You know those Volvos that go a million miles for some owner in Sweden? Check this out. Different here.

A friend just sent me this scenario, supposedly AI generated from recent news and historical facts, that purports to....

......describe future events as Trump and his administration lapdogs continue to run roughshod over the Constitution and defy court orders. I have no idea who did it, what kind of process was used, what inputs were inputted, anything, really, other than it reads like a scary movies script that I would hope we might see some day with, say, Tom Hanks playing the part of Deputy Marshall Banks.

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Here is your holy fuck AI moment for the night. I was asking chatGPT what kinds of enforcement there might be if Trump defied an order from the Supreme Court. chatGPT gave me a clear, concise rundown on the possibilities, which were pretty dire, and then - this is the big then - it asked me this:
Would you like a fictionalized example of how this could unfold?
Yep. I didn't ask it to create something. It OFFERED to. Almost as if it... wanted to. So I said:
Yes.
And it said:
Here’s a fictionalized scenario that explores what could happen if President Trump (in this imagined future) defied a direct Supreme Court order. It’s not just a “what if”—it’s designed to be plausible, tense, and revealing.

Title: Order of the Court
Setting: 2026. Trump is serving his second term. The political climate is tense. The DOJ has been reshaped, and career officials replaced with loyalists. The Supreme Court, after months of legal wrangling, has ordered the release of a detained journalist, Anna Reyes, who had been held without charge for “national security reasons” after publishing leaked government documents.
The Supreme Court Decision: In a 6–3 ruling, the Court states unequivocally that Anna Reyes's detention is unconstitutional. Chief Justice Roberts, writing for the majority, declares: “The executive may not silence dissent through indefinite detention. Ms. Reyes must be released within 24 hours.”
White House Response: Trump tweets:
Fake news leakers are enemies of the people. The Court can’t protect traitors. My job is to protect YOU, not obey corrupt rulings.
Privately, Attorney General Frank Dillard tells staff:
“We’re not releasing her. The President believes this ruling violates his war powers authority.”
Day 1: The Countdown
The Supreme Court issues a second order: Reyes must be freed immediately.
The U.S. Marshals—typically under the Justice Department—are silent.
White House aides debate legal options, but Trump holds firm: “If they want her out, they can come and get her.”
Day 2: Judiciary Pushback
Justice Sonia Sotomayor gives a rare public statement: “If we cannot enforce our judgments, we cease to be a court.”
A coalition of legal scholars, former judges, and military veterans signs an open letter calling this the gravest constitutional crisis since the Civil War.
Day 3: The States Move
California’s governor declares the state will not cooperate with federal law enforcement until Reyes is released.
The Attorney General of Massachusetts files suit against the DOJ for “defiance of lawful judicial authority.”
Day 5: Inside the Military
The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs privately meets with National Security Advisor Kent Warrick.
"We will not act against civilians, nor will we disobey the Constitution. We strongly urge you to de-escalate."
Trump is enraged. He floats replacing senior military brass. The Pentagon leaks the meeting notes.
Day 7: A Crisis of Loyalty
A deputy U.S. Marshal in Illinois announces he is resigning in protest, saying: “I didn’t sign up to serve a king.”
200 Department of Justice employees sign a letter demanding Reyes be released.
Day 10: The Breaking Point
A federal district judge orders U.S. Marshals to free Reyes themselves. The marshals arrive at the military facility where she’s being held—but are denied entry. The facility’s commanding officer says, “We are under presidential orders.”
CNN airs footage of Reyes, pale but alive, behind a wire fence.
Public Reaction:
Massive protests erupt in major cities.
Truckers announce a shutdown in support of the Constitution.
The stock market plummets.
Congress:
The House begins emergency hearings. A few Republican Senators begin to waver.
Vice President Greene, a longtime loyalist, is notably silent.
And Then…? This is the edge of the cliff. What happens next—violence, collapse, resolution—depends on whether institutions, the public, and the military choose to uphold the law or the man.
Would you like me to write an alternate ending? Or follow one character—say, the Marshal who has to choose between obeying Trump or obeying the Court?
To which I answered:
Yes.
So it continued with:
Let’s follow the Marshal.
Title: The Line
Character: Deputy U.S. Marshal Elijah Banks, 52. A career lawman. Moderate conservative. Proud of his oath. Decorated. His daughter is in law school. He’s never had to question the Constitution—until now.
Day 10, 7:30 AM – The Briefing Room, Chicago Field Office
Elijah sits at the head of the table, staring at the court order. His team is quiet. No one wants to speak first.
“This came down thirty minutes ago,” Elijah says. “Judge Rosen issued a direct command. We are to free Anna Reyes immediately. Not ‘inquire,’ not ‘petition’—free her.”
“Sir,” one deputy asks, “do we even know where she is?”
“She’s at Fort Belvoir. Military holding facility. They’re denying entry. Claiming national security.” He doesn’t add the part that scares him most: they won’t return his calls anymore.
10:45 AM – Elijah’s Office
He’s on the phone with someone high up in Washington.
“I understand your position, Frank,” he says. “But this isn’t a disagreement about protocol. This is defying a Supreme Court order. You know that, don’t you?”
Pause.
“No, I don’t want to resign. I want to do my damn job.”
Click.
His hand is shaking. He looks at the photo on his desk—his daughter in her graduation gown.
1:20 PM – Press Conference
Elijah stands before a podium in his badge and jacket. Cameras roll. He does not have permission to speak, but that stopped mattering two days ago.
“I am Deputy Marshal Elijah Banks. I’ve served the U.S. government for 26 years. Today, I was ordered by the federal court to free a woman who is being held without charge. My agency has refused to act. I am told that enforcing this order would make me a traitor.”
He looks directly at the camera.
“If obeying the Constitution is treason, then we’ve already lost the country.”
That Night – Fort Belvoir
Elijah drives alone. No sirens. Just his badge and the order in a folder on the passenger seat.
At the gate, a young MP steps out. Nervous. Tries to wave him off.
“You need to turn around, sir. This is a secure—”
“You tell your commanding officer I’m here under the authority of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. If he won’t let me in, then he’s defying the judiciary. And I’ll take that straight to the press.”
The MP hesitates.
Radio crackles.
Five minutes pass.
The gate opens.
Inside the Facility
He’s escorted, silently, past locked rooms. No handshakes. No welcome.
They reach a cell. A woman stands up inside, stunned.
“Ms. Reyes,” Elijah says, holding out his hand. “The court has ordered your release. You’re free to go.”
She stares at him.
“Are you real?” she whispers.
He smiles, tired and shaking.
“Let’s find out together.”
Outside – Midnight
They walk through the gates. Photographers are already there—someone leaked it.
The story breaks before dawn: Marshal Defies Trump, Enforces Court Order.
By morning, it’s global news.
Some call him a hero.
Others call him a traitor.
But Elijah Banks sleeps that night—for the first time in weeks.
Would you like to continue this into what happens the next day? Or see it from Anna Reyes’s perspective?
I'm about to answer:
Yes, Anna Reyes's perspective, please.
The picture is also AI, created with Midjourney, just now, based on chatGPT's story.
Remember -- I didn't ask. It offered.

Musk is giving Trump a "run for the money" in who is most facile in telling "the big lie". As the "World's Richest.....

.....Man", he had this important skill down pat previously, but is now perfecting it in the larger arena provided to him by Trump. Trump, a seasoned and practiced practitioner of this art form, having learned it from his father, who, in turn, learned it from Joseph Goebbels, must be enjoying the subcontracting of this task to Musk, at least in the short term, for the extra leisure time it provides to plan and plot, with Moscow, ever greater atrocities.


Musk wrote on X on February 11: "At this point, I am 100% certain that the magnitude of the fraud in federal entitlements (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Welfare, Disability, etc) exceeds the combined sum of every private scam you've ever heard by FAR. It's not even close."

The talk of a proposed "hotline" so that folks can report people who they suspect of being "illegal aliens"....

.........reminds me of when a Chicago based comedy show did a send up on this very thing. Homeland Security was new and they wanted people to report folks suspected of being "terrorists". They said that the program was more successful than anticipated, garnering numerous calls. "Perhaps surprisingly, we have found that young men of college age seem to be the most vigilant and dependable in making these reports". They went on to list, on screen, some of the names that had been reported to them. The first was a someone named "Yusukka Madiq" and they went on to list numerous other off color "names". We can learn from this.

If Garland doesn't want to release the report, just have him send it to the White House and have it released under......

..........President Biden's name. Even if there is a court order putting it on hold, Joe can't break the law, right?

Remember when Repubs lost their minds when "un-elected" Hillary Clinton was anticipated as having an important....

......role in Bill's presidency? Oh, wait, she wasn't a billionaire.

Just read this article in "The Guardian" about sports betting in the U.S. and potential Congressional action that....

.......may be taken to confront this problem. I find myself troubled that my first reaction is not to the merits of this discussion but to how our idiot president, in office after January 20th, will impose his will on this debate. I'm guessing he will bloviate about government interference, too many regulations on the business of sports betting, or, as I would put it, selling another addiction to the rubes who hate paying taxes for their kids schools. I say troubled because this reaction of mine, I feel, will be pretty consistent across the board over the next few years as issues come and go.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/congress-gambling-addiction-sports-betting

Side note: As usual, The Guardian is ahead of the curve reporting on "Problems, American".

Kari Lake is still angling for a position in the Trump administration, hoping now to get an appointment as.....

.....the "Undersecretary of Grievances and Entitlement" in the new "Department of Retribution".
(I posted this elsewhere, but liked it enough to post again).

Netanyahu says that those who say he is committing a war crime by bombing and starving the civilians of Gaza.....

........and then he goes on to say that they are antisemitic. This claim of antisemitic-ism ignores the reality that bombing and starving the people of Gaza IS a war crime, even when done in one's own self-defense.