The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Stupid People is a very young organization, formed two weeks ago by three elderly gentlemen (me, myself, and I) at a donut shop. The first meeting had a vivid agenda. The topics presented included
- Is glyphosate misunderstood?
- Does the sun deserve to be blocked?
- If Hillary comes out of hiding, should she be allowed to speak wearing her mask, or should she proudly proclaim that her resemblance to Hilalry clinton is not coincidental?
While each topic is considered worthy, the Society held an emergency “update” to announce an urgent warning to all Stupid people: voting for Hillary Badlander is dangerous to your status (stupidity can be cured if given enough time) and you may be rendered permanently assigned to the “oh shit… I am so sorry ” group of irrelevant has-beens. [Related: Morning Update: Will Goodlander be Indicted?]
(Note: the principal spokesperson for the Society admonished us that “Hillary Badlander” is not the true name of the “don’t vote for” candidate. He contends that the real candidate for CD-2 is a puppetmaster who may be Hillary Clinton, Jake Sullivan, the “Auto Pen”, or some nefarious wealthy overlord from, God forbid, another state or country. The pseudonym is used a placeholder for the real candidate.)
The Society, in issuing its urgent message, posits several points. Over the next few weeks, this reporter will identify, as best I can, each point. Today, the first topic :
Does the puppetmaster think the movie “Idiocracy” is a true guidepost for building our military?
Recently, Hillary appeared in a propaganda hit piece where the puppetmaster had her join other puppets to declare that military men and women had a duty not to obey unlawful orders.
When confronted with “why did you say that, you stupid moron?,” she and the others deflected by saying that there was nothing wrong with stating the obvious- don’t obey unlawful orders. Unfortunately, the reporters who asked declared their membership in the Society’s “protected class” and failed to ask Hillary what she meant by an “unlawful order.”
The society now believes it has found the answer: Hillary wants to replace the military command structure with her socially favored civilian groups, who will issue orders and render decisions based on their own civilian wants, needs, and desires. Here is the clue they rely upon: NICHOLAS TALBOT et al. VERSUS USA, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
In this case, Judge Wilkins, who has apparently never served in the military, has no military training or background, whose entire life has been as a civilian working mostly government jobs as a public defender, then as a judge, declared that the military will no longer be commanded by military personnel- highly trained and educated, combat ready and combat tested -but rather will be run by Federal judges such as himself and by the transgender community.
Background: More than 200 years ago, the USA adopted the United States Constitution as its governing document. The Constitution focused on many subjects, the most important of which was national defense. At that time, the young country was confronted by monstrous enemies on all sides: the British (see the War of 1812), the French, and the Spanish in Florida. Building a solid military was not a “good” thing. It was an imperative thing- a matter of survival.
In creating this military, not one single statesman stood up and cried out, “Have the judges run the army; have the men who want to be women run the navy.”
Instead, they trusted that their survival was best pursued by placing the control of the military-its makeup, its training, its funding, its weaponry- into the hands of those best suited to defend the country. They made President Washington the commander-in-chief; they made Congress the one who provided oversight. They gave no power of any kind to the Supreme Court, nor to the federal lower courts that were created in 1789 to oversee civil cases of federal importance.
Since that time, no act of Congress, no amendment to the Constitution, no decision from the Supreme Court has ever changed the allocation of power over the military. Indeed, the Supreme Court laid down the pivotal rule that has always governed the judiciary’s noninvolvement in matters left by the Constitution to the military:
“Military members “are not excluded from the protections granted by the Constitution-they are, after all, still citizens under the Constitution’s protection. But “the different character of the military community and of the military mission requires a different application of those protections,” that’s because the armed forces depend on a command structure that at times must commit men to combat, not only hazarding their lives but ultimately involving the security of the nation itself.” If anything might” undermine the effectiveness of response to command, “it is constitutionally unprotected” within the military, even if it would be protected in the civilian population. See Parker v Levy.
Later, the Supreme Court fleshed out its thoughts in a case called Gilligan v Morgan, where they said
“The complex, subtle, and professional decisions as to composition, training, equipping, and control of military force are essentially professional military judgments, subject to civilian control of the legislative and executive branches. The ultimate responsibility for these decisions is appropriately vested in branches of the government which are periodically subject to electoral accountability.”
In Talbot, Judge Wilkins- apparently honoring the whim of the puppetmaster Obama-looked at the Supreme Court rulings, unencumbered by any prior decision or any legal authority, more or less said(paraphrase) “Nope- if I don’t like something, I just impose my wants, likes, and desires and make them the ruling.” He said, “I don’t like what the military is doing, and I got the power, so I am gutting the military chain of command, the military, and the President’s decisions as to force readiness, gutting the congressional decisions on forming the military, and establishing his whim and discretion over the military as the new guiding light.
As a result, we now have a military not run by professionals, Congress, or the President. Now, a federal judge, by his own appointment of himself, runs the military. This time, he did not like the military rules on mental health requirements; next time, maybe he will find that our military is mistreating the enemy and mandate that the military must warn attacking armies of their Miranda rights ( yup, Obama). Or maybe when the bad guys invade Santa Monica, before we return fire, maybe he will order the military to be nice and ask them to join us to have our nails done.
For now, the Society asks: When Hillary spoke and told the military not to obey unlawful laws, was she telling them to cease obeying their commanders and look to judge Wilkins and his edicts? It seems that the puppet masters who empower Judge Wilkins may be the same as those who empower Hillary. The Society promises to further investigate, but for now, they warn – voting for Hillary is cruelty to stupid people.
Question to Society: Are you sure you got this right? Maybe it’s that stupid people are being cruel to the rest of us.
