Along with a slew of other bad things, a dominant trait of morally rotted djt and his also rotted wealth and power movement is aggressive arrogance. It is typically grounded in ignorance or cynical denial of inconvenient facts and truths, arguably a perverted form of ignorance. The NYT writes (not paywalled) about why arrogant, ignorant MAGA elites want to get rid of federal support for child care: “Not Just More Babies: These Republicans Want More Parents at Home -- A few months before he began his 2022 Senate campaign, JD Vance reached out to a conservative family policy group with an idea for an opinion essay. He wanted to write about why government-subsidized day care was bad — and why most young children do better when one parent stays home. Mr. Vance’s article was published less than two weeks later in The Wall Street Journal, declaring, ‘Young children are clearly happier and healthier when they spend the day at home with a parent.’”
Is there evidence to overwhelmingly support what the elite MAGA ignoranti Vance so arrogantly claims? No, there isn’t.** Social science evidence is clear. Young children in bad homes with bad parents or bad child care tend to be less happy and healthy than young children in good homes with good parents or good child care. JD Vance just dreamed up an idea of how MAGA elites want reality to be for us (not necessarily themselves), mommy stays home with a boatload of kids and daddy brings home the bacon. Vance just made shit up to support his fake reality and the morally rotted, MAGA Wall Street Journal opinion page happily published his bullshit and lies.
Mom happily living the MAGA dream
One other point needs to be mentioned here. Elite MAGA ignoranti want to give parents a $5,000 annual tax break to incentivize mommies staying home. $5,000 doesn't buy squat. Recent analyses show that the average annual cost of raising a young child in the United States is now about $29,400 to $30,000 per year. This reflects a sharp increase of roughly 36% since 2023, driven largely by rising childcare, food, and health insurance costs. What full-time job pays $5,000/year? None that I am aware of. Also, assume that mommy’s job paid her about $52,850–$56,316 as of 2024-2025. That is the median annual income for an American woman working full time (link 6, link 7, link 8). What companies are going to increase daddy’s pay by about $54,583/year to compensate for loss of mommy’s income? None that I am aware of.
Q: Are elite MAGA ignoranti arrogant, aggressive pricks, mostly reality-detached, rich white men, or are they well-informed, nice people doing a good job in good faith?
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In a terrifying bit of very bad news, some sources report about free legal service pledges from big law firms. The firms caved in to djt’s threats via his corrupt, morally rotted authoritarian EOs. So far, 9 major law firms have collectively pledged almost $1 billion in free legal services to get djt off their backs. The law firms pledged free legal services to preserve their federal government contracts and security clearances for their attorneys. This is pure authoritarian corruption.
This horrifying news is stupidly focused on one of the law firms losing employees who refuse to work for MAGA corruption and dictatorship. However, employee loss is of minor importance compared to the $1 billion war chest of free legal services that 9 top notch law firms have now pledged to djt. That corrupt money will be used in both legal war offense and defense to support pro-authoritarian, pro-kleptocracy causes and lawsuits that djt wants to put money into. In addition, djt’s plan of authoritarian attack has been used by other tyrants in power to consolidate their position. They weaponize bureaucracy against critics, erode institutional checks, and create a climate of fear. That is why the 9 law firms caved in and are now on the side the dictator-kleptocrat.
After a very long series of questions and analysis about the legality of what djt has done here, Pxy comes up with the same conclusions I came up with before asking the questions. First, what he is doing is unconstitutional and illegal, as lower courts are now holding. Lower courts find violations of free speech and/or illegal violations of the Administrative Procedure Act. Second, despite the clear unconstitutionality and illegality of what he has done, the recent track record of our morally rotted MAGA USSC indicates that it probably will find that what djt has done is constitutional and legal.
After a long analysis, Pxy concludes this about how the USSC will probably deal with this catastrophe:
Conclusion
The Supreme Court’s current trajectory indicates a strong likelihood that it would find President Trump’s actions targeting law firms constitutional and within the scope of his powers, provided those actions are presented as exercises of official executive authority. [Of course that is how they will be presented] This outcome would mark a significant expansion of presidential power, with profound implications for the separation of powers, the independence of the legal profession, and the resilience of American democracy. The Court’s decisions in recent years have laid the groundwork for such a result, and unless there is a dramatic shift in doctrine or personnel, the trend toward unchecked executive authority is likely to continue. (emphases added)