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Human being. Reader. Writer. Translator. Editor. Progressive/Leftist. Atheist. Gringo who's lived half his life in Guatemala. Husband. Daddy of doggies.

Ezra Klein: I'm Ezra Klein, and today I'm joined by one of the foremost intellectual theorists of Trumpism. He is an associate editor at the Rancho Cucamonga Review of Ideas and a fellow at the Schlafly Institute of Punitive Economics. [a baked potato in a top hat]: Thanks for having me, Ezra.

I'm pissed that so many of our elected officials think party allegiance is more important than constituent allegiance. That fidelity to the constitution is nothing compared to fidelity to the president. That political power is superior to moral clarity.

Two countries that don't feel bound by any of the laws they expect from the rest of the world launched an illegal war of aggression six months after they cut back just a little on the genocide they were committing, and now the world economy is fucked We should've stopped them at the genocide

β€œThe historic function of fascism is to smash the working class, destroy its organizations, and stifle political liberties when the capitalists find themselves unable to govern and dominate with the help of democratic machinery.” – Leon Trotsky, β€˜Fascism, what it is and how to fight it’

America Built on the blood of the indigenous, with the hands of slavery And for generations, building is wealth by exploitation of anyone weaker, country or creed. There are centuries of ill will built up. The dam is about to burst

The Constitution is a document. Its power was always a collective agreement, a shared decision to be bound by it. What you're witnessing in real time is what happens when one faction decides to simply... stop being bound by it, and discovers that the consequences they were told would follow, don't.

If I were the Greenlanders, I'd check that hospital ship for Odysseus and his Greeks before letting it anywhere near shore, given that it's a weird creepy unnecessary oddly shaped "gift" no public reporting on what is happening in Greenland explains and Trump is Temu Agamemnon

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