That is the "Again" in the MAGA equation they seek.
I say, Make Betterment Valued Again.
And Reason, while we're at it.
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That is the "Again" in the MAGA equation they seek.
I say, Make Betterment Valued Again.
And Reason, while we're at it.
MAG cult members think reality, empiricism, epistemic proof and epistemology are for "losers". True believers "truly believe" say they. "Loyalty", "certainty, certitude". Akin to Hitler's followers.
Evidence only strengthens their belief. Admitting they're wrong, changing hurts.
Right-wingers virulently oppose any governmental intervention into society for betterment that is a pure public, nonexcludable good. Universalistically, such improvements by government beg the question of what OTHER government interventions might benefit us. So. Right wingers slime science.
08.11.2025 17:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Patrimonial/clientelistic quid pro quo cronyism and prostitution.
Vs. equal protection under the law. Plutocracy. Kleptocracy. Kakistocracy.
The CFPB was instituted to protect the FREEDOM of the many citizens from private tyranny and financial harm by the very few.
Don't anyone DARE ever use the "R" word to describe its public protective actions
Adding sunk clunk thunk funk to bunk junk
06.11.2025 14:10 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Right wingers will believe what they WANT to believe. Empirical evidence just makes them ignore, deny, rationalize to resolve cognitive dissonance. hen. Their beliefs just become more grotesquely intense. The paradox of reason.
06.11.2025 14:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Freedom"'s just another word to misappropriate for quackery.
06.11.2025 14:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Cognitive dissonance will vex. Followed by ignoring the lack of life-saving benefits, denying it, rationalizing it.
05.11.2025 13:51 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Let's see, wells spewing toxins, earthquakes from fracking, tornadoes, droughts.
Who WOULDN'T want to live in Oklahoma?
Vought's grand plan for institutionalizing autocracy?
Basta la alta vista, baby!
Misguided priorities? Mis-GOADED priorities. Fossil fuels lobbying at hand.
04.11.2025 15:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Tonight we may experience our revised Sally Field moment. I hope after Trump is solidly rebuked in NYC, PA, NJ, VA, CA, some elder progressive statesperson will look straight into a camera and resolutely proclaim, "We hate you! We really REALLY hate you!"
The Trump backlash? Brutal. Troops. Worse.
In industrial society, there exist complicated externalities that are disutilities. Something's gotta gov.
When that something--government--doesn't curtail emissions, costs of operations decrease, profits increase, humans die.
Putsch 'n' boots.
Militarized terrorizing of the public--sometimes randomly, to optimize, generalize terror--is a key ploy of authoritarian regimes. Regimes that cannot provide healthcare, food, housing, jobs, security to their people.
If I had a hammer---
I'd use the tool to stop this--
Rupert Pupkin will still be the King of Comedy.
01.11.2025 16:48 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Nancy Mace's recent tirade at TSA workers at an airport will be perceived by voters not as signs of mental erratic unfitness to govern nor of entitled imperiousness, but as "leadership", "strength" "antigovernment", "decisiveness", "power".
SC authoritarian, caste domination culture. Revealed.
Voght crafted--and is inflicting a long-arc vision for autocracy and the end of decent governance of private abuse and overcoming shrieking market failures that government provides.
Hit the ground ruining.
Basta la alta vista, baby.
On Hallowe'en, too. Now Andrew can masquerade as a commoner into perpetuity.
01.11.2025 15:35 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0"Totalitarianism too?" "Totalitarianism too."
01.11.2025 15:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Interdependent society harbors impacts upon the vulnerable that are complicated, require expert detection, prevention.
Externalities exist. They are not consented to. Market failure applies to such externalities that are complicated, undetected disutilities.
Something's gotta gov.
"Vought" are you doing to our guardian state, our very concept of governance, government amid undeserved hardship and shrieking market failure, our social contract, our very civilization and common decency?
01.11.2025 15:23 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Project 2025: Hit the ground ruining.
A long horizon, "visionary" blueprint for brazen autocracy in America
Basta la alta vista, baby.
Plus, an accordance with affinities.
31.10.2025 11:42 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0He reserves gussying up for PetMart.
31.10.2025 11:40 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Orwell that ends will.
Reality?
There is no "invasion".
But per Trumpsters, truth, reality are for "losers".
"Leaders" "create" their own epistemic universe.
As do 3 year-olds.
Backwoods, backwater, back to MAGA's "Again".
31.10.2025 11:32 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Whoever--Reagan--advised "freely" "voting with your feet" to escape bad locales when many cannot afford to do so is putting the insole into insolence.
30.10.2025 13:07 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ooooooookkk---! lahoma!
Where the fossil fuels run the state!
Diseased. It's a cult. Coup-laid Kool-Aid.