John Roberts has lost his way. Uncle Ruckus and his buddies have already stated that stare decisis is not a thing anymore and they intend on 'fixing' past decisions.
They are in Trump's pocket and perhaps in the Epstein files like much of the rest of the world's "leaders".
Sorry, but that’s just way too Pollyanna-ish to believe the Supreme Court is anything resembling “supreme”. The Roberts court has already given trump waaaaaay too much power and they don’t seem to believe there are 3 EQUAL branches of gubmint.
I mostly agree, the only reason I believe they "may" try to put some sort of check on him, is to preserve THEIR OWN power. I think these power mad sociopaths are finally figuring out, perhaps too late, that in a dictatorship, "Supreme Courts" become irrelevant, so they may try to check him, because they're figuring out he may kick THEM to the curb if they don't.
BUT, I ALSO think he might just tell them to take a leap, because he appears to genuinely believe he is America's new "owner", imho, the only way we get out of this is with a revolution.
Well, even though I’d like to remain causiously optimistic, and that has holes in it itself, I’ll believe it when I see it! Why is this the first time we’re seeing this? Haven’t seen anything near this explanation before. Not that it’s not factual, just a bit skeptical after all the crap they’ve put a rubber stamp on!
Time will tell, but this Court has bent over backwards for trump every time; I am not convinced that his winning streak will end. The simple fact is that he placed three Justices on the Court; he owns the conservatives on the Court, and they owe him. There is no way that he will ever let them forget that tidbit.
I was a paddle boat pilot once, long before I had ever called myself Mark Twain.
In the steamboat business, this is the command the captain gives to steer the ship towards the deepest parts of the river.
I've heard it so many times, I thought it might as well HAVE been my name - mark twain, Mark Twain! MARK TWAIN!!
The Capitan's bloodshot eyes would be throbbing out of his skull 'bout now. I would scream, where, Where? WHERE IS IT?!?
It would have helped if the knucklehead could have pointed me to where twain was, and by how many degrees I should have turned to port or starboard.
In many places, the deepest water is only three to five feet.
I knew the Mississippi like I knew life, always changing course when you least expected it. The river meandered all the time. So, it was very easy to get beached on a drift.
I had to help my younger brother - Henry - get a job on my ship - the *Pennsylvania*. The position was for an unpaid apprenticeship as a mud clerk.
That was what a boat steward was called back then. They had to look after passenger needs. There was no washroom on ships those days, if you get my drift.
Young men took the job hoping to rise through the ranks. You could actually get PAID for it, if you moved up to be a purser. That was the CHIEF mud clerk's job. And people would wrestle the chief with the mud to get it - if you're still following.
Mud was always being thrown about.
I too was an apprentice on that ship - a cub pilot. I had my own heated disagreement with their pilot, and was requested to leave - after it was docked of course.
The Pennsylvania's boiler exploded a few days later and blew apart the deck - burning hundreds of people. My brother was one of those who had died. It's funny how life happens, and for those that it doesn't.
I finished my apprenticeship on another ship, and was awarded a license to tell others where to go. At least, that's all what I thought this license was good for. Then the war came.
I lived in Missouri, and steered my ship up and down the Mississippi border. That is, until the South had announced their other plans, and fighting broke out. For that reason, the river route was closed down.
I would have driven that paddle boat down to St. Louis and then across the plains to California, if I could have - just to escape.
I assume you know what a paddle boat is? It's one of those huge flat things with big wheels on it's sides - near the back. I just had to find, and bolt on another set at the front to make it land worthy.
I wanted to get away from the Crazy Confederates before they'd conscript me. Pilots were in high demand those days for what was an easy and slow moving target, in the transport of war supplies.
But the Mississippi doesn’t go west. It goes south, like most other bad ideas do.
I held the helm to as far as St. Louis. From there, I had to board a stage coach with my other brother, Orion. The California railroad wasn't ready yet - either.
It was a thousand mile ride. The paddleboat never would have made it.
I imagined trying to find another vocation, while sitting beside my smelly onion. And, let me tell you some stories of how that went after I became a writer.
Not a chance.
John Roberts has lost his way. Uncle Ruckus and his buddies have already stated that stare decisis is not a thing anymore and they intend on 'fixing' past decisions.
They are in Trump's pocket and perhaps in the Epstein files like much of the rest of the world's "leaders".
I concur with you.
Doesn’t seem like it. When will they revisit their own decision giving him Immunity?
Sorry, but that’s just way too Pollyanna-ish to believe the Supreme Court is anything resembling “supreme”. The Roberts court has already given trump waaaaaay too much power and they don’t seem to believe there are 3 EQUAL branches of gubmint.
I mostly agree, the only reason I believe they "may" try to put some sort of check on him, is to preserve THEIR OWN power. I think these power mad sociopaths are finally figuring out, perhaps too late, that in a dictatorship, "Supreme Courts" become irrelevant, so they may try to check him, because they're figuring out he may kick THEM to the curb if they don't.
BUT, I ALSO think he might just tell them to take a leap, because he appears to genuinely believe he is America's new "owner", imho, the only way we get out of this is with a revolution.
Well, even though I’d like to remain causiously optimistic, and that has holes in it itself, I’ll believe it when I see it! Why is this the first time we’re seeing this? Haven’t seen anything near this explanation before. Not that it’s not factual, just a bit skeptical after all the crap they’ve put a rubber stamp on!
Time will tell, but this Court has bent over backwards for trump every time; I am not convinced that his winning streak will end. The simple fact is that he placed three Justices on the Court; he owns the conservatives on the Court, and they owe him. There is no way that he will ever let them forget that tidbit.
The mafia owns roberts, they are going to utterly destroy the supreme courts legitimacy, not work to save it. 😞😞😞😞
Dream on… SCrOTUS are as complicit in the destruction of American democracy as Despot Don…
The Heritage Foundation & Project 2025 handlers have already bought & paid for their services.
Citizen’s United, anyone?
https://www.propublica.org/article/we-dont-talk-about-leonard-leo-supreme-court-supermajority
I thought Congress would preserve their authority, too. I hope you're right.
I wish I could believe you but my picture of the SCOTUS is one of corruption and religious nonsense. See David’s point above.
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I was a paddle boat pilot once, long before I had ever called myself Mark Twain.
In the steamboat business, this is the command the captain gives to steer the ship towards the deepest parts of the river.
I've heard it so many times, I thought it might as well HAVE been my name - mark twain, Mark Twain! MARK TWAIN!!
The Capitan's bloodshot eyes would be throbbing out of his skull 'bout now. I would scream, where, Where? WHERE IS IT?!?
It would have helped if the knucklehead could have pointed me to where twain was, and by how many degrees I should have turned to port or starboard.
In many places, the deepest water is only three to five feet.
I knew the Mississippi like I knew life, always changing course when you least expected it. The river meandered all the time. So, it was very easy to get beached on a drift.
I had to help my younger brother - Henry - get a job on my ship - the *Pennsylvania*. The position was for an unpaid apprenticeship as a mud clerk.
That was what a boat steward was called back then. They had to look after passenger needs. There was no washroom on ships those days, if you get my drift.
Young men took the job hoping to rise through the ranks. You could actually get PAID for it, if you moved up to be a purser. That was the CHIEF mud clerk's job. And people would wrestle the chief with the mud to get it - if you're still following.
Mud was always being thrown about.
I too was an apprentice on that ship - a cub pilot. I had my own heated disagreement with their pilot, and was requested to leave - after it was docked of course.
The Pennsylvania's boiler exploded a few days later and blew apart the deck - burning hundreds of people. My brother was one of those who had died. It's funny how life happens, and for those that it doesn't.
I finished my apprenticeship on another ship, and was awarded a license to tell others where to go. At least, that's all what I thought this license was good for. Then the war came.
I lived in Missouri, and steered my ship up and down the Mississippi border. That is, until the South had announced their other plans, and fighting broke out. For that reason, the river route was closed down.
I would have driven that paddle boat down to St. Louis and then across the plains to California, if I could have - just to escape.
I assume you know what a paddle boat is? It's one of those huge flat things with big wheels on it's sides - near the back. I just had to find, and bolt on another set at the front to make it land worthy.
I wanted to get away from the Crazy Confederates before they'd conscript me. Pilots were in high demand those days for what was an easy and slow moving target, in the transport of war supplies.
But the Mississippi doesn’t go west. It goes south, like most other bad ideas do.
I held the helm to as far as St. Louis. From there, I had to board a stage coach with my other brother, Orion. The California railroad wasn't ready yet - either.
It was a thousand mile ride. The paddleboat never would have made it.
I imagined trying to find another vocation, while sitting beside my smelly onion. And, let me tell you some stories of how that went after I became a writer.
In confidence - MT
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Keep protests peaceful.
Don't kill anyone.
They DO make a difference.
Here are some resistance related guides from around the world:
🇺🇸 Fundamentals of physical surveillance: a guide for uniformed and plainclothes personnel
https://archive.org/details/fundamentalsofph0000silj
The RCMP has its own publications including:
🇨🇦 GCPSG-022 (2025) - Threat and Risk Assessment Guide
GCPSG-010 (2022) - Operational Physical Security Guide
🇨🇦 GCPSG-019 (2023) - Protection, Detection, Response, and Recovery Guide
https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/physec-secmat/pubs/index-eng.htm
The non-profit Electronic Frontier Foundation also has excellent guides on:
🇺🇸 Street Level Surveillance
https://sls.eff.org
🇺🇸 Surveillance Self-Defense
https://ssd.eff.org/
🇪🇺 🇸🇪⚠️ Resistance Operating Concept
https://jsou.edu/Press/PublicationDashboard/25
🇺🇦 🇺🇲 Radio Free Ukraine Resistance Manual
https://radiofreeukraine.com/3d-flip-book/resistance-manual/
⚠️ Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies (now at archive.org)
Assessing Revolutionary And Insurgent Strategies (ARIS) Studies
https://web.archive.org/web/20250310000340/https://www.soc.mil/ARIS/books/arisbooks.html
⚠️ Civilian-Based Defense: A Post-Military Weapons System
https://www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/civilian-based-defense-a-post-military-weapons-system/
🏁 Simple Sabotage Field Manual by United States Office of Strategic Services
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184?ref=404media.co
⚠️ Library of Congress
Revelations from the Russian archives: documents in English translation
https://www.loc.gov/item/96024752
🏁 Robert Reich/Resistance School
Communicating Across Difference
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaT8gjnOmQl3dguy0_E0vVCL5ZYEyCTzu
🏁 Bernie Sanders:
https://m.youtube.com/@BernieSanders
🏁 CPJ Committee to Protect Journalists:
Safety Kit
https://cpj.org/safety-kit/
🏁 Activist Handbook:
https://activisthandbook.org/introduction
(⚠️ These are USA sponsored websites. Some publications may have been removed by the Trump regime)