The law is the sacred text of the American civil religion
I have half an episode to go and then I will have finished binge watching the cheesy and ridiculous tv series “Z Nation”. Even this nonsense zombie series had some good ol’ fashioned American civil religion. In later seasons - there’s a story arc that once things (*cough*) die down - they want to eventually have elections. Of course the system of government is going to be democracy, the importance of voting is mentioned, and there are some scenes about the constitution. Luckily nearly all those scenes were ridiculous, stupid, and actually funny. But I did nearly groan out loud at the scene with a pocket-sized constitution and sort serious dialog about it.
I just remembered I entirely forgot I was going to do a screengrab of “VOTE” signs that appeared and post about it. I deleted that episode days ago. Oops.
Spoiler
The series went off the rails when they started to introduce different kinds of zombies. One alternate zombie group is “talkers”. They can talk but once in a while they are in danger of going “feral” and becoming more like regular zombies. In that instance - right away they need to eat brains or a brain cracker substitute. The series ended in s05. If there was a s06 - maybe there would be elections? And I guess there would be debates if talkers should have the same unalienable rights as humans. I can imagine the dialog.
“They should have the same unalienable rights as humans.”
“No, they shouldn’t. Sometimes they wanna eat our brains!”
Somebody else quickly pipes in: “So what? We’re all Americans - aren’t we?”
do people genuinely believe there is rule of law in this country
Liberals don’t understand how power works because they are isolated from the violence both necessarily and unnecessarily caused by the state. Everything is abstracted and it becomes a game to them. They think if the referee calls foul players are punished.
dogs can’t play basketball
A frog in a well…
Somehow yes. Libs think laws are magic.
A couple years back my landlord wouldn’t fix the illegally-installed furnace (that the gas company wouldn’t turn on, bc it was a huge fire hazard) even with an impending polar vortex dropping the temperature to -10F. I had to explain to my aunt multiple times that it doesn’t matter that my landleech was legally obligated to provide heat, it didn’t change the fact that my rental had no heat and would not have heat in time for the storm.
Earlier today I tried to read this NYT op-ed by Jamelle Bouie - archive.today • Opinion | If All This Sounds Delusional, That’s Because It Is - The New York Times. It’s really pretty crazy. It’s 1,200 words that can be summed up as “Trump cannot do the freeze because it is unlawful and unconstitutional.” He quotes the law and the constitution. The 1974 Impoundment Control Act? Who gives a shit! He’s not even a lawyer but he’s 100% law brained.
It’s full of tedious and lofty stuff like this that could have come out of President Obama’s mouth or President Bartlet’s.
The American system of government is not one in which the people imbue the president with their sovereign authority. He is a servant of the Constitution, bound by its demands.
It ends with this.
The freeze, then, is Trump’s attempt to make this fanciful claim to limitless power a reality. He wants to usurp the power of the purse for himself. He wants to make the Constitution a grant of absolute and unchecked authority. He wants to remake the government in his image. He wants to be king.
Liberals get so mad at me when I tell them Trump is already effectively a king because the six GOP justice turds made him one, we are at his & their mercy, and the constitution is just a piece of paper.
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I’m going to have to learn what the word “impoundment” means as in “impoundment of appropriated funds”. Gah.
For all the “political science” these people jerk themselves off about knowing, it seems like none of them has read even a cliff-notes version of Leviathan or a Wikipedia article describing Hobbes’ whole idea of the state. This has been a thing since the 17th century
This Bluesky comment made me laugh.
Her removal was ILLEGAL. #impeach#3. They MUST follow the law.
I’m dyslexic so it took me a second to figure out that the second hashtag wasn’t a hashtag and the poster wants Trump impeached a third time.
I love this delusional shit. All you have to do is think like one step further and ask yourself “Who’s going to enforce that law” to realize what a facile complaint it is.
I hope they call the fbi and report president Donald Trump for wrongful termination.
I hope they call the fbi and report president Donald Trump for wrongful termination.
After the call - the FBI informs its director and the AG at the DOJ and the head of the IRS. And then the director (handpicked by Trump) and the AG (handpicked by Trump) and the head of the IRS (handpicked by Trump) have a conference call. After they manage to stop laughing - they task FBI agents and DOJ lawyers and IRS criminal investigators to find or even create dirt and totally ruin of the life of the caller.
They MUST follow the law.
Aw they think politicians follow that how cute.
Yesterday I was sarcastic to a lawyer on Bluesky because not only did he do the “MUST follow the law” shtick - he also said “I have been practicing law 25 years…”. I put his name (which I assume was his real name) in my comment so that after he blocked me - I hope he felt some shame. People can get surprisingly unsettled when you use their real name so I only do it to assholes.
Last year I did it to an Israel apologist and after he blocked me - I had a peek at his posts anyway. He created a mini thread about how I “doxxed” him so he was forced to hide his real name. I hope I made him to feel at least a little ashamed.
Last year I did it to an Israel apologist and after he blocked me - I had a peek at his posts anyway. He created a mini thread about how I “doxxed” him so he was forced to hide his real name. I hope I made him to feel at least a little ashamed.
