That’s the point.

Make no mistake about it - the goal here is not to get Medicaid recipients to work. The explicit goal is to provide an additional excuse for denying coverage.

“Cobbles together” is exactly the right phrase here.

At this point (and not really coincidentally) the SC is pretty much like most of the blindly partisan assholes one might encounter online. They rather obviously don’t analyze facts and arrive at conclusions - instead, they start with a preferred conclusion, then assemble whatever rhetoric, diversions, fallacies and bullshit might seem to maybe sort of justify it.

If the US was a place of sanity and order, they’d be impeached, disbarred and denied every benefit of their (former) positions, since they’re brazenly violating every single oath they’ve ever sworn.

I keep thinking that if we could time travel someone from the final days of Babylon or Dynastic Egypt or Athens or Imperial Rome to the US of today and somehow give them a crash course in the language and technology, they’d look around and say, “Oh yeah - I recognize this.”

It’s so tiresome that in this era of Trump and the Republicans systematically destroying everything that might have ever been or ever could be of value in the US, the Dem establishment has poured their time and energy into trying to defeat… leftists.

I can barely even manage to be angry about it any more. At this point, I’m mostly just hoping that when this whole rotten civilization collapses, the Democrats and the Republicans are buried side by side, so our descendants can piss on all of their graves simultaneously.

"Fool me once, well okay. Fool me twice, well okay. Fool me three times, well okay. Fool me…

…

…

Fool me 847,382 times, well okay. Fool me 847,383 times… hey… umm… wait a minute… umm…"

Yeah - that tracks.

I’m tending toward the interpretation that what Martin and the rest of the upper echelon of the DNC wanted was a subtle whitewash - one that would acknowledge the rather obvious problems of corporate money and support for genocide, but then spin some fanciful reason that those weren’t really problems, so it’d be fine when the DNC, as they fully intend, keep on doing what they’ve been doing.

But they not only didn’t get that - they got a poorly written mish - mash of platitudes and gibberish that looks like it was slapped together, mostly via LLM, at the eleventh hour.

And if they spent most of the time during which they were meant to be drawing it up locked instead in a crippling tug-of-war over what it should or should not say, that’d explain that.

At this point, I’m tending toward the interpretation that Martin and the rest of the DNC upper echelon wanted and expected a report that would, among other things, pretend to address the rather obvious failures of bowing to the self-serving desires of big money donors and at least tacitly supporting the Palestinian genocide, but would then do some sort of fallacious end run that led to the comforting conclusion that that wasn’t really a problem, so it would be okay when the DNC, as they fully intend, keep right on doing both of those things.

And what they got failed to do that.

I know full well that the leadership changed.

I’m just not naive enough to believe for even a second that that has made or will make a fucking bit of difference.

Either way we can draw the same conclusion about party leadership.

True that. The names may have changed but the policies and strategies are the same now as they have been since at least 2016 - pimp the pro-corporate/pro-zionist “moderates” no matter what the voters want, at least ignore if not actively campaign against the progressives, again no matter what the voters want, and most important of all, don’t do anything that might cut into the flow of soft money.

Democrats don’t care if they lose as long as donations keep coming.

Right, but that’s exactly why I assumed that the autopsy was accurate and on-point - because it found fault with things the DNC not only was but still is deliberately doing solely to keep the soft money rolling in, and in spite of the fact that those things will likely lead to a loss. That’s the reality they don’t want the voters to become (more) aware of.

But since it’s just a mealy-mouthed whitewash, it seems like they might as well have released it as promised.

I was surprised by how weak and digressive it was.

When they announced their intention to bury it I assumed that meant it was accurate and on point, and they wanted to bury it for exactly that reason.

But instead it almost feels like a whitewash - like the sort of thing the DNC would’ve ordered specifically to divert from the real problems of support for genocide and subservience to moneyed interests.

Makes me wonder if this is some sort of elaborate fraud - if they didn’t just throw this together as a substitute to release in place of the real autopsy.

No shit?

Exactly what happened is that Trump filed a bogus lawsuit then his crony at the Justice Department arranged for a bogus “settlement” so that Trump could get a slush fund from which to dole out money to other cronies.

It’s blatant and overt fraud, and both of them should go to prison.

That’s painfully obvious bullshit.

If the logic is that interference this close to the primaries is a bad thing (which it rather obviously is), then the only sound ruling is that NOBODY - including legislatures - can do so.

If, on the other hand they’re going to rule that legislatures can interfere this close to the primaries, then there’s no reason why courts can’t as well.

But of course, as is the simple truth of this Supreme Court, their ruling isn’t based on law, precedent or even logic - it’s based solely on what will benefit Trump and the Republicans and their billionaire owners.