Thread by @VMadge

The people are awake, and already in the streets by the tens of thousands calling for justice for Black America. Trump saw it as an attack on his power, so he fenced himself in, and called up all the firepower he could to defend himself.
He did not understand that the protests

were not about him. In his paranoid mind, because he and Barr had hatched a plan to takeover absolute power, he assumed that he had been exposed, which is why he did all the inexplicable things he did.
Calling up the National Guard, all of the BOP security guards, DC police,

Secret Service, and CBP officers. He called for domination in the streets, and bandied about rumors of ANTIFA and left wing extremists were out to take over the country. He set the stage for police to react harshly against a fictitious enemy, encouraging domination of peaceful

protesters, rather than going after those intent on anarchy and theft. He missed the intent altogether. He offered no call for peace, no message of understanding, just harsh terms of battle. He gassed and stampeded peaceful protesters to make a walk over to a church for a

photo op, flanked by a phalanx of riot police, looking very much like a dictator, not a president. He denies the use of tear gas, and insists the protests were violent, when all the evidence shows exactly the opposite. He had Barr start the clearing out as he was addressing the

nation from the Rose Garden. It was an orchestrated show of force to send a message to the nation that HE was in charge. A kind of terrorism.
Now that the nation sees clearly how he looks at we the people - as a threat - not a frustrated nation looking for justice for a brutal

murder of Black men and women in police custody, we should galvanize the masses to demand his resignation. Come up with new chants to go along with No Justice, No Peace. HELL NO! TRUMP MUST GO! POWER TO THE PEOPLE! DOWN WITH THE KING!

POWER TO THE PEOPLE! TRUMP RESIGN NOW!
TRUMP IS A TYRANT! HE MUST RESIGN! PEOPLE OVER PARTY! TRUMP MUST GO! TRUMP IS NOT MY PRESIDENT! TRUMP RESIGN NOW!

If we make enough noise, if we speak as one against Trump's takeover of our democracy, if we rattle the windows

around the world, we can force him out.
Rally at the Congress, rally at the Supreme
Court, rally at the Lincoln Memorial. Rally at State Capitol buildings across the nation, rally on Main Street!
Ask your local police to join in the protests, ask them to march with us, not

stand against us. Ask them to put down their batons. Ask them to be at the front of the parade, lights flashing in support of the people. Ask Veterans to join the cause.
Ask governors to give speeches. Ask newspapers to demand Trump resign for the good of the nation.

Push the Democratic leadership to address the nation to demand his resignation. Push the progressive pundits to flood the talk shows with demands for his resignation. Ask the GOP to join the chorus to stop the chaos coming from the White House. Takeover the Capitol rotunda.

March with American flags, rainbow flags, prayer flags, everybody wear red, white or blue. Bring out drum corps from high schools and colleges, sing songs of peace, like GIVE PEACE A CHANCE, ALL WE WE NEED IS LOVE, AMERICA THE BEAUTIFUL, POWER TO THE PEOPLE, ETC.

Keep the protests going. Don't give up. Organize. In the spirit of the 60's be loud and be strong. Bring down this administration by sheer numbers. Organize a massive concert online, with the Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, bands around the world, youth bands,

Black church choirs, high school choirs, marching bands recorded and streamed non stop online. We have momentum, we have support around the world for justice for the oppressed Black people already, let us expand the scope, and push for democracy by and for the people.

March in India, in Europe, in South America, in Australia, in Africa, Hong Kong, Taiwan, S. Korea, Pakistan, in the UK. Let the people's voices echo in the halls of power around the world. This is our golden opportunity to force a malignant man from the most powerful office

in the world, and all of those who support his corruption and destruction of the rule of law, ethics and morality. Trump is the result of a decades long effort to take the reigns of power away from the people and put it squarely in the hands of powerful oligarchs. Let there be

no doubt about that. Read about the Koch Brothers and their funding of laws and candidates across the nation, all the way down to Main Street America.
Trump represents their final push to achieve that power. Through ALEC, they even write the laws for republican lawmakers.

There is a deep state, but it is not against the republicans. It is in fact the republicans themselves, the right wing libertarian arm that wants to do away with regulations, with control over corporate decisions. They want less government, no unions, defund public education,

eliminate oversight of the EPA, OSHA, FDA, FCC and other governmental regulating bodies. They are the ones promoting anti-abortion laws, voter purges, gerrymandering, and stacking the courts with ultra conservative judges. Barr is one of theirs. Pence. McConnell, Meadows,

McCarthy, Graham, and governors around the nation. They are all funded by this deep state established decades ago, with the long game in mind. Their long game is near completion, with Trump now driving it home. America has this last chance to stop this insidious conspiracy to

change America forever. To destroy democracy, and establish autocracy. Brilliant minds far beyond my comprehension have been warning about this for decades, with books like DEMOCRACY IN CHAINS among others. We the people should be very alarmed. We the people who do not have

billions of dollars at our disposal have been hoodwinked by a conservative agenda touting traditional family values, fundamental Christian doctrine, a patriarchal power structure, and strict, anti-gay agendas.
Simply put, this is a clash of the the Titans.

Will we stand by and allow our nation to be plunged into an era of authoritarian rule, or will we revolt, rejecting the takeover of democracy as we know it.
This is our time. We must not fail. We owe it to our children and grandchildren, to preserve power with the people.

Not power with the few. Fight with every fiber of your soul. Galvanize your friends, your community, your town, your State. Speak to your children about it. Be part of the movement to end the clandestine takeover of our nation by those intent on subjugating us all.

I believe in my soul that we find ourselves in a time as critical as they were back in the lead up to the Revolutionary War. They saw that there was only one way forward, and that was to break the chains of tyranny that kept the people from the pursuit of freedom and happiness.

Trump represents that same threat to democracy today. We either rise to the challenge and eliminate the threat, or we accept the ushering in of a new power structure, one that is not what the Founding Fathers intended, rather, it is exactly what they warned us about.

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