Yeah, the complete disregard for respecting norms and the spirit in which the system was meant to function really reminds me of this:
I’d hate to live in a world where restaurants can no longer offer free chips because of jerks gaming the system, but that’s pretty much where we are.
IANAL, but I’ve been told that because the cases continually get dismissed rather than heard, they can’t be appealed. I hope that’s true.
I was also wondering about that: surely a case must at least have some merit for the SCOTUS to even entertain it, but we’re living in crazy times, sooo
Obvious Anagram News Network.
I don’t see the SCOTUS taking on cases that were dismissed (especially those requiring the plaintiff to pay the defendant’s legal expenses) by lower courts. They tend to take cases that have interesting legal twists, not cases without legs.
You’re right, and there is work to do. But if both parties practice this and exacerbates it, we will never have a functional government again. It will be deadlocked legislators and executive orders. Unless one party manages to get a trifecta of the majority, and then they can run roughshod over half the nation.
Yes, the tragedy of the commons, basically, except that it’s the foundation of the entire country that people are gaming for personal advantage. 
True, but it took Trump to get them to completely tip to the point of supporting the abandonment of political norms.
Ok, but what speech would you write that would reflect this?
I’m afraid that means he’d get to keep his Twitter account, since he’d be an actual candidate and not just some random asshole. But hopefully Twitter’s ToS is different (i.e. more stringent) for candidates than it is for officeholders.
I think that’s it. Someone more competent won’t hamfist their way through it, nor brag (as much) about it while they do.
…“with prejudice” in the case of PA yesterday. 
The Trumpland spin on the spate of devastating court losses is “We’re THRILLED that all our cases were shot down so quickly because that means we get to appeal them to higher courts right away!”
This is kind of like rallying the troops by saying “Good news, men! Now that 99% of our forces have been wiped out we now present a smaller target for the enemy than ever!”
I’ve been imagining at least some judges sitting on (deliberating on?) these cases for weeks, precisely because they recognize this tactic.
Oh oh yes, he’s the great pretender,
pretending he’s doing well…
“a delusional sideshow.”
Pretty good description of the last four years in America.
Remember, he got MORE votes in 2020 than in 2016. And not just because overall population has gone up slightly.
But I think that the pointless bragging, which so many of us find ofputting is kind of THE POINT. The kind of people that WANT a “strongman” telling them what to think like that. That shit isn’t Trump’s weakness, it is his strength. His weaknesses are his indecisiveness, his laziness, and his poor ability to negotiate, coupled with the fact that he is convinced that he is decisive, hard working and and an excellent negotiator. He has few actual accomplishments, but has convinced himself and his followers that he is the greatest president EVER.
It definitely provides a distraction. I heard this last month and started thinking about all the evil people in the administration and wondering what they have been sneaking under the radar…
Over 400 technical and policy changes, but we’ve heard about, maybe, 5 in the general news cycles.
Biden/Harris are going to have a LOT of cleaning up to do.
Do you really see Democrats “running roughshod” over…anybody?
They had the trifecta in the first two years of the Obama administration and could have, hypothetically, passed M4A or at least a public option. Instead they compromised, proactively. Obama’s last SCOTUS pick wasn’t a progressive like Sotomayor or Kagan, it was Garland, a compromise pick.
I like “MAGA-ts” since it automatically shows their slimy worminess.
Twitter has booted plenty of candidates for violating TOS. There doesn’t seem to be any protection there.
The Republicans have been doing that for a while, too. It took Trump for them to completely abandon all political norms and entirely dispense with the expectation that they should (pretend to) adhere to norms.
One that acknowledges that what Trump is doing is a serious and unacceptable attack on American democracy.
