friday firesmith – is the constitution worth fighting for?

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The Constitution of the United States of America is the law. Not the President, not Congress, and not the Supreme Court. All three branches of the Unites States government are co-equal, and serve to act as checks and balances on the other two.

That first paragraph is the way the American system of government was designed to operate. Nothing else you believe or I believe, or we agree or disagree on should affect the way the government is designed to operate.

Nor, in point of fact, should anyone, not even the President, be allowed to operate outside the constraints of the Constitution.

And here we go.

When Trump said, “Sit up!” to the Republicans they did. They would have no matter what else he said, but this command, without so much as a treat, was rolled up in the subversion of the Constitution.

The job of Congress is not America First. The job of Congress is Constitution first. The Constitution guarantees life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Congress has the job of legislation within the realm, but it is, and ought to be constrained. And so should the President.
Trump, by defining the job of Congress, and by ordering them to stand or sit, or roll over and play dead or beg, pollutes and dilutes, the Constitution.

While many people think Trump is a senile moron hampered by incontinence and sundowners, his attacks on the rule of law in the United States are precise and well planned by someone. Once he convinces Congress that he is above the law, he can wage war as he pleases, toss tariffs around like beads in Mardi Gras, and claim immunity from prosecution.

Trump has done all of this, and he’s still doing it.

The Republican Congress is a cowardly collection of coattail riders without a single care for the American public. They think, they hope and pray, the MAGAs will stay delusional for another election so their donors will keep paying them to run for office.

In the meantime, the country hurtles towards one war after another, more insane and detrimental economic decisions, and a government that seems bent on grift and incompetence.

It’s time people. Get out into the streets and protest against this government while we still have a country to fight for.


Take Care,

Mike

22 thoughts on “friday firesmith – is the constitution worth fighting for?”

  1. Trump is just the carnival barker for Project 2025. The ones pulling the strings keep themselves safe behind the curtain. Working for even more more power while counting their money.

      • He didn’t pal around for years with Jeffery Epstein either. He didn’t keep classified documents in a bathroom. Her never heard of Stormy Daniels. He never even met the people in his select group of friends, campaign people or advisors that got indicted. He never met Putin. The Heritage Foundation isn’t pulling his strings. But he does have a perfect health care plan coming in two weeks. (Sarcasm)

  2. you think there is going to be a “next election”? trump is already trying to push claims of chinese interference so his goons can take over state elections to ensure the outcome that he wants regardless of how the people vote. (if they are allowed the appearance of voting at all).

    • I think Trump will be gone before the next election. I think the Epstein files will get him sooner than later.

  4. While I do believe that Trump is a coffin dodging oxygen thief, I’m not sure about the dementia part. At least when he started out he wasn’t in the throes of it. It may be taking hold now. I do believe he is evil incarnate, along with his buddies and partners in crime. I keep holding to the belief that you don’t get off this mortal coil without paying what you owe one way or the other, I hope it’s true. Especially in his case. I’m not usually one to wish ill on a person, but knowing the things he’s done to young people, I’ll make an exception.
    I do believe he is doing as much damage as he possibly can on purpose. I’m not sure we’ve ever seen evil on this scale, at least not for quite some time. There is obviously something wrong with him, something beyond redemption. I can’t figure out if his upbringing caused this or if he truly has a mental issue. At this point, he’s done so much that I couldn’t care less. He needs to go I don’t care how.
    His stupid ass cult is scary as well, what is wrong with these people

  5. He uses stochastic terrorism to make opponents fear him and send them into silence.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_terrorism

    He knows his followers tried to kill Obama, Biden, Pence, Nancy Pelosi’s husband, and actually killed a state legislator in Minnesota and her husband, a federal judge’s son, and others. (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/05/cesar-sayoc-sentenced-to-20-years-for-sending-bombs-to-trump-critics.html) And now he’s going after members of SCOTUS. If he can coerce them thru his cult’s intimidation, future court decisions will be predetermined—and it’s bad now.

    These are actions of a fascist and fascists hate democracies. And before the simple minded one replies we are not a democracy, we are in fact a constitutional, representative democracy. The democracy part comes in where a majority votes for a representative of their district or state.

    Again, I point out a book that shows how fascism slowly takes over.
    https://press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/511928.htm

    “The dictatorship, and the whole process of its coming into being, was above all diverting. It provided an excuse not to think for people who did not want to think anyway. Most of us did not want to think about fundamental things and never had. There was no need to. Nazism gave us some dreadful, fundamental things to think about—we were decent people—and kept us so busy with continuous changes and ‘crises’ and so fascinated, yes, fascinated, by the machinations of the ‘national enemies,’ without and within, that we had no time to think about these dreadful things that were growing, little by little, all around us.”

    Sound familiar?

    He’s been using immigrants as the enemy which many of his voters were looking for “mass deportation.” Mind you, that deportation part isn’t happening as our government is opening more concentration camps (not jail, not prison, because all those held here never received due process) to house new record numbers of those in custody. (https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/how-many-detainees-are-currently-in-ice-custody-detention-total-sets-new-record-101768610204272.html?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) When they run out of immigrants, (not just worst of the worst), then his political enemies will be next and anyone who speaks out against him. He issued a series of executive actions and proclamations that legal experts, critics, and media reports have characterized as targeting political opponents and critics as “enemies” or threats to the state. Pretty much anybody except those who kiss his ass. One of those groups he considers a threat is labelled as Antifa. Which only exists as an idea, not an actual organization. Essentially, anybody against fascism is a threat. So, yeah, he’s fascist.

    We need to put sand into those fascist gears, but DHS is making a database to make sure any effort is curtailed before it can get enough momentum. Of course, they deny such a database, which means it does exist. Be sure to call your Senators and Reps to be sure they are working on behalf of Americans and not at the behest of one man.

    In the meantime, be sure to check your voting status on a regular basis, especially those with republiclan Secretaries of States as they are purging voter rolls every day.

    Assuming we still have an election, we need a record turnout to push back any election fraud (not voter fraud as that’s not a thing) this administration will attempt, and they will, as it’s their MO.

    • CAI, eventually, and I think we are here now, Trump’s supporters are going to fracture, with enough bailing out to make a difference. He cannot run for president again, and his followers are seeing the future without him. Not all of them, but I think enough.

  6. I think Trump is somewhere on the autism spectrum. We already know he has very low reading skills, but that doesn’t always equate with low IQ. Autism doesn’t equate with low IQ, but it is often accompanied by mental health or personality characteristics such as “my way or it’s wrong,” temper tantrums in outbursts and retaliation, and possessiveness that is acceptable only in a pre-schooler.
    Autistic or not, he is a vile, arrogant, and cruel narcissist.

    The scarier part is that the media, Congress, and the judiciary are not willing to stand up for the Constitution, humanity, the working class, or morality. And their sycophants and groupies lack humanity, decency, and morality.
    That’s the only explanation for why they do not hold their elected politicians to a higher standard of conduct. (They wouldn’t hire any other felons, but elect them? You betcha!)

    • Bev, I think you’re onto something here, but the grifting that Trump does lowers the standard of behavior of all elected officials. As long as Trump can take bribes, openly, and without shame, so can everyone else, too.

      Will that end when he is gone? I’m pretty sure until there is a voter uprising the answer is no.

  7. Every President has worked well with the Congress in his party’s control, so who cares if they all participate in a Hokey Pokey? What matters is what laws Congress actually comes up with and passes, the President either signs it, vetoes it, or ignores it so it becomes law, and perhaps the Supreme Court ends up deciding whether it is constitutional.

    The Democrats pressured social media to squelch posts they did not like; Democrats keep trying to pass laws that violate the 2nd amendment, and Biden said he disobeyed the Supreme Court to continue illegally forgiving student loans: https://www.cnbc.com/2024/01/24/despite-supreme-court-ruling-biden-has-forgiven-student-debt-for-millions.html

    So even Democrats ignore the Constitution.

    I think it is funny that there are people who think Trump will cancel the ’28 election as they are probably the same ones who thought he would never leave in ’21.

    It’s also funny when some people think Trump hates immigrants when those people are incorrectly combining legal immigrants with illegal immigrants–especially when Trump is married to an immigrant.

    • Aha!! The both sides do it excuse.
      Trump left in 2021 but made sure that he was in the limelight for the next 4 years and still pretended to be president even storing classified documents that had to be forcibly removed from his home.
      Trump has stated he just wants white immigrants like from Norway, Denmark, etc.
      Melania lied on her application about her education for an Einstein visa, working here on a tourist visa, but Trump’s money covered her illegality. Then she had her anchor baby and got her communist party father and mother here too.

    • “…and Biden said he disobeyed the Supreme Court to continue illegally forgiving student loans”

      THAT’S A LIE. Pure deliberate lie. You obviously didn’t read the article or you lack reading comprehension skills or you are clearly lying. It clearly states that once SCOTUS shut down one path, Biden went with a different path, using a different law to forgive the loans. That being his Plan B, was not subject to the ruling as the law used in this was not declared illegal.

      It’s obvious you will excuse all his criminal behavior, so let’s get down to the nitty gritty, Timmy. If you have an underage daughter, would you entrust her to be alone with the present occupant of the White House?

      • True, I should not have picked a leftwing site to link to.

        Biden had a plan B to forgive loans? Please link to it.

        I just searched for what Trump has been convicted of–and that was the 34 felony charges of financial wrongdoings that stemmed from 3 misdemeanors he was accused of breaking that the statutes of limitation had run out. Yes, the DA squeezed 3 misdemeanors into 34 felonies.

        So this means everything else he is accused of that is illegal is just that–accusations. People are only convicted after a trial finds them guilty and a sentencing hearing hands down the punishment, if any.

        And with Clinton just saying, under oath, that he had not heard of any Epstein dealings Trump was involved with, and an Epstein victim writing in her book that Trump acted like a gentleman around her would lend me to trust him more than, say, Biden with his dalliances and hair sniffing. But I do not trust politicians, so I would not want any friends or family members subjected to alone time with a politician.

        • Nice misdirection of bringing in Biden’s hair sniffing. Hair sniffing or vaginal penetration? Which is worse? It would seem in your world the latter is preferred.

          Clearly you lack any reading comprehension skills. The link you ask for is in the article you posted.

          List of 34 charges: https://www.npr.org/2024/05/30/g-s1-1848/trump-hush-money-trial-34-counts

          Which fall under the umbrella of election influence. The jurors said they unanimously agreed that he falsified business records to conceal a $130,000 hush money payment to adult film star Stormy Daniels to influence the outcome of the 2016 election. That’s a felony.

          Funny, how this “gentleman” has the records missing of an FBI interview with a 14-year-old victim he forced to perform on him. You are so grasping at straws.

          Is your family proud you support a felon and a pedophile?

        • “So this means everything else he is accused of that is illegal is just that–accusations.”

          So, in your world, robbing a bank isn’t illegal, as long as that person doesn’t get caught?

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