Taking down Tesla to harm Musk’s money & reputation and demonstrating publicly that we do not approve of Trump & his Administrations actions are excellent starts, but we need to QUICKLY expand the (non-violent) mission.
We must remove all the bricks of Trumps foundation so he has nothing left to stand on. For example:
•The H3ritage Foundation (Author of Project 2025)
•Republicans in Congress & Senate & in local level
•Ineffective Democrats & Independents
•Fox & all Trump-backing media sources, and pressure the ones caving in.
•Big Corporations/Industries who help him
•Social Media who help him
•Dark money and open money sources.
• Keep people out of elected office who align with Trump or any agenda which aren’t in the Constitutional Democratic Republic* of USA’s best interests, particularly towards anti-authoritarianism.
To do this, every influencer and activist leader need to have S. Korea’s method put in front of them so they can bring this to the attention of all the right people who can make this idea a reality.
1. We need from good Intelligence (national & global sources) and Strategists to carefully identify review all the bricks in the dictator’s (and any successor’s) pedestal / support - both nationally and globally.
2. They need to calculate the most efficient & effective ways to disrupt each of those “bricks” (with multiple back-up options)
3. They need to determine the order of bricks to be disrupted so they can be toppled like dominoes - so the energy of one lends strength to the next and keep the momentum going.
4. They need to have a trusted core of influencers and activists in every level of society, in every US state, and in every allied nation, so they can name targeted bricks and the plans to get them to remove their support from the dictator can be put in place. The trusted activists and influencers can begin their efforts and lead by example.
5. People need to be guided towards safe & reliable means of communication which aren’t owned by anyone in USA or based in USA. (Items like VPNs, safer email, safer chat, etc)
5. We need to keep up morale enough that we don’t give up, but not so much that people think they can slack off, because this isn’t likely to happen overnight.
Things will get far worse before they get better:
• Destruction of government departments lead to critical needs of society not being met - like people no longer having access to good education & work opportunities, food not going to hungry people who are unable to work (or are just unwanted by employers), uninsured people no longer getting access to healthcare, no more funds to researchers who help study subjects (like diseases) which adversely affect people in USA and globally, etc
•So many Federal workers suddenly out of work affects national unemployment balance and certain State’s economies
•Increasingly poor quality food, water, air, and product safety
•Corruption will increase and spread exponentially - especially in law enforcement, military, and in access to necessary products and services.
•People will increasingly become tools of dictator by: reporting on coworkers, neighbors, & even family members, actively harming people in marginalized groups, etc
•Anti-DEI agenda will spread to the private sector. Non-loyalists, women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled people, & non-christians will start being targeted/more heavily targeted (from top levels on down) for job exclusion, firing/layoffs, exploitation, & harassment.
•Our risk of foreign attacks (cyber & other) increases daily
•Musk’s compiling of our data and information ****WILL***** be used against us. Our SSN, government ID #’s, Physical & Mailing Addresses, voter registration/party affiliation, employer, phone numbers, email addresses, all financial information, all health information, spending habits, social media posts, hobbies & interests, and deeply personal information/details.
•Joblessness, homelessness, and food insecurity will increase
•Crime of all kinds will increase
•Suicide rate will increase
•Loss of freedoms will increase
People need to be encouraged to organize to help each other with food, support, & protection (like the town who helped defend an immigrant from deportation, plus so many other kinds of help). So good information on how to effectively protect others would be helpful.
Also, people need safe, reliable, & effective ways to communicate with each other as it is likely to become riskier and more difficult - so we need non-USA owned or based tools & Apps (VPNs/Virtual Private Networks, Email services, Chat services, etc)
Lisa, this is thoughtful and thorough. Thank you for outlining so many critical issues! Your strategic focus on addressing the underlying support structures of authoritarianism and your emphasis on local solidarity, mutual aid, and preparedness are powerful and aligned with resistance strategies that have historically been successful. I'd only encourage everyone reading to ensure actions remain within safe, peaceful, and legal advocacy frameworks. The most impactful resistance comes through clear-eyed awareness, strong community networks, and disciplined strategic action. Keep advocating, keep organizing, and keep taking care of each other. That's how we build a resilient, effective resistance.
Yes, of course. Peaceful, legal, & safe. That is what we need experienced Intelligence and Strategists for.
Many people together can level a mountain over time with a spoon, but with the right Intelligence & Strategists, it can be done more quickly, with less effort, and in such a way that it helps level the next mountain in our path.
It is becoming dangerous to openly disagree with this Administration, so all efforts must be as careful and effective as possible.
If you know any influential / well connected people who care enough to help, please pass the South Koreans method along with the possible action plan. There are others with similar ideas, so hopefully one will reach the right audience.
I've actually used South Korea's Candlelight Revolution as a case study in a playbook before. You can find some of the methods you've outlined here throughout many of them if you want to take a look.
Try Heather Cox Richardson. She’s coming off a book promotional tour soon and will have more time. She has an email address at her college and a Facebook account with a dedicated group who could probably elevate your work enough that she’ll see it. She’s gaining a lot of influential contacts and she’s got a real gift for sharing information in plain speak but in an engaging, informative, and inspiring way.
You’re welcome. If it sounds right, PLEASE share it wherever you think influential people might see it and pass it to those who can really help. I don’t want or need credit - I want the ideas to go to people who are well connected and who can and want to stop the dictator.
Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are the architects of trumps EOs. Vance, Thiel, the venture capitalist are standing in the wings giving the silent nod.
Yes, that is part of what needs to happen, but not the only thing and timing is essential. We absolutely need a dictatorship demo crew and it’s not only the unguided, uncoordinated masses. We start with the masses in telling the country and the world we dissent, our leadership is not representing our interests or needs, and therefore he is not a legitimate leader of the constitutional democratic republic of USA. We must have about 3.5% / 12 million people publicly demonstrating this frequently & consistently. A general strike will eventually need to be done. Then a “dictator demo crew” has the right to coordinate a team of people to determine who are the architects, funders, enablers, enforcers, and minions of the dictator’s pedestal, then strategize on how to dismantle the pedestal non-violently, legally, and in most efficient and effective way. Then they can direct the right people at the right time on the best ways to make the people in Trump’s pedestal too uncomfortable to remain, until that pedestal crumbles. Then we make sure they can’t reorganize as we put a solid justice system back together, hold emergency elections to put better representatives back in congress after the weak and corrupt ones are removed, demand VERY, VERY, serious consequences for the dictator and his pedestal. Legislation, constitutional amendments, and / or whatever else we need to fix this weakness in our system will need to get done too - including ending the inequalities and imbalances helping make the ground of America so fertile for dangerous disharmony which lead to thinking Trump was a good idea.
You're right, executive orders aren't laws themselves, but their effects can be immediate and powerful. Even if some are eventually challenged in court, the harm or shifts in policy they create can persist, impacting communities deeply in the meantime.
As we have seen, trump’s EOs have been implemented by his carefully selected henchmen and women.
The legal system is not nimble enough and maybe not powerful enough to stop them from letting masked unidentified thugs grab and handcuff people off the streets and disappear them!!!!!!!
True, and something that can’t be pointed out enough.
Nevertheless, this stands as the administration’s blueprint for the criminalization of all acts, by both ordinary citizens, and by Democratic officials, which support civil rights under Constitutional law; and the means to enforce the fascist state’s directives via military occupation.
It represents yet another stage of the ratcheting-up of the Republican Party’s willingness, and apparent determination, to go full military-totalitarianism with its ongoing coup.
The fact that EOs are not laws seems to me only to likely mean that Trump and his administration, having tested and gotten away with defying the Supreme Court, will soon stop bothering with wrestling with laws altogether. Major military actions that will blast through the entire structure of the American rule of law is, I fear - and anticipate - Trump’s next step.
Absolutely. Court challenges are critical and can help limit damage. However, even orders overturned later can disrupt lives, shape narratives, and redirect federal resources in harmful ways. Staying vigilant and informed remains essential.
Trump has made tens of thousands of false or misleading statements during his political career, with fact-checkers documenting over 30,573 such claims during his first term alone . These falsehoods often serve to create a sense of urgency or crisis, which he then leverages to push through executive actions
And while everyone was waiting for Martial Law to be declared on April 20, 2025, these EOs were signed on April 28 and got no media attention. It’s quite a strange sensation to go to the White House government website and read what they have up. Dystopian and dangerous. In plain sight.
When I read some of the EOs on the White House Government page I freaked out. It has been concerning to me that there has been little mention of the dystopian and terrifying language in these orders.
So many thanks for this post that points out the Holy Fuckness of it all.
Critic, perhaps addressing the Elephant in the room as to WHY any Commander is still functioning at this level? Wonder WHY the Cabinets on either side seem to ignore and mislead the pubic into believing what is being done is incorrect, when according to the situation stated the Commander, ANY Commander can seem write these orders, as they have been doing with dramatic increase, frightening!!!
Come out for protests on June 14 & June 6!!! We need everyone!!! Indivisible and others organizing a big day of nationwide protests on June 14 to counterbalance Trump's hideous birthday parade. Details forthcoming at nokings.org
Also ... plans for a big rally of veterans in DC is building for June 6, anniversary of D-Day. See unite4veterans.org. The Dropkick Murphys band will perform at their rally!
Great information. THANK YOU.
Here is something I’ve been thinking about and I’m going to try to keep posting all over so many can see this. So sorry if this becomes annoying.
This video by John Leguizamo saying we should look at how South Koreans got a dictator out of power was inspiring. They did it by dismantling the dictator’s support. https://substack.com/@resistmaga/note/c-112108385?r=73vlo&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Taking down Tesla to harm Musk’s money & reputation and demonstrating publicly that we do not approve of Trump & his Administrations actions are excellent starts, but we need to QUICKLY expand the (non-violent) mission.
We must remove all the bricks of Trumps foundation so he has nothing left to stand on. For example:
•The H3ritage Foundation (Author of Project 2025)
•Republicans in Congress & Senate & in local level
•Ineffective Democrats & Independents
•Fox & all Trump-backing media sources, and pressure the ones caving in.
•Big Corporations/Industries who help him
•Social Media who help him
•Dark money and open money sources.
• Keep people out of elected office who align with Trump or any agenda which aren’t in the Constitutional Democratic Republic* of USA’s best interests, particularly towards anti-authoritarianism.
To do this, every influencer and activist leader need to have S. Korea’s method put in front of them so they can bring this to the attention of all the right people who can make this idea a reality.
1. We need from good Intelligence (national & global sources) and Strategists to carefully identify review all the bricks in the dictator’s (and any successor’s) pedestal / support - both nationally and globally.
2. They need to calculate the most efficient & effective ways to disrupt each of those “bricks” (with multiple back-up options)
3. They need to determine the order of bricks to be disrupted so they can be toppled like dominoes - so the energy of one lends strength to the next and keep the momentum going.
4. They need to have a trusted core of influencers and activists in every level of society, in every US state, and in every allied nation, so they can name targeted bricks and the plans to get them to remove their support from the dictator can be put in place. The trusted activists and influencers can begin their efforts and lead by example.
5. People need to be guided towards safe & reliable means of communication which aren’t owned by anyone in USA or based in USA. (Items like VPNs, safer email, safer chat, etc)
5. We need to keep up morale enough that we don’t give up, but not so much that people think they can slack off, because this isn’t likely to happen overnight.
Things will get far worse before they get better:
• Destruction of government departments lead to critical needs of society not being met - like people no longer having access to good education & work opportunities, food not going to hungry people who are unable to work (or are just unwanted by employers), uninsured people no longer getting access to healthcare, no more funds to researchers who help study subjects (like diseases) which adversely affect people in USA and globally, etc
•So many Federal workers suddenly out of work affects national unemployment balance and certain State’s economies
•Increasingly poor quality food, water, air, and product safety
•Corruption will increase and spread exponentially - especially in law enforcement, military, and in access to necessary products and services.
•People will increasingly become tools of dictator by: reporting on coworkers, neighbors, & even family members, actively harming people in marginalized groups, etc
•Anti-DEI agenda will spread to the private sector. Non-loyalists, women, BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, Disabled people, & non-christians will start being targeted/more heavily targeted (from top levels on down) for job exclusion, firing/layoffs, exploitation, & harassment.
•Our risk of foreign attacks (cyber & other) increases daily
•Musk’s compiling of our data and information ****WILL***** be used against us. Our SSN, government ID #’s, Physical & Mailing Addresses, voter registration/party affiliation, employer, phone numbers, email addresses, all financial information, all health information, spending habits, social media posts, hobbies & interests, and deeply personal information/details.
•Joblessness, homelessness, and food insecurity will increase
•Crime of all kinds will increase
•Suicide rate will increase
•Loss of freedoms will increase
People need to be encouraged to organize to help each other with food, support, & protection (like the town who helped defend an immigrant from deportation, plus so many other kinds of help). So good information on how to effectively protect others would be helpful.
Also, people need safe, reliable, & effective ways to communicate with each other as it is likely to become riskier and more difficult - so we need non-USA owned or based tools & Apps (VPNs/Virtual Private Networks, Email services, Chat services, etc)
Lisa, this is thoughtful and thorough. Thank you for outlining so many critical issues! Your strategic focus on addressing the underlying support structures of authoritarianism and your emphasis on local solidarity, mutual aid, and preparedness are powerful and aligned with resistance strategies that have historically been successful. I'd only encourage everyone reading to ensure actions remain within safe, peaceful, and legal advocacy frameworks. The most impactful resistance comes through clear-eyed awareness, strong community networks, and disciplined strategic action. Keep advocating, keep organizing, and keep taking care of each other. That's how we build a resilient, effective resistance.
Yes, of course. Peaceful, legal, & safe. That is what we need experienced Intelligence and Strategists for.
Many people together can level a mountain over time with a spoon, but with the right Intelligence & Strategists, it can be done more quickly, with less effort, and in such a way that it helps level the next mountain in our path.
It is becoming dangerous to openly disagree with this Administration, so all efforts must be as careful and effective as possible.
If you know any influential / well connected people who care enough to help, please pass the South Koreans method along with the possible action plan. There are others with similar ideas, so hopefully one will reach the right audience.
This absolutely IS possible.
I've actually used South Korea's Candlelight Revolution as a case study in a playbook before. You can find some of the methods you've outlined here throughout many of them if you want to take a look.
https://criticalresistance.substack.com/t/playbooks
I'm doing all I can to get it shared. Thank you for doing the same!
Try Heather Cox Richardson. She’s coming off a book promotional tour soon and will have more time. She has an email address at her college and a Facebook account with a dedicated group who could probably elevate your work enough that she’ll see it. She’s gaining a lot of influential contacts and she’s got a real gift for sharing information in plain speak but in an engaging, informative, and inspiring way.
Thank you! I will read up!
Thank you for the reminder!
You’re welcome. If it sounds right, PLEASE share it wherever you think influential people might see it and pass it to those who can really help. I don’t want or need credit - I want the ideas to go to people who are well connected and who can and want to stop the dictator.
Russell Vought and Stephen Miller are the architects of trumps EOs. Vance, Thiel, the venture capitalist are standing in the wings giving the silent nod.
You should have a newsletter!
Yes, that is part of what needs to happen, but not the only thing and timing is essential. We absolutely need a dictatorship demo crew and it’s not only the unguided, uncoordinated masses. We start with the masses in telling the country and the world we dissent, our leadership is not representing our interests or needs, and therefore he is not a legitimate leader of the constitutional democratic republic of USA. We must have about 3.5% / 12 million people publicly demonstrating this frequently & consistently. A general strike will eventually need to be done. Then a “dictator demo crew” has the right to coordinate a team of people to determine who are the architects, funders, enablers, enforcers, and minions of the dictator’s pedestal, then strategize on how to dismantle the pedestal non-violently, legally, and in most efficient and effective way. Then they can direct the right people at the right time on the best ways to make the people in Trump’s pedestal too uncomfortable to remain, until that pedestal crumbles. Then we make sure they can’t reorganize as we put a solid justice system back together, hold emergency elections to put better representatives back in congress after the weak and corrupt ones are removed, demand VERY, VERY, serious consequences for the dictator and his pedestal. Legislation, constitutional amendments, and / or whatever else we need to fix this weakness in our system will need to get done too - including ending the inequalities and imbalances helping make the ground of America so fertile for dangerous disharmony which lead to thinking Trump was a good idea.
These are Executive Orders, though. That means they aren’t laws.
You're right, executive orders aren't laws themselves, but their effects can be immediate and powerful. Even if some are eventually challenged in court, the harm or shifts in policy they create can persist, impacting communities deeply in the meantime.
As we have seen, trump’s EOs have been implemented by his carefully selected henchmen and women.
The legal system is not nimble enough and maybe not powerful enough to stop them from letting masked unidentified thugs grab and handcuff people off the streets and disappear them!!!!!!!
Already in crisis territory.
True, and something that can’t be pointed out enough.
Nevertheless, this stands as the administration’s blueprint for the criminalization of all acts, by both ordinary citizens, and by Democratic officials, which support civil rights under Constitutional law; and the means to enforce the fascist state’s directives via military occupation.
It represents yet another stage of the ratcheting-up of the Republican Party’s willingness, and apparent determination, to go full military-totalitarianism with its ongoing coup.
The fact that EOs are not laws seems to me only to likely mean that Trump and his administration, having tested and gotten away with defying the Supreme Court, will soon stop bothering with wrestling with laws altogether. Major military actions that will blast through the entire structure of the American rule of law is, I fear - and anticipate - Trump’s next step.
I pray that you’re wrong, though I fear you’re right.
Me, too. But all signs point that way.
And the courts are blasting his executive orders, 60 so far Trump has LOST in court.
Absolutely. Court challenges are critical and can help limit damage. However, even orders overturned later can disrupt lives, shape narratives, and redirect federal resources in harmful ways. Staying vigilant and informed remains essential.
This is exactly what I was waiting for someone to outline.
Thank you for all the detail and action steps. Action is what we need now.
Glad you found it useful! Action-oriented clarity is exactly the goal. Thanks for being engaged and ready to act.
Let’s have a look at the Resistance Scorecard …. Moving too slowly and too disjointed to worry Trump unfortunately !!!!
https://substack.com/@ricknoz/note/c-114048803?r=ukln1&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
Trump has made tens of thousands of false or misleading statements during his political career, with fact-checkers documenting over 30,573 such claims during his first term alone . These falsehoods often serve to create a sense of urgency or crisis, which he then leverages to push through executive actions
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_or_misleading_statements_by_Donald_Trump
And while everyone was waiting for Martial Law to be declared on April 20, 2025, these EOs were signed on April 28 and got no media attention. It’s quite a strange sensation to go to the White House government website and read what they have up. Dystopian and dangerous. In plain sight.
When I read some of the EOs on the White House Government page I freaked out. It has been concerning to me that there has been little mention of the dystopian and terrifying language in these orders.
So many thanks for this post that points out the Holy Fuckness of it all.
Critic, perhaps addressing the Elephant in the room as to WHY any Commander is still functioning at this level? Wonder WHY the Cabinets on either side seem to ignore and mislead the pubic into believing what is being done is incorrect, when according to the situation stated the Commander, ANY Commander can seem write these orders, as they have been doing with dramatic increase, frightening!!!
What does the orange turd’s signature tell us about him
Why are we not holding the architects of Project 2025 accountable? They seem to have significant access to and control over our government.
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Nonsense of the day
Come out for protests on June 14 & June 6!!! We need everyone!!! Indivisible and others organizing a big day of nationwide protests on June 14 to counterbalance Trump's hideous birthday parade. Details forthcoming at nokings.org
Also ... plans for a big rally of veterans in DC is building for June 6, anniversary of D-Day. See unite4veterans.org. The Dropkick Murphys band will perform at their rally!
Could cities/states then withhold fed taxes if Fed funding is denied?
FUCKING FUCKHEAD
that fuckheads signature look like an EKG lets pray it flatlines
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