Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement
Wow. You think this is the President’s job and not the independent IRS Criminal Investigations Division, which can opt to send recommendations to DOJ.
It’s almost like people want Biden to take advantage of the Supreme Court immunity ruling and start breaking laws today.
Thus far since writing this, I've done three blocks in two hours of fellow progressives who don't believe either in majority rule or rule of law ... and probably never did. Biden acting as an autocrat, dictator, or king as Justice Sotomayor put it isn't a solution to the Trump problem.
We all process shit in different ways. Today I learned my first reaction is to be ok with short-term authoritarianism to prevent authoritarian take-over. My second reaction has been to say, “Self, that is FUCKED UP. Authoritarianism is authoritarianism is authoritarianism.” My third reaction is…
apparently to remind folks that we are all still processing and venting and, most of all, posting through it, which is probably a bad idea, but also, how we do things now.
If you feel you can get further with people proposing to imprison or kill off political opponents because they object to today's ruling because they feel it allows for that (I think the latter reasonably), then more power to you. I am just blocking and noting what people are actually saying.
Processing by posting for the arrest and summary execution of Supreme Court justices, for example, is pretty effed up. If you’re asking me to hold off on pushback of that, you’ve come to the wrong person. Lefties can be like Trumpies. Today is proof.
Yes. It is. Humans do fucked-up things. Sometimes we manage to pull ourselves back from that ledge before we act by saying it out loud and hearing its wrongness. Sometimes we need to make it into a joke in order to not take that impulse seriously. Sometimes we need other folks to call it out.
