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DOGE Runs Amok & Originalism’s Ahistoricism
Stanford University ^ | 2/10/25 | Stanford University Department of History

Posted on 02/23/2025 10:39:54 AM PST by DallasBiff

This week, the ladies react to the ransacking of the federal government by Elon Musk and his fleet of DOGE dorks. Then, Kate and Leah speak with Jonathan Gienapp, professor of law and history at Stanford University and author of Against Constitutional Originalism: A Historical Critique, about what originalists get wrong about history and how the founders thought about the law.

(Excerpt) Read more at history.stanford.edu ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Education; History
KEYWORDS: ahistoricism; stanford
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Can someone explain what 'ahistoricism" is?

Anyway what's the tuition at Stanford these days, a $100,000 a year, no wonder Biden tried to forgive the college debt to the liberal university grifters.

1 posted on 02/23/2025 10:39:55 AM PST by DallasBiff
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To: DallasBiff

They been ransacking Americans’ wallets for decades. Away with them!


2 posted on 02/23/2025 10:41:56 AM PST by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: DallasBiff
ransacking of the federal government

"We're thinking of reducing the waste, fraud and abuse."

"WHAT?? You're ransacking of the federal government?? You monster!!"

3 posted on 02/23/2025 10:43:08 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: DallasBiff

“Can someone explain what ‘ahistoricism” is?”

I have no idea, but I’d guess it’s modern lunatic revisionism with a far left progressive or communist and anti-American slant.


4 posted on 02/23/2025 10:43:54 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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To: DallasBiff

“ahistoricism” essentially means beleif in fake, or false, history.


5 posted on 02/23/2025 10:44:25 AM PST by jimtorr
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To: DallasBiff
Stanford needs an audit from this guy 👇
6 posted on 02/23/2025 10:44:35 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!ly)
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To: DallasBiff

They still doing a lot of drugs at Stanford?


7 posted on 02/23/2025 10:44:54 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cartel Human Smuggling Into America IS NOT Immigration. It's a crime.)
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To: Texas Eagle

“They been ransacking Americans’ wallets for decades.”

Yep. But none of the leftists / progressives seem to notice that.


8 posted on 02/23/2025 10:45:02 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democrats who say ‘no one is above the law’ won’t mind going to prison for the money they stole.)
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To: DallasBiff

Just seeing the headline and source had me laughing out loud.


9 posted on 02/23/2025 10:47:52 AM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: DallasBiff
Any attempt to remove analysis of the original meaning of the text of the Constitution as the core methodology of Constitutional interpretation is basically arguing for a rolling Constitutional convention made up of whatever ephemeral ideological majority happens to sit on SCOTUS.

It's like the Biden regime's attempt to make biological "sex" in Title IX mean Title IX protects trannies. It's bull feces.

10 posted on 02/23/2025 10:48:42 AM PST by pierrem15 ("Massacrez-les, car le seigneur connait les siens" )
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There are two kinds of people:
  1. Those who believe the citizens are the country.

  2. Those who believe the country is the government and the DEI bureaucrats who infest it.

11 posted on 02/23/2025 10:49:20 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: DallasBiff

Liberal hysteria over the Federal government turning off the money tap.

They are so beside themselves that they have to resort to seldomly used words.


12 posted on 02/23/2025 10:51:00 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Those who believe the country is the government and the DEI bureaucrats who infest it.


I always think that the “Ponytail Guy” was the perfect representative of those kinds of people.

Rush Limbaugh - The Ponytail Guy: 18 Years Later

https://www.rushlimbaugh.com/daily/2010/10/15/the_ponytail_guy_18_years_later/


13 posted on 02/23/2025 10:51:27 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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What’s with Stanford’s history department calling people “dorks”?

Have they no honor?


14 posted on 02/23/2025 10:52:42 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: DallasBiff

🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤮🤢🤕


15 posted on 02/23/2025 10:58:06 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Honorary Serb

“What’s with Stanford’s history department calling people “dorks”?”

“Have they no honor?”

Eggheads don’t know nothing about honor, or manners, or decency, or true charity.


16 posted on 02/23/2025 11:00:10 AM PST by Fai Mao (Democrats need to go to prison.)
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To: DallasBiff

Say isn’t Stanford University in the state of CaliFUBAR? I don’t suppose they remember that I believe universities have morphed from Institutes of Higher Learning into cesspools of disinformation and most professors are just turds floating around in those cesspools.


17 posted on 02/23/2025 11:01:29 AM PST by antidemoncrat ( )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Ahistorical is a word made up to sound edjumacated. Something people with degrees and no intelligence use cover the fact that they’re opinionated self important empty headed blowhards.


18 posted on 02/23/2025 11:07:10 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy - EVs a solution for which there is no problem)
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To: Fai Mao

I’m a certified “egghead” (SB MIT, PhD Harvard) and have all of the above!

There are plenty more of us, too. But we don’t make the headlines!


19 posted on 02/23/2025 11:13:28 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb

No. They have no education.


20 posted on 02/23/2025 11:16:41 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Cartel Human Smuggling Into America IS NOT Immigration. It's a crime.)
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