By varying degrees, evildoers have populated Washington D.C. since its official beginning in 1790. But the large-scale, treasonous nature of Capitol Hill escalated in earnest with the election of Barak Obama in 2008. It intensified with the candidacy of Donald Trump in 2015, multiplied exponentially with his victory, persisted during his alleged 2020 defeat and mushroomed with Biden’s pathetically illicit administration. If you want to suffer through chapter and verse of just the past 10 years of traitorous activity, you can risk the utter tedium of a Sean (you know) Hannity monologue on radio. Or you can simply google Director of National Intelligence Gabbard’s recent press conference. Good for you, Tulsi. But sorry to say, there’s widespread cynicism among the grass roots — a squawk that Trump wants you to have exposure, to put on an executive show, slap around the opposition a bit and keep the base optimistic. Trouble is, Tulsi, the base is up to here with smoking guns and the savvy ones think you’re shooting blanks. Sorry, but the cynicism is earned. Better you were invisible to the base and suddenly showed up with arrest warrants. But, anyway, good for you, You did make the accusations against a bunch of two-faced crooks, including former presidents and their cronies who are still walking the hallowed halls of the most venerated buildings in America. But guess what, Tulsi? You missed out accusing the biggest crooks of them all. Legacy Media were overt accomplices to treason. No, they weren’t mistaken; no, they weren’t misled; no, they haven’t owned their lies. For years, they acted with premeditation, knowingly parroting lies, encouraging the impeachment of a President. But forget Trump. Forget his attempted assassinations. Forget the millions of dollars wasted on a scam and fraud. Without Legacy Media — ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, WP, NYT, WSJ — even PBS and Big Tech — thousands of lives would not have been lost to domestic genocide — to illegal immigration’s fentanyl deaths, murders, child trafficking, graft and corruption, not to speak of disastrous Covid abuses — the lies, business shutdowns, repurpose drug prohibitions and continued suppression of doctors and other medical practitioners. If you have an iota of doubt about this accusation, Tulsi, look how Media just treated your sensational press conference. On balance, you have been categorically ignored and hastily marginalized. There is no credible story that leads to treason. It doesn’t exist. In fact, you have been targeted for daring to utter the “T” word. Interestingly enough, and once again, the Legacy Media’s pernicious “journalistic” record is in plain slight for a forensic analysis by the FCC, JD & SCOTUS. But no examination has been or will be implemented. Surely, by now, the distinguished University of Missouri must be a sizzling think tank, outraged by America’s journalistic decay. But, no,Tulsi, no call to arms from the Mo. dean, faculty or student body. Instead, American universities are feeding the Media syndicate. Even more sinister is the ugly fact — that America’s majority, including scores of Trump voters, still swallow Legacy Media deceit. So don’t get sucked in to thinking that LM will somehow, somehow, eventually, travel the rehabilitation highway. Never happen, Matilda. Not until time passes and current media owners, execs and staff turn over to a new generation of Americans — eager to embrace corny values like honesty, integrity and morality. For now, there’s heartfelt advice for Donald Trump and his brain trust. Get wise, sir. Your adoring millions are passionate about the border, the economy, foreign policy, and the debt; but the size of that passion is dwarfed by rage, by the hunger to see America’s Scales of Justice visit her traitors. In true crime stories, you hear victim families talk about the importance of “closure.” In the case of Washington, D.C., the nation’s victims want a “cleansing.”

Note: Partial list — persons of interest: B. Obama, H.Clinton, R. Mueller, C. Steele, M. Sussman, J. Baker,  M. Elias, J. Comey, L. Page. A. McCabe. J. Clapper,, P. Strzok, J. Brennan, L. Lynch, S. Rice, A. Schiff, B. Barr, Perkins Cole (law firm), Legacy Media.

www.conventionofstates.com

a

Ah, the Big Beautiful Bill, Donald called it. One thing he does understand is Marketing 101. Give something a name and it has brand value; or if the value is overstated, it still has the power of awareness. People are always loyal to a brand until it betrays them. Just ask Bud Light which continues to lose market share to major brands it used to mash (pun intended). Big Beautiful Bill builder Trump is himself a brand. But former pal Elon Musk’s loyalty to the boss has apparently evaporated because Elon believes the President folded on his pledge to smash Federal spending — by touting and signing a bill that is a shell of what it should be.

Dear Elon,

Of course you’re wrong. You may be a genius, but you were impossibly naive about the reality of D.O.G.E. You also shouldn’t be blamed for jumping ship. When you jumped on the D.O.G.E. saddle, you were fired up to implement the Trump promise to the American people. You believed the hype. You believed Trump would overnight dismantle the Federal bureaucracy. In your inventive mind, you had little more than a year left before the midterms — so much to do and so little time — and no doubt you relied on the Man to take giant steps to influence Congress to take a giant leap that would take a chainsaw to federal spending. Sorry, sir, the Big Beautiful Bill was not nearly strong enough to meet your logical business expectations. To the GOP’s credit, the bill does correct many of the most villainous Biden policies. But at the end of the day, the massive Federal budget still looms over a country with a monumental ($37 trillion) debt, and with intrusive federal agencies that still exercise their unconstitutional powers. Granted, all of it pisses you off. Nonetheless, Elon, please find a way to chat with Donald just as Benjamin (Franklin) chatted with John (Adams) who refused to buckle on the proposed slavery passage in the Declaration of Independence. Adams wouldn’t agree to remove the offending paragraph because of “principle.” He was unyielding as the entire South stood poised to scuttle American independence. Franklin was alleged to have said something like, “John, we are here trying to found a new nation; we can’t fight the slavery issue until we have a United States.” The Big Beautiful Bill passed the House by two measly votes, Elon. The opposition called the bill a travesty, vigorously reported by leftwing media. Trump made good on several key promises at least to stop the bleeding and begin the healing. All the while, he’s made great strides in foreign policy. Elon, many Americans are sympathetic to your dissent. Please put aside your animosity and help him. Remind him that his policies are transient when a new administration occupies the White House. Openly help him achieve what is possible in the short time left. With you in his corner, you are in a position to help shape the narrative.  The lay of the land is this. Congress has not changed and will not change and neither will the SCOTUS. The Democrat Party still owns more than half the electorate. The GOP has not a speck of interest in a diminished Federal Government and will never elect another outlier. A third party would hand off America to some version of communism. Donald does not owe his 2024 victory to the GOP — he owes it to America’s great middle classes who are sympathetic to all of the Elon Musks that inhabit the new administration. You must encourage Trump to use his bully pulpit to tell the nation what needs to happen during and after his days are done in D.C. He and you must use your influence to appeal to all Americans — friend and foe alike — to adopt the principals that gave them a country that is the envy of the world. So consider advising him: Mr. President, create a manifesto — a document that will become recorded history for future generations. Tell him he might call it the Liberty Manifesto. In it, he would list the essential precepts of liberty. Perhaps, Elon, you might offer a few recommendations:

Every individual is sovereign. All individuals are responsible and accountable for their own lives. All adult individuals must be part of the American workforce. Liberty cannot endure when one half the country is dependent on the forced charity of the other half via borrowed money. The Federal Government must abolish gratuitous economic aid at home and abroad. The Federal Government must relinquish all domestic jurisdiction to state and local governments. The Supreme Court of the United States must roll back its runaway interpretation of The Constitution. Congress must be confined to a balanced budget and restrained from dispensing special interest monies from the US Treasury without a two-thirds majority consent.

Trump’s Manifesto could very well be the inspiration behind a necessary national dialogue. We have the Founders’ documents behind glass. Trump’s testament must reside appropriately alongside other historic figures. He must leave behind his counsel now, while he’s in the arena. He must speak, teach and reach future lawmakers and influence the neglected generations. Help him, Elon.

Respectfully, Ed.

www.conventionofstates.com

If he does nothing else in his career, J. J. Spaun, on June 15, 2025, earned a thundering footnote in the lore of professional golf. His U.S. Open victory was the stuff of legends, giving him instant notoriety. Unlike Spaun and other celebs in politics and entertainment, very few everyday Americans merit that kind of attention. But most of them couldn’t care less about achieving a place in history, preferring to joyously pocket $4.3 million for a week’s work, fade happily into the sunset and never look back. You on the other hand readily confess. You covet owning a footnote in history, however obscure — a footnote perhaps to be stumbled upon, solely, by a great, great, nerdy grandchild obsessed with ancestral trivia. Leaving behind some evidence, some relic of self is an ego driven notion, especially for people roaming life’s 4th quarter, grimly hanging on to some sense of purpose. Considering your vocation, this footnote must come in the form of prophecy — a commentary on the human condition. How dull a subject is that? And who cares? And what could be more arrogant than daring to comment on a subject that for at least 30 centuries has already consumed the most illustrious brains in human history? Think of them — Hegel, Socrates, Plutarch, Plato, Dostoevsky, Voltaire, Franklin — you get the idea — millions of words devoted to exploring and defining the indefinable human condition. Well, you can partially excuse your arrogance by limiting your contribution to a mere 981 words.

In 1776, some exceptional men founded a country that for the very first time set forth the precept of Individual Sovereignty — which is the basis of Individual Liberty. Nothing astonishing about that except that it changed the world — forever. Simply and directly stated, this precept is the engine that united a self-reliant people and built the rarest of nations. Against all odds, 249 years later, that engine still functions. But there also exists an active, adverse precept — a global doctrine — that repudiates and continuously strives to eradicate individual liberty. It has a name — Group Identity — a toxic ideology based on autocratic coercion, the hallmark of almost every regime in the world. There you have it, Matilda — a proclamation that accuses Group Identity as Mankind’s Supreme, Existential Evil — a fatal transgressor responsible for the nonstop butchery of the human race — a butchery that continues to this very day, at this very hour. But for this exercise you must put aside all discussion of tribes, empires, kingdoms, monarchies, dictatorships and aristocracies that existed prior to July 4, 1776.  On that day, 56* men signed a declaration that ordained individual liberty as the foundation of a new nation. Thomas Jefferson said his work “was intended to be an expression of the American mind.” But he was dissatisfied that the Declaration suffered 86 edits, and was angered by the removal of his clause that rebuked King George for the slave trade on the American colonies. You seriously doubt that one percent of Black America is privy to that historical detail.

Subsequently, The Constitution was ratified, giving primary power to the States. Individual sovereignty was off and running. But a mere 27 years later, that individualism was delivered a death blow when, in direct violation of The Constitution, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall judged and confirmed the Supremacy of the Federal Government over State sovereignty.

If John Marshall was the author of Federal Supremacy, he had a lot of help during his reign and in all the decades since. Everybody knows the Federal Government is one massive train wreck. With or without Trump, Individual Sovereignty will not survive because the people don’t know what it means; and if they do know, they don’t want it. In a nutshell, individual liberty means you stand alone. You are free to work, or not, be responsible and accountable for your own life, to live where you want, to succeed and save, or piss away your earnings and  fail, to own property, own business, worship, bear arms, love or hate — without government patronage and financial aid. In other words, free to make your bed and lie in it.

Similarly, people don’t know the meaning of Group Identity — a politically correct definition for Gang. America is packed with gangs. Criminal gangs, Political gangs. Neighborhood gangs. Racial gangs. Gender-based gangs. People are free to become gang members. But freedom ends there, because your allegiance is not to your own identity, but to the gang. Think Mafia. Think political party, and you understand. Think skin color, gender and race; and you understand. Think political extortion.

Free individuals ask nothing from the Federal Government except  to be left alone. However,  group identity special interests do want and do expect a free ride in the form of direct subsidies, housing, food, healthcare and affirmative action,  The gangs in Washington always respond enthusiastically to all manner of welfare and civil rights demands. They divvy up the public treasury and get a free ticket to voter loyalty.

Sovereign Individuals will not be subjugated. Like nuns, gang members take vows of obedience. Ask any member of the KKK,  Nazi, Politburo, CCP or U.S. Democrat parties.

Sovereign Individuals can certainly be evil and do evil things. But individual crimes most often have local boundaries — homicide. assault, battery, theft,  felonies, business fraud, etc.

By contrast, Group Identity, so often defined by political ideology, is the author of all war. Catastrophic destruction and genocide are its trademarks.

No surprise, your footnote, in truth, is not original and therefore will go unpublished. But you nonetheless lay claim to the prophecy, circa, July 4, 2025: “The  adoption of individual sovereignty and rejection of Group Identity by all nations and races will see the world embark on a new renaissance, defined by lasting peace and righteousness.”

Or, as someone once said — live by the Golden Rule.

* Note: On July 4, 1776, 50 members of the Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence. Months later, six (6) members added their names. Ed.

www.conventionofstates.com