{"id":18040,"date":"2025-04-22T11:36:49","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=18040"},"modified":"2025-04-22T11:36:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T15:36:49","slug":"when-the-rule-of-law-has-been-annihilated-and-exiled-to-the-annals-of-history-good-men-are-forced-to-do-bad-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=18040","title":{"rendered":"<h3><b>&#8220;When the rule of law has been annihilated and exiled to the annals of history, good men are forced to do bad things&#8230;&#8230;.&#8221;<\/b><\/h3>"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 class=\"entry-title\">DEFY, DENY, DEFUND, DEPORT, DESTROY<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2025\/04\/21\/defy-deny-defund-deport-destroy\/\">The Burning Platform<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I must have dreamed a thousand dreams<br \/>\nBeen haunted by a million screams<br \/>\nBut I can hear the marching feet<br \/>\nThey\u2019re moving into the street<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Now, did you read the news today?<br \/>\nThey say the danger has gone away<br \/>\nBut I can see the fire\u2019s still alight<br \/>\nThey\u2019re burning into the night<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>There\u2019s too many men, too many people<br \/>\nMaking too many problems<br \/>\nAnd there\u2019s not much love to go around<br \/>\nCan\u2019t you see this is the land of confusion?<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42G6Eku\">Genesis \u2013 Land of Confusion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/floridaphoenix.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/AmericasDifferentCivilWar2-gguy44-1536x1054-1.jpg\" width=\"510\" height=\"350\" \/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think \u201cLand of Confusion\u201d is an accurate description of the world in 2025, even if the song was written in 1986 during the Reagan presidency. The three-month-old Trump presidency has been a whirlwind of executive orders, high profile deportations, mass firings of stay-at-home government drones who pretend to work, daily revelations from DOGE about massive waste, fraud, and corruption within the Federal government, defunding the democrat slush fund \u2013 USAID, release of JFK files showing the CIA was involved, defunding the Ukraine debacle, negotiating with Putin to end the war while the EU attempts to undermine those negotiations to start WW3, and now waging a global tariff war against China and every country who have taken advantage of our penchant for consuming while going into massive debt to do so.<\/p>\n<p>The Wall Street cabal and foreign owners of our trillions in Treasury debt have attempted to derail Trump\u2019s tariff war by throwing a hissy fit like they did after their $700 billion TARP bailout was initially voted down in 2008. They drove the stock market down 17% and drove the 10-Year Treasury up 50 basis points in a matter of days, before Trump yelled uncle, delayed most tariffs for 90 days and has been busy granting exceptions to favored industries who have his ear.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/image-1707423621.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"288\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Despite running on a platform of ending the Ukraine war and the Israel Gaza conflict within weeks of taking office, the Ukraine war is not close to being resolved, and Trump has done nothing but pour gasoline on the Middle East fire. He has increased military aid to Israel so they can continue to bomb the rubble that is Gaza. He is spending billions bombing the Houthis, while risking our carrier groups, when we have no real strategic interest in doing so, other than doing Netanyahu\u2019s bidding.<\/p>\n<p>One day he threatens Iran with obliteration, and the next day he sends a negotiator to talk things over. Threaten and back-off seems to be Trump\u2019s standard operating procedure. Xi knows this is Trump\u2019s method of winning negotiations, so his response has been to match Trump\u2019s threats with his own threats. Waiting for someone to blink.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/harvard.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Trump continues to de-fund and penalize the largest universities in the U.S. because a few thousand of their students protested on their campuses about Israel\u2019s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza. In my book, free speech means free speech, whether I like it or not. The antisemitism narrative being pushed by the Trump administration and their MSM cheerleaders at Fox seems excessive and overblown. Miriam Adleson\u2019s $100 million campaign contribution seems to be paying off.<\/p>\n<p>When you impartially step back and observe how Trump treats Netanyahu and how the vast majority in congress do whatever Israel instructs them to do, it\u2019s undeniable our government is broadly controlled by another country that does not have our best interests at heart. AIPAC uses bribes and threats to keep our politicians in line. This fact is clearly revealed by how they treat\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4jIvZRF\">Thomas Massie<\/a><\/strong>, the most principled freedom-loving person in congress. He has been declared Israel Enemy #1 by AIPAC and their Israel handlers for not kissing their ring.<\/p>\n<p>Confusion reigns because the world is lost in a blizzard of lies and paralyzed in a boundless morass of uncertainty. The ability of corporations, small business owners, and average Americans to make decisions, based upon a reasonable understanding of the rules of the game and what the near-term future holds, has been obliterated because the rules change on a daily basis. I know Trump\u2019s tariff bonanza is designed as a negotiating tactic to force foreign countries to lower their trade barriers and give American exporters a level playing field. As a negotiating tactic, it is a bold roll of the dice. If it works, as the biggest importer in the world, Americans will benefit from lower prices. China is the wildcard.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/xi7.jpg\" width=\"515\" height=\"290\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If Trump cannot negotiate a reasonable agreement with China and tariff increases remain in effect, an inflationary global recession will ensue. The debt saturated American economy cannot endure higher interest rates, higher inflation, higher deficits, rising unemployment, and interest on the national debt soaring above $1 trillion. It most certainly cannot fight simultaneous wars in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and the Far East.<\/p>\n<p>We know when politicians, and even dictators, feel intolerable pressure because their economies are imploding and the natives are growing restless, angrier, and hungrier, they always follow the same playbook \u2013 distract the masses by giving them an foreign enemy, other than themselves. If these tariff wars do not de-intensify, global wars will begin and intensify until clear winners and losers are determined. That\u2019s how it rolls in a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YxQusf\">Fourth Turning<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/eo.jpg\" width=\"522\" height=\"346\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At the three month point of his presidency, Trump has purposefully created chaos as a tool to try and reverse decades of corruption, treason, and destruction. He has signed 130 executive orders, as the legislative branch of government has become inconsequential and toothless. Presidents now attempt to rule by dictate, bypassing Congress, unless forced to seek their permission. The left calls Trump a dictator, but they didn\u2019t call Biden a dictator when he signed 160 executive orders, or Obama with 277 executive orders, or Clinton with 364 executive orders.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the way the game is played, so every time the other party takes over, they reverse the executive orders of the previous administration. That is no way to run a country, but it is a way to run a banana republic circling the drain. While the bozos in congress are enriched for doing whatever they are instructed to do by whichever billionaires installed them, the judicial branch has now seized the most power of the three branches, under the guise of a legal system which no longer has a basis in the U.S. Constitution or Bill of Rights.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GnJq0VJa8AA7-Yz.jpg\" width=\"517\" height=\"507\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Treasonous judges (Boasberg) have been positioned by the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42KNNVq\">Deep State<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and their billionaire puppet masters (<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4jG7qEN\">Soros<\/a><\/strong>, Gates) to wage a lawfare war against anyone who defies the lucrative and corrupt status quo or attempts to reverse illegal actions taken by previous politician puppets (Biden, Obama) using executive orders and disregarding the Constitution. An entire establishment of corrupt district attorneys, judges, law firms, and fake NGOs are tasked with stopping everything Trump and his cabinet attempt to do which would benefit the average American, make the country safer, root out corruption, and enhance the financial condition of a country drowning in debt.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/feeder.jpg\" width=\"513\" height=\"452\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"a124987f279ada0338469db0cf4fd76e\" data-index=\"9\">\n<div id=\"placement_748155_0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Judges blocking deportation of illegals, the firing of useless government drones, the defunding of left wing organizations within the government (USAID, NPR, PBS) pretending to be impartial, cutting off federal funds for the largest far left universities where 95% of the faculty vote Democrat, and essentially anything Trump was elected to do by the majority of Americans, must be defied and destroyed if necessary. Arrest the judges and let them rot in the putrid dungeon cells in D.C. without due process, like they inflicted upon grandmothers and other innocent J6 protestors.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0\u2015\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42UXG3Z\">Tacitus, The Annals of Imperial Rome<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/SackofRome.jpg\" width=\"518\" height=\"325\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The American empire now exceeds the\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3Eh6BDC\">Roman empire<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0when it comes to state corruption. And we all know how that ended. We started as a republic, decayed into a democracy, and we now live in a dystopian, delusional, debt fueled totalitarian oligarchy, being ushered into a techno-gulag while staring at our gadgets, addicted to toxic foodstuff, and oblivious to the propaganda and indoctrination being employed to control us. Pretending we can vote our way out of this is a fool\u2019s game. They control all the levers (financial, political, legal, social, military, media). They have the money. They have the power. They have control.<\/p>\n<p>They will not relinquish their wealth, power and control willingly, or non-violently. That\u2019s a fact. I know there are varied opinions on whether Trump is actually playing a part in herding his followers into the techno-gulag, or whether he truly believes he can usher in a new golden age by defeating the deeply rooted\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/4lMmNO6\">Deep State<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0quislings. I\u2019m living through it, but I am treating it like I\u2019m watching a TV drama, waiting to see how the next episode plays out.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/media.newyorker.com\/photos\/5af5ff4199ccae22039cbe64\/master\/pass\/180521_r32095web.jpg\" width=\"511\" height=\"383\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Anyone with an ounce of critical thinking skills can discern all is not right in this world. The anger, vitriol, hate and violence being exhibited by the globalist loving left, fueled by Soros\/Gates funding, is a precursor of the vicious conflicts which will mark the last five or so years of this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YxQusf\">Fourth Turning<\/a><\/strong>. To me, this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YxQusf\">Fourth Turning<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has delved into a battle between the globalist, totalitarian minded, new world order faction and a rag tag assemblage of libertarian minded, freedom loving, rational, decent, family oriented, frustrated, and heavily armed anarchists, who are being pushed towards their boiling point.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure builds. The anger is welling up from the depths. Normal people, who just want to be left alone to live their lives, have been taxed into poverty at the point of a gun, raped by the relentless inflation purposely created by the oligarch banking cabal, forced to accept deviancy in public schools as normal, coerced into having a toxic gene therapy injected into their bodies in order to keep their jobs, and convinced by the media and their billionaire oligarch owners to become debt slaves in order to live the American dream.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.redd.it\/08f1glknjyfb1.jpg\" width=\"509\" height=\"425\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The question is what action, event, or person will trigger the violent response, destined to occur in the foreseeable future. Two-hundred-and-fifty years ago this past week the British attempting to confiscate weapons from farmer patriots resulted in the battles of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/444sSij\">Lexington &amp; Concord<\/a><\/strong>, triggering the American Revolution. One hundred and sixty-four years ago this past week\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3GgbfSI\">Fort Sumter<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0was attacked, triggering the Civil War. Eighty-six years ago, Hitler was preparing to invade Poland, triggering WW2.<\/p>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mypatriotsupply.com\/?_ef_transaction_id=&amp;oid=1&amp;affid=545\">ONE STOP SHOPPING TO PREPARE FOR THE COMING STORM<\/a><\/h5>\n<p>The number of potential triggers domestically and internationally are vast. Internationally, Israel attacking Iran, the globalist tyrants in France, UK, and Germany provoking an expansion of the Ukraine war into WW3, or China responding to Trump\u2019s tariff war by invading Taiwan, are all potential triggers for bloody conflict.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/coldfury.com\/WRSA\/WRSA-WP\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/don-troiani-stand-your-ground-lexington-green-2164476135.jpg\" width=\"514\" height=\"419\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Domestically, there are also a myriad of potential triggers which could unleash a torrent of blood across the land. I know most normies and those ignorant of history believe that level of violence is impossible in this \u201cage of reason and civility\u201d. Assassination, firebombing, and swatting are now perfectly acceptable forms of \u201cprotest\u2019 by the demented fiends constituting the left. If Trump was to be assassinated, that would most certainly trigger a violent response by his MAGA army of heavily armed adherents.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s frustration with the never ending lawfare tactics being used by his enemies and their captured politicized judges, is bound to boil over and lead him in the direction of martial law and the arrest of these judges and their puppet masters.<\/p>\n<p>With the Supreme Court occupied by three moronic women with IQs below room temperature, and two supposed right leaning judges who clearly have been compromised by the Surveillance State, the courts can no longer be expected to make rulings in accordance with the Constitution. Therefore, a real Constitutional crisis is a certainty. When the rule of law has been annihilated and exiled to the annals of history, good men are forced to do bad things in order for future generations to stand a chance.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1_cF57WKAdzfYrPyZ8buaYAw.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"342\" \/><\/p>\n<p>When the USD loses 11% of its value versus the DXY, and 39% versus gold over the course of 3 months, and the stock market plunges by 1,000 points on a regular basis, down 17% from its recent high, something is amiss. When gold goes up by 30% in four and a half months ($760 an ounce), it is a huge warning sign the system is coming unglued. Panic is setting in. The foreign countries Trump has been threatening are selling the USD.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to bully the world when you are the biggest debtor nation in history may not be a well thought out strategy. We are truly in a land of confusion. Is the Wall Street cabal tanking the markets to force Trump to back off on the tariffs? As average working stiffs see their 401ks vaporize for the third time this century, deal with the relentless inflation on the things they need to live (homes, rent, food, insurance, property taxes, medical), and observe no one being arrested for corruption, treason or being on Epstein\u2019s list, their frustration, anger and impatience grows to the point where they are likely to blow.<\/p>\n<p>I picture the opening scene of\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3ErJ9DF\">Falling Down<\/a><\/strong>, with Bill Foster, the average working schmuck, sweating, frustrated, and swinging wildly trying to kill a fly while trapped in a traffic jam. He snaps. Everyone has a breaking point. And I believe millions of normal peace-loving people will SOON reach their breaking point, pushed too far by their government, the media, bankers, and the billionaire globalist oligarchs pulling the strings. It will be up to people like you and me to make things right again. There will be no Superman or White Knight coming to save the day. We will see if we are up to the challenge. There are no guarantees this\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YxQusf\">Fourth Turning<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has a happily ever after ending. Empires always fall.<\/p>\n<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/falling.png\" width=\"432\" height=\"432\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Oh, Superman, where are you now?<br \/>\nWhen every thing\u2019s gone wrong somehow?<br \/>\nMen of steel, these men of power<br \/>\nI\u2019m losing control by the hour<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>I won\u2019t be coming home tonight<br \/>\nMy generation will put it right<br \/>\nWe\u2019re not just making promises<br \/>\nThat we know we\u2019ll never keep<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/42G6Eku\">Genesis \u2013 Land of Confusion<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2025\/04\/21\/defy-deny-defund-deport-destroy\/\">https:\/\/www.theburningplatform.com\/2025\/04\/21\/defy-deny-defund-deport-destroy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFY, DENY, DEFUND, DEPORT, DESTROY<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}