Don’t just take my word for it. PLEASE watch it, and make up your own mind.

See, hear, and judge for yourself the totally embarrassing spectacle of President Donald J. Trump at the United Nations, making a complete ass out of himself, and all of us.

Words cannot describe his pompous, sneering arrogance.

It’s so bad.

It’s gag me with a spoon, throw up, walk away, throw a brick through the television bad.

Watch the President and Secretary of War speak to the generals also if you have the time, but you absolutely must watch the U.N. speech.

He directly and repeatedly insults everyone in the room and the sovereign nations they represent. He essentially refers to the United Nations delegates in the auditorium as incompetent idiots undeserving of even being in the same room.

He pours lavish praise and adulation upon himself and makes it clear that no other president or prime minister on the planet even comes close to matching his skill and success as a truly great leader.

He spout’s fictitious fact after fictitious fact and then piles on gross exaggerations from the imaginary world that he lives in.

This man, the President of the United States of America, is clearly drunk on power, AND he is mentally unstable.

The damage to American foundational institutions as a direct result of Trump’s actions during these past nine months — and indeed, to the lives of people around the planet — is nothing short of criminal.

He’s ordering arrests, deportations, incarcerations, and killings – without due process, trial, or conviction.

He bludgeons and bullies those who dare challenge him using political, monetary, and legal retribution to threaten, coerce, and silence.

Meanwhile he, his family, and his enablers are laughing all the way to the bank, reaping the benefits of insider government contracts, and international corporate cronyism.

We have a Mad King setting in the Oval Office.

As commander-in-chief of the largest military power and nuclear arsenal in the world, he is without question the most powerful person in the world — and he knows it.

The Constitutional “checks and balances” of an elected Congress and independent Judiciary have, to this point, been an ineffective sideshow.

Active physical disruption is what the Mad King is hoping for. He will respond, of course, by calling out the troops and National Guard to even MORE towns and cities.

So what can we do?

On October 18th, people will be gathering in communities everywhere to express their outrage and opposition. Some will hold signs along the highway; others will be marching; and inevitably, in some cities and towns there will be disruption.

My hope is people will gather in strength and in large numbers — but always in a nonviolent and legal manner.

Other actions historically used in authoritarian countries to force regime change — include “national strikes” intended to halt significant economic activity across the country, AND economic disruption via targeted boycotts.

Case in point: Just FIVE days after the Disney/Hulu boycott began, Jimmy Kimmel was back at work.

At the end of the day, I always return to the maxim that has guided me for decades: Think globally and act locally.

We must prepare here at home, for the storm that is coming.

We must gas up the cars, buy the toilet paper and batteries and canned goods, and check on our elderly neighbors who live alone down the road.

And we MUST keep calling our Governor and other elected officials at all levels — to demand that they wake up, and take proactive actions to push back and protect us from our own federal government.
PLEASE watch that U.N. speech, then join us on October 18th.

Gary Hooser
former Hawaii State Senator, Majority Leader
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