Refried Boogaloo: Trump Just... Sucks

I love these historical debates - e.g the criticism of Shirer's account of Nazi Germany by historians

I think it's particular relevant when examining the last decade in politics, because many of the theories haven't stood up at all.

 

Of course—there was a reflexively libertarian streak to punk that could easily veer into right wing support.

I wasn’t arguing that there are no right wing punks, I’m arguing that in 2026 it’s not the genre that comes to mind when thinking of MAGA-friendly entertainment.

For the record—I tend to think punk was something of an overrated dead end—more of a final gasp than anything.

 

Same for Greenland more or less. Written sources are scarce so it’s been a matter of piecing together archeological evidence and testing established narratives against that evidence.

 

I think most of these comparisons between MAGA / groyperism / fascism to the early culture 80s don't make any sense in context - rather you are correct that the libertarian/anarchistic streak in subcultures could veer in to the 'new right' revolutionary vibe of the time.

For me the big misunderstanding of the 80s is that it was not a reactionary era, even though it was dominated by conservatives - MAGA is by contrast reactionary.

There is perhaps a shared nihilsim and of course racism

 

A mentor of mine was in England at the time that punk etc got sawed off by the new romantic era. He used to hold forth on it at great length - funny to imagine that at the time we discussed these things in 94, it was only a decade later!

But of course many of the new romantics themselves were a counter culture. Seems strange to imagine that now

The hedonistic style of the time was of course very yuppie/tory, but culture club etc were very much not tories!

 

You could be right about that, but its easy to forget that being a new right hedonist was itself somewhat of a counter culture in the first years. It is of course true that a lot of the wonderful pop culture of the time was in itself a reaction to Thatcher, but in general the whole 'neo liberal economic revolution' did also unleash a general social liberalism IMO

In any event, the era didn't share the current reactionary, back to the 50s vibe that is for sure

 

Remember that dude who posted here who claimed he had to vote for Trump to protect the dollar?

LMAO

 

Let's face it, when you met a skin head in the street in 1982, he was unlikely to be into Thatcher, whether he was a leftist or a neo-nazi

 

I think you're conflating "command economy" with "state socialism" (in fairness, there's a lot of overlap between the two).

I agree that MAGA is somewhat ideologically incoherent, and I'd argue that we're seeing a collapse of old left/liberal vs right/conservative dichotomies.

 

Because it is part of Denmark, which is part of NATO and the EU and the EC, which also has the ECB. Trump may think it is just a small place that he can bully, and even bully a smaller place like Denmark, but he's never been willing to deal with the complexities of NATO or the EU, so he doesn't have a clue as to how they will operate. And he also doesn't understand the viciousness of soft power. But others do. And there will be lots of back channel warnings and threats and will get those who know to tell Trump to back off.

And this is all because of how easy Trump thinks it was to kidnap Maduro. At the least, Rubio will be telling him in private meetings that this is a bad idea.

 

While JD couldn't hold MAGA together, and has been more openly racist, he is also likely to be more stable, in part because he's not got dementia.

 

This confirms that Powell is a political enemy.

There was talk on Friday night/Saturday morning that committees were set to spike on Monday and into the future. I suppose some had insight into this, but probably a more general market sentiment preparing for the tariff ruling from SCOTUS.