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Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower
That’s really fucking great to hear that you are feeling secure, because I was so worried. And I’m delighted you took this opportunity to once again refocus us the real problems facing us, like the over-policing of racist speech (mainly on social media or in obscure academic and journalistic circles). But while you continue to alternate between defending Trump (“He’s not so bad, just look at the favorable tax treatment I got on my REITs!”) and relentlessly minimizing the damage he is doing (“He hasn’t committed mass genocide, so why is everyone’s hair on fire?”), one of his supporters gave a violent speech at our State Capitol Building yesterday announcing that they would be tracking down judges in their homes and not allowing them to hide behind their benches any more. This is concerning to me in part because, when an authoritarian head of state encourages his supporters to behave violently against judges that dare to cross him, this undermines the independence of the judiciary, destabilizes the checks and balances of our democracy, and takes us yet another step closer to becoming a pathetic joke of a country. It is also concerning to me because my wife is a judge on our state court of appeals, and has recently heard election-related cases brought by Trump supporters. So I got to spend part of my day reassuring my daughter that deranged Trump supporters were not going to violently attack us in our home (while secretly wondering whether it was time to pick up an AR-15). I realize that you don’t give a shit about this at all because you are incapable of caring about anything that does not immediately and directly affect you, but it was a pretty tense day over here.
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That sucks. But it has me wondering if you ever role play, you know, with the robes and gavel and all?
(also, shotgun is much better for home defense).
