By Aunt America
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Judicial Activism Has Always Been Here
Bill Maher recently spoke of his Kid Rock-brokered meeting with President Trump.
That doesn’t seem like such a revolutionary sentence here in 2025. But imagine reading it to yourself fifteen years ago. Everything would stop. You’d think time itself had lost its mind. And the only way to even approach the absurdity of this sentence is to ask, “What… happened?”
Well, a lot of things happened. We needed a billion different twists of fate to bring us here, but here we are. Oprah was there. So was Hulk Hogan. We were never getting out clean. It was always going to come to this: Elon Musk forming letters in the air to “YMCA,” renaming giant international bodies of water as a troll, and a Monster Jam of a fight over the rise of activist judges.
The conservative argument is that activist judges are hijacking citizen rights and burning straight through the firewalls protecting co-equal branches of government.
The anti-Trump camp says the terrifying tyrant is kicking his way through the separation of powers like a deranged Rockette on a demo crew. Which is happening?
Maybe both… maybe neither.
If President Trump learned anything from Musk, it’s that the way around industry listlessness and ponderous government inaction is to slam the gas like you’re in every single episode of OG Top Gear: Speed. Power. Over the ramp and land this wreck, however, you can– then keep going like history’s closing the distance, because it is.
Trump pushes and pushes because he is Trump, and can do nothing but Trump. And he’s gonna make sure his enemies are soaking in it, ruining the way they walk. He’s rolling out a golden trebuchet full of executive orders with four Miss Universes to shove it, all while calling his antagonists fat losers.
You had four years to figure out how to step around the trip wires while you threw what you had at him, prosecutors, but you set off the bomb anyway. Now you get the trebuchet. And a very angry one-man wrecking crew with nothing to lose sawing at the ropes.
Trump wants to mow down not just the opposing soldiers, but their castle, their village, their livestock, their whole damn cathedral and everything in it. The whole system. He doesn’t just want justice. He wants rubble with his autograph written in the dust.
Just as we asked.
What we’re seeing now is the pushback, which is, naturally, Homeric: oil poured from high windows, archers sniping at grandmothers protesting outside abortion clinics, tribal screaming from the ramparts. Some of it’s justified. Some of it’s not.
The problem is, in the heavily covered cases, we can’t always tell what’s right. It’s complex. It’s chaos as method. We can’t really figure it out even if we’re sitting in the laps of bona fide constitutional scholars, because too often, the ones explaining it all are sitting on a healthy Venmo “donation” for their efforts.
This is ideological trench warfare– usually a slow, silent knife fight, but thanks to X and long-deserved contempt finally pouring over the heads of legacy media, we can now see it for what it is.
Activist judges have been flicking conservatives off the political chess board like pieces in a match where they’ve already paid off the arbiter, the scorekeeper, and the guy in charge of making sure the table is level, just not in the way you might think.
Here’s the play: On April 22, Hennepin County announced a decision concerning Dylan Bryan Adams in Minneapolis. What did Dylan do? He vandalized six Teslas, racking up at least twenty grand in damages and stacking yet another few feet to a wave of fear for the company’s customers.
And what did Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty do?
Nothing.
Zero charges.
Adams, a Minnesota state employee, Adams was placed in a diversion program.
That’s the activism here— the silent, slow heaviness of inaction. It happened during the BLM riots in 2020, and it’s happening still. And unless you’re on the red edges of X or listening to a conservative news outlet, you’re not hearing a sound.
There’s no appeal for no charges. The Tesla owners might recieve financial compensation, but they won’t have any recompense at all for the sinking feeling, the sickness they felt when they found a defaced car by the side of the street– the knowledge that they were targeted for what they beleived, or, worse, targeted for what a billionare they never met believed. Opinions they might not even hold themselves.
So now we have Kid Rock introducing Bill Maher to a President Donald Trump. Because this has happened so often over so many years that we just want the guy with the trebuchet and don’t particularly care which sacred cows he might take out with it.
Are you thinking twice about buying a Tesla these days because of stories like this? If you own one, are you shuffling the family Toyota out into the driveway instead of the Model S?
That’s the real judicial activism– the bloodless kind, the kind that really blocks Trump’s agenda. The flashy cases– transgender politics, Voice of America funding, immigration status– those get attention, Congressional rumblings, soundbites.
Nobody’s talking about those drivers who have to wonder if it’s safe to even take their car to the grocery, much less the downtown furniture shop owners whose livelihoods were burned to the ground four years ago and never recovered.
That is how Trump’s authority is usurped– slowly, locally, and silently. It’s in the gavels that never swing at all.
Bill Maher claims that he told Trump all of what was what. In particular, he said that he asked the President if he understood that he was scaring people. He did not remember Trump’s reply.
But I know what I would have said.
Scaring people? You know what’s scaring people?
No charges.
That’s what’s scaring people. And it’s not Trump. It’s not one man. It’s a whole system of men and women who take off the robe at night to reveal an “I’m Part of the Resistance” tee. It’s not loud. It’s not obvious. It took decades for this to unfurl.
That’s the point. A few are noticing. But not nearly enough.
And– here’s the part you’ll like best, Bill, the one I hope you mention someday– that’s exactly how you got Trump to begin with.
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