Exceptionally Legal Criminals

Donald Trump has been firing out ”signing statements” like an action hero faced with a charging army. Signing statements are laws dictated by the president, but not called a law because the Constitution of the United States specifically states that the president may not make laws. Congress is supposed to make the laws and the president’s job is to execute them.

In other words Signing statements legalise dictatorial behavior the way lobbying legalises bribery.

Make Autocrats Govern Again,

without calling it a dictatorship.

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This week’s recommendation is a talk by Shahid Bolsen. He not only shreds Jorden Peterson’s ”psychological wisdom”, but enlightens us by clearing the fog hoovering over the North Atlantic Empire.

Kings of old had a jester at court to entertain the nobility. Today’s jesters, entertainers, wear PhD titles instead of pointed caps.

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