Mike Benz on USIC Deep State Info-Compartmentalized Rice Bowl Politics

...muh, "democracy"!

Deep State 101

Happy Father's Day

Only Emperors, No Kings Day!

Blobenomics 101

Blob Regime Change Operations in America Build Momentum... Hoping to Peak on Saturday and Distract DJT from Ukraine and DoGE Reforms

George Washington, "Farewell Address" (1796) - Excerpt:

...The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissention, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries, which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual: and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of is own elevation, on the ruins of Public Liberty.

Without looking forward to an extremity of this kind (which nevertheless ought not to be entirely ought of sight) the common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise People to discourage and restrain it.

It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the Public Administration. It agitates the Community with ill founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions. Thus the policy and the will of one country are subjected to the policy and will of another.

There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the Government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of Liberty. This within certain limits is probably true; and in Governments of a monarchical cast, Patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in Governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency, it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched; it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming it should consume.

It is important likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country, should inspire caution. In those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres. Avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of Government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power; by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern: some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for tho’ this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free Governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield….

...Meanwhile, the Biden Immigration Riots Spread...

Blob Ops Have Now Begun in America... Muh, "Democracy!"

The US Intelligence Community is the World's 2nd Largest Terrorist Organization.

"He who fights with monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Regime Change Operations have come to America... Again.

The City of London Corporation coordinates Blob Soft Power Ops through NGOs, Financial Off-Shore Shell Corporations, Unions, and DNC Officials, much as they coordinated the recent drone strikes in Russia

"Donald J. Trump must GO!"

The Blob's US Military Proxy option has been rendered 'temporarily' Unavailable by DJT,  hence the coordinated attack on the June 14 Military Parade in DC

"See how we can ruin your celebrations, Mr. Trump!"

Tulsi Gabbard, DNI on Hiroshima

The War Hawks Seize Europe and Fly Towards the Rocks of Ruination...

...the Voice of Radical Humanism Responds.

Europe lays between Scylla and Charybdis.  Can it steer a Middle Course?  Who will become its' Odysseus?

Meanwhile, on June 14 America will Celebrate the 250th Anniversary of the American Army in Washington  DC. 

The Brave New Left will Protest everywhere BUT Washington DC on the same day.   

What, no Presence on the Field of Battle?

Organizers (of No Kings Day) expect 1,800 rallies will take place on Saturday for “a nationwide day of defiance” in every state and major city across the country—except Washington, D.C., as to avoid clashes with the Army’s 250th anniversary celebrations, which will be held that day in the nation’s capital.

Why are Democrats protesting against Martin Luther King's holiday?  Atavism?  I wonder?

On the Unseriousness of New Left Identitarianism

...but, but, but...Rule of LAW....

The Lawfare crowd goes full on Insurrection.

...because Transgression is the New Conformity! It's an Expedient and Very Fertile Fallacy!

Democrats Keep Biting from Kitsch Poisoned Apples...

Hungry for the Advantages of Snow White Privilege"

Female Guilt-Pride Spirit (Abortion Politics)

Killing children to more easily pursue Hypergamy

(It's 'Good', just repress the NeoSexist killing babies part)

Racial Guilt-Pride Spirit (Intersectional Identity Politics):

If Racism made THEM great, NeoRacism will make ME great!

(It's 'Good', just repress the ugly Racism parts)

Saul Alinsky, "Rules for Radicals"

Rule 11 - “If you push a negative hard and deep enough it will break through into its counterside; this is based on the principle that every positive has its negative.”

Democrats Pitch New Political Strategy

Politico...try doing more popular (ie Democratic) stuff.  Stop propping up moralizing judgemental PMC elite policies for labour expropriation and cultural destruction by Open Society Late-Capital.

I wonder how many donors they're willing to lose?

Will the Democratic Party go from All Saints... to All Souls.?

Why Climate Models Are Total BS...

...Alexa, Set the Climate Control System to 68F!

The Post-WWII Open Society: Fertile Fallacies Destroying Noble Lies

A "Consensus" that is Losing its' European and American Consensus

Excerpt from video above:

Fallibility, and specifically what Soros calls "Radical Fallibility", which posits that all human constructs, ideas, institutions, and ideologies are inherently flawed, deficient. In history we end up with self-reinforcing but eventually self-defeating cycles. Belief creates reality, but eventually collapses because it's deficient. It fails to reckon with certain elements of reality.

Radical fallibility underpins the concept of an Open Society, whereas Closed Societies think they know the truth, or at least some grand truth. So far, so reasonable, even if we disagree.

But it gets deeper. Soros writes:

"Radical fallibility is the cornerstone not only of my view of the world, but also of my personal identity. And as such, it is reflected in my behavior. It has guided my actions. If there is anything original in my thinking, it is this radical version of Fallibility.

Even though all mental constructs are flawed, some of them are fertile. Fertile fallacies are the equivalent of bubbles in financial markets. This lies at the core of my own radical version of Fallibility.

My working assumption allows me to operate with fertile fallacies. I apply them to the outside world, and to my own activities, Opening up Closed Societies.

And Soros gets personal when describing this:

"Radical fallibility is for me not only an abstract theory, but also a matter of deep personal conviction. As a fund manager's, predominant feelings I operated with were uncertainty, and fear. I had moments of hope, even euphoria, but those emotions made me insecure. Worrying made me feel safer. So the only genuine joy I experienced was when I discovered what it was that I had to worry about. I could never acknowledge my successes, it might stop me from worrying.

There's no spiritual contemplation, no rest in a positive assertion or identity, or vision of beauty. Happiness makes the believer in radical fallibility feel unstable. Safety is in fear.  This constant seeking after anxiety, after sources of worry, characterizes how many people live, but he made it into an ideology. This is similar by the way, to the Frankfurt school thinker Theodore Adorno's negative dialectics, so-called. 

And like "The Age of Fallibility" of the Frankfurt school, Soros critiques Enlightenment Reason. In particular, he values free expression over truth, or thinks of free speech and other rights not as a good way to get to the truth or to do objective good, but as a way to find "fertile fallacies". As he puts it:

"It is high time to subject Reason, as construed by the Enlightenment, to the same kind of critical examination that the Enlightenment inflicted on the dominant external authorities, both Divine and temporal. We have now lived in the Age of Reason for the past 200 years. Long enough to discover that reason has its' limitations. We are ready to enter the Age of Fallibility."

And he does think his moral relativism will lead to specific principles:

"The freedom of thought and expression, and the freedom of choice, can be directly derived from our fallibility. Since the ultimate truth is beyond our reach, we must allow people to think for themselves and make their own choices. I derive human rights from being a thinking agent."

So where does authority or the exercise of power come in? Well, it's not enough to avoid the Closed Society, you also have to avoid total chaos. You need to have some control:

Instead of a dichotomy between Open and Closed Societies, I now envision Open Society occupying a precarious middle ground, some that would impose a Closed Society, others that would lead to the disintegration of Society.

Similarly, Soros rejects both capitalism and communism. So while:

The Open Society, like Democracy, is a way of living together, not a blueprint for solving particular social problems, so not a Closed Society. The concept of Open Society is not empty, it's not social disintegration. Indeed, I believe that it now needs to be redefined to include more than just freedom from officially imposed orthodoxy.

But how can recognition of our Open Society, as "Faith in Fallibility", serve as the basis of a whole social order? Can we promote a belief in our own fallibility to the status we normally confer on a belief in ultimate truth? 

The answer, I think, requires a profound change in the role we accord our beliefs. Historically, beliefs have served to justify specific rules of conduct. Fallibility ought to foster a different attitude. 

But in the ultimate analysis, a belief in the Open Society is a matter of choice, not of logical necessity. A belief in our fallibility is a highly sophisticated concept. Much more difficult to work with than more primitive beliefs such as my country, or company, or family... right or wrong."

Now practically, Soros does promote creating an Open Society alliance, kind of like a UN 2.0, but he describes it in pretty minimalistic terms. Anyway, the thinking here is relatively basic. Break down old certainties, because they are believed to be false, but avoid the complete breakdown of society whose institutions and behaviors were actually based on those old certainties that you want to breakdown.

How? Well, if you go down this route, you end up I think resorting to naked power. Because you have no real positive values to give people other than this "faith", as he calls it, this choice to just believe in Fallibility and in the Open Society as a consequence. But Soros doesn't mean that there aren't any bedrock realities, any basic facts. There are:

The fact that our understanding is imperfect does not mean that there is no ultimate truth. On the contrary, the lack of adequate knowledge implies the need for an element of faith."

"My insistence on the importance of the objective aspect of reality is a matter of personal belief. Indeed, it has a curious resemblance to a religious belief. The objective aspect of reality, as I have constructed it, has many of the attributes of God. My commitment to the objective aspect of reality plays the same role in my thinking as religion does in other people's. In the absence of perfect knowledge we need beliefs. I happen to believe in Harsh Reality, while other people believe in God.

Speculation can't change certain economic fundamentals. For example, there are certain clear material realities we cannot alter.

In the early '90s Soros made a lot of money speculating on the British pound. And he did this because he thought there were real underlying weaknesses. But his speculation made it worse. But Soros can justify that because it exposes a weakness of the system of the Closed Society, or relatively Closed Society. It's a traumatic lesson for people on the truth of fallibility. This is a bit like saying getting AIDS is good because it exposes your immune system's weaknesses. But there you go.

By the way, Steve Bassant, Trump's Treasury Secretary was part of Soros's team at the time.

Open Societies are NOT founded Upon Noble Lies, as are Closed Societies.  No, they are founded upon Fertile Fallacies, that create Economic Bubbles, and yield Crass Profits to currency speculators like George Soros 

Who ignore 'experts' like Lindy and don't consider Risk Concepts like Anti-Fragility.

The More Democrats Obey their PC Minority Affirmation Rituals, the More Guilty / Hubristic they Become

Progressive "White Guilt-Pride" = Indefinitely Postponing the Real Work of Actual Racial Reconciliation and Equality (and Alienating Innocent Whites so They Can feel Good About Themselves -pride/ hubris-  Instead)

"Why Aren't all our Repeated Affirmation Charms and Incantations Working?  They Should Have Achieved Equality by Now.  If it Weren't for the Remaining Racists, they WOULD Have.  So We Must Scapegoat Whites Harder!  For THEY are the Morally Deficient Guilty Ones"

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

–Hannah Ardent, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

Democratic Party Response to Black & Hispanic Men:

  "They're Morally Deficient Sexists!"

btw - Pay No Attention to the Soros Open Society Attack on Cultural Norms!  He's only DNC's Biggest Funding Source.

Hoax me Later, Bro!

...but first, give me the Neo-Sexist Narrative!

On the Current State of Neo-Racism in Europe

“There is no such thing as collective guilt or collective innocence; guilt and innocence make sense only if applied to individuals.”

–Hannah Ardent, "Personal Responsibility Under Dictatorship"

"Continuity of Government" 

Now Trumps Democracy

Mike Pompeo Pouring Fire on the Gasoline for WWIII...

...the US NatSec State is OUT of Control!!!!

We've Been Circumveiloped by Obscuritards!

Meet Your Friendly Neighborhood CIA Officer...

...he LITERALLY knows EVERYTHING about you.

VDH on PMC Neo-Racism

Band AID and USAID - Feeding Africa's Famine Victims...

I'm sure that $95m was NOT spent on guns and guerillas.  The point is, we don't know what the vig on AID was.

A stadium full of white guilt-pride Spirit trying to "atone" for Colonialism's sins...

...all with pure hearts and 'good' intentions.  In other words, a "moral hazard" waiting to be exploited by bad actors.  Kitsch ethics at work.

Isaiah Berlin, "Letter to George Kennan" (1951)

Again, if I understand you correctly, you think that Western civilisation has rested upon the principle that, whatever else was permitted or forbidden, the one heinous act which would destroy the world was to do precisely this--the deliberate act of tampering with human beings so as to make them behave in a way which, if they knew what they were doing, or what its consequences were likely to be, would make them recoil with horror and disgust. The whole of the Kantian morality (and I don't know about Catholics, but Protestants, Jews, Muslims and high-minded atheists believe it) lies in this; the mysterious phrase about men being "ends in themselves," to which much lip-service has been paid, with not much attempt to explain it, seems to lie in this: that every human being is assumed to possess the capacity to choose what to do, and what to be, however narrow the limits within which his choice may lie, however hemmed in by circumstances beyond his control; that all human love and respect rests upon the attribution of conscious motives in this sense; that all the categories, the concepts, in terms of which we think about and act towards one another--goodness, badness, integrity and lack of it, the attribution of dignity or honour to others which we must not insult or exploit, the entire cluster of ideas such as honesty, purity of motive, courage, sense of truth, sensibility, compassion, justice; and, on the other side, brutality, falseness, wickedness, ruthlessness, lack of scruple, corruption, lack of feelings, emptiness--all these notions in terms of which we think of others and ourselves, in terms of which conduct is assessed, purposes adopted--all this becomes meaningless unless we think of human beings as capable of pursuing ends for their own sakes by deliberate acts of choice--which alone makes nobility noble and sacrifices sacrifices

Do You Trust the USIC and Media?

...because we are circumveiloped by obscuritards!  MKUltra and Operation CHAOS were merely the tip of the Iceberg compared to what we now know.

Post WWII Open Society Consensus my *ss!

I didn't agree to it.  Did You?

NED & USAID, et al, Capacity Built Woke Rent-a Riots in 2020

The 'Whole of Society' OCONUS Approach

BLM and J6 - USIC Rehearsals for CONUS Application?

The USIC doesn't care about the American People.  It ONLY cares about "Continuity of Government" (post-Patriot Act)

Verbum Vincet!

Fake News has Motives and Opportunities, So Don't Narrative Collections of Facts Omitted from the MSM Narrative Also Maintain Facticity? Which Narrative is Closer to the "truth" then?

Ethics of Kitsch Journalism = Propaganda

Steve McCann, "The Media’s Catch-22: Exposing Joe Biden Would Have Assured Trump’s Re-election"

The legacy media finds itself in a dilemma of its own making. The depth and seriousness of Joe Biden’s mental and physical problems during his presidency are being exposed daily—ironically, much of it by the denizens of the legacy media as they feverishly attempt to absolve their culpability in keeping the American people in the dark about Biden’s unfolding mental and physical infirmities as well as what was really happening in the Oval Office. The net result of this disingenuous mea culpa will accelerate the already record downward spiral in the citizenry’s trust in the media.

During the 2020 campaign, it became increasingly obvious to anyone without an anti-Trump agenda that Biden was not mentally or physically capable of being President. But the legacy media, wallowing in its Trump Derangement Syndrome, made a fatal decision in choosing to obfuscate not only his mental and physical incapacities but his fifty-year history of corruption and mendacity.

Thereafter, the legacy media found itself in a quandary during Biden’s presidency. How were they to avoid looking like partisan prostitutes if they started asking the obvious questions about Biden’s cognitive ability to be president while continuing to downplay Joe Biden’s corruption and failures?

They effectively decided to double down on their obfuscation strategy as they knew that by exposing Biden’s myriad health and ethical issues, they would trigger the public’s inevitable comparison between Trump and Biden, as well as between the presidents’ families, their mental acuity, their physical fitness, and their accomplishments. This was a comparison that would result in the effective exoneration and rehabilitation of Donald Trump.

Since Trump’s entrance into the political arena, the legacy media have relentlessly accused him of being unscrupulous and vile, an existential threat to the nation, and someone who deserves to be imprisoned. These so-called journalists knew that if they exposed Joe Biden, they could no longer demonize Trump if he decided to run for the presidency in 2024, essentially guaranteeing a Trump victory.

Thus, there evolved an unwritten consensus among the legacy media and their fellow-travelers in the Biden White House to obfuscate Biden’s escalating mental incapacity by accusing the opposition of lying and misinformation while ignoring the results of any investigations into Biden’s long history of malfeasance. (The Cloak of Gyges)

The legacy media, beginning in 2016, had far too much invested in the demonization of Donald Trump to allow him any avenue to reclaim the presidency.

A month before Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2017, Politico Magazine featured an article full of absurd innuendos and breathtaking assumptions entitled: “Trump Could be the Most Corruptible President Ever.” Within ten months after his inauguration, Newsweek unabashedly proclaimed to the nation that the Trump Administration was already the most corrupt in American history.

Unsurprisingly, by the end of his term, the legacy media and left-wing “historians” declared that Donald Trump was not only the most corrupt president in American history but, per The Atlantic, also the worst.

The New York Times, in a hyperbolic October 2020 editorial, pleaded with the public to vote for Joe Biden “and return the country to a more peaceful, stable and respectful form of self-governance,” and accused Trump of “rampant corruption, celebrations of violence, gross negligence with people’s health and incompetence—the worst American president in modern history.”

Accordingly, during the 2020 campaign, the Daily Kos proclaimed that it was in the nation’s vital interest to replace Trump with the “decent, honest, and honorable” Joe Biden. Per the Santa Cruz Sentinel, Biden has the “experience and character” to rescue the nation and restore “decency and honor” in the White House. Further, CNN unequivocally stated that Joe Biden had the mental and physical stamina to serve as president, and it was a false, vile, political attack to say otherwise.

Within a matter of a few months into Biden’s term, alternative media outlets, soon to be joined by a Republican House in 2023, began exposing the criminal depths of the Biden family corruption and Joe’s potentially treasonous activities.

Nonetheless, the legacy media steadfastly chose to limit any exposure of Biden’s career-long penchant for selling his political office for personal gain. They refused to cover the stories and blamed whatever malfeasance was exposed on others, such as his son, Hunter. Additionally, they accused Republicans and the alternative media of lying and peddling misinformation while continuing to obfuscate Biden’s personal history.

Why did they need to obscure Joe Biden’s personal history? They could not continue to deny the revelations of Biden’s corruption if it were general knowledge that his malfeasance and the “Biden Family Enterprise” began almost immediately after Joe Biden was first sworn in as a Senator in 1973. In August of 2019, British-based Politico International, in a lengthy article, traced the beginning of the venal “Biden Family Enterprise” back to 1973, Joe’s first year in the Senate.

It was while Joe Biden was vice president that the floodgates opened and what was a domestic influence-peddling business expanded globally into Ukraine, China, Russia, and Kazakhstan, among other nations. The layers of greed and unabashed willingness to sell access to the second-highest office in the country were mind-boggling. The most egregious examples were five deals with the Communist Chinese and the subsequent payments to Hunter Biden and the Biden family valued at $31 million.

For over five decades, the legacy media and virtually all of Washington, D.C., knew about Joe Biden’s corruption and penchant for being a serial fabulist as well as a compulsive liar.

The legacy media and the Democrat party did everything possible to avoid the full exposure of the decades of corruption within the “Biden Family Enterprise.” As long as there was the possibility that Donald Trump would again run for the presidency, they were determined to avoid the inevitable comparison between Donald Trump and his family and Joe Biden and his family.

Over the course of his presidency, Biden’s mental and physical issues became impossible to ignore and increasingly obvious to most American people. However, once committed to obfuscating Biden’s accelerating mental decline, the legacy media, acting as mindless robots, continued to unquestioningly regurgitate all the White House talking points excusing any gaffe, stumble, or incoherence by Biden.

Since 2019, the legacy media have been complicit in the cover-up of Biden’s rapidly declining mental state and the reality that, once in office, he would not be capable of being the president. A cabal of leftists in the White House wielding an autopen and manipulating Biden’s speeches and appearances turned out to be the de facto president.

The denizens of the Washington-based legacy media were well aware that this cabal was the de facto president, but they purposefully chose to put the country and its citizens in severe jeopardy rather than potentially help Trump and the Republicans in 2024.

No number of books written by these co-conspirators, public displays of contrition, or claims of ignorance will mitigate the reality that the legacy media were chiefly responsible for the disastrous state of affairs in the United States when the Biden presidency came to an end. They are not only anti-American but no longer trustworthy, and as such, they should be relegated to the ash bin of history.

Thesis:Antithesis::Synthesis 

As the Buddhists say, "Time for some Kitsch Karma" (No 'good deed' should go unpunished)

Signs and Symbols of Neo-Sexism

 

Wes Moore Takes a 4 Year Paid Hiatus from Maryland's Governorship to Run for President

 

That's Okay Wes, Maryland doesn't need a Governor, the Country needs you Moore. @k@

btw- Would you mind remitting your $184k annual salary and vacate the Governor's mansion, please?

Brakkton Booker, "Wes Moore dives into 2028 race in South Carolina

The governor of Maryland said Democrats must adapt and change."

COLUMBIA, SOUTH CAROLINA — Wes Moore made an early and urgent appeal Friday to one of the nation’s most important Democratic constituencies.

The first-term governor of Maryland said Democrats must adapt and change to counter President Donald Trump and improve life for the middle class if they have any hope of returning to power.

“Gone are the days when we are the party of bureaucracy, multi-year studies, panels and college debate club rules,” Moore said in a speech before party insiders at the South Carolina Democrats Blue Palmetto Dinner. “We must be the party of action.”

South Carolina has a track record of vaulting Democratic primary winners to the White House, and Moore’s premium speaking slot before the state’s well-connected party leaders does little to tamp down speculation he’s kicking the tires on an upcoming presidential bid.

In a state where Donald Trump cruised to an 18-point victory nearly seven months ago, Moore said Democrats must also take cues from an unlikely instructor: the president himself.

“Urgency is the instrument of change. And do you know who understands that really well? Donald Trump,” Moore said. “I want to be clear: We can — and we must — condemn Donald Trump’s reckless actions. But we would also be foolish not to learn from his impatience.”

Moore talked about his roots in Charleston, where his grandfather was born, his Army service and record on crime and job creation in Maryland. He also spoke about the perilous times the country faces, and told the crowd that he is on a “mission” to help deliver adequate health care and livable wages for those who need them.

It’s a vision Moore sought to contrast with the “reckless actions” of Trump.

Moore, 46, is seen as one of the party’s most promising young stars and has caught the attention of Hollywood icon and Democratic megadonor George Clooney. While many Democrats are eager to turn the page after difficult electoral losses last cycle, the governor told the party faithful that mustering up the courage to fight can’t wait until the next presidential cycle.

“Anyone who is talking about 2028 does not understand the urgency of 2025,” Moore said.

Earlier on Friday, Moore toured the Scout Motors Production Facility in nearby Blythewood and planned to attend a campaign-style fish fry after the dinner — making his visit seem even more like a tryout for 2028.

Moore, Maryland’s first — and currently the nation’s only — Black governor has drawn the ire of a handful of Democrats back home and in South Carolina over his veto of a reparations bill passed by the state legislature. The measure called for the study of historic race-based inequality in the state.

At least one South Carolina lawmaker, state Rep. John King, called for Moore to be disinvited from the gala.

“The governor’s veto doesn’t just affect Maryland,” said King, who boycotted the dinner. “It echoes in every state where Black lawmakers are already working uphill. It makes our jobs harder, and that’s something we can’t afford to ignore.”

The issue of reparations remains politically divisive, with a 2022 Pew Research Center survey showing that 77 percent of African Americans supported them, while less than 20 percent of white respondents did.

In the governor’s veto letter he suggested that with economic headwinds facing his state, it is an inopportune time to fund “another study.”

Moore has also followed other Democrats thought to be eyeing White House runs by sitting for more podcast interviews.

This includes a recent appearance on “The Breakfast Club” co-hosted by Charlamagne tha God and Kara Swisher’s podcast to talk about DOGE cuts and impact to his state. He recently traveled to Georgia, a key swing state, to record an episode of a podcast hosted by Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens and taped a hoops workout with basketball shooting coach and influencer Chris Matthews.

A person familiar with Moore’s schedule said he’s limiting the number of out-of-state invites he is accepting to focus on his role in Maryland. But the person stressed he plans to hit the campaign trail in Virginia and New Jersey — both of which hold statewide elections this fall.

Filed under: South Carolina