Humanitarian Government #11: A New Year, An Updated Warning

The end of 2025 was rocked by massive changes that have repercussions. #US political opinion #economy #government #US society

The Midnight Goddess Nyx

02 Jan 2026 • 21 min read

(A quick note: I’m going to make a quick note on the numbering of this article. No, you didn’t miss any articles, just that I ended up (in my file cleanup as of today January 2, 2026) numbering all my articles and this one came up with number 11. Sorry about that. From now on, no matter what I write, will have a number.)

I won't say 'good day' to open here.

As I write this it is January 1, 2026 and I can't even say 'Happy New Year' because since mid-day New Years Eve, and the 24 or so hours before that all hell has broken loose. Let me explain.

There is a person whose name is Nick Shirley. He's a MAGA/conservative podcaster. I've a link below on some of his history and that's an issue in itself. But this is about the Oval Office via HHS (Health and Human Services) cutting funding for child care nation wide 'until proven that those dollars are spent' correctly, appropriately, etc. You know, the normal 'prove you need it' shtick from the MAGA/conservative crowd as an excuse to cut funds to an individual state or such. Again: there will never be any system of any sort that cannot be worked, abused, or defrauded in one way or another. Meaning, in this case as well as heathcare (which is another issue), there will be at least a percentage of Fraud, Waste, and Abuse. Not only that, unless you do something, anything, by yourself, solely by yourself A-Z, you won't have someone trying to get more than they need or want.

Less than a year ago, we swore in a person who has no compunctions on violating the Constitution and laws, uses the DoJ (Department of Justice) and SCOTU (Supreme Court of the United States) to shild himself and more. We've had upheaval, the type of upheaval that will not end well more millions, touch everyone (even those not yet born). Also, not to mention the issues world-wide that this occupant has caused and continue to cause will have issues that are permanent.

But, life is as it is, unfortunately. With this newest blow, my warning I used in #5 I seen over the horizon. I see that even if it's the last straw for all and the occupant in the White House is finally impeached and removed, not to mention forced to answer for his numerous crimes along with all that supported and abetting his actions and decisions on all levels of government and sub-portions as in ICE and such, the damage has been done. I can't see anything but a fall now. I had hoped something would have happened when I wrote #5 that something would have happened to stop or slow things down more. But then again, and this pains me, this might be like certain things in the medical areana of life: like ripping off a band-aid, it's better done fast.

So, to conclude, I'm updating what I see, reasoning's, and timeline.

To any who reads this, I also need to apologize. I've had a lot going on since November and that's why I've been silent. I may be silent a few more weeks, and I'll be picking things up again. I'm re-vamping certain things on getting things put out to you. But once started, that should make things better.

Because in all reality, 'good day' for this topic and where we live no longer exists. Honestly, I wasn't going to put this out for a bit longer. This was supposed to be for giving out the groundwork on government systems and then I would go past that after that baseline was given. Now, I have no more time, and I feel strongly that you need to know this information and act now.

Now that we're into the mess I'm going to describe next. Not yet, but, I'll place a couple of links at the end and you'll have to make decisions. Probably even today. This isn't alarmist. This isn't fantasy. This is coming down the pike now.

Now, I’m no economist. However, most, if not all, Americans, whether they like it or not, know at least some economics just to pay their bills. They may not see the big picture or even see the web of interlocking systems between government, social structures, and how various factors figure in.

What I’m going to tell you next isn’t from AI. It’s based partly on history, partly on our current reality. And it’s terrifying.

The Beginning to now:

1)January 2025: Change of presidents and that same day executive orders (that have no real power but are still enforced in this regime) are signed.

2) Some rip-off economic and worker-supporting programs, incentives, and stimuli that have created jobs. Within months, those jobs are gone.

3) DOGE is put into play. Over the next few months, massive firings of federal workers, cancellation of contracts, and more are performed by this unofficial group that was supposed only to advise.
A) Because of unemployment laws, those who were fired are unable to collect unemployment.
B) The firings are done by e-mail and even social media, not by official channels, and give the reasons that their performance was inadequate despite their records, and simply because they are ‘probationary’, which also covers those who have worked in whatever branch, department, or administration but have recently changed jobs.
1. For decades, prices have continued to rise, and even governmental workers have been squeezed, especially on housing costs. Because of a lack of paychecks, they will limp along, and some will find jobs that understand the situation. However, houses are repossessed and rents are unable to be paid in some cases, and evictions are on the rise.
C) Tariffs are called to be the saving grace for monetary policies that are deemed ‘governmental overreach’ or ‘fraud, waste, and abuse’.
D) The instability of those tariffs being instituted unsettles markets around the world. There is a small window where the conflicting announcements were finally ignored.
E) Former trade allies, or even those who already had tariffs but were stable in trade, are essentially betrayed. Governmental instability on multiple fronts turns nearly every nation away from trade at the outset.
1. New trading blocks and alliances form. BRICS gains influence due to instabilities, downgrading of American debt
2. The American economy hasn’t stood on its own for decades, and some industries are dependent on various supplies that cannot be found in the US entirely. Within a year, between tariffs here and trade repercussions resulting from policies and tariffs, those businesses will fold.

4) With complacent and conforming to the Oval Office occupant wants, the Speaker of the House maneuvers and creates a paid, 8 week 'time off' time that limited voting to restart the government after a mess created by that party. What happened? Simple: the government was shut down due to issues with cuts on the budget and timings of various cuts. Namely, ACA (American Care Act, AKA Obamacare) subsidies being cut which would essentially throw millions of medical insurance simply because they would no longer be able to afford medical insurance.
A) Unfortunately, even with the pain of having a government shut down, threats about cutting off SNAP benefits, military pay and more, 'the other side' (meaning the party opposite of the Oval Office occupant) crossed over and with flimsy promises of a vote on subsidies and such, voted to open the government back up. January 1, 2026, those subsidies no longer exist and premiums are now doubled to quadrupled, meaning most who work now no longer have ways of affording to live on the crumbs of the economy and have health insurance and care now.

5) In addition, the Oval Office occupant is now running military operations that violate international and military regulations. Just last week, the CIA (who, by the way isn't military and quasi-private) bombed a port or other facility along the coast of Venezuela. That occupant said that Venezuela 'took our oil'. There's a story there: the country had taken one or more oil companies from the US to court due to their handling of the environment, pollution, and making people sick in their operations. Their courts founded against Big Oil, and that company (or companies) pulled out suddenly and without cleaning up their messes and making reparations. So, Venezuela canceled the licenses and such and essentially kicked them out. They are a sovereign nation, their legal system found fault and gave ways of correcting that fault. Our companies didn't want to deal with that and pay out and all that. Needless to say, and if you can't 'hear' my tone: I don't blame them and they have 100% cause. Blowing up boats in contested waters (the US doesn't see the waters as anything other than International, Venezuela has claimed those as theirs. I'm not a lawyer, especially a lawyer that can deal with international laws and such, but if 'contested' I'd give those waters a wide berth. We haven't). We've hit Nigeria. We've been pushing for military actions against Greenland (a Dutch Protectorate) and Canada (our closest ally, well, used to be at least), we've pushed any support away from Ukraine (I'll say this: we no longer have much of a say in that conflict between them and Russia and frankly they are doing better—long story), we're threatening to hit Iran again for Israel. So...we've a 'peace president' that wanted the Nobel Peace prize , that has claimed (erroneously) that he negotiated peace in something like eight conflicts around the world trying to pick fights and start at least one new war. So much for promises.

6) Not to mention in 2025, his wealth grew from about 4 billion to 7, received an emollient of a Qatar jet being refitted as a new “Air Force One' to the tune of $1 billion, given out $40 (which was originally 20) billion to Argentina, $60 billion to Israel (despite committing a genocide), pardoning drug runners (although the boats being bombed that come from Venezuela? Yeah... purportedly drug boats that would need quite a few refuelings to get to the US but claimed as boats coming to the US to deliver drugs), stopping oil (well, at least one was taken over) taker ships. Yeah....we've issues with bribery in public and more.

The future:

1) Despite economic data from the government from early in December 2025 saying growth, all other privately sourced data shows otherwise. Yes, Black Friday and Cyber Monday amounts of spending was up, however the amount of items bought was less. So any economic data is suspect. Now, the clock is ticking.
2) As of this writing, some of this is happening under the radar. From this point on, this is based on historical actions, behaviors of powerful people and their verbal/written public statements, and beliefs.
A) Profit margins shrink for large corporations once the final squeeze on household economics happens.
B) ‘Mom and Pop’ small businesses start folding at unprecedented rates, putting people out of jobs, throwing unemployment outlays out of balance.
C) The already high (but hidden numbered) bankruptcy and eviction numbers rise higher.
D) Charities are tapped out fast when anything is available
E) The stock market is booming, but only those that hold enough wealth are making anything. The AI bubble and those tax subsidies and such are still driving an inflated market.
F) A push for women to be at home taking care of kids is again in full swing, yet there has been no move on the part of corporate America to raise wages or provide any support so anyone could have a family on one income.
G) With more people out of work and the amount of unemployment not being able to cover bills, first people will do away with any ‘optional’ bills: any type of spending, even a tiny amount, for ‘entertainment’ or cable, dries up. Telecomm companies will start to get nervous.
1. Since jobs have been slashed and there are more people unemployed, the further along that people are unemployed, the further household cuts are made: cell phone use will drop because a nearly $200 family cell phone bill is no longer affordable, even with the cutting of any bill that isn’t directly associated with living. Rents and mortgages are being ‘rotated’ on being paid, food pantries are overloaded on use and not able to keep up with even minimal supplies going out to those who need.
2. Within a nine months, between already artificially high rents that resulted from COVID epidemic and barely retreated, even with unofficial, sanctioned roommate situations, rents are no longer being able to be paid, evictions are rising further, and banks are repossessing apartment complexes for lack of payment. The days of refinancing frequently for profit and tax breaks is collapsing, foreign investment firms start to pull out because they are no longer able to make the profits they once did. Hedge funds that relied on buying and flipping are starting to see losses they are trying to prevent by raising prices further, exacerbating the issues.
3. In less than one year, banks' portfolios of repossessed housing hit levels even higher than the last real estate bubble popped, and are unable to rent or sell the properties, both single-family and apartments. Banks try to turn to other methods of stabilizing their business, but the situation is such that only those banks that are worldwide start to fold. They ask for bailouts despite the OBBB cuts and passing. Congress, even those who are the most left-leaning or extreme right, see that it might help. A new bank bailout that is even greater than when Obama was president happens
a) Despite the economic strain of bank bailouts, it merely prolongs the agony. Banks fold overnight; cash money (meaning even paper) hasn’t been used heavily for years, as companies have been relying more and more on credit cards and electronic transfers. Consequently, debit cards are no longer effective. Those who already had maximum credit card debts are now being asked to pay in full due to financial restructuring or debt being sold, etc. Bankruptcies, if able to be paid for, skyrocket further up the numbers each month. People who can’t pay those bills and have been rotating payment for months or years because they’ve had to rely on them for essentials, are sued, and judgments against them are given out.
b) However, those judgments cannot be enforced: without jobs and homes, they’ve turned to alternative ways of simply eating, which may or may not rely on food banks. The banking industry completely collapses.
c) Barter and 1930-style soup kitchens are rampant. Families who have small children are given preferential treatment.
d) Birth rates plunge, and sex-related crimes and/or industry skyrocket. Married couples, already strained before the economic downturns, had problems affording children and opted to wait or not have them. Because of a lack of medical care, the number of female deaths from ‘back alley’ abortions or secondary issues has become epidemic. Women who simply say ‘no’ because they aren’t able to either afford birth control or it’s been outlawed are even more reviled and not just by ‘incels’.
4. Because of another set of Executive orders, undocumented workers have been deported, however because of the money demands on those who can work (if they pay their bills), the creation of human collateral due to various chemical companies on how or what is used on crops and such: people would need to either relocate into farming regions that have hand pick crops to pick (won't happen because of moving costs), know the issues of the chemicals (high cancer risk, no medical care, so therefor again, some will but mainly those in areas that are heavy on hand picked crops), or those who have either no skill or temperament try to go into construction. That presents issues, too. Homeless’ of any type have been equally taken off the streets and put into ‘work camps’ in some areas. Manufacturing is done with this labor pool that is poorly housed, poorly fed, with little to no medical care, with extended hours, and with zero morale.
5. If needing help, most charities are 501c and according to National Security Memo last put out (#7), they were already under scrutiny. Once people are needing to rely on those charities for basic needs; those start to fall into legal peril and people are being charged against that National Security Memo wording that is vague and could cover anyone the regime doesn't like.
a) Between food shortages created by policies in 2025, medical care and child care cut on January 1, 2026; and food safety net program cuts being instituted after the mid-term elections in 2026, new Executive Orders and SCOTUS decisions, voting is ‘high’ and ‘fair’ but has excluded millions because of laws and decisions about how voting is done. However, the cost is high for the regime policies and actions: millions lack food and starve, relatively healthy people before are put in peril or die because there is no money to pay out or insurance has classified or denied whatever care needed as being ‘pre-existing’ or essentially ‘not needed.’ The health insurance industry is also hurting. With companies closing or decreasing costs, even to the point of illegally not offering any sort of healthcare for decades, health insurance companies' profits are plummeting.
b) Medical research, cut by OBBB or stopped by RFK Jr., has pushed researchers into other avenues of work: they’ve transplanted themselves to other countries around the world, giving those countries a boost.
6. Between the time of the start of ‘work camps’ to when even any related groups to the ‘cleaning of the streets’ stop taking people off the streets because of numbers in camps, and other factors, such as armed camps who actively repel law enforcement or those groups, Empty housing is broken into, and ‘squatting’ situations happen. At the start, police are called in to help with re-eviction, but between the amount of people squatting, the strain on the legal system both for policing and legal proceedings because the money from property and sales taxes have become a trickle and banks folding or unable to pay the exorbitant amounts needed with new fees declared by cities for the eviction services; police departments are either downsized to become ineffective or non-existent. This makes more people unemployed, and those who help create pockets of safety and with stable and fair-minded polices become power focuses.
7. The Federal government, with bloated budgets for Military spending and ICE, is in trouble.
a) ICE officers, despite promises of bonuses of various kinds, see those promises unable to be fulfilled because with the number of people unemployed, businesses and companies no longer existing, and multi-national corporations located in the US unwilling to pay taxes based on the tax code and tax breaks given, start their own issues.
b) Militias that formed before even 2020 find their numbers swelling, new ones forming, and there are no guardrails or effective federal controls on those. Some become those pockets of stability, some are violent and will take their frustrations out on anyone who becomes a target: people of color, women, and generally anyone who doesn’t think and act like they do.
c) Military service recruitment drops even further than the 2024-2025 lows, and the draft is put into play. However, this backfires. Not only is the military budget not structured to cover the amount of money needed to train and pay for military members, but the discrepancy between the amount of taxes coming in and the budget outlays is so vast that what is called the ‘military-industrial complex’ is faltering. Militias of all types, pockets of stability, and other groupings resist the draft simply because of the economic situation, and where able, those being drafted are smuggled out. Neighboring countries will help to a degree, but reverse immigration strains already-strained international relations.
8. Corporations that for decades who have had multi-billion dollar profit margins and/or have been receiving subsidies are now in major trouble. Around the world, they are being increasingly boycotted and taxed heavier due to increasing financial issues not helped by their internal polices and stockholders.
a) In America, those corporations no longer have a consumer base large enough to help make the inflated profit margins. Due to a lack of previous tax paying, the Government looks to institute heavy emergency funding schemes based on those profit margins and revamped tax codes that are proposed despite heavy opposition. SCOTUS is overrun by lawsuits filed from both sides in the effort that they be accepted and heard. Stockholders, unwilling to risk further investments or take out investments, shrink profit margins radically.
b) A backlash similar to the post-feudal era after the Black Plague is starting. Between not having workers to perform needed jobs, to even make smaller profits, they are forced to raise pay and offer much more than they have in decades.
c) But even those moves won't change what is coming next.

The Fall

1) Religions or Churches that have depended on cash tithes for decades are either folding or their membership calls out for help to the point that those systems are collapsing.
A) It’s not because of ‘cancel culture’ or even a curtailment of religious expression that was proposed well before the 2020 election by a vocal minority. Simply put, those who had the means to help well beforehand spent money on ‘luxury’ goods such as multi-million dollar homes, expensive vehicles, building mega-churches buildings and schools, and jets. These same blamed being less economically sound on their parishioners due to 'not having enough faith' so therefor not as prosperous until that belief is strong enough. The younger people of those churches that are still around, turn their backs for the lack of empathy or help that will be extended.
1. The schools they run will last a bit longer than public because of their congregations giving free services in exchange for whatever help the churches can give still. But time is running out.

2) Civil unrest and collapse have reached a tipping point by the end of 2026. Martial law was declared well before the middle of 2026, but what active duty put onto the streets illegally either are there to protect the citizenry from harm because of following their Oaths to the Constitution, or they abandon their official posts and do the same without government sanction.

3) The US is essentially collapsed, and even worldwide, and despite distancing, it’s felt. But nothing exists in a vacuum. New world-wide restructuring is happening, led by nations who has invested in their populations or have governmental systems that may be headed by strong men who are essentially dictators but well organized economically. Whatever standing the US had is non-existent, and the ‘third-world’ status that has been deemed to not have root causes that were even indirectly caused by policy or actions of the US, not addressed, is now on the US.

4) Courts fail because of the number of issues that come before them, and are hamstrung by previous SCOTUS decisions. Court systems do still exist, but more localized or at the State level. Whatever federal laws that do not fit the populations in certain areas are suspended. Other areas clamp down harder on their populations. Forcing Constitutional rights to be suspended, eventually leading to the suspension of the Constitution entirely.

5) The economy, with nearly 50% unemployment, dominoes. What was wanted in the ways of bailouts and more would either make things worse, or even not be allowed by the taxpayers because of the small base of taxes still available.

The Results

Depending on social responses, there are several things that can come up from all of this:

1) Civil war. It won’t be of two factions, either. Various groups will be at war, and parts of the nation will clump together in an effort to help each other out. Areas that have seen the benefits of investing in their people fare a bit better, but still have a tough time.

2) The US becomes a third-world nation that may or may not be exploited in multiple ways, just so some areas can survive by other nations. Some states are able to exist as sort of independent Nation/states and because of their policies, end up forming what could only be called federal-level governments. There may still be ‘The United States’, but it dissolves into a loose coalition of areas governed much differently in various ways, and what little Federal government is left after the collapse is ineffective.

3) People rally despite differences across the board. A forced vacancy of the very top positions of government is done, a temporary form of leadership is put in place to help recover the US, and that may take decades.
A) In this, the best case out of the three, a new government and social structures come up from the disaster the US has gone through.
1. It doesn’t matter who did what or what they thought before the collapse. Even those who are, in today's thinking, are racist, ultra-conservative, and whatever extreme on any facet, have had the rude awakening that what has happened was from division.
a) That division wasn’t good, and despite no one liking everything that will come next, it won’t matter: it’s a matter of survival
2. The first step would be to gather up the tatters of government that still may exist.
a) A new constitution writing would start or even be underway. There are some who aren’t willing to change from the first constitution; however, their solutions involve taking their conservative beliefs and refining them through amendments that codify those beliefs.
b) There is also a liberal/left sector that wants to do the same, but the opposite way.
c) Progressives and Neo-American groups that are more of far-thinkers and planners break the path and act as a third-party negotiator. They already know not everything they want will happen, but they also know the other factions' wants won’t work anymore. That was part of the ‘old’ America.
3. The new constitution is in part based on the Articles of Confederation and the First United States Constitution. It remains open to interpretation in the future, but there are some significant differences.
4. Despite a demand for definitions of race, gender, and such, that is eschewed. Between the Left and Progressive coalitions, they have the pull, backed by the general population, to create an inclusive document.
a) Those groups that still exist that demand a return to pre-1950 era thinking and behaviors are now a minority becomes more so. They may be vocal, now, but those who are aware of things tone that voice down in volume. They are also socially and economically side-lined. Future generations, for a while, may still be radicalized, but further generations will also have portions that are exposed to ‘outside’ thinking and social structures and find that what they were taught wasn’t what reality is.
5. In this new document, there are issues that are addressed that would have been called overreach in other times. A new monetary system is created that is backed by resources valuable the world over. The older system of note-for-resource (such as gold/silver) is modified. All finance on a personal level is done by cash, but whatever resources that cash is backed by have to stay in backup status only. Independent selling of whatever is still done in its physical form, just as much money is in circulation, will have the same amount or more in vaults or such on the federal level. Those vaults, however, will also be broken down to the state level and each will have its own based on the economy generated.

The Dig Out

1) Social responsibility on all levels and in all facets is prized over monetary gain. In short, a form of democracy, Demarchy, is formed and has socialist economic facets to it. Like all governance, it's not just one system, it's a melding of multiple ideologies, socioeconomic, and geo-cultural formations.
A) Yes, there has to be a bigger federal-level money pool for this
B) However, massive changes will be made compared to today's tax systems
1. Working class, Universal Rights, and funding
a) A simplified funding of government is developed with personal amounts earned by social and traditional workers. Any business are the primary tax payers based on any growth and profits and has no loop holes. What government funding system will be tied to a Constitutional Amendment. There is also built in guardrails about changing this Amendment with various forms of voting, and business limitations in government. This makes any form of an IRS smaller, would also create more oversight from that IRS, and demands from the public for business being accountable and regulated forces changes in the business models
b) Work definitions will change and UBI of small amounts but with scaled amounts for housing costs, built in costs for Universals and Commons (Universals are those things that are considered as part of Human Rights: Shelter, Food, Housing, Healthcare and Education with Commons being Transportation, Public Utilities (I on all of these in future articles), and others that society as a whole decides as being held by society rather than business).
c) The UBI will cover individual needs and wants. Most everything else will be covered by 'taxes' (see a) )
d) Businesses are rewarded socially for their 'adult' behavior (accountability and keeping a balance between their growth and society needs) via multiple ways to be determined in part by society and with that responsibility will pay directly to the government percentages that seem high. However, with the new, wider consumer base and such, business growth/tax situation will not harm growth. Rather, (see my frame work articles) it would spur growth. The amounts of paperwork and such involved in keeping track of insurance companies, unemployment and more will lessen, cut costs, with a maintained UBI, new cooperative social structures and such will help. I'm suggesting a 60-40 structure. All growth/profit would be taxed at 60% across the board: no loopholes, no scales, nothing but the flat percentage no matter what business. The IRS would be big enough and have teeth and claws enough that each year people go into each business books to make sure all entries and monies needing to be turned over is done. I'd also suggest that the amounts of money would be based more of monthly deposits with the government but the reviews be throughout the year. Any deviation from full transparency, social responsibility, and paying for accountability on mistakes or intentional issues traced by product creation would force not only the owners to be stripped of all income in excess of what UBI would be, the business turned into a co-op if private held, and fines levied that is twice the amount shorted.
e) Those businesses that can be tracked down before collapse who are also responsible for various Superfund sites and such will be made to pay $0.90 per every dollar spent on cleaning up the mess. No more governmental clean up for pennies on the dollar.
f) Prep-collapse owners of any company who has been found to create industrial waste issues will also be forced to pay 100% in addition fines to pay for the extra health care costs for that area (most of industrial waste ends up as Superfund sites and/or cancer clusters—this is part of accountability). If that ends up stripping those current/former owners of wealth, so be it: they should have thought about that when they were making whatever.
g) Society realizes how the issues that created the collapse (for the most part), and like with the Great Depression survivors, become more or less obsessed with holding accountability in multiple ways as a holy grail.

Epilogue

We have issues right now. There are solutions. However they aren't a 'traditional' that no longer works in a world interconnected as ours is: economically, socially, and even via governments. It's time for humanity to grow up: this is a move up on the time-line, more of a radical system because business and billionaires (and one trillionaire) will have to fall in line. I have ideas on how to hold those men accountable, the global businesses who helped the collapse happen by being involved in government and more.

I refer every so often Newton's 3^rdLaw of Motion doesn't cover just physics: 'For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.' I also know what is coming considering the short amount if time all this has happened will also fall into that reaction: a short amount of time, altering the social and legal landscapes in ways I may not even be able to imagine but vastly different than we've ever seen in this country. That is to include The Declaration of Independence, and the aftermaths of the Revolutionary War.

Lastly, whatever happens from this point on will have a...rule? Consequence? Need?

Time. Instant gratification and instant realizations of change aren't realistic. Even if things don't change in our system of government, and business is limited by working under traditional models, those changes that are coming won't come easily or fast. That's a warning for the population at large for any dig out contemplated.

Time, give change time.

Be safe, and these are the links (you might have to copy and paste, sorry):