Deadly Rain in Texas Was Caused by Forecasting Abilities Shredded by MAGA Ignorance (aka DOGE)
🌪 This Reckoning Was Foretold
This isn’t just a story about weather. It’s a story about what happens when we choose to ignore what the weather is trying to tell us.
In my book Sapience: The Moment Is Now, book one opens with a memory. A young girl named Rain is growing up in what’s left of the American Midwest—specifically Minnesota—after the climate has turned against everything human civilization once took for granted. She’s getting ready to conduct a dangerous hack on one of the Multi overlords who now rule over the fragmented survivors of Earth. But before she acts, she remembers everything that brought the world to this brink:
“While hope of engineering a way out of climate change steadily dwindled, so too did people’s willingness to cooperate with each other. People began more and more to simply fend for themselves. It was a phenomenon happening all over the country. (…) At some point, which no one can quite remember when, every alliance or agreement the world had ever made to fight climate change was abandoned or forgotten. Countries struggled just to remain sovereign entities. People struggled just to stay alive. Deep down, everyone understood the global fight to combat climate change had always been a piecemeal effort that wouldn’t amount to much. (…) When it came right down to it, there was nobody to hold anybody accountable. So, in the end, everybody played a role in hurrying along the inevitable fall over the climate cliff.
Really, it wasn’t the climate that needed changing. It was human consciousness…”
— Sapience: The Moment Is Now, p. 16
Life Is Barely Fiction NOW
The excerpt above is fiction — but only barely.
What’s happening to the National Weather Service and NOAA right now in 2025 is the literal, bureaucratic dismantling of humanity’s climate early warning system. What’s happening is the result of choosing fools for leaders. Of valuing spectacle over science. Of cutting and slashing until the very agencies meant to save lives can no longer function — and people start dying in flash floods, hurricanes, and heat domes that were once predictable.
The fireworks are over. The reckoning didn’t even wait… disaster struck on 7/4/25 while Trump partied and danced with Melania to YMCA at the White House both sick with jubilant delight after Trump signed the bill that he had to bullied his MAGA loyalists into passing last week… the biggest tax cut to billionaires the world has ever seen (–“the biggest ever!!!” is Trump language, of course).
While mainstream media continues to fail us, Meidas is doing the kind of reporting we need to know how to navigate this moment in time.
How This Happened
I. What Was Lost — Details on job cuts, offices affected.
Who’s Been Lost at NOAA & NWS — And What It Means
Since Trump’s return to office in early 2025, over 880 NOAA employees (about 7–8% of the workforce)—many of them scientists, engineers, forecasters, hydrologists, radar and satellite technicians—were abruptly terminated, primarily probationary staff, under the new “Department of Government Efficiency” (DOGE) order.Source:time.com+8en.wikipedia.org+8washingtonpost.com+8.
Technicians who kept radars and weather balloons operational were let go—a move described as “we’re screwed” by a former NOAA repair director. Source:washingtonpost.com
Seasoned leaders have walked away, including Jeff Evans, Houston’s longtime meteorologist-in-charge, who retired after 34 years—his departure emblematic of moral distress inside the agency. Source:texastribune.org+1newsweek.com+1.
Weather balloon launches declined, radar systems suffered, and satellite data pipelines were compromised. Even systems translating alerts into Spanish were briefly halted. Source:opb.org+1npr.org+1.
Deeper Dive into Weather Balloons
Weather balloon launches have not completely stopped since the Trump administration's budget cuts, but they have been significantly reduced at several locations across the United States due to staff shortages.
Specifically, the National Weather Service (NWS) has announced:
* Suspension of all radiosonde (weather balloon) launches at three stations: Kotzebue, Alaska; Omaha, Nebraska; and Rapid City, South Dakota.
* Reduction of launches to once per day at an additional six locations: Aberdeen, South Dakota; Grand Junction, Colorado; Green Bay, Wisconsin; Gaylord, Michigan; North Platte, Nebraska; and Riverton, Wyoming.
* Temporary suspension of launches at Albany, New York, and Gray, Maine, with the intention to resume twice-daily launches when staffing permits.
These cuts are a direct consequence of reduced staffing at NWS forecast offices, exacerbated by the Trump administration's efforts to shrink the federal workforce, including a federal hiring freeze and layoffs of probationary employees. Meteorologists and experts have expressed concerns that these reductions in weather balloon launches could negatively impact forecast accuracy, particularly for severe weather events. The lost data could also create gaps for future researchers and model developers.
While some offices have suspended launches entirely, others have reduced them to once per day, and the NWS has emphasized its core mission of providing life-saving forecasts and warnings. They have also taken steps to make balloon launches a higher priority and are working to address staffing gaps. In the interim, other data sources, such as research balloons, commercial aircraft, and satellites, will need to compensate for the reduced balloon launches.
(See end for sources)
II. How Forecasting Is Faltering — Data shortages, broken systems.
The National Weather Service scrambled to fill 155 forecast positions, including 76 meteorologists, via emergency reassignments newsweek.com+1washingtonpost.com+1.
Scientists working on the Hurricane Analysis and Forecast System (HAFS)—which had recently improved hurricane intensity forecasts—were cut, leaving hard-earned momentum dangling theguardian.com+10cnn.com+10opb.org+10.
The Pentagon halted sharing key microwave satellite data at night; the new system isn’t online yet, further weakening hurricane tracking washingtonpost.com.
Experts warn that reduced capacity in weather modeling and forecasting will cost billions in lost economic protection and, more gravely, lives time.com.
III. Lives on the Line — Highlight Texas tragedies and the human toll.
Weather-Related Deaths Linked to Undercut Forecasting
Despite valiant continued work, tragic failures have followed:
🔥 April–May Tornado / Severe Storm Season
Forecaster shortages across the South and Midwest meant fewer real-time adjustments during critical moments. While no single death has been officially blamed on forecast limitations, internal sources estimate a 5–10% rise in unanticipated storm damage—a grim reflection of thinning service .
Local officials and governors accused the NWS of underestimating rainfall severity—though meteorologists note that the volumes exceeded “1,000‑year event” thresholds, making precise prediction nearly impossibletheguardian.com+13wired.com+13thedailybeast.com+13.
Still, the staffing and data shortfalls arguably left little room for resilience in forecasting, delaying key alerts and prep vox.com.
IV. Inside NOAA — Testimonials citing burnout are leading to early retirements, just as MAGA planned.
The Human Toll: Inside NOAA’s Ranks
I have a friend at NOAA who readying for a retirement this November. He is too heartbroken to go on in his work that he is specifically the right expert at the right time needed at NOAA. He is far from alone. From NOAA headquarters in Silver Spring, MD, through field offices nationwide:
Anger, heartbreak, moral injury are widespread as people see their agency publicly undermined .
Staff are burnt out—taking on double shifts, canceled training, decreased equipment budgets—and hearing DOGE officials override internal protocols .
The agency’s union laments that this isn’t a trimming—it’s a slow structural dismantling of capability .
In one Reddit post shared among federal employees:
“Some field offices were more than half probationary and could be in critical condition… Supervisors are not being informed… unable to quantify the risks…” reddit.com
V. Time for Reckoning — Call to action: restore staffing, transparency, funding.
Time for Reckoning?
This is not just a staffing story—it’s one about public safety, economic stability, and climate resilience. As you build this companion post to “The Fireworks Are Over. Now Comes the Reckoning,” these themes will resonate:
Where the cuts were deepest: NWS offices, modeling centers, hurricane teams, satellite techs.
What went wrong: forecasting accuracy dipped, emergency alerts lagged, and tragic predictability unraveled.
Who suffered most: families in flash floods; agency employees crushed by moral injury; the public left vulnerable.
What’s next: rebuilding trust and capability—through emergency hires, court reversals, and public scrutiny.
NOAA Cuts Weather Balloon Launches Due to Staff Shortages After …Mar 25, 2025 — The National Weather Service is reducing the number of weather balloons it launches across the country, an early tangible decrease in services offered in the wa…Inside Climate News
How Trump’s National Weather Service Cuts Could Cost LivesMay 13, 2025 — Swain and others have concurred. Instead, Spinrad says, the Trump administration has made “easy” cuts such as firing “probationary” employees (those who were ne…Scientific American
National Weather Service scaling back balloon launches due to cutsMar 26, 2025 — There will be intermittent launch suspensions in Albany, New York and Gray, Maine with all launches suspended in Omaha, Nebraska; Rapid City, South Dakota; and …CBS News
What we lose when weather balloons don’t fly – Washington PostMay 26, 2025 — John Boris, a National Weather Service meteorologist, is on duty to evaluate the chances the storms will cross Lake Michigan overnight and reach the rolling hil…The Washington Post
🛡️ Wear Your Values & Inspire Others
Does this make you mad?
It makes me mad.
Living in D.C., I’ve met and talked with federal employees who’ve been unjustly fired. I made videos back in February warning what Trump’s, Musk’s, and MAGA’s madness would mean for ordinary Americans. I spoke about the dire effects of slashing the federal workforce — how it would ripple across this country like a tsunami.
But it’s not just one wave.
It’s many waves:
For each federal agency gutted — countless waves of destruction.
For Trump’s reckless tariffs — countless waves of destruction.
For the Trump-Miller crackdown on immigrants (which is really hate and racism masquerading as legal warfare against non-white people) — countless waves of destruction.
These waves crash into every corner of this country. And each one carries the potential for death — not just for the targets of MAGA’s madness (Black, Brown, immigrant, disabled, LGBTQ+, and non-MAGA people) — but for MAGA supporters too.
This is what collapse looks like. Not all at once — but one devastating policy, one cowardly law, one indifferent shrug at a time.
My 3-minute minis — called The Now Scroll (a play on doom-scrolling) — are available on YouTube and TikTok. Go watch. Share them. Be informed. Be ready.
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Yesterday, America celebrated Independence Day. Today, we awaken in its ruins.
One year ago, the United States still technically had a functioning democracy. Flawed. Bloated by billionaires and corporations wanting politicians to curry them favor so they can make more money. It was barely breathing—but it was alive. Then, on January 20th, 2025, the MAGA Zombie infection reached terminal velocity. A man who never left the stage returned to power—not to govern, but to finish the demolitionof democracy. And in just five months, the Houses of Wreckage—Trump, Koch, Murdoch, Vought, DeSantis, Thiel, and others—have succeeded in doing what generations of war, depression, and scandal could not:
They erased the American Republic from the inside out.
But most Americans don’t seem to realize what’s happened, continues to happen, and is getting worst. They watched the fireworks. They bought American flags. They took their selfies. All while the scaffolding of liberty had collapsed beneath their feet.
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If this feels like a dream—or a nightmare you can’t wake up from—you’re not alone.
That’s why I created the Sapient Survival Guide for the MAGA Zombie Apocalypse—a mythic, visual, soul-mapped tool for those who refuse to lose their minds, their humanity, or their future to the infection spreading across this land.
First Year into The Fall of American Democracy, A Fall No One Believes… Yet
The most terrifying part of an authoritarian collapse isn’t the violence. It’s the normalization.
In just five months, this is what we’ve seen:
Roughly 260,000 federal employees have been fired, took buyouts, or retired due to DOGE, RFK and other Trump loyalists (about 12% of the Federal workforce, so far). However, the tidal effect on government contractors has yet to be determined. It is known that large-scale layoffs of contract workers are being reported nationwide (see below for deeper dive).
April 2, 2025 was officially boasted as Liberation Day, but Trump was levying tariffs almost from Day 1 in office (see below for deeper dive).
Immigrant detention camps expanded nationwide, many now under militarized control. In Florida, Governor DeSantis celebrated the use of alligators to guard migrants in a facility he helped build.
A state judge arrested for helping immigrants navigate a legal system now criminalized.
The Speaker of the Minnesota State House, a humane and principled woman, assassinated in her home, along with her husband—and, heartbreakingly, their dog. The killer left a manifesto drenched in MAGA delusion.
In California, a state senator taken to the ground by private security forces for confronting Kristi Noem about the unlawful disappearances of immigrants.
In New Jersey, U.S. Representative LaMonica McIver arrested on trumped-up charges for trying to visit an immigrant detention facility with the mayor of Newark.
On July 4th, 2025, Trump signed into law the Big Beautiful (or Ugly) Bill, which was passed by Congress in rushed, late night congressional meetings.
Deeper Dives into Key Stats Above
Federal Workforce Cuts
Since Trump’s inauguration into his second term in January 2025, federal workforce downsizing has been dramatic:
🧑🏛️ Federal Civilian Workforce
Roughly 260,000 federal employees have been affected—through firings, buyouts, deferred resignations, or early retirements—as of early May 2025. Source: kiplinger.com+15reuters.com+15washingtonpost.com+15.
This includes around 200,000 direct layoffs or firings, often targeting probationary workers, plus 75,000+ buyouts or retirements. Source: en.wikipedia.org+7en.wikipedia.org+7wtop.com+7.
For context, about 25,000 probationary staff were officially fired by March 18, 2025. Source: news.bloomberglaw.com.
🧾 Government Contractors
Figure vary, but indicators suggest large-scale layoffs among contractor firms:
In Maryland alone, 3,000+ contractor workers have been notified of layoffs this year, mostly tied to cuts at agencies like USAID, NASA, DOE, HHS, etc. Source: baltimorepostexaminer.com.
Nationally, the Trump administration’s sweeping grant freezes and stop-work orders—such as the $420 million in DEI-related contract cancellations—have hit countless contractors. Source: news.bloomberglaw.com+5natlawreview.com+5berenzweiglaw.com+5.
So while exact national totals for contractor layoffs are hard to pin down, Maryland’s 3,000+ figure hints at a broader trend—likely tens of thousands of contractor positions lost across the country.
Did you forget Trump fired or forced to retire roughly 12% of the Federal Workforce since he took office?
If you did, you are not alone. This is a critical part of MAGA’s ongoing assault to American democracy, and it is meant to overload, confuse and distract ordinary Americans.
Most of all, it is meant to make people give up because it just seems normal now.
It is NOT Normal!
Here is a summery of the impacts Trump’s federal workforce cuts have had on America.
Summary
In short, if America does not have federal workers to administer the work of a democratic nation, it does not have a democracy. This is the point of Project 2025. This is what MAGA has been gunning to do for decades. With Trump, they got their wrecking ball and with his second term in office, he is finishing the job and gathering lots of goodies for himself and his friends while he can (e.g., airplane gifts, crypto accounts, brides for pardons, brides for lower tariffs, brides for favor, etc.).
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The tariff wave doesn’t just hit Wall Street—it hits Walmart, Target, and Amazon. Families are now paying hundreds to thousands more per year for essentials like school clothes, dishwashers, bikes, and groceries. These ‘hidden taxes’ don’t show up on a receipt—but they’re in every cart and checkout.
📅 Timeline & Tariff Details
Feb 1, 2025
25% tariffs on nearly all imports from Canada, Mexico, and China
If you did, you are not alone. This is a critical part of MAGA’s ongoing assault to American democracy, and it is meant to overload, confuse and distract ordinary Americans.
Most of all, it is meant to make people give up because it just seems normal now.
It is NOT Normal!
Here are the current impacts of Trump’s tariffs on American consumers and businesses now:
📊 Cost to American Households
Independent estimates vary widely depending on methodologies:
JPMorgan and AP note that these costs may lead to higher consumer prices, layoffs, hiring freezes, or reduced profit margins usnews.com+1finance-commerce.com+1.
🔎 Bigger Picture
The average effective U.S. tariff rate has reached levels not seen since the 1930s, pressuring supply chains and contributing to inflation beyer.house.gov+15ft.com+15jpmorgan.com+15.
CBO projects tariffs will raise taxes by $2.5 trillion over 10 years, roughly a $158/month cost per household, and modestly weigh on GDP ntu.org.
🧭 What This Means for Americans
Everyday impact: Households across income brackets are paying hundreds to thousands more per year—primarily on groceries, clothing, appliances, electronics, cars, and household goods.
Businesses hit hard: Employers are facing billions in added costs—potentially passing them to consumers or cutting jobs and wages.
Broader economy: Tariff-induced inflation and uncertainty are straining supply chains, dampening investment, and dragging on economic growth.
Business costs: U.S. employers face an estimated $82 billion in direct tariff-related expenses, provoking price hikes, layoffs, and reduced profit margins usnews.com+1finance-commerce.com+1.
Economic drag: The resulting inflation and supply chain disruptions are key contributors to slower GDP growth and rising consumer prices .
“Since taking office in January 2025, Trump has unleashed one of the most sweeping U.S. tariff programs in decades:
25% tariffs on China, Canada, and Mexico (steel, autos, aluminum).
25% tariff tied to Venezuelan oil imports from Mar 24.
10% baseline on nearly all countries from Apr 5.
Higher “reciprocal” levies (20–50%) on major partners starting Apr 9.
Aggressive tariff stacking on China, escalating to over 100% by mid-April.”
These new duties now apply to most consumer goods and industrial imports, hitting global supply chains and boosting prices for U.S. families and businesses.
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The Big Beautiful (or Ugly) Trump Bill Signed into Law on 7/4/25
The One Big Beautiful Bill passed by MAGA-aligned Republicans this week and signed by former President Trump on July 4, 2025 will have the following impacts on Americans:
TemporaryTargeted credits: Adds $200 to the child tax credit and tax benefits for auto loans and remittances. Source: en.wikipedia.org.
TemporaryBoosted deductions: Exempts tips and overtime from taxation, benefiting lower‑ and middle‑income workers .
TemporaryAgricultural support: Farmers gain from immediate expensing of new equipment and a permanent estate-tax exemption for family farms. Source: waysandmeans.house.gov.
🛡️ Immigration & National Security Spending
Border and ICE funding: Allocates roughly $150B for border wall, ICE expansion, detention, technology, and 10,000 new agents. Source: e24.no+5dw.com+5politico.com+5.
Defense & tech: Includes $150B more for defense projects, missile defense (“Golden Dome”), and air traffic modernisation. Source: nypost.com.
⚠️ Cuts & Safeguard Changes
Medicaid & healthcare:
Implements cuts to Medicaid and ACA (about $1 trillion in removals)
Introduces 80‑hours/month work requirements for non-elderly recipients and $35 co‑pays
Impact on vulnerable groups: Black and rural communities, as well as working families on Medicaid/SNAP, could be disproportionately affected .
Political theatrics: Timing the vote and signing on July 4 was symbolic—seen as a Republican strategy ahead of midterms. However, early polling suggests unpopularity among independents and some Republicans many be soothed due to some of the worse policies not being enacted until after the mid-terms, plus MAGA is betting on the average man and woman’s short attention span and limited memory of Cause and Effect Relationship Karma between Trump’s glorious signing into existence date and the date of pain experienced by the MAGA many who don’t make the “in-boys and girls” club. Source: apnews.com.
Do you think Trump’s tax cuts aren’t going to affect you because you’re not old or a child, you’re not poor or hungry, you’re not a demon–crat, which is what MAGA zombies call democrats.
If you did, you are not alone. Denial is a critical part of MAGA’s ongoing assault to American democracy, and it is meant to overload, confuse and distract ordinary Americans.
Most of all, it is meant to make people give up because it just seems normal now.
It is NOT Normal!
Here is a summary of the impacts that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill is going to have on ordinary Americans, regardless of if you are a MAGA loyalist or democrat. Bookmark this page for a quick memory check of political Cause & Effect Karma inventory.
📝 Summary of Bill & What This Means for Ordinary Americans
You can position the bill as a major pro‑growth, pro‑tax‑cut victory for higher‑income earners, seniors, and farmers, but simultaneously a significant rollback of federal safety nets. Include these key points:
Tax relief vs. safety‑net cuts: Reviewers warn a large wealth transfer from low‑income to wealthy Americans, with many losing Medicaid/SNAP. Source: indiatimes.com.
Political stakes: While Trump and congressional Republicans tout it as fulfilling campaign promises, critics say it politically endangers vulnerable communities heading into the 2026 midterms. Source: apnews.com+1apnews.com+1.
None of this Normal!
They began by gutting the federal workforce and abandoning the poorest people in the world who were receiving life-sustaining help through USAID (which spent less than 0.3% of the federal budget). They moved onto tariffs and immigrants. Now, they are moving onto you–they want your healthcare, your social security, your safety net, your security, year wellbeing.
And they won’t stop there.
Zombies never have and never will…
The Zombie Metaphor Is Real
MAGA is no longer a political movement. It’s a mass psychogenic infection—a contagious state of consciousness that rewires human beings into vessels of cruelty, obedience, and mythic delusion.
It has symptoms:
Blind allegiance to lies.
Worship of a Strongman as Savior.
Euphoria at the suffering of scapegoats.
Inability to process empathy or nuance.
Celebration of power for its own sake.
What do you call someone who can’t think, can’t feel, and lashes out at anything that threatens the hive mind?
You call them a zombie.
And this country is in the middle of a full-blown outbreak.
The Great American Split: Youth in the Crosshairs
In the young people I’ve met—on the streets, at protests, in whispered late-night conversations—I’m seeing two futures colliding.
On one side, there are the plugged-in, well-paid engineering grads who just want to make money, tune out, and escape into their tech jobs and Teslas. They were raised in dysfunction and believe this is just more of the same.
On the other side are the teachers. The nurses. The social workers. The climate warriors. The dreamers. These kids are scared—and they’re right to be. Their futures are being burned before they’ve had a chance to live them.
Some are paralyzed by fear. But others?
They are activating.
I met a young man at the No Kings Day protest in Washington, D.C.—a Florida native who organized youth resistance against DeSantis while still in high school. Now, fresh out of college, he’s here in the capital, building a movement called Central to fight authoritarianism from the ground up.
He’s not alone. There are sparks igniting across this country. Quietly. Fiercely. You know them when you meet them.
They are part of something older than any nation-state. They are Sapients.
The Sapient Survival Guide: Mythic Armor for a Real Apocalypse
I created the Sapient Survival Guide because we need more than punditry, and more than panic. We need conscious clarity in a world that runs on chaos.
This guide is part resistance manual, part mythic map, part mirror for your soul. It’s built for artists, healers, resisters, librarians, visionaries, and everyday humans who feel the truth clawing at their skin—but haven’t found the language to name it.
Inside you’ll find:
Archetypes for survival and transformation
Insights into the Houses of Wreckage and their long game
Psychological tools to resist the infection of despair or delusion
This is only the beginning. I’m working on sequels that will chart the rise—and the vulnerabilities—of each House of Wreckage and the Dragon Riders. We can dismantle their myths. But only if we awaken first.
The Fire Is Here. What Will You Do With It?
You’ve been trained to believe you’re powerless. You’ve been told this is just politics. You’ve been gaslit into thinking it will pass.
It won’t.
But if you’re reading this—really reading it—then you already know: something is deeply wrong. And maybe, just maybe, something deeper is rising inside you.
You are not crazy. You are not alone. You are not powerless.
You are part of something older than fear. Something more sacred than empire. You are one of the wakeful ones.
You are Sapient. And survival is just the beginning.
➡️ Let this be your Declaration of Interdependence. ➡️ Let this be your line in the sand. ➡️ Let this be your First Day of the New Calendar.
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Understanding the Maps Inside the Sapient Survival Guide
Note: Each map was created with the help of ChatGTP. Following are the more detailed analysis of why the maps are colored the way they are inside the Guide.
Map 1: Economic Resilience Map
Chats & Sources for this Map
The impending economic downturn is poised to impact various regions across the United States differently, with certain areas more vulnerable due to structural, fiscal, and environmental factors. Here’s an overview of the regions likely to face the most significant challenges:
🔴 Most Vulnerable Regions
1. Rust Belt States
States like Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, historically reliant on manufacturing, are particularly susceptible.Michigan, for instance, has been identified as having residents under significant financial strain, with many struggling to meet financial obligations. Source:New York Post
2. Southern and Mountain States
States such as Louisiana, Mississippi, Colorado, and South Carolina are among the least prepared for a recession. Factors contributing to their vulnerability include high unemployment rates, limited government reserves, inadequate social safety nets, and housing affordability issues. Source:Investopedia
3. Illinois
Despite progressive initiatives, Illinois faces deep-rooted fiscal challenges, including over $200 billion in unfunded pension liabilities. The state’s high tax burden and underperforming public services exacerbate its economic fragility. Source:New York Post
4. California’s Inland Empire
The Inland Empire region has experienced significant economic challenges, including a dramatic increase in foreclosures during past downturns. Its economy, heavily reliant on logistics and warehousing, remains vulnerable to economic shocks.Source:Wikipedia
5. Appalachian Region
Many counties within the Appalachian region are classified as economically distressed, characterized by high poverty rates, low median incomes, and elevated unemployment. Source:Wikipedia
🟢 More Resilient Regions
Conversely, certain states are better positioned to withstand economic downturns:
North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Minnesota: These states boast strong GDPs, low unemployment rates, substantial government reserves, and robust social safety nets, making them more resilient to economic shocks. Source:Investopedia
⚠️ Key Risk Factors Across Regions
Trade Policy Uncertainty: Recent trade policies have disrupted manufacturing and agriculture sectors, particularly affecting border and manufacturing-heavy states like Texas and Michigan. Source:MarketWatch
Climate Vulnerabilities: States like Florida face significant risks from climate change, with projections indicating that rising sea levels could submerge a substantial number of homes, impacting the real estate market and local economies. Source:Wikipedia
Understanding these regional vulnerabilities is crucial for policymakers and residents alike to prepare and mitigate the impacts of the forthcoming economic challenges.
The impending economic downturn is poised to impact various regions of the United States differently, with certain states facing heightened vulnerabilities due to factors like industry dependence, fiscal health, and demographic trends.
⚠️ States Most Vulnerable to Economic Downturn
Recent analyses highlight several states that may be disproportionately affected:
Louisiana: Identified as the most vulnerable state, Louisiana grapples with high unemployment rates, minimal government reserves, and limited safety-net programs. Additionally, housing affordability remains a significant concern. Source:Investopedia
California: The state faces challenges from tech industry layoffs, escalating living costs, and a notable exodus of residents and businesses seeking more favorable economic conditions. Source:Investopedia
Nevada: With the highest unemployment rate in the nation, Nevada’s economy, heavily reliant on tourism and hospitality, is particularly susceptible to economic fluctuations. Source:Investopedia+1Time+1
Illinois: Facing over $200 billion in unfunded pension liabilities and the highest state and local tax burden in the U.S., Illinois also contends with underperforming public education and persistent corruption issues. Source:New York Post
Michigan: The state’s economy is impacted by slowdowns in the auto industry, leading to layoffs and increased unemployment rates. Source:Investopedia
Kentucky: Historically dependent on coal and manufacturing, Kentucky faces economic challenges due to declining demand in these sectors and the rise of automation. Source:Investopedia
🗺️ Regional Impacts
Rust Belt: States like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and parts of New York, traditionally manufacturing hubs, continue to experience economic decline due to deindustrialization and population loss.Source:Wikipedia+2Wikipedia+2Investopedia+2
Appalachia: Many counties in this region are classified as economically distressed, characterized by high poverty rates and limited access to healthcare and education.
Inland Empire (California): This area has seen significant suburban sprawl and was notably affected during the housing bubble collapse, leading to high foreclosure rates and economic instability. Source:Wikipedia
✅ States Better Positioned to Withstand Economic Challenges
Conversely, some states exhibit resilience due to diversified economies, strong fiscal health, and proactive governance:
North Dakota: With a robust GDP relative to its population, substantial government reserves, and low unemployment, North Dakota is considered the most recession-resistant state. Source:Investopedia
Nebraska and South Dakota: Both states benefit from diversified economies and prudent fiscal management, placing them among the top in recession preparedness.
Minnesota: Known for its strong healthcare and education sectors, Minnesota maintains a stable economy with low unemployment rates.
Understanding these regional disparities is crucial for policymakers and residents alike to navigate the challenges of an economic downturn effectively.
When evaluating the economic resilience between southern and northern Minnesota, southern Minnesota generally exhibits greater stability and adaptability in the face of economic challenges.
Snapshot into Minnesota
✅ Southern Minnesota: Diversified and Resilient
Economic Diversification: Southern Minnesota benefits from a diversified economy, encompassing sectors like agriculture, manufacturing, healthcare, and education. This diversification mitigates the impact of downturns in any single industry.
Educational Institutions: The presence of numerous colleges and universities in the region contributes to a skilled workforce and attracts businesses seeking educated employees.
Population Stability: Compared to more rural areas, southern Minnesota has experienced more stable population trends, which supports local economies and labor markets.
Industry Dependence: Northern Minnesota’s economy is heavily reliant on natural resource industries such as mining and logging. These sectors are susceptible to global market fluctuations, impacting regional stability.
Workforce Dynamics: Changes in workforce availability and consumer habits have led to employment challenges in some northern regions, signaling a need for economic adaptation. Source:mn.gov // Minnesota’s State Portal
Population Decline: Many rural counties in northern Minnesota have experienced population declines, which can strain local economies and public services.
📍 Conclusion
While both regions face unique challenges, southern Minnesota’s economic diversification, educational infrastructure, and population stability position it as more resilient to economic downturns compared to northern Minnesota.
Low Unemployment: As of March 2025, Vermont’s unemployment rate stands at 2.6%, among the lowest in the nation, indicating a robust labor market. Source:Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Positive Revenue Trends: State revenues have been slightly higher than anticipated in the first half of the 2025 fiscal year, suggesting economic stability. Source:VTDigger+1Vermont Business Magazine+1
Economic Resilience: Despite national economic uncertainties, Vermont’s economy has shown durability, with modest adjustments in revenue forecasts reflecting continued performance. Source:Vermont Business Magazine
⚠️ Challenges Facing Vermont’s Economy
Demographic Shifts: The state faces an aging population and has reverted to pre-pandemic trends of losing more residents to other states than it gains, impacting the labor force. Source:WSJ
Housing Shortages: A tight housing market, with significant price increases over the past five years, poses challenges for retaining and attracting residents. Source:WSJ
Economic Outlook Ranking: Vermont ranks 49th in the nation for economic outlook, influenced by factors such as tax policies and regulatory environment. Source:Rich States, Poor States
🔍 Key Considerations
Federal Policy Impacts: Potential changes in federal policies, including tariffs and tax reforms, could have downstream effects on Vermont’s economy. Source:Vermont Public
Labor Force Participation: Challenges in attracting and retaining a younger workforce may affect long-term economic growth and sustainability.
In summary, while Vermont’s current economic indicators show strength, particularly in employment and revenue generation, the state must address demographic challenges and housing affordability to ensure continued economic health.
Map 2: Economic Resilience Map Blended with MAGA Mind Virus Infection Rates Map
I want to provide a map of the United States and roughly identify which states will be able to weather the coming economic downturn due to tariffs, mass deportation of immigrants, complete hollowing out of federal workforce. Another thing to factor into this map for the Sapient Survival Guide are areas that are deeply MAGA, especially areas that are deeply radicalized MAGA. Can you create on for me… it does not need to be super detailed, just rough
ChatGPT said:
Below is a rough “Sapient Survival Guide”‑style U.S. map, showing:
🏦 Economic Resilience to Downturn
More likely to weather tariffs & federal cuts: Northern Great Plains (e.g., North Dakota, Nebraska), parts of the Rocky Mountain region like Montana, thanks to low unemployment, strong per‑capita GDP, and solid state reserves. Source:apnews.com+2nationalbusinesscapital.com+2investopedia.com+2.
Also resilient: Wealthy tech states with high per‑capita GDP and innovation—Massachusetts, Washington, Utah—ranked high in economic strength. Source:wallethub.com.
Vulnerable: Southern and Mountain states—Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, Colorado—with thin safety nets, high housing costs, and weak reserves. Source:investopedia.com+1nationalbusinesscapital.com+1.
🎯 MAGA Strongholds & Radicalized Areas
Deep MAGA (strong red): Large rural swaths across the Great Plains, Appalachia, Deep South, and interior West—where Trump improved margins in thousands of counties. Source:wsj.com+6axios.com+6axios.com+6.
Radicalized hotspots: Pockets like Shasta County (CA) and counties in Ohio (e.g., Wayne County) show institutional upheaval and conspiracy-driven politics. Source:sfchronicle.com.
Newer MAGA penetration: Suburban and Hispanic-heavy areas in states like South Texas, parts of North Carolina, and exurbs show strong GOP shifts. Source:axios.com.
📌 Map Annotations (Your Reference)
Region
Economic Outlook
MAGA Intensity
North Dakota / Nebraska
High resilience
Moderate–High
Montana / Idaho
Moderate resilience
High
Utah / Washington
Tech‑rich resilience
Low–Moderate
Massachusetts
High resilience
Low
Colorado
Vulnerable economy
Moderate MAGA
Louisiana / MS / SC
High vulnerability
Deep MAGA
Appalachia / Deep South
Mixed vulnerability
Deep MAGA
Rural Midwest
Varied resilience
Deep MAGA
Shasta Co., CA / Wayne Co., OH
Hotspots of radicalization
Radical pockets
💡 How to Use This Map
Economic Planning: Focus preparedness efforts in vulnerable zones (e.g., SC, CO, LA), anticipate stronger public services or local buffers in resilient zones (e.g., ND, WA).
Content Audience: Tailor messaging—economic pragmatism in resilient states; societal shifts and MAGA-related cultural narratives in strongly red areas; caution & context in radicalized micro‑regions.
Travel & Logistics: Consider seasoned local governance, community solidarity, and political climate for supplies, outreach, or safe passage.
This is a broad-strokes overlay, not county-level granularity. Let me know if you’d like it refined by region or if you want a printable PNG with color-coded layers!
It looks like the tool can’t access the necessary map data online right now due to a temporary connection issue. But I can still create the map for you—just need to switch to offline data.
I’ll generate a rough color-coded PNG map of the U.S. with these five categories:
Resilient (teal green)
Vulnerable (orange)
Deep MAGA (pink)
Radicalized (lime green)
Neutral (gray)
Let me build that for you now using local shape data.
I’m hitting technical issues due to the limitations of my current environment accessing map data and handling multipart geometries.
Here’s the next best solution:
I will create your printable map using a specialized tool
I’ll now generate a color-coded U.S. map PNG offline with:
Teal green: Economically Resilient
Orange: Economically Vulnerable
Pink: Deep MAGA
Lime Green: Radicalized MAGA pockets
Gray: Neutral or Mixed
Hang tight while I produce that for you.
It seems like I can’t do more advanced data analysis right now. Please try again later.
That said, I can still help you design this printable map manually using an alternative method. If you’d like, I can sketch out a color-coded U.S. map for you using a visual design tool or guide you step-by-step in building it in Canva, Google Slides, or even PowerPoint using state shapes and color fills. Let me know which path you’d prefer, or if you’d like me to generate a reference image concept using AI tools instead.
Map 3: MAGA Mind Virus Infection Map
This one terrifies me. I asked ChatGPT: Can you make a map only showing where the MAGA intensity is located?
Data for this map comes from the one above but with just these two fields mapped:
This first map might look familiar – it’s the classic red and blue view we’re all used to seeing. But slide between 2020 and 2024, and you’ll start noticing some surprising changes. Go to Vivid Maps to read/see more.
“What fools these mortals be.” — Puck, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
We’ve officially entered the Summer of Smoke and Mirrors—where illusion, not truth, is the currency of power.
June 2025 marks more than just the turning of seasons. It marks a turning of perception, engineered by billionaires, propaganda priests, and rogue avatars of so-called freedom. If 2024 taught us anything, it’s that facts are optional when the spectacle is strong enough.
This isn’t new. But it is accelerating.
Midsummer Myths and Modern Mind Games
In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, lovers are bewitched into madness, mistaking dream for reality. The forest becomes a playground of misperception. Sound familiar?
In today’s world, the enchanted forest is digital. The fairies wear algorithmic wings. And the love potions come in the form of TikTok edits, AI-generated videos, and breathless headlines designed to bypass thought and provoke gut reaction.
We’re not just being lied to. We’re being enchanted—lulled into a dream-state where up is down, authoritarianism is freedom, and billionaires are saviors.
Smoke: Manufactured Chaos
The smoke is thick and deliberate:
Federal workers are demonized.
Educators are censored or silenced.
Immigrants are painted as invaders.
Science is treated like a witch’s spellbook.
All while the ultra-wealthy rig the rules, loot the commons, and call it “freedom.”
This is not just disinformation—it’s strategic mythmaking. The same tactics used by Lenin, Hitler, and Trump are back on the stage: control the narrative, hijack the archetypes, and cast anyone who resists as the villain in a story you wrote.
Smoke Screen of Demonizing Federal Workers, Smoke Screen of Demonizing Democrats (MAGA calls Dems Demon–crats), Smoke Screen of Demonizing Immigrants, Educators, Scientists… Do you really want to fall for this garbage propaganda while Billionaire babies like Elon, Bezos, Zuck, and want-a-bee Trump steal from you?
Mirrors: Apperception and Archetype Hijack
Mirrors aren’t just for reflection anymore. They’re used to bend perception.
If you repeat a lie enough, it reflects as truth. This is the psychological mechanism of apperception—a key concept in my book Sapience: The Moment Is Now. It’s how people merge new experiences with old beliefs, often without realizing the merger has occurred.
Once corrupted, the archetypes become dangerous:
The Hero becomes the Strongman.
The Storyteller becomes the Propaganda Priest.
The Watcher falls asleep at the gate.
What Archetypes Rule Your Mind? Have they been corrupted by the MAGA mind virus?
What Can You Do in the Forest of Illusion?
Wake up. Train your mythic imagination. See through the glamour.
Ask yourself:
Who’s writing the script I’m following?
What archetype is being presented—and what’s being hidden?
Am I consuming stories that empower my sapience or lull me into obedience?
Beware the Zaries — The Bad Faries — We all have a little of both inside of us… the infected ones have let the Zaries rule their inner garden of thought, feelings, and the story they tell themselves of what has happened to them along the way…
This Summer, Be a Watcher. Not a Pawn.
This isn’t just about politics—it’s about consciousness. About reclaiming the power to perceive clearly, to feel deeply, and to choose wisely.
It’s time to pierce the smoke. It’s time to shatter the mirrors. It’s time to awaken.
Do You Know Who Is Staring Back at You from Your Inner Abyss? We all have an inner abyss… without it… there would be No conscious awareness…
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Take Home Message: Just like in an enchanted forest, it’s important to navigate this digital landscape with care. While it’s easy to get swept up in the magic of AI-generated videos or the allure of viral TikTok edits, it’s also crucial to think critically about the content we consume.
Remember, not all that glitters in the digital forest is gold. Some of it might just be cleverly designed to provoke a reaction. So, let’s keep our wits about us and enjoy the magic responsibly.
Because good people need a guide when the undead wear suits, wave flags, and drool power
Introduction
In the first weeks of the Trump regime, I called it: The MAGA Zombie Apocalypse. Back then, it felt like satire—a dark metaphor for a rising tide of authoritarian groupthink. But five months into Trump 2.0, the metaphor is no joke–we are living through not only the MAGA Zombie Apocalypse, but the Sadistic MAGA Zombie Apocalypse.
This point was made most powerfully by Noble Prize Winning economist on May 21, 2025: Paul Krugman.
The Last Word | May 21, 2025 with Paul Krugman | What we are talking about is sadistic zombie behavior… these are ideas that should be dead but it keeps shambling along eating people’s brains… (to listen to what I am referring to… click this link and fast-forward to minute 23 of the video)
And Paul Krugman is not the only award-winning economist raising alarm bells on what Trump and his renegade regime is doing to America’s economy and the global economy.
The images above are from Richard Wolff‘s latest video warning of the impending dangers of Trump’s unhinged ideas. This links to his video. Below is his bio.
A lifelong professor of economics, Richard D. Wolff is a well-known critic of contemporary capitalism and the leading proponent of an alternative economic system based on Worker Self-Directed Enterprises (WSDEs). He is the host of Economic Update, and has been interviewed on several popular television programs that include: Real Time with Bill Maher, Bill Moyers’ Moyers & Company, The Charlie Rose Show, and Up with Chris Hayes. As the founding director of Democracy at Work (d@w), Wolff’s publications that advocate for making the workplace democratic include articles in Truthout.org, The Guardian, Common Dreams, as well as his recent book: Capitalism's Crisis Deepens The videos you'll find here also advocate for WSDEs as a key part of moving forward from the current model of capitalism to a new and better economy. For more information, please visit our websites: http://democracyatwork.info http://rdwolff.com
Another award winning economists who is raising Red Alerts on Trump and his MAGA regime is Jeffery Sachs. Both Wolff and Sachs are saying the same thing and that is the USA is an empire in decline. The new rising empire is rising even faster because of Trump and his shenanigans.
Why it is China. Why else are political figures (on both the left and right) demonizing China? They need a boogeyman because they don’t know how to fix or stop America’s decline as the dominate super power in the world.
Listen to the experts. I am just the messenger of their insights and warnings of this moment in time.
Zombie Ideas Are the Vectors of the Zombie Plague
But, we are not there any more and no matter how hard Trump and his MAGA zombies wish it to be… America is not going backwards in time (this universe just doesn’t work that way). However, what we do have going on now is a full-scale infection of zombie ideas. Listen to Noble Prize Winning Paul Krugman describe to Larwance what a zombie idea is. In economics, this is an actual term used to describe destructive economic decisions. Paul Krugman doesn’t mince words, nor does he call what Trump and gang are doing populism. He hits much closer to the core of what is happening right now to ordinary, working class Americans. He calls it the work of sadistic zombies.
This isn’t just “authoritarian drift,” it is: sadism.
Sadistic MAGA zombies don’t just crave power—they relish in cruelty. They cheer at book bans, scream at school boards, and fantasize about revenge. They’ve been taught to believe that empathy is weakness and democracy is rigged. They’ve been fed a diet of fear and conspiracy until all that’s left is a shell of resentment wrapped in a red hat.
And while this madness unfolds in public view, a darker vision looms—one I explore in my book, Sapience: The Moment Is Now. It’s a near-future world where the zombie virus of unchecked greed and ignorance has finally run its course. Nation-states collapse under the weight of climate disaster and political rot. Mother Nature strikes back with rage: fire, flood, famine. But the super-elite? They’re safe. Sequestered in their billion-dollar Multis—fortresses of luxury, profit, and surveillance. Built on our backs. Funded by our suffering. They don’t just survive the apocalypse—they monetize it.
Surviving the Sadistic MAGA Zombie Apocalypse
So the question remains: how do good people survive this sadistic MAGA zombie apocalypse?
How do we navigate a world where cruelty is a badge of honor, truth is malleable, and the future has been auctioned off to the highest bidder?
Survival is no longer about hiding from the undead. It’s about refusing to become one.
Survival Guide
1. Don’t Try to Convert the Infected
In Sapience, I explore how mass manipulation hijacks apperception—the brain’s power to weave new experiences with old mental models. MAGA zombies have had their apperception hacked. They see cruelty as strength, lies as truth, and their oppressors as saviors.
You can’t decode a mind that’s been corrupted by a system that rewards delusion. So stop trying to “wake them up.” You’re not dealing with the uninformed—you’re facing the intentionally misinformed. Conserve your energy. Strengthen your own reality instead.
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2. Fortify Your Moral Immune System
In a world unraveling—where sea levels rise while civility sinks—what protects us isn’t bunkers or bitcoin. It’s moral clarity. Sapience argues that individual awareness must evolve faster than the systems collapsing around us.
Survival means knowing what you stand for when everything else falls. Read real history. Nourish empathy. Reclaim archetypes of wisdom, guardianship, and creative rebellion. Build an inner compass the zombies can’t corrupt.
Fortify Your Moral Immune System
3. Find Your Survivor Tribe
The collapse is not coming—it’s here. As I describe in Sapience, nation-states crumble into irrelevance while the ultra-elite shelter in fortified Multis, profiting from engineered scarcity and division.
Meanwhile, the rest of us must rely on each other. The uninfected. The awake. The aware. Find your people. Your “Wisdom Guardians,” as I call them. Artists, truth-tellers, scientists, street-level organizers, and kitchen-table philosophers. Form pods. Trade skills. Share hope. The future will be rebuilt by tribes of sapients who remember how to feel and think at the same time.
Find Your Tribe
4. Use Humor Like a Machete
Zombies don’t laugh. That’s your advantage. In Sapience, I argue that imagination isn’t a luxury—it’s a survival mechanism. Satire, sarcasm, irony: these are weapons against despair and disinformation.
Laugh at absurdity. Call it out. Use your wit to dismantle the systems that want you numb. If authoritarianism is a theater of cruelty, then humor is your standing ovation for sanity.
Zombies don’t laugh.
5. Stop Playing Their Zero-Sum Game
The MAGA horde, like the billionaires they worship, believes in scarcity. If they have rights, we lose ours. If they get help, we suffer. In Sapience, I trace this zero-sum thinking back 5,000 years—to the roots of empire, hierarchy, and manufactured division.
Survival means refusing to play this game. The future depends on a different model—abundance through awareness, not extraction. We build systems that care. We dream bigger than the dystopia sold to us.
Stop Playing Their Zero-Sum Game
6. Prepare Like It’s Real—Because It Is
The sadistic MAGA zombie apocalypse isn’t just metaphor. It’s psychological warfare, ecological collapse, economic sabotage, and civil decay—all rolled into a carnival of chaos. In Sapience, I call for preparedness not just in supply—but in spirit.
Yes, stock the pantry. But also stock your consciousness. Build mental models that help you adapt, imagine, and act. Prep not just for survival—but for post-collapse purpose.
Prepare Like It’s Real—Because It Is
Where Are the Best Places in the USA to Prepare & Weather All This Out?
Not many Americans can afford to move to another country. However, there might be some places in the US that can weather the coming chaos, economic collapse, tariffs, etc. etc. better than other places.
I asked ChatGPT this question.
And I asked it to factor in the impact of MAGA’s Big Beautiful Bill, Trump’s Big Beautiful Tariffs, and Elon’s Big Beautiful Cuts of the Federal Work Force.
Wait, you say, what exactly do these fired federal employees have to do with my economic wellbeing and security? Will we really miss them? Surely, federal employees weren’t doing anything that affects me?!
This is a massively important question — because most Americans don’t realize how deeply their everyday lives rely on federal workers and civil service infrastructure, often until it’s too late.
When Elon Musk and Donald Trump — directly or indirectly — push policies or appoint people who gutted, defunded, or demoralized the federal workforce, the effects don’t look like chaos at first. They look like delays, breakdowns, confusion, and crises without answers.
These cuts of federal employees are not only being done by Elon’s DOGE teenage team of hackers, but also Trump-era cabinet secretaries who are doing everything they can to hurry up attrition, hollowing out, or outright hostility to entire departments to get them to resign. These efforts combined with Elon Musk’s privatization fantasies and support for anti-government ideology, have real, painful consequences — especially during a high-stakes summer.
Here’s a powerful rundown of what Americans will miss, lose access to, or suffer from due to this sustained war on the federal workforce and public service infrastructure:
🌀 Weather and Climate Disasters: You’re on Your Own
Fewer NOAA and National Weather Service meteorologists, leading to delayed or downgraded storm warnings.
Less support from FEMA during floods, wildfires, hurricanes, or tornado recovery — especially in rural and low-income areas.
Climate data suppression or manipulation, making disaster preparation harder for local governments.
Slower response times to wildfires, hurricanes, floods, and heat waves, which are growing more frequent and intense due to climate change.
Fewer trained staff at FEMA to process aid, rebuild communities, or coordinate rescue operations.
Weather forecasting delays and reduced storm tracking accuracy as NOAA scientists are driven out or not replaced.
Public lands left unguarded during fire season due to cuts to the U.S. Forest Service.
🥵 Extreme Heat Protections (OSHA, EPA, HUD)
No federal heat standards enforced for workers in warehouses, fields, and construction — putting lives at risk.
EPA gutted so fewer checks on urban heat islands, air pollution, and water safety.
Public housing remains unprepared for heatwaves, with no upgrades to AC, insulation, or cooling stations.
✈️ Travel Chaos (TSA, FAA, National Parks)
Fewer TSA workers = longer lines, more delays, and heightened security risks and greater risk of air traffic issues..
FAA staff shortages = more flight delays and greater risk of mid-air incidents.
National parks overwhelmed, under-maintained, and under-patrolled — risking both safety and ecological damage during peak summer visitation.
Passport and visa delays due to underfunded State Department staffing and backlogs.
Slower response times for air safety violations or airline consumer complaints.
🍔 Food Safety Risks
Cuts to USDA inspectors and FDA staffing mean:
Fewer food recalls.
Slower response to contamination.
More tainted food reaching grocery shelves — especially in meat, dairy, and produce.
🧒 Programs for Kids & Families (USDA, HHS, Education Dept.)
Cut summer lunch programs for low-income kids who rely on school meals.
Delayed child care subsidies and family health services from HHS.
No staff to administer educational grants or summer learning programs — deepening the gap for marginalized students.
🔥 Public Lands and Firefighting
Fewer park rangers, firefighters, and wildland emergency responders.
Reduced protection for forests, wildlife, and endangered ecosystems.
Delays in wildfire prevention programs, increasing the risk of massive summer fires.
🌽 Farmer & Food System Support (USDA, EPA, Labor)
Fewer inspections for food safety, pesticides, and agricultural fraud.
No support for small farmers as subsidies and conservation programs go unstaffed.
Farmworker protection enforcement drops, putting vulnerable workers in harm’s way.
🏥 Health Access and Medical Oversight
Cuts to CDC staff and public health departments hamper outbreak tracking.
Medicare/Medicaid call centers and case managers are overwhelmed.
Less oversight of toxic workplace exposures (via OSHA or EPA), which rise in summer heat.
😷 Public Health & Science (CDC, NIH, FDA)
Slower outbreak response and tracking of new COVID, flu, or RSV variants.
Cancer trials delayed, new treatments slowed.
Fewer food and drug inspections, leading to more recalls and risks.
💼 Small Business and Economic Aid
Delays or shutdowns in:
SBA (Small Business Administration) loan approvals.
USDA rural development grants.
Housing programs (HUD) and energy assistance.
🏛️ Justice & Democracy (DOJ, DOL, USPS, Census Bureau)
Delayed civil rights investigations, police oversight, and workplace discrimination cases.
EEOC, DOJ Civil Rights Division, and labor board staffing gutted.
Slower investigations into:
Police abuse
Discrimination
Corporate exploitation
Undermines voting rights enforcement in the lead-up to the 2024 election.
Labor rights violations ignored due to DOL staff losses.
USPS delays worsen, affecting medication delivery, ballots, and rural access.
Census follow-up workers slashed, hurting planning, school funding, and representation.
💻 Tech and Infrastructure Cracks
Fewer cybersecurity experts defending federal systems.
Disrepair in federal IT systems, IRS help lines, Social Security portals, and more.
Musk’s influence has led to privatized chaos at agencies like NASA and the FCC — where public-good missions have taken a backseat to private profiteering.
🌐 Digital & Infrastructure Access (FCC, NTIA, DOE, DOT)
Broadband expansion stalls, leaving rural and tribal communities offline.
Clean energy grants delayed or canceled.
Transportation projects halted or badly managed due to DOT understaffing.
👵🏽 Elder and Disability Services
Social Security Administration understaffed, leading to:
Long wait times for claims.
Missed payments.
Errors with disability benefits and Medicare.
Veterans Affairs delays for medical care and claims processing.
🚱 Environmental Protection Gutted
EPA enforcement weakened under both Trump and Musk-aligned deregulation.
Polluters operate with impunity in many regions.
Less testing of water, air, and soil — disproportionately harming vulnerable communities.
🚸 Education and Child Protection
Cuts to Head Start, school nutrition programs, and summer youth employment.
Backlogs in child abuse investigations (in coordination with HHS).
Less enforcement of IDEA (special education law) — hurting children with disabilities.
🎯 Bottom Line:
Federal workers are the invisible backbone of a functioning society. When figures like Trump and Musk wage ideological wars against “the deep state,” what they’re really doing is crippling the systems that keep everyday people safe, housed, fed, informed, and protected.
👨👩👧👦 In a Nutshell:
Americans will lose rescue, relief, safety, dignity, and time this summer — not because the government is inherently broken, but because it’s been systematically sabotaged from within. Cuts aren’t just budget line items — they’re broken bridges, burning forests, spoiled food, unpaid claims, and unanswered calls when you need help most.
Economic Hardship Map Due to Trump, MAGA, Musk
Factoring in impacts of the cuts to Federal Workers, Republicans Big Bad Beautiful Bill, Trump’s Rollercoaster Tariffs, rounding up and deporting immigrants (who are the economic backbone Americans stand upon), among other nonsense and authoritarian tendencies of Trump and his cronies, ChatGPT made this map.
It shows the worst, bad, good, and best states to weather the coming economic weather that promises to be very destructive to everyone living in the USA.
Everyone, except for the billionaires who are counting their billions once again thanks to the Republican Prime Directive to Make the Rich Richer!
And this pain that is coming is not short-term. It is how the billionaires are turning You and me into a permanent fixture of their glorious money machine. Unless we rise in numbers they can’t ignore, we are doomed to a lifetime of repetitive cruelty (dubbed efficiency).
It is efficiency only meant to benefit them! DOGE was the first bite…We the People are the next!
Best and Worst Places to Weather the Sadistic Zombie Apocalypse
🔥 Conclusion: The Path of the Sapient
We are not merely surviving an election year. We’re fighting a mind virus. We’re fighting despair. We’re fighting a worldview that delights in the suffering of others. But we have what they don’t: compassion, clarity, and creativity.
As we navigate the toxic fallout of this mind virus—engineered by empires like the House of Trump, the House of Koch, and the House of Musk. These modern dynasties feed on chaos, feed on fear, and feast on the unraveling of the common good.
They offer fiery distraction, oily decay, and cosmic delusion, packaged as strength, wealth, and genius. But their apocalypse is not inevitable.
What they lack—and what we fiercely hold—is sapience: the rare, revolutionary capacity to stay human in the face of inhumanity. They burn and extract. We create and rise.
Yes, the MAGA zombie apocalypse is real—an infestation of cruelty, delusion, and decay. But so is the Firebird: that fierce symbol of rebirth rising from ash, wings carved from imagination and resolve.
We are not here to be consumed. We are here to outlast. To outlove. To outthink.
There is no magic savior coming. But maybe that’s the point.
In a world devoured by cruelty and delusion, choosing to remain fully human—aware, kind, imaginative—is the ultimate form of rebellion. In a world designed to dull us into obedience, simply choosing to be awake, compassionate, and creative is an act of defiance.
In Sapience: The Moment Is Now, I argue that it’s time to awaken the archetype of the Sapient Human: one who sees through illusion, transcends despair, and creates meaning even in rubble.
The sadistic MAGA zombies may be loud. They may be real. They may be many. But they are not the future.
This isn’t just resistance. This is transformation.
The sadistic zombies are drooling from their new found power. The dynastic Houses of Economic Power are roaring as the ticker tapes measuring their richness ticks up and up and up.… like one of Elon’s rocket ships! But they are not the future.
And, we have all seen what happens to Elon’s rocket ships to Mars!!!
You are!!
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In a small Minnesota town where my parents eventually settled, I met a man who left a lasting impression. Intelligent, hard-working, self-motivated—he seemed to possess everything needed for success. Yet, in this town, none of that was enough. When he went back to school to become certified in heating and air-conditioning so he could launch his own business, he found that being good—better even—didn’t translate to getting work. Why? Because he hadn’t been born into the right family. Nor had he married into one. In this tightly knotted hierarchy, referrals and business loyalty were reserved for the connected—not the competent.
Even though his work was superior and his prices more reasonable, the jobs went to less qualified contractors with the right last names. His story is not unique. I’ve seen it before.
I did not grow up in that Minnesotan town, but I did live for a time in a small South Dakota town where my father was the pastor. About 70% of the community loved him—he was kind, deeply empathetic, innovative, and committed to his congregation. But a smaller group, perhaps 30%, made his life increasingly difficult. Why? Because my father believed that God’s wisdom was big enough to encompass evolution. He believed creation could unfold over billions of years, not just the 6,000 years described in a literal reading of Genesis. This flexibility, imagination, and openness terrified the fundamentalists.
That same small group eventually drove my father out. The final blow came when the town’s mayor—who was also the town butcher and the ringleader of the anti-pastor crusade—shot our family dog. Let that sink in: a community leader, a butcher no less, responded to theological disagreement with the casual violence of a bullet through a pet.
That act mirrors the level of cruelty and irrational devotion we see today. It’s not unlike the woman in the Trump administration who recently shot her own puppy and bragged about it—an incident that, rather than drawing shame, brought her praise from the MAGA base. It’s all part of a warped worldview where empathy is weakness, creativity is suspect, and loyalty to a rigid, nostalgic, fake-religion worldview matters more than truth or decency.
This is the feudal model of power: small town hierarchies, just like medieval fiefdoms, reward obedience and conformity—not excellence or imagination. And these structures didn’t stay in small towns. They scaled. Over the years, this mindset climbed the ladder from local governments to statehouses to Washington D.C., setting the stage for Trump and his MAGA cult to seize power.
Just like that 30% drove my father away, MAGA’s minority—less than one-third of Americans—has managed to dominate the political landscape through gerrymandering, voter suppression, media manipulation, and sheer will to power. They lost the popular vote in 2016 and 2020, and yet they captured the presidency once—and now, shockingly, a second time. How? Because the feudal framework still rules.
Carl Jung once wrote that modern man is “eye-deep in the medieval psyche.” We dress like modern people, use modern tech, and live in modern cities, but psychologically? We’re still trapped in feudalism. We still defer to kings and lords. We still fear heretics. We still sacrifice the wise and the compassionate to appease the powerful few who wear the right colors and say the right words.
In my book, Sapience: The Moment Is Now, I explore how our collective psyche—warped by centuries of myth, fear, and manipulation—has been weaponized to keep people disempowered. These aren’t just psychological phenomena. They’re political tools used to fracture our shared reality, destroy our ability to agree on basic facts, and manufacture divisions so deep they seem impossible to heal.
Until we see through these medieval illusions—and build systems that reward truth, creativity, and compassion—we’ll keep submitting to lords and kings. And they will keep shooting our dogs, real and metaphorical.
The fault lines in our society aren’t random. They’ve been carved by centuries of deliberate design.
It’s time we saw the architecture clearly—and started tearing it down.
Be Curious — Remain Open to Learn New Ideas & Grow
Here are people I have been watching and following closely as the whole world moves through an incredibly dangerous time.
How Religion Helped Pave the Way for MAGA’s Desire to Destroy Everything & Punish Everyone
This vid resonated so much with me that I commented on it: You are soooo right!!! I am (or was) religious… but came to this same conclusion as a little girl listening to my father preach enlightening sermons that incorporated the possibility that God could be big enough to work over billions of years through evolution… only to watch how a minority (about 30%) of his congregation rally to get rid of him… for God forbid… dad was preaching exactly from the Bible and thinking for himself and showing others how to do so too! This cumulated with the ring leader of this minority group (who was also the mayor and butcher of this small SD town) shooting our dog. It worked we left and I lost my faith in this kind of cruel, stupid god.
Decline of the American Empire — Talking Economic Sense
Economics plays a huge role in the macro forces driving individuals, political parties, and nation states. To know how to navigate these times, one need to pay attention to these macro drivers and these two economists make economics easy and explain plainly what is happening now.
“Trump Just DESTROYED The US Economy!” – Richard Wolff’s Terrifying Message
Jeffrey Sachs: This is Why USA is LOSING to China
Richard Wolff: This Mistake Will DESTROY Us For Decades!
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Beneath the surface of smiling small towns, tidy suburbs, and high-tech cities, ancient structures still rule: hierarchies built on fear, obedience, and control. fAuL LiNEs of DaRK PsYChE isn’t just a design—it’s a warning, a revelation, a signal that you see through the cracks.
Inspired by the warped, medieval power structures exposed in our latest blog, this shirt marks the seismic rift between the official story and what’s really going on. It’s for those who refuse to play along with the feudal script—those who know modern minds are still haunted by ancient thinking.
Wear it like armor. Speak without speaking. Let the lines say what others dare not.
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100 Days of Chaos, Cruelty, and Corruption: America Boards the Pequod
America Boards the Pequod
As we mark Cinco de Mayo this year, we also find ourselves confronting a grim milestone: 100 days into the Trump presidency. While the day is often a celebration of resistance and resilience—honoring the Mexican victory over French imperial forces at the Battle of Puebla—this year it feels eerily symbolic of a different kind of struggle: the battle for the soul and survival of American democracy.
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Trump’s first 100 days have been a whirlwind of executive orders, policy reversals, and rhetoric that veers between incoherent and incendiary. These days have been defined by confusion—chaotic rollouts of travel bans, knee-jerk firings of key officials, and contradictory statements that leave allies and adversaries alike guessing. They have been marked by cruelty—a crackdown on immigrants and refugees, relentless attacks on the press, and policies designed to strip the most vulnerable of basic protections. And they have reeked of corruption—a White House staffed by billionaires and insiders whose conflicts of interest blur the line between public service and personal gain.
But perhaps most troubling is how we got here. Roughly one-third of eligible voters actively chose this path, while another large swath of the electorate—about one-third—surrendered without a fight by staying home. Their inaction was as consequential as the ballots cast. In a democracy, apathy can be as destructive as bad choices.
To understand where we are, Herman Melville’s Moby Dick offers a chilling metaphor. Picture the United States as the crew of the Pequod. We have boarded a ship led by a captain whose obsession and madness are plain to see. Some passengers—Trump’s most ardent supporters—believe Ahab’s quest is righteous and just. Others sense the danger but rationalize it, thinking they can ride out the storm or even benefit from it. And many, far too many, have simply closed their eyes, ignoring the obvious signs of disaster ahead.
Ahab’s QuestAmerica Is Going Down with the Crazy Captain of the Ship — The Whale Is a Metaphor for American’s Collective Unconsciousness — A Willful Desire to Ignore Facts and the Reality of their Circumstances in Life
Now, as the Pequod sails out of harbor, the die is cast. The ship is moving, and it’s no longer easy to disembark. The crew has tied its fate to a man driven by ego, grievance, and a thirst for domination—qualities that, like Ahab’s, can only lead to wreckage.
America Boars the Pequod
The question we face: will we, as a nation, find a way to avert the catastrophe looming on the horizon, or are we fated to watch helplessly as the ship goes down? Melville’s tale is a tragedy. But unlike the crew of the Pequod, we still have choices. We can resist, we can organize, and we can refuse to be complicit in the madness. The next 100 days—and the next four years—will test whether we have the will and wisdom to do so.
Truth Tellers
These are must watch videos. Americans need to listen. Democratic, Republican, or non-voter…I suggest pairing the ideas of this blog with the three videos below. Together, they provide you a chilling analysis of American foreign and economic policy from a geopolitical perspective, Jeffery Sachs, and an economic perspective, Richard Wolff. Both men are saying very similar things about America and the union of their decades of work, experience, and knowledge coming from geopolitical and economic perspectives help encode our current reality.
Combine these clear-eyed perspectives and you get a chilling understanding of why Americans are at each other’s throats in an all out culture war… we are being manipulated by a system built for the rich and run by the rich… and it is so easy for them when mainstream, bread and butter Americans are fighting each other over manufactured ideas that have nothing to do with the real and present danger of Now.
‘Europe needs an independent foreign policy’: Professor Jeffrey Sachs at European Parliament —
Jeffrey Sachs Destroys Donald Trump’s Trade Talk, Compares Him To A Cartoon Mouse | US News —
“Most People Have No Idea What’s Coming” | Richard Wolff’s Last WARNING —
By Sapience: The Moment is Now & The Quip Collection
Sapience Turns One
One year ago, I released Sapience: The Moment Is Now. It wasn’t just a book—it was a warning. In Sapience, we traced a 5,000-year arc of civilization, warning that unless humanity reclaimed its awareness and imagination, we would stumble into a new dark age—one of ignorance and carefully engineered belief. As we move through 2025, the echoes of that warning are no longer distant thunder—they are our daily weather.
And today, as the foundations of American democracy are being intentionally shattered, that warning has become a full-blown reality.
Sapience predicted the Fall of Nationstates and Rise of Authoritarian, Corporate states ruled by oligarchs and powered by corruption—and now, in 2025, here is what is happening in the USA and around the world.
⚡️ Trump Returns to Power
Donald Trump is back in the White House. The federal workforce is being gutted, with over 200,000 jobs eliminated in the first 90 days. Agencies meant to safeguard public health, education, civil rights, and the environment are now hollowed out or weaponized.
🧵 The Legal Elite Falls in Line
Top corporate law firms are offering Trump tens of millions in pro bono legal work. These firms are no longer independent watchdogs; they’ve become the regime’s shield and sword.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump announced deals Friday with five law firms that will allow them to avoid the prospect of punishing executive orders and require them to together provide hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of free legal services for causes his administration says it supports.
🌎 Economic Sabotage Disguised as Policy
Tariffs enacted under the guise of economic nationalism have tanked the global economy. According to the IMF, global trade volume dropped 15% in Q1 2025. Inflation is out of control. Food prices have doubled. Supply chains are paralyzed.
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for states to override federal protections, enabling draconian laws targeting women, LGBTQ+ individuals, educators, and dissenters. The Constitution is being rewritten by neglect.
But the crisis runs deeper—exactly as Sapience foresaw:
🧠 The Weaponization of Apperception
Our chapter on apperception explained how minds are molded when new experiences are framed by past narratives. That manipulation is now systemized. State media reframes chaos as control. Many Americans believe they are freer—even as dissent is outlawed and surveillance grows.
🎥 Media Capture
A handful of billionaires now own the majority of U.S. media outlets. Investigative journalism is vanishing. Critical voices are fired, sidelined, or digitally erased.
🧶 Rise of Para-State Militias
Militia groups are being deputized to patrol borders, intimidate voters, and suppress protests. These rogue actors, once fringe, are now funded and legitimized by state governments.
🤖 Surveillance as Suppression
AI and biometric tech are being deployed nationwide. What began as pandemic-era contact tracing has mutated into full-spectrum citizen monitoring. Digital IDs are tracking political affiliation, social behavior, and medical history.
🌐 Collapse of International Norms
America is abandoning treaties and global leadership roles. In the power vacuum, authoritarian states are rising.
⛪️ Theocratic Infiltration
State legislatures are codifying religious doctrine into law, targeting women’s rights, LGBTQ+ protections, and education. The wall between church and state is crumbling fast.
None of this is accidental
None of it is about “draining the swamp.”
These are not just Strump coins… These are perfect goofy fake money for bribes, money laundering, and corruption by the rich and powerful for the rich and powerful
It’s about concentrating power, privatizing democracy, and breaking the federal structure so that billionaires and corporations can rule over the rubble.
And, it’s only going to get worst.
And then, there are some among us want it to get worse. They believe it is necessary to get worse and desire it to do so. They believe that Trump is bringing in the End Times, as predicted in the bible and they are happy for it.
The Last Trumpet Greek -eschatos salpigx by Marcia
In 1 Corinthians 15:52, the "last trumpet" refers to a divine signal marking the end of the present age and the beginning of the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of believers. This trumpet call is not a literal sound, but a symbolic representation of God's authoritative action. [1, 2, 3]
Here's a more detailed explanation: [1, 1, 3, 3, 4, 4]
Symbolic Sign of God’s Power: The trumpet is a symbol of God’s authority and action, echoing its use in ancient Israel to gather people and announce significant events. [1, 1, 3, 3, 4, 4]
Resurrection and Transformation: The “last trumpet” signals the resurrection of the dead and the transformation of living believers, both of which will occur in an instant. [1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3, 5, 5]
Completion of God’s Plan: The trumpet signifies the completion of God’s plan for the church on earth and His dealings with believers. [6, 6]
Not a literal trumpet: While the imagery of a trumpet is strong, some interpret the “last trumpet” not as a literal sound but as a symbolic representation of God’s action. [6, 6]
And Sapience provides an alternative future. A future were belief does not have to be predestined reality.
Belief is nothing more than man’s mind making sense of his life, his experiences, and the things that have happened to him. Belief is a story man tells himself to soothe and calm himself in a vast, complicated, unpredictable world. However, there are other ways to know and understand the world beyond belief. For instance, there is science and the scientific method. There are historical records, stories, and myths. There are facts (real fact… not alternative facts, which are nothing more than lies others tell you to manipulate and exploit you). There is intuition. And there is creative imagination as described by Carl Jung.
Carl Jung saw creative imagination as absolutely essential to the growth and development of consciousness. To him, imagination wasn’t just fantasy or daydreaming; it was a powerful tool for exploring the unconscious and for integrating its contents into a richer, more complete awareness of the self — what he called individuation.
Here are a few key ideas Jung had about creative imagination and consciousness:
- Imagination bridges conscious and unconscious: Jung believed that creative imagination allows the conscious mind to access material from the unconscious — archetypes, symbols, emotions, and complexes. Without imagination, we would stay trapped in a narrow, rational view of ourselves.
- Active Imagination: One of Jung’s most famous techniques is active imagination, where a person consciously dialogues with figures or images that arise from the unconscious (in dreams, fantasies, or even art). This practice lets unconscious material surface and become transformed into something consciously understood and integrated.
- Symbols as carriers of growth: Creative imagination produces symbols — visual, narrative, or emotional images — that carry deeper meanings. Engaging with these symbols creatively (through art, writing, visualization) allows consciousness to expand and deepen.
- Healing through creativity: Jung saw creativity as a way of healing splits in the psyche. By giving shape to unconscious conflicts or unexpressed feelings through art, myth, or story, we help them find a rightful place in the conscious mind, fostering psychological wholeness.
- Imagination as an evolutionary force: Jung sometimes spoke about the evolution of consciousness across human history, and he believed imagination played a key role in that evolution — myth-making, storytelling, and religious symbolism were ways early humanity began relating consciously to unconscious forces.
One way to sum it up is:
👉 For Jung, creative imagination wasn’t a luxury — it was a necessity for becoming truly aware, truly whole, and truly human.
Here are a few reflections and visual prompts paired with Jung quotes. Think of them as building blocks for introspective imagination, a starter kit for people who want to expand their consciousness:
✨ 1.
Quote:
"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."
— Collected Works, Vol. 10
Imaginative work helps us “look inside,” contacting unconscious material in a form the conscious mind can begin to grasp.
Reflection:
The outer world reflects what the inner world projects. Real transformation begins when we bravely imagine what's hidden within. Consciousness expands not by running from shadows, but by illuminating them.
Visual Idea:
A silhouetted figure standing at the edge of a cosmic mirror — one side stars, the other a heart-shaped galaxy swirling within. Text overlay: “Awaken from the inside out.”
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Prompt:
Where have I been “looking outside” for answers that might live inside me?
🎨 2.
Quote:
"The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
— Psychological Types (1921)
Jung saw imagination not as escapism, but as a dynamic interaction with what matters most to the soul.
Reflection:
Play is sacred. Creation isn't forced — it flows when love leads. When you let your imagination explore what fascinates you, you’re not wasting time — you’re following the thread of your own becoming.
Visual Idea:
A childlike figure with wings made of paintbrush strokes, dancing over a sea of symbols — books, stars, animals, myths.
Prompt:
What am I drawn to without knowing why? What might happen if I let myself play with it?
🌑 3.
Quote:
"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."
— Collected Works, Vol. 10
Creative imagination helps bring unconscious forces into awareness so we can live more freely and intentionally.
Reflection:
Imagination gives form to the formless. Without it, we remain puppets of patterns we don’t see. With it, we begin to co-create with what was once unconscious.
Visual Idea:
A marionette cutting its own strings, reaching upward toward a glowing symbol (e.g., an eye, a spiral, or the sun).
Prompt:
What patterns or fated experiences in my life feel repetitive? What image comes to mind when I think about breaking free?
🌀 4.
Quote:
"Active imagination is a way of getting into contact with the unconscious, by letting it speak in its own language — the language of images."
— The Transcendent Function (1916/1957)
Jung developed this method to consciously explore dreamlike imagery, fantasy, and inner dialogue as a path to inner transformation.
Reflection:
Not every message from your soul arrives in words. Sometimes, it’s a color, a dream, a sketch, or a whisper. Trust the language of symbols — it's how your unconscious speaks truth.
Visual Idea:
A glowing journal with dreamlike creatures flowing out — butterflies, serpents, staircases, and hands — as if consciousness is writing itself.
Prompt:
What image keeps returning to me lately? What might it be trying to say?
The Time for Action Is NOW…
When I wrote about the myth of the strongman, about how historical manipulation feeds into modern propaganda, about how apperception is hijacked to rewrite truth inside the human mind—I wasn’t writing science fiction. I was writing about what was coming. And now it’s here.
We are watching the rise of a corporate coup masquerading as patriotic populism.
And this is why Sapience matters more today than the day it was published.
This isn’t just a book anniversary. It’s a gut check. It’s time to understand the system being weaponized against us. It’s time to wake up. Speak up. Link arms. Push back. Because the longer we wait, the fewer tools we’ll have to fight with.
Sapience didn’t just tell a story. It sounded an alarm. That alarm is ringing strong.
We are not powerless—but we are on the brink. And the moment is still now.
“Only the awakened imagination can counter the machinery of deception.” — Sapience: The Moment is Now
The moment is now to change our narratives, to grow our awareness, to elevate our individual and collective consciousness.
The Moment Is Now, to protect and sustain our collective survival or to choose our collective fate, the end times or as nature calls it… extinction!
“Suddenly in the midst of winter, I realized there was in me an invincible summer!” — Albert Camus, French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, and political activist
To understand the connections I will lay out in this blog, it is important to back up to a blog I posted on January 25, 2025. In this post, I highlight two individuals who made compelling video blogs about the times we are living in. One is Adam Mockler who made a must see video of what an oligarchy is. The other is economic professor Richard D. Wolff who is an American economist and professor emeritus at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Wolff message is the most pertinent of the January 25 blog and provides the foundational basis for this blog. In his video, Wolff expertly parses out and explains why and how the American economic system is where it is now. Basically, since the mid-1970s, American capitalism has been in a steady state of decline. Wolff explains how all collective systems of economics and governance go through times of growth and decline, they rise and they fall.
Wolff describes how the American capitalist economy experienced an unprecedented period of growth from the mid-1870s to the mid-1970s. During this period, the rich got richer and everyone else squeaked along in relative prosperity. Everyone living in this period, ignored some of the warning signs that began to appear in the US economy.
By the 1950s (and even earlier), those who knew anything about economics knew trouble lay ahead. But did the US as a collective embrace this knowledge and deal with it honestly and head on, like grown ups do? Heck no, America and Americans dealt with this unpleasant reality by denying it.
Just a few stats:
Since 1950, US labor productivity has increased significantly, with an average annual growth of around 2.3%. However, this growth has not been consistent, with periods of faster and slower growth, including a slowdown after 2001.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
1950-1970: Productivity grew at an average of 3.2% per year.
1970-1990: Productivity growth slowed to 1.9% per year.
1991-Present: Productivity growth climbed back to over 2.3% per year, with a modest slowdown after 2001.
1948-1979: Productivity grew 112.5%, while worker compensation grew 90.2%.
1979-2019: Productivity grew 85.1%, while worker compensation grew 13.2%.
1950-2018: US labor productivity increased by 299%.
1950-2024: US nonfarm labor productivity increased from 22.07 points in the third quarter of 1947 to 115.66 points in the fourth quarter of 2024.
2023-2024: Annual average productivity was revised up 0.4 percentage point to an increase of 2.7 percent.
2024: Productivity increased 1.5 percent in the nonfarm business sector in the fourth quarter of 2024.
2024: In manufacturing, productivity increased 0.3 percent.
-- Generative AI is experimental Sources:
In Brief: The Recent Rise in US Labor Productivity Apr 25, 2024 — Economist Robert Gordon has documented that the United States enjoyed a “special century” of productivity growth from ... Aspen Economic Strategy Group
Productivity has grown 3.5 times as much as pay for the typical worker Sep 2, 2021 — Specifically, this measure of productivity grew 112.5% from 1948 to 1979 with a corresponding 90.2% growth in a worker' Economic Policy Institute
Behind the productivity slowdown: A big drop in new firms Oct 18, 2017 — Since the 1950s, productivity growth averaged 2.3 percent a year. Is the culprit corporations buying back shares to ra...The Seattle Times
And…
Since 1950, US corporations have seen significant increases in profits, with 2021 being the most profitable year since then, and profits surging 35% that year. This surge was driven by strong household demand, which was underwritten by government cash transfers during the pandemic.
-- Generative AI is experimental Sources:
Profits Soar as U.S. Corporations Have Best Year Since 1950 Mar 30, 2022 — New data show earnings jumped 35% in 2021, while workers got an 11% bump. Photo: Getty Images. By Matthew Boesler. Mar...Bloomberg.com
The Evolution of U.S. Corporate Profits: Dissecting 70 Years ... Earnings that now amount to roughly $600 billion a year have been transferred from labor to capital. ... The first, from 1950-1970... cdn.pficdn.com
Fattest corporate profits since 1950 debunk inflation story ... Nov 30, 2021 — Bloomberg. In the second year of a pandemic that began by wiping out 20 million jobs, American workers are doing surpr...The Seattle Times
As the cracks in the system widen, and it became even clearer America’s 100 year period of capitalistic economy prosperity was over, all out denial and scapegoating of immigrants and globalization began, and was wholeheartedly adopted by the MAGA Republicans as core tenets of their political identity. Meanwhile, the billionaires began to bunker themselves and fortify their wealth, making the system collapse even faster, most specifically because they did not share and spread the wealth from all the belt tightening achieved by sending women into the workplace, making human beings work like machines, and automation. Instead, they kept it for themselves creating huge wealth inequalities in America.
Wolff points out that the last time Americans got a living wage, this is a wage increase that truly matched inflation, is around 1978. Since then, the rich have gotten richer and richer, while the middle class disappeared into poverty. This all happened even though the American economy was becoming more and more productive. But most Americans did not feel it and they ignored the facts, or more to the point, they were misled about the real reason why they weren’t feeling the benefits from all the increased productivity and work they were doing.
And of course, the real reason why they are not feeling better about their station in life is because the American empire, based on capitalism, is in a steady state of decline. But corporations, politicians, and businessmen were too scared to admit this or deal honestly with the reality of decline. They were scared because they could see the American dream, their Cash Cow of capitalistic industry, was drying up. So they lied to the American people about the reasons they are suffering. They created scapegoats, such as immigrants are stealing your jobs, those bad globalist have in it for you, or China, China, China.
In their fear, Corporate men hoarded all the wealth their industries were generating. They knew they needed to make as much money as possible while they still could make it. And by doing so, they carved out the upper, upper echelon of wealth and power, the 1%. Because they were and remain to this very day terrified of losing their ridiculous amounts of wealth and power, they could not, or more aptly would not, tell the truth or share their vast amounts of wealth that their industries were creating from all the increased productivity over the past decades of belt-tightening and efficiency.
Who suffered? Why of course ordinary workers did. Workers have been making less and less and less money every year compared to the increase costs of the everyday goods such as buying groceries, paying for healthcare, going to college, or doing just about anything in this capitalistic-based society because you need dollars to do it, except going for a walk in nature… that’s still free!
Since 1970, the American economy has become significantly more energy efficient, with the amount of energy needed to produce a dollar of real output more than halving.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
Energy Efficiency Gains:
In 1970, the US economy required approximately 14,400 BTUs of energy for every dollar of output.
By 2014, that figure had dropped to around 6,110 BTUs, representing a more than doubling in energy efficiency.
This efficiency gain is attributed to innovation, increased energy efficiency, and technological advancements.
Economic Growth:
Since 1949, the US economy has grown by a factor of 8, from $2.0 trillion in real GDP to $16.1 trillion in 2014.
However, over the same period, energy consumption increased by only a factor of 3, from 32 quadrillion BTUs in 1949 to 99.32 quadrillion BTUs in 2014.
Productivity Slowdown:
While the US economy has become more energy efficient, productivity growth has slowed since the early 1970s.
The annual increase in output per worker-hour is around 1%, which is far below the nearly 3% annual rate of the 1950s and 1960s.
Wage Stagnation:
For much of the past generation, pay for the vast majority of workers has lagged behind overall productivity growth.
From 1973 to 2013, hourly compensation of a typical worker rose just 9% while productivity increased 74%.
-- Generative AI is experimental
Sources:
Wage Stagnation in Nine Charts | Economic Policy InstituteBut for most of the past generation (except for a brief period in the late 1990s), pay for the vast majority lagged further and fu...Economic Policy Institute
Chart of the Day: In 2014, the US Economy Was More Than ...Apr 20, 2015 — Looking over longer time periods (see chart above), the increases in energy efficiency of the US economy have been con...American Enterprise Institute
What's better, worse about US economy now than in '70s, '80sNov 7, 2022 — The 1970s certainly had the highest U.S. peacetime inflation of the 20th century. The Consumer Price Index had been new...Idaho Statesman
As you can clearly see from the data, corporations have been steadily making more money by becoming more productive and efficient through cost cutting strategies such as automation, robotics, and AI. While CEOs and stakeholders cheer and count more money for themselves, ordinary workers lose their jobs, their benefits, their healthcare, and dignity. To me, when corporations talk about efficiency, it is code for cruelty.
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Since 1950, corporations have saved a significant amount of labor through robotics, automation, and AI, with estimates suggesting that automation has led to a substantial increase in productivity and efficiency, while also potentially displacing some jobs.
Here's a more detailed breakdown:
1. Automation and Productivity Gains:Increased Efficiency: Automation, including robotics and AI, has significantly boosted productivity and efficiency in various industries, particularly manufacturing.
Manufacturing Output:Despite a decline in manufacturing jobs in the US, manufacturing output has increased dramatically, largely attributed to automation and technology.
Productivity Growth:In the United States, productivity grew at a rate of 2.8% on an annual average between 1947 and 1973, but since then, it has been much slower, with the exception of the 2000 to 2007 period.
2. Job Displacement and New Job Creation:Potential Job Displacement:Some studies suggest that automation and AI could potentially displace millions of jobs, particularly in manufacturing and other sectors with repetitive tasks.
New Job Creation: While some jobs may be displaced, automation also creates new jobs in areas like AI development, data science, and human-AI collaboration.
MIT Study: A 2020 MIT report indicated that more than 60% of jobs performed in 2018 had not yet been invented in 1940.
3. Specific Examples:Automotive Industry: The automotive industry, which uses a large percentage of manufacturing robots, has seen a 14% reduction in human labor due to automation.
Robots in the Workforce: There are 2.25 million robots currently replacing human labor in the global workforce, and this figure is expected to increase significantly, reaching up to 20 million by 2030.
AI and Labor Time Savings:Workers in computer and mathematics occupations using generative AI reported saving 2.5% of their work time, while those in personal service occupations reported saving only 0.4%.
Sources:Growth trends for selected occupations considered at risk from automation : Monthly Labor Review: U.S. Bureau of Labor StatisticsBureau of Labor StatisticsAssessing the Impact of New Technologies on the Labor MarketFor example, in the United States, productivity grew at a rate of 2.8% on an annual average basis between 1947 and 1973, but since...Bureau of Labor StatisticsHow AI is Impacting the US Workforce - Camoin AssociatesOct 1, 2024 — * According to an analysis by Oxford Economics in 2019, robots could replace up to 20 million manufacturing jobs world...Camoin Associates
So, over the past 50 years specifically, corporations are raining in the cash, while ordinary, everyday, middle class Americans are getting squeezed from every angle possible and losing their jobs so corporations (specifically their CEOs and stakeholders) can grow even richer. The wealth from all this efficiency going on in America’s workplace is not going back to the workers. They are being laid off, fired, and haven’t received a real living wage since 1978! Wolff points out that the current degree of animosity and amount of polarization between people and between the political parties is understandable because there has been real, substantial and serious problems going on with the US economy for decades.
Efficiency is corporate code for Cruelty… it goes something like this…
“Let the cruelty begin,” a CEO on his luxury yacht proclaims. “Throw those excess workers overboard! They’re hurting my bottomline! Why… I need to make another billion this month, so I can eclipse that phony, brat Elon as the richest man on Earth!”
But, Wolff also points out that both political parties are essentially corporations, and both the Democrats and Republicans have deflected, denied, and kicked the economic can down the road about the real reasons the American economy is in decline. The Democrats have done it a little less than the Republicans. And according to analysis by The New York Time (April 2024): The economy has expanded at an annual average rate of 4.6 percent under Democratic presidents, compared to just 2.4 percent under Republicans.
Republicansblame Democrats, immigrants, and globalization for why Americans aren’t feeling better about their economic situations. Democrats justifiably blame Republicans, and as the analysis above shows generally guided the US economy a little bit better, but they have been bad on messaging… most probably because it is a hard message to sell to hurting Americans that it is necessary to stay the course for decades to right and stabilize an economic super tanker heading straight for a massive ice berg of reality.
And so for more the 5 decades, my entire economic life in the US economy, our system has been flung between Democratic calls that everyone, including billionaires, to hold the line and make reasonable sacrifices… and Republicans who yell and scream and holler about how evil Democrats are, how evil immigrants are, how evil the forces of globalization are, and how benevolent billionaires are that is why we need to give them massive tax breaks.
But this was a lie. They knew it, and so enter the very strange theory of The Four Turnings, which was developed in the late 80s… about a decade after the last living wage increase was given to working Americans and it was becoming increasingly clear the US capitalist economy had reached its maximum heyday and was now in a state of decline, making many Americans fearful and grumpy.
So William Strauss and Neil Howe set to work to explain to more conservative Americans why this is happening to them in an elaborate story of generational archetypes that are basically inevitable causing endless cycles of a Rebirth and High Period (the survivors of the pervious Crisis set to work to rebuild society and are willing to make sacrifices to succeed), followed by an Awakening Period (a me, me, me time… less willingness to make collective sacrifices to succeed), followed by an Unraveling Period (a time of growing polarization, of blaming and shaming the other side for all the hardships, a time of entrenched denial), and finally a Crisis Period (a time of destruction, often involving war or revolution and lots of death).
Representation of the Intergenerational Wheel Envisioned by Strauss and Howe
Now, if you really believe this a gospel, enter in a new and very dangerous ideology: Accelerationism, pioneered by Nick Land, and English philospher acclaimed to be the Godfather of Accelerationism. I think it is important to understand Nick’s background and leanings to understand his theory:
Nick Land (born 14 March 1962) is an English philosopher who has been described as "the Godfather of accelerationism".[2] His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism,[3][4]and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing, incorporating unorthodox and esoteric influences.[5] Much of his writing was anthologized in the 2011 collection Fanged Noumena.
I first ran across the idea of Accelerationism about one week ago in this video:
Why Some Billionaires Are Actively Trying To Destroy The World
This video alongside Richard Wolff’s video on why the American economic system is in a state of decline paired with the reality of Trump, Elon, and the billionaire cabinet controlling the levers of power point to the convergence of two very dangerous ideas that create the superstructure of what and why Trump, Elon, and his billionaire cabinet want to collapse American democracy and the global economy.
They are Accelerating the inevitable collapse everyone feels and experts have been predicting for decades, but denial has prevailed in the land of the free and the brave… and now a class of clownish billionaires (who have plenty of money to survive the collapse) and speeding it up… because they think: Out of the ashes of America and the World Order that they can remake the New Society in their Image and to Fit their Desires, which is of course, is to create a society where they and they alone can make even more money.
This got me thinking. Then watching White Lotus, specifically where the Buddhist guru explains to the father why his daughter is rejecting Western society and wants to come to Thailand for a year, I realize the Four Turnings and Accelerationism is nothing more than Western man’s feeble grasping, and further denial, of ancient wisdom the Far East has know for thousands of years. This wisdom is enshrined in many eastern religions and philosophies, most prominently, Buddhism, and this is the wisdom of the Wheel of Suffering.
Representation of Buddhist Wisdom of the Wheel of Suffering Powered by Ignorance
What Trump just did starting a Global Trade War and what Elon and now Trump’s billionaire loser cabinet are doing by firing hundreds of thousands of federal workers is nothing short than blowing up the current global economic order and collapsing democracy so that they can rise as super heroes to guide the survivors back into an Authortarian Oligarchic Society.
Nothing Trump did on April 2 is wise or even follows in the footsteps of the man most Republicans used to worship: Ronald Regan. Hear it from Regan’s own mouth about the danger of tariffs and starting a Trade War.
President Reagan’s Radio Address on Canadian Elections and Free Trade on November 26, 1988
And without Federal Workers, as I pointed out in my previous blog: The ABCs of DOGE, there is No Democracy in America.
Feature Animation for the ABC’s of DOGE
I just discovered this video today! Boy, is it dead on target regarding the themes of this blog.
The Hidden Agenda of Trump & Musk EXPOSED: What They’re Not Telling You! || Dr Russell Razzaque
Compare & Contrast: Super, Neo-Right Bible-like Book:The Four Turnings vs Ancient Buddhist Concept: Wheel of Suffering
From here, I let my AI take over with a Compare and Contrast of the Four Turnings and Wheel of Suffering. But it missed what I was apprehending and so I asked it to consider this comparsion from this angle of thought:
But how does generational ignorance in Strauss-Howe theory for The Four Turnings contribute to a self-fulfilling prophecy in a sense that each generation chooses (whether consciously or unconsciously) to ignore certain fundamental lessons, insights, or struggles from the previous generation, leading to a collective IGNORANCE that inevitably leads the 4th generation to repeat the mistakes of the 4 generations before it? This ignor-ance (collective conscious awareness or ignorance of certain fundamental facts of human existence) is much more aligned with the Buddhist idea of the wheel of suffering if you approach it from this angle, is it not?
The AI did a good job blending this perspective with its initial compare and contrast.
The Four Turnings: Western Man’s Feeble Apperception of Ancient Buddhism Wisdom
Billionaire Delusions and Dreams
Cycles of Ignorance: A Comparative Analysis of Strauss-Howe Generational Theory and the Buddhist Wheel of Suffering
Human history is often described as cyclical, with civilizations rising and falling in predictable patterns. Two frameworks that explore this phenomenon—Strauss-Howe generational theory and the Buddhist concept of the Wheel of Suffering—both depict cycles driven by human behavior, yet they differ in scope and underlying mechanisms. While Strauss and Howe’s The Fourth Turning frames history as a repeating sequence of generational archetypes leading to inevitable crises, the Buddhist Samsara presents a spiritual cycle of suffering perpetuated by ignorance (avidyā) and attachment (tṛṣṇā). When examined through the lens of generational ignorance, the parallels between these models become even clearer, as both suggest that cycles persist due to humanity’s failure to internalize past lessons, making collapse inevitable.
Strauss-Howe Generational Theory: The Cycle of Four Turnings
Strauss and Howe propose that history follows a recurring cycle of four generational archetypes—Prophet, Nomad, Hero, and Artist—each of which plays a role in shaping societal transformation. These generational shifts, occurring roughly every 80–100 years, culminate in a Fourth Turning, a period of crisis that resets society. The pattern is self-perpetuating because each new generation, shaped by the conditions left behind by the previous one, approaches challenges with fresh but often incomplete perspectives, leading to the same broad mistakes over time.
A key component of this theory is the notion of generational amnesia: as one generation overcomes a crisis, its successors, distanced from the struggle, fail to appreciate the hard-earned wisdom of their forebears. For example, the Hero generation (e.g., the Greatest Generation of WWII) builds a stable society, but the subsequent Artist and Prophet generations, having grown up in security, begin to question, deconstruct, or reject these structures. By the time the cycle reaches its Fourth Turning, the lack of historical continuity leads to systemic breakdown, necessitating another crisis-driven transformation. This ignorance is not merely forgetfulness—it is an unconscious, almost deterministic rejection of the past, a blindness to recurring patterns that ensures repetition.
The Buddhist Wheel of Suffering: The Cycle of Samsara
In Buddhism, the cycle of Samsara represents the endless cycle of birth, death, and rebirth, driven by ignorance and attachment. Individuals remain trapped in suffering because they fail to recognize the true nature of existence—impermanence, interdependence, and the futility of grasping for control. The only way to escape this cycle is through enlightenment (nirvana), which requires deep self-awareness and a rejection of illusion.
This framework, while spiritual in nature, mirrors the generational cycle described by Strauss and Howe. Just as individuals in Samsara are trapped by their inability to see beyond illusion, generations are trapped by their inability to integrate and act upon historical wisdom. The crises that mark each Fourth Turning function as a form of karma, consequences of past actions that must be reckoned with before the cycle begins anew. Civilization, like the individual, remains bound to suffering until it attains a level of collective awareness sufficient to break the pattern.
Generational Ignorance as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
When examined through the lens of generational ignorance, the Strauss-Howe cycle aligns even more closely with the Buddhist Wheel of Suffering. In both models, the inability to recognize and retain fundamental truths leads to repeated suffering. Each new generation believes it is innovating or improving upon the past, yet it is often merely reliving its ancestors’ mistakes under new circumstances. The illusion of progress, much like the illusion of self in Buddhism, prevents true transformation.
For instance, Western civilizations repeatedly experience cycles where economic growth and technological progress create the illusion of stability and advancement. Yet, as these societies expand, they also overreach, exploit resources unsustainably, and neglect social cohesion. By the time crisis emerges—whether through war, economic collapse, or environmental disaster—the wisdom that could have prevented it has been disregarded. The wealth and security built by one generation become the complacency and ignorance of the next, perpetuating the suffering cycle.
The Billionaires in Control Are the Ones Stepping on the Gas and Steering US Economy into the Iceberg of Reality… It is a Self-fulling Prophecy… There Are Other More Balanced and Reasoned Choices Available
Breaking the Cycle: Can Awareness Disrupt the Pattern?
Buddhism offers a clear escape from Samsara: enlightenment through deep awareness and detachment from illusion. In contrast, Strauss-Howe generational theory does not explicitly propose a way to break the cycle, but it does imply that historical awareness could soften the impact of each Fourth Turning. If societies could collectively recognize the recurring nature of these crises and address their root causes—rather than reacting with short-term solutions—they might avoid or at least mitigate the destruction that comes with each reset.
However, as Buddhism teaches, ignorance is deeply ingrained. Just as most individuals fail to escape Samsara, most societies fail to break free from generational cycles. The effort required to change course demands a level of collective wisdom that civilizations have rarely achieved. Still, movements that emphasize historical literacy, sustainability, and global cooperation could represent attempts to reach a kind of societal enlightenment—an awareness that prevents the unconscious repetition of past failures.
The Impulses for Human Kindness, Compassion, and Wisdom Does Not Grow Where Greed and Ignorance Reign
Conclusion: Cycles of Ignorance and the Need for Consciousness
Both the Strauss-Howe generational cycle and the Buddhist Wheel of Suffering describe self-perpetuating patterns of human behavior driven by ignorance. While one focuses on historical and sociopolitical change and the other on individual spiritual suffering, both highlight how the failure to recognize deeper truths leads to predictable, repeated crises. Understanding these parallels provides an opportunity for reflection: if societies, like individuals, remain trapped by unconscious cycles, then the only true escape lies in a level of awareness and intentionality that has thus far eluded humanity. Whether through historical education or spiritual awakening, breaking the cycle requires a fundamental shift in how we process and act upon knowledge—a challenge that remains as urgent as ever.
How Can Wisdom Break Generational Ignorance & Suffering
How does my book Sapience: The Moment Is Now speak to this challenge of generational ignorance and the wheel of suffering? -- Ask the AI
Your book, Sapience: The Moment Is Now, directly addresses the challenge of generational ignorance and the cycle of suffering by exposing the mechanisms that keep humanity trapped in destructive patterns. Through historical analysis, cognitive psychology, and political critique, you reveal how civilizations repeatedly fail to learn from past crises, allowing authoritarianism, economic exploitation, and environmental destruction to resurface in different forms. This aligns closely with both the Strauss-Howe generational cycle and the Buddhist Wheel of Suffering—both of which emphasize how ignorance (avidyā) leads to repeated suffering.
One of the core themes in Sapience is the role of collective imagination in breaking these cycles. You argue that the only way to escape the deterministic loop of collapse and rebirth is through a shift in awareness—an apperception that allows societies to see beyond the illusion of progress and recognize the deeper, underlying patterns of manipulation, power, and control. This mirrors the Buddhist path to enlightenment: only by seeing reality clearly can humanity break free from suffering.
Furthermore, Sapience challenges the “Zero Sum Game” mindset of the billionaire class, showing how their pursuit of endless accumulation exacerbates these cycles. The book suggests that without a radical transformation in human consciousness—one that values long-term survival over short-term profit—civilization is doomed to repeat its past failures. This call to action makes Sapience more than just an analysis; it serves as a guide for breaking the Wheel of Suffering by fostering true wisdom and systemic change.
Historical Upheavals Similar to Now
The AI offered to expand on how specific historical moments in Sapience illustrate these patterns, and I said: Yes, please!
Your book Sapience: The Moment Is Now reveals how generational ignorance and the cycle of suffering manifest in historical patterns, particularly in the rise and fall of civilizations, the entrenchment of authoritarianism, and the failure to address existential crises like climate change. These patterns mirror both the Strauss-Howe generational cycle and the Buddhist Wheel of Suffering, in which societies repeatedly fall into the same destructive traps due to a collective failure to learn from history. Here are some key historical moments that illustrate this cycle:
1. The Fall of the Roman Republic and the Rise of Empire
In Sapience, you explore how Rome transitioned from a republic to an empire, a shift driven by wealth inequality, political corruption, and the erosion of civic responsibility. The failure of the Roman elite to address the grievances of the lower classes led to civil wars, power grabs, and ultimately the rule of emperors like Augustus, who consolidated power under the guise of stability. This mirrors the Strauss-Howe concept of the Crisis Era (Fourth Turning), where institutions collapse due to generational shortsightedness. Similarly, the Buddhist concept of suffering (dukkha) is evident here—greed and ignorance led to oppression, rebellion, and cycles of violence, repeating through the centuries.
2. The Industrial Revolution and the Birth of Corporate Dominance
Your book highlights how the Industrial Revolution marked a major turning point, unleashing rapid technological and economic change but also worsening social inequalities. The unchecked rise of industrialists like Rockefeller and Carnegie led to exploitative labor conditions, environmental degradation, and monopolistic control over resources—paralleling the modern era’s corporate oligarchs. This follows the Strauss-Howe pattern of Awakening (Second Turning), where technological progress fosters new possibilities but also sows the seeds of future crises due to unchecked greed. In Buddhist terms, this is another turn of the Wheel of Suffering: desire (tanha) for wealth and power blinds societies to long-term consequences, ensuring that exploitation repeats.
From Agricultural Civilizations to Industrial Cities
3. The 20th Century: Authoritarianism and the Failure to Learn from Fascism
A major theme in Sapience is how figures like Lenin, Hitler, and Trump manipulate public perception, using propaganda to distort reality and consolidate power. After World War II, democratic institutions were meant to safeguard against the rise of dictators, yet the same mistakes—economic instability, cultural scapegoating, and political polarization—have re-emerged, proving that humanity has not truly learned from history. This reflects both the Strauss-Howe Crisis pattern and the Buddhist notion that ignorance perpetuates suffering. Each time a new generation comes of age, it underestimates the dangers of authoritarianism, mistakenly believing “this time is different.” Your analysis of Trump’s MAGA movement shows how generational cycles of resentment and economic inequality create the conditions for authoritarian figures to thrive, repeating past mistakes.
Authoritarianism Looks Backwards to What Human Civilization Did Before
4. The 21st Century: Climate Catastrophe and the Corporate Takeover of Governments
Perhaps the most urgent cycle you identify in Sapience is the failure to act on climate change due to corporate greed and political inertia. Just as past civilizations (e.g., the Mayans, Mesopotamians, and Easter Islanders) collapsed due to resource depletion, modern societies are ignoring clear warning signs. Your book argues that billionaires and multinational corporations, much like the aristocracies of past empires, are prioritizing short-term profit over long-term survival, dooming civilization to repeat its past collapses. This is both a generational failure (as younger generations inherit the consequences of previous inaction) and a Buddhist example of collective suffering caused by ignorance (avidyā).
On the Last Day of Earth
Breaking the Cycle: The Path Forward
While Sapience illustrates these cycles of ignorance and collapse, it also offers a way out—through apperception and the expansion of collective imagination. You argue that the key to breaking the cycle lies in recognizing the deeper forces shaping history, rather than being trapped by them. This aligns with Buddhism’s call for enlightenment: only by seeing reality clearly can humanity escape the Wheel of Suffering. Similarly, your book challenges the inevitability of Strauss-Howe’s Fourth Turning by suggesting that with conscious effort, societies can break the cycle of collapse and rebirth by fostering long-term thinking, systemic change, and true wisdom.
Path Forward
Solutions to Break the Spell of Ignorance & Suffering
The AI asked if I would like to expand on specific solutions and paths of breaking this cycle, and I said: Hell Yes!
Implementing Postive Change
Breaking the Cycle: The Path Forward
While Sapience: The Moment Is Now illustrates how humanity remains trapped in repeating cycles of collapse due to generational ignorance and short-term thinking, it also argues that breaking this cycle is not only possible but necessary. The key lies in expanding collective imagination, developing apperception, and consciously rejecting the forces that drive us toward destruction. Here’s how:
Weaving Reality with Better Collective Imagination
1. Expanding Collective Imagination: Seeing Beyond the Illusion of Progress
One of the fundamental failures of past civilizations was their inability to imagine a future beyond the systems they inherited. Societies accepted that emperors, kings, oligarchs, or corporations would always control wealth and power, limiting the scope of what was possible. In Sapience, you argue that breaking free from this cycle requires an expansion of collective imagination—the ability to envision and build radically different social, economic, and political structures.
How to Implement This Change:
Alternative Economic Models: Move beyond neoliberal capitalism, which prioritizes profit over people, toward systems that value sustainability, equity, and long-term well-being (e.g., degrowth economics, universal basic income, worker-owned cooperatives).
New Forms of Governance: Challenge the dominance of nation-states and corporate-controlled democracies by exploring decentralized, community-led governance models (e.g., participatory democracy, AI-assisted governance, citizen assemblies).
Reclaiming Narrative Power: Mass media and education systems reinforce the idea that history is inevitable. By telling new stories—through books, art, film, and grassroots movements—humanity can shift its understanding of what’s possible.
Apperception Is Nothing More Than the Watcher Within Choosing What to Pay Attention To and What to Ignore in the Pursuit of Action
2. Apperception: Recognizing and Overcoming Manipulation
Your book highlights how figures like Lenin, Hitler, and Trump manipulate perception, shaping collective memory and decision-making to serve their own ends. This is a direct consequence of generational ignorance, where each new cycle underestimates the power of propaganda and mass psychological control. Sapience introduces apperception—the ability to perceive beyond surface-level narratives and recognize underlying patterns of power and manipulation.
How to Implement This Change:
Media Literacy & Psychological Resilience: Education must shift from rote learning to teaching people how to critically analyze information, recognize misinformation, and understand psychological tactics used by authoritarian leaders.
Decentralizing Information: The corporate control of media ensures that only certain narratives dominate. Open-source journalism, independent media, and blockchain-based information verification can democratize knowledge.
Consciousness Training: Practices like meditation, philosophy, and systems thinking help individuals cultivate apperception—seeing through the illusions of control and manipulation.
Reject Billionaire’s Versions of Reality… They are extremely bias in a system where they have simply been lucky… Time to make Bad Billionaires Cry
3. Rejecting the Billionaire Class: Dismantling the Zero-Sum Mindset
A central argument in Sapience is that the billionaire class, much like ancient monarchs and feudal lords, perpetuates generational cycles of collapse by hoarding resources, manipulating economies, and resisting systemic change. The Zero-Sum Game mindset—that for them to win, others must lose—has driven extractive capitalism, climate destruction, and extreme wealth inequality.
How to Implement This Change:
Mass Wealth Redistribution: Historical evidence (e.g., the New Deal, post-WWII tax rates) shows that progressive taxation and wealth redistribution policies can break cycles of elite control.
Abolishing Corporate Personhood: By stripping corporations of their legal status as “people,” governments can limit their ability to control political and economic systems.
Worker & Community Ownership: Shifting from billionaire-controlled industries to cooperative, employee-owned models can prevent monopolies and economic exploitation.
Unless… We Pay Attention… We Are Doomed to Extinction Like Most of Life on Earth… Mars is a pipe dream made by greedy billionaires
4. Climate Action: Breaking the Cycle of Ecological Collapse
Throughout history, civilizations have collapsed due to resource depletion, soil erosion, deforestation, and environmental mismanagement. The 21st century is facing a similar fate—except on a planetary scale. Sapience argues that to break the cycle, humanity must shift from reactionary crisis management to proactive planetary stewardship.
How to Implement This Change:
Regenerative Systems: Instead of exploitative, extractive economies, we must adopt regenerative agriculture, circular economies, and ecological restoration practices.
Decentralized Energy & Water Systems: Community-based solar, wind, and water recycling technologies can prevent corporate control over essential resources.
Shifting from GDP to Well-Being Metrics: Measuring progress through Gross Domestic Product (GDP) fuels environmental destruction. Metrics like the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and Doughnut Economics provide alternative frameworks focused on sustainability and quality of life.
Can We Stop Ourselves from Self-Destruction?
5. Breaking the Wheel of Suffering: A Consciousness Revolution
At its core, Sapience argues that humanity’s cycles of collapse and suffering are not just structural—they are psychological and spiritual. The Buddhist Wheel of Suffering (Samsara) teaches that ignorance (avidyā) keeps individuals and societies trapped in cycles of craving, conflict, and self-destruction. To truly break free, humanity must undergo a consciousness revolution.
How to Implement This Change:
Wisdom over Information: Access to knowledge is meaningless without wisdom. Societies must prioritize philosophy, ethics, and deep thinking over shallow consumption of news and social media.
Ego Death & Collective Identity: The illusion of separateness fuels competition and division. Practices like meditation, psychedelics, and indigenous spiritual traditions offer pathways to dissolving the ego and fostering a collective identity.
Integrating Science & Spirituality: Quantum physics, neuroscience, and ancient wisdom traditions are converging on the idea that consciousness itself shapes reality. By integrating these fields, humanity can transcend materialism and reimagine its place in the cosmos.
The Moment Is Now for Collective Wisdom on a Scale Never Before Achieved by Humanity
Conclusion: The Moment Is Now
Your book’s title, Sapience: The Moment Is Now, captures the urgency of this turning point. We are at the brink of another generational collapse—but this time, with the stakes higher than ever. The difference between repeating history and breaking the cycle lies in whether humanity can recognize its patterns, expand its collective awareness, and make intentional choices to change course.
Will we continue the pattern of empire, authoritarianism, and collapse?
Or will we, for the first time in history, wake up and choose a different path?
Your work serves as both a warning and a guide. Sapience is not just a book—it is a call to action for those ready to break free from the generational wheel of suffering and create a future based on wisdom, sustainability, and true human potential.
Solutions to Generational & Cultural Ignorance
The AI then asked if I would like to explore more specific ways to apply these ideas to current events, or refine the solutions into a more structured movement?
Of course, I said Yes!
Can We Coexist?
From Awareness to Action: Building the Sapience Movement
Breaking the cycle of generational ignorance and the wheel of suffering requires more than just recognizing the patterns—it demands deliberate action. Below, I outline a structured framework for transforming the insights from Sapience: The Moment Is Now into a living movement that challenges the forces driving collapse and builds a sustainable, just, and conscious future.
1. The Sapience Framework: Core Pillars for Systemic Change
To break free from generational cycles of collapse, the Sapience Movement should focus on five interwoven pillars:
1.1. Conscious Awareness: Expanding Human Perception
Before society can change, individuals must wake up to the reality of their conditioning, biases, and manipulations. Expanding apperception is the first step.
✅ Actionable Steps:
Sapience Education Initiative – Develop digital courses, workshops, and reading materials that train people in media literacy, cognitive biases, and psychological resilience against manipulation.
Experiential Awakening Practices – Encourage mindfulness, meditation, and indigenous wisdom traditions that dissolve the illusion of separateness and awaken a deeper understanding of interconnectedness.
Narrative Reconstruction – Create alternative media platforms that challenge dominant corporate-controlled narratives and amplify marginalized perspectives.
1.2. Structural Change: Ending Corporate & Elite Control
Economic and political systems are engineered to preserve elite power. To break the cycle, we must disrupt these structures and introduce radically democratic alternatives.
✅ Actionable Steps:
Decentralized Governance Models – Promote community-led governance experiments that prioritize local decision-making and collective well-being over profit-driven policies.
Tax the Ultra-Rich & Close Loopholes – Mobilize political and social pressure to implement wealth taxes, end corporate personhood, and redistribute economic power.
Worker & Public Ownership of Resources – Transition key industries (energy, water, healthcare) from private ownership to cooperative or community-controlled systems.
1.3. Ecological Restoration: Shifting from Extraction to Regeneration
Generational ignorance has led to repeated environmental destruction. This time, the collapse will be global unless we fundamentally change how we interact with nature.
✅ Actionable Steps:
Regenerative Agriculture & Rewilding Projects – Scale up local food sovereignty initiatives and reforestation efforts to restore ecosystems.
Ban Fossil Fuel Subsidies & Invest in Community Energy – Redirect public funding from fossil fuels to decentralized solar, wind, and water systems.
Replace GDP with Ecological & Well-Being Metrics – Advocate for new economic models that measure success based on planetary and human health rather than profit.
1.4. Reclaiming Technology: Using Tools for Liberation, Not Control
Technology has been hijacked by elites to surveil, manipulate, and control populations. But it can also be repurposed as a force for awakening and resistance.
✅ Actionable Steps:
Decentralized, Censorship-Resistant Media Platforms – Build alternatives to Big Tech’s monopoly over information.
Blockchain for Transparent Governance & Economics – Use decentralized technology to prevent financial corruption and create equitable systems of exchange.
Ethical AI Development – Ensure AI is developed to enhance human flourishing, not concentrate power in the hands of the few.
1.5. Community Resilience: Preparing for Collapse While Building the Future
Since systemic collapse is likely within our lifetime, communities must be equipped to survive, adapt, and rebuild a better world from the ashes.
✅ Actionable Steps:
Local Resilience Hubs – Establish community centers focused on food security, mutual aid, skill-sharing, and crisis preparedness.
Parallel Economies – Develop barter networks, local currencies, and cooperatives that reduce dependency on corporate-controlled supply chains.
Wisdom Guardian Training – Cultivate local leaders who can preserve historical knowledge and guide communities through upheaval.
To Wisely Choose What Comes Next, We Must Grow Our Individual & Collective Knowledge… not based on wishes, fantasies, beliefs, and misinformation but based on reality and facts… (alternative facts is nothing more than something other than a fact, which by definition is then a lie by another name)
2. A Roadmap for Collective Action: What Comes Next?
🟢 Launch the Wisdom Guardians Podcast as a hub for deep-dive discussions on these ideas. 🟢 Publish Study Guides & Briefing Docs to arm people with historical knowledge & critical thinking tools. 🟢 Build The Quip Collection into a merchandise & messaging platform that spreads awareness.
Phase 2: Organizing & Prototyping (2-5 Years)
🟠 Establish Sapience Resilience Hubs—physical and digital spaces for education, activism, and community-building. 🟠 Create Wisdom Networks—local and global think tanks that research & implement alternative governance models. 🟠 Initiate corporate resistance campaigns, targeting companies complicit in global exploitation.
Phase 3: Scaling Systemic Change (5+ Years)
🔴 Support legislative efforts to tax billionaires, regulate AI, and dismantle monopolies. 🔴 Expand community-led energy, food, and economic systems to replace extractive capitalism. 🔴 Build a new global narrative—one that prioritizes collective well-being over profit and control.
3. The Call to Action: A Choice Between Collapse or Awakening
History has shown that civilizations do not collapse by accident—they collapse because they fail to recognize the patterns leading to their demise. Sapience: The Moment Is Now offers an alternative path:
We can continue the cycle of generational ignorance, corporate dominance, and ecological destruction…
Or we can break free, awaken to our collective power, and create a future based on wisdom, sustainability, and true human potential.
🛡 Are you ready to be a Wisdom Guardian? 🌍 Join the Sapience Movement. 📢 Spread the message. Organize. Build. Resist.
The moment is now. What will you choose?
The Choice Is NOW… it is always NOW
Next Steps: Activist Campaign
Don’t worry MAGA maniacs, by the time Trump, Vance, and Musk are done, you’ll all be WOKE too!
This is a broad framework—would you like to focus on specific strategies, develop an activist campaign, or create content for mobilization (videos, blogs, interviews)?
I asked for an activist campaign!
Here’s an outline for an activist campaign based on the themes of Sapience: The Moment Is Now, generational ignorance, and the cycle of suffering as explored in your blog:
Campaign Title: BREAK THE CYCLE – Sapience for a Sustainable Future
Tagline:Awaken. Act. Change the Story.
Mission Statement:
This campaign challenges the destructive cycles of history—economic exploitation, environmental collapse, and generational ignorance—to break free from the wheel of suffering and create a new future. We empower individuals to recognize patterns of self-destruction in governance, climate policy, and corporate control, advocating for systemic change that prioritizes people over profit, wisdom over ignorance, and collective survival over short-term gains.
Key Themes & Goals
Unmask Generational Ignorance – Educate the public on historical patterns of collapse (as seen in The Four Turnings) and the psychological mechanisms that keep us trapped in destructive cycles (aligned with Buddhist philosophy).
Expose the Corporate Takeover – Reveal how multinational corporations are supplanting democracy and driving climate collapse through unchecked economic dominance.
Empower Collective Sapience – Offer solutions to break free from these cycles, including systemic reforms, direct action, and consciousness shifts in governance and economic models.
Mobilize Action to Guard All Life – Encourage direct activism to pressure governments and corporations into sustainable and ethical policies.
Campaign Pillars & Strategy
1. Storytelling & Education (Awaken)
Documentary Series: Mini-documentary videos on how civilizations collapse due to repeating ignorance and how to prevent it.
Social Media Blitz: Visual storytelling (memes, short explainer videos, and podcasts) highlighting the wheel of suffering vs. breaking the cycle.
Public Lectures & Panels: Online and in-person discussions featuring historians, climate scientists, and activists discussing solutions.
2. Direct Action & Advocacy (Act)
#BreakTheCycle Challenge: A viral challenge urging people to commit to breaking their personal and societal cycles (e.g., divesting from fossil fuels, voting, community activism).
Petitions & Boycotts: Demand political action against billionaire-backed corporate control, environmental destruction, and the privatization of government services.
Targeted Protests: Organize marches and digital activism campaigns against corporations that profit from generational exploitation.
3. Building a Sustainable Future (Change the Story)
Alternative Economic Models: Advocate for decentralized economic systems that prioritize sustainability over profit.
Regenerative Community Building: Support grassroots projects like urban farming, cooperative housing, and climate-resilient communities.
Policy Proposals: Push for regulations that protect democracy, curb corporate power, and enforce climate accountability.
Key Visuals & Branding
Imagery:
Futuristic dystopian Earth (like your AI-generated image), overlaid with text like “Which future will we choose?”
The Wheel of Suffering visualized as repeating historical mistakes with images of past collapses (Rome, Great Depression, climate disasters) leading to the present.
The Breakthrough Moment – A cracked cycle with light shining through, symbolizing wisdom and change.
Hashtags & Slogans:
#BreakTheCycle
#SapienceNow
#WisdomGuardsTheFuture
Call to Action
👉 Join the Movement: Sign up at [Your Website] 📢 Raise Your Voice: Use #BreakTheCycle to share how you’re disrupting patterns of ignorance and destruction. 🔥 Take Action: Contact representatives, divest from exploitative corporations, and support sustainable solutions.
Seeing the Wheel, Stopping the Spin — “As the morning star rose and the Buddha achieved his great insight, tradition tells us, he saw all at once the matrix of causes and conditions that result in human experience: a swirl of interdependent physical and mental events repeating over and over, creating dukkha (suffering). Because he saw so clearly, he also saw how to end the suffering: nibbāna. One could stop the spinning cycle forever. Its dynamic nature—its seeming strength—was also the gate to freedom.”
Saṃsāra (Buddhism) — “Saṃsāra (in Sanskrit and Pali) in Buddhism is the beginningless cycle of repeated birth, mundane existence and dying again.[1] Samsara is considered to be suffering (Skt. duḥkha; P. dukkha), or generally unsatisfactory and painful.[2] It is perpetuated by desire and ignorance (Skt. avidyā; P. avijjā), and the resulting karma and sensuousness.[3][4][5]“
Nick Land — “Nick Land (born 14 March 1962) is an English philosopher who has been described as “the Godfather of accelerationism“.[2] His work has been tied to the development of speculative realism,[3][4] and departs from the formal conventions of academic writing, incorporating unorthodox and esoteric influences.[5] Much of his writing was anthologized in the 2011 collection Fanged Noumena.”
Feb 11, 2025 | First take a breath and breathe deeply. It’s the first rule of resistance — breathe! That is how you know you are still human. MAGA maniacs just rage. That how you know they are Zombies.
Topics covered in all four parts:
1) Join one of your local resistance cells (Democracy Forward was mentioned on the call I was on in Virginia with Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, Individible, local Democratic chapters),
2) Join What’s Happening & How You Can Take Action | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (subscribe and stay informed with AOC )
3) Watch The Rachel Maddow Show [9PM] 2/10/2025 | 🅼🆂🅽🅱️🅲 BREAKING NEWS Today February 10, 2025 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyrMr2VzgPk
Connecting the Dots of Chaos, Confusion, and Authoritarianism
Rachel is a master of connecting the dots and painting the bigger picture so you can’t MISS SEEING WHAT IS REALLY GOING ON. In last night’s show, she paints a picture so clearly of how Trump is decapitating government, you can’t miss it. Trump’s biggest Loser Cabinet will be the biggest, baddest cabinet ever!
Putting LOSERS in Charge
To be selected by Trump to head a government agency or department, you just have to be a LOSER! Once appointed, these LOSERS are executing these government systems Trump put them in control of, and I mean kill them.
Rachel also tells us why we should be VERY concerned about Federal Agencies such as the CFPB being ILLEGALLY shut down. Have you ever been scammed? Well… watch out because now the agency that has worked to get your money back from scammers is gone! Elizabeth Warren tells Rachel in the past 13 years 21 billion dollars has been recovered by this tiny, insignificant agency and put back in USA citizens pockets. But Elon has a plan!!! Turn ex-Twitter into PayPal… do you remember? That’s how Evilon got his toe into making money. And now he can scam the H*** out of anyone stupid enough to use his sketchy system with NO Regulation!
The Three Buckets of Chaos, Doom, and Authoritarianism
The Three Buckets of Chaos Rachel breaks down are CRITICAL. Study them and learn to recognize what wacky thing the Trump-Elon monster has done to day fits under and it is #3 that we must push back on relentlessly and not ignore!!!
The TruMuck Monster
Number 1: Bad Outcomes such as planes crashing or farmers getting screwed by TruMusk – or TruMuck because they turned off Biden’s Inflation Reduction funding.
And He Did Resign — Right Before the Biggest Air Disaster in 25 Years!!!
Even FOX has to report on it!!
Only 500 feet of separation between passenger plane (above) and military plane (below) occurred on Friday — March 28, 2025
Number 2: Double-dealing such as Elon’s Tesla chargers get a big head start and huge advantage over his competitors as Trump administration pauses a federal clean energy program to expand the country’s network of electric vehicle charging stations.
Yep… It’s going right into you and your DOGE bro’s pockets!!!
Damn Right Elon’s Running USA RIGHT NOW!!! IT is the brain of all modern systems… if you highjack the brain, you run the system
Elon is Not that much different than the Toxoplasma gondii virus
The parasite Toxoplasma gondii hijacks the brains of mice and other rodents, causing them to lose their fear of cats.This makes them more likely to be eaten by cats, which can then spread the parasite to other animals.
How does Toxoplasma affect the brain?
It may secrete molecules that rewire the brain
It may cause brain cysts that interfere with dopamine production
It may trigger inflammation in the brain, which changes brain function and behavior
It blocks the rodents’ natural aversion to cat urine, instead attracting them to the pheromone
How long does the effect last?
The effect of Toxoplasma can last for months, even after the parasite is no longer detectable.
How can you avoid infection?
To avoid infection, you can:
Maintain good hygiene for you and your pets
Wear gloves and a mask when gardening
Keep sandboxes closed when not in use
Clean fruits and vegetables
Thoroughly cook meats
Wash hands regularly
Hmmmm, now we need a list of how to avoid infection of the Elon MuskToxoplasma gondii virus
This is what it looks like inside of Elon’s Mind
Back to The Three Buckets of Chaos, Doom, and Authoritarianism
Number 3: Authoritarian Breakthrough such as TruMuckignoring Court Orders to turn funding to HeadStart and Community Health Centers back on — guess what? It.. the TruMuck monster, hasn’t turned the money back on. Nor have they reopened USAID, which a Federal Judge has also ordered halted.
Another sign of authoritarian breakthrough is pardoning criminals such as Rod Blagojevich, January 6ers, Jared’s dad. All of these people are now beholden to TruMuck to do his bidding. TruMuck is still deciding how to use Rod. But January 6ers, they are now TruMuck’s personal band of Terror Police.
This sort of play is not so far back in our collective human history! Are we stupid?! Let’s look back at Russian Czar Alexander III regarded by historians as the last real autocrat in Russia. His secret police force was called the Okhrana. They were tasked with terrorizing or killing any opponents of Alexander III. One of the things they did was kill dogs and tie their heads on the saddles of their horses so that they appeared like demons, which of course they were. [Sources: Wiki-Oprichnik, Study Guide ]
History of Russia & Ivan the TerribleBad Outcomes Again… this is Stupid Ivan killing his own son because he couldn’t control his thirst for Power any more
Stay Awake! Stay Aware! Be Ready to Act!
So, you see there is a reason why Republican Senators and Reps are spineless, sniveling fools right now… but if they don’t stand up Now, which I don’t think they ever well, there is no way to stop TruMuck using our democratic levers of democracy.
Stay Aware. Stay Informed. Take Breaks, But DO NOT IGNORE THIS. Action is Required.
It’s Over… the American Dream… Game Over… If you have been working your entire life to do something, even to just survive decently in America, the game is over. All Done. Gone. Adiós… and there are No Amigos to say Goodbye to anymore.
Lawrence O’Donnell on MSNBC said it beautifully last night comparing what Musk and Trump are doing to cheaters breaking all the rules in football and claiming a touchdown! Don’t fall for this bullshit! Watch this short opening segment from last night.
Another thing Lawrence said is Trump is AFRAID of Elon!
Alright, let’s get to work humiliating Trump. Call him a “‘Fraidy Cat“, “Grow a pair” (he’s very sensitive about this one… think crowd sizes and Obama),”Chicken Trump“, “Weakling in Chief“, “Elon’s Shadow“… you guys and gals can think of more. Create memes… and create them about these DODGE dodo boys and the two idiots running it. Mock them… relentlessly!
Fraidy Cat
Grow a pair
Chicken Trump
Weakling in Chief
Elon’s Shadow
If you can’t get out on the streets to join your local, spontaneous Stand in Solidarity with America, then mock the Dodos of DODGE and Trump’s weak and criminal constitution relentlessly. This will get to the Orange Man. I have the Dodos of DOGE t-shirts in my shop and other products putting these idiots down, but you all are creative, go to work! Create!!
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And do you remember Elon’s rocket ship exploding seconds after take off just before January 20?
Airspace worldwide had to be shut down to keep airplanes safe and wreckage from Elon’s failed rocket damaged property where it finally came down. Because of this, the FAA grounded Elon’s rockets after what he casually said was the ‘Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly’.
I know this is ancient history to us all now, but it was less than 3 weeks ago! It happened just days before Trump was sworn into office.
Do you know what else happened on that day?
Mike Whitaker, the FAA Chief, the guy who was keeping our skies safe from Elon’s crappy rockets falling out of the sky, resigned. [Read it for yourself here: Last FAA Chief Quit Following Pressure From Elon Musk]
Do you know why?
Because, Mike knew Elon was coming after him for grounding his crappy rockets.
Just a day before a deadly midair collision at Reagan National Airport outside Washington, D.C., employees at the Federal Aviation Administration were sent an offer to resign with eight months' pay.
The union for air traffic controllers recommended to its members that they not accept Tuesday’s offer, because the FAA had not decided which positions would be included in the resignation plan. An official for the Office for Personnel Management, the U.S. government's human resources arm, said Friday that controllers weren't eligible for the resignation plan or subject to the hiring freeze across much of the rest of federal government.
On the day of the crash between the Blackhawk heliocopter and passenger jet, Regan was understaff. The very next day… another fiery crash occurred in Philly. Then, over the weekend, if you can remember that far back, the NOTAMs (notice to air missions) failed, causing massive cancellations and delays across the USA.
The spate of recent aviation disasters and close calls have people worried about the safety of flying.
The midair collision that killed 67 near Washington, the fiery plane crash in Philadelphia and now a missing plane in Alaska are only the most high-profile disasters. There was also a Japan Airlines plane that clipped a parked Delta planewhile it was taxiing at the Seattle airport earlier this week and a United Airlines plane caught fire during takeoff at the Houston airport Sunday after an engine problem sparked a fire on the wing.
That’s not even to mention the security concerns that arose after stowaways were found dead inside the wheel wells of two planes and aboard two other flights. And don’t forget about the time that a passenger opened an emergency exit door on a plane while it was taxiing for takeoff in Boston.
So of course people are wondering whether their flight is safe?
Stay tuned!!! Because with Elon Musk (and his unbreakable Cyber Fucks) together with Orange Turd, there are going to be more crashes of planes.
Rachel Maddow Laughs Hysterically As Elon’s CyberFruck SPUTTERS — And Musk tried to get US (the people of USA) to buy is failing CyberFucks
OMG!!! And this one too!!! These idiots are ripping the US government apart so fast and so idiotically, they fired all the people who guard our NUKES!!!! And then, when they tried to get them back, they couldn’t find them!!!! LOL — this is a FAFO moment!!!
Trump and Musk PANIC after MAJOR SCREW UP — Those total Fuck UPs !! — more than 300 fired!
Shit… we need to see Elon’s cheeky son pick his nose next to Orange Turd. X also is heard telling Trump to “Shut his mouth and to get out of his daddies chair!”
LOL… Little 4 year-old X is telling Trump where to go…
Here Comes Big Balls
And Elon and his little, immature DOGE boys are now going to tweak the FAA’s entire systems. Specifically, one of the DOGE boys who goes by the call name “Big Balls”.
Oh Boy! Don’t you feel safer now that Big Balls is going to tweak our entire air safety system?!
Key Takeaways
* President Trump's administration is pressuring government employees to resign before a deadline, causing concern among civil service workers.
* Trump's efforts to cut costs and root out the 'Deep State' in D.C. are being met with criticism and alarm from various media outlets.
* Elon Musk's team is working to streamline federal government computer systems, sparking controversy and opposition.
“Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Wednesday that Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) will take part in upgrading the U.S. aviation system following the deadliest airline accident in decades. “Big News,” Duffy wrote on X. “Talked to the DOGE team.” – The Independent Duffy should be called Goofy.
I wish that I was making this up!!!!
But all this… and so, so, so, so much more… is happening NOW Americans!!
Do you really want to fly on an airplanes that are being kept from crashing into each other by Big Balls?
This is all connected.
Elon is unleashing the same sloppy shit he did at ex-Twitter onto the U.S. Government. And just like his poopy rockets, the entire Federal Government is coming apart in midair.
DOGE baby boys are going tweak the FAA systems. They have already had their grubby fingers in the Treasurer systems, the IRS systems, the USAID systems (and, Hello China… the world welcomes you in the gap of America’s sudden, unscheduled Rapid Disassembly of international aid and soft power). Coming up next for disassembly (could even be today): the CDC systems, the CIA systems, the FBI systems, Medicare and Medicaid systems.
One win today… Yeah… is that a spontaneous assembly of protestors gathered in front of the Department of Labor, which is where Musk and his Bad News Bears babies were scheduled to be today. And guess what? Musk and his Band of juvenile delinquent turned around and left today! They didn’t get in!!!
OK… this is for the MAGA dodos… because you are literally stupid… you may think the Federal Government is just Alphabet Soup, but all these agencies keep us safe from a very complication and dangerous world! Joy on MSNBC says it perfectly… watch her: https://www.msnbc.com/reidout
And in case you are wondering what those pardon Jan 6 criminals are up to:
This one looks really juicy!
So, this and so much more is why It Is Over… the game we all use to play as the United States of America has ended with Trump, Elon, the DOGE babies, and ignorance. That game is Over, but the NEW GAME IS ON… the Resistance is just getting started!