Monday, July 1, 2024

Creative immediate use of the kingly powers of His Majesty, Joseph the First, also known as Duke of Brandon

SCOTUS seems to have given POTUS insane new powers, so long as they fall within the King--er, President's--"official duties."

I have a few ideas right off the bat.

COURTS

Pack the court, naming a new Chief Justice. Use a recess appointment, which has disadvantages in the long term (the constitution limits the term of a recess appointee to the end of the Senate's next session), but extreme value in the short term, because the new SCOTUS, under a progressive Chief Justice, can wield the SCOTUS power to review previous cases and call tag-backs, making a new determination: nope, the new, by-the-books Supreme Court reverses that, and maybe fast tracks other questions, in order to get this clown in a federal penitentiary.

King Joe should call and all-hands brainstorming session on a plan to just pack the court and keep it packed.

The main thing is that, in their time in office, they can correct so many things, if the New SCOTUS and new Chief Justice are prepared to tackle a very specific docket of Roberts Court decisions to be overturned.

CONGRESS

Call Congress back into session, in order to craft legislation specific to this very problem. Do it to keep the GOP candidates off the campaign trail, at the very least.

Members won't heed King Joe? Why, Send out the Royal, er, I mean, Federal Marshals. Extend an invitation that will not be declined. Haul in congressmen who have avoided Congressional subpoena and lock their asses up, so that the balance of Congress changes, and bold corrections can be made without their chicanery.

MEDIA MEMBERS OF THE RIGHTWING

Revoke any and all licenses to media actors who helped to promulgate the conspiracy. Get them off the air. I bet you can squeak that one in, under the circumstances, now that we have a King and he has official duties outside of prosecution.

VOTING

Deploy the National Guard to convey registered voters to their polling precincts across the nation this November, with a military-style plan to identify and lend support to getting willing voters to their polling stations. No force, but offer protected transportation to and from the polls.

CONCLUSION

There. I came up with some ideas worth exploring. If Joe Biden wants to save the Union, he is going to have to brandish this new sword he has been given.

Blogger feels good.

By which, I mean that I feel more comfortable writing here. It just feels better than Facebook.

Certainly calmer on my screen.

But, Maw, I sawre it, on thuh tee-vee set!

When you read or hear about media pundits calling for Biden to drop out, remember that they are the reason we are here in the first fucking place.

All Hail our good and honorable King, Joseph the First!

My People, I have Good Tidings of Great Joy!

We Have a King!

This morning, in a majority opinion from the Supreme Court of the United States, the office of Chief Executive was abolished, in all practical aspects. President Joseph Robinette Biden III, of late the President and aforementioned Chief Executive, shall now be known as His Highest Excellency and Most Brilliant Leader, King Joseph I.

I present a list of actions recommended to King Joseph by the Privy Council:

Item the First: 

Naming Supreme Court justices is within His Majesty's official kingly duties, and, in celebration of his ascension to the throne, we recommend that His Majesty permit himself the appointment of a dozen new Justices.

This, being within His Majesty's official duties, is protected by the immunity which, when granted this morning, presented us with our Good King.

Item the Second:

Our Great and Most Wise King is our Lord and Protector. 

It is within his duties, of course, to protect our nation from harm, by reducing the population of seditious conspirators within it. In recognition of this, we recommend His Majesty therefore relocate, to Cuban accommodations of the New Royal government, all persons He deems unsafe for continued presence here, Himself being now granted immunity for all His official duties thereof.

Item the Third: Partisan Chicanery

We, the Privy Council, do most solemnly recommend this final gift to Himself, in celebration of his Royal Ascension: disband the Republican Party at all levels of government, and remove the leadership, also, to Cuba, where He has Most Desirable dwellings for His guests.

PROCLAMATION

We do hereby proclaim huzzah to our new King, and demand he begin celebrating his ascension immediately.

Saturday, June 29, 2024

How to Wrestle a Pig

When you are to compete in a pig-wrestling match, you do not show up in a tuxedo. What you do, is you dress in your sturdiest carhartt ensemble and get down dirty in the mud with that fucking pig, fighting dirty to win a dirty match.

Joe Biden needs to fire a lot of people in his campaign, because they sent him to wrestle a pig in top hat and tails. They prepared him ENTIRELY wrong. They spent days at the presidential retreat at Camp David, filling his head with policy points until they leaked out his ears.

But policy points get lost in the firehose of bullshit that Trump brings to the pig sty. One cannot respond to a Gish Gallop, which is Trump's favorite rhetorical cudgel. The Gish Gallop is named after a right wing nutjob who discovered, if you turn a firehose of bullshit on a person, the end result is that they CANNOT answer. Try to answer one of a dozen points in the remarks, and you are accused of not knowing or addressing all the others. Try to address them all, and you run out of time (also, Trump's hordes do not give a rat's ass about policy points. Just personal digs).

And that, my friends, is where you aim with Trump, if you really, truly want to throw him off balance, and appear stronger than him. Remember, every accusation with him is a confession. In a similar vein, the fact that he considers personal digs a favorite cudgel indicates that he, personally, regards character slights as valid and powerful, likely because he fears people talking about his own deeply flawed person. He insults because he knows that insults hurt. He feels this.

Everyone knows Biden is a policy wonk. Policy points are definitely important, but in a pig sty, they get buried in pig shit before they have a chance to draw breath. Trump is where finer points of policy go to die. What Biden needed (and needs) to do, is attack Trump's character, as there is a shit ton of material to work with, there.

At Camp David, they should have listed all Trump's flaws, and narrowed them down to about a half dozen pointed critical remarks about him as a person. He should study these six points.

And, when Biden was asked a question, or given a chance to respond to Trump's firehose of lies, all that needs be done is to turn to the television cameras, and calmly state, "Every accusation from him is a confession," and/or, "Man, this cat is all lies. Lies all the way down, Jack."

And then reply with one of the sharp knives.

For example:

Question about borders?
"He cheated on Melania."

Question on NATO?
"He is a traitor who shared state secrets. He also cheated on Melania."

Question on Jan 6?
"What asshole waits til the house burns down before calling the fire department? Also, it is the same asshole who cheated on Melania Trump."

Variations exist:

Question on Russia?
"Regardless of her profession, you had sex with an adult entertainer while your wife was recovering from childbirth."

Question on accepting election results?
"Who actually believes a cheater like Donald J. Trump, known felon, will accept loss and not cheat? Someone needs to ask Melania, his latest wife, on whom he cheated."

Trump states something like, "I don't need money for the campaign, I have lots of it. Lots."
Biden answers thusly: "Your riches are as fake as your spray tan. You are a liar who says on the one hand he needs no cash, but then turns around and milks his suckers for their social security money, much like your baby boy sucked nourishment from his mother, on whom you cheated."

If there will be two halves to the debate, perhaps focus on one deep flaw for the first half, and another for the second, then close with a summary of the two, calmly, and maybe a little bit arrogantly.

Repeating these things WILL get under Trump's skin. It WILL throw him off balance. It WILL put him on the defensive. It WILL weaken him as a candidate.

This is how Biden needs to respond to every debate question, regardless of topic.

If you're going to wrestle a pig, wear sturdy clothes and fight to win.

Wednesday, June 12, 2024

 We're heading into a Reich.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyvPW65twIo

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Truth is always truth

 Donald Trump is a bad person, and only bad people support him.

You have no social contract that says you have to respect them in any way.

In the old days, they'd be in a padded state facility, but Reagan closed them, to support his party.