What the decimated Supreme Court did to us yesterday is F*cking horrific - Is anyone going to organize a massive protest? I’m 70 and just finished chemo and it’s not an undertaking for me, but we desperately need some groups who care about democracy enough to get us off our butts. Black Lives Matter was a good example of what should be happening now. We need to respond en masse to these farcical, newly created rules fit for a King that are unconstitutional led by a far right runaway Supreme Court. If we start holding protests, I for one, will drag myself there repeatedly, if it’s the last thing I do.
Thank goodness... Like Sarah, I am over 70, have lupus, CHF and COPD, but will be with ALL protesting this in spirit! What I can do from my keyboard, I WILL DO!
I find it suspicious that this ruling came down just a three days before the 4th - SCOTUS obviously didn't want a giant organized march like the Womens March in Jan 2017. We need one like that - international. It would take quite the group to put something like that together.
Loved raising Hell on the Boston Commons in the 60’s&70’s I was a friggen baby ! We got them looking over their shoulders then ,let’s get them crawling back into the hole in the fucken ground where they were spawned this time 🖕😜🇺🇸
I'm looking forward to the time when it would be possible for you to participate in massive protests, because I think you'd be a force to be reckoned with. My best wishes - and thoughts and prayers, though mine are genuine, not Republican - to you.
In my 60s, disabled, health issues...but if these evil little assholes think we're going to just go away & die quietly they have another f*cking think coming. Thanks for your comment. I wish the very best for you!
I think a revolution is called for unless the Supreme Court justices who ruled against the constitution they are sworn to uphold are impeached. It is clear to me that the Supreme Court, starting with Roe v Wade, has been slowly upping the temperature in their rulings getting us ready for the day when they hand the election to Trump if he does not win it. Which, given what he is letting us know he is going to do is very likely the outcome. So, we can win the battle, but lose the war to these devils sitting in judicial seats, trying to disguise themselves as justice. I think people should be preparing for this. My group of Democrats Abroad is starting a book club on Project 2025. We are doing this after Law Prof. Joyce Vance said she was planning on doing that. It sounded like a good way to slog through 920 pages of fascist doctrine.
Linda, You are absolutely correct that is what those 6 corrupt justices have planned. Unless we Democrats overwhelmingly win the votes in those swing states, the election will be challenged & if it goes to them, they will hand it to Donny. Everything they have thrown out over these past 3 yrs & this upcoming election is WHY they were put there & why they have been bribed to stay there. This situation is intolerable.
P.J. I am worried that there will be a civil war, and that there won't be a civil war. I do not want the US to be solving in house problems with violence, and yet, as Heather Cox Richardson stated this week, SCOTUS committed a legalistic coup. We cannot let that go unchallenged. That is the last straw. If we accept the judgments this week, which are totally unconstitutional we will definitely get some specious reasoning for SCOTUS to hand Trump the presidency. One thing people should be doing this week is sending Joe Biden the 5 dollars they would have spent at Starbucks or McDonalds because there needs to be a big grassroots show of support so that his "big dollar donors" do not have the final say. Biden needs to see our bucks as our votes, and so do his backers. Also, AOC is the only one in Congress who is trying to bring impeachment charges against SCOTUS. If they are on the defensive they will have a less easy time giving the Presidency to Trump. So, she should also be getting our $5 or whatever you can give right now, and let Dick Durbin, who should be doing this, know that you are funding her not him. I will let him know, because he has benefitted from my hard earned dollars before, but I am ready to write in my 25 year old nephew, who just finished chef school in over voting for Durbin if he does not stop being a couch potato leader of the judiciary committee. https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/
What in the world is wrong with our own side sometimes?
The messaging is meant to screw us up!
This call for him to step down is ridiculous. The gop is thriving at our disorganization.. It's like they put out the memo and dems are stepping in line.
If Dems wanted Biden out they've had all this time to put it in place-
So do not give into the chaos!
We have to stay strong and united especially what we are up against.
Trump is all the bad things you'd want in a candidate and they stick up and defend him.
Nope. He posted it on Twitter a little while ago. He says Nancy Pelosi has something to do with it, but Nancy was on MSNBC earlier today defending President Biden.
Optimism has pretty much left my body right now. If it's not the MAGA people themselves causing chaos, it's the SC. I took this country for granted most of my life. I just assumed it would always be there for me and others. I'm a Boomer and never, ever thought we'd have to worry about fascists again after WWII. At least, not in the US. I was brought up in a Republican family, but they were farmers in the Midwest and that was back in the days where the GOP wasn't full of crazies and wanna be Hitlers. I was never political like I am now. That started in 2008 when the Evangelicals endorsed McCain and I knew I'd never line up with them. I loved Obama and have voted Dem every since. Trump made me nauseous from the start and I didn't know what I know now about him. It caught me by surprise that we have so many Americans that are in a cult and so uninformed. I also naively thought that racism was better when Obama was elected since obviously whites had to vote for him too to win the election. Boy, I was so wrong. All that did was fester the underlying bigots/racists in this country. Now it's bubbled over. I'm frightened and anxious about where this country is headed. Trump isn't the main problem. He's the head of the snake - there's still the rest of the snake. If he died tomorrow, there would still be chaos in this country. He's so stupid that you know that these ideas of becoming a fascist country aren't coming from him. He has plenty of enablers that are much smarter than he is.
I agree with every word you wrote. I also am a boomer and also took my country for granted. I am fearful, but I won't collapse until after the election and the chaos that is sure to follow when Biden wins. I have to believe that there are more of us than them.
Yes, there are waaaay more of us than there are of them. We just have to get everyone to wake the fuck up and vote! I am a boomer too and was gobsmacked yesterday but I am trying to get my shit together and regroup. It just blows my mind that the scotus is trying to install a corrupt convicted felon as our dictator. This man should never be allowed to run for any public office. That this group of attorneys can vanish our rule of law with a flick of a pen. They have shown us who they are. Now we have to show them who we also are. The media is the enemy. The scotus is the enemy. The whole R party is the enemy.And there are others who we will find out about. Who am I missing?
There are millions of Boomers, but many of them are MAGAs. It’s the young people that I feel that will save this country if they get out and vote. I feel that the abortion ruling may determine the election among some age groups. That is 100% not going to help Trump. Then to make matters worse, it’s obvious that they are going after abortion pills, IVF and contraception. I don’t know too many women who want to have children that are not planned. If they would have been a little smarter about this, they would have not addressed the abortion pill etc. at this time and waited until after the election. It’s just made it front page news again.
Those MAGA boomers are in for a big surprise if Dear Leader gets back in the White House and takes away Social Security and Medicare. They're so stupid, they have no idea what awaits them.
A lot of those MAGA boomers are my fellow union members— how the fuck anyone with a union book can vote for the mango moron is beyond my comprehension??!!…… all I can say is to my union brothers and sisters remember, what happened in Atlantic City……
Yeah,I don’t get union voters for Trump, military veterans voting for him, black and Hispanic people for him.You are correct that he could care less about these people and will leave them high and dry with no Obamacare, Social Security,Medicare, probably VA benefits.He is only out for himself and whatever he can grab or steal.
The just plain stupid that vote because someone told them to.
From my observation of people- racism trumps gender, sexual orientation in deciding your vote. It explains why women and gays vote for him. Blacks for him - I haven't figured that out yet.
The Culinary Union in Vegas has pretty much brought in Dem wins in Vegas and NV. Now that's not a given. I've read where there's discontent within that organization with the Dems. Don't understand what issue is the game changer with them that would make them support Trump.
I sure hope you're right! I have to agree about the young people. Hopefully they will get out to vote. My mom and dad are 85 years old. They can't believe what is happening. My mom says she's happy she's at the end of her life. She worries about young people. Me too. I believe there will be an uprising if they try to take more away from women than they already have. They should know not to mess with women, especially young woman who don't know anything about the 1950's and don't at all care. I can't believe any of this is happening. It is surreal.
I'm in your mom's age cohort, and I've, sadly, said the same thing. I won't be here to see the next presidential election (probably), but I've got four wonderful grandchildren who now of voting age, but the world they are inheriting is an awful place.
I've heard that a lot of young people are so disillusioned with Biden's support for Israel that they're going to sit out the election or vote third party. One person who feels she's been at the receiving end of racism most of her life, even said that if it means things go to hell under Trump, at least the rest of us "comfortable" folks will finally get it. I hope the events of the last two weeks have changed some minds and they're starting to understand the consequences of an authoritarian/theocratic regime. Among other things, the vocal young supporters of the people of Gaza will be some of the first to be "disappeared."
That's a really not so bright reason to vote for Trump. To pay white people back? Who does she think the first to go to his detention camps? Muslims. He was only in office a week the first time and the Muslim ban. The Middle East situation is extremely complex. I've seen the way the Palestinians in Bethlehem live and I've also visited concentration camps. There is no winner in this conflict. He only likes rich, white men who can give him something. If you don't fit that description, watch out if he wins. I'm actually surprised at some of the reaction of the young people about the Middle East war. Many aren't Jewish or Muslim or even been to that region, yet they're willing to be thrown out of college over it. Where was the outrage about that part of the world from then before 10/7? Do they ever think what a President Trump would have done to them if they protested like that? I just shake my head at the thinking of some people.
Fwiw, I didn't assume that Obama's ascent was a sign that racism had waned (and I don't mean that snarkily; I live in a majority-black city, so I see or hear about a lot of bullshttt, often). But what I didn't see -- and this is true for so many of us -- is that every political action results in an equal, opposite reaction. Backlash. (I even read Susan Faludi's great book by that title c. 1992, and still I wasn't prepared for the white-people-freaking-out-about-demographic-change backlash.)
Now that we know, we can figure out how to proceed. For ex., Dems need long-term plans, just as GOPs have had for ages. Dems need the "restore and shore up democracy" equivalent of the long-term "overturn Roe" -- and it too might take 50 years to come to fruition, though there can be incremental victories every few years.
I often write this, but: Please join your local Dem chapter, and MoveOn, and Indivisiable, and any other org you can think of, so you're at hand to help. Get involved in one of the postcards-to-voters programs. Add to this list anything you can think of. And please tell everyone you know to do all of the above, too.
PS: Thanks for voting for Dems despite a different upbringing. <3
I came to my senses. LOL. My family were farmers in a small Illinois town back in the beginning of the 1900’s. Never heard political talk growing up. My mother became very interested in politics later on, but I wasn’t. She actually did vote for Clinton, but hated Hillary for some reason. She would be appalled by the religious right. She couldn’t stand anyone dictating her life choices. She was so mad about the Teri Schiavo case (she lived in Clearwater also) that she wrote the governor, who was Jeb Bush at the time. She was outraged about the government’s interference in a medical matter. She’s been gone for 20 years now, but I can’t imagine her voting for Trump. I do remember she really disliked the Kennedy’s (JFK and RFK). Don’t know why - she was born right before the depression and maybe like now, rural areas were Republican.
My county Democratic Party is corrupt. They're bought off. All they're good for is handing out tax abatements to oligarchs.(Money comes out of Columbus City Schools, of course.)
The California Public Utilities Commission is made up of former fossil fuel executives and billionaires,who rubber-stamp rate increases for utilities companies,in San Diego where I live,it's been 54% over the last 5 years,and you heard me right,San Diego,70 degrees and sunny 300 days a year, there's really not much for 'demand' energy,so the utility companies came up with 'peak pricing' to increase profits,$1 billion in profits last year from only 2.8 million residents,don't get me started. SDG&E charges 45 cents a kilowatt,the highest rate in the country.
The demagogues stirred up the backlash, and one thing they could rely on (besides lies) was that the economic conditions for a lot of lower-middle-class whites didn't get much better during Obama. Of course, it was the fault of the oligarchs, not the Black guy, but Trump and other Republicans are never opposed to a deceiving message.
Exactly! He's too stupid to do anything on his own except be a criminal. There was an interview, I think in 1999, where he said he'd like to be president one day. How many of us took that seriously. Most of don't live in NYC and didn't know how truly awful he was. He tested the waters in 2012 with the Obama birth certificate nonsense. If that wouldn't have gone over, I doubt he wouldn't have been elected 4 years later. But it was the rallying cry for the GOP. I feel that GOP has 2 factions. The low IQ voter who probably is a racist and then the really deadly faction - the power hungry wealthy and smart. I doubt Billy Joe Bob in his doublewide with 2 teeth has the smarts to get the local dogcatcher elected. But the elite do. The Billy Bob's have been so manipulated by the media and they are clueless. Rich people don't care about abortion or social issues. They have enough money to insulate themselves from anyone but the rich and famous. Like everything else, this is about power/money. Trump is indeed their useful idiot.
We can blame NBC for tfg. The show “The Apprentice” made him look like a successful businessman, which he never was. Those of us from NY and NJ knew he was a con.
Yep. It was that show that propelled him onto the national stage. I remember hearing about him after that confrontation between Ivana and Marla on the ski slopes. I always thought he was unattractive and boorish, but because I never lived in NYC, I never knew anything else much about him other than the casino in Atlantic City. That show was what did it. He became a household word and most people knew who he was. Those kind of shows appeal to the low IQ voter also.
What we need to particularly worried about is who is his VP pick. Because of his age and fitness, he may not survive 4 years and that would make his VP prez. That VP surely will be much younger, smarter and a total whack like him.
Ditto! Like you, I understand that Trump could not be Trump if he didn't have support. I just don't know what end-game the others are playing. Money, power, prestige...? Honestly, I think it's all about having a Christian nation. That's why so many Christians can support him even though he is a corrupt sinner. The ends justify the means. The only good news is that the election has not happened yet. There is still time to get out the vote.
I don't feel that it's so much about having a Christian nation, I feel it's about NOT having a Muslim nation and so many brown people here. People like to be around people like themselves. Intelligent people realize that each culture has something to bring to the table and are open to learning about new things. Stupid, uninformed people are anxious and fearful. They can't look outside their bubble and see anything but people like them. They believe everything the media tells them as well as their church and family. The most threatened group seems to be the non-college graduate white male. Throughout history, men have run the show and still do for the most part. But minority men and all women are becoming more educated and want their place at the table too. The guys already at the table can't stand the thought of that. They feel threatened and the media doesn't help with it's derogatory reporting of what's going on with immigrants. If someone is murdered, why do we need to known it's an immigrant? You don't hear that about other suspects. They don't mention suspect Bob's family who came from Italy in 1920, do they? They are bad people from every gender and every race/culture. Only the ignorant lump them all together. Can you imagine if every white person was persecuted for crimes committed by white people? Hitler was an white as I am. So was Stalin. Most of your serial killers are white as well as are your mass murderers. Crickets from the GOP about those people.
The Christian stuff is just camouflage and a means to an end, just as the Nazis included "Socialist" in the party name to try to win the support of German communists.
If these so-called "Christians" started opposing Agolf, they'd be flushed faster than a Taco Bell dump at 3am.
Oh my,IMO the radical right-wing movement started right around 1973 with Roe,the Christians,white nationalists,and billionaires started unifiying around their most useful tools...greedy and morally bankrupt Republicans.
The Christianists decided to oppose Roe after it became politically unpalatable to continue to base their campaign on tax breaks for segregationist academies.
Agreed. Trumpy campaigning is usually walking into any room,and lying and telling them exactly what they want to hear,and promising them the world, he's not even coherent enough to do that anymore, just rambles like a crazy person,it's more likely the Stephen Miller's and Bannon's are still angling for cabinet positions and pulling some strings,and of course Trumpy is still promising the world to billionaire oil execs,and of course a lot of his support still comes from the Bible Belt,that wants another Civil War.
Boomer here and lifelong Democrat from the 60’s. I agree completely with everything you said. Democrats have been lazy and complacent. They expected the opposition to play by the rules and observe norms. They now need to wake up! Hopefully it’s not too late. It is essential that Dems take back the House and keep the Senate. Congress has the ability to expand the court and get rid of the filibuster. That cannot be questioned any longer. If the courts are being abused by the opposition, then it needs to be changed in order to right these abuses.
Imho, the SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity will hand the election to Joe and Kamala. Once people know about it they’ll vote blue. We need to keep spreading the word to those who don’t pay attention to politics. They will register and vote blue when they hear the implications of this ugly decision.
I’ve said for a very long time that the cult party likes having the felon as the pseudo leader BECAUSE he’s stupid. I doubt those that wrote Project 2025 didn’t even confer with him. LDFF thinks all the crazy intelligent people love him. They don’t. They’re using him as their leader so they can actually be the rulers.
Oy,, gevalt. But Sotomayor, Jackson, Kagan… these jurists will shine in history books — assuming there ARE history books — as brightly as Justice Robert Jackson, who took leave from the Supreme Court to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after the Second World War. At least we can still celebrate our heroes, hold up our heads, and vote. Vote. Vote.
I HEAR YOU… it’s like the pushback (overall) is so weak - it’s almost non-existent. Almost like a few key D ppl are compromised (vs the entire R party).., but what do I know :/
There have been minutes of brevity with ole Rudy though. The hair dye running down his face and the 4 Seasons Landscaping news conference come to mind. Now there's not even glimpses of funny about any of them.
Or Fournier's gangrene (this is a warning to everyone, if you don't know what it is, I highly recommend not looking it up) i'm still traumatized by the smell and knowing it exists.
Steve Bannon is like if Fournier's gangrene and C-Diff had a child. Not good! 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
The bad news is Rudy Colludy is still spending money (about 20k a month)like drunken sailor,and still sitting in his fancy condo,and somehow a judge is allowing it,and he still hasn't paid the Freeman's a dime,and probably still hoping for a Trumpy pardon.
Hoping for a John Wick moment from Democrats. Light this shit up boys and girls. Get your bipartisan heads out of your asses. Between Leonard Leo's bribes and King Shitpants (Roy Cohen) dirt on these Justices, we got played. We're all going to be picking cotton and grateful we have that job. The rich get richer and they rest that don't like it can go straight to hell.
The Dems are no match for the MAGAs. We get outplayed every time. It's because we play by the rules (somewhat) and they wouldn't know a rule book if it hit them in the head. We have the brains, let's use them. The Evangelicals took 50 years to get Roe overturned, but they hung in there, kept their eye on the prize and look what happened. 50 years of elections and appointed judges. I have never seen the Dems on a 50 year mission about anything. We had the chance since 1973 when all branches of government were Democratic a couple of times to codify Roe. Did we? No. It's like we don't see the shark in the water until it bites our leg off. We have had other opportunities to pass laws that would prevent Trump from even running again (no felonies for example). We need to think of the worst case scenario and protect our government. No more naivety that a president will not act like Hitler. We need to pass term limits and age limits. This idea that both candidates are around 80 is ridiculous. If our candidate was younger, this age thing would be 100% on the GOP with Trump's age. People don't need to stay in Congress for half a century either. I'm almost Trump's age so I'm not picking on old people. I just remember how Reagan's Alzheimer's was covered up during his last years as president and we don't need that scenario again. Many people my age aren't senile (I'm still working), but our ideas are 50's and 60's. I listen to my grown children and many things have changed. The saddest thing recently was Diane Feinstein. That should have never been allowed to have happened. Grassley is even older than she would be, I think.
I agree with you 💯. They've been at this since the Civil War. The Southern Economic Development Model (www.epi.org) written by the Heritage Foundation for Reagan's Administration. Project 2025 is the post-modern version of SEDM. Leonard Leo and his alt-right billionaires are very patient. They now own the Supreme Court.
You left out RBG, who set the stage for the takeover of SCOTUS. Biden —- zero campaign strategy aside from pretending voters will unsee the debate and putting down the press—- is handing our country to MAGA. Because of personal hubris. Biden broke his promise to be a one term president
I so agree-the dems need to be finding every way they can exploit this presidential immunity right now-executive orders every day to ensure we don't have a fascist dictatorship nxt year!!!!
Yeah, the demonic media now would be the first to go. They're so big in promoting falsehoods and headlines that aren't headlines, did they ever think that they would be the first one he'd put the hammer on if elected? Same with his low IQ supporters. It's laughable that someone living in a trailer with two teeth thinks that Trump likes them or cares what happens to them. They'd also go. He'd have no use for them anymore since I doubt we'd ever see a free election again. Curious as to what he'd do about the Jewish issue with his White Power buddies since his grandchildren are Jewish. Ivanka converted, but it's the ethnic Jews that seem to be the target. I feel that he would throw anyone under the bus, including his own family, to stay in power. In December, 2016, right after the election, I was in Munich. I took the Nazi walking tour. My guide was German and a socialist. Even then, he saw the signs of fascism in Trump and even talked about it. He compared what happened in Germany in the early 1930's with what was going on in America after the election. The signs were there, we just refused to see them or never thought it would happen here. Our European friends spotted it much sooner than we did or maybe because it literally was in their back yard, they just knew. I was sitting in the Amman Airport on the same trip and the Egyptian sitting next to me asked me who I voted for. I told him Hillary. His comment was "Trump is crazy". The Irish cab driver in 2017 asked me what has happened to America? I feel like we fiddled while Rome burned.
Goebbels' justification for this mass assassination was "If we didn't kill them, they were going to kill us." Very much like Putin and his rivals today. Very much like the Mafia families.
Biden and the DNC have no clue what Stone and Bannon and Trump have planned for them. They are public about their hatred for anyone who gets in their way. You think they will hesitate to jail/kill Kinzinger and Cheney and Schiff? And every Democrat and Republican who has the balls to go against them? And their families? The parasite bites and the host ignores. Wake the hell up!
Love this post. As always, Jeff’s descriptive terms are brilliant. I’m pissed off that these “justices” lied under oath at their confirmation hearings and nothing is being done about it. The entire point of being under oath is to be held accountable for what you say, so if they changed their minds (hint: they didn’t), they should have recused themselves. I hope Congress is doing a deep dive into all of their lives.
The House and Holy Mike is running around trying to impeach anyone who disagrees with them,hope the Dems remember to impeach some judges when they take back the House...
Looks like those fucks just made it pretty easy for "Sleepy Joe" to steal himself the upcoming election. You know, since a U.S. King........errrrrrr, President, can do whatever the fuck they want. Glass half full!!!!!!!!
cept the Ds will never play in the gutter like that which is part of the problem...they will continue this, "when they go low, we go high" bullshit and the country will continue to go down into the christofascist MAGAt sewer...if emperor bloatus wins in November, America is over
should, shouldn't...that can be debated...what can't be debated is the fact that he's an old school establishment D politician and will try and do the right thing and pretty much do nothing...as an example, he has already stated that he would not look at expanding the SCOTUS if he/they had the power to do it...trying to play by the rules gets us nowhere...the other side couldn't give fuck #1 about rules, morals, truth or what is right and what is wrong...all they care about is retaining/obtaining power and making themselves and their cronies wealthy
Dr. Heather Cox Richardson addressed this yesterday:
"But this extraordinary power grab does not mean President Joe Biden can do as he wishes. As legal commentator Asha Rangappa pointed out, the court gave itself the power to determine which actions can be prosecuted and which cannot by making itself the final arbiter of what is “official” and what is not. Thus any action a president takes is subject to review by the Supreme Court, and it is reasonable to assume that this particular court would not give a Democrat the same leeway it would give Trump."
Marc Elias pointed this out yesterday,this court is relying on Democrats to follow the rule of law and Constitution,while they're not. Even if Dems take back House in November and try some monkey-business,
Judge Merchan should just lock the orange fool up already... I'm pretty used to the wingnut outrage machine, it's cried wolf so many times I've lost count.
Bad day in history of our country. Once again, the Supremes became the agents of darkness, in toto this time. I'm going meta and digging deep in mythology /spiritual traditions/my grandmother's fairytales to strengthen my depleted spirit. The Hummingbird who delivered drops of water in its beak to the burning forest comes to mind (I do what I can idea). Let's do what we can. Let's vote. And then some.
Thanks, Jeff. I feel better already. I worked in a prison as a nurse, but it was maximum security. You never forget the gross food or the smells. May Steve get to enjoy the same things.
Just expand the court to 13, then nominate some reliable liberals while we still have a majority in the Senate. Ram them though, McConnell-style. Then pass a bill for 26-year terms, staggering justices' retirements, one every two years. Each president thereafter will get to nominate two justices per 4-year term, removing, or at least diluting, the political incentives to urge a justice to retire when your party's in the WH, or refuse to consider a nominee because "it's an election year."
I found some of that naive, wrong-headed logic as in Citizens United. "Gee, no one would be corrupt enough to buy an election!" In this case, they called what Trump has already done as "hypothetical." The decision on immunity upends the very basic founding principle that no one is above the law. To give this power to a criminally insane me-monkey like Trump is extremely dangerous. We must RISE UP and VOTE for Biden and the Democrats! Please DO IT!
He needs to use his newfound powers to arrest the supreme court justices who voted for immunity. He could frame it as an official act to defend our country.
A Biden victory in November might indeed warrant some much needed court reform,but that will be an uphill battle also, with the Supreme Court already siding with the MAGAs instead of the American people.
I love how MAGAts never seem to know what to make of her. They’re not used to someone loudly and rudely giving them shit, like here in this MTG/Bannon clip. It’s hilarious. She doesn’t back down til they turn and run away from her. It’s glorious to behold.
I missed something. Who is Anarchy Princess? I was so angry and depressed after the debate that I haven't looked at a newspaper or site since. This is my first foray into political discussion since then.
She’s a badass DC-area protester who’s unafraid to literally get in MAGAts’ faces and disrupt their bullshit hilariously. Link above takes you to her Twitter page.
oh, and Rudy Colludy just got disbarred.
What the decimated Supreme Court did to us yesterday is F*cking horrific - Is anyone going to organize a massive protest? I’m 70 and just finished chemo and it’s not an undertaking for me, but we desperately need some groups who care about democracy enough to get us off our butts. Black Lives Matter was a good example of what should be happening now. We need to respond en masse to these farcical, newly created rules fit for a King that are unconstitutional led by a far right runaway Supreme Court. If we start holding protests, I for one, will drag myself there repeatedly, if it’s the last thing I do.
Take care of yourself! The world needs you healthy first, protesting second. THEN, give 'em hell!
All the best!
It is not lost that you are with us in spirit 🥰👍🥳💙
Thank goodness... Like Sarah, I am over 70, have lupus, CHF and COPD, but will be with ALL protesting this in spirit! What I can do from my keyboard, I WILL DO!
Feel better🙏
I find it suspicious that this ruling came down just a three days before the 4th - SCOTUS obviously didn't want a giant organized march like the Womens March in Jan 2017. We need one like that - international. It would take quite the group to put something like that together.
Will be there! 👍
I’m free for the moment …til November anyway Sign me up ! All in need some good excitement! 👍🇺🇸😀
Loved raising Hell on the Boston Commons in the 60’s&70’s I was a friggen baby ! We got them looking over their shoulders then ,let’s get them crawling back into the hole in the fucken ground where they were spawned this time 🖕😜🇺🇸
Hopefully many people will have a very long holiday weekend and find time to protest post haste
I'm looking forward to the time when it would be possible for you to participate in massive protests, because I think you'd be a force to be reckoned with. My best wishes - and thoughts and prayers, though mine are genuine, not Republican - to you.
In my 60s, disabled, health issues...but if these evil little assholes think we're going to just go away & die quietly they have another f*cking think coming. Thanks for your comment. I wish the very best for you!
Me, too. 84 and on chemo, but I won't fail to show up.
And i wish you good health!
I was at the women’s march in DC in 2017 and if they had anything like that again, I’d be there in a second.
I think a revolution is called for unless the Supreme Court justices who ruled against the constitution they are sworn to uphold are impeached. It is clear to me that the Supreme Court, starting with Roe v Wade, has been slowly upping the temperature in their rulings getting us ready for the day when they hand the election to Trump if he does not win it. Which, given what he is letting us know he is going to do is very likely the outcome. So, we can win the battle, but lose the war to these devils sitting in judicial seats, trying to disguise themselves as justice. I think people should be preparing for this. My group of Democrats Abroad is starting a book club on Project 2025. We are doing this after Law Prof. Joyce Vance said she was planning on doing that. It sounded like a good way to slog through 920 pages of fascist doctrine.
Linda, You are absolutely correct that is what those 6 corrupt justices have planned. Unless we Democrats overwhelmingly win the votes in those swing states, the election will be challenged & if it goes to them, they will hand it to Donny. Everything they have thrown out over these past 3 yrs & this upcoming election is WHY they were put there & why they have been bribed to stay there. This situation is intolerable.
P.J. I am worried that there will be a civil war, and that there won't be a civil war. I do not want the US to be solving in house problems with violence, and yet, as Heather Cox Richardson stated this week, SCOTUS committed a legalistic coup. We cannot let that go unchallenged. That is the last straw. If we accept the judgments this week, which are totally unconstitutional we will definitely get some specious reasoning for SCOTUS to hand Trump the presidency. One thing people should be doing this week is sending Joe Biden the 5 dollars they would have spent at Starbucks or McDonalds because there needs to be a big grassroots show of support so that his "big dollar donors" do not have the final say. Biden needs to see our bucks as our votes, and so do his backers. Also, AOC is the only one in Congress who is trying to bring impeachment charges against SCOTUS. If they are on the defensive they will have a less easy time giving the Presidency to Trump. So, she should also be getting our $5 or whatever you can give right now, and let Dick Durbin, who should be doing this, know that you are funding her not him. I will let him know, because he has benefitted from my hard earned dollars before, but I am ready to write in my 25 year old nephew, who just finished chef school in over voting for Durbin if he does not stop being a couch potato leader of the judiciary committee. https://www.durbin.senate.gov/contact/
I’m 69 and I will EAGERLY be there. Just tell me when and where!
Me too!
Jeff, if I'm ever in a disaster (and we are), I want you to be the guy standing next to me.
You're tough, you're smart, and you never never never never give up.
Love ya, you junk yard dog!!!! 💋💋💋💋
Jeff has a very big cowbell!!
This lion roars. Unbought and unbossed.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/26/unbought-and-unbossed-shirley-chisholms-feminist-mantra-is-as-relevant-today-as-it-was-50-years-ago/
I absolutely LOVE the Anarchy Princess as well!
Jeff has more than one. He has A PAIR!
Hahaha
It appears that the bar association is the only organization that is dispensing any justice these days.
And the Elias Law Group,which I support every month,someone needs to defeat the MAGA lawyers in courts,that's Marc Elias.
Marc Elias is one of my heroes. Jeff is another one.
Same with me
Same here!!
A scrap of good news at least!
Cherry on top!
Keith Olbermann has just reported that President Biden is stepping down from running and Kamala will head the ticket.
He doesn’t have any facts. He’s going by hearsay.
What in the world is wrong with our own side sometimes?
The messaging is meant to screw us up!
This call for him to step down is ridiculous. The gop is thriving at our disorganization.. It's like they put out the memo and dems are stepping in line.
If Dems wanted Biden out they've had all this time to put it in place-
So do not give into the chaos!
We have to stay strong and united especially what we are up against.
Trump is all the bad things you'd want in a candidate and they stick up and defend him.
Amen.
Say you’re joking !
Nope. He posted it on Twitter a little while ago. He says Nancy Pelosi has something to do with it, but Nancy was on MSNBC earlier today defending President Biden.
A ray of sunshine today. At least
Optimism has pretty much left my body right now. If it's not the MAGA people themselves causing chaos, it's the SC. I took this country for granted most of my life. I just assumed it would always be there for me and others. I'm a Boomer and never, ever thought we'd have to worry about fascists again after WWII. At least, not in the US. I was brought up in a Republican family, but they were farmers in the Midwest and that was back in the days where the GOP wasn't full of crazies and wanna be Hitlers. I was never political like I am now. That started in 2008 when the Evangelicals endorsed McCain and I knew I'd never line up with them. I loved Obama and have voted Dem every since. Trump made me nauseous from the start and I didn't know what I know now about him. It caught me by surprise that we have so many Americans that are in a cult and so uninformed. I also naively thought that racism was better when Obama was elected since obviously whites had to vote for him too to win the election. Boy, I was so wrong. All that did was fester the underlying bigots/racists in this country. Now it's bubbled over. I'm frightened and anxious about where this country is headed. Trump isn't the main problem. He's the head of the snake - there's still the rest of the snake. If he died tomorrow, there would still be chaos in this country. He's so stupid that you know that these ideas of becoming a fascist country aren't coming from him. He has plenty of enablers that are much smarter than he is.
I agree with every word you wrote. I also am a boomer and also took my country for granted. I am fearful, but I won't collapse until after the election and the chaos that is sure to follow when Biden wins. I have to believe that there are more of us than them.
Yes, there are waaaay more of us than there are of them. We just have to get everyone to wake the fuck up and vote! I am a boomer too and was gobsmacked yesterday but I am trying to get my shit together and regroup. It just blows my mind that the scotus is trying to install a corrupt convicted felon as our dictator. This man should never be allowed to run for any public office. That this group of attorneys can vanish our rule of law with a flick of a pen. They have shown us who they are. Now we have to show them who we also are. The media is the enemy. The scotus is the enemy. The whole R party is the enemy.And there are others who we will find out about. Who am I missing?
The conservative “think tanks” like the Heritage Foundation & the Federalist Society
Yup, they got the ground game. ALEC (or whatever it's called now), local boards, commissions, etc. They're flooding the zone.
'Think Tank'.... that's definitely an oxymoron for Republicans.
Me too.
There are millions of Boomers, but many of them are MAGAs. It’s the young people that I feel that will save this country if they get out and vote. I feel that the abortion ruling may determine the election among some age groups. That is 100% not going to help Trump. Then to make matters worse, it’s obvious that they are going after abortion pills, IVF and contraception. I don’t know too many women who want to have children that are not planned. If they would have been a little smarter about this, they would have not addressed the abortion pill etc. at this time and waited until after the election. It’s just made it front page news again.
Those MAGA boomers are in for a big surprise if Dear Leader gets back in the White House and takes away Social Security and Medicare. They're so stupid, they have no idea what awaits them.
A lot of those MAGA boomers are my fellow union members— how the fuck anyone with a union book can vote for the mango moron is beyond my comprehension??!!…… all I can say is to my union brothers and sisters remember, what happened in Atlantic City……
Yeah,I don’t get union voters for Trump, military veterans voting for him, black and Hispanic people for him.You are correct that he could care less about these people and will leave them high and dry with no Obamacare, Social Security,Medicare, probably VA benefits.He is only out for himself and whatever he can grab or steal.
This is my theory about who votes for Trump:
Uber religious that believe he's next to God
Wealthy that want tax cuts
Racist/bigots that want whites to run the show
The just plain stupid that vote because someone told them to.
From my observation of people- racism trumps gender, sexual orientation in deciding your vote. It explains why women and gays vote for him. Blacks for him - I haven't figured that out yet.
The Culinary Union in Vegas has pretty much brought in Dem wins in Vegas and NV. Now that's not a given. I've read where there's discontent within that organization with the Dems. Don't understand what issue is the game changer with them that would make them support Trump.
I sure hope you're right! I have to agree about the young people. Hopefully they will get out to vote. My mom and dad are 85 years old. They can't believe what is happening. My mom says she's happy she's at the end of her life. She worries about young people. Me too. I believe there will be an uprising if they try to take more away from women than they already have. They should know not to mess with women, especially young woman who don't know anything about the 1950's and don't at all care. I can't believe any of this is happening. It is surreal.
I'm in your mom's age cohort, and I've, sadly, said the same thing. I won't be here to see the next presidential election (probably), but I've got four wonderful grandchildren who now of voting age, but the world they are inheriting is an awful place.
I've heard that a lot of young people are so disillusioned with Biden's support for Israel that they're going to sit out the election or vote third party. One person who feels she's been at the receiving end of racism most of her life, even said that if it means things go to hell under Trump, at least the rest of us "comfortable" folks will finally get it. I hope the events of the last two weeks have changed some minds and they're starting to understand the consequences of an authoritarian/theocratic regime. Among other things, the vocal young supporters of the people of Gaza will be some of the first to be "disappeared."
That's a really not so bright reason to vote for Trump. To pay white people back? Who does she think the first to go to his detention camps? Muslims. He was only in office a week the first time and the Muslim ban. The Middle East situation is extremely complex. I've seen the way the Palestinians in Bethlehem live and I've also visited concentration camps. There is no winner in this conflict. He only likes rich, white men who can give him something. If you don't fit that description, watch out if he wins. I'm actually surprised at some of the reaction of the young people about the Middle East war. Many aren't Jewish or Muslim or even been to that region, yet they're willing to be thrown out of college over it. Where was the outrage about that part of the world from then before 10/7? Do they ever think what a President Trump would have done to them if they protested like that? I just shake my head at the thinking of some people.
There are many Millennials and Gen Z that are against Biden because of the Israel/Gaza mess. I fear that issue will override others. I hope not.
That struck me as odd too… ‘3D chess’ - or are they out of control / in a bubble?
There will be chaos no matter who wins. Just a different manifestation of chaos.
Agreed!! 💯
Fwiw, I didn't assume that Obama's ascent was a sign that racism had waned (and I don't mean that snarkily; I live in a majority-black city, so I see or hear about a lot of bullshttt, often). But what I didn't see -- and this is true for so many of us -- is that every political action results in an equal, opposite reaction. Backlash. (I even read Susan Faludi's great book by that title c. 1992, and still I wasn't prepared for the white-people-freaking-out-about-demographic-change backlash.)
Now that we know, we can figure out how to proceed. For ex., Dems need long-term plans, just as GOPs have had for ages. Dems need the "restore and shore up democracy" equivalent of the long-term "overturn Roe" -- and it too might take 50 years to come to fruition, though there can be incremental victories every few years.
I often write this, but: Please join your local Dem chapter, and MoveOn, and Indivisiable, and any other org you can think of, so you're at hand to help. Get involved in one of the postcards-to-voters programs. Add to this list anything you can think of. And please tell everyone you know to do all of the above, too.
PS: Thanks for voting for Dems despite a different upbringing. <3
I came to my senses. LOL. My family were farmers in a small Illinois town back in the beginning of the 1900’s. Never heard political talk growing up. My mother became very interested in politics later on, but I wasn’t. She actually did vote for Clinton, but hated Hillary for some reason. She would be appalled by the religious right. She couldn’t stand anyone dictating her life choices. She was so mad about the Teri Schiavo case (she lived in Clearwater also) that she wrote the governor, who was Jeb Bush at the time. She was outraged about the government’s interference in a medical matter. She’s been gone for 20 years now, but I can’t imagine her voting for Trump. I do remember she really disliked the Kennedy’s (JFK and RFK). Don’t know why - she was born right before the depression and maybe like now, rural areas were Republican.
My county Democratic Party is corrupt. They're bought off. All they're good for is handing out tax abatements to oligarchs.(Money comes out of Columbus City Schools, of course.)
The California Public Utilities Commission is made up of former fossil fuel executives and billionaires,who rubber-stamp rate increases for utilities companies,in San Diego where I live,it's been 54% over the last 5 years,and you heard me right,San Diego,70 degrees and sunny 300 days a year, there's really not much for 'demand' energy,so the utility companies came up with 'peak pricing' to increase profits,$1 billion in profits last year from only 2.8 million residents,don't get me started. SDG&E charges 45 cents a kilowatt,the highest rate in the country.
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The demagogues stirred up the backlash, and one thing they could rely on (besides lies) was that the economic conditions for a lot of lower-middle-class whites didn't get much better during Obama. Of course, it was the fault of the oligarchs, not the Black guy, but Trump and other Republicans are never opposed to a deceiving message.
Trump provided them with the useful idiot to push their bs through
Exactly! He's too stupid to do anything on his own except be a criminal. There was an interview, I think in 1999, where he said he'd like to be president one day. How many of us took that seriously. Most of don't live in NYC and didn't know how truly awful he was. He tested the waters in 2012 with the Obama birth certificate nonsense. If that wouldn't have gone over, I doubt he wouldn't have been elected 4 years later. But it was the rallying cry for the GOP. I feel that GOP has 2 factions. The low IQ voter who probably is a racist and then the really deadly faction - the power hungry wealthy and smart. I doubt Billy Joe Bob in his doublewide with 2 teeth has the smarts to get the local dogcatcher elected. But the elite do. The Billy Bob's have been so manipulated by the media and they are clueless. Rich people don't care about abortion or social issues. They have enough money to insulate themselves from anyone but the rich and famous. Like everything else, this is about power/money. Trump is indeed their useful idiot.
We can blame NBC for tfg. The show “The Apprentice” made him look like a successful businessman, which he never was. Those of us from NY and NJ knew he was a con.
I'm from CT,we can spot a NY huckster from a mile away.
and the creator of that show is an immigrant fer chrissakes
Yep. It was that show that propelled him onto the national stage. I remember hearing about him after that confrontation between Ivana and Marla on the ski slopes. I always thought he was unattractive and boorish, but because I never lived in NYC, I never knew anything else much about him other than the casino in Atlantic City. That show was what did it. He became a household word and most people knew who he was. Those kind of shows appeal to the low IQ voter also.
They are using Trump to get what they want. If he is elected, they will soon pull Amendment 25 to have him removed.
What we need to particularly worried about is who is his VP pick. Because of his age and fitness, he may not survive 4 years and that would make his VP prez. That VP surely will be much younger, smarter and a total whack like him.
The oligarchs may be using the cult of personality around Trump, but I don't think they will offend the cult members before they absolutely have to.
Ditto! Like you, I understand that Trump could not be Trump if he didn't have support. I just don't know what end-game the others are playing. Money, power, prestige...? Honestly, I think it's all about having a Christian nation. That's why so many Christians can support him even though he is a corrupt sinner. The ends justify the means. The only good news is that the election has not happened yet. There is still time to get out the vote.
I don't feel that it's so much about having a Christian nation, I feel it's about NOT having a Muslim nation and so many brown people here. People like to be around people like themselves. Intelligent people realize that each culture has something to bring to the table and are open to learning about new things. Stupid, uninformed people are anxious and fearful. They can't look outside their bubble and see anything but people like them. They believe everything the media tells them as well as their church and family. The most threatened group seems to be the non-college graduate white male. Throughout history, men have run the show and still do for the most part. But minority men and all women are becoming more educated and want their place at the table too. The guys already at the table can't stand the thought of that. They feel threatened and the media doesn't help with it's derogatory reporting of what's going on with immigrants. If someone is murdered, why do we need to known it's an immigrant? You don't hear that about other suspects. They don't mention suspect Bob's family who came from Italy in 1920, do they? They are bad people from every gender and every race/culture. Only the ignorant lump them all together. Can you imagine if every white person was persecuted for crimes committed by white people? Hitler was an white as I am. So was Stalin. Most of your serial killers are white as well as are your mass murderers. Crickets from the GOP about those people.
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Exactly.
Excellent
Fellow nurse here. Can’t stop laughing 😆😂😂😂 ! On the money my friends !
The Christian stuff is just camouflage and a means to an end, just as the Nazis included "Socialist" in the party name to try to win the support of German communists.
If these so-called "Christians" started opposing Agolf, they'd be flushed faster than a Taco Bell dump at 3am.
Oh my,IMO the radical right-wing movement started right around 1973 with Roe,the Christians,white nationalists,and billionaires started unifiying around their most useful tools...greedy and morally bankrupt Republicans.
The Christianists decided to oppose Roe after it became politically unpalatable to continue to base their campaign on tax breaks for segregationist academies.
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Agreed. Trumpy campaigning is usually walking into any room,and lying and telling them exactly what they want to hear,and promising them the world, he's not even coherent enough to do that anymore, just rambles like a crazy person,it's more likely the Stephen Miller's and Bannon's are still angling for cabinet positions and pulling some strings,and of course Trumpy is still promising the world to billionaire oil execs,and of course a lot of his support still comes from the Bible Belt,that wants another Civil War.
Boomer here and lifelong Democrat from the 60’s. I agree completely with everything you said. Democrats have been lazy and complacent. They expected the opposition to play by the rules and observe norms. They now need to wake up! Hopefully it’s not too late. It is essential that Dems take back the House and keep the Senate. Congress has the ability to expand the court and get rid of the filibuster. That cannot be questioned any longer. If the courts are being abused by the opposition, then it needs to be changed in order to right these abuses.
Imho, the SCOTUS decision on presidential immunity will hand the election to Joe and Kamala. Once people know about it they’ll vote blue. We need to keep spreading the word to those who don’t pay attention to politics. They will register and vote blue when they hear the implications of this ugly decision.
I’ve said for a very long time that the cult party likes having the felon as the pseudo leader BECAUSE he’s stupid. I doubt those that wrote Project 2025 didn’t even confer with him. LDFF thinks all the crazy intelligent people love him. They don’t. They’re using him as their leader so they can actually be the rulers.
Yes, the snake is very very large, but with out its head it can’t see.
Vicious bigotry goes way, way back in this country. I served it for over 30 years, but I'm ashamed of this country.
Well said, I agree with all you wrote.
I could not agree more, with all of it!
Oy,, gevalt. But Sotomayor, Jackson, Kagan… these jurists will shine in history books — assuming there ARE history books — as brightly as Justice Robert Jackson, who took leave from the Supreme Court to serve as a prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials after the Second World War. At least we can still celebrate our heroes, hold up our heads, and vote. Vote. Vote.
C'mon, Trump is going to remove them via his brownshirts, and the three of them will bunk with the staged deportees in the camps near the border.
Nuthin' to see here, move along.
Oh, and that makes room for Aileen Canon and Jeffery Clark to join the SCOTUS.
Geoff: Negativity leads to inaction & despair. Not what we need now
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Heroes? By not resigning en masse, they lend legitimacy to this bullshit.
So would 3 replacements be confirmed by Nov??? You’re kidding, right?
Actually, I'm fed up.
I HEAR YOU… it’s like the pushback (overall) is so weak - it’s almost non-existent. Almost like a few key D ppl are compromised (vs the entire R party).., but what do I know :/
Shining in history books is not what we needed!! If I were one of them, u can bet I would have found my voice.
If cirrhosis of the liver and E. coli had a kid and left it outside to rot in a dumpster, it's Steve Bannon.
Interchangeable with Rudy Colludy!
Rudy looks like he smells like urine 24/7. Bannon looks like he smells like shit 24/7.
There have been minutes of brevity with ole Rudy though. The hair dye running down his face and the 4 Seasons Landscaping news conference come to mind. Now there's not even glimpses of funny about any of them.
You're being unkind to E. coli. I think Empyema and C. diff is a better comparison. The two grossest things I have seen as a nurse. LOL.
Or Fournier's gangrene (this is a warning to everyone, if you don't know what it is, I highly recommend not looking it up) i'm still traumatized by the smell and knowing it exists.
Steve Bannon is like if Fournier's gangrene and C-Diff had a child. Not good! 🤢🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮🤮
A Harris drip would take weeks getting all the shit out of him. !
Lol, was just thinking he might dry out, hit the weights and come out a new man. Still a POS fascist but a slimmer one.
Gonna take more than four months for that.
OMG.. this is freaking hilarious. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣.
Good one!! 🤣
One small ray of sunshine today in the midst of these horrors: Rudy Giuliani has been disbarred in the State of New York, as per The Guardian.
The bad news is Rudy Colludy is still spending money (about 20k a month)like drunken sailor,and still sitting in his fancy condo,and somehow a judge is allowing it,and he still hasn't paid the Freeman's a dime,and probably still hoping for a Trumpy pardon.
Biden needs to order a Hellfire missile strike on MAL and turn it into a smoldering crater as “an official act”
Hoping for a John Wick moment from Democrats. Light this shit up boys and girls. Get your bipartisan heads out of your asses. Between Leonard Leo's bribes and King Shitpants (Roy Cohen) dirt on these Justices, we got played. We're all going to be picking cotton and grateful we have that job. The rich get richer and they rest that don't like it can go straight to hell.
The Dems are no match for the MAGAs. We get outplayed every time. It's because we play by the rules (somewhat) and they wouldn't know a rule book if it hit them in the head. We have the brains, let's use them. The Evangelicals took 50 years to get Roe overturned, but they hung in there, kept their eye on the prize and look what happened. 50 years of elections and appointed judges. I have never seen the Dems on a 50 year mission about anything. We had the chance since 1973 when all branches of government were Democratic a couple of times to codify Roe. Did we? No. It's like we don't see the shark in the water until it bites our leg off. We have had other opportunities to pass laws that would prevent Trump from even running again (no felonies for example). We need to think of the worst case scenario and protect our government. No more naivety that a president will not act like Hitler. We need to pass term limits and age limits. This idea that both candidates are around 80 is ridiculous. If our candidate was younger, this age thing would be 100% on the GOP with Trump's age. People don't need to stay in Congress for half a century either. I'm almost Trump's age so I'm not picking on old people. I just remember how Reagan's Alzheimer's was covered up during his last years as president and we don't need that scenario again. Many people my age aren't senile (I'm still working), but our ideas are 50's and 60's. I listen to my grown children and many things have changed. The saddest thing recently was Diane Feinstein. That should have never been allowed to have happened. Grassley is even older than she would be, I think.
I agree with you 💯. They've been at this since the Civil War. The Southern Economic Development Model (www.epi.org) written by the Heritage Foundation for Reagan's Administration. Project 2025 is the post-modern version of SEDM. Leonard Leo and his alt-right billionaires are very patient. They now own the Supreme Court.
Own is the perfect world.
You left out RBG, who set the stage for the takeover of SCOTUS. Biden —- zero campaign strategy aside from pretending voters will unsee the debate and putting down the press—- is handing our country to MAGA. Because of personal hubris. Biden broke his promise to be a one term president
I so agree-the dems need to be finding every way they can exploit this presidential immunity right now-executive orders every day to ensure we don't have a fascist dictatorship nxt year!!!!
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Here's what happened 15 months after Hitler gained control over the courts.
Hitler's thugs assassinated 85 opponents in 3 days. And most of these guys were his pals!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives
Yeah, the demonic media now would be the first to go. They're so big in promoting falsehoods and headlines that aren't headlines, did they ever think that they would be the first one he'd put the hammer on if elected? Same with his low IQ supporters. It's laughable that someone living in a trailer with two teeth thinks that Trump likes them or cares what happens to them. They'd also go. He'd have no use for them anymore since I doubt we'd ever see a free election again. Curious as to what he'd do about the Jewish issue with his White Power buddies since his grandchildren are Jewish. Ivanka converted, but it's the ethnic Jews that seem to be the target. I feel that he would throw anyone under the bus, including his own family, to stay in power. In December, 2016, right after the election, I was in Munich. I took the Nazi walking tour. My guide was German and a socialist. Even then, he saw the signs of fascism in Trump and even talked about it. He compared what happened in Germany in the early 1930's with what was going on in America after the election. The signs were there, we just refused to see them or never thought it would happen here. Our European friends spotted it much sooner than we did or maybe because it literally was in their back yard, they just knew. I was sitting in the Amman Airport on the same trip and the Egyptian sitting next to me asked me who I voted for. I told him Hillary. His comment was "Trump is crazy". The Irish cab driver in 2017 asked me what has happened to America? I feel like we fiddled while Rome burned.
Goebbels' justification for this mass assassination was "If we didn't kill them, they were going to kill us." Very much like Putin and his rivals today. Very much like the Mafia families.
Biden and the DNC have no clue what Stone and Bannon and Trump have planned for them. They are public about their hatred for anyone who gets in their way. You think they will hesitate to jail/kill Kinzinger and Cheney and Schiff? And every Democrat and Republican who has the balls to go against them? And their families? The parasite bites and the host ignores. Wake the hell up!
Right. Of course this can happen here
They shoot feral attention hogs, don’t they? 🤞
Love this post. As always, Jeff’s descriptive terms are brilliant. I’m pissed off that these “justices” lied under oath at their confirmation hearings and nothing is being done about it. The entire point of being under oath is to be held accountable for what you say, so if they changed their minds (hint: they didn’t), they should have recused themselves. I hope Congress is doing a deep dive into all of their lives.
We can’t hold them accountable without a majority in the House. That’s where impeachment begins.
Then let’s DO it ! 💙💙💙
The House and Holy Mike is running around trying to impeach anyone who disagrees with them,hope the Dems remember to impeach some judges when they take back the House...
Retribution
Looks like those fucks just made it pretty easy for "Sleepy Joe" to steal himself the upcoming election. You know, since a U.S. King........errrrrrr, President, can do whatever the fuck they want. Glass half full!!!!!!!!
cept the Ds will never play in the gutter like that which is part of the problem...they will continue this, "when they go low, we go high" bullshit and the country will continue to go down into the christofascist MAGAt sewer...if emperor bloatus wins in November, America is over
I wholeheartedly agree with you. Dems have yet to figure out that there's only one way to deal with a sub-human bully..........
And when we go high, we go down. The sentiment is great but in this world, right now, it is not the way to play this.
I would say Biden should take advantage of the new power just handed him.
should, shouldn't...that can be debated...what can't be debated is the fact that he's an old school establishment D politician and will try and do the right thing and pretty much do nothing...as an example, he has already stated that he would not look at expanding the SCOTUS if he/they had the power to do it...trying to play by the rules gets us nowhere...the other side couldn't give fuck #1 about rules, morals, truth or what is right and what is wrong...all they care about is retaining/obtaining power and making themselves and their cronies wealthy
Take the gloves off— come out “Swingin’”: as per Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers!
'Go high' was for times past,not anymore...I like the guy above's 'Hellfire Missile Strike' idea better...
Biden should take advantage of the ruling NOW, before the election. This is our last chance... ever!
With you all the way, MBM
Dr. Heather Cox Richardson addressed this yesterday:
"But this extraordinary power grab does not mean President Joe Biden can do as he wishes. As legal commentator Asha Rangappa pointed out, the court gave itself the power to determine which actions can be prosecuted and which cannot by making itself the final arbiter of what is “official” and what is not. Thus any action a president takes is subject to review by the Supreme Court, and it is reasonable to assume that this particular court would not give a Democrat the same leeway it would give Trump."
The first action Joe needs to take is deal with those assholes. Then they wouldn't be deciding anything.
Marc Elias pointed this out yesterday,this court is relying on Democrats to follow the rule of law and Constitution,while they're not. Even if Dems take back House in November and try some monkey-business,
this MAGA court will spank down their efforts.
What we have as President now is Mr. Rogers. A kind, respectful, loving guy.
What we need now is Walter White. The One Who Knocks on Trump's door.
Yes he is like my cat. He brings in mice to play with him.
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President Biden has a charge of care for the US; disabling Dumpy's vocal cords or cutting out his tongue could be filed under that as an official act.
Judge Merchan should just lock the orange fool up already... I'm pretty used to the wingnut outrage machine, it's cried wolf so many times I've lost count.
NO ONE HAS GOTTEN SUCH LENIENT TREATMENT AS RUMP.
Bad day in history of our country. Once again, the Supremes became the agents of darkness, in toto this time. I'm going meta and digging deep in mythology /spiritual traditions/my grandmother's fairytales to strengthen my depleted spirit. The Hummingbird who delivered drops of water in its beak to the burning forest comes to mind (I do what I can idea). Let's do what we can. Let's vote. And then some.
Putrid 🍖s in a stinky cell is one of my favorite visions🤢 Stevie boy is where he belongs - rotting away each moment of his days 🤗
Like he's in a real jail? Come on. He's in a prison country club. A joke as usual when the rich and famous get sentenced.
Narvarro's in a country club. Rotty Steve's in a real prison. a min-security one and he'll get special treatment, but it's still a prison
Thanks, Jeff. I feel better already. I worked in a prison as a nurse, but it was maximum security. You never forget the gross food or the smells. May Steve get to enjoy the same things.
If only !
No phone I hope
Yep. Danbury is a spa compared to real federal prisons
I'm from CT. originally,not a country club,but not bad either.
Biden needs to ditch six justices, replace them with his choices, and say it’s an official act in defense of democracy! It certainly would be!!
Just expand the court to 13, then nominate some reliable liberals while we still have a majority in the Senate. Ram them though, McConnell-style. Then pass a bill for 26-year terms, staggering justices' retirements, one every two years. Each president thereafter will get to nominate two justices per 4-year term, removing, or at least diluting, the political incentives to urge a justice to retire when your party's in the WH, or refuse to consider a nominee because "it's an election year."
Yes, this!!!! Though I'd rather have it 12 year appointment. But he should do this asap, the justices are ruining our country 😒
That works,too. But something really has to be done!
Manchin and Sinema are still senators unfortunately
I believe there's 13 Federal district courts being served now by the 9 justices now,court expansion is needed and necessary.
There ya go. If that's not precedent, I dob't know what is.
I found some of that naive, wrong-headed logic as in Citizens United. "Gee, no one would be corrupt enough to buy an election!" In this case, they called what Trump has already done as "hypothetical." The decision on immunity upends the very basic founding principle that no one is above the law. To give this power to a criminally insane me-monkey like Trump is extremely dangerous. We must RISE UP and VOTE for Biden and the Democrats! Please DO IT!
You know who else just got the authority to use his presidential office with total immunity? That's right, Joseph Robinette Biden. Sic em ....
He won’t, though, because Biden is not a criminal
According to the SC he wouldn't be a criminal so not to worry, Joe!
He needs to use his newfound powers to arrest the supreme court justices who voted for immunity. He could frame it as an official act to defend our country.
A Biden victory in November might indeed warrant some much needed court reform,but that will be an uphill battle also, with the Supreme Court already siding with the MAGAs instead of the American people.
Not true is we have a senate majority without mancin and sinema. The question is would biden do it?
This is doable
He certainly can find a decent way to use his new powers!!
No, he is restrained because Supremes decide what is official or not
Anarchy Princess is a goddam American hero. Anyone who’s not already following and supporting her needs to do so at once.
Irony: The trumper asking Anarchy Princess what kind of mental illness she has.
I love how MAGAts never seem to know what to make of her. They’re not used to someone loudly and rudely giving them shit, like here in this MTG/Bannon clip. It’s hilarious. She doesn’t back down til they turn and run away from her. It’s glorious to behold.
She should have hit several people in the head with that cowbell. NO QUARTER, NO MERCY!!
I missed something. Who is Anarchy Princess? I was so angry and depressed after the debate that I haven't looked at a newspaper or site since. This is my first foray into political discussion since then.
https://linktr.ee/anarchy_princess_
She’s a badass DC-area protester who’s unafraid to literally get in MAGAts’ faces and disrupt their bullshit hilariously. Link above takes you to her Twitter page.