Republicans hate America 7: Turn off that Speaker; Shut Down the Government!

"BALLS": The Heckler's Veto is in the Constitution

As the House Republicans continue to embarrass themselves, endanger America, and empower the worst enemies of the Nation with their perfidious incompetence, active ignorance, and outright hostility let us not deny what's happening here; Republicans hate America and want the Nation to fail, so they can replace the current iteration of the United States with a simulacrum, a Feudal Slave State held aloft by the Republican pillars of fundamentalist oppression, white supremacy, and rightwing domestic terrorism.

The stories emerging this morning, today, and tonight highlight how far into nihilistic buffoonery the Republicans party has descended.

However, in reality the dysfunction in the House accomplishes a prime goal of the shutting down the operation of the Government.  Republicans consistently do this (sometimes spectacularly e.g. January 6th) because Republicans hate America.

Republicans don't want a working Government and don't want America to be a functioning Nation.  Therefore, Republicans no longer have a governing ideology, or policy goals, and exist in a state of perpetual agitation, petulantly lashing out and nursing their hatred, anger and bigotry.  There is only one animating principle the modern Republicans can coalesce around which are Tax Cuts for the Rich and Tax Increases for the Poor and Middle Class.  My taxes went up, because of the Tax Plan the Trump/Republican Government from 2017 concocted.  It wasn't an oversight or a freakish confluence of factors but, a specific policy goal; one of the few things the Republicans can agree on.

The goal of all Republican governments is to shift the burden of the Nation onto the backs of the working and middle class until it becomes so onerous they are broken by it and everyone in the country is reduced to Penury and Corporate Peonage.  The Republican Party also knows the more they aid the obscene wealthy in hiding their ill-gotten lucre the more money will trickle into their campaign coffers.

Certainly, groups like The Federalist Society or the Heritage Foundation have some other goals in mind;  installing judges who roll back the Progressive Era and the political gains of the everyday Americans, and rolling back regulations on businesses or the Inflation Reduction Act or Obamacare.

But, this generation was raised on the bitter milk of Rush Limpballs and the non-stop lies of Faux News.   So, each tepid white Republican lines up in turn to be ritually humiliated and get fewer and fewer (or less and less) votes from their erstwhile party members.  These public humilations might be humorous if the world wasn't engulfed in flames in Ukraine and Palestine and if Americans weren't going to face numerous problems and set up by the rapacious Corporate vultures who look to fill in the void left by Republicans self-nullification.

Foxx: The OG MTG

The Republican Treason Caucus held their press conference to declare Mike Johnson of Louisiana is their next choice; which makes sense since he's a Fascist fundamentalist, the type I've been warning you about.  Anyway when Johnson was asked about his not inconsequential efforts to overturn American democracy and install Traitor Trump through bureaucratic legerdemain, the OG Major Traitor Greene, Virginia FoXXX reminded everyone of what a nasty bitter person she is by screaming "SHUT UP! SHUT UP!", much to the amusement of her male Republican colleagues.

The Revenge of the Thin Blue Line 36: Kim Foxx not gonna Run so instead Let's Go Brandon

Kim Foxx announced she will not seek reelection in 2024 after serving two terms as Cook County state's attorney.

“At the conclusion of my term, November of 2024, I will be stepping down as State’s Attorney. I will not be on next year’s ballot, by my choice,” Foxx told the room. “I became State’s Attorney to deliver safety, justice and equity. I feel that I have made my mark, so I’m ready to let new leadership step forward,” Foxx said in a written statement following today’s speech. “Over the next year and half, my office will continue to work diligently for the people of Cook County and uphold the values of a fair and just legal system.” 

If there was one thing that pissed Police off in Chicago and Cook County it was Kim Foxx.  Because Kim Foxx is guilty;  Guilty of the crime of being a black person of America.  This is the most unforgivable offense in the United States; past, present, and future.  As State's Attorney Kim Foxx instituted reforms to cash bail, expunged cannabis arrests (which of course, overwhelmingly targeted minorities), and helped overturn numerous wrongful convictions, resulting from Police misconduct.

Now, if you ask Police why they hate her the responses will no doubt include the ridiculous Jussie Smolett incident and Foxx's unforced error in intervening in the investigation.  But, overall the claim will be that Foxx did not allow the Police (and Cook County ASA's) to do their job; which is arresting and incarcerating minorities.  Standard refrains from Officers when asked about Chicago crime revolved around, 'What do you expect? It's Cook County!' and 'Kim Foxx won't do anything about this or that crime' and it's 'Kim Foxx is stopping us from charging criminals'.  Much of this was a thin veneer to cover for slipshod police work.  But, always remember Police don't arrest innocent people...

Now, remember what we are running into is not the Thin Blue Line but, the wall of Whiteness.  White people are inculcated from an early age to love Police but, also fear them.  This is most often seen when a white parents chastise their very young child's behavior by saying, 'Now!  Little Aiden don't do that or the Policeman will come take you away!'

The reason you do this is so white people learn to understand as long as they toe-the-line and support police they will be protected good standing members of the Congregation.  But, those congregants who transgress earn the sobriquet "Mopes".

As Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve noted in her book, Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court,

In the vernacular of court culture, defendants are identified by vulgarities: "scum," "piece of shit," "bad guys" - even "banana suits" (which refers to the jail jumper that defendants in custody must wear in court).  One term predominates among these epithets.  That term is "mopes," used mostly to refer to defendants but sometimes used to describe professionals as well.  The meaning inscribed in this term is central to the moral rubric applied to defendants by courtroom professionals.

Work ethic, competency, and motivation are central elements of court culture.  Efficiency and speed of disposition provide daily evidence of the court professional's work ethic.  Not surprisingly, plea bargains rather than trials define this proverbial machine of efficient justice, and judges and prosecutors pride themselves on efficiency. 

"Mope" is shorthand for a person who violates these values.  Professionals find it difficult to regard a defendant as anything but a mope.  

As we see with the Sinister Six Injustices in the Supremacist Court, the Law, Officials, and Courts in America has morphed into a quasi-religion, the new Priesthood, and Church of America.  For decades now, we've been treated to numerous TV shows which demonstrate the sublime perfection of the Mystic Legal Religion, as Cops always get there, Judges are humble, impartial arbiters of immutable Holy Script, and the Prosecutors follow the god-given tenets of law to achieve absolute truth.  While defendants attempt to wiggle free.  In many courtrooms across the land certain people are rushed through the system and incarcerated whilst others enjoy the long, slow process, multiple appeals, delays, motions, and extended mysteries of the courtroom.   

The role of Police is to be the first line enforcing this Mystical Legal Religion (which has all the hallmarks of White Supremacy); now every Officer I know would (and has) immediately balked and become defensive or dismissive of this when I point it out for a variety of personal reasons or unexamined assumptions but, this is often because they can not or will not see the systematic Institutional Racism which undergirds American society.

Because Police Officers are terrible lawyers and should not be trusted when it comes to their opinion on the charging of crimes.  So Cook County makes Officers call Assistant State's Attorney's for background and approval when charging felonies.  But, I've never met an Officer who didn't think every single arrest he made was a lock solid certainty and the defendant 100% guilty.  Now, I never made an arrest when I did not believe I had probable cause, but I've never gotten mad at not "winning" in the Courtroom.

In this system, blacks and Hispanics are always a priori considered "mopes" until proved otherwise and white people are presumed to have been raised in the spirit of holy Justice to uphold the white supremacist ideals that the Court enforces.  But, by interfering in the fast disposition of defendants, Kim Foxx became Queen Mope to Officers working in Chicago and Cook County, who took to routinely blaming Foxx for all the woes and all crime in the City and Cook County.  Of course, this is total nonsense.

Incidentally, this is why every Republican, every rightwing tv station and every internet propagandist is mad about the revelations of extreme corruption, cartoonish criminality, and highly unethical behavior of the Ettins of the Supreme Court; Clarence and Ginni, John Roberts and his wife Jane Sullivan, Sammy di puzzi Alito, Neil Gorsuch, Boofer O'Kavanugh, and Amy Coathanger Barrett.  Since they are the High Mullahs of America their whims are infallible and their dictates (much like those of Kacsmaryk or the podunk goober Judges in down state Illinois) are received from on-high and are actually the transmittals of the Idealized Pure Law and thus unimpeachable.  Also, conservatives will be apoplectic if Dick Durbin gets off his ass and abolishes the outmoded and fascist friendly blue-slip Senate rules because conservatives have stolen the Judiciary fair and square!

However, now that Kim Foxx is gone, rightwingers and asshole Reactionary Cops have lost their satan whom they could blame for any of their lazy fuck-ups in building a case, sloppy detective work, and for all crime everywhere in Cook County.  But, thankfully white supremacy in Chicago is saved because in April Brandon Johnson won the Chicago Mayoral Election against Paul Vallas and before the final vote was even tabulated rightwingers had a downtown incident which was 100% Brandon Johnson's fault and which 100% showed what the rightwing wurlitzer will do going forward.