Ancestors

Written by David August on 2025-01-20 at 19:25

"But the Constitution says he can't do that!"

I know, he knows. That's why he is trying.

Unitary executive theory (advanced by project 2025): make potus able to rule through decrees. The Enabling Act in Germany in 1933 did this, lead directly to deaths of ~50 million and burning 2 continents down.

Technically German constitution from 1919 was “in effect” until 1949. Enabling Act made constitution de jure only (by law, not practice); it was technically there the whole time.

History can rhyme.

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Written by Carolyn on 2025-01-22 at 03:03

@davidaugust When someone explained EOs to him last time, after he was paralyzed with inertia from the shock of winning and having no clue what to do in the job for which he was unqualified, he just started making things up, letting courts settle it. He had no idea what was legal or not at the time. This time he has more of a clue, but thinks he's king, so will just start making things up again, and the country needs to hope the courts do their job because the president won't be doing his.

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Written by Bruce Mirken on 2025-01-22 at 03:06

@CStamp @davidaugust I think it's worse than that. I think #Trump's consciously doing illegal stuff in hopes his pet Supreme Court will let him rewrite the constitution.

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Written by Carolyn on 2025-01-22 at 03:12

@BruceMirken @davidaugust Huh. I'm not sure he's that smart, though those around him might be. It's really hard to gauge how evil versus just stupid he is. I imagine that he will expect that court to support his corruption. RGB is rolling in her grave.

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Written by Mark T. Tomczak on 2025-01-22 at 16:13

@CStamp @BruceMirken @davidaugust It's more that he's surrounded himself with advisors that want this to be how it works (because it's the only way their ilk could possibly win; they see the winds of history blowing and they know if they don't succeed now, their white ethnostate dream is probably dead for another hundred years. Demographics will smother it under a fuzzy blanket of sheer irrationality, like someone waking up one day and declaring England should all be Viking territory by right of history).

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Written by Bruce Mirken on 2025-01-22 at 18:49

@mark @CStamp @davidaugust That's the problem. Trump himself knows almost nothing, but this time he's surrounded himself with a team that includes people who actually know how stuff works, and that makes them dangerous.

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Written by yuhasz01 on 2025-01-23 at 02:07

@BruceMirken @mark @CStamp @davidaugust

Yes all true they have had time to learn a few things.

But governing, administering policy, does require some substantial competence to get it done: they do not have it, too selfish, greedy, power hungry. They can destroy but not build anything new....

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Written by David August on 2025-01-23 at 02:14

@yuhasz01 @BruceMirken @mark @CStamp oddly a kind of nice silver lining that they are not great at this.

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Written by Bruce Mirken on 2025-01-23 at 03:16

@davidaugust @yuhasz01 @mark @CStamp But let's not get cocky and assume they're too incompetent too do real damage. People are going to get hurt.

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Written by Carolyn on 2025-01-23 at 03:20

@BruceMirken @davidaugust @yuhasz01 @mark They've already done damage by withdrawing from WHO, muzzling scientists, cancelling NIH funding...

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Written by David August on 2025-01-23 at 09:02

@CStamp @BruceMirken @yuhasz01 @mark and yes, part of what will hurt people is the incompetence with which the new admin does things. You are quite right.

Ill intended and accidentally messy while breaking things presents a different sort of harm than deliberate, capable and malevolent action, but both hurt people.

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Toot

Written by Bruce Mirken on 2025-01-23 at 16:14

@davidaugust @CStamp @yuhasz01 @mark The Trump team, I fear, will manage to achieve the worst of both.

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Descendants

Written by David August on 2025-01-23 at 16:49

@BruceMirken @CStamp @yuhasz01 @mark that is my thought too. They’ll willful and accidentally ruin so much.

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