2026 Will Be Too Late, Plus
The biggest heist since the British Empire collapsed, plus lots of music
2026 Will Be Too Late
One cannot emphasize too often that no one in the regime at a certain level has much to fear from the law now or after they’re out of power, thanks to the crackhead court majority immunizing presidents against their own crimes, and the president’s power to effectively immunize others.
Please do not base your political behavior between now and November 2026 solely or mostly on the assumption that we’ll have what pass for free and fair elections in this country. The regime are telling us every day in every way that they do not intend to surrender power in the usual way, and they’ve foreshadowed this for years. The possibility that the regime will act to steal or forestall elections is greater than the possibility that Democrats can win a veto-proof majority in both chambers—winning all 20 GOP Senate seats on offer along with all their own, and gaining 70-plus seats in the House—or that Republicans will stumble upon a cache of unused spines.
Although a super-majority is out of reach in the best of circumstances, people are rightly predicting that regime policies could lead to a lesser but still gruesome GOP wipeout at the midterm polls if the electoral sentiment of the time is fairly reflected there. If you’re aware of that, Stephen Miller and the gang are too. Ask yourself if they’ll listen to any argument, whether submitted at the polls or in court, that he and they should bow to the popular will. All signs, as the magic 8-ball says, point to “no.”
UC Berkeley law school dean and legal commentator Erwin Chemerinsky wrote a New York Times op-ed last month in which his hair appeared to be if not on fire, at least smoldering on the matter of the regime’s penchant for ignoring court orders.
Democrats Stand Up Against . . . Democrats, Plus
Before we get to the performance of Democratic legislators at the SOTU address and after: I’ve been saying that this country was founded upon the agreement between the federal courts and the executive branch that the latter will abide by the rulings of the former, and that it’s evident that the…
Chemerinsky was back in The Times yesterday morning, hair officially aflame, writing with former Harvard constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe about the regime’s insistence that they have the authority to stick anybody in a foreign prison without due process, but no responsibility to bring them home even when they acknowledge they fucked up. Responding to the high court overlooking the regime’s deployment of the Alien Enemies Act against immigrants, the two write:
The justices did not answer critical questions like: Can the government use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in this manner? Did the lower court have the authority to issue the order to stop individuals from being taken to El Salvador? Is there any legal basis for the Trump administration to put individuals in an El Salvador prison? And, crucial to Mr. Abrego Garcia’s pending case, will the court reject the Trump administration’s claim that no federal court can hear a habeas corpus petition of someone held in a foreign country?
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, in a dissent, identified how much is at stake: “The implications of the government’s position” are “that not only noncitizens but also United States citizens could be taken off the streets, forced onto planes and confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress if judicial review is denied unlawfully before removal. History is no stranger to such lawless regimes, but this nation’s system of laws is designed to prevent, not enable, their rise.”
One cannot emphasize too often that no one in the regime at a certain level has much to fear from the law now or after they’re out of power, thanks to the crackhead court majority immunizing presidents against their own crimes, and the president’s power to effectively immunize others. None of them think well of democracy, whether represented by Congress, the courts, or the people. If the president decides that any threat to their power would constitute a national emergency to be forestalled, then so it shall be.
Along with the unlikelihood of untainted 2026 elections, one has to consider that, with the draconian Republican budget proposal likely to take effect in September, people will be suffering not just the effects of the cumulative executive branch rampage through government agencies, but congressional cuts to the social welfare programs upon which tens of millions of people depend for health care, housing, groceries—you know, bags full of things—child care and more, with which those millions will have to live for more than another year before elections.
That’s not an argument for abandoning all electoral hope: your time and money is yours to do with as you please, obviously, and success at the local and state levels could serve as a bit of a firewall against federal depredations.
It is an argument for not letting electoral wishes sap the energy of popular protests which are the only real hope for mitigating at least some of the carnage we face between now and the elections. The Hands Off! gatherings this past Saturday were a good start, but success in stalling the regime will require transcending the weekends with many millions more people who are willing to face massive pushback from the regime and its fellow travelers. A hobbyist movement won’t work.
The biggest heist since the British Empire collapsed
Expect no mercy from a genocidal and eugenicist cabal who view us as heathens, parasites, race traitors and mud people who are withholding assets, both financial and civic, that rightfully belong to them.
The Brits stole everything from everyone for hundreds of years. Some countries are still trying to recover many decades after shaking off British colonial rule. Meanwhile, the U.K. and the U.S., the latter constituting the most successful of the empire’s rebellious colonies, are being hollowed out from the inside by wealthy parasites.
As noted here on several occasions, Financial Times columnist John Burn-Murdock has described the US and Britain as “poor societies with some very rich people.” That was more than three years ago, and circumstances have only worsened since then, with the U.K. ranking 32nd in the world inequality index in 2024, and the U.S. at 66th, sandwiched between Mauritania and Uruguay. Poor societies, rich people.
That was before the current regime took power. Since then we’ve seen looting on an unprecedented scale just on the administrative front, even before the new Republican tax and social welfare cuts take hold, and through Trump’s various personal cons and thefts and diversion of federal funds to his own enterprises. Unless their plans are frustrated now, they’re on track to usurp all civil power and to move trillions of dollars from lower-income pockets to the wealthiest among us across a decade even if they’re out of power by 2028.
Expect no mercy from a genocidal and eugenicist cabal who view us as heathens, parasites, race traitors and mud people who are withholding assets, both financial and civic, that rightfully belong to them.
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Music
The Tights, Deep Breath, “Stay With Me;”
The Hollywood Squares, Hillside Strangler! “Hollywood Square;”
Garbage, Witness to Your Love, “Cities in Dust;”
Dry Cleaning, New Long Leg, “Scratchcard Lanyard;”
Yard Act, “The Trench Coat Museum;”
Yard Act, Where’s My Utopia? “Down By The Stream;”
Fat Dog, Woof. “King of the Slugs;”
Coach Party, Killjoy, “Micro Aggression;”
The Last Dinner Party, Prelude to Ecstasy, “Burn Alive”
Be well; take care.
In Abrego Garcia's case the Supreme Court has let the lower court order requiring the administration the "facilitate" his return stand. Let's see what develops.