THE GAMING of the recess appointment provision of our dangerously out of date and inadequate 18th century Constitution by Trump proves how dangerous that document is in 2024. That is only one of a list of extremely dangerous provisions in it, the absolute pardon power is another one that Trump has used to further his own criminality, something which we knew had been done by George H. W. Bush with his pardons of his co-criminals and Gerald Ford did in one of the most dangerous pardons ever given, to the criminal president and model for all future criminal presidents, George H. W. Bush and Donald Trump and I'd argue George W. Bush, as well.
The fabled, idolized "framers" were sadly and dangerously wrong about a lot of things, among others was the absurdly difficult rules for fixing their mistakes and those things which they did which have been turned into deadly weapons against democracy and even our national security by lawyers and legal theorists. That six of those lawyers bent on destroying democracy sit on the Supreme Court and have made Donald Trump a despot with full knowledge of what they were doing proves how dangerous and disordered the system they gave us is. Central to that is that they gave us a presidential system, a system which, when copied by other countries, is associated with an enhanced possibility of that turning, quickly, into a dictatorial system.
I doubt that Merrick Garland is thinking what I am, that depending on the integrity of John Thune that is the only thing we have against our safety and the nominees of Wednesday, November 13, 2024, including a known Putin asset as National Security Director, a drunken, drug using, child raping fascist as Attorney General, and a Pete Hegseth as Secretary of Defense and who knows what others Trump will tap, that having John Thune as the last, best hope of America is entirely too little security for American democracy and even our very lives. He's too busy making sure no one can say he acted politically and otherwise shining his tin halo as an institutionalist of integrity.
Our Constitution and our law and, especially, allowing the Supreme Court to grab the powers it did in 1803 - without that extraConstitutional power grab ever being rejected - dangerous in ways we can't go on with. Since our fabled, deified founders were so hepped on looking to the Roman Republic as a model for our country, they should have really considered what Cicero said, Silent enim leges inter arma. The law is silent in the midst of armed violence, is what he meant, not that the courts don't tell the military what to do during wartime. I won't go into the very interesting history of the speech and the extreme violence and political corruption in the late Republic, a result of the very political system(s) that inspired the extremely rickety and often failing American system. At least not at this time of the morning during another insomniac night, worrying for the distress of our country and the world. I will point out that Cicero's defense of his friend against a charge of murder failed, due in no small part to political mob violence threatening him during the trial. Mob violence of the kind which Trump and his thugs practice as politics and the goddamned lawyers and judges and "justices" being OK with that. The ones with the real power under our corrupt system.
This can't continue indefinitely, the whole system is already dangerous to us all.
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