<div dir="auto">This is not the first forum I have seen pretty much this in since the decision became public, and in the majority of them, the suggestion has been serious.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jul 4, 2024, 2:53 PM Keith Henson via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">This is not politics but humor. Keith<br>
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Chuck McManis <<a href="mailto:chuck.mcmanis@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">chuck.mcmanis@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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SCENE: Oval Office, the Whitehouse. Six justices are ushered in.<br>
<br>
BIDEN: I'm sure you are wondering why I invited you here today.<br>
<br>
JUSTICE THOMAS: Invited?! I was getting on a jet for Barbados<br>
before your thugs told me I had to be here.<br>
<br>
BIDEN: Oh yeah, sorry about that. Well to get on with it. This is an<br>
Executive Order that I have signed which notes that my<br>
Title 2 Constitutional Powers include defending the Constitution<br>
from all threats, foreign ... and domestic.<br>
<br>
[Justices look back and forth at each other quizzically]<br>
<br>
BIDEN: In your recent opinion on Trump v. United States, you described<br>
a President, killing a US Citizen, to protect the United States was<br>
a protected official action.<br>
<br>
I have here, two documents. The first orders the CIA to<br>
take each of you to an undisclosed location and to eliminate you. The<br>
second is the paperwork to effect your resignation, effective<br>
immediately, from<br>
the Supreme Court.<br>
<br>
Today ... is your last day as a Supreme Court Justice. You<br>
get to choose how that goes. You can resign, or you can die. I am okay<br>
with either choice but I understand that your families might not be.<br>
<br>
If you sign the resignation, I will accept it and youwill<br>
be free to go. If you choose not to sign it, the Secret Service here<br>
will escort you to Joint Base Andrews where a jet is currently on<br>
standby.<br>
<br>
If people ask why you chose to resign today, I suggest<br>
you stick with<br>
<br>
"I have received credible death threats." Any attempt to<br>
make a "big deal" about this will be seen as a threat to our Constitution<br>
and our Democracy.<br>
<br>
We have already discussed how I intend to deal with those threats.<br>
Okay, that is what I had to say, who wants to sign and<br>
who wants to take a trip with the CIA?<br>
<br>
[All Justices speaking at once, claims of "this is an outrage!" and<br>
"you can't get away<br>
with this!" ]<br>
<br>
BIDEN: [holding up his hand to silence the discussion] This is the<br>
power that YOU gave me and that I am going to take away from any<br>
FUTURE President. The Whitehouse Counsel here can show you a brief of<br>
how this would be argued if charges were ever filed. We expect that to<br>
be unlikely. We have also prepared a Pardon for myself for all Federal<br>
Crimes I may have committed not covered by Trump v. United States.<br>
Thanks to you, you can't do anything about it.<br>
<br>
So what's it gonna be? Retirement Service or Memorial service?<br>
<br>
[Fade to black]<br>
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