The Advocacy Newsletter: Connecting.... the Dot
Volume 10 Number 484 ...........................................................................................................................
In an expected decision, today the Supreme Court ruled that it is within the boundaries of the Second Constitutional Amendment for a person to own their very own nuclear bomb. In the majority ruling, Justice Samuel Alito wrote, “After all, with the failure of our government to protect its citizens, everyone is entitled to have their own nuclear bomb in case of an attack on their home just the way our pioneers had a rifle to protect themselves against Indians. Besides, it is a personal bomb that will only destroy a radius of a quarter of a mile.”
Image by Monte Wolverton
Justice Alito had declined to recuse himself from the case even though neighbors had complained about the upside-down nuclear cloud flag flying outside his house. The Justice explained that “my wife, Martha flew the flag, and I didn’t notice it. And we are truly sorry that Martha had to shoot that complaining neighbor about 30 times with her bump stock gun, in self-defense.”
Also, Justice Clarence Thomas had declined to recuse himself from the case because he owns shares in the Make Your Own Bang Nuclear Company that is marketing the device here in the United States. These shares were gifted to him by Harlan Crow, his multi-billionaire friend who owns the company, and were previously unreported. Justice Thomas said, “I don’t see any conflict here.” He had amended his statements to the Ethics Committee for the 45th time when the stock ownership was revealed by a whistleblower, who was thought to be Chief Justice John Roberts.
Justice Rudy Guiliani, who was appointed to the bench by President Trump (who personally shot the three remaining liberals on the bench before replacing them and couldn’t be prosecuted because of presidential immunity, according to the Court) concurred. Rudy said, “I would like to set off a bomb at the home of those two poll workers in Georgia, but I don’t have the money to buy one since I owe them $148 million.”
Justice Jim Jordan, who refuses to wear a black robe and is conspicuous with his rolled-up sleeves, wants to have an investigation into whether Mickey Mouse is really part of an attempt to weaponize the Disney characters with real guns.
Justice Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has shown herself to be the most liberal of the recent Trump appointees, said,” I should have used one of those bombs to blow up the pizza joint that QAnon revealed, where Hiliary Clinton and her evil followers were using to kidnap and molest kids.”
So, the Court, which is now comprised of three factions, with our four conservative justices, Roberts, Alito, Barrett, Gorsuch; two sexual predators, Thomas and Kavanaugh; and three wackos: Guiliani, Greene, and Jordan, has spoken, 9-0.
In case you don’t know, President Trump in the late stages of the 2024 presidential campaign managed to dupe enough of the electorate in the swing states by inundating them with the billion-dollar campaign coughed up by his rich donors. In a last-ditch effort, Trump declared that he had been found innocent by the jury in the New York Stormy Daniels Election Fix Trial. According to Trump, the Communist left-wing Biden media had all incorrectly reported a guilty finding. He actually was found innocent by all 12 jurors. This denial was cited endlessly on Fox News, X, and the rest of the social media. It was said that the jurors were afraid to come forward to refute this because of bump stock carrying extremists in front of their homes, and so Trump made it to the White House.
Thereupon, Trump immediately proceeded to shoot the three left-leaning Supreme Court justices, which was okay because of presidential immunity, and then to pardon all who had been convicted of trying to overthrow the government in 2021, give them all key jobs in his new administration, and also pardon all convicts who said they had voted for him.
Meanwhile, the nation was in an uproar over the Supreme Court ruling that permitted an nuclear bomb in the home. The NRA patriotically encouraged all bomb owners to have it locked up so kids wouldn’t unwittingly play with the toy.
A protest that was planned by Mothers Against the Bomb was expected to draw up to three million to the Capital. But it was called off because President Trump threatened to call out the National Guard with one of their own Make Your Own Bang Nuclear Bomb to end the unlawful demonstration. In his usual polite and understated way Trump said, “I’ll show those ‘father f-----s” who the boss is.”
The ACLU was expected to bring a suit to prevent Trump from using the bomb without consent of the Congress. SCOTUS, on receiving notice of the charge, responded, “We will hear the case in 120 years, as our calendar is loaded, and this is a low priority.” Secretary of Defense Barron Trump, fresh out of college and on his first job. said, “Whatever Pops says is OK with me.”
Thereupon, the Democrats introduced a bill that demanded every bomb purchase be reported and only licensed “dealers in death” be allowed to sell the bombs. The Republicans defeated the bill, saying it was an encroachment on civil liberties.
The bomb was, of course, developed by Elon Musk, founder of Tesla EVs. He says that he will be selling them on X, the replacement for Twitter. Currently each bomb will cost $5 million, but Mr. Musk feels that, ultimately, he can make one that will be more affordable. The bombs will be offered on TV, and you can buy one and not have to pay anything for the first year. Then for a measly $500,000 a year it can be paid off in 10 years. You can go into a showroom at a nearby mall to try it out, with a simulated AI demonstration.
Because the demand is so great, Musk is asking his Board to give him another 40 percent of the shares of Tesla if sales meet the goals he is setting. If they do not agree, Musk is threatening to leave the company and set up another one. The Board is expected to meet his demands. If this goes through, if he were a country, he would be the third richest country in the world behind the United States and China. Musk says that as a reward to himself he will buy a U.S. battleship and convert it to a yacht.
Meanwhile, his good friend, Jeffrey Bezos is arranging to get an exclusive on delivering the bombs via his Amazon service. However, the Amazon workers are objecting for some reason, despite Bezos’ statement that they are perfectly safe. Bezos said that “the Nuclear Bomb is just as safe as flying in a Boeing 737 airplane.”
So now kids in their classrooms are being told something out of the 1950s, “If you see a sudden flash of light, hide under your desk and close your eyes.”
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“This decision is a dangerous one.”
--Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the bump stock decision.
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