Since the start of the Trump administration, the FBI has ramped up their use of polygraphs, or lie-detector tests. Used in the past to suss out whether employees can be trusted with secret information, the FBI under Director Kash Patel has a new application for polygraphs: Sniffing out whether employees have ever said anything mean about their boss, the controversial right-wing figure himself.

I know Fox News declared in court that they’re entertainment, but despite all their shortcomings I don’t know which is a bigger surprise skeptic: Fox News, or Alex Jones.

The destruction of America continues…

Just a reminder, this was only 2 weeks ago: https://www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/politics/doge-fired-workers-rehired

If the administration’s lies don’t even trick Alex then there might be hope!

New precedent is being set as decades of rulings are being ignored. A Trump appointed judge is at the center of it… again.

I didn’t vote for this. I voted Harris.

The lines are really blurry to me on who are our allies and who are our enemies.

You know, I’ve thought a lot about what it would mean to call myself a Democrat or a leftist or a socialist, and I just don’t think it fits. There are a few opinions I’d have to change to get there.

At the heart of it, I believe change should come from the bottom up, not from the top down. I don’t think the government should be out front trying to steer us. I think it should follow the people’s lead, doing the things we’ve already come together and decided we want. In my perfect world, my own personal Star Trek future, people would organize themselves outside of government into groups that actually know what they’re doing. Groups with real values, real knowledge, that could help shape things in a smart, honest way. I know corruption’s always a risk, but I still believe self-regulation is possible if people are serious about it and don’t become complacent.

I have no problems admitting there’s overlap here with socialism and the left. Things like giving people more say at work, keeping big corporations from gobbling up everything, and making sure everyone’s treated equally seem important in more than one ideology. But the part I can’t get behind is putting too much power in the hands of the state. I don’t think government should sit at the very top of society calling all the shots. I don’t think there should even be a single “top” like that. I believe in small government, but not in that hardcore libertarian way where the only thing left is the military. I just want power spread out in communities, in families, in workplaces and not all crammed into Washington.

So I think of myself as being on the conservative side. I just think the best change comes slow, local, and from the ground up.

I couldn’t make myself vote for Biden. But last year I was desperate for anyone but Trump, and the Republican primaries didn’t excite me either. I voted Harris.

Them not showing IDs is trouble brewing. The first case of self defense against unbadged law enforcement will turn this country inside out no matter how the ruling comes down.

I think it’s disingenuous to believe they have a nice, neat list of names and addresses and all they need to do is knock on a few doors. ICE has done some pretty underhanded stuff taking people at immigration courts, but I don’t think they have a list of murderers and choose to leave them free.

I don’t regret voting for McCain

I don’t like political labels. There’s too many false dichotomies. Conservative is the one that I feel describes me best, though. Things can change, but I appreciate them more when they change slowly. If nobody is the voice of reason in the room, things can change too quickly for me and I believe for all of us. Before too long we won’t recognize ourselves in the mirror.

Is allowing any progress too progressive?

I guess there are a few people I want to set myself apart from: bigots, nationalists, fascists, that ilk.

They are the loudest assholes at the moment. So I’m setting out to make and be something different. I’m hedging my bets on not being alone. I don’t think it’s radical to say that we shouldn’t start wars on a whim and we shouldn’t snatch people up at their legalization court hearings. Where I lose some people in my neck of the woods is that I couldn’t care less what sex or gender they are. What they tell me is good enough. Want to change it? You do you. I’m already married to the one person who’s genitals I’m going to have any preference about. And as long as they only pull it out at home, I don’t care what’s in their pants. This gets filed under “freedom” for me. Simple.

I’m not interested in setting myself apart from anybody else. I believe that’s a part of how we got into our current constitutional crisis.

Something closer to an actual answer to your question might be that I value strong institutions over strong government. I believe in the collection of experts more than the accuracy of the masses. Since we’ll never elect experts on “How to Human” it’s better we ask everybody, hence democracy, but infrastructure isn’t a place where we can have everybody paint the shed. I want to believe in a free market where companies and consumers can converse better than “did the consumers buy it or not.” The dollar is not god.

I want to establish early that posting negative things the administration or conservative talking heads do is fine. This is not a pro-conservative/anti-democrat comm.

The quality of the party is dependent on what they do, not what they claim to stand for. This action is abhorrent and utterly unAmerican.