Thoughts on Trump Indictments

I find writing helps. Thoughts bounce around up there. Then I feel better. This is just my “notebook.”

Bernie and Me

Bernie and I did not indict Trump.

A word about the Democratic Party.

They’re going to pretend that this is all about the Democratic Party.

They’re screaming about Democrats already, as if the Democratic Party had anything whatsoever to do with Trump’s current legal problems:

Did the Democratic Party cause Trump’s private company to commit insurance fraud in NY? For decades?

Did the Democratic Party cause Trump to direct his firm to cheat on his taxes, numerous felonies? No.

Did the Far Left Democrats cause Trump to assault that woman? I don’t believe so.

The Democratic Party may have had to do with a provision that allowed the woman to bring suit, but still. She won her case. Trump presented no defense…because of the Far Left?

Did the Democratic Party suggest he get entangled in a stupid dispute with the National Archives and cause him to bullshit federal counterintelligence agents when they politely asked for our stuff back? No.

The Democratic Party had no power in those situations, and Trump knew NY was Democratic when he did his crimes there. So yes, Bragg might be Democrat, but does that mean it’s unfair for Trump to be indicted for crimes, or that malfeasance should be ignored? Because …huh?

No. Let’s look back.

The Democratic Party did not impeach Trump for Russia. That did not happen.

There were a few calls and resolutions to impeach Trump for the Russia thing but Speaker Pelosi repeatedly refused and the majority of the party did not support it.

The Democraticic Party refused to impeach Trump for Russia. Repeatedly refused. Adamantly opposed the idea.

Also.

The Democratic Party did not issue the Mueller Report. Mueller was appointed by the Trump Administration and answered to Trump’s appointed Attorney General. He was in the Trump Administration, acting independently and silently. Mueller did not promote any findings, did not publicize , did not say one word about Donald Trump and did not charge or indict or in any way defame him for any crimes.

Mueller refused to cooperate with the Democratic Party doing its own inquiry, and its inquiry had no real impact on the political support for Trump. No minds were changed by the Democrats’ inquiry into Russia. Trump knew that he benefited by himself flogging the issue daily for donations and publicity.

So Trump a victim?

No. That’s a joke.

No, he’s not a victim of the Democratic Party.
I’m Far Left and Bernie and me had nuthin to do with any of this.

Here come the rabid Democratic wolves to eat up the Trump campaign!

They’re saying Democrats are ruthless “bandits” but wait: Al Gore, conceded after the Supreme Court decision though he disagreed; John Kerry immediately conceded; Hillary Clinton immediately conceded. So that’s pretty rapacious presidential politics in the last 23 years! Also were denied a constitutionally mandated seat on the Supreme Court zzzz. Etc. terrifying!

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I can’t resist writing, I find it helpful. This is just my “notebook.”

The One He Forgot

I find details fascinating and as a Watergate kid I’m watching indictments closely.

I noticed something tonight.

Trump spoke at Georgia, (one day after being indicted for national security crimes) and as usual he attacked America, his political opponents, everyone in every country- of course.

As usual, Trump called the special counsel names and threatened all the radical district attorneys everywhere.

He left one person out. An important person, one person without whom there would be no indictment, no evidence, no charges.

She was not named, not mentioned, not insulted.

He did not attack the Federal judge in DC overseeing all the cases in the district.

That judge found that the attorney/client privilege did not apply in the Documents Case that led to yesterday’s Indictments,
because the lawyers were instrumental in the alleged crime(s), so all of Trump’s lawyers had to give up their notes and texts and testify under oath against their client.

Trump lawyers testified against Trump and turned over all personal communications with the target of the investigation, providing compelling, astounding, voluminous evidence in granular, multimedia detail, for a prospective jury. Evidence against Trump comes from his own lawyers and there is video evidence to corroborate their account.

That was one person’s decision, to compel the lawyers’ testimony, and without it there would be no grand jury indictment.

It is practically unheard of, according to the legal commentaries, to compel attorneys to testify against their client! The privilege is sacrosanct. I think of, maybe, John Dean. Watergate.

The effect on history of Judge Howell’s decision will be absolutely immense.

I can’t imagine how Trump, who attacked everyone else on the planet, left this significant one out. Her decision f-d him completely.

Federal Judge Beryl Howell. Now she has retired, her term at an end, but she is the one reason and the only reason he is in such hot H20.

Without that judge’s finding of criminal conspiracy, Special Counsel Jack Smith would have zilch.

And in each case facing Trump in the coming months there is a Federal judge- many are Republican appointees- finding sufficient evidence that Trump is, more likely than not, a criminal, in the view of a United States court of law.

If anyone thinks Trump cannot be remanded and taken into custody, or has any viable defense strategy, I just place this on the table for your consideration. It’s kind of strange.

Come to think of it, he hasn’t attacked these powerful figures. Federal judges.

She is the sixth federal judge, I believe, to issue a binding legal finding that Trump committed crimes. And that sticks.

This is not a “Democrat” thing. No such luck. Sorry, right-wing shills and pundits.

When the history is written these judges are writing the first draft.

Emmet Sullivan, Judges Mehta, Carter, Howell, these are a few of the judges that held that the former president met a standard of criminal behavior in the many various cases- including election fraud and the Documents indictment- so prosecutions could go forward on all fronts.

Their decisions are scathing and definitive, for all time.

Trump has attacked and threatened and incited against all perceived opponents- but not the judges that could determine his fate.

The demagogue has serious limitations. He has no power here.

This is the first time in my entire life I’ve seen a chandelier in a bathroom and I wept openly at the poverty of my existence. Life is not fair.

I need a moment.

It’s like Sadaam Hussein’s palace over there!

***

I guess it will be a contest between the Little Criminal and Governor Fingerpudding in “24.

The Little Criminal complains that law enforcement is meddling while he is in “the middle” of his presidential campaign, yet most campaigns aren’t announced two years before the election. It may be a case of premature exasperation.

As usual, the United States does not disappoint when it comes to candidates who represent the interests of the citizenry.

***

It’s interesting, the talk about civil war.

I thought of this today, that the beginning encounter of the Civil War was a sort of property dispute: Fort Sumter.

The nation was wondering, after secession, whether the President would hold Federal sites.

“All the power at my disposal will be used to reclaim the public property and places which have fallen, to hold, occupy and possess these, and all other property and places belonging to the government.” Lincoln’s inaugural address draft.

So here we are at Mar-a-Lago and the US government wanted its stuff back- those famous boxes, the National Archives. We know that there is a criminal probe as well.

And in both eras people said “what’s the big deal? Fort Sumter has no value and the boxes at Mar a Lago might be nothing.”

But a small thing at first might become huge when things go critical.

Trump’s refusal to give up documents that he feels are his- is an interesting unconscious symbol of the internal secession movement he leads.

In this light one can really see his absolute defiance of the United States. He feels equal in authority to the actual government. His ego is titanic right now.

Property of the United States. That’s the dispute. Trump doesn’t care. And the secessionists are with him.

***

I had the sound turned down but I don’t believe I heard an appeal to Americans by the President or a promise that he is concerned about the well-being of others. I didn’t see a smile, a note of humor, an understanding of the deepest concerns of life. I didn’t see the eloquence of a person that knows their own heart. A politician has to be able to ride a bus without everyone else wanting to get off immediately.

Turning the other cheek is a way of moving toward the light. It’s a movement that calls for healing, despite appearances and base reaction. It’s a movement toward the most benevolent outcome for all.

Why did I write that? No idea.

Well, not quite. I’m thinking of how to think about people going to prison for January 6. How to end the whataboutism of the situation. And the violence we are confronted with in our daily lives, sometimes in the form of outward confrontation, sometimes of our own impulses, or those around us, held in check. Thinking. Meditating. Healing.

We are almost there. We are so close to a better world.

Here’s Daisy:

To make Routine a Stimulus

Remember it can cease –

Capacity to terminate

Is a specific Grace –

Of Retrospect the Arrow

That power to repair

Departed with the torment

Become, alas, more fair –

Emilie Dickinson

A postscript to Man Without Country collection

Note to Self:

I don’t wish to offend any animals but.

Did you hear?

The Elephant is leaving the GOP.

Elephant would like to be removed from political logos due to centuries of gun violence against elephants.

Yes. The elephants know all too well.

Usually animals take no stand on political matters, by minding their own business.

Times have changed.

Other animals have refused to be Republican Party mascots:

Snake
Porcupine
Skunk
Jellyfish
Dung Beetle
Buzzard
Junkyard Dog
Chicken
Termite
Cockroach
Lizard
Slug

Animals that object to being hunted down like humans (such as Wolf) have stood with Elephant against gun violence.

They are too numerous to list here. But they know gun violence can pretty much destroy paradise.

WAAG. Wild Animals Against Guns. They have neither website nor social media.

They do have feelings- and intelligence; it was the animals that originally taught humans what to eat and how to survive. They know a lot. We should listen.

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Lions have asked not to be stuffed and displayed in your penthouse. Thank you.

-So far we have 90% of the humans, and all of the animals, against gun violence and for common sense.

(No animals were harmed in the making of this public service announcement.)

Tiny Violins

Did someone ask my opinion of Rep Jim Jordan? Take a deep breath. I will tell.

Yes, of course I watch this shit! Jim Jordan’s Thing today.

Jordan Committee today is not about whistle blowers. The Red Party’s Coloring Book Club, the House Judiciary.

No, today’s meeting on the weaponization of govt is not courageous whistleblowers, it’s just more people with personal grievances.

A lone voice against the FBI? Oh brother. Please. Stop it.

These people aren’t taking about Countelpro, or illegal surveillance, or Earth First environmental attacks on activists. No.

The FBI sucks, but these guys practically volunteered to be dumped on. Their allegations may be serious, but they have more than a hint of the spurious.

The witnesses supposedly exposing FBI malfeasance did not act on duty. They did not expose facts. No. They actually withheld facts today!

They made a pretense, before the Judiciary Committee, of non-disclosure of their super-secret whistle-blowers activity.

Well, that’s unhelpful, and actually the exact opposite of what blowing the whistle is.

No: When they took actions that befell harshly upon them, they were acting on mood-altering Donald Trumpism , leveled against their superiors at the Bureau. Not much more.

There are facts to bear that out. But why bother? No minds to change.

When you elevate a grievance in a work situation it often does not work out well. Because it’s a form of insubordination. You are free to do so, but there are consequences to one’s own actions.

(That is the most conservative sentence I’ve ever written, right there. And here am I, a Far Left proponent of Democratic Socialism, preaching personal responsibility to Republicans.)

So: Tiny violin, for pathetic tea party Freedom Caucus minions.

Sadly, without exception, today’s witnesses before the Judiciary Committee on Weaponization, these capable Americans, are being used as political theater by Jim Jordan. They look like idiots, just by proximity to this doofus from Norwalk Ohio.

I find today’s witnesses credible, and pathetic. Much to admire, as long as they keep hidden their deep antagonism to American democracy. Which I believe they picked up listening to buttheads on right wing networks. Or from the pulpit on Sunday.

And, by the way, these ranking senior FBI employees, these guys, did not take their claims to the proper authorities.

They took their claims to Mark Meadows, who plausibly and even perhaps unwitting nearly destroyed the entire Federal Govt on Jan 6! Hoping for a loophole in the Constitutional Order the Red Party could exploit.

Oopsie! (And that gives Meadows huge undeserved benefit of a doubt , in terms of actual seditious conspiracy, components of which have already been found guilty and are facing decades in prison.)

Fortunately this letter includes the statutes required to make determinations, even if one distrusts Libtards.

And ps the Republicans were told exactly what to do and how to behave on January 6, 2020. The Constitution is crystal clear about the peaceful transition of power.

Actually Republicans also blew off the actual election results after many recounts and legal cases; they ignored the obligations of the General Service Administration to fund and support the transition to the Biden Administration after the the Electoral College determined the outcome; and in so so doing they increased vulnerabilities in terms of national security.

Who cares? We lost the election! We can’t lose an election! We are God’s Americans!

They disregarded every law and norm and guideline in their pathetic zeal to hold power indefinitely.

And now they are what we used to call wankers. Not whistle-blowers.

Oh yeah:

Morning May

Morning, May
We’ve confirmed your stay
-4 full weeks
Beginning today

Sunlit days and moonlit nights
Flowers in fields scenic delights
Luxurious accommodations for your stay,
May

For thirty one days you’ll have a splendid view
Just relax au naturel nothing else to do
Technically off- season so it’ll just be you
So voulez-vous

Oh May there’s one more thing
Each morn a bell will ring
The birds awake and they will sing
It’s a thing we do
In spring.

…Only one more thing to say
Good morning May

jk
5/1/18

The Antonin Scalia Memorial Pool of Bad Judgement

…High dive competition: Supreme Justices compete in the Justice Antonin Scalia Memorial Pool to see who has the most outrageous technique in the Olympic Bad Judgement Category:

First in was the Chief doing one double twist screwdriver of bad judgement right into the pool. The Mrs was standing poolside and is completely soaked! Did everyone see that? Amazing!

Next Clarence Thomas did a flailing floundering belly-flop of bad judgement, with a splash-out and all the bystanders are hit with a massive wave and then …he climbed the ladder and did it again! There’s nothing subtle about his performance. The crowd has moved back from poolside.

Next here comes Gorsuch. He’s steady, good form, and then does a tricky backflip into a pike position of bad judgement and that may be a winner. He looks confident that he has perhaps the worst judgement. We shall see.

Here’s Amy. She’s looking nervous, stands at the edge of the board but wait- she looks like she’s praying and just leans over and drops like a potato into the deep end of the bad judgement pool. Wow. It was a failed attempt at the classic cannonball. She’s coming up for air now. She needs a towel and a hug.

Now here is big Sam Alito. He’s on the high dive and he’s sitting there- drinking a snifter of wine. Wait he’s got friends up there on the diving board and they’re having a picnic up there. He’s shaking his head like he’s not going to perform his dive of bad judgement- Wait! there he goes! Uh oh , looks like he’s having trouble with his suit! Uh oh, we’re losing our picture-

We are back. Yes that was totally bad judgement!

It looks like all the justices performed with Olympic bad judgement all around!

Scores: 10!

***

Who Moved My Cheese?

Has anyone noticed that 1/3 of the country has seceded from the United States?

Oh, they left already. No, they didn’t leave a note.

They just up and broke up with us. That love letter, “The Constitution of the United States of America”- they’re embarrassed by it, really.

It was mere infatuation. Stupid.

So they broke up with us.

I know- they were assholes. We tried to pretend, but it was an abusive relationship the whole time. So it’s over.

The problem is – they’re still here!

It’s like an old relationship, and now we are stuck with a roommate from hell.

They’re devising situations. Passive aggressive shit at borders. Stuff to just work your last nerve.

They’ve got the credit card and they’re maxing it out right now.

-Assholes! (I am truly sorry, Your Grace, Facebook, Meta, but it’s time to speak normally, finally.)

You read a headline everyday and throw down your stupid IPhone in disgust.

Secession. Ending the Union.

This was an idea floated by their bloated deity R Limbaugh, who, just before he croaked, suggested secession was “probably” the only course of action for the Red States. We just don’t have anything common.

Those doofuses down there lapped that shit up.

Yeah, Rush called for secession and then he took the easy way out, collected a medal, dictator-style, and then pffft he was gone.

So the Red States have seceded in all but name and flag, but certainly they’re kicking around new names for the country. And the flag will have no stars or stripes. Because most of those stars are “woke” stars and many of the stripes are Antifa.

But there won’t actually BE a country, as such. It’s going to be a sort of Europe during the Feudal System, except the Knights Errant are driving Teslas. (I have heard you can’t get those repaired.)

The peasants usually have an oversized truck which plays loud ersatz rock music and shines gloriously from idleness.

Other than that, time proceeds along the lines of the same old story: Religious crusade, swimming in the summer. Draft picks. TV.

Fortunately this is not going to work in November or at any other time.

They need us more than we need them.

Yes. It is the unspoken truth that the Red States can’t survive going Full-Amish. Nope.

This is the United States, where we will let you dig a hole as large and deep as you want to, and for you to presently jump or stumble into, because this is the Sweet Land of Liberty.

Damn it they moved my cheese!

***

Saving the Country, One Salad at a Time!

Note to self- (A public service announcement to me.)

I can’t save the country but I CAN eat more salad.

I’m worried.

Has the J6 Committee done a diet/exercise survey of the participants, as part of its important work?

To put a finer point on it: How many of us are bonkers most of the time from overconsumption of…everything?

I speak to and for myself.

I know: how can one think about salad when the roof has blown off the political structure of the Western world?

Is there a connection between rampant consumption and, well, the end of the world as we know it?

I’m talking about mental clarity.

I’m talking about romaine lettuce.

I’m talking about an optimal body mass index of your typical Proud Boys person.

-Hey, this is pretty good. Nice leafy green vegetables. Fresh cherry tomato. Why didn’t I think of this before?

I know I’ll backslide. It’s ok. A salad is a huge step for some of us.

Everything is an indicator of other behaviors, which follow naturally.

Salad may indicate mindfulness, and that awareness is perhaps an indicator of other behaviors. Maybe. Of course, I’m new at this. I’ve only been on this health kick for twenty minutes now.

That too is an indicator. One can begin to infer things from these impulses, if that’s what they are.

Like walking. A person that walks somewhere has a different outlook than someone who never walks anywhere at all. The air is sweet. And it’s ancient. All the molecules have been around for eons, and still fresh as a daisy. The air’s been there for millennia. So lucky, to breathe that breath of spring.

(I’m not talking about walking a safari to hunt endangered lions or elephants. I’m talking about a walk in the woods or just around the block; a non-aggressive saunter to nowhere, unarmed.)

I’d like to know from the J6 committee what the diet and exercise and mental health regimen were for the all participants.

It’s a public health crisis- authoritarian insurgency.

Can a person who is healthy in body, mind, and spirit destroy the country?

Perhaps. The Third Reich was full of health nuts, after all. But like here, the leader was basically on meth. So there’s that. And yes, the former president, lurking at his rallies- is definitely on something. Steroids, is my theory.

The mentality of consumption is the heart of the matter: the nature of its demand, the rage to satisfy, to get things regardless of cost or consequence- that kind of consumption. The kind that overrides good judgement, that steamrolls opposition.

Food. Sugar. Disinformation. Climate. Outer Space. Domination!

-A salad and a tall drink of water. I still don’t feel like overthrowing the government… Maybe this is working for me!

Covid taught some of us to slow down and be aware. To hold to mental health, for our own sake and to serve others. To uphold well-being, and to allay mistrust and misfortune.

And now here we are, preserving democracy for generations to come, from a basis of sanity. A healthy foundation. An appreciation of what I have.

One salad at a time.

We’ll get through this together.

Next.

I can’t clean up the landfill, but I can cool it with the plastic, already. (Just thinking ahead toward the Future.)

4/22

Glide Path (Memorial Day meditation)

I just did a random Wikipedia check to see which prominent Republicans in Congress had real jobs, worked with a diverse population, worked in businesses run by and staffed by women, exposed to stratas of society, and it’s not looking good.

My work life has been all women/ all diversity all the time.

But Cruz Hawley Greene Gaetz?

These people exhibit some pretty clueless behavior. You could say that perhaps they’re not even exposed to society. Not the society I know, of honest working people that are not on the glide path.

The first random Democrat I checked – just testing my theory- was a US senator, Chris Coontz. Just random, first politician that popped into my head.

Here:

“Raised in Hockessin, Delaware, Coons graduated from Amherst College in Massachusetts, where he joined the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. He received graduate degrees from Yale Divinity School and Yale Law School. He went to work as a volunteer relief worker in Kenya, where he had taken classes at the University of Nairobi, later returning to the U.S. to work for the Coalition for the Homeless in New York. He spent some time as a legal clerk in New York before returning to Delaware in 1996, where he spent eight years as in-house counsel for a materials manufacturing company. In the interim he worked for several nonprofit organizations.”

So. We have Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley on a glide path to law practice and top tier positions, and then a diverse Democratic Party and they really aren’t the same.

I hear people complain about “corporatist” politics and I really don’t buy it mostly. Of course the country has been conservative in my lifetime. Of course. It’s a corporate culture with very strict guidelines. MAGA doesn’t think so- but they are wrong.

(Maybe they just hate Social Security. That could be it. They think it means we are socialists. Duh.)

This was the nation that rallied to fight Fascism. It is still that country. It’s set in stone. The country you think is Far Left supported the Vietnam War. The country you say is too liberal invaded the Mid East. The country of elite unelected bureaucrats built a nuclear arsenal. The country barely grudgingly consented to give women the vote, and resisted granting them economic opportunity, even into my lifetime.

These are not the behaviors of a libertine society on a freedom binge. No, we are conservative as hell, with tax cuts every decade to prove it.

But the Democrats have a moment to make history again. And they’re doing that. Biden is quietly steamrolling forward and he doesn’t need an ego boost every minute to know how. He knows how huge this moment is. And Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and the whole MAGA crew have so little to offer, for all that education -and misinformation.

We have to save Social Security. Protect LGBTQ+ fellow Americans. Restore human rights. And yes: correct the errors of the Supreme Court (for judgements that are truly outside the corners of the Constitution, so cannot stand up to the already established working standards of human rights in the year 2023.)

History.

We have this opportunity because of sacrifices of others. It’s Memorial Day. So grateful. So appreciative. Silent observance for a moment.

And then excitement about the country facing deep political challenges. And coming out better than ever before.

postscript-One final difference btw two parties: Joe Biden’s first order that I’m aware of was to his staff: he told his staff, publicly, that anyone he found treating others on his team in a disrespectful manner would be fired. And that is after years of Trump whose speech is completely unacceptable inappropriate and demeaning, and whose manner is parroted across the entire field. This just came to mind the other day. I think you’ll find it’s true. Biden so far has not minced words or wasted opportunities.

I Write Because I Have To Dept

…Ok I can’t sleep and it’s Easter but there’s nuthin I like better than a good Clarence Thomas scandal so…

“What the Fuck Clarence Thomas?”

an essay on the quality known as Self-Respect

What the fuck, Clarence Thomas?

You have been challenged by a controversy that goes to your very fundamental integrity.

Millions in gifts and “friendly hospitality”?

“Friendly hospitality”? What is this? “Petticoat Junction?

This is really bad. You’d been cut. It’s gross.

And what do you do? You make an excuse? A lame-ass excuse? You didn’t know better?

You asked your friends? Your “colleagues and others”? Because you didn’t know taking gifts might be something you might have to disclose?

You didn’t know better?

What is this? An episode of “Leave it to Beaver”?

Clarence Fucking Thomas. This is your big moment- unless you’ve checked out utterly in your swirling toilet- bowl flush into absolute Fascism, (which I believe you have.)

Meaning you do not have to think. At all. Just check the box, for the Society you belong to.

-Wrong!

This is huge and hugely important. This thing about corruption.

You are in it.

It’s like poker. Well, I confess I do not know how to play poker but let us say it is like “movie” poker, in the sense of old westerns and heist films.

Every player is staring over their hands, cards fanned out under a hanging bulb, eyeballs staring out from under their visors and hat-brims. Tension is building.

Someone puts a challenge- lays down their cards, shows their hand.

A publication exposes what looks like massive corruption -by you.

And in such a situation, what Clarence would do, metaphorically IF (and I do mean “if”) he had self-respect, and concern for the public, and a modicum of insight (for what justice lacks insight?) would be to “see” that hand of poker and raise the stakes. By being honest and brilliant and authoritative.

You would be honest and direct and brilliant and forthright and correct and demolish any criticism of yourself with your absolute integrity- which you, Clarence, could easily do, because you have ALWAYS acted with absolute integrity. You, Clarence, would provide examples. They are numerous, myriad. Plus you are obligated to do so.

If you, Clarence Thomas, had authentic self-respect, as well as respect for the Public you swore an oath to serve, you would stun the public with an unambiguous review of your decisions, demonstrating your depth of knowledge, your even-handedness- (for what is Justice, anyway, if not even-handed?), your commitment to the vast enterprise of upholding the ethos of the Constitution of the United States, in all its genius, with all its ethical implications, in its miraculously intricate scheme, of balancing all the powers of the Federal Government with the hierarchy of human needs expressed through the Rights of a Free People.

You would never be bothered again.

But no. You lack all of those qualities.

You lack good judgement!

Clarence Thomas utterly lacks good judgement.

And is sitting on the bench of the United States Supreme Court.

He lacks good judgement. ( Did I just say that? Oh well. If I repeat myself, I repeat myself, as Ralph Waldo Emerson would say.)

Or as the great Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes would say-

Never mind. Clarence doesn’t really give a shit about what Holmes- or anyone else- has to say, I don’t believe.

“Insecure and wielding absolute power looking for same.” That’s Ginny and Clarence.

We know what we need to know about the justices on the court. They know themselves.

The egomania can’t disguise the self-hate among the right-wing judges, black and white.

Clarence. You could be the greatest justice in history or, at a minimum, at least, outstanding -if right now you yourself stood on principle and cleaned up the court, urged reform, raised the standard, rejected opportunism in favor of true justice.

But we are weary and long past urging and ahh.

Some day you may just have to step down.

If your friends will let you.

***

The Antonin Scalia Memorial Pool of Bad Judgement

…High dive competition: Supreme Justices compete in the Justice Antonin Scalia Memorial Pool to see who has the most outrageous technique in the Olympic Bad Judgement Category:

First in was the Chief doing one double twist screwdriver of bad judgement right into the pool. The Mrs was standing poolside and is completely soaked! Did everyone see that? Amazing!

Next Clarence Thomas did a flailing floundering belly-flop of bad judgement, with a splash-out and all the bystanders are hit with a massive wave and then …he climbed the ladder and did it again! There’s nothing subtle about his performance. The crowd has moved back from poolside.

Next here comes Gorsuch. He’s steady, good form, and then does a tricky backflip into a pike position of bad judgement and that may be a winner. He looks confident that he has perhaps the worst judgement. We shall see.

Here’s Amy. She’s looking nervous, stands at the edge of the board but wait- she looks like she’s praying and just leans over and drops like a potato into the deep end of the bad judgement pool. Wow. It was a failed attempt at the classic cannonball. She’s coming up for air now. She needs a towel and a hug.

Now here is big Sam Alito. He’s on the high dive and he’s sitting there- drinking a snifter of wine. Wait he’s got friends up there on the diving board and they’re having a picnic up there. He’s shaking his head like he’s not going to perform his dive of bad judgement- Wait! there he goes! Uh oh , looks like he’s having trouble with his suit! Uh oh, we’re losing our picture-

We are back. Yes that was totally bad judgement!

It looks like all the justices performed with Olympic bad judgement all around!

Scores: 10!