Monday, July 01, 2024

The 28th Amendment

"The more you look at it, the worse it looks," said Jones. "When you put it all together, basically, the Supreme Court said in the past week, no rules for the powerful, no rights for the powerless. So if you're homeless, you can be thrown in jail for the crime of not having enough money to get a hotel room, but if you're the President of the United States, you can commit an undetermined number of crimes under color of law and get away with it. This is not good."
As I was saying:
However, Jones added, "I'm telling you, this is going to backfire politically. Because what I'm seeing from the left now, if you thought people were discouraged by what happened last week with Biden's performance, they are now outraged and terrified that Donald Trump is going to get in office and be a complete madman dictator." 
"So this is — politically, this is a gift to the left, though it is a blow to the country," Jones concluded.
If the debate stimulated the tongue-cluckers, this knocks them completely off their perch. It also, IMHO, galvanizes a country steeped in the idea that we don’t have a king. I knew people who thought Nixon was railroaded; but they’d never have seriously argued he was immune from all criminal prosecution.

I’m not sure the Supremes didn’t just hand Biden his re-election. I’m quite sure they didn’t mean to.

Be careful what you ask for….

OTOH: Never take advice from fools. If Biden acts on his “new powers,” it’s quite a bit harder to argue no President, and especially Trump, should have them.

There really is an epic amount of stupid out there.
Epic amounts. 

Adding to the issue of the campaign theme:
I really think the more this sinks in… ... the more the margins shrink… ...and shrink... ...and shrink. Now explain to her it’s not in the Constitution, it’s just in the Court’s opinion. Yes, there’s a lot of MAGA magical thinking out there that this opinion doesn’t say what it clearly says. But Trump can’t afford to lose any margin. At. All. (I should note even local TV news was accurately reporting this case in just a few sentences, emphasizing how hard a prosecution would be due to the bar on evidence.) Let’s be real: the reality of this opinion is never going to reach MAGA Central. But some disgust at the margins could well be enough (not to gain Biden votes, but to lose Trump ones). Dumb like a sledge hammer...swung hard against the foundations of constitutional order. This is the "right hand giveth, left hand taketh away" portion of the opinion. Sure, they didn't grant absolute immunity. But you can't have any evidence to prove the crimes, so...

I can imagine a few more voters saying “Fuck it” after this. Trump voters, not Biden ones. I think this fires up Biden voters.
  The only solution now is a 28th Amendment.
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