This is that when dealing with the evils of fascism you can’t just paint over its ugliness, you need to tear it out by the roots. There are people in today’s politics who think they can follow Globke’s path to political power. It’s our job to teach them that path is closed.

Dr. Globke ended up holding major roles in the West German government after the war. He annotated the Nuremberg Laws and never fundamentally questioned the legal basis of antisemitic discrimination or Nazi racial philosophy. Just made it more palatable to moderates. The lesson to take away from

Someone tell me watching Corey Booker’s filibuster and doing a breakdown is not something I need to do.

you cannot play with God’s weighted dice.

I can see how one might argue that. But certainly not without either supporting eugenics or justifying why the federal government leaves so much money on the table every year providing for the whims of tyrants and dragons. And to be absolutely clear the eugenics conversation is dead. It doesn’t work

Once the government began providing this service for the general welfare, it would be a contradiction of its powers to remove it. Unless they can somehow demonstrate how people too sick to leave their homes being unable to receive healthcare is no longer a matter of improving “general Welfare.”

if doing so would do harm to the general welfare of the country. For instance: the Constitution makes no specific provision that a Welfare program cover access to telehealth, none of the Framers knew what that was, they just started figuring out electricity and didn’t know what germs were. However

I took me almost five years to hit 15k on TikTok, and I have no clue how I did it, that community/audience is gone. I’m not sure numb is the right word.

I’m speechless

It feels like everybody is walking in a dream, where they almost know they’re asleep, but if they admit it then the dream becomes a nightmare.