{"id":167180,"date":"2026-11-11T11:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/11\/no-just-moving-on-we-demand-vengeance-against-maga-and-getting-it-will-help-lower-costs\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T11:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T19:48:11","slug":"no-just-moving-on-we-demand-vengeance-against-maga-and-getting-it-will-help-lower-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2026\/11\/11\/no-just-moving-on-we-demand-vengeance-against-maga-and-getting-it-will-help-lower-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"No Just Moving On: We Demand Vengeance Against MAGA, And Getting It Will Help Lower Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I went to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak last night. His talk was about the science (or lack thereof) portrayed in a variety of Hollywood movies new and old.<\/p>\n

As Dr. Tyson discussed the 1995 Kevin Costner vehicle \u201cWaterworld,\u201d he asked the audience which state would disappear first under da sea if the polar ice caps really did catastrophically melt. \u201cFlorida!\u201d everyone shouted.<\/p>\n

Then, he played a scientifically accurate animation depicting this scenario. Even as the ocean shorelines everywhere else in North America moved almost imperceptibly inward, Florida was rapidly swallowed.<\/p>\n

I was a little drunk, so when the familiar outline of the Sunshine State fully disappeared, I let out a loud whistle and forcefully clapped my hands. The cheer caught on. The rest of the crowd joined me and roared.<\/p>\n

Tyson laughed, asked us what we had against Florida (even though he knew perfectly well), and pivoted to a few \u201cFlorida man\u201d jokes. He\u2019s not only an impressive scientist, he\u2019s a great performer and a class act. He doesn\u2019t like to offend anyone he doesn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

But I do: we were cheering because Florida is the last citadel<\/a> of the MAGA movement and it therefore sucks something awful. I personally find the thought of coral reefs flourishing on the forgotten ruins of Mar-a-Lago delightful.<\/p>\n

I realize, of course, that spending money to attend an astrophysicist\u2019s lecture self-selects for a certain type of people \u2014 namely, people who are not complete idiots. Though they weren\u2019t by any means a representative sample of the population as a whole, my experience with the other Tyson fans was only one of many over the past few days that makes pretty plain to me that most people are very, very pissed off at MAGA.<\/p>\n

Yet, in the week since the Democratic landslide in the midterms, I\u2019ve heard many pundits and even several of the winning candidates themselves say some version of that the Democrats need to just move on<\/a>, to look forward rather than back, to focus on lowering prices rather than revenge.<\/p>\n

I have no idea where they\u2019re getting that crap from, because it\u2019s definitely not voters. We demand vengeance against MAGA, and if Democrats don\u2019t deliver it, their victory will be short-lived.<\/p>\n

Yes, the polls will tell you that people don\u2019t think Democrats or Republicans are focused enough on lowering prices. Can anyone ever be too<\/em> focused on lower prices? Fortunately, not only is it possible to both try to lower prices and hold MAGA officials accountable, these two things go together like peas and carrots.<\/p>\n

The main reason gas and diesel (and anything hauled anywhere using gas or diesel, which is basically everything), have gotten so high-priced this year is because Donald Trump started a pointless and unnecessary war against Iran. If Pete Hegseth, the tool Trump used to wage this stupid war, is sitting in jail because of all the crimes it seems he has committed<\/a>, well, Trump is going to have a hard time finding someone to instigate the next dumb conflict on his behalf.<\/p>\n

Hey, have you noticed how all the nice brown people who used to quietly and inexpensively provide nearly all the physical labor in our society got a little scared about coming to work when the federal government sent an army of masked goons into our cities to terrorize them? Well, that has caused things to get more expensive<\/a> too. Once Stephen Miller is either behind bars or back hanging upside down from the roof of a cave somewhere, everyone can really start getting back to work.<\/p>\n

Oh, and then there\u2019s Elon Musk. In 2016, the first year that Trump was president, Musk was worth about $11.6 billion<\/a>. This year, he became the world\u2019s first trillionaire. In other words, Musk\u2019s net worth increased nearly a hundredfold<\/em> in the decade since Trump became a political figure. That money did not appear out of thin air. Some of it the government printed for him<\/a>, and printing money always increases inflation. As for the rest, well, let\u2019s just say he sure didn\u2019t become the richest person in the history of the world by pumping money back into Americans\u2019 pockets.<\/p>\n

Corruption causes inflation<\/a>. All the worst MAGA villains are corrupt. This is a win-win, a no-brainer, a force multiplier: seek revenge.<\/p>\n

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Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator and author of\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Your Debt-Free JD<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(affiliate link). He has taught legal writing, written for a wide variety of publications, and made it both his business and his pleasure to be financially and scientifically literate. Any views he expresses are probably pure gold, but are nonetheless solely his own and should not be attributed to any organization with which he is affiliated. He wouldn\u2019t want to share the credit anyway. He can be reached at\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>jon_wolf@hotmail.com<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The post No Just Moving On: We Demand Vengeance Against MAGA, And Getting It Will Help Lower Costs<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I went to see Neil deGrasse Tyson speak last night. His talk was about the science (or lack thereof) portrayed in a variety of Hollywood movies new and old.<\/p>\n

As Dr. Tyson discussed the 1995 Kevin Costner vehicle \u201cWaterworld,\u201d he asked the audience which state would disappear first under da sea if the polar ice caps really did catastrophically melt. \u201cFlorida!\u201d everyone shouted.<\/p>\n

Then, he played a scientifically accurate animation depicting this scenario. Even as the ocean shorelines everywhere else in North America moved almost imperceptibly inward, Florida was rapidly swallowed.<\/p>\n

I was a little drunk, so when the familiar outline of the Sunshine State fully disappeared, I let out a loud whistle and forcefully clapped my hands. The cheer caught on. The rest of the crowd joined me and roared.<\/p>\n

Tyson laughed, asked us what we had against Florida (even though he knew perfectly well), and pivoted to a few \u201cFlorida man\u201d jokes. He\u2019s not only an impressive scientist, he\u2019s a great performer and a class act. He doesn\u2019t like to offend anyone he doesn\u2019t have to.<\/p>\n

But I do: we were cheering because Florida is the last citadel<\/a> of the MAGA movement and it therefore sucks something awful. I personally find the thought of coral reefs flourishing on the forgotten ruins of Mar-a-Lago delightful.<\/p>\n

I realize, of course, that spending money to attend an astrophysicist\u2019s lecture self-selects for a certain type of people \u2014 namely, people who are not complete idiots. Though they weren\u2019t by any means a representative sample of the population as a whole, my experience with the other Tyson fans was only one of many over the past few days that makes pretty plain to me that most people are very, very pissed off at MAGA.<\/p>\n

Yet, in the week since the Democratic landslide in the midterms, I\u2019ve heard many pundits and even several of the winning candidates themselves say some version of that the Democrats need to just move on<\/a>, to look forward rather than back, to focus on lowering prices rather than revenge.<\/p>\n

I have no idea where they\u2019re getting that crap from, because it\u2019s definitely not voters. We demand vengeance against MAGA, and if Democrats don\u2019t deliver it, their victory will be short-lived.<\/p>\n

Yes, the polls will tell you that people don\u2019t think Democrats or Republicans are focused enough on lowering prices. Can anyone ever be too<\/em> focused on lower prices? Fortunately, not only is it possible to both try to lower prices and hold MAGA officials accountable, these two things go together like peas and carrots.<\/p>\n

The main reason gas and diesel (and anything hauled anywhere using gas or diesel, which is basically everything), have gotten so high-priced this year is because Donald Trump started a pointless and unnecessary war against Iran. If Pete Hegseth, the tool Trump used to wage this stupid war, is sitting in jail because of all the crimes it seems he has committed<\/a>, well, Trump is going to have a hard time finding someone to instigate the next dumb conflict on his behalf.<\/p>\n

Hey, have you noticed how all the nice brown people who used to quietly and inexpensively provide nearly all the physical labor in our society got a little scared about coming to work when the federal government sent an army of masked goons into our cities to terrorize them? Well, that has caused things to get more expensive<\/a> too. Once Stephen Miller is either behind bars or back hanging upside down from the roof of a cave somewhere, everyone can really start getting back to work.<\/p>\n

Oh, and then there\u2019s Elon Musk. In 2016, the first year that Trump was president, Musk was worth about $11.6 billion<\/a>. This year, he became the world\u2019s first trillionaire. In other words, Musk\u2019s net worth increased nearly a hundredfold<\/em> in the decade since Trump became a political figure. That money did not appear out of thin air. Some of it the government printed for him<\/a>, and printing money always increases inflation. As for the rest, well, let\u2019s just say he sure didn\u2019t become the richest person in the history of the world by pumping money back into Americans\u2019 pockets.<\/p>\n

Corruption causes inflation<\/a>. All the worst MAGA villains are corrupt. This is a win-win, a no-brainer, a force multiplier: seek revenge.<\/p>\n

\n

Jonathan Wolf is a civil litigator and author of\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>Your Debt-Free JD<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0(affiliate link). He has taught legal writing, written for a wide variety of publications, and made it both his business and his pleasure to be financially and scientifically literate. Any views he expresses are probably pure gold, but are nonetheless solely his own and should not be attributed to any organization with which he is affiliated. He wouldn\u2019t want to share the credit anyway. He can be reached at\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>jon_wolf@hotmail.com<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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