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@espinsegall.bsky.social Looking at the new Comey indictment I choose to focus not just on the Justice Department but on the incompetence and perceptual disability of the Trump administration taken as a whole. I have in my pocket a list of 100 blind persons poking at a poor elephant.

@espinsegall.bsky.social I was discussing Christa Pike yesterday when I ran across Willie Francis. Eighty years and American society hasn't learned a damn thing.

J D Vance I would like to think J D Vance (given his behavior and public statements) is intellectually challenged but apparently that is not the case. His behavior indicates that that he, despite his superior intellect, he is a moral, ethical and emotional weakling

@espinsegall.bsky.social odd Blanche recently stated, "I work for President Trump." This is obviously an outgrowth of the unitary executive but taken to this extreme it uncomfortably resembles the oaths of fealty sworn by vassals to their lords in the Middle Ages.

By removing the traditional "buffer" of independence between the White House and the Department of Justice, the line between executing the laws of the nation and executing the personal will of the president becomes incredibly thin.

@espinsegall.bsky.social odd Blanche recently stated, "I work for President Trump." This is obviously an outgrowth of the unitary executive but taken to this extreme it uncomfortably resembles the oaths of fealty sworn by vassals to their lords in the Middle Ages.

• The Rule of Law vs. The Rule of the Ruler: The entire foundation of modern constitutional democracy is built on the idea that public officials swear an oath to a document

@espinsegall.bsky.social odd Blanche recently stated, "I work for President Trump." This is obviously an outgrowth of the unitary executive but taken to this extreme it uncomfortably resembles the oaths of fealty sworn by vassals to their lords in the Middle Ages.

• In a personalized model, the authority of the state flows directly from the individual leader. When a top law enforcement official says, "I work for President Trump," critics argue

@espinsegall.bsky.social odd Blanche recently stated, "I work for President Trump." This is obviously an outgrowth of the unitary executive but taken to this extreme it uncomfortably resembles the oaths of fealty sworn by vassals to their lords in the Middle Ages.

In a traditional feudal system, an oath of fealty wasn't made to an abstract office or a charter of laws; it was a deeply personal contract of absolute loyalty made directly from one individual (the vassal) to another (the lord).

@espinsegall.bsky.social Trump Camp Lejeune Threat President Donald Trump sparked widespread backlash after warning that unresolved Camp Lejeune toxic water settlements will not receive funding if Republicans lose the upcoming November midterm elections.

Speaking at a campaign rally in Greenville, North Carolina, Trump explicitly tied the continuation of Department of Justice (DOJ) payouts to a GOP victory So this is pure mafia like extortion. Has Trump totally lost his mind or has the American people?

@espinsegall.bsky.social #Can_they_get_away_with_that? Of course they can do that. The Trump 'Justice' Department can file a lawsuit against Alaska preventing the certification of a hypothetical Mary Peltola win. But even if the suit is factually correct in that Democrats planted

D Vance is defending the Ramaswamy ad. Did Vance endorse the book Unhumans and what if anything was wrong with that?

@blakegendebien.bsky.social I'm a Forest Hills Queens Democrat but I read about Anthony Constantino this morning. My impression is this. Anthony Constantino is a 40+ adolescent Peter Pan want to be.

He would replace reasoned debate on the house floor with music video panegyrics in praise of Donald Trump. I also read a NY Times opinion piece by Michael Brendan Dougherty, a writer for National Review, praising the contemporary GOP's big tent

@troyjackson207.bsky.social #Collins_Jackson_debate I watched the entirety of the Collins Jackson final debate. I give five stars to her make up assistant but Susan Collins is still a witch. With respect to substance the key moment was the discussion of RFK Jr. Whatever good RFK Jr may

have accomplished with respect to MAHA is outweighed exponentially by the harm he is causing by promoting anti vaccine hysteria. Confirming this lunatic was the worst move in Susan Collins long and undistinguished senatorial career.