000 claimed to not be affiliated with any political party. If my calculations ae correct this brings the total population that is looking for something different in politics in America to 157,050,000. This means that 66% of the people eligible to vote are not satisfied with any of the current political parties.

Conclusion, to get 50M people interested in having their voices heard is only about 1/3 of those who are dissatisfied with politics as usual. My next post will look into how this can be accomplished.

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As usual, reading Rxan Smith’s articles stimulates my fix-it mentality and causes me to run out-of-the-box scenarios. I then use this to see if I can make it make sense. To many who read this, it will appear that I have cut up the box and burned it. You may be right, but I’ll do it anyway and encourage any comments. Here goes:

What if we took out entire defense establishment, all service branches, the entire DOD staff, separated it totally from the Executive branch and made it the world’s security force? Stay with me for a bit. We already have a military presence in almost every non-totalitarian country right now, so placing people and equipment in these countries would be easy. Personnel could be supplemented by the governments being served. It’s already there. Next, we redefine the purpose of the Department of Defense to be the Department of Worldwide Security (DWWS). It’s stated purpose could be to defend any member country from any outside attack. The meaning of an attack would be defined by the initial member countries and would apply to any new members as they joined.

How does this get funded? I propose to charge each member country a percentage of their 2025 defense budget. Say 60%. Based on 2025 numbers, the US is paying $954 Billion, Russia and China together $526 Billion in defense spending leaving the rest of the world paying about $1.41 Trillion. Let’s assume half of the remaining countries would be willing to spend 60% of the current amount to sign on. So, they would contribute about $423 Billion per year. Let’s assume that half of that amount would be needed per year to account for additional armaments and personnel to make the force viable. Countries desiring to have DWWS forces based in their country would be responsible for providing the land and structural facilities and some support personnel as determined by the DWWS. This would leave about $211 billion to offset what the US is currently spending on defense, effectively reducing the US defense budget by this amount. We would be paying more than other countries, but we would be controlling the organization and running its operations on behalf of the member countries.

All internal police and political activities would remain the responsibility of the individual member country. I would put all armaments each member owned under the direct control of the DWWS, including nuclear weapons. All member nations would retain all self-governing rights and responsibilities. The DWWS would not apply any pressure to any country to conform to a US style representative government. Internal threats to a nation’s sovereignty would be handled by the individual member nation. The DWWS could if requested act as an intermediary between competing factions if all factions agreed to the mediation.

All intelligence gathering would be shared between member countries and would include any information required to adequately defend a nation from aggression by a non-member country.

All member nations would have to agree to support an international tribunal to allow legal proceedings to be resolved between nations with international disagreement. All nations would be required to agree to this body’s authority. The body would have enforcement power to the authority granted to the war crimes tribunal following World War two.

This goes beyond a United Nations with teeth or a NATO with a stronger articles 5 and 3 commitment. Of the 21nations not having a defined defense budget, their coastal defense assets would be placed under DWWS control in exchange for membership.

This would essentially place 188 of the 194 recognized sovereign nations security under the control of one organization controlled by the United States.

Advantages:

Reduced defense costs for all member nations

Better security posture for all member countries.

After a period of time, the non-members would possibly join the alliance. Should this happen world-wide, the threat of armed aggression against any member nation would be greatly reduced if not eliminated.

Disadvantages:

Difficulty in controlling an organization spread across 188 plus member nations.

Perceived threat to the non-member nations that the alliance could band together for an aggressive takeover of any non-member nation.

There are probably many more advantages and disadvantages. Please feel free to comment. If you want your comments to be private, I have included a means to email me directly.

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I want to express my deepest thanks for all of you who have subscribed to my Substack. My biggest regret is that I am unable to support each of you in your quest to be heard. The issue is NOT interest but a lack of financial ability. A someone on a fixed income, I am forced to limit my financial support to subscribers.

This in no way lessons my appreciation for your readership and your comments. If I had the financial resources, I would support each and every one of you. I also understand that you may be in the same boat I am so paid subscriptions will always be optional, and commenting will always be available regardless of subscription status. So again, thank you for subscribing.

Another topic. One of my pet peeves is someone telling me that something is impossible. Everyone does it and I understand that. I do it myself. Sometimes something I am told is impossible strikes a particular nerve and it sets me off on a quest to ask, why not. One of my next posts is going to deal with a topic that, as I express in the article, is not only out of the box, but burns the box down.

I look forward to your comments and suggestions.

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, I decided to write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis.

Post of December 24, 2025:

The article was a historical update on military readiness. It calls into question whether Trump is looking at the defense of the US or an active aggression program to expand his influence. My conclusions are my own and are subject to debate.

Grade 3.40

Post of January 23, 2026:

My first attempt at doing a daily publication. Good into, if I do say so myself though I give little information regarding future postings.

Grade 3.30

Post of January 24, 2026:

A good summary of election tactics over the past decade or so. It points out why I believe we keep repeating the same boring platforms year after year and getting more and more radical, driving more people from established parties every year as our politics gets more polarized.

Grade: 3.00

Post of January 25, 2026:

I think this was a good explanation of why mainstream media gets the characterization of or political parties all wrong. I based this on a 2023 Gallop poll which was consistent with a similar poll Gallop performed in 2022.

Grade 3.90

Post of January 26, 2026:

This article was my first in a series relating to lessons to be learned from the “Final Report, Select Committee to Investigate the January 6^th attack on the United States Capitol.” I used as a guide, my first published book, “How to Fix the Republication Party”. This provided some structure for the follow-on articles, at least until I ran out of gas! This article set the table for the subsequent articles.

Grade 3.95

Post of January 27. 2026:

Here I discuss the functions and responsibility of the US House and Senate, focusing on accountability.

Grade 3.85

Post of January 28, 2026:

An article that I focused my thoughts on political honesty. Given the lack thereof, the article is quite short.

Grade 3.90

Post of January 30, 2026:

This was one of my more controversial articles where I focus on my opinions relating to the roles of religion in the federal government. I point out how religious ideas can and have been incorporated into our laws and warn about how religious extremism can destroy a country.

Grade: 3.80

Post of January 31, 2026:

I focused on the right to bear arms and proposed a method to interpret this right to prevent many of the mass shootings our country has faced. This is probably an idea that is dead on arrival as the major arms manufacturers and extreme redneck population would have a cow. I think it could be the seed on an interesting discussion for the congress, if they ever try and actually fix a problem.

Grade 4.00

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, I decided to write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis.

Post of September 3, 2025:

My observations and comments here regarding the Epstein mess are every bit as valid today as they were a year ago. In fact, the circumstantial evidence is even more compelling in support of my observations

Grade 4.00

Post of September 25. 2025:

My observations are right on the money relative to Trump’s attempt to gain full control of the military. I observe Trump’s ranting on Truth Social and his motives for keeping the Epstein files under wraps.

Grade 4.00

Post of October 2, 2025:

My observation concerning Trump’s continuing diversions as they relate to his almost rabid desire to keep the Epstein files out of the public domain. I close with my predictions on the actions his supporters would take if the files were released. These remain as valid as they were back in October, but they are just predictions.

Grade 3.80

Post of October 28, 2025:

A different take on the Epstein Files release. As I look back, I believe my take on this was incorrect. My observations relative to war gaming a military takeover of our government was valid and still is today.

Grade 2.80

Post of November 5, 2025:

This is still a prophetic warning of what Trump has in store for the American government. In support of this I would add another book recommendation. Read “The Authoritarians” by Robert Altemeyer. It provides the psychological analysis of Trump and his followers and why they act the way they do. Interestingly, this book was published in 2008 long before Trump ever became a political actor.

Grade 4.00

Post of December 5, 2025:

I shifted my focus onto what one of the major the problems with our political parties are and what we can do about them. As I am actually putting together a plan to execute this idea, I grade myself very highly.

Grade 4.00

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True confessions time. My wife and I have been lamenting and sometimes complaining vigorously about her grandson’s obsession over video games. He hollers and screams at a screen he has no control over and when I try to explain to him the limitation of his control, he looks at me like I have three heads or simply ignores me.

Now I will enter into the realm of true confessions.

I have read articles about how the youngest generation is losing its ability to communicate, read, write and overall exist the way we, as the old farts, think they should. I did read one article that cautioned us to not jump to conclusions about this assumption about video games and I even sent it to my wife. We both read it and thought it was an interesting point of view. We then went back to complaining and expressing our concern over her grandson’s addiction.

Then, I took one step back to look at my own “addiction” to see if there were any parallels and to determine if their impact was the same as what I predicted for Jeremy (name changed to protect the guilty or innocent depending on your point of view). My addiction, golf. I began playing when I was a caddy at Southview Country Club in West St. Paul Minnesota. This began over 65 years ago. Like most novice golfers, I wasn’t very good. I tried using the excuse that I had to use my father’s rarely used Bob Hagey golf clubs he had purchased during World War Two, because he thought they were such a good deal. I improved slowly, especially after I was given my first full set of irons in exchange for a month’s worth of caddy services for one of the Country Club’s members.

I played high school golf and played for a while for a Navy golf team while I was an enlisted man. I played off and on for the next 28 years until I retired in 1996. It was tough to practice your swing while on a submarine! After I retired, I improved to the point where I was a negative handicap player (a Professional level player for the uninitiated). As I aged and started a second, then third career my game deteriorated due to a lack of dedication manifesting itself as a lack of practice. Enter my retired seventy’s. Now I think I should be as accomplished as I was in my 50’s. Refusing to blame my age, I resort to occasionally throwing a club or slamming one into the ground repeatedly if I hit a series of poor shots and hollering at myself for my lack of skill. Stepping back, I see the same reactions to my golf game miscues as Jeremy sees in his video game failures, and the similar reactions I am sure my playing partners have as I have to Jeremy.

I think I turned out OK (my Opinion again) so I am reassured that Jeremy might turn out to be pretty successful as well. I have been trying to interest him in golf, but that would probably just substitute one obsession for another. So, I don’t push it.

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, I decided to write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis. I have broken this report card up into several posts to keep each post under 5 pages in length.

Post of May 13, 2025

A history of the Republican along with my conclusions on how we got to the polarized political scene we are in now. The end is correct but the transition period is probably up for debate.

Grade 3.00

Post of May 15, 2025

My first post on thought with respect to fixing our political parties. Not just one, but all of them. After review, I find my conclusions are still valid but possibly too narrow to be a comprehensive study.

Grade 3.25

Post of June 20, 2025

A look at Trump’s two week fettish. I like my conclusions and the past year sems to bear them out.

Grade 3.75

Post of June 29,2025

Another look at Party Polarization from a different perspective. I evaluate the perspective as valid though not all inclusive. I could have carried this further and discussed more contributions, but Iran out of gas.

Grade 3.20

Post of July 14, 2025

This one of my favorite postings because it is based on actual interfaces with die-hard MAGA believers. I have had many more encounters, both on-line and in person and my reasoning holds. Reading Robert Altemeyers boot “The Authoritarians”, where the first two chapters discuss the authoritarian followers, I conclude that I am right on target.

Grade 4.00

Post of July 25, 2025

Another in a series of updates on Can Trump terminate the constitution. This shows he continued to engage in tactics that make this eventuality a possibility. His actions continue to today, even with the issues Hegseth faces. Trump continues to support him which tells me Hegseth is doing what Trump and the project 2025 people want him to do.

Grade 3.90

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, I decided to write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis. I have broken this report card up into several posts to keep each post under 5 pages in length.

Post of March 31, 2025:

Trump telegraphing his punches in interviews about the possibility of a third term. The jury is still out on this. So this is just a warning.

Grade 2.50

Post of April 4. 2025:

I evaluate the potential impacts of Trump’s unilateral tariff plans. I laid out all the assumptions I made and expressed my conclusions. All my predictions are still off in the future but none have been refuted or even challenged.

Grade 3.75

Post of April 14, 2025:

Trump is caught using lame excuses to fire or not promote senior officer who are women and men of color citing not sufficiently anti DEI. The second area I discuss was could Trump continue to disobey the courts without consequence. The Supreme court has been to date, remarkably silent on Trump’s lack of respect for the court system so my predictions are coming true.

Grade 3.90

Post of April 30, 2025:

Trump keeps flirting with the insurrection act and many of his “advisors” are recommending that he use it to allow federal troops in the states. To date there has not been a massive protest that would prod Trump into using the insurrection act, but the night is young. My warning is still valid with it looking more and more like Trump intends to use ICE agents to interfere with the Mid-term elections, and if unsuccessful, use them to help terminate the Constitution.

Grade 3.00

Post of May 6, 2025:

I continue with my analysis of Trump’s predicted action to gain total control of the military. I conclude by suggesting that the power behind any attempt to control the military is coming from the former Project 2025 members imbedded in Trump’s administration. Much of this is still speculation and probably borders on conspiracy theory.

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, I decided to write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis. I have broken this report card up into several posts to keep each post under 5 pages in length.

Here we go again. I will grade myself on a 4.0 scale:

Post of February 2, 2025:

I cover the pros and cons of the use of tariffs. I discuss the pros from a foreign negotiating position and the cons because they are a tax that American consumers pay. I do not weigh in on the overall result of Trump’s tariff program, rather passing the question on to the future to see what happens.

Grade 3.70

Post of February 6, 2025:

This is the first in a series I titled “Can Trump Terminate the Constitution?” This is my opinion on how Trump would need to proceed to be successful. I list 10 steps and comment on the status of each. I note that the first two steps were completed and the third was a distinct possibility depending on the protest involved. Unfortunately, my opinion seemed to be holding as of this posting.

Grade 4.00 unfortunately

Post of February 17, 2025:

This post was misnumbered which may have caused some confusion. This lays out additional details about my first Constitution termination article of February 6. Much of it is a repeat of the first article in the event someone read this article without reading the first. The additional detail provided was still tracking with Trump’s actions.

Grade 3.00

Post of February 2, 2025:

The third article in the Trump and the termination of the Constitution series. This gives an update for all of the steps I listed in the first two articles in addition to some recent developments that could aid this initiative.

Grade 3.90

Post of February 28, 2025:

My comments on Doge and its potential impact. Unfortunately all of my predictions came to pass.

Grade 4.00

Post of March 26, 2025:

Additional information on the Constitution termination series. I expand on the control of the military which would be the most important task needed to complete the termination process. The process continues to this day.

Grade 4.00

Post of March 30, 2025:

Discussion of the Democratic party’s lousy approach to Trump’s inane statements. Unfortunately, no one in party leadership of influence has seen or even acknowledged the possibilities this article contains.

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25 FIXES NOBODY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT

Make America Grow Again: 25 Structural Fixes to Save a Nation…

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Here are my comments on Episode 1:

Comments on Episode 1 – Transparency

I spent my entire professional career identifying the root cause of problems so that a fix could be effectively found and executed. One of the major benefits was to prevent the problem from recurring. In my old world of discipline and know chain of commands, this was easier that I expect an execution of Rxan’s 10 fixes will be. But that discussion is for another day, and I will address it in my post after this one. I cannot emphasize enough how insightful Rxan’s discussion and suggestions were.

These comments will be made in the order they occurred to me so they may not follow Rxan’s article precisely.

The revolving door. (This has application in Rxan’s fixes 2, 6 and 9). Here in Asheville North Carolina, we used to have a great healthcare system operated by two institutions tied together into one operational entity. This was Mission and Saint Joseph hospitals. They operated out of one centrally located campus slightly east of Downtown Asheville. They were a non-profit organization and like so many non-profit medical facilities always struggled to make ends meet.

So, the decision was made to sell the system to HCA, a for-profit company operating out of Nashville Tennessee. The reasons cited by the Board of Directors was Reasons for the Sale

• Financial Pressures: Leaders worried about losing money on government programs like Medicare.

• Market Changes: Executives believed growing bigger through a large chain was safer than staying alone.

• Seeking Efficiency: The board thought a major for-profit operator could run the system with lower costs while keeping care strong.

The negotiations were held in secret and what was really disturbing was the Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) each negotiator was required to sign were never made public. So, when one of the negotiators was given a high position within HCA after the deal was approved, suspicions arose. To Date, the NDAs have not been disclosed despite the fact that the Attorney General of the state responsible for acquisition approval is now the governor of the state, and a Democrat.

Oversight without accountability is like a declawed Kitty. They may sound ferocious when upset, but there is little they can do about it. Accountability with teeth works wonders not only for the industry being monitored but for the public as well. My example if the Nuclear Propulsion Examining Board (NPEB or as it became known as, the ORSE Board) of the Navy’s nuclear power program. This group, which I served on for two years, had the ability to shut down an operational nuclear powered vessels propulsion plant if a “reactor safety” violation was determined during an examination. So, the Board could essentially shut down a vessel until it could demonstrate that it could operate safely. The program was so effective that for 80 years, there have been no significant nuclear reactor safety problems with nuclear powered naval vessels and facilities that supported them.

Going back to my Mission Hospital example. Four times since 2019 Mission Hospital has had four “severe Jeopardy’ warning from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS). The “punishment potential is the loss of the ability of the hospital to get Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements. Was the punishment ever enforced? No. HCA keep going under an “Enhanced Plan of Correction” to correct the deficiencies. Of course, Mission claimed that all corrective actions were taken and their severe jeopardy warnings were dismissed – four times. A lawsuit filed by the North Carolina Attorney General’s Office regarding diminished emergency, trauma, and oncology services at Mission Hospital is proceeding to trial. Lots of failures, to live up to their purchase contract, lots of warnings and no improvement. The question becomes why? The answer comes down to what it usually comes down to - money. No real threat means no real improvement.

Another topic I found interesting in Rxan’s episode. Why is it so hard to reason with our MAGA neighbors? As an answer I refer you to Robert Altemeyes excellent book “The Authoritarians” published in 2008. In a word, nothing you can say or do will penetrate the mind of an extreme authoritarian, someone Altemeyer calls a high RWA. His studies reveal everything you have experienced from the MAGA force including why they are impenetrable, unwilling to listen to any type of factual reasoning and why they respond to questions and comments the way they do. By the way, there is not a MAGA person alive who will read this posting.

On corporations buying access to political figures, I will once again, return to my Mission Hospital example. HCA. The new owners of the hospital contributed fairly equally to both the democratic candidate as for the republican candidate in the 2024 Presidential election. An interesting disparity comes when you look at the over $3,000,000, they donated for local Republican candidates in the same election. It will be interesting to see if this holds in the Mid-Terms.

Rxan’s comments on the partisan divide being a performance to keep the public, and I might add, the mainstream media from looking for the root cause of the divide is, in my opinion, exactly right. To quote Rxan’s analysis of what is being said, the “omission” is who is paying for the party? Determine this and you determine what the problem with American politics truly is.

The citizens need to take the lead on any enforcement of government actions. In California the have a public contracting data base that reveals every aspect of a contract award. There is no reason this example can’t be applied to every other state.

Databases are by their very nature hackable unless steps are taken to prevent it. When using a database or online means of disseminating information, security needs to be taken very seriously and disclosed up from to lend credence to the postings.

Three comments on three of Rxan’s fixes. Fix 6: Auto declassification has been used in the military for as long as I can remember so making it happen outside of the DOD is possible. You simply need to set up the auto declassification criteria. Fix 7: Make the reveal in plain language so regular people, like me, can understand it. Fix 10: I Agree that journalist that stay quiet to “protect” sources makes no sense. There are ways of reporting that do not implicate sources.

I will be following up on Rxan’s Episode 1 in a week or so on my Substack “A View from the Cheap Seats, One Man’s Opinion in a Sea of Pundits.”

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Wanna Fix the Budget of the US?

The fix? Zero base the entire budget against the objectives of every department.

First, set the objective of each department. Get congresses approval,

next determine what is specifically needed to meet those objectives. Determined by the individual departments.

Next, what must be spent to meet those needs and be specific down to the copy paper required, determined by the individual departments.

Add it all together and compare to expected revenues. If expenses exceed revenues, prioritize the objectives then recalculate the expenses. Repeat until expenses equal revenues. If there are programs that simply must be done, then look at the revenue side and see where revenues can be increased to cover the anticipated shortfalls.

A lot of work? Yep. But the first two only need to be done once. Periodically these would need to be adjusted or eliminated as the situation changes. The third just needs to adjust based on an assessment of the effectiveness of the year’s budget.

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swan’s excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump, I decided to write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis. I have broken this report card up into several posts to keep each post under 5 pages in length.

Here we go again. I will grade myself on a 4.0 scale:

Post of December 2, 2024:

I stand by my presentation. I think the modern term Climate Change is a misrepresentation as the climate is always changing. What is changing is the pace of climate change. I leave it up to someone cleverer than me to come yup with a different term that more accurately represents what my concern is.

Grade: 4.00

Post of December 9, 2024:

My argument is still valid. I did speculate a bit and that’s enough to drop my grade a bit.

Grade 3.90

Post of December 22, 2024:

This post looks at human influence on the rate of climate change. Some of my conclusion could have been based on more in-depth research but overall, the conclusions I draw are accurate.

Grade 3.50

Post of January 8^th, 2025:

In the 18 months since I wrote this, every MAGA interaction I have had whether on Substack, social media or in person has followed the same path. MAGA Trump supporters remain unwilling to engage in any reasonable debate where evidence or facts must be presented. Reading the first two chapters of Robert Altemeyer’s book, “The Authoritarians”, I now understand why!

Grade 3.75

Post of January 9, 2025:

I cite facts and challenge the reader to decide if they accept facts or BS statements.

Grade 4.00

Post of January 24, 2025:

This posts asks the reader to compare sources of posted information and any supporting facts. I failed to provide my opinion with the supporting facts.

Grade 3.00

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After Reading Maggie Habemeyer and Johnathan Swans excellent book Regime Change, Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump I decided t write a complimentary book using my Substack posts as the book content. My posts lineup well with Maggie and Jonathan’s timeline for their book, so I felt it would be an interesting comparison. Their book, fact driven based on thousands of hours of interviews of people present or in the know and my posts, an outsider’s opinion looking at the same events from just a single point of view – mine. First things first, I wanted to evaluate my articles to see how accurate my past postings have been. So, I decided to create a report card of my own posts. I promise to be objective in my analysis.

Here we go. I will grade myself on a 4.0 scale:

Post of November 14, 2024:

In this article I discussed Trump’s campaign promise of mass deportation of illegal aliens and look at what constraints the law imposes that might impact the execution of his promise. I talked about the process the law required to deport anyone, due process and constraints to use the military to carry out his plans. I cite the Posse Comitatus act that requires a clear allowance by the Constitution or an act of congress to invoke.

Trump violated the law with virtually every arrest and detainment his administration made. He avoided the Posse Comitatus Act issues by using his private government militia ICE, under the Department of Homeland security.

My grade 3.70 as I offered no predictions if my warnings were disregarded.

Trumps grade 0.47 as he violated every detainee’s due process rights but avoided the Posse Comitatus trap by repurposing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement to act outside any normal law enforcement constraints.

Congress’ grade 0.00 in that they refused to even vote on a bipartisan Senate bill to take steps to fix the immigration problem that most people recognized needed to be addressed, instead bowing to Trump’s demand that they needed to take no action as he needed this issue to run on in the election.

Post of November 15, 2024:

In this article I discussed Trump’s promise to impose Tariffs across the board. I cautioned about the possibility of causing trade wars. I brought out that the authority to impose Tariffs belonged to Congress except in very limited cases. The limited case was the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934 which gave the President the power to raise existing tariffs by 50% without seeking approval from Congress. I cited potential supply issues on 31 critical minerals that are not available in the US. I commented that Trump’s objective of bringing manufacturing back to the US and warned that this objective would need to be evaluated by experts to make sure that impacts to our military were not affected. I warned that most economists warned that the tariffs would eventually be paid by the consumers in the form of high prices, going against Trump’s promise to reduce prices on day one.

My grade 3.45 as I did not envision Trump disregarding the law and congress on his tariff policy. To this date, he has totally bypassed Congresses power to regulate tariffs.

Trump’s grade 4.00 in that he in fact set tariffs and Congress totally abrogated their authority to control them, thereby ceding them to the President.

Congress’ grade 0.00. The Republican’s in congress were cowards, unwilling to act as a co-equal branch of government. This relinquishing of Congress’ authority to Trump continues today.

Second Post of November 15, 2024:

In this post I speculate on the ability of Trump to terminate the Constitution as he indicated he might do if the Constitution got in his way. I speculated that there were six major steps he would have to complete to make a termination possible.

My grade 3.00. I correctly predicted the first two steps and the third has been adopted indirectly by the Secretary of Defense (War). The final three steps have yet to be initiated though Trump is setting the stage for step 4, promoting a major nationwide protest. This protest looks like it would occur once Trump tries to declare election results fraudulent following the Mid-Terms. If the protests occur, you can expect steps 5 and 6 to occur in relatively short order, especially if it looks like the judiciary will not throw out the Trump DOJ suits seeking to overthrow the state elections where Democrats prevail, to try and put the selection of congressmen into the House of Representatives. These last three steps remain speculative, thus my assigned grade.

Trump’s grade 2.80 as he and Hegseth have taken steps to make sure sufficiently sycophantic military officers are in place. The only snag will come if they have seriously underestimated the pliability of these senior officers.

Congress’s grade 0.00 going along with Hegseth’s decision to pull promotions of black and women generals and admirals.

Post of November 20, 2024:

In this article I discussed whether to either fix broken government systems or cancel them and start over. I began with a discussion of Trump’s desire to cancel the affordable care act simply because it was an act that got dubbed Obama care. I discussed the goals of the ACA and the reasons Republicans in general wanted to cancel it. The first was the law required everybody to have health insurance which dodges the obvious solution of providing universal health care. The second was that ACA was expensive, which side stepped the question – relative to what? The third was Trump’s ego. No consideration was given to the impact of abolishing the program totally on the lives of 45 million Americans.

My grade 3.90. My suggestion in the end was to fix the current ACA’s issues rather than scarp it, thus avoiding the political fallout that scrapping the program would certainly cause. I gave at the end my thoughts on the only two reasons a program should be cancelled. I did not address any specific recommendations for fixes to the ACA.

Trump’s grade. 4.0 as he did exactly what he wanted to do. Free up the ACA program money to fund his billionaire buddies’ tax breaks.

Congress’s grade 0.00. Despite the obvious harm to many of their constituents, regardless of party affiliation, they voted to terminate the program with no replacement. This Republicans will pay for this move in the Mid-Term elections in 2026 and the presidential elections in 2028.

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How do we prepare for each of the scenarios I listed in Part 1? The following represents my opinion and mine alone.

Scenario One: Trump is exposed as not only being an abuser of the underage girls, but that he was responsible for organizing the scheme or a major financial backer.

1. Articles of Impeachment need to be drafted and ready to submit to the House of Representatives. Within days of Trump’s exposure.

2. Remember that ultra-MAGA Trump supporters are a cult and when the cult leader is threatened, violence usually follows. I would be concerned mostly about Texas, Tennessee, Alabama and Mississippi. Governors in all states, but especially in these four, need to be planning for potential violence on a Rodney King level. This means alerting the state National Guard contingents to be prepared to assist in the larger cities to protect lives and property and to assist law enforcement. States where the main population centers tend to be democrat need to be prepared for violence from the rural MAGA crowd. States like North Carolina. The locations of known unregulated militias need to be confirmed as these are likely sources for violent activities in the communities.

3. Before the Impeachment articles are passed, Trump will go insane. An Article 25 motion needs to be ready to go immediately after the release of the unredacted files. Extra protection needs to be provided at the state level for all known Epstein survivors. We won’t be able to count on federal agency protection for these victims.

4. The Vice President needs to be prepared to take immediate action to control hysteria within the cabinet he will inherit. Stepehen Miller needs to be removed from any position of responsibility as he is the likely conduit for outside interference within government operations.

Scenario Two: Many of Trump’s major billionaire donors were major knowing participants in the under-aged girls’ abuse. They likely paid handsomely for the “privilege” of abusing these girls.

1. The major stock markets need to be warned to be prepared for a panic selling spree of stock in companies controlled by the billionaire donors that will be exposed.

2. Arrest warrants need to be prepared and ready in the states where the donors reside so they can be quickly served before they have an opportunity to leave the country.

3. Extra protection needs to be provided at the state level for all known Epstein survivors. We won’t be able to count on federal agency protection.

4. Assets of the donor’s need to be frozen in anticipation of the numerous lawsuits against these people that are sure to follow.

5. Local law enforcement needs to be prepared to act to protect the exposed donors from public rage by the more extreme left-wing groups.

Scenario Three: Both one and 2 are correct.

1. This one is the toughest because it will require actions on so many fronts at one time. States need to prioritize which actions to take first based on the assets available.

2. The possibility of having to Protect the companies the donors own, or control will need to be considered. They would be my last priority though that decision will need to be made by the state governors. The people working there are probably just innocent pawns in the donor’s activities.

3. The nine activities in scenarios one and two need to be added to these two and prioritized appropriately.

Additional items that will likely need to be considered.

1. The web weaved by oligarch influence will be difficult to get our hands and minds around. I can envision the involvement of state and federal congressmen and women, law enforcement leaders, industry leaders other than those names in the unredacted Epstein files and even many of the unregulated militias.

2. State prosecutors will be slammed, so in preparation, increasing their state attorney staffs would be a prudent move. State courts need to be prepared for an unusually large case load made up of very high-profile defendants. Each state can expect world-wide coverage of these trials, so maintaining media control without infringing on their first amendment rights will be needed.

3. Each defendant will be lawyered up with the best attorney’s money can buy. Delay after delay can be anticipated, similar to what we saw in Trump’s court cases.

4. Prosecutions will need to be “by-the-book” to preclude any effective appeals, which we all know will occur. Jury selection will need to be especially careful to preclude decision leaks and other confidential activity and decision issues being leaked.

5. There needs to be consideration of what actions will be needed if Supreme Court justices are implicated? Even if there are no justices directly implicated, the fact that at least three of the justices have been involved in dubious financial relationships in the past with possible defendants or other people in the same genre as those defendants. There may be a public outcry when the Oligarch influence is exposed to take impeachment action on these justices. The Senate could also be in disarray after the release so, there needs to be a quick and positive response by those Senate members that are not implicated to deal with those that are. Stabilizing the legislative branch will be critical to the survival of the American government as the Executive branch will be in total disarray after release. The judicial system will need a leadership reset almost immediately to ensure no federal interference in state judicial activities occur or are threatened.

6. Finally, if Trump is quickly impeached and removed from office, the Vice President will need to take aggressive and positive action to give the American public confidence that the mess facing the government will be corrected and will be done so within the bounds of the Constitution. The Constitution will be the only legal instrument that people will be able to rely on, and the Vice President, now the President will be faced with this daunting task. This will need to be his first task after taking the oath of office. I wrote a past post on Substack that gave my recommendation on what I felt JD Vance needed to do to save his political career. A lot of this will need to be done to give Americans confidence in his ability to lead the country.

7. I have only touched the surface of the issues that will be needed to be addressed following the unredacted Epstein files release or leak. I expect a leak before an actual release, especially if Todd Blanche is confirmed as the Attorney General. Unfortunately, this will result in more disarray since the Administration will deny the validity of the leaked files.

8. Leaked files may embolden more of the Epstein victims to band together and come forward to submit additional lawsuits against not only the named donors and Trump, but other wealthy people involved in the Epstein scandal.

Bre prepared for some volatile times for the nation and stay calm and focused. Your calm and reluctance to be impacted by all the false claims that internet sources will make will be critical. Trust the independent journalists, at least these that have not proven to be totally off the wall like the Steve Bannons of the world. Insist on proof or at least evidence when reading or listening to claims made by the media. If evidence is not provided, be skeptical. Challenge those claims made. Refuse to be led around like sheep to the slaughter.

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The days immediately after the release of the remaining unredacted Epstein files will be chaotic, to say the least. I would like to look at three scenarios relative to what must be in the files and what I think will be predictable actions as a result of this information’s disclosure. These are my opinions and my opinions only.

The three scenarios are:

1. Trump is exposed as not only being an abuser of the underage girls, but that he was responsible for organizing the scheme or a major financial backer.

2. Many of Trump’s major billionaire donors were major knowing participants in the under-aged girls’ abuse. They likely paid handsomely for the “privilege” of abusing these girls.

3. Both one and 2 are correct.

Looking at the aftermath of a disclosure in all three scenarios:

1. The political fallout to Trump will be devastating. I would expect Melania to begin divorce proceedings and tell-all with respect to what she knew and was exposed to by Epstein. She will immediately file a separation notice and claim Mar-a-Lago as her residence, leaving Trump to reside in the Whitehouse and one of his golf clubs.

Congress will be caught with their “Depends” down around their knees. They will immediately scramble to distance themselves in every way possible. I anticipate denials of what Trump’s intentions were and of course any knowledge of Trump’s Epstein involvement. I can envision a relatively quick impeachment filing in the House and a quick conviction in the Senate, coupled with Trump’s removal from office. This will be the Republican’s attempt to retain their positions in their next elections.

I expect the crypto market to collapse. Don, jr. and Eric will immediately leave the country, likely for Saudi Arabia. They may even do this before the release, knowing the political firestorm about to hit the Trump family. The stock market will collapse due to the Billionaire’s club companies no longer having Trump’s support and behind-the-scenes meddling. Institutional investors as well as foreign markets will immediately begin selling Trump supported stocks in anticipation of Congress’s next moves. The DOJ, in an effort to divert attention away from their complicity in Trump’s schemes will begin publicly investigating every illegal activity Trump and the Trump family was ever engaged in, possible even before he took office and in between terms.

2. Trump’s donors will immediately pull all support from Trump and his supported candidates. Expect them to begin selling off their companies’ stocks in anticipation of the market’s reaction to their collusion in the Epstein scheme. Trump will remain silent based on the advice of his personal lawyer Todd Blanche. Stephen Miller will immediately move himself and his family to Saudi Arabia, maybe sharing a plane with Eric and Don, Jr.

The DOJ, in an effort to distance themselves from the Trump administration’s sinking ship will begin bribery investigations into the activity of the donors. Trump’s cabinet members will begin resigning. Many of the Trump family’s investment brokers will begin cancelling their contracts with the Trump family citing breach of contract. Some of the CEOs might even join Stephen Miller in Saudi Arabia. The donor’s company competitors will begin shorting the donor’s company stocks to try and profit from the companies near term collapse. 401K’s across the country will begin losing value almost immediately exacerbating the collapse of the Donor companies’ stocks. Trump’s approval rating will begin dropping into the low 20’s. Congressmen who had willingly received donations from the donors named will begin being investigated.

Trump will begin firing members of his cabinet claiming bad advice. The press will have a field day, requesting interviews with Trump and his cabinet as well as investment firm CEOs involved with the Donors. Trump, in his typical knee-jerk manner will say he fully supports his donors causing the loss of support from many of his party officials.

3. This is the worst-case scenario. I expect more Epstein victims to come out en masse. Their stories will fill the media for days, if not weeks. Congress will do what I claim in examples one and two, causing mass confusion and a total loss of confidence in the Congress and Executive Branch. This is the period the US will be the most vulnerable to outside attack as well as attack from within. Outside will likely come from drug cartels crossing the border and non-regulated militias causing chaos in the streets, likely causing many casualties, resulting in Governor’s to call up their National Guard contingents to prevent a civil war.

The really scary scenario would be Trump going off the deep end and doing absolutely crazy things in an attempt to divert the country’s attention. He will likely invoke the insurrection Act and begin deploying US troops into the cities to “help”. Trump’s only option will be to declare Martial Law across the country, terminate the constitution and install himself as absolute ruler. This would likely result in Trump’s assignation, probably by organized crime organizations paid for by the exposed donors.

My next article will detail my thoughts on what can be done to prepare ourselves for these scenarios.

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