One main aspect of the under Kurrent (that we all sense, feel, and holds a smoldering dread in our hearts), is that:

I can feel the pressure, the dread, and the silence all coalescing and building. Outside of forcing oneself into being, completely and utterly ignorant of politics, choosing to look away, or being quite literally too retarded to deny what's happening.

Here's the deal: this MAGA death cult, has without a doubt, fractured. It's a movement, that combines literally all of the worst of humanity and the human-condition, and tightly rolls it into one. The embodiment figure of this movement, befittingly, consists of what some would argue - is Satan himself. The sadistic pleasure these "leaders" and supporters derive in seeing people suffer, and denying truth - when it's evidently extremely hard to pretzel around - has nothing to do with woeful ignorance. No. Instead, I argue, they know exactly what they are doing, and how they are using their ego, their past subjugation and oppression, and fully intend to harness, channel, and direct this dark energy through manipulation, control, gaslighting and projection.

Per that latter point, the Overton Window has literally shifted so far into the realms of right Extremism/fascism/emotional (and sometimes physical) terrorism, that the old GOP's hard-line extremism on this spectrum, would read: prioritizing big business and special interest, among the masses, while actively avoiding self-reflection, or a greed (and void) so insatiable - that they will stop at nothing (even if it means destroying the very fabric of society), to seek ultimate control, rule, power, subjugation, and subterfuge.

Right now, their policies are so fringe, so anti-democratic, and so focused on ignoring the constitution and rule of law; whilst simultaneously, actively admitting to their crimes and seditious acts, out loud.

You might then be asking, what is the late-game stratagem, in a game of Monopoly - where we're all one proverbial dice roll away from losing all material security and safety: what is a society, that hinges our future on AI, the automation and anti-humanitarian (and anti-humane) age, in which we live? It's clearly projected into becoming a zero-sum game, where we all lose everything, and where attaining a living wage is so rare and places us in positions with employers - that demands 50-60 hour work weeks - in order to handle the basic necessities associated with upholding one's livelihood.

On top of that, we have a disillusioned group of 20 and 30 somethings, who are caught up in this perpetually cut-throat, disaffected, impersonal process - of reaching out and demonstrating vulnerability, honesty, and passion - yet, these same "hiring teams" are so disaffected by the world, that they unwittingly become part of the problem - and ultimately make things worse.

Nevertheless, it's a very serious and burning question, that I think we can all sense and feel. The United State's economy, is propped up upon a international currency - the USD - that's experiencing out of control inflation, unsustainable compounding and composite - record breaking profits, and an economy that relies nearly solely on the outcome of this unprecedented AI experiment, that will ultimately shape (and hijack): public, social, societal, philosophical, and political discourse and order.

The biggest strength of a Democratic Capitalist society, was the ability to: build, design, innovate, transform, compete in a laissez-faire ("Let it happen", in French) economic society. Even the word economic, means "head of household". To have a thriving economy, one cannot simply measure the "successes" - which are often either Trumped up lies (pun intended), or push their workers to their breaking point. I would classify the current political and economic conditions are ripe with exploitation.

The way I see it, there are three fundamental problems with current system (where defects are main features):

• A free-market can only exist when there is truly competition within the market. Our current market, is whole-sale owned, by Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street. This means, that when you go to the grocery store, nearly 90%+ of products on the shelf, are all owned, by one another. This creates a system where price-gouging (Trumped/chalked up as "inflation", comes into the picture). Taking a step back for a moment,,, ask yourself - "what is inflation?" Likewise, what's "an affordability crisis", Perhaps the more important question we should ask, is why is the richest and most prosperous country, in the history of the world, $40T in debt and climbing?
  What is inflation and how does it come about? The answer: when the ultra-rich sequester money and cozy up to politicians and place themselves as close as possible to the money-printing apparatus (like Elon Musk - for instance has), or you own all of the competition - it creates a scenario where all money is invariably siphoned upward. As you may, or may not know: the only way new money can be minted, is in the form of government grants, and relies on the bond market. Other countries buy up our debt, with the promise of making money on interest. Simultaneously, at the same time, we have characters like Trump himself, that only paid $700 in taxes in 2017 and $0 in taxes in 2016. The rich will set there and gaslight you into thinking that if they paid more taxes, it wouldn't make a difference. Au contraire. Their taxation would pay for a livable middle-class wage, and social safety nets - as they were intended.
• Through special interest groups, and lobbying - large megacorporate conglomerates have merged, in recent years, defying anti-trust laws and their purpose. The natural consequence of allowing two major competitors to merge, and this whole-sale consolidation of the market, means companies are free to enegage in anti-competitive practices, including price gouging. Simultaneous to this, we're being told the economy is the best it has ever been - even in light of major unemployed issues that have persisted and have further surged. It should be illegal, for instance, for companies making record profits each quarter, year after year, to be permitted to engage in widespread layoffs. Yet, between the corporate world and government - that's exactly what we see. We see companies that are price-gouging post COVID-19, wracking up prices,, and acting in anti-competitive ways. Now, we have the real brainchild of this dystopian feature - Russ Vought - the head of Office of Management and Budget, literally in control of overseeing both governmental spending, as well as the internal anti-trust group. Russ, only serves one master, either himself, or Trump. Much like many Trump's cronies, when they go before congress, continually say: "I work for the president", only to have Democrats correct them and say "No sir, you're not only wrong, but -moreover - I don't like what I'm hearing from you." You will notice, whether it be Russ Vought, or Todd Blanche, or the multitude of other confirmed cabinet members - they never correct themselves. Likewise, we have a corporate America, that only serves one master, the stake holders - above all else. Such a system is not only unsustainable, but moreover, it's corrupt, misanthropic, undignified, and inherently inhumane. I'm tired of everyday Americans, playing squarely into their hands, saying things like "it's just business", and "don't take it personal". Did you know, companies can be ran, however they so desire, and one such way - is investment into your people, and retaining talent. That version of events, doesn't require unwarranted layoffs, all to please the stake-holders and achieve the unsustainable effort of "record profits", "quarter after quarter", and "year after year". The other pattern I notice is the more ruthless, inhumane, curt, and ignorant one is - the more successful they become. We are literally living in a time, where - as a society - we collectively normalize this behavior, when it's antithetical to a version of a world that is just, humane, and a society and democracy that cares for its people - and has got its back. On the contrary: starting next year, they will require all Medicaid recipients to work 20 hours per week. Mind you, some people possess a level of disability - so great - that such news of further Medicaid cuts is literally signing a death sentence to the disabled. This was never about actual concerns of "waste, fraud, and abuse" and instead, has everything to do with corporate America, bilking the public of our social support systems and structures, while engaging in the same kind of "waste, fraud, and abuse" they claim to be stopping. Have you ever noticed no follow-up, or details on the supposed, or purported "waste, fraud and abuse" they headline?
• With the horrendous job market combined with a job seeking culture that continually engages in inhumane acts, when it comes to their candidates, we have essentially created a job market that favors corporate America. Gone are the days that one's credentials could easily land people in the door. Instead, these hiring managers, being disaffects - like the rest of the American public - and super afraid of losing their jobs: are now tasked with approaching the hiring process in undignified and inhumane ways. This includes, lack of follow-up, mixed messaging, and broken promise after broken promise. "You'll hear back from me next week about taking you to stage 2 of the hiring process." Not only does the follow-up never happen, the selection process whole-sale discards the rejects, offering absolutely zero feedback. Hitting at the real heart of the matter, is asking the basic question "what is the long-game" strategy and gambit of this rogue regime, and it favoring the ultra-rich capitalists? When you intentionally undermine job reports, based on fact and statistics, and the layoffs continue - they are attempting to render the public, isolated, scared, alone, and hapless and helpless. And guess what, it's working? If they have 10-20% of the population so desperate for work, foreclosing on their mortgages (creating a fire-sale for the ultra-wealthy), and an economy where no one is able to afford their over-hyped and marketed products: then how are they expecting for such an unsustainable system to support itself. They have continually proven, they are trying their best, to crash the economy into the ground. Meanwhile, snatch up decades worth of effort to own a home, strip it away, and steal it from the public. Personally, it's my belief they actually want to crash the economy, because they can afford to weather it... we on the other hand, cannot.
  In the lead-up to the mid-terms, they want us paranoid, scared, helpless, voiceless, intimidated, and fearful. Why? The answer is simple. When you directly attack the ground on which people obtain their security, not only are people more likely to purchase items they cannot afford (out of desperation that it will address that void in their life, hence marketing),, but additionally, it makes people more compliant towards a mid-terms where they are focused so much on their survival, there's no real way to fight back.

To conclude, I believe we all deeply sense something's wrong and all possess an underkurrent (undercurrent) and dread to everyday living, that it makes it not only more difficult to live, it makes it all the more difficult to function. Per Maslow's hierarchy of needs, when you take away the base support structures of a functioning society, you create a public that's desperate for any/all support. They want the public inundated, distracted, engaged in senseless culture wars, scapegoating, and desperate and reliant upon a corrupt system - that has no real interest in supporting the everyday, hard-working,, American. This dehumanization process is rich and ripped in marketing, disinformation, distraction, subjugation, oppression, and continual gaslighting, projection and subterfuge. Meanwhile, they are doing everything in their power to rewrite history, our constitution and strip and disenfranchise the public when it comes to voting, and creating such a far-off toxic political environment, that everyday people will become overwhelmed - and choose to ignore the elephant in the room.

We're beyond a constitutional crisis. We're straight on our way, to full-blown authoritarian dictatorship. Especially, with a regime so unpopular, that they're solely focused on assailing and laying siege to our voting rights. You can tell that they're winning, when they say the illegal acts, out loud, and prime/choreograph/normalize their next move. If that doesn't sit right with you, your heart, and are tired of sitting back in horror, abandoning coalition, action, and using one's voice - then by default, you're offering your "inferred consent." Just look at Mitch McConnel: likely too sick to serve, or potentially dead. And yet, this regime will hide that fact, out of fear of loving a vote. The fact they are so outward and overt with their intentions, especially moving into this year, should tell you everything you need to know. They already have a plan in place and are directly acting upon it.

This means, if you simply think we can just show up and show out on November 5th, 2026 - and all of a sudden, all of our problems will magically go away - you're wrong. While I personally hope that I'm wrong about this, I strongly and intuitively know: judging from the results of the 2024 being highly suspect and suspicious, and Trump playing the Trump-sympathy card with his faked assassination, engaging in a coup and becoming a 34-time felon that subsequently went on to win literally EVERY swing state - that they already have the system rigged. Not only that, they are taking collective action, right this moment, to undermine state's autonomy and rights when it comes to conducting their individual elections, spreading misinformation and fear of the ills of socialism (God forbid we live in a society where we care for one another), and attempting to ban and put into place a myriad of roadblocks when it comes to voting. I suspect, polling places will experience a great deal of disorder, harassment, and violence. Likewise, they will instruct the USPS to reject delivery of ballots, attack ballot boxes, and call in false bomb threats. They are truly a one-trick pony.

I believe MAGA Mike Johnson, said it best, when he said "If Democrats win the mid-terms, they will investigate Trump, his family, his allies, his friends, and over half of the people in this room. I run a protection program." This quote was very telling, because why is it, that Trump is forcing the "Antiweaponization Act/Fund" to pay insurrectionists for their acts on J6, pardoning all of them, while likewise rendering themselves immune from any future IRS investigations. Could it be, that engaged in illegal acts? Capital One, seems to think so, when they shutdown over 300 of the Trump-regime's accounts, over suspicion/finding of money laundering. There's nothing inherently illegal, or unjust, with investigating the actions of a corrupt family and regime. Pam Bondi might disagree though, and she said "Trump is the law."

What deeply underscores this whole debacle, is the ultra-wealthy's insatiable self-destructive greed. While the rich don't feel like they rely on society, or need society - they forget that Americans live by the social contract, while the ultra-wealthy plot and scheme in every which way, to render themselves immune from such contract. Why are the ultra-wealthy, so focused on building bunkers? Why are they scared of the American public? I think the answer is clear: their own behavior tells us a story about them. Meaning: it's entirely possible that they have engaged in illegal acts, and are acting entirely complicity with the assistance of this corrupt administration, to refashion society - in their vision. Their vision is one of apocalyptic return of Jesus, combined with 1984, A Hand Maid's Tail; meets: The Iron Heel, Jennifer Government, The Space Merchants, The Plot Against America, and Parable of the Sower.

None of this is normal. We are bound by the constitution to use our voices, coalesce and resist the illegal actions of an oppressive regime. The only pushback to a fully captured government and SCOTUS, now lies in the hands of its people, and local state governments, resistance by the lower courts and their respective autonomy. Why then, are we buying into the continual 24/7 news cycle, social media doom-scroll, rage-bait, and sit back and watch our democracy slowly wither away and die? Why aren't the people using their voices? Why are they not rejecting the algorithm, the siloing, the subjugation, the control, manipulation, programming, and marketing?

That's why theunderKurrent.com was created. We are an crowd-sourced, people-curated, democratic independent news media platform. Through research, timeline, and exploring patterns of subtextual and pretextual abuse - together we explore what's lurking beneath the surface. We encourage active public, societal, and political discourse. Our values on truth and fact, are non-negotiable. We both detest and fully reject, any attempts to be manipulated, controlled, or gaslit - on the actual state of reality. Moreover, we recognize the lack of curation and community, is exactly what got us here. Therefore, snap out of it, join the community, and express your first amendment rights. While none of us individually may be able to set the social prerogative, together we can shape the narrative and the outcomes. However, it requires us to be involved, focused, and dedicated to a better future ahead. To achieve that, we must expose the exploitation, lies, and deceit - of an out-of-control and rogue administration. I believe together, our collective voice, will create an indelible effect, in the lead up to the 2026 mid-terms; and moreover, better ensure accountability, justice, and truth prevail. While lies may have won the battle, together and with truth - we'll win the war. Don't give in to the distraction, paranoia, or fears that justice will fail to prevail. Together, we can denounce and reject their lies, outright.

The ancient Greek philosopher, Aristotle, once famously stated in his triste "Politics" that: "man is by nature a social animal," adding that anyone who lives outside of society by choice is "either a beast or a God." We have the ultra-wealthy that choose the way of the beast. Through love, accountability, justice, and holding the record - let us live and love without labels and recognize our current living conditions is no accident, but the direct result of greed, corruption, and capture by the ultra-wealthy. The choice is yours.

Trump Derangement Syndrome (TDS) is in full display here. Not only that, but what is up the sycophantic acts from Trump towards Iran?

The answer: they are unwilling to play his games. Translation: $300B being forked over to Iran, Iran is allowed to produce nuclear weapons; and it almost seems to have l'air that they have kompromat (compromising material) on Trump and there is little to nothing he can do about it. In typical fashion, he spoke about how beautiful the leader of Iran was; how he wanted to kiss the leader of Egypt and other truly deranged things that are akin to him bragging about Arnold Palmer being well-endowed - in terms of family jewels.

For me - personally, I think this is the worst I have ever seen him. At times, he wasn't making sense. The guy is likely suffering from Frontotemporal dementia (FTD) Dementia (it's been obvious with the arch and the way he stands); to which I say "good" FDT.

When Trump/MAGA/GOP continually move the Overton Window: it's important we bring it back, call it for what this event was - deeply embarrassing for America. As Americans, we'll be paying the price for decades to come (including the likely $300B+ that America will be shelling out for the damages caused to the country and freeing of sanctions; not even including the fact they are entirely unwilling - per usua - to release the agreement with Trump saying "no one knows what's in the agreement"). Per that latter point, we recognize that Trump often represents "we" (as a country) to mean, him; claims of Jesus not being able to do a better job that DJT, and a bunch of other crazy BS.

The point is, we must keep our eyes focused on the prize - the upcoming mid-terms and to not get distracted. More to come in terms of the breakdown and reporting associated with choreographing and priming, in the lead-up to the 2026 mid-terms; suffice to say, they hold every arm of government (including a deeply weaponized DOJ) and assuredly: they are not playing by the rules. For a bit of good news - though a bit too late - it seems some MAGA influencers are waking up to the reality of what's really going on and DJT not fulfilling his campaign promises. And it literally took Tucker Carlson 10 years to recognize that Trump is a dishonest POS, with his observations that:

• Trump didn't place his hand on the bible (during his 2025 inauguration and start of his second term
• Trump, with the supposed Butler Pennsylvania shooting (which I'm going to call it out for what it really was, a false-flag and PSY-OP): Trump's ear miraculously healed in less than a day (likely because he wasn't at all shot, but pulled a classic/typical WWE under-the-stage razor-blade-ear-knick. He also recognized that it was suspicious that the media were pushed and positioned into place by the secret service to get the ideal "fight fight fight" hand-pumping, with the American flag being lowered by the crane. I made all of the same observations, but once more: Trump never wanted to speak of it again; the crime scene was immediately sanitized along with Crook's body being cremated; and we were offered a full explanation of the shooter (who he was, his motivations, etc.) way too quickly to be an actual investigation (but rather an engineered PSYOP; especially them mentioning that they were certain he was a lone-gunman).
• And lastly, aside from no further follow-up investigation and Trump stating it was too-painful to speak/revisit the events of that day, he decided to have that picture framed and placed in the WH (where he may admire it daily, as the narcissistic adonis that he is). The little of the Crooks/Butler files that were released of that day, just like the Epstein files - is fully redacted (unless there is an active/ongoing investigation, there is absolutely no justification for doing so; they know it, we know it, and yet they continue to white-wash/gaslight/project and weaponize/attack anytime anyone calls for accountability/transparency/the truth. His site: truthsocial.com is such an antithesis to its namesake; and we must remind ourselves that the treasonous sins he committed on Jan 6th was serious enough, that back then in Jan of 2021: YouTube, Meta (aka. Facebook) and Twitter decided fully to censor/ban him from those platforms. In other words, back then, at least we had a legacy media/society that held him at least to some account; but given Trump/Bannon/Miller/Thiel's gambit of "flooding the zone" in the news.
• Elon's election interference (and the litany of other aberrant statistical anomalies (where he won every swing state, after committing a coup) - seems to have paid off. That is why the underKurrent.com retraces these events as they develop, when they happened, and looks at the contextual nature and alternating/oscillating/changing narratives/justifications when new developments emerge. It's important that we avoid becoming complacent/complicit when it comes to the sheer minutia and associated overwhelm created by the 24/7 news cycle, and the lack of news curation
• Certainly no real platform is taking the time to line everything up, connect the dots, read between the lines, elucidate truth, and form a coalition of curation/research/analysis by the people, for the people - with no special interest and carrying that commitment through and seeing these topics to their finality. Naturally, that includes implementing user choice, in terms of configuring their own individual algorithm with the feed, following trusted kontributors, making sense of the chaos, and not letting the engineered "TikTok age" we live in (of short form media with matching attention-spans), get in the way (or serve as a replacement) for much-needed human-connection. We recognize we live in this amazing digital age; and while social-media was intended to "connect people" and be well, "social": it's become increasingly clear these platforms possess too much of a loyalty to maintaining the status quo, filtering/censoring out trust/truth, and always aiming for a north start of "engagement", as measured by attention, virility, polarization, divisiveness, and conflict. That's not at all the case here. We always value substance over form/performance and we don't hold any hidden loyalties to big business/sponsorships - as that would be a means of wittingly/unwittingly incorporating un unfavorable bias; and we refuse to do so.
• Our loyalty is to the truth, integrity, community/shared voice, accountability/justice, and building an undeniable coalition of individuals that will stop at nothing to ensure: the truth is brought to light, that we won't forget and give into gaslighting/intimidation, and longitudinally - "we, the People" are offered the full longitudinal context, refocus, and to not give in to the bait/justifications/false-narratives/nor the misanthropic and and socially-engineered means to keep us divided and confused. That's why this site is called "the underkurrent" (aka. the undercurrent).

2) An implicit (figurative meaning)emotion, belief, or atmosphere that exists in a situation but is not directly expressed or openly acknowledged. It often hints at tension, danger, or a suppressed feeling.

3) It also has other clever/moxie inferred meanings such as revealing what's beneath the surface; reading between the lines; the importance of remaining kurrent (aka. current).

And again, no such platform exists. It's also important that Democrats work on their messaging and adopt an enduring narrative that doesn't beat-around-the-bush, but instead exposes Trump/MAGA/GOP for who/what these monsters are. They are the ultra wealthy, deeply unhealed, hellbent on controlling the populace and extracting as much wealth as possible - while gaslighting society and crafting a two-tiered justice system: where the rules apply to us, but not to them. This includes unequal application of the law, blatant disregard for the constitution/upholding the law of the land/equality/inalienable human rights. Instead, they literally pervert the truth and conflate meaning (either literally, or sub-textually). We see it with them spending all of their time "preying" [on others], rather than "praying" [for others]. Most of them weaponize religion, while intentionally misapplying the parables and life of Jesus as the justification for their actions; yet, they are simultaneously not able to name a single bible verse on their own. Likewise, they value "profits" over "prophets".

The bottom-line is, this "new normal" is not normal; as they seen to invalidate the way Americans (and the rest of the world): feel the way they do and the permeating undercurrent that tangentially, lies below the surface. We must spend more time - connecting with others, seeking opportunities to find our tribe of people, and to not give into the fear/paranoia/division that they insatiably desire to keep us stuck in a perpetual narcissistic loop of their own making; as they transform America into a third-world country. It's hard imagining our country can ever come back from this, or that democracy (lowercase d), will eve be the same - given democracy relies on freedom of speech, a free/open press (not just one that caters to this Trump regime); and acting truthfully/transparently and acting dignified/honorably when exercising their positions of power. Instead, we have an out of control Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) that actively chooses to lean heavily Right extremist and continually capitulate to Trump and his dastardly administration with absolute immunity for presidential acts, willingly and woefully ignoring responsibilities relegated solely to congress (spending, going to war), and now supporting entire gutting of the American Voting Rights Act; whereby they knowingly are allowing Gerrymandering for red states, with unprecedented and illegal mid-decade redistricting - doing so without the consent of the public, and then turning back around and preventing blue states from enacting similar under the will of the people. Make no mistake about it, this is an assault on free/fair democracy and since Trump has been given absolute immunity and already handed out thousands of pardons, "vindicated" the J6 "hostages" (aka perpetrators, insurrectionists, felons), and now literally running any/all gambit/stratagems imaginable, to suppress the vote by all means necessary, while Gerrymandering, and I have absolutely no doubt in my mind that they will prime/choreograph/message/pre-text (before a single vote is even cast) about there being "endless corruption" and that we cannot trust the results of this election. I also feel that Trump is likely to keep the Iran simmering, so that way he can use Iran/WWIII to declare national emergency and to cancel the mid-terms. After all, we must remind ourselves, those currently in power - that hold absolute power and control right now, constantly blame democrats, 1.5 years into their charade/debacle of bad choice after bad choice, miscalculation after miscalculation, felony after felony... that they recognize (much like the GOP congressional in Tennessee that said it best, when he said: we cannot let Democrats win the mid-terms, otherwise we'll be held accountable [paraphrasing]). Since the start of this administration, there's absolutely no doubt, they are going to evade accountability by all means possible, by manipulating the markets, and sit back as Americans suffer/die/grow ill from the stress, lack of healthcare, gas prices, and affordability crisis. And guess what? They do so gleefully because the intend to make their misery, our misery. Now that Elon has hit $1T in net worth, will he be happy, quit, and become a philanthropist? Hell no. His insatiable greed, duplicitous behaviors under the guise of weeding out "waste/fraud/abuse" (translation: they are the embodiment of the literal thing that they claim they are after, and despise; while this isn't 'new' news, it's now overt and they aren't hiding it).

Yup... we know... it's all connected - as is the world's authoritarian regime push and such investments with AI.

Closing polling locations early... shuttering of 1/3 of polling locations... only serves one purpose: voter suppression. Same thing is true with this current abysmal job economy and AI.

Christians... I love you Christians... I'm not Christian - get out there and vote. When you vote this one last time, you'll never have to vote again - we'll have everything so "fixed", you'll never have to vote again

I don't need your vote... I've got too many votes

Released from the Democrat House Judiciary committee, 8 days before election day.

This is like the third or forth of such report. We're talking discard and reject lawful votes.

Wouldn't be surprised - and not the first time there was existential crisis and distraction to cover something else up, the Epstein files... They require the distractions so they can pull the levers and control the narrative.

I'd like to remind you last time Trump lost, he was gaslighting Georgia to "find 11,780 missing votes", blackmailed Vladimir Zelensky, 63/64 failed lawsuits levied against individual states - challenging results, a false slate of electors, an ongoing election lie, an attempted coup, and rewriting the events of Jan 6th and intentionally conflating victims with perpetrators and perpetrators with victims.

That's concerning and I am wondering how much of that is truly due to 'low voter turnout' vs. Starlink or others. We know this administration will stop at nothing to cheat; we saw Elon throttle Starlink traffic to Ukraine. While this is just my opinion - Hawaii has been historically a blue state.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NMg8NtM6DM

This was reported on in the media, but I hadn't seen evidence of it, up until now.

This is what attempts to steal an election looks like - some hidden, some happening right in front of us.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/2235013630786009

We knew this was coming when Trump said he would pardon anyone without 100 yards of the White House. This is how corruption works.

Trump-regime's bogus demands and escalated emergency discovery.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/29327803843575769
(running cover for the fact the Trump administration has ties to Russia - is my take on this... similar to how Epstein ranch had purported "extraction of semen" from "unwilling men" - which is just cover and running roughshod over a legit involvement).

In other news and part of this video: Coverage on Elon - $0.9T - biggest donor to PAC

...and: Republicans could possibly lose both House and Senate.

Malheursement.

The current shape of gaming is mercurial. And it all started with Sony's push towards a digital-only push and sunsetting physical media. You can think of it as what Adobe is to SaaS, or how Apple made the push towards soldered on SSDs and removal of physical media drives standard (and ultimately leading to the death of physical media on computers).

Whatever the case: anytime corporate America makes a unilateral decision based purely off stakeholders and not the consumers, it typically leads to pushback and disasters. It's not at all surprising that this pairs with the current state of America, its economy, and widespread implementation and push towards AI replacing workers more broadly. Additionally, it points to the underlying politick of our nation, as corporate interests are continually over-valued, while citizen's interests are continually under-valued. It also points to the desperate need implement government regulation and oversight, once we restore government's function to serve the needs of the many - not just the few. Likewise, it's also why theunderKurrent.com was borne as a platform: we recognized there was a better and more humane option that honors independence and user's choice.

This democratic erosion causes a breakdown of the social contract and social order - all at the benefit of the few.

Gov. Jared Polis declared a disaster emergency late Thursday in response to the flooding, unlocking the Colorado National Guard for evacuations and search-and-rescue across Alamosa, Archuleta, Conejos, Dolores, Hinsdale, La Plata, Mineral, Montezuma, Ouray, Rio Grande, San Juan, and San Miguel counties. The San Juan River's 15-foot peak near Pagosa Springs Friday morning was roughly 10 feet above its pre-flood level and just two feet below the record of 17.8 feet, according to NOAA. In October 2025, the same river peaked near 13 feet, forcing evacuations and damaging more than 100 homes in neighboring La Plata County, the Denver Post reports.

This is the same river, in the same state, breaking itself against the same record twice inside a year.

And it arrives on schedule, because the Trump regime has made it policy: FEMA defunded, climate science denied, global warming treated as a rumor the weather keeps spreading anyway.

Colorado has been punished twice for this.
Last year, after Governor Polis initially refused requests for the release of Tina Peters, Russ Vought (the brainchild of Project 2025, installed as head of OMB) announced the National Science Foundation would dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, which sits in the foothills above Boulder. Polis eventually relented last June and let Peters go, where she was immediately whisked into the Trump administration and installed as an "election integrity" voice — this after her crimes of providing unauthorized access to voting equipment and covering it up. But the damage was done, and the damage was the point: the world-renowned institution that studies these storms, and that develops and deploys the sensing technology behind early detection, was gutted as a political lesson. When the river needed forecasting this week, the forecasters had been taken away on purpose.

The Marshall Fire is the preview, not the exception.
This New Year's Eve marks five years since the Marshall Fire (December 30, 2021), driven by 100+ MPH winds, ravaged southeast Boulder County, with most of the damage in Superior and Louisville. Dozens of neighborhoods were razed outright. The aftermath looked like a war zone: chimneys and cinder block left standing as the only evidence, besides the paved streets and sidewalks, that a neighborhood had ever existed. The event was so costly and so serious that it is now nearly impossible, or extremely expensive, to insure a house in Colorado, with most insurers halting new policies in Boulder and Denver proper. Xcel Energy was sued over it, on the presumption that amid a winter drought, the winds brought down a transformer and ignited a fire that became uncontrollable. Other theories pointed to collapsed coal-mine fires that reportedly still burn thousands of feet underground to this day.

When you combine major meteorological events with extreme wind and drought, you get Marshall. When you get them with rain, you get Pagosa Springs. This past summer, Marseille, France, took its own unprecedented flooding. The globe is running the experiment on all of us at once.

And the regime's answer is to delete the sensors and defund the rescue.
"Not just a weather story" is the whole point: this administration denies the climate while gutting the Department of Education, privatizing federal agencies, defunding FEMA, and dismantling the environmental research institutions that develop the early-detection technology — a rogue administration more invested in "getting even" and capitulating to the lie than in doing right by its citizens. An uneducated public trivializes weather events; a gutted science sector can't see them coming; a defunded emergency sector can't respond to them. Each failure compounds the others, deliberately.

We already ran this experiment too. The en-masse DOGE cuts of 2025 laid off "unnecessary" federal workers wholesale: the nation found itself short of the minutemen running, managing, and protecting our nuclear deterrent arsenal (the same arsenal Trump has repeatedly threatened to obliterate Iran with, in actions deserving of the terms war crimes and crimes against humanity), and the country suffered an unprecedented string of plane crashes after the layoff of air-traffic controllers and aviation inspectors. This is not mismanagement. This is the management.

We are being led by the blind, the stupid, the sadistic, the narcissistic, the entitled, and the cruel.
Trump embodies anti-reality, and the citizenry is perpetually gaslit by a system of intentional conflations: his accusations serving as self-admission (projection); victims and perpetrators swapped (January 6, and the Epstein files); "our country has never been more successful and more hot" while he undermines the democracy underneath it. When he says "we," he means either himself ("I, the royal we... you know, the editorial") or the top 1% of the top 1%; "they" means whoever negatively affects him alone. His hijacking of the narrative, his attacks on truth-tellers, the ad-hominem reflex, the gross injustice and denial of January 6, claiming zero knowledge of Project 2025 while implementing its exact playbook with Heritage Foundation alumni (Russ Vought, among several others) forming the core of his cabinet — none of it is accidental. It is the operating system.

Take MAGA at its word, because they tell you exactly what they are.

Now the ledger, because they claim to be the fiscal hawks.
The debt numbers, in sequence: the national debt when Trump took office in January 2017 sat at $19.5 trillion. Today it sits above $41 trillion. It has increased by over $4 trillion since he took office in January 2025 alone, skyrocketing with his failed gambits and aggressions against Iran. His first term raised it by $7.8 trillion; under Biden it grew $8.45 trillion, much of which traces to COVID-19 and Trump's denial of the pandemic ("it's never coming here").

Per president:

• Richard Nixon / Gerald Ford (1969-1977): $358B to $703B, +$345B, +96.4%
• Jimmy Carter (1977-1981): $703B to $1.00T, +$299B, +42.5%
• Ronald Reagan (1981-1989): $1.00T to $2.86T, +$1.86T, +186.4%
• George H.W. Bush (1989-1993): $2.86T to $4.19T, +$1.33T, +46.5%
• Bill Clinton (1993-2001): $4.19T to $5.73T, +$1.54T, +36.8%
• George W. Bush (2001-2009): $5.73T to $10.63T, +$4.90T, +85.5%
• Barack Obama (2009-2017): $10.63T to $19.95T, +$9.32T, +87.7%
• Donald Trump, Term 1 (2017-2021): $19.95T to $27.75T, +$7.80T, +39.1%
• Joe Biden (2021-2025): $27.75T to $36.21T, +$8.45T, +30.5%
• Donald Trump, Term 2 (2025-present): $36.21T to $40.05T+, +$3.80T and climbing, +10.6% in under two years

The pattern: under Republican leadership the deficit balloons and recessions — or worse — follow (Nixon, Reagan, Bush, Bush, Trump). Under Democrats, especially with concurrent legislative control and respect for the balance of powers, the deficit has been reduced and prosperity followed. The One Big Beautiful Bill's entire purported premise was that national spending was unsustainable and the cuts were fiscal hygiene. The reality: the "savings" came from mass layoffs of federal workers, stripping citizens of entitlement programs they paid into, deregulating corporate America wholesale, and doing away with consumer protections — while permanent tax breaks went to big business, capped with a meager no-tax on tips and overtime, plus a first-term reduction in the standard deduction for ordinary taxpayers. The accusation theater about Democratic "heated rhetoric" and "pro-violence" carries the same relationship to reality: Republicans and MAGA disproportionately engage in the radicalism they project onto others.

And the oligarchs built the fog machine.
The tech-evangelists and technocrats — Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Sam Altman — would like us all to believe that (1) if they and the other ~3,000 billionaires and countless corporations operating off capitalistic welfare paid their fair share of taxes, it wouldn't make a difference. Wrong. It absolutely would. And (2) that when technology, the internet, and modern social media arrived to make our lives easier and more connected, and the major platforms capitalized on it as AI rolled out, the promise that AI would "never take our jobs, just make us more productive" was a lie from the start. The technocrats were always out to own and commodify our information, our attention spans, and our influence, to peddle disinformation and propaganda while suppressing the truth, allowing elections to be foreign- and corporate-influenced, and bending reality to the desires of the minority at immediate and lasting cost to the majority — all culminating in subverting the will of the people.

"Cheat like hell" — and like they do, separately, because that part isn't true.
When Trump tells his supporters to "cheat like hell," he's describing his own playbook. Democrats have never in any way acted like this. The worst crime Democrats have committed, as far as I can see, was attempting to nationalize healthcare. Republicans call the ACA a failure; in eleven-plus years they have failed to produce a cheaper equal alternative, and have instead sought to undermine it with race-baiting bigotry like "Barrack Hussein Obama" (a not-so-indirect nod to Osama bin Laden). Trump himself berated, attacked, and falsely accused President Obama of being a terrorist, a spy, and not born in the United States. It is rather not so ironic, then, that this was projection too: "your country is going to hell... your country is falling apart... it will be decimated under Democratic leadership" — spoken about himself and his, the entire time.

Under Trump 2.0 — and God we pray we're at least halfway through this dystopian nightmare — we've experienced a failing job economy, a failing economy overall, an unprovoked war, Gestapo attacks on blue states, the continued attempt to overturn an election that already led to a near-constitutional crisis on January 6, illegal tariffs, a country edging itself toward initiating WWIII, and a leader telling his supporters they're going to hell if they don't cheat for him — all while he self-acclaims having "freed us from 8 wars, no new wars," that the economy has never been better, and that Americans got massive tax cuts. For the wealthy, perhaps. For everyday Americans, absolutely not: we've been taxed more.

So: if America is doing so well, and if Trump is right that the country pulled in nearly $21 trillion, why is the deficit not being reduced — why the mass layoffs of federal workers, the stripped entitlements and research grants, and MAGA Mike Johnson promising further cuts to Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, and Social Security if Republicans win the midterms? Why was a bill that permanently enriches big business named "The One, Big, Beautiful Bill"?

Why is the river 15 feet high, the science center empty, the fire uninsured, and the ledger $41 trillion deep?

Because it isn't a climate story. It's one story, and we're living in all of it.

The Department of Justice is warning local election officials in California to cooperate with the administration to identify noncitizens on a list of registered voters or face potential legal action, according to a letter obtained by NBC News.

This was never about "election security" and has everything to do with election subversion, coming from the felon and chief.

I had played MassEffect 1 and 2 - but really haven't kept up with the series. Additionally, i haven't played video games regularly in years, but did finally pick up a Nintendo Switch 2 and have been slowly playing through Fire Emblem: Fortunes Weave - which follows a full playthrough of Fire Emblem: Three Houses in 2019.

Jusy like the the state of the world, it appears even Video Games are affected, as unsustainable and unattainable record profits are burning game art and design - true amazing games appear to be a bit of a lost art, or purely relegated to indie developers, at this point.

I think you know the answer to this... things happen for a reason.

Here is an interview with the director:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYWrIcQNFLQ

And likely in many other red states.

Trump and the Trump-regime would like nothing more than for you to forget the events of January 6th, 2021. Why? Because it was an example of where the now sitting president incited a mob and attempting to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

We likewise maintain a record of it. Let us not forget, as otherwise history will repeat itself - until we take the time to remember.

According to Matt Crane of the Colorado County Clerks Association:

I'm not surprised that they chose a Democratic office, in one of the closest congressional districts and congressional races in the country - to go and observe.

If they are engaging - like they were in Wyoming: then that becomes problematic.

It sounded like, the behavior of the observers was a bit aggressive.

And so it begins...

Donald Trump is a walking, talking, projection machine.

People are walking into voting booths, having their vote selected for Democrat, changed - right in front of their faces to Republican - right before their eyes, to the Republican candidate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47QZ6PoHl44

You can see the court case filing, here:
https://www.nycourts.gov/reporter/current/3dseries/2026/2026_06197.shtml

And a bit more regarding the background of the case, here:
https://protectdemocracy.org/work/denson-v-trump-campaign/

An article by Robert Reich, who really captures the basis of corruption, moral rot and decay, and the form of nihilism that had overtaken our politick.

As an author, political commentator and previous member of Clinton’s administration, he Is well-spoken and an excellently written article. While it may not the full litany and outline all of the abuses, it does hit at the heart of the matter.

While the supreme court has always branded itself as a non-partisan, apological branch of government - nothing could be further from the truth, over the course of the past two years.

We have seen partisan decision after partisan decision land, that favors the Right-leaning super majority, including:

1. Abortion rights
2. Presidential immunity
3. Permitting implementation of Trump's federalized voter rolls and SAVE Act - which failed to pass in congress.

Even still, the Trump-regime has specifically pushed back, ignored, and gaslit on the ruling of SCOTUS; notably on the matters of Kilmar Armando Ábrego García's overnight/in-the-cloak-of-darkness deportation, among a few others.

Additionally, there have been plenty of cases they have entirely ignored, such as the case of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the Tear-Down of the East Wing, and the Trump-regime sinking ICE on blue states - among many others.

Democrats have largely remained mum - for the longest time, on the topic and merits of expanding the federal court - out of fear of pushing away voters. However, adopting that same stance of "softening" on the topic of the boarder when it came to the 2024 Presidential Elections proved disastrous and perhaps alienated some voters in the 2024 election cycle.

Here's the thing: we all should be about honoring the constitution, the law and equal application of it, and stop ignoring the glaring elephant in the room. None of what we've seen transpire in the past 11-12 years has been normal - as far as Trumpism is concerned. Furthermore, many Americans want our country to return to a state of normalcy (to its previous state), while ensuring that government is by and for the people and serves the majority's best interests - not just the ultra-wealthy.

If Democrats happen to win the 2026-midterms and then go on to win the 2028 Presidential Elections (and yes... expect Trump's denial and pushback on both), then "we the People" expect for our leaders to fight for what's right, and for our rights, freedoms, and restore justice, truth, and dignity to its people and truly restore a sense of embodied leadership through the world. Don't get me wrong, much damage has been done and there are consequences and penance due for Trump, his allies, sycophants, and anyone that has enabled for this rogue and corrupt president to running his illegal grift, anti-democratic operation, and especially the continual capitulation to Russia.

We all recall: following the 2016 elections, that our DOJ, our FBI, our CIA had independently investigated that Russia had interfered in our sovereign elections process; and yet - here was Trump on national TV saying: "Russia, if you're listening...". This is not okay and should be punished.

Moreover, there should be a widespread effort to follow the money, investigate: Trump, his allies (who financially benefitted off these abysmal economic times), Epstein, the Russia-Trump connection (undeniable), Elon's connections to Russia, investigate the enablers, SCOTUS, and retract the personhood provided by the Citizens United SCOTUS decision. The latter is truly as bastardization and oxymoron of a name, considering it wasn't about personhood of citizens, but instead about instilling personhood into the corporate world - which not only gave it a voice, but a megaphone proportional to its spending. It was the same gamification of the system that allowed Trump to win in 2016, and 2024. It's also the voice that bypasses the will of the People and setting the agenda based on monetary and corporate policies - as they relate to government. What also needs to happen is massive taxation on the ultra-wealthy and shift the burden away from those who can barely afford to survive, as well as eliminate the tariffs and do not refund the recuperated funds to the corporations - but to "we the People".

I think many Americans are sick of our lives being toyed with, acting like our lives, survival and ability to make ends meet be constantly be trivialized. Likewise, we as a people need to come together, form a community, a platform, and a shared and indelible and undeniable voice and coalition that says "no... not on our watch".

Listen, I know it feels like none of our influence and voice matters, among the endless sea of voices out there. However, it truly does matter and does have the ability to shape public, social, societal and political discourse. This is not a Left vs. Right issue... this is a Top vs. Bottom issue. The wealth disparity in this country, has only perpetually widened. Simultaneous to this, over the course of this past decade, we've watched the national debt double from $20T to $40T; a vast majority of it originating from policies of the Right (the self-proclaimed fiscal-hawks, aka. war-hawks, kleptocrats, and technocrats) and the COVID-19 epidemic. Running in parallel to these disastrous policies that are bleeding our country dry, has been one of the greatest PSY-OPs in United States history (if not world history). As a people and concerned citizens, it's time that we put down the phones (stop the doom-scrolling and short-form media), form a platform and sit down and come up with solutions and expose the truth regarding the pretextual, subtextual, priming, choreographing abuses/gaslighting/projecting/subversion that has permeated our policies and put down our regrets of the past (or worries of the future) and live in the present moment and empower ourselves.

The 24/7 news cycle is entirely too fragmented, lacking curation; the same thing can be said for social media. Gone are the days that we could simply check up on our friends; our micro-worlds have been replaced with a macro-world - with too much information, too many voices, and too many distractions or excuses for why we're disempowered. But, here's the thing... we are powerful - especially when we've been left voiceless and without a platform. That shift starts now... it starts today. We can track the abuses, maintain the record, expose the contradictions, reclaim the hijacked narrative, and restore truth/trust/dignity/transparency to our self-governance model (while also reclaiming our self-governance model).

The Trumpism cult and disinformation machine has done everything in their power to disempower us, render us disaffected/apathetic/indifferent towards our political politick, by rendering the political environment: unreasonable (you can't fight rational reason with ideologues and the misinformed); deeply foreign influenced and influence by wealthy corporate interests (and no: breaking up the monopolies and implementing heavy regulation absolutely will not kill corporate America, but may displease the stakeholders - so what? This isn't free-capitalism and laissez-faire economics, that thrives on competition, innovation and rewarding good corporate policies); a congress that has hijacked our governance model (this means goodbye to the likes of MAGA Mike Johnson - who has held the House ransom and only served the interests of Donald Trump and Project 2025's envisioning of reinventing America); and eliminate the form of nihilism of our politics by holding individuals responsible accountable (I don't care if Elon Musk has all the money in the world to slip and slide his way out of danger; and a pardon should/cannot be all encompassing for past/future behavior).

The current state of survival in America (and across the world) - as we watch fascism rise from its ashes from 90 years ago - is not only unsustainable, it's also not an accident/incidental, nor the second turning. This has everything to do with bypassing consent, manipulation, control, extortion, slander, and weaponizing government against the very people who are intended to control it, and in which it was fashioned to protect it and its interests.

It's time for this madness to stop and recognize what is abnormal and unsustainable, vs. what is normal and sustainable practices. The same thing applies to the environment. The ultra-wealthy can convince us that them paying their fair-share wouldn't make a difference, or that implementing policy to protect the environment (and therefore the planet) will have zero effect; when in reality, it's a zero-sum game. Moreover, all the advancement and promises of technology and AI should be making all of us more prosperous and productive; not a way for companies to ignore their responsibilities and enrich themselves exponentially - at the cost of the majority.

The buck stops here.

For developers - just to be aware. theunderKurrent does not run via PHP.

PHP2Shell - discovered by LCFR (@lcfr_hax on X.com)

The vulnerabilities consist of:

• CVE-2026-109618: corrupt process memory and execute arbitrary code
  Affected: upload progress, remote process memory disclosure
• CVE-2026-109618: corrupt process memory and execute arbitrary code, corrupt a PHP state and execute code
  Affected: fatal-error backtrace use-after-free, OPcache type confusion

How it was demonstrated: pre-authentication Remote Code Execution (RCE) with major CMSs, such as: Drupal, Wordpress, and Joomla, etc.

Since this is a low-level exploit and affects low-level PHP processes - pretty much any site will be affected.

The timing of the Trump-regime's attempts to refashion the press room into a White House swimming pool, not only comes at a time of increasing scrutiny of this administration - but additionally raises concerns about transparency of this administration.

Given the ongoing gambits/stratagems employed/deployed by this administration/regime, it's becoming apparent that the real reason for suggesting the press briefing room be removed from the White House - is the sheer number of leaks of corruption.

The Trump-regime already discussed and floated the idea of forcing all staffers to sign an Non-Disclosure Agreement (or NDA), so they could tighten the lid and operate from more of a place of PR optics - rather than actual transparency and truth.

Additionally, this administration has demonstrated how much it is pro-Russia, interested in destabilizing the global order, running roughshod over social and political norms, and engaging in endless assaults on our democracy and constitution. Thus, it's of no surprise, that in the lead-up to these 2026-midterms - they are vacating the White House press briefing room, especially if they're engaging in similar actions to what we saw during Water Gate and is exposeed in the documentary movie, "Our Nixon". If you haven't checked it out yet, be sure to. You will find a lot of parallels and mounting pressure that was experienced back then, transpiring right now.

Moreover, Trump has ratcheted up pressure on Ukraine, following their successful attacks on the Russian disinformation machine, being peddled out of the Google of Russia, Yandex, and the four data centers that were hit - that lead to several days of disinformation/foreign-influence silence from the MAGA crowd. For Trump, it always comes down to optics - rather ironically, even though his approval rating and the current optics are at some of the lowest. But, perhaps that is why they decided to pull the trigger on kicking the media out. They, themselves, know that there is currently a mutiny transpiring between staffers, as pressures mount and Trump/his family/allies/MAGA Mike Johnson - recognize that if Trump loses and Democrats with the House (and especially if they win the House and Senate and obtain a super-majority in both congressional arms), that the investigations into corruption that will ensue will be so damaging, that they don't need to preface it with corruption leaks -- of all times as now.

Again... I truly hope that I am wrong... but at the same time, don't be surprised if they try to peddle the idea that Republicans maintain their super-majority, amid a public backlash and outcry for citizen's needs not being met. This is especially the case as Trump attempts to gaslight Americans into believing the exact opposite - that America has never been stronger, better off, or that his actions have shown the world to stop laughing. Rather not so ironically, however, Trump's actions have shown how weak, out of touch, and corrupt America has become that our allies can no longer trust us, with a frontotemporal dementia (FTD)patient at the helm and one who is ever-increasingly become out of touch with the needs of everyday Americans - and is instead too focused and obsessed with money, political push, power, and unilateral over-reach and enriching himself and his friends - to ever focus on the problems at home - rather than create new ones abroad.

For anyone that received a mail-in-ballot, I just wanted to let you know that - specifically for me - it took nine days for my ballot to be collected, signature verified and counted - before my ballot was counted.

Since Trump during his first administration had Louis DeJoy dismantle the postal service and dismantle multi-million dollar sorting machines and when combined with the impetus that the Trump-regime placed on the USPS to reject ballots (not that they will, since SCOTUS now made the enforcement optional and by state) -- this had lead to considerable delays with regular mail. To offer you some examples:

• For local mail: typically what would typically take only 1-2 days, now takes 4-7 days - for local mail, to receive it.
• For out of state mail: typically what would take 3-5 days, now takes closer to 9-14 days to receive mail.

If these trends are any indication, it means that if you mail your ballot back: expect for upwards of 7 days for elections officials to receive your ballot (if they receive it at all) and upwards of 7-14 days to have it counted. Many of these delays have been engineered by this regime, as on election day - I am certain that Trump will demand that election workers "stop the count", or be subjected to federal prosecution. Why would Trump use such a strategy? It's simple: Trump when he's ahead, on election day, would want the count to stop while he's ahead in the polls. This is equivalent to stopping a football game, mid-game, when one team is winning.

As it stands, the law should allow for your ballot to be counted, so long as it is post-marked by election day; however, with all of the controversy and pressure surrounding this regime, you're much safer getting your ballot in earlier - rather than later. If for whatever reason it's not counted, you can always request a provisional ballot -- but time is running out.

The risk of voting in person is multi-fold, but includes: polling locations may have election workers present that may deny your ability to vote (if you're of color, or other baseless reasons), and/or the DOJ election-watchers and/or ICE, military, retired police officers (dressed in garb) - may be placed there to deny your ability to vote. As it stands, if you go in person, do come prepared with ID and birth-certificate (even if it's not required): so there is absolutely no legitimate reason they can deny your vote (and your voice).

The clock is winding down with less than two weeks from elections day. With my aforementioned points, it should come as no surprise that elections officials won't have the final tallies and tabulations in place for several weeks following election day; this is normal. I don't doubt that Trump will use it as an excuse to claim our elections are ripe/rife with fraud - like he typically does (even makes these comments before a single ballot has been cast). Don't take the bait... they are distractions.

The other major concern I have, is just how many Republican/MAGA-aligned individuals have purchased these electronic voting companies. While there is no direct evidence they would engage in anti-democratic practices, it's concerning that they even express such an interest to buy up these companies. Ultimately, the rule of law and will of the people should be respected; but additionally, I believe Democrats need to start requesting independent recounts - unlike their failure to do so in the 2024 Presidential Elections - especially given the abhorrent results and trends in the data. It seems obvious to state this, but I will anyways: Republicans are all about voter suppression and fear-mongering; they also happen to be a party of big-business - which almost always runs antithetical to what they purportedly represent - yet, here we are.

And if Trump or his regime and captured DOJ tries any funny business, we the people need to speak up and use our voices to draw attention and investigation to the matter. In our world of ever-worsening attention-spans, an immediate and unrelenting national response to election subversion and corruption - must absolutely be investigated and pushes for accountability be fully exercised.

The art of video games is dying, as big money and mergers and acquisitions have lost their way.

I think for many gamers... they saw this coming with the rise of game passes. Although I wasn't a subscriber, I called it out myself, over five years ago - when the season passes were a single-tier. I told myself: they are going to get people hooked, then up the pricing - because the pricing didn't make sense - gamers were getting more value than Microsoft or Sony could provide, long-term. This was especially the case when the game pass included newly released games. Moreover, I didn't like the idea of game access being tied to a subscription.

I believe the initial manifestation of these problems that were arising, actually began with the various mergers, the quality of the AAA experience continually decreasing (along with a lot of broken promises), but additionally embroiled around the Blizzard sexual-harassment of women incident, as well as all the acquisitions. And certainly, I saw it when previously you could purchase a live game and not pay for a subscription or battle/gaming-pass - as was the case with Overwatch 1 - which Blizzard absolutely bastardized. It has lead to such a push that there are projects that have attempted to recreate Overwatch 1, using Overwatch 2 and Blizzard's now-since-abandoned Workshop implementation.

The bottom-line is when game developers not only fail to listen to what gamers want and their feedback and continue to make poor marketing decision after poor marketing decision - specifically more recently Sony's gaslighting to customers that they want digital-only releases - and especially independent game creators/small businesses are able to recreate the magic and gamer-feedback-welcomed environment, that clearly they have lost their way.

I suppose the other major indicator was associated with right to own - as it tangentially related to right to repair - as was the case with Apple and John Deer tractors. When companies intentionally create an environment that disrespects and ignores their fanbases and what they want - to take the valuable feedback and follow the previously and widely accepted industry mantra of "the customer is always right."

We've seen customer service constantly degraded, as the result of corporate greed and especially following COVID-19. We've also seen it with unannounced implementation of the surveillance state, dismantling of regulation, and as companies fully embrace AI (going against their initial promise it would only be used to make their employees more productive; instead just take a look at how Meta was macro-recording their employees administrative actions - to eventually replace their work with a model). As the phrase goes and under this current corrupt administration: "there is no honor among thieves" and "absolute power corrupts and absolute power corrupts, absolutely". Instead of ever-admitting overreach or fault with their actions, they double-down - as if they've got something to prove.

It's too bad the past two years, that corporate America hasn't taken it more to heart. And I'm confident the reason why they haven't taken it to heart is largely due to us living in a crony-capitalist state, where the competition is owned by the same people... essentially creating a monopoly - where stake holders invariably win. This also results in price-gouging and antitrust practices that allow these organizations to run roughshod around consumer rights, environmental protections, etc. When the only punishment is fines and those fines are often lesser than adhering to the law, unfortunately these large mega-corporate conglomerates will continually choose the cheaper of the two options and bypass what's in the best interest of employees and the law. Obviously not all companies act this way, but it has become an ever-increasingly common practice.

And quite honestly, I'm not sure what the end-game for corporate greed on this level looks like. Elon and other tech evangelists, seem to purport that once we achieve super intelligence with AI (a term that Trump has decided, unilaterally, to rename AI to super intelligence, to obfuscate the justifiably bad-rap and coverage received under these practices), that we'll all receive a universal basic income and that there will be no need to work. What's worse, is corporate America in its own greed, is literally bankrupting the country and since Trumpism began - has openly shown us who they are and acted in the worst ways possible.

I personally believe we're headed towards a dystopian future for citizens and consumers, in terms of our self-governance rights being stripped away and running roughshod around our societal norms and constitution. What I find confusing about this is with this overexuberant amount of wealth, what do they gain other than a few more zeros behind the amount in their account. This is a level of money that doesn't buy more happiness and even after they achieve their goal of owning everything, they will still remain unhappy. Personally, I actually see a strong parallel between the ultra-wealthy attempting to fill voids (or holes) in their lives, that money/fame/notoriety alone cannot satiate. Yet, they relentlessly engage in domination. What I can tell you is both Trump and Elon had some traumatic upbringings and were raised in sociopathic families, associated with establishing norms that are inherently inhumane and focus on either material wealth, or exploitation/subjugation/extorting others to either obtain wealth, or peddle their own ideologue fantasies. When such approaches prove to be unpopular with the people, they appear to engage in sadistic pleasure and it only encourages them to double-down in their actions.

There are power in numbers and voices and "we the People" should spend less time expecting someone to come save us, and begin saving ourselves and using our voices - when we still have a first-amendment and before the constitution is completely ignored/discarded/perverted beyond the point we retain access to these rights. Suffice to say, there's a lot of bad-faith actors within the corporate world, which now extends to the government world - as corporate America attempts to fashion government in its image, and for its own vices and various purposes.

Disclaimer: this post is in no way encouraging shaming of minorities - only exposing the hypocrisy of minorities that weaponize the system against themselves, while in positions of power - as an unwitting act of self-hate and sadism. Overall, I am exposing how it makes zero sense and demonstrates the level of self-hate they carry themselves, along with the denial and hypocrisy.

I have a theory that MAGA and Republicans have been closeted in terms of sexuality, foreign affiliations, addictions, and authoritarian/dictator/communist/naz!sm.

Suffice to say, with news just breaking this morning about Lindsey Graham's male escort sexapades - I'm not at all surprised. Homosexual and cruel - a special kind of sadism. Likewise, Trump's connections to Russia are quite obvious, considering his responses/words/reactions in recent weeks - following Ukraine's takedown of the Russian Yandex social media bot disinformation/foreign influence machine. Additionally, it has been a known phenomenon since in 2015/2016, when it was said that "every accusation is a form of self-admission with these people" and DARVO'ing. We know that Trump only speaks positively about Russia, is currently using the crisis he engineered in Iran to bring money to Russia, and lifting sanctions... while Russia would in turn provide oil; however, this is a bad idea because it provides Russia both the trade and monetary resources to fight back in a war they are losing.

We can clearly see the hypocrisy and exposure in action, when:

1. Elon Musk throttles traffic from StarLink to Ukrainian drones - following their four separate and successful attacks on Russian Yandex social-media bot-farms spreading disinformation, sewing division, and attempting to save face for the clear cracks in the MAGA cult. Similarly, on Oct 20th, Elon was interviewed and appeared to be backpedalling hard on his involvement with DOGE and "chainsaw to Democracy" - in the lead-up to the 2026 midterm's election day. Why do I think he's doing this? Simple: they know and have access to the numbers... and when they see they are losing districts in very red states - even after engaging an an illegal mid-decade redistricting (outside of census year) and gerrymandering and still losing; and especially when we see Kansas turning blue - they all recognize the jig is up - time to tone down the rhetoric.
2. Trump has been talking on/off with the sex jokes, but especially going on about "hot men", Arnold Palmer's proverbial junk and the size of it, and just the other night about "glory holing", "salads", etc. - which apparently is slang for homosexual sex.
3. We are already aware between Proud Boys and a lot of MAGA supporters being pro-naz!, pro-Hitler, and essentially the same sk!n-heads from the 1990s; and if it were back then, today, they would all easily be sent to jail immediately, no questions asked. We also know we have a criminal president who is an adjudicated rapist, Jeffrey Epstein's best friend, a professional grifter/cheater/stealer, a full-blown narcissist who hates America (claimed America was falling apart years ago - back when under Democrat control and back during his 1st term when there were guard-rails - it was not; but now, his own actions are destroying America). He continually and intentionally conflates victim with perpetrator and perpetrator with victim; and as we see now "America has never been hotter/better" - while literally the US is in the worst economic and global position/standing/reputation/alliances than it has ever been; while back then "our country is a 'shit hole' country and it's failing country and it's falling apart". By far my favorite was Trump's claim he knew nothing of Project 2025... yet is enacting its exact playbook: it involves ramming Democracy into the ground, over and over - like a car/bus (with us as the passengers), until the country breaks. Then in its place, an authoritarian dictatorship with TrumpTV running 24/7 (really the only channel on TV; along with mass propaganda). Honestly the reason why Trump liked Kim Jun Un and Vladimir Putin so much, is because he fawns for dictators; but I think at this point - it's also safe to say that he's closeted... and I think you know which closets he's been holding shut - when it comes to fawning over guys' "junk".

Lastly, I would be remiss if I wasn't to mention that the reason why more the WH and Trump are unable to keep a lid on all of this, is a direct result of Trump's worsening frontotemporal dementia - not to mention the multiple strokes he's endured. I think most of us are so sick of this man, and the company that he keeps, that while things have become ever-increasingly worse in terms of jobs, economy, lack of affordability, price-gouging, and living-conditions -- while him and the White House - gaslight the opposite, along with the failing Iran War and the tariffs: the truth is... Republicans/MAGA/GOP/traitors -- have gone a step too far, even for some MAGA cult loyalists. They can try to convince us this go-around that they have won every swing state - like they did in 2024, following Trump's incitement of a coup and attempts to cheat/rig the election results of the 2020 election; or even seize the 2020 ballots to then claim after losing this go around that the 2020 presidential election was "rife with fraud".

I would just like to remind everyone, anytime Trump has made a boisterous claim - when have we ever been provided the details, the evidence, and not had it turn into a scandal / cover-up? When has he delayed releasing files, or his TrumpCare plan? Why after a decade is it still not available after perpetual 2-week delays? The answer is because this administration and the oligarchs are robbing this country blind. Just as an example: did you know that back when Obama handed the Presidency over to Trump in early 2017... that the national debt was at $19 trillion? And where is it today? $41 trillion. How much of that debt was at the hand of Republican presidents? A majority of it - always has been, and always will. Why, you ask? Because they need the government to print more money to become wealthier; and in order to print more money, other countries must buy our bonds (I owe you notes) - which comprise the national debt. Then, even after they hollow out our entitlement programs which we're taxed for and pay into - including social security next year - presuming they win; and already the Medicaid proverbial bomb they have set to go off in January when Democrats take control - will serve to blame democrats for the healthcare sabotage of Republicans and offer the remaining Republicans some leverage to continue their traitorous pursuits.

Bottom-line: the point I'm trying to get across - is it hit me this morning after hearing the news of Lindsey Graham; considering what sexually-assaulted woman had to say about Trump when they were abused as minors under his hand, and even what is to be said about the Russian-disinfo machine, etc.... MAGA is a cult of closeted-sadists: they get gratification in seeing and wanting others to hurt and cruelty - because they are hurt and closeted about it, themselves.

And regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022. It's all starting to make sense. "Maybe I've gone too far." With what? With DOGE? "Trump wouldn't have won in 2024 without my help"?

Trump is going on and on about how Russia's army is so big and strong, so he suggested Zelensky should back down.

• Refinery Strikes and Fuel Deals: Trump criticized Zelenskyy for authorizing strikes on Russian diesel refineries and condemned actions he argued could raise global fuel prices, following a U.S. move to ease certain restrictions on Russian energy sales.
• Calls for New Leadership: Trump suggested it may be "time for Ukraine to get a new president" who can secure a deal, accusing Zelenskyy of not wanting to end the war.
• Negotiation Warnings: The Trump administration warned that the U.S. could pull back from mediating peace talks entirely if Kyiv and Moscow do not show immediate progress toward a settlement. (good: Trump should stay the hell out of it and stop acting like a Russian nesting doll, and Putin puppet)
• Zelenskyy's Response: Zelenskyy has adopted a more confrontational posture, criticizing U.S. policy shifts toward Moscow and noting that losing a strong American partner is painful while maintaining Ukraine's national interests

Trump is constantly blaming Zelensky for the Russia-Ukraine War, when Russia is the aggressor and I don't at all buy that he cares for neutrality, considering Trump is clearly a sadist and gets off on seeing people hurt.

It looks like Trump and Elon are doing their part to sabotage Ukraine's offensive of the data centers. Ukraine lost mid-range strike abilities allowing Russians to advance on the field.

If it wasn't enough that Trump-regime wanted to pull back sanctions on Putin's Russia; additionally, Trump encouraging we purchase oil from Russia (on a war in Iran and chokehold on oil, that he created).

It's very clear where the alliances lie, and Trump-regime is doing their part to sabotage the gains by Ukraine and the Yandex disinformation bot machine.

And yes... it involves legal loopholes to he can get what he wants... including razing this Washington D.C. golf course.

Everything hinges on the answer to the question be "yes". I can't agree more. Otherwise this insanity will continue and enable someone worse in the future.

And attacks on Abdul El-Sayed and Jon Ossoff.

I love how these attacks don't even land because the attacks are meritless and entirely a "straw man" argument and fallacy, and resorting to character attacks because MAGA doesn't have a policy, nor able to enact on its promises. Instead, they continually engage in gaslighting, projection and choreographing that a loss will lead to the death of the US.

All of this is extortion and hand-waiving as mere distraction of their own failures. They deserve the loss that's coming. But beyond that, do expect Trump to claim mass fraud and attempts to attack his opponents (Democrats) and election workers in the individual states - as Trump and SCOTUS attempt to run roughshod around the constitution and make what's the legal process, illegal... somehow, automagically - just because he says so. He continually and intentionally conflates perpetrator with victim and victim with perpetrator.

I knew this would come...