I sometimes forget that the far right is an anti enlightenment movement.
Perhaps it's my decades of being submerged in the ivory tower of the university or maybe it's just a love of logic and enlightenment principals. I don't know.
But I'm realizing what I find persuasive--evidence that's based on reason--not only fails to persuade the anti-enlightenment crowd, but actually incenses them. They hate reason the way vampires hate sunlight.
Whoo boy. Yet another friend has gone down the right wing nut job rabbit hole and has begun bludgeoning me with messianic fervour and links from the likes of RFK jr, Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson. Impervious to reason. Have no idea how to respond other than truncating a 30-year friendship.
Any advice appreciated. #qanon#vaccination#rightwing
The #stupid! It burns! Another #FoxNews host humiliates herself on her own show. First of all, #communism and #fascism are diametrically opposed systems of #government; You can't be both a #communist and a #fascist. And second, fascism is an inherently #rightwing#ideology; the left cannot be fascists. Either this girl never went to high school, or this is a shameless attempt to mislead her viewers.
"An alliance of #rightwing groups has crafted an extensive presidential proposal to bolster the planet-heating #oil and #gas industry and hamstring the #EnergyTransition.
#Project2025, was convened by the notorious rightwing, #climate-denying thinktank the Heritage Foundation, which has ties to fossil fuel billionaire Charles Koch."
US citizens: please vote, and organize your friends. It's you against the #FossilFuel industry. The stakes are high.
I don’t know if I can watch this. I thought, “it’s NBC, not Fox”, but I don’t know.
Credit to NBC for making the first question to “candidates” about Trump vs the people on stage.
#DeSantis did attempt to make a strong differentiation, & addressed the fact that last night democrats won another election cycle.
On the 1st day of #testimony in #HunterBiden’s federal #gun trial, #jurors heard his audio of his memoir, where he recounted his #drug use in graphic detail. A federal prosecutor told jurors “no one is above the #law,” & defense said the he did not “knowingly” lie when filling out forms to purchase a weapon.
themes:
low wages: "bullshit pay"
food poverty: "nothing to eat"
high inflation: "dollar ain't shit"
high taxes: "taxed to no end"
child trafficking: "minors on an island"
welfare abuse: "obese milkin' welfare"
centralization of power: "wanna have total control"
Today is the 80th anniversary of the D-Day landing at #Normandy, #France, where ~160k #Allied troops pulled off the largest invasion by sea in history. From that point on #America was in charge of #AlliedForces & it was the beginning of the end of #WWII
The #ConservativePartnershipInstitute (#CPI) has become a breeding ground for the next generation of #Trump loyalists & an incubator for policies he might pursue. Its fast growth is raising questions.
The combustible mix of #RightWing anger coming together in #Texas
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“In recent weeks, #GregAbbott’s efforts have grown much more contentious, w/ Texas #law enforcement seizing control of a park along the river in #EaglePass that is used by the #federal#Border Patrol. Texas ofcls are now blocking access to the park by federal law enforcement, a move that has earned the endorsement of dozens of #Republican governors in other states.
Ronald Aronson on the mass psychosis of millions of us — affecting all of us, because of the refusal of those millions to acknowledge shared reality and the common good:
"Millions of Americans have become ensconced — or ensconced themselves — in a self-validating right-wing bubble that seems impervious to contrary evidence, and there is no easy path back."
The #House is expected to vote Tues afternoon on whether to make Rep #JimJordan its next speaker. Jordan, a #RightWing conservative agitator, who spews #ConspiracyTheories & #propaganda, is allied w/ Trump. He was chosen by fellow #HouseRepublicans on Fri to lead the House but must win a majority in the full chamber to take the gavel.
#House & #Senate Republicans have denigrated fellow lawmakers, #Biden admin officials & witnesses in #racist ways, both in casual comments & in official settings.
“[The John Birch Society was] neither an export from Nazi Germany nor out of step with America’s political traditions. The sentiments that undergirded the movement—a defense of white rights, the use of government to enforce Christian tenets and morality in public spaces, the veneration of inviolate freedom for the individual to do as he wished economically, free from government intervention—had deep roots in the nation’s historical development.… #birchers#dallek#extremism#rightwing
Jesse #Barrett is a trial lawyer & managing partner at SouthBank Legal. He heads the firm’s Washington, DC, office, which opened after Justice Barrett joined the high court.