{"id":186,"date":"2025-04-29T16:38:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:38:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/political-crapulosity\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:38:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:38:14","slug":"political-crapulosity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2025\/04\/29\/political-crapulosity\/","title":{"rendered":"Political Crapulosity"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the early 'eighties I subscribed to The New Republic<\/em>. But in those days it hadn't yet become the politically crapulous rag it is now.  Try to wrap your head around this load<\/a> of garbage:<\/span><\/p>\n

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There is much to say about these 100 days. The odor of fascism is unmistakable\u2014and entirely intentional. The bullying of universities and law firms . . . the purposeful lawlessness of so many actions, designed to force showdown after showdown at what Trump assumes will be a pliant Supreme Court; the daily inversion of reality peddled by Karoline Leavitt, Cabinet officials, and not least Trump himself.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Refutation would be easy enough. But this stuff is beneath refutation. You don't refute lunatics or engage them in conversation. <\/span><\/p>\n

We have a war on our hands, friends, and you'd better man and woman up.  Especially you young people who can expect to be around for a while.<\/span><\/p>\n

How much of this vitriolic filth is TDS and how much willfully perverse self-enstupidation? How could anyone in his right mind fail to see the good that  Trump has done in a scant 100 days?  <\/span><\/p>\n

You are well-advised to invest in precious metals in the broad sense of the term.  Our political enemies are just that, enemies: there can be no peace with them. I now seriously question whether we should remain polite in our dealings with them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the early 'eighties I subscribed to The New Republic. But in those days it hadn't yet become the politically crapulous rag it is now.  Try to wrap your head around this load of garbage: There is much to say about these 100 days. The odor of fascism is unmistakable\u2014and entirely intentional. The bullying of … Continue reading “Political Crapulosity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-ponerology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}