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My reading strongly suggests that Trump has become too demented to run the country.

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/john-gartner-trump-cognitive-decline

I suspect that should he end up in the White House again, various high placed federalist society characters will run his presidency in somewhat the manner that Edith Wilson ran her husband's presidency after he had a stroke.

And I suspect the federalist society people like it that way.

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I agree. They planned it.

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Ever since the open arguments in the Trump immunity case, I've been wishing just one of the more liberal justices had pointedly asked, "How much immunity does this court want to give to Joe Biden?"

Because, despite the willful insistence by the right wing end of the bench to go on a flight of fancy about potential future presidents & their potential future crimes & prosecution, it might have helped strike a sober point about how their impending foolishness *could* be used by a president they don't favor politically.

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Over the last few days I've been wishing for this type of longitudinal analysis of SCOTUS and its decisions. How can I ever thank you? This shows that the situation is so much worse than I imagined.

With my love and gratitude.

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Thank you so much for reading.

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What a sick man he is!

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Thank you for this. It includes the proof points going through my head while reading it There are a couple of additional issues: the gifts received by Thomas and Alto are clearly bribes in the form of retainers. They should be impeached and removed. Kavanaugh, like Roberts, worked in GOP administrations. Just after his nomination, lawyers representing G Bush arrived at the National Archives claiming ownership of several documents. According to the staff, they basically forced themselves into the building and grabbed whatever they wanted. The Archivist was rattled, but their purpose requires explanation: Beerboy lied in all three of his confirmation processes, specifially about his work in the Exec branch: they had to purge the damning documents. Felony purgery X3, remove. In addition, all his personal debt was paid by unidentified persons. Remove.

Gurssich did a sweetheart land deal with the head of a firm that has ongoing cases at the Court, again bribery, remove.

Barret’s legal experience is remarkably thin, as she has demonstrated during oral arguments. She lived in the home of a cult leader in South Bend for a year. The group was focused on female subservience and former residents described it as a harem of women used by the husband and wife for sex.

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I call them respectively the Extreme Court and the Feralist Society - they apparently want to go back the the Hobbesian state of nature: war of all against all.

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Excellent 👍

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Thank you!

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