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For anyone without a New Yorker subscription, these journalists are podcasters. This investigation is season 3 of In the Dark. I found it worthwhile and recommendable, which I admit understates the lengths they went to in unearthing the story.
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They let him off easy. I couldnāt figure out how exactly theyāre related, but Richard Mellon Scaife is a big part of the reason weāre in the political mess we are today day. Americans distrusted corporations in the 1970s - tobacco, Dow Chemical, Naderās Unsafe at Any Speedā¦ also low income inequality. In response, future SCOTUS Justice Powell - who was on the board of Philip Morris and close friends with GMās general counsel wrote what was intended to be secret memo for members of the US Chamber of Commerce:
āAttack on American Free Enterprise Systemā was written to transform corporate America into a āvanguard.ā Contents include āthe American economic system is under attackā¦ [enemies are] perfectly respectable elements of societyā¦the college campus, the pulpit*, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, politicians.ā Capitalists need to wage āguerrilla warfareā against those seeking to āinsidiouslyā undermine them. āCapture public opinion by exerting influence over the institutions that shape it - academia, the media, the churches, and the courts - to control debate at its source.ā Said donors should demand a say in university hiring and curriculum and āpress vigorously in all political arenas.ā Key to victory is ācareful long-range planning and implementationā with a āscale of financing available only through joint effort.ā The memo spurred the ultra-conservative foundations to weaponize their āphilanthropicā giving to āfight a multi-front war of influence over American political thought.ā
The Coors family heeded the call first, followed by Mellon Scaife who massively overshadowed the Coorsā. These foundations, that only existed for inheritance tax avoidance, were weaponized right at this momentā¦ two months before Powell was nominated to The Court.
Thatās how close we came to living in a good timeline.
And Iām only 1/4 of the way through Jane Mayerās Dark Money; maybe just a tip of an iceberg. Iād suggest itās required reading for every American. I should add Mayer is also responsible for unmasking Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice, the source for nearly everything we know about his grotesque history. I havenāt read it.
*this was pre-Moral Majority, but not by much.
Does a news article contain a question mark? Then itās not a news article.
Heās a Mellon. I couldnāt figure out how theyāre related, but Richard Mellon Scaife is a big part of the reason weāre in the political mess we are today day. Americans distrusted corporations in the 1970s - tobacco, Dow Chemical, Naderās Unsafe at Any Speedā¦ also low income inequality. In response, future SCOTUS Justice Powell - who was on the board of Philip Morris and close friends with GMās general counsel wrote what was intended to be secret memo for members of the US Chamber of Commerce:
āAttack on American Free Enterprise Systemā was written to transform corporate America into a āvanguard.ā Contents include āthe American economic system is under attackā¦ [enemies are] perfectly respectable elements of societyā¦the college campus, the pulpit*, the media, the intellectual and literary journals, the arts and sciences, politicians.ā Capitalists need to wage āguerrilla warfareā against those seeking to āinsidiouslyā undermine them. āCapture public opinion by exerting influence over the institutions that shape it - academia, the media, the churches, and the courts - to control debate at its source.ā Said donors should demand a say in university hiring and curriculum and āpress vigorously in all political arenas.ā Key to victory is ācareful long-range planning and implementationā with a āscale of financing available only through joint effort.ā The memo spurred the ultra-conservative foundations to weaponize their āphilanthropicā giving to āfight a multi-front war of influence over American political thought.ā
The Coors family heeded the call first, followed by Mellon Scaife who massively overshadowed the Coorsā. These foundations, that only existed for inheritance tax avoidance, were weaponized right at this momentā¦ two months before Powell was nominated to The Court.
Thatās how close we came to living in a good timeline.
And Iām only 1/4 of the way through Jane Mayerās Dark Money; maybe just a tip of an iceberg. Iād suggest itās required reading for every American. I should add Mayer is also responsible for unmasking Clarence Thomas in Strange Justice, the source for nearly everything we know about his grotesque history. I havenāt read it.
*this was pre-Moral Majority, but not by much.
Itās a convention, we donāt have to mock his supporters for having some mirth. IDK what this sour author is going to say when people are having fun wearing Joe or Kamala masks at our convention, whatever that situation may be. This is what party conventions are- people wear flag suits and ridiculous hats. Let people have their fun. Christ. We donāt have to be negative about every goddamn thing. Some things are OK.
Great point. It took an entire world war that one time.
I hadnāt before heard about what happened in NH. Fascinating.
Itās seeming like a tide of unthinkability bias is awashing the country. Maybe thereās a better word for the phenomenon where one just canāt contemplate what could be a really bad problem. Or if one can, āoh but [the grim outcome] is so far down the roadā¦ā
Really upset with all the straight, white lawmakers in my state that decided to ban any rifle that performs better than grandpaās deer rifle. Trump is going to win and there will be purges. There always are when a new dictator comes to power.
And the very ruling this article is talking about would make him immune if he makes it an order.
Just so weāre all calling a spade a spade, tea party roots = Koch roots
Itās hard when living in a panopticon. Even the smallest PDs have thermal drones, night vision, fully automatic weapons, ALPRs, facial recognition, security cameras tracking you from the nextdoor neighborās Ring to the network of cameras at every turn in a population center. Anyone that tries to make the world a better place in that way also throws away their own life. And thatās if you never use a computer.
Right now, the best use of the second amendment is keeping some weapon in a safe until the purges begin. Trans people will be probably be their first target. Then the LGBs, then anyone whose medical record reflects an abortion or adjacent procedureā¦
Things Christian Nationalists have already put into the record:
Day 1 Trump becomes a dictator; Day 1 insurrection act martial law; Replace the DOJ and FBI with loyalists to go weaponize them against the presidents āenemies;ā His non-followers are vermin instead of Americans; āWe are domestic terroristsā banner at CPAC;
Every authoritarian I can think of has tried to purge a population. Itās a way more common occurrence in human history than democracy. Itās just this time the recently unmasked fascists in Silicon Valley already know what every Americanās political beliefs are and where they are at any given time.
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Why might that be? I ask as someone who doesnāt follow the court until it crosses my eyeline, as with this article.
Would you mind expanding on this? The idea piqued my interest, but couldnāt find information on that connection when looking for myself.