The Equal Rights Amendment or ERA had a provision requiring the amendment to pass, or not pass, by 1982. It did not pass.

Some states have since ratified it. But others have reversed their initial ratification.

The left takes the position that the states which reversed their ratification had no power to do so, and that once you ratify, it's forever. Strangely, they do not take the position that the states that refused to ratify it are stuck with their non-ratification forever.

It's all immaterial anyway, as the ERA amendment process expired forty-two years ago. To pass it, people would have to submit a new amendment.

Biden just announced that he was using his Kingly Authority to recognize the amendment as "ratified."

He made this pronouncement two days before he's to be booted out of office, and via a Twitter post.

I always consider presidencies to be defined by two different baskets:

One, the basket of general Goods which everyone accepts are good, like managing the economy well and keeping the peace (or winning wars). It's hard to put eggs in this basket. This is the basket that makes presidents great, or failed.

The other basket is just all the partisan shit a president can do, like invoking or canceling the Mexico City policy. I'm not saying these partisan initiatives aren't important. I'm saying they're relatively easy. They take no effort it they're just executive orders, and legislation is easy enough if you control the Congress.

Biden obviously is a huge failure. He drove the economy into the ground, locked people in their homes for a year, mandated a dangerous experimental non-vaccine, set the government to prosecuting citizens for their political beliefs, and set the government to censoring citizens and making them afraid to speak their minds.

He also botched the Afghanistan withdrawal, resulting in 13 servicemen's deaths and countless Afghan allies left to be killed by the Taliban, and his senile weakness provoked two wars, one begun by his political donor Putin, the other one by Hamas, who knew Biden was too weak to defy the Michigan Arab vote.

So he is a failure by the real measure -- he has nothing in the basket of general goods.

But he's a vain, egotistical and extremely stupid man who craves a legacy.

So what does he do as the lights fade on his miserable usurped presidency?

He just starts shitting out partisan declarations, declaring an amendment shall be Deemed Passed on his authority, or rewriting Title IX to not protect women, or once again usurping the power of Congress to make the laws, declaring that people don't have to pay back student loans because he says so.

All of this to generate some kind of "legacy" for himself. The rest of the country will continue to hate him and rank him among the worst presidents in US history, but he wants to at least create a base on the far, far left who will recognize him, favorably, as the most extremist leftwing president the country ever had.

Senatrix Skeletor (Kristin Gilibrand, I mean) is encouraging her leftwing lunatic feminist followers to claim their non-rights under this non-amendment in court, in lawsuits against companies and such. As someone else put it, she's telling women to bring their "alternative constitution" to court.

Fuck this guy and I hope he lingers on this earth for a few years to live in his failure and misery and to see what his legacy actually is.