Can Somebody Say MANDATE?
When Trump/Musk won in November by 1-point-5 percent (1.5 %), we were told that 1000 years of Republican Rule had begun. 73 days after taking office, their approval is cratering like a lead zeppelin.
When the captains of industry queued up to kowtow and pay tribute, I thought to myself, ‘Not only ethically wrong, and cowardly, but short-sighted.’
When Tim Cook, and Zuck, and ABC, and CBS, and Amazon, came crawling—cash in hand—to placate the lava-colored idol with millions of dollars, I thought, ‘Not only craven and corrupt, but short-sighted.’
When some of the nation’s BIGGEST LAW FIRMS and MOST VAUNTED UNIVERSITIES responded to Trump’s simian displays of dominance by crumbling faster than a taco shell in a wind tunnel, I asked myself, ‘have they never seen politics? Do they not realize that honeymoons end, dawn goes down to day, and nothing gold-plated can stay?’
(Never go full quisling, kids. No one likes or respects a quisling. And even a moment of quasi-quislingness, on the Most Important Political Question of Our Times, can tank your rep for good.)
Indeed, well before last night’s results came in, it seemed that the somnambulant populace that elected Trump may already have found the smelling salts…
THE ERA OF THE FAKE TRUMP “MANDATE” ENDED LAST NIGHT IN WISCONSIN
But the Wisconsin state supreme court race made it official, as the Trump-backed, MAGA candidate, supported by TWENTY-FIVE MILLION DOLLARS (in a state supreme court race!) from Elon Musk, got shellacked like a hardwood getting prepped to host the Final Four.
Let this be a lesson to the quislings and the cowards.
Democracy and the Rule of Law are not going down without a fight.
Let this be a loud message to the ONE BODY that could immediately shut down Dictator Donnie’s Constitutional Crisis & P**** Grab:
THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESS.
As you read each new day’s headlines, detailing the illegal and unconstitutional dismantling of the United States federal government, and the detonation of 80 years of international alliances, remember… ALL of this, as it grinds on inexorably, dementedly, ridiculously, catastrophically, for—what? the next nearly four years?—is being perpetuated and maintained, minute by minute—like Vishnu sustaining the whole of the cosmos—by the graces of the modern Republican Party (a subsidiary of the PutinMuskThiel Group).
The reason that even the Massive and Beautiful Uprising of the People cannot immediately halt the damage being done is REPUBLICAN CONTROL of CONGRESS.
The reason the POWERFUL PUSHBACK from the federal courts may prove short-lived is REPUBLICAN CONTROL of the SUPREME COURT.
The founders of the United States provided multiple safeguards against a president seeking to promote himself to Dictator or King. But the founders did not anticipate a party or a Supreme Court as compromised as the current Republican Party and its RightWingRepublican Court.
In order to #DefeatRepublicanFascism, we need a mass movement and a united front to #VoteAllRepublicansOut.
To keep it real: when I find myself feeling good about the fact that the courts are mostly holding, for now, I remember that, hanging above us like a sword of Damocles are the likely retirements of Supreme Court justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.
And though it’s hard to imagine a pair of justices more RightWingRepublican or Billionaire-Bought than those two, if you can’t imagine a MUCH worse, FULLY MAGA SCOTUS, you may still be in the earliest stage of grief, which, as we all know, is denial.
As the pre-inaugural period, and the first 73 days have shown, there is no bottom to the corruption, incompetence, or fascist coup-ing Trump/Musk is capable of.
So why not Chief Justice Charlie Kirk?
Why not Justice Kash Patel? Justice Dan Bongino, Justice Sydney Powell, or Justice Elon Musk?
In other words, the courts are holding, largely, for now, (though SCOTUS has yet to really weigh in). But we are far, far from out of some very deep and dark woods.
Mix in Justice Matt Walsh and Justice Curtis Yarvin, and it could be Game Over.
But for now, let’s CELEBRATE, LOUDLY and PUBLICLY, the END of the Fake Narrative that Trump/Musk have some bigly, hugely MANDATE.
Fuck. That. Noise.
Number One: You Never Preemptively Crouch and You Never Obey-in-Advance.
Not before a would-be dictator, and not before your political adversaries.
The message to Elon Musk and Donal Trump:
You say you have a powerful, overwhelming mandate?
Prove it.
Last night in Wisconsin, Trump/Musk proved the opposite.
Right on!!!!
Thank you Drew!
You speak for me!