the worst chief "justice" in the history of the corrupt Supreme Court, John Roberts, really believes he's "just calling balls and strikes" or, since he's a professional liar and conman, maybe like many such he's convinced himself that he really believes that's what he's doing as he so consistently finds for the team he is so obviously a member of as he plays umpire. Though I doubt he's that unreflective about that thing which all conservatives are most concerned with, HIS OWN SELF, to not realize the game he was playing as he told that one lie among the many he told during his confirmation hearings.
I've never been stupid enough to buy any of the sports metaphors applied to the law or politics or the alleged news business or public life in general. Trump is the triumph of that stupidest and most dishonest innovation in stupidity as entertainment, "reality" TV. Such reality being entirely unreal and entirely stupid and nothing to do with reality but which is as cheesy and planned as a soap opera script or the originally male version of that, the phony sporting events known as "professional wrestling." All sports, even the real stuff, like all TV (including, as Keith Olbermann has said, TV "journalism") is show biz.
Sports have nothing much valuable to tell us about reality, in real life. Real life doesn't go by a rule book that calls for a "level playing field." The whole reason that the totally planned, totally fake event and results of pro-wrestling are taken for a sport is because it really doesn't matter in the slightest bit in real life who wins and who loses even a genuine sports event. If it does matter, as it does so often for gangsters engaged in sports gambling, you can bet that those rules get bent AND IT ALWAYS MATTERS IN REAL LIFE IN EXACTLY THE SAME WAY TO OUR INDIGENOUS GANGSTERS, THE RICH AND THE RACIST. But, as in the case of "reality" TV, mistaking such phoniness as real can have real consequences in real life or why is the total idiot and, or so I read, lousy football coach Tommy Tuberville blighting American life from a Senate seat from Alabama right now. Why is Jim Jordan, sex-molesting doctor enabling assistant somewhat real wrestling coach and never practicing lawyer the chair of the House Judiciary Committee? Why did so many who he has harmed, killed, maimed, believe that big-boss Trump had their backs when he only had his hand in their wallets?
I think I've said enough on that count so I'll answer the point brought up to me. IN THE CHOICE BETWEEN EQUALITY AND DEMOCRACY, ECONOMIC JUSTICE, SOCIAL JUSTICE, JUST PLAIN JUSTICE OF ANY KIND AND OLIGARCHIC-WHITE-SUPREMACIST FASCISM ANYONE WHO THINKS A "LEVEL PLAYING FIELD" IS DESIRABLE OR ETHICAL IS A TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE CHUMP FOR OLIGARCHIC-WHITE-SUPREMACIST FASCISM. This isn't a goddamned game, it's reality. Far from giving any moral or rational or even somewhat tethered to reality senator a reason to vote for him when he lied out his "balls and strikes" lie, THAT ROBERTS EQUATED THE ENTIRELY SERIOUS MATTER OF EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY OVER THE INJUSTICE THAT ALL OTHER FORMS OF GOVERNANCE AND LAW GUARANTEE WITH A FRICKIN' GAME SHOWED HE REALLY DOESN'T CARE ABOUT EGALITARIAN DEMOCRACY. I know that in doing that he was doing, what the fascists have done over and over again, they've used the language that was first thought up by the kind of generally affluent, generally professional (generally lawyers) liberals who played us for suckers by such advocacy, whether from the ACLU or Common Cause or other of the playing-field-levelers who clearly never cared about those who are inherently saddled with an inability to get any fair treatment because they have nothing or little and none of the resources or power that the side they'll go up against have INCLUDING THE FACT THAT THOSE WHO ALREADY HAVE WEALTH AND POWER WILL BE THE ONES PLAYING GODDAMNED REFEREE.
I'm done with the kind of affluent play-liberals, professional lawyers who play that game because politics, the law, journalism (the real thing, not what we get under the frickin' First Amendment) isn't a game and no one who mistakes it for one has any business pretending they're in it for anyone but the oligarchs and their tools, America's indigenous and very powerful fascists.
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