Who Owns the Constitution?
POST 1293
Quote Of The Week
This is from Jamelle Bouie’s essay, The Supreme Court Doesn’t Own the Constitution.
But if we hope to recover and revitalize our democracy, we must start to think as citizens with duties, obligations and the sovereign power to make our world anew.
This Supreme Court, with its black robed, black-hearted extremist majority, acts as though our Constitution is a wad of Play Doh to be used for the delight of their infantile tantrums. They use it to placate their overlord in order to seek his favor and avoid his paranoid, neurotic paroxysms. They use it to take whatever they want, flaunting all conventions of morality, ignoring the harm they do to us.
But literally, our Constitution is not their toy or their weapon or their tool of appeasement.
It’s ours. Yours and mine. It’s of We the People. You know: those referenced in the first words of the Preamble to the Constitution, You remember it from civics class in high school, right? Can you still recite it from memory? If not, click through to refresh your understanding of our Constitution and what it is designed to do for We the People.
Because it’s ours.
A Little Snark
From Andy Borowitz’s post of June 18:
Ayatollah Names Trump Employee of the Month
It’s been a horrific week for the intermittently conscious Donald Trump aka Julius Geezer, who turned 80 but doesn’t look a day over 110. As the [Trump adulterated] Reflecting Pool continues to Make Algae Grow Again . . .
The real MAGA exposed!
The not-so-funny joke is in the implication of Borowitz’s title.
Trump started this war with chest pounding muscular claims and cartoon worthy fictitious goals. Now we’re faced with a laughable Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) that is largely an agreement to talk about an agreement. It hands Iran everything it wants, leaves that country stronger than before and leaves our country weaker in many ways. It provides certainty to the internationally held belief that we are all idiots. It’s an embarrassment that shows how to lose everything all at once: respect, decency and thousands of lives.
Trump’s ride in the victorious Iranian parade.
Trump is a best friend to the radical theocrats of Iran. Watch for him waving an Iranian flag while leading a parade down Valiasr Street in Tehran. Trump will be the one with not only with an Iranian flag, but also with Russian and Chinese pins in his lapels replacing our stars and bars. He’ll be carried in a rickshaw so that he can sleep through most of the parade.
Be sure to pre-order Trump’s forthcoming book, The Art of Being a Schlemiel*.
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* From Wikipedia:
Schlemiel (Yiddish: שלימיל, romanized: shlimil; sometimes spelled shlemiel) is a Yiddish term meaning “inept/incompetent person” or “fool.”
It’s also what you call someone who has been played. The butt of a joke. The easy to fool target. That is what he’s made us – We the People.
The time for action is NOW!
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- There are lots of smart, well-informed people. Sometimes we agree; sometimes we don’t. Search for others’ views and decide for yourself.
- Errors in fact, grammar, spelling and punctuation are all embarrassingly mine, but I do wish that I could blame someone else. Glad to have your corrections.
- I am neither offered nor do I accept funding of any type from candidates, online blabbers, organizations with or without any position or opinion or from any other origin other than from my own meager resources.
- Book links to Amazon or Barnes & Noble are provided for reference only. Please purchase your books through your local mom & pop bookstore. Keep them and your town or neighborhood vibrant.
- Clicking on most pics in these posts will take you to the source information.
- Do not look to these posts for “both sides” idiocy. I don’t have life to waste on such foolishness, such disingenuous nonsense and you shouldn’t either. You can find “both sides” misdirection in any cowardly publication. I post what I believe to be true, sarcasm and snark sometimes excepted. I make no pretense nor allow any space for the idiocy of insisting views to be somehow balanced for reporting or opinion presentation fairness, because doing so would be grossly unfair.
- If you disagree with anything I write, if you think I’m inappropriately biased, puff up your courage and put it in the Comments section. But see Point #9 below. On the other hand, let’s agree that I, like you, am biased.
- Comments offered by readers, whether in agreement with my opinions or opposing, are encouraged and greatly appreciated. All comments are reviewed prior to going live. I reserve the right to edit for readability, punctuation, typos, voluntary idiocy and to exclude those comments I deem inappropriate or offensive solely for the opportunity to be offensive. It’s my post, my rules.
- We do not sell, give away, lend, share or otherwise allow the disclosure of the identity of our subscribers or of their information. Never have, never will. That should not have to be said, but the times have taught us that the words do need to be declared. At the last, all we can cling to is trust in one another.
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