Isn’t “Legacy” too good a word for what they are? We could call them Pravda Media but that would be an insult to Pravda. Deranged Criminal Media comes close, maybe..
The Federal government and most state and local governments stopped giving two s#!ts about the Constitution about a century ago. Wilson started it, FDR “improved” on it, and the Constitution was largely a dead issue by the time LBJ proclaimed his “Great Society”.
With the exception of Coolidge, Reagan and to a lesser extent DJT, no POTUS has paid more than lip service to the Constitution for over a hundred years.
The same holds for the Congress. Most laws they’ve passed or attempted to pass since the Volstead Act would have been slapped down hard by the Supreme Court before 1900. Assuming they weren’t vetoed by the President, which would have been highly probable in the Grant and Hayes administrations.
It’s just easier for the elected poobahs to let the administrative state run things and sit back and enjoy the perks of their offices.
In short, we’ve become China under the Manchus, when everything was actually run by mandarins and eunuchs, whose only “conflict” was squabbling over which lot was really in charge.
Let an Emperor take too much interest in “the books”, and he suddenly fell ill and died.
As for a peasant, anybody who didn’t bow quickly and deeply enough when a grandee swept by in a palanquin was beheaded on the spot by their bodyguards.
Sorry to state, but give the choice, I’d take Imperial Rome any day and twice on Sunday.
Oh, surely not. Have you forgotten Andrew “Mr. Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it” Jackson? 😉
June 1, 2025 at 1:38 am
Henry
The Constitution doesn’t grant the power of judicial review. That was a complete power grab by SCOTUS in Marbury v. Madison, and has no constitutional basis. It’s never seriously been challenged because without it, Madison never would have gotten his win in that case, and in any event no one had any better ideas of how to fill in that constitutional lacuna. But if the wacko judges keep this mischief up, we may see the first serious challenge to it.
May 31, 2025 at 8:24 am
PCChaos
Activist judges appointed by communist-leaning presidents are null and void. Or should be…At least their orders.
Confucius, walking on Mount Tai, heard a woman crying. Asked why she cried, she explained ~ My father-in-law was killed by a tiger and then my husband, now, my son also. Asked by Confucius why she remained living on a mountain surrounded by deadly tigers, she answers simply: “Because here, there is no Tyrannical Ruler.”
I’m no expert on the US Constitution, I do think a few parts are much better than ours but can someone point me to the section where it states that a President can appoint an individual who can then block everything a subsequent President does at his sole whim and without recourse ?
If that’s the way it works, perhaps it’s time for a few Federal Judges appointed in Trump’s first term to make a few rulings declaring everything byethen and the dems did over the last four years retroactively illegal ?
One thing sockboy’s stepdaddy made sure was included in our ‘new’ Constitution was the ‘notwithstanding clause’ which pretty much allows the PM to say to any Court ruling against them “your concern is noted but disregarded”
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Isn’t “Legacy” too good a word for what they are? We could call them Pravda Media but that would be an insult to Pravda. Deranged Criminal Media comes close, maybe..
“Mudia?”
“Legacy” is what tech manufacturers call gear they no longer offer support on. It’s actually not a bad choice of term.
Well, they are often referred to as “Presstitutes”, so wouldn’t they work in a “House of Presstitution”?
Zar Belk!
I use “legacy” as a descriptor . . .
“Vintage” media?
The Federal government and most state and local governments stopped giving two s#!ts about the Constitution about a century ago. Wilson started it, FDR “improved” on it, and the Constitution was largely a dead issue by the time LBJ proclaimed his “Great Society”.
With the exception of Coolidge, Reagan and to a lesser extent DJT, no POTUS has paid more than lip service to the Constitution for over a hundred years.
The same holds for the Congress. Most laws they’ve passed or attempted to pass since the Volstead Act would have been slapped down hard by the Supreme Court before 1900. Assuming they weren’t vetoed by the President, which would have been highly probable in the Grant and Hayes administrations.
It’s just easier for the elected poobahs to let the administrative state run things and sit back and enjoy the perks of their offices.
In short, we’ve become China under the Manchus, when everything was actually run by mandarins and eunuchs, whose only “conflict” was squabbling over which lot was really in charge.
Let an Emperor take too much interest in “the books”, and he suddenly fell ill and died.
As for a peasant, anybody who didn’t bow quickly and deeply enough when a grandee swept by in a palanquin was beheaded on the spot by their bodyguards.
Sorry to state, but give the choice, I’d take Imperial Rome any day and twice on Sunday.
clear ether
eon
Lincoln was the first to ignore the Constution
Oh, surely not. Have you forgotten Andrew “Mr. Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it” Jackson? 😉
The Constitution doesn’t grant the power of judicial review. That was a complete power grab by SCOTUS in Marbury v. Madison, and has no constitutional basis. It’s never seriously been challenged because without it, Madison never would have gotten his win in that case, and in any event no one had any better ideas of how to fill in that constitutional lacuna. But if the wacko judges keep this mischief up, we may see the first serious challenge to it.
Activist judges appointed by communist-leaning presidents are null and void. Or should be…At least their orders.
Some things never change:
Confucius, walking on Mount Tai, heard a woman crying. Asked why she cried, she explained ~ My father-in-law was killed by a tiger and then my husband, now, my son also. Asked by Confucius why she remained living on a mountain surrounded by deadly tigers, she answers simply: “Because here, there is no Tyrannical Ruler.”
For too many, it’s a case of “Better the Devil you know than the one you don’t.”
I’m no expert on the US Constitution, I do think a few parts are much better than ours but can someone point me to the section where it states that a President can appoint an individual who can then block everything a subsequent President does at his sole whim and without recourse ?
If that’s the way it works, perhaps it’s time for a few Federal Judges appointed in Trump’s first term to make a few rulings declaring everything byethen and the dems did over the last four years retroactively illegal ?
One thing sockboy’s stepdaddy made sure was included in our ‘new’ Constitution was the ‘notwithstanding clause’ which pretty much allows the PM to say to any Court ruling against them “your concern is noted but disregarded”
In this context, “legacy” and “epitaph” are synonymous.
Death becomes them.
“I’m up on the latest, ’cause I don’t read the news”.
Vicious. And sweet. Like so many truths.
I would rather listen to the BS from trying to trade in my truck. It’s more honest than any of our media and tv/presstitutes.
Possibly an unpopular “view” as it were, but that’s too much tits for a young’un, albeit an expectant one so that explains some of it.
But I would sure like Mari and her Pretty Perky Petites to get similar exposure…some nice tiny hiney too maybe?