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The U.S. Is Bizarro Land
Aliens, please come save us
I’ve written before about how, thanks to Trump and the GOP descending into the murk of authoritarianism and rampant criminality, this country has been subjected to gaslighting and insanity that’s given many of us PTSD. This week, things just got even worse, if you can imagine.
Yesterday, we actually had a Trump lawyer argue that a President could possibly murder his opponent as an “official duty” of the presidency in front of the Supreme Court.
This is not a joke. This is a five-alarm FIRE. I had to guzzle down an entire bottle of Emetrol to quell my nausea when I heard snippets of the oral arguments on the radio.
It’s pretty insane that the Supreme Court spent even *one minute* listening to such an outrageous argument. Most legal experts agree that the DC Circuit case on this matter was close to perfection. I mean, they used common sense rather than partisan theocratic motives and basically said, “are you FUCKING NUTS? No, we cannot give any president ABSOLUTE IMMUNITY, as that would turn us into a dictatorship and NO MAN IS ABOVE THE…