Author: carlzeitz

The first president- the first to move a swearing-in indoors.

Such a brave man.

Such a tough guy.

Such a pansy.

Hoped he would do the same as William Henry Harrison.

Crazy.

That’s a word you are not supposed to use anymore, or at least if it means that, meaning crazy, well one of so many.

So what happens when a crazy man born in Beaumont, Texas, living in Houston, decides to announce his found lunacy by driving a truck into a crowd in New Orleans where he kills 15 people and injures two score and more?

Well before he knows crap, Trump says it is an illegal person from Mexico who did that. Nope Donald, he was born in Beaumont, Tex. and did something you never did, served in the U.S. Army.

So, we got and get non-stop stupid television with everyone a TV producer can dig up to comment. We get the same old same old same old experts declaring this to be, has to be, must be part of an international plot.

Except it isn’t and if you are not an expert who gets paid by TV to to see it is and be on TV every day at a high fee to say it is, then you know, you knew instantly it was a crazy, angry guy with a truck. No international plot, a truck.

It was one guy with a bad story and a truck.

Isis? Leave that to the experts who see Isis under the rug.

You can buy the Isis flag on line. You can buy anything on line. Just one of the reasons this is a worse world than ever. But no, this was one guy with a bad story. And a truck.

The experts have come up with a new word for this. They call it “inspired.”terrorism, action, crime. Get used to hearing it, a lot, from them. But, they are not talking about people inpired by noble thoughts.

They are talking about people looking for a cause to inspire a lone person attack for, or against and violently because they are failures and failure has made them sick. They have it misplaced as usual. It is not about, was not about inspiraton. It was about a truck and the madman driving it.

But the experts and their friends on the blathering TV desks are still at it and will go on for days telling us something that didn’t happen did, or might have or could have. Nothing fills a void like television and television mostly fills the void.

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In a smiliar vein:

“The Bronx is up and the Battery’s down and the people all ride in a hole in the ground.”

Because they have the subways of New York,, the largest subway system in the world and still the best, fastest, least costly way to navigate the great city.

But then a homeless crazy man gets on a train car at Coney Island, sees a homeless woman taking advantage of some shut eye because the subways never shut down and it’s a 90 minute trip from “up”, the Bronx, to down,”the Battery”, and on to Coney Island at the end of the line.

Time enough for her to sleep, ride back, sleep some more. If you don’t have a bed, it could be worse even.

Bur he does what? He sets her on fire and she dies a nightmare death. Why did he do that? Well, maybe because he is crazy?

A week later another homeless man sees a man looking at his cell phone while standing on the plaform of the 7th Avenue subway at the 18th St. local stop waiting for the No. 1 line train (been there often enough).

What does he do? He shoves the man onto the tracks. The man is saved but suffers eggregious injury.

A year or so before another man named Daniel Penny accidentally or on purpose (take your pick, the judry did) chokes a man to death in response to that homeless man acting out and distrubing a car of subway riders who want only to get from here to there.

He is tried to a hung jury on one charge then acquital on a second.

He doesn’t go to jail. He goes to the Army-Navy Game as Trump’s guest.

Why did Penny get discharged and acquitted?

Because anyone who rides the New York subways can tell you if you put 12 New York subway riders (and remember to serve on a Manhattan jury you have to be a Manhattan resident) – if you put these questions to 12 New Yorkers who ride subways, who have experienced “show time” and a lot worse, you will get the same verdict from them in that or any like case, every tine.

You will get at most a hung jury and just as likely an acquittal.

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So?

But ok, what is the cause of these otherwiwse disconnected random incidents in New Orleans, in New York, on its subways and across and around the country every day because similar incident are and have been happening so very often?

Why does this country go nuts, spend millions, have every supposed expert crying international terrorism when but one obviously nuts guy decides to announce his lunacy by killing a bunch of people?

Same thing with those subway crimes and so many others in other places on other days..

Will we do again what society used to do with crazy people and warehouse them in places no one wants to see or think about?

Then, no one gets killed on subways, we don’t have to cross the street to avoid a bad corner, we won’t worry about being on Bourbon Street at 3 .m. (if we are there at that time of day perhaps we should be worried about other things.)

But then, what would Cable TV News do all day, much less on a holiday? And how would all its special, super duper, former this and former that police and security experts earn a living? No matter they are and will the next time go on yapping and yammering about – subways, trucks, rooftops, Isis.

It’s not complicated,unless you want it to be. This can all be traced, connected and demonstrated to be a result of the political, social, medica,l and general societal movement from the late 1970s to the present to empty the public mental hospitals.

That got us what? A drug epidemic among the former patients who becaiuse they are crazy don’t want to be on meds, live on the streets and do the bad things that make for non-stop cable television. Not all of them, certainly probably not most of them except to disturb the rhythms of life out in the world.

But then, when these bad things happen, well…

We did that. We added to emptying institutions, illegal drugs, drugs to treat illegal drugs,judicial intervention, more drugs, vast social service networks and we got what?

A world in whch mentally ill people do these things out in the world where they can be seen because they are not locked away where we can’t see them and don’t have to think about them.

After all, who wants to see or think about them? Right, no one does except perhaps their families and friends.

Guess what? They are going to keep doing these things, not even knowing or caring that it will get them on television, which it will and where they’ll be the talk of all the experts.

Crazy isn’t it.

From the NY Times today in a Gazan family tent.

There is no world in which this should be.

It is estimated 1.2 million Jewish children younger than 12 perished in the Holocaust.

Then in what way Netanyahu is this recompense?

A war criminal is a war criminal is a war criminal.

So much was desposited by the Germans and Germany in those years in history’s bank of horror that it is hard to imagine the circumstances in which, by which and under which those accounts can ever be emptied, much less forfeited.

But Israel has made and is making withdrawls, squandering enough of the moral balance earned by those 6 milllion victims, piece by piece by piece.

One child at a time, so that by now we think there are as many as 15,000 dead children like these in Gaza.

Why?

Ask the grownups. We all become those, don’t we.

I keep waiting for the IDF to say no more.

I keep waiting.

There is a photo today accompanying a story about the monstrous, historically disproportional, inhuman conditions in Gaza caused by the Israeli military juggernaut.

The photo shows three small children huddling in terror, confusion and total fear.

It is a vivid image as if this was December 1941 and they were caught in a corner of a street in the Warsaw Ghetto hunted mercilessly by Germans, which the Germans did withouot mercy, sense, decency or comprehension of German evil aimed at Jewish children.

I don’t do religion but this makes me angry and deeply, deeply ashamed to be a Jew. It is exactly the same, exactly the same.

Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing in this world justifies this. Nothing ever will.

You do not do this to children. Those who do have learned nothing;. They are incapable of learning. They are damned.

Judge Crater?

J.D. Vance?

Well, one could write this that and the other. One could be polite.

Why bother.

Hegseth is a pitiful drunk, a rapist and pure horseshit as a man and a person.

Everything he thinks is hoseshit, everything he says or has ever said or written is horseshit, everything hle pretends to be is horseshit.

He will be the first horseshit pile to sit in the seat of the United States Secretary of Defense since the post was created in 1947 in the law that unified the American military services in the Department of Defense.

The DoD Secretary is 4th in line of succession to the presidency after the president, VP, speaker of the House of Representatives.

Every single Republican senator who votes for him will be voting for horseshit. They will, they are, after all, now horsehsit eaters.

In the news, given events in New York City, are Medicare Advantage Plans.

They are not, they are a total insurance fraud insisted on by Congressional Republicans 15 years ago or so.

Never, never, never take a Medicare Advantage plan.

There is a reason the insurance companies spend these two months selling them so hard.

They are deadly HMOs for seniors.

They will deny, deny, deny and limit, limit, limit.

Take straight Medicare with a Medigap plan.

Don’t be stupid – trust your government.

Don’t trust Republicans and do not trust their dear friends, the insurance companies.

They are not here to help you, they are here to make money at your expense.

Say it again seniors, do not take Medicare Advantage. It is designed for your disadvantage.

If you know me, you know something of my experience, which is considerable as I tell the Docs and Nurses I am an expert patient.

I have never been delayed, denied or refused an immeddiate approval and – and never, ever had a bill.

With Medicare4 Advantage?

I’d be dead.

And what’s “the advantage” in that?

Thought about this, how to say it. Decided to say what it is.

The nominee for Secretary of Defense is a fucking drunk rapist.

He’s a creep.

Who nominates this creep?

What kind of man even considers it?

JNo one, no one, no one.

NO ONE.

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH THE REPUBLICAN PARTY?

EVERYTHING.

On Saturday Trump announced Cash Patel is his nominee to head the FBI, a creature with but one declared purpose in life – carrying out his patron’s Night of the Long Knives.

On Sunday, Presidend Biden announced the pardon of his son.

He did the right thing.

As a father.

As an American.

He did the right thing.

No Musk, Apartheidist from South Africa, this is the United States of America.

Neither you, autistic racist from Apartheid, nor your friend Vivek, the stupendously foreign anti-American, spider-fingered creature with whom you wallow in the muck and mud of raptorous ignorance of and loathing for Americans- or the mind inside your malevolently warped, hated-filled mentally diseased benefactor – understands or knows.

Because you see, neither Vivek or Elon is an American, not in any way, not with any basis whatsoever in America.

They are not made to be legal citizena or legal immigrant. They do not understand those obligations.

Like their patron, they live outside any universe of decent men or ever known to decent men.

Article I of the United States Constitution says the Congress of the United States, and only the Congress of the United States may or can create its governments departments.

Presidents do not. The Congress does. Presidents do not fund the government, the Congress does.

Its power to do that, the most fundamental authority in English speaking democracy, reaches back to 1215 and here, in these United States to 1619 and has been set since November 1787 in Article I.

There is good reason the legislative power is in Article I and the executive power in Article II.

The founders knew the greatest, nearest power to the people -those submitting to being governed – resides in the legislature.

There is no such thing as a department of government efficiency.

It does not exist.

It will not exist unless it is created by the Congress of the United States.

It has not been.

It never has been.

It never will be created.

Anything it ever attempts to do will be unconstitutional, illegal – condemned by democracy.

If you know the story, the one by Oscar Wilde, of Dorian Gray, a man who sold his soul – so that in life his aspect remained unchanged, admired, ever-young, always handsome then -then you know too that inside he changed – that as he aged, the hidden exterior protrait revealed the rot inside him.

His interior soul – being, mind – become a warped, ugly, hideous creature, captured not by his unchanging exterior visage but but in the hidden portrait painted of him when he was that young man.

He portrait slides into age, revealing a withered, soul sunken, hideous old man, his appearance capturing the monstrous interior rot of his time, his derangement – his very malodorous being. The protrait changes, to reveal at his end the interior emptiness of a fouled, soul-sick creature.

So it is with the vast disease that lurks and hulks now.

A warped, twisted, deranged, monstrously deformed mind, absent a soul, missing every depth of decency, elemental empathy, simple sympthy.

A creature devouring all others as if Grendel lurked across the land, consuming all, slashing everyone in gnashing bites, causing corrosive pain, chewing, slurping, snorting upon and swallowing each human as if an oozing, slimy Big Mac

The woman is said to have asked Ben Franklin in 1787 when the Constitutional Convention concluded, what have you given us?

“A Republic” said Franklin, “if you can keep it.”

We couldn’t.

We did not.

It is done.

It is over.

Watch.

Learn.

America will never have it back.

We gave it back, Ben.

We gave it back.

237 years.

Given back.

Given away.

Squandered.

Never to be again.

When Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth has a confirmation hearing, if he has a hearing, which for all we know may be waived by the new suppine Senate majority, who knows – but if he is subject to that hearing, he should appear in the nude.

He should appear in the nude so that all his gross tattoos can be inspected to see if any of them are of a Swastika or other Nazi symbol.

It seems the reasonable BARE minimum.

Let’s reduce this to plainest terms.

A man running for president says he will use the United States military to take Americans into custody for their speech and temerity to disagree with him, also to deport millions of people who are here illegally – by his own count in his own voice that’s up to 20 million people – though perhaps more accurately about 12 million.

His threats are broad, unencumbered by knowledge and unrestrained by law. They have to be taken at face value because he is one of only two people who will be elected the 47th president.

He may not know how to do what he is threatening but he knows dozens, probably hundreds of people around him like Stephen Miller – who says “America is for Americans only” – who plan to be with him in the White House and in his administration. They are making plans for him to act on the threats.

The core question goes beyond whether he would carry through or if civilians who would be with him at the White House, in the Department of Defense and the National Secuirity Council are prepared to set such orders in motion. There is considerable evidence he will and they will.

We know too from his conduct over nine hyperactive political years, including four as president – as well as testimony from those who served him during his White House years, and from those in the media and academia who parse everything he says – that he has but one North Star.

That is first, last, always, and only personal loyalty to him.

He is the only president in living or historical memory who did not attend the inauguration of his successor.

In a democracy such attendance is not simply the polite thing to do. It is an essential statement of common nationhood and citizenship shared by the parties, and between the winners and losers of an election.

Knowing all this, the overriding question is what the American military would do if he becomes president and orders it to to suppress, arrest and detain American citizens?

If he orders it to take into custody and deport without respect for existing law and the rule of law, millions of people deemed to be illegally present in the United States? If he orders those he would deport to be held in massive camps before deportation?

Never mind to where he thinks he can send millions of people, or how he would use the military to move them, or what that would cost, or how it would divert military and other resources to do it.

He is running for president and says as president he will order it. If we take presidential candidates at their word and we should, when he orders soldiers to do these things, will they? Must they?

United States soldiers have sworn an oath to support the United States Constitution.

They do not swear an oath to this man or that man (or woman). They do not take an oath to the nation. They take an oath to support the Constitution. So we are reminded frequently.

We are told this constructs a bullwark against illegal acts outside the pledges in the oaths.

Yes, oaths, because there are two of them – and they are different.

Let’s look at how U.S. military oaths evolved.

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During the Revolutionary War, the Continental Congress established oaths for the enlisted men and officers of the Continental Army

The first oath, voted on 14 June 1775 as part of the Continental Congress law that established the Continental Army, said:

“I _____ have, this day, voluntarily enlisted myself, as a soldier, in the American continental army, for one year, unless sooner discharged: And I do bind myself to conform, in all instances, to such rules and regulations, as are, or shall be, established for the government of the said Army.”

This was replaced in September 1776 by this for enlisted ranks.

“I _____ swear (or affirm as the case may be) to be true to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies opposers whatsoever; and to observe and obey the orders of the Continental Congress, and the orders of the Generals and officers set over me by them.”

And by this cumbersome oath taken by Continental Army officers:

“I _____, do acknowledge the Thirteen United States of America, namely, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, independent, and sovereign states, and declare, that the people thereof owe no allegiance or obedience to George the third, king of Great Britain; and I renounce, refuse and abjure any allegiance or obedience to him; and I do swear that I will, to the utmost of my power, support, maintain, and defend the said United States against the said king, George the third, and his heirs and successors, and his and their abettors, assistants and adherents; and will serve the said United States in the office of _____, which I now hold, and in any other office which I may hereafter hold by their appointment, or under their authority, with fidelity and honour, and according to the best of my skill and understanding. So help me God.”

Another revision followed in 1778 until in 1787 the new nation adopted and ratified the U.S. Constitution.

Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution lists among the duties of Congress “To make Rules for the government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces” of the United States.

Article II, Section 2 announces, “The President shall be Commander in Chief…”

Article VI requires all members of Congress, of state legislatures and all Unted States judicial and executive officers (including inherently all military officers) to take an oath to support the Constitution.

Thus in September 1789 the First Congress entacted by law the following oath for all serving the United States.

“I, _____ do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will support the Constitution of the United States.

A second part also said:

“I, ______ do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) to bear true allegiance to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully, against all their enemies or opposers whatsoever, and to observe and obey the orders of the President of the United States of America, and the orders of the officers appointed over me.”

Note the mandate for obedience to officers and to the president.

Over time the oath changed but not fundamentally until the Civil War resulted in this cumbersome declaration:

I, ______ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto; that I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatsoever under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power, or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto. And I do further swear (or affirm) that, to the best of my knowledge and ability, I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter, so help me God.”

Eventg in that greatest moment of national peril this was not an oath to the nation or to obey orders by the president or from officers . This oath is sworn solely to the Constitution.

In 1884 the following was adopted in place of the earlier oath.

“I, —— do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign or domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”

Here, no mention of the nation or the president though his position as Commander in Chief is inherent in the Constitution.

This oath remained in effect through succeeding decades. It applied during the Spanish American War, WWI, and WWII. In 1959 the present officers oath came into effect.

In 1962 the enlisted man’s oath changed. It remains the same today.

But note that there were then as today, two separate, different oaths.

For officers it is an oath of office. For enlisted men it is an oath of enlistment.

Those taking the officers oath declare:

“I, _____ , having been appointed an officer in the Army of the United States, as indicated above in the grade of _____ do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which I am about to enter…” optional is to end with “So help me God.”

Every time an officer is promoted to a higher rank, he or she must take this oath.

For those in the ranks there is a different oath taken upon enlistment:

I, (state your name), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice.”(emphasis added). It is optional to conclude “So help me God.”

Inherent but unstated in the officers’ oath of service is loyal adherence to the office of the president in his capacity as Commander in Chief while the president is identified clearly in the lower ranks oath of enlistment as are lesser officers as persons to be obeyed, to whom obedience is sworn in the oath itself.

The oath of enlistment is to the Constitution. It is at the same time an oath to obey orders from, among others, the president. Linguistically, the pledge to obey the president is joined by the conjunction following the oath to the Constitution, but it is not made subordinate.

If every officer in the military were to disagree with a presidential order and so refuse to transmit it to the ranks, are enlisted men nontheless bound by oath to obey the highest commander, the president, no matter what? Hypothetically would his constitutional standing and prerogative as Commander in Chief mean his orders must be obeyed even if they were opposed by every other officer?

Is that definitively the morso now that the president operates under a supreme judicial finding of legal immunity for his actions as president? Does that mean if he gives an order there can be no dispute that it is presumptively lawful and must be carried out regardless? It certainly seems so, doesn’t it?

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Then let’s look at the evolution of another oath, the German military oath.

Why do that? Why is it at all relevant? It is relevant because the man has made it relevant, because we can hear a tape on which his former chief of staff, a four-star Marine general, tells us that his boss, the then president, said he admired the gererals who served Adolph Hitler – who obeyed Hitler.

It is relevant because the man we are talking about campaigns saying there is “poisoned blood” in America, chilling words identical to words by Hitler in “Mein Kampf.”

It is relevant because he tells followers America is betrayed by those who do not agree with them, as Hitler told Germans they had been betrayed by Jews and others he called “November criminals,” referring to the founders of the Weimar Republic.

It is relevant because he’s said if he loses, Jews will be to blame. That libel for one allegation of another is 2000 years old. It never goes away, does it?

It is relevant because he just held a campaign rally in Madison Square Garden, a location chosen not by coincidence but as a purposeful historical statement.

The Garden is a in different building at a different location now than it was on Feb. 20, 1939. But it is Madison Square Garden. In New York it is always the Garden.

On that date 85 years ago the American Nazi Party filled the Garden with 20,000 American Nazis raptourous to hear and rejoice together in a pledge to take over the U.S.A.

Look:

And look again:

Those photos were taken in New York City, not Berlin.

In Germany under the Kaiser the military swore an oath to him.

From 1919 to 1933 the German military oath was that of the Weimar Republic, which in theory if not in practice survived beyond Jan. 30, 1933 when Hitler became chancellor until the death of the last Weimar President, Field Marshall Paul Von Hindenberg on Aug. 2, 1934.

Then and only then did Hitler, the chancellor (head of government), declare himself both fuhrer (leader) of Germany as well as chancellor. Discarding the Weimar Constitution, from that day forward he held all power as fuhrer of the new Third Reich. But he did not order a different military oath to that effect. Someone else did.

The Weimar oath stated:

“I swear loyalty to the Reich’s constitution and pledge, that I as a courageous soldier always want to protect the German Reich and its legal institutions,
(and) be obedient to the Reich President and to my superiors.”

During the period just before and during the Hitler chancellorship under President Von Hindenberg the oath shifted slightly and subtley, reflecting the ascendance of the political far right, Nazis included, and now said:

“I swear by God this holy oath, that I want to ever loyally and sincerely serve my people and fatherland and be prepared as a brave and obedient soldier
to risk my life for this oath at any time.”

Then came a fatal mistake. General Werner von Blomberg, the War Minister, established a new oath. Later, to get him out of their way, the Nazis made a scandal of his marriage to a younger woman and used it in 1938 to force his resignation. He spent the war in oblivion, was tried as a war criminal afterward and died of natural causes in 1946 while an allied captive.

The new oath he instituted and adopted by the Army after Hitler had abandoned all constitutional pretense and made himself fuhrer declared:

“I swear by God this holy oath that I shall render unconditional obedience to the Leader of the German Reich and people, Adolf Hitler, supreme commander of the armed forces, and that as a brave soldier I shall at all times be prepared to give my life for this oath.”

Bloomberg said later that the new oath had been intended to bind Hitler closer to the nation’s military and away from the miliary wing of the Nazi party. He made a colossal mistake as he later acknowledged. It delivered the German army personally to Hitler and made it exclusively his instrument. It elevated Hitler’s title – Fsuhrer (Leader) -by oath.

This forever since is called the Hitler oath.

It is why the men – including numerous generals and the man at the center of the plot, Col. Klaus von Staufenberg, who conspired in the July 20, 1944 attempt to kill Hitler – believed that though they were doing the right thing for Germany, nonetheless they were traitors to their oaths.

The Hitler oath became the excuse for two generations of German soldiers. Loyal to their oaths, they said, they carried out orders. Those who gave the orders were to blame, they said, not them.

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Then what is an oath about? Does the oath to the Constitution fence off what can be done under the document’s color? Does the enlistment oath create a duality by its obligation in the end to obey the president as well as support the Constitution?

If an enlisted soldiers’s oath ultimtely requires obedience to the orders of the president – as conveyed by his officers or, if they refuse to pass on such orders still nonetheless by the president – must soldiers ordered directly by the chief commander leaning on his constitutial authority – and now with court-awarded constitutional immunity – obey? Can a soldier say no? Complex paragraph, yes, but it’s a complex question.

If these seem to us Americans to be ridiculous, even foolish questions to which we know the answer is that still so in the face of promises to arrest some of us for our opinions or take millions into custody to deport them?

If we Americans did not create the political conditions that awaken these questions, questions about facism that were long settled by the Allied victory in Europe, this man has.

As shown he has made the mostly off limits analogy to Nazism and Hitler relevant. It is a hard, firm rule never to invoke this in our politics. But it is his actions, his language and his choice of venue for an openly racist and mysogynistic rally that has put all this at the center of the campaign and opens the question of obedience within the soldier oath.

If he returns to the White House, he will be surrounded by a phalanx of aides who have been examining these matters, who surely know how the German military surrendered to a single man.

Will they provide him within the context of the American oaths the basis to establish military control over Americans, especially armed with and by the Supreme Court’s acquiescence?

Would the military take such orders from the Commander in Chief when the former generals who worked for him and abjure such a system are not there any longer?

Are we about to find out what the oaths mean? What happens when Gen. Kelly is not there but Stephen Miller is?

If he is elected then yes – yes we are.