U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (April 25, 2024):
If an incumbent who loses a very close, hotly contested election knows that a real possibility after leaving office is . . . that [he] may be criminally prosecuted by a bitter political opponent, will that not lead us into a cycle that destabilizes the functioning of our country as a democracy?”
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Like Thomas Paine before him, Roger Stone sensed an American Crisis. Sales of his autographs, like Trump super hero cards, had plummeted.
In swing-state Arizona, Eastman joined Meadows and Giuliani in yet another fake-elector suit. The latest one, in swing-state Michigan, even named Trump as an unindicted co-conspirator.
And thanks to peckerhead Chesebro, the Fulton County, GA prosecution is back on line, despite a GOP dirty-tricks op ingeniously designed to derail it.
What to do?
No help on the way from gloryhound Gaetz or batshit crazy MTG. Both recently featured in New Yorker articles, each superficially flattering, each revealing their marks as empty suits: Little Matt as a one-man STD superspreader, Marge as the fatuous grifter she is. And, as Stone knows so well, it takes one to know one.
What would Thomas Paine do?
He who sought to “recharge the revolutionary cause” in 1776 by penning a series of inspiring pamphlets entitled The American Crisis under the pseudonym “Common Sense.”
Stone, of course, saw the bitter irony of his musings. Stone, no patriot, an aging political hack short on cash. He, like Gaetz and MTG, wholly lacking not only in common sense but the virtues that forever memorialize Thomas Paine as a truly great American - abundant courage, a thirst for freedom, justice, wisdom, and genuine civic pride in the common good.
Quickly recovering from his twisted revery, Roger had the answer:
Alter the Law to Improve Trump’s Odds!
Stone would invent some batshit crazy scenario demonstrating the need for presidential immunity from prosecution.
After a sleepless night, bingo!
He had it - a Janus-faced solution of mad genius. One pretending to protect President Biden from prosecution on losing to Trump in 2024, but aimed at saving Trump’s big caboose from prosecution for his republic-killing designs on Jan. 6, 2021!
Next, Stone pondered, which U.S. Supreme Court justice might bite?
Surely not that whippersnapper Justice Kagan, who would immediately see through Stone’s ruse.
Maybe cantankerous Justice Thomas? No, that won’t work. He and Ginny are RVing this session with one big GOP dark-money donor or another.
How about Trump’s favorite, Uncle Sam?
That would be perfect, Stone beamed, Operation “Alter the Law to Improve Trump’s Odds” could have a cheeky code name: Project A.L.I.T.O.
And no one would be the wiser!
He would make the call today.
Hello, Uncle Sam? America Needs You!
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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan (April 25, 2024): "How about if the president orders the military to stage a coup?"
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Here’s your morning shot of Blackjack:
https://www.defendyourvotingrights.org/play-card-game/
with a Card Deck of 54+ Enablers of the Big Lie of Election Fraud (including former President Trump, Roger Stone, Matt Gaetz, Majorie Taylor Greene, Mark Meadows, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, John Chesebro and Ginny Thomas).
https://www.defendyourvotingrights.org/54-enablers-of-voter-suppression/