The joke's on you: the Court doesn't care about the plain language of constitutional amendments.
Lots of members of Congress hold positions in the Guard or Reserves.
How quickly can we pass a Constitutional amendment?
I'll see your 5th-century Chinese treatise on basic military practices and raise you one 5th-century Athenian history of war and statecraft between rival city-states.
You're right. It's more of an argle-bargle, bordering on fooferaw.
Over on Threads, there's a whole hullabaloo going on with non-Americans being annoyed that when Americans are asked where they're from, they tend to respond with their state and town. These people need help.
And yet they might win anyways. In the words of Josh Marshall, "Washington is wired for Republican control."
Maybe the people stopping traffic on I-5 "for Gaza" are making things inconvenient for people who have no agency over events in the Middle East, and those average voters know the war in Gaza is bad but also that the protestors are simply taking out their rage on a completely unrelated third party.