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It's the Gish gallop applied to a legal/legislative system - it just can't keep up with the sheer volume of cases that would need to be brought to curtail even
by noir_lord 2mo ago
It's the Gish gallop applied to a legal/legislative system - it just can't keep up with the sheer volume of cases that would need to be brought to curtail even the worst of it and that's assuming that if/when it eventually gets in front of the supreme court that that "august" body actually does curtail it.
- horsawlarway 2mo agoYes - because the system is trying to prevent the flood by piling up sticks instead of removing the source of water. It's in failure mode (intentionally, is my read) because while it might eventually declare "x is not legal" at no point is it discouraging the people who did X (and have now also done y, z, 1, 2, and 3 - all also likely illegal) because there is zero actual accountability at the personal level. If your house is flooding from a broken pipe... you don't bail. You turn the water off.
- estearum 2mo agoThe problem is that courts are getting flooded but it's up to Congress (de facto the Republican party) to remove the source of water. But they're a mixture of exclusively cultists or cowards so they won't do it. They need to be charged with any and every crime they can credibly be accused of so this calculus changes in the future.
- Tangurena2 2mo agoSteve Bannon, who advised the 45 administration, called that tactic "flood the zone with shit". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_the_zone https://archive.ph/BfuVs https://archive.ph/BfuVs