Elon Musk doing election crimes out in the open is another (terribly bleak) reminder that there is no law anymore, there is only power. bad-faith-times.ghost.io/there-is-no-...
To refuse to wield power from the bench is to give up the fight against the right wing.
Senator Whitehouse would be an improvement over Durbin, but this insistence on following norms that Republicans have already ditched is just dignified losing.
As Jamie Gorelick taught Merrick Garland. bsky.app/profile/cdca...
If you are saying there is no law then the laws have been removed or they aren't enforced.
The neo-lib dope dream that the social dem policy of taxing the rich wasn't needed cause everybody would be prosperous on the third way was always doomed to this return to pre-1920s politics. The political sector is a cheap buy, and you get huge returns., plus the judiciary. So fucking dumb.
This has always been true to some extent, but the way it has been made so stark in the Trump era is really a sight to behold.
Trickle down, stock buy backs and SCOTUS ruling corporations are people handed all the power to a handful of sociopaths and now they buy whatever law they want.
The Democratic party courter-weight they have conned people into believing in refuses to use its power to create stability. We've already forgotten the President now wields super legal powers, and what does Biden do?He claims he's taking the moral high ground by not using them. This is his fault.
now wait just a god dang minute