7 Jan 2021 and beyond - the aftermath of the storming of the Capitol

I also miss his twitter presence. The Fat Orange Baboon is the only reason I had an account.

John McNaughton honors the insurrection in oils.

The Supreme Court’s ruling is kind of odd, though, isn’t it? “We find that your argument has failed because it was made on these grounds. It’s likely that you would have gotten more traction if you’d argued X, Y, Z instead.”

Roberts famously claimed that his job as a jurist is to call “balls and strikes.” This feels more like the umpire has gone out to the mound to offer advice on the pitcher’s throwing motion.

I read it as just the reverse. The Court of Appeals considered the case from all angles, including the strongest case, as if Trump were still Prez, and correctly ruled against him. Therefore the more complicated case, but clearly weaker one, of a former Prez, should be considered obiter, ie the Supreme Court wasn’t accepting or rejecting that part of the decision.

That’s what Kavanaugh’s concurrence is saying:

The Nixon case was a sitting President advancing a privilege claim, which failed. That’s the strongest possible case. Even applying that case, as if Trump were the Prez, he didn’t succeed.

Here’s CNN on the decision:

Oh, to be a fly on Mike Pence’s head, er, on the wall when Cheato heard the news… :right_anger_bubble: :exploding_head:

Just checked his old timey blog site (no comments allowed) and nothing from him. I know something is coming. Just a few days ago Tucker Carlson called Kavanaugh a cringing little liberal so I expect even better things out of Trump. Hope those three Justices are wearing masks to protect their faces from the :smile_cat:

I’ve been expecting CheetoFace to spew the moniker “Amy Phoney Barrett” for the fake RINO conservative for some time now. Maybe today will be the day.

He has some unintentional pearls of wisdom: “What has become of our country when they choose to fight against its own people? Many Americans today feel that they have been denied their Constitutional rights and freedoms and are isolated and forgotten, in essence, placed in a solitary confinement.”

Heh. I knew that off-the-cuff phrasing was not going to pass muster!

But seriously, many reports have it that some days he screams and yells continuously, while on other days, he screams and yells a bit less. Wednesday night was plainly a “continuously” one.

Yeah. Why someone hasn’t come up with some sort of apparatus that would turn Trump’s fuming into electricity, is a wonder. He could power half of Florida.

Forget Florida. He still owes New York taxes.

Forget Florida and New York. In the news, there’s another cold snap a-heading for Texas. They might need the energy.

I was just pointing out the obvious, and I knew you were already well aware. :wink: Low hanging fruit.

I’m waiting for him to ask how a rapist like Kavanaugh got on the Supreme Court in the first place. Obviously it was the behind the scenes dealings of Mitch McConnell that got it done.

the pages are flying now. things are getting tighter.

If Ted Cruz isn’t already on the next plane out, I’m sure he’d be glad to hook His Orange Lord and Master up.

Here’s some news:

Arrest him.

A group in North Carolina is challenging the re-election candidacy of North Carolina Representative Madison Cawthorn on the basis of section three of the Fourteenth Amendment (see below for text). He’s dismissing the challenge (see Fox News) but according to an New York Times op-ed by a former U.S. attorney, there is a strong case. And there are some other Republican House members who might be challenged on similar ground.

Summary

“No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.”