The question was rhetorical. When the SC is as "influenced" as this current iteration appears to be, the whole Nation of Laws notion seems rather antiquated; or more likely...eventually becomes relegated to the right's comically fanciful "Woke" list.

Cointelpro, all over again. When did this country lose it's collective mind? I'm really not a fan of learning lessons the hard way.

Re: #8...Absolutely not...I would prefer he live a long, long life...securely incarcerated in the smallest, most subterranean cell they have at ADX Florence for that January 6 stunt he somehow continues to escape responsibility for. I mean, are we a Nation of Laws, or not?

The movie playing in El Toro's head sounds like a old Chuck Norris straight-to-video opus. Worst. Actor. Ever.

They should be required to display the logos of their corporate puppeteers on their robes. I mean, some have completely stopped trying to hide the strings.

I expect the call(s) for violence to get a lot louder the closer we get to the full release of the Epstein files. The unacceptable possibly that's been bugging me lately is...he wouldn't declare martial law to permanently forestall the files' release, would he?

Perhaps the historically "amenable" gent just wants in on the ground floor of Trump's quite-plausible Med-Bed Time Share Franchise scam. Now, if that's a bridge too far for you, I'm inclined to suspect you hold a degree from Trump University.

$20 says it's another grovel-or-else Loyalty Oath shindig, a'la his panderous "cabinate" soirees. It's becoming apparent the only effective policy tool left to TrumpCo is the fear of what ethically unthinkable stunt they'll pull next in another vain attempt to scrub the Epstein story from the news cycle. I expect a unacceptable amount of firings and resignations will go down that day. I truely hope I'm wrong.

To borrow a gun-issue admonition, It's the #%?! cellphones and the built-for-clicks mass media they access 24/7 through them, stupid! They turn people into vain, somnambulist dullards.

That "progressive/liberal" hobgoblin that lurks under your bed is a figment of your rather predictably skewed imagination, but fill your hand again pilgrim and fling away! Law of averages says you'll hit something eventually.

Without fail, everytime Trump starts pontificating about Ukraine, he just sounds like a middle-schooler giving a oral report on a book he obviously didn't read. According to him, he has words...the best words.

Ah...not to quibble, but how much did these Big Brother Is Watching banners cost the American taxpayer? Meanwhile, back at my local VA hospital, they still don't have a qualified anesthesiologist on staff.

I'm quite sure we will all realize at some point--reguardless of ideological affiliation--that Kirk's untimely passing just might historically prove to be the moment which pushed this unhappy land right though the Looking Glass; as the right currently seems hell-bent to weaponize the termagant's unfortunate demise, the truth be damned.

Truth is...Ol' Charlie constantly sowed the wind as if he were immune to any actual reaping it might engender. Shame he met his demise as the object of a fleshed out Groyper-adjacent Black Pill acceleratorist's --- post. The musings etched on the casings of the unspent shells tell the tale. I do know, though...Nick Fuentes has probably doubled his security protocol by now.

My go-to balm when the burden of accepting the unacceptable becomes...encumbersome, I puff some tropical kush (44.99%!), throw on my headphones, and let Michael Hedges or Andy McKee give me something else to think about.