"This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues"

"I don't care what the judges think," said Macbeth's "border czar" Tom Homan on Fox News yesterday, adding that judicially enjoined deporation flights shall continue "every day." (Homan also doggedly said he doesn't care "what the left thinks." Who's a good boy?)

Later on Monday, Justice Department mob-lawyer Abhishek Kambli informed one of those judges that he could take his questions as well as America's 222-year-old Supreme Court precedent of judicial review and file them rectally. The mob boss' New Order before the bar— omertà. His mouthpiece Kambli would say nothing in response to the federal judge's inquiries because of "national security" concerns, as the lawyer put it — the oldest dodge of White House scoundrels, the most recent having transmogrified despotically.

That development — the final stage of creeping tyranny — threatens "to become a constitutional crisis," observed The NY Times about the constitutional crisis that began on 20 January. The threat lingered only throughout Trump's candidacy and subsequent Sitzkrieg.

What was it the inquisitive federal judge wanted to chat about? Merely the timeline of the deportation flights; not their constitutionality. Did they occur after he ruled they could not? They did indeed. The Times reviewed the flight record and found that "none of the planes in question landed ... before the judge’s order, and that one of them did not even leave American soil until after the judge’s written order was posted online."

This was no mere timeline to the tyrant who now blisters our tongues, however. It was, rather, yet more confirmation that the threat of a crisis has passed. We're in one, and deep. Trump is defying federal court orders hither and yon; his regime "is facing accusations in at least three other cases that it has not fully complied with judges’ orders or is in contempt for having violated them."

That too comes from the Times, which, as does all the major press, simply refuses to concede that despotic threats are dead and despotism is alive, well, and thriving. And that blisters my tongue with near severity, for the First Amendment's guarantee of press freedom was meant to keep us free as well.

The American system hasn't died in darkness; it croaked in large part because of journalism's incandescent malpractice. Throughout Trump's previous four years of coming fascistic attractions the press treated him in the tradition of deference and respect even as he repeatedly defecated on the world-envied customs of American politics. Now he's publicly using the U.S. Constitution as toilet paper, about which the press again defers judgment.

It's not alone. Other voices outside the legacy press but within the notably vehement Trumpism-opposing crowd are, to my arrant bewilderment, reserving same.

Former DOJ official Harry Litman, for instance, writes that we face the "frightening prospect" of Trump "looking to the U.S. Supreme Court [to] get behind the idea that the judiciary can’t second-guess the president’s good faith." Should the highest court "shoot down" that horseshit, continues Litman, only then will we face "the question of this administration’s willingness to disobey the courts and initiate a full-fledged constitutional crisis."

Precisely what question — strike that — precisely what other answer are influential commentators waiting to hear before they declare the already declared? It was six years ago when the crap-bloated brain asserted “I have an Article 2 where I have the right to do whatever I want as president" — an assertion turned official proclamation last month.

I don't get it, I just can't understand all this wanker's cramp when in a newspaper's cubicle or at a Substack "compose" window. But maybe I'm the one misreading it all — all that seems authoritarian loud and clear; maybe Trump will get American religion tomorrow; maybe he'll confess his criminal ways and redeem his sinful soul; maybe he'll acknowledge the Constitution as supreme over his avidity to ruthlessly, despotically violate it.

Right? I mean, those are realisitic hopes, no?