Sharon McMahon
speaker
324 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 25 Feb
Sharon McMahon’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
Trend
recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 1 in all, peaking in Feb 2026 with 1.
Appearances
Yeah. Yeah. Because they're all running. I'm going to do that on my break from being a justice. No, see, you can't be in two branches of government at the same time.
Okay. That's an F. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. They're all off because they're campaigning for reelection. Imagine having to campaign for reelection every other year.
I don't like.
Two years. It's meant to be more immediately responsive, thinking people have short memories. And if you screwed up last year, I'm going to remember it this year. Yeah. I'm going to vote you out. That's the thinking behind it.
Yep. It has to pass both.
Yep. You know, I won't go into the whole, like, how do committees work, the whole structure of how every aspect of Congress works. But the bottom line is, yes, both the Senate and the House of Representatives has to pass identical versions of the same law to land on the president's desk for him or her.
Yes. But then it also has to be ratified by three-quarters of the states. Oh, my God.
The Constitution has been amended 27 times.
In the 90s. Oh, what was the last amendment? The last amendment, it had to do with the way, like if Congress is going to adjust its own pay, it said that the change in pay would not go into effect until after the next election.
Right, so they can't be like, everyone gets $20 million and then they get a check tomorrow. They have to wait till after the next election. So it has not been amended since the 90s, but we have amended it 27 times. And the framers of the Constitution wrote two different ways to amend the Constitution into the document itself. This is not holy scripture. This is not forever and ever. Amen.
Thus saith the Lord. These are two different ways. Like, listen, if we got something wrong, here's two ways you might go about fixing it. But please do fix it in the future. They were at least smart enough to understand that they didn't know what was coming down the pike. They had no way of knowing that there's going to be the internet and porn websites and transgender medical care for minors.
Yeah, exactly. Semi-automatic weapons that kill children in their classrooms in Texas. They had no way of anticipating these things. And so consequently, even though they did get a lot of things wrong by today's standards, namely the rights of women, the rights of people of color, they got a lot wrong. They at least knew that they were fallible people. They did not view themselves as gods.
And I think some people today hold up the framers of the Constitution as like Thomas Jefferson. Like he's some kind of deity. Right.
You can have a convention of states in which the states can decide to circumvent Congress and be like, forget you, we're going to do it ourselves. And there actually is a movement on the political right right now to have a convention of states to amend the Constitution and to sort of refashion portions of the Constitution in the way that they view is preferable.
And how many states would that require? Three quarters. Oh, still three quarters. Okay. What's interesting, too, is how would states decide who gets to go to the convention of states? That's the million dollar question. Is it me, my friends? Is it the governor? Yeah. Do they have to be elected? Who gets to choose? Because who shows up at that convention of states would be real, real important.
Yeah.
We've never used it, but it's there for the using.
Guns are another one.
There's more guns than people in the United States. Yeah. You can say we need to get rid of all of the guns all day long, but practically, how does one do that, right? I know. It's like saying we're going to deport 80 million immigrants. How does one do that? Practically, what does that even look like? Are the cops going door to door? No. Are the cops even going to cooperate with that? No.
The idea that that's somebody's concept is like, come and take my guns. That's just silly. It's not even a real idea. There's no practical way to carry that out. But what the overwhelming majority of Americans want, 80 plus percent are just really common sense laws. How about we just do universal background checks to make sure you are not a domestic abuser?
Showing 201–220 of 324 · page 11 of 17
← Previous
Next →