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2023-08-10 India-Pakistan

What happens when the Constitution is treated like a book of guidelines and suggestions

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Posted by trailing wife 2023-08-10 00:00|| || Front Page|| [13 views ] Top

#1 "Pakistan’s greatest tragedy isn’t that we have incompetent power structures or ‘elite capture’, so to speak, but that we are way too comfortable making the same mistakes again and again. "

Yes, we vote every 2 years.

Posted by Skidmark 2023-08-10 05:14|| 2023-08-10 05:14|| Front Page Top

#2 I was pretty sure it wasn't The Babylon Bee.

Posted by Bobby 2023-08-10 09:37|| 2023-08-10 09:37|| Front Page Top

#3 For Americans, The Constitution is mythical weapon that can be transformed in the argument of a liberal into the basis for any progressive initiative. Want to kill a baby? Cite The Constitution. Want to groom a kindergartner? Cite The Constitution. The document has magical ShamWow disco ball powers to amaze. What can’t be done, though, is to read The Constitution. Studying and applying the actual Constitution deactivates the disco ball. That action silences the Fun Time animatronic band. The goal of our public education system is to keep the majority of our voting adults ignorant of how are system is running versus how it is supposed to run.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-08-10 09:52|| 2023-08-10 09:52|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ "Do not taunt ~~Happy Fun Ball~~ ShamWow disco ball"

Posted by Frank G 2023-08-10 10:00|| 2023-08-10 10:00|| Front Page Top

#5 "The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner’s manual for a 1998 Toyota Camry, and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world’s most unruly, passionate and energetic people safe, prosperous and free."
-- P.J. O'Rourke

Posted by SteveS 2023-08-10 16:02|| 2023-08-10 16:02|| Front Page Top

#6 But thanks to O'Rourke and a legion of his ilk, that no longer applies.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-08-10 17:26|| 2023-08-10 17:26|| Front Page Top

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