“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
If you sang that in your head, you’re my GenX people.
Schoolhouse Rock taught us a lot of things, from what a noun is to how to use prepositions to counting by threes. But most importantly, Schoolhouse Rock taught us about history and how our government is supposed to work.
From “The Shot Heard ‘Round the World” to “Sufferin’ Until Suffrage” to “I’m Just a Bill,” Schoolhouse Rock has told the story of us and why maintaining our democracy matters so much.
Sadly, Republicans have not only never learned from history, they’re dooming us to repeat it. But we don’t have to accept it, not for one second.
The Trumpublicans want to not just rewrite our history, but completely erase it with the help of Leonard Leo’s compromised justices. By giving the American President (specifically, a re-elected Donald Trump) unlimited power and full immunity from prosecution for “official acts,” a term that remains murky the day after the worst legal decision ever made by the currently compromised Supreme Court, a President could literally do anything they wanted and suffer zero consequences.
That’s as un-American as it gets, comrades. Fuck you very much, TrumpPutin puppets. Go home to Mother Russia and Daddy Vladdy.
If you need a dictator or a King to tell you how to live, there are plenty of monarchies and dictatorships around the world to choose from. Go ahead and move, we won’t miss you. We’re still conducting the American Experiment and we see no need to end it no matter how hard the Trumpublicans try.
Joe Biden doesn’t need or want that kind of power and he told us so last night in a brief but powerful address to the nation:
“I know I will respect the limits of the presidential power, as I have for three and a half years. But any president, including Donald Trump, will now be free to ignore the law.
“I concur with Justice Sotomayor’s dissent today…she said, ‘In every use of official power, the president is now a king above the law. With fear for our democracy, I dissent,’ end of quote.
“So should the American people dissent. I dissent.”
I dissent, Mr. President. WE dissent.
Donald Trump is an adjudicated rapist convicted felon awaiting sentencing a week from Thursday. This new immunity decision doesn’t protect him from that, even if his unpaid lawyers are already trying it with Judge Merchan. The new ruling also doesn’t protect him from his three impending trials—it just delays them until after the election.
Except for one glorious shining exception: Judge Tanya Chutkan has been ordered by SCOTUS to conduct a hearing regarding the January 6th case against Trump. All of the witnesses for the prosecution are to be called, sworn in, and have their testimonies heard. If we’re extra lucky, it’ll be televised PRETTY PLEASE because this is all going to take place over 6-8 weeks in September and October.
We’re basically going to get Jack Smith’s federal trial without actually getting it. Talk about an OCTOBER SURPRISE, Trumpsimps. I can’t wait for that special finding out!
Speaking of finding out, Steve “Pruno Blossom” Bannon went to prison yesterday and will face more finding out as soon as he’s released. Maybe he can buy himself more shirts at the prison commissary before he gets out just in time to watch us re-elect Biden/Harris and take back our House majority.
And we’re going to do that. AND YOU WILL HELP US, dear reader, oh yes you will.
I don’t care what you think of Joe Biden or Kamala Harris despite their historic record including growing THE BEST ECONOMY ON THE PLANET post-Covid, among their other amazing achievements NOT ENOUGH PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THANKS CNN.
I also don’t care what you think of any other Democrats as individuals. We MUST support EVERY Democrat in EVERY race in November. NO exceptions. NO sitting out. When we say “Vote Blue No Matter Who,” we mean it more than we ever have before.
And most importantly, NO MORE KINGS.
[PS, please take a moment to get a copy of my book The Sound of Settling and share it on your socials before SCOTUS rules that women can no longer write or use the internet.
Also, MAGA dicks have been trolling me extra hard about my rock and roll love story over the last couple of days and there are fake reviews that are still up on Amazon no matter how many times I report them. Bullies always find the things we care about and then try to use those things against us to hurt us. We need to be LOUDER THAN MAGA all day every day until Election Day. Aside from supporting Democrats running for office, we need to support each other.
Thank you, I love you.]