March 22, 2017
Dear Mr. President,
In your haste to make good on your campaign promise of a
"complete and total shutdown of Muslims entering the United States"
you whipped up a half-assed executive order banning travel from 7 countries to
which millions of Americans said, 'Hey, that sounds illegal.' So it went before Seattle Judge James
Robart. And he said, 'Yup, that's
illegal. You can't do that.' At which
point you launched a pretty inappropriate and nasty personal attack against
poor Judge Robart. But you persevered…you
appealed the decision and took your case to the 9th circuit court in
San Francisco. Too bad for you though,
because all three of those judges
said, 'Judge Robart is correct. Your
travel ban is illegal.' Millions of
Americans cheered! So you tweaked the
original executive order ever so slightly, you tried to whip up popular support
with more nasty tweets and over-the-top comments about the impending doom
presented by emigrating Muslims and tried again. This time it was a federal court judge in
Hawaii who said, 'Nope. You can't do
that. It's illegal.' (Have you noticed a
theme here?) But did that deter
you? NO!
You are The Donald and you don't take NO for an answer. So you set your sights on Judge Theodore
Chuang in Maryland. And for two days the
news was filled with your surrogates promising
that because Judge Chuang was a former deputy general counsel for the Dept. of
Homeland Security HE would
understand the tremendous THREAT
facing the US from these crazy-pants immigrants. Only too bad for you again, because he said
'No' too - despite his experiences at the Dept. of Homeland Security. He even said, "Security concerns can not
be used as a cover for religious discrimination." Ouch, that must have hurt. He was your ace in
the hole…your "inside" guy.
Three strikes and you're out is a generally understood and
accepted idea in American pop-culture.
You are now on your fourth strike with this travel ban-thing. Just how far are you going to go with this,
because people are losing interest and your legal bills are mounting. And while you have a very committed core group of supporters who will stand by you no
matter what, the size of that group appears to be shrinking. I recommend you let this one go and move
on. Maybe it's time to focus on all
those manufacturing jobs you were going to bring back to the Rust Belt, hmm?
Sincerely,
Amy Beaton
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