“Anyone who maintains absolute standards of good and evil is dangerous. As dangerous as a maniac with a loaded revolver. In fact, the person who maintains absolute standards of good and evil usually is the maniac with the revolver.” — Tom Robbins, Skinny Legs and All
#QOTD #TomRobbins #Quotation #Quote #absolutism #extremism #dogmatism #fanaticism
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"A year into Donald Trump’s second term, the Department of Justice has become his private law firm, devoted less to the impartial administration of justice than to blackmailing, intimidating, and persecuting Trump’s foes while selectively enforcing the law to spare allies who break it. The chairman of the Federal Reserve reveals that the Justice Department has been attempting to blackmail him into lowering interest rates with the threat of a federal indictment. The governor of Minnesota, the mayor of Minneapolis, the former head of the FBI, the attorney general of New York, and a member of the Federal Reserve Board all face indictment or investigation for opposing or challenging the president.
The decision to ignore evidence that demands investigation or prosecution can be equally nefarious, as we’ve seen in Minneapolis, where federal authorities refused to investigate a masked government agent for shooting an unarmed mom in the face, and where half a dozen federal prosecutors have since resigned after being pushed to investigate the woman’s widow instead.
These are all examples of the executive branch abusing its prosecutorial discretion. And thanks to Chief Justice John Roberts and the Supreme Court, Trump is likely to get away with it.
The Supreme Court’s 2024 decision to grant presidents “absolute immunity” to criminal prosecution for “official acts”—a concept with no textual basis whatsoever in the Constitution—means that Trump can abuse his authority over the executive branch with impunity. Given Trump’s campaign-trail emphasis on “retribution,” he probably would have pursued malicious prosecutions of his enemies regardless of the Court’s decision. But the Court’s grant of imperial immunity eliminated any fear Trump might have had about criminal liability for the corrupt use of his powers."
L'etat, c'est moi.
Is that what the Founding Fathers had in mind?
Good night, and good luck, America.
There’s this thing about how a bar becomes a biker bar: they start out being a regular bar, then a couple of bikers come along. They buy a few beers. All is well. Nobody thinks anything of it. Next time they bring a few biker friends. Then next time those friends bring more biker friends. Before you know it non-bikers start to avoid the place.
The owner never did anything explicitly to attract bikers or turn away non-bikers. It just so happened that accommodating the bikers made the place less attractive to non-bikers.
Same thing with Substack and Nazis.
Same thing with Twitter and the MAGA crowd.
On Judge Chutkan writing on Trump, "Defendant’s four-year service as Commander in Chief did not bestow on him the divine right of kings to evade the criminal accountability that governs his fellow citizens." I wonder if John Neville Figgis would agree with that.
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What I hate about an OS customized by a big company is that it assumes and you can't talk it over. Its opinion is the only one that matters, without taking into account context or scenario:
- volume is too loud, you will go deaf, I'm going to lower the headphone volume in a few hours: Those are not headphones. They are speakers.
-You are no backing up to the #googlephotos cloud. This is probably a config mistake you must fix: No, I make my own local backups.
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