Time is running out

Posterity! You will never know, how much it cost the present Generation, to preserve your Freedom! I hope you will make a good Use of it. If you do not, I shall repent in Heaven, that I ever took half the Pains to preserve it.

— John Adams

Etched in granite above the fireplace in the White House state dining room are these words from John Adams, the first president to live in the executive mansion, and leave it upon his defeat:

I pray heaven to bestow the best of blessings on this house and all that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under its roof.

John Adams died 199 years ago yesterday, along with his great friend, colleague, rival, opponent, enemy, and friend Thomas Jefferson.

Here is how Donald Trump celebrated the 249th anniversary of the independence of the United States from the state of Iowa, referring to Democrats:

They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know? I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country.

It is impossible to love America, while holding hatred for at least 77 million people and the concept of dissent.

What plans does Donald have for the people whom he hates?

He has promised vengeance against his enemies, and has set about delivering it. It has been made easier than slicing through warm butter with a sharp knife by the appeasements and derelictions of his targets and opponents.

This is how the ICE budget in the perversely named “BIG BEAUTIFUL BILL,” signed into LAW, compares to the world’s top defense budgets:

According to Newsweek:

Different news outlets have broken it down in different ways. The National Immigration Law Center said that ICE's detention budget would increase to $45 billion to build immigration jails for single adults and families, a price tag 13 times more than ICE's 2024 detention budget.

The bill also allocates $29.9 billion in additional funding for ICE activities, including hiring new agents and securing transportation contracts to move migrants between detention centers and facilitate deportations, according to Migrant Insider.

Meanwhile, an assessment by the Detention Watch Network said the bill set aside $59 billion to militarize the border, which included wall construction, CBP agents and vehicles, and border surveillance technology.

It also said that there was $10 billion for grants to reimburse states that enact anti-immigrant policies and another $1 billion to the Department of Defense to deploy military personnel to the border and to detain migrants.

Thought it is true that Trump’s abominable and reckless budget is an act of unfathomable corruption built on a platform of callous indifference, arbitrary cruelty and thoughtless incompetence that will impoverish many for the benefit of the obscenely rich, it will be remembered by history for none of those things.

The fact that it stripped nearly 12 million people from health insurance, added trillions to the debt, and delivered a bonanza of public money to private companies in exchange for more contributions in exchange for more public money, it will be recalled as barely a ripple when the true nature of what was passed comes into clear focus.

Clear focus is difficult to find because the great fog machines of our era never stop billowing. Here is how The New York Times, the “paper of record,” opened a piece about Trump’s venomous address and the announcement of his hatreds:

President Trump took a victory lap on Thursday night after the House passed his sprawling domestic policy bill, which he muscled through Congress even as many in his party fear it will leave them vulnerable to political attacks ahead of next year’s midterm elections.

Other media commentators, trapped inside a cage of their own making, view the world as binary and defined by a perpetual contest between two different political parties that is zero sum — one wins, while the other loses.

One is up, while the other is down.

It is a world view that gazes upon a vast wilderness and settles on two adjacent Aspens amid a thousand trees.

It is a view that reduces everything to a false binary.

It is a view that fixates on two objects at the expense of erasing thousands to support the contours of a delusion that holds only two trees matter, and if one is healthy, the other must be sick and vice versa. It is a philosophy that discounts the possibility of harmony between the trees and asserts an enmity between them when they are dependent upon one another.

What the blinded can’t see — or perhaps don’t know or care to understand or consider — is that the Aspen is not two trees, but one connected organism.

It is not possible for one Aspen to be healthy while another is sick.

They live and die together as one. This matters because, in America, the notion of red states and blue states is a media invention.

There is only the United States of America. Our roots are entangled, connected, mutual, perpetual and inseparable .

Abraham Lincoln understood this clearly by 1838 when he said in an address to the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois:

As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide. I hope I am over wary; but if I am not, there is, even now, something of ill-omen.

Later, when the war was nearing its end, Lincoln summarized to the nation what had happened on the edge of victory in a war that if it was fought today would have killed more than eight million Americans.

Here is why he said the war had come:

On the occasion corresponding to this four years ago all thoughts were anxiously directed to an impending civil war. All dreaded it ~ all sought to avert it. While the inaugural address was being delivered from this place devoted altogether to saving the Union without war insurgent agents were in the city seeking to destroy it without war ~ seeking to dissolve the Union and divide effects by negotiation. Both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came.

But this is how he called for it to be ended:

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and a lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.

Donald Trump holds a different philosophy.

He has malice for all who dissent from the idea that he is not a king who is above the Constitution and the law.

He has declared that millions of his countrymen are to be his enemies.

He has declared the media to be enemies of the state. He has deployed the military into the country on a foundation of lies under false pretenses with declarations about dangers, which are as hollow as any of his pronouncements, decrees and promises.

Yet, he has managed to keep rolling forward and over the feckless Chuck Schumer.

Here is what I wrote in March when the die was cast by Chuck Schumer’s foolishness and appeasement of Donald Trump:

At that time, he could have shut the government down in order to save it, and prevent Donald Trump from consolidating power and creating the necessary conditions to form a national secret police force that is militarized, unaccountable and a grave threat to liberty:

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There is more than $45 billion set aside for the construction of concentration camps across America. Because the numbers are so large and incomprehensible a little perspective helps. The two most magnificent stadiums in the United States — SoFi Stadium Los Angeles and the Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas — combined hold in excess of 135,000 people, and cost $7.4 billion to build.

There are two pictures below.

The first is Trump’s first concentration camp:

Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

The second is Majdanek:

Image: picture-alliance/C.Arce

Here is a jarring warning from Professor Timothy Snyder about the obvious and coming exploitations by corporate America of human beings from Trump’s concentration camps:

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Donald Trump’s hatred is real.

The extremism and venom around Donald Trump is real.

The funding of a police state is real.

The consolidation of data on every American citizen into government files controlled by government contractors is real.

The collapse of the checks and balances is real.

The corruption is real.

The masked men are real.

The lawlessness is real.

Everything that is happening that you can see is real, but much of what you read about it is not.

Does America remain a republic?

Or has the republic fallen?

Certainly it is falling. Time is running out.

This is a time for standing up and seeing clearly.

The Warning turns three years old on Monday.

I want you to know that there will be no punches pulled here and no backing down. This is a place where you can read about what will happen next before it makes it into corporate media — before the danger is stripped away and sanitized because Donald doesn’t think the truth is nice, and telling it makes people uncomfortable.

On Thursday night, at an event that should have reminded Americans about what we share in common, Donald Trump announced his hatreds for America.

It cannot be unseen or unheard.

He means it.

Donald Trump has been handed an army to be used against the people by the people’s representatives, and it is wearing masks.

Donald Trump has been given a budget to build concentration camps in every state, and build them, he will.

What could have been stopped was not.

What could have been prevented was not.

History will record that it took Donald Trump 166 days between his inauguration and July 4, 2025, to become what history will remember him for becoming.

Before Trump took power for a second time I observed that, as incredible as it seemed to write, if he came back everything that he had previously done — every disgrace, every failure, everything — would be but a blip in the legacy of Donald Trump. It is only now being written.

What remains most astonishing about living in this moment is the man who was able to topple the American people’s faith in each other and what they share in common was the lowest man in the nation.

Trump is the antithesis of Lincoln.

He is the American Nero.

Lincoln came to a Pennsylvania battlefield on October 13, 1863, to commemorate the epic sacrifice that was made there, and bring meaning to it.

The battle, which is simply recalled as Gettysburg, ended 162 years ago on July 3. It was a moment at which the United States came within 60 seconds of ending.

Here is what Lincoln said there:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. “Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. “But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us,that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion, that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth

Here is what Trump said in Iowa:

They wouldn’t vote only because they hate Trump, but I hate them, too, you know? I really do. I hate them. I cannot stand them, because I really believe they hate our country.

Here is what is coming for the people he hates:

Some of us will never back down.

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