For years, the right wing justices have seen many thingsāunion organizing, environmental regulations, voting rightsāas harbingers of tyranny. But a legal theory that would lead to actual tyranny didnāt sound so bad to them. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Their view is basically that everything is tyranny except for actual tyranny, which is fine (so long as they are the ones doing it).
Mel Brooks said tragedy is when I get a paper cut on my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. That is how these guys think about tyranny and freedom.
Every time something comes up that could improve peopleās lives: āwhat Iām worried about here is <inane hypothetical>ā Every time a direct threat to the republic comes up: āintriguing! Where do I sign the petition?ā
I say this with all due respect to them but fuck those corrupt, despotic, assholes
Growing up I always wondered what an attempt at dismantling a western democracy would like. Now we know. Just did not think it would be this stupid, blatant and in the open. Trump is empirically and obviously an idiot so who is doing this pompous idiotic scheming I wonder? Weird times.
Tyranny is when they lose an opportunity for minority control. For the oligarchs funding them. bsky.app/profile/adam...
Any case involving Trump and/or J6 where Thomas doesn't recuse is invalid. What would happen if a group of citizens filed a lawsuit against SCOTUS? How do we hold them accountable or determine whether they have violated Constitutional law?
Some were hired specifically for this purpose. Dems could have refused to sign off but did
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Tyranny is when people I disagree with have power. People I like being tyrants is freedom. Alito with a Thomas concurrence