Monday, September 16, 2019

That time when following the Constitution was ‘unconstitutional’

After declaring that impeaching the president would be “unconstitutional,” the White House is now considering a number of other significant changes to many of our federal and state laws. At least that’s what I’m hearing, so it must be true. Am I right?

According to rumor, the administration is preparing to issue executive orders stating the following:

* That rapists can no longer be arrested for rape if the female victim has, at any time in her life, consumed alcohol, taken any drug or allowed herself to be dosed with any type of date-rape potion. Those actions by her make all sex consensual and therefore the crime of rape is not possible.

Special consideration will be given to the alleged rapist if he is a prominent judge, sports celebrity, oil and gas producer, Republican politician, campaign donor or promising student at one of our finer private prep schools and military academies with good grades and outstanding athletic ability.

And if he’s white.

* That child traffickers will be considered nothing more than volunteer babysitters and therefore not subject to the law.

* That fraud is a legitimate business practice and is to be encouraged whenever possible. This includes such activities as setting up fake colleges to scam people out of money and inflating or deflating the value of one’s property as appropriate to either puff up one’s reported wealth or to manipulate downward his or her property tax liability.    

* That failing to pay contractors for work they perform not only isn’t a crime, but it’s also a recognized business activity designed to help people who are granted a million dollars by their father become multi-millionaires and eventually billionaires—at least on paper—at the expense of individuals and small businesses that provide services in good faith.

* That lying under oath is no worse than lying to your spouse about infidelity, which as everyone knows is okay as long as you can get away with it.

* That discrimination against any non-white people is supported by the law, because those people “are coming to replace us” and threaten the Conservative Fundamentalist Judeo-Christian White Supremacist Western European principles upon which this nation was founded.

* That any individual or group that opposes our God-given right to possess and acquire military-style assault rifles and 100-round magazines under the Second Amendment to the Constitution—and attempts to legislate stricter gun laws in any city or state—may be arrested for treason and either executed by firing squad, jailed indeterminately in a cage on the southern border or deported to their “country of origin,” which will be decided by White House Policy Advisor Stephen Miller in those instances where the deportee was actually born in the U.S.

* That news reporting by any organization not friendly to the administration shall be considered unlawful fake news, and any “enemy of the people” who attempts such reporting shall be arrested and sent to Guantanamo Bay forever.

* And finally, that any attempt by that annoying gaggle of Democratic lawmakers who call themselves "Congress" to interfere with the actions of the newly empowered Executive Branch shall be considered an illegal “over-reach” and discarded as “incompetent, irrelevant and immaterial,” just like Hamilton Burger was cast aside in all of those episodes of Perry Mason.    

In case you missed it, White House Alternative Facts Meister Kellyanne Conway said over the weekend that attempting to impeach President Donald J. Trump would violate the U.S. Constitution. “They need to read the Constitution in the Democratic Party,” she said. “Tell them to stop the nonsense of harassing and embarrassing this president and the people around him when you have no constitutional or legal basis to do so.”

Never mind that the U.S. Constitution clearly sets forth the process for impeaching the president if he commits crimes while in office, and that the list of said crimes committed by Trump is much too long to mention here. Of course, that’s what the Constitution said before Trump became president and started rewriting all of our guiding principles and laws.

It’s rumored that Trump once told his advisors (who were mostly his daughter and her husband) that, "The Constitution is decades out of date, and these old laws are far too restrictive to allow me to make America great again as I alone can do it. Besides, if we need any laws in this country, I’ll be the one who decides what those laws are going to be.”

Now in the interest of full disclosure, I wasn’t in the room when Trump supposedly said those things, but it’s what I’m hearing from some pretty reliable sources, and if that kind of credibility is good enough for Trump, it’s good enough for me. So that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. After all, I could be one of those stable geniuses I keep hearing about, who knows? I guess you can decide that for yourself.

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