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the oath and the oaf
Trump recently whined over a law passed OVERWHELMINGLY by Congress, tying his hands in dealings with Russia. Trump’s right (or his lawyers got it right.) But then Trump SIGNED the law, knowing full well the law was unconstitutional, with the lame excuse his veto (he didn’t exercise) would be overridden by a wide margin. Now, before we go into Trump’s missed political opportunity of his life, based in an exceedingly simple constitutional question, let’s examine why this blog has a specific category for “morons”, closely related to, if not synonymous with, ‘oaf’
oaf |ōf|
noun
a stupid, uncultured, or clumsy person.
ORIGIN early 17th cent.: variant of obsolete auf, from Old Norse álfr ‘elf.’ The original meaning was ‘elf’s child, changeling,’ later ‘idiot child’ and ‘halfwit,’ generalized in the current sense
President ‘grab em by the pussy’ Trump had already made a case for being ‘uncultured’ and only a half wit could wonder what attracts ‘cultured’ women to an oaf. For Trump’s fan base (which are likely math-challenged half-wits) the answer is precisely $$$,$$$,$$$,$$$,$$$.00¢
Then, reinforcing the definition of our oaf through his actions (for The Donald’s fan base of half-wits, or people too stupid to understand they’re stupid) becomes slightly more complicated, with a ‘constitutional question’ recently raised. Except for this question was strictly implication (tip for those half-wits willing to read on: we are not discussing ‘constitutional’ in the vulgar slang, defined as ‘taking a shit’, also known as the act of defecating, noted 2nd instance for the uninformed cultured)
A 98-2 vote in the Senate, a 419-3 vote in the House of Representatives for a law that is unconstitutional on its face where Congress infringes on the executive prerogative and Trump signed away his presidential gonads rather than veto it. What’s wrong with this picture?
If The Donald had not been castrated by whatever it is castrates every president’s arrival in DC since JFK (Pentagon liaison to the CIA L Fletcher Prouty called it “The Secret Team“, closely related to what the CIA’s George H.W. Bush designed to be “The Enterprise” and also related to what has been extensively documented by investigative journalist Jeff Sharlet as “The Family“), The Donald could have turned Congress on its head with this simple statement:
Of the 522 members of Congress who voted on the “Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act”, 517 violated their oath to uphold our Constitution. Only 5 members of Congress have upheld their oath. I am proud to make their number 6, with my resolute veto of this constitutionally faithless law
But no, our 71-going-on-5-years old President ‘The Donald’ joined in with a violation of his own oath, when he signed the act into law; missing opportunity to put 517 of his political enemies in a compromised position with their constituents … when, due to Trump’s statement, they would have been faced with casting a very high profile, second vote in violation of their oath, to override Trump’s veto.
Trump’s ‘constitutional’
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Ronald Thomas West 