Some People Say We Have A Constitution

Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson will face questions about whether she can vote, hold office, or own property, even as some have said there are the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, Fifteenth, and Nineteenth Amendment. But who is right? https://t.co/5eUe6sJ7uL

— StandWithUkraineHat (@Popehat) March 19, 2022

Opinions differ. AP reports on both sides of the issue.

At one point the guy in the black pickup told the lady he was with "give her a book" talking about the woman holding the Biden/Harris sign. So the woman with the flag brought the book over and when the Biden/Harris woman went to take the book the lady jerked it away

— Sarah Burris 🇺🇦 (@SarahBurris) March 19, 2022

This is the guy who was saying he was a DC firefighter. pic.twitter.com/6L7CGq3TW5

— Sarah Burris 🇺🇦 (@SarahBurris) March 19, 2022

Sarah Burris also reports there were a half-dozen semis cruising the neighborhoods of D.C. making noise, along with about 12 passenger cars. All apparently assuming the people of D.C. have direct access to, and power over, the members of Congress on Capitol Hill. This is the way democracy ends. Oh, wait, are we not doing that anymore?  Not since democracy has proven to be quite sturdy, and even produce admirable leaders, in Ukraine?  Or since democracies across Europe and around much of the world are standing up against Putin's plutocracy?

Change the facts, change the outcome, huh?

But speaking of dangers to democracy, how come this isn't getting any national attention?

Some migrants arrested under Gov. Greg Abbott's border security operation are locked up for months before the courts give them an attorney or prosecutors file misdemeanor charges against them, according to a group of attorneys. https://t.co/YYtI6sBlEY

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 18, 2022

Clear violations of state and (at least) Constitutional law. But we all know more about the morons in D.C. Why? South Texas/Mexican border/brown people, maybe? The fact is, when the rule of law is ignored for political expediency:

Webb County, a Democratic stronghold and home to Laredo, is set to become the most populous county to embrace Gov. Greg Abbott’s controversial border security operation. https://t.co/tLWpkiulLg

— Texas Tribune (@TexasTribune) March 18, 2022

(Note to non-Texans: Webb County is on the border), the rule of law is thrown in the trash can. Not that this hasn't happened a time or two in U.S. history (you think Bull Connor really had clear legal authority to use dogs and water cannon? The salient question was: who was gonna stop him?), odd how where it happens matters more than what actually happens. People are being inconvenienced in D.C.! People are being jailed illegally and in violation of a half-dozen Constitutional amendments, in south Texas. Yeah, well, too far away to worry about. Nobody lives there, right?

Now, ask yourself how "America First!" is fundamentally different, or built on a completely different foundation, than a "Eurasian Empire" lead by Russia:

reading Timothy Snyder's "The Road to Unfreedom" and it's disturbing that these are the ideas Putin is influenced by pic.twitter.com/qWMTjt8CRO

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2022

'Cause I don't see it. And since we've shifted to Putin and Trump (both anti-constitutionalists, so I can connect nothing with nothing):

Sounds eerily like the stuff Ronny Jackson said about Trump https://t.co/VKf9r6x6Hw

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) March 19, 2022

No wonder Trump won't bad mouth Vlad: they're brothers from different mothers.

But Russian state TV is promising them these difficulties are temporary and pretty soon the U.S. will lift all sanctions & even pay them reparations. Don't laugh, some of them probably believe it.https://t.co/IU5EXUSgNe

— Julia Davis (@JuliaDavisNews) March 19, 2022

Sounds like something Trump would have said.

Something I've noticed over the past week or so here: almost every Ukrainian I spoke to has made it clear that they blame not only Putin, but the average Russian as much (or more) for this war. The view is: we overthrew our corrupt government, and they accept their murderous one.

— Neil Hauer (@NeilPHauer) March 19, 2022

Naom Chomsky wants to talk to them about how it's really Biden's fault. Oh, and Britain's. They run the world, ya know.

Or we could listen to the people who sat out World War II Swiss:

Takes a lot to get the Swiss to this point... https://t.co/pLPpyoj3H0

— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) March 19, 2022

And I'm saying this from Kharkiv. I think I saw more virulently anti-Russian views here than anywhere else in the country. The sense of betrayal here, of 'how could they possibly do this to *us*', is incredible.

— Neil Hauer (@NeilPHauer) March 19, 2022

The people we watched crawl out of the rubble today told us their relatives in Moscow didn't believe them. Videos of their destroyed home were met with 'it's a fake' or 'Nazis did it.' *Every* bond between Ukrainians & Russians - familial, cultural, historical - is being broken.

— Neil Hauer (@NeilPHauer) March 19, 2022

There are people driving around Washington, D.C. right now, thinking everyone they encounter is antifa because they don't welcome truck horns with cheers of "Huzzah!" One also sees the Urkainians' point:

According to his BBC source, "no one knows how many dead bodies there are, but everyone is horrified by what's happening. Doctors think that somewhere there is a mobile crematorium or they just bury them somewhere".

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) March 11, 2022

The acceptance of Putin is Russian to the bone. He is the Tsar. Period.

so much winning https://t.co/1mdOSAMF6s

— George Conway🌻 (@gtconway3d) March 19, 2022

Doing about as well as Nicholas II, too. Or Trump, come to think of it.