Eric -
Roberts is the one I have to work harder to find words for. Not because it is
hard to know what I think of him, but because it is hard to put the right terms
together. It’s a kind of blandly presented disingenuousness, but so
over-the-top disingenuous that that is where I run out of
Thanks. That makes it clearer. I had written, in response to Steve, a
whole diatribe on the convexity of the space (or lack thereof) and how
the space-filling curve of our laws and distributed court and
executive system constrains the space of outcomes ... totally without
any kind of Thielian
Yeah. Worse than that.
If I look at Thomas and Alito, I’m not sure it would even be necessary to bribe
them, apart from some coordination services. They are both characters of
grievance. In that sense, not far removed at all from the MAGAs on the street.
Mostly they want to poke somebody in
A little nitpickery (disambiguation?) of my own, larded and marbled in:
The MAGAs aren't the wealthy, they are envious of the wealthy. DJT included.
Yes, MAGAs are not wealthy except relatively as we all are... but I
think there is a skew there... the truly wealthy backing MAGA are in
fact us
Well, maybe. But a significant part of The Plan is indoctrination and
court-packing through the Federalist Society. So maybe Thomas is a useful
idiot. But maybe Gorsuch, ACB, and Alito are purposeful. I'm not clear on
Kavanaugh. He's a political operator rather than a court-side purist. That
c
I think SCOTUS might be useful idiots too. Easily bribed like with a motor
home and free vacations.
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Right. MAGA are the usef
Right. MAGA are the useful idiots being exploited by the conservative arm of SCOTUS to push through
the Unitary Executive, which, in turn, is the "useful idiot" being exploited by the
wealthy to achieve the oligarchy as a stepping stone. And to some extent, this is Thiel's
"Straussian Moment" o
The MAGAs aren't the wealthy, they are envious of the wealthy. DJT included.
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I worry this is too conspiratorial. The only way I
I worry this is too conspiratorial. The only way I can see it sustaining is if we take selfishness
as a core human trait in the same way we take reason/rationality as a core human trait. Both are
false as crisp categories. But there's enough of either (and their inverses - self-sacrificing and
