The whole point of throwing a subordinate under the bus is that you don't jump down there with them

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

the thing is, they've turned everything immigration-related to stephen miller, who has never run for office, has never held an elected position, and who could not win a popularity contest consisting solely of members of his own household. he is indifferent to the future of the republican party.

the young groyper republican is, like, excluding for income, the *textbook* example of a target for radicalization by basically every extremist group in human history, just a self-hating human-shaped vessel waiting to be filled up by the darkest thing that comes along

Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.

This is great. Very few people want to go to jail, get disbarred or die for this regime. Make them fight you. They will cave.

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How Trump flipped America's race conversation Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.

Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58

from a state party director

what follows immediately after the birthright clause? the privileges and immunities and due process clauses? and what follows them? the equal protection clause. all of this is explicitly to say, "the declaration is the constitutional law of the land"

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

dred scott, in their minds, established the united states as a place of tiered citizenship and permanent inequality among americans. it was a ruling that said, in effect, that all men *were not* created equal and would *never* be treated as such.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

I mean, who says they’d stop at the reconstruction amendments. “Right to vote shall not be abridged based on sex” - if we’re just tossing the plain language of the constitution, why not women’s suffrage?

here's an example: I wanted to check the rumor that college dorms have "anti-suicide chairs" so I searched that phrase. on one search engine, I got a bunch of what looked like LLM slop that told me nothing that had any truth value. This would be a problem no matter how much water the LLMs use!

these stupid assholes think they’re going to be able to have a firefight in the morning, walk away from a cool explosion at lunch and take the family out to chili’s for dinner and I cannot stress enough that is not what civil war looks like

This, FWIW, is why I think the killing of Charlie Kirk shocked them so much. Besides how he was just them (ie guy mugging at a camera all day), it put into really stark relief that left-wingers can use violence too (“the enemy gets a vote”), which they’d never really engaged with

I’ve said for a while that one of the loadbearing myths in right wing American politics is that, if they wanted to, they could just kill all the liberals. “We’re the only ones with the guns! Don’t piss us off!!!” and whenever they run into evidence contrary it TERRIFIES them

joe lonsdale is a serial rapist who should die in prison.

Write whatever shit you want into the Bill of Rights! Argue that the 5th amendment actually implicitly mandates UBI! Who cares if it's "true"!

none of this is about what is *actually true* about the Constitution because the Constitutional framework has stopped functioning, it's all about pure power, so you can just say whatever! Argue that Confederate states' readmission was illegal so they can't have Congressional delegations or EC votes!

A significant battle in the American civil war was fought in my mothers’ ancestors backyard outside Gettysburg, PA. My father’s parents spoke Italian in their home in Wayne, NJ.

They are both equally American.

I fucking love memes you can understand through the language barrier, holy shit

This is like Mr Rogers picking up Mjolnir

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

If you've ever been to a naturalization ceremony, you know they're filled with people whose palpable love of this country is twenty times stronger than the pinched "patriotism" of any native-born MAGA chud.

Just unspeakable assholery.

Iirc there was a secret report during The Troubles which just laid out how law and order had just collapsed, leading to everything from car thefts to poaching to pollution

Cute that he thinks a civil war will be against a clearly defined ideological enemy and not whatever local militia decides they need your car.

When I see a billionaire call for public hangings, I see a clueless pampered idiot who doesn't realize that people like him are gonna end up being the first ones forced to the gallows when public trust as a concept really crashes