Morning, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between. Hot black coffee.
Constitutional Crisis.
No, we’re not getting close. No, our toes are not dipping in it. No, it’s not on the horizon. We ARE in a Constitutional Crisis. I would argue we have been in one since 2016, given all the steps took to weaken the Judiciary, the ones strengthening the Executive, and the progressive stagnation of the Legislative. Now there’s no doubt. We’re here.
Most politicians and pundits who fear for democracy are in complete denial, as they have been since 2016. The ones opposing democracy are doing their worst to help them by pretending everything is fine and this is the way God and the founding fathers intended it to be. As for the people, we watch in disbelief as those of us who see it start to lose patience and hope and those who don’t go about their business resignedly. Very few rejoice in it.
There are no signs this administration will stop defying the Constitution and the rule of law. Just the opposite. While they throw some more plastic straws around to distract us, and gather their strength to apply pressure where we’re not looking, they blatantly ignore unfavorable court rulings and slow walk others to the same effect. Suggestions of impeachment of judges are being tested at the same time official orders from the DOJ are sent to the courts to stop prosecutions.
As we feared, Pam Bondi’s official policy of protecting this administration from judicial scrutiny and investigation is in full effect while the Executive, free from those checks and constraints, does its part by removing every single person and mechanism that may have stood in their way. Unlawfully. The traitors have reached the positions they need to start dismantling democracy and more are ready to join them as soon as they are confirmed by their puppets in the Senate.
Although I don’t believe in rehashing the past I need to ask: how is that “weird” stuff working out? Are they weird enough yet to be called fascists or should we wait some more? When people discuss possible messages and strategies for the future there are some who still cling to this notion that we should try the “weird” stuff again. I don’t understand how they still don’t see it. They were never “weird”. They were always traitors and fascists.
They don’t want to change our country: they want to destroy it. They don’t want to talk: they want to impose. They don’t want a Republic: they want a fascist, Christian nationalist state. They don’t want to go back to Reagan: they want Gilead. From trapping transgender people in the military by cutting them off from treatment and care mid transition to forbidding millions of women to vote by forcing them match their married names to their birth certificates.
By expanding the abortion ban at the federal level with point to point measures that don’t require legislation to have that effect. By banning books and removing selected words from existence. All this while restoring the symbols of the Confederacy before they can safely place statues of the dear leader in every city, town and village. But, hey, let’s worry about plastic straws, right? Because that’s just so… weird.
Last night, @maddowshow got close to reality but still hopes for the best. She did, however, hit it straight: the time is now. I was pleased @lawrence_odonnell started his show with my exact scheduled good night post: J.D. Vance’s declaration that judges are NOT allowed to control the executive power. This IS a Constitutional crisis. It’s high time to stop pussyfooting around it.
I am glad some democrat officials are starting to use the word “fascism” on the MSM. Even the @nyt is crawling on broken glass trying to atone for their part in the rise of authoritarian rule. They finally understand there is not much time left. And still the head of the Democrats in the House is putting panels together that “may eventually lead to lawsuits”. Some day. Is God still on the throne, @repjeffries?
The platitudes offered by most our elected officials are met on SM by indignation, disbelief, outrage and outright anger. We know better. We’re running out of time. People are indeed taking to the streets, some in Congress are starting to push harder, but although these things matter they are like spontaneous bursts that last a few moments and need to be reignited. We need more. Much more.
We need to realize sooner than we think most of the tools at our disposal will be taken away from us. As soon as the Judiciary falls. While we give the courts more time to fight back we must act while we still can. Unions will soon be dismantled. They need to start a lasting, coordinated series of strikes NOW, while they still can. Congress will be reduced to an echo chamber without any power. They must stand their ground NOW, while they still can access the building.
All these things, these seemingly impossible things, these hysterical scenarios, all of it will come. And you can’t just wish them away or put some panels together to eventually try to maybe do something about it some day. We still have some time and the tools to do something NOW. We either use them or lose them. We better understand this.
This is my last call. You know how bad things are and you can see how bad they will soon be. From now on I will focus on the actions required to take the fight to these traitors. So they can know at last just how dangerous we are to them and how hopeless their plans are when the people rise. I don’t know how long I have before I no longer can reach out to you like this. Every morning I wake up expecting to be cut off from the world I can only reach this way.
Although the last call I mentioned refers to the dangers we face with a pivot to action, this may well be my last call altogether. We are approaching the point of no return very fast. My hope is our efforts to start an effective popular movement will be in place by then and we’ll have become unstoppable. We need to achieve it quickly, while we still have the tools to do it. Let’s make the time we have count. Every second of it. Time to rise up.
Resist & Oppose!
