Nightwingdragon

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Why should they bother to? We already know that the penalty for not divesting is nothing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 hours ago

Who cares. Let him fuck it up and burn it all down. It’s all corrupt anyways, the faster he does that, the faster half these dumb ass hicks see that he wasn’t the answer and ~~change their next vote~~ just vote GOP anyway. Even if ~~then~~ dems take power, ~~rewrite everything and put kill switches in to make sure this never~~ they change nothing, go back to the status quo, then wonder why it happens again.

Fixed that for you.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 13 hours ago

Sad to say, I'm an American.

And yes, I did know that. But it's my understanding that this was agreed to in an attempt to pre-emptively appease an incoming Trump administration, but I could be wrong on that part. But whether or not that's the case, Trump still originally agreed to not put the tariffs in place because of this, until he changed his mind.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

In order for those to be connected, women would have to have more difficulty in producing that proof than men (which may be the case, but the article doesn’t show that).

Just for clarification, this part has been answered in other articles discussing this subject. Married women would have a tougher time meeting proof-of-citizenship requirements if they took their husbands' name (which happens 99.9% of the time) because their birth certificate would still have their maiden name. Since the voting rolls contain their married name and not their maiden name, the names wouldn't match which would be grounds for removal from rolls. This would be made worse for those women who were married recently, as it's more likely that even more documentation such as a drivers' license would also still contain their maiden name and would therefore not be considered acceptable proof.

Women would have to provide additional documentation (such as a marriage license), but it's expected that this alone would cause some women to consider it not worth the hassle and therefore not bother voting.

P.s., there are definitely plenty of conservative women too stupid or unwilling to admit to themselves that the conservative position is women as second class citizens, but I wanted to respond with the perspective I’ve heard from people who seemed to be more honest.

Sadly, there are women who openly embrace this line of thinking. Particularly those who were raised in ultra-religious households where women being subservient to men in all matters is the norm, and have no problems forcing those views on the secular women that they view as "whores". Mostly, it's a subconscious way of lashing out against the fact that they themselves have been oppressed for their whole lives and therefore feel better being the oppressor instead of the oppressed. But they are out there.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago) (1 children)

If they see costs go up as a result of the repubs not voting to stop the tarrifs, ~~a neuron might fire.~~ they'll blame Biden.

Fixed that for you.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 15 hours ago (6 children)

the US. can never again be trusted with any agreement or deal

This already holds true now. The trade agreement between the US and Canada is the one that he signed. He went back on it anyway. And then after you guys appeased him by dedicating $1.3 billion to a nonexistent fentanyl issue, he did it again.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This should absolutely scare the shit out of literally everybody.

You can literally be disappeared into an El Salvadoran prison, with no charge or due process, and even on the off chance that there is someone willing to fight on your behalf while you rot in a foreign prison, the courts are literally powerless to do anything about it. The Trump administration is literally saying that yeah, they may send some people who aren't actually gang members down there, but if there's a mistake, that's your problem.

And even if Trump does ask for your return (spoiler alert: This will happen exactly zero times), the Salvador government may not even play ball. They may not even know which one of the tens of thousands of prisoners there he even is. And that's assuming you haven't been killed by one of the literally 79 other cellmates you have or you haven't died of some kind of disease due to the conditions there in the process.

If you for one second think that this won't eventually apply to US citizens or Trump's enemies, you haven't been paying attention.

The courts are doing nothing to stop it. The GOP have bent the knee. And what's worst is that a not-insignificant portion of the population is welcoming this with thunderous applause. But this is the world we live in now. Cross Trump, and he will find someone to say that you're a Venezuelan gang member and have you shipped off to El Salvador where you will never return no matter what kind of money and resources you have. This is the United States.

The rest of the free world needs to start cutting ties with the US. Because it's only going to get much, much worse from here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It's worse than that.

Oopsie, we fucked up your life. Too bad. Sucks to be you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

He can't run as VP because he is ineligible to be President. VP is the only position in the line of succession that can't be skipped. Anyone chosen as VP must also be eligible to be President.

The easiest way for them to do it is to go the "Casino" route. Put in some sock puppet as President and have Trump be the "senior advisor" that's calling the shots behind the scenes. Kinda like they're doing now with Musk.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Don't even bother. Just look in the nightstand drawer. They're right there, where the bibles used to be. And if you look on the desk, there's a convenient menu of services available for those interested in a little light corruption.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (5 children)

This "loophole" wouldn't work. There are plenty of people in the line of succession that are ineligible to be President either due to being too young or being foreign-born. First, if it gets to the point where one of them would even become President, we have much bigger problems to worry about. Second, those people that would be ineligible would simply be skipped over for the next person in line who's actually eligible.

Sure, they could use the same backwards logic and hand-waving of Constitutional amendments that they've been using all along, but at that point they might as well just make an exception for the 22nd amendment and call it a day. If they're just planning to hand-wave away the rules anyway, why go through all those extra steps when just saying that the 22nd amendment is unenforceable would be quicker, easier, and accomplish the same thing?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

The AI summary is excellent, but probably limited its bullet points to what was directly discussed in the article. There are a couple of other points that should be added to the list.

  • Harvard and Yale have also made policy changes and removed employees in capitulation to Trump in an effort to avoid being targeted similar to what happened to Columbia.

  • Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski made a trip to Mar-A-Lago to apologize to Trump for past news coverage and promised to cover him more favorably in hopes to avoid Trump's retribution.

 

As expected, the consequences of repeatedly and openly defying Boasberg's previous court orders is.......nothing.

 

A federal judge warned of "consequences" if the Trump administration violated court orders, but did not specify what those consequences would be or what it would take for the judge to enact them.

 

Amendments. They're looking for the opportunity to give amendments.

This is all Democratic leadership is capable of coming up with. They want to be able to ask "pretty please" to the Republican majority before their suggestions get voted down and they vote for this piece of crap CR anyway. This is all they're asking for. Nothing to stop Trump and Musk from running roughshod. Nothing to rein DOGE in. Nothing to reverse the damage DOGE already did. Just the opportunity to give some suggestions that they know will be ignored by the GOP in the end.

Democrat leadership is spineless.

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