Ngl I kinda unironically agree with this, except that they’re using it for evil not for good
There is no law requiring that judges be lawyers, and in fact I kind of think it’s a conflict of interest outside of maybe the lowest level judges. I don’t want judges who know the law, I want judges with strong morals. I want judges who understand the spirit of the law more than the letter of it.
This becomes more true the higher you go. Supreme Court Justices should absolutely have no prior experience with law aside from activism to change laws or perhaps having been in prison.
Being a judge is not a technical job that requires knowledge of the law, it is a position of political power. By the nature of our Common Law system, judges do not simply apply the law, they create it by its enforcement. IMO deep knowledge of the law is a detriment to your ability to create it. Trump has really shown this: Don’t check if shit’s “legal” before you do it, just do it, hope for the best, fight if people try to stop you.
This is extra true given that lawyers are overwhelmingly wealthy assholes who shouldn’t be anywhere near power. I’d rather fill the judiciary with a random selection of homeless people than a random selection of lawyers, and in practice we select worse than random from the lawyers.
After years of gaslighting about Meritocracy, they declare Merit as now “woke”.
I feel like I’m reverting back to my redditor/goth phase. Like what the fuck do you mean being actually qualified is “too woke”? Oh, it sounds like you just are shaming smart people for being nerds.
I am unironically an oppressed gamer under the tyranny of the jock ruling class, where intelligence is shamed over the arbitrary value of being “cool”.
Unironically: gamers rise up. Goth-gamer solidarity forever!
They’re not even jocks. Most of them couldn’t even run a lap.
Gamers truly are the most oppressed class
Don’t suppose it’s too late to appropriate that meme from chuds?
They repeatedly say “we don’t care that inglorious basterds or patrick bateman mock us! He’s sooo evil it’s awesome!”
“Gamers are oppressed” would be a good tongue-in-cheek way to break the ice, and younger nerdy men who feel the need to hide their nerdy side in favor of ‘muh sportsball’ might sympathize more with other civil rights movements as a ‘simulated minority’. (That was me until I found out I was queer and neurodiverse.)
hits blunt shiit you mean i could be a judge?
depends: are you a massive racist asshole?
no sadly damn i’m never making it out of poverty
The next time there’s space - Trump could put Kid Rock on the supreme court if he wanted to. There are no prerequisites.
surely i’d be a better judge than kid rock but who knows
Thing is, the Trump administration could easily find right wing ghouls with the proper accreditations. They’re just straight up turning the judiciary into spoils for palm greasing and/or whomever Trump found entertaining on Fox News this week.
whomever Trump found entertaining on Fox News this week.
I can imagine convos like the following. Our scene begins at breakfast time. A spouse is talking to their husband who is a judge.
“Honey, you know how often tell you that you could shave your mustache and get more… um… fashionable glasses?”
Irritatedly “Yes. And I’ve told you that I like my mustache. And my glasses.”
“But you’ll probably get interviewed on Fox News next week… And… Well…Trump will probably be watching.”
“So?”
“So… He hates mustaches and I don’t think he’ll like your glasses either.”
“Surely my record stands for itself. Are you actually saying I should focus on trivialities to improve my judicial standing?”
Standing their ground “Trump makes the decisions. He’s very interested in how people look and that people look that they came right out of central casting. And if you want something better - you had better appeal to him.”
They have a big fight. The judge says he doesn’t want a bite of the “nice breakfast” and he storms out of the house in a huff. After about ten minutes as he’s driving to work for his job which is clearly beneath him - he thinks that might it could be time for the mustache to go. And - what the heck - maybe it’s time to get new glasses too. Looking the part might help him get the judgeship he deserves.
Federalists in shambles.
It really is all projection, all the time. This is literally what the chuds say is wrong with dei. Ironically it actually isn’t a problem with proper dei policies but it is a problem with this.
Clearing the path for Chief Justice Bartholomew “Bang Bang Bart” Simpson.
“Man, this timeline is confusing.”I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Supreme Court Justice Judge Reinhold! Let’s fucking gooooo
If that happens - he needs to give himself the nickname Justice. That way he can be Supreme Court Justice Judge “Justice” Reinhold.
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