RJ • Interdisciplinary Digital Strategist

This is also a reminder to look beyond an old & ailing man, to the people who are propping him up + the people who got him the position + the motivations of both groups + mechanisms motivating the mob.

Villains don't have to be cartoonish to be just that.

I take solace in the fact that most of these Fashionistas aren't as smart as they think && by bungling more things than not, we have a clearer picture of where we can start repairing the damage/existing systems.

SO...

Folks who are *actual* law/legal professionals, it is my sincere hope that you are also taking note of what case law / counter arguments are being made where, while this Fashionable Regime distracts us from their robbing the treasury + releasing those rotten files.

By the time he waved at us from that gilded escalator a decade ago, the dude had bathrooms full of previous lawsuits && unpaid invoices + specifically ran out of FL because NY h8ed his guts.

I mean, this has been obvious *to me* for a while now.

Tangerine Palpatine will always use whatever tool he has access to, including lying/cheating/stealing, to get what he wants. Others are just a means to these ends and/or more nefarious folks will use this to theirs.

Yours Truly is also using this meta stuff as a pretext for the following:

1) Moore's Law + LLMs might surface where those gaps might exist, but need to be verified by a human being.

2) Shock & Awe campaign blow back is surfacing these faster.

NOW...

IANAL. Never was one. Don't claim to be one.

What I'm describing here is the meta stuff that is attached to our modern US-ian legal process.

So is having those conversations in the hallway / room / antechamber.

Also, finding the right representation, with the right judge, with the right jury (if that is requested), and tailoring any legal argument and/or presentation of evidence / defense to "win" in that scenario is a practice as old as Common Law.

Yours Truly might just be spit ballin' here...

With every Fashionable Filing, legal gaps and/or loopholes are being surfaced from the Federal to the Municipal.

Some of these have existed for a Hot Minute, because the right to a speedy trial doesn't necessarily mean any individual will get one.

If you look closely, you can determine who might have a shred of humanity left.

"I will always love you."

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Trump: (at left) (plays to the camera)(stands silent && ignores what's happening to the right)

The American People: (at right)(having a health event)(others try to help)

Not Shown: RFK (the remainder of the GOP)(running away at the first sign of trouble)

To think that a hyphen got lost in the sauce tickles the darker side of my absurdist funny bones.

Not exactly surprising considering some favored programming languages are absolute garbage w/floats & doubles && some folks wonder why Shit Explodes and/or Deorbits.

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The only way out is through + the history of multi-front wars + game theory.

And at least one front has convinced themselves min-max == minmax.

As a once self-styled Silver Lining's Strategist:

Yes. These chuckle buckets have Americans under siege && by extension, the rest of the world.

The multi-pronged Shock + Awe is designed to force compliance && if you happen to Be Harmed, that will be framed as Your Fault.

As scary as it is and can be, I will reiterate the best anyone can do is mitigate the harm these chuckle buckets can do.

Just like there is no One Inflection Point to tip them all off the board, there is no One True Message to get us out of this Fashionable Mess.

Unfortunately, for ~95% of us there is no treatment/therapy/cure for this combination of fuckery.

Some of those traits are useful from an evolutionary standpoint, otherwise we might be extinct or existing as something else.

Straight From A Horse's Mouth:**

The best you *might* hope for is Enlightened Self-Interest.

A Corollary:**

And Good Luck w/that.

** = Dark Tetrad Rocket Surgeon Jack Ass

I can tell you from direct personal experience there is no appeal to morality that will work w/these folks.

Either they've got a certain level of pathology + capital to "be above" such things and/or they will ignore you b/c they'll shift the purity goal posts until you're ☠️ or an apostate.

HOLY OPPENHEIMER!

Are we really all that surprised these chuckle buckets sort of lost the plot + DGAF who gets harmed && how many?

At another, accumulating power if only to silence dissent and/or coerce compliance.

At another, accumulating power if only to have some sort of bragging rights/lick back.

Their means justify their ends.

At one inflection point, The Struggle no longer matters and/or becomes an intellectual exercise.

At another, there is subsuming identity in All Service To.

At another, the insatiable quest for novelty disguised as unchecked innovation.

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2/3 was the Old Fashioned Fashionistas, which only combined an aggrieved nationalism w/a rousing rampage of revenge...

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Having a dunderheaded flunderbuss w/a questionable service record + morality for thee but not for me + sus tattoos as SecDef && of a re-nicknamed org is a sorta metaphor.

Whether via religion, philosophy, or an unrelenting id, all believe they have A Mandate to remake the world in Their Image.

Aside from plays on words + Yours Truly spending several minutes cleaning her keyboard b/c while I can venture into dark places I don't enjoy it:

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