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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My instance has a rule that new accounts can’t post images until 30 days old

Bc last time I just posted the link it got removed for not being a screenshot. Only screenshots are allowed to be posted here

Funny thing is there are plenty of Republicans in Louisiana who never felt that way.

“Now, let’s be political. I’m a Republican. I represent the amazing state of Louisiana and as a patriotic American, I want President Trump’s policies to succeed in making America and Americans more secure, more prosperous, healthier,” Cassidy said Thursday while leading Kennedy’s confirmation hearing.

“But if there is someone that is not vaccinated because of policies or attitudes you bring to the department and there is another 18-year-old who dies of a vaccine-preventable disease, helicoptered away, God forbid dies, it’ll be blown up in the press.”

Cassidy was one of several senators who was skeptical about Kennedy’s stance on vaccinations, also noting Kennedy has changed his tune on the subject during the hearing.

“You are telling us in the Senate this week that you support vaccines. What are you going to tell them?” Cassidy said. “Now, your past of undermining vaccine confidence with unfounded or misleading arguments is concerning to me.”

Cassidy, a medical doctor, shared a story of an 18-year-old patient brought to his hospital with hepatitis B who had to undergo an “invasive, quarter-of-a-million-dollar surgery” that would continue to cost $50,000 in hospital bills annually.

“As I saw her take off, I was so depressed, a $50 vaccine could have prevented this all,” Cassidy said. “Ever since, I have tried to do everything I can so that I do not ever have to see another parent lose their child due to a vaccine-preventable illness.”

https://www.wbrz.com/news/sen-bill-cassidy-among-senators-concerned-by-rfk-s-anti-vaccine-rhetoric-during-confirmation-hearing

There has always been plenty I disagreed with Cassidy on, but Medicaid and vaccines he always made decisions informed by his background as a doctor. I always had a lot of respect for him for that reason. I was glad he was on the Senate committee deciding RFKs fitness.

I watched the hearings. I heard RFK say things that I know Cassidy doesn’t agree with. I wrote Cassidy a letter saying I know you understand how dangerous this is and I am glad to have someone like you in the position to make such an important decision.

He was the deciding vote. All he had to do was say what he already knew and believed. He didn’t, and I lost the respect I had for him.

Not because he’s a Republican. Not because of everything else we disagree on. Because I know for a fact he knew how dangerous RFK would be, and yet his vote is the only reason his fitness was approved.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/louisiana-surgeon-general-depoliticize-medicine-statewide-mass-vaccinations

https://www.wwno.org/public-health/2025-03-28/louisiana-surgeon-general-shares-vaccine-info-after-2-babies-die-from-whooping-cough

Yikes, I knew we had detention centers but didn’t know people were getting shipped here.

https://www.shreveporttimes.com/story/news/2025/03/27/what-are-louisianas-ice-detention-centers-like-civil-complaints-south-louisiana-processing-center/82687737007/

Being shipped to Louisiana?

Yep