All he had to do was sit tight, and keep his spending down around $2,000,000 a month, and he'd be on the list of the Top 100 Rich Fucks in USAmerica Inc.
Everything Trump touches dies.
Jul 27, 2024
Jul 26, 2024
My Kinda Christian
In terms of the spiritual, or philosophical, or however you choose to think about trying to describe the cosmos, or god (whether Hairy Thunderer or Cosmic Muffin) the opposite of something is what keeps you from it.
The opposite of love is fear.
The opposite of hate is forgiveness.
The opposite of faith is control.
Because...
... these assholes act like they're above the law,
because they're very seldom held fully to account,
which for all intents and purposes puts them above the fucking law.
We can all stop wondering why it is that eventually, when the normies figure out just how badly they're getting fucked, there are suddenly lots of dead bodies laying around that used to be government officials.
Madison and Hamilton spent a lot of time not sleeping - worried about putting together a system so dependent on the honor and decency of good men.
They worried that the constitution could be used as a guide book for a scoundrel to execute the hostile takeover of American government.
Well, guess what.
The Hero In My Own Story
My fatal flaw is knowing that my body's
Check Engine light is flashing,
but I'm still truckin' around like,
"Nah - It'll be OK - I'm fine."
Why Politics?
Because the people who decide what you pay in interest on your credit card, and your mortgage, and your car loan are involved in politics.
The people who set your rent and your base pay - they're involved in politics.
The people who tell you to shut up and live with it when your water looks like piss, and your air makes your kids gasp for a breath, and the food you eat is both too expensive, and too poisonous - they're involved in politics.
When you complain about having to choose
between the lesser of two evils,
and that means you stay home,
refusing to participate,
you're letting someone else choose
the greater of those evils for you.
SCOTUS
Remember - this is a hostile takeover. The point of the exercise for "conservatives" is to strip down our government, sell off its assets, and reduce its function to 3 things:
- Defend American commercial interests abroad
- Keep the rabble in line here at home
- Settle contract disputes among the ruling class
Justice Elena Kagan proposed Chief Justice John Roberts appoint a panel of judges to enforce the US Supreme Court’s code of conduct.
While speaking Thursday at a judicial conference in Sacramento, California, Kagan said she trusts Roberts and if he creates “some sort of committee of highly respected judges with a great deal of experience and a reputation for fairness,” that seems like a good solution.
The court has been dogged by controversy following reports of lavish vacations, private jet flights, and other gifts received by Justice Clarence Thomas. The justices adopted a code of conduct for the first time in November in response to growing demands for transparency and accountability, but it’s been criticized for lacking an enforcement mechanism.
Kagan, in response to a moderator’s question at the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit’s annual judicial conference, acknowledged there are difficulties in deciding who should enforce an ethics code for the justices.
“But I feel as though we, however hard it is, that we could and should try to figure out some mechanism for doing this,” she said.
Separate Writings
During a discussion with lawyer Roger Townsend and US Bankruptcy Judge Madeleine Wanslee, Kagan also criticized her colleagues for writing multiple opinions in a single case, saying it complicates matters for lower courts.
“It prevents us, I think, from giving the kind of guidance that lower courts have a right to expect, that the public has a right to expect,” she said.
While there are times when separate writings make sense, Kagan said justices shouldn’t be writing separately just because they would have written the majority decision differently. The court should have a “higher threshold” than that, she said.
Kagan cited the court’s fractured decision in the United States v. Rahimi gun case. The court upheld a federal law that bans people subject to domestic violence restraining orders from possessing a gun in a 8-1 decision in which seven of the nine justices wrote their own opinions despite there being only one dissent.
The opinions signaled divisions among the justices on how to use history and tradition to analyze the constitutionality of firearm restrictions in the wake of the court’s 2022 decision in New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen. In that case, the justices told lower courts to look at history and tradition when deciding what gun regulations are permissible.
Kagan’s comments follow a momentous Supreme Court term. The justices issued a string of controversial decisions that limited the power of federal regulators, eliminated a federal ban on a gun accessory used in America’s deadliest mass shooting, and gave former President Donald Trump immunity from criminal prosecution for some official acts while in office.
Townsend is a trial attorney with Breskin Johnson & Townsend in Seattle.
The Stable Genius
Smart people can be dumb as fuck, but Trump is not smart - he's cunning, but not smart.
- The guy asked if nuclear weapons could be used to stop hurricanes.
- He said we should think about using disinfectants internally to beat COVID-19.
- He thought maybe shining a powerful light "inside the body" would kill the virus.
- He told his team to cut back on testing for COVID, because then there'd be fewer cases.
- He thinks you can be electrocuted by dropping a battery in the ocean.
- He said the noise from wind turbines causes cancer.
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