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Back in April 2021, Elie Mystal — my favorite legal pundit — presciently observed in The Nation, “I can distill the Democrats’ decades-long failure to control the Supreme Court into a single concept: Republicans use the nation’s highest court to reward their hard-core voting base; Democrats use it to pacify their moderates. The staunch refusal of establishment Democrats to offer anything more than a token defense of their voters through the court is the reason Democrats are always fighting an asymmetrical war over the third branch of government—and always losing. The latest Democratic Party failure is Joe Biden’s Presidential Commission on the Supreme Court. Last week, in fulfillment of his campaign promise, Biden announced the composition of an 180-day commission to study expanding the court. Biden’s choices confirm the worst fears court reformers had about the president: He doesn’t want a solution; he wants an excuse to do nothing.”

Now, fast forward to the commission’s draft report where Slate sums up the members’ intentions well, “After six months of gathering facts and evidence, taking testimony, and mulling reform ideas, the commission declares that it is neither offering recommendations about fixing the courts nor proposing a specific path forward. One problem: In so doing, the commission is actually proposing a specific path forward—the one we are already on. The commission seems to frame the status quo as the reasonable choice and all alternatives as dangerous deviations. … To recap: During the six months that this commission has been preparing its draft report, the current Supreme Court made it harder for minorities to challenge racist voter suppression laws, harder for unions to organize, and harder to learn who is contributing funds to political groups. It has changed the law of religious liberty through the shadow docket. It has also, in case you missed it, allowed approximately 10 percent of American women of childbearing age to lose their constitutional right to abortion in September. If you survey all this legal wreckage and ask what can be done about it, the commission’s interim report has an answer: nothing.”

So, Msytal was right from the start. Biden’s commission scam was always only about placating dumbass Democrats. When the time comes, Biden will do nothing while claiming change is hard and scary. To be honest, without larger majorities in Congress he can’t do much, but certainly he is not gaining any favor with his current stance on SCOTUS. Remember, for example, Biden is against term limits for justices, so he’s a worthless institutionalist who just wants more or the same basically. News flash, f***tards! Traitor trump destroyed tradition and the concept of government working within conventional “norms.” This is a perfect case for why Biden and Democrats are so f***ing G.D. weak. They create pointless, gutless blue-ribbon commissions to investigate an issue only to throw up their hands and claim it’s all too complicated and that change might do more harm than good — because Lord knows the status quo is working so f***ing well at the moment. Then dumbass Democrats hide behind such reports as an excuse to do nothing in the name of returning to “normalcy.” It never f***ing fails! It’s always the same. RepubliKKKlans are destroying every aspect of America’s democracy, and the best Biden and dumbass Democrats can do is ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I give up! Why even bother anymore when everyone already knows the outcome? Just ask Msytal. He saw the SCOTUS endgame long before the game started. Welcome to stupid America. Dumb as ever and surely to be dumber tomorrow!

According to CNN, “William Shatner is firing a rhetorical rocket back at Prince William after the future king criticized space tourism. … ‘He’s a lovely, gentle, educated man, but he’s got the wrong idea,’ Shatner said during an interview with Entertainment Tonight. ‘The idea here is not to go, “Yeah, look at me. I’m in space,”’ Shatner added, claiming that trips such as his represent a ‘baby step’ toward relocating polluting industries to space.” First of all, no one on Earth (and now in space) is more deserving of a trip to just beyond the Kármán line than Shatner. This is truly life imitating art! And Shanter is right. Not that Prince William is wrong, but he is missing the mark when it comes to the nascency of democratizing space travel. And I will say the same for every other liberal I see going apoplectic about billionaires “wasting” money on their ego space race. Liberals act as if the money spent on private ventures to establish commercial space travel is somehow taking the food out of babies’ mouths in the third world. Ugh, hyperbolic much? Look, morons! Space is the final frontier. (Well, some may argue time is the final frontier.) It is only natural humanity progresses toward that end. Last I checked, human advances do not stop at the expense of fixing every worldly problem first. In fact, it is usually the world’s problems that necessitate progress. Shatner is correct by saying space travel is required for future innovation that can ultimately benefit the planet. And I further argue that we can tackle climate change and space travel simultaneously. What is lacking with climate change is the global will. Yeah, yeah. People and politicians say a lot about it, but in reality not much is being done. If anything, we are advancing space travel faster than we are taking climate change seriously as a species. At this rate, we may crack the code to living in space and colonizing our solar system quicker than we decide to actually save the planet from climate change. Billionaires channeling their resources toward space tourism is not the problem; we are (humanity is) the problem for not tackling climate change sooner and with more urgency.

From the Wall Street Journal, “Researchers inside Instagram, which is owned by Facebook, have been studying for years how its photo-sharing app affects millions of young users. Repeatedly, the company found that Instagram is harmful for a sizable percentage of them, most notably teenage girls, more so than other social-media platforms. In public, Facebook has consistently played down the app’s negative effects, including in comments to Congress, and hasn’t made its research public or available to academics or lawmakers who have asked for it. In response, Facebook says the negative effects aren’t widespread, that the mental-health research is valuable and that some of the harmful aspects aren’t easy to address.” How or why Facebook has not been considered an enemy of the people is beyond me. The company should be taxed at 90 percent; they need to pay for the damage they have done and continue to do to America’s democracy and public health. There is a direct correlation between America’s use of Facebook and American stupidity. #DefundFacebook!

I read this headline and literally laughed out loud — the real, original meaning of literally and not the usurped, incorrect meaning. I am a dog lover, but seriously?!?! That thing is something a cat coughed up, right? I will take a mutt any day of the week.