jhymesba

You might be right, but my question here is: Has it really had time to sink in yet? They got their student aid in January when Biden was still in office. Some of them may have lost jobs, but for the most part, there hasn't been enough time yet for the leopards to come around for their faces. And Newsweek HAS posted overly optimistic articles saying the Dems have this in the bag. Granted, we won't know the actual outcome until 2 years from now, but I am thinking the shitheads will just blame Dems, DEI, or whatever other BS to avoid realising that it's their own leopard eating their face.

Honestly, I think the author did the most important task of all -- exposing this to daylight. Let's face it. For at least the next 2 years, and probably for the next 4, and maybe even beyond, this is what the government is going to do. Unless and until we can replace Republicans with Democrats and take back control of the country, this is what we're getting. This is what 77mln people voted for. This is what 90+mln people voted for by not voting. And 2mln people voted third party, which was also a vote for this indirectly. And Trump does have the right to implement the agenda he was elected on, of course, within the guidelines of the laws.

I suspect there's illegality here. But it has to be proven. This is a good way to prove it -- leak all orders, especially the ones that smell of illegality. Then trust Democratic AGs to bring court cases and hope that the worst of it gets tied up in legal limbo until we can finally flush the Republicans. By reporting this bullshit, this worker has enabled that to happen. We'll see what comes from it.

The problem is you get the NDP/Liberal vs. Conservative effect when you do this. If you have 30% of the population vote for your Leftie, and 30% vote for the other Leftie, in a given congressional district, the Republican can win with 31%, despite 60% voting against the Republican. We need RCV before we can do this, and people need to understand that they MUST put the other party as choice 2 or we are back to ending up with a Republican.

That's my take, at least. Jus Soli was implemented in the USA because Jus Sanguinis was going to be the racists' next tool to shit on Blacks, who were seen as animals to be used up and then discarded. We did a shit job of stopping this with Reconstruction, so here we are. We'll need to take the gloves off for these people, and punch them in the face (figuratively at least) until they get the idea that it's not cool to treat other people like shit.

Jus soli citizenship is mostly an issue because it allows people who have no ties to the country they're in to have a child who is a citizen of that country on the basis of having been born in that country. 33 countries have jus soli citizenship, and of those, 31 are located in the Americas. Much of the rest of the world employs the alternative to jus soli, jus sanguinis, or birthright by descent.

America has both, actually. If your parents are American citizens, then no matter where in the world you're born, you're an American citizen. This was the original system, with our jus soli system coming into play after our Civil War. Before, we excluded the Africans we brought over as slaves from citizenship. When the government said enough of that, the southeastern part of the current nation (and the entire southern part of the country at that time) fought a war to preserve slavery, and tore the country apart for 4 years. In the end, the Southerners were defeated on the battlefield, but it wasn't clear they would submit completely (and frankly, it is still not clear they will submit to this day!) so the northern victors amended our constitution with a new set of guidelines on what being an American meant and specific instructions on how an American is made: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." This was designed to keep the slave states from dicking over their new free Blacks by trying to declare they weren't citizens. This amendment makes clear that not only are they citizens, everyone is entitled to the same rights. This was a major bone of contention, and Southerners have had long-standing beef with it, but weren't in a position to do anything about it considering they lost a war over it.

If you haven't noticed, America has an awful lot of very awful people, who have managed to get one of their own elected. They want to relitigate the Civil War and have been playing the long game in regards to that war and the relitigation. They want to renounce jus soli citizenship so they can 'deport' the American citizens born from non-citizen parents. While there is some justification in discussing birth tourism, the goal isn't to prevent non-Americans from having American babies. The goal is to oppress and re-enslave 'inferior' races. These are the kind of people who will gladly try to strip citizenship from Blacks, because it has been their goal since 1865, when they lost the Civil War.

You want to bury the image of Trump being a Nazi shithead? Why for would you ever wanna do that? Your above stated answer rings hollow because you can just RTFA.

Let me put it to you this way.

If we really cared about people in the country illegally, we'd aim for having people who hire these people under the table, also illegally, sanctioned. If you were honestly wanting to see less illegal immigration, you'd be deterring them from ever coming in by drying up the supply of under-the-table, low-paying jobs that attract them here. Maybe by advocating for a 10 x median annual salary for every undocumented worker found on your staff, enforced strongly?

If you can't find it in your soul to do that, then all you're here for is smashing disadvantaged people in the face.

Fair point. I did misread 'one on one' to mean Democrat vs Republican with 'stepping back' to mean viewing Third Parties.

I totally agree with your reasoning, as it was my reasoning. The guy is old, not a debate. He's a gaffe machine, too. Some people pushed the meme he was losing a step, but while I saw him as old, I didn't see him as washed up or senile. The guy just doesn't know how to NOT put his foot in his mouth (I share a lot in common with him on that regard!!!), and there were an awful lot of bad-faith actors saying that he wasn't just old, but senile as well. They're still around, saying he's too old and senile to run the show now, and he should resign.

I think how Harris is being treated by various people on and offline should be a key indicator that Biden's resignation wasn't the end of the bullshit factories. They each have their own desires for their choice of President, and they can't even agree with each other who that choice is. Some will scream for Sanders. Others will scream for Stein. Some particularly pigeon-holed ones will argue for Fruit, despite her being mathematically eliminated from 270 before the first vote is cast. And lets get real. There are all to many of them who will tell you "IMMA FOR JILL" or some other tiny Third Party candidate while actually wanting Trump. Some think that a Trump presidency will lead them to the Progressive Promised Land. Others...are here to ensure we're so busy infighting that we can't put a unified resistance up, so they can get the Handmaiden's Tale they desparately want.

If Biden gave up because America is dumb, I don't blame him. In 2016, I tried hard to get out and get to Canada or New Zealand. But now Canada and New Zealand are overrun or about to be overrun by dumb people too. :|

This poster thinks I didn't know. But how can it know that. I just pointed out that there were literally hundreds of articles, then correctly cited the date. It's not making the point it thinks it's making. The media covered both idiots that took the pot shots at the Trumpster Fire. To the tune of hundreds of articles.

Folks, win or lose, the aftermath of election day will be a shitshow. I've written up a guide for how to survive Election Day 2024. The TL;DR: form is prepare for a hurricane or blizzard, with a nod to crazy people by preparing for self-defence, then be ready to hunker down. Election 2024 promises to be crazy, given how 2020 went down. Please look after yourselves!

You think you have a big gotcha here, but it was covered extensively when it happened. The google (or Bing in this case)(you don't want us to do returns over 10 pages of results, including articles from:

• NBC News (top result)
• US News
• AP News
• Wikipedia
• CNN
• NY Times
• LA Times (literally, coast to coast here)
• NPR
• Reuters
• Fox News (of course...)
• Politico

Some of these sources wrote more than one article, with at least three by CNN and two by NPR.

You might think none of us know that Trump came close to assassination on 2024-09-15, but did you know that Trump didn't tell his secret service detail he was going to the golf course, so they didn't do a perimeter sweep before he got out there? They only found the shooter because Trump was finishing up one hole and they rushed to the next and spotted the would-be assassin.