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This administration, at the urging of Dark Enlightenment CEO-king philosophy, has articulated it will ignore the courts. If they are going to trigger a constitutional crisis, with how central the tariffs as bludgeon strategy is to Trump and how unpopular tariffs are, this would be the time. They’ve already projected their desire to do so which would play into the tech oligarchs belief of mimetic theory of scapegoating the Trump and install their vassal Vance to carry their agenda of dismantling democracy and destroying America across the finish line.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/02/11/jd-vance-trump-executive-power-supreme-court-00203537
They can try, but Vance can't unite branches of MAGA around a cult of personality the way Trump does. It'd crumble fast.
I suspect they know that, and it's why they haven't tried already.
It seems that "JD" "Vance" is there to rep the Thiel/Andreesen/Musk types. And as fucking weird as Donbald is on so many levels, the kinds of things that influence that bunch is next-level weird, and that's saying a LOT when we are contrasting with Donbald. Donbald is weird and racist and incredibly selfish; these others have a very weird ideology.
I strongly recommend everyone read The Sovereign Individual to see what I'm talking about. The absolute seething disregard for what they keep talking about as unskilled labor and how they get/got paid too much during the Industrial Revolution. How they look forward with glee at the notion that the information age will unleash the worthy from taxes and any sort of social responsibility to other humans, basically.
I have not finished it yet, but so far, it's a repackaging of Ayn Rand and her Galt's Gulch horseshit, but instead of being presented in really shitty sci-fi lit, it's presented as a nearly-sure outcome.
I haven't read anything by Curtis Yarvin, but interviews with him are just...bonkers. Not sure if there is anything people would recommend reading about/by him that would give more insight into his cult.
If you want to see one example of the dreck these idiots are following regarding disabled or 'unskilled' people, check this wack shit out:
Yarvin follows with a "just kidding", but is he???? Why is every other part of that shitty manifesto stated seriously, but this one thing is a joke???
I think this is one of the first times that this weirdo hit my radar, actually.
I mean, later, I watched him get interviewed by The New Yorker, I think it was, and it was just....nuts.
Lesson from history: first come for the Nazis. And, among the Nazis, first come for the propagandists.
That way we won't be subjected to even further Niemöller copypasta. And we'll be rid of some Nazis too.
They're exposing it, not endorsing it