The Crack of Dawn #806

11/26/2025

11//26/2024

Newsletter #806

The Crack of Dawn

Above, please find my new video.

Years ago my good pal, John, had an idea for a TV series called, The Ostriches (or The Ostrichmans). Any time the mother, father, daughter or son has a problem, they stick their heads in the sand.

Presently, here in the U.S. of A., we’ve got a big problem. That problem is named Donald Trump. 2026 will be the 250^th anniversary of this country. That ought to be the biggest, most joyous, celebration in our country’s history. Instead, as we near the end of 2026, we will be in the biggest shit-fight in our country’s history. Because in November of 2026, we hold our midterm elections.

History is my guide. If you can find a situation in history that is similar to the one you are presently in, then the outcomes will probably be the same.

People, primarily on the left, have likened Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler many, many times, ad nauseum, to the point where it’s one of the right’s favorite jokes. I saw a painful couple of minutes of Greg Gutfield, Fox’s funnyman, hilariously suggesting that Democrats adopt Nazi as the black people have adopted Nigga (black people do not use that word with the the E-R on the end, and neither do white folks anymore, because it’s a bad word). Gutfield then launched into a routine, imitating a hip black guy saying, “Yo, Nazi, how’s it goin’? Hey, hey Nazi, waz up?” I thought it was in bad taste. But his point was that likening Trump to Hitler is ridiculous.

No it’s not.

Nobody knows shit about the Nazis and Adolf Hitler. People who think they know something about Hitler, don’t. I’ve never heard more false statements about any one person as I’ve heard about Adolf Hitler.

Having written a book about Adolf Hitler—Hitler in the Madhouse (available on Amazon)—I feel like I know him personally.

Even the venerable, muscle-bound, Austrian, Arnold Schwarzenegger, made two ridiculous errors when speaking about the Nazis and Adolf Hitler (and you’d think he’d know better). The first one was right after the Jan. 6 insurrection. Taking the tone of an expert, and having grown up in Austria soon after the end of World War II (he was born in 1947), he likened Jan. 6 to Kristallnacht (meaning Crystal Night). On November 9-10, 1938, Hitler’s unruly mob of thugs, known as Brown Shirts or the SA (disturbingly similar to ICE), broke the windows of Jewish businesses all over the country. As awful as Kristallnacht was, it doesn’t have a damn thing to do with Jan. 6.

What Arnold was really referring to was the Beer Hall Putsch, which occurred on November 8-9, 1923, ten years before Kristallnacht. The Nazi Party had just formed, and very quickly grew to over 100,000 members, most unruly young men looking for trouble, who wore brown shirts. One day in a big beer hall in Munich (3000 people), 33-year old Adolf Hitler, and his two most famous comrades: General Erich von Ludendorff, a highly decorated and respected hero of World War I; and Hermann Göring, the second-greatest German fighter pilot of the war, after Baron von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Hitler pulled his Lugar pistol, fired shots into the ceiling, and declared that he was taking over the government. With a thousand armed Brown Shirts, and his cadre of high-ranking military officials, Hitler marched on the nearby Reichstag, Germany’s capitol building. Unlike Jan. 6, where the insurrectionists met with the weak resistance of the Capitol police, who were easily overrun as the building was taken; the German government immediately called out the army. The soldiers set up barbed-wire barriers blocking Hitler and his followers’ path. When the government soldiers realized that there was no reasoning with Hitler, who was still angrily firing his Lugar up in the air, the soldiers simply opened fire on the crowd. Several people in the front row were killed, Hermann Göring took a bullet in the thigh, and Hitler and his cohorts were arrested. Hitler was sentenced to five years, but only served ten months.

So, when Arnold said Kristallnacht, what he really meant was the Beer Hall Putsch.

The Jan. 6 insurrection and the Beer Hall putsch were very similar events—attempted and failed coup d’états.

Arnold, the Austrian, also said, “Hitler was only part Austrian,” obviously trying to make himself feel better about the whole situation. Unfortunately for you, Arnold, Hitler was all Austrian, both mother and father.

In 1933 Hitler was elected Chancellor of Germany in a fair vote, as was Donald Trump, at least in the 2024 election (2016 is still dubious). Both were legally and democratically elected. Both were very popular with half the population. Both were despised by the other half.

I come to my point. As Hitler’s four-year term was drawing to a close, during which time he had amassed enormous power, completely rebuilding the German military (even though he was specifically prohibited as per the Armistice agreement that ended WWI), he now faced an election. By 1936 in Germany, Hitler had attained absolute power. The old expression is “Absolute power corrupts absolutely,” which we have just witnessed with Trump. One who holds and wields such immense power cannot lose it. Anything less than ultimate power, is no power at all. When Hitler neared the 1936 election, just as Trump nears this election—both having at least half the population detesting them, who kept/and keep saying, “Oh, sure, he’s awful, but he’ll get voted out at the next election.” At the next German election, this is what the ballot looked like:

Unsurprisingly, Hitler got 98.6% of the vote, and I’m pretty sure the other 1.4% were shot.

Using history as our guide, Donald Trump now finds himself in a very similar situation to Hitler. Presently, Trump has absolute power. He has both houses of Congress, the head of every department, and seemingly even the Supreme Court, which bestowed upon him unlimited immunity. Trump’s Brown Shirts are ICE, both equally unruly. Standing in for the Jews are the immigrants. So far, any order Trump has given to the military, they have obeyed, including the illegal order of going into American cities. Now, should he need do the same thing—no matter what six Congressmen say on a PSA (one of whom is being indicted), or how disappointed a roomful of generals may have appeared—Trump’s done it and gotten away with it, why should he think that he won’t get away with it again?

It’s almost one year exactly until the midterm elections. That’s not a very long time. As we’ve seen in Trump’s first year, he is utterly reckless, and doesn’t give the slightest shit about the law. So, as I keep hearing Democrats wishfully say that the courts will handle it, even though they all know damn well that Trump pays no attention to court orders, or that he’ll get his when he loses the midterms, or he won’t live long enough to see the midterms, or he’ll be indicted over the Epstein files (ho ho), or the Democrats are going to gain five Congressional seats in California, or good always triumphs in the end. Even though most everybody can see exactly what I’m prognosticating, I cannot help but think of The Ostrichmans. The entire left have their heads in the sand. The best that they can come up with are protests, and angry podcasts (and if you’re really angry, subscribe, ring the bell, and help us get to one million subscribers). You don’t have to be a brilliant historian to see what’s coming—one name on the ballot.

Whether or not Mr. “Taco” Trump can pull it off remains to be seen. The point is that he can’t be allowed to try. If he is to be stopped, any attempt to stop him needs to start now. There are only twelve months until the elections, and that’s not very long.

The courts are not going to save us, wishful thinking is not going to save us, peaceful, one-day protests, are not going to save us—no matter how many people show up—boycotting Home Depot, Amazon and Target won’t save us, and fate probably won’t save us, either. If we all don’t do something, act proactively, we’re fucked.

My good buddy John, creator of The Ostrichmans, said last night that I’m “only adding fear into the situation. I’m being negative.”

I’m not being negative enough. I’m not fear-mongering enough. And unlike anything anyone else is saying, or has said, I’m offering a solution. And since nobody else has offered any solution at all; I’m offering a time-tested, viable, peaceful, and often successful, solution.

A general strike. Everybody stops working. By everybody, I mean anyone who dislikes Trump, or feels that they have been taken advantage of, or been negatively affected by Trump. Clearly, seven million people feel sufficiently negative about Trump to have shown up at the No Kings rallies (as I did). Plus, I feel certain that a large swath of his base: farmers, particularly soy farmers, and cattle ranchers, will eagerly join in (since they are either already out of work, or in the process of going out of business).

When the money stops flowing through the system, and everything comes to a standstill, it can’t be ignored. Not by Fox, not by Newsmax, not even by the people who don’t care, not by nobody, and certainly not by Trump. When the money stops flowing, Trump is fucked! He will have been stopped in his tracks. And neither the military, nor ICE, can do a damn thing about it. And, quite frankly, there’s nothing else left to do.

Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, 1931.

This tactic worked for Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi twice. First in South Africa, then again in India. In the single greatest display of disobedience in history, Gandhi forced the British out of India. The Crown Jewel of the British Empire for over 100 years. And Gandhi did it peacefully—or at least peacefully by the Indians; the British were another matter. When millions of Indians stopped working, and brought India to a dead stop, the British lost all of their power. When Gandhi’s general strike stopped all Indian manufacturing; the British went broke. All of England’s money came from the sweat and toil of severely underpaid Indian workers. While the British were having tea, going on fox hunts, and playing cricket; the underpaid Indian workers were working 14-hours a day, seven days a week. Nobody thought that this little, bent-over, nearly toothless, old man could take on the might of the British Empire and win, but he did.

Rosa Parks in 1955.

The other great practitioner of the Strike was the Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. Following in the footsteps of Mahatma Gandhi, MLK brought the American south to its black-hating, child-hanging, human-burning, knees. In 1955 (three years before I was born), Rosa Parks (of Detroit) wouldn’t give up her seat to a white person and was arrested by the Montgomery, Alabama Police. This incident inspired MLK to institute the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Because the primary users of the city buses in Montgomery were the black people; when the black people stopped using the bus, the city began bleeding money.

The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1964.

Okay, pay attention. In the name of Rosa Parks, the Women’s Political Council (WPC) organized a one-day bus boycott. And that was it. But the women started it. Just one day of empty busses threw the city of Montgomery into a complete panic. The Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. saw what a one-day boycott achieved, immediately took charge, and extended the boycott into the unforeseen future. Thus, the city of Montgomery continued bleeding money.

In 341days the city had bleed so much that its face was white, it was severely underweight, unsteady on its feet, and about to die, so it gave in. Ultimately, in the struggle between labor and capital, the only way labor can make capitol pay attention is to stop the flow of money. When you stop the flow of money; everything stops.

Though he appears old and incompetent, he is smart enough to have set up the ways and means to disrupt, or to stop, the 2026 midterm elections.

Trump must be stopped!

Therefore, if we patriotic Americans, who abhor injustice, abhor violence, abhor the threat of murder, and deeply abhor murder, must act now!

There is but one choice left—Strike. Stop the flow of money. Right now. Stop all manufacturing, all selling or buying, all services; all full-time, and all part-time labor

Just like the Vietnam war resistance, you begin with protest—so far we have had two, one-day long, No Kings protests: the first drew 5,000,000 people; the second drew 7,000,000 people.

The next step is boycott. This very weekend of Black Friday, there is a boycott of Home Depot, Target and Amazon for employing bad business practices. The boycott is called: We Ain’t Buying it.

After protest and boycott comes strike. The time for strike is now!

I don’t know how one starts a national strike, and I suspect that there is no one way to do it. If it can be done, it will certainly start small. Perhaps as small as 150 people. The Crack of Dawn has 150 subscribers, who almost always read it. If those 150 people each told one person, that would be 150 more. That’s 300. If this phenomenon continues to occur, of it’s own accord, then it will reach everybody.