And it would be exceedingly strange if the justices take this claim seriously. The Constitution’s language is clear. The issue was settled in Wong Kim Ark. And Trump’s lawyers want to implement a 145-year-old idea that was deemed unworkable even by one of its preeminent original champions.

What the author fails to take into account is that this Court is bought and paid for. Once the justices rule in favor of their benefactors, they will be awash in gratuities…

But not before! That would be a bribe, and the Court is above bribery! They do have morals, after all.

I zoomed in a bit for you…

Only an idiot would sign that shit.

Isn’t that the demographic they are going for, though?

Just like the spammers who deliberately put bad grammar and spelling in their emails, they know the people who will click in spite of the obvious red flags are easy marks and can be fleeced for more before carrying on to the scam.

“Scientific Community” is kind of a broad term. It is composed of a lot of smarty-pants types who are unlikely to take “no” for an answer, and will keep trying to fix the problem.

In the end, you may be right, and there’s no way to stop the runaway train, and all these folks will accomplish is getting our hopes raised while they earn their PhD’s and present papers in worldwide conferences they all burned jet fuel to get to.

But, what if you turn out to be wrong, and one of those poindexters actually figures out how to scrub CO2 from the atmosphere in an economical fashion, and they manage to stop the train? That person will be instantly famous, and the Nobel Prize might be the least of their accolades. They will be remembered as one of humanity’s greatest minds. If they happen to be British, they will be buried in that cathedral next to Newton and Darwin and Hawking, that’s how important it will be.

So, they will keep trying, because it’s as close as you can get in this life to immortality.

Isn’t he basically admitting that ICE is his private paramilitary organization?

Those ancient stone arch bridges are remarkably durable, and can survive with very little maintenance. Many large stone bridges and aqueducts were built with no mortar whatsoever, and everything held together strictly through gravity. That requires quite a bit of skill with the stone cutting, though, in order for the weight to be distributed properly. And it makes them extremely costly and time-consuming to build. Wikipedia says the bridge pictured here took 30+ years to build, and that’s after the original bridge built here collapsed a few years after being built.

Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, who later apologized for being in the way of the bullet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/18/usa.dickcheney

He said there are “a handful of states in which some local elections openly allow noncitizens to vote” and where local officials have declined to explain how they ensure those noncitizen voters aren’t also voting in federal elections.

The issue of non-citizens voting in local elections has quite an interesting history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizen_suffrage_in_the_United_States

Many states let non-citizens vote historically, as long as they met residency requirements. It wasn’t until the “wrong” types of people started coming over (like the Irish) in the late 1800’s that some states started clamping down on the practice. And, believe it or not, non-citizens voting in Federal elections was not made illegal on the national level until 1997!

Hopefully the Democrats kill it. But if this passes, and the inevitable challenges make it to the SCOTUS, it will be interesting to see this case where the Democrats actually have the founders on their side, and the contortions the SCOTUS goes through to rubber-stamp the act in spite of their Originalism…

Doc Gooden certainly has more wins than RFK Jr. Still not sure who has done more coke, though

Sir! You offend me. Those judges do not take bribes. That would be illegal!

They take gratuities. See? Those are totally different.

He’s just making it sexier

FYI, Newt Gingrich has a Ph.D. in European History…

Well, there is some wiggle room, as the date of Federal elections is determined by Congress. The current election date is set by statute. So, it can be rescheduled with a statute as well.

However, the term of Congress is set by the Constitution. And House seats, in particular, must be assigned based on election results. If the election is postponed into the New Year, then all House seats would be vacant. So if a Federal law either abolishes or postpones elections so they cannot be certified in time for the new Congress to convene, States would immediately challenge, and Blue states would probably hold the election on time anyway, anticipating a ruling in their favor. We may end up with a new Congress controlled by Democrats, only because Red states never held elections.

It would get a fast track to the Supreme Court, and then who knows? The outcome might depend on what gratuities are promised by both sides…

He realizes exactly what’s going on, he’s counting on it. It wouldn’t surprise me if he is working through back channels to ensure that Iran launches a major terrorist attack in October. He needs that to try to cancel elections.

Zelenskyy has been President all this time, after all, because they suspended elections while his country is being actively invaded. Trump heard this and thinks it can work here, too. It shouldn’t work here, but who knows? Congress has abdicated it’s ability to declare war to the President, they might just concede their ability to schedule elections too.

My #1 tip for stopping media addiction is to turn off notifications. There is simply nothing going on that requires your immediate attention. It can wait until you have time to check. Try it!

Right, but a lot of Catholics voted MAGA last time around, solely on the basis of abortion policy. Not realizing that Catholics have always been on The List. Maybe after pregnant women, immigrants, and trans folks. But eventually, MAGA is coming for them too.

It’s possible either the US or Israel had some extremely timely intelligence on the location of the old leader, and the new one is just being more careful…

there are 69 current representatives and senators who are retiring

Nice!

I wonder who he pissed off in order to actually have to face consequences as a Republican…

Sigh.

Donald Trump did not get elected President (Twice!) by listening to experts…