DESK OF THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE.

There is just not enough condemnation for the criminality in the White House. It is not a new phenomenon, as we have seen it attempting everything to skirt, sidestep, or deny criminal mischief, and wrongdoing. Their very essence is a testament to that overture. But it is something that most of us cannot abide. For in these trying times we seek someone who will unify, or at least, smooth out the bumps, of governance. I've sat here, day after day, reading article after article, attempting to discern facts from truth. The truth of the matter is, is that this government has begun to buckle. The president is a symptom of the issue that we have not addressed for quite some time. It's not merely that money and politics have become wed, it is that uncontrolled greed, informational wars, foreign governments leveraging data against the populace in ways we cannot even fully comprehend - that is one of the major issues that has brought this country to what some have called the "American Century of Humiliation".
It is very possible that we have done this to ourselves; in no small part because we have never had a deepening decline in recent memory that has paralleled this present course. It is quite true, too, that in these uncertain times, where, not only are we assaulted with information ― we are now burdened with it, to the point where it is hard to clear what could be fabricated from what could be true. It is a liability to be unable to discern fiction from reality, and yet, even now, reality is beginning to bend to the whims of corporate masters whose faces often appear sweating and pained. We are in a clear and present danger that doesn't just threaten us, or the notion of this country, but other countries and other people as well. Controlling information and trading the information of millions of people, daily ― from how we eat, sleep, talk, coalesce, interact with one another, to what we purchase, what we see, what we hear, what we engage with ― we are being irrevocably changed by technology that has been introduced, or foisted, upon us all.
Artificial intelligence, learning-language models, algorithms, ragebait, social media, you name it, it is now part and parcel of what I would consider the internet of the few. Barely a quarter-century ago there was a lot of porn, and a lot of interesting websites... people who poured their hearts out, made things out of what they had, created anew out of the old, or the novel that was just beginning to trickle through, after so many years of it being academic, or military-oriented. Memes were the stuff of legend, and if you had not grown up through them, you had begun to miss out on the many forms of entertainment that cropped up. But, as situations tend to lend themselves, the internet exploded during a time of uncertainty and terrorism. We had no idea what the internet would look like past the year 2000. The difference became night and day after 9/11.
The government stepped up its plans of surveillance, and for many years the internet got weird. When social media started catering to people, scarcely a decade had passed before big names like Facebook began to push games and manage groups. It seems though, as people have gotten older, the internet became less of a fun place, and more of an adult-oriented, responsible, serious place. Looking back I can only imagine the last decade is where things began to get out of hand. The fundamental shift started then; Google now owns YouTube, discarded its old "don't be evil" mantra for the love of money, and so many Silicon Valley nitwits have cornered that market. I suppose also that the kind of fevered egos that taint our collective unconsciousness, causing us to pay a higher psychic price, are the same billionaires and 'influencers' that have had multiple dalliances with the present Establishment regime.
The system, as it stands, is an amalgamation of the older spoils system, coupled with ardent technofeudalists who find Ayn Rand enlightening ― the Christian nationalists, who have been on my radar for quite some time, seeking to remake government in its own racially-oriented theonomic image, a la Iran ― and the various billionaires who are constantly attempting to curry favor with the 'president'. Dire historic firsts keep being thrust against the populace each week. Tariffs being imposed across the board, sabre-rattling Canada, insisting on annexation. The idiots at DOGE taking a chainsaw to the administrative functions of state. Mass firings, reduction-in-force notices. Kicking comedians off because they threatened a favorable merger. ICE being staffed by the recently-pardoned. Alligator Alcatraz, and thousands of missing people disappeared under the cover of ignorance and silence.
Withholding food aid because of a self-imposed shutdown, to prevent the release of files that would definitively put the administration on borrowed time. So much, and yet, the regime maintains a margin of popularity ― in part, through the wonders of the internet. As it is already known, conservatives have a disdain for art, especially art they can't create themselves. The utilization of generative AI has been hilarious and frankly tragic, as the mouthpieces of the government post videos of protesters being zip-tied like hogs to popular music, or depicting their fearless greed-monger in Master Chief's outfit. They make songs out of whatever their AI has culled, or rage-bait made up whole-cloth, depicting black people being angry about their EBT not coming in. The question not asked: Who is this in service to? It doesn't seem very likely to me that the thief-in-chief, who has turned the office of the president into a tawdry QVC, knows fully, or even cares. It is very likely the shadow presidents who engineered this sort of coup whose service it befits.
People who have already attempted to claim plenary authority ― which, for lack of a better term, means a broad, unquestioning and simply dictatorial authority, on things like immigration, government funding, and freedom of speech. Even as yet, the Establishment is staffed by people who have ideas and machinations that spell disaster. People who insist that the version of history they have been instilled with is the correct one; people who believe in defining for us who constitutes an American citizen, or is worthy of human rights. People who, when Charlie Kirk was killed, seized every possible moment to weaponize the government and to point the finger at trans people. People who created an office centered around "anti-Christian bias" in the federal government.
The compunction is palpable, to deliver to the leader good news at all possible times, to make it look like the front is winning at their most unpopular and resented. The propaganda machine churns out nothing but fast and easy slop that has flooded the zone with reports and objections and decisions. That having been said, the war against the administrative state has been waged for decades, and only recently have they begun to gather help from afar. The people who were definitively convinced that Russia was behind a lot of it are slowly but surely being proven right. Serious questions about election interference are still being asked, and they will be asked next year, too, as the midterms are being decided. On the leader's order, multiple states have redrawn their electoral boundaries to benefit the administration.
Other states are reticent, or are fighting against that tide. There are, however, other questions that will not be answered so easily. It came to my attention the other day that the compromise candidate that grew too old, a Mr. Sanders, praised the leader for his stance on keeping the border safe. He effectively said that, without a border, there is no America. It is unconscionable, to me at least, to tout the regime's capability for destruction, disappearance and disaster, as something that America needs. Do not get me wrong; this country is toast. It's 'washed' as the younger generation would say, 'cooked', and most would prefer to do away with the system altogether, as it no longer represents the people's interests. And, they're right. It hasn't. It has been more of a business than a service or government.
America treats its own people as valuable as paper plates and plastic forks. There's barely an idea of workers' rights in this country that isn't much beyond "stop tying healthcare to my job". Union memberships are down. Farmers are staring down the barrel of a gun thanks to the self-flagellation brought about by 19th-century protectionism being reintroduced. ICE keeps disappearing the people who pick our crops and pay into the system that the older generation will begin to take more out of. And the government said that we should sit there and like it when they cut every possible program to the bone, to hand that money to avaricious people who will never pay in their fair share. The internet has played a part in all this, to one extent or another. We don't derive our news from newspapers, or intellect from books, or entertainment from TVs - these things have all been integrated into the network.
I know some still exist; but they are now less and less instruments that we handle with our hands, ears, or eyes. The government of America has always had a terrible relationship with Americans; the indigenous, the slave, the free-born, the woman, the Chinese, the Japanese ― recognition had to be fought for, waged war for, taken to court for. And the highest courts right now sit back and fiddle as their Rome burns, chastising those who impugn its decisions over the last decade. Judicial review is now for sale, designs on autocracy given free reign so long as gifts are sent by the back door. The highest court in the land was stacked with friendly, glad-handing conservative members who sought in refuge of a lifetime appointment, the means by which they could give their benefactor practically unconstitutional and illegal powers. They gave him immunity, unqualified. They gave him the right to decide how Congress spends the money they appropriate, the right to impound payment, and to fire people as he sees fit within the federal scheme. A network of graft and favors, facilitated by crypto rug-pulls, handshakes with oligarchs, shady merch sales, and the fawning of the leader towards other strongmen, such as Putin and Jong-un.
The urge for the strongman to remove those people he finds ideologically or anthropologically undesirable is one of many motivations, and it is one inculcated in Stephen Miller, a dark little soul who finds morbid fascination in trafficking and family separation through the disguise of 'immigration enforcement'. Russel Vought, the architect who was installed in the budget office, is another, who seeks to terrorize federal workers and make them scared and unwanted. And, since the shutdown, they have been given to the impulse of state administration while the thief in chief goes and plays golf, or gets an MRI. The state is scary when it is weaponized effectively; the state is a nightmare when it is weaponized terribly.
As I have said before, propaganda slop is churned out with frightening speed ― but it is not effective unless you happen to be a disaffected gamer who leans rightward. For as much as the internet offers, the regime has sought to find its victims by any means necessary, and that means through social media. To scare them and to engage with them directly is the aim, but even with intractably bad media management, the avenue for the regime to harass people has turned into a massive block of every available mouthpiece under the employ of the Establishment's media department. It is, though, one thing you can count on, is that of the legacy media; those who are on network television, discarding, disregarding or otherwise glossing every single overstep, every single illegality, and kowtowing to the regime preemptively so as not to have their licenses pulled, even allowing the regime to inspect "for ideological conformity".
It sure is great being a pointless ombudsman. It's also great when most of your journalists refuse to accept Department of Defense rules from a fake-macho Fox News nobody who has a Jerusalem cross tattooed on his chest about prior authorization. Suffice it to say that the government is run by terrible people and even worse meme creators who haven't a lick of sense about their audience ― or how grossly incompetent, sycophantic and puerile they all seem to be. Remember the guy named Big Balls? That nickname speaks volumes about the type of people they hope to court. It's nothing but pandering and blatant lies, and it's broadcasted all the time. I had a feeling that this was going to be the norm as far back as last year, when I was talking to a small sliver of my family right before the election. I had to block them, after that. The brain rot was real; it was nothing but news being blasted at him and he sucked it all down. He believed some very wild things about my choices, and yet, zero apology from him about what has transpired since.
There are people who have broken away from the cheerleading cult, it is true; but the decisions they made at the ballot are now something we all have to endure. If it is one thing that this regime thrives upon, it is that people do not merit knowing anything ― not about their neighbor, their state, their country, their government, their history, nothing permitted except that which is filtered through the mouthpieces and through the leader themselves. The regime has been nothing but lie after lie, hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month, and, mark my words, year after year. The push for total control over the lives of ordinary people, regardless of what they look like, or their associations, is patently clear. I feel for the people who did not ask for this, and who absolutely did not want this to ever occur. The manipulation has been copied and pasted into many other countries, in forms we could scarcely countenance.
A push to erase porn under the guise of protecting children, a push for digital ID schemes, a push for government eavesdropping, a push for ending encryption, a push for criminalizing the existence of trans people, the erasure of most civil liberties ― we are most assuredly not the only ones going through it, but we need to come together on a lot here. We need to rally around freedom of expression as the inheritors of culture, freedom of association, rejecting the imposition of societal obligations based upon one's sexual organs. We must uphold freedom of speech for all people, young and old, the freedom of religion, and freedom from it, regardless of the conservative spiel centered around a manufactured Christianized history.
Individual and collective freedoms need maintenance at all times against needless and damaging moral panics. It is true, that freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences, we have laws against libel, slander, and defamation of character, but, when the punishment is that people are harassed, stalked, or killed for expressing an actual, harmless viewpoint ― those are unacceptable and unconscionable outcomes, and they must be vigorously prevented. Even politically unpopular speech must be protected; there is no dithering, and the government should absolutely understand it. The regime has spat on the rule of law and ignored it ― we must renegotiate ourselves against this juridical ignorance and hold all parties accountable, without special rights.
We must also renegotiate the relationship between business and people, for, by and far, business has been incapable of holding to established regulation or law on their own. Letting businesses decide which laws apply, temporally or otherwise, is cause for concern and one that we should re-enforce far more stringently. For a lot of us, it does feel like there is no future. It feels that way because of the wanton cruelty and destruction of norms that we have been long accustomed to. For some people, those norms never existed, because they were treated differently from the majority, either because of their skin tone, their language, their religion, or all three. We should be cognizant of that fact and actually structure our jurisprudence and our civil rights accordingly, so that such distinctions cannot be a tool for division or discord. We speak of recourse to the law, for better or worse, as law has historically been a tool of creating such distinctions and oppressions ― but redress of grievances is necessary.
Unjust laws should not be followed; old laws that no longer fit the times, ought to fall into desuetude, or be abolished altogether. We have to rethink on multiple levels how we fundamentally interact with each other. Some people treat politics like it's sports: "My team MUST win!" ―― but it cannot be that any longer. It just can't. And we cannot give ourselves to an opposition that seeks only small changes to the window dressing and the administration of the country. We have to stop treating the poor as a snarl word. In this country, anyone can become poor and homeless with one slip, one mistake ―― and we treat it as a moral failing. We cannot know all conditions, nor can we have all knowledge for the situation. We are not omniscient, omnipresent or omnibenevolent; we are not gods. We have to stop treating people who do not conform to society's general sensibilities as degenerates, reprobates, or shameful.
We need to stop thinking of life as a vale of tears to pass through, and exhorting work as the only means of achieving personal and social value. We have so much that needs doing that it is hard work. It's hard because it needs to be done; it's hard because it's not paid. We need to stop looking backwards to an idealized past that keeps being sold to us, and start making a future that is workable.
I want a future where I don't have to write things like this, a future where I don't have to worry about how I will make meals during a government shutdown. I want a future where nobody has to worry about being trafficked for looking brown.
I want a future where I can speak my mind plainly and be understood. I want a future in which fascism, and fascists, are discredited, and where people are held to account. I want equitability, altruism, and empathy, to not be parochialized for the sake of someone's twisted dogma.
I don't want healthcare arrogated to the wealthiest while the rest of us sit in triage for hours, hoping to see a doctor. Medical bankruptcies shouldn't exist. Private equity should be done and gone; there is so much that I want, that I doubt I will see. And even if you hate me or my political stance I still want you to get healthcare, to get right, and to realize the error of your ways.
In the end ―― we all must deal with one another. We, for lack of a better term, need to relearn our actual history, and not that which is being fed to us and our newest generations from Christian wanna-be bureaucrats and pundits. We have to come to terms with the fact that our system has to change, or there will not be many people to learn from the indicators of history. We stand on the precipice of darkness, and a depth that reeks of chthonic, atavistic forces. The ideas of separatism, racism, nationalism, autocracy, imperialism, and capitalism ― are very much here, and need to be confronted head-on. These people cry about wokeness and 'DEI', affirmative action, and political correctness, only to find that their orthodoxy requires a cult-like mentality, and in the system of true believers, any deviation from the line is both schismatic and heretical. And it is often the case that heretics are purged from the ranks, no matter how loyal one is perceived to be. Recantation seldom is ever approved, unless it's public and serves a purpose.
There is no single line I can say that will wrap this up; it's grown quite a bit from the embryonic to the mastodonic. We are in uncharted waters, we are in multiple terrible timelines; we have a lot to do, to either correct course, or head straight on into the hazy depths of autocracy, to hopefully come out the other side. There is no parallel to what we have encountered thus far, except that resistance is a duty, and practically necessary ― to endure the outrageous decadent lust of the Establishment's celebrity war criminal squadron.

<signed> H.
27 October 2781 (2025)