2025 A year in review!

[Jay Mysteri0]

Already so much has happened / is happening and it's already... ( checks watch ) January 2nd?!!!

Let's see, we had former military rent a truck and crash it thru New Orleans, and the president already spouting fake news about it being an illegal immigrant. Supposedly there were others along with the driver who weren't caught, who might have been planting explosives.

We had the Cyber Truck story that is getting weirder as the simps pour out to defend their favorite oligarch.

Cybertruck Explosion at Trump Hotel Linked to U.S. Army SpecOps Sergeant, Pentagon Confirms

The New Year started off with a Cybertruck catching fire and detonating makeshift explosives in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas.

gizmodo.com

On New Year’s Day, a rented Cybertruck pulled in front of a Trump hotel in Las Vegas and seemed to explode. The explosion killed the driver of the Cybertruck and injured seven observers. The hotel was unscathed. Active duty U.S. Army Special Forces sergeant Matthew Alan Livelsberger had rented the Cybertruck earlier that day in Colorado before driving it all the way to Vegas.

Footage from security cameras and bystanders showed the explosion. According to authorities and witnesses, the Cybertruck parked in front of the entrance of the Trump International Hotel around 8:30 AM. Smoke poured out of the Cybertruck before it caught fire and detonated a mix of explosive material in its truck bed.

Videos of the explosion showed fireworks, smoke, and a huge burst of flame shooting through the glass at the top of the Cybertruck. Photos of the truck shown in the aftermath reveal the accelerants and explosive material in the bed. It was a tumbledown mix of mortar-style fireworks and fuel canisters.

What is going on with the military now that 45 is on his way?

You can read the rest, but it's about how emo simps rushed to praise the truck? Spinning is going to be very in, for the next few years I think.

Oh, and before the inauguration where the House has to certify the incoming president, this is happening...

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/02/politics/johnson-speakership-election-trump-certification/index.html

House Speaker Mike Johnson’s allies are leaning into a key argument in a bid to avoid a chaotic floor fight over the gavel on Friday: A vote against Johnson could delay the finalization of Donald Trump’s White House win.

A day before the speaker’s election, Johnson, who has been endorsed by Trump to keep the top leadership post, is still racing to win over multiple GOP holdouts, a scenario that some Republicans privately fear could lead to another days-long protracted floor fight.

But this time, there’s a huge shadow over the race: Congress has never before tried to certify a presidential election without a House speaker in place. Even senior Republicans say it’s unclear what would happen if there is no speaker on January 6 — when Congress is scheduled to certify Trump’s win — and they’re not eager not to find out.

“To oppose Johnson now weakens the GOP and strengthens Hakeem Jeffries. It also puts at risk the Electoral College Certification scheduled for 6 Jan. These guys serve as a ‘fifth column’ for the Dems,” Rep. Don Bacon of Nebraska told CNN.

The House can’t conduct any official business without a speaker, which means there are no clear options to certify Trump’s win without one, according to multiple sources. The message so far from Congress’s own parliamentarians to party leaders has been: Elect a speaker before January 6, according to one of those sources.

Republicans are also acutely aware that they will have a narrow window to push through their agenda once they take control of both chambers of Congress and the White House. Trump’s inauguration is set to take place on January 20, but the election results need to be certified by Congress before he can take office.

We are just starting the new year...!!!

Oh, and future dysfunction... Say like the ban on Tik Tok

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/31/trump-tiktok-brief-supreme-court-overreach-legal-experts-00196147

But there's also 45's former FCC head's take on the Tik Tok ban

Trump's Former FCC Head Ajit Pai Asks Supreme Court to Uphold TikTok Ban

Trump's former FCC head is breaking from the president-elect on this issue.

gizmodo.com

Already so much is going on & coming up, this year should be very interesting. How's the saying go?

"May you live in interesting times".

It's now easier to understand how people have misinterpreted that as an old Chinese curse.

 

[SouprMatt]

Already so much has happened / is happening and it's already... ( checks watch ) January 2nd?!!!

Let's see, we had former military rent a truck and crash it thru New Orleans

And a perfect 2025 response to this tragedy:

Alabama mom shot in New Orleans attack 'refused absence from Amazon warehouse'

Alexis Scott-Windham, 23, said her employer initially denied her a leave of absence after suffering a foot injury from the New Orleans terrorist attack.

www.the-express.com

An Alabama mom, who was injured in the New Orleans terror attack, was denied a leave of absence from her job at an Amazon warehouse - a decision which the company quickly reversed after intense backlash.

Oh, how nice of Amazon to reverse the decision AFTER their cruelty became front-page news.

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

Also reading about the cyber truck driver's letter which seems very pro 45.

‘TIME TO WAKE UP’: Las Vegas police share notes from Cybertruck explosion suspect

Las Vegas police are expected to discuss their investigation into the Cybertruck explosion in front of the Trump hotel Friday.

www.fox5vegas.com

So Faux News needed to spring into action

Las Vegas Cybertruck explosion suspect was ‘No Labels’ voter, no 'animosity' towards Trump

New details surface about an active-duty U.S. Army soldier who blew up a Cybertruck in front of Trump Las Vegas hotel after his political background is revealed.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

Things keep a changing already

https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/06/americas/justin-trudeau-set-to-resign-canadian-prime-minister-intl/index.html

Justin Trudeau has said he intends to step down after nine years as Canadian prime minister in the face of a mounting set of crises, leaving office once a new ruling party leader is chosen.

“I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its new leader,” the 53-year-old leader told reporters at a news conference in Ottawa on Monday.

“I care deeply about this country and I will always be motivated by what is in the best interests of Canadians. And the fact is, despite best efforts to work through it, parliament has been paralyzed for months after what has been the longest session of a minority parliament in Canadian history,” he said, adding that the country’s parliament will be suspended until March 24 while a new leader is chosen.

Trudeau, leader of the Liberal Party for 11 years and prime minister for nine, was facing a mounting set of crises, from Donald Trump’s tariff threats to the resignation of key allies and disastrous opinion polls. His resignation could be seen as the PM choosing to jump before he is pushed, ahead of a general election to be held later this year that he is widely expected to lose.

The election must be held on or before October 20, but could be brought forward. Polls show Trudeau’s Liberal Party is set to badly lose to the opposition Conservative Party, led by the firebrand Pierre Poilievre.

“This country deserves a real choice in the next election and it has become clear to me that if I’m having to fight internal battles I cannot be the best option in that election,” said Trudeau on Monday.

Trudeau said that Poilievre’s vision “is not the right one for Canadians.”

Also India's stock market crashes and they are worrying about HMPV.

What a year so far.

 

[P___X]

Already so much has happened / is happening and it's already... ( checks watch ) January 2nd?!!!

Let's see, we had former military rent a truck and crash it thru New Orleans, and the president already spouting fake news about it being an illegal immigrant. Supposedly there were others along with the driver who weren't caught, who might have been planting explosives.

We had the Cyber Truck story that is getting weirder as the simps pour out to defend their favorite oligarch.




What is going on with the military now that 45 is on his way?

You can read the rest, but it's about how emo simps rushed to praise the truck? Spinning is going to be very in, for the next few years I think.

Oh, and before the inauguration where the House has to certify the incoming president, this is happening...




We are just starting the new year...!!!

Oh, and future dysfunction... Say like the ban on Tik Tok



But there's also 45's former FCC head's take on the Tik Tok ban



Already so much is going on & coming up, this year should be very interesting. How's the saying go?

"May you live in interesting times".

It's now easier to understand how people have misinterpreted that as an old Chinese curse.

We have Trump's project 2025, and we have 2025's Project 2025😀 It ain't going to be boring😀

 

[SouprMatt]

I forgot to wish everybody a Happy January 2nd - The day that most CEOs’ pay surpassed what you will earn the rest of the year. Keep working hard!

Before COB on the First Workday of 2023, CEOs Will Make More Than the Average Annual Pay for All US Workers - Inequality.org

inequality.org

 

[lizkat]

As far as the two incidents of terrible violence as the New Year broke, the one in New Orleans and the one in Las Vegas, to my mind both only speak to the still too neglected issue of psychiatric care for military veterans and their families and friends.

The failure of outreach for and provision of mental health care is not limited to our military (if that's not obvious to everyone in the USA by now). The problem with insufficient mental health care and outreach is exacerbated though, when a person in need of that care has training and experience in targeted violence and has or can acquire the means to deploy it in other than assigned duties.

The VA's annual budget for mental health care has nearly quadrupled in the 2006-2019 timeframe, from 2.4 to 8.9 billion USD. But the suicide rate of veterans is still 1.5 times higher than that of civilians. On the matter of outreach, it's telling to me that in 2018, an average of 18 US military veterans died each day of suicide, but of those only an average of 7 had recently obtained VA care.

Veterans' Growing Demand for Mental Health Services

The number of veterans receiving mental health care from the Department of Veterans Affairs increased 90% from FY 2006-2019. During this time, VA's...

www.gao.gov

If you imagine the rates of care provision in civilian society are any better, your rose colored glasses work better than mine.

It's not just about money. We're way short on empathy. We all have our own problems and those of even people close to us can escape our attention, never mind the problems of colleagues and total strangers.

I'm reminded of a terrible night in NYC, a brutally wintry evening walking home from the shops near the subway around midnight. I had crossed 110th street and was passing into the shelter of some scaffolding that had been put up along the sidewalk on Broadway in front of a building, grateful for a brief respite from the snow and wind. All I could think of was getting home to defrost myself with the coffee and bagels I'd just bought.​

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All of a sudden a woman's voice called after me: "I don't really care if you don't give me money, but don't just walk past me like I don't even exist." I was so inured to panhandlers in that era in the city that I hadn't even noticed her standing there with a coffee cup, jangling coins.​

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All the loose change or dollar bills in passersby pockets won't fix whatever had landed that woman on that corner on that night.​

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What I found out later on though, when I started trying to make more of a difference in my adopted city, was that becoming inured to terrible human circumstance is a contagious disease. It will take way more than money to fix that.​

Money though, or rather a lack of it, is why we don't have the levels of infrastructure, education and healthcare that we all need for ourselves AND OUR NEIGHBORS including the invisible neighbors stashed under bridges and scaffolds in the dark, or shoved into enclaves "on the wrong side of the tracks" and unencumbered by shops, schools, public transportation, social services.

And money, a grotesque plentitude of it that will never "trickle down" past wealthy cronies is why we have an almost incomprehensible gap between the state of the uber-wealthy and the working poor or unemployed and unemployable in the USA.

So looking forward in 2025, we have Trump 2.0 and the spectacle of private equity licking its chops and hoping for financial deregulation that will afford it more chance for the general pubic to "invest" their retirement funds, for instance, in asset classes that the equity firms would like to exit and which inconveniently right now only' institutions can invest in (and have zero interest in buying more of). You know. Stuff like the remains of scarfed-up newspaper printing plants, shopping malls, or the debt from inadvisable mergers and acquisitions, or subprime debt that's hard to pitch even after securitization.

https://www.pionline.com/private-equity/apollo-looks-move-401k-market-trim-public-fixed-income-active-equity

Oh sorry. I was talking about empathy for neighbors and military vets and sh^t like that wasn't I. Hmm.

 

[lizkat]

Already so much has happened / is happening and it's already... ( checks watch ) January 2nd?!!!

Yeah well now it's Jan 24; so much great stuff has happened that a bluesky member posted this today:

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[Jay Mysteri0]

Who the F' had this happening on their 2025 bingo card?

Are we truly racing down the drain this fast?

 

[SouprMatt]

Who the F' had this happening on their 2025 bingo card?

Are we truly racing down the drain this fast?

The cheering... WTF? A crowd full of Nazis at a "Pro-Life" event. 🤔

 

[Jay Mysteri0]

This part of a rant I was having in a post in the republican agenda, when I realized I was going off track, so I'll run with it here. I was going on about groups of voters who voted for 45, found out the hard way what pandering means, and now are demanding other groups who did vote against 45 stand with them. Specifically the Black community, who now finds itself being blamed not for voting in their interests & others, but being tired of hearing the complaints & banding together with those who did vote against their own best interests.

Back to rant in progress...

Don't think immigration was being handled the way you wanted? Okay. Did you plan to go after the biggest culprits, a party the specifically wants immigration to remain an issue as long as it can be used as a voting issue? No? You went with a guy who campaigned on deporting Brown people anywhere he could ( evidently that may include the original people here ), and began his original campaign talking about who Mexico was "sending".

Now those groups want to come at the group that did vote in their best interests and are now being called DEI in wherever they exist. Even if they weren't involved in something that happened.

Really?



What's sad is that because of the actions of one petty racist asshole, the divisions in various communities are actually growing because of scapegoating or demands for help where none was wanted before.

Instead what I'm seeing is a Black community that dems stood so heavily on the shoulders on, is now saying "I'm out." "I'm going to focus on me in these upcoming trying times, because maybe no one else will. I have to be ready for the worst still to come."

Versions of this AI dreck are spreading across social media more & more to sum up the feelings of the community, when they will be counted on more than ever in a couple of years.

This country is really being torn apart, stripped down for parts, and made into hell for anyone not racist White. But other places like Gaza, Uganda, Ukraine, will be paying the price. But for some it's time to go after the group that did vote in their interests, even though none of those things directly affect them. They just did what I thought you should always do, vote in your self interests. The 'but' here of course is, 'vote wisely'.

That division though I feel is going to be very important for the wannabe master race, as they race ahead full steam powered greed & spite. These people aren't clever, they are the opposite. They are empowered idiots unleashed on a system they benefitted from, by a smarter group trying to get all the can during the chaos while these idiots run amuck.

The thing I am looking at though is why these idiots run amuck, they aren't only going after anyone they demonize. They are also unintentionally going after their own bread & butter that they will need as the divisions grow.

Farmers, the patriotic jewell of the repubs jingoism, are learning that jingoism has a price. In the rush to dismantle anything that might be a part of Biden legacy, the current regime is dismantling the very things farmers have come to depend on while they railed about Biden policies. And I am not just talking about the wasted produce that USAID brought that helped farmers, that is now going to waste and no longer being brought. Nor am I talking about rounding up all the help some farms need to get their work done.



I wonder as the pain increases for anyone not already wealthy in today's America, if various groups will somehow actually come together, and what this will do to the fragile & hostile ego of America's would be king? The event I'm thinking about that may come in the future?

How UnitedHealthcare became the face of a broken health care system

Luigi Mangione was charged with murdering a health care CEO. The internet responded with a flood of support.

www.vox.com

That guy will be going to trial eventually, and the mainstream media, corporations, & friendly gov't are not happy that the public has seemingly embraced a straight out murderer. United Healthcare ( supposedly ) in one case has gone as far as having some badly drawn images of Mangione on t shirts removed from a shop. It's possible that future trial maybe a catalyst that isn't about uniting against UH. But against CEO's 😒 that America has acquired a diminishing taste for. It's only February in 45's first year, but it may become a very fractious year for the country.

 

[SouprMatt]

A child in Texas has died of measles.

NPR story on measles outbreak

U.S. Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. was asked about the death at a meeting of President Trump's cabinet Wednesday. He noted that the outbreak is spreading among a Mennonite community and said, "we're watching it." He also said "it's not unusual" and noted there are measles outbreaks every year in the U.S.

Actually, Mr. Brain Worm, it’s highly unusual.

The last US measles-related death was in 2015, when a woman in Washington state died from pneumonia caused by the virus. She had been vaccinated but was taking immunosuppressive medication. Before that, the previous recorded measles death was in 2003.”

It feels like we are rapidly regressing back to the Stone Age.

 

[MarkusL]

 

[Pumbaa]

Qatar Airways Responds After Couple Had to Sit Next to Dead Body for 4 Hours During Flight - E! Online

Qatar Airways released a statement defending its crew after an Australian couple said they were forced to sit next to a corpse for four hours on a recent flight.

www.eonline.com

Weird how the company’s statement differs from the passengers’…

I do not doubt the passengers’ version. Qatar Airways was already on my No Fly List. I have had better experiences with Ryanair. That should say something…

 

[P___X]

Qatar Airways Responds After Couple Had to Sit Next to Dead Body for 4 Hours During Flight - E! Online

Qatar Airways released a statement defending its crew after an Australian couple said they were forced to sit next to a corpse for four hours on a recent flight.

www.eonline.com

Weird how the company’s statement differs from the passengers’…

I do not doubt the passengers’ version. Qatar Airways was already on my No Fly List. I have had better experiences with Ryanair. That should say something…

they've lost 3 customers that day...

 

[SouprMatt]

Jasmine Crockett’s review of 2025 is in:



The short and sweet version of the Democratic response to the State of the Union speech…