MAGA revolutionaries

 Writer and historian Ann Applebaum was interviewed on Firing Line TV show and made essential observations about how today's MAGA "politicians" and MAGA Cult are completely unlike any political party.  

First, they do not see themselves as people who are temporarily in power and who might lose an election.

Next, they see their destiny as smashing and destroying what they derisively label "The Administrative State", which the rest of us call the U.S. Government.

Also, they don't see the U.S. as a leader of world democracies, or as a promoter of democracy around the world.

Their vision of the U.S. is as an ethnic nation, white supremacist Christian nationalists who are dedicated to promoting white supremacist Christianity around the world, especially in Europe.  They see the U.S as an imperial, colonial power.

I would add my own observation, that MAGA is the rise of the Confederacy - white supremacist Christian nationalist bigotry and joined and empowered by the Tech Bros' bottomless avarice and greed.

They see the foundation of democratic governance -the Rule of Law - as an obstruction to their higher value of Rule of White Supremacist Rule of King.  So, they want the U.S. to be like Russia, or Mussolini's fascist Italy, etc. - all power to come from corrupt ties to the "king", all justice to be what the "king" decrees, all benefits come only to those who obey and prostrate themselves to the "king".

But they will lose because the real soul of the U.S. is the vision of the Founders that All People are Created Equal.  And that vision is much more powerful than the Confederate notion that white men are superior to all other people.  

The U.S. Civil War has never ended, and I believe that the vision of the Founders of America is much more powerful than the vision of the Founders of the Confederacy, and that vision will prevail.

Trump touches the world - and shits on it

 We have seen for years that the Pedo in Chief shits on and destroys everything he touches.  And he is touching the world.  And the world is getting pretty stinky. 

Time for Republican voters to accept that they were conned, lied to, bamboozled and betrayed.  He and all the MAGA politicians that he brought with him need to be removed.  Time to vote, for the cleansing of the U.S. and the cleansing of the world.  The stench is overwhelming.

The Environmental Pollution Agency

 Trump's EPA - formerly the Environmental Protection Agency but now the Environmental Pollution Agency - is going to eliminate regulations controlling Greenhouse gas emissions and other pollution excretions from fossil fuel power plants. Per the Washington Post:

"The Trump administration plans to repeal Biden-era rules to limit the carbon dioxide emissions from power plants that drive climate change..."

The Polluter in Chief is bought and sold by the Fossil Fuel Industry.  He obeys them by attacking and doing his best to destroy the green energy industries like wind and solar.  And obeys them by ending regulation that limits their pollution of air, water, and land.  It's all about Shareholder Value, doncha know?  Shareholder Value means the top executive enrichment because back in the Greed-Is-Good Reagan '80s the CEOs and other top executives in U.S. industry tied their compensation to their stock prices.  Great! I thought.  What a smart idea!  Good for investors, even small investors like me.  Yippee!

Oops.

So, business in the U.S. dropped all concern for their workers, for their customers, for their environmental impact, for anything other than "shareholder value", meaning their own ever accelerating wealth.  Yippie! for them, and their stockholders.  Aren't we all so grateful?

Maybe not.

So now we have the fossil fuel industry owning the U.S. government and giving themselves full permission, no, full encouragement, no, full partnership in accelerating global warming and climate change, and full partnership in pumping filth into our water, air, and land.  

Thanks Republicans.  Good job!  Keep those shareholders, and the billionaires, very very happy happy happy.  And, oh yes, keep those campaign contributions coming and coming and coming in.

Yippee!

The Trump Cult pledge

 Trump had his crowd at the Dallas “midterm convention” raise their right hand and repeat a pledge after him:

“ I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States, that loves us so much we can't even breathe, that I will go out with my family, my friends. I'll do it any way, I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try and cheat like hell like they do, SO HELP ME GOD”

This is what a cult leader does, not a political leader. And just to make sure that we all get the point he told them that if they didn’t vote they would GO TO HELL. 

He expects his cult to obey. And lots will. It’s not about voting, it’s about “winning” regardless of the vote count.  

He knows he will lose, but he will tell the Speaker of the House not to swear in the new Congress.

This is not a call to vote, it is a call for cult violence. 

German Nazis thank the Nazi Musk for his help

 The German Nazis won a big regional election in Germany.  Germany - Nazis! Musk - Nazi!  Per Paul Krugman:

"Neo-Nazis — no point in euphemisms — just won big in the rough equivalent of a state-level election in Germany. America’s leading neo-Nazi — again, no point in euphemisms — congratulated the AfD (in German) on the result, and in return received “thanks for your support” from the AfD’s lead candidate

Musk announced his Nazi nature a while back, so this is just a confirmation of the terrible danger that one of the richest bastards in the world is.

 MAGA is a collection of Nazis, KKK, Evangelical endtimer fanatics, and unbelievably rich billionaires - and none of them are here to help the common people in America or the world.

Oligarchs crying “Socialism!”

 The House Republicans just passed a “resolution” condemning socialism.  This is a 150 year old bullshit trick from the Jim Crow South that fools still buy into. These MAGA Cultists have nothing to run on, certainly no achievements these last two years - pointless war, rising inflation, food price escalation, farm foreclosures, endless sickening corruption, hiding the Epstein Files, attacking Canada, destroying decades of alliances worldwide, sticking water sucking pollution belching data centers all over hell and back…no winners there…

Historian Heather Cox Richardson makes it very clear that after the civil war the slaves were freed and as voters they pushed for government programs to aid the common good – schools, libraries, public roads, etc. The wealthy oligarchs who had lost their slaves were not about to let the slaves rise up in any way. So what they did was scream “socialism”! And, of course, they overturned the confederacy loss into a confederacy continuation by driving federal forces out of the south and ending reconstruction. And by establishing the new confederacy’s slave-like structure of Jim Crow, complete with cross burnings, beatings, rapes, imprisonment, and of course accusations of “socialism!”

They sure as hell were not about to let the slaves become educated and empowered in anyway. Keep them down. They stay on top. Racists. Oligarchs. Rich, greedy, entitled, cruel.

And here we are again, as usual in America the oligarch billionaires are screaming “socialism”. It’s the same story.  It’s the currently empowered confederacy oligarchs, spread now across the entire land. As always doing everything they can to disempower normal people with planned destruction of food Security, Social Security, Health Security, legal security, as much of government assistance and protection as they can get away with.  They are out to crush all of us, not just former slaves. By crying “Socialism”! “Communism”! It’s bullshit.

And Republican voting sheep keep falling for it and vote to give more and more power to the billionaires - and give up more and more power for themselves.

Don’t fall for it.