That’ll piss off the mor(m)ons.
I like it!
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Happy Birthday
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“I beg some enterprising journalist or scholar to examine the deeper patterns and sources of conflict between a group of judges who were clearly empowered by Trump’s first term yet consistently part ways on specific questions of the Trump regime and its rule.”
I’m no journalist or scholar, but I am a recent law school graduate, so I’ll take a crack at it.
- While these judges are almost certainly conservatives, they also went to law school. They almost certainly went to the top law schools in the country, and clerked under Supreme Court justices and Appeals Court judges. They know the law, they know the Constitution, and they believe in the rule of law. These judges, even the ones endorsed by FedSoc, outnumber the outright corrupt ones like Alito, Thomas, and that asshole in Texas. I disagree with them on many, many issues, I’m sure, but they believe in the Constitution and the Rule of Law, and Trump doesn’t.
- They are not dependent on Trump for their job. Once appointed to the federal bench, that is a lifetime appointment. It’s not just SCOTUS justices who are appointed for life. It’s all federal judges. District courts, appeals courts, SCOTUS, all of it. Once one the bench, they can be reassigned, but they cannot be removed except through impeachment. This has its downsides, but the upside is that these judges are no longer dependent on politicians for their continued employment. They can decide cases per their conscience, and not per their party’s platform.
- Many of them almost certainly recognize the danger to the judiciary in letting Trump get away with everything that he wants to do. They would render their own jobs powerless. Most people are not inclined to do that.
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Another example of boycotting Trump’s demands:
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Les Mis is one of his favorite musicals somehow? Does he actually think Thénardier is the good guy? Or is this one of those things where someone asked him once, and he made up something about the only thing he’d heard of?
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Could also be something akin to how some Republicans unironically love Rage Against The Machine but somehow entirely missed the glaringly obvious point of their music and their political inclinations. I could imagine that Trump just thinks Le Mis sure does have fun songs and doesn’t dwell on anything on a deeper level.
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Are the mormons gagging yet?
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I think he likes to see poor people suffering against the monarchy and losing. I’m surprised he’s not issued an order making the guillotine the national method of carrying out the death penalty.
And I always mix up the literary Les Mis with A Tale of Two Cities. Maybe I should check out the film version with Fredric March and Charles Laughton.
And now i feel like watching LM, AToTC, and The Hunchback of Notre Dame, all of the 1930s versions. And now I’d like to know why Dumas, Dumas Fils and Hugo weren’t presented in literature classes in my high school!
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For Dumas, it might have been the sheer quantity of work? Personally, I did like The Count of Monte Cristo, having been exposed to a graphic novel adaptation to start, and then moved on to an abridged version, and I really should put the full version back in the reading stack.
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I remember in Honors English 10 & 11 that we had to read “The House of Seven Gables” (I do not remember it), Shakespeare, Amy Lowell’s poetry, “Ragtime” and “Ordinary People”. Oh yeah, and “Slaughterhouse Five (The Children’s Crusade”. I even found my book report on it!
FORTUN-ately, the home I grew up in was well-stocked with things we didn’t have to/couldn’t read in school.
Addendum: I hope you can view this; if not, lemme know, 'k?
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I don’t believe anything he’s said. He throws out glowing superlatives as quickly as he vomits out insults, when knowing next to nothing about the targets.
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If the GOP somehow obliterated/edited/reinterpreted the 22nd amendment in a way that gets Trump on the next POTUS ballot, that would mean that…
Yet another nano-second scenario.
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The man is demented, and continually confabulating. Everything he says, he believes in the moment he says it, because he’s literally making it all up in real time.
An interview with Trump may as well be an interview with a Furby, for all the meaningful information you get out of it.
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It was probably from a later re-print with different cover art, but most likely.
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That reminds me-- I wonder if the Tramp admin has set up/is offering any financial incentives at all domestically to “bring back manufacturing.” Or is it all just Tarriffs tariffs tariffs!!
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