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 donaldthepigbook@proton.me — 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/MsNow and CNN) are completely normalizing Trump’s authoritarian behavior. 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.
If we are ever able to do so, we would wish to have some kind of conferencing software that YOU could log onto and interact with qualified candidates right from your own computer. After asking questions and listening to their responses, THE PEOPLE will decide THEIR leader.
To the eight people who have contributed to our cause, we thank you very much! Our total revenue at tax time was $40. It cost us $280 to make that (so we lost $240 last year). In the spirit of ‘Donald the Pig’ we have sent ‘Democracy Defender’s Fund’ $10 (which is 25% of total revenue) so that EACH ONE OF YOU knows that you contributed to help our democracy. We only wish we could have sent them a lot more, to be honest.
First and foremost: to our contributors, we would like to thank you formally and update you as to what has been happening to our website/project (in terms of hacking / tech bro…hmm…implementation of authoritarian controls on a systemic level, etc. 🙂
And here is the letter we sent to Ambassador Eisen:
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 “DonaldThePigBook@proton.me” 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 concerning story about some guy now named Sergio Gor. We had ChatGPT summarize the story. (ChatGPT first could not find it despite us describing the story as, “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). We had ChatGPT summarize the story once we researched it ourselves and basically informed it of 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. In this age of AGI leading to “super-intelligence”, molecular (atomic) manufacturing leading to SUB-atomic manufacturing, and robotics forever shrinking to high-functioning (take-over-your-brain functionality) nano-bots, it appears that the remnants of the old aristocracy are making their move. This is an all-important time, our friends. Be engaged.) 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 do fear that too many people are oblivious to the threat that is before us.
Rachel Maddow recently said at the end of one of their in-person meetings: now, everyone has a task — you guys have to meet one other person and exchange info — you have an excuse, tell them Rachel made you do it. Bravo, Ms. Maddow. You’re a fighter, that’s how you fight. We all need to be way more engaged. This is the fight of our lives, folks, even if the media doesn’t portray it as such. I, the author, am saying that as an octogenarian — this is the fight of our lives. In that sense, the book is merely a means. We pray more people see, understand, and agree with our vision in this regard, it truly could make a big difference.
This section is all about pooling our brains together and sharing what we know, but — for this — it is necessary for The People to form an understanding.
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. (We appreciate Gov. Newsom’s comment to “wake the hell up, America”. We, here, at ‘Donald the Pig’ have already made up our minds — Newsom for President 2028!) People’s apathy truly scares us. The other 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 the rain to molder away. That’s all you mean to these people. Humanity is on the verge of a post-scarcity existence–and they are moving to subjugate (kill?) the vast masses of humanity under the guise of saving the species from some catastrophic event. What we call the ‘remnants of the aristocracy and its influential tentacles’ are making their move, in a big way right now. The sad thing is: in this post-scarcity existence, billionaires have nothing to fear. They wouldn’t be harmed a bit. Once we have SUB-atomic manufacturing, it will be possible for every human-being to own his/her own yacht, adorned with solid gold toilets. That’s what my ‘Billie’ book (mentioned in the letters) is all about, so I apologize if I sound a little crazy, to some. We are pleading with MAGA to conceptualize how important you truly are to these people in that post-scarcity world. (We are 10 years (at most) away from this reality, folks.) 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. We desperately need your better angels to prevail, please reconsider.
Message to Artists:
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. Our talent isn’t sufficient so we felt backed into it. We still want our end effect to be good for humans. 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 project would get 25% to help grow. We came up with that, as follows: 50% to the artist, 25% goes to the writer (we require that AI not be used for the verse) and the other 25% to help us spread overseas (we want to authoritarian-proof our effort if things get worse). 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 require that at least 25% go toward fighting authoritarianism first. We would prefer to invest 25%, at least until we are established overseas. After that, we are 100% good with 100%
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, could be never. Our current status quo (redundant lol…we’ll keep it as it’s funny…and that was up for months before we noticed it!) 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, but if it doesn’t to you, we will certainly listen. 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 a single individual wishes to write and draw the book himself/herself then the full 75% would be theirs. We would like to emphasize that we demand that 25% go toward fighting authoritarianism BEFORE anything else. 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, #WWPD…what would Putin do?), 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 right 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 we tried to offer before. It’s probably pretty hard to get excited about a project that is losing money, but that can change on a dime. We really have great response/reaction and we’ve never had any kind of real exposure. In the end, we truly do hope that the art community benefits in some meaningful way. And we truly do respect that community–we weren’t blowing smoke when we said we practice our Jack Hamm lessons pretty regularly throughout the year. AI is still way better than us, not even close. It may not be popular to say it, but we actually really love the images. Even the bow tie…nay, especially the bow tie! Many took hundreds of attempts and literal tears of frustration trying to get it to do the right image, but we’re very happy with the end result, to be honest.
For any artist who may be interested, please email us at “DonaldThePigBook@proton.me” with the subject line: ARTIST INTERESTED or similar type subject line.
Message to Organizers
We desperately need any help that people can offer to spread our book.
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. If you can afford it, buy a couple to give to your friends and pretend you bought a $10 or $15 book to help out. It’s more about the mindset and the times. But we also hope that that isn’t ALL that you do.
We will do our best to spread the imagery of our story to as many people ourselves, but we are only a couple 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:
For all age groups: have the digital version added to your local library! The book is anonymous–libraries allow that. We absolutely do not have a problem with you sharing the free version with your local library, please do so!
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. Maybe throw in a joke or two.
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. 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-style”: 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. If it’s not, then ‘Donald the Pig’ will bring it back! 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 (which is also your cause).