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Incompetence, Deception, and Cruelty
In an interview with Tom Klingenstein on October 18, 2024, then-candidate Trump was asked to describe his potentially incoming administration in one word. Below is the exact exchange: Klingenstein: I want a one-word answer.Trump: Go ahead.Klingenstein: Are you capable of one word?Trump: Yes. Well, sometimes you… Am I capable? If it’s doable.Klingenstein: Okay. Kamala says,…
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I Think, Therefore I Am. I Won, Therefore I Rule
René Descartes had famously used the statement “I think, therefore I am,” as a starting point for his philosophical inquiries, where he used the act of thinking as an evidence for the existence of the thinker. While most, if not all, philosophical statements are abstractions based on observations and not proven facts, their acceptance and…
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A Glimmer of Hope (2)
In the early hours of this morning, in a mostly unprecedented move and without waiting for the case to take its normal course through the lower courts, the Supreme Court of the United States issued an order that temporarily blocks the Trump administration from deporting any Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center, in west-central…
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The Glass Is Half Full
It has been about two weeks since President Trump has taken the oath of office (mind you, without placing his hand on the bible; not that it bothers me, nor is it required by the Constitution, but something that may be of potential interest or significance to the vast number of Christian and especially evangelical…
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What Now? A Post-Mortem
So Jack Smith has asked Judge Chutkan and the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss the DoJ’s prosecution of the former president, for both the January 6th election subversion case, as well the Florida classified documents case. The January 6th case was in front of Judge Chutkan waiting for a decision possibly following briefings…
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Poetic Justice
On July 1st, the Supreme Court, or rather the conservative super-majority of the Supreme Court, handed down an opinion which arguably will go down as one of the most disgraceful rulings in the history of the Supreme Court. In the opinion written by the Chief Justice Roberts and joined by the rest of the conservative…
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A DEI Hire, or Someone I don’t Like?
Disclaimer: this is a fictional short story, with fictional characters. It examines potential consequences of the immunity the former president plans on extending to all police officers, after he was handed his own absolute immunity by the Supreme Court. Justice Thomas lives in a neighborhood where his neighbors are predominantly liberal. One of his next-door…
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Be Careful, Mr President!
This is what Justice Gorsuch said during a recent interview with Fox News. To be precise, the following is a direct quote from the above NBC article, which includes the exact statements he made during the interview: Asked by Fox News’ Shannon Bream to respond to Biden’s proposal, Gorsuch told her, “You’re not going to…
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Absolute Immunity? Absolutely!
July 1st, 2024 will probably be recorded as one of the saddest days in the history of American democracy; the day the conservative majority of the Supreme Court of the United States acted as an extension of the defense team of a former president who had incited an insurrection among other egregious acts, each one…