Ok so I keep telling people if nothing else good comes from this shit year, 2025 was the year I learned to appreciate the value of a good home made soup. So, I am so excited to see this post!

I use vegetable better than bullion base, chop a big club of ginger in a food processor then add it to the base, add in 2-3 jalapenos, key lime juice, and Sriracha

While all that’s simmering, I sautee red onion, broccoli, and shrimp, then add all that to the soup and let it simmer together for a while. Sometimes I’ll add tofu. Usually eat that for a few days. It’s awesome especially when you’re sick.

That’s not really grinding though. Grinding is when you do what you have to do to survive. Rich people getting richer, and still having an insatiable appetite for power and money is just a maladaptive attempt to feel more secure and in control while dissociating from personal and emotional issues they never learned how to properly handle.

Yeah Daddy issues. That is learned behavior. They need therapy. And let’s not lump grinding with that other shit. They may not have been born billionaires, but they were all born into some level of comfort. There are no rags to riches tech bros.

Again, therapy. Get to the root of that. Everyone has that to some extent, it’s just normal people when they find themselves at a low point choose drugs, sex, food to spiral out of control with.

These fuckers are playing Westworld with our lives, and when they go into a spiral they want to bring us all with them

They’re already free. Wtf do they want? Literally if they destroy society they just end up completely alone and miserable. Like self fulfilling prophecy bullshit, just go to therapy you dumb fucks!

Omg so just go to Mars and leave us all the fuck alone.

These bros are so goddamn stupid, and I wouldn’t even care except they’re going to kill us all in their delusional dumbass pursuit of a technocratic AI powered utopia.

And they’re all so fucking miserable even if they succeed they will just wind up all alone in their robotic powered biodomes wondering wtf the point of existence is bc nobody is left to stroke their dumb fucking egos.

I’ll be honest, seeing this sudden shift to openness talking about this when knowing how controlled the narrative is even here, makes me think this might actually be part of the narrative they’re now trying to push.

I could definitely be wrong about that, but I’ve seen this brought up here a few times and even last night there was an AskReddit about what Americans would feel is the final straw to have Trump removed from power.

I actually was talking about this in a post a few days ago. If Vance suddenly succeeded Trump as president, it would not fix anything, and it would likely make things much worse

I don’t think it’s snarky. I agree with you, but I also really have no faith in elected representatives doing what they’re supposed to.

Specifically, this election and the Senate confirmation hearings are what make me say I wish we could have more say in cabinet positions.

I’m in Louisiana and one of my senators was literally the deciding vote for RFK’s fitness. It sounds naive now but I actually had faith he would do the right thing. Even though he’s a Republican, he’s also a doctor. He’s spoken out in the past about supporting vaccines and stood up to Republicans on the issue.

I watched the hearings and heard RFK say things I know my senator disagrees with. Many people in Louisiana, including myself, wrote him an email saying we were glad to have someone like him in the position to make such an important decision. Yet, he decided to fall in line with his party even though he had every reason not to.

Since we can’t trust elected officials to be the safeguard they’re supposed to be, I think we should have more say in who actually gets selected for cabinet positions.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to let a president pick his cabinet. I feel like allowing people to vote and create a list of candidates for the president to select a cabinet member from would be an ok compromise vs either letting votes decide or keeping the current nominee/fitness BS that is purely theatre at this point.

If this country actually survives this apocalyptic BS which is a giant fucking question mark, whoever the next president is, will need to be willing to actually fight for this country without giving a fuck about re-election or pleasing donors.

I don’t know if the answer is to pack the court or to just pressure the shit out of the judges to do the right thing, but we all should have revolted when citizens United happened. I don’t think anyone really understood a group of billionaires that have been thirsting for power for decades could take advantage the way they have, but that’s on us and now we are definitely paying the consequences.

If they can overturn Roe V. Wade when so many Americans were actually against the decision, they can overturn citizens United, and we should be raising hell until they do.

I think that’s most people’s view, but if you honestly think it stops with control of the U.S. you’re in for a surprise. The only way to stop this is through uniting against oligarchy.

The Heritage Foundation has affiliates established in all 50 states and world wide. They’ve been planning this shit for decades. Similar to how everyone knows Putin would never stop with Ukraine, he will take and take until he has control of all of Europe and eventually global control if he has his way. These people will never be satisfied with control of the U.S., their ultimate goal is global domination.

Idk if you’ve heard of Deloitte and all the shady shit tied to their “consulting group” and the CIA/FBI?

This administration is trying to get rid of Deloitte, but not to “drain any swamps.” It’s to replace them with their own group.

Not sure what country you’re in, but word of advice, be on the lookout for Guidehouse consulting. These fuckers are everywhere, and trying to offer their consulting services to all levels of government. I literally just learned while typing this, that despite the fact the economy is in the toilet, on top of the billions in contracts the U.S. govt already has with Guidehouse, the Army announced yet another multi million dollar contract yesterday. Wonder what that’s all about?

Today me, tomorrow you.

It definitely would be nice to have more voter involvement in VP and cabinet picks.

I feel like even if people couldn’t be motivated to vote against Trump in the election, it would have been a lot easier to unify people to vote against someone like RFK Jr. for health secretary.

If we can never have any choice other than a 2 party system of Republican and Democrat, maybe we could at least start having something like a mixed cabinet, so that the policies and mandates being created are more representative of different ideas on different issues instead of any single ideology.

I agree we need more checks and balances to power grabs, but the people in charge want less bc they claim it only prevents them from doing what needs to be done to help Americans.

“Your life would be so much better off if we could just cut through all this red tape. It’s not the tariffs that are destroying the economy, it’s the regulations that are keeping change from happening.”

Soon it will be “You’re starving and your children are dying, because of red tape. These judges blocking my orders are screwing everything up. If you want things to get better, we must remove the corrupt judges that are hindering progress.”

If he needed to be elected, I agree 100%. But since he’s VP, he assumes the presidency if Trump is no longer president. His lack of charisma doesn’t really stop him from doing anything.

A few months ago when he was arguing that judges shouldn’t be able to interfere with the president’s executive power, he was arguing what right wing Harvard law professor Adrian Vermeule has been arguing for a long time.

Vance and Vermeule believe that the constitution should be interpreted to enforce law and order rather than to protect liberty. Vermeule has written extensively about the legal architect of the Nazi agenda, Carl Schmitt. Schmitt used legal means to grant Hitler unchecked executive power. He argued that it is the job of the leader to protect the law, and because of this. Führerprinzip essentially allowed the German constitution to remain in name only and placed Hitler’s will above all written law. So, because it was Hitler’s will, when he began proposing genocide as necessary for the good of Germany, there were no legal means to stop him from carrying it out.

This is why Vance argues against federal judges. It’s not that he doesn’t understand checks and balances, it’s that he wants to destroy them. He wants an Americanized Führerprinzip, that will allow the executive power legal authority over all written law.

He hopes that if he normalizes that idea and pushes it enough, eventually others will accept it as common knowledge. Vermeule and supreme court justice Alito are also Catholic integralists, and believe that medieval inspired Catholic faith should be the basis of public law. Alito flew a flag in support of the Jan 6 insurrection attempt. His judicial decisions and most of the right leaning members of the SC almost always side with Trump. He would definitely sell this country and argue the constitution allows for something like American Führerprinzip if it also meant Catholic integralism would be adopted by those in power. There are also several powerful Catholic integralists involved in the Heritage Foundation and project 2025.

I really think Vance converted to Catholicism so recently bc he knew that it would make him more attractive to the Catholic integralists. It seems like Peter Theil may have been the main reason he did.

Sorry to ramble, but the T.L.D.R. if you want to see the scariest aspects of project 2025 come true (like the IRL handmaid’s tale) without any legal means to stop them from happening, then Vance is your man to get the job done.

I’ll say, it wouldn’t fix anything. Vance is way more psychotic and calculated. He’s actually waaaay more dangerous than Trump.

Vance combines the philosophy of a Nazi legal theory loving ivy league elite like Adrian Vermeule, with Curtis Yarvin, and Peter Theil. In a lot of ways I think Trump buffoonery keeps people distracted from a lot of their evil shit, but I also honestly feel like Trump’s ego demanding he always be the focus of attention, is acting as a chaotic buffer to keep their plans from working out as smoothly as they would like. I think Musk was even probably more of a distraction than we realized, and the only reason he’s becoming less involved is because Kratsios is able to do just as much awful shit that nobody wants but look normal by comparison to the chainsaw wielding maniac that was proudly getting like 7 hours of sleep a week. I’m honestly not sure if Theil set him up once again like he did with PayPal. Or did Musk know he was just the face that would take the blame for holding the country hostage while robbing us of money that will now be sunk into an absurd number of AI projects with Thiel’s protege at the helm as Science Advisor?

I wish we could just get the entire dishonest administration removed from office, but we can’t even get most members of the House and Senate to acknowledge they’re actively trying to destroy the United States because they seriously believe their loyalty will be rewarded. Bc the fuckers that plan to replace everything with shitty AI would definitely never be able to replace them.

Idk,.I’m finding it might actually be useful to spread local information if you stick to some local subreddits

Yep fuck Sinclair broadcasting too, but as you can see, the only news covering this is from local Indiana news reporting.

Yeah fuck the intercept, not really the point.

My point is that while big news networks are fucking around it’s the locals news and individuals who are getting fucked over the most by this bullshit who are actually trying to make sure this shit doesn’t get buried

True, there was not a whole lot of mainstream media coverage of assange but there were journalists from places like the intercept and I believe rolling stone or vice also covering it.

In this case, and many cases all over the country lately, I’m finding that tiny local news outlets are doing a better job keeping us informed than mainstream media or even larger less mainstream news outlets.

Also realized that if this was a case of spying it would seem very unlikely he would have a lawyer at his residence while it was being raided but who tf knows. Not us.

What are you talking about. State secrets are well protected by Elon Musk

Yeah, if only we had a free press that could keep the public informed about matters so we could know what the fuck is actually going on anymore.

It’s especially weird the university just didn’t release a statement about it or anything.

It definitely could go either way

If we actually still had a free press, you would expect this to be getting some coverage and for there to be some kind of statement from the University’s lawyers saying they were cooperating with the FBI if this guy was legitimately wanted for shady dealings.

It’s fucking sad that we all read this and have to think, is this the FBI handling a legitimate threat or is this why DHS keeps complaining about Civil Rights Offices standing in their way.

Pretty positive there is no actual plan to improve cybersecurity, it’s a facade to quietly hand over power and control to the national guard to keep people in line.

The same day the emergency order was signed by the governor, he announced he was restructuring GOHSEP (governors office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness) under the National guard as part of his state DOGE plan to cut waste and save money.

The emergency order grants the director of GOHSEP authority to act however they seem fit to handle cybersecurity. But on the same day the director of GOHSEP was given a new title, and is no longer director.

The “acting director” is now Louisiana National Guard Brig. Gen. Jason P. Mahfouz