We had great ambitions for a vibrant Community page, but…as it turns out…we’re not very technically savvy.
So we invite anyone to submit a news article that they consider 1) very serious and 2) under-reported or virtually unreported in the mass media.
Anyone with a news story of similar importance to the one we list, here, as an example (the one concerning “Sergio Gor” below) to send the article and a short explanation of why you think it’s similarly important (and it’s not being reported in the mass media) to therealdonaldthepig@gmail.com — This page, at a minimum, is a place people can come to periodically (every 3 or 6 months) and see if they find the procured news articles relevant and important. We see this phenomenon (of the media not reporting significant topics) more and more in the media today. At the end of the day: our media “personalities” are millionaires hired by billionaires. Many of those billionaires are perfectly fine with a fascistic takeover, so long as they can be a chosen oligarch. It is a similar understanding of the media that underpinned the sentiment, “the revolution will not be televised”. In short, we need to think for ourselves. Even so-called liberal media (like MSNBC and CNN) are completely normalizing the shit that’s going on. Their news cycle itself normalizes what Trump is doing. So this page will fill one minor gap. Please read the example article (concerning Sergio Gor) for a better understanding of what we have in mind for ‘a relevant article’.
Image credit: Jason Armond, Los Angeles Times
Every person who purchases any paid item on this website automatically receives “voter” status. If this project should prove successful, then we will send one email inviting you to help our organization choose the person who will wholly be responsible for spending the funds that we accrue. That person should be an expert on authoritarianism and should have innovative ideas on how to combat its rise, here, in the United States. We believe that you should be the ones to decide how to spend your own money, especially for a matter of this importance.
An Example of a newsworthy story that we invite you to submit:
If you have a similar story (in terms of importance regarding authoritarianism, etc.) please submit it to “TheRealDonaldThePig@gmail.com” with the subject line “NEWS ARTICLE TO CONSIDER”. Thank you.
Here’s an example of something we would include in a vibrant Action Page: it’s a very story about some guy now named Sergio Gor. We can’t share their publications, so we had ChatGPT summarize the story. (ChatGPT first could not find it despite us describing the story as “about a federal employee responsible for hiring 4,000 employees who lied about his slavic background.” We heard the story one time overnight and the mass media never said another thing about it. (This is happening all the time on many subjects.) We wanted this site to be a place where others who observe similar anomalies could share important stories that the media are ignoring (like this one, in our opinion). To get around copyright, we had ChatGPT summarize the story once we researched it ourselves and fed it Sergio’s name and general details (then it HAD to acknowledge the story…AI is clearly being manipulated for political ends…more and more each day, it seems). And, surprise surprise, it benefits them, not us. So, here’s the story that we think is important:
The above is just an example of what we wanted this ‘Action’ tab to be. We know there are a lot of other people who have similar stories who also are asking, “Why the heck isn’t this being reported day in and out?” We wanted a place for them to post stories about authoritarianism (like the above one, in our opinion) to others who understand the threat.
As for our part: we sincerely fear that too many people are oblivious to the threat that is literally in front of our eyes. We had a neighbor hand out 509 invitations to read our free book, 23 bothered to even look at it. Of those who looked at it, one was a law enforcement officer and 22 didn’t purchase the $5 version. Let’s be clear what that $5 version is: it (hopefully) is worth it as a digital book for your collection, but it is mainly a contribution to our cause. 25% will be directly donated to help in the material fight, and for the foreseeable future the entire other 75% will go toward spreading the imagery from our book to combat Trump’s desired image as ‘the strong man’.
While we have enjoyed the ‘No Kings’ rallies, we need to do more than put on a show, my friends. Having less that 5% even read our free parody is sad, but have zero of the twenty-two people who looked at it purchase it is scary, to us. Not because we will fail in our endeavor, that’s nothing to us. It’s scary because it seems that even the most active members of society are simply not engaged in the way they need to be. Our goofy $5 book is not going to save the day, but it’s a simple way we can pool our money to throw a read punch at authoritarianism while enjoying the fight in some kind of jocular manner.
So we hope that everyone who enjoyed our parody also take the time to purchase the paid version so we can actual make a real difference collectively. We are close to sticking our heads out the window each night and yelling, “IT’S HAPPENING! IT’S HAPPENING! Wake the hell up!” (We haven’t done that…yet.) People’s apathy truly scares us. Their side’s hypocrisy infuriates us. A lot of the same people were crying wolf about liberals using black helicopters to subjugate the populace. We haven’t researched how those same people are justifying Trump’s EXACT USE of black helicopters TODAY, but we’re sure that it’s idiotic and infuriating. Political science professors teach that fascistic movements are emotional, not rational/logical, but, it’s harder to watch it right in front of our eyes, isn’t it?
To any MAGA supporter with an open mind: we desperately need you to reconsider this path they are putting you on. The billionaires who build their megachurches with their megaphones need you to hate “the other side” for political purposes. In short, you’re being used like an old tool. And when they’re done with you, they’ll throw their tool out in rain to rust away. That’s all you mean to these people. We need you to be as wise as God has made you to trust what you know is right. Please reconsider their hateful path–it leads to no good for anybody…yourself included. We desperately need you, please reconsider.
Message to Artists:
First, we would like to let the community of artists know that we truly respect and admire you. We have always tried ourselves to draw and paint, but we were never very good at it. We actually practice frequently from a few Jack Hamm primers. So we are being very earnest when we say that we truly did not want to use AI images in this project. A local major university’s art department was contacted and a bulletin board for artists of a different major university was also contacted. We offered everyone back then 50% of any project (after 25% is spent on the fight against authoritarianism, that is). That was the offer we made back then. Crickets. No-one even responded. As for the local university, after a couple promising initial conversations (from a person who said that she would spread it to a few professors and any art student she thought would be interested), we kept emailing our updates (to the story) with different (and much worse) AI images in the hopes that they’d find anyone in their art department willing to collaborate. Again, crickets.
So, we apologize for the use of AI images to the art community, but we also feel like the art community basically thumbed their nose at the project from the beginning. Our talent isn’t sufficient so we felt backed into it. We feel, on some level, that we have done our due diligence, here–but we still want our end effect to be good for humans.
We still would like for our efforts, in the end, to benefit the artistic community. So we came up with the following:
We would like to offer any artist who is interested 75% of any profits (after at least 25% of profits FIRST go toward fighting authoritarianism) and our website would get 25% to help grow. When we say “at least” we mean that we will agree to a higher percentage (up to 100%) to go toward fighting authoritarianism, if that’s the artist’s wish–it is wholly up to the artist, but we do demand that at least 25% go toward that cause first.
This book spans many decades from the past to the future. Each “page” represents some amount of time. The time between page 1 and 2 is Trump’s entire childhood and young adulthood.
The time between page 10-11 is unknown. A nuclear war could occur between pages 10 and 11. Our SCOTUS is no Scotty. It’s unclear how long it will take for the people to get SCOTUS back–could be a year, could be three centuries. Our current status quo is on page 8/9 at present, we would argue. While we were writing this book, we kept saying, “there’s a good book in between each page”. It is out of our own personal desire to see the “in between” stories that we are offering you “a page” that then needs to be turned into a 12-page book. Your book has to explain [the transition of] one page [to another] of our book. (It’s important to understand that we’re offering you one “time period” in essence.
We came up with 75% because we still believe the artist deserves 50% and then the writer and website should split the rest. That sounds fair to us. We do not allow writing from AI–we’re not Luddites, but (at this stage of history) AI simply doesn’t think in a way that values words in an emotional and historical context. It always misses something in a project like this. If you want to write and draw the book yourself then you get the full 75%. We truly never mean or meant to turn our backs on artists or the art community.
We want to read what others come up with. It would be fun–for us–to read about only his childhood, or only about the plot against Canada or Greenland (pfft, #WWPW…what would Putin want?), etc. But you have to turn it into a 12-page book, 12 lines each page, written in a rhyming couplet, simple format. If that sounds like a fun project, then do it! We’d be happy to showcase your work here, and license your rights to publish the book. If anyone expresses interest, we’ll update this page and say something like, “Someone is working on page 1/2 (meaning the transition from page 1 to 2). That way, someone else can focus on a different time period (ie page), if they wish.
Right now, there probably isn’t any interest in our offer, but we’ll still give every artist the same opportunity to be a part of what we’re trying to accomplish. If we can build this site to something big (right now, admittedly, it is very little), then you are certainly welcome to piggyback off what we build, here.
For any artist who may be interested, please email us at “TheRealDonaldThePig@gmail.com” with the subject line: ARTIST INTERESTED or similar type subject line.
Second, we want it known–so there aren’t any misunderstandings–that we are extremely happy with the images that AI produced. Many of them brought us to tears, asking it 200 times to draw the same image, watching it get further and further from the goal. Believe us, we WORKED for many of the images to be produced. (Anyone who has worked with AI to create a very specific image that (the human) has in his/her mind knows what we’re talking about.) We would love for this project (Donald the Pig) to be AI’s first pop expression of the political ‘zeitgeist’ of our times. We contend that at least a few of AI’s images captured the “soul” of our book, at least as well as any human could have done. We are interested in how a future “super-intelligence” would feel about its creation in 2025. So, yeah, we’d like it to spread for that reason, as well. We’re kinda techno-futurists. We’re not Luddites, in other words. AI shouldn’t be shunned as those in some creative circles believe. They’re just greedily trying to keep what they’ve got. That’s rather backward thinking, to us. Rather, its product should benefit humans directly. That’s how we aimed to use AI in this project.
Message to Organizers
We desperately need any help that people can offer to spread our book. We have been accused of “email farming” by a couple kids on Discord. We have been accused of “data mining” by others. We are simply a small group of writers who are trying to make a difference in this all-important fight. We are not “email farming” anything. We wouldn’t know how to “data mine” let alone would we ever do it. We can’t divide ourselves like that, we will lose if we do.
We are speaking here as openly and straightly as we know how: we truly are scared for this country and we desperately feel that we all need to do something significant. If you like our book, buy the $5 version and help out. But we also hope that that isn’t ALL that you do. It’s a pretty small thing, considering what we’re up against. Fighting authoritarianism was and is our motivation. So we’re asking you to help us by purchasing the digital version (if you can afford it) and by spreading the imagery of ‘Donald the Pig’ around society.
We will do our best to spread the imagery of our story to as many people ourselves, but we are only a few people. We desperately need your help getting our book out.
We have a few ideas for various age groups, but, in the end, if you have a better idea or an idea that you’re more comfortable with then please do what you feel is right, of course. Having said that, here are our ideas for various age groups:
If you’re a teenager, we need your help spreading our website around. Our best idea for you is to chalk up the busiest street of your town with the message, “Visit DonaldThePig.com – free PDF” This is about as cheap an ad campaign as is humanly possible, it’s true, but it’s also very effective. Use WASHABLE chalk OUTSIDE. (So there isn’t any kind of vandalism, etc.) Even washable chalk wears away without rain in a few days if the sidewalk is well-traveled.
If you’re a student, use blackboard chalk to write a box in the lower right-hand corner of your classroom’s blackboard “Free PDF at DonaldThePig.com” and write “Don’t Erase” above the box.
If you’re a college student, you can methodically write the same message on every chalkboard in the 4 buildings on campus that pretty much everyone will visit daily (humanities, business school, law school, and fine arts)–or however your particular school is organized…just be sure to consider students (like law school students) who might only go to one building or another.
For older Americans, we ask you to spread the free PDF to all of your friends and social media contacts. We trust that you know best how you could help us spread the imagery around, if you are so inclined to help us. (We desperately need each and every one of you. Many in the younger generation(s) aren’t grasping the seriousness of the threat. (Many are, we don’t want to pigeon hole younger people.) We know you do and we also trust that you’ll know best how to help us, if you are willing.)
For anyone in college who wants to “chalk up their school” to help us, remember: 1) get wash away chalk and only put it outdoors; 2) try to get 5-15 people to do it at once, so you’re sure to get the message all over campus quickly. You’d be surprised how much area 10 people can cover in 5-10 minutes! If your university has a M-W-F and T-R schedule, make sure to do it two days where students who only do one schedule or the other will also see your messages. 3) Do it “guerrilla-styles”: show up at 5:00am on a day of class and put it everywhere you possibly can. Be respectful and be sure to not vandalize anything.
As an example: if there are ten of you chalking the sidewalks of your campus in the morning and someone approaches one of you, the rest should keep working and the one that is being questioned should be friendly and try to politely explain the purpose. Stress that there is not any vandalism, the cause is to fight authoritarianism, and the chalk is wash away. It will naturally be gone in a day or two, even if it doesn’t rain. (In high traffic areas they naturally disappear). This is washable chalk in open areas. Do not damage anything, that would be illegal…and crude. Done properly, 99% of the students will see the message. No other option gets those results.
This is all to 1) raise money to fight authoritarianism and 2) spread a mocking image of a man who truly deserves it. If that is something you can dedicate a morning or two for, it would do a great deal of good, in our view. If you agree with us, then we could use all the help you’re willing to give us.
The “chalk thing” is what we used to do on campus “back in the day”. We’re not even sure if it’s still a thing. We would have written things like “Free book” and comedic lines, but “DonaldThePig.com” should be in between all the comedy stuff. We need your help and are humbly asking for it with hat in hand. We’re asking an effort from you, it’s true…but it’s also an effort that has purpose behind it. That is what we believe college is for in the years 2025-28. We would certainly wish for our project’s heart and soul to be founded at the university and college. If enough of you agree with our projects purpose, then it will be. Thank you for any consideration you may give our cause.