Between the gun decision and this decision in the last two days, you can almost feel the conservative wing of the court trying to pull us back.
Call me a cynic, but apart from consistently sensible justices like Thomas I think the supreme court is owned by the uniparty and has no interest in doing the job it's supposed to. It's probably a two pronged strategy, rile up the lefties to vote in the midterms and throw righties a few bones so they'll become complacent instead of bucking the system, which they were getting close to doing. They'll keep going back and forth like that to keep the clown world status quo shambling along.
But culturally, the pendulum is finally showing signs of swinging back. It's heartening. But leftist clown world has been so extreme that the pendulum might swing to the extreme right, which is not going to be pretty.
The decision was 6-3. I believe the initial leak was 5-4, with Roberts trying to convince the conservative bloc to not be so... definitive in their ruling.
The leak directly led to Roberts being more conservative. It's a white pill.
Bingo. Roberts realized SCOTUS's institutional integrity is shot if the left can pull shit like this to prevent decisions they don't like. I initially thought institutional integrity was just his excuse for cucking out to the left but today's decision is evidence that he genuinely cares about it.
The extreme optimist in me wonders if this is what it took to make Roberts realize that his days as a milquetoast middle ground need to end.
The left will never be sated. As soon as you cross them in any way, it's Schumer's and Garland's assassins at YOUR doorstep. Appeasement will never work. It cannot. I pray Roberts realized it.
Roberts is image conscious. He wants the court to be seen as legitimate and used that as justification for more left-friendly rulings in the past. I wonder if he is aware that this was just making conservatives see the court as even more illegitimate while doing nothing to ingratiate the court for liberals.
Well, it's a whitepill unless it doesn't matter. It's entirely possible that Roberts will go back to cucking out at every opportunity again, and it's also possible, and I'd say even likely, that the leaker's intention wasn't to stop the ruling, but to galvanize the base. If you think about it, this could in theory be a godsend to the Dems, because there are midterms in a few months and they have literally nothing to run on, all they can do is screech about Jan 6 while nobody except twitter checkmarks cares and most of the nation is struggling due to skyrocketing prices and supply shortages, on top of everything that was wrong even before.
Of course, it's also possible that the Dem freakout will be so bad it'll make even more voters swing to the Reps.
Or they'll just cheat again, they got away with Kosovo-tier election shenanigans in 2020 so it's not like they'll calm down this time.
Well the Dem hard core doesn't give a flying fuck about Ukraine, they didn't even know the country existed until late February and I'm pretty sure they already forgot again by now. It's half the world away.
But yes, I see what you're saying, and I agree, it seems too early to blow this by now - but it's not like they had a choice, the decision was going to come out before the end of June, right? And at the same time, I never accused them of being smart, I get the impression that they're genuinely convinced that Twitter is real life.
Call me a cynic, but apart from consistently sensible justices like Thomas I think the supreme court is owned by the uniparty and has no interest in doing the job it's supposed to. It's probably a two pronged strategy, rile up the lefties to vote in the midterms and throw righties a few bones so they'll become complacent instead of bucking the system, which they were getting close to doing. They'll keep going back and forth like that to keep the clown world status quo shambling along.
But culturally, the pendulum is finally showing signs of swinging back. It's heartening. But leftist clown world has been so extreme that the pendulum might swing to the extreme right, which is not going to be pretty.
You're a cynic.
The decision was 6-3. I believe the initial leak was 5-4, with Roberts trying to convince the conservative bloc to not be so... definitive in their ruling.
The leak directly led to Roberts being more conservative. It's a white pill.
Bingo. Roberts realized SCOTUS's institutional integrity is shot if the left can pull shit like this to prevent decisions they don't like. I initially thought institutional integrity was just his excuse for cucking out to the left but today's decision is evidence that he genuinely cares about it.
The extreme optimist in me wonders if this is what it took to make Roberts realize that his days as a milquetoast middle ground need to end.
The left will never be sated. As soon as you cross them in any way, it's Schumer's and Garland's assassins at YOUR doorstep. Appeasement will never work. It cannot. I pray Roberts realized it.
Roberts is image conscious. He wants the court to be seen as legitimate and used that as justification for more left-friendly rulings in the past. I wonder if he is aware that this was just making conservatives see the court as even more illegitimate while doing nothing to ingratiate the court for liberals.
It's extremely hard to have faith in the system right now, but if I'm wrong I'll be very happy.
I'll have enough faith for both of us, then, fren.
Seat at the table is always open.
Thanks, man.
Well, it's a whitepill unless it doesn't matter. It's entirely possible that Roberts will go back to cucking out at every opportunity again, and it's also possible, and I'd say even likely, that the leaker's intention wasn't to stop the ruling, but to galvanize the base. If you think about it, this could in theory be a godsend to the Dems, because there are midterms in a few months and they have literally nothing to run on, all they can do is screech about Jan 6 while nobody except twitter checkmarks cares and most of the nation is struggling due to skyrocketing prices and supply shortages, on top of everything that was wrong even before.
Of course, it's also possible that the Dem freakout will be so bad it'll make even more voters swing to the Reps.
Or they'll just cheat again, they got away with Kosovo-tier election shenanigans in 2020 so it's not like they'll calm down this time.
They couldn't milk Ukraine for more than 4 months, why do you think they'll be able to keep this as CURRENT THING for more than that?
Well the Dem hard core doesn't give a flying fuck about Ukraine, they didn't even know the country existed until late February and I'm pretty sure they already forgot again by now. It's half the world away.
But yes, I see what you're saying, and I agree, it seems too early to blow this by now - but it's not like they had a choice, the decision was going to come out before the end of June, right? And at the same time, I never accused them of being smart, I get the impression that they're genuinely convinced that Twitter is real life.