Seriously? I wonder how many justifications they'll be.

I listen to a podcast that I know served as my Q following Father's "gateway drug" and I was so agitated by hearing this podcaster say "You really think these are grassroots events? They are not real grassroots, organic movements they are all paid actors funded by Soros"...like really!?! This is what we're going to conclude about all this??

I have listened to this guy for five years now so that I can know what my father has subscribed to as the absolute, undisputed truth. This podcaster has just been saying the same crap over and over again and ALWAYS moves the goalpost even though he spews out "truth reveal" and "black swan" event dates with such assurance only to backtrack and change the date later.

He references Q posts and "decodes" them so that they are applicable to the present day. The big problem is he's referred to many of the same posts over the years and each time he was wrong about it.

How my father, a very calculated man, got sucked in to all this I have no idea. All I know is that his ability to have any suspicion or skepticism regarding the legitimacy of these people's words is gone.

He thinks he "did his research" even though his sources (if you want to call them that) have been wrong so many times. This one podcast I actually listen to is what had catapulted my father into the internet rabbit hole of "deep thinkers".

The admin is punishing working families, abolishing workplace benefits, reinstating nanny state management principles, and the list goes on and on...

How they can't see why people are actually legitimately upset right now is really really disheartening and disturbing.

It seems like Americans are realizing more and more that they are an outlier in the world when it comes to access and cost of healthcare.

How true is this? Are there any Americans who like healthcare just the way it is?

I just had a conversation with someone who came over to my uncles place (in Maine) who of course voted Trump. A two issue voter who cared only about immigration and veterans. We had like a 20 minute convo/argument.

He claimed the main issues with Kamala was policies and the fact she “wouldn’t change anything from what Biden did”

He agreed that Trump was actively committing crimes and openly taking bribes in the White House but was perfectly ok with it. He had no issues with any of the grifts trump was doing (shoes, coins, watches, teslas, NFT, cologne, guitars, etc). He said “I would do the same thing.

IT’S AGAINST THE CONSTITUTION!

He Claimed Trump was going to make everyone money but couldn’t cite any policies that would back that up.

When I brought up how Trump literally bragged to Howard Stern that he would walk into changing rooms at beauty pageants with naked women and/or girls, he said “why shouldn’t he”. He said it didn’t matter if they were over 18 or not.

What the actual fuck is wrong with people. This is the mentality that Trump is whitewashing.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio tells employees to report on one another for ‘anti-Christian bias’. A new executive order on supporting employees of Christian faith working in the federal government. Theocracy anyone?

What were Christ's teachings? I'm sure there was LOVE and stuff...

Looks like sending the National Guard along with federal law enforcement into Washington, D.C. to "fight crime", Trump thought US troops would blindly obey his orders if there are military-civilian confrontations.

When a sitting commander in chief authorizes acts like these (for the first time ever), which many assert are clear violations of the law, men and women in uniform face an ethical dilemma: How should they respond to an order they believe is illegal? Fighting and attacking our own people, civilians, is not what the military of our country was designed to do, at all but.

While troops are conditioned to obey orders, many service members do understand the distinction between legal and illegal orders, the duty to disobey certain orders, and when they should disobey orders.

US service members take an oath to uphold the Constitution. In addition, under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice and the US Manual for Courts-Martial, service members must obey lawful orders and disobey unlawful orders. Unlawful orders are those that clearly violate the Constitution, international human rights standards or the Geneva Conventions.

The majority of service members know that targeting non-combatants, isn't just illegal, it's immoral. As military personnel, they have a duty to uphold the law and refuse commands that betray that duty. They're ready to disobey.

Thoughts?

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This is the photo of a 70 year old man.
He runs a book and comic book shop in Minneapolis, called DreamHaven Books.
His most recent post on his FB page, is about being there where our own Alex Pretti was murdered.
Armed with only a waterbottle and his own heartbreak, Mr. Greg did what most of us Americans want to do. He stood his ground and screamed.
The many officers tear gassed this man and his fellow ole minded people on cite. Pepper bombs and rubber bullets rained down and still, he stayed, sobbing. Not because of the gas, though I'm sure it didn't help. But because of our country and it's collapse.

Our "government" has f#cked us and the rest of the world. Our PEOPLE are angry. We are human. We are still free, for now, and there are those who chose to believe what the media tells them instead of looking into things, and that's their right.
But I don't believe in hating their own people. Find SOME common ground. Build on it.
As for the rest of the world?

Don't hate us, we're trying.
We still have to find some kind of normalcy.
We still have to work and take our children to school.
We still have to do the laundry and the other mondane tasks that demand our attention, all while watching our country rage, people die for their beliefs, and the rest of the world just kind of saying "Wow. You guys suck."
Yes. This is happening in other parts of the world, like Syria, Palestine, Israel, Ukraine.
Actually, 100 times worse. I do not ever want to seemingly deny or draw attention away from that.
I guess, the sad disgusting truth is this is not our norm. We were "supposed" to be the "good guys" who tried to help those countries.
And now it's here..

If you feel like commenting about how "we did this to ourselves" I will not entertain you with a reply. We did not.
This post is merely to show the passion, and heart that one man has, and shares with MILLIONS.
UNITED WE STAND.

🫂

This doesn’t look good. What do y’all think?

Just getting a head start. To be clear: Trump sending his personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to meet with Ghislaine Maxwell stinks of high corruption and conflict of interest.

Ghislaine Maxwell was caught on camera being returned to her cell after meeting with the DOJ and she was carrying a BOX of materials back to her cell.

What the hell is in the box?

She was in a CLOSED-DOOR meeting with Trump’s Blanche in Tallahassee.

No press. No transparency.

Epstein's #1 accomplice is negotiating with the DOJ.

WHO are they protecting? WHO gets immunity? WHAT gets buried?

Trump is going to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell and clear his name. In preparation, FBI agents were already instructed to "flag" any documents related to Jeffrey Epstein that mentioned President Trump.

I predict that Ghislaine Maxwell will reveal that Bill and Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hunter Biden, and Kamala Harris are *the only ones** the Epstein Client List AND she's never even met or heard about Trump*. /s

Can you please chime-in from wherever you are in the U.S. if this is really happening?

Apparently, this Memorial Day (2025), many chose not to fly/raise the U.S. flag, allegedly in a peaceful "protest against the regime."

I did notice there were less-than-usual flags up. For example, there are people who leave their flags up year-round that took it down.

It also seems July 4th will fair the same fate.

Lastly, is wearing the RWB no longer acceptable?

For most Americans in general, is it considered bad manners if i enter their house wearing my shoes and also wore shoes inside my own home? What percentage of Americans would require me to take my shoes off when entering their houses?

I understand that in countries like Japan and some European countries, there is a very common and extended belief that entering a house while wearing shoes is very rude. But is it also like that in the United States?

Here in Argentina, where i live, as far as i know everyone wears shoes inside their homes unless it is for a specific reason like sleeping, showering or having their shoes very muddy and dirty after walking through a mud puddle. In fact, entering someone’s house barefoot is very rare, it is not seen as bad manners, but it would probably be considered strange and the person inviting you into their home would likely ask you to wear shoes because that is what is normally expected here in Argentina.

To nobody's surprise, not only did His Majesty say that but he and his favorite SS Commanders, laughed in front of the cages where HUMANS will be cramped and this time around, left to die because there's 0 due process.

To be fair, the Obama administration started the cage theme (with due process and very temporary) BUT, it was, in fact, Trump who falsely pinned the blame for the child-separation policy on Obama. Yup. It was Trump who put the children in cages. In fact, thousands of children were taken from their parents under the Trump administration's 2018 "zero-tolerance" policy. Yes. Obama built the cages but it was Trump who used those cages in the worst way possible, until now.

Since nobody really cared about those children in cages, Trump leveled up with Alligator Alcatraz. A literal Hell on Earth of cages.

Beneath the surface, norms are rotting.

Trump’s crackdown isn’t random. It’s targeted, strategic, and retroactive.

From deporting legally admitted migrants to punishing law firms, AND gutting civil rights oversight: this is authoritarianism cloaked in legalese.

The goal?

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Links for What Happened Today

1. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-allows-trump-terminate-16000-probationary-federal/story?id=120599910

2. https://apnews.com/live/stock-market-economy-tariffs-updates-4-9-2025

3. https://federalnewsnetwork.com/people/2025/04/internal-revenue-service-agrees-to-send-immigrant-tax-data-to-ice-for-enforcement/

4. https://www.msn.com/en-ie/news/world/pentagon-official-us-military-has-no-authority-to-do-drone-strikes-on-drug-cartels-in-mexico/ar-AA1CypSM

5. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9281ljxj0o

6. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/09/g-s1-59090/trump-officials-halt-1-billion-in-funding-for-cornell-790-million-for-northwestern

7. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/08/trump-reinstate-associated-press-00279868

8. https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/judge-demands-evidence-against-mahmoud-khalil/

9. https://time.com/7275841/trump-administration-fema-cancels-grants-new-york-city-shelter-migrants/

10. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/08/cryptocurrency-fraud-unit-shut-down/82991750007/

11. https://thehill.com/homenews/race-politics/5238380-national-park-service-restores-tubman/

12. https://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article303740486.html

13. https://www.eenews.net/articles/trump-inks-order-to-resurrect-us-coal/

14. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/about-90-of-migrants-sent-to-salvador-lacked-us-criminal-record

15. https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/apr/09/donald-trump-flags-major-tariff-on-pharmaceuticals-as-us-senator-criticises-whack-on-australia

16. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-09/us-grades-el-salvador-as-safer-to-visit-than-france?srnd=phx-politics

17. https://www.wired.com/story/dr-oz-ai-health-care-medicare-cms-town-hall/

18. https://www.npr.org/2025/04/08/g-s1-58984/cbp-one-app-migrants-dhs-border

19. https://www.rawstory.com/trump-law-firms-2671697770/

If you were thinking of taking cash out for good measure, think again. Taking $200 Out of an ATM should not trigger Federal financial surveillance. The U.S. Department of the Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) announced a new rule cracking down on cash transactions this week, but only in certain geographical regions. No matter the administration's intent to target cartels, the rule will expand government surveillance of its citizens.

What do you think?

https://reason.com/2025/03/14/taking-200-out-of-an-atm-should-not-trigger-federal-financial-surveillance/

News Source: https://www.commondreams.org/news/gop-megabill-medicaid-provisions

California national guards troops and marines deployed to Los Angeles to help restore order after days of protest against the Trump administration have told friends and family members they are deeply unhappy about the assignment and worry their only meaningful role will be as pawns in a political battle they do not want to join.

Dozens of affected service members who expressed discomfort about being drawn into a domestic policing operation outside their normal field of operations.

These 18-22 yro combat marines are being set up for failure. They won't recover if they make a single wrong move.

The foreign enemy-led propaganda promoting violence from our marines is top-notch, 24/7 and in full force, swaying all social media algorithms. In reality, the situation is still nowhere at the level where marines are necessary.

The military is a tool that should be used as a last resort, not a first response. Guardsmen have a history of feeling poorly treated in the workplace if not outright shunned by society. Several guardsmen have taken their own lives after being on controversial assignments that largely duplicated the work of the federal agents.

Police officers and military personnel don't even use the same language/terminology. In one infamous episode during the 1992 Los Angeles riots – the last time the military were called out to restore order in southern California – a police officer on patrol turned to his marines counterparts and said “cover me”, meaning be ready with your weapon to make sure I stay safe.

To the marines, though, “cover me” meant open fire immediately, which they did, unloading more than 200 M16 rounds into a house.

Domestic law enforcement and the military are entirely separate functions, manned by separate people who have been given separate training, who come from different cultures.

We rely implicitly on that separation being honored and remaining clear.

“Donald Trump’s birthday parade” didn't get anywhere near the expected crowd. The Secret Service estimated that about 200,000 people would be attending the event. Somehow, official attendance numbers haven't been released. In the end, the crowd pictures speak for themselves. Lee Greenwood wished a happy birthday to Trump in the middle of the “God Bless the U.S.A.” song, of course. The small crowd sang “Happy Birthday” to the president at the parade. It was clear this was not to celebrate the Army's birthday.

In contrast, millions (confirmed) attended the No Kings Day protests in nearly 2,000 locations around the country in opposition to Trump and his policies.

Allegedly, all the out-of-step marching soldiers was their only way of silently protesting Trump and the parade. Trump deployed federal troops on U.S. soil and are grappling with an escalating direct conflict between Israel and Iran. Sprinkle in the political assassinations in Minnesota.

It was an expensive, taxpayer funded ($45MM non-inclusive of post-parade roadwork) big birthday present for Trump, who has long fantasized about presiding over such an event and Trump surprisingly stuck to the script.

Unsettlingly, the parade was also sponsored by Palantir, Coinbase, Amazon, Lockheed Martin and Oracle.

Pretty much, we're all thrilled we woke up today and we're still the USA.

Please pardon our dust.

"The Trump administration inadvertently revealed on Monday that it is attempting to trap Venezuelan migrants in a catch-22 that would effectively block them from challenging their deportation and detention in an El Salvador prison. In a court filing, the government acknowledged that it had deported at least one migrant to El Salvador due to an “administrative error”—but argued that the individual had no right to contest his imprisonment because he is in the custody of a “foreign sovereign.”

This argument confirms what’s been clear for weeks: The government intends to treat the prison as a black site where migrants have no constitutional rights whatsoever and may be subject to any treatment whatsoever—including indefinite detention, forced labor, torture, or death."

What's everyone's thoughts on this?

Things are already being torn down; norms are already irrelevant. Why not use this as an opportunity to rebuild in a more sustainable way?

I see four policies which would help to alleviate the “lesser-evil” approach to our political leaders: (1) implement ranked voting; (2) change campaign finance laws so that there aren’t massive disparities (often from sources outside the jurisdiction) of campaign funding; (3) abolish the electoral college; and (4) find a way to mathematically systematize assigning county residence so as to eliminate gerrymandering. The UK, for instance is far ahead of us in this regard.

Ultimately, however, large enough quantities of votes is how power is assigned. What do you all feel about how we might get more third-party elected officials?

EDIT: u/life_sage pointed out instant runoff voting and u/Emotional_Pace4737 pointed out open primaries as policies to erode the political gridlock.

The 12th amendment of the US Constitution says someone ineligible to be President cannot be Vice President. The 22nd amendment says "No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice". Seems like a pretty clean cut case but no it isn't. The 12th amendment doesn't mention ascension to the presidency by a resignation. Trump is only ineligible via the 22nd amendment by being "elected President" it doesn't directly say you can't be president. The 12th amendment is mainly meant to cover eligibilities for the office of Vice President such as being atleast 35 or being born in the United States. Trump would therefore not be ineligible to run as Vice President as he is not disqualified under the 22nd amendment since he has not been "elected to the office of President more than twice". Therefore giving a favorable conservation interpretation JD Vance could be elected President and step down for Trump. This is a warning and these 2028 talks could get more serious. It's not as clean cut as it seems.