The Puzzle and the Soremuzzle
The Equal Rights Amendment, after 52 years, has been made into law, at long last, thanks to President Joe Biden. One of the last things he’s doing, and will count towards his legacy, is update the Constitution. According to law professor Lawrence Tribe, it is not necessary for the National Archivist to publish the ERA in order for it to be adopted. In our modern age of broadcast, cable and internet communication, the President’s announcement itself performs that function. So now our Constitution demands that “equality of rights under the law cannot be denied or abridged by the United States or any state on account of sex.” It’s illegal to discriminate against women because they’re women. The feminists who fought for that must be jumping for joy up in the Heavens. They needed that after rolling over in their graves after the overturning of Roe v Wade.
The TikTok ban was unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court. Sunday is supposed to be the last day that we can watch and make TikToks because the government is worried about our internet safety. Never mind all of the other social media platforms that pose the same risks. Politicians don’t want young people to be informed. TikTok is the best source for news while it’s happening because regular people who are in the know take and post videos before the media can get there and put its spin on things.
Trump is moving his inauguration indoors because it’s going to be too cold (John F. Kennedy had the same weather conditions and didn’t take it inside). 250,000 people bought tickets to the inauguration and now they can’t be there. The oligarchs have nothing to worry about, they always get a seat. What about the regular MAGA? Will they throw a fit because they can’t get in? If so, what will that look like?
Trump will be sworn in with his hand on a Bible proving that that book doesn’t mean anything. It’s always been just a book to nonbelievers or people of other faiths but now that he, a known convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, con man, and pathological liar will be laying his filthy hand upon it to take an oath he has no intention of keeping means that book means nothing. He and this Bible will be together in the rotunda, the same area that MAGAs shit in when they attacked the Capitol 4 years ago. He’ll probably sell the Bible to the highest bidder after it’s over and that won’t hurt him one bit politically. Cult followers forgive him no matter what he does. Republicans wouldn’t dare say anything if it bothered them because they’re all afraid of being singled out by him. The oligarchs don’t have an opinion about what’s going on with the Bible one way or the other.
Trump has appointed Jon Voight, Sylvester Stallone and Mel Gibson to be his ambassadors to Hollywood.
Speaking of Mel Gibson, he’s one of the many celebrities whose house burned down in the Pacific Palisades fire. He’s a religious nut so he’s going to have to make up a whole new story about why God set fire to the Palisades. He can’t be one of the heathens who deserved to burn so he’ll have to reinterpret the fires to mean that God did him a favor by burning all his stuff before the rapture so he could travel light.
The confirmation hearings are painful and sickening to watch. Everybody is either unqualified or a member of the sinister tribe that is poised to completely wreck our country, our Constitution, and the world economy. Pete Hegsweth is up for Secretary of Defense but he has no experience and is a woman hating drunkard. Senator Markwayne Mullin tried to help him out by confessing that he’s a womanizing piece of shit too and that his wife doesn’t mind because she knows her place. She forgives him no matter what he does. “I’m just making a point because there’s a lot about qualifications, and I think it is so hypocritical of senators, especially on the other side of the aisle, to be talking about his qualifications — not going to be the Secretary of Defense — and yet your qualifications aren’t any better. You guys aren’t any more qualified to be a senator than I am, except we are lucky enough to be here. Let me read what the Secretary of Defense is, because I googled it. Really, it is hard to see, but in general, the U.S. Secretary of Defense position is ‘filled by a civilian.’ That’s it. If you have served in the U.S. Armed Forces and have been in the service, you have to be retired for at least seven years, and Congress can waive that. Can Senator Kaine — or I guess I better use ‘the senator from Virginia’ — start bringing up the fact that, what if he showed up drunk to your job? How many senators have shown up drunk to vote at night? Have any of you guys asked them to step down or resign from their job? And don’t tell me you haven’t seen it, because I know you have. And how many senators do you know who have gotten a divorce for cheating on their wives? Did you ask them to step down? No? It is for show. Make sure you make a big show and point out the hypocrisy because a man has made a mistake. And you want to sit there and say that he is not qualified? Give me a break. It is so ridiculous that you guys hold yourselves to this higher standard and you forget you’ve got a big plank in your own eyes. We’ve all made mistakes. I’ve made mistakes, and Jennifer, thank you for loving him through that mistake. Because the only reason I’m here and not in prison is because my wife loved me, too. I have changed, but I’m not perfect. But I found somebody who thought I was perfect and, for whatever reason, loved me. And I don’t know why. But just like our Lord and Savior forgave me, my wife decided to forgive me more than once, and I’m sure you’ve had to forgive him, too. So, thank you.”
One senator admitted to being a louse in order to help a fellow louse out. This new fraternity of sinners and cheaters are charged with running our country for the next 4 years. The most we can hope for is incompetency. If enough of them had any brains we wouldn’t stand a chance. They’re everywhere. The ones with brains are the ones to worry about. They don’t love Trump. They need him.
Biden made a speech and warned the country that it is facing the demise of our country with the smarter faction of the MAGAs in charge. “I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That’s the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people and the dangerous consequences if their abuse of power is left unchecked. Today, an oligarchy is taking shape.”
Joe Biden is handing the keys over to a madman who oligarchs hold the key to.
