I’ve always been a Republican, and a conservative.  I came by it honestly.  My grandparents were Republican district leaders in the City of Newark.  Yes, there once were Republicans in Newark.  Politics is a blood sport.  Throughout our history, we’ve had knock-down, drag-out political battles between the various Parties.  Since the 1850’s the battle has been between Democrats and Republicans.  Though these two Parties have been mortal enemies, until recently there always was a consensus that the government must secure the nation’s welfare and security.  The fighting was limited to each Party’s perspective on how to go about doing those things.  Sure, Democrats may have favored more government spending, but they wouldn’t advocate reckless spending.  Case in point – In 1964, LBJ got the so-called Kennedy Tax Cut through Congress.  His Party controlled both Houses, but LBJ had to convince Democrat Senator Harry Byrd that real spending would be cut before Byrd would permit the bill to pass.  Simply put, although Democrats controlled everything, they weren’t crazy.  Regardless of Party affiliation, sanity reigned.  Ah, those were the days, but they are no more.  Today, everywhere you look, insanity reigns.  It’s been said that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.  Let me amend that saying.  Insanity is doing anything Progressive Democrats are doing, because all of it is crazy.  All of it.  Take the border policy.  Democrats wanted to increase immigration.  Fair enough, but what did they do?  Turned the border into a sieve, and brought in more than a million illegals, who they then transported throughout the country to infiltrate every community, and further sap our educational, medical and housing resources.  That’s crazy.  How about energy policy?  Democrats publicly announced that they will destroy our oil and gas industries.  They took an energy independent nation, with low fuel prices, and transformed it into a beggar nation.  Gasoline $5.  Heating oil $6. And a president who is touring the world to beg our enemies to sell us fuel we could produce for ourselves.  Democrats first blamed Russia.  Now they confessed it’s all part of their plan to transition the U.S. to “renewable energy.”  They mean solar and wind power.  Only we can’t run our economy on solar and wind.  There is no transition.  There can’t be.  There isn’t enough land area in the U.S. to build enough solar and wind farms to produce enough energy to run even New York City.  Democrats know this.  They don’t care.  That’s crazy.  Inflation.  Lie as they might, Democrats know that reckless spending causes runaway inflation.  We have runaway inflation.  The Democrat solution?  More spending.  That’s crazy.  What about crime policy?  Violent crime and property crime is up over 40%.  Crime on mass transit is up 65%.  The Democrat solution?  Release criminals from jail, and impose regulations on law abiding citizens that prevent them from defending themselves.  Handcuff the police.  Refuse to prosecute crimes.  That’s crazy.  And it’s not just the federal government.  Look at New York.  The MTA got $15 billion federal “stimulus” money to bail it out of its debt, supposedly due to the Wuhan plague.  They’ve burned through that money, are broke again, and are begging for more money.  Ridership is barely half what it was pre-Wuhan, for two reasons.  Workers don’t want to return to office buildings to work, and those who are going to the City are afraid to ride the subway due to crime.  What’s the City planning to do?  Raise transit fares, and impose “congestion pricing” on anyone driving below 60th Street.  That will only make things worse.  It’s crazy. The squeegie men  are back threatening motorists.  Mayor Adams doesn’t want to use “heavy-handed” police to stop them.  He wants to send social workers “to supply the needs” of the squeegies.  That’s crazy.  And it’s not just New York.  In Kalamazoo, Michigan, there’s a law that requires people to clean up after their dogs.  But Kalamazoo just decriminalized public urination, defecation and littering by people.  So if you walk your dog and he takes a dump on the sidewalk, you have to pick that up, but you can drop trou,  crap on the street, and just walk away.  Residents and business owners have complained to the City Council.  The Mayor’s answer?  Just live with it.  We can’t arrest the homeless for public defecation because any criminal record may prevent them from getting a job.  Huh?  That’s what he said.  A council-person added that they can’t enforce the law because anyone who craps in the street has to be mentally ill, so they’re not accountable.  It’s the Kalamazoo Catch 22.  You can’t be held legally liable if you’re crazy, and  if you crap in the street you must be crazy, so why have a law at all?  The Democrats also have an annoying tendency simply to ignore or deny what Al Gore might call inconvenient truths.  When they don’t like reality, they simply deny it.  I’m no psychiatrist, but that sounds crazy.  Take the Wuhan vaccines.  Joe Biden and Dr. Fauci told us if we took the vaccines we couldn’t get the Wuhan.  Since telling us that, Fauci has had the Wuhan three times and Biden has it now.  Fauci has had to admit that the vaccines didn’t work.  Dr. Deborah Birx this week admitted they knew all along they wouldn’t work.  Meanwhile our government has hounded those who refused the vaccine, and has fired them from their jobs.  They’ve simply ignored the Fauci and Birx confessions.  Inflation in excess of 9% is killing Americans.  The Dems said it was temporary, and not so bad anyway.  Now they say it’s peaked and is going down.  Economists don’t agree, predicting even higher inflation to come.  Democrats say, “who you gonna believe, us or your lying bank account?”  Now economists are predicting a recession.  Recession has always been defined as two quarters of negative growth, which we just had.  But not so fast.  Democrats deny the age-old definition.  There’s no recession, because they say so.  An individual who has lost touch with reality cries out for an intervention to obtain medical help.  A government which has lost touch with reality is a tragedy of biblical proportions.  It too calls out for an intervention, not medical, but political.  We can disagree on political issues, but crazy is crazy, no matter your political affiliation.  November is approaching, and sanity is calling out for our assistance.  In November, don’t vote for a Party or a philosophy, vote for a return to sanity.

“Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn.”  Of course, that’s what Rhett Butler said to Scarlett at the end of Gone With The Wind.  And I have come to the conclusion that the sentiment expressed by Clark Gable so many years ago should be our response to the ever-increasing, ever-crazier, and ever-louder demands and rants of the Left.  Have you ever noticed that so-called Progressives are never happy, even when they win?  Il Duce Obama was not in favor of same-sex marriage when he was elected in 2008.  And then he was.  The LGBT community kept telling us that it wasn’t demanding the right to marry, but simply the right for partners to visit one another in the hospital.  One morning, it all changed.  The Left not only favored gay marriage, they demanded it immediately, and they denounced anyone who failed to agree.  So they got gay marriage.  Were they happy about that?  Oh no!  That wasn’t enough, so they went on to trans-gender rights.  Let trans people change gender on demand, or else.  Let naked biological men parade around young girls in Ladies Rooms and female locker rooms, or else.  Let male athletes hijack women’s sports, or else.  The climate change fanatics are no different.  They rant, without evidence of any kind, and indeed in the face of contrary evidence, that the Earth is on fire, and we only have 12, or 10, or 7  years to live.  We must “transition” to renewable energy now, or else.  Transition means close industries, fire workers, and turn them into penniless wards of the State.  See how it works?  Shut down coal plants, or else.  Shut down oil production, or else.  Buy only electric cars, or else.  For years we’ve tried to have a dialogue with the people on the Left, but they’re only interested in one opinion – theirs.  Your opinion doesn’t count, and more than half of so-called journalists recently admitted that they see no reason even to report the fact that there are differing opinions.  Well, I say it’s time to fight fire with fire.  It’s time we challenged these crazy bastards, because that’s exactly what they are.  It would be one thing if the demands of the Left were based on actual fact, but they’re not.  The Left exists in a fantasy world, and its demands are based entirely on lies, mistakes, and deceptions about their real intentions.  Simply put, the Progressive movement is a fraud.  Systemic racism doesn’t exist, but we have to listen to Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden, who’s been in the government for 50 years, complain about it.  By the same token, the climate change hysteria is based on a tissue of lies.  NOAA announces every year as the hottest on record.  That would be troubling if true.  It’s not, NOAA knows it’s not, and has been caught changing data to fit the agenda.  Tony Heller at the Real Climate Science web site says that NOAA changes data to make pre-2000 temperatures cooler, and post-2000 temperatures warmer.  This data tampering by NOAA accounts for the claim that temperatures have risen 2.5 degrees since 1895.  Climate analyst Paul Homewood cited another example.  Actual temperatures in New York State,  this past year were 2.7 degrees or more colder than in 1943.  NOAA’s phony  data claims temperatures this year as 0.9 degrees cooler than the actual data in 1943.  Leftists keep claiming that climate change has increased hurricanes and severe weather.  People like meteorologist Joe Bastardi from weatherbell.com keep proving them wrong.  So the global warming scare is basically a hoax.  That doesn’t deter the Leftist loons.  Senator Joe Manchin recently spoiled Biden’s plan to spend another trillion dollars we don’t have, much of it to go to “green energy” projects.  The plan was a hyper-inflationary boondoggle.  Yet here’s the reaction from Hillary henchman John Podesta, “It seems odd that Manchin would choose as his legacy to be the one man who single-handedly doomed humanity.”  If he’s doomed us to live within our means, and in touch with reality, then God bless him.  Because that’s the problem with these Leftist wingnuts.  As I’ve said many times, it’s brain damage.  As Ronald Reagan once observed, “It’s not that they’re bad people, they just know too many things that aren’t so.”  That’s only half right.  The Progressives in power in the government are using “the green new deal” crap to hide their hidden agenda.  When the Berlin Wall fell, the Reds all became Greens.  Climate change is just another way for them to pursue their plans for socialist revolution.  Don’t doubt me.  Pete Buttigieg spilled the beans just this week.  Asked about the pain being inflicted by doubled fuel prices Pete said, “the more pain we are all experiencing from the high price of gas, the more benefit there is for those who can access electric vehicles.”  Get that?  The government policy is to bankrupt the public to force the green energy hoax down our throats, like it or not.     Whether Red or Green, the goal is total government control over every aspect of your life, government run industries, and the end of personal freedom, so Red-Green, what’s the difference?  The followers of this Progressive claptrap are simply not in touch with reality.  They perceive Russian collusion where it doesn’t exist, and fail to perceive such collusion where it does exist.  They tell children the Earth is on fire and the polar bears are dying.  In reality, the polar bear population is up 500% since 1970, but that’s a fact, so they can’t accept it.  Which brings me back to Clark Gable.  When a Leftist tells you to capitulate or else, ask him, “or else what?”  You can’t mollify the mentally ill by pretending that they’re sane and everybody else is crazy.  So stop encouraging them in their insanity.  You shouldn’t care what they think, believe or want because they surely don’t care what you think, believe or want.  If they can’t respect your opinion, there’s no reason you should even entertain theirs.  So just tell the kook his opinion means nothing to you.  You don’t care what he thinks, what he believes, or what he demands.  Suggest that he or she seek help.  Better yet, just tell him what Rhett told Scarlett, “Frankly my friend, I don’t give a damn.”

As they contend with near record low approval numbers, and near record high inflation numbers, the predicament faced by the Democrats evokes any number of familiar sayings, such as, “between a rock and a hard place,” and “pick your poison.”  By all accounts, the Dems could suffer crippling losses in the upcoming mid-term elections.  They deserve their fate.  Democrats who now are complaining about twin failures – Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.  But they should remember that this is precisely what they signed up for in 2020.  Biden sold what was left of his soul to the Woke Wingnut faction of the Party in return for the nomination.  James Clyburn and Il Duce Barack Obama created this monster.  Once in office, Biden signed on to every Woke fever dream fantasy.  Open borders.  Unlimited spending.  Ruinous Green New Deal insanity.  Unlimited abortions.  Gender changes on demand.  The result has been deeper debt, rising interest rates, ruinous inflation, a plague of violent crime, record high gasoline prices, and empty store shelves.  The Administration has proven itself incapable of solving any of these problems.  It has proposed no rational plans to combat these problems.  All it has offered is more spending, higher taxes, and the repeal of the Second Amendment, thus leaving the law-abiding citizen helpless to defend himself against armed criminals, whose guns the Democrats are not interested in taking away.  These calamities have turned the electorate against Democrats in general and Biden in particular.  It’s gotten so bad that, this week, even The New York Times noticed that Joe Biden may possibly be too old, too dumb, too slow, and too senile to be President.  What a revelation.  Who else knows this?  More than 70% of Democrats have said they don’t want Biden to run for reelection.  These numbers have prompted Biden to conclude that 92% of Democrats would vote for him again.  Maybe The Times is right.  Democrats are openly debating getting rid of Biden, either in 2024, or sooner.  But remember the old sayings above:  Rocks and hard places; picking poison.  The Dems are on a spot.  Joe Biden may be null and void, but what comes next is even worse.  Cackling Kamala, whose continual streams of gibberish and non sequiturs have earned her the title, the Word Salad Queen.  Old Joe may be a senescent mumbler, but what’s Kamala’s excuse?  I mean, the very least you can expect from a politician is the ability to to put together a complete sentence.  Not to actually answer a question, mind you, but to at least spew enough pleasant sounding bullshit to get by.  But she’s brutal.  Here are some examples.  On abortion – I think that, to be very honest with you, I do believe that we should have rightly believed, but we certainly believe that certain issues are just settled.  Certain issues are just settled.  And that’s why I do believe that we are living, sadly, in real unsettled times.”  On guns – “We’ve got to take this stuff seriously, as seriously as you are because you have been forced to take this seriously.”  On aid to Jamaica – “We will assist Jamaica in COVID recovery by assisting in terms of the recovery efforts in Jamaica.”  On rural internet access – “We were all doing a tour of the library here and talking about the significance of the passage of time, right?  The significance of the passage of time.  So when you think about it, there is great significance to passage of time.  There is such great significance to the passage of time when you think of a day in the life of our children.”  On cooperation – “We must, together, work together to see where we are, where we are headed, where we are going and our vision for where we should be, but also see it as a moment, yes, to, together, address the challenges.”  And Kamala’s grasp of foreign affairs is second to none.  “Ukraine is a country in Europe.  It exists next to another country called Russia.  Russia is a bigger country. Russia is a powerful country.  Russia decided to invade a smaller country called Ukraine so, basically, that’s wrong.”  They couldn’t have explained that any better on Sesame Street.  Forget about rocks and hard places.  Kamala Harris is poison.  This means that Democrats have narrowed their choices down to Arsenic or Old Face.  That’s their dilemma.  They don’t want Biden and they don’t want Kamala.  If they stick with Biden, by 2024 their Party will be in wreckage.  If they push him out sooner, they get President Kamala, after which, denying her the 2024 nomination will destroy whatever is left of their Party.  But the Democrats deserve everything they get.  As a Senator, Joe Biden was widely considered to be the dumbest member of the Senate.  When he became Vice-President, Kamala succeeded to that position.  These two truly are Tweedledum and Tweedledumber.  And the fact that the Democrats promoted both these dunces to the Vice-Presidency tells you all you need to know about their judgment.  It would be funny if we didn’t have to try to survive this poor excuse for a government until 2025.  Biden mumbles, Kamala rambles, and America burns.

Corrupt Demented Imbecile Joe Biden may be senile, but don’t get the idea that the devastation which has been wrought upon our nation is the result of mistakes.  Never forget that everything being done by the Biden Administration is deliberate.  We’re all headed straight for Hell because that’s the way the Biden bunch has planned it.  The chaos of an open border with hundreds of thousands of invaders, along with tons of cocaine, heroin and fentanyl pouring in isn’t an unfortunate mistake, it’s their policy.  The embarrassing bailout from Afghanistan that wasted billions, stranded thousands and killed 13 Marines wasn’t a screw up, it was their plan.  Likewise, the advent of $5 gasoline and $7 diesel fuel wasn’t a mistake.  It’s Democrat/Progressive/Wingnut climate policy.  No, it’s not because of Putin, or the war in Ukraine, it’s all part of the climate nut, leave oil in the ground, transition to renewable energy, anti-growth, anti-industry, anti-human agenda.  That’s right, I said anti-human, because that’s what these climate nuts are into.  Don’t take my word for it.  Listen to “environmentalist” nut case Derrick Jensen, the co-founder of the radical environmental movement Deep Green Resistance.  Jensen believes civilization is destroying the planet, so wants to go back to the Stone Age.  That means fewer people, no lights, no heat, no electricity, no jobs, no food, and no life.  He wants a sustainable planet, you see.  At least now I understand the meaning of “sustainable,” back to the Stone Age, where up to half of all children died.  Then again, for a Party that worships abortion, it kind of makes sense.  Jensen says if we don’t do it, all of us may starve within 30 years. (If you’re keeping track, that’s exactly what Paul Erlich predicted, 52 years ago).  Biden and company have bought into this nonsense.  Joe told us as much.  Get used to high energy prices, Joe said.  It’s all part of the “beautiful transition” to renewable energy.  States like California and Michigan started this crap before Biden.  They face brown outs and black outs for a very simple reason – alternative energy sources are insufficient to meet the ordinary needs of everyday life for Americans.  Energy inflation has fueled inflated prices for absolutely everything, because absolutely everything we buy has to be delivered by trucks using that $7 a gallon fuel.  Biden doesn’t care what it costs you.  They’re saving the planet.  And if you and your children have to die to make their fever dream come true, that’s just too bad.  It didn’t have to be this way.  Before Biden, we were energy independent.  We could be again, but it’s contrary to the wingnut climate change plan.  Biden shut the pipeline, cancelled the leases, and denied operators loans, while all the time promising to close the fossil fuel industry.  Sleepy Joe did make one concession that he claimed was designed to ease the pain of high prices on American consumers.  He made daily withdrawals of oil from our strategic petroleum reserve.  Biden said he was doing it to help Americans.  Of course, the amount that his action added to oil supplies was the equivalent of a piss in the ocean, and was guaranteed to have no effect on prices, but Biden congratulated himself for depleting our strategic supply, oil that by law should be tapped only to meet a dire military or domestic emergency.  This week we learned where some of our strategic oil reserve actually went.  More than 5 million barrels of the oil President Trump stocked up on at bargain prices is being shipped to countries all over the world, including to – wait for it – China.  Biden has told gas station owners to lower their prices because, “this is a time of war and global peril.”  So in a time of war and global peril, what does Biden do?  He buys oil from Russia, the country that started the war, and he sends our strategic oil to our most dangerous enemy.  Meanwhile, what is China up to?  They’re buying cut rate oil from Russia, and adding that oil and our oil to the Chinese strategic oil reserve.  You can’t make this shit up.  But for the fact that Biden lied when he said we were at war, these actions would go by a simple name – treason.  That’s not a joke.  During World War II, the U.S. produced more than 80% of all the oil used by all the Allied countries.  We supplied the U.S., Great Britain, Russia and Australia with all the oil needed for the war.  We had gasoline rationing in the U.S., not because of an oil shortage, but because of a shortage of rubber for tires.  Had FDR shipped oil to Germany, Italy, or Japan, he would have been impeached, and then hanged.  But old Joe keeps telling us he did a good thing.  We’re being played for suckers.  The sad thing is that so many Americans are willing to believe this crap.  We can’t end the use of fossil fuels without causing a depression, famine, civil unrest, possible civil war, and default on our massive debt.  Maybe that’s the plan.  We go bust, and Biden sells the country to the Chinese at the bankruptcy sale.  Think of it as payback for the money the Chinese paid to Hunter Biden, who by the way did business with the Chinese company buying our oil.  I for one am not going back to the Stone Age.  We couldn’t do that anyhow.  With all the new Biden EPA regulations, if we went back to being hunter-gatherers, using open fires to warm our caves, the Biden EPA would arrest us for CO2 crimes against the planet.  But it may come to that anyway.  Diesel fuel is basically the same fuel used to heat homes.  At $7 a gallon we better start learning to smack two stones together to start that fire.  It’s been widely reported that more than 70% of the country doesn’t want Joe Biden to run for reelection.  If Old Joe doesn’t run, I know the perfect job for him.  He can replace that annoying guy on the Allstate commercials who keeps telling us, “I’m Mayhem.”  Joe Biden could handle that job easily.  He wouldn’t be acting.

The U.S. Supreme Court really wrapped up this year’s session with a series of bangs.  And that whining sound you hear is coming from denizens of the Left, who are apoplectic over Court decisions with which they do not agree.  In point of fact, the Democrat Regressive/Progressives have lost what’s left of their minds, and are vowing to destroy the nine member Supreme Court, and replace it with an 11, 13, or 15 member Court that will do their Socialist bidding.  They have nothing but supreme contempt for the law.  This is typical.  Any part of our government or our Constitution with which they disagree must be destroyed.   The reason for this is the oft-mentioned Leftist mental disorder known as Delusions of Rectitude.  They’re convinced that any thought that comes into their heads is right, therefore any differing opinion must be wrong, extremist, and “a threat to our democracy.”  The Left has one remedy for dissent – scorched Earth.  All dissenters must be denounced, insulted, lied about, fired, destroyed and character assassinated.  This, of course is ironic, since the wingnuts who now make up the Progressive leadership grew up in the 1960’s, during which time they exhorted their followers to “challenge authority.”  When they became the “authority” all that changed.  Now, if they don’t win an election or a Court case, “our democracy is threatened.”  They actually have said that if the voters elect Republicans in the upcoming elections “democracy is at risk.”  Of course, a system in which the voters are free to choose their leaders is the very definition of democracy, and not a threat thereto, but no matter.  These people are brain-damaged.  They went off the rails when the Supreme Court decided the New York gun permit case.  In that case, the Court ruled that the New York requirement that a legal gun owner must prove special need for a carry permit violates the Second Amendment.  The decision was that, if you have been licensed to possess a gun, that permission extends to possession in those public places where gun possession has not been specifically prohibited (like schools, courts, etc.).  Leftists like NY Governor Hochel and NY Mayor Adams fumed that having more guns on the street would lead to more gun crimes.  Of course, this is nonsense.  The current strict gun laws in NY have not deterred gun crimes.  Shootings and murders are up 30 to 40% in the past several years.  And any politician who thinks the gun violence problem is the fault of people who legally possess guns is an imbecile.  They can’t be that stupid, so they must be lying.  As a prosecutor for 25 years, and having practiced criminal law for 42 years, crimes committed with a legally possessed gun are extremely rare.  Gun crimes committed with illegally possessed guns, and mostly by previously convicted felons who are prohibited from possessing any weapon are running at epidemic proportions.  If I have to say this again, criminals don’t obey the law.  Machine guns have been illegal since 1934, and there are more automatic weapons on the street today than Al Capone ever dreamed of having.  And the drive-by shootings being perpetrated in places like Chicago every day are not being committed by legal gun owners, but by teenage and young male thug gang members who have no regard for the value of human life.  The Left knows this, but won’t do anything about those guns.  They’re mad because they don’t think they’re supposed to lose any case in the Supreme Court.  They view the Court as their means to adopt policies that lack majority support in the legislature.  So, better to blame Clarence Thomas for his decision.  The overturn of Roe v. Wade was next.  The Left exploded with a “day of rage.”  Crowds of women expressed outrage and threatened to withhold sex.  As most of the protestors were so repulsive that no man would want to touch them with a ten foot pole, their virtue is not at risk.  They thundered about a constitutional right being taken from them.  No such thing happened.  Roe always was bad law.  Even Ruth Bader Ginsburg said so.  The Court simply confirmed that no right to abortion exists in the Constitution, thus leaving the question of abortion restrictions to the States, where the issue properly resides.  All those things that the federal government is permitted to do are in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution.  All individual rights guaranteed by the Constitution reside in the Bill of Rights and subsequent Amendments.  The right to abortion never was there, and all powers not delegated to the federal government make up the “Police Powers” of the various States, which include education, public safety, public health and morals.  A right which never existed cannot be taken away, and nothing really has changed.  Leftists complain however that the ruling may make abortions harder to get in some States.  That’s true, but so what?  It’s the Bill of Rights, not the Bill of Convenience.  State to State it’s harder to get driver’s and other licenses, building permits, and so on.  Have you forgotten the Wuhan pandemic?  The various States decided when to close schools and businesses, what medications could be prescribed, and who needed vaccination.  President Trump wasn’t authorized to order State schools open or vaccine mandates changed.  That’s federalism folks.  The abortion issue is no different.  As this is written, the Supreme Court has decided what may be the most important case on this year’s docket.  West Virginia v. The EPA challenged whether unelected bureaucrats in an agency such as the EPA have the authority to impose regulations that could overhaul or even shut down entire industries without Congressional legislation.  The Court ruled against the EPA, which argued that it had the right to impose CO2 regulations on the coal and oil industry which would have the effect of banning coal and oil fired power plants due to “the climate crisis.”  The Court ruled that the Congress could enact such a policy, but that an agency cannot simply order it.  This, no doubt will set the Greenies’ hair on fire.  They’re right and your wrong, and they’re not supposed to lose.  They want a Court that rules only in their favor, if not, burn it down.  It’s their only remedy.  End the filibuster, end the electoral college, make Senate seats proportional, and pack the Supreme Court.  They have 3 liberal sycophants on the Court now, so let Biden add 6 more leftist nuts, then they’ll never lose, and that’s good.  A rubber-stamp Court that’s not really a Court is what “justice” looks like to them.  Anything else is a threat to our democracy.