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People said he wouldn’t be back in office unless hell froze over. Well, it’s pretty cold out there, so I guess we’re going to need a new thread to document all the “winning”…

The Epstein Files was at the top of the Conspiracy Theories that have been circulating at least since he was Suicided. The Files are finally coming out but some people are trying to or already have destroyed large portions of it. There are allegations that the US intelligence agencies themselves may have been behind Epstein's operation. This is just nuts if true...

Figure it would be good to start now with documenting the plans and signs of turning America into an Ethno-Nationalist Authoritarian state. This includes the rise and normalization of Christian Nationalist Ideology and the demise of classical pluralistic American democracy as implemented and weaponized by modern Republican politics, AKA Trumpism AKA Trump Populism. This includes Project 2025 and Agenda47. It would also include the desire by powerful people such as Elon Musk and Peter Thiel to eliminate democracy, as Thiel has stated "I no longer believe freedom and democracy can coexist," and he is putting his money behind that sentiment. My sincere hope is that this thread becomes empty beyond January of 2025 and that there is no longer a need for it, but my fear is that it will become a real time, step by step, internet documentation of America's decline into autocracy and sectarian political violence.

I'm not saying it's prevalent but I wanted a thread for it.

Figure this deserves it's own thread. https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c206zm81z4gt

Might as well make this its own thread as it’s going to be an ongoing issue for years. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/trump-tariffs-next-week-1.7467202 U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he will go forward with a 25 per cent tariff on most imports from Canada next week, saying the country has ripped off the U.S. for too long and it's time to put a stop to it. Speaking to reporters at a White House news conference with the French president, Trump said work to implement those tariffs is "moving along very rapidly." "The tariffs are going forward on time, on schedule. This is an abuse that took place for many, many years. The tariffs will go forward, yes, and we're going to make up a lot of territory," Trump said. Earlier this month, Trump threatened to levy a devastating 25 per cent tariff on Canadian goods — except energy, which would be levied at 10 per cent — going so far as to draw up an executive order to implement the regime. Trump ultimately pulled back after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau agreed to deploy more resources at the border to tamp down on drugs and migrants crossing into the U.S. Now, Trump signalled that the pause will be lifted around March 4 as planned despite meaningful improvement at the border with the number of migrants apprehended and the quantity of drugs seized plummeting.

With the public hearings starting on the 9th, i figured we needed a thread on it. Trump on Trial The Brookings Institution has released a comprehensive guide to this week’s hearings by the January 6 Committee. “The issue of criminality is central to the congressional hearings commencing on June 9, 2022… The report covers key players in the attempt to overturn the election, the known facts regarding their conduct, and the criminal law applicable to their actions.”

One interesting thing is his discussion of Scalia, which reads as a movie scene. Apparently, Scalia admitted to regretting an overly negative dissent and resolved to improve their relationship again when he returned from his hunting trip ... then he died on that trip. But his take on the SCOTUS is prescient and troubling. https://www.npr.org/2025/09/27/nx-s1-5554409/justice-kennedy-book (On partisanship, relationships and tone) "We live in an era where reasoned, thoughtful, rational, respectful discourse has been replaced by antagonistic, confrontational conversation," he said, adding that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Indeed, he says that he is worried even about the tone of some Supreme Court opinions. "It seems to me the idea of partisanship is becoming much more prevalent and more bitter," he said. "And my concern is that the court in its own opinions…has to be asked to moderate and become much more respectful." ... (More on Originalism) The other emotional legal issue that Kennedy talks about in the book is abortion. A devout and Mass-attending Catholic, Kennedy then, as now, views abortion as a moral wrong. And at one point he was so conflicted that he even considered resigning. "Another life is involved, one that cannot speak for itself. For many of us the unborn child cries out from the womb, cries out with a soulful voice to us and the law: let me exist, let me live," he writes. Ultimately, though, he concluded that "a moral wrong is not necessarily a legal wrong, nor do my own personal views control what I must decide as a judge." The abortion decision that Kennedy co-authored is exhibit A of his opposition to the doctrine that today dominates the conservative Supreme Court: originalism. Six members of the court to a large degree have embraced the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted by following the words in the Constitution at the time the it was ratified, and in some cases the way it was interpreted after the post-Civil War amendments to the Constitution guaranteeing equal protection of the law.

He just keeps falling. Wonder where he'll land?

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025/08/13/trump-to-present-minerals-deal-to-putin-in-alaska/

We need to improve our Public Education system. The level of educated citizens in America is a big part of how we advanced past the rest of the world during the Industrial Revolution. The world we face today is not less educated, but instead in many countries their education system have risen above ours. This is something we should all agree on. Education once was a resource of the rich. The common man did not have the resources to acquire education. The advancement of technology called for worker capable of doing the jobs needed. Today, technology has advanced even further. If we as a people chose to be less educated, I think that a bad choice. I believe that is something we all agree on. Our problem is fighting each other, lack of interest in seeing all people advance and still just not understanding where the world is today. There should be no debate about the population being well educated. The debate should be how can we become even more educated to compete in the new world. Technology is in constant motion up, forward. If we aren't able to keep up, we lose. Example. AI can now create speeches using the voice and actual likeness of people to spread untruths. It will never be a time when people are well served by being lied to through technology. The only advantage I see is the rich can easier manipulate the poor to get even richer. Understand, the rich are not championing the idea that they should become less educated. Why not? I believe it is in the interest of all Americans to become better educated, not less. We should improve our education system.

I just got my passport renewed in less than 2 weeks. By that, I mean it took less than 14 days for me to submit the application, turn in my old passport, and receive my new one in the mail. Previously, this process took several (usually 2-4) months. No, I did not pay any kind of extra fee to expedite. After that, I got my global entry renewed in less than 48 hours. Is the federal government more efficient now? LOL Side note, ironic how giving me credentials to enter the country became a lot easier under a president who says he is securing the border. PPS - maybe it's because I'm a white male?

Discussed for sure on election thread and others, but that's nearly 500 pg and thought one thread to nail down this topic before the rubber really hits the road should be in order. As oft do, had Peter Zeihan in background and he brought this up so seemed a starting point. Sometimes at times prescient but then also dazzlingly wrong (swore while ago no way a convicted felon Trump wins). Trys to walk the middle ground of politics and just call it like he sees it (right or wrong). Leans semi-older school Republican for what that's worth. So in that context: I think this all worth visits now and into the future as the impacts of - and changes in - Trump's cabinet take shape.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-78-stumbles-climbing-stairs-220918144.html The MAGA president was captured by C-Span tripping up the stairs to Air Force One on Sunday en route to Camp David... Gonna need to install a lift.

From Miltary.com: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/06/11/bragg-soldiers-who-cheered-trumps-political-attacks-while-uniform-were-checked-allegiance-appearance.html Internal 82nd Airborne Division communications reviewed by Military.com reveal a tightly orchestrated effort to curate the optics of Trump's recent visit, including handpicking soldiers for the audience based on political leanings and physical appearance. The troops ultimately selected to be behind Trump and visible to the cameras were almost exclusively male. One unit-level message bluntly said "no fat soldiers." "If soldiers have political views that are in opposition to the current administration and they don't want to be in the audience then they need to speak with their leadership and get swapped out," another note to troops said. Service officials declined to comment when asked about the extent to which troops were screened, whether soldiers displaying partisan cheers on television -- a violation of long-standing Pentagon rules -- would be disciplined or if soldiers who objected to participating in the event, citing disagreements with the administration, would be disciplined or admonished in any way. "This has been a bad week for the Army for anyone who cares about us being a neutral institution," one commander at Fort Bragg told Military.com on the condition of anonymity to avoid retaliation. "This was shameful. I don't expect anything to come out of it, but I hope maybe we can learn from it long term."

She prerecorded this video only to be released if they were taken by the IOF https://www.reddit.com/r/Fauxmoi/s/hJZV3BxVS0 someone in that thread shared the names and countries of the other activists on the ship. “Yasemin Acar – Germany. Baptiste Andre – France. Thiago Avila – Brazil. Omar Faiad – France. Rima Hassan – France. Pascal Maurieras- France. Yanis Mhamdi – France. Şuayb Ordu – Turkey. Greta Thunberg – Sweden. Sergio Toribio – Spain. Marco Van Rennes – The Netherlands. Reva Viard – France. Write to your mp’s and government officials. We need to demand the release of the freedom flotilla activists. Pressure will work here. The boat wasn’t even close to Israel and it was in international waters. What is this if not terrorism?”

Any thoughts? I would like to think at least half of us would be happy about this... https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/trump-executive-order-prescription-drugs-price-match-rcna206218