#TauntLeftThe #TheoryDeclinism #PoliticsStatusQuoTheEstablishment i.e. #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #PhenomnMaskWearing #CatchcryFreedomOfSpeechFreeSpeech
#PleaAWorldOfSimpleStableFixedOperations
#2021_TheLeft1970sVersus2020s
by #CaricaturistHenryPayne
#TheoryHauntology
Supplementary: #WebsiteIdeologyTheoryPractice "mainstream is constructed, contingent, and fluid. We often hear how the 'extreme' is a threat to the 'mainstream', but this is not some objective reality with two fixed actors or positions. They are both contingent in themselves and in relation to one another. In any system, the construction and positioning of the mainstream necessitate the construction of an extreme, which is just as contingent and fluid. These are neither ontological nor historically-fixed phenomena and seeing them as such, which is common, is both uncritical and ahistorical. What is mainstream or extreme at one point in time does not have to be, nor remain, so. The second point is that the mainstream is not essentially good, rational, or moderate. While public discourse in liberal democracies tends to imbue the mainstream or 'centre' with values of reason and moderation, the reality can be quite different as is clearly demonstrated by the simple fact that what is mainstream one day can be reviled, as well as exceptionalised and externalised, as extreme the next, and vice versa." https://www.ideology-theory-practice.org/blog/the-far-right-the-mainstream-and-mainstreaming-towards-a-heuristic-framework #PoliticsStatusQuoMainstream
#OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPNewtGingrich #BrandDisney #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn
Context: response to tweet: #NMUSFOXFNCSeanHannity
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvxmYRNcZ9c #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRickScott #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyJohnFetterman
Supplementary: #VlogThroughConversations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqT_5C0H23E&t=55s
#IRLScholarNoamChomsky
#AdvocacyUSBrookingsInstitutionThomasMann and #AdvocacyUSTheAmericanEnterpriseInstituteNormanOrnstein "The GOP has become an insurgent outlier in American politics. It is ideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition. ...
What happened? Of course, there were larger forces at work beyond the realignment of the South. They included the mobilization of social conservatives after the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the anti-tax movement launched in 1978 by California's Proposition 13, the rise of conservative talk radio after a congressional pay raise in 1989, and the emergence of Fox News and right-wing blogs. But the real move to the bedrock right starts with two names: Newt Gingrich and Grover Norquist.
From the day he entered Congress in 1979, Gingrich had a strategy to create a Republican majority in the House: convincing voters that the institution was so corrupt that anyone would be better than the incumbents, especially those in the Democratic majority. It took him 16 years, but by bringing ethics charges against Democratic leaders; provoking them into overreactions that enraged Republicans and united them to vote against Democratic initiatives; exploiting scandals to create even more public disgust with politicians; and then recruiting GOP candidates around the country to run against Washington, Democrats and Congress, Gingrich accomplished his goal. ...
The GOP's evolution has become too much for some longtime Republicans. Former senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska called his party 'irresponsible' in an interview with the Financial Times in August, at the height of the debt-ceiling battle. 'I think the Republican Party is captive to political movements that are very ideological, that are very narrow,' he said. 'I've never seen so much intolerance as I see today in American politics.'
And Mike Lofgren, a veteran Republican congressional staffer, wrote an anguished diatribe last year about why he was ending his career on the Hill after nearly three decades. 'The Republican Party is becoming less and less like a traditional political party in a representative democracy and becoming more like an apocalyptic cult, or one of the intensely ideological authoritarian parties of 20th century Europe,' he wrote on the Truthout Web site.
Shortly before Rep. West went off the rails with his accusations of communism in the Democratic Party, political scientists Keith Poole and Howard Rosenthal, who have long tracked historical trends in political polarization, said their studies of congressional votes found that Republicans are now more conservative than they have been in more than a century. Their data show a dramatic uptick in polarization, mostly caused by the sharp rightward move of the GOP."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lets-just-say-it-the-republicans-are-the-problem/2012/04/27/gIQAxCVUlT_story.html And https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/08/decline-gop/614983/ And https://www.aei.org/articles/ive-witnessed-the-decline-of-the-republican-party/
#AdvocacyUSAmericansForTaxReformATRGroverNorquist
#1973_RoeVersusWade
Addendum: #WebsiteHuffPostLeeMoran "Longtime political scientist Norman Ornstein on Wednesday explained why he believes the 2024 election is likely to go down as 'the most significant and most destructive' in America's history.
The United States has previously chosen 'bad' and 'incompetent' presidents, Ornstein acknowledged to Zeteo's Mehdi Hasan.
But, reflecting on Donald Trump's victory, Ornstein pointed out that 'we have not elected a president who has made clear during the campaign that he will be a dictator on day one and will destroy or shred the Constitution to whatever degree he feels it is necessary.'
'Even worse,' continued the emeritus scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute think tank, are Trump's 'enablers around him from the Supreme Court through the other institutions.'
'My fear is not just Donald Trump, it is that the guardrails we have built up over two and a half centuries are not going to hold,' he added.
Later, Ornstein expressed his concerns that normal restraints on Trump just don't exist. 'Maybe the worst won't happen, but it's going to be damn close,' he warned." https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/norman-ornstein-2024-election-donald-trump-win_n_672c87e5e4b01cfbdad3d9b4 #IRLJournalistMehdiHasan #VlogZeteo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aWc43M6q8E&t=56s #IRLSecurityAdvisorOliviaTroye #PoliticsAuthoritarianismDictatorship #2024_USPresidentialElection #OrgUSFedAFMArmyMichaelFlynn #IRLPoliticalStrategistSteveBannon #BrandAmazonJeffBezos #BrandMetaMarkZuckerberg #BrandFDRLSTMediaTheFederalistSteveMiller #IRLEntrepreneurElonMusk #PowerControlRegulationDeportation #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #OtheringElitesLiberalCulturalEducated #AdvocacyUSChildrensHealthDefenseRobertFKennedyJr #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #OrgUSFedFoodAndDrugAdministrationFDA #OrgUSNtlInstitutesOfHealthNIH #OrgUSFedNationalWeatherService #BehaviourSchadenfreude #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPLizCheney #TheoryBiasPartisanship
#BrandDisney #ConspiracyTheoryGrooming #IRLEntrepreneurHunterBiden #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCP #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #PhenomnMaskWearing #NMUSCNN #TechServiceNetflix #BrandPfizer #PlatformSMTwitterTWTRTakeover #CaricaturistBenGarrison
#BrandDisney #ConspiracyTheoryGrooming #IRLEntrepreneurHunterBiden #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyKamalaHarris #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #PhenomnMaskWearing #NMUSCNN #TechServiceNetflix #BrandPfizer #PlatformSMTwitterTWTRTakeover #ToponymAmericaNorthUSNewYorkNYCManhattanWorldTradeCenterTwinTowersWTC7 #2001_September11Attacks911
#CaricaturistBenGarrison #OrgClassifPPCNChineseCommunistPartyCCP
Context: "The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released its long-awaited report on the collapse of World Trade 7 following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. 'Our take-home message today is that the reason for the collapse of World Trade Center 7 is no longer a mystery,' NIST lead investigator Shyam Sunder told journalists at this morning's press conference in Gaithersburg, Md. 'WTC 7 collapsed because of fires fueled by office furnishings. It did not collapse from explosives or from diesel fuel fires.'
Conspiracy theorists have long pointed to the collapse of the 47-story structure as key evidence that the U.S. government orchestrated or abetted the 9/11 attacks. No planes struck the building, and the commonly available views of the exterior didn't show significant damage. Yet, at 5:20 pm, 7 hours after the collapse of the Twin Towers (WTC 1 and 2), WTC 7 rapidly fell in on itself. Since WTC 7 housed Secret Service and CIA offices, conspiracy theorists claimed that the building was destroyed in a controlled demolition in order to obliterate evidence of the U.S. government's complicity in the terrorist attacks." https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/design/a3524/4278874/
Supplementary: #IRLYouTuberKarlCoryatAKAEdwardCurrent
#TauntBigTech #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM #LiteralSchoolCollegeUniversity #OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyNancyPelosi #SloganDefundThePolice #PhenomnCensorship #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #TechServiceGoogle #NMUSCNN #PlatformSMTwitterTWTR #ToponymAmericaNorthUSMichigan #ToponymAmericaNorthUSWisconsin #ToponymAmericaNorthUSPennsylvania #ToponymAmericaNorthUSArizonaScottsdale ? #ToponymAmericaNorthUSFlorida
#OrgClassifPPUSDemocraticPartyPOTUSJoeBiden
Context: #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheIntelligencerJonahShepp #ToponymAfghanistan #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostLarryCelona, #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostTamarLapin, #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostTinaMoore, #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostReuvenFenton and #NewspaperUSTabloidNewYorkPostBruceGolding https://nypost.com/2022/01/04/manhattan-da-alvin-bragg-to-stop-seeking-prison-in-some-cases/ #NewspaperUSBrdshtStarTribuneNicolePollack / #NewspaperUSOnlineSheridanPress https://www.thesheridanpress.com/news/regional-news/gas-prices-up-more-than-1-in-2021/article_23440c3a-6f13-11ec-b47c-776837fbe71c.html #WebsiteTheDailyBeastBlakeMontgomery https://www.thedailybeast.com/with-800000-americans-dead-of-covid-19-coronavirus-deaths-under-biden-now-equal-those-under-trump #WebsiteTheConversation https://theconversation.com/supply-chains-in-2022-shortages-will-continue-but-for-some-sellers-the-problem-will-be-too-much-stock-174085 #NewspaperUSBrdshtTheEpochTimesTomOzimek https://www.theepochtimes.com/virginia-parents-sue-school-district-over-crt-curriculum_4177194.html #NarrativeValuesFamilyConcernedParent #TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #EDUUSLoudounCountyPublicSchoolsLCP #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaLoudounCounty #OrgUSTheCenterForDisasterPhilanthropyCDP https://disasterphilanthropy.org/disaster/southern-border-humanitarian-crisis/
#TheoryCriticalRaceTheoryCRT #BrandDrSeuss #1953_TheSneetches #TauntGaslighting #LiteralPetroYuan #BrandKochIndustries
Context: response to #VlogTheJoyfulWarriorTiffany #AdvocacyUSMomsForLibertyTinaDescovich #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPRonDeSantisRDS #AdvocacyUSManhattanInstituteForPolicyResearchChristopherRufo
Supplementary: The Billionaires Bankrolling The US (and Australian) Right: http://folksonomy.co/?permalink=2382
According to: #AdvocacyUSPENAmerica / https://pen.org/stop-woke-act-fits-disturbing-pattern-education-culture-war/ #AdvocacyUSMomsForLiberty: "declared that it would pay a 'CRT bounty' of US$500 for any tips leading to a successful suit against a school" i.e. https://twitter.com/Moms4LibertyNH/status/1459166253084467205
#ToponymEuropeUKLondon55TuftonStreet #AdvocacyTurningPointTPUSA #AdvocacyUSDonorsTrust i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donors_Trust And #AdvocacyUSTheHeritageFoundation i.e. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation
Supplementary: #AdvocacyUSCenterForMediaAndDemocracyCMDSourceWatch https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/DonorsTrust_and_Donors_Capital_Fund_Grant_Recipients
Addendum: #WebsiteHuffPostMollyRedden
"Trump appointed Mizelle to the federal bench in late 2020 over objections from the American Bar Association that she had not been practicing law long enough to be qualified. A search of her other rulings found she had never previously applied corpus linguistics.
Neither Mizelle nor the Judicial Education Institute responded to requests for comment.
In response to the new disclosure, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee who chairs the subcommittee on federal courts and oversight, called for more disclosure surrounding when judges attend ideological educational retreats.
'The multi-pronged billionaire-funded scheme to influence the judiciary includes flying amenable judges to luxury resorts to bathe them in the latest fantastical right-wing legal theories,' he said in a statement to HuffPost. 'At the very least, the public ought to know when judges are attending lavish 'seminars' promoting the agenda of partisan special interests. The Judicial Conference should take a close look at tightening its rules to ensure transparency around such junkets.'
Legal corpus linguistics is not inherently ideological. Nevertheless, as the right-wing legal movement increasingly insists that courts must interpret the law based on 'history and tradition,' conservatives have seized on corpus linguistics as a useful source of legitimacy.
'History,' as described by the conservatives who dominate the federal courts these days, has an uncanny way of mirroring the political beliefs of the modern GOP on issues like gun laws, school prayer, organized labor and abortion rights. Corpus linguistics, the thinking goes, with its air of big data, offers a potential retort to the accusations that judges are simply cherry-picking their view of the past.
But skeptics argue that it's just as easy for an ideologically motivated judge to cherry-pick results from a search engine.
'A lot of what legal corpus work tends to do is allow you to pick and choose your history,' Anya Bernstein, a professor studying legal interpretation at the University of Connecticut School of Law who has written critically of legal corpus linguistics, told HuffPost in March. 'You pick and choose your corpus, you pick and choose what you're putting into the software, you pick and choose your results.'" https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/judges-luxury-travel-mask-mandate_n_665e065be4b0a8b68eea43fa #LiteralVaccineMandate #OrgClassifPPUSRepublicanPartyGOPPOTUSDonaldTrump #IRLJudgeKathrynKimballMizelle #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC #PhenomnMaskWearing #ToponymAmericaNorthUSVirginiaWestTheGreenbrier #WebsiteCorpusOfHistoricalAmericanEnglishCOHA #TheoryLinguisticsCorpusLinguisticsLegal #AdvocacyUSJudicialEducationInstitute #BrandKochIndustriesCharlesKoch #TheoryLinguisticsCorpusLinguistics #EDUUSUniversityOfConnecticutAnyaBernstein #ReasoningFallacyOfIncompleteEvidenceCherryPicking
Addendum: justification framed as a challenge (presumably justification for believing crackpot theories such as QAnon)
criticism of #MetaphorDeceitLugenpresseMainstreamMediaMSM (and the supposed veracity of social media channels for distributing information) i.e. #PhenomnCensorshipOfSocialMedia
Social media used to spread (mis)information about a supposed #OrgUSFedCentersForDiseaseControlAndPreventionCDC claim from a friend-of-friend about the trustworthiness of food sources and their link to #ToponymAsiaChina