President Joe Biden is expected Monday to announce he’s declaring martial law and ordering sweeping arrests – and summary executions – of his political opponents now that the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of effectively unlimited immunity from prosecution for actions taken while in office.
Probably. In all seriousness when we try to imagine what a canned speech of platitudes about democracy and the need to vote and so on would look like we’re coming up empty. Why even bother with a near-primetime televised address if that’s all he’s going to say? It was one thing to address the nation after the abortion and student loan decisions and promise take whatever steps he could to push back and skirt around the rulings. This is different. The fact that he’s even going to speak about it is kind of remarkable since this is a political matter that concerns him personally, on both ends of this term. What if any steps is he going to announce here? Should we dare to imagine that Dark Brandon’s going to come out here and do something kind of fucking crazy, like dumping every record of Trump’s criminality in office to show Americans what the Supreme Court just greenlit?
Maybe too much to hope for. Still, given that he’s responding like this at all it’s worth considering that this just might be at least some sort of effort at turning crisis into opportunity.