Jeff Olen

Joined June 2021

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Husband and father living (currently) in California. As a software engineer I spent most of my career in Telecom and Healthcare. Then I found my calling in the video game industry. Still want to write sci-fi but we’ll see.

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When Following the Rules Gets You Deported
It wasn’t a clerical error. It wasn’t a case of the “worst of the worst.” It was Moises Sotelo. A 54-year-old vineyard manager and owner in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. He’s been here since the early 1990s, is well-known and respected in his community, and was recently working to finalize his legal immigration status — under a program many Democrats touted as a “humane, orderly pathway.”
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
The Wheels Are Coming Off the MAGA Bus
There’s dissent among the ranks and the wheels are coming off the MAGA bus because no one can agree on how to proceed in Iran? Say it ain’t so Adolf!
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
Radio Free California: Resistance Handbook Introduction
[Opening Theme Music: static, shortwave tuning, faint siren wail in the background.] ANNOUNCER (calm, serious, resolute): This is Radio Free California.
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
The Long Pause Is Over
For more than half a century, America managed to do something remarkable: we avoided political assassination. From the bloody chaos of the 1960s — when bullets felled a president and his brother — we entered an uneasy, fragile calm. Three generations grew up believing that while our politics might be ugly, dangerous violence was mostly behind us.
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
The MAGA Rulebook: 50 Commandments of the Cult (Uncensored Edition). Content Warning.
I. Core Principles 1. Never admit you're wrong. Admitting fault is weakness. Weakness is treason. 2. Lie about anything and everything. Even if the truth works, lie anyway. The lie is the point.
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in Humor
When the Villains Make More Sense
We used to cheer for the government. Or at least that’s the version Hollywood kept feeding us. The formula was simple: America good, enemies bad. The threats were always external — aliens, terrorists, rogue hackers — while the brave agents of truth, justice, and democracy raced to protect the hallowed halls of power: the Capitol, the White House, the Supreme Court. These weren’t just buildings; they were cinematic shorthand for freedom itself.
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
Radio Free California #2: The bigger picture
[Opening static, faint Morse code pulses, the familiar low rumble of distant helicopters fades in] ANNOUNCER (calm, steady, weary but defiant):
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
Gen-X: We Know a Coup When We See One. Top Story - June 2025.
Say what you will about Gen-X. We’ve been called cynical, apathetic, detached, sarcastic — and sure, a lot of that’s true. But we’ve also got finely tuned bullshit detectors. And right now, they’re all blaring at maximum volume.
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
Radio Free California #1: The American Tradition of Fear
[Intro music fades. Static crackles. The voice of the host cuts through.] Good evening, my fellow Americans — or what’s left of us.
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in The Swamp
Trump vs. His Reflection: The Great Gaslight Gambit. Content Warning.
Scene: Mar-a-Lago, early morning. Trump stands shirtless in silk boxers, glaring into the gilded bathroom mirror. The lighting is golden. The ego, even more so. Outside the mirror: aging skin, combed-over defiance. Inside the mirror: his reflection wears a smug smirk… and a tight white shirt that reads in bold red letters: “I ❤️ L.A.”
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in Humor
You Don’t Have to Be on the Front Lines to Fight Back
The images out of Los Angeles are hard to watch: armored vehicles rolling down city streets, immigration raids targeting entire neighborhoods, and families — some with U.S. citizen children — being torn apart in full daylight. If the latest reports are to be believed, there will be Marines in the streets of Los Angeles by morning. It feels dystopian because it is.
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in Motivation
Trump vs. His Reflection: An ICEy Reception. Content Warning.
[Scene: Mar-a-Lago bathroom. Trump storms in, red-faced, fists clenched. He’s clutching his phone. The mirror shows Reflection Trump—this time wearing a full gas mask and holding a bright pink sign that simply reads: “NO ICE IN LA.” The Reflection leans casually against the glass.]
By Jeff Olen7 months ago in Humor

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When Following the Rules Gets You Deported

The Wheels Are Coming Off the MAGA Bus

Radio Free California: Resistance Handbook Introduction

The Long Pause Is Over

The MAGA Rulebook: 50 Commandments of the Cult (Uncensored Edition). Content Warning.

When the Villains Make More Sense

Radio Free California #2: The bigger picture

Gen-X: We Know a Coup When We See One. Top Story - June 2025.

Radio Free California #1: The American Tradition of Fear

Trump vs. His Reflection: The Great Gaslight Gambit. Content Warning.

You Don’t Have to Be on the Front Lines to Fight Back

Trump vs. His Reflection: An ICEy Reception. Content Warning.

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