what book would you use to be sworn into office?

it can be literally anything

I like the idea of dog eating homework and turning in the dog so if the dog eats the swearing in bible or whatever I really want there to be a procedural issue that forces me to ceremonially rub the dog's belly or I won't be considered truly sworn in.

bullshit jobs

a book of my posts

Talking Book (would need to be the vinyl to be big enough to swear on)

tough question. politics is a tough job for anyone not willing to submerge their own convictions to further the common good. I think you have to go into it knowing that a delicate conscience is going to get pummeled and kneaded without mercy. hence, choosing anything but a socially accepted sacred book would mark you out as a foreign object the system will try to reject. choosing where to make your stands is critical.

The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus

xxp only for some!

would things really be any different now had trump sworn himself in last january on mein kampf

Did Trump swear in on a Trump Bible?

i'd assumed 'the art of the deal'

would things really be any different now had trump sworn himself in last january on mein kampf

My guess is yes, somewhat different. I think a highly public and open embrace of hitler from the first moment he took office would've left a lot of R's in Congress pretty shook and def could have led to more pushback and uproar in general. Including less complacency from the SCOTUS (apart from Alito and Thomas) about granting his emergency appeals using the shadow docket.

i'd like to agree with you, but we've had a full decade now of anyone with any possible veto completely ignoring anything this guy -- who is possibly the worst person in the world! -- has done

The Book of Lists (original version)

probly the Illuminatus! Trilogy

Kernighan & Ritchie's 'The C Programming Language'
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0e/The_C_Programming_Language%2C_First_Edition_Cover.svg/250px-The_C_Programming_Language%2C_First_Edition_Cover.svg.png

windows 95 for dummies

Just my Macbook

Ginsberg's Fall of America

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41It6nlU2vL.jpg

lol

Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Book 'Pounded In The Butt By My Book "Pounded In The Butt By My Own Butt"'"'

necronomicon

Dungeon Master’s Guide

Battletech Technical Readout 3055

Richard Scarry's Biggest Word Book Ever

xxxxxxp The Microwave Fish Cookbook

Used to have a colleague who reheated smoked haddock in the microwave at work. The smell would permeate the entire office for hours.

2666

probly the Illuminatus! Trilogy

This is what I'd go with too (mine is even signed by RAW)

"Rather than a religious text, newly-minted New Jersey Assemblywoman Katie Brennan, a progressive who beat a million-dollar spending disadvantage and the full force of the Hudson County machine, was sworn in on a printout of her district's entire universe of registered voters."

https://bsky.app/profile/reginageorgebush.bsky.social/post/3mcdkuowadc2p

Got to be Hitchhikers Guide

Probably a John Ashbery book