It's so bizarre a story that I initially thought it must be some kind of conservative-media-bubble hoax or foul-up. Titus is right to ask who it was (maybe the "constitutional experts" mentioned in Turley's piece?) who prodded zombie Joe to do this. Disturbingly, we know that Laurence Tribe backs Biden on this, so he was probably one.
And yet, even if you step into the most aggressive living constitutionalist legal-eagle's mindset and think about this, what's weird about this is: why would you try it? How in the world could it remotely serve your strategic interests? Particularly at this moment?
This ain't gynaikocracy, but lunatocracy. Whoever can out-insane the other toadies wins the prize. Thank God it ends--at least within the central part of the exec branch--tomorrow.
Lunacy is of course part of it. But I will wait to see things that go against feminism or the stated demands of activists before I agree that it's random. That the ERA was feminism is not in question; the character of zombie-ERA activism in the 2020s is, I admit, in question. But the political arrangement & the kinds of conflicts we see nowadays strike me as obviously pitting HR women against ordinary Americans--most obvious in the political preferences of single women, perhaps the most extreme liberal group.
Jonathan Turley has a nice title for this story: "I see dead amendments!" https://jonathanturley.org/2025/01/18/i-see-dead-amendments-president-biden-issues-otherworldly-era-declaration/
It's so bizarre a story that I initially thought it must be some kind of conservative-media-bubble hoax or foul-up. Titus is right to ask who it was (maybe the "constitutional experts" mentioned in Turley's piece?) who prodded zombie Joe to do this. Disturbingly, we know that Laurence Tribe backs Biden on this, so he was probably one.
And yet, even if you step into the most aggressive living constitutionalist legal-eagle's mindset and think about this, what's weird about this is: why would you try it? How in the world could it remotely serve your strategic interests? Particularly at this moment?
This ain't gynaikocracy, but lunatocracy. Whoever can out-insane the other toadies wins the prize. Thank God it ends--at least within the central part of the exec branch--tomorrow.
Lunacy is of course part of it. But I will wait to see things that go against feminism or the stated demands of activists before I agree that it's random. That the ERA was feminism is not in question; the character of zombie-ERA activism in the 2020s is, I admit, in question. But the political arrangement & the kinds of conflicts we see nowadays strike me as obviously pitting HR women against ordinary Americans--most obvious in the political preferences of single women, perhaps the most extreme liberal group.