Tuesday Good News Day

We were required to wait too long to get this good news, and our stress levels were elevated as a result, but the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has finally released its 3-0 decision that Donny Demented Dipshit is dreaming if he believes he is/was protected by some imaginary absolute precedential (sic) immunity while he was leading the failed January 6th insurrection.

Demented Dipshit isn't taking the news well, and is whining that without absolute immunity, every precedent (sic) from now on will be indicted by his opponents as soon as he leaves office. In reality, the only ones who might need to worry would be any who spent their term(s) on a crime spree (like he did). 

Final thought for today on this matter: Will the Extreme Court accept Demented Dipshit's appeal or let the circuit court ruling stand? Are the Extremes really willing to give Joe Biden absolute immunity for the fourth year of his term, or his second term? I can see Smirking Sammy and Clearance Sale rolling over for Mongo Weirdo since they've been exposed as corrupt already.

Q NOTES # 831: Ups & Downs

For reasons unknown, the DVR failed yesterday and the fifth public hearing wasn't recorded. The highlights were reviewed fairly thoroughly in a prime time panel discussion with Rachel, Lawrence, et al on MSNBC, so it wasn't a total loss. One of the highlights that got my attention concerned solicitation of preemptive presidential pardons by Matt (Tall Hair) Gaetz, Louie (Dingleberry) Gohmert, and probably Marjorrhea (Empty) Greene, among others.

The reversal of Roe v. Wade by six radical right-wingers on the USSC is now official. This may or may not be the first domino to fall in the Trumplickan movement to restore America's good old days when the interests of conservative christian white men were all that really mattered. Maybe we'll catch some luck and circumstances will force Slick Sammy Alito, Clearance Sale Thomas, and the Handmaid to vacate their seats on the court while a (D) president can replace them to create a 6-3 majority that works in America's favor for a change.

Another possibility is that the Select Committee hearings and terrible USSC decisions will have the combined effect of putting Hopalong Hairdo on the ballot (figuratively) in the midterm election, producing massive voter turnout that keeps Congress in (D) control. 

Added 10:19 AM Saturday: Hopalong Hairdo gloating and claiming complete credit for every extremely unpopular recent Supreme Court decision is an impulse he cannot and will not resist. Keep it going, lard butt - keep reminding us why we hate you and your whole rotten party. (For the record, asshole, Moscow Mitch deserves more "credit" for this shit smear since HIS unadulterated evil made it possible to add Gorsucks and the Handmaiden).

It probably also helped Democrats when Clearance Sale confirmed that contraception and homosexuals are next on his hit list, though interracial marriage isn't.

Q NOTES # 709: Penalties

Rep. Maddie Cawthorn was on Fox News whining about the North Carolina State Board of Elections preparing to bar him from appearing on the ballot in the midterm election. This decision would be the result of Maddie's active involvement in the 1/6 failed coup attempt. Maddie pushed the notion that he's being singled out based on his disability, which is ridiculous x 10,000. American interests will be best served when the political careers of parasites like Maddie Cawthorn and J.D. Vance are crushed into stinking nothingness in their nascent stages.

It took the catastrophe of Donald Dooky Dump in the White House to make Republicans realize the system of government they really prefer is Vladimir Putin's Russia instead of traditional American democracy. 

In the current hierarchy, Putin dominates Dooky Dump who dominates Trumpunklicans, so about 45 percent of American voters are directly or indirectly under Putin's thumb. Way to go, USA. 

Politicus USA and Daily Kos remind readers that Clarence Thomas and his old lady are radical right-wing activists, and Clarence has no business sitting on the USSC. Somewhat ironically, in Clarence's ideal "originalist" America, he wouldn't have been allowed to vote or marry his old lady.

Q NOTES # 680: Disorder in the Court

Daily Kos is reporting some facts that need to be splashed all over the headlines and lead stories throughout the mainstream media. The facts concern the connection between Clarence Thomas and his trashy wife Ginni, and seditious conspiracy.

Q NOTES 270: Countdown, Day 42

Many people who hate Cheez Doodle and voted for Joe & Kamala are experiencing anxiety attacks because they expect Scalito, Clarence, Gorsucks, Kavanaugh and the Handmaid will vote to overturn the elections in GA, MI, PA and WI, giving us four more years of Cheezy and god only knows what other horrors.

Several people who are said to be experts in Constitutional law aren't very worried because, according to them, the Kenny Paxton/Texas suit is a non-starter for various reasons, and will probably earn Paxton a 9-0 GFY rebuke.

Assuming the presumed experts know whereof they speak, that raises another question: If Kenny loses 9-0, does he still get that pardon? 

Update 3:00 PM: In an early tweet this morning, Cheez Doodle asked, "How can a country be run by an illegitimate president?"

The correct answer, as we've learned after nearly four years of the illegitimate precedency (sic) we're currently suffering through, is "Can't be done." That's why we need a legitimate president like Joe.

Second update 4:56 PM: The four states currently under attack all made the deadline for submitting their responses to the USSC, so now we wait to see what happens tomorrow. There are evidently a lot of (R) politicians who are anxious to get their names on the record as loyal supporters of a failure who's on his way to complete irrelevance. I guess sedition isn't considered a felony if it can be disguised as a lawsuit, even one as transparently bogus as Kenny Paxton's. Also, it's nice to see that 20 states are joining the parade in support of GA, MI, PA and WI. Everyone is picking a side, so maybe we're nearing the end of this travesty of justice.

Third update 5:42 PM: Rush Limbaugh? Goddamn, is he still here? Anyway, the repulsive tub of guts is captivated by Cheez Doodle's control of his vacant-eyed zombie cult, thinks so-called RINOs (principled conservatives who are too intelligent to buy into the Cheez Doodle flim-flam) should be driven out of the party once and for all. I'll admit it's an idea that has possibilities.

Fourth update 11:25 PM: Slimy motherfucker Kenny Paxton is presented subpoena by the FBI. Hey, Cheez Doodle, how's that pardon coming? Kenny made a personal visit to the White House today, getting cozy with big daddy.

Q NOTES 269: Countdown, Day 43

I might say this shit isn't funny anymore, but it wasn't ever funny to begin with.

The lawsuit sent to the U.S. Supreme Court by Texas AG (Asshole Goober) Ken Paxton has been joined by seventeen of the worst red state shitholes, including all the ones you'd expect: Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, West Virginia, etc. To make this Extra-Super Special, Cheez Doodle has added his name to the list after promising to intervene. Any time Cheezy intervenes in something, he's actually interfering and things turn into a massive clusterfuck. Presumably, he wants the three Justices he personally nominated to know he expects them to vote his way if they don't want to face consequences. We'll see how that works out. And yes, he really is that fucking stupid.

Planned Parenthood (and other stuff)

Well, I'll bet this isn't going to go over well among the Disciples of Donnie.

Update 1:45 PM Tuesday: It turns out that Nancy is better at manic reality TV than Donald, who used to be a star years ago. Want a wall, Donald? Pull one outta your ass.

Update 3:01 PM Tuesday: Republicans have stopped saying he didn't do it. Now they're saying he did it, but it's okay. Donald says his hush money payments were simple private transactions, and why would he lie?

Courtship

All factors considered, I think it would be a plus for America if Tiny Tallywhacker actually made an enemy out of Chief Justice John Roberts.

Update 10:51 AM Saturday: Sorry, Tiny, but the courts aren't a threat to America's safety and security. The real threat? That would be you.

New rule: No lazy, corrupt, incompetent grifter with zero political experience can ever be allowed to exercise presidential authority again. This fat asshole was a horrible mistake that can only be made one time.

Dumb Question

Donnie Butt-Squirt is trying to play his maybe, maybe not game on the question of whether abortion rights will be abolished. I don't know why media idiots even ask the question in the first place.

Look, we know polls show that about 65 percent of Americans believe the precedent established in Roe v. Wade should be upheld. We also know that Donnie's assigned mission is to promote chaos, division and instability in the United States. Overturning Roe v. Wade = pissing on 2/3 of America to make other 1/3 happy = chaos and division = Mission Accomplished.

This ain't rocket science, people. Of course Donnie expects his justices to come through for him on this.

Deutsche Bank again

Charles Pierce @ Esquire on emerging news about the special relationship between retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy and depraved, deranged Donnie.

More about Donnie and Kennedy at Politicus USA

Thinking out loud: A movie that made a big impression on me is Judgment at Nuremberg, directed by Stanley Kramer and released in 1961. I recommend this film, which explores the issue of German courts implementing and enforcing the political policies of Hitler and the Nazi Party. When I saw the movie during my high school years, I immediately understood that a nation's judicial system needs to be independent and non-partisan.

I've been comparing things happening in the United States since 2016 to things that happened in Germany from 1930-1939. While Chinless Mitch was keeping Fat Tony's vacant seat on the Supreme Court locked down for Damaged Donnie, I often thought about Judgment at Nuremberg. Once Hitler secured the loyalty of German judges, anything and everything he did was legal.

Morally Unfit?

James Comey used his TV interview to give so-called precedent (sic) Donnie Schitz a dose of his own medicine, and Donnie doesn't like it much.

Added 3:23 PM Tuesday: Just for the hell of it, I'm thinking it'd be a hoot if Gorsucks ended up being the opposite of what Donnie Schitz believed he was getting when the pick was made.

Law vs Law

Now the motherfucker is trying to turn law enforcement officers against the judicial system.

This is the kind of shit a real president would never do, but it's exactly what I expect from a fat asshole who's playing a president on a TV reality show.

Punished?

Considering the hysterical hand-wringing among conservative religious crazies over the SC's marriage equality ruling, I suppose we can assume that if the United States still exists after 72 hours, God isn't as upset about it as they are.

Workplace Violence

For weeks, every fucking right-wing asshole in America has been bitching about the fact that the Hasan case was dealt with as workplace violence rather than terrorism. Mostly, it's been a lot of unnecessary whining about Barack Obama. An article in The Daily Beast explains why classifying the crime as workplace violence was advantageous for the prosecution, and all those whining assholes need to STFU.

Take a walk, George

At last white America has revenge for the verdict in the O.J. Simpson criminal trial. In Florida, George Zimmerman has been acquitted. Zimmerman has a Jewish name, but claims to be Hispanic. The trial jury was made up of six women, five white and one Hispanic. Like the Simpson jury, the jurors in Zimmerman's trial claimed the prosecution didn't prove its case. This time, the black guy was the deceased, not the defendant.

I didn't have enough interest in the matter to spend time following the details, so maybe Zimmerman actually was the victim as 99.99 percent of the right-wing gun crazies in the United States have been insisting all along. What I know is the guy with the gun is alive, the unarmed black guy that the armed guy was trailing is dead, and conservative Americans are dancing in the streets.

Lawyers

The old joke, or one variation of it, goes something like this:

Question: What do you call a bus full of lawyers sinking to the bottom of the ocean?

Answer: A good start.

Tomorrow, for the second time in my life, I'll seek legal representation. The first time I needed a lawyer was to process the government paperwork to complete an overseas adoption. Tomorrow I'll be trying to get a will probated. I'm not looking forward to the hassle and expense I expect that will involve.

At any rate, for at least the next 48 hours I'll probably be using my favorite 12-letter obscenity a lot. Even if I'm reasonably happy with the lawyer who handles the probate, that bunch of conservative assholes on the U.S. Supreme Court will keep me pissed off. As far as I'm concerned, America can never be truly great as long as Scalia and Clarence Thomas are serving as justices.

Apocalypse Now

In the absence of anything constructive to do, I spent an hour today online, checking out reader feedback on the Supreme Court decision regarding the ACA. As expected, the right-wing lunatic fringe is proclaiming the death of America as we've known it. Of course, to one degree or another, they've been predicting the end of American civilization since the night Obama won the election, and have been caterwauling and pulling their hair out since he was inaugurated in 2009.

Some RWers are down on Chief Justice Roberts. I imagine any support he loses among the lunatic fringe will be more than offset by the new respect he'll gain among sane people. Speaking for myself, I'll need to reevaluate all my assumptions about him. It'd be great if he turned out to be an unpredictable swing vote in future high-profile USSC rulings.