Suffrage for Justices to the Supreme Court. 3 24 2026 

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Suffrage for Justices to the Supreme Court. 3 24 2026 

As we again take the opportunity to engage in suffrage for the supreme court in Wisconsin, it is important to digress on this phenomenon.  To begin with, it should be noted the United States Supreme Court is not subject to universal suffrage,  Rather it is appointees of the president, rubber stamped by the upper house of Congress.

What this means is twofold:  One, the president is not always in control of a majority, yet was still appointed.  We have seen this repeatedly in the last 25 years; George II was appointed without a majority, then Donald Trump was appointed without a majority.  It seems to be the Republican bourgeoisie who do this, they call it the “electoral college” method of dictatorship.  They then appoint the  Supreme Court justices for life; then generally last decades. Trump did three this last time when he was appointed.  

Secondly, Congress goes along with this.  The Senate approves the candidates, giving their rubber stamp of approval in the upper house.   

The Senate is appointed by two senators a state, which gives massive amounts of power to the large scale landowners, who till much of the rural areas.  They benefit by states like South Dakota having the same power in the Senate as Illinois, home of Chicago.  The same is true for New York and LA.  The power structure is the same, the founders, Virginia plantation owners, did this for a reason; they feared British industry would force change in the slave owning aristocracy.  They chose equal power for large scale landowners to industry by having 2 votes per state in the upper house.

It is basically a miracle the big cities ever win control of Congress.  And the stakes are enormous, state assistance to large farmers in 2025 was 40.24 billion dollars according to google.  It is allocated by the acre, which  results in it being of little help to small farmers, who more intensively cultivate this land.

Nationalization of large farms would help greatly, but instead of just buying land with the 42 billion dollars, the  Republican bourgeoisie just gives away this money to large landowners, who all benefit from the subsidies.  Basically all large farmers get money; it is part of the land tenure arrangement.

The state is not going to buy land and give it to cooperatives. We would have seen attempts at this by now.  No, the state assistance is going to support the Republican bourgeoisie, the state does not purchase land for cooperatives.

If the land was going to be nationalized, there would be no price tag.  And it would not be the worst soils that the cooperatives would be farming on.

Anyhow, that is the picture generally.  What this has to do with Wisconsin is this:

Supreme Court justices are subject to universal suffrage every 10 years.  This may seem like a long time, but compared to the United States Supreme Court, it  is brief.  Wisconsin justices serve  as long as they command a majority, which differs from our appointed counterparts who serve without a majority. 

Short of having a politburo, there is no alternative to universal suffrage for the judges on the supreme court.  The levels of bold faced white collar crimes the supreme court is involved in, with rulings like Citizens United, should show us WIsconsin has the answer; the Wisconsin supreme court is not electing because they are small,  rather this is a movement that is logical, and able to be followed on a larger scale, like selecting United States Supreme Court justices for 10 year terms.

We saw last election for supreme court Elon Musk giving away the million dollar checks to his republican bourgeois supporters to vote against democrat Susan Crawford.  DC meddles in Wisconsin elections, even though it is only residents of the state that can vote. 

No matter, Citizens United and Musk feel no shame in involvement in Wisconsin’s more radical system of universal suffrage.  

Incidentally Musk and his Republicans lost the election.  Musk hardly even got a slap on the wrist for his million dollar checks, even after explaining they were vetted to be most likely to be Republicans.

The latest suffrage is between Chris Taylor and Maria Lazar are going at it.  Lazar was Scott Walker’s lawyer.  She is a Trumper, and will be a yes woman for Trump.  

Chris Taylor has“..a legislative voting record full of support for unions and public schools, and endorsements out of the gate from the four sitting liberal justices..

“She worked as the public policy director at Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, and then spent nearly a decade in the state Assembly…”

WPR 3 24 2026

Lazar, on the other hand:

“During the administration of Governor Scott Walker, Lazar worked as an assistant attorney general in the Wisconsin Department of Justice where she handled litigation in support of Walker’s signature anti-labor law, 2011 Wisconsin Act 10, and then in defense of new security rules implemented to crack down on statewide protests against it. Lazar later took on the job of defending a Republican redistricting law that implemented one of the most aggressive gerrymanders in the country.”

Wikipedia Maria Lazar

The choice could; not be put in starker terms.  Ten years of Lazar would be a return to Scott Walker. 

“As an assistant attorney general, Lazar defended Republican-drawn legislative maps from gerrymandering claims along with laws on voter ID, abortion and Act 10, which restricted collective bargaining rights for most state employees.”

WPR 2 23 2026

So it should be interesting to see where this goes.

“Brad David Schimel (born February 18, 1965) is an American attorney, former judge, and Republican politician. He most-recently served as interim United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin, from November 2025 until March 16, 2026, when his interim appointment was not extended by the district court judges. The Department of Justice, however, has announced their intention to appoint Schimel to a senior staff position in the U.S. attorney’s office, leaving him as the de facto head of the office. “

Wikipedia Brad Shimel

So here we see what Trump does when he loses an election.  Shimel was appointed leader in federal court even though he did not command a majority.  I guess Trump doesn’t mind losers as long as they are yes men.  Shimel is now appointed without suffrage, the power struggle between DC and Wisconsin could not be more pitched this election.  Clearly the republican bourgeoisie is doing DC’s bidding.  

The date suffrage will occur is April 7.  It is one to watch.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

3 24 2026

Capitalism Continues Marching Forward.  3 14 2026

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Capitalism Continues Marching Forward.  3 14 2026

It seems strange Israel would accept the help of the capitalist Americans in Gaza and Iran.  It would  be the same argument that there are more than one form of capitalism; German or American.  

We experienced this in the second world war, where both the Americans and the Germans were involved in production for a greater amount of surplus value, the unpaid selection of the workday.  All the capitalists companies, for example Bayer IG Farbin, Adidas, Daimler Benz, all built Hitler’s war machine.  It was capitalism versus socialism, the Germans were for whom the bell tolled.

After the loss of the Germans the American bourgeoisie proceeded to try to rehabilitate capitalism there.  It looked a lot like Hitlers Germany; they didn’t even change the companies names that financed and produced the commodities Hitler used to attack Russia. The structure of the companies stayed capitalist, as opposed to the eastern section of  Germany that tried to reject wage labor, and live without production for surplus value. 

In time America’s capitalist machine would remove socialism from most of Europe.  The limited democracy politically in America would be overlooked; even after two Republican presidents in less than 20 years appointed without a popular majority.  First it was George II, then Donald Trump in his first appointment.  Combine that with a Senate with two votes per province or state, where Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennessee have the same votes as New York, Illinois , and California, I think you can see where this is going.   Clearly it is the large landowners who control the Senate, in our example Chicago, LA and New York have to contend with the reactionary landowners who outnumber them in the Senate.

And this is what was fought for that replaced socialism in Eastern Europe.  And it is still moving forward, now Israel is ensnared by it, with simple promises of advanced weapons and territorial expansion.

Israel would be best to remember it was Joseph Stalin who found and liberated Auschwitz. The quid pro quo of removing the Jews at the same time as the communists may have failed, but 6 million Jews lost their lives in genocide by the capitalist Germans.

The outcome of that war would have been the same with or without the Americans, the endless concessions to the remnants of Hitler’s war machine proved that.  The genocide came to an end in east and west Germany, but capitalism, what  Hitler built his empire with, is still wth us. Thus we see Israel, an experiment with a Jewish state, taking their chances supporting capitalism.

We have learned to live with Don, his strange ideas about women, his prosecution of his liberal political enemies, his suggestions that socialists are stupid lunatics because they don’t support his capitalism.  We have to live with this, but Israel has volunteered to be part of this. 

Are we to really to believe Trump is going to support Stalin?  Find an example of that coming from his mouth.  In that respect he is reactionary, and little different from the Germans. 

Israel must feel the Germans’ support of antisemitism is no longer part of their capitalism.  Elon Musk  is allowed to support the Alternative for Deutschland, the reactionary bourgeoisie.  He controls SpaceX rockets, and has a massive government contract to launch satellites that are used for targeting by Ukraine and Israel in their war efforts supporting the Americans. Musk is also developing non voluntary implants to control the spread of socialism among the young men.

I guess Israel supports this too. Perhaps we should start to brace for the fact Israel may be led by a fascist, or at least condone Musk and his AFD support.  

I once thought Israel was a noble cause, a place where the nightmare of the holocaust would never happen again.  But continued concessions to capitalism, and the presence of all major capitalist companies including the German ones I mentioned there have changed my mind.  All I can say is what I said at the outset; no socialist soul ever fight for a capitalist military.  Israel is asking its people for a sacrifice to support the bourgeoisie.  It is one that they expressed misgivings about at one time.  I guess those days are done now.

Nicholas Jay Boyes 

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

3 14 2026

Trump Opens a New Front in Iran 3 3 2026

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Trump Opens a New Front in Iran 3 3 2026

After a bruising battle in which Donald Trump was reminded of the power of Congress, part of  whose mission is to control taxation (which the Supreme Court reaffirmed by ruling Trump’s power to tariff was not legal, as Congress holds the purse strings of government, regarding tariffs, taxes on imports), our lame duck president goes to war in the Middle East.

The front opened in Iran, with the old clunky machinery still moving; the nuclear powered ships, the jet aircraft…  It looked a lot like the start of the Iraq adventure, even featuring a common theme, a nuclear armed opponent, a more democratic system, etc.

George Bush II was also a weak president, like Trump he lacked a majority to govern in the first election,  which he lost to Gore.  Trump lost to Hilary Clinton by 3 and a half million votes, but democracy was a part of the message of both leaders.  Both had a majority on their second try, George II after declaring war in Iraq and Afghanistan.

George Bush II tried to fix an Iraq that had fallen apart after his father’s invasion to stop the Ba’ath socialist party under Saddam Hussein.  George I leveled Iraq, and with little or no resources to rebuild after overthrowing the socialist government there, Islamic State would take over Iraq.  They went backwards not forwards.  And it was due to George I’s fetish about nationalized oil, one he shared with Trump in Iran.

Perhaps Iraq was expected to be able to sell oil to rebuild?  George II put an end to nationalized wells, returning Iraq’s oil to private companies, like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell etc.  But it was never clear how the workers in Iraq would benefit from bourgeois control of the oil, it was just assumed Exxon would help build Iraq, which was in tatters.  Exxon Mobil drills oil.  They are not the Marshall plan. At best, Exxon paid more money for wages than the nationalized oil company did.  But it stopped there.  But they had no intention to build a nation, which was what Iraq really needed.

George II tried to tie Afghanistan to Iraq, going so far as to suggest the two were in tandem.  When Afghanistan defeated the Americans and NATO it is not known if Iraq even put an embassy there, no less military bases, airports, etc.  The two seem to have little contact, although it is now starting to look more and more like Iraq was also a loss, although not as spectacular as the pictures of the aircraft leaving Afghanistan, with the Afghans the field running to board the planes.  Iraq sort of just burned out, and is now poor.  

Trump has killed the Supreme religious leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khamenei, who died in a bombing, helped out by Israel.  There was social unrest in Iran prior to this, and the water supplies were severely low. The latter was aggravating the society; they were trying to not have to import food, but that meant deeper and deeper wells, which are currently almost depleted.  It is not clear what climate change has to do with this, it may have been their own foolishness that caused this drying of Iran.

The bourgeoisie will not be able to replenish Iran’s water supply.  Years of pumping combined with climate change have left Iran poor. The scale of destruction, in about a week the leadership of the country has lost its Supreme Islamic leader. and most of the government buildings are blown up shows the lack of defensive weapons,  the more modern ones that  can shoot down aircraft and missiles. Iran had a few of them, there were films of what looked like F35’s being shot down by Iran, which were blamed on Kuwaiti defence errors.  It reminded us F35’s can be shot down like any other aircraft if you have the weapons.  

Instead Iranian leadership is attacking as far away as Israel, with missiles that have little hope of doing and lasting damage to Israel.  Perhaps it is symbolic?  It looks like a great deal of effort has been put forward, in  a vain effort to project power.

If it is anything like the other wars in neighboring Afghanistan and Iraq, it should be obvious this will probably not end with aerial  bombing.  Trump will soon face a grim reality, that ground troops are necessary, just like the other two Middle Eastern wars. We will see then how serious our lame duck tariffman is about projecting power the old fashioned way by the barrel of a gun.

For the man who wanted so badly to have the Nobel Peace Prize, it is a sorry turn.  The war he supposedly ended in Israel  is back in full force in Lebanon. Too close to Iran for Israel.

Time will tell if Trump can regain his footing after the failure of his tariff project.  He has committed his people to another Middle Eastern War.  Afghanistan  borders Iran, it is not clear if they will be taking part, perhaps a jihadi faction?

Russia borders Iran on the Caspian sea, they can get through materials to Iran if they want to.  Will 20th century military technology be able to do the job still?

A sore loser, whose wings have been clipped, in above his head.  

Nicholas Jay Boyes

 Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic 

3 3 2026

Supreme Court Decision Returns Power of the Purse to Congress. 2 23 2026

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Supreme Court Decision Returns Power of the Purse to Congress

With a single court decision by the Supreme Court, Donald Trump and his constant threat of  tariffs was ended.  The decision was in a court that rarely rules in favor of the worker, where a number of judges were appointed by Trump, 3 in his first term when he assumed power without a majority.  It was a 6 to 3 decision.

That is what makes this ruling so remarkable.

“The blockbuster Supreme Court ruling that invalidated President Donald Trump’s emergency tariffs ends one chapter of economic uncertainty….”

“Even as the nation’s high court determined Friday that the president had exceeded his authority by slapping tariffs on goods from just about every country in the world, Trump made clear at a White House news conference that he was determined to do so again, though this time within the bounds of the law.”

“The justices’ 6-3 ruling said the president did not have the authority under the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to impose a vast array of import levies on goods from nearly all of the nation’s trading partners.”

Washington Post 2 22 2026

All the Supreme said was taxation was the responsibility of Congress; Congress holds the purse strings of government.  As tariffs are a form of taxes; taxes on imports, Congress  has to be where tariffs start and stop.

Immediately following the ruling Trump raised global taxes 15%.  It is like cutting off your nose to sprite your face. 

The next question is how to pay back the tariffs already taken in, 134 billion dollars, which will have to be paid back to the importers who paid tax in the first place.  Given they are all American based brokers, or American companies, they don’t have far to go.   

Trump has promised to use court to delay reimbursing the importers he tariffed, who are now all clamoring for their money back.

The tax man has been rebuked; his constant threats of tariffs now will take months to come in effect, instead of a social media post of a shout on an airplane to a reporter.

Congress is the responsible party when taxes rise. They never fall, even in periods of prosperity.  Nevertheless they are still in control, and reminded us they had the power to use the court to clip Don’s wings.  Without tax threats Don is a loud voice with no real clout behind him.

““The President asserts the extraordinary power to unilaterally impose tariffs of unlimited amount, duration, and scope,” Roberts wrote. “In light of the breadth, history, and constitutional context of that asserted authority, he must identify clear congressional authorization to exercise it.””

“Trump cannot, Roberts wrote.”

“Roberts pointed out IEEPA made no mention of tariffs and that he could find little in the law to authorize such massive levies, writing bluntly: “Those words cannot bear such weight.”

“He also said Trump’s move ran afoul of the “major questions doctrine,” a rule the court has enunciated in recent years that holds that any presidential action that has major economic or political ramifications must have explicit authorization by Congress.”

“The stakes of the ruling are enormous: The tariffs affect trillions of dollars in trade, and the government collected nearly $134 billion in levies through Dec. 14 under the authority challenged in the case.”

Washington Post ibid.

Perhaps they have been saving the 134 billion dollars, in case something like this happened?  Otherwise it means more taxes on top of what is paid the importer, considering the consumer paid the bulk of the taxes, the tariffs taxes on imports.

Expect export commodities value to fall, as the tariffs made their value higher than what they would have been without the tax.  BYD vs Ford is not here yet, but is getting closer.  

Without protectionism it is questionable how many nonmetric products will be competitive in the world market.  With the declining value of the dollar nominally more will have to be paid by the consumer for the same product, inflation.  Exports were balanced with heavy taxation on competitors’ products, to make American products more competitive.  

The global tax of 15% he has now levied for 150 days seems less personal than the normal tariff for Dons crotchets.  This one is not directed at a single competitor, rather the whole world market.  It sort of admits non metric production will  never be able to compete in the world market. 

Some of the tariffs were on Cuba, the other country adjacent to Mar a Lago, Trump’s palace.  He cut off their oil,will he return the tariff money now illegal?

How embarrassing.  The taxman, who raised everyone’s taxes by heavily taxing imports, now has to contend with Congress.  What happens if Don tries to use tariffs again?  Will the Supreme Court change their mind? Will they have too? They made it crystal clear taxes are Congress’s responsibility, and Trump is president, not congress. 

We will be in for an interesting spectacle when the 134 billion dollars have to be paid back.  They could devalue the currency further, another 10% next year as this makes the debt  normally worth less in real labor time.  This surplus value has already been paid for by the consumer in the form of higher prices.  Now another 134 billion on top of this?

It’s that or the capitalist is honest enough to lower the prices on his goods due to being repaid the tariff. This scenario looks unlikely.

In the end this exercise results in massive inflation, the price of everything has been going through the roof under Don.  The leverage of tariffs as punishment has limits.  Congress does own the purse strings of government, it has been that way since founding.  All this did was test the boundaries of what can happen if the Republican bourgeoisie have control of both houses of Congress and the president. Clearly it was chaos.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

2 23 2026

Currency Devaluation.  Tariffs.  Disproportionate Representation of Large Landowners in the Senate. 2 12 2026

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Currency Devaluation.  Tariffs.  Disproportionate Representation of Large Landowners in the Senate. 2 12 2026

In an attempt to pay off the debt, at 100% GDP, the dollar is being devalued.  It has fallen more than 10% since Trump took power, which  makes the value of the debt smaller as it is in dollars, and if the dollar is worth less nominally the value of the debt falls.

It is simple; a hundred dollars this year is worth $90 instead of 100$ when Trump took power.  Thus if you owed 100$, but the currency was devalued, you would only have to pay 90$ worth of debt in last year’s money.

We see the devaluation clearly when we look at gold prices on the market, up 70% in the past year.

Which points to a greater devaluation, and an attempt to stem losses by investing in a  more stable form of currency.   Silver too was up 130%, a remarkable example of the devaluation of the currency.

When the dollar is worth 10% less, the value of everything goes up 10% in price.  This would be part of  the real inflation rate, about 10% in Trump’s first year in office. A devalued currency also makes the value of wages go down, as more wages have to be paid for the same product as before the devaluation.

So wages have to rise, or workers undergo privations.  Wages must rise, the tariffs also cause  this.  The tariffs make American exports able to be sold for more money, as competitors’ products are raised in value, allowing American export products to rise in value.

It’s like the Corn laws in the 19th century, it made it so British exports of food were able to be sold for higher prices.  It made competition easier for British exports, by raising the cost of grain imported.

It was repealed in 1846, somewhat due to the Irish famine.  It was viewed as a free trade measure.

The combination of tariffs and a devalued dollar mean the  working class are being more heavily exploited, as wages real value fall 10%.  Combined with the rise in price of imported goods,  which are now being tariffed, wages must rise.  But what  if they don’t? It means more hours must be worked to achieve the same wage.  The burden is clearly riding on the proletariat. 

The bourgeoisie says that the tariffs costs will not be paid for by the consumer.  They suggest the cost will be paid for by the producer of the commodity.  In case they haven’t noticed, the price of everything is rising, while the currency keeps falling in value.  Clearly tariffs have risen the prices of commodities, the costs are being passed on to consumers.

The bond market in the form of the national debt may be a safe haven for investors.  As debt increases there may be surplus value to be gained by speculation on the state’s debt.  The assumption is it is going to be paid off, which is probably likely, but first the country’s debt rating may fall, leading to a crisis.  It is a risky venture.

Trump wants to lower the interest rate, making it easier for banks to raise capital.  This will effectively subsidise even greater segments of the economy, like the farm subsidies.

“The legislation Trump has called the One Big Beautiful Bill locked in more than $65 billion over 10 years in agricultural support programs.”

The Washington Post 12 28 2025

Large scale land ownership would be in question without the massive state expenditures of  big farms.   It seems to just be part of American agriculture, and political representation of the large landowners is large. They know Trump has deep pockets,  like the banks who benefit from  low interest rates.

It is the big banks who benefit from the lower interest rates, it allows them to raise capital easier.  Combine this with “too big to fail” legislation, you get a sure fire way to massively increase the power of the big banks.  Given the smaller banks are not “too big too fail”, you see monopoly capitalism brewing.  As the smaller banks fail, the big banks buy their assets for ridiculously low prices, consolidation of ownership on a massive scale. 

The penny being phased out is an obvious effect of devaluation of currency.  Stores were already not paying pennies as of 2026.  The penny is on its way out, the 50$ bill on the way in.

The combination of devaluation of the currency and tariffs makes workers have to work more hours to be able to have the same standard of living they would have had without devaluation and tariffs.   The large landowners benefit as they can export at higher prices due to the rise in the cost of food due to tariffs. But even with this, they still require massive money from the state to stay afloat.  

The corn laws were lifted, as the city had enough of supporting the large scale landowners.  A similar moment could be coming, the Senate will be where you will see it.  It is two senators a state, the large landowners disproportionately  weigh in on the city this way.  Structural change of the senate could be coming, as the cities suffer under the large landowners, represented by  two senators a state.  

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

2 12 2026

Donald Trump and his Past

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The Jeffery Epstein case, of the man with the harem visited by many wealthy Americans, as well as British royalty, is still ongoing. Bill and Hillary Clinton are testifying soon on their connection  to Epstein, who was made into a sex offender in 2008 for taking advantage of a 14 year old girl.

There have been other people in the case, and if it were not for Epstein’s death by suicide in jail, there would be more.

At this point Donald Trump, according to Epstein. knew about the girls Epstein was trafficking.  Trump still stayed friends with Epstein, but we have yet to hear anyone fingering out Trump as having used teen prostitutes.  

It is like a freemasonry of sorts.  All Bill Clinton has to do is tell us what everyone believes to be the truth, Trump was using Epstein’s women.

Instead reputational damage to the Clinton  legacy is all the bourgeois press publishes.  Clearly the secrets Epstein kept are part of a freemasonry that extends beyond party lines, into a secretive world of privately owned islands, private jet travel, an estate in Manhattan,etc.

The royal Prince Andrew, now no longer prince due to his involvement with Epstein,  could also incriminate Trump if he would testify before Congress,

But none of these things will come to pass.  The bourgeoisie will not break their secret relationship with Trump and Epstein.   It is beyond party lines, it is some sort of strange brotherhood; a world of billionaires whose wealth does not just buy a diamond, or a luxury car.  Rather it carries the ability to take advantage of young girls, often underage, for sex.

Epstein was a billionaire; an investor in New York, who knew Trump well. Only a fool could not have known about the payments to the underage girls, the massages etc. The pictures relating to Trump; his name on condoms distributed  to guests, with his arm around a young girl all show what everyone knows, Trump is guilty,

But it will not come from Clinton, or any other bourgeois that Trump is guilty.  And even if found guilty, Trump will just lie about his involvement with Epstein, as he has repeatedly done up to now.  The bourgeoisie if nothing else guards its members from public embarrassment and legal repercussions from lifestyles that are scandalous.  

No there will  be no justice.   Millions of pages of documents are still not available, even after lawsuits saying they should be released.  800,000 pages have been redacted.  Trump will not have to answer to his crimes.

I guess it sort of comes with the territory of being a casino owner to have ties with characters like Epstein.  All the gambling, and prostitution that usually goes with it, at least if you’re in Vegas, is still a big part of Don;s persona.  He owned casinos first and foremost.  His wife was an escort, a woman he paid to take out on a “date”. She was a pornographic model from Czech Republic.  She finds the title prostitute offensive. 

Don has always been involved in pornography, and gave $130,000 to porn actress Stormy Daniels to keep her quiet.  Don paid her in 3 checks, yet still denies knowing her.

Justice could be done if Clinton would come clear about what he knows.  But bourgeois freemasonry about Epstein looks too powerful to stop.  Prince Andrew also will not testify to Congress; he feels he is too important to have to answer to the public in the country he chose to use teenage girls for sex in.

Having wealth clearly does not mean having superior morality.  The whole affair of where profit comes from already contains the freemasonry; we are supposed to believe wealth comes from the exchange of commodities, rather than seeing capital as a social relationship between worker and capitalist. Now we see the exploitation of the worker goes beyond working part of the day unpaid.  Her young body is bought and sold in universal prostitution, and the conspiracy extends well into the bourgeoisie.  

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

2 4 2026

Civil Unrest in Minneapolis.  Trump Chooses Violence to Deal With Protestors.

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Civil Unrest in Minneapolis.  Trump Chooses Violence to Deal With Protestors.

Well by now everybody  has seen the videos of another death by police in Minneapolis, by individuals connected to the state.   The footage by cellphone shows the man, Alex Pretti, approached officers beating a man, and tried to record it on his cell phone.  The police response was swift, firing 10 shots at Pretti, who was caught up in the chaos, leaving him dead.

The first fibs from the Trump administration was he approached  the officers with a gun drawn.  Well after seeing peoples footage who were watching and filming, it became clear Pretti, although armed with a gun, had it holstered.  Rather he had his cell phone out when he was beaten and shot by riot police. 

It is legal to carry a gun in Minneapolis to a demonstration, WIsconsin has similar laws. We saw this with Kyle Rittenhouse,when it was legal for him to not only carry a gun in Kenosha, but to kill 2 people in the demonstration, and cripple a third. 

Regardless of what  one may think is proper, with some Republican bourgeois trying to say it is illegal to come to the demonstration armed, the right to join a militia in the second amendment of the constitution should lay waste to this concern.

They made their bed now they can sleep in it.  All those years of arguments for less gun control, only to suggest it was illegal for Pertti to have a gun on him. If you can’t take it, don’t dish it out. 

If Trump wanted to help local law enforcement, he could have just increased spending on Milwaukee PD.  You would think this would be the first thing he would do; logically to stop a crime problem use the police.

Instead Don has called out the National Guard, ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement), DHS (department of homeland security), etc,  supposedly to help police in lawless cities.

Instead we see films of ICE killing our countrymen, and it is a worry people will just get hardened to seeing this and soon it will soon not bother them so much.   

It is still a mystery who constitutes the federal government, who trains them, and where they came from to Minneapolis.  What is clear is these are Trump’s men, and are loyal to him.  He is responsible for  his troops like any other commander in the Army.  The buck stops there.

Trump seems to have no guilty conscience, and it would be a surprise if he was to call and talk to Pretti’s  family, and apologize.  Don is not the apology type. He still stubbornly refuses to let  even the local police investigate the shooting of Pretti.

Minneapolis is a day trip by car from Milwaukee.  Chicago is closer to Milwaukee, but Minneapolis is basically the next stop after Milwaukee on the train.  All we can do is hope Trump will not start calling Milwaukee “woke” and send in ICE next.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

1 26 2026

Demonstrations in Minneapolis.

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The epitome of the situation regarding the latest example of a worker getting killed who was innocent is this:

“WASHINGTON, Jan 19 (Reuters) – The Trump administration said on Saturday it was appealing a ruling by a federal judge that put limits on tactics employed by U.S. immigration agents operating in Minneapolis.”

“In a brief filing, lawyers for the Department of Justice told the court they were appealing an order issued by the judge on Friday that barred federal officers from arresting or tear-gassing peaceful demonstrators and observers.”

Reuters 1 19 2026

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-appeals-limits-agents-tactics-toward-minnesota-protesters-2026-01-19/

The judge put “limits on tactics employed by US Immigration agents operating in Minneapolis”.  This sounds like soft language from the judge, yet the reaction was what almost seems humorous.

The Department of Justice was “appealing an order issued by the judge on Friday that barred federal officers from arresting or tear-gassing peaceful demonstrators and observers.”

Wow.  What does that say to you?  I suppose Donald Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize. 

It is sort of like a moment like his first term., when he had the streets cleared of Black Lives Matter protestors, and brandished a bible upside down in front of the local DC church.  The memories of the leader of the Army in the group striding forth into the tear gassed remains of the demonstration, Trump by his side. What a spectacle!

There has yet to be riots of the scale Wisconsin saw in the last presidential term of Trump.  Remember Kyle Rittenhouse, the northern Illinois man who came to the demonstration with a loaded assault weapon?  Then after shooting it he ran from the other demonstrators running after him, slipping and falling on his long gun, and then fearing the protestors, killed two and crippled another?

And what did he get for this?  No jail time, the north Illinois man had high powered lawyers who got the case completely dropped.  

Well Don has the Nobel Peace Prize now, given to him by the woman who won a primary election in Venezuela against Nicholas Maduro, currently a political prisoner in New York.  

When it happens in Wisconsin we expect it.  The court ruling Trump is appealing, that attempts to suggest it is wrong to use violence against protestors, will probably be overturned.  In the meantime, the demonstrations continue.  

Nicholas Jay Boyes

MIlwaukee Wisconsin 

American Democratic Republic

1 19 2026

Material Conditions and the Bourgeois Press

~ nicholasjayboyes

The capitalist movement in Europe and America reached a crescendo in the late 20th century, and is still with us.  The mechanism of capitalism consolidates ownership of the land, and industry,  increasingly in the hands of a small aristocracy that own everything.

The group in control of the means of production are the modern bourgeoisie.  Cable television, and other outdated mediums such as regular radio fed television broadcasting,  paper newspapers, etc. have been used for propaganda purposes by this aristocracy.  

It is easily accessible, and paid for by capitalist advertising, a form of propaganda that if nothing else portrays a smiling face in the marketplace, the privately owned reality forced upon the ignorant worker.  Its political bent, due to the presence of the people who pay for the broadcasts, the ownership of the companies attempting to sell commodities by advertising, who are all capitalists, and support the more extreme form of them, the Republican bourgeoisie, as this is encouraged by the economic system of modern capitalism. 

Often the industry promoted is not metric, like gasoline powered automobiles from Detroit, a product of an industry intact still in a 20th century condition. The bourgeois press directly uses propaganda when it is time for suffrage, and the broadcast is not in the metric system.  The local political leader is on in 30 second attack ads when the worker wants to see local television news when limited suffrage occurs.

This system uses ignorance to promote a vision of capitalism that is not in tune with reality.  In Europe, the concession  of suffrage to the workers is used to justify expropriating employee owned shops.  Once political leadership can overcome the pressure of its workers, who for one reason or another have slipped back to capitalism, through the mechanism of ignorance and cable television, employee ownership is targeted and removed  by the Republican bourgeoisie. 

Without employee ownership, democracy doesn’t really mean much.  Given the factory is where the worker finds himself most of the time, democracy would seem to be in order there. But where is the suffrage for the manager?  Or the owner? It is no longer present after employee ownership is removed. 

The European Union is best at this expropriation process, all the while suggesting they are expanding democracy.  

The ignorant worker, who tunes into the cable television broadcast, (the station is also owned by the bourgeoisie), receives his social conditioning through this medium.  The internet is gradually removing this old system, corroding the cable television monopoly; ad block technology, and paying for the news rather than the free enterprise method of advertising paying for news is becoming the dominant model. 

The internet is a revolution.  The tech giants are trying to control the system, but can only do so much.  The Washington Post costs 10$  a month, you pay for it.  It is owned by Jeff Bezos, not the journalists.  The New York Times and Reuters are similar, you pay them directly.  Youtube is another one worth paying for, the purpose of this is so there are no advertisements.  

Society is materially changing, the main mechanism of control is ignorance. People are being told to believe things about subjects they need to find out about for themselves, by reading books.  Philosophy and political economy in particular; many people have feelings about what  socialism represents, yet have never read Marx’s Capital, even just volume One.  Or have feelings about the ancient world and have never been exposed to Aristotle or Plato.

The internet again is coming to the rescue; Amazon Prime delivers new and used books we had a hard time getting before, like works by Marx and Engels now accessible by internet for low prices.

Giving up the cable subscription for the internet saves money.  People are paying a hundred dollars a month for cable, and at best we can say it includes the internet., an internet connection costs about 50$,

As the material conditions change, outdated ideas resort to outdated technology to transmit their messages.  Cable television, radio broadcast television, AM radio, are all examples of outdated industry dominated by the Republican bourgeoisie.  Control of cable television consumes these people.   It is their main prerogative, and they control the companies advertising, and even have their political leaders on the station when suffrage occurs,to give us their bourgeois  propaganda.

It is a little harder to control the internet.  It is more advanced, and cheaper to use and produce than the outdated mediums. You have to be able to read and write to use it. 

Thew change in communications, the new medium of he web, is new millennium technology. The old methods of AM Radio and Cable are slowly dying out, but it maybe sometime before the Republican bourgeoisie concedes defeat. Furthermore dumbing down of the internet, connected to Artificial intelligence, attempts to make the internet more personal, more like a humanoid android, has consumed tech capital for years now. Perhaps their followers require a more personalized experience getting the news or shopping. What they encounter online will still be quite a bit of a different experience than going to the mall in the 20th century.

Nicholas Jay Boyes

Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic

12 31 2025      

The Legacy of Colonialism.  Life on the Reservation. 

~ nicholasjayboyes

The Legacy of Colonialism.  Life on the Reservation. 

The pictures of Nicholas Maduro, prime minister of Venezuela being led around in handcuffs, blindfolded, was like a reminder of Saddam Hussein when he  was captured in Iraq.  Another Republican president, another war, just like George I and George II.  George I took Iraq, securing the oil.  Sounds familiar, right? Well he missed Hussein, it was George II, another Republican bourgeois, who finished the job.

Maduro may still be alive,  but he is in no condition to try to lead Venezuela anymore, even if he wants to lead from captivity.  Anything he says or does now is under duress; he is probably drugged and chained in New York where he is imprisoned.  He is no longer in a position to influence things.  The only real question is if they will ever let him out.

Another political prisoner, another open ended commitment to a country in the developing world with oil reserves nationalized.  Iraq had nationalized the oil wells in 1972, from the Iraq Petroleum Company.  This was done by the Baath socialist party, to put Iraq’s oil wealth in a more equitable arrangement, where the proceeds of the oil wealth were no longer making surplus value. 

George II, who got Hussein, expropriated the property of the Iraqis, returning private investment in the oil wells to American and European capitalists.  George II also cited terrorism as a reason to invade Iraq; in the light of when this occurred he tried to suggest Iraq was connected to the 9/11 incident.  

This could not be proved, and it never has been to this day.  Then there were the friends of George II, Labour leader Tony Blair, for instance, who got on the air telling Britons Hussein had an atomic weapon, and could hit Britain in 15 minutes if he launched it.  They also suggested Hussein was developing chemical weapons.   These were called the “weapons of mass destruction” arguments.

There were never any atomic weapons, or chemical weapons found in Iraq.  Considering the country was conquered, there is no reason to believe the weapons could have been hidden.  Instead, after removing Hussein, George II found a new enemy, Islamic State.  He was still trying to link Iraq with Afghanistan, which evidence has yet to be found for.  

Afghanistan ended in American retreat and exit from Afghanistan.  The images of the big airplanes and the hundreds of people running trying to get them is an icon of George II and his Republican war efforts.  Whether he won in Iraq is sort of a matter of opinion; they got the oil back.  But the country remains in shambles after decades of all out war.

Here we have another republican bourgeoisie, and the beginnings of another war, with a similar goal of gaining control of oil fields, and markets. Trump has already said he will be running Venezuela’s  oil wealth, and has committed the Army to war there, abducting the head of state of a neighboring country, and demanding its resources.

In a historical context, Trump looks a lot like a Conquistador, valiantly discovering native land, and conquering its residents.  Perhaps Venezuela will become a 51st state, with reservations for the natives.  How much different it would look from the ICE facilities, packed with Mexicans on the border? A vision of reservations on stolen land from Mexico gained in the Mexican American war that ended in 1848, with Mexico ‘s capitulation to the Americans of the Southwest.

Not really much new here.  The bourgeoisie has been conquering lands in the new world for more than 500 years.  The stain of bloody conquest of native American soil, and black slavery, is part of the history of the country.  Their descendants are still with us,  the Indians are still on the reservations, their fishing and hunting rights on land they ceded in treaties are still controversial.

At some point it is going to have to be left behind, like 20th century industry.  Trump’s only justification for abducting Maduro was drug dealing.  In a country with legal marijuana in half of it, legal alcohol and tobacco throughout it, if you are addicted to drugs, it is nobody’s fault but your own.  You  can’t  sue the alcohol company because you are a drunk.  We view this as a health problem, not a criminal one.  Cocaine is illegal, it is an expensive luxury item only the bourgeois and middle classes can afford.  Penalizing all Venezuelans for drug dealing does not lower demand for cocaine in America. If anything it will strengthen the cartels, who thrive on the lawless luxury trade.

Trump has made a decision to conquer Christianized Incas in their homelands. There is no separation from this and the presence of reservations in America.  For those who  live on the Res, this must come as no surprise.  In 1492, Columbus discovered America.  It’s been 533 years of repression of the native people he found in the Americas. This is part of Trump’s legacy, his hatred of Indians, much like the rural white settlers who still keep the Indians separate from their colonies, on reservations, where poverty  is a scourge.  Trump is no different, it’s been 533 long years, the song remains the same.

Nicholas Jay Boyes
Milwaukee Wisconsin

American Democratic Republic