Orange is the New Lemon

This note comes from our Contributors’ Desk of the Semi-Political (“A League of Republican-Democrats”).

“ I wrote this story upon coming back across The Atlantic’s February 2020 piece titled ‘Trump’s Quiet Power Grab’ which details how his legal team has been kicking the tires on the independence of our Republic’s Independent Agencies since before he was the GOP nominee in 2016:

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. acknowledged the damage the administration prior to his had done to the Agencies, in a public comment on December 28, 2020 even before he began his term holding our Office of President began. Unfortunately, NBC was the only news-house that covered it, and they underreported it as concerns related to our intelligence agencies, whereas JRB, Jr. was referring to the Agencies, categorically across the board and in general.

“If the Trump administration’s strategy works, it will have steered the federal bureaucracy further toward an authoritarian future in which all executive-branch policy making must bend to the whims of a single individual, the president.” - Peter M. Shane, The Atlantic, “Trump’s Quiet Power Grab.”

Among them are Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration, which collectively help keep Mortgage Rates at affordable levels. As well as the Federal Reserve (although it is technically a public-private partnership) and the Treasury (because it is unconstitutional for the government to print paper money).

Having reviewed the relevant Executive Orders presider (president) Donald J. Trump made during his first term (see for example this archived E.O. issued two days before he left the White House in 2021), as well as his more recent acts, including his attempt to fire Rebecca Slaughter (the former Commissioner of the FCC); it turns out that the situation is far worse than I imagined.—

The Agencies’ lifetime employees have historically been granted that term in order to ensure a lack of political bias, because they are responsible for interpretation, implementation, and enforcement of the laws passed by Congress. The administration’s actions to bring them effectively under purview of the Administrative Branch of our General Government (the ‘United States’ or the body responsible for our federal Union, see the fourth article of our Constitution), has the implication of rendering our Laws and our Lawmakers directionally irrelevant.

Helping to partially explain why Congress passed the wildly unpopular One Big Beautiful Bill Act—because the White House is holding them hostage. As well as further revealing, that Don the Orange Lemon and Melania Trump (if you will forgive me for trying to be funny) have white-marbled the Front Lawn of the People’s White House, and now want $1 Billion for security staff to run their Ballroom club; because they plan on not leaving (again) when his Term is up on January 20, 2029.

Jerome Powell, on the other hand, is refusing to leave the Fed because if he does, Trump’s nominee to replace him will digitize the U.S. Dollar (USD), which will lead to the loss of our Reserve Currency status:

The Bank of Japan (BoJ), which was the largest holder of USD in the world, is rumored to have liquidated the entirety of their approximately $4 Trillion in U.S. Debt holdings (on or about March 31st), and it is likely that China has fully liquidated the $1 Trillion they have historically held.

Altogether, indicating an East-West decoupling via the U.S. Dollar has already occurred, though we won’t instantly feel the effects, and no one is willing to admit, just yet, that there was no option but for these two countries to realign for peace in the Asia-Pacific region; when the current administration abandoned the U.S. trade and security mandate there.

If we officially lose our Reserve Currency status, our economy will be rocked by an upward spike in interest rates (the cost of our national debt) and commodities prices; because commodities are the inputs to our economy, and are mostly still currently priced everywhere (internationally) in U.S. Dollars.

Our deficit will also balloon in such a way that is not conceivable; because global trade will eventually cease to pair through USD Forex as it currently does; as well as be exacerbated by the upward shock in our cost of debt mentioned above.

Unless we, the People take action, now, this will all be happening in the midst of the economy wrecking spending cuts included in the ‘One Big Beautiful Bill Act’ (OBBBA) mentioned, which was tragically renamed ‘The Act’ by Chuck Schumer (NY) before it passed on July 3rd, the eve of our Republic’s 249th birthday. That is, the OBBBA’s spending cuts suspiciously don’t kick in until after the November election (happening instead sometime during early 2027).

We propose uniting forthwith each other as one Republic of American people under Nature’s god (being, truth or Creator) and begin calling our representatives in all three (3) branches of government, both at the Local (state) and federation or Union (general) level, and on both sides of the imaginarily impenetrable aisle.

Informing our Public Servants that We, the People demand a free & fair election this November, in which We will be voting for whichever candidates recognize (1) the Supreme Authority of the People; (2) the Perfect Coequality of Men & Women; (3) and, that those facts are both Preserved under the Formation Document of the United States of America (our Republic), otherwise known as the Declaration of Independence—as well as that they are already Protected as the very form and substance of our Constitution.

Be the Cause, that as soon as even one Member (Inhabitant) of this Republic, who is running for Office as a Challenger to an Incumbent; hears from us that they will have our vote if they genuinely acknowledge the those three (3) fundamentally foundational Truths of our shared Country’s formation; they will then proceed to build them into their campaign platform as talking points. And, that as soon as they start speaking to them publicly, support for them as a candidate will balloon along with Press Coverage, thereby causing every other candidate with a common sense, into a race to Serve the Republic (Public), us, the People—thereby saving us from the Technocratic Dictatorship that Musk-Thiel & Co., have been planning.

There is evidence that a disruption in the Water-Cycle has gone or will go exponential (see e.g., Global Water-Cycle Off Balance). In a scenario where we retain the Supreme Authority to Self Govern and our Natural Rights as provided for in the Formation Document of the United States of America (the Legal Name of our Republic), we will naturally govern ourselves with the changing Natural World, as we have done, for the only constant is change anyway.

However, if the Technocratic Demagogues of Silicon Valley and that Capitol of ours which sits between Constitution Avenue and Independence Way in Washington, DC get their way, even they will regret it.”

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men and women to do nothing” - Unknown

[Written by Anthony D. Baker, Contributor to The Republia Reguarded, a Substack Digital Newspaper, on May 9, 2026]

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