#section three

He is not the President.

There is no President.

He is a disqualified insurrectionist.

The Constitution does not change because a corrupt and cowardly SCOTUS makes up some fake law.

Calling him "President" legitimizes him, his policies and those who violate their oaths by obeying him.

Call him by the titles he has actually earned:

-Fraud.

-R*pist.

-Felon.

-P01135809.

-Agent Krasnov.

-Insurrectionist.

Yes! After Bugdatabase's 3 month hiatus on Titles are Stupid, an Inanimate Insanity AU on Wattpad (at the moment), he is BACK after mental difficulties over those three months! HURRAH! Good job Bug! He dropped a gift along with his return!

SECTION 3, CHAPTER 2: Backstage

"Quinn, that last Brute Chieftain had a data core on person, I'm uploading the information now to your HUD." The Spartan IV reflexively holstered her weapon, and squatted to shrink her profile. As the information poured in from of her skin, a she smiled, "Thanks Aurora, this is what I needed." "No problem Quinn."

P01135809's plans for elections were announced, and include all the expected things: tighter IDs, one-day voting only, paper ballots... and an end to mail voting.

As an American living overseas, this would effectively disenfranchise me- as well as every member of the armed services and their families stationed abroad.

Assuming that holds, and it looks like it will, a few things:

Do not despair. No matter how hopeless you feel. That's just another form of "obeying in advance".

Do not lash out violently. It may sound cathartic to some, but it won't change anything except to get you and probably other innocent people hurt or killed, and make it easier for Trump to get support for violent crackdowns.

We have two and a half months to prepare- either to try to block Trump's taking power, or to resist what he does starting on Inauguration Day.

We cannot afford selfishness, nor apathy, nor recklessness or impulsiveness. We must be resolved, deliberate, and strategic.

Unions should be organizing to strike. If 5% of the country went on strike, it would bring everything to a halt just like that. If you are involved in a union, and are willing to run some risk, start organizing for this.

State and local governments should be organizing to resist deployments of Federal troops against them.

Hell, Biden and other Democratic office holders, including the House if we succeed in taking it, should be refusing to recognize Trump's legitimacy and organizing to block the transition on the grounds that he is Constitutionally ineligible as an insurrectionist.

If you are a Democrat or marginalized person (that includes anyone with a uterus), and aren't prepared to resist, you should try to leave the country in the two and a half months you have left before Trump can close the borders.

Above all:

WE DO NOT GIVE UP.

This is the real world, not a myth or a fantasy novel. There are no final victories in history, nor final defeats. We lost this round. It hurts. I imagine it will hurt more when it fully sinks in. A lot of people will probably suffer and die who didn't have to.

But that does not mean that we give up. THAT is how fascists truly win.

And if this all seems like wishful thinking, remember this:

A lot of countries have been in a lot worse position than America is now. For example, Ukraine has been in a worse position than we are, in a number of ways, for basically it's entire history. It faced Soviet genocide and Nazi genocide, finally regained its independence with the fall of the Soviet Union, only to find itself under a Russian puppet regime.

It then ousted that regime in the Maidan protests, and has been fighting against Russian annexation and genocide, with far too little support, for over a decade.

It did not surrender.

Maybe it will after tonight. But I doubt it.

And if it did, it would still have fought longer and harder against longer odds than we face in America today.

This is the 2024 US Presidential election map if you remove every candidate Constitutionally disqualified for insurrection:

Fuck SCOTUS, and fuck it's made-up laws.

Even I do it sometimes, by reblogging content that does.

But he's not.

He's a disqualified insurrectionist, and that doesn't change just because SCOTUS decided to ignore the Constitution.