(Imagine if Obama or Biden or (God forbid) Kamala Harris had:
- withheld Epstein files
- given Ghislaine a pass to go to Club Fed
- started rounding people up and sending them to work camps
- put troops on the ground to 'police' major cities in America (Posse Commitatus Act ends)
- ruined the economy on purpose
- been caught lining his own pockets while in office
- sucked off Netanyahu and Adleson
- partnered with Peter Thiel to collect every bit of data on the American people
- and... now... banned flag burning because it's unAmerican...
What do you think the reaction from the right would be? But Trump does it... (crickets))
(In a fascist society you are not allowed to criticize the Glorious Leader or the state. How does this sit with the libertarian Trumpites who hate 'statism'? Isn't whitewashing our history and scrubbing up history the most oppressive form of statism there is? And isn't it their own candidate turned dictator who is doing it while they all collectively cheer?)
by Scott C.
from the AP
President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order requiring the Justice Department to investigate and prosecute people for burning the American flag, an activity that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is legitimate political expression protected by the U.S. Constitution.
The order the Republican president signed in the Oval Office acknowledged the court’s 5-4 ruling in a case from Texas in 1989, but said there is still room to prosecute flag burning if it “is likely to incite imminent lawless action” or amounts to “fighting words.”
In that case, the justices ruled 5-4 that the First Amendment protects flag burning as legitimate political expression. The late Justice Antonin Scalia, the conservative icon who Trump has repeatedly praised, was in the majority...
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