nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx either that or it’s time to stop administering oaths of office. Either they mean something or they don’t.

nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx This is very similar to the logic behind the state bar rules that forbid lawyers from lying.* (And the First Amendment doesn't prevent the enforcement of this kind of speech rule against us.)

* Yes, yes, I know! But regular lawyers can & do get in serious trouble & disbarred if we attempt even a fraction of the kind of shenanigans these MAGA clowns do. (Why there's so much of a difference in enforcement is left as an exercise for the reader.)

nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx i remember a brief period in my youth when every other month a politician in Austria had to step down because of a shitty thing they did (or… because they didn't do their job).

That feels like an awfully long time ago.

nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx

And that oath should be administered to all candidates for elected public office.

nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx I would totally settle for committing a crime being a crime at this point.

nostr:npub189nhq0cw33243htm08c53vjvgc5letv7d9sgqtgqsn6fnx6dv8zs0fsatx I'd guess that one is, but who knows the arcane laws of the US?