Basic Glitch @ AcidicBasicGlitch @lemm.ee

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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.

Well it is an Emergency, we gotta hustle

Don't take it personally, China. He feels the same way about the majority of Americans including his own family. He's got a chip on his shoulder bc he grew up among the peasant class, made it to the Ivy Leagues and has desperately been trying to claw his way into a social level he'll never be accepted to bc he wasn't born into it.

From his POV you're either a peasant, or you're an elitist. Unless you're part of the 1% of billionaires and generational wealth. Somehow that makes you an average Joe, and that's why you benefit the most from Vance's policies and "beliefs" (whatever he may need them to be in the moment).

Vance is not dumb, but he certainly acts like a useful idiot.

I just meant in terms of repeating the 1920s, we skipped all the cool shit they did and jumped straight into the depression. I guess the wealthy though still get their hedonism similar to the 20s

Also, I think it depends on where you were raised in the 90s/2000s. I grew up in the deep south going to a southern Baptist church, so the reactionary attitude while being a complete hypocrite behind closed doors is nothing new to me.

Probably also why it makes me so reactionary to the reactionaries. Like I cannot accept the shit that I finally escaped from is now trying to take over the globe, and some people actually think maybe it won't be so bad/maybe they can reason with it if they fall in line.

True, but not sure what the alternative is. Pretend it's not happening until that's all that's left in the world, and everything is destroyed? Or try to make as much noise as you can to warn other people until they silence you?

Honestly, talking to people about this stuff helps me kind of think about a lot of things. Really, thinking about it, that's all the Heritage Foundation really did except all the warnings were false and made up.

They just kept sqwauking and convinced people of their BS. If they could write their crazy ass manifesto why not just try to present as many people as possible with facts countering that argument. It will definitely take decades to reverse this shit, but it also took them decades to finally gain the power they have now.

Fair point. Just to be clear though, I don't say "right" in support of tarriffs, I say, right in terms of not accidentally multiplying the damage by 4x the original plan.

Although, now you got me thinking maybe the 4x worse damage wasn't even an accident.

There's a bioscience company with some really shady gov ties that was one of the only vaccine manufacturers that didn't completely tank in the stock market last week when FDA cuts were announced.

Over the last year their stock has been going down, but last week, it was up a little compared to companies like Moderna and Pfizer. Not by much, but it seemed weird the company actually announced a buy back of their own stock.

It would be interesting to know if the majority of shares were bought back before or after the giant crash. If it was before the crash, that would mean the company would be kind of fucked over by their own buy back. If the majority of shares were bought after the crash, that would be an odd choice but I guess if they mysteriously make a recovery it would be a win.

Probably by getting judges who are simply willing to acknowledge corporations aren't people.

Yup citizens United was the beginning of the fucking end.

Sorry, don't mean to rant like a crazy person, but these fuckers have just about driven me to that point.

I don't plan to leave if I can avoid it. I love New Orleans and most of the people here for better or worse. When I moved here, even the conservative Catholics seemed laid back compared to the southern Baptist bullshit I grew up with in TN.

Honestly at this point I blame the Heritage Foundation for just about every fucking problem in this country. It basically began with their mandate for leadership they delivered to Ronald Reagan. Instead of saying wtf is this horse shit, he said, sounds great. Let's make it happen. Now here we are and they are finally in a position to make their dreams come true with project 2025. They want the entire world to look like what I grew up in and what I couldn't get away from fast enough. They don't give a shit about any of the ideology. It's about control and power.

Keep people divided, make shit so bad in places like Louisiana it drives away anyone that votes against them or stands in their way. It leaves only the extremely wealthy controlling all the resources and the extremely poor completely relying on them. The poor will keep voting them into power based on whatever they can use to in-group (race baiting) or whatever scraps of hope they dangle in front of them (jobs and the economy) with no intention of ever allowing social mobility or fixing anything. There's a reason they're destroying the economy. They do much better when it's broken.

I also feel at this point there's really nowhere to run where they won't also eventually take over. These state policy networks exist in all 50 states and Europe. They have way too much power and it's no different than any dictator. They use Heritage Foundation money to push for the same policies they've already purchased at a federal level, and disguise it as representing the people of the state. They will take and take until there's nothing left.

We can run until there's nowhere left to hide, or we can try to push back. I know not everyone agrees, but even if we lose, why make it easy on them? If they didn't care about shit being exposed at this point, there'd be no reason for them to try to keep the information suppressed and hidden, so fuck them.

Well when they want to work together instead of grinding us up and using us for biofuel we can talk, but until then I will stay angry and be demanding they give back all the shit they are stealing from me, which was less than I deserved to begin with.

In Louisiana, our current Governor snuck in a new section to a recent renewal of the former Governor's executive order declaring a state of emergency to handle cyber security.

The new section granted the director of the Governor's Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness (GOHSEP) authority to act as he sees fit to handle the emergency.

What makes that especially concerning is that the same day, he placed all of GHOSEP under the command of the Louisiana National Guard, gave the director of GHOSEP a new title, and named a member of the guard interim director.

I think we might have TX beat, but our state's Heritage Foundation/SPN affiliate think tank is actually trying to argue we should be trying to be more like TX. Fun times. It's like every day I learn some outrageous new bullshit that makes me more angry than the day before.

Here is a video they made describing their brilliant idea

The CEO/president of GNO Inc that speaks throughout the video was also chosen by our Governor to be the official "Superbowl Czar" which has got to be the dumbest fucking title you could ever waste money on.

But I guess I can't complain too much bc Landry might have me shot by the National Guard things could always be worse I guess.

We didn't even make it the full decade. We did the whole pandemic thing but just passed on a new Jazz age with interesting new music and style, said no thanks to the libertine philosophy, and decided to fast forward 5 years and let this dusty old turd and his lame wrecking crew of Christian nationalists and the least intelligent pack of nerds that has ever existed, nose dive us right into the fucking ground.

There's no way this motherfucker couldn't just hire somebody to do the tariffs math right. He literally had all the money to hire the most talented people bc he's just been stealing it from us constantly. Instead he and his crew are such cheap little shit stains that they decided to just have AI handle it and fuck it all up as always. And now their big master plan is to dump whatever fucking money is left into more AI!?! Because they still don't fucking comprehend that's not the God damn solution to everything!?!

Fuck I hate these dumb fucks so God damn much

God, I bet all of history's previous dictators are just shaking their heads while they burn in hell because this guy is such a fucking joke.

These people aren't even giving us the minor concessions. They're actively taking away the shit that we are more than entitled to and exploiting us at every opportunity while reassuring the people that somehow still don't see the truth that eventually there will be a big pay off for their continued loyalty.

It's like just sit and wait patiently in this burning building. I'll be back to rescue you eventually. I understand it's getting hot, it's a little uncomfortable for all of us right now. I know you want oxygen, but I NEED this oxygen mask so I can save us all from the fire I started by fucking around with these matches.

Sometimes I volunteer at a homeless shelter. I'll never forget this one dude with mobility issues that kept asking me to do things like find out if he had an appointment scheduled with a doctor, and if I told him he could just look online and find the information he would always say ok then come back and ask me to do the same thing again the next time I saw him.

Finally he admitted to me he didn't know how to read, so even things that we usually think of as simple like just look up contact information for places online to call and ask was impossible for him to do.

I was able to help him get some things taken care of and I learned that he had been helping somebody work on a car and the jack had broken and crushed his hip while he was under there.

He'd lost everything and ended up homeless, and since he had mobility issues following the accident, not being able to read and get things taken care of just caused even more issues. Things had just kind of spiraled out of control from there and he'd gotten kind of stuck in the situation

I took time one morning to help him take care of a bunch of things. We were able to call his pharmacy and figure out the reason he hadn't been getting his prescriptions was bc they were waiting to hear back from him. I helped him get set up with PT so he could work on his mobility issues, and then I found the number for a transportation service to help him drive to PT.

He left the shelter eventually, so I'm not sure what ultimately ended up happening, but the point is he had been stuck like that for over a year feeling like he was spinning his wheels and going nowhere.

He was just one person among so many that needed just a little help with something we all take for granted. Just think about how many people are in similar situations and dealing with so much more than we can visibly see.

I know, right as Musk is "backing away" from his role aiding the president.

Almost makes you wonder if that whole Trainwreck was in part a distraction so we would let our guards down with him gone. I feel like even if Musk does actually step away, Theil has had Trump's ear since his first term when he picked several people to serve in his science cabinet including Kratsios. I am not 100% sure on this, but I also suspect he was likely involved in getting Trump to pick Vance as VP.

I do know that Yarvin was a mentor to both Vance and Theil and the three have been close for a long time. It's an odd group and weird as hell to imagine being stuck in a room with those 3, but somehow their friendship has lasted.

Also a reason none of us should breathe a sigh of relief of Trump ever decides to step away from the presidency. Trump is a toddler with an automatic weapon, Vance is Patrick Bateman with a Sniper rifle and some very scary connections to not just Yarvin and Theil, but also people like Adrian Vermeule.

It's part of the heritage foundation/SPN bullshit to recruit people at the state level to push federal policy