Today is Monday, May 5, 2025. While I was away, I missed the anti-Dump demonstration scheduled for May Day, May 1, last Thursday. I know that protesters were out in Arizona as well as many other states across the country. Of course, I was unable to join them, even though I would have preferred to do so. I’ll have to wait until the next one is scheduled, which could be sometime in the next two weeks.

An online article for AlterNet predicts a catastrophic meltdown of the Dump administration as millions of Americans are shitting on Dump’s autocratic agenda. The article is written by Adam Lynch and is entitled ‘A broad-based crash’: Here’s why Americans are dumping Trump’s agenda” and it’s a bad omen for the failing president if there ever was one.

The article’s opening paragraph begins, “Salon Magazine reports multiple sources are watching President Donald Trump’s agenda implode under the weight of Americans’ disapproval.” Senior Writer Chauncey DeVega writes in that piece that Dump’s approval ratings are falling to levels not seen for an American president in the last 80 years. Another bad first for you, Donnie!

Oops, I lost the article by accidentally clicking on something else on my phone and I can’t retrieve it. Sorry! But you get the idea!

Another earth-shattering story is the one that occurred on Sunday on Meet the Press which was moderated by Kristen Welker in which the deranged president sat down for another one of his rambling, incoherent interviews, but this one is drawing outrage from many sectors for what the president admitted about upholding the Constitution after responding to a question about it from Welker. This bizarre admission of “I don’t know” when asked if he would uphold the principle of due process, repeating the same vacuous response when asked if he would uphold the Constitution, drew the attention of conservative former judge Michael Luttig – who was a vehement critic of Dump during his first term – who called the comments made by the Orange Mussolini as the “most important” statement made by a U.S. president for an online RawStory article by Sarah K. Burns entitled “Trump uttered ‘most important words’ ever spoken’ by a president: conservative ex-judge.”

I promise I won’t lose this article. This interview which aired Sunday did not see me viewing it, so I had to learn about it from my news sources on my smartphone. The questions posed to the doofus involved the deported migrants sent to a prison in El Salvador and whether they received the due process required under the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. It is here where he answered with “I don’t know.”

Then on Monday, Luttig told MSNBC’s Nicole Wallace that Chump’s comments “are perhaps the most important words ever spoken by a president of the United States.” He added that the story is “one of the most important stories of our times.”

Luttig dismissed this president’s bizarre words as not just another gaffe made by an Alzheimer’s-afflicted person, but that he believes that Dump himself doesn’t necessarily thinks he is obligated to preserve the Constitution of the United States, as it’s interpreted by the Supreme Court. Luttig feels Dump might be subscribing to a school of thought called “constitutional denialism,” a corpus of belief that Luttig himself has followed and has attempted to understand for most of his career. Here Luttig gives Dump more credit than he deserves; I sincerely doubt that he even understands the term “constitutional denialism,” let alone following it in his shambling, plodding course through his second term.

Don’t get me on the more bizarre exchange that ensued between Welker and this idiot about dolls. That girls don’t need 30 dolls to play with, they need only 3 dolls and then threw in pencils. Can anyone grasp what this moron is saying?

Where are the men out with the butterfly net for this guy?

I should mention that Elliot and I are going away – yet again – this Thursday, May 8, to England where we will be boarding a Celebrity ship called the Apex on Saturday, May 10, to enjoy a seven-day jaunt to Norway to see the fjords. We also will spend some time in Wales to visit a remarkable book village called Hay-on-Wye. And spend some time in London as well. We return to the States on May 22. This cruise marks my first sailing venture since February 2020 – right before the looming pandemic. So I’m a little nervous about doing it five years later. My last entry will be on Wednesday then.

Tomorrow marks my men’s reading club meeting, so I will be away from this venue on Tuesday eve since I will be discussing The New Life by Tom Crewe with, maybe, 30 or 40 other avid readers. I made it my business to finish the book before going to Los Angeles for the TCM Film Festival.

And so it went!

Today is Wednesday, February 28, 2024. Today all Americans – except those purporting to be MAGAts – should be enraged by what the Supreme Court has fucking decided to do in postponing the most critical Drumpf trial, the election subversion case, brought by special counsel Jack Smith who must be tearing his hair out because of their pro-Trump decision which is to decide whether former faux president Donald Duck may claim immunity in that matter, adding another explosive appeal from the Drumpf legal team to its docket and further delaying his federal trial. This is too outrageous, in my opinion, and many pundits, including constitutional expert Laurence Tribe, are slamming the court’s further delaying tactic in extending justice to the insurrectionist. The better course for this terrible court to have taken was to deny taking up the case and thus sending the ruling back to the U.S. federal court that denied Trump immunity in the first place, but no, they had to weigh in on this hot-button issue like the political hacks they truly are. This disappointing decision by the high court is covered in an online CNN article by John Fritze entitled “Supreme Court to decide Trump immunity claim, further delaying election subversion trial.”

Get this as to how long this entire fucking process is now going to take: The court agreed to expedite – expedite? – the case and hear arguments the week of April 22. Fucking April 22! It’s only February 28; this is almost two months away. How can this be called an expedition of the case in every sense of the word? Not in my book is this expediting the damn case.

This disgusting move puts the criminal frontrunner for the repugnican presidential nomination on track for another high-stakes date with the “Extreme” Court, which earlier this month heard arguments in a separate case questioning whether Dump disqualified himself from running for a second term under the 14th Amendment’s “insurrection ban.”

Meanwhile, the high court arguments could actually be held while Drumpf is on trial in New York on criminal charges of falsifying business records as part of a cover-up to conceal hush money payments before the 2016 election.

This terrible decision is another significant victory for Drumpf for at least two elections: He will now be able to argue for sweeping presidential immunity that, if granted, could undermine the bevy of legal challenges he faces, and he will also be able to push off a trial, likely for several weeks at least. That means when in the hell could a trial be effectively held before the election on November 5 now?

This measure also marks the second time the justices have rejected a request from Smith. The special counsel had months ago asked the high court to take the case before the DC court decided it – and was rejected.

Again, had the justices rejected Drumpf’s emergency request to pause the case, Smith would have been able to move much more quickly, virtually guaranteeing a trial before the November election. Now that has been put in dire jeopardy by this horrible decision.

In issuing this decision, the court had waited nearly two weeks to issue its ruling on how it would proceed, suggesting there was behind-the-scenes maneuvering, said Steve Vladeck, CNN analyst and professor at the University of Texas School of Law.

“The surprise is that it took the court the better part of two weeks to reach this result, from which no justice has publicly dissented. The justices couldn’t reach consensus on a way to resolve the matter without giving it full briefing and argument. It’s hard to read any tea leaves into whether that makes the court more likely to side with former President Trump when it finally resolves his immunity claim, but it certainly means that, even in the worst-case scenario for Trump, the January 6 prosecution will be delayed for at least another 3-5 months. That’s a pretty big win for Trump, even if he ends up losing this case,” Vladeck said.

As for the trial date already being postponed, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has postponed the first trial date, originally set for March 4, while appeals courts wrestled with Trump’s claims. Given the delays in the equation, a trial likely, however, wouldn’t begin until May – May – at the earliest. And let’s not rule out June even, which is only 5 months until Election Day. Could the trial even be adjudicated by that date if it starts so freaking late, thanks to the Supreme Court?

Drumpf’s initial claims about immunity are so ridiculous that any lawman could decide on his claims just on the basis of common sense, especially when it was determined that he thinks a sitting president could command a political rival be assassinated, and when he or she leaves office, he can’t be prosecuted for the crime! Drumpf stupidly argued that presidents might be hesitant to act if they were concerned about the prospect of criminal charges after they depart the White House.

U.S. Circuit Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Florence Pan, and J. Michelle Childs soundly rejected those arguments.

The judges were very clear that the allegations against the insurrectionist are serious and left no question they believe the charges can be prosecuted. They eviscerated Trump’s alleged behavior after the 2020 presidential election as unpresidential – duh? you think – and constituting an assault on American institutions.

Together, the cases have thrust the court into the middle of this year’s most crucial presidential election in a way that it has largely managed to avoid since its decision in Bush v. Gore effectively decided the 2020 election between former President George W. Bush and former Vice President Al Gore.

As MSNBC commentator Elie Mystal just stated on Alex Wagner’s show tonight, this ruling by the Supreme Court clearly demonstrates their total partisanship for a repugnican candidate for president and is not indicative of impartiality at all. He called them corrupt and said that Democrats must wake up to the reality that this Supreme Court is not so supreme and is just acting to buttress up Donald Duck! I fucking agree; what happened to the movement to “pack” the court with more liberal justices under a Democratic president? Maybe this should be reevaluated now, given this alarming decision!

I’m so angry over this shocking Supreme Court ruling that I’m ending my blog now without writing about anything else. This decision is so antithetical to getting justice served in the election subversion case that, as Chris Hayes opined, this measure takes on the characteristics of “justice delayed is justice denied,” as quoted by William E. Gladstone. The only way that Drumpf can now get justice, possibly, is through the American public who will massively reject him at the polls in November. We hope!

Oh, and Senate Minority Leader “Bitch” McConnell announced his retirement today. Fuck him, I say, and “good riddance to him!” He was the creator of the Frankenstein monster known as the Orange Turd and deserves to end his days in total agony! He’s done so many things that was ruinous to this country that we should all celebrate his retirement with a dance outside our homes. I will return tomorrow with a listing of how many injurious things he’s done as Senate Majority Leader during Obama and afterward. The Daily Kos listed 17 bad actions he spearheaded as the supreme Republican leader of the party all those years he oversaw his stinking party. McConnell does intend to finish his term (which, sadly, ends in 2027) in the Senate, and he’ll still be the Minority Leader until November. Too bad!

Stay safe and be well.

Here Atticus is again showing his willingness to go with me to my gym in Forest Hills.