Excellent advice, Keith. In 35 years of state employment, we used to cheer each other up by saying that we underling civil servants (the worker ants) could outlast any political administration. But this time it may be a tough slog. The only additional advice I could give is to bump EVERY decision up the chain of command to the very top. Flood the political appointees with having to make decisions on every trivial detail. Take no action until you hear from the top, and when it comes down, ask for clarification, "What if such-and-such?" Repeat, repeat, repeat. Then ask for a staff meeting to discuss. Or wait, don't we have to formulate a plan to have our staff meeting? Let's have a staff meeting to formulate that plan (to have a staff meeting). (I'm not joking about this last part. My whole agency had to undergo very expensive training on how to most efficiently meet to formulate plans to have meetings. Honest.)
Keith, Brilliant instructions to help stop Trump from destroying our government. Great details and defenses for success. Appreciate all your efforts. We'll all be fighting the good fight side by side, if not physically, deep in our hearts and souls.
Brilliant. It's subversive and smart. My question is, if there's only a couple of months left until he takes office, what's the possibility that the Military, the Justice department, the FBI etc could engage in some subterfuge as well? We already know what he's planning and who he's planning to appoint for maximum damage. They pledge to protect and defend, soo? I'm trying to imagine the things they could do, but I think they could do a lot.
Sabotage the process. Make errors in the budget process. If they want a specific department cut or person cut, miss that change in the final cut. Ensure they don't understand the agency or its processes well enough to manage its destruction. There are many ways to just clog up the wheels of government. If you are in charge of payroll delay their pay or mess it up. For travel expenses, lose their travel report or documentation repeatedly. Make their life hell.
- 4 years constant FOX campaign for GOP's in all 50 states
From Hopium Chronicles on SubStack.
We need a more robust 24/7/365 pro-democracy media we discussed yesterday, but we also need a more aggressive Democratic Party-led strategy to engage Democratic voters in all 50 states to drive turnout in every election, in every state. The Democratic Party and our Presidential campaigns have to be more than just 7 battleground states.
🔸️FITNESS FOR DUTY EVALUATIONS that are mandatory, like the military for high responsibility positions, would have stopped Trump before he got within a mile of the White House.
Bandy X Lee, Steven Hassan, and 100 other psychiatrists agree Trump has five dangerous mental pathologies as listed in the books "The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and "The Psychology Of Trump Contagion - An Existential Threat to American Democracy and All Humankind".
"Containing Trump Contagion and Healing from Mental Pathology in Politics"
🔸️Fitness for Duty Evaluations start with everyone who interacts with the individual in question, and when red flags start to appear, 'say something.'
The US Military has procedures to follow that require individuals in question to have a Fitness for Duty Evaluation. Voters must demand the House and Senate do the same.
"Stephen Xenakis- Fitness for Duty Exams: Preventing Autocratic Abuse"
🔸️Outside the military are professionals like Dr. Bandy X. Lee who has several dozen colleagues all of whom are highly qualified to do Fitness for Duty Evaluations.
The U.S. House and Senate have several mechanisms to enforce their rules, including:
* Leadership
* Committees
* Floor Procedures
* Party Discipline
It's important to note that these mechanisms are not always used consistently or effectively. The more voters demand mentally fit leaders the more the House and Senate will comply.
🔸️I like what forensic psychologist Dr. Bandy X. Lee says that fascism and authoritarianism are just dangerous mental pathologies that worm their way into politics.
Everyone on Earth deserves and demands leadership that is mentally fit.
Fitness for Duty Evaluations performed by well respected psychiatrists ensures every country has leaders who do not serve their own power, but serve their own people.
With a pool of mentally fit candidates, we then have all the elections we wish.
This must go more than viral. It is brilliant and it gave me such hope and pride for the man who wrote this. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Americans need a strategy and playbook to combat and survive the coming storm. More of this everywhere for all of us is how we can make it through.
This country was founded in fascism from the moment Columbus hit our shores and enslaved Native Americans to work mines to enrich the bastard. The settlers were no different in their "manifest destiny" beliefs than the current kibbutzniks in Israel who are gung-ho to kill the Palestinians. The companies who had trade mandates from the crowns of England and France and Spain were corporatists (Mussolini-style fascists -- just like right now) bent on making wealth at any human cost. We have fascism in our DNA, my fellow Americans.
Lots of time and destined to fail in the end. Having troglodytes occupy positions that require bureaucratic institutional knowledge and subject matter expertise will end up making Chump the leader of East Berlin and not an American president. By the time he tries to self-correct, the damage will be done and, like always, the states that are better run (blue states) will remain ascendant and the rubes who voted for kakistocracy that much angrier.
Thank You MAGA for electing a want to be Dictator.
Thank You MAGA for electing a convicted Felon.
Thank You MAGA Veterans for electing a traitor to everything your fellow veterans have sacrificed their lives for to protect and now you defend (our Democracy.) He has no respect for you or your families.
Thank you MAGA Men who choose not to support the women in your life with the right of a woman to have quality health care when it comes to a problem pregnancy!
Thank you MAGA women who choose not to support your fellow women when it comes to providing quality health care during a problem pregnancy!
Thank You MAGA Police Officers who watched on national TV their fellow Police Officers attacked while trying to defend an attack at the Capitol while a congress was in session. Very Brave and non-Political.
Thank you MAGA people from a Variety of Nations who came here and became citizens, because you wanted a better life for you and your family, and now you turn on those who want the same thing. The cruelty that this administration is planning on causing to all these men women and children – yes children is something I do not want to think about.
Thank you MAGA for putting up an American Flag in support of this disgusting human being.
If this is what you think Makes America Great Again you are sadly mistaken. I believe Our founding fathers had something else in mind. We as a nation are much better than this and we prove it every day. When there is a fire, a flood, a tornado, a hurricane, a mud slide etc. we come together to help each other and do not ask what your political or religious beliefs are, we ask how we may help. For me this is what Makes America Great
Hope. NONE of the orange baby man's clown show would be happening if he was disqualified day one after forensic psychiatrist Dr Bandy X Lee's report of the five dangerous mental pathologies of Donald Trump.
Excellent advice, Keith. In 35 years of state employment, we used to cheer each other up by saying that we underling civil servants (the worker ants) could outlast any political administration. But this time it may be a tough slog. The only additional advice I could give is to bump EVERY decision up the chain of command to the very top. Flood the political appointees with having to make decisions on every trivial detail. Take no action until you hear from the top, and when it comes down, ask for clarification, "What if such-and-such?" Repeat, repeat, repeat. Then ask for a staff meeting to discuss. Or wait, don't we have to formulate a plan to have our staff meeting? Let's have a staff meeting to formulate that plan (to have a staff meeting). (I'm not joking about this last part. My whole agency had to undergo very expensive training on how to most efficiently meet to formulate plans to have meetings. Honest.)
My husband worked at a large brewery and said they had to have a meeting about the meetings they were going to have!
These are the directions we need! Look forward to the continuation of the series.
Keith, Brilliant instructions to help stop Trump from destroying our government. Great details and defenses for success. Appreciate all your efforts. We'll all be fighting the good fight side by side, if not physically, deep in our hearts and souls.
Thank you so much! Grateful to be fighting alongside you.
Makes me wish I was a federal employee. What a great article laying out a practical approach to “delay, leak and disobey!”
Brilliant. It's subversive and smart. My question is, if there's only a couple of months left until he takes office, what's the possibility that the Military, the Justice department, the FBI etc could engage in some subterfuge as well? We already know what he's planning and who he's planning to appoint for maximum damage. They pledge to protect and defend, soo? I'm trying to imagine the things they could do, but I think they could do a lot.
Sabotage the process. Make errors in the budget process. If they want a specific department cut or person cut, miss that change in the final cut. Ensure they don't understand the agency or its processes well enough to manage its destruction. There are many ways to just clog up the wheels of government. If you are in charge of payroll delay their pay or mess it up. For travel expenses, lose their travel report or documentation repeatedly. Make their life hell.
The 2024 DNC Presidental Campaign
- Silence for 3 years, 7 months
- Campaign 5 months in swing states
The 2024 RNC Presidential Campaign
- 4 years constant FOX campaign for GOP's in all 50 states
From Hopium Chronicles on SubStack.
We need a more robust 24/7/365 pro-democracy media we discussed yesterday, but we also need a more aggressive Democratic Party-led strategy to engage Democratic voters in all 50 states to drive turnout in every election, in every state. The Democratic Party and our Presidential campaigns have to be more than just 7 battleground states.
Joe Biden needs a website for anybody needing BLANKET PARDON PROTECTION FROM CRAZY tRUmp CAN register❗️
Brilliant practical advice, thank you.
How to Stop Authoritarians Before They Start
🔸️FITNESS FOR DUTY EVALUATIONS that are mandatory, like the military for high responsibility positions, would have stopped Trump before he got within a mile of the White House.
Bandy X Lee, Steven Hassan, and 100 other psychiatrists agree Trump has five dangerous mental pathologies as listed in the books "The More Dangerous Case of Donald Trump" and "The Psychology Of Trump Contagion - An Existential Threat to American Democracy and All Humankind".
"Containing Trump Contagion and Healing from Mental Pathology in Politics"
https://youtu.be/HTkCqU5LM-k?si=f6g0PolglC21w1nR
🔸️Fitness for Duty Evaluations start with everyone who interacts with the individual in question, and when red flags start to appear, 'say something.'
The US Military has procedures to follow that require individuals in question to have a Fitness for Duty Evaluation. Voters must demand the House and Senate do the same.
"Stephen Xenakis- Fitness for Duty Exams: Preventing Autocratic Abuse"
https://youtu.be/vdtChF07ryU?si=VJ5dauWFoUQg10uH
🔸️Outside the military are professionals like Dr. Bandy X. Lee who has several dozen colleagues all of whom are highly qualified to do Fitness for Duty Evaluations.
The U.S. House and Senate have several mechanisms to enforce their rules, including:
* Leadership
* Committees
* Floor Procedures
* Party Discipline
It's important to note that these mechanisms are not always used consistently or effectively. The more voters demand mentally fit leaders the more the House and Senate will comply.
🔸️I like what forensic psychologist Dr. Bandy X. Lee says that fascism and authoritarianism are just dangerous mental pathologies that worm their way into politics.
Everyone on Earth deserves and demands leadership that is mentally fit.
Fitness for Duty Evaluations performed by well respected psychiatrists ensures every country has leaders who do not serve their own power, but serve their own people.
With a pool of mentally fit candidates, we then have all the elections we wish.
I understand that finally the Constitution's 14th amendment is "on the table", and there have been plenty of comments about treason.
This must go more than viral. It is brilliant and it gave me such hope and pride for the man who wrote this. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. Americans need a strategy and playbook to combat and survive the coming storm. More of this everywhere for all of us is how we can make it through.
Everyone pass this on everywhere!
This country was founded in fascism from the moment Columbus hit our shores and enslaved Native Americans to work mines to enrich the bastard. The settlers were no different in their "manifest destiny" beliefs than the current kibbutzniks in Israel who are gung-ho to kill the Palestinians. The companies who had trade mandates from the crowns of England and France and Spain were corporatists (Mussolini-style fascists -- just like right now) bent on making wealth at any human cost. We have fascism in our DNA, my fellow Americans.
Doesn’t the coming Schedule F make all of these points meaningless?
Lots of time and destined to fail in the end. Having troglodytes occupy positions that require bureaucratic institutional knowledge and subject matter expertise will end up making Chump the leader of East Berlin and not an American president. By the time he tries to self-correct, the damage will be done and, like always, the states that are better run (blue states) will remain ascendant and the rubes who voted for kakistocracy that much angrier.
I’m wondering the same. I’m assuming it will take time to do the total purge, though 🙏
Well said
THE MAGA CREED
Thank You MAGA for electing a want to be Dictator.
Thank You MAGA for electing a convicted Felon.
Thank You MAGA Veterans for electing a traitor to everything your fellow veterans have sacrificed their lives for to protect and now you defend (our Democracy.) He has no respect for you or your families.
Thank you MAGA Men who choose not to support the women in your life with the right of a woman to have quality health care when it comes to a problem pregnancy!
Thank you MAGA women who choose not to support your fellow women when it comes to providing quality health care during a problem pregnancy!
Thank You MAGA Police Officers who watched on national TV their fellow Police Officers attacked while trying to defend an attack at the Capitol while a congress was in session. Very Brave and non-Political.
Thank you MAGA people from a Variety of Nations who came here and became citizens, because you wanted a better life for you and your family, and now you turn on those who want the same thing. The cruelty that this administration is planning on causing to all these men women and children – yes children is something I do not want to think about.
Thank you MAGA for putting up an American Flag in support of this disgusting human being.
If this is what you think Makes America Great Again you are sadly mistaken. I believe Our founding fathers had something else in mind. We as a nation are much better than this and we prove it every day. When there is a fire, a flood, a tornado, a hurricane, a mud slide etc. we come together to help each other and do not ask what your political or religious beliefs are, we ask how we may help. For me this is what Makes America Great
Hope. NONE of the orange baby man's clown show would be happening if he was disqualified day one after forensic psychiatrist Dr Bandy X Lee's report of the five dangerous mental pathologies of Donald Trump.
"World Mental Health Coalition"
https://youtube.com/@dangerouscasenow2523?si=OzNy4LkMVxd8JzHZ