The Rose Garden Club — And More September 6, 2025September 6, 2025 AN “ANTI-DISINFORMATION ACTIVIST” That’s how Jim Stewartson ID’s himself, so naturally he had me at “hello.” Last month he posted: The Rupture Has Arrived: 7 Signs We Are No Longer a Democracy There is very little reason to believe America is still a constitutional republic. The U.S. government is no longer following the oath every federal employee takes—to support and defend the Constitution. It is a rogue state operating as a proxy for a malignant narcissist in collapse. . . . Here are seven examples from the last 48 hours or so . . . Yesterday he posted: In the last 24 hours, Trump’s regime has lost all semblance of a constitutional government. The Trump regime has crossed the final threshold: it now openly declares itself above the law—domestically and internationally. . . . And his heir apparent renounced the Geneva Conventions. Last night, Donald Trump debuted his new “Rose Garden Club” at the White House for his most loyal sycophants and gave an unhinged speech that provided no illusions about Trump’s determination to create a full personalist dictatorship. . . . Followed by: The 35% Answer: What to do when a Third of Your Country Lives in an Alternate Timeline Democracy only works if we can agree on what happened. Not what it means, just what actually happened. We can debate whether a war was justified. We can’t debate whether it occurred. That basic requirement is now broken. . . . Through a combination of social media algorithms, deliberate propaganda, and partisan news ecosystems, roughly a third of the country has moved to a different dimension. . . . The comfortable liberal assumption is that this is an information problem. If we just fact-check harder, teach media literacy, or find the right messenger, people will come around to reality. This is delusional. . . . I don’t know where you’re going to find time to read all this — unlike me, you have lives — but it’s there if you want it. IS MUSK WORTH ANOTHER TRILLION? Yes, reports FORTUNE, you read that correctly: Tesla pay committee pitches $1 trillion pact to keep Elon Musk as CEO for long term. Or maybe it’s just a publicity stunt to hype the value of his stock? Either way, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld thinks it’s ridiculous. CHINA, INDIA, AND A.I. Tom Friedman: It takes a lot, I must say, for the United States to actually drive India into the arms of China. The level of stupidity that you need in terms of American policymaking to do that is as big as all outdoors, because I have 2,000 years of history that says Chinese and Indians do not play well. So the fact that the leader of India — Prime Minister Modi — would go to China to sit down with the leader of China and basically hold hands together with Putin — the leader of Russia — bespeaks a complete failure of American diplomacy. That’s something that would’ve been unimaginable, frankly, a year ago. . . . Are India and China going to militarily align against the United States? That’s inconceivable to me since they basically have a smoldering war between them on their own border. So a lot of this is spectacle, but it’s the kind of thing that leaves America more isolated and less effective on the world stage because we lose our leverage on China and Russia when we lose an ally like India. . . . [T]here’s two things in the world happening faster than you think: one is climate change and the second is artificial intelligence — heading toward some level of autonomous polymathic, artificial intelligence, sometimes called superintelligence. When will we get there? This year, next year, five years — I’m not sure. But I would say the consensus within the A.I. community is that we’re going to get there. And that is going to change everything about everything. . . . SIGN UP! October 18 — No Kings #2 There were 5 million of us at the first one. At this next one, there will be more. Start making your sign and recruiting friends. Saving democracy can be fun.