Ideally what would happen here is the courts would step in and say, 'no, there's obviously no emergency, the guard has to go home.'

But I have little confidence in this, because SCOTUS will, though they know that's true, issue an unsigned order finding no one has standing to hide from their jobs.

It is remarkably frustrating to me to watch a system break down against a kind of threat its systems were *designed* - reasonably well designed! - to defeat because everyone whose job it is to actually *do* that is busy hiding under their desks hoping against hope someone else will bell the cat.

It was the job of senate republicans to remove & disqualify this lunatic after January 6 and they chickened out.

It was Garland's job to put him in jail for doing crimes in broad daylight, and he dragged his feet.

It was SCOTUS' job to disqualify him under the 14A, and they hid under their desks.

It was Biden's job, recognizing the peril in 2023 not 2024 to get the f&#$% out of the way and give the Dems time to mount a real campaign (and perhaps pick a different candidate - or at least give her time to pivot).

It was the job of guys - Mattis, McMaster, Kelly, etc. - who served in the first admin. not to mumble their "he's a fascist" warnings but charge on to TV to scream it so that it got and drove coverage.

It was the press' job to cover that this guy's handpicked dudes thought he was a fascist!

Institution after institution, created, constructed, designed, funded, maintained, for generations for this exact moment and the cowards at the top, all of whom know damn well what they've got on their hands, did nothing and hoped someone else would bell the cat.

And so this nefarious maniac is now apparently basically digging in in the capital as his poll numbers sink because millions of Americans went to the polls firm in the belief that he'd lower prices and no do any of the shit he's actually doing.

Just astounding infuriating.

I suppose my consolation prize is that, having been vocal about all of this instead of hiding under a desk, if everything does fall apart I'll end up Marc Bloch'd by these asshats before having to live with the shame of being the broken link in a two-and-a-half-century tradition of being a republic.

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Agree with you big time. Statistically, he's really good, and I recently read that article by Ashwin Raman.

I also think he's a better use of our budget than Eze (who would be competing for that left 8 role that is covered by Rice, Kai & Merino) for example.

Irrefutable proof that NJers don't know how to drive.

No way Mbeumo goes for 65m+ with only 1 year left come summer. Just don't think Arsenal will be the only team after him.