The Founding Fathers would get blackout drunk and break stuff. Washington was a famously drunk dancer
President Jackson threw a kegger in the White House when he got elected. Later, Teddy Roosevelt staged fights at the White House—Trump isn't even the first to do it!
They loved life and they fought, wrestled, and in some cases, even shot each other.
They were a bunch of rowdy young men.
Of course they'd love to see an exhibition match. We know because THEY LOVED EXHIBITION MATCHES!
They had fist fights in Congress!
They would be delighted to no end to see a cage fight on the White House lawn
They would probably invite all of D.C. to come see it
We know this because they did stuff like that all the time, for all sorts of reasons
Remember Jefferson's cheese wheel he let the public harvest?
If you think the Founding Fathers would be upset by wrestling, you're a fool.
Washington was famously a collar-and-elbow wrestling champion, and he held the Virginia champion title until he was 47, with no losses!
Even Abraham Lincoln won a catch wrestling tournament when he was 21.
When you're talking about the Founding Fathers, you have to realize you're talking about a particularly rowdy, young group of men who had recently been forced to physically fight to birth a country.
They were not strangers to violence, in sport or in need.
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John Smith, founder of Jamestown, got his start fighting the Ottomans for Habsburgs. He killed so many Turks they knighted him and gave him a coat-of-arms with three Turk heads on it.
He was captured, sold as a slave, escaped, and founded Jamestown.
The Turks are for the three who challenged him to duels, all of whom he beheaded.
He also killed his slavemaster who was trying to convert him to Islam, then he escaped from Istanbul to Russia, passed through the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and made it England.
Hello, HBO?
"Pocahontas, did I ever tell you about the time the Prince of Transylvania made me a noble in the Austro-Hungarian Empire because I cut off three Turkish guys' heads? Good times."
Amy Wax got in trouble for remarking that she'd not seen a Black student in the top quarter of a Penn Law class.
Thanks to hacked Columbia data, we can see that she was...
Probably right!
In the decade before her statement, there were just two top-25% Black students.
It is *totally* plausible that she never met these students. And it's also plausible that she rarely saw Black students in the top *half*, because each year, the number of them was just 1-4.
But, despite being 8% of the class, they were ~40% of the bottom 10%-ranked students:
Note: Penn is on-par/slightly less elite than Columbia, so it's likely that the Black students there were somewhat *worse*, as the article notes, making her claims more likely.
This all comes from @zagrebbi's latest article. It's well worth a read!
Big day if you think Roe v. Wade was correctly decided.
My favorite part (note that I've only read 150 pages so far) was Thomas explaining that, no, the Founding g Fathers did not adopt the English feudal system.
This fact was clearly lost on the other side.
The Court's reliance on a random remark from a case that ultimately didn't even produce lasting changes raises the question of whether that sort of thing even matters.
Why shouldn't I cite the Dred Scott case as the law of the land?