Saturday, July 4, 2026

Declaration of Independence Applies Today


The Declaration of Independence speaks to the very situation facing America today.  

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.
Consider the people's demands for ethical leaders, affordable healthcare and the longstanding request that billionaires pay a commensurate tax rate given they are treated as "model citizens" with greater access to the levers of power.  
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
A great usurpation is being conducted by our current President.  Whatever Trump II sets his sights on he intends to bring it into his domain, alter it at his whim, mine it for whatever monetary value it holds and turn it into a mirror reflecting his greatness.  Deal makers make deal fees.  Recurrent fees are the best kind.

America's governance is not a part time job.  International relations is not picking off weak countries and turning them into Trump II franchises while usurping their resources and controlling their markets.  The Executive Branch does not govern the world.

Reclaim freedom and institute a government that serves people outside the Epstein class.  Silver Academy wrote about our "Epstein Economy:"
Behind the curtain, a different system operates—one that increasingly resembles extraction, not governance. Call it the “Epstein class”: a network of financial and political elites insulated from consequence, enriched by proximity to power, and sustained by a permanent cycle of crisis. Endless wars funnel public wealth into private hands. Insider trading masquerades as portfolio management. The Federal Reserve quietly absorbs toxic corporate debt, socializing losses while privatizing gains.
America has an unfit ruler who plans to have an extra lengthy July 4th speech in record heat conditions, days after proudly defending his $2.4 billion engorgement in his first year in office.

I celebrate the 4th of July today with the full confidence that America can reclaim the intent of our founding fathers who had a very different view of duty, virtue and honor than the "Epstein Class" dominated by moneymen, TechGods and a government they effectively control.  

Thomas Jefferson levered his slaves when he had access to ample capital that required one condition, freeing them.  That makes him a pioneering private equity underwriter (PEU).  He devised a seven day clock in his Virginia mountain estate, making him an early TechGod.

This July 4th I beseech our creator to free us from the injurious oversized influence of PEUs and their TechGod brethren who worship Mammon and earthly power over all other.  Return us Christians so strongly to Christ's gospel that the prosperity/predatory gospel simply withers away.  

I pray that elected officials act on the best interests of society as a whole not just the Trump-Epstein Class.  I hope that the future we will have officials who understand money is money and speech is speech, even when both are digitized.

I have faith in the renewal of America.  Together we can create again.  The Declaration of Independence is the map to our future and in that I have faith.  

Today I am free to believe these things while subject to surveillance and monitoring.  Tomorrow is ours to create.  Let us come together for that very purpose, such that someday the following has no meaning:

Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren.  Increasingly, more are one.