Just Cases: Issue #5

Nothing Could Stop What Is Coming

The Just Cases newsletter focuses on tracking cases that are politically charged in some way. I will give commentary here and there, but my primary aim is to mark the progression of these cases and, along the way, perhaps determine if they are just.

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Hello

Much has happened since the last issue of the newsletter. New filings, new orders, new indictments(!), and pressingly, some of the cases that were tracked in the first issues of the newsletter and across dozens of episodes of my podcast have now reached a result. That is where this issue exclusively focuses. The case updates will return in #6.

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Nothing Could Stop What Is Coming

Since being named Special Counsel*, Jack Smith has brought two cases (1, 2) against President Trump. Both are now terminating.

Special Counsel David Weiss brought two cases against Hunter Biden. He secured a conviction at trial in one case (after a “sweet heart plea deal” collapsed live in court almost a year before) and a guilty plea (without agreement) the day prior to trial in the other. Both are now undone by a pardon from his father, President Biden**.

Though neither the Biden pardons nor the Smith cases falling away should be entirely surprising to anyone, from the way they began to the way they ended, was unprecedented. Our justice system and our politics are still grappling with the alterations by these cases.

It is obvious that nothing could have stopped either from happening; Smith’s cases were destined to disintegrate from the start. If their aim was to actually convict Trump, then they were critically flawed on the merits, and their dismissal is a just result. And if the intention was to undermine his candidacy, with a conviction being a bonus, then it backfired spectacularly, which is an even sweeter and no less just result.

Nor can anything stop what is coming by consequence. Trump intends to be the cannon, as he has been once or twice before. Take a moment to think back to all that was done in the name of “getting Trump” and instead of getting irritated about it, get interested because while turnabout may be regarded as fair play, here it will be legal as well.

Legal precedents were set that will be used in future cases. (*cough* Templates *cough*) There was already little doubt about that prior to the November 5th, but now that we’re a month past the election and have Trump’s picks for various cabinet spots in hand, all doubts are extinguished.

Political weaponization of media, government, and the courts went too far, was too brazen, and was too obvious, all of which set narrative precedents. Awareness of that weaponization and various wrongs that came with it awakened a serious political will to bring about a righting of those institutions and even a reckoning with their abusers. Americans took that will to the polls and turned it into a mandate for President Trump.

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Sealed and Protected

You ever work with epoxies? Such as the glue that comes in a syringe with two tubes, side by side. One of those tubes has the epoxy; the other has the reactive agent that triggers the epoxy curing process to begin. As you push the plunger down, it mixes the contents of both tubes; the product flows out the nozzle, then hardens into a resin that adheres, seals, and protects.

I mentioned glue, but there are many applications for epoxies, like electronics, floors, tables, art, boats, musical instruments, Formula One cars, and their aero parts are made from composites and epoxy(!) and sometimes repaired with epoxy, too. All sorts of uses.

Well, Special Counsel Jack Smith’s cases disintegrating as President Biden pardons his son, and possibly by consequence himself, and all of this occurring immediately after President Trump is reelected and begins naming his picks—these events act as the perfect curative agents to harden the resiny narrative layers, the memes, we’ve been living through for years.

Two memeplexes, now firmly adhered to everyone’s brain and our nation’s history, like never before: Teflon Don and the Biden Crime Family.

Sealed and protected.

Particular political inclinations don’t alter the meaningfulness of the events, as everyone now sees it so clearly. Two very strong memes, memes that are decades old, memes that everyone knows—even people who don’t follow this stuff and only care about politics for two or so weeks every second or fourth year know these memes. And they just witnessed them play out in real time across Biden’s term, like a Netflix series; they were hyped with drama, risks, ups and downs, memorable characters, everything! These cases had everything and were everywhere.

They ended with the same memetic energy that they began with. Ha, it’s almost as if from meme they were born and to meme they returned.

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The Process Is The Point

Months ago, when I was conceptualizing this newsletter, I imagined that some of the benefits it might provide for both myself and the reader would be: a) the knowledge base to gauge for ourselves the merits of a particular case; b) awareness as to the validity of narratives about the case; and c) the ability to form a sober understanding as to whether or not that result was just. (Understanding > Reacting)

That’s in the micro, with individual cases. In the macro, my hope is that with each case we track, we gain an understanding that is of higher and higher resolution. An understanding of our justice system, politics, media, and the information war battlespace that we’re engaged in so that we can more effectively navigate it and make ourselves of use in it.

This is an inspired effort on my part. My own political “white pilling” began with my haphazard digs into the details of various cases. The white pills I first found nearly ten years ago were dispensed once I shoved away the inadequate and/or misleading narratives we get in popular media when it comes to politically charged cases (and everything else for that matter) and began tracking, for myself, what happened, why, and how it affected that particular case, other cases, and the narratives surrounding them.

Recognizing narratives and parsing them, filtering and sequencing information into cogent lines of understanding, it’s a lot easier when you have some familiarity with the facts, some understanding of the relevant context(s), plus a healthy awareness that you don’t know everything, and robust discernment for media manipulation built from countless encounters with such tactics.

This process is the point. Because the process is what teaches. All of the skilled processing mentioned above (recognizing narratives, parsing them, filtering, sequencing information, understanding robust discernment, etc.) comes from the activity of tracking cases, from reading source documents, and from observing media coverage, but not being caught up in it. The process is the teacher. The process dispenses the white pills. Not the cases, not the discovery, or the testimony, or the unredacted documents, or even the verdicts. Sure those things to provide their own boosts, their excitements, and sometimes profound disclosures. Overall though, it’s the process that keeps you oriented, steady, and optimistic.

And sometimes the process reveals, perhaps, the outlines of a larger operation.

What makes tracking these cases worthwhile is the education the process provides. Some of the benefits of that education are that you (mostly) don’t freak out when an AG Garland appoints a Jack Smith to investigate a Donald Trump. And you (reluctantly) temper your expectations when the same AG appoints a David Weiss to investigate a Hunter Biden, while his dad is President.

The individual cases do matter, of course. I am interested in each of them to some extent for their own unique sets of potentialities (i.e., setting precedent for future cases, espionage tales, declassified documents) and the Smith and Weiss cases delivered on those fronts as well. I think as part of a set of objectives both men had, to be honest with you. I am convinced both of these particular cases have elements of dastardly and righteous designs to them.

I learned though, especially from tracking Special Counsel Durham’s work, that sometimes what happens at trial, even if you get there, is the least important part of the operation.

I think the same has turned out to be true for both Special Counsels Smith and Weiss.

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*It remains in question whether or not he was a legitimately appointed Special Counsel.

**It remains in question whether or not he was a legitimately elected President.

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Thank you all very much for the support. Gonna be candid and honest with you here at the end of the article. If it reads like three articles saying the same thing in three different ways, well, it kinda is, haha. Over the past few weeks I have written a few times and recorded (once), but it wasn’t landing in my view, so I set aside the drafts and pulled some lines from them to create this article. The next issue has case updates in it, but I liked the idea of putting some sort of endcap to the Trump and Biden cases all in the same newsletter and nothing else. These cases have been a huge part of my regular research and content; I’ve read everything in them, some of it more than once, wrote about it, talked about it on shows, etc. I’m a bit sad in a way, but also relieved. It’s similar to feeling I would get leaving a construction project I had been on for months. Even if you hated the project (which I didn’t hate covering these cases at all, I loved it!) you were still invested in it, and when it was done, you may have been glad to go, may have cursed it as you left for the final time, but you still felt something about it every time you drove by and occasionally wondered if your work held up over the years.

That’s it for this issue. Share your thoughts on these developments in the comments, and let me know what cases you would like to see in the newsletter.

Thanks for subscribing!

-Just Human

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