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Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 01:26 PM Jan 2017

Trump Fires Attorney General after Copy of Constitution Is Found on Her Computer (Satire)

Trump said he hoped Sally Yates’s firing would send Justice Department staffers the message that “if you are caught flagrantly obeying the Constitution, you will be out of here.”

According to the Trump Administration’s code of ethics, established by Steve Bannon, a counselor to the President, “possessing, reading, or referring to the United States Constitution” is a violation that is punishable by termination.

-Borowitz

http://www.newyorker.com/?p=3309209&mbid=nl_013117%20Borowitz%20Newsletter%20(1)&CNDID=27161810&spMailingID=10336604&spUserID=MTMzMTgyODIwMTg3S0&spJobID=1082559402&spReportId=MTA4MjU1OTQwMgS2

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Trump Fires Attorney General after Copy of Constitution Is Found on Her Computer (Satire) (Original Post) Stonepounder Jan 2017 OP
If I find that when I die, people will only remember one thing I said... Girard442 Jan 2017 #1
I love good satire Gothmog Jan 2017 #2

Girard442

(6,070 posts)
1. If I find that when I die, people will only remember one thing I said...
Tue Jan 31, 2017, 01:33 PM
Jan 2017

...I'd want it would be:

Comedians are the only ones who are free to speak the actual truth.

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