Foundational Myths
Foundational myths: liberal media and profs brainwash (both commies?) which explains why our ideas are not popular/accepted/law
strict father is also foundational/baked in? we old white men who have power deserve to have it (WE BUILT THIS COUNTRY, NOT SLAVES) , and crucial that we maintain our power (by any means necessary) because the alternative is catastrophe: commie takeover...welfare state where lazy young POC (that is non-WHITE) will not work...regulation will strangle economy , nanny (irrational women with power to curtail our freedom to beat them and kids and pollute?) state, green police etc see xian
// four horseman?
privatization, financialization, militarization, and criminalization, which together are producing a steadily creeping authoritarianism
interlock?
RW has PR advantage b/c of four simple interlocking (mutually reinforcing, feedback?) -isms: xian, free mkt, anti-commie, pro-military
XIAN: interlocks with Strict Father, male see founding fr xian
Free Market Capitalism deregulation favored by corporations/ oligarch/ Kochs
Military: is male, xian? chaplains; interesting that vilified when refuse trump coup, also (maybe in the wake of colin k NFl) corps become woke (Desantis Disney big booster) when move to DEI AA or take the wrong side on any wedge/culture war BS, which some CEO clearly recognize as bad for biz. They get feedback immediately and cannot ignore # from a broader base than trumpistas.
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aha/ hmmn 2 25: foundational means essential? long-standing? natural thus invisible thus no evidence needed? [but fabricated endlessly eg when trans rights day falls on easter?]
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TRUMP-ISM RUNS ON UR-MYTHS, JUST MINED? = // PHOBIAS?!
LIB MEDIA, PINKO PROF
CROOKED TAMMANY HALL POL, DEAD PPL VOTE, IMMIGRANTS --> GT REPLACEMENT
WELFARE QUEEN MINNESOTA SOMALI [MUSLIM? ILHAN OMAR] BLK BROWN PPL LAZY CHEAT DISHONEST
ONLY HERITAGE XIAN WHITE PPL MEN WHOULD VOTE/RULE = REAL AMERICANS
DEM WOMAN LUNATIC IRRATIONAL EXTREME MISO ~ STRICT FR USES FORCE TO CORRECT
SPARKED BY
TRUMP SAYS TO GOP MOC ALL ELECTIONS ARE STOLEN?! NO PUSHBACK 1/11/16?
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President Donald Trump is rapidly losing faith in one of his most senior-level Cabinet members, and his complaints about her have lately become more frequent.
That's according to a Monday article in the *Wall Street Journal, which reported that Trump views Attorney General Pam Bondi as "weak and an ineffective enforcer of his agenda." The *Journal cited unnamed administration officials and others close to the president in reporting that Trump is angling for Bondi to be more aggressive in using the Department of Justice (DOJ) to pursue his political enemies.
The Journal further reported that Trump is now considering naming various special counsels to handle investigations into his opponents, as he is unhappy with the pace of Bondi's DOJ in filing criminal charges against his chief rivals. The president is reportedly upset with how the DOJ has handled the investigations of former FBI Director James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) in the Eastern District of Virginia.
The cases against Comey and James were ultimately dismissed after Lindsey Halligan — who Trump appointed to the replace U.S. Attorney Erik Siebert after he was pressured to resign for saying there was insufficient evidence to bring cases — was found to have been improperly appointed.
Trump is also reportedly upset with Bondi over her handling of documents pertaining to convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. According to the Journal, the president publicly agreed with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles when she told Vanity Fair that Bondi "completely whiffed" on the Epstein files and caused months of political consternation for Trump. The president is also reportedly upset that Bondi hasn't done more to investigate the 2020 election, which he lost to Democrat Joe Biden.
The complaints with Bondi also reportedly run deep within Trump's MAGA base. Former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon claimed that Bondi was "bleeding support" from Trump's "most loyal troops" due to a perceived lack of urgency.
"Folks are desperate for action and just haven’t seen it," Bannon said.
The Journal's report comes on the heels of a recently announced DOJ investigation into Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell renovation of its Washington D.C. offices. Powell has maintained that the investigation is due to him refusing to accede to Trump's demand that the Fed lower interest rates. Despite the report, the White House is praising Bondi on the record, with Trump telling the outlet: "Pam is doing an excellent job. She has been my friend for many years. Tremendous progress is being made against radical left lunatics who are good at only one thing, cheating in elections and the crimes they commit."
Click here to read the Journal's full report (subscription required).
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The Christian nationalist program “FlashPoint” has, since its inception, served as a platform for spreading wild conspiracy theories and Christian nationalist disinformation.That pattern continued when “FlashPoint” hosted an event in Oklahoma last week at which former Rep. Michele Bachmann delivered a speech overflowing with falsehoods about the supposedly Christian nature of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence.
While reminiscing about obtaining her law degree from Oral Roberts University, a right-wing evangelical university located in Oklahoma, Bachmann bragged that her professors required the students to learn about the founding of this nation using “primary source documents.”
“So they had us read what is it that the founders read? Who are the philosophers they read?” Bachmann said. “The number one document they referred to when they were trying to figure out what kind of a country we should be; guess what? The Bible!”
As Right Wing Watch has explained multiple times, this claim is a deliberate misrepresentation of a 1984 study conducted by professor Donald S. Lutz of the University of Houston that sought to identify which writers and sources of ideas were most cited in “the political writings of Americans published between 1760 and 1805.” Lutz found that the Bible was cited most frequently solely because many of the pamphlets included in the research were sermons that had been reprinted for mass distribution. Once the sermon pamphlets were excluded, Lutz reported that quotes from the Bible appeared no more frequently in the political writings of the era than citations of the classical or common law.
More importantly, Lutz also noted that when the focus was solely on the public political writings from 1787 to 1788, when the U.S. Constitution was written and ratified, “the Bible’s prominence disappears” almost completely.
Undeterred, Bachmann continued to spread obvious falsehoods.
“[The Founders] looked at all societies throughout all history,” she claimed. “They said, ‘We’ve got a unique chance in all the world to create a society. What should it look like? What should it be based on?’ They studied all societies and those forms of government, and they decided—when they had done all that—they needed to search the word of God. And so you can take the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence [and] you can literally tie it to a Bible verse; about every three or four words, it’s based upon another area of Scripture.”
This claim is, of course, also entirely false.
Both of Bachmann’s claims are either misleading or outright false, which seems to be a common theme as time and again, Christian nationalists spread blatant falsehoods in defense of their ideology, leading one to wonder why, if their position is true, do they have to keep lying to try and “prove” it. Clearly, they simply do not care about the truth as long as these myths remain useful in convincing Americans that the Christian nationalists’ political agenda is justified by our history.
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