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  1. Hype for the Future 99/284: Buchanan County, Virginia

    Overview Located on a local northern extreme in the western part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, at the tripoint with the State of West Virginia and the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is Buchanan County, Virginia, most notable for the distinct pronunciation separate from the typical pronunciation of the name of the former President of the United States and for using the Town of Grundy as the county seat. Within the coalfields of the Commonwealth of Virginia in a region deep within Appalachia is […]

    novatopflex.wordpress.com/2026

  2. @mina

    I don't disagree.
    IMO it goes way beyond a feedback loop. The #KochBrothers in particular, but also other "Conservatives" financed #Buchanan's School and many other libertarian think tanks. This was virtually a customized development:

    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1125

    @number6

  3. @mina @number6

    #Neoliberalism

    (2/3)

    ...IMO things could only end the way things ended: accelarating #GlobalWarming and mass extinction-level events (#ELE's).
    #BigOil and their decades of lies and lobbyism, @MichaelBlume calls this #Fossilism, are at the very epicenter of this progressing #CivilizationImplosion.

    If you (re-read) the implicitly linked thread about #Buchanan, I'm not the only one that thinks that way. (You probably, too ;))

    Thanks for the link on #Argentina. I'll...

  4. @mina @number6

    #Neoliberalism

    (2/3)

    ...IMO things could only end the way things ended: accelarating #GlobalWarming and mass extinction-level events (#ELE's).
    #BigOil and their decades of lies and lobbyism, @MichaelBlume calls this #Fossilism, are at the very epicenter of this progressing #CivilizationImplosion.

    If you (re-read) the implicitly linked thread about #Buchanan, I'm not the only one that thinks that way. (You probably, too ;))

    Thanks for the link on #Argentina. I'll...

  5. @mina @number6

    #Neoliberalism

    (2/3)

    ...IMO things could only end the way things ended: accelarating #GlobalWarming and mass extinction-level events (#ELE's).
    #BigOil and their decades of lies and lobbyism, @MichaelBlume calls this #Fossilism, are at the very epicenter of this progressing #CivilizationImplosion.

    If you (re-read) the implicitly linked thread about #Buchanan, I'm not the only one that thinks that way. (You probably, too ;))

    Thanks for the link on #Argentina. I'll...

  6. @mina @number6

    #Neoliberalism

    (2/3)

    ...IMO things could only end the way things ended: accelarating #GlobalWarming and mass extinction-level events (#ELE's).
    #BigOil and their decades of lies and lobbyism, @MichaelBlume calls this #Fossilism, are at the very epicenter of this progressing #CivilizationImplosion.

    If you (re-read) the implicitly linked thread about #Buchanan, I'm not the only one that thinks that way. (You probably, too ;))

    Thanks for the link on #Argentina. I'll...

  7. @mina @number6

    #Neoliberalism

    (2/3)

    ...IMO things could only end the way things ended: accelarating #GlobalWarming and mass extinction-level events (#ELE's).
    #BigOil and their decades of lies and lobbyism, @MichaelBlume calls this #Fossilism, are at the very epicenter of this progressing #CivilizationImplosion.

    If you (re-read) the implicitly linked thread about #Buchanan, I'm not the only one that thinks that way. (You probably, too ;))

    Thanks for the link on #Argentina. I'll...

  8. @mina

    #Economics
    #Neoliberalism
    #JamesBuchanan

    (1/n)

    You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
    strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanan's #VirginiaSchool:

    "...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)

    @number6
    @fosstodon.org

    1)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1125

  9. Although it still needs to be all verified, turns out I’m the direct descendant of:
    3rd Baron of Glorat (Scotland)
    15th Chief of Clan Buchanan
    A shit ton of colonialists
    One of the founders of Springfield,MA
    The guy who led this:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protesta
    The guy who was on the wrong side of history in Brom and Bett v Ashley which was the case that helped invalidate slavery in Massachusetts
    Veterans of the Revolution, War of 1812, civil war (both sides), WWI, and Korea

    And, if it is to be believed, a family on the Mayflower

    #geneology #mayflower #aprilshower #buchanan

  10. The lawsuit in question is #Buchanan v. #Trump,
    a case that started in 2020 after protesters sued Trump in his official capacity and a number of other officials for unconstitutionally clearing them away from #Lafayette #Square #Park that June
    by using chemical irritants including tear gas in as they #peacefully #protested the police killing of #George #Floyd.

    Trump famously walked through the park moments afterwards to visit a church and take a photo with a #Bible.

    The case has faced many twists and turns and has been litigated for years.
    Buchanan as well as another group of plaintiffs represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in a separate lawsuit, Black Lives Matter DC v. Trump, ended up settling with government after pitched litigation.

    With that settlement, new policies for protesters were achieved.
    👉But what remained were #damage #claims against Trump and other officials present at the square that day, like former Attorney General #Bill #Barr.

    Buchanan’s claims were ultimately thrown out due to restrictive laws protecting federal officials from civil lawsuits and they appealed. But they lost again on similar grounds.

    With that finding made and their lawsuits at a seeming standstill, the Buchanan plaintiffs had 💥one avenue left:
    A new amended complaint approved by a judge.💥

    👉And that is exactly what’s unfolded quietly in the background of Trump’s many other pressing legal dramas in recent weeks and months.

    Though the merits of the plaintiff’s amended claims have yet to be decided,
    ♦️a judge has granted the parties the right to serve Trump.♦️

    Lee Crain, a partner at Gibson Dunn, the firm representing the Buchanan plaintiffs, told Law&Crime in an email Friday:

    "We anticipate filing our claims against Mr. Trump by #April12, as the Court directed in granting our motion to amend in part. Our clients look forward to seeing Mr. Trump in Court and holding him accountable for his and others’ attacks on the rights of peaceful protesters in Lafayette Square."

    According to a minute entry on the federal docket in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, a joint status report is now due on #April20.

    That will go toward the negotiation of deadlines for motions with Trump’s lawyers and it will determine whether Trump stays on the case.

    It's hard to imagine he would be able to divorce himself from it.
    Based on the original claims, the new lawsuit is expected to reflect similarly and pursue him in his personal capacity for the distress he caused.

    Whether he stays on as a named defendant, with his personal presence over Lafayette Square looming so large that June, it is likely he would be asked to testify in proceedings regardless.

    Through his attorneys, Trump recently told civil litigant police and U.S. lawmakers suing him over the violence of Jan. 6 that if he was forced to face them in court, it would unfairly expose his defense strategy when he faces off agains special counsel #Jack #Smith in his impending election subversion trial.

    Just about everywhere he has been indicted, Trump has clung to his blanket #presidential #immunity claim to stave off proceedings.

    But the pressing of that defense can only last for so long. As of Friday, there is less than a month until the #Supreme #Court meets to hear oral arguments on it.

    lawandcrime.com/high-profile/t

  11. Gravy Train to Oligarchy:

    Historian Nancy MacLean explains that Virginia’s white elite and the pro-corporate president of the University of Virginia, Colgate #Darden, who had married into the #DuPont family, found James #Buchanan’s ideas to be spot on.

    In nurturing a new intelligentsia to commit to his values, Buchanan stated that he needed a “#gravy #train,” and with backers like Charles #Koch and conservative foundations like the #Scaife Family Charitable Trusts, others hopped aboard.

    #Money, Buchanan knew, can be a persuasive tool in academia. His circle of influence began to widen.

    MacLean observes that the #Virginia #school, as Buchanan’s brand of economic and political thinking is known, is a kind of cousin to the better-known, market-oriented #Chicago and #Austrian schools — proponents of all three were members of the #Mont #Pelerin #Society, an international neoliberal organization which included Milton #Friedman and Friedrich #Hayek.

    But the Virginia school’s focus and career missions were distinct. In an interview with the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), MacLean described Friedman and Buchanan as yin and yang:
    “Friedman was this genial, personable character who loved to be in the limelight and made a sunny case for the free market and the freedom to choose and so forth.
    "Buchanan was the dark side of this: he thought, ok, fine, they can make a case for the free market, but everybody knows that free markets have externalities and other problems. So he wanted to keep people from believing that government could be the alternative to those problems.”

    The Virginia school also differs from other economic schools in a marked reliance on #abstract #theory rather than #mathematics or empirical #evidence.

    That a Nobel Prize was awarded in 1986 to an economist who so determinedly bucked the academic trends of his day was nothing short of stunning, MacLean observes. But, then, it was the peak of the #Reagan era, an administration several Buchanan students joined.

    Buchanan’s school focused on *public choice theory*, later adding constitutional economics and the new field of law and economics to its core research and advocacy.

    The economist saw that his vision would never come to fruition by focusing on *who rules. It was much better to focus on the rules themselves, and that required a “#constitutional #revolution.”

    penguinrandomhouse.com/books/5

  12. #CulturalMarxism is a particularly vicious conspiracy theory because it “lets its authors avoid #racist discourses and pretend to be defenders of #democracy.”

    “In #Lind, #Buchanan and #Breivik, overt racism is studiously avoided.”
    This is precisely what #Elmo is doing.

    William Lind also provided #MikeFlynn with a blueprint for destroying America from the inside out.
    #ArrestMikeFlynn #EvacuateTwitter
    jimstewartson.substack.com/p/m