joanwestenberg

Anti-vaxx is a classic upper-class luxury belief.

You reject vaccines, not because you’ve studied the science, but because your zip code has a 97% vaccination rate.

It’s not just that Trump officials don’t know how government works.

It’s that they think you are the fool for expecting them to.

The GOP didn’t get Trumped. It got everything it ever asked for: white, loud, cruel, and allergic to accountability.

Trump’s birthday party gets tanks.

Your grandma loses Medicaid.

That’s the deal.

The Trump doctrine: tweet tariffs into being, walk them back when the market flinches, and pretend volatility is strategy.

Scott Bessent sold you trickle-down garbage in 2017. It didn’t work. Now he’s selling it again—with tariffs, fewer rules, and more lies.

The president is confused, slurring, repeating himself, fixated on Obama, and openly unsure if he’s bound by the Constitution.

The diagnosis is on display.

The crisis is cognitive.

And nobody around him dares to say it out loud.

The Daily Caller, a right-wing propaganda mill masquerading as a news outlet, published an op-ed by Lila Rose on May 2, 2025, titled “The Abortion Pill Is Poison, Not Medicine.” That headline tells you everything. It’s an ideological manifesto loaded with pseudo-medical jargon, emotional blackmail, and outright misinformation. The Caller has long been a vessel for reactionary drivel, but this piece is a particular case study in how the anti-abortion movement launders theological doctrine through the language of public health.

The international immune system is activating. Democracy, flawed and fragile, is developing antibodies against a very specific kind of viral politics. The backlash is electoral, cultural, and institutional. And it is spreading.

The executive order says “protect the innocent.”

What it means is:

Kill reform. Shield abuse. Punish resistance.

Trump just signed an authoritarian wishlist—and we’re breaking it down, line by line.

Instead of confronting fascism, Thomas Friedman invented a whole new political identity based on... squints at notes... Google's self-driving car subsidiary.

You can't make this stuff up.

And nor should you.

My analysis of elite denial...

The U.S. didn’t get conned. It chose the con.

Because every filter—media, voters, donors—was calibrated for charisma.

Not wisdom. Not skill. Not integrity.

Just the loudest guy in the room.