Are You Dying?

An American president is not supposed to be listed as "cause of death."

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A friend of mine recently told me that she’s been sick on and off for the past year. She has kids. She’s used to little humanoid petri dishes walking around her house. In the past, she’d occasionally catch one of the bugs they brought home from school. Still, overall, she developed immunities and the bugs bounced off her, looking for another, more vulnerable body to attack. Until this year.

She says she doesn’t know what’s different.

I do.

Another friend of mine says he struggles to wake up every morning. Facing the day is easy enough; it’s routine, he’s done it for years. But if he scrolls through the news, he becomes paralyzed. He stopped doing it six months ago. He doesn’t even know much about the current maga implosion over Epstein. “It’s either ignore it all or be depressed all week.”

Other people I know have developed cancer or heart disease. One of them is immobile after being healthy all their life. Another has lung cancer. He’s never smoked or worked in an industrial plant. Yet another had a bout with stomach cancer. Again, healthy all his life, a devout organic foodie.

I have two friends who I’ve learned are stumbling through serious drinking bouts. “Where’s Dan been?” I recently asked someone (not his real name).

“Oh, you haven’t heard? He was in rehab for a month. Shot a gun into the air in his backyard, too, got busted for that.”

He owns a gun?

Some of you know I had a stroke on election eve, as if my body was saying, “Nope. I already know the results, and I’m gonna check you out of this planet while you can still get away.” I guess a bigger part of me wasn’t ready to go yet. I was lucky. It’s mostly my eyes that were affected, rather than the rest of my brain, like you know who.

Before that, I had been in a hospital once in my life, for an ulcer. That’s it. I was there for one night.

My stroke was accompanied by what one of my doctors called “mysterious blood panels.” None of the telltale warning signs existed. My cholesterol was fine. My arteries had not become tubes of clogging paste. No signs of diabetes. And why should there be? I don’t drink sugary drinks or alcohol. I avoid corn syrup as if anything containing it is labeled with a skull and crossbones. In other words, when I asked about the cause, they shook their heads and issued about fifty prescriptions to try to prevent another round.

Is it just me, or have a lot of people around you been sick this year, too? Maybe even you. There’s no reliable way to measure the nation’s health because he killed and made sick so many of us during his first term. Long covid still haunts us today. There’s no way to establish a baseline to prove or disprove my theory. It’s all anecdotal evidence, but it feels very powerful to me. I see it everywhere.

Some point to grand conspiracy theories that “they’re hiding the truth” about long covid, or they’ll repeat the latest about cell or electricity towers.

But it’s him. He’s the one making us sick.

His negligence and science denial led to more than a million deaths from covid.

That was Round One.

For an encore during Round Two, he himself has become the virus.

He makes everyone anxious. He stresses us out with his daily insanity. It even affects those who support him.

Those who are repulsed by him wonder every morning what horrible thing he and his regime will do. Those who support him line up to find out who they should hate for that morning. Hate is an unhealthy, cancerous emotion.

We are all observers strapped to chairs outside the zoo of his regime while he and his fellow chimps hurl feces at us. In a ghastly reversal of incarceration, the criminals are outside looking into a nation of trapped, angry souls banging upon the walls, begging for freedom, begging for escape, begging for relief.

Constant stress makes us ill. This is a medical fact. Anger affects our mental health. The relentless stress affects our physical health. It causes cancers to grow, hearts to stop, and strokes to shatter our brains.

It is leading many Americans to drink more, which is also bad for our health, especially if you’re over 40. The liquor industry has issued reports saying that Americans are drinking less. But I don’t see it. I see people drinking enough that they’re trying to stop as they awaken to the medical problems excessive drinking causes. People like the 70-year-old nurse, another friend, who suddenly can’t stay sober, in no small part because her husband has Fox News, and, now, worse, some of the newer right-wing propaganda broadcasts news networks, droning in the background 24 hours a day.

You probably know someone like this, too.

The virus president’s behavior adds to behavioral problems from people we don’t expect it from.

It’s given permission for young men to treat women horribly or saunter away into seclusion.

Women are triggered every day by the daily reminders of his sexual violence.

Kids who were 6, 7, or 8 during his first election are now approaching young adulthood, poisoned by the maga stream of hate and listening to an ever-broadening stream of toxic podcasts while being subjected to a propaganda machine that now controls most of mainstream media and major social networking institutions. TwitterX alone, controlled by a drug-addled neo-nazi, has 500 million users, 253 million of whom use it every day.

It’s a plague. He’s a plague. A cancer. And a national death sentence if he’s not removed from office soon.

Congress has a legal responsibility to take action, even if, for some bizarre reason, they don’t feel an ethical urge to do so.

Their oath of office is this:

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.

The U.S. Senate website explains why this oath of office is required. Spoiler alert: When Abe Lincoln pushed it through Congress, it wasn’t foreign adversaries he had in mind:¹

At the start of each new Congress, in January of every odd-numbered year, one-third of senators take the oath of office to begin their new terms. While the oath-taking practice dates back to the First Congress in 1789, the current oath is a product of the 1860s, drafted during the Civil War.

The Constitution contains an oath of office for the president of the United States. For other officials, including members of Congress, that document specifies only that they “shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation to support this constitution.” In 1789 the First Congress adopted a simple oath: “I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States.”

At the outbreak of the Civil War in April of 1861, a time of uncertain and shifting loyalties, President Abraham Lincoln ordered all federal civilian employees within the executive branch to take an expanded oath. At the conclusion of its emergency session that summer, Congress adopted legislation requiring executive branch employees to take the expanded oath in support of the Union. In July 1862 Congress added a new section to the oath, which became known as the “Ironclad Test Oath.” The Test Oath required civilian and military officials to swear or affirm that they had never aided or encouraged “persons engaged in armed hostility” against the United States. Government employees who swore falsely would be prosecuted for perjury and forever denied federal employment. Congress also revised the rest of the oath with language that closely resembles the modern oath.

Congress is not required by law to swear to the oath; it was designed for the executive branch. But they all take it anyway. Once they take it, they are bound to it.

We are in a national medical emergency, faced with an individual who is trying to destroy the country from within.

He is an enemy of the state.

Congress now has the necessary documents to bury him under thousands of Epstein files. Refusal to do so makes them enemies of the state, as well.

Thanks for reading!

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Footnotes

1. “U.S. Senate: About the Senate & the U.S. Constitution | Oath of Office.” 2023. Senate.gov. August 7, 2023. https://www.senate.gov/about/origins-foundations/senate-and-constitution/oath-of-office.htm

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