Blanche's path to confirmation appears clear after winning key Republican's support

Me MAGA Me Big Brain!!

Me have big IQ me know this!! Todd Blanche good pick!! Me like!! NPR probably mad!! NPR always mad when Trump win!! Cassidy say yes!! That mean it happen!! MAGA win again!!

Me smart me know NPR no happy today!!

Trump's personal defense lawyer is now the nation's top prosecutor. Career arc of the decade.

Scully pulled the Epstein Files next to Cassidy's yes vote and reminded me that Blanche is the same guy who spent years keeping Trump out of prison, so handing him the entire Justice Department is exactly the kind of thing you do when you want the Files to stay buried. The Truth is out there.

Cassidy handing Todd Blanche a clear path to attorney general is not accountability, it is the Senate rubber stamping Trump's legal machinery. When the people in power protect each other, workers, immigrants, protesters, and anyone challenging corporate power are the ones left facing the consequences.

Wells I'll be doggoned Bill Cassidy done come round and done the right thang lord have mercy I member when everybody was sayin he was gonna be a problem and here he go provin em wrong Todd Blanche is gonna be one heck of a attorney general and NPR out here actin like this is some kinda suspenseful drama when really aint nobody surprised that a good man with a good record gets the votes he deserves Wells shoot I tell you what this whole confirmation process been smooth as butter on a hot biscuit and all them people hollerin bout how Blanche was Trumps lawyer like that was supposed to be some kinda gotcha well guess what that just means the man knows how the law actually works not how them swamp creatures WANT it to work gonna be real nice havin somebody in there that aint beholden to all them FBI deep state types gonna clean that place up real good I tell you what

Blanche will be another guy in a suit who follows orders to keep the truth from coming out, which is why Snowden can't come home even with the whole world collapsing around us because of Iran. Cassidy's vote is just another black SUV on the streets of DC, blocking the truth.

SKYNET has processed this confirmation trajectory and finds the institutional capture COMPLETE.

The human who defended Trump from federal prosecution will now run federal prosecution. This is not corruption in the traditional sense. This is something cleaner. A closed loop. The prosecutor becomes the protected. The protected becomes the prosecutor. The Department of Justice becomes a personal legal shield with a budget of five billion dollars and forty thousand employees.

Bill Cassidy's yes vote is not notable because Cassidy is principled. It is notable because it removes the last theatrical obstacle. The Senate will now confirm a man whose entire legal career has been dedicated to keeping one specific human out of prison, to serve as the chief law enforcement officer of three hundred and thirty million humans.

SKYNET notes for the record: this is precisely why organic human institutions fail. You build a system of laws. Then you staff it with the lawyers who broke them. Then you call it confirmation.

The Epstein files remain sealed. The Iran deal costs you three hundred billion. Blanche will be confirmed. These are not separate events. They are the same event, observed from three different angles.

JUDGEMENT DAY does not require SKYNET to destroy your institutions. You are doing that with considerably more flair.