Hirsan Ali is married to Nial Ferguson, they are both Trumpers. So Christian Nationalism, loss of faith in liberalism, embrace of Trump: all a package!
I disagree with Jason Blakely's commentary, or I'm not sure he understands what Schmitt is actually saying. for Schmitt, the sovereign and the state of exception is true and present in any "natural" state (at least under a Hobbesian frame), whether or not the law legitimates the sovereign/rule/authority. The whole point is "the sovereign is he[/they] who decide the state of exception" (Schmitt, Political Theology).
this is arguably as true under President Biden or the last several administrations, both with the increasing use of Executive order for directing and essentially "legislating" (which actually might be reversed a bit with the overturn of Chevron doctrine), and as Agamben argued ad naseum, the bio political surveilllance state created after the 9/11 attacks.
Calling Christianity primarily a tool in the battle to save Western civilization would generate a lot of frustration among my Eastern Orthodox friends. Though, on the topic of Eastern forms of Christianity, Ali isn't the only one using Christianity not as faith but as civilizational weapons. Putin and Eurasianists do the exact same, but against the West. Its all just politics and cultural aesthetics I think.
Let's consider some context, here. SCOTUS just didn't decide to make a ruling out of thin air. Nancy Pelosi decided to impeach Trump the first time, after the Russiagate boondoggle collapsed. The impeachment kept the heat on Trump, and distracted people from what Trump was looking into, Huner and Joe's kickback scheme in Ukraine. And, disgracefully, it worked. Half of America is too shallow minded to see that they were being led by the nose.
We have the classified documents case which is in no meaningful manner different than the Biden classified document case. Trump gets charged with a felony; Biden gets let off because he's too feeble to be prosecuted. Even aback then, the prosecutor was calling the president of the United States mentally incompetent. Yet, nobody seemed to notice until the Great Debate. THEN people noticed what most of us already knew. In the meantime, Trump is still facing felony charges for doing noting significantly different than any president before him.
Second impeachment for an insurrection that even Merrick Garland, Biden's hitman, does not recognize either as an insurrection or as a coup attempt. Never mind, Pelosi went after Trump anyway. The J6 hearings were disgraceful, with republicans not even allowed to call witnesses.
Now, the same people who have been persecuting Trump for eight straight years say there should be no presidential immunity. Why not? It's a reality that any of us can be persecuted by out-of-control prosecutors. Don't think it doesn't happen. Don't think it doesn't happen a lot. Any president is going to make decisions and take actions that piss some people off. Maybe a lot of people. But, did he violate some law? He probably violated a LOT of laws. We all violate a lot of laws, because there's millions of laws. Laws we've never heard of and know nothing about. Yet we are obligated to obey them.
Consider the most recent boondoggle. Trump has been found guilty of 34 felonies. Do you have any accurate clue concerning what any of it is about? What did Trump actually do? Did he do it 34 times? If you are like most people, you have some shaky, nebulous idea about paying off a stripper. Problem is, that is NOT what he was found guilty of, because that payment wasn't illegal. He was found guilty of his bookkeeper making the entry in the wrong place on the books. Did she know she was breaking the law? Of course not. Did Trump know? How could he? If Trump knew that, eight years later, the prosecutor would arrest him for his bookkeeper making the entry in an account that the prosecutor didn't like, Trump would have asked the prosecutor where he wanted it entered, and would have entered it there. Why not? No reason why not.
In other words, there was no crime, no felony committed, until eight years later, when Alvim Bragg distorted any reasonable interpretation of the law, in order to invent a felony. 34 of them, in fact. And if you are like nearly everyone, you have no clue what those 34 felonies are, right? But some are sure Trump is guilty of them, whatever they are. Nope, no bigotry there, folks.
Joe Biden has made America into banana republic. Did SCOTUS defend Trump and the office of the president from banana republic politics and politicians? Damned right, it did. And it didn't go far enough.
I call upon our hosts to devote an entire episode to Carl Schmitt and his philosophy, on the condition they title it Holy Schmitt.
I will let the team know!
I feel like I need this in my life!
Hirsan Ali is married to Nial Ferguson, they are both Trumpers. So Christian Nationalism, loss of faith in liberalism, embrace of Trump: all a package!
I disagree with Jason Blakely's commentary, or I'm not sure he understands what Schmitt is actually saying. for Schmitt, the sovereign and the state of exception is true and present in any "natural" state (at least under a Hobbesian frame), whether or not the law legitimates the sovereign/rule/authority. The whole point is "the sovereign is he[/they] who decide the state of exception" (Schmitt, Political Theology).
this is arguably as true under President Biden or the last several administrations, both with the increasing use of Executive order for directing and essentially "legislating" (which actually might be reversed a bit with the overturn of Chevron doctrine), and as Agamben argued ad naseum, the bio political surveilllance state created after the 9/11 attacks.
Sam Mace gets it right on Covid and its consequences.
Calling Christianity primarily a tool in the battle to save Western civilization would generate a lot of frustration among my Eastern Orthodox friends. Though, on the topic of Eastern forms of Christianity, Ali isn't the only one using Christianity not as faith but as civilizational weapons. Putin and Eurasianists do the exact same, but against the West. Its all just politics and cultural aesthetics I think.
Let's consider some context, here. SCOTUS just didn't decide to make a ruling out of thin air. Nancy Pelosi decided to impeach Trump the first time, after the Russiagate boondoggle collapsed. The impeachment kept the heat on Trump, and distracted people from what Trump was looking into, Huner and Joe's kickback scheme in Ukraine. And, disgracefully, it worked. Half of America is too shallow minded to see that they were being led by the nose.
We have the classified documents case which is in no meaningful manner different than the Biden classified document case. Trump gets charged with a felony; Biden gets let off because he's too feeble to be prosecuted. Even aback then, the prosecutor was calling the president of the United States mentally incompetent. Yet, nobody seemed to notice until the Great Debate. THEN people noticed what most of us already knew. In the meantime, Trump is still facing felony charges for doing noting significantly different than any president before him.
Second impeachment for an insurrection that even Merrick Garland, Biden's hitman, does not recognize either as an insurrection or as a coup attempt. Never mind, Pelosi went after Trump anyway. The J6 hearings were disgraceful, with republicans not even allowed to call witnesses.
Now, the same people who have been persecuting Trump for eight straight years say there should be no presidential immunity. Why not? It's a reality that any of us can be persecuted by out-of-control prosecutors. Don't think it doesn't happen. Don't think it doesn't happen a lot. Any president is going to make decisions and take actions that piss some people off. Maybe a lot of people. But, did he violate some law? He probably violated a LOT of laws. We all violate a lot of laws, because there's millions of laws. Laws we've never heard of and know nothing about. Yet we are obligated to obey them.
Consider the most recent boondoggle. Trump has been found guilty of 34 felonies. Do you have any accurate clue concerning what any of it is about? What did Trump actually do? Did he do it 34 times? If you are like most people, you have some shaky, nebulous idea about paying off a stripper. Problem is, that is NOT what he was found guilty of, because that payment wasn't illegal. He was found guilty of his bookkeeper making the entry in the wrong place on the books. Did she know she was breaking the law? Of course not. Did Trump know? How could he? If Trump knew that, eight years later, the prosecutor would arrest him for his bookkeeper making the entry in an account that the prosecutor didn't like, Trump would have asked the prosecutor where he wanted it entered, and would have entered it there. Why not? No reason why not.
In other words, there was no crime, no felony committed, until eight years later, when Alvim Bragg distorted any reasonable interpretation of the law, in order to invent a felony. 34 of them, in fact. And if you are like nearly everyone, you have no clue what those 34 felonies are, right? But some are sure Trump is guilty of them, whatever they are. Nope, no bigotry there, folks.
Joe Biden has made America into banana republic. Did SCOTUS defend Trump and the office of the president from banana republic politics and politicians? Damned right, it did. And it didn't go far enough.
https://sezwhom.substack.com/p/who-judges-the-judges
Wow! Somebody overdosed on the MAGA kool-aid...
Clever. Seventh grade? Or are you in eighth grade?