• Democrats 52%
• Republicans 44%
• Not Voting 3%

I argue that not voting, failure to vote, and creating a false-equivalency or adopting a nihilistic/apathetic/disaffected outlook is exactly what Trumpism and MAGA are all about; that and sewing as much chaos, division, confusion, and lack of trust in our elections - as possible - whilst simultaneously undermining our democratic founding, principles, and processes.

SCOTUS and Republican enablers are responsible for nurturing this monster and getting us into this mess; we must stand up, set the record straight, and continually remind them that even with all of the disinformation of the current age: we as humans recall and remember the events of J6, who was responsible - and similarly - we all the same will remember and judge them for their actions during this time.

The fact that Trump has had to come to Putin's aide and attack Zelensky for this destruction of the bot farms; and Trump's inability to sell America on Russian-bought oil and the polling itself, demonstrates an undercurrent that runs entirely antithetical to what they're trying to sell and/or the outcome they are attempting to force.

That said: even if Democrats win - "we the People" must sit on them and demand investigations, justice and accountability - as it's the only way to reform the party and offer us sometime to force government and representation to reform; otherwise, next election cycle - or time around (or this current rogue-regime's attempts to steal the election) - will just keep on happening and encourage the next "political player" to engage in either the same (or worse) political mind games, deceit, and subversion against the rule of law (including lambasting the constitution and our political norms). While I agree that we must reform this process and Democrats are not great on messaging (and likewise adhere somewhat to the status quo), they are still the lesser of two evils and with the people's pressure - can actually put in the work and get the job done; with the rest being up to us and the people to pressure them and sort through.

Per the latter, that's why it's all the more critical that people register to become members of the underkurrent, so we can work together to sort through the endless sea of voices, minutia and sort through the actions and political virtue/hand-waving signals that go on... and expose the corruption and demand better from our leadership.

I personally, am all for it. What we're dealing with right now, is akin to what would have happened with digital music (and mp3s) - save for/hadn't been for certain key individuals and judges that ensured music purchasing was its own form of ownership and therefore a right.

Instead of there being landmark cases (similar to the ones we saw with mp3s), video game publishers and console-makers - one after another - went the way of Adobe and SaaS software development firms: with the perpetual temporary/revokable ability to download/access the games using digital storefronts. The publishers continually make false claims that:

• Fans have been asking for this
• Fans' concerns over losing access to ownership of digital games and perpetual future access (via standalone discs) and ensuring video game preservation are "overblown"
• Some publishers/console-makers claim that moving to digital-only simplifies their processes and keeps costs down (and yet we actually see the opposite, with prices increasing - even amid these cuts)
• Is yet another example of how unchecked (unregulated) capitalism favors profits and businesses' rights over consumers' "rights"
• All decisions made have been unilateral. And from my memory, it began with Nitnendo's release of the Switch 2 console: which introduced physical game cards containing only the license key to download from the Nintendo e-Shop. Other console manufacturers followed suite; but since Nintendo uniquely uses cartridges: Microsoft and Sony are not providing BR-DVDs that contain license keys, alone; moreover, manufacturing costs on disc media is notoriously inexpensive, compared to ROM-based cartridges. Rather disingenuously, following fans' backlash to these moves and gaslighting of the corporate interests and removing perpetual licensee access (hence some level of ownership and ability to archive their game library and play it offline - or without storefront (when these storefronts often go offline and invariably sunsetted 7-10 years following the lifetime of a console): Nintendo claimed unlike Sony and Microsoft, they will keep producing the game cartridges in perpetuity. However, the problem and blatant lie/lack of truth behind this statement is of course obvious: first - they set this industry standard of moving away from physical media (and level of ownership); and second - none of the Switch 2 game cartridges contain the full-standalone game.
• These goals/approach/philosophies are bery much in line with what has been echoed by the top 1% of the top 1% for the past several years: "you will own nothing and be happy." Yet, the fans have a very different and opposite story to tell; and find it all the more troubling that with the difficulty (and ever-increasing cost) of living - they now find difficulty in enjoying the escape that video games has previously provided them - when lack of video game ownership/preservation - is an aspect that stares them straight in the face.
• We've seen similar unilateral moves and decision-making having been made the past several years in the lead up to this decision, with PSN Online and X-Box Season Passes (and now Nintendo Switch Online): with not only implementing multiple tiers and increasing cost (while decreasing value), but additionally - in some/many instances - essentially tying ability to play behind a perpetual monthly pay-wall. This is the classic "bait-and-switch tactic" (one I suspected that was coming for years): when subscribers were receiving easily over $200 of value for only $15-$20 per month. Of course the goal was to hook people onto their online platforms, for them to obtain widespread adoption, then to transition all games over to "subscription only" (and likely, eventually - "stream-only" play).

From my point of view, they are screwing their best clients and life-long fans and putting profits over fans (and consumers). It renders a bad taste not only in the mouth of gamers, but consumers alike. Everything is literally becoming a subscription; yet even some subscriptions - like Amazon Prime - have transitioned to monthly/yearly subscription, and have since then added advertisements on top of those immense costs (requiring additional fees to remove the subscriptions). These marketing practices are inherently exploitative in nature. Similarly, Duolingo used to have free and Duo Plus plans... only later to introduce Max plans (which when you combine with the lack of grandfathering early adopters into receiving the premium plans automatically, while supporting a freemium model - demonstrates little to no thanks - instead, only more and more entitlement).

As citizens and consumers, it's time we fight back against the lobbying and corporate interests. Behinds, the capitalistic model that operates out of regulation that forces laissez-faire/competitive economics (not the current version that ignores antitrust and monopolies): is only a market of exploitation. Besides, the corporate model cannot persists and remain sustainable/viable forever - when it requires the investors earn year-after-year, quarter-after-quarter: record-breaking profits, above all else. It has noticeably hurt the art form and gamers are some of the most unforgiving and the most exposing of such practices (just look at Robin' Hood and GameStop) - relentless: and I'm all for it. As Americans and consumers - we're the majority and we must hit them where it hurts the most - their pocket books. However, it likewise requires that we stand up, use our voice, and refuse their gaslighting and projection shenanigans and continually call them out on any/all abuses and boycott where necessary; this is beyond principal - it sends a message of influence and what kind of world we want to live in.

I will mention that I am extremely disappointed that the final installment to the Final Fantasy VII Remake trilology: Final Fantasy VII: Revelations, will - in fact - not be offered as a physical release; even though the digital-only policy was set to go into effect starting in 2028 for Sony's PS5. This was confirmed to be the case when Final Fantasy VII creator and veteran (been around since OG), Naoki Hamaguchi, tried personally appealing to Sony to ensure Revelation received a physical release - like its 2 (3 if counting Reunion) predecessor physical releases.

Lastly, I will mention that we were headed down this road of "watered down" game art and substandard triple A (AAA) release titles, when we saw what transpired in 2015 with the release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain (TPP) - when game development took nearly a decade (for the art, for the fans) and as a result, Konami ousted their then Vice President, Hideo Kojima - because he refused to go the way of sub-standard game art and the push towards commoditization of micro-transactions via gatcha games. Following its release, later that year - not only was he fired, but when MGV: TPP won game of the year in 2015 - Konami forbid he be present at the 2015 Games Awards to accept the trophy prize; instead, voice actor Keifer Sudderland (who replaced the infamous/coveted David Hayter) who took on the role of Solid Snake, received the trophy in Hideo's place - in lieu of him being present. Instead of this spelling the end for Hideo Kojima, he later worked with Sony and the developers of Horizon Zero Dawn (adopting their game engine) for the purposes of producing Death Stranding. Of course, it seems obvious to say between both series' ability to foretell the future, that Hideo Kojima cared much about the art form of video game creation and certainly creating surprise, delight and occasionally rage (frustration) with fans - but all the same, it was art.

theunderKurrent attended two events yesterday; sporting our 3x5' flag that expounds importance of curation, community and adhering to to constitution, and justice/accountability/truth and independently crowd-sourcing it, whle creating community.

We were glad to engage with like-minded and other patriotic Americans

"An official familiar with the discussions told Reuters last week that the main disagreement was over the order in which the proposed measures would be implemented, rather than the plan’s substance." =

If true: then let me just say - I know what it's about.... timing/rollout with unwillingness to open the Straight until after elections. Certainly would snub-nose it to the man that attacked the little girl / children's school, unprovoked.

It's getting pathetic that they are getting desperate enough to bribe voters - after flagrantly at the beginning of this year "playing tough guy of the century" - which only proved to the world just how outwardly corrupt Trump and his regime/enablers/handlers/sycophants are. A day of reckoning is in order.

While it seems obvious to say that only two "truths" (akin to the bastardization created by "Truth Social"): that the only reality they accept exists is where they win, or the opposition cheated.

He has complained for years about how grassroots energy is "busing people in" and "hiring paid actors"; however, the sad reality is often with these DARVO cases - every accusation is a form of self-admission.

So you mean to tell me that Jeffrey Epstein died by way of suicide.

And then... all of the following Epstein financers and bankers, died:

• Thomas Bowers (November 2019)
  Connection: Former head of Deutsche Bank’s American wealth management division, which famously approved controversial loans for Epstein.
  Death: Died by suicide at his home in Malibu, California, three months after Epstein's death.
• Jean-Luc Brunel (February 2022)
  Connection: A French modeling agent and close personal associate of Epstein who was accused of scouting and trafficking young women.
  Death: Found dead by suicide in his cell at La Santé Prison in Paris while awaiting trial.
• Mark Middleton (May 2022)
  Connection: A former special advisor to President Bill Clinton who officially admitted Epstein into the White House during the 1990s.
  Death: Died by suicide in Arkansas.
• Daniel Siad (July 2026)
  Connection: A French modeling industry figure whose name appeared thousands of times in the federal Epstein files regarding European talent scouting. He was under active investigation by French prosecutors for human trafficking.
  Death: Found dead in his Paris apartment. A post-mortem ruled out external violence but left the exact cause of death undetermined, noting signs of a past heart attack.

And now... purportedly - Simon Andriesz - found dead - by way of suicide, according to a no longer independent DOJ?

If anyone knows about power structures, they know that wealth and power likes to operate from its own unique position and set of rules. I'd like to likewise remind everyone that we have a criminal boss, running the US government like a rogue criminal enterprise and like a mob boss, which continually entrains enemies on anyone that questions his Kingmanship.

I'd like to end with: do we live in safer and more just world, a more authentic and empowered world - than the one we lived in over a decade ago? Or, has a president acted unilaterally, time and time again, immemorial and people are convinced the old way of self-governance and living is no longer possible? Because the way I see it: everyone is simply a human-being - no better than the other. However, we do have bad-faith actors out there that want to sew chaos, division, intimidation, and force truth tellers into the shadows and silence, via blackmail, death threats, and entraining the lunatic MAGA mob to fight his battles, and in turn offer pardons. At the same time, since we're all just people (some actually more verifiably virtuous than others), that means the majority actually possesses the ability to dominate the conversation in ways that money cannot buy - but people remain voiceless, and a platform hasn't existed, until now.

"Absolute power corrupts; absolute power corrupts, absolutely." Remember who we are; remember who they are; remember the world in which we choose to live in is continually shaped by our actions, wants and desires for justice, restoration of truth, and constitutionality. Absent of that, if we as humans continue looking away because it's too painful - or too inconvenient - than I am sorry to say that this process will continue repeating until something changes. After all: expecting things to change without doing your own part - expecting someone to save you - is the definition of insanity; or clearly, things have not become painful enough, for long enough, for enough people. However, per the latter, by then it may be too late... just like it was for a subset of MAGA that "woke" from their entranced comas to wonder why the world is now such an awful, vicious, place. It's something they embodied, must atone for, but perhaps they can more fully recognize now that "woke" culture was not about elitism - it's about how we choose to be as a species: do we choose to degrade others, dig our boots into the neck of others - to make the deeply flawed and insecure white American class of whitewashers - somehow more comfortable? Or do we recognize the worst that can happen to the least - happens to everyone and there are truly no loyalties with such dark forces in the world? We need to work together to seek to expose it; there's power and influence in numbers. There is no really good reason why we're living divided and isolated from one another, and this ultimately leading to loss of community, culture, and eventually country. It's all senseless brainrot, believed out of fear, and disempowerment.

I'd like to end by directing you to the first several phrases of the constitution and then embody it and have a change of heart and gnosis in the way you approach life, and shape and empower your own freedoms and the freedoms of others, and why the truth is not at all trivial.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/russian-disinformation-bot-traffic-nearly-eliminated-overnight-after-ukraine-drone-strikes-cripple-multiple-of-russias-google-data-centers-ukraine-intensifies-bombing-of-yandex-data-centers-in-response-to-moscows-strikes-on-kyiv-data-centers

Three Yandex data centers hit... and now the disinfo Russian bot machine has been dismantled - at least in part - in the lead up to elections.

• An attack on Oct 8th, Oct 9th, and now just last night (Oct 12th).

Well to go Vladimir Zelensky! Hit them where it hurts!

We the people and must use our voice. A call to action to "we the People" - that the power this government has, comes from us (not the other way around; that's where our responsibility comes into the picture). It's also important that we insure our leaders follow the constitution and uphold their oaths.

A Republic - if you can keep it - rather than a monarchy.

Freedoms are being eroded.

Yet... she is brining up COVID and Anthony Fauci... not about the real problem in the room. This level of cognitive dissonance is astounding.

And supposedly that the disinformation warfare is with the Biden administration and letting people be people. The reality Tulsi is that - your virtue signaling is not at all believable when you degrade others... and then give a big speech on "government should not tell the people what to do." Can you speak at any capacity about how the Trump regime has hijacked out Democratic Republic and held it hostage? I think not... very interesting how they constantly engage in mental gymnastics and pretzel. Far more disturbing is how this video somehow got close to 900,000 views a the time of this writing.

With government - you don't get to just pick and choose which parts of the constitution to underline and ignore the various other overreaches by this current fascist regime. What should tell you absolutely everything, is how they have branded "anti-fa" (anti-fascism) a terrorist organization. Need I say much more? Too bad many lack a brain to know the difference. I also think this is what Jesus warned us about when it came to the antichrist; but that's just my opinion and insight.

Supposedly, for a self-professed genius (and not many others to back him on this statement, at least individuals of substance and value): Trump is attempting yet again - after ousting Jerome Powell (one of his own appointees to the Federal Reserve - the Fed - during his 1st administration) - is now attempting to oust Lisa Cook.

Why? Simple. Trump wants to be able to set interest rates - by setting them much lower, in an already weakened economy and with already problematic inflation.

For anyone aware of or posessing a base understanding of macro-economics, this is inherently a bad idea. While the ultra-wealthy can weather higher interest rates (technically), and weather economy-breaking inflation -- everyday Americans cannot.

While on one hand, making loans cheaper and more accessible is a good thing - during financially challenging times - to make life more accessible and easy: we must remind ourselves last time we had super low interest and predatory interest rates. You may recall the 2008 Housing Crisis. Not only did that bankrupt and eventually bankroll the likes of Blackrock (yes that Blackrock - the one that owns more real estate in the nation than practically any other entity - and has it parked there for the economy crashes; creating a false-commodization and raising housing the cost of rent and housing - thus making everything more unaffordable). And as you may also recall, it was the Federal Government - aka. "we the People" through Obama's leadership - bailed them out of this crisis to keep the banks solvent and to avoid people losing all of the money they had in their respective bank accounts.

Since the 2008 housing crisis was borne of too lax / low interest rates... imagine the same thing repeating again, but this time with even a weaker economy than before... with the guard-rails removed. Of course, it's all tunnel-vision for Trump, his supporters and sycophancy with supporting such a move; but it's another to be attempting to force/shape outcome here, that would clearly benefit Trump over the people.

Truly the same could be said with Trump's attempts to purportedly bankroll (but ultimately levy tax-payers and increase the national debt) $5000 payouts... and likewise with Trump and Republicans efforts to gut healthcare and hollow it out, with no equal replacement. As you know Trump-regime v1.0 claimed for years and years and years (always to be delayed 2 weeks): Republicans had a plan. Their plan for healthcare? Get rid of the subsidies... force everyone back onto private pay, low-quality, high-deductible for the sick - health insurance. While it may seem like "great value" on paper, in the long run - if one were to opt for one of these catastrophic plans: ultimately all they are getting is the ability to stabilize in the hospital ER, or via hospitalization - not much more. Diagnosed with cancer? Yeah... old insurance doesn't typically cover that. Get sick while working with an employer and lose healthcare? Both expensive, and no requirements for minimum base value of the plan, nor any of the advantages that come with "cost sharing" - defraying the costs for those sick and in need.

What's worse are their attempts to institutionalize the disabled, remove them from communities and at the same time convince people that universal Medicaid (or soon to be squashed by Republicans next year - Medicare and Social Security) - are somehow bad things. In reality, the tax payers pay into these entitlement programs, for years - often decades. When it comes time to collect, these programs didn't fail due to the base trust structure of these programs - nor are they caused by a mass surge in baby-boomers; more often than not - it's because: (1) the money-grubbing hands of government borrow against these programs without a manner of paying them back; and (2) the ultra-wealthy don't pay their fair-share into these programs at similar percentage - yet get paid out massively/disproportionate to what they invest. All of this is to say, such practives are unsustainable.

The reason why I throw healthcare into the mix with an economics post is because healthcare is like top three Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on the USA. And while Republicans and a bunch of nay-sayers will say universal Medicaid is a mistake (and that life in Europe is hell): on both accounts, they are wrong. The reality is, the more that Medicaid is expanded to become universal, the better quality care, and it also sets the standard of care - as well as driving costs down - which naturally by extension includes private insurance premiums. Additionally, we have the ACA to thank for insurance companies not being able to discriminate (or charge separate rates) for "high risk pool" applicants.

Moreover, I brought up healthcare because it's practically the same stratagem as is the case with the economy: make massive changes, kick the can down the road, ask questions later, then later blame Democrats on why these decisions don't pan out. And yes, these narcs are literally that sick - we've seen it via the outward corruption and gaslighting. It's exceedingly uncommon to see a Republican stand on principle, what's right, or in the image of the classic Grand Old Party. Of course we have Newt Gingrich to thank for popularizing shameless lying in politics... later picked up by Trump... and their forerunners Nixon and Reagan also knew this all too well - hence why "I'm not a crook" and "trickle-down economics" - both were never really things.

I'll end by making yet another plug for the documentary, "Our Nixon" on Netflix. If you haven't watched it yet... now is the time. I am confident you'll see a striking parallel between the corruption now, to the way it was back then - minus the "guard rails" that existed back then, and the will/outrage of the masses being a true concern. I honestly don't know why Americans are as docile as they are when they see Democracy being lambasted and enshrined into exile and oblivion, other than to say: the social programming of the net seems to be working and making every person feel hopeless/helpless, too distracted/bored/apathetic to care, then combined with loss of community, leads to loss of culture and then subsequently loss of country.

In addition to voting, I ask everyone spend a week reading the constitution - you might find some thought and truth elucidating and though-provoking concepts and oaths contained within. As for the supposed "white Christian nationals" - same thing... go read your Bible... because you're so off the mark and worshipping the anti-you-know what, to recognize you are playing right into the hand of your worst nightmare (it might feel good to receive his acknowledgement after receiving zero acknowledgement for the crimes committed against you as children... but I promise you there are no loyalties with this man... ane you'll be proverbially the next in the wood-chipper (so to speak) - as soon as you've worn out your use. It is common sense to say this man is a con man, but you guys have likewise ruined the phrase "common sense" because you have rendered a false-equivalency to your own brain-rot. Congratulations.

A bit of old news... but the protest art is great.

Click here to play EpicFurious, online - in your browser. I'll have to schedule a live-play of this and stream it to the community.

It's the only way, beyond the pressure/squeeze placed on leadership, by "we the People".

Interesting....

This all began when PlayStation announced that they'd be discontinuing physical discs and (and of course the long standing abuse of Adobe customers - for years). Ever since then, it's been varying degrees of chaos from different sources and fronts - since then. It seems consumers are sending a message. Can't wait until the AI CEOs add this to the list of reasons why everyday people should not have access to AI - too bad the cat's already out of the bag and just like the internet - it has been democratized - as it should be.

Some notable examples include:

• Mario 64 + Halo (performed some additional research, apparently the utility to create these mashups is called Melty Launcher). Click here for the Github project page.
• Adobe - Photocraft, Vectorcraft, Filmcraft, Lightcraft, Effectcraft
  https://app.getartcraft.com
• Sony - https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/1wz6686/anyps5_system_libraries_are_now_at_87_percent_8/
  Corporate Greed is Backfiring... when you own nothing, it's not stealing... not right, but not wrong either!

It now even extends to playing games using Google Chrome (browser).... crazy times we live in! These include game cameo mashups and free and opensource versions of commercial software.

AI is conflicting with corporate company interests and now being weaponized against the big guys. It's affected corporate infrastructure and in my own opinion - it's about time that businesses start listening to consumers and providing options - instead of turnstiles and monopolies - in this time of high crimes and corruption.

You know, that he knows - that singling out an individual and calling them "a very unhappy person... miserable" by full name - is both his own deflection against reality and being called out on his BS and second, serves to incense the mob.

As proof you know he's doing that, is he can't help but lip bite himself - like he's being a super-clever troll here.

We know, he knows... everyone knows... let's stop playing the "human suck at nuance" - bit, and recognize the gravity of such moments that clearly demonstrate him to be a deranged/unhinged danger to mankind itself. Besides this level of derangement is so on brand for him and his MAGA loyalists that can't help, but to engage in mob-based-group-hate (I mean: think). Absolutely pure and utterly braindead... and yet they call it "common sense".

I love how he used his words very carefully "he never admitted to anything." That's something that Trump is actually quite proud of in this "hall of famer."

Of course just like every Trump loyalist, cabinet nominee - that similarly refuse to say that "Biden won the 2020 election": you can tell when they either refuse to say it, or try to dance around the question.

This case is far more obvious though because it has Scott Bessent blinking a ton, delaying and trying to quickly think up a way to detract/distract from the question.

I'm glad all of these criminals are on film perjuring themselves - like it all doesn't matter and they have it rigged and with pardons on the way. While that might be true, I believe once we have different leadership in a position of power - we the people must demand investigations and to follow the money: the flow of money tells the complete story here and it doesn't matter if they have been "pardoned" because: (1) you must pardon someone for a crime... you cannot pardon preemptively; and (2) by following the money we'll discover high level of corruption and crimes they wouldn't even dream of reaching the discovery process.

In terms of where the money should go: it should flow back to the American people, and to reinstate the programs which we pay for, but have been liquidated. Americans are hurting, and these criminals will one day need to be held to account. Scott Bessent just so happens to have the same surprised look: a popsicle has when it is having its stick inserted into it; which is one part pleasure, one part comedic - in his own sadistic twisted brain. The math doesn't math and he knows it; and he can cut the sophisticated, up tight and perpetual "retentive" look and smirk on his face.

"Make America Great Again"... what a perversion and inversion.

The false-equivalency and blame-game coming from the Right, is truly staggering. Even when they have been in power for nearly two years, signed HUNDREDS of EOs, engaged in illegal wars, and played sycophant and enablers (especially eying MAGA Mike Johnson - with his questionable repeated shuttering of the House to avoid Epstein votes): let's just say, the goal has been full implementation of Project 2025 and the deconstruction/demolition of American democracy. They can argue up down and sideways - as much as they want that we live in a republic and not a democracy - but correction: we live in a democratic republic.

The bottom-line is just like JD Vance: "give us more time" and "Democrats/Biden economics are to blame - not the unchecked corruption, tariffs, illegal wars, or unilateral executive over-reach"? Give me a break... they know what they're doing. It's disastrous policy after disastrous policy. Illegal war after illegal war, illegal bill after illegal bill / EO, and yet they will not take any accountability for the fact they've destroyed our economy.

This is what unchecked / unregulated capitalism/greed looks like. Our economy was previously the envy of the world, following Trump v1.0's disastrous "let's ignore COVID", gaslight the American public, and let us not forget - Trump/Republicans J6 gambits. Ultimately, it was up to corporate America to censor Trump v1.0. Now, they want to rewrite the events of J6. I find it extremely unlikely and shocking that a 2024 win was clinched legitimately - from the abhorrent data, Elon Musk's interference and lobbying (including purchasing Twitter.com to leverage it; whereby he tripled his networth - making him briefly the first trillionaire in the world).

All of this transpired not within an echo-chamber, and same thing is true with tariffs, this illegal war, and if our economy is truly doing as well as it is (after Trump fired all job staticians - similar to how he handled COVID cases, and kicks out the media for truth telling, rather than capitulating with threats of FCC licenses being revoked): then why are there mass layoffs? Why is Trump pushing AI heavily, when people are losing their jobs, or importing beef while our farmers are suffering? The answer is simple: trickle-down economics never worked, and them passing the blame over to Democrats when they literally hold unilteral control over every arm of government (including what is supposed to be an independent USPS/DOJ/SCOTUS) - tells you absolutely everything you need to know. Moreover, Trump claimed to know nothing of Project 2025, and has kept the "election was stolen" and "our elections are rife with fraud" talking points going - even in light of overwhelming evidence on the contrary. Trump and Republicans never like discussing details, only vagueness and vulgarities and character launched at Democrats.

In my mind, while we truly need a people's party... Democrats are the lesser of the two evils. Sitting out this election, or forming a nihilistic view this election cycle, or "we the People" not using our voice or standing up for restoring truth, justice and upholding the law and constitution - could very well spell the final death knell in the coffin of western Democracy. Once more, I think it's rich that Trump never has anything bad to say about Putin, claims Ukraine started a war for defending itself, continually screws over our allies, engages in relentless and baseless lies, and now is trying to subvert the will of the people.

Make no doubt about it, they will "flood the zone with shit" (as Steve Bannon said), and literally leave no stone, unturned. I am confident there are still several "Trump cards" that haven't yet been played... including timing after they lose this election with baseless claims by our hijacked/corrupted-DOJ of the 2020 elections being stolen from Trump. Wrong. What we should all recall is J6, two blackmail phone calls, a false-slate of electors, 63/64 failed and separate lawsuits against states, a former president exfiltrating sensitive files of value to Russia and just this year and towards the end of last: attempting to force Moduro into admitting to election inteference, or blaming China... when Trump's report he released in on July 17th painted quite a different picture.

While I could go on and on, the point is the lies are not landing with voters and the American people. People recognize just how much more costly and disastrous of a position Americans and the American people are financially: all while bragging about the stock-market (and behind the scenes, bragging how the tariffs and oil are making Trump and the Epstein class - millions upon millions of dollars). Likewise, it should have been seen as extremely illegal with Trump-regime's attempts to invest in companies, pay for Trump support ads using tax payer dollars, or for him to launch his own pump+dump crypto scheme... and hollow out the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. MAGA Mike Johnson and others have said the quiet part out loud: if God forbid they lose the midterms, Trump, his family, friends and half the people in this room will be investigated; to which I add: damn straight. FAFO - they know they have engaged in criminal acts and cover-up.

My last suggestion for you, is go watch "Our Nixon" on Netflix and don't tell me that you don't see how it starkly matches our current reality with the Trump scandals, cheating, blackmail/bribery of votes, etc. Right now Trump and Republicans are floudering - especially after they hit up the beginning of this year with an illegal war and not even attempting to hide the corruption any longer. These are likewise the consequences of conservative justices literally teeing up Trump this second term, by not explicitly claiming he has immunity... but offering him enough of a grey area to operate with. As Trump stated "if I don't have absolute immunity, I can't do my job as president". Wrong. Also, their accusations against Jack Smith (independent investigator) they attempt to scapegoat as a violation of checks and balances... well, I would tell them to look in the mirror these past two years. They are reaping what they sew and I'm all for 25-50 years of Nuremberg trials to come, and for the liquidation of these corrupt entities assets - if they engaged in illegal behaviors, or were accessories and enablers to these crimes.

I couldn't agree more. Just the other night, Trump suggested Iran attack California.

Trump isn't stupid... he knows what he is doing when he primes and says "a midterm surprise". Look at what happened in 2024 with the election results. Still hard to imagine those results were even real and not engineered - given Elon's involvement.

We the people can only take so much of this gaslighting abuse before we say enough is enough. It should begin with the unification of our voice and protesting and proceed from there.

Glad we have another sane on in this world that sees it and calls it out exactly for what it is... rather than what it isn't and what these sick AF supporters and sycophants attempt to rewrite J6 and history as.

You cannot control numbers that roll in over days, and has the ability to over-turn any efforts to engineer a win. Just look at what happened with Zelensky and Raffensperger calls (him later attempting to force Moduro - following his capture from Venezuela - into falsely-admitting to election interference), the false-slate of electors, the events of J6, the bomb-threats called into Democratic strongholds, the lawsuits that followed, the big lie created by Trump and his sycophants/enablers/handlers/supporters (and Project 2025's plans for destroying democracy and our democratic process), MAGA Mike Johnson's grip on the House, and all the undermining of free-and-fair elections and processes.

Oncemore, what has remained unanswered, was a 2024 - squeeezed out win - Elon's involvement, DOGE exfiltration of US citizens from IRS (likely later leveraged for voter data), not to mention blackmailing states to release their voter rolls, SCOTUS' rather blantantly illegal and complicit corruption (and trampling over state's rights), and all the attempts made to try to force USPS to participate in the act of voter suppression, etc. I know people demand verifiable proof, when a pattern has existed and been doubled-down upon for the past decade plus; which is to say, it's too charitable at this point given the toxic gaslighting and narcissistic patterned abuses to say that Trump truly cares about elections integrity - when in the reality and his ego tell an entirely different story: claim fraud early and frequently, and undermine voter confidence and the elections process and sew chaos and confusion, as much as possible.

That's why it's ever critical for us to leverage our voices, and uphold the rule of law - before it's too late. We can no longer solely rely on the courts to uphold this, between SCOTUS' own undermining of our democratic process, and with the assailing on state rights, and claim of fraud - while quite literally Republicans and Trump hold all the cards and power. That's why it's essential to call out the disparity after we see it... and that is: if people's sentiment and polls tell one story, but the win squeaked out tell another (after 2 years of rampant corruption) - then it's time for we the people to unify and act as the final bastion to seek transparency. If, just like the Epstein files - we're denied it... then it sets a very clear precedent that only further underscores the corruption and self-own/engineered outcome they seek (as the powers that be want to see democracy - and our way of self-governance - driven into the ground, continually undermined, and for the will of the majority trampled upon. Of course, that doesn't even begin to hit on the dangerous economical challenges of this country with a system that has been fixed for the ultra-wealthy top 1% of the top 1%, the lack of justice applied to the Epstein class, and how the top 1% of the top 1% would love to see a third world-war precipitate, as our US government is both literally and morally bankrupt - and the vast wealth and interest provided to these powers if they bankrolled of what potentially, may be the end of the world.

Although I am labeling this as opinion... much like science fiction becomes science fact... patterned abuses often later are exposed as the same factual patterned abuses - even if absent all of the singular "smoking gun" that people demand. We all know what transpired on J6, as Trump/Republicans/MAGA-die-hards seek to rewrite that day and villainize what was then a more impartial 3rd-party role of the DOJ (not under the captured form under Trump's leadership), along with the relentless and continual undermining of the Epstein investigation.

They will reject the results of this selection... except the pushback will make J6 look like an absolute cake-walk, for comparsion - because undermining the legitimacy of the elections is the point.

However, that situation places us - squarely - in a catch 22 because: (1) on one hand if they win (inexplicably against polling numbers, a stark contrast to the public sentiment) - they will then leverage that to undermine the legitimacy of future elections (even though they engineered a win and it resulted in potential voter spoilage/cheating, as it is controlled by a majority hand and could feel like a repeat of 2024 win - following Trump's J6 coup d'etat); or (2) they will lose and literally throw anything/everything (including the kitchen sink) at denouncing the results, or engineering a loss for the opposition - while engineering a "win" themselves).

We must recognize on just how dangerous of a president and precedent this sets. We already know that Trump likely has kept the Iran conflict alive for the reason of having a bypassing "existential crisis" that will be used to destract. Similarly, the no-longer-independent/hijacked DOJ's corrupt attempts to rig the midterms (under Blanche; and to engineer payment to J6er insurrectionists along with pardons), among dozens of other strategems will be utilized.

In "their version of reality" (which they conflate as the only legitimate version of reality), is a world where truth doesn't exist (is impossible to be determined), they win always, and their opposition only wins above them as the result of cheating. This is quite literally the most abusive and brain-damaged of a false-belief system/gaslighting and actions of subverting of the will of the people we've seen in this nation's history; just because SCOTUS wrongfully undermines the constitution under a corrupt seal of "rubber stamped" approval (similar to Trump's purported "immune from prosecution under official acts" - while failing to define it) is a level of complicitness and complacency. Why? Simple: crimes are always determined based on intent and last time around (back when our democracy had guard-rails) - Trump and his regime attempted to seize and cling onto power via blackmail, coercion, demanded recounts, lawsuits, and engaging in endless lies. Just because Trump "believed" he had been wronged and kept up that lie (then forced his confirmed cabinet members to maintain the lie), doesn't mean we're unable to determine truth from untruth, etc.

What we've been witnessing has been a period of the highest and most engrained level of corruption ins our democracies history - including unilateral war against its people (ICE shootings), foreign nations (illegal and unprovoked war engagement), EOs that were never backed by congressional approval (along with the war), and now a decade later - a legacy media machine that is either one part complicit accessory to the lies, or are capitulating out of fear. To make matters worse (and less clear), is seeing every major tech CEO sitting next to Trump dureing his 2nd inauguration on Jan 20 2025 - after literally only a little over 4 years earlier, the corporate tech bros denounced his willingness to overthrow our state of governance. Yes, that's correct: Twitter, Facebook and YouTube - silenced a still then sitting president; and we literally could not rely on congress (due to Republican sycophancy and the end of their respective party, due to their fears of impeaching him would backfire).

It's time to prime and prepare ourselves to these facts, and act accordingly when voting and responding to their attempts to over-engineer, or over-throw the last bastions of our self-governance model. Trump can fawn as much as he wants over wanting to Be Putin, Kim Jun, etc. - but Americans are sick of his narcissistic gaslighting and abuse and even his supporters are starting to wake up. It's become so dire for Trump and his supporters that Trump announced at a recent rally "you gotta cheat like hell, like they do" (going on to encourage his supporters to create the very fraud he complains of). Why do they comply?

In my own personal opinion (but also lookign at patterns): this is because they are just as weak as he is... just as Republicans are as weak as he is. Republicans know (much like his supporters), what they are doing. This abusive relationship between patriarchal/abusive father relationship many in the conservative world have received from their father's and the group think of rural goers; hence why they refer to him as "daddy". This toxic and noxiousness, attempts to self-perpetuate, when I am personally confident - many of them are vastly aware of the subtextual/pretextual abuses they ascribe towards - hence why the attacks on our capital happened that day and they attempt to invert and project responsibility away that day (as they have changed their story-telling of the events of J6 and fear-mongered over 'socialism' and intentionally conflating as 'communism', taking over - ad nauseum). They know they can't win on logic/facts/memory, so they attempt all means to pigeon-hole their way to victory (even - yes, if it requires cheating; or burning our way of governance to the ground, or interfering in the sovereign governance of other countries, or launching us into many new illegal wars, or subjugation of the American people). For all of those reasons and more - remain vigilant and do not remain complicit and silent - narcs rely on it, to engineer inferred consent of the public (as these last bastions of democracy reject such attempts to undermine). And for anyone involved in this process, recognize that whistle-blowing exists for a reason - and act accordingly if you see illegal things happen before, on, or following these upcoming mid-terms. They are so desperate: this is their final chances to attempt to grip onto and seize power, before losing everything; what comes next, is accountability and in my opinion: investigations that make Nurembergs (much like Nixon's corruption), comparatively: look like a cake walk.

While we are already aware of a "leave no stone unturned" approach by the powers that be - to hold onto and seize power; today, per a smoking gun memo document: we can add an additional three stratagems and gambits to overthrow democracy and subvert the will of the people. Why? Because they can't win by any other means.

Additionally, there have been reports that this regime is targeting California more broadly. I would like to remind you that a sheriff was arrested by the state earlier this year, when he walked off with 650,000 voter ballots. Because of this, it was never about there being actual fraud, or about "free and fair elections", but rather - all about engineering the fraud and stoping at nothing to "win". In their version of the world, works a little something like this: "you're 100% wrong, and I'm 100% right; or 50% of the time you're wrong and 50% of the time I'm right": which is to say, the only options in Trump-world consist of:

We win, or they cheated. Period. Yet... more likely: they lose and will cheat... and cannot accept their bad and failed policies and stealing from the American people while trying to sell it back to them as "we've pulled in 21T in tariffs" (that simply does not, add up on paper).

I entirely expect these midterms to be a cluster-you-know-what... and it's not like the 2020 illegally seized ballots in 4/5 states, nor the pardoned J6ers and with payout (and immunity for Trump and his family) is for zero cause and reason. It should tell you everything they need to know about weaponization of government on their end, assailing of the constitution and freedom of speech and rights to vote (by subverting it), and everything to do with "win at all cost". As Trump put it "you gotta cheat like hell like they do" (going on to imply he will be casting a physical ballot, as well as returning a mail-in-ballot (which is illegal).

All he must do is maintain the lie at this point, create new and existential distractions, and engineer the kind of fraud he needs to justify cancelling the elections or "stopping the count" or "stopping the steal". However, remember this time around (unlike J6 2021) - this time, the guard-rails are off and the only bastion are state's litigating (will take months/years in court if unilateral overreach occurs or this disenfranchises legitimate votes), and that leaves the last bastions of justice as 'just us' and the lower courts.

Be sure to vote, and to vote early. Don't adopt the nihilistic view and remain vigilant for what's to come. This one-trick DARVO pony/playbook is getting old, but we must not become complacent.

I would hope that this is all common-sense... but eventually someone becomes so corrupt and imbibed with their corruption, that they become an existential threat not only to their people, but to the world as a whole.

This is truly a sickness and I really wish people would turn off the political theatre enough to recognize that the age we live in - is simply unsustainable. This continual testing of the waters, then pushing further and further - is where the Overton Window has been drug along the ground for too long. Not only has this created an incredulous environment of disbelief (in both senses), it has literally made our lives harder to survive and live.

This is the reason why people matter, our voices matter and why I believe our collective experiences and voices matter. It's time to crowd-source this fundamental pattern, truth and experience - because it's undeniable and the haves - have never been more divorced from the needs of the have-nots. Why do people in their own-selfhatred, continue to excuse this monster's worse impulses? My guess... they were disenfranchised for years... and hell loves company - hence the sadistic pleasure and their own disillusioned grip on power and having power over the other... even though they are unbeknownst/unwittingly playing right into the hands of an individual with no loyalty (the enemy).

That's the point. Same thing with propaganda.

and yes... the Republicans are attempting to perpetrate the "big lie" (the one that Trump and his sycophants project.... but they perpretrate and own).

And yes.... they are wanting to rewrite history.... anything to provide a modicum explanation, that the people suffering isn't Trump derangement syndrome... nor was Jack Smith acting partisan in his pursuits of criminal activity.

We are in the hell we are in now, exactly because Trump was NOT held accountable... and guess who enabled this - that's right - yet again, it was Mitch McConnel and Republicans that chose not to impeach Trump.

The only punishment was literally from the tech bros, back then - back when they were capitulating out of fear.

What an insane world we live in.

Very telling...

The game is "We win", or "they cheated"; and JD has a smirk or grin, in response when Maher says "That's gotta stop"

God bless these justices, speaking up. I know they try to remain "neutral": but, remaining silent while the constitution and our democratic process is being dismantled is legal, constitutional and democratic malpractice.

We are all too focused on ignoring the problem: our leaders, the media, and even - "we the People". How can we ever hope to solve this problem, unless we recognize that things are too far gone - not to act, use our voice, raise awareness and demonstrate unity.

We demonstrated this unity, apart, during COVID... and yet, we are seemingly incapable here.

My... my... my... so much backpedaling on established facts... even already stated "Anthropic" provided us false intel. You can't re-write the record, once the truth has already come out, sir.

Notice what happens... when the grift continues amid the cry of outcry of the people, and deeply unpopularity of MAGA/Trump and the constant gaslighting and election subversion.

Ever since Trump apparently won the 2016 Presidential Elections (mind you with Russian interference that has been documented by our previously independent DOJ): progressively to now, we've seen Democracy continually assailed.

Elon helped Trump win the 2024 elections, and in my own opinion - the results of that election are deeply suspicious.

So where does this land us? Well... it's everything I feared it would be back in 2015 (presuming Trump would win; but, did not come to fruition - due to Democratic guard-rails). Now, we're living in a dystopian version of "real life hell" - where the way life we knew it to be, 11-12 years ago is now gone. We have never been more over-worked, over-stressed, under-appreciated, and "the will of the People" overtly subverted - in the history of this country.

We currently sit at the precipice of this potentially spelling the end of the Democratic process (as we know it): and in its place, ushering in a super-majority of Republic MAGA politica - solidified and codified into our law; with a clear two-tier justice system to boot!

"You will own nothing and be happy". This is complete the full-circle 80-year cycle of where we were with the great depression, and tees-up potentially the equally (but possibly even more existential threat) of WWIII and global conflict.

The results of the 2024 election were beyond suspicious - considering all variety of factors. I recognize we are deeply in trouble and must as a people come together, express and unify our voice, and re-establish truth. However, I cannot do this alone. I have spent the past 3-4 months - to prepare us for this moment. So please join the movement and cause - instead of giving into silence, indifferrence, or offering your consent (by default) - with intimidation and silence. Our demographic is larger; our voice is louder... our movement is louder. We must us our constitutional rights, uphold the law and restore justice and the social contract - before it's too late.

The compromise appears to include counter-intel, including Remote Operations Unit (ROU).

This administration can't keep ahead of it.

Update: on of the members of ShinyHunters, Pepijn van der Stap (internet alias/handle: "Umbreon"). Following this event, ShinyHunters reneged in their threats to release the FBI leak - unless the FBI redacted its statements and issued a public apology.

You know the times where truth is stranger than fiction? How about the case: if it wasn't so painfully obvious and dangerous, this would actually be funny.

In my view: America is running blind, less safe than it was 2-3 years ago, and the programming and indoctrination present in a subset of the voting populace, demonstrates a real concern and worry - that a whole demographic exists, that just repeats a term - with no deeper level of self-reflection.

Finally, the way he pronounces "tyrany" (tee-ruhn-knei) as (tie-ruhn-ni), reminds me a lot of his supporters pronouncing "cabal" (cah-bahl) as cable (cay-bull).

Trump has stated he loves the poorly educated. For some inexplicable reason, they trust him and hang onto every living word he says. They never actually take the time to look up the definition of fascism, or stop for a moment for long enough and self-reflect that their dear leader fits these definitions, better than any Democrat, Independent. or Socialist - ever could.

Lastly, they hate on distributive justice, or social identity, beyond capitalism: which primarily focuses on the disproportionate extraction of wealth of the working-class, and doesn't necessarily offer the same loyalties, nor living-wages required to survive - and yet, these workers are the reason our society functions. They are at the "ground level", living to work (not working to live), their value is always disproportionately extracted and considered "lesser". When it comes his supporters and judging the general population off the metric of how his supporters think and operate, I can better understand why they somehow think the general public is so blind to the ongoing corruption and abuses - and why he's able to run roughshod.

From our “totally high IQ, and totally virtuous president.”

No one, and I literally mean no one - other than the president and this administration: is responsible for their own self-inflicted injuries, via abuse of power.

Personally, I think a great deal of hard-working Americans, are sick and tired of the status quo, on top of adding insult into injury - the blatant disregard for law, monopolies, antitrust violations; and certainly since the start of Trump‘s 2nd term: the Proiect 2025 agenda, trivialization of truth, weaponization of government, tax breaks for the rich, lack of response in our current affordability-crisis, whilst simultaneous gaslighting that American’t has never been stronger (its people, never happier) - while forcing antithetical “truth” anti-reality, down the throats of millions, whilst being outwardly and overly corrupt and repeating the same forever-war-cycle we saw with the lies of 9/11, and betraying our allies, in this process.

These seemingly “populist” movements, and a surgence of authoritarian, and fascist takeover in America, does seem to arise from a legitimate want from the American public. Rather than capturing the vote through legitimate, logical and persuasive appeal: it obtained it through false-promises, say anything and do nothing (or opposite), anything/everything to win, with zero accountability. However, once more, it went a step beyond that, by launching us into an illegal war, has continually in-bad-faith - subverted the will of the people, and even now (now that Trump is becoming ever-increasingly deranged and desperate): telling his supporters to vote multiple-times (via multiple methods of voting). This is under the hope that if his efforts, convincing allies and sycophants “to cheat like hell” and having his supporters swear their oaths ”to cheat in the midterms” (by casting multiple votes), that this will engineer the sort of fraud, he could then use to pretense (and support his claims) of rigged/unfair elections, muddy up the waters and sew enough chaos and mistrust in our elections, it would naturally undermine the validity of elections, and his mind - warrant a federal overhaul. In the meantime, however, behind the scenes him and his enablers/allies/supporters are leaving no stone unturned, in the effort to cheat/rig the 2026-midterm, and then likewise… if there has been a massive blue-wave and all the pollsters (even Right-leaning) have indicated Democrats are likely to take over the house and senate (perhaps, even with super-majority): as MAGA Mike Johnson and Steve Bannon have already pretensed - a lot of Republican representatives and their enablers, will be going to jail. And I must add… rightfully so. This is what happens when you reduce the presidency and congressional representation, to only serving the needs of the corporate lobby, foreign sovereign interests, or when the government is fashioned - purely for the purposes of the grift, price gouging consumers, engaging in illegal wars and corrupt acts, and then acting unapologetically corrupt and being overt about it. While I am certain, come early 2026, the corrupt powers that be that have captured our way self-governance, had gotten away with a rather relentless litany of abuses in 2025 (and with the Epstein debacle, devolving against them): considering all they had gotten away with and considering they were losing with the public, that were throwing anything and everything (including the kitchen sink) at the wall - hoping something would stick. Likewise, as Americans were losing their houses and properties due to foreclosure, and simultaneously organizations like Blackrock and Trump’s allies - seizing them up at firesale pricing (and apparently simultaneously preparing for dooms-day: between the bunkers the major platform CEOs and tech giants were building, the smoke signal of a potential geopolitical unrest, the wholesale implementation of the surveillance state - between surveillance drones and Flock cameras and AI integrations into all major databases and consolidation of such information, and the overt signaling by the oligarchs and kleptocrats -”you will own nothing and be happy”: that clearly none of this messaging went over well with the public.

Through a combination of weaponization of government, unilateral over-reach by executive branch, let alone the overt signaling-reach by DOJ and even some Right-leaning state governments and mid-decade gerrymandering - demonstrates that likewise, there has been an effort to sew fear, paranoia, and distract from the actual threats (too vs. bottom), rather than one another (left vs. right).

The truth is, the negative public sentiment is justified and never has never been clearer. Likewise, Trump and his administration’s - along with GOP/MAGA congressionals - goal of rendering politics so noxious, toxic, and unable/unwilling to work for the American people, while the federal government murder’s it’s civilians in cold-blood (amid a cold winter), amid forcing its policies down the throats of its constituents (most MAGA/GOP congressionals: now avoiding town hall meetings - altogether), and other illegal acts like MAGA Mole Johnson calling extended recess to avoid discharge petitions calling of votes for Epstein files releases, or to avoid permitting a new Democrat from being sworn in, and even instances of Trump and his administration - ignoring a definitive ruling and orders from SCOTUS about returning Garcia (sneaking him onto an overnight flight, claiming they could not return him, etc.)… the policy isn’t an accident and is always the same. Ever since SCOTUS’s teeing-up of Trump v2.0 through permitting Trump absolute immunity for “official acts” (whatever the hell that means… and likely, whatever they want it to mean): we’ve never seen so much corruption, or in-bad-faith actions from our government prior. Now Trump wants to decry that the legacy media has been weaponized against him, and it’s not fair - because while a vast majority of legacy media had capitulated to him, a few bastions remain that refuse to capitulate, pose some hard and difficult questions that forces him to respond without his gaslit script, and now his efforts to ban MSNOW, CNN and Politico from the White House — is yet again, a clear and flagrant violation of the 1st amendment.

Trump was claiming the White House was his… until amid the Freudian slip-up, he said “the White House is my… the people’s house”. Since then, Trump has gone on to say the White House is “very special” and claims he is protecting our country from communism and socialism, and that the legacy media has been weaponized against him. Yet, all that’s happened, is his actions are becoming ever-increasingly corrupt, illegal, and he’s being called out for it. Just because the man is deranged, unable to get everyone to capitulate to him (including his efforts with USPS and SCOTUS “they’ve changed since appointing them”): without a doubt, this is becoming ever-increasingly more deranged, desperate and dangerous - as Trump, his allies, sycophants and MAGA loyalists: will leave no stone unturned, in the efforts to cling onto power. Truly we’re seeing a repeat of the kind of dangerous and deranged efforts we saw with the events of J6 - hence why Trump really wants that $1.776B slush fund, and to grant him and his family absolute immunity for skirting tax law, both for past and future events. If that doesn’t tell you anything about presumed guilt, then I don’t know what will.

Whatever the case, unfortunately his efforts to screw over the everyday American, and subvert the will of the people and rule of law - is far from over. When Trump loses, instead of acting like a normal person, nursing one’s wounds, admitting fault, doing better, moving on, and attempting to win voters over with actual merit — instead: he is bound and determined to make things as messy as possible, likely engage in ever-increasingly illegal acts (or put up others to do so, and promise them a pardon), and in doing so, weaken American, our alliances, image, and influence. He can continue to falsely claim that America’s reputation was ruined by the likes of Obama or Biden; but the counter-reality exists that actually, under his leadership both from 2016-2020 and 2024-present: that our country has never been more insecure, unsafe and the world geopolitical tensions have never been greater. Likewise, Trump, his administration and the GOP - while holding a super majority in government: would love to distract from their promises and responsibilities to the American people, that all of these bad economic times, Iran war outcome, gas prices, affordability and rather fucking insane/batshit crazy policies and lack of jobs, land squarely on their lap. After all, they were the one’s that purportedly implemented massive tax relief to Americans (none of which is felt because it disproportionately benefits the ultra-wealthy); likewise - they were the ones that gutted Medicaid and the ACA (leading to many rural hospital closures, let alone forcing many Americans in financial need, to lose their healthcare); they were the ones that created a new global conflict, while covering up for pedophiles, rapists, and Epstein co-conspirators and enablers (while Trump’s name was redacted over 1M from the files, and where images of Trump were released, only to find that released evidence flagrantly removed/redacted) - supposedly for their self-purportedly “most transparent administration in the history of this country”; they continually blame Democrats and media sources - because their overt and illegal actions - that are against the law - are repeatedly called out; likewise, they are the ones that want to decry that there is mass-fraud in elections, how much better things have been, whilst simultaneously JD Vance begs for a second chance and Trump promises $5000 if Republicans maintain control over the house and senate and likewise encourages his supporters to engage in the very same voter fraud, he purportedly is so against - thus engineering a fraudulent outcome, he hopes to achieve - so he, his party, enablers, and Epstein class: all can run roughshod over the American citizen, fail to pay taxes, subvert the law and our rights to vote, and attempts to condense and consolidate power to the executive branch (by disrespecting the constitution and states’ rights, or even for USPS - to not engage in partisan antics).

The bottom-line, is a loss is well-deserved; not only that, but for Democrats to clinch a super-majority. And any further attempts by this administration to engage in subversive efforts that violates the constitution and rule of law, should promote the public to resist such efforts. Democracies are inherently fragile and Trump and his enablers, seemingly worked to ignore the checks and balances on power, while robbing the last bastions protecting democracy, such as: constitutional law and rights, lower courts, states’ individual autonomy, and - at least for now - SCOTUS: as the last defenders of democracy. Democrats have done their part to block a many things. However, that said, I’m tired of hearing the false-equivalency made that Democrats are just as shameless as Republicans. Wrong. That said, however, it will be up to the people to maintain pressure on Democrats to avoid a “status quo”-type response, should they be offered the chance and be positioned, to respond to attempting to fix the damage caused, by a form of governance and governance type that we the people never asked for; however, all the same, it’s time the American public start using their voices and become involved in this political process, if we ever hope to recover from this era of high-crimes and corruption that has nearly taken our democracy along with it.

Given the Trump-administration's ban on CNN, MSNOW, and Politico - on White House grounds, in response CBS, NBC, ABC and Fox have stated their press corps will refuse to attend White House press briefing events.

This is the correct move, considering this is a direct attack on the 1st Amendment: freedom of speech and freedom of press. Just because Trump doesn't like the truth, can't handle the truth, or doesn't like transparency and unfavorable coverage - doesn't mean that we abandon the constitution.

Right now, all that is preserving the last bastions of democracy, include: the constitution, lower courts upholding of the constitution, SCOTUS's upholding of the consitution (which thus far, appears to uphold it - at least for state's rights and voting), states' autonomy, elections officials in each state recognizing the rights enshrined in the constitution, and of course "we the People" - holding strong behind the constitution and calling out any flagrant violations by this administration (or when our rights enshrined in the constitution are violated).

The sheer corruption we've witnessed, both last year - but, especially this year - demonstrates that it's not hyperbolic to state that this administration has been running roughshod over the constitutional rights, and upholding the rule of law. Just because a very evident two-tiered justice system pervades and permeates our current zeitgeist, doesn't equate to a full abandonment of it.

As a matter of fact, three independent statements (from Trump and his sycophants), actually point to the counter-reality provided by truth - even if absent additional clarification, the underlying reasoning of overt corruption, can be deeply felt and sensed:

• MAGA Mike Johnson's comments on if Democrats win the House, in the upcoming midterms:

  
  "They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they’ll go after the president’s family, the Cabinet, his donors, and friends. Half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program, I'll take care of you, OK? We're going to win, we're going to win the midterm."
  (source: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/4627106/mike-johnson-trump-allies-target-democrats-win-november/)
  

• Steve Bannon's comments on future jail time, and for jail time for a majority of attendees of his speech:

  
  "And I will tell you right now, as God is my witness, if we lose the midterms, if we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison – myself included."
  (source: https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/bannon-warns-conservatives-of-jail-time-if-republicans-lose-key-elections-steve-bannon-democrats)
  

• Trump's own words, when it comes to getting into heaven:

  
  "I mean, you know, I'm being a little cute. I don't think there's anything going to get me in heaven. Okay, I really. I think I'm not maybe heaven-bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly on Air Force One, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to make heaven [...] I made life a lot better for a lot of people"
  (source: https://www.foxla.com/news/trump-admits-hes-not-heaven-bound)
  

First off... if Trump is truly performing "God's work", then why are everyday Americans suffering, and instead met with insufferable gaslighting; and perhaps more importantly: why does Trump make it a point (in a rare instance of self-reflection) that he doubts he'll make it into heaven. Does it have anything to do with the fact that he's acted in a self-serving manner, has not met the needs of everyday Americans, or recognizes himself - that he is not a symbol for good in this world. Whatever the case may be, one thing's for certain: "The One Big Beautiful Bill" stripped healthcare away from millions of Americans, has slated additional Medicaid cuts following the midterms, and even MAGA Mike Johnson has gleefully said, that they will further target Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security - come next year.

Amid all of this, we're living in one of the most challenging economic times, between the ballooning costs, lack of healthcare, lack of jobs, tariffs, and worsening geopolitical fights and Trump's attempts to isolate America - from the rest of the world.

Then, as far as Steve Bannon and MAGA Mike Johnson's comments on investigatory bodies, jail time, and inferred "weaponization of government": they themselves, fail to clarify. That's because, they themselves, know what acts this regime has engaged in, and how their acts would be considered illegal, by any modicum of applicability of the constitution and law. As a matter of fact, they have even ignored SCOTUS's demands to return Kilmar Armando Ábrego García to the US, following a late-night, shadow-deportation, and directly into the custody of Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) - in El Salvador; and likewise - more recently - deported migrants (and those holding Green Cards, in some instances - even US Citzens) to Africa - even though they weren't originally from Africa).

Every American, should find these actions and illegal acts, deeply troubling. Fascism doesn't announce itself, all at once, and besides - Trump's railing on the media (and their eventual capitulation and capture, into becoming "the fake news" he decried about), after nearly a decade - he's becoming ever-increasingly close to rendering the legacy media "the fake news" media he seeks.

Of course, adding insult to injury, has been the flagrant disregard for the law, mass-layoffs of federal workers, the hollowing out of our entitlement and social safety nets and programs, and fortunately - while the media could have simply capitulated - it looks like they refuse to do so. More over, if Trump wants the kind of media attention he seeks, it's best that he backs down from his authoritarian leanings. Right now, this administration is testing the limits of the public, SCOTUS, and even our very infrastructure and pocket-books, to see what we as as a public and society, are willing to endure and put up with.

And while the battle for reclaiming the autonomy of the USPS - at the current moment - appears all, but won: I do expect a Jan 3rd, 2027 gambit... with the ultimate test that follows in early Jan of 2029 - with a vice president that is more than happy to capitulate; whereas before, in early 2021, some guard-rails still existed.

All of this is to say, has created a dangerous precedent and will take years to address and fix. But, hopefully truth and justice will prevail. One thing's for certain, as much leverage as AI can buy them - as far as undermining of truth and destruction - the American public remembers. There is no amount of distraction and gaslighting, that prevents the public from recalling the abuses, when they transpired and occurred. That said, all of the efforts to dominate the headlines and hijack the narrative, to a variable degree - have been successful. We must remain steadfast and call out the clear unilateral reaches of power and efforts to distract/detract - when we see them: if we ever hope for a return to normal semblance, under the law, in the United States. Of course, it will be helpful, if Democrats take a super-majority and end this debacle and fiasco much faster - even in light of all the efforts to subvert, cheat, steal, and overtly announce the corruption - which came especially into vogue, earlier this year,