Calvinball, as you should know, is a game with no rules. That is how the Roberts Court functions: The Consititution, the written law and prior decisions are of no import if any of those hinder the Fascist wing of the Court from acheiving the result that it wants, which is no matter what the issue is, Trump wins.
The Five Fascists all lie down and let Trump wipe his feet on them and the law.
We've crossed into an authoritarian state, thanks, to the Supreme Court and yes, to much of the mainstream press, which has been busily closing its eyes to what Trump has been doing. None of it should have been a suprise to anyone who paid attention to what he said, for years. Hell's Bells, there was even a written and detailed plan. But the press, including the motherfucking New York Times, said, repeatedly: "Oh, that's just Trump being Trump and OMG, Biden's old!"
You work for the New York Times and the WaPo, among others, then this is partially on you. He's doing what he can to crush a free press and you assholes just sat on your hands. His allies are egging him on to bring other critics to heel..
And a friend sends me this, from a prominent crypto bro 2/
— Paul Krugman (@pkrugman.bsky.social) August 26, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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...and do you say anything?
Not that it matters much, now. The Demented Fat Fuck of a Dictator crosses red lines and there's nothing to be done, for now.
If the electorate doesn't turn out and vote out the Trumpists in 2026, then we're prtty much done as a free country. The celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence will be hollow, as we've been busy throwing away almost everything that they fought for.
Except, of course, slavery. Which I presume is somewhere on Trump and the Heritage Foundation's dance card.
And no, I haven't forgotten the complicity of the Democrats, who tried mostly to wish away 1/6/21 as a bad dream and did little to bring the architects of that to justice. I haven't forgotten the spineless Republicans who stood aside and just hoped that the Democrats and the courts would solve their problem for them. But that's a post for another time.
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I disagree that the Democrats did not do all they could do. They simply ran up against the fact that it is next to impossible to convict a rich man of anything in the USA, even if he has every other disadvantage working against him (see the late, unlamented O. J. Simpson).
The State must prove guilt. Our system is actually set up to favor the defendant. The reason the opposite often holds true in practice is that most defendants can't afford the Dream Team.
> Except, of course, slavery. Which I presume is somewhere on Trump and the Heritage Foundation's dance card.
No sense paying to send all those perfectly good workers out of the country. Sentence them to a goodly term of hard labor and then rent them out (or sell) to capitalists starving for cheap, exploitable labor. The 13th amendment allows that and the Roberts Republican Calvinball Court (R2C2) has shown itself to be hostile to democracy and human rights.
We know what they are. The question is price.
Eck!
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