There are two historical events that happened the week previous to this article that really have captured America. And, as much as I wish I could keep them separate, they really have connections thanks to a certain political faction that embraces fascism and surrounds itself around a corrupt and malignant narcissist. And if you think I was referring to the Democrats or Joe Biden as the faction in question, then not only are you wrong, but you are also part of the problem.
The first is something that affects the world. Russian dictator Vlad Putin followed through with his much-feared invasion of the Ukraine. This wasn’t a surprise to anyone with a functioning brain who doesn’t watch Fox News or any of the other fascist-leaning propagandist media. You don’t build up military forces at a border to an obscene level if you don’t plan on using them. We did that during the Gulf War. Nobody in their right mind would look at the buildup of troops in Saudi Arabia and think we would just go home and let Iraq keep Kuwait. The only person who didn’t was Saddam Hussein.
Speaking Saddam Hussein, one of Vlad’s many excuses for invading the Ukraine was that it’s supposedly part of some ancient Russian territory is ripped right out of Saddam’s fraudulent claim that Kuwait was originally part of some larger Iraq territory. If Saddam were still alive, I’m sure he’d be suing Vlad for plagiarism. Thankfully he’s not alive. But the idea itself is as absurd as the Commonwealth of Massachusetts sending the national guard to invade Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, and Pennsylvania because once upon a time the Massachusetts Bay Colony once claimed those lands as theirs.
Times change. Borders change. I’m sure the Turks would love to get back their old Ottoman Empire lands, or the Italians all of their territory lost from the Roman Empire, or the British Empire getting the East Coast of America back, or the indigenous tribes getting all their parts of America back.
The rest of the world, including the United States, is doing everything they can to punish Russia for this invasion without going to war. As of this article, we are only days into the invasion and of the sanctions imposed in response. There are plenty of sanctions still being considered and how badly all this hurts Russia in general and Putin specifically has yet to be determined.
What disgusts this commentator are all the politicians and media personalities from the political faction of hate and hypocrisy and narcissist cultism and nationalism and fascism – the ones that still identify themselves as “conservatives” and/or “Republicans” in the same way as pop stars identify themselves as “they/them” – that have spent the past few years embracing Russia, condemning the Ukraine, and said that the talk of invasion was “nonsense” or a “distraction”, and are now either validating Putin’s barbaric aggression or claiming that President Joe Biden wasn’t doing “enough” and this was all somehow his fault. Then again, they blame Biden for just about every cloudy day in the sky, especially when there are no clouds.
Their narcissist messiah has even gone so far as to claim that the invasion wouldn’t have happened if he was still in the White House. This is the same malignant loser man-child that was first impeached for blackmailing Ukraine over promised military funding in exchange for supposed “dirt” on Biden’s son. The same orange turncoat who sucked up to Putin like a two-dollar prostitute and threw his own intelligence people under the bus with the whole world watching. Like hell it “wouldn’t have happened” under the watch of Putin’s “useful idiot”.
The other historical event was President Biden’s choice to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the United States Supreme Court. On February 25th, Biden stayed true to his campaign promise and nominated the first black woman to the vacating seat. He also stayed true to his earlier promise to nominate someone by the end of February. Federal Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has another first under her belt. She is the first nominee since the late Justice Thurgood Marshal to not be a corporate attorney or prosecutor, but a defense attorney.
It won’t really change anything other than that particular distinction. She’ll still be part of a faction that is outnumbered 2-to-1 by a gaggle of Federalist Society drones. It just prevents the highest court from going from a 6-to-3 majority to a 7-to-2 supermajority.
If, that is, she gets confirmed by the United States Senate.
And therein lies the problem.
Yes, the Democrats have – on paper – a 50-plus-Veep advantage. They technically have a majority in the Senate. But the other 50 are of the Party of Fascism and the Cult of the Narcissist. The same party of hate and hypocrisy that deliberately and maliciously held one Supreme Court seat vacant for one presidential election year and then rammed through another just weeks before another presidential election. The same party with a history of shutting down the federal government multiple times for the flimsiest of reasons.
Don’t think for a moment that Senate Minority Leader Mitch “The Bitch” McConnell won’t do everything in his power to stop this nomination from being confirmed. He was already hating the nomination a month before it was even announced. And while he cannot filibuster a Supreme Court confirmation he already has forty-nine members of the Party of Fascism plus two Democrats in his back pocket that can tie it up indefinitely. This is, after all, the party that firmly believes that *only they* can choose who sits on the Supreme Court.
Yes, Judge Brown Jackson did survive Senate confirmations before, and did so with bipartisan approval. But that was then, and it wasn’t for the highest court in the land. Let’s not also forget that she has previously said that “presidents are not kings” when it came to that certain orange-faced narcissist, which puts a political bullseye on her back from the cult-party of said narcissist who seemingly believes himself to be a king in perpetuity.
Some in the party of fascism have even whined about President Biden’s nomination announcement coming while the invasion of the Ukraine is going on, like the affairs of the nation should come to a grinding halt for something that the party of fascism had previously claimed was just hysteria.
Let’s get brutally honest here... the nomination of Judge Brown Jackson to the highest court should not be treated as a fait accompli, nor should her confirmation be considered assured. The Democrats and President Biden will have to fight and fight hard for her confirmation. They will have to go to political war for her. They are facing a party of hate and fascism that will do everything they can to get their way. A party that sides with authoritarian Russia over a democracy like the Ukraine and sees nothing wrong with tanks and bombs and mass casualties and human atrocities. After all, fascists love conflict and war and bullying.
This commentator condemns the actions of the Russian leader. His actions are neither “great” or “smart”. They’re not even original. They are the actions of a thug, just like the late Saddam Hussein. Likewise, while I would hope that Judge Brown Jackson gets confirmed, I also know that the same party that supports the Russian leader’s unlawful invasion would do everything they can to prevent that from happening. Because that’s what thugs do.
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