Bits: The matter of trust; Our pro-dictator USSC; Our pro-dictator SEC; Our pro-dictator USDA

Over at r/law, a post gets at the critical concept of trust in politics. The headline is raises the matter:

LEAVITT: Mr. Homan never took the $50,000, so you should get your facts straight ... you had FBI agents going undercover to try and entrap one of the president's top allies and supporters ... Mr Homan did absolutely nothing wrong

Karoline Leavitt works for Trump. To do and keep her job as White House press secretary she has to lie, slander and crackpot for Trump. Given Trump's track record of lying, bullshitting and slandering, there is no basis to believe anything coming from him or his loyalists. Leavitt's defense of Homan is just insulting MAGA lies. MAGA has no credibility. There is no basis or reason for trust.

Like it, believe it or not, (1) this is the new normal, and (2) the MAGA federal messaging is now part of a corrupt, pro-dictator deep state.

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By now it is clear that the USSC is fundamentally pro-dictatorship and anti-democracy. People who don't see or believe it are either not paying attention or supportive. Those still unsure are so clueless that it is reasonable to lump them with the not paying attention crowd. 

Another unexplained, pro-dictator USSC shadow docket decision allows Trump to fire the last Democrat on the Federal Trade Commission for no reason. Such a firing is illegal. Current law specifies that commissioners can only be removed for "inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office". None of that exists here. 

This is another part of Trump's purge of non-MAGA people in government and the USSC's complicity in it. This is pure dictatorship. The USSC will hear this case to decide if Trump really can do what he did. Presumably, that is what the USSC will finally decide before next July. 

Pxy says, yeah, this is dictator-level power:

The Trump v. Slaughter ruling represents both a shadow docket precedent-destroying decision and a pro-unitary executive ruling. By allowing Trump to fire independent commissioners while questioning Humphrey's Executor's validity, the Court appears poised to fundamentally restructure federal administrative law through its emergency procedures rather than traditional deliberative processes. This approach has drawn sharp criticism for undermining procedural norms and potentially concentrating unprecedented executive power over independent agencies.

Like it, believe it or not, (1) this is the new normal, and (2) the USSC is now part of a corrupt, pro-dictator deep state.

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In what is now routine kleptocrat MAGA politics, the NYT reports that the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) dropped a complaint against Devon Archer. Archer is a wealthy and powerful businessman. Archer was also a client of the SEC's Trump-appointed MAGA chairman, Paul Atkins. Trump and Atkins have corrupted the SEC. It is now a federal agency that defends and protects wealthy and powerful white collar criminals. Like with the chronic MAGA liar Karoline Leavitt, there is no longer any reason to trust the honesty of anything the SEC says or does. One can reasonably assume the SEC is a corrupt, pro-dictatorship agency.

Like it, believe it or not, (1) this is the new normal, and (2) the SEC is now part of a corrupt, pro-dictator deep state.

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On September 20, 2025, the USDA officially announced the termination of its annual Household Food Security Report. That data gathering and analysis effort tracked hunger in America for three decades. As is now normal for MAGA hiding its true intentions, the MAGAfied USDA blithely gaslights us by claiming that the annual report was a redundant**, costly, politicized, and extraneous study that did nothing more than fear monger. For MAGA, inconvenient truth about the level of hunger in the US is weaponized. Truth inconvenient to MAGA's kleptocratic authoritarianism can be used to criticize MAGA's kleptocracy authoritarianism. From MAGA's point of view, inconvenient truth is clearly political and weaponized. But from a normal person's point of view, the USDA report is not politicized or weaponized.

** The USDA hunger report is not redundant or weaponized. The survey is the official data source for food insecurity statistics in the US. It is accurate, not manipulated. MAGA's claims of redundancy and weaponization are more insulting MAGA lies.

For context (and this), the most recent USDA report revealed significant food insecurity levels in the United States. In 2023, approximately 47.4 million people lived in food-insecure households, representing 13.5% of all households, an increase from 12.8% in 2022. Among those affected, 13.8 million were children. That is precisely the kind of information that Trump and MAGA elites hate and will work hard to suppress. After Trump cut funding for food stamps, we can expect hunger to increase. Hence MAGA's need to get rid of the annual hunger report.

Going forward, we can reasonably expect that there will be essentially no trustworthy information from the USDA about anything inconvenient to MAGA elites, or their power or wealth. Like it, believe it or not, (1) this is the new normal, and (2) the USDA is now part of a corrupt, pro-dictator deep state.

Q: Does anyone see a deep state pattern thingy going on, or is that just a hallucination?