Alexander KarnApr 29

Per Guardian:

The man who launched his first bid for the presidency by descending a golden escalator, who has sloshed gold paint all over the White House, not to mention the Aurelian hue he has coloured his own skin, would like us to believe that he, and he alone, is the channel through which America’s so-called “Judeo-Christian” lineage now flows, and that he, and he alone, should be credited for all its future greatness.

#history #uspol #semiquincentennial

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/29/trump-freedom-truck-museum-exhibit

‘Freedom Trucks’: a tour of Trump’s skewed tribute to American history – on 18 wheels

Ahead of the US’s 250th birthday, the president has launched six mobile museums that celebrate a white, Christian rewriting of the nation’s story

The Guardian
Show threadAlexander KarnApr 29

In *Erasing History: How Fascists Re-write the Past to Control the Future,* Jason Stanley observes the “mutually reinforcing” relationship between representation and practice.

How we describe and talk about the past informs how we practice politics and frame the rights of citizenship today.

These stupid A250 trucks are driving around today as SCOTUS guts the Voting Rights Act (6-3) and these two things are mirror images of each other.

#history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial

Show threadAlexander KarnApr 29

Back to the Guardian:

“The US is back at war. Its president has threatened to destroy an entire civilisation, posted AI images of himself as Jesus and survived his third assassination attempt, while on the domestic front federal officers have killed American citizens at point-blank range. Quite the year to be celebrating American greatness.”

#history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial

Show threadAlexander KarnApr 29

And then this:

At the bottom there’s a QR code that encourages you to “discover more fun and quizzes at PragerU”. The code links to PragerU’s website page Capitalism 101. “Sign up to learn why capitalism is the greatest and fairest economic system ever known,” it says. “Capitalism gave us great prosperity, yet why is it so misunderstood and even demonized?”

#history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial

Show threadAlexander Karn

Why is capitalism interrogated and sometimes despised by the people who come into contact with it?

Because this is America, you boot-licking moral blanks, and we express ourselves and reflect on our many different experiences freely.

Because that is our right as citizens, to resist your attempts to dictate truth and historical knowledge.

#history #uspol #law #democracy #semiquincentennial

Apr 29 at 6:47pmWeb
Show threadMike @ Misaligned MarketsApr 29
@xankarn @xankarn Adam Smith their supposed hero interrogated capitalism too, even if they find most of his work agreeable.
Show threadferricoxideApr 29
@MidniteMikeWrites @xankarn

I probably need to go up-thread on this, but, the bit I see…

Funny thing being, they love to say they love Smith, yet their actions say otherwise. It's sorta like how many of them:

* Claim to love Reagan but would call him a RINO if he showed up, today, with a different name and face.

* Claim to be Christians but would be first in line to crucify him for being a socialist if he were around, today.