On Rotten Tomatoes, the review aggregation website, America has an approval rating of 41% based on 330 million reviews and an average rating of 4.57/10. The site’s critical consensus states, “Utterly forgettable and completely unnecessary, America represents a steep comedown from its initial release – and an unfortunate embarrassment for its star.” On Metacritic, America has a score of 35 out of 100 based on reviews from 7.7 billion critics, indicating “generally negative reviews”. Audiences polled by CountryScore gave America an average grade of “D+” on an A+ to F scale.
Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times, despite being dead, gave America a 1.5-star rating in his review, while Peter Rainer of the Los Angeles Times wrote that “the action seriously upstaged the actors.” Leonard Klady of Variety magazine notes Trump’s confidence but says he is betrayed by his limited performance. Klady praises the many villains for their performances, but says “they and others are saddled with pedestrian dialogue and motivation.”
Senator Marsha Blackburn tweets, “We will never rewrite the Constitution of the United States.”, conveniently forgetting that she has proposed amendments to ban gay marriage and to ban flag burning.
And of course the original Constitution didn’t include the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights); that came a couple of years later. So it was rewritten from the beginning.
I was wondering what the senator’s education was, so I Googled to see if she went to law school. She didn’t, instead getting only a bachelor’s degree in home economics. Still, she’s been an elected official, either at the state or federal level, for more than twenty years. Surely she knows better.
She does, but she doesn’t give a crap. Fun fact: her next door neighbor goes to my church. He cannot stand her. Basically, if an issue does not directly affect her, she doesn’t care about it.
Technically, the Bill of Rights did not “rewrite” or alter any part of the Constitution. They were more like a clarification. Even the unratified first article of the Bill of Rights would not actually have altered any part of the Articles.
Most of the Amendments are along the lines of clarifications or expansion of rights. Only XII, XIII, XV, XVI, XX and XXI altered preceding content. And only XVIII and XXII imposed restriction or reduction of the rights of citizens (one could argue that XIII imposed a restriction that infringed the rights of some citizens, but many more gained rights than lost them).
I suspect that a lot of the Trump-era crop of Republican office-holders are indulging in heavy drinking.
I mean, it would be a reasonable response to the situation in which they’ve put themselves (through their own lack of decency and integrity, of course).
Michael Savage:
“GINSBURG- FAR LEFT RADICAL-DEAD. WAS CHIEF COUNSEL FOR ANTI-AMERICAN ACLU WHEN APPOINTED TO SUPREME COURT. WHAT IF THE REPUBS HAD NOMINATAED THE CHIEF COUNSEL FOR THE KKK?” https://twitter.com/ASavageNation/status/1307110158817013761
Ann Coulter:
“Surely the Dem talking point will be: No vote on a nominee to replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg until the new senators from Puerto Rico, D.C., and The 1619 Project are sworn in.”