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SEN. @gallego.senate.gov on the terrible Milei rock concert: “Millions of Americans are about to lose their health care and have their insurance premiums double, but Trump & Republicans are giving this idiot $20 BILLION. Good job. Way to make America First, guys.”

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Imagine being mad you didn’t win the Nobel Peace Prize while you’re busy stirring up Civil War in your own country.

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} Precisely the thesis of my follow-on quote-post. ↘ bsky.app/profile/ajsd...

𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 5h

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} MAGA’s ❝Christian❞ means white Protestant, not faith but tribe. Conservative Catholics cling for power, mistaking alliance for acceptance — a marriage of grievance and ambition fated to consume them both.

MAGA and
the Meaning of ❝Christian❞

By andy J.S. Decepida
Defining ❝Christian❞ in MAGA Discourse
When MAGA says ❝Christian,❞ they almost always mean white evangelical Protestant. It’s not theology but cultural code — a way of saying ❝people like us.❞

The Evangelical-Catholic Political Alliance
Conservative Catholics align with them for shared political goals like anti-abortion and opposition to secularism, but the partnership is uneasy.
Historical and Ongoing Tensions
Evangelicals once viewed Catholics as idolaters, and that suspicion persists. Their alliance survives on mutual grievance against feminism, multiculturalism, and modernity rather than shared faith. Both sides converge in Christian nationalism — each imagining itself as the true heir to divine authority.

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} The MAGA pact between Protestant Puritanical fervour and conservative Catholic ambition runs on willful ignorance and expediency — a covenant of convenience destined to destroy its signers.

The Fragility of the Alliance
If that project ever succeeded, they’d quickly turn on each other again. ❝Christian,❞ in MAGA’s mouth, means Protestant power dressed as unity, and conservative Catholics ride that tiger at their own peril.

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} MAGA’s ❝Christian❞ means white Protestant, not faith but tribe. Conservative Catholics cling for power, mistaking alliance for acceptance — a marriage of grievance and ambition fated to consume them both.

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 5h

Précis of Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling’s report follows ⤵

Précis of Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling’s report
The Faith Test in MAGA’s America
Vivek Ramaswamy’s reception at a Turning Point USA event revealed what’s long lurked beneath the surface of MAGA politics: the conflation of Christianity with whiteness, and of patriotism with Protestantism. His Hindu identity, tolerated when convenient, became disqualifying the moment he sought equal footing.

A Mirror of Exclusion
The audience’s questions —why a Hindu could govern a Christian-majority state, why he’d ❝masquerade as a Christian❞— echoed centuries of sectarian purity tests disguised as nationalism. Their message was clear: political belonging requires theological conformity.

Faith as National Identity
In MAGA’s framework, ❝Christian❞ no longer means believer but insider. It’s shorthand for a mythic America defined by white Protestant heritage, where other religions and even dissenting denominations are suspect. It isn’t theology — it’s boundary maintenance.

The Broader Lesson
Ramaswamy’s humiliation wasn’t an anomaly but a preview of what Christian nationalism demands: submission to a creed that treats difference as treason. It exposed how easily faith is weaponized to police identity, proving that the cross, in this movement, functions less as salvation than as gatekeeping.

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Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism

Event attendees asked Ramaswamy why he felt he could be the governor of Ohio even though he isn’t Christian.

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} Vivek Ramaswamy faced MAGA’s true creed at a Turning Point event: ❝Christian❞ as code for white Protestant nationalism. When even a Hindu Republican is told he doesn’t belong, the faith they preach isn’t salvation — it’s supremacy.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s encounter with Turning Point USA students laid bare the racial and religious gatekeeping at the core of MAGA conservatism. His Hindu faith, once tolerated for its utility in the movement, became the line of exclusion when confronted with youthful Christian nationalism. The event exposed how ❝Christian❞ in this context means something narrower — not faith in God, but allegiance to a racialized idea of America.

❝Jesus Christ is God, and there is no other God. How can you represent the constituents of Ohio who are 64 percent Christian if you are not a part of that faith?❞
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling, ❝Surprise! Vivek Ramaswamy’s Turning Point Event Derailed by Racism,❞ The New Republic, Fri. 10-Oct-2025

❝If you are an Indian, a Hindu, coming from a different culture… what are you conserving? You are bringing change. I’ll be 100 percent honest with you — Christianity is the one truth.❞
Ibid

❝I’m an ethical monotheist, that’s the way I would describe my faith. Do you think it’s inappropriate for someone who’s a Hindu to be a U.S. president?❞
Ibid

❝Isn’t America based on Protestantism? Wouldn’t that contradict what your beliefs are?❞
Ibid

Ramaswamy’s experience encapsulates the paradox of the MAGA right: a movement that preaches freedom yet enforces belonging through creed and colour. IOW, freedom or licence to be bigots.

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} From Haig’s ❝I’m in control❞ to Miller’s ❝If I put federal law enforcement,❞ the first person keeps giving the game away — grammar betraying the autocratic agenda. When governance becomes a business, democracy’s ❝we❞ is the first casualty.

Pronouns and Power in American Politics
How Language Reveals Political Intent and Authority

Opinion by andy J.S. Decepida
Republican Pronoun Slips: Claims to Absolute Authority
After the 1981 attempt on Ronald Reagan’s life, Secretary of State Alexander Haig walked into the White House press room and declared, ❝As of now, I am in control here, in the White House.❞ Constitutionally, he was fourth in line —after the vice president, the speaker, and the president pro tempore of the Senate— but in that moment of chaos, his ❝I❞ sounded like a coup compressed into a sentence. It became the definitive example of how pronouns can betray intent.

Other Republicans have had similar slips. Dick Cheney once argued the vice presidency was ❝not part of the executive branch,❞ a claim that functionally placed him outside accountability. Donald Trump’s ❝I alone can fix it❞ and ❝I have the right to do whatever I want as president❞ carried that same absolutist note. Most recently, Stephen Miller’s ❝If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard…❞ on CNN made explicit what many suspected: that unelected ideologues were wielding presidential power as their own.

Democratic Approaches: Executive Style vs. Constitutional Limits
Democrats, by contrast, have rarely crossed into this terrain. Lyndon Johnson’s bluster — ❝I am the president, I don’t have to answer that❞ — was overbearing but not delusional. Bill Clinton’s ❝I ordered❞ phrasing reflected executive style, not a misunderstanding of constitutional limits.

The ❝I❞ Moment: When Power Feels Unstable
These ❝I❞ moments tend to surface when power feels unstable — assassination, scandal, or authoritarian drift. The pronoun becomes a tell: Who really believes they run the republic?

Order in Chaos: Freudian Flare vs. Misplaced Authority
Haig’s ❝I’m in control❞ was a Freudian flare of order in chaos. Miller’s ❝If I put federal law enforcement…❞ is the same reflex, but with intent — an unelected man mistaking influence for authority.

Business Metaphors and Privatized Power
The deeper current behind these slips is the conservative wet dream of ❝running government like a business.❞ When politics is reframed as corporate management, the democratic ❝we❞ collapses into the executive ❝I.❞ Hierarchy replaces accountability, and the citizenry becomes a managed asset class. Trump didn’t run government as a business; he treated it as his business. Miller’s pronoun wasn’t an accident — it was the dialect of privatized power speaking through the state.

𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 7h

Précis of Malcolm Ferguson’s report follows ⤵

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Stephen Miller Accidentally Says “I” When Discussing Trump’s Powers

Miller’s slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge.

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 7h

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} 𝕾𝖙𝖊𝖕𝖍𝖊𝖓 𝕸𝖎𝖑𝖑𝖊𝖗 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘴𝘢𝘪𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘦𝘵 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘴 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝖋𝖎𝖗𝖘𝖙 𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖘𝖔𝖓 — ❝If I put federal law enforcement…❞ — revealing the rot of Trumpism: 𝒖𝒏𝒆𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒅𝒆𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒖𝒆𝒔 𝒘𝒊𝒆𝒍𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒂𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒊𝒓 𝒐𝒘𝒏. A pronoun slip that screams dictatorship.

Stephen Miller’s CNN appearance exposed the full inversion of power inside Trump’s White House. In defending militarized immigration raids, he slipped — saying ❝If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard…❞ — and in doing so revealed who truly commands the regime’s most authoritarian machinery. Analysts and online observers read that single pronoun as confirmation of an unelected ideologue directing the state under Trump’s hollowed presidency. The episode crystallizes the danger of Trump’s court of loyalists: a government run by vendetta, never consent.

❝Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful. Why would the mere presence — just think about this for a second. If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?❞
Stephen Miller, ❝Stephen Miller Accidentally Says ❛I❜ When Discussing Trump’s Powers,❞ The New Republic, 10-Oct-2025

❝Miller says quiet part out loud. He determines where to put ICE, CBP & other federal agencies, but he is also doing the same for various National Guards. An unelected staffer making these decisions, where is the president? Both Miller and Vought are running this admin.❞
Ibid

❝Miller made the remarks in the same interview where he claimed Trump has ❛plenary authority,❜ after being asked whether the administration would abide by court rulings blocking his deployment of troops to American cities.❞
Ibid

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} Stephen Miller has become Trump’s 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗺𝘁𝗼𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗲 — dripping fascist poison through TV instead of whispers. His latest push for martial law reveals a regime built on mediocrity, resentment, and lies — a will to dominate by deceit until we stop believing them. ↷ tinyurl.com/ysdhrs4a

Trump's very own Wormtongue is goading him to declare martial law

Today, I have a few things to say about that putz Stephen Miller. First, he’s been on TV a lot lately, because that’s how he pours more poison onto the president’s already-poisoned brain. He doesn’t w...

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 13h

⚡ 𝚃𝚎𝚗𝚞𝚛𝚎, 𝚎𝚗𝚍𝚞𝚛𝚎, 𝚒𝚗𝚞𝚛𝚎: Trump’s reign didn’t just warp law — 𝙞𝙩 𝙙𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙚𝙡𝙛. As his retribution machine targets Letitia James, even seasoned voices rationalize vengeance. The danger isn’t new corruption; it’s 𝘩𝘰𝘸 𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘦’𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘪𝘵. ↷ tinyurl.com/46f6xhkc

White House reporter exposes one of the most insidious legacies of Trump’s tenure

White House correspondent Andrew Egger tells The Bulwark that one of the most insidious things about Donald Trump’s decade-long turn atop our politics is the way “we seem to be losing some of our inab...

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 14h

⚠️ 𝕮𝖗𝖆𝖈𝖐𝖉𝖔𝖜𝖓 𝖎𝖓 𝖉𝖆𝖞𝖑𝖎𝖌𝖍𝖙: Federal agents in Chicago arrested a WGN producer filming their detention of a Latino man — allegedly defying a court order shielding journalists. Charged her with ❝𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦,❞ but what they really exercised was 𝖌𝖗𝖔𝖘𝖘 𝖎𝖓𝖏𝖚𝖘𝖙𝖎𝖈𝖊 ➷ tinyurl.com/mtpmfka3

Federal officers warned they may face jail time after new arrests

A WGN video producer was handcuffed and taken into custody by federal agents on Friday morning while documenting the arrest of a Latino man, and one legal analyst warned the move defied a court order....

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❝𝐌𝐈𝐓! 𝐌𝐈𝐓! Rah, rah, rah!
I-C, I-C, P-B, P-B,
𝐌-𝐈-𝐓, 𝐌-𝐈-𝐓, 𝐌-𝐈-𝐓!❞

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} 🎓✊ 𝐌𝐈𝐓 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: President Sally Kornbluth flatly rejects Trump’s demand that universities trade independence for funding — declaring free inquiry and merit, not political loyalty, the true measure of excellence. ↷ tinyurl.com/49h3by98

'Cannot support': Top university president first to reject Trump's big request

A college president is slamming President Donald Trump's political agenda, saying the top university "cannot support" it in exchange for federal funding.Massachusetts Institute of Technology is report...

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} 🎓✊ 𝐌𝐈𝐓 𝐝𝐫𝐚𝐰𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞: President Sally Kornbluth flatly rejects Trump’s demand that universities trade independence for funding — declaring free inquiry and merit, not political loyalty, the true measure of excellence. ↷ tinyurl.com/49h3by98

'Cannot support': Top university president first to reject Trump's big request

A college president is slamming President Donald Trump's political agenda, saying the top university "cannot support" it in exchange for federal funding.Massachusetts Institute of Technology is report...

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 16h

🤞⚖️ 𝑨𝒍𝒊𝒕𝒐’𝒔 𝒐𝒍𝒅 𝒎𝒆𝒎𝒐 𝒎𝒂𝒚 𝒃𝒐𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈: Legal experts say Trump’s indictments of Comey and Letitia James could implode thanks to a 1983 Alito opinion limiting interim prosecutors — a conservative icon handing Trump’s foes an accidental lifeline. ⤸ tinyurl.com/5f2mm55b

'High irony': Legal experts say conservative icon handed Trump's foes an 'ace in the hole'

President Donald Trump may have overplayed his hand in seeking legal retribution against his enemies, according legal experts.New York Attorney General Letitia James was indicted Thursday in the Easte...

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 16h

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} ⚡ 𝑨𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒈𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒚 𝒃𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒄𝒉 𝒔𝒉𝒓𝒖𝒈𝒈𝒆𝒅 𝒐𝒇𝒇: Ex-watchdog Mark Greenblatt says Trump’s border czar Tom Homan was under FBI bribery probe yet still got a security clearance — proof 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘳𝘰𝘵 𝘪𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯, 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳. ↘ tinyurl.com/mfb3djud

'The second red flag is even more alarming': Ex-watchdog disturbed by Homan bribery case

A former government watchdog highlighted several red flags in the bribery investigation into President Donald Trump's border czar, who's accused of taking $50,000 from undercover FBI agents he promise...

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 17h

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} ⚡ 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒏𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒑𝒍𝒂𝒄𝒆𝒔 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒉: The right’s ❝unitary executive❞ creed recasts the presidency as monarchy — courts, Congress, and law all bent to one man’s will, with loyalty as the only law left standing. ⤵

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𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐲 𝐉.𝐒. 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐞𝐩𝐢𝐝𝐚 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 ¬1ɩ @ajsdecepida.bsky.social · 17h

{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿}: ⚡ 𝐉𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐚𝐧’𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐬 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞: The House’s chief Trump enabler now floats impeaching judges who dare limit the ex-president’s power — shredding the last guardrail between law and loyalty. ↷ tinyurl.com/5ezz5wcz

'On the table': Jim Jordan opens the door to impeaching judges who restrain Trump

House Judiciary Committee chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) is making noises that he is open to the idea of impeaching judges who use the law to restrain Donald Trump’s policies that do not pass constitutional ...

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{𝙖𝙅𝙎𝘿} Today in History︱⚡ 𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐟𝐥𝐨𝐩 𝐭𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫: When 🎭🇺🇸🎶𝓟𝓸𝓻𝓰𝔂 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓑𝓮𝓼𝓼 ✨🕊️ opened on Broadway in 1935, critics scoffed at Gershwin’s ❝crooked folklore.❞ Forty years later, the same score redefined American opera — proof that genius sometimes needs time to be heard.

Précis of History.com ❝Today in History❞ Entry
Origins of an American Opera
George Gershwin conceived Porgy and Bess in 1926 after reading DuBose Heyward’s novel Porgy. The two collaborated by mail, joined later by Ira Gershwin. Despite early interest from Al Jolson for a blackface musical adaptation, the eventual work was revolutionary for featuring an all-African American cast of classically trained singers.

Reception and Early Failure
When the opera premiered on Broadway on October 10, 1935, critics were divided. Olin Downes of The New York Times praised its musical ambition, but composer Virgil Thomson derided it as ❝falsely conceived,❞ objecting to Gershwin’s blend of blues, jazz, and classical idioms. Cuts made after its Boston try-out weakened the show’s impact, and it closed after only four months.

Rediscovery and Legacy
Neither Gershwin nor Heyward lived to see its redemption. The full score was finally revived in 1976 by the Houston Grand Opera, where it was hailed as a masterpiece. Today, Porgy and Bess stands as one of the 20th century’s most influential American operas, its songs —❝Summertime,❞ ❝It Ain’t Necessarily So,❞ ❝Bess, You Is My Woman Now❞— now part of the national repertoire.

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