Politicians will lock themselves in a windowless room with a supercomputer to perform the political equivalent of microsurgery, all to avoid ever having an honest conversation about statehood. It’s the ultimate act of weakness; they’re too afraid to ask for a divorce, so they just secretly rearrange all the furniture in the house hoping their partner gets frustrated and leaves. Meanwhile, the State of Jefferson has the U-Haul idling in the driveway, and California and Texas are acting like a miserable billionaire couple who’d rather stay together and fight over the yacht than just admit they need separate mansions.
Category: Politics
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A Tale of Two Wests: Bitcoin, Geopolitics, and the Theoretical Choice Between Oregon and Idaho
It is a curious theoretical exercise to consider the choice between a place like Bend and one like Boise, not merely as a preference for a city, but as a vote for a divergent future. One looks at Boise’s enthusiastic embrace of the Bitcoin ecosystem and sees a strange paradox. Here is a political culture deeply rooted in ideals of American sovereignty and independence, yet it champions an industry whose very existence relies on a constant supply of specialized hardware forged in China. This creates a profound strategic vulnerability, a dependency that, from a certain critical perspective, borders on the treasonous. It makes one ponder the long-term political calculus of the Republican party; is this a blind spot so vast it could lead to a monumental landslide?
In this light, Oregon’s political landscape appears as a more complex, and frankly, more reassuring ecosystem. It isn’t a monolithic bloc. You have the necessary friction of principled opposition from figures like Representative Suzanne Bonamici, a vital check against unchecked enthusiasm. Even more telling, perhaps, are those who maintain a wise and prudent silence, who refuse to be swept up in the fervor. This diversity of thought suggests a healthier, more resilient political body.
And so, the musing turns to the very lines on the map, to concepts like ‘Greater Idaho’ and the ‘State of Jefferson.’ From this perspective, the Greater Idaho movement seems less like a liberation and more like an absorption into that very system of paradoxical dependency. But Jefferson… ah, Jefferson represents a conceptual break. It is the chance to forge a new political entity, one founded not on the uncritical adoption of flawed systems, but on a healthier skepticism and a desire for true independence that is free from the digital supply chains of a global adversary.
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The White House’s Troubling Embrace of Sharia Finance
The most insidious threat is the normalization of the political ideology that fuels terrorist groups: Islam. While TX Gov. Abbott is fighting back, recently reaffirming the state’s ban on Sharia law, the White House is moving in the opposite direction. It is actively promoting Sharia as a legitimate financial system. Hidden in plain sight on the White House’s own website, among glowing press releases about “trillions in great deals,” is a statement from Franklin Templeton’s CEO, Jenny Johnson. She praises the Trump administration’s policies for helping her company, a global asset manager, grow “leadership in global Sukuk and Sharia compliant investing.” Let that sink in. The Trump White House is celebrating, as a key economic victory, the expansion of a financial system based on religious laws that are fundamentally hostile to American liberty and Constitutional principles. It is a full endorsement of the financial arm of a political ideology we should be fighting, not funding.
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Trump’s Intel Bailout: An “America First” Scam
The recent $10 billion government investment in Intel is a sham disguised as an “America First” initiative. In reality, it’s a bailout to service the company’s massive debt, which was approximately $50.15 billion as of March 2025. This raises the question: is President Trump getting some kind of kickback for orchestrating this deal? The claim of putting America first is further undermined by Intel’s continued reliance on Taiwan’s TSMC, a move that prioritizes Taiwan and raises concerns about the prominence of the English language in our own tech sector.
It’s laughable that a company like Intel, supposedly at the forefront of American innovation, has a market value of around $107 billion, while an entertainment app like TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is valued at over $330 billion. This entire situation smacks of corruption, especially since they refuse to release the Oval Office tapes from the meeting between Trump and Intel’s CEO. With the administration also planning to reinterpret treaties to sell heavy attack drones, it’s only a matter of time before Intel’s overseas supply chains face retaliatory attacks. This isn’t a serious investment; it’s a high-risk gamble with taxpayer money that seems destined to fail.
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The FBI and CDC: Mandated for Chaos
I believe the fundamental mandates of the FBI and the CDC are not to foster business or stability, but to create a form of chaos. We see this in the political antics from both sides that surround these agencies, which makes me think they’ve become redundant. We are already served by the National Guard, state and local police, and U.S. Marshals. These organizations are business-minded and have a deep understanding of the communities they protect. The FBI, in my view, has gone rogue.
I know enough about how the USA is supposed to operate to see that if things were running correctly, the FBI wouldn’t even be needed. Think about it: we have the TSA for travel security and other agencies for our borders. I can maybe understand the need for the CIA to handle international threats, but the FBI’s domestic role seems to have devolved. I believe the FBI alone has the power to throw us into a recession and can literally tank the whole country’s economy. In that sense, they are more powerful than even the Federal Reserve, which is supposed to manage economic stability. You just have to look at the political turmoil they get involved in. The Wikileaks situation in 2016 with Hillary Clinton and Seth Rich, the drama around John Bolton—these events show an agency enmeshed in politics, not justice.
And it’s not just the FBI. The CDC operates in a similar fashion, creating chaos under the guise of public health. Their handling of COVID-19 with constantly changing and conflicting data was a disaster that hurt businesses and families. That’s why I think what Bobby Kennedy is doing now is so important. He’s trying to fire them all, and they deserve it. He has defended the firings at the CDC, citing what he views as their failures during the pandemic. Kennedy has said that the people at the CDC who “put masks on our children, who closed our schools, are the people who will be leaving.” I believe these changes are necessary to restore trust in an agency that lost its way.
This all feeds into a larger, scarier picture. We humans live a short life, and we’re watching our national debt run wild with no real strategies to fix it. The tariffs are a nice idea, but they aren’t part of a coherent plan. Then you have some Republicans, who I call the “chaos caucus”—figures like MTG and Massie—who just seem to create chaotic headlines. It’s a frightening time, and I am surprised that no president seems to see how rogue agencies like the FBI and CDC are at the center of this storm, capable of causing immense economic and social damage.
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Performative Wreckage
Performative Wreckage
nounA political strategy involving the deliberate sabotage of constitutional order and governmental stability for the purpose of personal notoriety. Its practitioners abandon the duty of legislation in favor of headline-grabbing stunts that usurp executive functions, showing a reckless disregard for the nation’s welfare—akin to imposing ruinous economic policies merely to revel in the ensuing chaos.
See also: The “Chaos Caucus” (Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Thomas Massie, Anna Paulina Luna, Tim Burchett). -
The GOP’s ‘Chaos Caucus’ Is Paving the Way for a Trump Impeachment
It’s becoming impossible to ignore the formation of a bizarre and deeply concerning political alliance between figures like Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Thomas Massie, with others like Anna Paulina Luna and Tim Burchett clearly operating from the same playbook. Their actions reek of a desperate, calculated push for relevance that has little to do with substantive governance and everything to do with generating headlines and manufacturing chaos.
We see a pattern of performative stunts designed to distract. MTG admits she didn’t even read Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill” before voting on it, then creates a spectacle to cover her own negligence. Mace acts as if she’s a representative for the United Kingdom, demanding the arrest of Prince Andrew. This isn’t random; it’s strategic.
A central pillar of this strategy is the relentless push on the UAP/UFO issue, championed by figures like Burchett and Luna. First, they captured headlines with the Epstein files. Now, it seems the UAP/UFO narrative is the next card they’re all preparing to play.
But here is where the intentions get truly weird and suspect. The ultimate goal of these manufactured spectacles, from Epstein to extraterrestrials, isn’t to hold the powerful accountable. It’s to create a chaotic media environment designed to, bizarrely enough, gin up support for the DNC. By dominating the conversation with conspiracies and sensationalism, they make the entire Republican party look unstable and unserious, pushing mainstream voters towards the perceived stability of the Democrats.
This all feeds back into the more sinister, long-term play. With Massie’s history of clashing with Donald Trump, this calculated chaos is the perfect smokescreen. They are “spiking the punch bowl” to set the stage for a dramatic, headline-grabbing impeachment attempt against Trump in 2026. It’s a PR stunt designed to inflict maximum political damage heading into the 2028 election cycle, and the enthusiastic participation of Mace and others shows they are key players in this gambit.
This is precisely why President Trump needs to get in front of this nonsense immediately. He needs to call it out for what it is: a coordinated campaign of distraction and political theater by supposed allies who are, in reality, undermining his agenda and the entire America First movement. He must expose their bizarre intentions before they can play their next card and derail the real work that needs to be done for the American people.