I really cannot emphasize how catastrophically bad the Court's ruling was. I do my best not to exaggerate about these kinds of things but I am still kind of in shock
I genuinely try not to react to bad things - as there’s lots of bad things. This is awful thing. Don’t miss the part about ‘bye bye justice department independence.’
I think I'm having a reckoning with myself, I truly didn't think they would do it. And of course they did - a once in a Republic chance to seize power forever? They were always gonna shoot their shot. They did, and the game's all but over. So fucking grim.
Anyone who gets the chance should ask Biden what line SCOTUS would have to cross to provoke an unprecedented response? One that says "This court is no longer legitimate & will be stripped of its powers".
The Heritage Foundation has very cleverly plotted over a long period of time to remake America into their image of a white Christian patriarchy. Gilead, basically.
Starting in Reagan yrs, I noted a distinct (imo) sense of sneering superiority from the other side. Rs are smarter, more moral, family values! More anything good. Gross oversimplification but that sense has persisted for me.
Yeah, it's all the Federalist Koch (toxic waste magnate) $$$$. Though I've also wondered about the massive over-representation of Opus Dei Franco-style Catholics on this small body...
What Biden must do is effectively declare war on the court.
Broadcast from the oval and enumerate the consequences. Relentlessly.
Make sure everyone understands p2025.
The only “official” power he should adopt is to ignore the Hatch Act.
I feel about 40 times worse than that.
At least on Jan 6 it was a clownshow of idiots and that dumb cunt got trampled to death and another got shot and killed.
On Jan 6th, at least for a while, there was a silver lining that the fever might just break, enough people would snap out of it for long enough to impose a real consequence, and we would, in fact, emerge stronger.
Yeah, even if we somehow end up in like the 95th percentile good outcome, this ruling is still gonna exist for the first emperor of the United States to use when they come to office.
I agree. When those events happened I didn't feel it was the end of our country. Today's ruling absolutely IS the end of our country as we knew it; the whole principle upon which it was founded is now gone.
Yeah, this pretty much seemed like an institutional referendum over whether the right wing is all-in on the worst aspects of Trumpism, even at the highest levels, and boy are they.
This is cataclysmic. And people have no idea how fucking bad it will get if Donald gets back in. If you think people being put on a wall during primetime is delusional, I beg you, beg you to think again. He will fire, jail, and pardon people until he finds someone who will do what he wants.
One thing that is weird is that republicans constantly complain that Biden is a dictator. And then, the Court says, “well, the President can do what he wants!”
Incredible that the conservative Justices and their clerks read / drafted the opinion and were like yeah this demonstrates the proper restraint in a case this important, hit publish.
It’s such a “gloves off” opinion. There’s no subtlety. No effort. Just a big fuck you to everyone outside the GOP.
Starting to wonder why they would go this far. They tried so hard to cut off anything flowing from the Eastman conspiracy stuff, not coincidentally, the flow that likely implicates Thomas’s wife, Ginny, and perhaps the Justices themselves. How involved they w Jan 6?
Indeed, catastrophically bad for the entire world, literally the only beneficiary is Trump, who knows not the difference between right and wrong, nor truth and lies.
This kind of absolute power should never even be awarded to an upstanding statesperson let alone a convicted criminal.
There is absolutely no question where these stooges stand and anyone who tries to claim differently should be shoved in a barrel and rolled down a hill.
