#rightwing
No analysis of the predicates for today's GOP is adequate without the context of the NeoConfederates who have passed on their forefathers' grudge about losing the Civil War, and the prominent place that Arizona plays in that. See also AZ Governor Ev Mecham.
♲ Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 - 2024-08-20 17:45:50 GMT
🔴 🇺🇸 🗳️ History professor examines Nelson Rockefeller’s career as a lens for Republican Party’s rightward shift“When Ronald Reagan left office, people like Newt Gingrich were more antagonistic and had a more ideological approach to conservatism. They kept pushing the party further and further to the right. What we see now in the Republican party is part of this long tradition during the 20th century,” Barrett said. “It will continue down this path as long as enough voters find this version of conservatism attractive.”
🔗 https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/1960461744
#History #Histodon #HIstodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Rightwing #Republicans #Conservatives #Politics #USPolitics #USPol #Elections @histodon @histodons
‘His rhetoric has made Tesla toxic’: is Elon Musk driving away his target market?
Elon #Musk has long flirted with #rightwing politics, and delights in pushing an image of himself as a contrarian showman. Yet in recent months the billionaire’s political allegiances have started to raise a question for Tesla, the company that he built into the world’s largest electric carmaker: just how far can he go before customers start to abandon his products?
The German pharmacy chain Rossmann was one of the first to put its head above the parapet this week. The family-owned company announced that it would not add to the 34 #Teslas in its company fleet because of Musk’s endorsement of Donald #Trump for US president.
“Trump has repeatedly called #ClimateChange a hoax,” wrote Raoul Roßmann, a spokesperson for Rossmann. “This attitude is in stark contrast to Tesla’s mission to contribute to environmental protection through the production of electric cars.”
From Mehdi Hasan
♲ Peter Link 🍉 🇨🇺 🇵🇸 - 2024-08-08 19:06:52 GMT
WATCH: ‘Israel’s Reel Extremism’ - A Startling New Documentary from Zeteo
[The first 10 minutes is viewable for free Zeteo subscribers, the entire 40-minute film is viewable for paid subscribers.]#IsraelsReelExtremism is an on-the-ground examination of #Israel after many months of war, seen through the prism of social media posts from #Gaza - and interviews with the soldiers behind them. These posts across #TikTok and #Instagram, some shared millions of times, show soldiers humiliating bound #Palestinians, ransacking their homes, joking as they detonate schools and whole districts, and laughing as they launch high explosive ordnance into densely-packed areas. The award-winning team behind this #BasementFilms production traveled to Israel to interview soldiers, #radical #activists, #rightwing politicians, and media personalities, revealing an Israeli #Jewish society that is gripped by vengeance and hate.https://zeteo.com/p/israel-documentary-social-media?r=2y9nd&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
#media #news #press #Palestine @palestine @israel
Typical #RightWing rant about #CancelCulture. I posted a comment, they deleted it LOL ;-) #AnneMarieWaters #ClearwaterBahais #Politics #Irony #Hypocrisy
#RightWing lunatics in the #GOP to weaken support for #Ukraine to help them win the war.
And racist morons like #PatsyGreene (my new name for #EmptyGreen) are only too happy to help.
Lord these #Republicans are stupid. 🤦♂️ 🙄
https://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/watch/watch-alex-wagner-tonight-highlights-april-17-209233989661
How Corporate America Invented Christian America
Inside one reverend’s big business-backed 1940s crusade to make the country conservative again.
By KEVIN M. KRUSE April 16, 2015
This is an older, but relevant, article that gives some insight into the rise of Christian Nationalism. It compliments nicely Elizabeth Fones-Wolf's book, The Business Assault on Labor and Liberalism (1994). I've only just started The Power Worshipers by Katherine Stewart but highly recommend it. Lastly, I'll include a link to Political Research Associates and their work on uncovering Right-Wing funding.
#religion #ChristianNationalism #RightWing #authoritarianism #conservatism #liberalism #libertarianism #business #fascism
#Project 2025, if allowed, will cement #America as a #rightwing #authoritarian state
BARRINGTON SALMON
JANUARY 16, 2024
..."Project 2025 is a sweeping rightwing blueprint for the next #Republican #president, Trump or not, to run the country for the foreseeable future. Funded by The Heritage Foundation, Koch Brothers and a vast and secretive dark money network, the project has recruited at least 80 far-right organizations and entities to the cause.
Conservative warriors’ plan “to defund the Department of Justice, dismantle the FBI, break up the Department of Homeland Security and eliminate the Departments of Education and Commerce,” the 30-chapter, 920-page tome says.
The president would have “complete power over quasi-independent agencies such as the FCC, which makes and enforces rules for television and internet companies that have been the bane of Trump’s political existence in the last few years. And they want to ensure that what remains of this slashed-down bureaucracy is reliably MAGA conservative — not just for the next president but for a long time to come — and that the White House maintains total control of it.”
Project 2025 offers proposals to deregulate targeted industries, privatize government functions and help American corporations to make more money at the expense of American workers, the middle class and everyone except the oligarchs and the 1%.
Meyerson, editor-at-large at The American Prospect, said far-right conservatives and The Heritage Foundation have an extensive enemies’ list that includes “welfare recipients, lazy and liberal civil servants, anti-business regulators, environmentalists, and union bosses, “scientists, woke bureaucrats, woke educators, woke diplomats, woke generals and admirals, woke G-men, and anyone who doesn’t indulge the next Republican president’s every whim (an adaptation to the likelihood of a Trump nomination),” in the commentary titled, “The Far Right Has a Plan to Remake America. They Even Wrote It Down.”
Those in charge in the incoming administration are prepared to purge those deemed disloyal after identifying and interviewing “every Treasury Department official who participated in its DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion) activities and programs, and make such activity ‘“per se grounds for termination of employment.”’
Leonard Leo, a major right-wing donor who significantly influenced and shaped the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority under Trump, has been a major fundraiser for Project 2025. (On Nov. 30, the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary voted to subpoena Leo “as part of an ethics probe into undisclosed financial ties to U.S. Supreme Court justices.”)
According to a press release from the nonprofit Accountable.US, recent reporting from NBC shows that “The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, stepped up efforts to boost its Project 2025 initiative by ramping up grants to the venture aimed at creating a ‘government-in-waiting’ for the next Republican presidential administration, according to a new tax filing.
“The foundation distributed over $1.67 million in grants in 2022 — including a total of $965,000 to organizations on the advisory board of Project 2025, tax records show. These donations accounted for 58% of Heritage’s total grant-making in 2022.
“Project 2025’s board of more than 80 conservative organizations includes nearly 40 that have received funding from dark-money groups linked to Leonard Leo … a prolific fundraiser, Leo is affiliated with an extensive network of tax-exempt groups, including DonorsTrust, a donor-advised nonprofit that directs money to other organizations and groups seeking to influence policy.”...
What's next for Argentina under far-right President Javier Milei? | UpFront
Argentines will have a new president taking office this Sunday. The far-right, self-described “anarcho-capitalist” Javier Milei secured a resounding victory ...#AlJazeera #AlJazeeraEnglish #JavierMilei #alJazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralive #aljazeeravideo #aljazeera #aljazeeraEnglish #aljazeeralatest #aljazeeralive #aljazeeralivenews #argentina #economy #farright #government #latestnews #newsheadlines #politics #rightwing #southamerica #upfront
What's next for Argentina under far-right President Javier Milei? | UpFront
It's about time:
Right-wing media championed Trump’s 2020 fake elector scheme now being reviewed by a federal grand jury
Right-wing media figures popularized and defended the Trump team’s last-ditch effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election through a scheme to nullify the election results, which is now under investigation by a special counsel — and some of the fake electors have reportedly already testified to a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C.
The scheme, cooked up by former Trump lawyers John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, sought to create “alternate” slates of electors in favor of former President Donald Trump in seven swing states that voted for Joe Biden. At the time, several right-wing media figures supported the scheme to undermine the 2020 election, with some calling for key states to appoint their own alternate electors. Other right-wing media figures such as One America News host Christina Bobb and “Stop the Steal” organizer Ali Alexander were directly involved in engineering the fake elector scheme. ...
Rest of story -> https://www.mediamatters.org/voter-fraud-and-suppression/right-wing-media-championed-trumps-2020-fake-elector-scheme-now-being
#rightwing #media
#BBC will not broadcast #DavidAttenborough episode over fear of #rightwing backlash | BBC | The Guardian
The BBC parially censoring itself. So much for its editorial independence.
Conservatives hate science and hate the word science as if it's a dirty word
Bill would ban the teaching of scientific theories in Montana schools - 1st, Montana considers outlawing #electricvehicles, now this? Has the state gone entirely crazy? It appears so.
#education #science #teaching #schools #conservatives #conservativemadness #rightwing #antieducation #montana
Bill would ban the teaching of scientific theories in Montana
Bios from The Right Stuff dating app
More: https://www.theonion.com/best-bios-from-the-conservatives-only-online-dating-sit-1849642523
Meat as #manliness. We explore the origins of “soy boy” and the rise of internet sensation #LiverKing (aka Brian Johnson) who looks like a cartoon caveman on steroids and calls himself a lifestyle coach, CEO, and “primal” — all while owning a mansion, a fleet of vehicles, an array of guns and even a private jet. Behind his carefully crafted social #media shenanigans, of course, Liver King owns a dozen companies selling a vast array of supplements to his followers.
Manclan is a new #podcast series by Annie Kelly and Julian Feeld exploring the digital world of #masculinity influencers, esoteric manliness rituals, and alpha men. Covering everything from pick up artists to weightlifters, from #NewAge #health perverts to #neo-fascist|s, it’ll also be touching on the pre-internet #history of masculinity and men’s movements.
https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/qaa-presents-manclan-e1-liver-king-vs-the-soy-boys #rightwing #sexism #religion