#jamesbuchanan — Public Fediverse posts

Budget conference: House triples Miami soccer stadium road project offer as Senate sticks at nil

House budget chiefs have dramatically escalated their push to fund a new roadway linked to the sprawling Miami…
#Politics #Budget #budgetconference #InterMiamiCF #jamesbuchanan #JayTrumbull #JessMcCarty #MiamiFreedomPark #Miami-Dade #Miami-DadeCounty #NuStadium #specialsession
https://www.europesays.com/3011063/

Budget conference: House triples Miami soccer stadium road project offer as Senate sticks at nil https://www.byteseu.com/2045146/ #Budget #BudgetConference #InterMiamiCF #JamesBuchanan #JayTrumbull #JessMcCarty #MiamiFreedomPark #MiamiDade #MiamiDadeCounty #NuStadium #Politics #SpecialSession

AOC suggests America may have already elected a gay president

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/aoc-gay-president-tmz

AOC suggests America may have already elected a gay president

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/politics/national/aoc-gay-president-tmz

(#SupremeCourt, #SCOTUS) zu sehen, an den i. Ü. nicht viel später der vorgenannte plutokratiefreundliche #Demokratie-Brandstifter #LewisPowell berufen wurde.
Die politisiert-volkswirtschaftliche Grundlage lieferte hierfür jedoch der Erz-#Republikanische Witschafts-#Nobelpreisträger #JamesBuchanan mit seiner #VirginiaSchool-Kaderschmiede, bereits Jahre zuvor, spätestens ab 1965.

In diesem Jahrhundert wurde dann die #US-Demokratie vom ge"highjacked"ten @HistoPol @peter_koenig @HistoPol

Zumal das nun erneut massiv verschärfte #SGBII im #Bundesrat Thema war & damit eigentlich auch #Transparenz und #Oeffentlichkeit der dortigen Debatte gegeben sein sollte!

Aber zur Ablenkung - frei nach #JamesBuchanan - hat es ja nicht um Wahrheit zu gehen, sondern darum, daß ueber irgendwas gesprochen wird, nur nicht über das formal erforderliche.

Meint: "Flood the Zone with Shit" indem plötzlich auch noch von einer #ArbeitnehmerAgenda die Rede sein soll also noch mehr #Demokratie - Rueckbau ❗

Zumal das nun erneut massiv verschärfte #SGBII im #Bundesrat Thema war & damit eigentlich auch #Transparenz und #Oeffentlichkeit der dortigen Debatte gegeben sein sollte!

Aber zur Ablenkung - frei nach #JamesBuchanan - hat es ja nicht um Wahrheit zu gehen, sondern darum, daß ueber irgendwas gesprochen wird, nur nicht über das formal erforderliche.

Meint: "Flood the Zone with Shit" indem plötzlich auch noch von einer #ArbeitnehmerAgenda die Rede sein soll also noch mehr #Demokratie - Rueckbau ❗

Zumal das nun erneut massiv verschärfte #SGBII im #Bundesrat Thema war & damit eigentlich auch #Transparenz und #Oeffentlichkeit der dortigen Debatte gegeben sein sollte!

Aber zur Ablenkung - frei nach #JamesBuchanan - hat es ja nicht um Wahrheit zu gehen, sondern darum, daß ueber irgendwas gesprochen wird, nur nicht über das formal erforderliche.

Meint: "Flood the Zone with Shit" indem plötzlich auch noch von einer #ArbeitnehmerAgenda die Rede sein soll also noch mehr #Demokratie - Rueckbau ❗

Zumal das nun erneut massiv verschärfte #SGBII im #Bundesrat Thema war & damit eigentlich auch #Transparenz und #Oeffentlichkeit der dortigen Debatte gegeben sein sollte!

Aber zur Ablenkung - frei nach #JamesBuchanan - hat es ja nicht um Wahrheit zu gehen, sondern darum, daß ueber irgendwas gesprochen wird, nur nicht über das formal erforderliche.

Meint: "Flood the Zone with Shit" indem plötzlich auch noch von einer #ArbeitnehmerAgenda die Rede sein soll also noch mehr #Demokratie - Rueckbau ❗

Zumal das nun erneut massiv verschärfte #SGBII im #Bundesrat Thema war & damit eigentlich auch #Transparenz und #Oeffentlichkeit der dortigen Debatte gegeben sein sollte!

Aber zur Ablenkung - frei nach #JamesBuchanan - hat es ja nicht um Wahrheit zu gehen, sondern darum, daß ueber irgendwas gesprochen wird, nur nicht über das formal erforderliche.

Meint: "Flood the Zone with Shit" indem plötzlich auch noch von einer #ArbeitnehmerAgenda die Rede sein soll also noch mehr #Demokratie - Rueckbau ❗

Vern Buchanan says opportunity for fresh leaders, not difficult political environment, drove choice to retire https://www.byteseu.com/1752457/ #AlceeHastings #CD16 #DebbieWassermanSchultz #environment #Florida's16thCongressionalDistrict #JamesBuchanan #VernBuchanan

@mspro

4/
#Wirtschaftsnobelpreis|träger #JamesBuchanan:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508

Die damals gesähten Samen gingen auf in #Reagonomics
(https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592) und kulminierten schließlich in #CitizensUnitedVsFEC, den #Trump-Präsidentschaften, sowie der jahrzehntelang geplanten Übernahme des Obersten Gerichtshofs der #USA. Damals wurde die finale(?) Verwandlung des #AmericanExperiments in eine #Plutokratie (du klassifizierst das anders) zementiert (b. a. w.):

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110856116616631495

Also,

@MAJ1

👍
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Nowadays, any #neoliberal acolyte--in particular, if their native language is English--is most likely linked to what #EdwardLuttwak called #Turbocapitalism, which I think aptly describes the policies #JamesBuchanan's #VirginiaSchool propagates (calling it differently, though) and #Trumpism. (See my posts with the hashtag #Buchanan.)

@mina

@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)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598606864037745

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan

(2/2)

..."...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 #AustrianSchool|s — proponents of all three were members of the #MontPelerinSociety, 👉an international #neoliberal organization which included #MiltonFriedman and #FriedrichHayek." 👈

//

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@mina @number6

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan

(2/2)

..."...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 #AustrianSchool|s — proponents of all three were members of the #MontPelerinSociety, 👉an international #neoliberal organization which included #MiltonFriedman and #FriedrichHayek." 👈

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https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@mina @number6

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan

(2/2)

..."...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 #AustrianSchool|s — proponents of all three were members of the #MontPelerinSociety, 👉an international #neoliberal organization which included #MiltonFriedman and #FriedrichHayek." 👈

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https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@mina @number6

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan

(2/2)

..."...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 #AustrianSchool|s — proponents of all three were members of the #MontPelerinSociety, 👉an international #neoliberal organization which included #MiltonFriedman and #FriedrichHayek." 👈

//

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@mina @number6

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan

(2/2)

..."...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 #AustrianSchool|s — proponents of all three were members of the #MontPelerinSociety, 👉an international #neoliberal organization which included #MiltonFriedman and #FriedrichHayek." 👈

//

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@mina @number6

#USpol #UShistory #Politics

"THE ‘REVOLT OF THE RICH’: HOW THE 1970S RESHAPED AMERICA’S ECONOMIC DIVIDE"

(2/n)

...👉besy summary of the US's 🇺🇸 political economy with a focus on the #AmericanRight that I've read so far.👈

I could only find fault at 3 things:

1) Why is there no mention of the major role of #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan? 1)

2) Why does...

1)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598602729129143

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Jeramee @GreenFire @mina @SnowshadowII @bookwyrm @bookstodon

🧵
> Could it be that this relatively obscure economist’s distinctive thought was being put forcefully into action in real time?
> MacLean could not gain access to Buchanan’s papers to test her hypothesis until after his death in January 2013.
@[email protected]
#NancyMacLean on #JamesBuchanan

@nilsskirnir

True.

What I meant to say is that this is no clash of ideas about "what is best for the country" anymore, as between rivaling political parties, nor even an ideological "culture war." The #TrumpCoup is a hostile government takeover, planned decades ago and executed step by step:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508

While the economic-theory foundation was masterminded by #JamesBuchanan, the legal strategist was the (later on) SCOTUS Justice #LewisPowell:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113240354636843089
@TonyStark

> This is a nightmare scenario for #SiliconValley's old guard. They've spent years building careful relationships in Washington, hiring armies of lobbyists, and making strategic campaign contributions. Now they get to watch as their most unpredictable rival gains direct control over the government's technological backbone.
https://www.theindex.media/elon-musk-is-an-existential-threat-to-big-tech/
@[email protected]
#BigTech #ElonMusk article reminded me of #JamesBuchanan the pathological economist quoted by NoamChomsky

@si_irini @konrad

#Schuldenbremse #Deutschland #Wahlen2025

(4/4)

...Partei 👉(#FDP) wird die nächste Wahl zu einem "Blutbad" werden👈 [ETA: So kam es ja dann auch am 23.02.2025 verdientermassen.], es sei denn, es läuft wie in den USA: zu wenige gehen zur Wahl!

2)
"Das #Project2025 wurde nicht von einer oder mehreren imaginären Personen verfasst, sondern ist ein Leitfaden für das Endergebnis der Wirtschaftstheorie und -politik von #JamesBuchanan."

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113118173421071210

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On 4 November 1856, James Buchanan was elected as the 15th US President.

He was born in a log cabin in Cove Gap, Pennsylvania, and for a long time was the only President from Pennsylvania. That changed in 2020 with the election of Joe Biden.

10 facts:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2024/11/4-november-james-buchanan.html

#JamesBuchanan #USPresidents

@_9CL7T9k8cjnD_ @Outmazi
#SciFi
(1/3)

It's one of my two favorite sagas. 😀
However, if I remember it correctly, #Asimov's #Psychohistory was about predicting the evolution/behavior of a large number of people, not individuals.

Ever since #FrankHerbert's #Dune, who was blowing into the same horn, I think that, in fact, there are individual people whose actions can have on society.

For instance, take the #Republican chief economist #JamesBuchanan. Wiki states that he was converted from...

@BlumeEvolution

#Longtermism #TESCREAL
#Gesellschaft #Politik
#Faschismus #Klimakrise
(3c/n)

Die 👉Gefährdung der westlichen Demokratien👈 erfolgt jedoch auch von Innen.

In den #USA findet sie seit mindestens 1965 statt, als #Nobelpreis-Träger #JamesBuchanan die #VirginiaSchool gründete.
👉#Buchanan wollte eine privatwirtschaftliche, regierende Firmen-Elite, völlig frei von öffentlicher Rechenschaft. 1)👈

(NB/OT:
Interessant wäre, inwiefern #ChristianLindner...

1) https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508

@Snowshadow @Jeramee

#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads

(2/n)

...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.

#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...

2)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@Snowshadow @Jeramee

#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads

(2/n)

...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.

#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...

2)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@Snowshadow @Jeramee

#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads

(2/n)

...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.

#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...

2)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@Snowshadow @Jeramee

#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads

(2/n)

...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.

#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...

2)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@Snowshadow @Jeramee

#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads

(2/n)

...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.

#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...

2)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

> Nobel Prize winning economist James Buchanan, who writes that "what each person seeks in an ideal situation is mastery over a world of slaves." That's what you seek, in case you hadn't noticed. Something that an Adam Smith would have regarded as simply pathological.
https://rtraba.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/noam-chomsky-democracy-and-education.pdf
#NoamChomsky #JamesBuchanan
#ChomskyOnJamesBuchanan
#PathologicalEconomics #AdamSmith