2025-03-28
So, I’m embarrassed, but not for a good reason. It’s been a TOUGH day. Said goodbye to my therapist. Then worked.
Then accidentally spilled soda on my power strip enough that it literally began buzzing and smoking. Cautiously but frantically (until today, I would not have thought you could do something both cautiously and frantically, but sure enough, it is possible), I unplugged every single plug on that strip and moved it to the other room, then called 911, keeping my cool, and they said as long as it was unplugged, it was cooling, and the wall platform was not hot, I shuld be okay.
Then decided I was going to pay a TaskRabbiter. You see, I’ve been having big vertigo for a while. I think it’s Mounjaro, honestly: my weight has DROPPED, and I think my blood pressure and diabetes meds are now just clobbering me. But seven or eight garbage bags had piled up in my kitchen, and like a lot of people, I was flat out ashamed of it. But today I was like “fuck it” and owned the shame, and now the garbage bags are all gone and I have a fresh start, and hopefully we’ll tweak the vertigo away shortly.
And you know, I’m very big on avoiding a term I’ve called “stolen valor” after faking veteran status. I don’t want to “steal valor” from people who are disabled or have various issues. But I think I need to admit that very temporarily, I’m experiencing some disability — so it was okay for me to not be able to handle all those built-up garbage bags. Plus, you know, paying a guy, I’m not stealing anyone’s resources.
I am really fucking ready for the weekend, though.
Not With a Bang, but a Fucking Signal Ping (Erik Veland)
Erik Veland: The Hegseth Signal Scandal is not just a mistake. It’s a sign that the fascist coup is sloppy, dangerous, and fully operational. This wasn’t “oops, wrong text.” It was Project 2025 protocol in action.
Here’s why this has intelligence vets raging and democracies trembling: The U.S. government—yes, the one run by Trump’s handpicked fascists—accidentally added a journalist to a group Signal chat where they were actively planning strikes in Yemen. The chat included the Secretary of Defense, CIA, State Department, and a guy in Moscow. They literally texted a live operation over an app not authorised for classified material, and one of them was geolocated in Russia at the time.
You couldn’t write this into an episode of Veep. No one would believe it.
To intelligence professionals, this wasn’t just a scandal. It was an extinction-level event for national security norms.
OPSEC? Dead. Chain of command? Who? Accountability? Deleted faster than a disappearing message.
People are joking because it’s absurd—but this is deadly serious. Project 2025 explicitly calls for government officials to use comms systems outside FOIA and subpoena reach. This is not incompetence. It’s the plan.
What we saw was proof of concept: A rogue administration testing how far they can go before anyone stops them. Unsecured apps. No oversight. No paper trail. Just war plans in a group chat.
Chat, we okay?
Mil and intel vets certainly are not. These are people who spent decades sweating bullets not to leak the day of an exercise. They’ve been court-martialed for less than what Hegseth just did from his hotel bed.
“I’d have been in Leavenworth.” “I got chewed out for OPSEC on a train.” “I spent 6 years guarding what this moron blew in 2 months.”
That’s the tone from the people who actually protected that country. Now they’re watching it burn. The person who shouldn’t have been trusted with the minibar just leaked a live operation to the editor of The Atlantic—and he’ll still be employed tomorrow.
No hearings. No resignations. No charges. Welcome to the Banana Republic of Signalstan.
This isn’t a bug. This is exactly how the fascist movement avoids consequences:
- Undermine institutions
- Use backchannels
- Move fast, break OPSEC
- DARVO like a DV bf when questioned
Think about what happens next time. Now every hostile foreign intel agency has learned one thing: You don’t need to hack the U.S. government. Just wait for them to text each other the war plans like idiots.
And if you think this was a one-off mistake, you haven’t been paying attention. It’s all part of a system designed to erase oversight and do whatever the hell they want—without trace, without shame, and without accountability.
The terrifying truth? The U.S. is no longer a country with rules. It’s a failed, lawless state being run by group chat. And instead of a court-martial, they’ll get a Fox News hit and a campaign donation.
If you’re not furious, you’re not paying attention. And if you still think this is politics as usual—you’re already in the new regime.
This is how a government collapses: Not with a bang, but a fucking Signal ping.
Very Interesting AVENGERS Theory
A: This is how Tony Stark figured out time travel, because we know in Endgame he uses a Möbius strip as the shape to figure out time travel, but the reason why Marvel and the Russo brothers use this shape is actually crazy.
B: To be fair, I have no idea what a Möbius strip even does.
A: Okay, so if you look at this, right, it’s just a regular loop. This is one loop. So think of this as one timeline. So if you decide to travel through this timeline and you cut it, right, once you start traveling through it, you’re gonna see it’s actually crazy.
B: You cut this in half, right, you travel. Two branch timelines.
A: Right, so if they did this, the TVA would have stopped the Avengers in Endgame, because now they’re creating branch timelines within the sacred timeline.
B: I see. Okay, so there’s two now. You cut it in half.
A: But now this is a Möbius strip, okay? Imagine this is our timeline now. And if we decide to use this and travel through this and cut this one, watch this. It’s actually insane. The Russo brothers and Marvel are actually geniuses for using this.
B: I… I don’t understand.
A: So we’re traveling through this timeline.
B: Okay, we traveled through it.
A: It just makes a bigger Möbius strip.
B: What?
A: So the sacred timeline wouldn’t have been touched if they used this Möbius strip. And that’s why the TVA told Loki that the Avengers did exactly what they’re supposed to do in Endgame. Otherwise, you cut it in half and it makes two, but when you cut this one in half, it keeps it connected. It makes it one big Möbius strip. So they didn’t create any branch timelines.
B: Oh, so it had to be a Möbius strip. It had to be a Mobius strip because if you keep cutting this, it just expands the timeline.
Executive Orders Have Never Been Kingly Edicts - So Why Are We Treating Trump's EOs That Way?
I do not understand why Trump’s executive orders are currently being treated as faits accomplis, even by those challenging them.
EOs have to stay inside Constitutional boundaries (Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer); they can’t contradict or override federal laws or even spend money without Congress' OK (Chamber of Commerce v. Reich (1996); Dames & Moore v. Regan (1981); Louisiana Public Service Commission v. FCC (1986)); they can’t commandeer state officials (Printz v. US (1997)) or compel states to enact regulations (NY v. US (1992)) (also, the Anti-Commandeering Doctrine, 10th Amendment); they can’t spend money without Congress' OK (31 U.S.C. § 1341, also United States v. MacCollom (1976)).
And yes, there’s the fatalistic, cynical answer: law isn’t law if it’s flat-out ignored, and they’ve got Congress and the Supreme Court.
But I guess what I’m asking is … while we in the public would think that cynical answer, there’s an absolute massive wealth of laws that limits the power of executive orders, prevents them from being identical to kingly edicts.
So why isn’t anyone leveraging this immediately? Why is it that people hear Trump’s executive orders and believe that they’re automatically faits accomplis?
“I had a professor in college who used to start solving every problem with the same dialogue.
“Prof: What’s the first step to solving any problem?
“Class: Don’t panic.
“Prof: And why is that?
“Class: Because we know more than we think we do.
“I think about that a lot tbh. It didn’t occur to me until much later that he meant for us to apply that dialogue outside of the classroom to any problem. Because we always know more than we think we do. We are all an amalgam of random information that ends up being relevant with surprising frequency.”
Anthony Bourdain: “There are few things I care about less than coffee. I have two big cups every morning: light and sweet, preferably in a cardboard cup. Any bodega will do. I don’t want to wait for my coffee. I don’t want some man-bun, ‘Mumford and Son’ motherfucker to get it for me. I like good coffee but I don’t want to wait for it, and I don’t want it with the cast of Friends. It’s a beverage; it’s not a lifestyle.”