De Re Publica

“We have here again the old story. States run elections in the United States. This is guaranteed and mandated by the federal Constitution. Congress can set uniform rules for administering elections. The executive branch plays no role at all in setting rules for elections or administering them. The White House’s strategy is to use illegal means (threatened criminal punishment against state officials) to assert power or compel authority the Constitution simply doesn’t allow. This isn’t how anything works. A president cannot legitimately create by force powers that the Constitution specifically denies him.”

“The man and his White House have the stiff stench of a loser around them. He seemed sickly, aggrieved, weak and deranged. The whole effort is best seen as a tantrum kicked up by what is mostly the failure of his election subversion dreams, an aging would-be tyrant shaking his fists at the clouds.”

Remember:

“The AP has just posted a detailed investigation into the background of David Brouillette, the recently hired ICE agent who shot and killed Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Maine. It’s genuinely horrifying on more levels than are easy to describe. Brouillette was hired during ICE’s recent hiring spree, as the agency attempted to rapidly staff up to manage a program of mass deportation. Brouillette has a long history of severe mental illness, a lengthy history of violence against at least two wives as well as his children, stalking, a seemingly endless list of restraining orders, violent threats against other family members and more. According to one relative, Brouillette was diagnosed with severe bipolar disorder as a child as well as attention deficit disorder, twice tried to commit suicide at age 12 and was hospitalized multiple times. These early issues appear to have been compounded by service in the military and deployments to Afghanistan which left him with an increased propensity to violence as well as PTSD. A relative told the AP, “They took someone who was extremely mentally ill and turned him into a killing machine.””

“My message to my friends at CNN is that Weiss has probably already decided which anchors, reporters, and executives she will dismiss for being insufficiently conservative. You won’t save yourself by not calling out Trump’s lies in this speech. So do your journalistic and patriotic duty, and cover it honestly. If you don’t have your job (after being fired by Weiss), you’ll at least have your dignity.”

Let me guess: Trump lied, fantasized, and undermined the entire democratic system while spasmodically repeating everything he’s spent the last six years obsessing about.

“Fox News has not seen the evidence yet and is not in a position to evaluate the accuracy of the president's statement and claims.”