The Roberts Court Is The Most Corrupt Of The Many Corrupt Courts In Our History

JOHN ROBERTS STEERED THE SUPREME COURT into the infamous and disastrous 6-3,  all Republican-fascist decision that made Donald Trump the out of control despot he has been for the past year as internal memos that were leaked last year proved.   HE had the greatest role in overturning lower court rulings that didn't favor Trump and his criminality and, especially through the infamous Roberts Court shadow docket decision making by allowing corrupt lower court rulings to stand (as I recall those favored Trump in well over 80% of the cases) and in paving the way for the insane, certainly anti-"originalist" anti-"textualist"  Trump v USA decision that made the United States president into a monarch who was above the law.    The expected resistance of the Roberts Court to his attempted takeover of the Federal Reserve won't be them breaking that record,  it will just mean that the "justices" are afraid of what such a financial catastrophe will mean for what they value most THEIR OWN WEALTH.  

Roberts certainly rules over the most overtly corrupt court in modern history,  though those which sat during the period of legal slavery are the ones which may arguably endanger his Court's record as most corrupt of all time.   The scandals of Thomas, Alito and, lest anyone forget,  the Roberts combined family,  in quid-pro-quo corruption of taking gifts and payments from those with business before their Court, the scandalous cover-up of Brett Kavanaugh's sex crimes and scandals in concert with the Trump I DoJ and Senate Judiciary Committee under Grassley,  the draft decision leak in the Dobbs ruling - WHICH IT IS CERTAIN CAME FROM ONE OF THE REPUBLICANS ON THE COURT, MOST LIKELY FROM ALITO'S CAMP and many another of the known corruptions are certainly part of that.

The refusal of Roberts and his colleagues to submit themselves to any mandatory ethics rules such as the other branches are supposed to be subject to is certainly a huge, self-allowed AND OBVIOUS corruption.   As Senator Whitehouse has noted, among the judges in the federal system,  there are mandatory and binding ethics rules EXCEPT IN THE HIGHEST AND MOST POWERFUL COURT.    That alone marks it as the most corrupt part of the federal government.  

Now we find out that Roberts has demanded that all employees of the Court sign legally binding non-disclosure agreements in a attempt to make sure that the leaks and revelations that have revealed the Roberts Court as the most corrupt in modern times don't continue so the unelected and anti-democratic "justices" can carry on their grift, graft and corruptions without the public seeing what they're up to as they continue to sell their decisions to billionaires, millionaires and the members of their party,  destroying American democracy.  

If, by some miraculous intervention, Democrats have the power to reign in the Court, EXPOSE ITS PRESENT AND PAST CORRUPTIONS and reform the goddamned corrupt cesspool they have to end the Roberts Court corrupt, Republican-fascist majority AND REFORM IT TO MAKE IT ANSWERABLE TO ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS.   They have to start by nullifying the Marbury power grab in which the Court gave itself the power to nullify duly adopted federal laws.  It was by that power that  Courts from the 1970s on have guaranteed the corruption of billionaire and millionaire money in our politics NOT LEAST IN THE STAFFING OF THE SUPREME COURT ITSELF.   Those past "justices" of an alleged librealish bent who enabled that money corruption by defining it a "speech" and such entities as the ACLU prove that lawyers, judges and "justices" are either too stupid or corrupt to understand that what they did led us here.   That is apart from the "justices" such as Rehnquist and Powell, Thomas, Roberts and Alito whose program was, exactly to lead us to this state of anti-democratic corruption.   Nina Totenberg probably wouldn't tell you that but I just did. 

I have come to believe that it is the lawyers among the lawmakers who are the weak link in Democratic politics because that profession, trained in the art of lying and deception, rewarded for being the most effective liars and deceivers and being, by and large, damned cowards and ass-coverers probably will get the fantods about any proposal to clean up the stinking cesspool and protecting democracy.   

I'd go so far as to think that having lawyers, with only a few exceptions, as leaders in the House or Senate or as president is probably a mistake.   Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and even Joe Biden (who I would put in a class far higher than the other two) were all lawyers.   I think Biden's biggest mistake in domestic policy was his appointment of Merrick Garland - one of the most disastrously cowardly of lawyers of significance to American history.   I want a hard-eyed, realistic and angry, reforming cynic about "the law" and, especially "The Court" as president and leading the Democrats in Congress.   We have yet another corrupt and cynical president who has staffed the entire government with other corrupt cynics, certainly the lawyers among them as well as shit like Patel.  Every Republican president since Nixon would count as that.   Democrats going all Ken Burns and Aaron Sorkin about such things is chicken shit.   

I admired Michelle Obama a lot more than her husband but I disagree with her.  It's not a question of when,  THEY WILL GO LOW, THAT IS A GUARANTEE,  AND LOWER THAN YOU THINK POSSIBLE.   SO WE HAVE TO BURY THEM AND DESTROY THEM AND WE HAVE TO DESTROY THE SYSTEM THAT NOT ONLY ALLOWED THEM TO GAIN POWER IT GREASED THE WAY FOR IT.    To hell with that "going high" STUFF.  Merrick Garland would,  I'm sure, sell his term as Attorney General as "going high."  It might get him a pat on his back, by himself or by other lawyers,  it got us Trump II and all the horrors of AND THE MOST CORRUPT DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IN OUR HISTORY.    

The goddamned system, the goddamned law is only good in so far as it produces good for The People on an equal basis.   Measured in those terms,  ours is a complete flop.  It is the long established custom of the academic, legal and cultural gatekeepers to lie that the little sparks of light that occasionally appear in the mire are proof that "the system works."  No, that's just a transitory gleam on the surface of the shit that it is under which all hard won progress against it is turned back by the Court, by the media.  EVERYTHING THAT TRUMP II DOES, EVERYTHING THAT TRUMP I DID THAT WAS NOT STOPPED, WHETHER BY THE COURTS OR BY THE CONGRESS IS THE DEFINITION OF WHAT IS ALLOWED UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, THE LAW AND THE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT.   Everything else is just civics textbook bullshit.    If ours worked it's not the occasional spark that would be held up like a penlight in interstellar space,  it would be so blazing light that you'd have to look for the crap to study that as an anomaly. 

While Concentrating On The Irrelevant No One Is Asking The Real Question About The Motives And Foundation Of The Epstein-Maxwell-Wexner Child Rape Ring

SOMEWHERE IN THE LAST COUPLE OF DAYS someone was asking why Jews have not more roundly condemned the many Jewish individuals who were part of the Epstein-Maxwell-Wexner child trafficking ring (Epstein's scummy sugar-daddy should always be mentioned along with them)  and roundly disavowed any and all of them.    And, mentioned in the comment as well, were other  recent incidents such as the Alexander brothers in Florida,  the Tom Alexandrovich case in Nevada 

I asked if they knew it was a fact that such articles weren't being written,  I'd be surprised if they hadn't been though I have not had the time to look for them in refutation.  If you can point me to them,  I'll do an update below 

But I could ask the same thing about the fact that almost all of those involved were white males who comprise an even larger percentage of those involved , AND, WHILE WE'RE AT THAT,  MAKE THAT RICH, STRAIGHT WHITE MALES more about which in a minute.   I don't know of any of the names mentioned in the files who were working class or poor.    I will also mention that's something they share with so many others like the manosophere rapist Tate bros.  

I have a Black friend who can be counted on to repeatedly say whenever a Black person got into trouble that it would be made to reflect badly on all Black People and the same is true for other groups,  Italians,  Irish (like the Winter Hill Gang), Catholics (the pedophile priests, the "trad" caths), gay men, etc.   It's a bad habit of thought that is all too prominent in the human species to blame the innocent for the crimes of the guilty.   I will note that it is Nazi thinking, white supremacist thinking, fascist thinking,  the common language of the American right.   We should all consciously refuse to think like Nazis and white supremacists (our own equivalent to Nazis) think. 

I will also note, though, that how ethnicity figured into the thinking of Epstein, Maxwell, Wexner, the Alexander brothers, Alexandrovich, etc.  can be a legitimate focus of attention IF THEIR THINKING WAS RELEVANT TO THEIR CRIMINALITY,  though that, as well only tells you about their perverted, twisted thinking as related to their crimes.  We have it on the authority of some of the victims that Epstein, Maxwell, and some of their friends such as Eileen Guggenheim were vocally racist, Jewish supremacists.   But that's the same with many an ethnicity-based crime gang, it's no surprise they'd think the same way Nazis do.   And I will mention again that such thinking is most characteristic of the cult of masculinity - maleness could very well be considered as the one certain biologically determined marker for criminal predisposition THOUGH NO ONE EVER MENTIONS THAT OBVIOUS FACT.   Ethnicity is not really a biological fact, it's more of a cultural delusion.  

I would think that such condemnation in that regard is not a moral imperative - NO ONE WHO WAS NOT PART OF SUCH A THING AND WHO CONDEMNED SUCH A THING FROM BEFORE THEY KNEW ABOUT IT HAS SUCH A MORAL OBLIGATION.   It's no more of a moral obligation of Jews to make such observations and condemnations than it is anyone else.  If anything it would be more a precautionary measure.   And, again, what can be said about Jews in that regard can be said about anyone else of any identity who match the profile of the participants in the Epstein-Maxwell-Wexner child trafficking ring. 

I do think that there is every reason to believe that in some of those things that the Israeli government, as well as the American, Russian, British, etc. governments and others knew full well about the crimes against children going on for decades.   We know that IN NO SMALL PART BECAUSE POLITICIANS, INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS AND OTHERS WERE BOTH IN THE EPSTEIN CIRCLE AND MANY OF THEM CLEARLY PART OF THE RAPE AND ABUSE.  In the case of the United States in 2026 the Trump-Bondi-Blanche DoJ is part of the cover-up I LIVE FOR THE POSSIBILITY TO SEE TODD BLANCHE IN PRISON FOR HIS PART IN THAT.   AND NOW WITH THE LATEST DUMP OF FILES WE KNOW THAT EPSTEIN AND PUTIN WERE THICK WITH THE SCUMBAG EPSTEIN BEING ONE OF PUTIN'S PERSONAL FINANCIAL ADVISORS AND EPSTEIN, AMONG OTHER THINGS PROMOTING THE PROFITS AVAILABLE FROM THE PUTIN INVASION OF UKRAINE.    The American government certainly must have been aware of that at the time,  if they didn't our spies are totally useless.   Though them knowing about it and not doing something about Epstein and his cronies may prove them even more useless for honest government and democracy.  

I have a bigger question that the one brought up above IT IS WHY MILLIONAIRES AND BILLIONAIRES HAVEN'T AS A CLASS BEEN HELD UP AS BEING THE ONES WHO WERE THE CLIENTS OF EPSTEIN-MAXWELL-WEXNER, ETC.   Why haven't they as a class been held up to the kind of questioning and group-guilt mentioned above. 

I have been trying to promote the self-evident truth that along with America's indigenous fascists, the white supremacists,  the billionaires and millionaires are, actually the biggest criminal classes in American society and history.   That those are not the focus of the kind of targets vilification that ethnic groups and racial groups routinely are when they are the most dangerous and damaging  of all minority groups throughout American history is due in no small part to the fact that they control the media by owning it just as white supremacists have had a tight grip of power in many of the states and, through the corrupt anti-democratic features of the Constitution,  the national government and judicial system.  

The ethnicity of those in the Epstein-Maxwell-Wexner crime gang is nothing compared to their wealth.  Without money behind and through and from it,  they'd have been petty pimps.   IT WAS THE MONEY THAT WAS AT THE ROOT OF THEIR EVIL.  

LEVEL BILLIONAIRES OUT OF EXISTENCE, AND MILLIONAIRES TOO.   I can think of no more likely to succeed means of fighting crime than that.   But it will not be done.  It is true that there is a great crime behind every great fortune and if you can't identify it,  you can be certain that the maintenance of a fortune and its increase will be done through more crimes. 

Simps Hates It When I Diss A Hollywood Idol

and he got really pissed off that I dissed the scumbag Trump II enabling hypocrite and Murrow gang banger,   the one who bugged out to France when the shit hit the fan here,  George Clooney.

Typically, Simps comment which I've chosen not to post contains lies about what I've said in the past.  

I'm choosing to not post and answer it due to my having answered the same lies he's told going back at least nine years, probably longer - I got tired of looking at my archive to check the first occasion he did that.   I don't want to answer it yet again only to have the idiot not be able to process the arguments I made.   I've answered it over and over again, each time pointing out that I refuse to do the dishonest and idiotic thing,  choose a side between HUAC, Red Channels and Sen. Joseph McCarthy OR the Stalinists like the Hollywood 10 who - and this is probably a surprise to Simps - were not prosecuted by Joe McCarthy (who never prosecuted a case in his life) but by J. Parnell Thomas  and the House of Representatives.   I point that out because in one of my answers to him I gleefully noted that J. Parnell Thomas was prosecuted for fraud in conducting a kickback scheme and ended up serving time in the same country-club prison that some of the Hollywood 10 did their soft time in.   

I have, by the way, noted the entirely innocent victims of the red scare many times, as well. 

I also pointed out that as the lauded and celebrated Stalinists such as the Hollywood 10 are treated as as First Amendment martyrs (Most of those who do that celebrating, probably including Simps, are rather vague on the other relevant Amendments so I don't mention them in this context.)  the hero of the Hollywood 10,  Stalin, was continuing as he had all along, torturing, killing hundreds, thousands and millions, including writers and political thinkers and artists and, ironically enough,  many of his fellow Communists who he thought might be too powerful and so dangerous to his reign of terror.   It remained OK with some of them, like Lester Cole, that Stalin deprived hundreds of millions of the rights that they and their supporters complained that the Stalinists were deprived of by the cold warriors and Hollywood moguls and publishers.  

I have, also, by the way, noted that one of the earliest critics of the developing Soviet dictatorship was that other hero of such lefty stuff, Emma Goldman, though she certainly had her warts and blemishes, as well.   And that's not to mention the liberals who certainly had nothing good to say about the red scare, those who founded things like Freedom House (also at least one of the authors of The Ugly American, I forget which one) who I slammed for their support of American involvement in the Vietnam war. 

Anyway, if you're interested in what I wrote about that as opposed to what a truly stupid old man says I said about it, look up the relevant search terms in my archive.   That my thinking on it is more complicated and takes into account such things as the reality of what the persecuted commies supported such as the mass murders of Stalin and why I choose to loathe both sides of the cause celebre due to that,  you can read it there.   I don't see much of a point in going over that history again other than to correct the lies told to support one or the other side,  I'd rather concentrate on such issues among the living for whom something might be done other than make yet another movie or play about it.   You'll learn absolutely nothing important from that treatment of it,  show biz should stop fucking around with history,  they only end up lying about it and persuading the gullible, history-deficient, post-literates that their lies are true.  

George Clooney can go to hell.  

Blanche And Bondi Are Illegally Covering Up The Evidence That Trump Was An Active Part Of Epstein's Trafficking Of Minor Girls

through his "modeling" agency.  A few of them Americans, most of them foreign and many barely speaking English, without any kind of support.   Drugged, beaten, threatened with murder of them and their families.   I'll bet you anything that eventually we will find out that some of them were in fact murdered. 

Allison Gill has one of the best online news careers there are.

I am certain that U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies knew about this and some were involved with Epstein's operation,  based on who we know was involved and how many of the ultra rich, connected men were involved it is certain that even if the intelligence networks weren't part of Epstein's operation,  they had to have been spying on the men who were.   Ghiz Maxwell's father's connections to several intelligence agencies is another reason to be confident of that. 

Has Anyone Reviewing The Melania Flop

 asked if Bezos or others involved with the movie did a "Producers" style insurance scam in regard to it?

If Max and Leopold had produced "Melania" their scam would have made them jillions of dollars. 

Update On The Giant With Feet Of Clay

Checking for an update, the unwanted, unasked for AI of Google says:

Based on the search results, there are no verified comments from George Clooney specifically regarding the January 2026 arrest of Don Lemon.

The search results indicate that while George Clooney has been active in the media regarding his new play, criticism of media networks, and reactions to Donald Trump, none of the provided sources contain a direct statement from him about Don Lemon's arrest following the Minnesota church protest.

Yeah, what Hunter Biden said. 

Where Is Edward Murrow Imitator And User George Clooney On The Arrest Of Don Lemon

HOLLYWOOD LOVES THEM a good red scare story, especially one that's been told and told and told and told.   Especially if it's about some heroic white guy who was famous and wealthy at the time.  And so in 2005 George Clooney enacted the story of the heroic WWII era and red scare hero, the radio and TV journalist (back when there was such a thing) Edward Murrow.   Then, two decades later - after George Clooney took a leading role in bringing about the sequel of the national and world nightmare of Trump - he recycled his screen play on the stage which he certainly knew would get him praised and lauded and,  I wouldn't be surprised if it also got him loads of money. 

Edward Murrow, like most of those who the putrid Joe McCarthy and the red scare politicians and media figures of the time went after,  were in no actual danger of being arrested or imprisoned.  His career was already falling off as someone who did serious journalism as the corporations he worked for had long been going from serious, heroic journalism to corporate bullshit.  But he was never threatened with arrest that I've ever heard or been able to find.   Even as a figure of the time to look into,  Murrow is a safe one for a mainstream Hollywood actor, no one ever presented evidence of him of having been a communist or even close to communists that I've seen.   McCarthy [may he burn in hell for bringing disrepute to the name] accused him of being a communist sympathizer and claimed to have evidence of that which, as always, he never produced because he lied about having it. 

I think Murrow's reporting during the blitz was the high point of his journalistic heroism though I will grant there is something heroic in him joining in the already begun attack on McCarthy and the red scare in general.   This isn't an attack on him or his legend,  though I generally don't care for legend, the kind of crap that show-biz produces,  I prefer accurate history to that fluff.   I don't think Clooney's theft of valor in his 2005 necromancy had any effect on that.  Reportedly it was a protest against George W. Bush and Cheney's invasion of Iraq.   NOW THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN HEROIC, IF CLOONEY HAD TAKEN THAT ON AS IT WAS A HOT TOPIC AND ONGOING CRIME DIRECTLY, THAT COULD HAVE ENDED CLOONEY'S HOLLYWOOD CAREER.  But, of course, in the typical style of covering hot topics askance which is a show biz specialty,  he risked nothing much in doing that.  

So, when a real journalist is arrested by Trump,  Todd Blanche and his goons,  where's the heroic Clooney?   Can you point to me a timely and effective protest or objection to it?   Don Lemon will go down as having taken chances that Murrow didn't in his 1954 expose on McCarthy and having the Trump II regime that Clooney helped install go after him.   You'd think the least he could do was come back to the States, if he is in his new country,  France and put his body on the line.  

Having for once found some use for the unwelcomed, unwanted "AI" that Google will impose on me, as of a few seconds before posting this, it answers my question to that effect:

Based on the most recent news reports (as of January 30, 2026), there is no record of George Clooney having spoken out about the arrest of Don Lemon.

I doubt a George Clooney will do a treatment of the Don Lemon arrest and persecution because I doubt Hollywood or Broadway will ever treat a Black Person fired by CNN to the same praise as it will a white man who worked for a major corporation.   

George Clooney can still fuck off,  as Hunter Biden said so satisfyingly. 

Is The AI Bubble Burst Starting With Musk's Internal Mergers?

I'M BEGINNING TO hear speculation that the widely predicted AI bubble burst is starting as Elon Musk has started talking about merging parts of his empire,  I've heard Space X with Tesla or XAI or some such configuration.   Some of it is talking about how other AI entities are on a lot more shaky ground than is being widely reported even as they are expected to introduce public offerings of stock later this year.   

I think between the tech bros and the Trump style billionaire crooks the coming crash will make the one almost a century ago look like a market correction.   Which, by the way, a lot of Republicans and other right-wingers tried to peddle the Great Depression as being.    

I hope the crash comes while Republicans hold all of the branches of the government because they and their lying fascist media will try to blame it on Democrats,  Joe Biden who, by the way, had the most successful 4 year presidency perhaps in American history.   Apart from the disaster of having the cowardly Merrick Garland as AG and the terrible crime of having supported the Israeli genocide in Gaza - which were huge - the rest of his presidency was great.   Future Democratic presidents should take full note of those to disasters, especially the foreign entanglement that is remarkably like the one that Johnson got talked into by the Harvard boys in escalating American involvement in the Vietnam war.  NEVER TRUST THE IVY LEAGUERS, THEY ARE ARROGANT, ANTI-DEMOCRATIC, OLIGARCHIC COWARDS AND SCUM.   I think even with that, none of what has happened would have if Joe Biden was still president.   

By the way,  I'd never listened to the full Hunter Biden interview with Channel 5 until the other day,  I had a hankering to hear him tell George Clooney,  the traditional big-money donors of Hollywood and elsewhere,  the Pod Save America boys and various others who have traded on their one or two successful and long ago campaigns,  Axelrod,  . . . Carville to all fuck themselves.   He was there when Clooney and Julia Roberts LIKE EVERYONE ELSE IN THE ROPE LINE were announced to President Biden, the thing that Clooney blew up into his NYT op-ed hit piece.  He also said that Clooney did that to get back for a perceived slight to his wife when President Biden said he had no authority to arrest Netanyahu, which is the truth.   We may have Trump II in part because that asshole wanted revenge against Biden for stating a simple fact.   

Other than what he said about the unconditional support for Israel at the end,  I agree with everything he said.  His description of how he was almost destroyed by alcohol and crack is worth listening to.    I have a lot more respect for Hunter Biden than I did when all I knew about him was what the liars in the American media and Republican-fascist party said about him, even as Democrats abandoned him, too.   I think presidents should be banned from pardoning members of their family and administration and campaign and other supporters and donors but, in the ambient conditions,  I am glad President Biden pardoned him.  

Ugly Americans Remove Danish Flags From Danish Soil NOT AMERICAN SOIL In Insult To Those Who Died ANSWERING AMERICA'S CALL FOR HELP

 

This is actually an enhancement of the subtext of The Ugly American which is that the empowered racism of the American establishment and a dangerously large minority of Americans, in general.   Back when that novel was written in the 1950s Americans would have respected a white majority European country far more than the modern,  far stupider, far more ignorant, far more arrogant and putrid Republican-fascists do.   Europe then might have been willing to overlook the racism the American government practiced in Asia, Africa, South America, the Atlantic and the Pacific Islands but Trump and his minions are as ugly in Europe as the Americans typically were in those places during the Eisenhower years. 

Other than the billionaires and millionaires who have been our most costly minority group,  America's white supremacist-racists have cost the country the most, including, now, any claim we once may have had to being a respectable democratic country. 

Comment, Answer And Reply

 ​ @anthonymccarthy4164

7 hours ago

A Democrat should declare the Supreme Court "justices" who have opened and kept our government corrupt with millionaire and billionaire money enemies under it [The Alien And Sedition Act] and send them somewhere else.

@Richard-Bird

2 hours ago (edited)

Democratic lawmakers are still trying to work within and preserve the existing system of government. Working people must use every nonviolent tool available, including electoral politics, to break the oligarchs, especially the oligarchs behind Project 2025.

@Richard-Bird   The existing system of government is what got us here,  to expect that it, as distorted by Republican-fascists on the Supreme Court - who under the corrupt existing system get to define what the "Constitution" is in reality at any given time have distorted it exactly to guarantee  corrupt government through rulings such as Buckley v. Valeo and Citizens United,  the 2024 rulings legalizing quid pro quo corruption (as long as the quo is paid after the quid is delivered,  something the Court has been practicing for years)  and the ultimate corruption of Trump v. USA,  TO EXPECT IT TO NOT AGAIN PRODUCE WHAT IS HAS PRODUCED IS DELUSIONAL.   

And it is not the first time the Court has done that as they reimposed de facto slavery and apartheid after the adoption of the Civil Rights Amendments they corruptly "interpreted" those.    They got that chance because of the intrinsic anti-democratic corruption of the Electoral College.   TO EXPECT THAT THE SYSTEM AS IT EXISTS IS NOT GOING TO PRODUCE SUCH CORRUPT RESULTS IS SHEER LUNACY THAT EXPECTS THAT YOU WILL GET DIFFERENT RESULTS BY DOING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AGAIN.   The goddamned lawyers in the Democratic Party and elsewhere pretend not to understand this because they're goddamned cowards.    Real democratic Democrats should face this and force change, starting with removing the Court created power grab of Marbury v Madison WHICH COULD AND WILL HAVE TO BE DONE BY THOSE ELECTED BECAUSE THOSE NOT ELECTED ON THE COURT WILL NEVER GIVE UP THAT POWER WILLINGLY. 

Speaking Of Fascist Skanks

I WAS HAPPILY UNAWARE of the existence of Nicki Minaj until I started watching the FAFO videos of how her fan base took a huge hit when she went ultra-MAGA.   Having heard many of the things she's said,  she's a total and complete piece of shit.   I mean, with all the trash she's talking about other People when her husband and her brother both are serious sex criminals and pedophile rapists. 

The best slam against her might have been when Minaj did a "song" talkiing about a "bitch" and someone asked the singer-songwriter who sued Minaj for copyright infringement if she thought she was the "bitch" she was singing about and Cary said,  "I don't know,  I didn't know she sang.  I thought she rapped."  

Anyway, I see this morning that the Trumpist skank is showing off one of those phony Trump gold cards that,  I guess she's stupid enough to believe fixes her reported status as an illegal immigrant.    I think buying one of those should be considered an attempted fraud that renders the buyers of those as having tried to buy their way into legal status AND IT SHOULD BE HELD TO BE GROUNDS FOR PROSECUTION AND EXPULSION FROM THE COUNTRY.   

"I'm gonna give em some high class entertainment that'll put another "0" in the 400"

THE MELANIA MOVIE REMINDS me of nothing more so than when Mae West as Cleo Borden in "Goin' To Town" decides she's going to get her some class by "Throwin' em an opera" and declares she's going to sing Delilah in Saint-Saens'  Sampson.  Don't have time to look for a clip but it was one of her funniest movies.   "You're approaching that note in the worst possible way. . .  I wanna get there in the worst way."  

Only Mae West's movie was making fun of the idea of getting class that way for a gold-digger who didn't have any while Melania thinks a lousy, made to bomb 75 million dollar Bezos bribe to feed her and Trump's egos is going to get her the same thing.   No, she's going to always have the distinction of being the most successful Soviet style honey pot in the history of dictator sponsored prostitution but that's all she'll ever be. 

MAGA Freaks Out As Drag Queen Drags Erika Kirk

 

Considering what the widder Kirk has been doing - the video points out starting with that ultra creepy video-visit with his body - ever since she started strutting like a stripper on a cat walk as a show of grief,  feeling up and kissing V.D. Vance in public, etc.  I think she's been asking for exactly what is being done here.  

My comment at the video was that I think he got her down to the last yard of mascara.  As to the fascist "news" source,  they should FOAD.  

I Wonder If They've Been Waiting For Another LGBTQ+ Person To Call Them Out As FAGA

THAT WOULD OF COURSE REFER TO SCUM like Scott Bessant, Richard Grenell, Charles Moran, Tony Fabraizio,  numerous other future gay Kapos of the Republican-fascist concentration camp.  Of course Lindsay Graham and Worey Beiss (I can't not think of her without her pig-latin name being what I call her) Jacob Helberg,  Peter Thiel,  a whole raft of online neo-Nazi and fascist influencers like Fuentes . . .  I think virtually all of them are probably closeted faggots.  

I used to point out that unlike despised, discriminated against minorities who grow up in families and communities which are despised and discriminated against,  many, perhaps most gay men and Lesbians grow up in straight families,  unless they are obviously gay or Lesbian or are dishonest and duplicitous, they can grow up suffering little to none of the common discrimination and pain and violence that is common to LGBTQ+ People, especially those who grow up white, rich and, especially super-rich.   It is no surprise to me, at all, that there have always been unusually large numbers of white-supremacist, Republican-fascist scum who are nominally within the LGBTQ+ umbrella,  though I have to admit that when there is an openly trans member of FAGA like that asshole aged decatholete (I don't trust jocks until they earn my trust, they're mostly selfish, stingy, greedy egomaniacs)  other than the likes of Jenner,  that does surprise me a bit.  

Listening to Reese Water, Tabatha and the other Black content providers dragging on Black MAGA,  Women dragging female MAGA,  Latinos dragging Latino MAGA (most of those seem to be Cubans, which doesn't surprise me, much0.   I've heard Somalis and Muslims dragging Somali and Muslim MAGA, too.   "FAGA" is such a natural name for scumbag white-supremacist, Republican-fascist oligarchic faggots and Lesbians, etc. that I'm surprised I haven't run across it by now.   Maybe straight People don't feel comfortable saying it so I think my fellow LGBTQ+ egalitarian democrats should start calling them that.   I loathe them with an especial loathing.  I hope they reap what they've sown.  

Hate Mail - Real American History As Opposed To The Conventional Lie That Is American "History"

I HAVE WRITTEN about how, during the framing of the Constitution the issue of permitting the continuation of the importation of slaves was a major item of discussion.  I have noted how during that discussion, from the only evidence we have, largely from the notes that James Madison took, Virginia tended to be OK with banning the further trade in those kidnapped and brutally transported from Africa because their slave population produced more slaves than the billionaire-class aristocrats of Virginia could employ, they made a profit off of selling slaves down river, as it would come to be known, to the more brutal slave labor locations in Georgia and South Carolina.  Those two states delegates effectively blackmailed the original Constitutional convention to continue the importation of slaves into the United States as well as joining with the rest of the slave-power to impose some of the worst features on to the government of the United States,  features still there and still favoring white supremacy and its never sufficiently mentioned killing cousin, wage slavery.  

NOT that the Northern financier-lawyers were averse to giving Georgia and South Carolina their way.  During the arguments which the proponents of continuing to allow the traffic in human lives during the framing and adoption of the Constitution, some of the most eminent of those delegates put it in the crudest of terms.   None more amorally than one of the most eminent of the Northern lawyers among them, the Connecticut delegate, future member of the Congress, future Supreme Court Chief "justice" Oliver Ellsworth:

"As slaves multiply so fast in Virginia and Maryland that it is cheaper to raise than import them, whist in the sickly rice swamps foreign supplies are necessary, if we go no farther than is urged, we shall be unjust towards South Carolina and Georgia.  Let us not inter-meddle.  As population increases;  poor laborers will be so plenty as to render slaves useless."  

In other words, South Carolina and Georgia - especially the enormously profitable trade in growing rice - ended up with the slaves dying at higher rates,  it would be "unjust" to not allow them to import slaves directly from Africa.   More about which in a minute.   I have noted that what the eminent Ellsworth was speaking in favor of was the direct equivalent of the slave-profiting industries of Nazi Germany which were not only permitted to work slaves to death, it was an intrinsic part of the thing.  That American history doesn't notice that is only because the slaves used to death here were Black and the ones killed by Nazism where white.  

Since the idiocy of the Broadway rap and boogie plaster saint Alexander Hamilton is a major hurdle in overcoming the fascist founders fetish that pervades the garbage that is American pop-kulcha "history" I have pointed out before that in encouraging the rigged adoption of the slave-power enhancing Constitution to the New York legislators Hamilton noted how much money there was to be made BY THEM in, among other things, the very rice that Ellsworth noted ended up with large numbers of slaves being worked to death.

It is the unfortunate situation of the Southern States to have a great part of their population, as well as property in blacks. The regulation complained of was one result of the spirit of accommodation which governed the Convention ; and without this indulgence, NO UNION COULD POSSIBLY HAVE BEEN FORMED. But. sir, considering some peculiar advantages which we derive from them, it is entirely JUST that they should be gratified. The Southern States posses certain staples  --tobacco, rice, indigo, &c., –  which must be capital objects in treaties of commerce with foreign nations ; and the advantage which they necessarily procure in these treaties will be felt throughout all the States.

Note that Ellsworth's statement included his expectation that, "As population increases;  poor laborers will be so plenty as to render slaves useless."  Something which, by the way, never happened until after the Civil War ended de jure slavery, though not slavery in reality, and not even then in reality.   BUT ALSO NOTICE THAT IF ELLSWORTH'S FANTASY HAD BECOME REAL, WAGE SLAVES WOULD HAVE BEEN THE ONES WORKED TO DEATH.   He certainly didn't propose anything that would make the labor practices of the rice barons of the American South less murderous, no doubt he'd have seen any effort to do that as an injustice.   Someday I'll get around to a study of the issue of wage slavery during and after the period of active abolitionism in the United States.

I'll point out that I'm concentrating here on only the horrors and murderous loss of life during the time those stolen into slavery spent on ships because I'm concentrating on the founder and framers allowing that traffic to continue knowing full well about that loss of life.  I think the two and a half million estimated to have died or directly been murdered in that passage is probably low and it doesn't count the enormous numbers killed  in other aspects of the abduction, holding, transport and holding on the other side of the voyages and the enormous numbers used up rapidly in slave labor as the founders and framers were entirely aware of as they permitted all of it to continue. 

But, continuing on, more needs to be said about what the fabled and fake framers were accepting when they allowed for the continuation of the importation of People, of Persons kidnapped, brutalized, transported and sold into slavery into the United States.   They knew full well how large the loss of life was in just the middle-passage of the slave trade. 

By the time of the American Revolution the enormous number of Africans who died during that transportation was well known TO THE FINANCIER CLASS OF AMERICANS.   Here is just one account of that.

In 1748, the sloop Rhode Island, owned by the prominent Livingston family, left New York on a slave trade voyage. It arrived in West Africa on January 18, 1749, and over the next four months Captain Peter James acquired 120 men, women, and children along the AfricanRobert Livingston to Petrus Dewitt, July 29, 1749.   By the time the vessel arrived back in New York in July 1749, "they buryed 37 Slaves & Since 3 more & 2 more likely to die." According to historian Philip Misevich, a loss of 32 percent of the captured people on a voyage was extremely high, and it was therefore most likely a financial disaster for the Livingstons.

 (Click here for a report on the deaths among Africans on the Rhode Island.)

On July 29, Robert Livingston reported to Petrus Dewitt on several business dealings—including the loss incurred on the Rhode Island. Livingston’s callous description demonstrates the slave-trade investor’s emphasis on the financial loss rather than the human cost:

"We have thank God had the good fortune of haveing one of our Guinea Sloops come in, tho after along passage of 79 days in which time they buryed 37 Slaves & Since 3 more & 2 more likely to die which is an accident not to be helped, and which if had not happend we Should have made a Golden Voyage but as it is there will not be much left I fear, unless the other Sloop meets with better Luck."

Note that one of the Livingstons of that  prominent New York family was Philip Livingston, whose professional activities included "merchant, politician and slave trader."  It is quite possible that he was one of the financiers of that murderous ship voyage of enslavement.  He was a delegate to both the first and second Continental Congresses and he was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence.   William Livingston, HIS SON,  was one of those who drafted and approved of the Constitution, continuing with the long term practice of such northerners in directly benefiting, financially, from the most evil aspects of what they put into the document.  The Dewitt family were of continuing relevance to the American financial and political class, as well, especially in and around New York.   Dewitt Clinton's mother was one of them of the generation that financed that slave voyage. 

And that is only the appalling death rate while, as John Woolman noted, slaves were packed in below ship "like herrings" for the long voyage, chained so they could not revolt and save their lives and freedom.   He published that well before the American Revolution,  Benjamin Franklin published his second essay "On The Keeping Of Negroes."   So another framer and founder who doesn't have ignorance of the situation to fall back on. 

By the time of the adoption of the Constitution the enormous loss of lives in just the middle-passage, the transportation of slaves from Africa to the slave-consumers in the islands, Europe and the Americas was very well known, if for no other reason than that so many of the framers and founders were directly invested in that trade AND THEY CONSIDERED THE DEATHS OF SLAVES TO BE A FINANCIAL COST TO THEM.   I would love to see a list of the framers and founders who commented on the moral atrocity of it.  And as investors, directly or through their families and associates,  they would know that the numbers of deaths in just that part of the international slave trade were appalling. 

And that was exactly what they authorized to continue until 1808 AND BEYOND IF THE CONGRESS, BY THAT TIME HAD NOT HAD THE MORAL WILL TO END AMERICA'S PART IN IT.   

I will note here that it continued even after the Congress  banned it with the highest figure in American Constitutional juris prudence letting off a pirate who illegally imported African slaves after doing so was made a capital crime.   The putrid saint of American Constitutionalism both "originalism" and "textualism" as well as the lore of the legal profession,  John Marshall,  never saw hardly a single enslaver that he didn't support with his position as chief "justice."   His decision in the infamous Antelope case of 1825 was pivotal in setting the course of the Court directly into what Roger Taney and his slave-approving majority would make the supreme law of the land,  in fact what the goddamned Constitution was in the Dred Scott decision.   I am sure it was part of what led the supposed anti-slavery "justice" Joseph Storey to write what was the most infamous pro-slavery decision before Dred Scott, the Prigg decision,  no doubt on the basis of what Marshall had made as "settled Supreme Court" decision making by then.  

The American founders and framers were no more moral than those who imposed and benefited from the Nazi's decision to work Jews and others to death in Nazi industries,  they were the Krupps and Farbens, Siemens and Thyssens of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and their ilk is still governing us today.   Ken Burns won't tell you that,  no conventional historian or popular historian will tell you that because they know that the "free speech-press" regime under the "right to lie" won't tolerate anyone telling that truth.  But it is the truth of the matter and the Constitution is still their instrument, made more so than ever in living experience under the Republican-fascists on the Roberts Court.  

Harry Litman Describes The Compiled Account Of The Murderers Of Alex Pretti Without The Video

 

This was a group murder in plain sight, with incredible video documentation and multiple eye-witnesses and the Trump regime is going to make sure none of them are ever answerable for this murder.  All of them,  from Miller and Trump down are guilty and should spend the rest of their lives in prison doing hard time without possibility of parole OR PARDON.  

America is a fascist national government imposed on both free and fascist states. 

Hate Mail - Take It From Trump's Little Himmler

ONE OF THE FEW faintly satisfying moments I got from watching the videos of Minnesotans' resistance to the Trump-fascist invasion of their state was of a Minnesotan calling one of the uniformed, masked ICE-DHS gestapo "short stack" and getting the typical testosterone enraged short-man complex reaction from the pint-sized Schutzstaffel goon "Wha'd you call me?!  Wha'd you call me?!" only to have others heard in the background laugh at him.   Of course they could have said the same thing to Trump's Himmler on the ground,  little Greg Bovino, the man who likes to copy SS fashion as much as Einsatzgruppen Barbi,  Noem.  

I knew that I'd get complaints about me putting the blame for the pollution of the vulnerable population of America where it belongs WITH THE POP KULCHA-HOLLYWOOD CRAP THAT SUBSTITUTES FOR AN EDUCATION AMONG THEM.   

Before I wrote the post I knew I could cite that Bovino said that him viewing the copaganda-quasi-fascist chic Jack Nicholson vehicle The Border when the eleven-year-old Bovino was, no doubt, developing one of the worst cases of short-man complex in American history to inform his future career choices.   Though the movie showed the border patrol agents as bad guys THE INTENTIONS OF THOSE WHO PRODUCED THAT PIECE OF CRAP CLEARLY WEREN'T WHAT THE PINT-SIZED PROTO-NAZI TOOK FROM IT.   

Imagine if the pubescent Nazi had seen "24" at that age, as so many of those who joined the Trump goon squads would have been able to when that torture porn presented Kiefer Sutherland  as a sexy, torturer hero. [See also his recent alleged threats of murder and reported attack on an uber driver.]  

Given Bovino's clear attraction to things Nazi, I can well imagine him being part of a Stephen Miller - Trump-Vance "final solution" if we are not already at the beginning of that. I wonder if something like the Wannsee Conference hasn't already happened here,  unknown to us just as that conference was kept confidential at the time.   I look at everyone from Miller down to Trump, Vance, Bondi, Blanche,  Noem, Homan, . . .  right down to the Johnathan Rosses and the Bovino protected murderer of Alex Pretti and have no problem thinking that they could commit the murders of millions.   Anyone who doesn't see that because they speak American instead of German is a total and self-discrediting dope.  

Thinking About A Post At RMJ's Just Now

you have to wonder how many of those involved with Trump's terror campaign against American cities,  those appointed by him, those hiring and . . . huh. . . "training" the thugs and goons and how many of the goons themselves watched the torture and cop porn of fascist chic porn like "24" and the other bastard spawn of such original fascist chic as "Dirty Harry."   I'll bet you virtually every single one involved knows more about that than they do about American history or civics or, especially, the Gospel of Jesus which they blaspheme several times every day. 

American pop kulcha is the incubator of American fascism,  it is far more consumed than American "news" and is the true origin of this terrorism.   Trump's presidency was a product of the entertainment industry,  his TV show being a lite version of fascist chic.   I'll bet you anything his voters almost uniformly, including the "evangelicals" among them are consumers of Hollywood torture porn and copaganda.  I would love to know the TV and movie viewing habits of the murderer of Renee Good, Jonathan Ross, and the murderer of Alex Pretti and the others shot and murdered by the Trump regime,  not to see if I'm right but to see how right I am about that. 

Hollywood and entertainment are more culpable than the so-called "news" division of commercial media in the United States because it is far, far more consumed than the "news."  It's  almost as culpable as the "civil liberties" industry which made lying a "right" and a virtue in the legal industry where the "justices" are drawn from and which made the media safe to spread hate, racism, sexism, other forms of hatred and, foremost, LYING.   The overwhelming guilt of the Roberts Court in producing the terror of the past year cannot be overestimated.   Though the earlier courts that freed media to lie with impunity are almost as culpable, those "civil liberties" rulings set things up for the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts to destroy democracy.   It's an irony of such "liberty" that the fascist chic starting in the 1970s is largely a product of such "freedom of speech-press."   I don't think anything like democracy can survive such "freedom" for very long. 

Oh So Topical - Irving Berlin - When That Man Is Dead And Gone

 

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Alto Sax: Nate Ketner
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Buy Nothing Except Absolute Necessities

 a consumer boycott that endangered the teetering economy is the only way we could stop this.   If it would cost the billionaires and millionaires who are behind the Trump dictatorship, the Republican-fascists in the Congress and on the Supreme Court will order them to stop the Republican-fascist, white-supremacist-neo-Confederate civil war against the American People.   

Buy NOTHING FROM AMAZON, BUY NOTHING FROM TARGET.   And when I say Amazon I mean anything from any of the things bought by Bezos,  I've bought nothing from ABE books for the past year because he owns it now.