7/12/2025
Hello Crazy World,
My name is Sally. I’ve been a part of Maniac Nebula for a long time. I saw that a friend of mine, Mysterian, recently contributed insights to flash floods which have happened across the country since Fourth of July. I have a college background in criminal law and business law. I’m a logical person, but I have an extreme schism. I’ve worked as a paralegal, and I love my job from Monday through Friday. It can get too tense, and too codified. It’s too logical to live for three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I love to go to Las Vegas on the weekends. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Remember that slogan? I like to be naughty! I like to be mysterious! I like to live in costume, and I like to assume identities! I like to have my share of mixed drinks in exclusive nightclubs, and I like to wake up Monday mornings as if my life has meaning. I go to my job, I hit the books, and I do nerdy things for the next five days. Friday night, I forget about it and the cycle starts over.
“I could leave so easily
My friends are calling back to me
I said, they’re leaving it all up to me
When all I needed was clarity
And someone to tell me what the fuck is going on!
Goddamn it …”
— Coma by Guns N’ Roses
I love Mysterian as a person. He recently compared himself to the insane people from Bird Box. Once you’ve been part of Maniac Nebula for a few years, you stop thinking of other members as crazy. Do I believe the Anunnaki started the human race? No. Do I believe Nephilim bones were discovered in Arizona, then the Smithsonian hid them away from the public? Well, I haven’t looked into it too much. Mysterian has pushed these ideas at me, but I don’t have time for it. He sends me links and articles. I have enough going on in my head, and I don’t need more. Mysterian believes the recent flash floods in Texas, North Carolina, and New Mexico were caused by nefarious government agents. Do I believe this? It doesn’t really matter.
My point as a legalist is to make Mysterian feel more sane. He sees crazy things in our world, and he doubts his sanity. I think many people are looking at the world, and one of two things happens. (1) You think the world has gone nuts but you’re sane observing it, or (2) you think you’ve gone crazy because you’ve noticed that Armageddon is on the horizon. You hear the term “gaslighting” a lot. Donald Trump and/ or the media are deliberately trying to drive us crazy. Trump has had hard core defiance of the law. It happened at the end of his first term when his posse stormed the Capitol. More recently, it happened when the Supreme Court ordered that the deportation of Abrego Garcia was unlawful. The Trump administration defied court orders, and they dragged their feet when they were told to release him from a jail in El Salvador and return him to the United States.
I want to tell you about the Sapir-Warf Hypothesis, Legal Positivism, and the Law of the Sovereign. In a nutshell, the Sapir-Warf Hypothesis says that it’s harder to understand a concept if you don’t have the vocabulary or language to do so. If you’re and eight year old child of a Washington politician, you might witness collusion on a regular basis. It’s more difficult to remember it as collusioin when you reflect on your childhood once you reach adulthood. If “collusion” didn’t come into your consciousness until you were a teenager, it’s harder to see. Reporters and podcasters pull their hair out not understanding how and why Trump is getting away with so many illegal things, especially having to do with ICE raids. Why? I believe it’s because they don’t have the proper vocabulary or terminology to see the situation for what it is. I watched the Vegas Golden Knights win the Stanley Cup a few years ago. I went to a game with a friend who knew everything about blue lines, center ice, faceoffs, checking, icing, and power plays. At the time, I knew nothing about the rules, but I had fun. I’ve since learned some of the concepts of the game, and it’s more enjoyable to watch.
We need to combine two legal concepts: Legal Positivism and the Law of the Sovereign. Legal Positivism is contrasted with a competing school of thought, Natural Law. Natural Law says that laws are made that are moral. Legal Positivism says that laws are made because somebody says so, and they don’t necessarily have to be moral. Think about things we hear as kids. Parents say, “Don’t do as I do! Do as I say!” Or else, “Because I said so!” Many Legal Positivists make laws they never intend to abide by. Okay? So I’m trying to use the Sapir-Warf Hypothesis to help you see this. Once you see this, it’s easier to what unfolds before our eyes as we watch the nightly news. Finally, let’s talk about the Law of the Sovereign and Thomas Hobbes. Louis XIV was famously quoted, “I am the State.” Do you think George Washington was saying this? No! What about every president since then? No! It’s not until we have Donald Trump in office that we get this attitude. He’s an absolutist, and he purports that an attack on him is an attack on America. It’s not a democracy which runs our country. It’s not a Constitutional republic. It’s not a co-equal separation of powers between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches. In his mind, Donald Trump is the State.
When we combine these two ideas, we get our situation today. Natural Law is negated. Legal Positivism is absolute, but it’s administrated by a despot. “Why are we doing such and such thing?” one might ask.
“Dear Leader says so!”
One of the things I studied in college was the history of energy. People don’t think of it this way, but food is energy. Specifically in biology, we studied the Krebs cycle. We had to balance equations which broke down adenosine triphosphate to adenosine diphosphate to adenosine monophosphate. Trump notoriously said he likes uneducated people. At this point in this article, they’ll bail if they don’t want to hear the truth. They’ll put their head in the sand like an ignorant ostrich trying to evade a predator. The strong-minded will continue on. Adenosine diphosphate breaks down into adenosine monophoshate. This is how human beings exist. We take in complex sugars, and we break thenm down into simple sugars. Monarchies have been formed to control agriculture and crops. Feudal systems have been developed. This is to control where energy comes from, where it goes, and who benefits from it. Why is this important? Today’s world pretends that we’re past it. Feudalsim and slavery are gone, but the world has always been a battle between the Haves and the Have Nots. The Haves own the land. The Have Nots work for them. The haves control energy. Before petroleum, this meant potato crops and other agriculture. Today, it includes petroleum and other forms of energy.
On a quick side note, we need to discuss modern pharmaceutical companies. They’ve gone into aborigines societies, and they extracted knowledge from shamans and medicine men. These ancient societies did not work with centrifuges and modern chemistry techniques. They used entire plants for health and healing. You can’t patent a plant, though, so modern pharmaceutical companies have to isolate chemicals. This is how they make their money. There’s a smear campaign against medicianl healing because that’s their competion. In this same light, fossil fuel can be isolate and controlled. This includes coal mines, oil platforms, and nuclear reactors. The Sun, wind, and ocean belong to humanity. Therefore, there’s a lobby which discourages renewable energy.
We have food energy. We have industrial energy. We also have psychic energy.
Donald Trump and his minions have tactics to control the populous. This includes controlling food energy. This is why ICE is storming farms in California. This includes industrial energy. This is why Trump tells his uneducated followers that windmills hare killing whales. This also includes psychic energy. Not every publicity stunts is aimed at achieving one of his objectives. Some of it is done to wear you out. Some of it is done to make you expend your energy on a trivial or useless subject.
Where is the Epstein List?
Mysterian believes that Donald Trump is a total moron. I happen to believe that Trump is stupid in many ways, and he’s ignorant in many fields. However, I know his daddy paid his way into Wharton, a distinguished business school. In a million years, I do not believe he was a “top of his class” type of student, but I believe it’s difficult to go through years at such an institution and picking nothing up at all. I’ve studied a couple of years of law in college, and I have a couple more to go. I am a paralegal aspiring to be an actual lawyer. I want my own firm, eventually. I understand cogency. I understand how an argument must be made with acceptabilty, relevance, and grounds. Most imporants is this:
If you make an argument and no one refutes it, it becomes the truth.
This is why you hear lawyers object to so many things. If you’ve never been in a courtroom, you’ve seen it on TV or in the movies. “I object, Your Honor!” If someone says something false or misleading on the stand, it’s accepted to be true unless there’s an objection. In this niche category, I believe Trump is NOT a moron. He was around Wharton long enough to understand this concept. He speaks in superlatives on a regular basis. “No one’s ever seen anything like this before!” Or, “America is the hottest nation!” He doesn’t cite sources, and no one refutes. Therefore, it becomes true. Where does it become true? Surely not in our physical reality. It becomes true in people’s minds, though, and that’s what matters the most. In criminal and business law, we study fallacies. In a courtroom, there are certain types of arguments we are allowed to make. These are cogent arguments. We are not allowed to make arguments based on fallacies. Did anyone pay attention to Trump’s criminal trial? He was not able to make cogent arguments, so he stormed out of the room. There were media cameras waiting. They don’t care if his statement are cogent or not. Most of what Trump says is rooted in some sort of fallacy or another. The media doesn’t care because it gives them ratings. Donald Trump is allowed to talk shit about anyone, lie about anything, and make the stupidest logicial assumptions. As long as television networks get their ratings, there is no pushback. Lawrence O’Donnell recently complained the that White House press corps doesn’t know a thing about how tariffs work, and that they’re a tax on American consumers. We live in a stupid society, and Idiocracy is more than a movie. It’s the reality we live in.
I live in a logical world from Monday through Friday. On the weekends, I let loose. Donald Trump knows how to use fallacies to his advantage. The peak of world literacy occured in the 1950s. There has been a steady decline since then. Why? It’s when the televison was introduced into common homes. People stopped reading books. Donald Trump expresses himself in 1000-character pieces. He is stupid in most regards, but he picked up enough knowledge from Wharton in certain regards to manipulate uneducated masses. “Don’t look up!” Whenever I think about Trump, I think about that Netflix orginal movie. Donald Trump couldn’t write a cogent essay if his life depended on it. Definitely, he couldn’t do it if it required citing multiple reliable sources. That’s why I feel comfortable here. At Maniac Nebula, we have our share esoteric essayists. You’ll also notice something about Trump.
Really great. The best. Amazing. A lot. Very important. Winning. Sad. Believe me. Fake news. Huge. Tremendous. Fantastic.
Here’s a dozen words or phrases that Trump uses over and over and over again. He couldn’t get through a press conference without pulling from this bag at least once…
Quite frankly.
So we make fun of him now. It’s the best we can do. Proverbs 12:15 says, “The way of a fool is right in his own eyes, but he who heeds council is wise.” Donald Trump will never, ever, ever heed council. He is right in his own eyes, though everyone on the outside thinks he’s dumb. I am logical as a paralegal, but I let loose. At Maniac Nebula, I’m a fan of tabloid news. A while back, Maniac Nebula lauched The Ongyan. It’s meant to be a satire of a satire. It’s supposed to have fun with the day’s news similar to The Onion. The site never picked up traction, but I’ve given it thought lately. It sounds like something to do. Las Vegas has been fun on weekends, but it gets expensive. I might stay home and post stories for The Ongyan. Let’s remember that Sidney Powell used a psychic source who got her information “from the future” and she used her information to pass along to Fox News. What are the standards of journalism? Do you think I don’t have similar sources? Mysterian wanted me to pursue this venture. He believed the recent flash floods were done by bad government agents. But he asked me, “What if they’re not? What if they were actual acts of God?”
Some people don’t know where to draw the line. People saw that Fox News had to pay $787 in defamation costs to Dominion. They slandered them, and they used bogus sources. They pretended to be news, though. Satire is protected by law. I know this. The Lanham Act was passed in 1946. It extends our First Amendment rights to create parodies without retribution. I told Mysterian, “I’ll fire up The Ongyan. We can use the image of God as he’s portrayed on The Simpsons. We can tell the public that Sidney Powell’s source is given us information from the future. We can provide an AI article from ChatBox. The Texas flash floods happened on the same day as the signing of the Big Budget Bill. Some may say it’s bad taste or too soon, but we’re allowed to satire this. So, Mysterian, if you think this might be an act of God, we can use Old Testament logic and say God is smiting people. Fox News lost their lawsuit because Dominion proved malice. When you involve yourself in satire, that’s almost impossible to prove. You’re not crazy. We just live in crazy times.”
I have motivation to launch The Ongyan the way it was meant to be. I have a few ideas for articles. In one, Elon Musks America Party makes it to the presidential ballot in all fifty states. Our source, Madam Cassandra, talked to people from the future. In the primary for the America Party, T-1000 is facing off with MechaHitler for the nomination. In another article, Jeffrey Epstein is still alive. He made it out of jail in an elaborate underground tunnel system. This system connects to Walmart FEMA camps and DUMBs, also known as Deep Underground Military Bases. Currently, Epstein is in disguise as an Elvis impersonator in Las Vegas.
This is satire. We are not required to be squares our whole lives. We can let loose. We can make fun of the society we live in. I want the motivation to do this. Right now, I have it, but I don’t know if it’ll last. Like I said, there are strong forces out there who control energy. They control food energy, petroleum energy, and psychic energy. I feel sad, quite often. I feel better when I do these projects, but the motivation is difficult to maintain. If I have my way, The Ongyan will be a fun thing to do. If I’m discouraged, I’ll curl into a ball and lay there in the corner of my bedroom for a few hours on end. I’ll slip into a fetal position, \\and let life slip away…
— Sally
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