My working hypothesis is that Elon Musk secretly implanted a neural link between the GOP and corporate media.
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When the SC dissent tells us its to to stop submitting to lawlessness as a society its clear that something needs to change.
“we submit ourselves to rulers only if under rules.”
That is, quite a phrase to appear.
I don’t see Trump operating under any Rules…
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Motherfucker is stuck in the 80s when every single office memo ended with, “Thank you for your attention to this matter.”
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The Roberts court is the most openly corrupt and unAmerican Supreme court in 250 years. If the next Democratic president doesn’t grow a fucking pair and expand the court, we can expect corrupt and foul decisions for the next two generations.
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It’s not that remote, and his staff will be of the same species as the natives.
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Never in his life will he know what it’s like to have to work for it. Entitlement because he’s never known anything else. We should pity him for the emptiness he will live in.
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Darr, the UK doesn’t have a formal Constitution. We do, and I think they are better off for not having it all written down in one place. I didn’t used to believe that–but now I think I was wrong.
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I’d love to hear of donnie clapped in irons and dragged before a court at the Hague for illegally bombing Iran.
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Inhumane trash on the Court.
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This will require running with that as part of the platform.
Which means the folks that have been awfully quiet the last few days on Iran better start proposing such things.
Kinda grossed out i’ve heard nothing from any contenders but for AOC on that front (i’m not even sure she us running in '28)
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The president of the United States said “Fuck” on national television.
Dementia, especially FTD (frontotemporal dementia), can cause damage to the frontal lobes of the brain, which are responsible for controlling behavior, personality, and impulse control. As these brain areas deteriorate, individuals may lose their ability to regulate their behavior and social interactions
Maybe Jake Tapper can take his self-satisfied thumb out of his ass and look into this. What? Busy still reporting on Biden? Ok –
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I am not an apologist for any church, least of all the Catholic one, but excommunication is purely a church-related issue and SCOTUS shouldn’t have anything to do with it.
They also shouldn’t have anything to do with ruling on medical decisions of any type at all. They are WAAAY to big for their britches (which they probably don’t even wear under their gowns!)
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Go ahead, scream. If your voice is loud enough, and commands enough attention, can you endure an IRS audit that rivals a colonoscopy in its intrusiveness? Maybe your management team at works gets a phone call. Do you actually think Trump is going to permit meaningful opposition? Ring up CBS, ABC or Harvard, ask them what telling Trump to piss off results in. Maybe ICE just plucks you off the street. Whether you’re a citizen or not.
"Davino Watson told the immigration officers that he was a U.S. citizen. He told jail officials that he was a U.S. citizen. He told a judge. He repeated it again and again.
There is no right to a court-appointed attorney in immigration court. Watson, who was 23 and didn’t have a high school diploma when he entered ICE custody, didn’t have a lawyer of his own. So he hand-wrote a letter to immigration officers, attaching his father’s naturalization certificate, and kept repeating his status to anyone who would listen.
Still, Immigration and Customs Enforcement kept Watson imprisoned as a deportable alien for nearly 3 1/2 years. Then it released Watson, who was from New York, in rural Alabama with no money and no explanation. Deportation proceedings continued for another year.
Watson was correct all along: He was a U.S. citizen. After he was released, he filed a complaint. Last year, a district judge in New York awarded him $82,500 in damages, citing “regrettable failures of the government.”
On Monday, an appeals court ruled that Watson, now 32, is not eligible for any of that money — because while his case is “disturbing,” the statute of limitations actually expired while he was still in ICE custody without a lawyer."
Yeah, go ahead, speak out. Just be sure you can afford a good lawyer. You may need one.
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No, no “bad” people here but you’re right. It wasn’t long ago when many viewed the Supremes as America’s legal backstop. You know, where the madness and magical thinking ends.
I say that as I pray for a prolonged recession. Trump’s distractions and Bannon’s “flooding the zone” strategy will come to an end. Or slow things down. Driving on empty and being middle-aged and unemployed sobers people up. Little Marco and JD can say, with straight faces, we’re not at war as we bomb a sovereign nation w/o provocation, but it’s much more difficult to talk around $$$ people no longer have. We soooo deserve better.
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i would settle for both, with one being The Noble Piece Prize.
I’m surprised that the New York Times is reporting on anything this morning since the organization appears to be in one giant session of pearl-clutching-with-both-hands after Trump said “Fuck” on the national teeeeveeeee.
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Though I agree that it’s important not to quit being outraged and pointing out how bad it is, there is an inevitability to the numbness that’s setting in. Remember a week (or was it two?) ago, when we were outraged about Marines in L.A.? That’s apparently over. As is every preceding outrage. It’s the president’s M.O.-- always keep moving, always keep ratings high. And it’s obviously working very well.
I also agree with steviedee in part – we have to get used to it in order to stop merely reacting as the outrage machine demands. The outrage-inducing machine is the first wave, sowing chaos for the damaging panzer blitz that follows.
We have to, at some point, disengage from the small-scale and think about how we get ourselves back to at least some minimally functional form of representative democracy. The longer we stay in the moment of getting outraged, the farther we eventually have to go to get back. If we can get back.
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Trump, the GOP, and the Supreme Court are a disaster. When is the Press going to acknowledge this fact?
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