James A. Robichaux
@jamesrobichaux.bsky.social
I am working to purge the dishonest and destructive mythologies of Monetarism and taxpayerism from people's brains.
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
I was reminded shortly after Good's killing of something that Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in 2015, which is this.
Yes! We should never argue about whether enforcers were justified in very specific actions if the BROADER CONTEXT of them even being there in the first place is indefensible.
Yes! We should never argue about whether enforcers were justified in very specific actions if the BROADER CONTEXT of them even being there in the first place is indefensible.
January 24, 2026 at 7:45 PM
I was reminded shortly after Good's killing of something that Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote in 2015, which is this.
Yes! We should never argue about whether enforcers were justified in very specific actions if the BROADER CONTEXT of them even being there in the first place is indefensible.
Yes! We should never argue about whether enforcers were justified in very specific actions if the BROADER CONTEXT of them even being there in the first place is indefensible.
"consumers" has plenty of problems, but it's not the exclusionary fascist trope that "taxpayers" is!
So, no, I wouldn't object to "consumers" if I might prefer some other framing still.
So, no, I wouldn't object to "consumers" if I might prefer some other framing still.
January 20, 2026 at 6:14 PM
"consumers" has plenty of problems, but it's not the exclusionary fascist trope that "taxpayers" is!
So, no, I wouldn't object to "consumers" if I might prefer some other framing still.
So, no, I wouldn't object to "consumers" if I might prefer some other framing still.
Can we please NOT with this idiotic Monetarist crap?
The UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT does not borrow UNITED STATES DOLLARS, because the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - I said "UNITED STATES" Government - is the ISSUER OF the UNITED STATES Dollar.
The UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT does not borrow UNITED STATES DOLLARS, because the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - I said "UNITED STATES" Government - is the ISSUER OF the UNITED STATES Dollar.
January 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Can we please NOT with this idiotic Monetarist crap?
The UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT does not borrow UNITED STATES DOLLARS, because the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - I said "UNITED STATES" Government - is the ISSUER OF the UNITED STATES Dollar.
The UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT does not borrow UNITED STATES DOLLARS, because the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT - I said "UNITED STATES" Government - is the ISSUER OF the UNITED STATES Dollar.
Yes to all of this!
ICE should not be there at all.
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ICE should not be there at all.
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January 19, 2026 at 6:31 PM
Yes to all of this!
ICE should not be there at all.
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ICE should not be there at all.
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"Look What You Made Us Do!!!"
www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/10/t...
Also, notice the centrality of "taxpayer" identity and thinking to the fascist moral framework.
www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/10/t...
Also, notice the centrality of "taxpayer" identity and thinking to the fascist moral framework.
January 17, 2026 at 3:57 PM
"Look What You Made Us Do!!!"
www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/10/t...
Also, notice the centrality of "taxpayer" identity and thinking to the fascist moral framework.
www.dailysignal.com/2026/01/10/t...
Also, notice the centrality of "taxpayer" identity and thinking to the fascist moral framework.
Good morning!
January 17, 2026 at 12:21 PM
Good morning!
January 16, 2026 at 10:13 PM
So, the operation was objectionable because it consumed plenty of resources?
Would the operation have been acceptable if it consumed fewer resources?
Would the operation have been acceptable if it consumed fewer resources?
January 16, 2026 at 8:14 PM
So, the operation was objectionable because it consumed plenty of resources?
Would the operation have been acceptable if it consumed fewer resources?
Would the operation have been acceptable if it consumed fewer resources?
I really can't stand this particular genre of rhetoric.
"If they get to do what they want, then we get to do what we want," as if us doing what we want is dependent upon them getting to do what they want, as if, to get what we want, we have to also accept something evil.
"If they get to do what they want, then we get to do what we want," as if us doing what we want is dependent upon them getting to do what they want, as if, to get what we want, we have to also accept something evil.
January 13, 2026 at 1:00 AM
I really can't stand this particular genre of rhetoric.
"If they get to do what they want, then we get to do what we want," as if us doing what we want is dependent upon them getting to do what they want, as if, to get what we want, we have to also accept something evil.
"If they get to do what they want, then we get to do what we want," as if us doing what we want is dependent upon them getting to do what they want, as if, to get what we want, we have to also accept something evil.
This is what Monetarism does to your brain, folks. It's an entire post of nonsequitur responses without any actual argument against taking Greenland.
January 11, 2026 at 4:44 PM
This is what Monetarism does to your brain, folks. It's an entire post of nonsequitur responses without any actual argument against taking Greenland.
Therefore, currency DOES NOT and *CANNOT* originate with "taxpayers".
There is, however, a reason that conservative and fascist forces want us to think that it somehow does.
There is, however, a reason that conservative and fascist forces want us to think that it somehow does.
January 10, 2026 at 4:34 PM
Therefore, currency DOES NOT and *CANNOT* originate with "taxpayers".
There is, however, a reason that conservative and fascist forces want us to think that it somehow does.
There is, however, a reason that conservative and fascist forces want us to think that it somehow does.
"but I was not intending to promote any fascist moral framewo"
It DOES NOT MATTER what your intentions are.
OUTCOMES are what matters, and the OUTCOME of this horrid "taxpayer" way of thinking are atomization, hierarchy, exclusion, and austerity.
That ALWAYS HAS BEEN and ALWAYS WILL BE the case.
It DOES NOT MATTER what your intentions are.
OUTCOMES are what matters, and the OUTCOME of this horrid "taxpayer" way of thinking are atomization, hierarchy, exclusion, and austerity.
That ALWAYS HAS BEEN and ALWAYS WILL BE the case.
January 10, 2026 at 4:25 PM
"but I was not intending to promote any fascist moral framewo"
It DOES NOT MATTER what your intentions are.
OUTCOMES are what matters, and the OUTCOME of this horrid "taxpayer" way of thinking are atomization, hierarchy, exclusion, and austerity.
That ALWAYS HAS BEEN and ALWAYS WILL BE the case.
It DOES NOT MATTER what your intentions are.
OUTCOMES are what matters, and the OUTCOME of this horrid "taxpayer" way of thinking are atomization, hierarchy, exclusion, and austerity.
That ALWAYS HAS BEEN and ALWAYS WILL BE the case.
ANY dignification or legitimization of it from ostensibly liberal, progressive, socialist, Leftist, anti-fascist, etc, people only REINFORCES the conservative-libertarian worldview of hierarchy and austerity that this "taxpayer" way of thinking is DESIGNED TO foster.
January 10, 2026 at 4:23 PM
ANY dignification or legitimization of it from ostensibly liberal, progressive, socialist, Leftist, anti-fascist, etc, people only REINFORCES the conservative-libertarian worldview of hierarchy and austerity that this "taxpayer" way of thinking is DESIGNED TO foster.
Get this through your heads:
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is dishonest.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic because it is classist, ableist, and propertarian.
THEREFORE...,
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is dishonest.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic because it is classist, ableist, and propertarian.
THEREFORE...,
January 10, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Get this through your heads:
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is dishonest.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic because it is classist, ableist, and propertarian.
THEREFORE...,
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is dishonest.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic.
The "taxpayer" identity and way of thinking is fascistic because it is classist, ableist, and propertarian.
THEREFORE...,
No, @newrepublic.com, the payment plan would not cost "U.S. taxpayers" anything at all, and neither does or would anything else, because "U.S. taxpayers" is a dishonest fascist myth, and you are only REINFORCING the Trumpian worldview by employing this disgusting and dishonest trope.
January 9, 2026 at 6:16 PM
No, @newrepublic.com, the payment plan would not cost "U.S. taxpayers" anything at all, and neither does or would anything else, because "U.S. taxpayers" is a dishonest fascist myth, and you are only REINFORCING the Trumpian worldview by employing this disgusting and dishonest trope.
"but, SO FAR, it's not even as bad as we warned," I said five years ago today.
Welp. 🤨
Welp. 🤨
January 9, 2026 at 10:59 AM
"but, SO FAR, it's not even as bad as we warned," I said five years ago today.
Welp. 🤨
Welp. 🤨
Good morning from my Facebook Memories.
January 9, 2026 at 10:55 AM
Good morning from my Facebook Memories.
Yeah, and then stuff like this, as if Ashli Babbit should be our standard!
January 8, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Yeah, and then stuff like this, as if Ashli Babbit should be our standard!
It's based on the presumption that currency:
1.) is this thing that is external even to entire societies, that it has to be first acquired, as if it were, say, grain, before governments spend it.
2.) somehow then is consumed - as if it were grain - in the process!
1.) is this thing that is external even to entire societies, that it has to be first acquired, as if it were, say, grain, before governments spend it.
2.) somehow then is consumed - as if it were grain - in the process!
January 8, 2026 at 3:56 PM
It's based on the presumption that currency:
1.) is this thing that is external even to entire societies, that it has to be first acquired, as if it were, say, grain, before governments spend it.
2.) somehow then is consumed - as if it were grain - in the process!
1.) is this thing that is external even to entire societies, that it has to be first acquired, as if it were, say, grain, before governments spend it.
2.) somehow then is consumed - as if it were grain - in the process!
Yeah, that's not at all what I said, not to mention not at all what I even think, but troll on, I guess. 😬
January 6, 2026 at 4:29 PM
Yeah, that's not at all what I said, not to mention not at all what I even think, but troll on, I guess. 😬
Yes, you would think.
Also, I think that you would appreciate that "taxpayer" identity and thinking is rather integral to the argument that Miller is making here.
He is doing taxpayerism in a way where taxpayerism inevitably ultimately leads.
Also, I think that you would appreciate that "taxpayer" identity and thinking is rather integral to the argument that Miller is making here.
He is doing taxpayerism in a way where taxpayerism inevitably ultimately leads.
January 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Yes, you would think.
Also, I think that you would appreciate that "taxpayer" identity and thinking is rather integral to the argument that Miller is making here.
He is doing taxpayerism in a way where taxpayerism inevitably ultimately leads.
Also, I think that you would appreciate that "taxpayer" identity and thinking is rather integral to the argument that Miller is making here.
He is doing taxpayerism in a way where taxpayerism inevitably ultimately leads.
So, what you see here is the way to go. Do we want a high-speed passenger-rail system?
That "funding" is an issue is ONLY a political issue.
We don't have to either raise taxes or cut some other spending in order to "get" funding.
That "funding" is an issue is ONLY a political issue.
We don't have to either raise taxes or cut some other spending in order to "get" funding.
December 26, 2025 at 10:38 PM
So, what you see here is the way to go. Do we want a high-speed passenger-rail system?
That "funding" is an issue is ONLY a political issue.
We don't have to either raise taxes or cut some other spending in order to "get" funding.
That "funding" is an issue is ONLY a political issue.
We don't have to either raise taxes or cut some other spending in order to "get" funding.
Notice what the article does *not* say.
It does not say that the *funding for* all of these stockpiles threatens the *funding for* the energy transition, even though that is still the backwards, self-defeating framing that most articles and public discussions about excess military spending employ.
It does not say that the *funding for* all of these stockpiles threatens the *funding for* the energy transition, even though that is still the backwards, self-defeating framing that most articles and public discussions about excess military spending employ.
December 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Notice what the article does *not* say.
It does not say that the *funding for* all of these stockpiles threatens the *funding for* the energy transition, even though that is still the backwards, self-defeating framing that most articles and public discussions about excess military spending employ.
It does not say that the *funding for* all of these stockpiles threatens the *funding for* the energy transition, even though that is still the backwards, self-defeating framing that most articles and public discussions about excess military spending employ.
This right here is a rare version of the CORRECT way to look at public resource outlay decisions, generally, and military spending, specifically.
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December 26, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This right here is a rare version of the CORRECT way to look at public resource outlay decisions, generally, and military spending, specifically.
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x.com/TransitionSe...
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x.com/TransitionSe...