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   From: nobody@nowhere.com   
      
   On 10/1/2024 6:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   > On Oct 1, 2024 at 2:35:19 PM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 10/1/2024 5:04 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>   On Oct 1, 2024 at 1:40:36 PM PDT, "moviePig"  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>   On 10/1/2024 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:   
   >>>>>     On Oct 1, 2024 at 1:30:43 AM PDT, "Ubiquitous"    
   wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>     Leftist author Fran Lebowitz said late last week that President Joe   
   Biden   
   >>>>>>     should dissolve the U.S. Supreme Court because she does not like   
   the fact   
   >>>>>>     that the majority of justices are constitutional originalists.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>     I must have missed that day in Constitutional Law class where they   
   >>>>> taught us   
   >>>>>     where to find the Constitution's grant of power to the president that   
   >>>>> allows   
   >>>>>     him to just wake up one day and wave his hand like a Hogwarts wizard   
   and   
   >>>>>   fire   
   >>>>>     the Supreme Court.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>     I've just now reviewed Article II and I still don't see anything   
   >>>>> resembling   
   >>>>>     "The president shall have the power to dissolve the Supreme Court   
   whenever   
   >>>>>   it   
   >>>>>     pisses him off." Maybe it's written in that invisible ink that the   
   >>>>> NATIONAL   
   >>>>>     TREASURE movies teach us the Founders were so fond of.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>     Seriously, though, I'd understand if some green-haired, nose-ringed   
   >>>>> teenager   
   >>>>>     said this, because they're just a product of our public schools, but   
   this   
   >>>>>     Lebowitz idiot is supposed to be a serious scholar, and *this* is   
   how she   
   >>>>>     thinks our government runs?   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   "Serious scholar"?  She's a cranky, 73-year old humorist who's as pissed   
   >>>>   about the Supreme Court as the rest of us should be.   
   >>>   
   >>>   Why should I be pissed about the Court?   
   >>>   
   >>>   Because Thomas takes gifts? So do all the other justices, including the   
   >>>   leftist ones. I'd be in favor of banning that, but that doesn't answer   
   why I   
   >>>   should be pissed about *this* Court versus previous ones.   
   >>   
   >> You should be pissed about Thomas because he's a boob.   
   >   
   > Sotomayor is a boob, too.   
   >   
   > Next?   
   >   
   >> You should be pissed about the Court because it's happy to sell out personal   
   >> freedom.   
   >   
   > As in?   
   >   
   > (Under this Court, I've regained freedoms that were taken from my by   
   > Democrats.)   
      
   Congrats on your restored personal freedoms.  I admit I'm more concerned   
   here with *others'* freedoms, e.g., your girlfriend's, my daughter's...   
      
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