Watching the election results roll in is like showing up at a party you were super stoked for, only to find that there's not only no alcohol but it's not even a party, but a colonoscopy without anesthesia.

All federal websites must alert people to the ways in which the respective agencies will function during a government shutdown. This is normal and appropriate.

Here is what is not normal and appropriate—many websites have added politically biased and inflammatory language to their public notifications.

Here is what it says at the top of the Department of Justice (DOJ) website:

Democrats have shut down the government.

Even if you agree with the message, surely you do not want EITHER side doing this kind of partisan nonsense.

Under no circumstances should federal government websites take a political position, nor post propaganda that favors one party. These agencies are designed to help all Americans, and must remain impartial.

These messages are biased and discriminatory, and are a direct violation of The Hatch Act of 1939. The fact that they exist is evidence that our democracy is being violated in an egregious fashion.

The Hatch Act of 1939 is a federal law that restricts the political activities of federal employees and some state and local employees. Its purpose is to ensure that federal programs are administered in a nonpartisan manner and to protect employees from political coercion in the workplace.

The U.S. Capitol switchboard phone number is (202) 224-3121. An operator at this number can connect you to any U.S. Senator's or Representative's office

I have not personally been affected by anything, but it feels like every single day some other right is taken away or the government oversteps. The hits come more often and are more impactful. I've gone from being angry to downright scared at times. Thoughts?

Next up, Donald Hitler's Tariffs will drive consumer prices ( groceries, rent, things ordinary people buy ) way up.

Remember who is responsible.

Also remember that the Republican congress is doing nothing to stop him and vote accordingly during midterms.

Was just speaking to a few friends, and they all agree with me. I don't know how to explain this, but I say for myself, I used to be a happy-go-lucky kind of person before the pandemic. I was always full of life, making friends, and having hopes about the future. Although nothing is perfect, I still have problems. Before the pandemic, there was like a bit of an upbeatness to life, like nothing I could worry too much about. But ever since the start of the pandemic, I've turned to a completely different person. I'm no longer optimistic about the future, and I'm becoming more easily pessimistic about people and more pessimistic myself too. This is something I noticed a lot of people said too, and how people are before and after the pandemic, even the most mentally strong people I know, has become worse after the pandemic. The most positive people have become completely different from how they used to be, and how different things are now: the quality of everything has dropped, everything is becoming more expensive, and people are meaner and ruder. There are no more late-night 24/7 things anymore. Does anyone relate to this too? You used to be a happier person before covid/pandemic, and now it seems like you are a different person. Sometimes I look at the photos pre-covid, 2018-2019 and can't believe im the same person as the one in the photograph, and miss how good times were back then. Now it feels like we are in a different world/planet, like 10 years, the shift from 2019 to 2020, in just 1 year after the pandemic. I don't know if I make sense.Even my gen x mum, in her early 60s, who has been through 911 and several disasters, said the same thing: she has never felt anything like this. Ever since covid, it has felt like the world has become a darker place, and nothing like she experienced, and the people who have been with her who experienced 911 and other disasters didn't change until covid. She felt like the closest people to her have changed and feel like there is something with the vibes.

Why top internet sleuths refuse to solve UnitedHealthcare CEO’s murder

Michael McWhorter, better known as TizzyEnt on TikTok, explained in a video: ‘I have yet to see anyone online posting “we gotta find this guy, we gotta get him off the street”.

...

‘I don’t think there’s a single person in this country who hasn’t themselves or had someone very very near and dear to them suffer from the absolutely abysmal thing that is privatised healthcare in this country.

‘People every day are denied – for the most ridiculous reasons, sometimes even though they should be given care – in the hopes that they will die before they can actually get the services that they have paid for.

‘So, when a man who is quite literally the face of that was murdered, the nation for the most part seemed to collectively shrug.’

...,

Following the attack, UnitedHealth and several other health insurers including CVS Health and Centene, removed pictures of executives from their corporate websites in an apparent tightening of security measures.

Centene said on Thursday it would no longer hold an in-person investor day next week, and that the event would be streamed.

Disclaimer: I don't endorse murder

Edit:

Voting and paying attention to current matters.

If President Obama had more support in Congress he could have done more reforms such that the UHC CEO ( and others ) would not have been able to do what they did.

Voting > Guns

OK, guys! I posted this yesterday, in another sub but it was a lot to respond too so I'm reposting a more concise discussion sorry it's long. So after Trump got elected the 1st time, he moved his assets into a revocable trust basically to separate himself from whatever businesses he didn't bankrupt at that point while in office. He himself said he would abstain from seeking foreign deal, however the Trump Organization acting as a separate entity struck deals with foreign government officials while also generating revenue for his hotels through Lobbyists, allies, and others are trying to pay to play. Even going so far as to offer stays to foreign nationals and business people. He knew how his laws would affect his business, as did others; so around this time is when I think he came in contact with Tech Bros.

Then, dec 2017, Trump signs the tax cuts, and government revenue drops by 8% weakening our overall structure. Everything in the early days and everything since has been either to nurture already existing malice in the population or move towards a specific ideology not authored by him but authored by the people backing him silently called a Butterfly revolution. I don't want to invalidate your real emotions, but almost everything you've seen, the executive orders, the firings, pardons, all of it don't actually matter in the grand scheme. It's simply a tool to make you disoriented, with the added benefit of contributing to already existing American decline.

They're using black, lgbtq, immigrants, and women to scapegoat all of Amerca's problems. They're using the original playbook white nationalist used to enslaved black people by destabilizing tribes in Africa. Slavery was America' original sin, and that's what they want to relish in, to make America great again. They want to go back, and they're actively executing a plan to do that. America has 5 major foundational problems that we never addressed, which made it possible to happen racism, inequality, two party systems, corporate tax laws, and personal financial literacy.

After the election I researched several topics including geopolitical topics, fascism, American decline and even finance, and I stumbled on a video about the Techno Oligarchy and really everything after that made sense, I believe everyone needs to watch it, & I believe most of politics right now is a distraction besides a few glossed over moments by the media, that's being orchestrated by silicon valley, & Vladimir Putin. There's 7 main players, I think, not including Putin or Trump, who are taking steps to see to It that this is our future; a Technocratic Feifdom. Network states controlled by AI, in the remains of the United States and its territory abroad.

These men, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Thiel, Sam Altman, JD Vance, and Balaji Srinivasan, are actively trying to create a new world order. The plan for them to gain control is to put as much strain on American institutions and it's economy as possible and do anything to weaken our democracy. They will get increasingly hostile towards the outside world and take up a period of isolationism. They will work to undermine American favorability and reliability and flame concerns over the viability of the dollars long term position. There will be a lack of stability around the world, and then they will try to crash the economy with a major war, possibly WW3, or maybe even cause another pandemic.

Once the economy crashes, they'll buy up everything, and the dollar position as the world's reserve currency will be weaker than it's ever been. They will offer up crypto as an alternative to the dollar. Either Trump's regime or JD Vance's future regime will denominate the dollar value of the national debt, which will surely be so unbelievably massive by that point into crypto. Trump or Vance will drive up the prices, think about how he created his own coin. Once the market value of crypto exceeds the national debt, they'll wipe it. Maga will get to pretend that's it's a great political achievement and that it will solidify support for the republican party indefinitely.

After the debt is wiped, crypto will fully have taken over as the new dominant currency, meaning the dollar will be relegated to a second tier currency and American citizens effectively reduced to destitute 3rd world circumstances, as the new normal including the ongoing effects of climate change. The crypto reserve currency will hold all the value, and its pioneers will essentially be wealthier than states Corporations will essentially be equivalent to countries and they will divide up the land and each create they're own city states where feudaliatic practices and AI verification, nanotechnology, cyber chips and the lot will be everyday life.

Poor people will be enslaved to the network states, and democracy will be long gone. I'm not saying I don't care about what's going on right now. I'm saying it's all a distraction disconnect a little and think long game like billionaires do. Think about it, Why do you think Trump is threatening Canada, Greenland, and Panama Canal they're trying to acquire land. Why do you think companies are buying up all these single family home, why does Bill Gates own more land than anyone in America. The LA fires, the dismantling of our aviation system, Elon breaching the treasury, etc. Why has Trump had business relationships with Russia since they bailed out his hotels in the 80's. This has always been the long game. White supremacy christian nationalism was just the vehicle they used to get us here.

I know you think it's conspiracy, but it's not the evidence that is right in front of us. You can watch videos of these people talking about this stuff. The originator of the Butterfly revolution ideology is a guy named Curtis Yarvin, and he mentored JD Vance and Elon Musk. Elon Musk bought an election, and republican states successfully purged 3.5 million votes from the pool, and here we are. We think they're more powerful than they are. The chaos makes use think these are strongmen. They aren't they're conmen and sifi tech nerds who exploit us and steal our money. America is being stolen in front of our eyes. Do we not think it's possible that Russian spies couldn't have been hiding out at Trump's properties for decades working under the cloak of immigration that they escoriate?

Look, every single thing they do is not necessarily for a long-term plan, but you're lying to yourself if you don't think that something massive is going on behind the scenes. We see tariffs, and we think, omg that's gonna hurt my quality of life, but we should be looking at them as weapons against us. Everything is being weapons weaponized, even words, so why tf do you think they're weaponizing life if they don't plan on going to war! The war is against us! They want you to think it over, but hope, community, skills, and finance literacy are put weapons. Start learning, building connecting because it's far from over in fact the beginning. You think just as easily as Russia, Elon, and Republicans rigged the election in Trump's favor, they can't do it again? For someone else, JD Vance?

It's all right in front of us people we need to wake each other up. I know things are heavy collectively and take a break. Ignore everything, reset, and think critically. There's a lot we can do, but we have to capitalize on our opportunities. Midterms will be one 2028 will be another we can't miss the last few we have left. Black people and other minorities I know are especially apathetic right now, but I mean this when I say that a revolution will not happen without black people. It's going to take all of us, and we have the blueprint we've done it before research how people survived before in times of peril. Don't let them keep playing us like a drum. I have some articles and videos on hand if anyone wants to dive deeper.

https://youtu.be/5RpPTRcz1no?si=Ed9SuG9jea8Amiqa

Update: I started a community for the 99%

r/The99Society

Washington D.C. is still under military occupation. Just when you think it couldn't get worse American Hitler decided to reopen Fort Bliss to hold 5,000 prisoners.

For those who need to know:

Puerto Rico[i] (abbreviated PR),[20] officially the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico,[b][j] is a self-governing Caribbean archipelago and island organized as an unincorporated territory of the United States under the designation of commonwealth

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Puerto Ricans have been U.S. citizens since 1917 and can move freely between the archipelago and the mainland.[31] However, residents of Puerto Rico are disenfranchised from federal elections[32] and generally do not pay federal income tax.[33][34][l] In common with four other territories, Puerto Rico sends a nonvoting representative to the U.S. Congress, called a Resident Commissioner, and participates in presidential primaries; as it is not a state, Puerto Rico does not have a vote in the U.S. Congress, which oversees it under the Puerto Rico Federal Relations Act of 1950.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puerto_Rico

Multiple times I saw student loans forgiveness either be attempted or talked about. One time I think it was attempted and it was struck down by courts.

Well, my question is if student loan forgiveness can be struck down by courts, then why was PPP loan forgiveness allowed and legal and not struck down either?

I am not talking about the corruption and fraud around the PPP loans that was obviously going on. That is another discussion.

I mean specifically legitimate PPP loans. How is is legal that those could be given out to business and be forgiven?

They are both loans backed by the government. Yet one is forgiven and another is struck down as not allowed to occur.

Can someone please educate me? I am not trolling when I ask this either, I really fail to understand why one is allowed and not the other.

Edit: updating to include better translation

Do you know where they shot you?

in the leg, in the leg! Please help us, we have children. Agent asking translator Do you know who shot you?

The ICE, the ICE! Agent asking translator again Do you know who shot you?

All the agents from ICE! About 30minutes ago they were following my husband trying to hit his car but he was successful at arriving home and since we closed the door at him, they shot through the door.

side comment: I’m afraid of looking through the window. Agent asking translator Where are the ICE agents now?

they are down here outside trying to enter our house; please we need help! Agent asking translator again Are they outside of your house now?

Yes at this precise moment they’re outside of the house trying to enter!

side comments: Female: They’re trying to enter a car, Is that your car? They’re trying to enter a car from the back door. Male: Yes, that’s my car.

Agent asking translator In what body part was he shot?

In the LEG. Side comment: Tell them also that the agents shot through the door. Come son, come.

-END-

Posted first to AskReddit but I think this sub might have a different flavour of discussion about it so reposted.

For context, here's the article. The first two-thirds explores Trump's deep desire for vengeance against anyone and anything that he feels was against him. The quote in the title above is about two-thirds down.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/03/political-enemy-retribution-efforts/682095/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweIrREfFXbmpZCf4xlKAf-5U