As I was thinking of what to include in this Substack Robert DeNiro was praising Leticia James for saying “fuck you” to Trump. He said that live on national TV. I wish his being a vocal spokesperson telling it like it is was enough. I wish it could be one person. I mean, 82 year old Robert “Raging Bull” DeNiro (my age) for God’s sake! It should be enough!
Now let’s get into some science, hard science and social science:
There are several defintions of “critical mass.”
The smallest mass of a fissionable material that will sustain a nuclear chain reaction at a constant level.
The total mass of matter needed to generate sufficient gravitational force to halt the current expansion of the universe.
An amount or level needed for a specific result or new action to occur.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition • More at Wordnik
If you’re old enough you probably remember the ping pong ball experiment. This simulates a nuclear fission chain reaction using mousetraps and ping pong balls. Each trap represents a fissile atom and the balls represent neutrons. When a ball is dropped onto a trap, it triggers a chain reaction, demonstrating how one fission event can lead to many more, similar to a nuclear explosion. The photos on the top of the page are from this website.
Consider that each ping pong ball on a mousetrap represents a million Americans. In the first photo, pre-Trump 47, they are at rest going about their daily lives. Then Trump becomes president and he finally does something so egregiously horrible that it sets them off. That’s when the chain reaction occurs. It reaction isn’t the No Kings protests yesterday. Alas, seven million people mobilizing to protest isn’t enough. These are people that were by and large anti-Trump and against MAGA and the whole Project 2025 agenda.
For the nuclear triggering event people like the shit-faced grinning sniveling sycophant Mike Johnson, who said that “if Trump were a king America would be open right now” ( and Jonathan LeMire called it B.S.) would need to be convinced.
This ideally would lead to defintion number 3 of critical mass:
There may or may not be such a trigger. If there is I think it will have to be some serious shit.
The action would, of course, be for Trump somehow to be dethroned and American democracy to be restored.
You know this needs to happen. Robert DeNiro, who also ended his interview on MSNBC saying that Trump had no plans to leave the White House no matter what happens in 2028, also knows this.
My friend Sabrina Haake knows it even though she may not have been recognizable at the Chicago No Kings protest dressed in a bear costume.
Excerpt:
This week, blind to Constitutional law and US history, Trump’s Border Czar Tom Homan said that protests at ICE raids “could lead to bloodshed and people dying.” Suggesting that masked ICE agents might kill protestors for simply shouting hateful slogans at them, Homan was building the permission structure for federal agents to use “full force”violence against non-violent protestors.
Here’s my Substack from last night about the No Kings protest we went to in our Portland suburb.
You can see we decided to use signs I had custom made with an orange hair Hitler on them. That’s how bad we think it is.
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