US 2024 Presidential Election

[Phoenixmgs]

Though, I mean, Bill Clinton would qualify too. Remember when we elected someone as President because he played a saxophone on Arsenio Hall... and then he balanced the budget? (Clinton, I mean, not Hall. I don't know how well Hall would do at the job, but he couldn't be worse than Trump.)

As long as Sammo Hung isn't Arsenio's running mate because that would result in Martial Law!

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

Pure-hearted Jesus-loving Christian JD Vance says "it's gross to get fired up" about the fact that an innocent man was deported and sent to a prison in El Salvador.

JD Vance defiant after man deported by error: "Gross to get fired up"

The vice president has hit back after Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted to an administration error.

www.newsweek.com

"He also apparently had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear in court. A real winner." Hear that, scofflaws? Pay off those parking tickets OR ELSE!

Mind you, the government has admitted that the deportation was an error. But hey, it's not JD Vance sitting in a jail cell for no reason, so why should anyone care?!

 

[Hades]

"He also apparently had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear in court. A real winner." Hear that, scofflaws? Pay off those parking tickets OR ELSE!

Its kinda funny Vance draws the like at parking tickets while working for a coup doing rapist.

 

[Gergar12]

https://campuspress.yale.edu/jasonstanley/books/

This guy spoke at an online lecture for a class I had to attend. And he just left the US. FML. It's getting more real by the day.

 

[Chimpzy]

The wonderful new tariffs Trump just announced

And now we just have to wait for global markets to respond as the impact of America's new strength take hold.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Pure-hearted Jesus-loving Christian JD Vance says "it's gross to get fired up" about the fact that an innocent man was deported and sent to a prison in El Salvador.

JD Vance defiant after man deported by error: "Gross to get fired up"

The vice president has hit back after Immigration and Customs Enforcement admitted to an administration error.

www.newsweek.com

"He also apparently had multiple traffic violations for which he failed to appear in court. A real winner." Hear that, scofflaws? Pay off those parking tickets OR ELSE!

Mind you, the government has admitted that the deportation was an error. But hey, it's not JD Vance sitting in a jail cell for no reason, so why should anyone care?!

I believe the cliche used to be "he's no angel". Parking tickets is a new one.

 

[TheMysteriousGX]

This is so, so stupid

Apparently that "trade barriers and currency manipulation" bullshit just means that they took the trade deficit as a percentage, and the reciprocal tarif is half that

So if we have a trade deficit with, say, Vietnam, where we import $10 of their stuff for every dollar they buy from us, that counts as a "tariff"

Hence the 46% tariff on everything they send us

That Switch 2 is gonna cost $700 next month

 

[Gordon_4]

This is so, so stupid

Apparently that "trade barriers and currency manipulation" bullshit just means that they took the trade deficit as a percentage, and the reciprocal tarif is half that

So if we have a trade deficit with, say, Vietnam, where we import $10 of their stuff for every dollar they buy from us, that counts as a "tariff"

Hence the 46% tariff on everything they send us

That Switch 2 is gonna cost $700 next month

Its $700 for me right now, so uh, welcome to a very shitty club.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

The wonderful new tariffs Trump just announced

And now we just have to wait for global markets to respond as the impact of America's new strength take hold.

Where's Phoenix to tell us that the Trump tariffs aren't really going to happen and that everyone who believes in them is stupid?

 

[XsjadoBlaydette]

not sure if curtis yarvin is known or mentioned of much at all here, I don't remember seeing them about. but they're as influential as peter thiel/JD Vance... moreso even as he's pretty much the person who the tech bros and peter actually look up to for their systemic attempt at dismantling democracy. if there's any doubt how rotten these minds are, an example of rheir bonding philosophy is a criticism he had of Norwegian mass shooter who killed 77 people at a summer camp

Yarvin wrote that Breivik should be condemned because his 2011 massacre in Oslo was ineffective as terrorism, which Yarvin considers a legitimate military tactic. Nazi terror was legitimate because it worked, Yarvin wrote. Breivik’s killing spree, which targeted young Norwegian leftists, was illegitimate because it was insufficient to “free Norway from Eurocommunism.” After all, he only killed ninety-two people! “We can note the only thing he didn’t screw up. At least he shot communists, not Muslims. He gored the matador and not the cape,” Yarvin wrote on July 23, 2011, one day after the terror in Oslo

and slavery;

Not all humans are born the same, of course, and the innate character and intelligence of some is more suited to mastery than slavery. For others, it is more suited to slavery. And others still are badly suited to either. These characteristics can be expected to group differently in human populations of different origins. Thus, Spaniards and Englishmen in the Americas in the 17th and earlier centuries, whose sense of political correctness was negligible, found that Africans tended to make good slaves and Indians did not. This broad pattern of observation is most parsimoniously explained by genetic differences.

A person makes a good slave if he is loyal, patient, and not exceptionally bright or stubborn. But even great intelligence is not necessarily a bar to a good experience in slavery, as the experience of many Greek slave philosophers, such as Epictetus, shows. A slave must carry the unique burden of personal dependency and obedience, which we are all used to expressing only toward impersonal government agencies.

Yarvin’s Dark Enlightenment dogma also is steeped in pseudoscientific racism. Yarvin preaches that intelligence is determined in large part by the laws of “human biodiversity”—which hold, in his telling, that white people are congenitally smarter than black and brown people, and that Chinese people may be the smartest of all. It takes no great stretch of the imagination to see how a blood-and-soil white nationalist like Bannon and a racist bomb thrower like Donald “Good Genes” Trump would find a great deal of reassurance in this toxic philosophy.

Yarvin’s idea of enlightenment also means believing that history as we’ve come to know it is a lie. It means believing that the Soviet Union was the greater evil in the Second World War and that Nazi Germany acted in preemptive self-defense against the nefarious scheming of Stalin and FDR. It also means believing that ever since that war, upstanding American fascists have been unjustly persecuted by the state, and that the United States has been ruled by a conspiracy of wealthy establishment Communists and a “ruling underclass” of violent black mobs who are their eager pawns.

hey noone said these guys were smart. just rich alenough to buy enough simpering fools to maintain the illusion they are

"If Americans want to change their government, they're going to have to get over their dictator-phobia."



That's neo-reactionary philosopher Curtis Yarvin in 2012, when he outlined a strategy that's eerily similar to how Trump and Musk are now destroying our government. The "dark enlightenment" blogger, long a transgressive darling of the New Right, has in the last two months enjoyed a fresh round of mainstream exposure.



We look at a man who has the ear of those who are reshaping our world at breakneck speed.



Show Notes

That's Bait - by Jeff Sharlet

That's Bait

Kristi Noem and fascism's sadistic eroticization of power

slowcivilwar.substack.com

Kristi Noem Gets a MAGA Makeover - The New York Times

The Trumpification of Kristi Noem (Published 2024)

The South Dakota governor’s new teeth are just the latest step in a very MAGA makeover.

www.nytimes.com

Kristi Noem’s New Teeth Are Blowing Up in Her Face | Vanity Fair

Venezuela-hired lawyers file petition in El Salvador aimed at freeing Venezuelans deported by US | AP News

Venezuela-hired lawyers file petition in El Salvador aimed at freeing Venezuelans deported by US

Lawyers hired by the Venezuelan government have filed a legal action in El Salvador aimed at freeing 238 Venezuelans deported by the United States.

apnews.com

Kristi Noem’s El Salvador Prison Photo Op Might Have Violated the Geneva Convention

Kristi Noem’s El Salvador Prison Photo Op Might Have Violated the Geneva Convention

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem's photo op in an El Salvadoran prison drew swift backlash online, but some observers are pointing out that it may have also violated the Geneva Convention.

www.mediaite.com

Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.

Opinion | Trump wants FEMA gone. But that could be its own kind of disaster.

It’s likely that Trump, as he so often is, is being guided by grievance.

www.msnbc.com

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posed in front of El Salvador prisoners wearing $50k watch

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem posed in front of El Salvador prisoners wearing $50k watch

Kristi Noem appeared in a video in front of CECOT prisoners in El Salvador wearing a $50k Rolex watch. Human rights groups raised criticized the move.

eu.usatoday.com

Will Stancil: "The El Salvador government is using its concentration camp as a kind of Disneyland thrill ride for right-wing influencers”

Will Stancil (@whstancil.bsky.social)

The El Salvador government is using its concentration camp as a kind of Disneyland thrill ride for right-wing influencers. The reason those guys are standing silently shirtless behind Noem is that they’ve been asked to do it again and again, it’s part of the whole ride

bsky.app

Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 1 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)

Kelly Brogan’s Divine Dungeon: Pt 2 (feat/Esme Providence Brown)

‘All life is a service’: The Contested Erotics of Fascism from Foucault to Frost – Retrospect Journal

‘All life is a service’: The Contested Erotics of Fascism from Foucault to Frost

The sexualisation of fascist aesthetics has received a great deal of critical and philosophical analysis. Georgia Smith examines this discourse and the convergence of eroticism and fascism.

retrospectjournal.com

Cathedrals of Erotic Misery • Ill Will

Cathedrals of Erotic Misery • Ill Will

Alberto Toscano explores fascism’s erotic afterlives.

illwill.com

Politico Yarvin Interview

Financial Times on Dark Enlightenment - TIME on Dark Enlightenment

Common Dreams on Dark Enlightenment/DOGE

NYT Podcast End of Democracy


Jennifer Kollmer, 1971-2021 — Yarvin’s obit poem, TW on the rest of the blog!

Jennifer Kollmer, 1971-2021

"No one will ever see the rock on which I stood."

graymirror.substack.com