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Hansel Krankepantzen

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An economist fighting conservative and right wing misinterpretations of economic theory. Why? Because bad economics generates confusion and conflict. USA. 💙 https://hanselkrankepantzen.blogspot.com

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Texas. It's like a bad joke. But they've never really wanted to be part of the USA, have they? They wanted to be their own thing, then the Confederacy, so yeah, it makes sense they would now support anti-democracy, anti-US Constitution, anti-rule of law, anti-USA conservative, Republican fascism.

04.03.2026 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One would have thought the US military might have taken some action after the Jan 6 terrorist attacks to clean house, weed out the bad seeds, do a loyalty and / or sanity check on any conservative, Republican personnel, but it seems not, so ... we're riding the Crazy Train, apparently.

04.03.2026 03:28 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

I saw a story of a US military commander telling the soldiers in his command fascist Leader / crime boss / conservative Republican president Donald Trump, aka Lord Dampnut, "has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran." I found that rather remarkable.

04.03.2026 03:26 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 1

Oh wait ... is it one of those rural or small town things? Bubba screwing little sis in the old woodshed or whatever? That's a southern thing, isn't it? Well, maybe also a central states thing. Nebraska or Kansas or someplace like that? Nice people.

04.03.2026 03:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Conservative, Republican voters are solidly behind child sex abuse. They expect their representatives to do child sex abuse, cover and pardon those who do child sex abuse, make it easier to do child sex abuse. Why do conservative, Republican voters support and endorse child sex abuse so damned much?

04.03.2026 03:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

To understand anti-democracy fascist and Neo-Confederate Sen. Markwayne Mullin's notion a war isn't a war if someone refrains from calling it that, one must understand conservatives, Republicans are all about word play, rhetoric, marketing, advertising, not at all about substance, truth, fact.

04.03.2026 03:02 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

What one has to understand about fascist Leader / crime boss / conservative, Republican president Lord Dampnut's ever changing and rather flippant statements on how long his war with Iran might last is that he really doesn't care. Days, weeks, months, years, forever. Whatever.

04.03.2026 02:27 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Yes, "persecuted" in the conservative, Republican, fascist sense of being unable to fully control everyone else, having to live alongside people who disagree their views.

04.03.2026 02:13 — 👍 42    🔁 5    💬 4    📌 0

Curious about the most religious and allegedly Christian part of the nation? That would likely be the so-called "bible belt" in the former slave states of the southern CSA, now a stronghold of the greedy, venal, egoistic, corrupt, war mongering conservative, Republican fascist movement.

04.03.2026 01:35 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0

For those unfamiliar with the place, the USA is awash with churches, temples, synagogues, mosques, often one every city block, because in olden times some supposed religion a panacea that could cure all ills, others thought it merely a handy opiate or a support for the establishment elite.

04.03.2026 01:27 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0

Did you see the reports of the conservative, Republican Christo-fascists trying to insert elements of religious war into their attack on Iran? That sounds a healthy development, doesn't it? One can always count on conservative, Republican voters to see any problem and make it that much worse.

04.03.2026 01:04 — 👍 8    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Speaking of the complacency that kills, we should probably talk about the two-edged sword of religion, a destabilizing archaic intellectual artifact that may produce or amplify good in some, evil in others, but always complicates and suppresses rational and reasonable discussion of any issue.

04.03.2026 00:58 — 👍 27    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Market utopianism is bad. Bad economics in the conservative style is incorrect, a misinterpretation of neoclassical welfare economics. Bringing up "class" just adds unnecessary baggage. "You need to agree with that fellow over there, you're in the same 'class,' did you know?" Say what now?

03.03.2026 20:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Is it the allure of the esoteric? Have to complicate and mystify it up a bit to make it interesting? Just talk normally. Rich people may not have the same incentive as poor people. Markets aren't best for "everyone," they're best for people with relatively more economic power.

03.03.2026 20:20 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

It's like having the option of discussing something directly, simply, in a way consistent with normal ethics and neoclassical welfare economics (if not the misinterpretation anti-democracy bad economics in the conservative style) or discussing in the context of some weird, foreign, archaic claptrap.

03.03.2026 20:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't understand why some seem to find the Marxian concept of "class struggle" more compelling than simply noting people many have different incentives and values depending on their economic power, and we need to think more about the distribution of economic power, equity, markets, ethics, etc.

03.03.2026 20:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On the other hand, I'm also not prepared to write every Jewish person a moral blank check, treat them differently to how I would treat anyone else. A conservative here is a conservative there. Just saying.

03.03.2026 19:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

The conservative, Republican voters who put him in there to do his decades, possibly even centuries, of destruction, won't face any punishment for it either. It's all a big joke to them, someone else's problem, burning it all down. But yes, one might think their leader should face some consequences.

03.03.2026 19:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Wait, I criticized Israel just then. I'd better proactively address the inevitable charge of anti-semitism that goes with that. So, here goes: I'm not "anti-semitic" or more to the point anti-Jewish (religion, culture, ancestry), in general.

03.03.2026 19:20 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

The most impressive thing is the way he played that other con, using Palestinian bodies, to give fascist rhetoricians ammunition to risibly claim the Dems "supported genocide" and one should therefore support, directly or indirectly, conservative, right wing, fascist Republicans. Really paid off.

03.03.2026 19:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

It was funny the other day someone asked Mr. Netanyahu if he was manipulating US conservatives, Republicans to do his bidding and the wily old scheister laughed about it and quipped something like, "President Trump (aka Lord Dampnut) is a very strong leader." Everyone likes a good joke, am I right?

03.03.2026 19:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Speaking of Mr. Netanyahu and Israeli conservatives leading US conservatives, Republicans around by the nose, did you hear Mr. Rubio explaining the "imminent threat" from Iran was that if Israel attacked Iran then Iran might attack the US? And that was after Israel did so much to get them elected.

03.03.2026 19:09 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

Did you hear Lord Dampnut boasting about the ships the US military has managed to sink thus far in his Iranian War, many of them "large and important," and declaring the rest would soon be "floating at the bottom of sea?" Then it's all over, right? Done and done? Juice and cookies for everyone!

03.03.2026 04:25 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Have you seen the conservative, Republican voters who installed him in the WH?

03.03.2026 04:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

People do understand conservative, Republican voters believe brute force, violence, war, solves all problems, right? It's why they're so often gun nuts, why they join those terrorist "militia" groups, why they attacked the US Capitol, and so on. I think we can expect at least three more years of it.

03.03.2026 04:15 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Speaking of the fascists' way with words, did you catch fascist Neo-Confederate redneck Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R - Oklahoma) explaining that 47 years ago Iran was more westernized than the USA? (He meant they were less misogynistic, because you know how the fascists oppose misogyny, right?)

03.03.2026 04:11 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

And there's money to be made.

03.03.2026 04:01 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The only? I don't think so. Beyond Lord Dampnut, aka Donald J. Trump, we have every conservative, Republican politician and voter in the USA. They all represent an imminent threat to the United Sates and have done for years.

03.03.2026 03:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I think it necessary. Reinforces basic truths, stops people falling back into complacency. The enemy never tires saying how bad they suppose liberals, progressives, democratic leftists are, nor should we ever tire saying how bad we suppose conservatives, right wingers, fascists are.

03.03.2026 03:47 — 👍 21    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

By the way, they all support right wing political candidates. I meant all of them.

03.03.2026 03:40 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0