Thread by @l78lancer

When @JoyAnnReid looked right into the camera tonight straight-faced and call "bullsh!t," she was ice cold, dead right, as serious as a heart attack, and she didn't blink. That's because there was absolutely nothing funny or light-hearted in what she discussed.

She was talking about folks on the street who'll cease seeing the Supreme Court as illegitimate because they are behaving and performing like political hacks who don't give a damn about the public, and are enforcing their will to implement their ideological and political goals.

That was the segment of her show that followed @MalcolmNance and @AmandiOnAir putting out the clarion call about Steve Bannon's call for "shock troops," and Madison Cawthorn's recorded message calling for Christian Jihad. It a full-on call for war that deserves its own thread.

But the court majority are thin skinned because they are going to do what they want to because they have the uncheck, unabated power to do so, and they were put there for that purpose, they don't want any criticism for doing exactly what they are clearly doing.

And for some bizarre reason, that even extends to Stephen Breyer who, while still voting consistently against the conservatives, apparently can't tolerate criticism about the politicism of the court either. They apparently want America to be happy and content with gaslighting.

But I only have one quibble with what Joy said: the people won't lose their respect for the court at some point in the future. The future is already here. Only 40% of the people see the court as legitimate, and that number id falling.

So the court should not be shocked when the people disregard their decisions in the future, because they're publicly rendering themselves illegitimate now. Illegitimacy will ultimately lead to impotency.

Nothing is clearer regarding the momentum in that direction than the hundreds of thousands of women on the march over the weekend that ought to tell the court their legitimacy is on the line, if their hubris and their black robed fragile egos will permit them to pay attention.

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