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Remember the Age of Enlightenment? Me either, before my time too. Sometimes called the Age of Reason. Currently, human reason, rational minds, are not exactly dominating the American scene. And, as a result, governance will only be harder. Conspiracism owns the day.
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The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
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MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World
Peter Thiel is the latest pro-Trump luminary to take a conspiracist turn.
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How dare people think conspiracy theories such as it being likely COVID-19 escaped from a Chinese lab, Hunter’s laptop wasn’t actually Russian disinformation as 51 former intelligence officials claimed, or Joe Biden wasn’t sharp as a tack but only had jetlag. I wonder if the current popularity of seeking alternatives to the official narrative might be in some way motivated by voices of authority constantly being found to be lying. Do you think that might play a part?Remember the Age of Enlightenment? Me either, before my time too. Sometimes called the Age of Reason. Currently, human reason, rational minds, are not exactly dominating the American scene. And, as a result, governance will only be harder. Conspiracism owns the day.
The New Rasputins
Anti-science mysticism is enabling autocracy around the globe.
MAGA’s Demon-Haunted World
Peter Thiel is the latest pro-Trump luminary to take a conspiracist turn.
This bit buried deep in your linked Atlantic piece was amusing to me.
“As Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger wisely notes, “The line between unsupported conspiracy claims and reliable investigative research is neither as firm nor as stable as many of us would like to believe.” Thiel is right that some liberal commentators and mainstream outlets were too quick to dismiss the question of whether COVID-19 originated anywhere other than a Wuhan meat market. At one point, a New York Times reporter suggested on Twitter that racism underlay any suspicions that the virus had escaped from a research lab.”
Peter Thiel is correct, but how can he even suggest the thing to have been correct about? That is conspiracy theory!
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Hey, did you hear about that Trump-loving J6 couple who threw a bomb and permanently injured a cop? He got five years. His wife got no years. Yeah, those J6ers really got off easy. Oh, wait, my mistake. They were not J6 defendants. They were a couple of Antifa scumbags who were mad because conservative commentator Michael Knowles was going to speak about transgender baloney.
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The Fed Can’t Pin Inflation on Trump
The central bank has the power to maintain stable prices, and there is more to the President-elect’s economic policy than tariffs.The Federal Reserve first blamed high inflation on the Covid-19 pandemic. Then the war in Ukraine became the accepted contrivance. The Fed’s stories came wrapped in gauzy rhetoric about supply-chain disruptions. Now that these excuses have grown tired and outdated, leading monetary policymakers have developed a new scapegoat for inflation: President-elect Trump’s proposed tariffs.
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CLAY TRAVIS: How Trump is already narrowing America's racial divide
Trump's election victory win has done something his most ardent critics never thought possible – he's produced the least racially polarized presidential win since before the Civil Rights Movement.
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Goodbye and good riddance, Biden. Americans like me are glad to see Joe go. | Opinion
Joe Biden will undoubtedly paint a picture of a successful tenure as president. But I won't be fooled – and neither should other Americans.
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Miranda Devine: Self-deluded Biden is spending his last days as president showcasing all the same lies and cementing his tarnished ‘legacy’
Joe Biden is leaving office the way he came in — on a cloud of self-delusion and a rancid stench of lies.
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Biden's 'sneaky' and 'dirty' plot to slow down Trump on Day One
President Joe Biden enacted a series of roadblocks to Donald Trump's agenda to slow down the president-elect in his first days in the White House, despite his public promise to cooperate.
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No Swamp Loyalists: Trump Says He Has No Interest in Hiring Anyone Who Worked for Koch, Bolton, Pence, the Cheneys, Haley, Ryan, Romney, or Milley in His America-First Administration | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hᴏft
In a striking declaration, President-elect Trump vows to exclude establishment figures from his administration, emphasizing a commitment to an "America First" agenda. Read more about his bold staffing decisions and their implications.
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Republicans on the House's chief tax-writing committee made clear during a hearing Tuesday that their top priority is making permanent the massive giveaway to the rich that Donald Trump and the GOP pushed through in 2017.
Smith characterized the 2017 tax cuts as a boon for ordinary Americans, but the law's benefits were heavily skewed to the wealthiest.
The same would be true of an extension of the individual tax cuts, which is expected to be part of a sprawling party-line reconciliation bill. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy noted in a recent analysis that "Trump's plan to make most of the temporary provisions of his 2017 tax law permanent would disproportionately benefit the richest Americans."
"No amount of misinformation can hide the truth: This massive new giveaway to the ultra-wealthy and giant corporations comes at the expense of working and middle-class Americans."
Rep. Richard Neal (D-Mass.), the top Democrat on the committee, said at Tuesday's hearing that "when Republicans inevitably tell you that the GOP tax scam gave everyone in America a tax break, remember this one contextualized fact: Extending the law gives people making over $1 million a year a $78,717 average tax cut—288 times higher than the $273 those earning under $50,000 would receive."
"Those millionaires won't feel the effects of cuts to Medicare or Medicaid, or higher premium costs, but America's working families sure will," Neal added, referring to the GOP's plan to slash key aid programs to help offset the enormous cost of extending the 2017 tax breaks.
"Last time Trump and the GOP held a trifecta, they moved fast to create new tax breaks rewarding wealthy corporations for moving jobs overseas and harming hard-working families across the country," David Kass, executive director of the progressive advocacy group Americans for Tax Fairness, said in a statement Tuesday. "Now, they're working to pass new tax breaks that will allow these same powerful corporations to evade paying their fair share and eliminate American jobs."
"The disastrous effects of the Trump tax scam are not theoretical—they're reality," Kass added. "It didn't raise wages for everyday people or protect our jobs and it certainly didn't pay for itself. Instead, it doubled billionaire wealth and added over $1.5 trillion to the deficit.
Trump and the GOP's aggressive push for a new round of tax cuts received a boost from the deep-pocketed Koch network, which is pumping tens of millions of dollars into a nationwide campaign to build support for a proposal that would predominately reward a small sliver of the U.S. population.
"If asked to choose between healthcare and food for low-income kids or tax cuts for giant corporations, Chairman Jason Smith and the Republicans on the Ways and Means Committee are proving that ten times out of ten, they'll choose the corporate giants," said Tony Carrk, executive director of the watchdog group Accountable.US. "American families are set up to lose because President-elect Trump and his congressional allies are eager to raise our costs in order to help their wealthy donor friends."
Thank god! The wealth gap isn't nearly wide enough. Thanks trump!
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Biden is getting absolutely savaged for his awful farewell address. There was actually a rumor being floated the address was pre-taped but the strongest defense of it being done in a single take was that no handlers would have let it air if they had the ability to edit it.
It isn't only right wing sources panning the speech.
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It isn't only right wing sources panning the speech.
CNN pundit Scott Jennings goes absolutely nuclear on Biden’s ‘farce’ of a farewell speech — and he’s not alone
The former George W. Bush administrator was mystified to see the president take a victory lap about his administration’s accomplishments despite the octogenarian’s record-low popularity…
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I have a feeling this will fall on deaf ears as Democrats seem to be the party that never learns.
Are Fetterman and Trump buds? Their meeting proves sanity still exists in politics. | Opinion
Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman says he puts 'country first' and that he is not 'rooting against' President-elect Donald Trump.
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Trump foreign policy: 6 issues he got right and the experts were wrong
When Trump ventured a comment about foreign policy, people scoffed. What did he know! But he was right on every major issue. It was the elites who got things wrong!
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Biden is getting absolutely savaged for his awful farewell address. There was actually a rumor being floated the address was pre-taped but the strongest defense of it being done in a single take was that no handlers would have let it air if they had the ability to edit it.
It isn't only right wing sources panning the speech.
CNN pundit Scott Jennings goes absolutely nuclear on Biden’s ‘farce’ of a farewell speech — and he’s not alone
The former George W. Bush administrator was mystified to see the president take a victory lap about his administration’s accomplishments despite the octogenarian’s record-low popularity…
Anti-Trump columnist delivers withering assessment of 'failed' Biden presidency as he leaves office
George Will, an anti-Trump columnist for The Washington Post, wrote a scathing assessment of President Biden's actions as president as he prepares to leave office.
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This is my report that I have gathered from. AI helped a bit. This should clear things up if you have a brain
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You can't use biased media as a legit argument, that's writing 101 broTrump foreign policy: 6 issues he got right and the experts were wrong
When Trump ventured a comment about foreign policy, people scoffed. What did he know! But he was right on every major issue. It was the elites who got things wrong!