Make their "first 100 days" their LAST 100 DAYS

We must shut it down.

You’ve probably heard new presidential administrations discuss their priorities and plans for their “first hundred days” in office. They tell the press which topics they think are important in policy or politics such that they should be tackled first on the new executive team’s to-do list. Through admittedly brief research, I’ve seen that this administration doesn’t seem to talk so much about their first hundred days. Could it be because they feel their term is unlimited? Their own people even say so now. They, the figurehead and the conspirators, believe he’s never leaving because he’s not a “president.” He’s their king who is above the law, so they too can be. They are way too comfortable with hijacking the country, and we can’t let it stand.
*scroll down to see related petition*

The felons, white supremacists, and liars in charge are fanboying over a guy named Curtis Yarvin. He’s a self-proclaimed troll. He suggests “R.A.G.E.” (“retire all government employees”) to kneecap our government administration, even though both his parents were career federal employees. He compares DJT to FDR, and Larry Page to Alexander Hamilton. ¹ And the person in the VP seat appears to be a believer, among many others in and around the White House.

Another influencer of this new administrative path forward is Michael Anton, who was recently appointed to work in — or destroy — the State Department. Anton spouts perspectives like “The universities have become evil”, “Our economy is fake”, “The people are corrupt”, and “Our civilization has lost the will to live”. His solution to these perceived failures of our current government system is “Caesarism.” He defines it as a “form of one-man rule: halfway … between monarchy and tyranny…” because, “a nation no longer capable of ruling itself must yet be ruled”. ²

The fact that anyone falls for this abusive attack on the USA and our people is just heartbreaking.

Though Yarvin said in interview(s) he doesn’t expect much actual change from this administration regime, and we’re supposedly nowhere close to his ideas materializing in our contemporary society, there is an obvious federal government takeover in process. Either he is stupid, or a liar who knows more than he’s saying. Or — the current regime has completely jumped the tracks and gone way beyond even that which anti-constitutionalists are prescribing and projecting. Either way, what we’re seeing is a divergence from the U.S. Constitution and respect for adherence to it. (The fact that adherence to the Constitution was left to the honor system is a topic for another day.)

I completely disagree with this “post-constitutional” and “anti-constitutional” BS, and hope you do too. It is NOT a new approach to politics or governing, it’s a takeover and it’s un-American. If you feel unsettled, anxious, angry, scared, or even a little guilty for voting for what you thought would be a positive outcome, like you were promised, you’re not alone. But this is not a positive outcome. It’s a coup. Take that pain and use it for strength, because there are only two ways forward and we need to choose one.

1. Go along with these treasonous ideas because partial democracy is no good so let’s give Caesarism a try. Keep in mind however that means the co-presidents and their enablers and their funders get to call all the shots. So Christian Nationalism is fine, Hitler salutes are fine, women as incubators is fine, and no more voting because we won’t need it and they don’t care what The People think anyway. This also gets more and more difficult to reverse with time. (I don't know how they landed on ‘Caesarism’ since that guy literally got stabbed in the back - what we now call the Ides of March - but whatever. They probably like the symbolism of Caesar’s ascent marking the end of the Roman Republic and the beginning of the Roman Empire, a dictatorship. Does Donald know of Caesar’s fate?) I condemn violence, by the way. I wish everyone did.
   
   or

2. Fight back to deliberately preserve our Constitution and the grand experiment, kicking these rebels to the dustbin of history. Again. Then we get back to the work of a “more perfect union.” HOW do we do this? It’s up to each of us to lend support to our elected officials. Yes, support. And make sure they hear from us that we expect them to remain (or get back) on the right side of history.
   
   * Is your US Senator or Representative a Democrat or Independent? Make sure they’re putting out written statements or social media posts or floor speeches condemning these authoritarian antics. And then see that they vote accordingly. (And THANK THEM!)
   * Is your federal elected official a Republican? Make sure they know you expect them to come around, and fast, because so far they have surrendered us to the takeover, and time is running out. We can hope they will eventually realize that even if their goal is personal, like protecting their families, appeasing a wanna-be tyrant doesn’t work. It's not a solution, and even worse, the rest of us are left to fend for ourselves and also fight off an authoritarian coup, while they're trying to hide, stay out of someone's social media target, and keep their jobs. That's not what "support and defend the Constitution of the United States of America" looks like, and apparently they need a PEACEFUL reminder. They are facing an unprecedented onslaught of negative pressure and even violent threats, which is unfair. But they signed up to be defenders and we need them to do their job.

So two ways forward. The beauty of our current position from a promotional standpoint is that either path we choose, our deadline, the NLT date (“no later than” in military lingo) is the same: April 20, 2025.

If we’re not going to accept this slide into fascism, and we shouldn’t, now is the time to definitively make the would-be rulers understand. We have to convey that we like having a choice to attend college or trade school or university, or none of the above. (We could work to make it more affordable, certainly, but that isn’t accomplished by shutting down higher education like they’re doing.) We have to convey that we want to vote in free and fair elections; we want freedom of or from religion, and we like knowing the inspiring stories of diverse ancestors who made this country great throughout its history, all of which they are actively taking away. We have to tell the entitled, controlling, abusers who are lying to us that we do not want their idea of having a monarchy, a CEO, a dictator, or an oligarch, at the helm of this nation, which itself was born to escape those oppressions. And we can’t plan to tell them all this at future presidential elections (if we have them) in 2028, not at midterms (if we have them) in 2026, and even September is too late. This coup — we need to call it what it is — has to be shut down NOW.

Why NLT 20 April?

1. The end of the first hundred days is April 30th - but 90 day deadline is better due to circumstances. How can we fight back (without combat and bloodshed) and take the head off the metaphorical snake before April 20? In essence, how can we turn their first hundred days into their last hundred days?

2. Interestingly, that date is also Easter Sunday. It’s a holiday that celebrates rebirth and renewal, religious and otherwise. It’s a day to celebrate pushing off the stone (or the “innovators” or anti-constitutional traitors, depending on how you see them), and living once again. Could it be the rebirth of our nation, our commitment to the Constitution, and our search for a more perfect union? It could be a clean slate of executive offices we’ll fill with people who believe the Constitution is STILL the way forward. People who respect the country and us, who don’t want to subject The People to gaslighting and abuse.

3. Also notable from that date in history, is the birth of Adolph Hitler. I’m not even kidding. I realized this intersection after seeing the reference from

   John Pavlovitz
   . (When I can find his post again, I’ll share the link. Until then I’m tagging him for credit.)

The Pavlovitz post mentioned an executive order signed on inauguration day this year leading us towards military action against The People. My understanding is that almost every administration since Truman has signed a similar EO during peacetime, just in case it’s needed. But in this case, the regime is categorizing political policy and government operations as an “emergency” and immigrants as an “invasion,” threatening “America’s sovereignty.”³ Even if those things were true (they’re not), but if they were, we have laws to deal with those things. And no one is above the law. This opinion piece discusses the problem further:

The clock is ticking down on a crucial but little-noticed part of President Donald Trump’s first round of executive orders — the one tasking the secretaries of the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security to submit a joint report, within 90 days, recommending “whether to invoke the Insurrection Act.”

Many of us are now holding our collective breath, knowing that the report and what it contains could put us on the slippery slope toward unchecked presidential power under a man with an affinity for ironfisted dictators.

Here is the language from the EO:

Sec. 6. Reporting Requirement. (a) Within 30 days [Feb 19]⁴ of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the President, through the Homeland Security Advisor, a report outlining all actions taken to fulfill the requirements and objectives of this proclamation; and

(b) Within 90 days [Apr 20]⁵ of the date of this proclamation, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall submit a joint report to the President about the conditions at the southern border of the United States and any recommendations regarding additional actions that may be necessary to obtain complete operational control of the southern border, including whether to invoke the Insurrection Act of 1807.

Guess what the deadline is for those 90 days? Yep. April 20. What a mess, right? Or, for strategic creatives, what an opportunity! How often does messaging come down to a decision this clear? Nazis vs Jesus, really?

The core question as I see it is:

When April 20, 2025 rolls around four weeks from now, do we want to be fighting to survive while 1/3 of the country is hailing Hitler, authoritarianism, and the surrender of the nation to a dictator committing violence in the streets against The People of the USA? If so, kick back, relax, good luck with that path forward, but know we’ll forever see you as a traitor who was complicit in the end of the country. And no, he won’t fix the problems he’s creating if we just “give him a chance.” The problems and chaos and cruelty are all on purpose and part of their plan.

OR When April 20, 2025 rolls around four weeks from now, do we want to celebrate victory! Our successful pushback against a greedy, shallow, unconstitutional, corrupt, treasonous government takeover attempt, so that the grand experiment may live another day.

I prefer the latter, along with millions of other Americans. They’ve already demonstrated that by peacefully protesting in the streets. And it must be said that millions of patriots also have died or been injured, sacrificing their lives so that we can live in this constitutional republic. And we’re going to just throw that away? Heck no. I think we need to present it to people this way, and make sure they realize we are on the edge of catastrophic disaster OR patriotic victory, and we get to choose. But we can’t wait any longer. We need to set a goal, plan it, and make it happen.

If you too prefer we defend the Constitution instead of ending it, better get busy. We have a country to save.

1. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/18/magazine/curtis-yarvin-interview.html

2. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/21/curtis-yarvin-trump

3. https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/declaring-a-national-emergency-at-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states/

4. [brackets and date are mine]

5. [brackets and date are mine]

More info:

• opinion piece - https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/openforum/article/insurrection-act-president-trump-20201819.php

• petition (same as below) to vacate the regime - https://chng.it/kzSW5RGVmM