Trump stands with Putin.
We stand with Ukraine, Europe, and the United Nations Charter.
BACKGROUND
1) James Rowles, “Trump begins sell-out of Ukraine, following Putin's script; Trump as a ‘Russian Asset’,” Trenchant Observations, February 13, 2025.
2) James Rowles, “SURPRISE: Trump, “a Russian asset”, capitulates to Putin; Republican legislators refuse to defend U.S. National Security,” Trenchant Observations, February 18, 2025.
3)”Donald Trump, Russian stooge, channels Putin in the White House; When will Republicans defend the country?” Trenchant Observations, February 20, 2025.
4)Michael Birnbaum, ”In first month, Trump upends century-old approach to the world; The president appears to be turning back the clock to a time in world history when countries with the biggest militaries constructed empires, demanded tribute from weaker nations and expanded their territories through coercion,” Washington Post, February 23, 2025 (12:04 p.m. EST).
Many of Donald Trump's actions in office seem treasonous.*
Do we have a pro-Russian traitor in theWhite House?
We are fighting a hydra-headed monster, a fascist monster with many heads and tentacles.
Stop hacking at the tentacles.
Strike at the directing brain. Destroy the monster at its core.
Impeach and remove Trump now.
We know, or should know, things are not going to get better so long as Trump is President. On the contrary, things are going to get worse, much worse. With each passing day.
He has fired the military chiefs so he can replace them with his lackeys. He’s taking over the Post Office so that along with control of the Internet he can control all independent means of communication. It sure looks like he is putting in place the building blocks of a totalitarian regime.
House Democrats should immediately table a bill of impeachment.
They should then add particulars, in the operative form of a motion that can be voted on in the House.
What are they waiting for? Are they waiting for more facts? How many facts and how much evidence do they need before they act to remove Trump?
Are they waiting for a military coup to actually take place, after Trump has replaced all our military leaders with his lackeys?
By then it may be too late.
What are we waiting for, America?
Do you not yet understand what is going down?
Trump and the fascists are building a totalitarian government, and they intend to seize power through unconstitutional means.
Wake up, America!
Call and write your Congressman, and demand that a bill of impeachment be tabled now, without further delay.
*treasonous
Dictionary definitions
WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025
trea•son /ˈtrizən/
n. [uncountable]
the act of overthrowing one's government or of being disloyal to it:
to commit high treason.
trea•son•a•ble, trea•son•ous, adj.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
trea•son (trē′zən),
n.
the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign.
a violation of allegiance to one's sovereign or to one's state.
the betrayal of a trust or confidence;
breach of faith;
treachery.
Latin trāditiōn- (stem of trāditiō) a handing over, betrayal. See tradition
Anglo-French; Old French traïson
Middle English tre(i)so(u)n 1175–1225
1. Treason, sedition mean disloyalty or treachery to one's country or its government.
Treason is any attempt to overthrow the government or impair the well-being of a state to which one owes allegiance; the crime of giving aid or comfort to the enemies of one's government.
Sedition is any act, writing, speech, etc., directed unlawfully against state authority, the government, or constitution, or calculated to bring it into contempt or to incite others to hostility, ill will or disaffection; it does not amount to treason and therefore is not a capital offense.
2. See disloyalty.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
treason /ˈtriːzən/
n
violation or betrayal of the allegiance that people owe to their sovereign or their country, esp by attempting to overthrow the government; high treason
any treachery or betrayal
Etymology: 13th Century: from Old French traïson, from Latin trāditiō a handing over; see tradition, traditor
ˈtreasonable, ˈtreasonous’ adj
ˈtreasonably adv
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James Rowles is a former Lecturer on Law at Harv Law School and professor of international law at other universities.
He studied the history of Nazi Germany at Stanford, and has studied and worked on human rights, judicial reform, and access to justice projects in many countries in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and in Afghanistan and Russia. At Harvard Law School, he taught a course on “Law, Human Rights, and the Struggle for Democracy in Latin America”.
At the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) of the OAS, he worked on human rights cases involving forced disappearances, executions, and torture in a number of authoritarian countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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James P. Rowles, The Rape of American Democracy: Republican Actions and Democratic Failures, 2016-2021 (2024). Available on Amazon, and from IngramSpark by clicking on a link here.
James P. Rowles, Don’t Be Stupid. Pay Attention, Damn It! Advice for Undecided Voters and Voters Leaning Toward Trump (2024). Available on Amazon,and from IngramSpark by clicking on a link here.
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