Red Scare Rising (Conspirituality podcast)

Back in the fall, Trump's NSPM-7 redirected the FBI, DOJ, and IRS toward "left-wing political violence," opening the door to labeling domestic groups terrorist organizations — despite three independent datasets (New America, CSIS, even the ADL!) showing right-wing violence outpacing left-wing violence by factors of 9-to-1 or greater. Last week, Rubio's "Ministerial on the Resurgence of Political Terrorism" internationalized this McCarthy reboot.

Central to the rhetoric of Rubio and Miller is framing leftist politics as being driven by envy and resentment rather than a response to inequality. Matthew traces this rhetoric, empirically contradicted by relative deprivation research, back through Nietzsche, Scheler, Schoeck, and Rand.

Four days after the Ministerial, the State Department's Cuba report named 70+ Americans — from spies to wedding guests — as one undifferentiated network, a scapegoat machine now churning out congressional subpoenas, a federal grand jury, and a widening dragnet.
Interview: 

https://www.conspirituality.net/episodes/brief-red-scare-rising

Is Joe McCarthy BACK FROM THE DEAD?!

 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ccylSHAyA6Y

 

Ex-US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy says he will leave Congress | Reuters

"I have decided to depart the House at the end of this year to serve America in new ways," McCarthy, 58, wrote...

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/ex-us-house-speaker-kevin-mccarthy-says-he-will-leave-congress-2023-12-06/

Kevin McCarthy shows his ignorance about American history in new video

"In his own odd way, McCarthy is recapitulating one of the central tenets of nineteenth century Manifest Destiny: that everyone wanted to be part of the US, so any US military action was not a hostile invasion but rather a liberation," Jacoby wrote. "President Polk and others in the 1840s, for example, spoke of taking 'bloodless possession' of California and New Mexico rather than admit that the U.S. seized these territories by force." 

Correcting McCarthy's falsehoods is not just a matter of getting the historical record right. It's crucial to counter the way that many on the right — and some liberals — downplay or whitewash America's history of expansionism and imperialism in order to foster a dangerous brand of American chauvinism…

https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/kevin-mcarthy-video-american-war-history-rcna126816

‘Here we are again’: Why the GOP is exactly where it was before ousting McCarthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkZHPiLOKg

“Oh My Gosh, It Was Great” - Rep. Kinzinger on Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s Ouster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjUQLSVz-zY

Adam Kinzinger: Kevin McCarthy Is the Man to Blame - The Atlantic

Kinzinger: "I can name names for an hour. A couple off the top of my head: One of the ones I'm most disappointed in generally is [former House Speaker] Kevin McCarthy, because I always thought that McCarthy had some version of a political soul. And I've come to realize that to him it was all about just the attainment of power. Somebody like Ted Cruz never surprised me. He's always been a charlatan. But Lindsey Graham has also been a big disappointment to me, because I've traveled with Lindsey, leading congressional-delegation trips around the world. I always thought he and I were eye to eye on a lot of these foreign-policy issues. And to watch him so closely adopt and closely support Donald Trump, when Trump was doing exactly what Graham was preaching against just prior to Trump's arrival on the scene, was a pretty disappointing moment."

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/adam-kinzinger-renegade-prodemocracy-republicans/675846/

Fed up Fox reporter CALLS OUT McCarthy amid Speaker chaos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDRbabUdhOQ

9 questions about Kevin McCarthy’s downfall and House GOP chaos, answered

Here are your biggest questions about the fallout from McCarthy's ousting and what could happen next, answered...

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/10/4/23903781/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-house-chaos-questions-answered

Weekly Roundup: Through the Gaetz of Hell (Bradley Onishi and Daniel Miller; Straight White American Jesus podcast)

Brad begins with an analytical discussion of political nihilism in order to provide a window into the chaos in congress created by the ouster of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. 

They then provide a historical timeline of government shutdowns and congressional chaos going back to the Tea Party. 

For Dan, this is a long time coming – a populist revolt with no goal except for destruction. 

For Brad, it is a matter of political fantasy and the refusal to live in a world of political complexity, negotiation, and disagreement.

Interview: 

https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/weekly-roundup-through-the-gaetz-of-hell/

Steve Bannon is leading 'a project at war with the Constitution': law professor - Raw Story

"A gloating Steve Bannon concisely caught the underlying hard-right goal of driving Kevin McCarthy from the speakership: Dismantle people's belief that 'government is a benefit,'" he argued. "The project is pure chutzpah: Disable Congress in plain sight, and then loudly complain that the government you've just wrecked doesn't work. In its method and its aims, it is a project at war with the Constitution."…

https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-2665814861/

Historian Heather Cox Richardson: GOP “Has Become an Extremist Faction” ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1BOEW7zfnQ

Opinion | Why Is the Public’s Business at the Mercy of a Few Extremists? - The New York Times

But political polarization is not the excuse for inaction that so many grandstanding politicos too often take it to be. With a divided Congress, the only way to get any legislation passed is with some support from the center of both parties. A Congress that operated in a more bipartisan manner could move the country beyond its impasses over issues like immigration or the sustainability of the social safety net. A more confident center-right party that doesn't genuflect to Donald Trump would have an easier time achieving those ambitious acts of self-governance...

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/03/opinion/kevin-mccarthy-speaker-vote.html

In Memory McCarthy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBwIajgyjiw

Rick Reacts: Kevin's Ousting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Bk6DGDpx4M

McCarthy ousted as House speaker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJfX9zSVQmo

U.S. preps for government shutdown ‘about nothing’ amid Republican confusion - The Washington Post

"Gaetz is threatening the speaker's job if he works with Democrats, while leaving no choice to but to rely on Democratic votes," said Liam Donovan, who worked for the National Republican Senatorial Committee. "The entire exercise is designed to fail. It's all impressively nihilistic."…

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/09/29/government-shutdown-gop-seinfeld/

Rep. Porter Quotes Speaker McCarthy for Why the GOP Impeachment Inquiry is Illegitimate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VtQM2lMAR4

Trump breaks with McCarthy, pushing Republicans to shut down the government

Asked about Trump's comments on Monday, McCarthy responded: "I think we're much stronger when we stay open. I don't understand how not paying the troops and not paying our border agents ... what we're trying to do is secure our border. That would be a part of funding the government, would be securing the border."…

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/trump-breaks-mccarthy-republicans-government-shutdown-rcna117192

WHOA: Matt Gaetz publicly screws over his OWN party

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wux3S-5zXzY