The Vacancy of the MAGA Mind The quiet relief of no longer having to think.

“Jean-Paul Sartre once wrote that bad faith is not ignorance but refusal, the conscious act of pretending not to know what one knows, a form of spiritual cowardice disguised as moral surety. The absurdity is the point, it liberates him from the burden of coherence…”
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A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

"These are not the actions of mature adults. They are examples of crude people displaying their incompetence as they flail about in jobs—including the presidency—for which they are not qualified” @radiofreetom.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I don’t have a humiliation kink so I am really not enjoying seeing these bloated amoral Republicans writhing in their own filth to justify raising tariffs on an ally because the king didn’t like a TV ad accurately quoting a popular politician

While the top 1% control $54 TRILLION

(not a typo)

So incredibly corrupt. Shout out to everyone who complained endlessly about Hunter but says nothing about this. @RepTimBurchett @MarshaBlackburn @AndyOgles @RepFaison

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Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 81st day out of the last 93.

12 days of work in over 3 months.

With full pay and benefits.

The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown.

It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

Pay attention -- what he means is allowing Democrats to win a free and fair election.

We are living in one of the stupidest times in history.

This sums up their lying perfectly www.meidasplus.com/p/this-weeke...

Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.

The thing that makes me the sickest is that these folks don’t even have a shred of compassion. It’s one thing to enforce laws and rules. It’s another to do it gleefully and celebrate the suffering of someone born into poverty and desperation

Now That Fascism is Here... Fascism isn’t coming to America; it’s here.

We cannot let the myth of American exceptionalism numb us into imagining we are above devolving into inhumanity.

We have every ingredient in place to become something historically monstrous.

It will happen here unless we refuse to allow it.

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Not to continue to do this Cassandra bullshit, but here is a clip from two years ago that outlines exactly the playbook in this moment: a government and private law enforcement army run entirely on grievance, culture war slop, and weaponizable data points, deployed against boogeymen, absent facts.

Before knowing all the facts, voices on the right are now exploiting the tragic death of Charlie Kirk & calling for all-out war on the left. This is sad, but not surprising, at a time when we should all be denouncing political violence. They were not so upset when Minn. Democrats were assassinated.

Overheard a conversation between the kids:

Kiddo 1: “I don’t like your drawing…”
Kiddo 2: 😞
Kiddo 1:”…I love it.”
Kiddo 2: 😃

It’s the little things.

Here because of you, Miss Peru. ❤️