Atticus
Atticus's JournalAnother rant---Dear Mr. Thomas:
Notice, please, that I did not address you as "Justice". That honorific does not belong in the same sentence with your name, let alone in front of it.
I have but one question for you: when you and the other five partisan hacks now befouling the bench you sit on so transparently abandon decades-old precedents that the overwhelming majority in this nation considered near-sacred "settled law", how in hell are the cops and local judges from coast to coast across the fruited plain supposed to answer those who say "Laws don't matter any more! Don't bother me with your supposed rules. If the SCOTUS can ignore the rules, so can I!"
For now, I will not get into just how pathetically stupid your "historical analysis" was. An honest person would have just admitted that they were nominated and approved for the purpose of making this and other authoritarian decisions and your "reasoning" amounted to a snarky "BECAUSE!"
An answer, if you please: why should the rubes out here in fly-over country obey the law if such as you represent it?
Our three-branched government is analogous to a three-legged stool.
Trump's appointment of three incompetent ideologues to the SCOTUS sawed off that already-weakened leg.
This Court, as it has already demonstrated, has been corrupted beyond redemption by the gilded anal sphincter who lost the popular vote but won the votes of Putin and the mob of white nationalists in red caps.
Hunker down, friends.
So, the Trumpublicans are now saying McCarthy screwed up when he pulled all of his choices
to serve on the J6 Committee and has deprived them of the chance to defend Trump and rebut the evidence being presented. This, they imply, has resulted in the J6 presentation being one-sided and totally biased.
I absolutely agree that the presentation has been completely one-sided.
All the many witnesses who testified under oath that Trump knew he had lost the election, knew there was no "steal", and knew his alternate elector scheme and his pressure campaign against Pence and state officials were illegal have been REPUBLICANS.
Is that what they're whining about?
I will ask Mrs. A to post a notice of my demise if I am gunned down in a local business.
I intend to walk out of any business I might be in as soon as I see the first local maniac "packing heat", but only after loudly telling management why i am leaving and "circling back" to tell the Rambo wannabe that he is a Rambo wannabe and that I find him too disgusting to share air with.
I will, of course, be unarmed as always.
These cowardly little boys make me want to puke and I refuse to continue pretending otherwise!
We are being challenged to live up to the ideals we have insisted made our nation "exceptional".
ARE we "a nation of laws, not men"?
ARE "no men above the law" in our nation?
If these are not just meaningless high-sounding "fluff", why are we even questioning whether or not the law will punish Trump for his despicable crimes?
The mass murders in Buffalo and Uvalde were not the result of the "boyfriend loophole" or
uncertainty about who a "gun seller" is.
They were the result of 18 year old kids being able to legally purchase rifles specifically designed to kill people---AR 15s---and multiple high capacity magazines.
They will still be able to after the much-praised "gun legislation" passes---if it does.
An example of the sort of ads that raise the hairs on the back of my neck:
In one commercial, one of the front groups for the oil and gas mega-corporations ends their string of nonsensical emotional appeals to patriotism with the solemn question (accurate paraphrase ): "Should we be forced to rely on oil and gas from unstable regions OR should we PRODUCE (emphasis mine ) our own oil and natural gas right here in the USA?"
We might drill for, transport, refine and market oil and natural gas, but DAMN IT---WE CANNOT "PRODUCE" ONE DROP OF PETOLEUM OR ONE CUBIC INCH OF NATURAL GAS!
That is the problem, idiots! That's why they're called NON-RENEWABLE resources and, we are irreversibly depleting them!
In other words, twits, supplies are about to be exhausted and when they're gone, they're gone!
Sheesh!
We are being challenged to live up to the ideals we have insisted made our nation "exceptional".
ARE we "a nation of laws, not men"?
ARE "no men above the law" in our nation?
If these are not just meaningless high-sounding "fluff", why are we even questioning whether or not the law will punish Trump for his despicable crimes?
A note to so-called "conservatives": if you do not wholeheartedly approve of everything
Trump has ever done or may do in the future, you are not a Republican; you are a "RINO".
Donald Trump purchased the GOP several years ago. Their "platform"--- what they stand for and hope to achieve--- is simply whatever Trump says it is at the moment. He may change it tomorrow or 5 minutes from now or within the same sentence in which it is announced so, if you really want to be a Republican, listen carefully and constantly to anything he says. If it seems ridiculous, the problem is with you so just nod and smile. NEVER question his pronouncements.
If you are not willing to commit to Trumpism, I really don't know what you are going to call yourself, since "Republican" no longer really fits, "conservative" has become synonymous with "cruel, unprincipled and greedy" and I doubt you'll voluntarily adopt "RINO".
Here's an idea: if you really, sincerely, genuinely care about your fellow men and women and you think that "Golden Rule" thing is a pretty decent idea, you could wade past all the bullshit about us you've had shoveled at you for all those years and join the party that does more for you and yours: join the "DEMOCRATIC" Party! ( NOT the "Democrat" Party. )
You can help us "Make Government Decent Again".
An "oldie" revisited:
A multi-millionaire became sort of depressed as he gradually realized that, not only was he not the smartest person in the world, there were in fact several people on the globe with more intelligence---higher IQs. In this funk, he heard of a clandestine clinic in Switzerland that, for outrageous prices, could actually inject a person with viable brain cells from deceased human donors. He was off in a flash in his luxury private 747 jet.
After landing and then coptering to the remote medical complex, the moneybags was soon being given a special tour of the facility by the medical research manager after emphasizing that "price is no object!"
Pointing to a large sealed glass tray in a bath of liquid super-coolant, the scientist noted "These are the brain cells from some of the world'finest engineers. They are priced at just $25,000 an ounce!"
Again, the billionaire assured him no price was too high and asked "What else do you have?"
Moving on, the doc motioned toward another similar container and proudly said "Here, we have brain cells from MIT grads---theoretical mathematicians, astrophysicists---geniuses all! These go for $60,000 per ounce!"
Wanting go cut to the chase, the rich guy asks "Where are your most expensive brain cells?"
"Follow me" the director said and walked down a spiral staircase to a brightly lit chamber containing only one small glass tray which held perhaps a cup of cells.
"Those", the tour guide solemnly intoned, "are Trump supporter brain cells and they are $500,000 an ounce!"
"Whoa!" the billionaire exclaimed, "If engineer brains are 25 grand per ounce and MIT grads are 60 thousand per ounce, why in the world are Trump supporter brains so much more expensive?"
"It's simple, really" the doctor replied. "Have you any idea how many Trump supporter heads you have to crack open to accumulate an ounce of brains?"
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