That means actually having 60+ votes or ending the filibuster

Yes — the racism and hate are more important to them.

No...

The goal is to obscenely enrich to the fullest extent possible any/all Fossil Fuel Robber Barons and all their "friends" (read: the ones that initiated these policies).

They simply care for nothing else like climate change, the planet, people (rank and file), etc... (unless you count working to accelerate the Biblical End Times).

🤡 🖕 💩 💩

To be fair, the US has been behind the rest of the world in most things for quite awhile.

What they want is total control and fear-based loyalty.

I will happily serve the billionaires.

With a side of coleslaw.

They'll ride in, but it won't be to save us. It'll be only exactly to the extent they can buy up the bankrupt economy. It's the post-Soviet Russian collapse wealth privatisation scenario.

Except for White Jeeeeezus!

They hate not being the ones in control. That's it. Because they can't handle being afraid.

It's fear not hate.

Freedumb!

Do you smell that? Clean coal, son. Nothing else in the world smells like that. I love the smell of clean coal in the morning. Smells like victory!

Their paymasters are very unsure about wanting humanity to survive:

Douthat: I think you would prefer the human race to endure, right?

Thiel: Uh ——

Douthat: You’re hesitating.

Thiel: Well, I don’t know. I would — I would ——

Douthat: This is a long hesitation!

Thiel: There’s so many questions implicit in this.

Douthat: Should the human race survive?

Thiel: Yes.

It's about making "liberals" (meaning anyone even slightly to the left of Ronnie Raygun, I guess?) cry for the dumbdumbs that vote for the oligarchs to sell the country off.

For the stupid base and a lot of the elites that run the conservative "movement"/Republican Party, cruelty is the point. Making a shit-ton of money is the main point for the people getting the stupid base to vote against their own interests...even if they fuck over their own descendants...

MAGA was all the people we hated along the way.

The term "maga" has no real meaning or guiding principles.

It's conservative Newspeak and sounds like baby-talk, which I think is no accident.

And the only thing that seems to outline what "maga" means is if it is something that makes Taco happy. Everything else is secondary, even if conservatives have completely reversed themselves on policies they supposedly held dear prior to learning how Taco feels on a given matter. The cons pretended to revere the military at one point. If Taco says those that serve are "suckers and losers", well, then, what Taco says is law, and cons have always been at war with the military, I guess. Until Taco needs a birthday parade...