Project 2025

 I seem to recall hearing about this about a year or so ago, so, it isn't new.

I am glad it finally bubbled up into the national discussion.

And then, there's Maude.

 The Norman Lear sitcom, Maude, ran when I was just a little kid. I knew of it, but it made no sense to me, and it felt like a chore to watch it, if I ever did. I just found it boring. Maude's daughter, Carol, was particularly annoying to young me. Why did they have dull neighbors, too? Mom, what are they talking about?

I recently watched a few episodes of the show, and, my god, it was great television. Every character was interesting. The stories are solid.

I may have misjudged the 70s.

A great write from the Rude Pundit

The Rude Pundit gets it absolutely correct, as fucking always.

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.