Oh, I forgot the 'clear and present danger' doctrine that Hitler invoked after the 'Night of the long Knives' and that has also been a tool of abuse by US governments.
2025-10-05 08:27:20
The Nazis never officially abolished or even changed the Weimar constitution. Elections still took place (with of course only one party on the ballot) etc.
Hitler ruled through the Enabling Act of 1933. Although this law was in violation of the constitution, it was passed (like its lesser known pre-Hitler predecessors) with majorities that would have been sufficient to change the constitution itself, so legal theory at the time considered such laws as legitimate.
In the US SCOTUS has in essence declared that Nixon's 'if the president does it, it means it is not illegal' is the law of the land (of course with the stated caveat that SCOTUS can and will revoke the doctrine the moment POTUS is not of the 'movement'*) and also made clear that it sees itself as the Vaticanum I pope free to ignore any tradition or holy scripture based on 'because I say so'**. No need to change the quaint piece of paper. Btw the Bible His Orangeness promotes and that Oklahoma has just made a mandatory school textbook leaves out most of the amendments with the given reason that those were not approved by the founders themselves and are thus of no interest.
*when I hear that, it automatically triggers original Nazi soundbytes about the "Bewegung"
**this included an official interpretation that the pope could order people to commit sins because obedience to the pope was more important than abstaining from sinning.
2025-10-01 07:23:57
I propose the Dynamit Nobel Piece Prize consisting of a gilded bottle of nitroglycerine and a bundle of dynamite sticks ornated with Swarovski crystals in a carrying bag woven from gun cotton with a printed inscription in garish lettering about "booming again with bursting energy". [Of course it will not actually contain chemical explosives]
2025-09-28 06:59:21
One thing is for sure, no matter what the results of the next election: His Orangeness will cry fraud and try to overturn those parts he does not like. Iirc he already tries to persuade courts to forbid gerrymandering in blue states while allowing it in red ones. His campaign to have voting by mail declared illegal will also play a part (even if the courts do not agree).
Oh, I forgot the 'clear and present danger' doctrine that Hitler invoked after the 'Night of the long Knives' and that has also been a tool of abuse by US governments.
The Nazis never officially abolished or even changed the Weimar constitution. Elections still took place (with of course only one party on the ballot) etc.
Hitler ruled through the Enabling Act of 1933. Although this law was in violation of the constitution, it was passed (like its lesser known pre-Hitler predecessors) with majorities that would have been sufficient to change the constitution itself, so legal theory at the time considered such laws as legitimate.
In the US SCOTUS has in essence declared that Nixon's 'if the president does it, it means it is not illegal' is the law of the land (of course with the stated caveat that SCOTUS can and will revoke the doctrine the moment POTUS is not of the 'movement'*) and also made clear that it sees itself as the Vaticanum I pope free to ignore any tradition or holy scripture based on 'because I say so'**. No need to change the quaint piece of paper. Btw the Bible His Orangeness promotes and that Oklahoma has just made a mandatory school textbook leaves out most of the amendments with the given reason that those were not approved by the founders themselves and are thus of no interest.
*when I hear that, it automatically triggers original Nazi soundbytes about the "Bewegung"
**this included an official interpretation that the pope could order people to commit sins because obedience to the pope was more important than abstaining from sinning.
I propose the Dynamit Nobel Piece Prize consisting of a gilded bottle of nitroglycerine and a bundle of dynamite sticks ornated with Swarovski crystals in a carrying bag woven from gun cotton with a printed inscription in garish lettering about "booming again with bursting energy". [Of course it will not actually contain chemical explosives]
One thing is for sure, no matter what the results of the next election: His Orangeness will cry fraud and try to overturn those parts he does not like. Iirc he already tries to persuade courts to forbid gerrymandering in blue states while allowing it in red ones. His campaign to have voting by mail declared illegal will also play a part (even if the courts do not agree).