Failing to make anything work in code, serial monitor wont display either?

Below is the code I started working on about a week ago. Everything compiles correctly but when testing it step by step and triple checking the setup I can't seem to get anything to work, or show up on the serial Monitor.

To troubleshoot this I broke the code down but no matter what section I tried, I couldn't get anything to appear in the serial monitor. I checked the hardware and voltages coming out of the Arduino, and everything checks out.

step_by_step_1.ino (6.44 KB)

Perhaps a Serial.begin() in setup() would help

yup lol, that helped alot.