Oh, my prophetic soul!
In explaining how The Muslim Ban is not a Muslim ban, Rudy Giuliani (R-Off. Meds) makes a case for gun control.
“When [Trump] first announced it, he said ‘Muslim ban,’” Giuliani said in a Fox News interview. “He called me up and said, ‘Put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally.’”
Giuliani said he did indeed form a commission, with former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) and other lawyers. These guys have calves like cantaloupes.
“What we did was we focused on ― instead of religion ― danger,” Giuliani added. “The areas of the world that create danger for us, which is a factual basis, not a religious basis ― perfectly legal, perfectly sensible, and that’s what the ban is based on. It’s not based on religion. It’s based on places where there are substantial evidence that people are [in danger].”
Like Chicago.
Meanwhile, Trump is calling for AFFIRMATIVE ACTION FOR CHRISTIANS.
The executive order further states that the United States should “prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority religion in the individual’s country of nationality.”
In other words, Muslims will be at a disadvantage. Last week, Trump also implied that Christians will get special treatment over people of other faiths.
“Do you know if you were a Christian in Syria, it was impossible, at least very tough, to get into the United States?” Trump said. “If you were a Muslim, you could come in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible. And the reason that was so unfair ― everybody was persecuted, in all fairness ― but they were chopping off the heads of everybody, but more so the Christians. And I thought it was very, very unfair.”
Meanwhile, Trump fires the Acting Attorney General for being a strict Constitutional constructionist and being insufficiently obsequious. She also wasn’t hot enough.
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, written in 1779 by Thomas Jefferson, proclaimed:
[N]o man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer, on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Those sentiments also found expression in the First Amendment of the national constitution, part of the United States’ Bill of Rights: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”
Something fishy here.
The old man was walking an hour a day, listening to Jonathan Franzen’s yuge novel Freedom. His health seemed to be slowly and gradually and slowly improving. Just in time. He was tired of the battle, then he turned seventy. Just in time. A new year like crossing a finish line. His body was old, his brain was old, but his heart felt young. His spirit didn’t exactly soar but it got off the ground a few times daily. Just in time.
He had decided to look at Trump and Bannon and their attack upon America as a Shakespearean play. “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
Only with language that made sense, I mean without translation.
Unless Trump is trying to incur chaos and civil anarchy to create a conducive environment for martial law run by his Marine generals and Brietbart – in which case he is doing just swell – the draft-dodging, tax-evading, prevaricating, pussy-grabbing Leader of White Christian North America is completely clueless.
The old man had issued numerous warnings from deep within deep-red Trumpland. At ground level, as individuals, these folks can be tolerable. He called them The Tolerables.
And on his walks, he would see more than one Confederate flag. But as a group they are all receiving funds from the federal government and they are all for lower taxes.
Which they cheat on. Love to see those tax returns.
They can drive in whatever lanes they want, go any speed, roll through stop signs, not bother to signal when then turn.
Just pick and choose what laws you like, ignore those you don’t. Like parts of the Constitution. They love the flag, they just refuse to live it.
Freedom is important but only my own. Only for me. And people just like me.
