Trump Shutdown BLOWS UP in His Face in RECORD TIME

 

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Oct 3, 2025

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VIDEO: Trump's Midnight Meme Meltdown Screams 25th Amendment 'Psychotic': New questions about Trump's mental health and cognitive decline are popping up in the Trump Regime after posting WILD late night with 'reaper' video Dean Blundell Oct 3 October 3, 2025 TL;DR Trump boosted an AI music video casting Project 2025 architect Russell Vought as a scythe-swinging Grim Reaper, with Trump on cowbell and JD Vance on drums—an adolescent joke with very adult stakes. The vibe is “laugh while we fire you”: normalize the purge, then run the playbook. In the same breath, calls to trigger the 25th Amendment—led by Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker and echoed by others—are moving from cable-panel fodder to mainstream demand, while mental-health professionals keep flagging visible markers of cognitive decline. You’re support for this community has been INCREDIBLE. Don’t forget, we extended the half-price annual subscription deal for the month of October. Get 50% off yearly plans and unlimited access, and never pay more. Redeem the offer by October 31, and feel free to share or gift a subscription to support fearless, independent journalism wherever you find it “The Reaper” Logs On It lands late, like all the worst posts do. A hooded figure glides down Constitution Avenue. Cut to a skeleton band: Trump hammering a cowbell, Vance behind the kit, grinning like a kid who just found dad’s drumsticks. The punchline—unmasked—is Russ Vought, the man with the plan to reclassify, “restructure,” and remove thousands of federal workers who fail the loyalty test. It’s absurd on purpose. The joke is the message. Mock your opponents as “babies.” Treat governance like a music video. Make the scythe fun. Then use it: Vought isn’t a cameo; he’s the policy instrument. Project 2025 (and its Schedule-F-style revival) is a personnel revolution disguised as reform: reclassify civil servants, strip protections, and replace expertise with allegiance. The video’s visual grammar—Vought as executioner—turns that into easy entertainment. If you can make a layoff look like a guitar solo, you’ve already lowered the moral cost of swinging the blade. Translation: The meme preps the audience for the purge. The Propaganda Loop: AI as Numbing Agent This is the new pattern: drop an AI clip, launder cruelty through comedy, and blur the line between “just trolling” and “actual policy.” What begins as a punchline becomes a permission structure. Joke about “clearing out the swamp,” then serve real notices. Put a Reaper in 4K, then hand him a pen. Quantico Was the Spark Days before the “Reaper” drop, Trump stood before a room of generals and admirals and pitched American cities as training grounds; blurred the line between National Guard and active-duty military; labeled dissent “an invasion from within.” That’s when JB Pritzker said the quiet part out loud: something is fundamentally wrong here—and it’s time to discuss the 25th Amendment. He wasn’t alone. The chorus grew: lawmakers, commentators, even some Republicans whispering about the risk curve we’re on. The point isn’t whether the mechanism is easy—it isn’t. The point is that the conversation has shifted from “this is outrageous” to “this may be incapacity.” BREAKING VIDEO: Trump and Hegseth’s Quantico Shock Meeting Was a Test of Whether the U.S. Military Will Police Americans Dean Blundell · Sep 30 September 30, 2025 Read full story “Is He Fit?”—What Clinicians Keep Flagging Let’s be clear: Trump is a mental and cognitive mess and every psychologist in the world has alluded to it, sans diagnosis. Ethical clinicians note they can’t diagnose from a distance. Still, many have chosen to speak publicly about what anyone can observe on camera: fractured syntax, confabulation, word-searching, tangents that swallow sentences whole, escalating impulse and grievance. Some psychologists argue the pattern resembles a progressive cognitive decline; psychiatrists warn of public-safety risk when erratic behavior intersects with maximal power. The White House insists he is fully fit. The videos and speeches keep raising the opposite question. Put simply: if these behaviors were coming from your pilot at 30,000 feet, you’d want a second opinion. And if this was your Grandpa, you would have put him in a home two years ago. The 25th Amendment, Unspun What it is: A constitutional safety valve. The Vice President and a majority of Cabinet can declare the President unable to discharge the duties of office, transferring power to the VP as Acting President (which would be far worse). Congress resolves disputes if the President contests it. Why it’s live: Militarized rhetoric at Quantico, a shutdown wielded as leverage to gut the civil service, and a propaganda stream that glamorizes purges. That’s not just “politics.” That’s a functional-capacity problem. Reality check: It begins inside the house—VP JD Vance and Cabinet. Unlikely? Vance and Trump’s cabinet all have their lips surgically attached to Trump’s ass****. What the Reaper Is Selling Schedule-F-style loyalty tests for career staff—ideological screening as HR policy. Trump had an AI program scan every face in his Generals and Admirals meeting at Quantico last week. Trust me, it’s coming: Lev Remembers Breaking: Trump Used AI to Scan U.S. Generals’ Faces for Loyalty — and to Root Out Whistleblowers Today is Yom Kippur—the holiest day of the Jewish year. For the Jewish people, it is a sacred day of reflection, forgiveness, and repentance. It’s the day when we pause, look inward, and ask ourselve… Read more 13 hours ago · 1633 likes · 43 comments · Lev Parnas Program cuts by meme—reduce science, regulation, and adjudication to punchlines, then slash them. Lev Remembers Breaking: The Purge List Is Ready — Mass Firings Are Coming I’ve warned you for months. I’ve shown you the blueprint. And now the clock is ticking… Read more 2 days ago · 748 likes · 22 comments · Lev Parnas Dehumanization on a loop—mock opponents as infants, foreigners, enemies; normalize cruelty as comedy. Short term: expect louder threats to “trim” and “restructure” as the shutdown bites. Medium term: watch for legal maneuvers to erode job protections and concentrate administrative power in the Executive Office. End state: a government staffed for obedience, not competence. What Happens Next: A Reader’s Field Guide If you’re federal workforce: Document everything. Know your protections. Expect a wave of “reorg” talk framed as efficiency. If you’re media: Treat AI propaganda like policy briefings—log, trace, contextualize. Pair every joke with the statute it whitewashes. If you’re a lawmaker or governor: The guardrails are only real if you use them. If you think capacity is the problem, say the words and test the mechanism. If you’re a citizen: Don’t get numb. That’s the plan. Share receipts. Support institutions that still do the boring, unglamorous work of governing. Trump has a way of turning meme’s into police state policy. Bottom Line The “Reaper” video isn’t a vibe. It’s the storyboard for a purge. That’s why the 25th-Amendment conversation finally feels less abstract: the showmanship is fusing with state power, and the fitness question isn’t academic anymore. Pritzker said it. Others joined. Clinicians keep waving the flag. The only unknown is whether anyone inside the building is willing to pull the constitutional fire alarm before the scythe stops being a joke. You drive this Substack. Subscribe and get 50% OFF for unlimited access. Monthly, Annual, and Founding plans. 🔒 Lock in the half-price rate forever. Ends October 31, 2025 Feel free to share this with ANYONE who’s looking for hope in “What’s Next” for America. It’s worth fighting for and sharing content like this helps more than you know. 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NEWS: Mike Johnson Delays Swearing in Congresswoman So Democrats Don't Get Epstein Signatures

Aaron Parnas Sep 27

Good morning everyone. I hope you had a great Friday evening.

This morning, I bring you the story I’ve been covering for months: the Epstein Files. Speaker Mike Johnson is delaying the swearing-in of Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva to buy time to pressure Republicans who signed the discharge petition to release the Epstein Files into removing their signatures. He is stalling democracy to keep the truth hidden.

Meanwhile, federal employees are “terrified” as the White House vows to impose “maximum pain” during a looming government shutdown. This is what unchecked power looks like.

And here’s what I want you to always remember: I am independent because of you. The only people I answer to are those who believe in this work—you. Your support allows me to tell the truth, hold power to account, and speak plainly when major media outlets can’t because they answer to advertisers and shareholders.

I don’t answer to them. I answer to you. And that changes everything.

If you believe the truth matters, I’m asking you to subscribe today so we can keep exposing what powerful people want hidden—and keep holding them accountable.

With that, here’s what you missed:

• House Speaker Mike Johnson is refusing to swear in Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva, who won Arizona’s 7th Congressional District by a 40-point margin and whose victory has already been certified by the state’s Secretary of State, in order to prevent her from becoming the decisive 218th signature on a bipartisan discharge petition to force a House vote on releasing the Epstein files.

• Johnson claims he is waiting for “official results,” even though he swore in Democrat James Walkinshaw of Virginia within 24 hours of his race being called just two weeks earlier with only unofficial results. Grijalva, who has pledged along with Walkinshaw to sign the petition authored by Republican Rep. Thomas Massie, has criticized the double standard and suggested Johnson’s move is politically motivated to block transparency. Massie himself has warned that attempts to obstruct the petition would amount to a coverup.

• Epstein survivor Jess Michaels is urging lawmakers to release the Epstein files, saying authorities have ignored her and dozens of other victims’ testimonies, and calling on Congress to “seek the truth” and deliver long-denied accountability for Epstein’s trafficking network.

• The US government faces a shutdown on 1 October if Congress fails to pass a funding deal, and unlike past shutdowns, the White House has directed agencies to prepare for permanent mass layoffs in programs that lose funding, raising the stakes and making this year’s threat far more serious.

• Federal workers across multiple agencies are gripped by fear and uncertainty as the Trump White House threatens to use a looming government shutdown as a vehicle for mass layoffs, directing agencies to “use this opportunity” to cut programs not aligned with Trump’s priorities. Employees describe being “terrified,” “disoriented,” and unsure if they will be furloughed or permanently terminated, while unions warn of service disruptions at agencies like the IRS, FAA, and VA.

• Defense Secretary WHISKEY Pete Hegseth has ordered as many as 800 generals and admirals to Washington on short notice for an unprecedented meeting at Quantico, alarming military officials and lawmakers over cost, security, and the risks of pulling top commanders from their posts. While Hegseth plans to showcase Pentagon “accomplishments” and outline a new defense strategy prioritizing homeland security, critics warn the gathering is as much about optics for Hegseth’s image as it is about policy, and fear it could also be used to justify sudden removals of senior officers amid ongoing cuts.

• The US has revoked Colombian president Gustavo Petro’s visa after he joined a pro-Palestinian protest in New York and urged US soldiers to defy Trump’s orders, with the State Department condemning his remarks as “incendiary” and “reckless.”

• The US State Department has appointed a dedicated official to handle the case of Mohammed Ibrahim, a 16-year-old American-Palestinian detained for over seven months in an Israeli military prison, as his family and lawmakers intensify calls for his release amid allegations of double standards and human rights violations.

• External power to the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been cut for more than three days, forcing reliance on emergency generators and sparking safety fears, with Ukrainian officials warning Moscow may be manufacturing a crisis to tighten control and potentially restart reactors despite wartime risks.

• Immigrants held at the newly reopened California City detention center, now the state’s largest ICE facility, describe it as “hell on earth,” citing filthy cells, untreated medical problems, and abusive conditions, though operator CoreCivic denies the allegations.

• Lorenz Kraus, 53, has been charged with murdering his elderly parents after confessing in a TV interview that he killed them years ago as an “act of mercy” and buried their bodies in the backyard of their Albany, New York home, where police recently recovered the remains.

• In Narva, Estonia’s border city with a 98% Russian-speaking population, upcoming mayoral elections are unfolding against heightened tensions with Moscow, including recent Russian fighter jet incursions, sparking debate over building a military base and raising fears that populist candidates could exploit security anxieties and divisions.

• Denmark reported renewed drone activity over key military facilities including Skrydstrup Air Base and the Jutland Dragoon Regiment, following earlier flyovers that temporarily shut down airports, raising regional security concerns amid suspected Russian aggression; authorities are boosting defenses with Swedish anti-drone support and coordination with Germany.

• At the U.N. General Assembly, the U.S. rejected calls for international AI oversight, with Trump officials insisting that governance should remain with sovereign nations, not global bodies, even as the U.N. launched its first Global Dialogue on AI Governance; the stance clashed with leaders from China, Spain, and others who argue only multilateral frameworks can address AI’s risks and opportunities.

See you this evening.

— Aaron