Wouldn't it be a shame if we made this video of Joe Biden calling court-packing a "bonehead idea" go viral… pic.twitter.com/tvXBWGUOpN
— Team Haley (@TeamHaley) April 15, 2021
News that I missed, courtesy of The Babylon Bee:
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Democrats have recently proposed the controversial idea of tearing the Constitution to pieces in the name of correcting the Constitution. By severing key components from the document they hope to repair the damage caused by Republicans.
“Some people will say we’re tearing the Constitution. We’re not tearing. We’re untearing,” explained US Representative Jerold Nadler as he ripped the Constitution apart. “Senator McConnell and the Republicans were the ones who tore it up over the last couple of years. The only way to untear it is to tear it, which will then retroactively repair it from the tearing of the Republicans. Wait, hang on. I might have that backward. Well, you get the idea.”
Jerry Nadler and Nancy Pelosi then proceeded to rip large chunks from the founding document. “There that fixes it!” Pelosi said as she tore out the 2nd amendment entirely. “Now it’s been untorn from how Republicans have sliced it to pieces by making it say things it never was intended to say.”
“There can be no justification for what they did. How can Americans look at the Constitution and expect it to do equal justice when it has been so severely politically shredded?” added Nadler tossing the Constitution through a woodchipper.
Go here to read the rest. If the Constitution is to be treated with as much respect as toilet paper, there is a passage in an older document which the Democrats might wish to recall:
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.
Without the consent of the governed, government rests solely on force majeure. As the Founding Fathers knew, an armed population, and may it not come to that, have effective ways to respond to a government that governs solely by force.
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None of this should be surprising. The stories my sons tell me of what they hear or see among their fellow classmates, and some professors – in some cases they’ve shown me the things written – makes packing the court or rewriting the Constitution almost old fashioned thinking. For many today, we’re well past that stage. Claiming all truth itself was just white supremacy and colonial conspiracies, or the last thousand years of Christianity was entirely wrong and needs scrapped, or perhaps D-O-G may well spell CAT, is as obvious for not a few today as ‘don’t play in traffic’ was only a few decades ago.