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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Very telling that the linked article doesn’t even go into details as to what Omar said that is so bad

    Mace has said Omar, an immigrant who criticized Kirk’s views of gun ownership and race relations in the aftermath of George Floyd’s 2020 death in Minneapolis, should be deported to Somalia. Omar was born in Somalia and became a U.S. citizen in 2000.

    This goes into more detail:

    https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5508855-mace-omar-censure-resolution-kirk/

    But the text of Mace’s resolution did not quote any of Omar’s own words. Instead, it quoted extensively from a video that Omar re-posted on social media.

    That video said Kirk “took complex socioeconomic issues and simplified them by pointing fingers at out-groups, demonizing those groups, and siccing his massive following on them,” calling him a “stochastic terrorist” and an “adamant transphobe.” It adds that Kirk, whose suspected killer has been described as left-wing by government officials, “was Dr. Frankenstein and his monster shot him through the neck.”

    So, all Omar did was link to a video that was critical of Saint Charlie the Loquacious.

    It is fitting that the only thing that forced the vote to fail in the House was a promise to censure a Republican who looks like he deserves it a lot more:

    Indeed, Rep. Greg Casar (D-Texas) appeared to respond to Mace’s move by bringing a resolution to censure Mills over allegations of domestic violence, threatening to release nude videos of an ex-girlfriend, and making false financial disclosures. A similar censure of Mills, who has denied those allegations, was abandoned after Republicans similarly voted to table a resolution to censure Rep. LaMonica McIver (D-N.J.), who faces charges resulting from a clash with officials at an immigrant detention center.











  • Alternatively, global investors will start to shun the US, because US companies don’t have to be as transparent anymore. Then there is a giant sucking sound of capital out of US markets, and the stock market and dollar tanks.

    You would think that a President would want to avoid this, but most of his wealth is now in crypto, and if the dollar tanks his crypto is worth more dollars.

    He is so transparently out for his own gain, and those of his Crypto Broligarch friends, over what is best for the country as a whole.




  • Define a while? Last I knew, the Schengen area lets US citizens on the Visa Waiver program stay for a rolling 90 days out of 180. So, you could go for nearly three months before leaving, then once you stay out for three more months and some days fall off your ledger you can come back.

    You can play games and leave the Schengen area but not go back to the US. The UK has its own requirements,and since you likely meet them you could go there and chill there waiting for your Schengen access to time out.

    This all implies that you have the means during this gap year to fund it all yourself. If any country suspects you are working without authorization, they will escort you back to the US, albeit in a much kinder fashion than we are doing it to their citizens.