Day of Fallacies

Hurricane Beryl, a Category 4 event and the second named storm of the 2024 hurricane season, has hit Grenada and Barbados and is heading west into the Caribbean en route to Jamaica and the Yucatan. Where it goes after that is anyone's guess. Meanwhile, Tropical Storm Chris, the second named storm of the season, made landfall in southern Mexico this morning and then dissipated later in the day.

The frequency and number of hurricanes may not be a direct result of climate change, but the increased intensity of the storms is. The EPA should be able to do what it can to limit the release of CO₂, but the Clean Air Act didn't specifically identify CO₂ as a "pollutant," and with the overturning of the so-called Chevron deference last weeks by the Supreme Cunt, it's just a matter of time (weeks probably) before the power companies and oil lobbyists sue and get any attempt to regulate CO₂ declared "unconstitutional," because who knows better how to regulate the environment, climate scientists or judges? 

Speaking of global warming, I completed my 5-mile walk today. By the time I finished, it was 95° outside, but with the humidity, it felt like 101°. But perseverance over perspiration - it was my 48th day walking since Big Ears in late March.

The Supreme Cunt is doing everything it can to destroy America, and today it just might have succeeded. After a long string of abysmal, misguided decisions like Citizens United and reversing Roe v. Wade, after overturning Chevron and striking down the EPA's Good Neighbor rule which regulated smokestack emissions based on effects of downwind states (apparently, if West Virginia can't rip a fart in Maryland's face, is there any freedom left?), after ruling that paying off legislators after the fact is a legal "gratuity" and not a "bribe," and deciding that the January 6 rioters can't be charged for obstructing a proceeding of Congress because of "reasons," they topped themselves today, the last day of the current session.

As many people feared, today they ruled that the President of the United States has "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution for official acts of the presidency, and "presumed immunity" over a  broader range of other activities. 

When we hold one person above the law, that effectively makes him a king (or her a queen). We have entered a new, Second Chapter in the history of America. “The court effectively creates a law-free zone around the president, upsetting the status quo that has existed since the founding,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Insulating the president of the United States, the most powerful person in the country and possibly the world, from criminal prosecution when he uses his official powers will allow him to freely use his official power to violate the law, exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, or other evil ends.

“Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune," Sotomayor wrote. "Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.” She added, “Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the president and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably."

Back on May 31, after Trump was found guilty on 34 counts of felony, I predicted that Lindsey Graham (the South Carolina Senator who tried to have my Georgia vote nullified) would say something asinine about the verdict. Well, sure enough, Sunday he told CNN that, “The Democrats keep calling President Trump a felon. Well, be careful what you wish for. I expect there will be an investigation of Biden’s criminality at the border.” Well, the joke's on you, Lindsey. Biden's actions at the border were official acts of his presidency and therefore enjoy "absolute immunity" from criminal prosecution according to your buddies on the Supreme Cunt. How does that taste, Lindsey?   

This Supreme Cunt has put more power into the hands of a single person, the President, than ever before, while also making it harder for the people to vote for that all-powerful ruler. They also grabbed a big chunk of power for themselves, and left Congress, arguably the most representative chamber of government, with far less power than ever.  

We're doomed. This grand experiment in representative democracy - government for the people, by the people - is over. Our government no longer derives its just powers from the consent of the governed. This goes way beyond owning the libs - this is indeed the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams.