Dear John Roberts, It Was Your Traitorous Ass Who Helped Light the Bed on Fire, You Dumbfuck

Dear John Roberts,

I do not listen to traitors like you or your orange god. I do not listen to men who betray the republic and then demand reverence from the people they endanger. I do not listen to robed institutionalists who assist in the degradation of constitutional government and then emerge from their chambers to lecture the country about tone, manners, and public hostility.

Your latest complaint was that personal hostility toward judges is “dangerous” and “it’s got to stop.” On the abstract point, threats and violence are wrong. But you are in no position to moralize the public about civic health after what you fucking did. You are a goddamn traitor and we all know it!

People prove themselves enemies of the republic by the moment they choose. Trump’s moment was January 6, 2021. That was the day a violent mob attacked the Capitol, assaulted officers, and disrupted the peaceful transfer of power while Congress was counting electoral votes. That was the day Trump proved, in action, what he was willing to destroy for the sake of himself. January 6 was a violent attack on law enforcement and an unprecedented attack on a cornerstone of American government. That is not rhetorical flourish. It is the historical record.

Your moment came later. Your moment was Trump v. United States. You wrote the majority opinion that handed a traitor sweeping protection from criminal prosecution for his illegal and treasonous conduct. Your Court held that Trump enjoys absolute immunity. That was the moment you revealed yourself. You did not stand with the republic against the man who had already shown contempt for constitutional succession. You stood with the man. You wrapped executive impunity in the language of constitutional structure and called it principle.

That is why I and others regard you as a traitor to the republic. A Chief Justice has one transcendent duty: defend the constitutional order against lawless power. When the test came, you failed it. Worse than that, you inverted it. You used the prestige of the Court to weaken the principle that no one, including those named Trump, stands above the law. A man who does that is not defending the republic. He is helping dismantle it.

And now you complain. Now you want sympathy because the public has grown contemptuous of asshole judges like yourself. But that contempt did not fall from the sky. It was earned. It was earned by your decisions. It was earned by elite actors like you who keep demanding public trust after repeatedly protecting concentrated power from accountability.

You want the people to distinguish between legal criticism and personal condemnation. Fine. They should. But they should also understand that condemnation of you is deserved. You are not entitled to public esteem merely because you wear a black robe. Not after you helped build a doctrine that made presidential criminal accountability harder precisely when accountability was most urgently needed.

Your defenders will say you were protecting the presidency as an institution. That defense is garbage. There was no abstract presidency on trial. There was Trump, his conduct, and a country already shown the meaning of his ambitions on January 6. Under those conditions, to grant presidential immunity was to intervene on behalf of a treasonous power. It was not neutral. It was not detached. It was not wise. It was in fact traitorous indulgence for a man who had already made himself the enemy of our constitutional government.

So let me be perfectly clear. I do not accept your lectures. I do not grant you moral authority. I do not treat you as some injured guardian of the rule of law. I see you as a traitor to the Republic who helped protect an insurrectionist after the insurrection had already exposed him as a traitor.

January 6 was Trump’s moment of revelation. The immunity ruling was yours. One man attacked the republic in the open. You helped shield him afterward through false doctrine, wrongful deference, and unearned elite protection. In my view, both acts belong to the same story.

If you wanted respect from us patriots, you should have acted like one yourself. If you wanted the public to trust the Court, you should not have used it to soften the law for Trump. If you wanted standing to lecture the American people, you should not have betrayed them first.

You chose your side. The country saw it. And no amount whining now will change what your disastrous decision has meant.

Also, go fuck yourself, you fucking piece of shit. True patriots hate you. And you fucking deserve all the goddamn hate you are currently getting.

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