"Hi. Katy, Cody, and Jonathan are joined by Leah Litman, author of the new book 'Lawless: How the Supreme Court Runs on Conservative Grievance, Fringe Theories, and Bad Vibes.' They discuss how the Supreme Court is making it up as they go and allowing Donald Trump to do pretty much whatever he wants while they maintain a facade of legitimacy."
Before even starting to watch the video: a big part of why that is the case is because three of the six RWNJ justices were explicitly appointed by Trump, during his first reign as SCROTUS IMPOTUS, and (at least) one of the other three pre-existing RWNJ justices was
a flagrantly corrupt pile of shit even before Trump came along and is an even bigger corrupt pile of shit now. And, of course, the three non-RWNJ justices are basically irrelevant now, since the RWNJ justices outnumber them (by design), thus making the RWNJ word of the RWNJ majority, literally, the law of the land now (also by design).
Now to actually watch the video.
Okay, right off the bat, why would
anyone with even a single working brain cell believe that the Supreme Court are "the heroes who are going to save us from Trump," when they (aside from an extremely rare few noted exceptions) have been doing literally the
exact polar opposite of that since even before Trump became the SCROTUS IMPOTUS a second time? Hell, their direct actions and rulings are at least part of why Trump even
is the SCROTUS IMPOTUS again.
Yeah, Republicans,
hypocritically, have been expressly doing for the past several decades the very thing they've been whinging that Democrats have been trying to do, i.e. politicizing the court system and stacking the courts (not just the SCOTUS) with judges favorable to their RWNJ positions. And Democrats have mostly just been sitting there with their thumbs up their asses, harrumphing about the sanctity of the courts or whatever, and doing little to nothing to stop them.
Also, yeah, the fact that Supreme Court justices are just openly taking a shit ton of bribes now doesn't help, either, and the fact that so very few people seem to care about this is just mind boggling. (But then, look at Trump. He just accepted a bare-ass, glaring bribe in the form of a jet from Qatar, he isn't even trying to make it not look like a bare-ass, glaring bribe, and Trumpanzees seem to be perfectly fine with that, so why should they care about Clarence Thomas or whoever accepting similar, only ever so slightly less bare-ass, glaring bribes? I mean, sure, anyone who isn't a Trump-fart-huffing sycophant is calling it out for what it is, but who cares what
we think, anymore?)
Katy makes a good point. Taunting the 700-pound gorilla in the White House and
calling him a chicken or a taco or whatever is more likely going to cause the 700-pound gorilla to start smashing things with his giant 700-pound gorilla fists, rather than acting in anything remotely resembling a reasonable human manner.
Oh, they're talking directly about Trump's own acceptance of blatant bribes now. Yeah, well, what I said two paragraphs up remains the same.
I am pessimistic enough to believe that we will
never see a moment where die hard Trumpanzees see something that Trump did and say "He did
what?! No! He's gone
too far this time!" or whatever. They'll simply perform whatever mental gymnastics, same as they always do, that are required to allow them to say that whatever Trump does is always good, actually, and it's all the Democrats' fault, somehow, even up to and including a hypothetical scenario where Trump literally knocks on their door and tells them that their homes are going to be bombed on his orders with them locked inside. I'm only being maybe 51% facetious there.
(Oh, and Dreamwidth seems to be having issues at the moment, because nine times out of ten that I hit the "Preview" button on this post, it just goes to a white page with "Sorry, there was a problem" at the top of it. Hope this post doesn't get eaten when I actually try to post it.)
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