This year's most profligate proponent of law and order - former reality TV game show host and convicted felon, Donald Trump - is staking out a principled claim on justice that should make his glassy-eyed cult disciples twitch with nervous tension. Not that they aren't already an angst ridden flock of freaks with acute anxiety disorders.
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Trump has resumed his role as a call-in co-host on Fox News where his slobbering sycophantic pals on Fox and Friends provide him with free airtime to unload his mendacious musings. It's an open forum for rage-casting and unhinged bashing of Democrats, especially the presumptive nominee for president, Kamala Harris.
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On Thursday's program, Trump held the "Curvy Couch" potatoes enrapt in his uniquely incoherent rambling. He predictably whined about his legal tribulations that he now blames entirely on Harris, who he slanders as "a radical, left, not very smart person." Which is such a "smart" way of articulating that alleged thought. He also told his cult not to bother voting for him because he already has all the votes he needs. Another "smart" move on Trump's part.
However, perhaps Trump's most bizarre bit of blather was his lecture on the legal consequences of flag desecration. Trump offered his opinion in response to Americans protesting Netanyahu and the war in Gaza, some of whom burned flags. He said that such behavior should be severely punished, and anyone who disagreed with him is "stupid."
"I think you should get a one year jail sentence if you do anything to desecrate the American flag. Now, people will say, 'Oh, it's unconstitutional.' Those are stupid people. Those are stupid people that say that." [and that] "Putin and President Xi of China, all over the world they're watching this. Kim Jong Un [...] That wouldn't happen in their countries. It's impossible for that to happen in their country."
First of all, the Supreme Court has ruled that flag burning is, in fact, protected speech under the Constitution. Not that Trump cares about the Constitution. Secondly, Trump's use of brutal dictators as examples of appropriate responses to such speech is typical of his own totalitarian aspirations. He hopes to impose the same sort of oppression here in America.
But what makes his remarks so astonishingly preposterous is that his own cult followers are the worst offenders of flag desecration. The United States Flag Code states in part that...
- "The flag should never be used as wearing apparel."
- "The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature."
- "The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever."
Anyone who has seen the videos of Trump's traveling salvation shows knows that his cult shows up regaled in flag attire. They wave flags defaced with his scowling mug and other representations of his MAGA movement. And Trump himself markets products (shoes, NFTs, bibles, etc.) with Old Glory plastered on them. Should everyone - including Trump - be incarcerated for a year for these offenses?
And that's not all. What about the violent insurrectionists, that Trump calls "hostages," who used flags on poles to attack police officers on January 6, 2021? Should they get an additional year added on to their sentences for rioting and assault?
Don't expect Trump or any of his surrogates to answer these questions. They really couldn't care less. Trump's only purpose in proposing this is to attract attention and to tickle the fury of his feeble-minded fans. And if there were any justice, Trump would already be in prison for crimes much worse than the flag desecration he's exploiting now.
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