Thinking about the scheduled POTUS announcement today with Hegseth…

The prohibition on religious tests in the Constitution says it all, the 1A says the rest about what sort of nation we created. But if context needs to be explicit, every step by the founders & framers was away from the language of the Mayflower Compact, not running towards it.

”When a multitude of indigent, profligate people can be collected and organized, their envy of wealth, talents, and reputation will induce them to give themselves a master, provided that in so doing they can humble and mortify their superiors.” -the author of the US Constitution

In an age where this fellow and colleagues would argue every bit of Executive power is vested in Trump we have found the one agency independent of his will? He talks to Maxwell but not Trump? Sure, pull the other one…

“But if Pride will not permit them to impeach their own Infallibility they will boldly insist that Explanation is Artifice Demonstration a Cheat and Truth a Liar. Such is the natural Course of Prejudice fondled by Self-Love and made drunk with Pride.” -the author of the US Constitution

“…before some audiences not even the possession of the exactest knowledge will make it easy for what we say to produce conviction. For argument based on knowledge implies instruction and there are people whom one cannot instruct.” -Aristotle