Thursday, July 2, 2026

When The Left Proves Themselves Wrong

 https://x.com/bskimike22802/status/2071613116438176109?s=51&t=cLq01Oy84YkmYPZ-URIMYw

  

 Addressed to Senator Warren

"Well, Senator, I am genuinely glad someone in the Democratic Party has accidentally stumbled onto the greatest argument FOR the conservative court that any Democrat has made all year. You are CELEBRATING a ruling by "a Supreme Court stacked by Donald Trump." Let me let that sentence breathe for a second. YOUR people — Hakeem Jeffries, Jamie Raskin, Chuck Schumer, Ilhan Omar — have spent the last two years calling this exact court the "MAGA Court," a "far-right partisan tool," a "hijacked system," an "arm of the Republican Party." And now the NANOSECOND it rules in your direction, suddenly it has credibility again? Madam Senator, your position has more flip-flops than a beach in July. Here is what a person who hasn't donated their brain to science before they were done with it would notice: THE COURT RULED AGAINST TRUMP. His own appointees. The judges your colleagues have been screaming are "loyalists" and "rubber stamps" looked at the statute, and they followed THE LAW. Not what Trump wanted. THE LAW. Because that is what conservative judges DO — even when it burns the people who put them there. This is not surprising to anyone who has been paying attention. Neil Gorsuch — Trump's own pick — extended Title VII to cover LGBTQ employees. John Roberts — Bush's appointment — saved the ACA TWICE. Sandra Day O'Connor — Reagan's pick — voted to preserve Roe. The list goes on. Conservative justices have a DOCUMENTED, HISTORICAL pattern of ruling against the party that seated them when the law requires it. You know when that has happened with a Democrat-appointed justice? I'll wait. I teach high school. Silence is not new to me. And while you are sitting with that question, try reading a liberal dissent sometime. Count the statute citations. You will run out of fingers embarrassingly fast. What you WILL find are policy preferences wearing legal robes, outcomes decided before the first page was read, and empathy substituting for analysis. That is not jurisprudence. That is a participation trophy with a gavel. Quinn's Law Number 26: liberals like the courts unless the decision doesn't go their way. And Quinn's Law Number 23: liberals love the law unless they disagree with it. Then they just ignore it. So Senator Warren — a certified snollygoster who couldn't pour water out of a boot with instructions on the heel when it comes to economic logic — let me give you the ONLY two options available to you right now: ONE: You were wrong when you called this "Trump's stacked court." In which case, you owe the American people an apology and a retraction of two years of delegitimizing rhetoric. TWO: The court is actually doing its job, following the law regardless of who appointed them. In which case, maybe — JUST MAYBE — you should have been saying that the entire time instead of encouraging your colleagues to scream "MAGA justices" every time a ruling inconvenienced your party. There is no third option. Pick one. I am not going anywhere. As for Bill Pulte being your new villain of the week — you just called a man a "lackey" and demanded his removal in the same breath you are cheering a court ruling. The irony of shrieking about partisan loyalty while standing at the same figurative lectern where Senator Schumer LITERALLY THREATENED sitting justices by name — on the courthouse steps, on camera, with a crowd — apparently escapes you entirely. That was a federal crime, 18 U.S.C. Section 1507, by the way. But what are federal statutes to someone whose brain is on airplane mode with the Wi-Fi off? The blatherskite routine is getting old, Senator. Conservative judges ruled against Trump because that is what principled originalists DO. They follow the text. It makes Republicans furious sometimes. That is called INTEGRITY. The ABSENCE of that pattern on the left — the fact that you cannot name a single case where a Democrat-appointed justice made Democrats genuinely angry — is not a strength. It is an indictment. But what do I know — I am only a medically retired Army combat medic and science teacher who actually reads the dissents, counts the statutory citations, and notices when the same people who spent two years yelling "MAGA Court" suddenly rediscover judicial legitimacy the moment the gavel falls in their favor."

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