Limited Immunity: Our Democracy Now the Stubborn Turd Stuck in the Bottom of the Toilet Bowl

To say that our democracy is circling the drain is no longer an adequate metaphor. It’s more like our democracy is the whole kernel of corn eaten at a Fourth of July cookout stuck in a turn that is on its second flush in the bottom of the toilet.

The Supreme Court’s Gift to Trump and Only Trump

When the Supreme Court did Trump a solid and gifted him with “limited” immunity, they have all but hermetically sealed our democracy in the cremation urn and placed it in a mausoleum that white people can visit on their way to vote for preselected winning candidates.

Of course, the limited part of limited immunity means that it is limited to Republicans. That’s the limit. The Roberts Court has defined itself by its willingness to twist our legal system into gordian knots to achieve the political outcomes they desire.

The Struggle for All People Are Created Equally

The superpower of our democracy is that all people are created equally. We have never fully achieved that, but it is our aspirational goal and for the past 247 years, we’ve staggered incrementally towards it… until now. Originally, it was said that all MEN were created equally by GOD, and by MEN, sorry textualists, they meant property owning prosperous white men because god loves them the best. It eventually meant that we couldn’t own other real live human beings unless they’re in prison — Hello, aptly numbered 13th Amendment! — but that only came about after an upwards of 850,000 real live dead Americans and traitors died to make it so. Nowadays, it has been extended to men and women and Black and Brown people and people with funny religions and names that god-fearing white people don’t quite understand or trust.

While extending the quality of all people being created equally has been a struggle, it has been an even bigger struggle to extended it to the rich, famous, and well-positioned in power. We’ve only ever had four impeachments of three presidents. Given the difficulty of achieving an impeachment vote in the House much less a conviction in the Senate, that a single person represents two impeachments, tells you a lot. In fact, that three people out of forty-six have been impeached tells you how difficult it is to actually hold a president accountable while in office — it makes my skin itchy to be using the word president such close conjunction with the felonious rapist — and that one of them accounts for HALF of all of the impeachments in American history, tells you how just blatantly that one person committed high crimes and misdemeanors.

Equality Before the Law, the Super Power of Our Democracy

The all people created equally part of the American democratic consciousness is the foundation of our government. We frequently interpret it as meaning no person is above the law. Any person, no matter how powerful or well connected, theoretically, should be indictable and tried before a jury of their peers, and by peers, I mean people registered to vote who can’t come up with a good excuse about why they shouldn’t be sitting in a jury pool.

Granting Republican presidents that the six member majority of SCOTUS any immunity from prosecution limited or otherwise blows the Phineas Gage’s tamping iron through the brain of our democracy. We will be fortunate indeed if we can make as good of a recovery as Gage did to the damage done to us.

Election 2016: Lessons Forgotten

As we stand over the big toilet that is our metaphorical government scratching our ass and wondering why the corn inflected turd won’t flush, we’d be doing well to remember that this is a similar moment to that we faced in Election 2016. You remember Election 2016, don’t you? The one that Clinton couldn’t lose to the bumbling buffoon of a caricature of a human being until she did because too many liberals thought the Democratic Party should be punished for not nominating a more likable appealing candidate rather than the best qualified person to ever run for the office.

It’s the Supreme Court, Stupid!

You remember Election 2016, the one where we saw the unraveling of our barely tenable 5-4 minority on the Supreme Court, the morbid death watch of RBG torturing a frail sick older woman to literally by forcing her to hold on to her life and position as long as possible, and the collective liberal pundits and social media wise-asses, respond with “Doh! You IDIOTS, it was always the Supreme Court! Liberals always forget that presidential elections are about the Supreme Court. No one listened to me because I always knew it to be true and said it frequently, but would anyone listen? Noooo, because all y’all are IDIOTS and now we’re in a heap of trouble.” You remember Election 2016, right?

Election 2024: History Repeats

Those same liberal pundits and wise-asses are now telling us that Biden is OLD!!1! OMG so old!!!?! and should step aside forgetting that the presidential election is about the Supreme Court and that our democracy is literally sitting at the bottom of the toilet bowl unable to survive the next flush.

The Stakes of Election 2024: Remembering the LAST TIME

For the love of god, our rallying cry for Joe Biden and Election 2024 should be Remember Election 2016! We cannot make that same mistake again. We cannot seriously be contemplating allowing this person within pee-hooker pissing distance of the Resolute Desk, the American Constitution, and American values:

• BLACK JOBS. Need anyone say anything more? Seriously? The person whose world view is so segregated by race that they would casually use the term black jobs as a justification for support from the black community.
• BALLOONING AND BLOATING THE DEFICIT AND DEBT. During Trump’s first term his near permanent tax cuts for the billionaires and much smaller tax cuts and much more temporary for the middle class allowed the deficit and debt to grow to Ghost Buster’s Marshmallow Man proportions. The person who sworn goal is to transfer the wealth of the middle class to the one percent as quickly and destructively as possible.
• THE CHICKEN-SHIT SABER RATTLER. This is the person who
  • Has allowed Iran the chance to develop a nuclear weapon twenty years before they would have otherwise had he just done nothing and maintained the Obama treaty with them.
  • Over reacted to a minor aggression by Iran by killing Soleimani and plunging us into another dangerous round of tit-for-tat revenge.
  • Knowingly, wantonly, and aggressively put Biden in a stranglehold in the withdrawal from Afghanistan allowing untold human suffering all so he could run on Biden’s “incompetence” in 2024.
  • Lost a carrier group because he couldn’t be bothered to learn how the chain of command actually works.
• SCUTTLED A BIPARTISAN IMMIGRATION AGREEMENT. He commanded the House Freedumb Cockups to prevent the passage of a bipartisan immigration bill so he could have it as an issue in the 2024 election or they would face the vaunted and feared flying monkey squad.
• CLIMATE CHANGE. He promptly pulled us out of the Paris Climate Accord because it might some 100 billionaire fossil fuel executive miss his chance at becoming a 500 billionaire before the climate collapses and the human population shrinks by billions almost over night.
• TARIFFS. As far as anyone can tell, he seems to actually think that TARIFFS raise money for the federal government instead of jacking up prices for consumers and fueling inflation. He seems to genuinely believe this rather than it joining the multitude of lies pouring from this lie-hole.
• SELLING STATE SECRETS. He forced the granting of a security clearance for known security risk, Jar-Jar Binkshner who promptly sold state secrets to Saudi Prince Bone Saws for fun and profit.
• ONE MILLION UNNECESSARY PAINFUL DEATHS. He allowed over a million real live dead Americans to die painful unnecessary deaths by ignoring the #COVID19 pandemic and pandering to his base.

Do we need to continue the list? Seriously. How in any form or fashion of reality can the felonious rapist have even a Pat Paulson shot at winning?

Remember Election 2016! That’s the rallying cry. Be avowed, say it loud, say it proud, Remember Election 2016!

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