Hump day is here, Threaders, Threadheads, and all in between. So is coffee.
Collapsing.
I can’t believe there are still people who think we are not in a Constitutional crisis. That started on January 20, thriends. We are now in the collapsing stage. The one that needs to happen before the collapse. And it’s going down faster than most expected.
How many times were we warned about the three conditions for any authoritarian regime to take control? First, get the Executive branch and expand its powers; second, make the Legislative branch irrelevant by neutralizing its oversight, bypassing its authority to approve laws or turn it into a rubber stamp for those advanced by the Executive; third, turn Justice into an arm of its own designs, ignore the courts, criminalize dissenting judges, and dismantle the Judicial branch.
We’ve been on phase three for a while and it’s getting worse. The pathetic excuse Schumer used for allowing the CR to pass in exchange for nothing is the courts wouldn’t be able to work during a shutdown and the Executive would go unchallenged for the duration. The challenges courts pose the Executive have been ignored, downplayed, and are now being openly opposed by none other than the Department of Justice itself. For Justice to prevail it must be respected.
What Schumer pretends to ignore (he doesn’t, he’s just banking on his privilege) is this government has no respect for Justice. No one, other than the Executive branch, can uphold the law. We reached the point in this crisis where Justice is no longer defined by the courts but by its department, one that has declared all judicial actions against the government illegal. The collapse has begun. From now on, only the Executive has the power to decide what is legal.
As Justice crumbles around us, issuing last minute desperate rulings, these are slow walked into execution, namely the ones supposed to reinstate agencies that by now are all but wiped out. Sure, get everyone back to work at USAID may sound good but the truth is USAID is gone and it would take many months to get it back to where it was the day DOGE walked through their doors. Any agency affected by its wrecking ball requires two things to get back to work: will and competence.
The heads of the erased departments now answer to DOGE, even reinstated ones. The agencies’ assets are either gone or extremely damaged. To repair and rebuild would require a full throttle effort by senior staff, backed by the provider of the means necessary, which includes a lot of money. Ordinarily, that task would be fulfilled by Congress. No more. The provider of the conditions necessary for rebuilding the wrecked agencies is the Executive now. Through DOGE.
In the illusion these are ordinary times for Justice that Schumer and others want to live in, these obstacles would be swiftly handled by the courts through follow up rulings of contempt and orders of expedited execution, enforced by heavy penalties, from fines to incarceration. Considering the only way to enforce these measures is by the DOJ’s ability to do so, that’s not going to happen. On the contrary: any judges willing to order those measures may find the DOJ against them.
All this not even considering the time wasted on appeals and bureaucratic stonewalling, like hiring back people and placing them in empty buildings with nothing to work with. Eventually, after months of accumulated damage and harm, each of these cases will arrive at the Supreme Court. Remember how TFG thanked Roberts on a hot mic during the Joint Session? That may have been too much for two Justices: Roberts and Barret. Yes, they are corrupt shills but don’t advertise it publicly.
On top of that blatant display of corruption caught by a hot mic, the SCOTUS members enjoy their power very much and now some are realizing that power is becoming useless. Roberts recent statement regarding TFG’s intention to impeach judges who oppose him was a shy attempt to take that power back but it’s too little, too late. They gave it away when they declared presidents are immune to the rule of law, the day Sottomayor feared for our democracy.
We will see Roberts and Barret, perhaps even Kavanaugh, joining the liberal justices in opinions and rulings meant to push back against TFG. His reaction will be the same as it has been: he will take to SM and call them “communists” and will use his immune power to dare them with two words: “make me”. While Pam Bondi smiles and waves behind him. The crisis has turned to the collapsing of our Constitution. It’s falling to the ground.
Who can stop it? Only we can. While most of our elected representatives spend their time in panels and press conferences, wishing this will go away on its own, dreaming of the day TFG is gone and the GOP will return to its “good old days”, we must take to the streets. Spring is here. It’s time to head to Washington DC by the tens of thousands and keep doing it until we are heard. What should we demand? The end of this government and the creation of an interim administration.
New elections run by a temporary government while Justice takes over and prosecutes all actors involved in this coup, who will obviously not be a part of it. What else is there to demand? A remake of 2024 with TFG running for a third term and Musk’s hackers deep into our electoral system? No. We must demand the end of this madness and a new beginning. The interim administration must create exceptional measures to guarantee everyone can vote freely.
From making sure the election is run properly to instituting an exceptional period for voting, similar to a holiday, together with early voting and mail in voting. And no more old rules. Every seat in Congress would get a reboot. Everybody would need to run for office again. Can it be done? Is it too much to ask? It can be done. It’s not too much to ask. Let’s take to the streets by the hundreds of thousands and find out who is with us. Time to reboot.
Resist & Oppose!
