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Weaponizing the air we breathe

You wouldn’t think it possible to weaponize something like sensible health precautions during a deadly plague. It was very easily done here in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Wearing a mask, at government demand, was turned, for tens of millions of free citizens, into a tyrannical indignity calling for armed resistance. The Covid vaccine the otherwise negligent president, to his credit, fast tracked, became, as soon as he was out of office, a hated injection of wokeness that would turn you into a transsexual.

It turns out that anything can be weaponized. I saw this recently with a small group of old friends after a couple I was very close to felt humiliated by what I’d witnessed between them. They share a characteristic with everyone who must always be seen as right, perfect and correct: they went to war to win the hearts and minds of the others and make sure I would never be believed. Life, to the sort who must always be right, is a constant and total war where no prisoners may be taken. All critics must be thoroughly discredited and silenced, on pain of unbearable shame.

The charge of weaponization is a great weapon, it turns out. If you are inclined to believe somebody you will not question their claim that someone who criticizes them is a fucking liar. You see how smoothly this works? I confide in you how hurt I was that my close friends maliciously lied about me. I did nothing wrong, they attacked me viciously, continued to attack, blaming me the entire time when all I tried to do was make peace. I’ll provide a few truthful examples, to cement my lies. You will be all sympathy. Unless – they got to you first with a convincing story.

Note: these motherfuckers will always get there first. A lie is halfway around the world while the truth is just putting its pants on, as it’s been aptly put. Maybe it’s shoes truth struggles to put on, while the lie is wildly boogying its way around the world. You get the point. Tell the story first, make your version definitive, lament the awful truth, grieve, be consoled. The end.

On that note, the corrupt political appointee who enabled a corrupt president to skate for obstruction of justice and his campaign’s 140 instances of collusion with a foreign power, now using the weapon of his bad breath to criticize the man he fought so doggedly to corruptly protect. The clip is short and sickening, as this “gutless pig” finally speaks truthfully.

https://youtube.com/shorts/YcZae05tqu4?feature=share

Thought experiment

Imagine you had a relatively minor conflict with two of your oldest friends. Afterwards, as they withdrew from you, you remained patient, reassuring when they threatened you, or told you they were unsure that they could ever forgive you, or were angry at you. Imagine you extended friendship to them, no matter how wildly they attacked you.

Now imagine that after a year of this they told all of your friends in common, and everyone in their family, that you were implacably enraged, unforgiving, bent on being right at all costs, sadistic, harshly judgmental and totally unloving.

Then imagine that all of your friends embraced this series of lies, this character assassination. The only problem, everybody agrees, is your immature paralysis, the result of a painful childhood that left you incapable of dealing with your rage.

Now the thought experiment is not imagining how to get through or make peace with these people who, there’s a very strong case, were never really very good friends in the first place, but how do you move on with your fucking life?

$64,000 question, doc.

Trumpie seeks another writ of mandamus

He had his lawyers file papers in Georgia Supreme Court to force the Fulton County DA to stop her criminal investigation, remove her from his case, and suppress all of the evidence she has gathered, forever. To seek this extraordinary relief his lawyers had to argue that he has “a clear and indisputable right to the [extraordinary] relief requested” and that there was a serious error in the court below not granting this extraordinary relief.

There was no error and the extraordinary relief requested is only available if there is no other avenue to justice available and several conditions are all met. None of the conditions have been met. Trumpie caused another completely frivolous set of legal papers to be filed, wasting everyone’s time with vexatious delay, using the court as an offensive weapon.

To understand how ridiculous Trumpie’s request for a writ of mandamus is, see the dissent in MAGA Judge Neomi Rao’s erroneous ruling granting Mike Flynn the same extraordinary relief, to which he was also not entitled. Rao was appointed by Trumpie himself to fill the smelly seat on the DC Circuit Court of Appeals recently occupied by the supremely entitled, gassy Boof Kavanaugh.

In her highly deferential opinion, Rao states the law she is about to ignore (before being roundly reversed on appeal):

For this court to grant a writ of mandamus, “the right to relief must be ‘clear and indisputable’; there must be ‘no other adequate means to attain the relief’; and ‘the issuing court, in the exercise of its discretion, must be satisfied that the writ is appropriate under the circumstances.’” In re Cheney, 544 F.3d 311, 312–13 (D.C. Cir. 2008)

Here is very detailed description of the corruption of Trumpie’s first attempt to get Flynn’s guilty plea thrown out. It contains the dissent’s excellent description of what is required for a writ of mandamus and why none of those factors were present for Flynn. No matter what his new attorney, Sidney Powell, or corrupt religious blowhard Bill Barr had to say to the contrary.

Unfortunately for Trumpie, judges are still constrained by the law, until they reach the Supreme Court, of course. Even then, they cannot always wipe their asses with the Constitution. They need carefully constructed Federalist Society-hatched fact-specific cases, lawsuits brought to selected Federalist Society judges for particular outcomes. When these selected cases make their way up to the Supreme Court, where the majority, if sufficiently partisan, may wipe their collective asses with the Constitution. Trumpie’s desperate, frivolous filing is not such a case.