(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Consorting with the Devil [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.'] Date: 2024-07-02 By David Glenn Cox It all depends on what your definition of is, is. Sound familiar? The President/King now has immunity for official acts. Why, that’s clear as mud isn’t it? The King wants to know what you think of his new wardrobe. Officially, it’s wonderful, Unofficially, he’s naked. What exactly is official? Eileen Cannon pay special attention! Officially, the King can do no wrong! Start there and work backwards. Officially, the King can drop a bomb on a house if he or she believes Isis to be inside. If he’s wrong or it’s Joe Biden’s house or Nancy Pelosi’s house. That was just an accident. The important facts are the President was acting officially. Nothing else matters, case closed. But what the Extremist Court has done is to add another layer of protection to a criminal President’s actions. You must now navigate and define between official and unofficial acts and that shouldn’t take more than a year or two to do. Making the King inviolate in fact, if not by law. It is important to understand those who once cried about judicial activism from the bench happily undo Democracy for us all. The President could authorize snipers to shoot migrants at the border, and you would have to take the President to court to prove that was an unofficial act. The skies the limit! The President can do anything…now! Take that Mike Pence! The King doesn’t need your scrawny ass scratchy signature anymore! Let the camp construction begin! For national security reasons I can’t tell you why you are being arrested, only that it’s official. If you would like to hire a lawyer to fight your indefinite detention in court, you can sure do that! Groundhog Day, January 6th never ended. Instead of contrition the Republicans continued with ambition. Fighting reality and defending Donald Trump with all their strength. Using all the pull and power, the Republicans can muster to defend Donald Trump using their silent partner the Judiciary. As far as I’m concerned, the Extreme Court is in open rebellion to the Constitution and should be considered as rebels and arrested. Fly the flag upside down an appeal to heaven? Guantanamo is too good for you! Water boarding is too good for you! They should water board them holding a toaster between their knees. The legal precedent goes back to the founding Fathers who once threw off a King, and so weren’t anxious to set up or throw off another. No one is above the law! Unless they are the President, then they can do whatever they like, and don’t you dare fucking ask why. Historically, I know, you dislike it when I quote history but I’m a nerd and can’t help myself. This is not much different than the German Enabling Acts. The acts which suspended German civil rights. In this country we have Freedom of the Press unless it happens to offend the King officially. Everything done in Nazi Germany was 100% completely legal and had the full official judicial stamp of approval. Most everybody remembers or has heard of the Knights Templar. Being patriotic and all when the King of France needed money. The Templars gladly obliged the King. Everything was rocking along wonderfully, until the Templar’s sent the King a delinquent notice. The King chose a novel way to settle the debt by having the Templars all arrested, executed or jailed indefinitely. Problem solved by executive action! But even an all-powerful monarch can’t just chuck an entire religious order into prison without any explanation. It was simple, the King responded, “They were consorting with the devil!” Case closed! The King was acting in his official capacity as monarch to save you from being corrupted. So, this ruse about “Official Acts” versus “Unofficial acts?” If the President takes a dump in the oval office restroom is that an official act being on company time and all? But to the janitor cleaning the toilet it is all just hypothetical and doesn’t matter at all. More than frightening this is a clearly criminal ruling. Obviously unconstitutional, but who can you argue the point with? The Extremist Court is daring us to do something! Go ahead try. “When the forces of oppression come to maintain themselves in power against established law; peace is considered already broken.” – Che Guevara The President, Joe Biden, made negative comments about the court’s ruling. Promising that he won’t violate our rights. I understand this is the politically expedient thing to do. Fighting fascism with calm words and steady promises. But I’m not worried about Joe Biden violating my rights, but that is beside the point, isn’t it? The court has already violated my rights as an American. The Extremist Court by its ruling is attempting to usurp our chosen form of government. That is a high crime and or misdemeanor, if ever there was one. Pretending that it isn’t a crime is also a crime. You can’t fight fascism with calm words and soothing syrup. They are trying to steal our Government Joe. In the name of God, FIGHT! Have them arrested under the provisions of their own ruling. Charge the Sedious Six with consorting with the devil and arrange a trial sometime when more favorable to the devil. Hold them officially in protective custody for their own official protection… someplace nice. If you don’t vote now after this court ruling; you aren’t just lazy, you’re complicit. The Fascist and authoritarians always think it will be so easy. Once they have it all their own way. Not understanding they light a fire which will eventually devour them all. The Sedious Six have significantly increased the likelihood they won’t die in their own beds. Educated in law but ignorant of human nature. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. “And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.” ― Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/7/2/2250651/-Consorting-with-the-Devil?pm_campaign=front_page&pm_source=more_community&pm_medium=web Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/