Donald Trump thinks he finally has a winner of an issue with his not-worth-the-paper-it’s-printed-on executive order mandating a year in jail for flag burning, and to his point, not even the people behind the Gavin Newsom Press Office Twitter account are taking him on here.
Which, fine.
I’ll bite.
“Flag burning, all over the country, they’re burning flags,” Trump said today in the White House, apropos of nothing.
Seriously, “all over the country, they’re burning flags?”
Is this like “they’re eating the cats, they’re eating the dogs” from last year?
Somebody needs to get off the ketamine.
“When you burn the American flag, it incites riots, at levels that we’ve never seen before. People go crazy, in a way, both ways. There are some that are going crazy for doing it. There are others that are angry, angry about them doing it,” the Trumper went on.
What also incites riots: fat guys with masks plucking innocent brown-skinned people off the streets; a potentate ordering, for no good reason, armed troops into the streets of the nation’s capital, and threatening the same in Chicago and New York.
It goes without saying that the best friend of noted child rapist Jeffrey Epstein can’t just write a law on his own – we started a war 250 years back the last time a puffed-up White dude tried to do that.
Now, no doubt, getting people riled up over flag-burning seems like easy pickins.
It’s like asking somebody the question, Do you still beat your wife?
There’s no right answer, except to exercise the right to remain silent.
It doesn’t matter that, again, the executive order this chump had his people churn out in his name today isn’t worth used toilet paper.
This guy is literally – pardon the language coming here – sh*tting all over the Constitution.
His administration, in addition to the secret police and National Guard stuff, is routinely ignoring the courts, withholding congressionally appropriate funds depending on which way the wind is blowing that day.
This flag-burning EO nonsense is direct aim at the First Amendment.
Fourth Amendment protections against unreasonable search and seizure are now on a case-by-case basis.
They’re not even observing basic habeas corpus rights.
“If you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. No early exits, no nothing. You get one year in jail, if you burn a flag, you get, and what it does is incite to riot, I hope they use that language, incite to riot, and you burn a flag, you get one year in jail. You don’t get 10 years, you don’t get one month, you get one year in jail. And it goes on your record,” Trump said.
This from a guy who knows all about the “it goes on your record” piece.
Thirty-four felonies, for this guy.
The only thing keeping him from spending his last miserable couple of years on the planet in prison is, a third of the country voted him back into the White House, because those folks think things run better with a guy whose daddy had to buy him a college degree and his way out of the draft, then left him $400 million to fritter away into six bankruptcies, than either of the two women the Democrats put up against him.
The reason he doesn’t want people burning flags is because he’s trying to find one big enough to wrap around his oversized carcass for his next cosplay.
I’d say, don’t fall for it, but we’re 10 years past that.
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Chris Graham
