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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 15m

'How irrelevant Donald Trump has made Congress'!?!?

Bullshit! And, bullshit some more.

Congress made Congress irrelevant.

Again, with enthusiasm: CONGRESS AND ONLY CONGRESS MADE CONGRESS IRRELEVANT!

Trump is just taking advantage of the opportunities USAians are giving him.

Silly USAians.

Tim Rogers @timmytyper.bsky.social · 27m

"Very few Democrats seem to understand this new dynamic; Democrats are so used to being the 'responsible' party who helps keeps government open … that they seem not to be able to reckon with how irrelevant Donald Trump has made Congress …" www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/there-is-n...

There is no budget "deal" to be made

President Trump has so broken the constitutional framework as to make joint normal, responsible government impossible.

www.doomsdayscenario.co

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 22m

The follow-up Q should have been: I know you're not the Attorney General, you dismissing and patronizing piece of shit, you are, last I checked, the Speaker of the House of Representatives (as of today anyway), but you're also a citizen. Have you no thoughts on the matter, as a individual in USA?

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 30m

Well said. Truly.

Thing is, we see the Administration's use of military as a function of cultural divide as opposed to a cause of cultural divide.

As such, an 'it's so obvious no explanation needed' approach might not be enough.

Sit Vis Tecum

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 1h

Why?

Details please.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 1h

Apart from the fact USA's Insurrection Act is words on paper and incapable of self-execution, you might should review 10 US Code, Ch. 13.

You overstate quite considerably.

As re USA military force against USA civilians, nothing wrong there if enemy domestic.

www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 1h

If a) Trump is in the raw-power business now and b) you find such business unacceptable (which we posit you should), what are you going to do about it?

What do you suggest/propose others do about it?

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 1h

Not fascism at present because all elements thereof not in place.

Fascism-like? We'll give you that.

Fascism-light? We'll give you that too.

Authoritarianism and/or totalitarianism more honest/objective/less Henny Penny descriptors, if all elements were present. Not there yet, but getting there.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 2h

What are you going to do about Trump calling for the jailing of DEMer leaders?

What do you suggest/propose others do about it?

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 2h

First - No one knows what an illegal/unconstitutional order is, until after the fact, where the fact is determined by tribunals well outside the AOR and well above the pay grades of milpers.

Second - Expect milpers to behave consistent with that of highly Milgramed subjects.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 2h

Not 'fascism'.

There are other just as appropriate and just as accurate, perhaps more so, descriptors than 'fascism' that don't come with, inter alia, incitement baggage.

That said, 'fascism' works nicely if you're a Henny Penny or a Goebbels.

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 11h

Shouldn't.

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 11h

Your Constitution may require immediate removal of the Trump Administration.

But, said removal must be by reason of civilian action and must not be by reason of military action.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 12h

No one knows what an illegal/unconstitutional order is, until after the fact, where the fact is determined by tribunals well outside the AOR and above the pay grades of milpers.

What will they do is a function of how well they've been Milgram PSYOPed.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 12h

File charges against whom?

A crime by whom?

If the individual shooter and the spotter, nothing will come of it, especially if issues of government immunity come into play.

Q: How does one file charges against a systemic condition?

Cause that's what you have.

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 13h

You should see Milgram's work.

You might be surprised.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 13h

The Complaint cites Public Law. As do you.

Why isn't POTUS a party?

Art. II, Sec. 3 holds POTUS 'shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed'.

If the law is not being executed, is not POTUS in breach of his constitutional duties/obligations?

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 14h

Trust you know, when you use 'fascism', they way you do, all you really do is a) validate Godwin's Law and b) demonstrate you're either a wannabe propagandist or not as intellectually literate as you think you are.

If you don't, you should be.

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 14h

Feel good now, do you?

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 14h

Apologies for writing above your level.

Tell us your Dick and Jane reading comprehension level and we'll endeavor to accommodate.

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 14h

While the O oath is exclusive to the Constitution, don't forget that oath includes the provision 'all enemies, foreign and domestic'.

As such, an O can a) be honestly true to his/her oath, b) hold the view POTUS is a reprehensibly treasonous dirtbag noload, and c) still direct fire on USAians.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 15h

Hey Kristol!

When Mr. Wood uses the term 'free market' is he, if you know, referring to a full-blown, laissez-faire, law-of-the-jungle market condition?

Or, is he referring to something less so, i.e., more regulated.

If so, how much less than full-blown, laissez-faire, law-of-the-jungle?

Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 15h

If the Democratic Party hopes to become again the governing party of a dynamic, prosperous nation, it must become more comfortable with the free market—in policy, but also in temperament. It must embrace dynamism in the marketplace and within government itself…”

open.substack.com/pub/michaelw...

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 15h

What would putting the report on the front page of every publication, i.e., print, digital, audio, and audiovisual, accomplish?

Details please.

Sincere inquiry.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 16h

Probably a good thing, for Abbott, the folks in the graphic are members of USA's organized militia, cause those in the graphic would unlikely, in our view, qualify for membership in an unorganized militia. 10 USC 246.

Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 16h

'Should obey in advance'!?!?

Well ... Yea.

That's the whole point law, i.e., to give the governed notice re what's permitted and what's not.

That said, knowing, intentional violation of law is OK, if/only violation is admitted, where the validity/constitutionality of the law is the only issue.

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Jon Bell @jusbellum.bsky.social · 16h

'Contracts'!?!?

You gotta be shitting with such characterization.

Appropriations bills are law/become law.

Once law, 'he shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed', Art. II, Sec. 3, US Const., governs.

If there's any lawlessness, it's USAians failures to make their Constitution work.

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