Help us call out Trump's back office minions (ABSOLUTELY NO VIOLENCE/LAWBREAKING - just naming and shaming)

[KTB2025]

Last edited Sat May 31, 2025, 01:48 PM - Edit history (1)

Our new project has been live on Substack for one month and is getting a great response!

It's called KTB: where we call out behind-the-scenes apparatchiks in the Trump Administration and the MAGA movement – the working level functionaries and collaborators who you haven't heard of but who are just as responsible as Trump, Elon, and the other big names. https://ktb2025.substack.com/

Why call out these people? Trump is just one dude, so without a legion of minions toiling for him, turning his rants into policy and action, he would be harmless. It's the worker bees who give him power - and if we can stop those worker bees, we might still save our democracy.

(Note: KTB eschews lawbreaking and violence. You should too. Otherwise, we are no better than Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, or any of the other thugs whom MAGA types crush on. KTB's "One Big Ground Rule" is Do NOT do anything illegal and/or violent to the individuals KTB profiles.)

We kicked off this project a whopping five weeks ago, so we're only 6 posts old, but we intend to keep posting about hidden Trumpers.

Take a look and subscribe/share/comment if you like what you see. KTB: https://ktb2025.substack.com/

[hedda_foil]

1. Change the name of your site, group, whatever it is.

The name, which I will not reproduce because it comes off as outright violent, is unacceptable. Anyone who signs is risking being reported for supporting assassination. You say that's not what it is, but that's how it comes off. It's obviously yours, given your screen name. Change the name for heavens sake.

[KTB2025]

2. Very wrong. NO VIOLENCE. Read the posts before criticizing...

The full name of the Substack is "Kill the Body" which is the first part of the very famous adage, "Kill the body and the head will die" - in other words, stop the servants and the leader is powerless. (Some folks say Hunter S Thompson coined this phrase, but I believe it had been around in boxing long before, meaning work the opponent's body, not just his head.)

In our present case, the adage refers to calling out the apparatchiks who turn Trump's rants into policy and action - we do that and Trump becomes powerless, if still obnoxious. The adage does NOT mean violence and never has. In fact, I will draw your attention to this paragraph which the Substack posts or links to repeatedly, just to make sure nobody misunderstands its intent:

Do NOT do anything illegal and/or violent to the individuals whom KTB profiles. The phrase “Kill The Body” is an adage and a metaphor, not a command to be taken literally. KTB eschews lawbreaking and violence. You should too. Otherwise, we are no better than Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, or any of the other thugs whom MAGA types crush on.

KTB has nothing to do with violence or assassination, so don't worry. (And I don't know how one would "sign" a Substack anyway, so you're not going to prison for endorsing anything illicit.) And yes, I am the lead author, which I thought was rather obvious since my post said "our Substack."

Anyway, let me reiterate for for anyone reading: as I said in the initial post's subject line, and as the Substack itself says, ABSOLUTELY NO VIOLENCE/LAWBREAKING is acceptable. Our "weapons" are public humiliation and social exclusion - weapons (or better put, "tactics" ) we should very much be using against MAGA.

[hedda_foil]

3. I read your whole post. It's the full NAME that says differently whether you mean it or not.

You're very new here and the name of your group in the present circumstances is dangerous, whatever your statements to the contrary.