1-Project 2025: A conservative wish list [link to pdf]
A colossal waste of time by the conservative brain trust under the auspices of The Heritage Foundation, their stated goals.
1. Restore the family as the centerpiece of American life and protect our children.
2. Dismantle the administrative state and return self-governance to the American people.
3. Defend our nation’s sovereignty, borders, and bounty against global threats.
4. Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely—what our Constitution calls “the Blessings of Liberty.”
Why do I say this?
2-The unitary executive theory
A legal theory in the United States which concludes that the president of the United States possesses the power to control the entire federal executive branch.
[Art 2 of the constitution]
Donald Trump says that he doesn’t give a shit about Project 2025, and I believe him as he wants no limitations to presidential power.
In the meantime, he will let this bunch of gormless fools think they matter, and pay for his election campaign.
3-As for SCOTUS, they already surrendered any relevance [Link to Guardian article]
“Today’s decision to grant former Presidents criminal immunity reshapes the institution of the Presidency,” Sotomayor wrote in dissent. “It makes a mockery of the principle, foundational to our Constitution and system of Government, that no man is above the law.”
“The President of the United States is the most powerful person in the country, and possibly the world. When he uses his official powers in any way, under the majority’s reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution,” Sotomayor wrote.
“Orders the Navy’s Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune.
“Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority’s message today.
“Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law.”
Until now, presidents have operated under the assumption that their actions were not immune from criminal prosecution if they used their office, and the trappings of their office, to commit crimes, she writes. But going forward, presidents won’t be so concerned.
“With fear for our democracy, I dissent,” she concluded.
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Impeachment and Congress become irrelevant
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When the conservative brain trust starts talking about protecting freedom I start wondering about how many rights I am about to lose. When they talk about family values I picture a sink, a kitchen, and bare feet. When they talk about protecting our borders I hear jackboots in the streets. When I hear about God-Given Rights I see the crosses on the lapels of those marching. I am a long way from being the first…
John Thomas Flynn's "As We Go Marching," 1944 [Link to book pdf]
But when fascism comes it will not be in the form of an anti-American movement or pro-Hitler bund, practicing disloyalty. Nor will it come in the form of a crusade against war. It will appear rather in the luminous robes of flaming patriotism; it will take some genuinely indigenous shape and color, and it will spread only because its leaders, who are not yet visible, will know how to locate the great springs of public opinion and desire and the streams of thought that flow from them and will know how to attract to their banners leaders who can command the support of the controlling minorities in American public life. The danger lies not so much in the would-be Fuhrers who may arise, but in the presence in our midst of certainly deeply running currents of hope and appetite and opinion. The war upon fascism must be begun there.
There is no point acting after the fact and to those in the conservative brain trust I hope you see reason, the time to act is now.
We need a New Constitution the old one is completely broken.
We need to stop this process now or be prepared
For The Return of the King.
A morning Muse
~A