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Hekate

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10. It has been deliberately broken. When Bannon said he wanted to "deconstruct" the ...
Sun Feb 23, 2025, 09:31 PM
Feb 2025

… “administrative state” just wtf did people think he meant?! Sure, it was fancy talk so college graduates would know he’d been reading a French philosopher, but even the knuckledraggers could decode the intent.

Our government has had its problems — it is a human construct, after all. But it was bent, not broken. Now it is actually broken, and some parts are smashed to pieces. Putin couldn’t be happier unless he found someone new to toss from the window of a skyscraper.

As for who’s to blame in America, the list is long. Mitch McConnell, who created the current SCOTUS. The GOP, who so willingly whored itself out for power since Reagan. The Christians who fell for Republican Jesus and the nonexistent prosperity gospel. The common clay consisting of so very many misogynistic, racist, hate-filled morons… Almost half the nation.

They voted for trump. Musk & trump are just fine with “tearing the system down brick by brick & starting over, “ as you put it. A lot of them are fine with it too, if it means that all the non-whites, non-Christians, women, and Jews will once again know their place. I for one will not be happy with those results, being a woman and a pagan married to a Jew.

So let’s come up with a different plan.



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