Notices by A.R. Moxon, Verified Duck 🦆 (juliusgoat@mastodon.social)

I for one am amazed that allowing the world's stupidest man to bellow like an idiot while swinging a sledgehammer into every surface encountered has not fixed all of our problems but has instead made all problems worse and caused new ones. It makes no sense; he had the longest tie, the goldest hair.

I used the 1-year anniversary of moving my newsletter off of Substack (they monetize Nazis among other things it turns out) to write a few thoughts on the lessons I've learned from the experience.

https://www.the-reframe.com/1-year-after-substack

I'm no epidemiologist, but what if for public health we got rid of all the scientists and their centuries of human knowledge clawed from the vast sea of human ignorance with rigor and testing, and turn it all over to people who were educated by vape-pen bro podcasts and their own magical thinking.

I’m not an efficiency expert but for our space program I think the best thing would be to shut down the federal agency that successfully implemented history’s first moon landing and turn it all over to a white supremacist con man who glues his trucks together.

Hello, I’m a disruptor, very smart, here to create efficiency. I’m just going to drill holes in the bottom of this boat to see which parts of the hull are mission-critical.

Democrats giving up on trans rights because they poll badly is like a sports team deciding to score on their own goal instead of the opponent’s because that’s what’s been getting the loudest cheers lately.

Not uniquely evil for the U.S. to stand in solidarity with a despot aggressor and in opposition to a democracy when that democracy is inconvenient and the despot is convenient, but the Zelenskyy shakedown strikes me as uniquely unprofessional. Trump/Vance are sloppy mob henchmen, real Fredo shit.

This GOP Nazi salute business isn't new.

"What interests me is the fact of the gesture, and people’s response to it which is to deliberately not know what it is. A lot of people really don’t want to know that it was what it is, and they have plenty of help."

https://www.the-reframe.com/sabotage-part-4-foundational-lies

I have learned in recent years there are 10s of millions of Americans not only willing but eager to go watch a lynching from the comfort of a picnic blanket and the only thing that was holding them back was the social penalty; really makes you think about those who warn against social penalties.

In 2023 I wrote about my bully, margins of permission, and the popular misguided idea that the way to stop fascists is by persuading them them to not be cruel, rather than persuading them that if they are cruel we will fight them—because a bully hates a fight.

https://www.the-reframe.com/youve-persuaded-us-already/

This "Gulf of America" is just another fascist loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up into camps or look the other way while you do it. Anyone who won't puts themselves on the round-up list.

If the president can ignore court orders and illegally circumvent Congress, there is no Constitution. It’s gone. There’s no enumerated right that the president can’t take from you, no law Congress can pass that is binding, and no court that can protect you from any of it. It’s the whole ballgame.

I wrote about the clarifying power of simple declarations of basic truths and decency; how they show us what we stand for, and how they expose what indecent liars stand for.

Five thoughts on finding our direction in the Republican Party's Nazi America.

https://www.the-reframe.com/the-bishop-and-the-billionaire/

"If one team playing the game stops following the rules, and nothing exists to stop them ... then you aren’t playing that game anymore. You’re playing a different game, defined by the people allowed to go on breaking the rules."

www.the-reframe.com/the-rules/

Lessons from the election: How defending a people-eating system is an electoral liability; how we don't win fights if we don't fight; how we aren't the opponent of those we won't oppose; and how those who do not lead us where we need to go are not our leaders.

https://www.the-reframe.com/being-more-like-republicans/

One good thing about this year is that for the first time in the history of the newsletter, I'm not announcing a move to some other site, and that is a considerable relief. Also, I spent the entirety of this year on the sunny side of 50, though I imagine the upcoming post-50 side is sunny enough.

Well, it looks like we've had another year. We got it fresh and now it's blown all to hell. We just keep having those things whether anyone thinks it's a good idea or not; and it looks almost certain now that in a few days we're going to have another one.

https://www.the-reframe.com/annual-round-up-2024/

And now we're witnessing a near total capitulation by our national institutions to the incompetent oligarchical American fascist party that will be taking the reins in a few weeks. This is a gang of empty-souled corrupt thugs and sex-obsessed bigoted religious creeps, and man fuck those guys I says.

For example, we had a slow seemingly inevitable crawl toward electoral defeat to some of the most horrible people the universe has ever produced, abetted at least in part by Democratic unwillingness to stop providing military and political support to the ongoing genocide of Palestinians in Gaza.

And everyone in my life stayed healthy, and there was no water damage to my house, which isn't always the case in every year. Not bad!

However, in many ways, this year was not a great one here for decent people in my country of the United States of America, and even less great in many other places.