Main technique: remove the context needed for an informed discussion and you can win any argument among emotionally stirred up people.
Take a video clip of Joe Biden smiling and giving a thumbs up to a paratrooper who has just landed. Edit out the paratrooper. Now Biden is seemingly smiling, a little dementedly, and giving a thumbs up to the air, before his aide puts a hand on his back and leads him back to the group of G7 leaders. Sure makes the old man look dotty as hell, doesn’t it? Rupert Murdoch’s FOX thought so, so did the tens of millions who saw the edited footage.
Nazi logic, like the “logic” of anyone who can never be wrong no matter what (and will kill you to prove it), is absolute. Make an assertion, stick to it, come hell, high water or the best arguments of entire associations of learned experts (Jews, üntermenschen, cucks, liars, Muslims, feminazis, Jesuits, etc.). Repeat it over and over, bash the face of any enemy who tries to refute it using dirty tricks like evidence and common sense (especially if these villains are Jews, üntermenschen, cucks, liars, Muslims, feminazis, Jesuits, etc.).
Take my man Steven Gow Calabresi, co-founder and chairman of the board of directors of the venerated “conservative-libertarian” judicial fraternity The Federalist Society. Check out his position on Alito’s and Thomas’s clear violation of the federal statute requiring Supreme Court justices to recuse themselves from any case in which the justice’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned.
The petulant fifth-grader tone of this esteemed legal scholar’s writing puts me in mind of our favorite seething private schooler, Boof Kavanaugh:
From my probably futile letter to the US Post Office Board of Governors:
Regardless of which party is actually favored or disadvantaged by the suppression of mail-in ballots, it is indisputably anti-democratic (not to mention unconstitutional) to suppress a citizen’s right to vote based on a public delivery service’s inability/refusal to fulfill its basic contract with people who pay for and rely on their services (see details about weeks’ delayed and undelivered certified mail on last page.)
From my probably futile e-message to the Senate Committee that oversees the Post Office:
subject: Letter to the US Postal Board of Governors
I’d like you to have a copy of the letter I sent to the board of one of the agencies your committee oversees.
During a nationwide disruption of mail service, as partisan chatter ramps up about massive mail-in voter fraud (which does seem to occur at a steady 0.00025%, according to the Heritage Foundation database) and the RNC begins bringing lawsuits to limit the counting of mailed ballots postmarked on time but received late, it is hard to understand how nobody with oversight is taking action to correct long, random, system-wide mail delays.
In an election expected to be very close in the five or six states that decide every presidential contest, eliminating as many as a few thousand “late” votes can swing the election to one side or the other. Deliveries from the new Atlanta mail processing center were 98% on-time in its first year, 2022. Then the efficiency rate was corrected: 2023: 52%, 2024 YTD 72%.
I would love to be in communication with your committee on this issue. If there is anything else I can provide, or any answer you have to reassure me that steps are being taken to correct this systemic bug in time for an election untainted by this form of voter suppression, please have your office get in touch with me.
Yours in the fight to protect our experiment in democracy,
G. Gordon Liddy (should I have used my real name?)
Mighty white of them to acquiesce by accepting the results of an American election, I say.
Note the legalistic cunning of the masterful paragraph below. Reminds me of the elegant arguments the Defenders of the Faith constructed during the Spanish Inquisition, to explain, irrefutably, why Jesus Christ, His Father and the Holy Spirit are all deliriously happy to hear the screams of heretics and infidels tortured and burned alive.
I do not myself believe that there was fraud in the counting of ballots or voting machine malfunctions. I do believe, however, that the unprecedented use of mail in voting over a period of many weeks, with the loss of the secret ballot, and drop boxes, produced a fundamentally illegitimate Biden victory in 2020 in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. I simply do not believe that in an honestly held traditionally run presidential election that Joe Biden would get 181,866 more votes for President in 2020 in Pennsylvania than Barack Obama got in 2008.
This belief-based argument citing the unproven massive fraud of mail-in voting (a wingnut conspiracy theory denied even by corrupt partisan Bill Barr, who tirelessly promoted it prior to the 2020 election) was penned by the esteemed co-founder of the far right judicial fraternity and judicial appointment pipeline The Federalist Society. Thanks to a 2016 deal with candidate Trump, brokered by housewife Ginni Thomas, KellyAnne Conway, Sloppy Steve Bannon and other members of the secretive, by invitation only nonprofit Council for National Policy, that as president Trump would only appoint Supreme Court and other federal judges from the “Fed Soc” list, the Federalist Society controls a neat, doctrinaire 6-3 lock on the current Supreme Court.
The radical right’s goal of absolute, permanent power is so close they can taste it. They are throwing caution to the wind with one radical 6-3 decision after another, angry, self-righteous, arbitrary, vindictive, punitive, as their type is. They are currently in a mad dash to ultimate, permanent holy victory over a nation of irredeemable sinners and nonbelievers, as Jesus Christ Himself has ordained for the USA. Sadly for them, no dignified figurehead is available, they have to march behind an unhinged Hitler wanna-be, but so be it. An American Hitler is a small price to pay to fulfill the will of the One True God.
Notice the elegant construction of Professor Calabresi’s “argument”. In the opening he nonchalantly acknowledges there’s no proof for any of the fraud claims repeatedly made in courts by Trump and the RNC, claims made without producing evidence of any kind. He doesn’t mention that these false claims, that led to the riot at the Capitol, are still insisted on, are a litmus test for remaining in the Republican party. Then he does a nice sleight of hand, continuing to frame his argument, supporting the completely toothless fraud claim — now directed at another unproven form of claimed fraud — not weighed down by the legal burden of proof, or using anything as base as ordinary evidence, but with unsupported insinuations and beliefs about mail fraud and the hated drop boxes — both of which he claims also violate the constitution’s requirement of a secret ballot.
The argument, thus teed up, is no longer one of rigid legal proof tied to a reasonableness standard, but, is transmogrified into a more mystical matter of absolute belief. He does this operatic move in the manner of Alito and the rest of the disciples of Scalia (Antonin Scalia was the original beloved faculty advisor of this brotherhood of originalists co-founded by the supremely ambitious Calabresi, an apparent Alito wannabe). Persuasion is then based on an absolute moral claim, an appeal to deeply held personal belief, faith, if you will, which, in the proper case, trumps fallible, soulless, human-made law every time. This is always true if you have a one vote majority that always votes as a block.
A non-negotiable higher moral purpose is the infernal thing these politically radical Christian devils always righteously claim when stealing from the poor, forcing the powerless to remain so, gutting regulations that protect Americans, decreeing that girls raped will bear their rapist’s child, as God wills it. In a pinch, this judicial fraternity points to their admirably unyielding fealty to a particular ancient holy book they are all inspired and united by. Then, righteous and freed from the tawdry burdens of producing evidence and making an actual legal argument, in any sense, the distinguished law professor, like the rest of his accursed tribe, boldly makes his case.
This Kavanaugh-like bitch is auditioning as hard as fellow Yale Law alum and frat brother for life Boof Kavanaugh himself did for that coveted and hard-earned spot (and Boof sweated blood producing writings and radical rulings like a devil as he was left off one Fed Soc list of 25 Supreme Court candidates after another, until finally jumping the whole line to become an aggrieved martyr whose very life Soros, Streisand and the Clintons were intent on destroying). The 66 year-old Calabresi, with age and time against him, is putting his prayers on the realization of his network’s Project 2025, and seating himself on the bench where Alito or Thomas previously set their sweaty butts, keeping the seat warm and aromatic for their boy, Mr. Calabresi. Calabresi apparently personally adored Antonin Scalia, the patron saint of the brazenly corrupt assholes who were his protégés, the transactionally uxorious Alito and the morally limber Black Klansman, among many others.
When I say this Calabresi fuck is going full Nazi, I don’t mean that as a gratuitous insult, it’s descriptive of the type of rabid partisan that this well-educated, well-indoctrinated, impeccably credentialed true believing asshole is. Think I’m exaggerating? Here you go:
Biden said as a candidate in 2020 that he was a moderate liberal, but he proceeded to govern like Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren except for the refusal of two brave Democrats, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema, to go along with that nonsense. Manchin and Sinema will both be booted out of the Senate come January 3, 2025, as a result. Biden said as a candidate that he would depoliticize the criminal justice process. Instead, his Department of Justice has used an unconstitutionally appointed Special Prosecutor to indict former President Donald Trump—the first time in history that a former President has been indicted. Hillary Clinton was given a pass on the misuse of classified documents, but not so Donald Trump. Biden’s Democrats even got Trump unconstitutionally convicted for altering business records to conceal the Trump Organization’s involvement in First Amendment protected speech in a New York State trial that was truly a charade.
We are now about to choose again between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in a presidential election year—2024—which is totally free of the fears of infection in public places caused by Covid. Here are three things we should insist on: 1) a return to truly secret ballots cast in polling booths with the curtain shut behind the voter; 2) no use of drop boxes, and 3) that everyone votes on the same day, with the same headlines in mind, and not over the period of a month.
The loss of the secret ballot, the use of drop boxes, and of same day voting is a huge change in our democracy, which ought to be abandoned now that Covid is gone. You cannot fill out a ballot at home in most cases without your family members knowing how you voted and that means the sudden loss of the secret ballot. Partisan canvassers may also observe how people vote, intimidating them and undermining their independence.
The secret ballot is of central importance in elections, especially when candidates generate the passionate feelings of hatred that are generated by Donald Trump and Joe Biden. This is a hatred that pits family members and even long-time friends against one another sometimes ruining long-cherished relationships. If ever, there was to be a presidential election for which the secret ballot was essential, it is this year’s rematch between President Trump and Joe Biden.
What’s the point of having unappealable power if you don’t use it on behalf of your generous benefactors to do things that can’t be otherwise done legally in a democracy?
The GOP has gone full Nazi (check out the latest seig heiling somersaults from Federalist Society co-founder Steven Calabresi — post coming soon). All of America’s wealthiest reactionaries (many of our current 813 American billionaires — up from the pre-pandemic 640) have gone all in with the clearly insane, iron-willed criminal candidate that many of them were, until recently, still hoping to replace with someone more stable, capable and reliable.
The big talking point on the right, since Trump’s recent conviction in NYS criminal court, is LAWFARE, the selective weaponization of the “justice” system against innocent members of their party, including vicious leftist attacks on the ethics of perfectly fair Supreme Court justices guilty of simply loving their wives and having generous billionaire personal friends.
Here’s a little partial scorecard:
The criminal trial of seemingly criminal Senator Bob Menendez (D-NJ), indicted September 22, 2023, is underway as you read these words (assuming it’s some time around June 10, 2024)
The criminal trial of a crack addict named Hunter Biden (you’ve seen photos of his genitals, displayed in the House of Representatives, now watch the trial itself) who lied on an application for a gun permit, a charge brought after a six year investigation by a Trump appointee made Special Counsel by the current AG, that was being disposed of in a plea deal (rejected by a Trump appointed judge on July 27, 2023) is currently about ready to go to a jury.
On June 9, 2023, Trump was indicted for violations of the Espionage Act, and criminal charges related to false statements by defendant Trump and his lawyers and multiple efforts to obstruct an FBI investigation, one year ago yesterday. The case has been postponed indefinitely based on a grab bag of defendant’s fringe legal theories the sitting judge, appointed by Trump after “losing” the 2020 election, has not yet had a chance to rule on (rendering her so far impervious to appeal, yo).
Trump was indicted for Election Interference, disrupting an official proceeding and other crimes in the federal court in D.C. on August 1, 2023. That case has been delayed indefinitely by the 6-3 Federalist Society Supreme Court, since December 2023 when they refused to expedite DOJ’s request to immediately hear Trump’s frivolous appeal, and rule on the absurd non-issue under consideration by the Federalist Six (the thorny, novel legal question: can a former president ever be indicted for anything done while president, including murder of his political opponents?) is unlikely to be ruled on in time for the full evidence against Trump to be heard by the public before the 2024 election.
Trump and eighteen co-conspirators were charged by Fulton County DA Fani Willis for a criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. They were indicted on August 15, 2023, a few pleading to lesser charges to avoid possible felony convictions. The case is now on hold because the appeals court in Georgia is planning to hold more hearings regarding the consentual relationship between the Fulton County DA and a prosecutor she hired for the criminal prosecution. Although the appeal appears to be as frivolous as the Trump defendants’ original stinking, racist dumpster of a motion to dismiss the prosecutor, bear in mind that the totally colorblind justice system of the state of Georgia continues to take any kind of colorable sexual improprieties between Black government officials as VERY serious matters of public concern.
In the one case the cognitively diminished 78 year-old former president (as of Flag Day, June 14) was indicted for and stood trial for (or rather, slept trial for), the unanimous jury convicted him on all counts. The jury found that Trump’s falsification of business records to cover up pay offs to silence two women whose stories would have hurt him in the upcoming 2016 election, payoffs made right after the “grab ’em by the pussy” recording was released by the Clinton campaign shortly before the election, had been established beyond a reasonable doubt.
That is the standard of proof in a criminal trial, a fairly high bar. Beyond a reasonable doubt. Just as the standard for recusal by a Supreme Court justice is set out with perfect clarity in federal statute for every right wing “textualist” with eyes to read it:
Of course, to the members of the orthodox, highly partisan “conservative-libertarian” federal judicial fraternity/ federal judgeship pipeline, the Federalist Society, citing this law out of context this way, and focusing unfairly on the word “shall”, making recusal mandatory if the judge’s impartiality might reasonably be questioned, is just another example of an armchair liberal cuck loser cripple, deranged on steroids and worse, pathetically trying to weaponize “justice”, waging more feckless Leftist partisan lawfare, ranting impotently while a good Christian conservative has loud, righteous sex with the cuck’s wife in the other room.
Fascists must destroy the citizens’ ability to obtain information, analyze it and make critical decisions. They do this through violence, after flooding them with propaganda that mobilizes their grievances to instill an overpowering sense of fear and rage in the population. Once enough disaffected people become terrified and enraged, they will all goosestep just fine, thanks, and the most violence prone among them will happily commit any idealistic violence the leader might require to seize and keep power.
So much of what these American Nazis are currently doing is literally translated from the original German. Stay tuned for the co-founder of the Federalist Society’s recent full embrace of the vaunted Federalist Society credo: Führerwortes haben Gesetzeskraft! He didn’t want death camps, if there was any choice in the matter, but since there is no choice? Death camps it shall be, sir!
Also on Saturday, top sports talk host Colin Cowherd pushed back on the idea that the trial was rigged, telling his listeners: “If everybody in your circle is a felon, maybe it’s not rigged. Maybe the world isn’t against you.” “Donald Trump is now a felon,” Cowherd said. “His campaign chairman was a felon. So is his deputy campaign manager, his personal lawyer, his chief strategist, his National Security Adviser, his Trade Advisor, his Foreign Policy Adviser, his campaign fixer, and his company CFO. They’re all felons. Judged by the company you keep. It’s a cabal of convicts.”
Cowherd went on: “[Trump’s] trying to sell me an America that doesn’t exist.” “Stop trying to sell me on ‘everything’s rigged, the country’s falling into the sea, the economy’s terrible,’” he continued. “The America that I live in is imperfect. But compared to the rest of the world, I think we’re doing okay.”
Look, it’s not as if Trump has ever been untruthful about being a serial fraud, our nation’s most prodigious public liar, a grabber of women’s genitalia, a two time defamer, a “civilly liable” rapist, a scammer, America’s most litigious man, an unabashed exploiter of the stupid and ambitious. He honestly paid $25,000,000 to settle a suit brought by the NY AG against his fraudulent “university” (weeks before being elected president via Electoral College), he allowed NYS to shut down his fraudulent charity and paid a $2,000,000 fine. He’s a human, he makes MISTAKES, he’s not perfect. To the religious Christians who support him he is, like King David, a flawed vessel, doing God’s will nonetheless.
I shouldn’t be so judgmental about the values of those who claim to love Christ yet believe a rapist’s unborn child has more rights than the rapist’s thirteen year-old victim. Love and empathy for everybody, isn’t that what Christ taught? Have a blessed day, as it is written.
How is a judge who has already shown bias towards a criminal defendant, the former president who appointed her to her lifetime position, by unlawfully taking his case and abusing her discretion in bending over backwards to accommodate her benefactor, not easily disqualified from sitting in judgment in a criminal case against him when she has already demonstrated reversible bias in the case he brought to prevent the criminal case she is, again, the sitting judge on?
Former President Donald Trump, in possession of dozens of boxes of government documents he unlawfully retained after leaving the presidency, brought a case in federal court to block the government’s ability to touch him for the ongoing criminal act he was engaged in. He filed the case in a federal courthouse where the only sitting judge was the one he appointed after losing the election. He had picked Federalist Society endorsed Aileen Cannon because of her extreme loyalty to the cause, presumably MAGA.
His incoherent case was captioned Trump v United States. It sought a ruling that a former president is entitled to do anything he feels like doing regarding government documents, secret or not, as he leaves office and forever after. It was his Roy Cohn style attempt to go on the offensive to preempt the Espionage Act and obstruction of justice charges Jack Smith brought after massive evidence of Trump’s crimes was recovered at one of the crime scenes, the open and shut, now maddeningly stalled United States v. Trump in federal court in Florida.
The crack Trump legal team’s largely incoherent pleadings in Trump v. US, his attempt to block Smith’s case, failed to establish what Aileen Cannon‘s jurisdiction was to hear this case. Without a basis for jurisdiction, a federal judge cannot hear a case. Cannon returned the papers to Trump’s attorneys directing them to fix this fatal flaw in its paperwork, suggesting several dubious theories of jurisdiction to them.
Trump’s attorneys returned the papers without providing grounds for jurisdiction, so, instead of dismissing it, as any law-abiding judge would be obliged to do, Aileen Cannon provided a grounds for jurisdiction for team Trump herself. She would take the dubious case as an exercise of the court’s equitable jurisdiction, basically to avoid what would otherwise be a grave injustice. Then she continued with the proceedings, ruling for Trump at every turn. The only problem was that the case still had no basis in law, except for the judge’s extremely shaky claim of a certain kind of special jurisdiction.
In the end, after an appeal by the DOJ, she was forced to dismiss the case.Here is the reversal and order to dismiss Trump v US concisely described by legal experts.
The 11th Circuit found that Cannon “improperly exercised equitable jurisdiction” in hearing the case and that the entire proceeding should be dismissed. Notably, the court also found that regardless of the status of a document in question (personal or presidential), the government maintains the authority to seize it under a warrant supported by probable cause.
The panel wrote, “The law is clear. We cannot write a rule that allows any subject of a search warrant to block government investigations after the execution of the warrant. Nor can we write a rule that allows only former presidents to do so.”
I am left with only one question now, as Aileen Cannon continues to dither and delay, postponing hearings, inviting far right third parties to make oral arguments for Trump, refusing to gag a violence threatening, lying defendant, threatening the DOJ with sanctions, postponing trial indefinitely and holding off ruling on a long line of incoherent and frivolous motions by team Trump. It is a question I’m sure I share with tens of millions of aggravated Americans:
What the fucking fuck? I mean, seriously, Jack, Merrick, nothing can be done about this glaring appearance of demonstrated judicial bias/incompetence/disdain for law in our republic of law?
2019 tweets after “Russiagate”, fresh as if he just truthed ‘em yesterday
Speaking of spying or treason, under the Espionage Act, which Trump has been indicted for violating, all the government has to prove is that the defendant had classified documents he was not allowed to have, that he handled them carelessly. In the ex- president, future dictatoron day one’s case, whilealso in a position to give or sell them to the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Jared’s buddy, or perhaps a fine fellow like Vlad Putin, or Xi, or Orban.
Add in his recently released filmed obstruction of justice, evidence in the case against him, surveillance video showing his hapless workers moving boxes, at his direction, into new hiding places to avoid being seen by the FBI and his lawyers who could then swear that they had never seen the documents he had them falsely declare had all been returned. He was also trying to make sure the dozens of proofs of his crime were not seized and used as evidence against him.
The only thing he has going for him in that case is the female Alfred E. Neuman who is presiding over US v Trump, after the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals forced her to dismiss Trump v US for lack of jurisdiction and abuse of discretion.
Both cases, the illegal one preemptively brought by Trump to block the government’s case against him, involve the identical fact pattern. She is one dedicated Colombian/American woman, Judge Cannon (shout out to her colleague and countryman Juan Merchan) working her ass off for the man who appointed her. It appears she’s hoping he’ll reward her doglike loyalty with a Supreme Court seat. She couldn’t be a more obedient lapdog to reactionary oligarchs religious and racial extremism, than Alito or Thomas. She would be at home on the John Roberts supreme Court.
She’s presiding over the stolen documents trial, for the moment, anyway, but, though she has the most brilliant legal minds at the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation advising her how not to overstep the bounds of her discretion every step of the way, she doesn’t seem to be that much sharper than her severely limited benefactor, the guilty acting criminal defendant who would be dictator, though only on day one.
We’ll see how much stronger her impulse control remains as she continues wildly lashing out at the Department of Justice on the defendant’s behalf.
Part of being a good Nazi is showing your willingness to show you have the stomach to do whatever needs to be done, and the unflagging stamina to do it by any means necessary.
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