Trump erupts. Claps back at Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts, insists there is no independent judiciary.

He sounds intellectually challenged, or he took too much Ambien the night before.

"Does this bimbo know anything about anything?"

I've given up on the hapless task of trying to disseminate his incoherency. The manchild doesn't even know how to spell very basic words.

But just for shits and giggles I'll make an effort here to decipher what he's saying and even try my best to steel man his argument. I think he believes brown skinned asylum seekers are a danger to our country and blames bleeding heart Obama appointees on the 9th Circuit for not sharing in his collective vision because he just had his ban struck down.

But as usual his arguments always fall apart at the slightest scrutiny. First, it was a district judge that struck down his ban, not a judge sitting on the 9th Circuit. Second, the ban wasn't a permanent ban. The district judge that struck it down ruled it unconstitutional to enforce the ban before the 9th Circuit decides. Third, Trump doesn't seem to realize that the Supreme Court could have chosen to review any 9th Circuit migrant case Trump is bitching about being overturned if they thought it wrongly decided. The fact that they didn't and instead allowed them to stand means they implicitly share responsibility in upholding the ruling. So why blame the 9th Circuit and not Judge Roberts himself? Could this be Trump's way of subtly criticizing Roberts by 9th Circuit proxy? Nope, because he's not that clever; in the past when he wanted to criticize Roberts he's done so with no filter. He just doesn't do subtlety because he's a blunt object.

Yet just his core argument, that asylum seekers are a threat to national security, doesn't make even the slightest bit of sense. So even doing my best steel man is shambles because the guy is bonkers.

I'd love to see Roberts get the last laugh. What would take my breath away is if Mueller said fuck it and chose to challenge OLC precedent by filing an indictment of a sitting president. Trump would contest and it'd be decided by the Supreme Court.

The ultimate would be a unanimous 9-0 beat down with Roberts authoring the consensus opinion emphasizing country and rule of law over party and partisanship before once again telling him there are no "Trump judges"; but that he should get ready to be deposed.

That's a Hollywood ending that'll never happen, but I can dream. :)

Still plenty of other manifestations of the same outcome that have a far better chance of happening I can hope for, but it probably won't be a 9-0 unanimous decision. 8(