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Chris Bray's avatar

I should have mentioned Santa Clara County's astounding Stasi act over people going to church during the pandemic, which violated county orders:

https://www.silentlunch.net/p/when-a-renegade-church-and-a-zealous

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

I hope these people understand if this ever happens again...it bleeds

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

We never can forget RG

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Skenny's avatar

I triple-dog dare 'em.

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Occam's avatar

Yah. As much as I support the dissent, the American people have shown no willingness to do anything other than loot and burn stuff for "equity" causes.

Those lockdowns kept coming because nobody did anything.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

The ONLY BENEFICIAL use for AI is to index all legal cases in such a way that lawyering is rendered redundant. AND IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN. In other words, the most potent technological tool ever devised by mankind to truly make ALL CITIZENS EQUAL BEFORE THE LAW, by making access to legal procedure and knowledge freely available, will never be permitted. The LAW must continue to be used as an instrument of POWER, not of JUSTICE.

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Bill Quick's avatar

Tech has a way of making predictions about how it will be used sound really silly not long after they are made.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

You are absolutely correct. The first Texas Instrument hand-held calculator I got for Christmas back in 1977 was supposed to get me straight A's in science. Boy was that a joke!

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John Geis's avatar

With all due respect, hasn’t Mankind demonstrated enough that it’s inability to follow the law ISN’T based on a lack of understanding, but on a dislike of what the law prescribes?

If your assessment was correct, there would be no need for appeals courts. Decisions like Dred Scott, Plessy & Korematsu would be not have been possible.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

The Brazilian Supreme Courts regularly conducts trials and passes criminal sentences for which there is no appeal. And all the law behind it is a pile of shit.

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John Geis's avatar

I don’t understand the juxtaposition of your 2 points: 1) AI can be used to synthesize a legal Oracle at Delphi, rendering the legal profession irrelevant; and 2) Appeals courts will still be necessary.

Either AI will get the job done, or it won’t, in which case we’ll need judges to straighten things out, although the source of the judges is unclear as the unemployed attorneys all became plumbers.

There’s a 3 point which was your post mocking your TI calculator.

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Gunther Heinz's avatar

Think of THE INDEX. A librarian ASSIGNS a new book an index number. The index number allows you to find a single book among millions, by subject, author, blah, blah, blah. Now think of an automated system doing that. Now think OF THE STATE using automated indexing for every sort of financial transaction and property transfer, in order to assure its CUT of wealth. I call it a RUTHLESS TRANSPARENCY. Now apply the RUTHLESS TRANSPARENCY to THE LAW, where every legal transaction (petition, motion, contract, brief, settlement, blah, blah, blah) can be indexed by lawyer, judge, jurisdiction, rule, order, law, dollar amount, blah, blah, blah. Query: what court generates the most X in matters of Y? BINGO! Query, what law firm does most X, Y, Z, involving A, B, C? BINGO! Which judges are most likely to do C, D, E, when ruling on a motion F,G? BINGO BINGO BINGO! Ruthless transparency: the whole rotten system would come crashing down.

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GadflyBytes's avatar

Santa Clara just reinstated a mask requirement for healthcare workers too. It’s absurd.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

And the morons will all put them on.

You couldn't pay me enough to work for a company that required you to wear a mask all day.

Think about it. That's some fucked up shit....lest we forget.

We should not allow this mental illness to be normalized.

We will rue that day.

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Aviva W.'s avatar

It’s too late, the masses have already been conditioned. I can’t tell you how many people have been wearing those surgical masks to protect themselves against the wildfire smoke.. even though a surgical mask won’t filter out those harmful particles and even though THERE IS NO SMOKE here.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

I know. Mental illness is real.

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Sez77's avatar

Lest we forget fucked up shit indeed.

We won't be.

This was seared into our psyches, it ain't going anywhere.

There will be no amnesty.

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Lee Fox's avatar

"There will be no amnesty."

^^^ this ^^^

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Julia's avatar

And don't forget a bird flu "emergency" in CA, a pack of 18 eggs is now $12. Why don't they ask chickens to wear masks?

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Jerri Hinojosa's avatar

Don’t give them ideas. During the apocalypse, by daughter played flute in the school band. Some entrepreneurial person started making masks with a hole big enough to put an instrument through and the idiots at her school mandated those masks with a quarter sized hole in the middle. For those unknown viruses the size of a tootsie pop.

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Francis Turner's avatar

Head desk

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Sue Kelley's avatar

As did Washington state. I don't wear one. Neither does most of the other staff or the patients. Even management isn't complying

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PatriotInGibraltar's avatar

I'm waiting for someone to remind Trump that PUBLIC UNIONS are also the creation of a JFK executive order. This was modified by Nixon, but is generally regarded as being subject to cancellation by executive order.

Nice little union ya got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Yes. Didn’t even FDR say that unions don’t belong in government/public service? I supervised county government union employees for 14 years; wowee.

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Danny Huckabee's avatar

Every Democrat, even the socialist ones, opposed government unions, until Kennedy. The results were as they had reasoned: the relationship between the public and the government unions is unfair relative to that of private sector unions. Just look at what teacher's unions have done to education.

Danny Huckabee

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New Considerist's avatar

Hope you got hardship pay.

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Jerri Hinojosa's avatar

Sundance at The Conservative Treehouse made a good point that none of the fired civil servants have sued yet. It’s likely their union is advising them that the Supreme Court will probably rule the same way they did in the last challenge to executive branch power ie. That power is plenary (total) as to any activity within the executive branch. Such a decision would apply to all presidents going forward and would pretty much eliminate the need for a civil servant union. The union would prefer fired workers suck it up for 4 years rather than risk a decision making all civil servants subject to employment at will like the rest of us.

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JasonT's avatar

Oh, buddy! Give me a couple minutes heads-up to buy popcorn.

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A Whip of Cords's avatar

Do it!!!!

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Sandra Slivka's avatar

Perhaps someone should tell doge or Trump

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Very good point btw. 2X the cost and half the results compared to merit shops

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K2's avatar

lolololol yes lololololol

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JD Wangler's avatar

Yes, yes, yes PLEASE!

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Randy Farnum's avatar

The left is just white noise to me these days.

They make sounds with no meaning. They claim Trump can’t do what he is doing but don’t/can’t back it up with facts or data.

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

I was talking to a friend yesterday and said the entire fraud of all players in "gov't" the past 5 years has made EVERYONE in politics simply white noise to most people now. No one is listening to them. And that is a good thing imo.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Which is allowing Trump to go Beast Mode.

All gas, no brakes, baby!

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Suzanne O'Keeffe's avatar

Lol not imo. He’s doing things that are expected check marks to rally the troops. But the MAGA rebrand of Agenda 2030 is nothing to cheer for I’d say.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Better than the alternative

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Lydia Lozano's avatar

But it is quite fun these days to watch their lips moving and the masks of anguish and/or befuddlement on their faces.

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The Great Santini's avatar

They have their media provided talking points, all based on some misrepresentation, or just an outright lie. When you point this out to them they get all huffy and call you names. Speaking from experience.

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Sue Kelley's avatar

I think they are starting to catch on that if they take some of this stuff to court he could win which only gives him more and permanent power.

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Julia's avatar

There is this persistent confusion between a representative democracy and an organization. Government agencies are merely organizations with employees controlled by elected representatives, they're not a democracy. They're here to serve to the people. Sure, Trump can fire his employees and close departments.

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John Geis's avatar

“…white noise to me…”

Racist! 🤣

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

Good reminders here to refresh folks’ memories about what they were REALLY trying to accomplish during the ‘Covid19’ farce. And remember people doing yoga inside clear plastic bubbles and all the rest? How beyond ludicrous. And truly evil. They did indeed, sadly, make a lot of progress in seeing how compliant people will be if they feel fear. None of these ‘orders’ were actual laws. Please, please don’t comply with any of it next time. It’s not as difficult as you’d think. Don’t be a sheep, just for the sake of avoiding awkward moments. We must stick up for our rights. Otherwise, we’re doomed.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Amen, Cathleen.

Tell it how it is!

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I don’t appreciate being lied to. I’m done with euphemisms. Time for direct bluntness. I always imagine what the past five years would’ve been like, if everyone would have refused to comply with all the bull crap.

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Sez77's avatar

🙂 The "past 5 years" would have died a natural death at 3 months.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Its been an abortion up until 11/5.

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John Geis's avatar

“…remember people doing yoga inside clear plastic bubbles and all the rest…”

My personal “favorite” was the band students inside little tent-like enclosures.

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Tardigrade's avatar

My favorite was the band students who had cut holes in their masks to play their instruments through.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Witchmer was all in … she wants the White House to be her next home . Just remember her husband was suppose to shelter in place and was found getting on the family boat in Traverse City and when confronted he said …. Do you know who my wife is?🤬.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

They think they're better than us....we said "beg to differ" on 11/5.

Let them anguish in their "moral superiority".

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John Geis's avatar

The good news is that their moral superiority led the DNC membership this past weekend to elect 2 kooks as their Chair & Vice Chair. There is the real possibility the Democrat Party splits into the Progressives and the disaffected. Where the latter go is the question.

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OldSysEng's avatar

She ordered that no one could go out in a boat. Even alone. On the water. WAY more than 6 feet from anyone else. You CANNOT have fun during these dire times!

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John Geis's avatar

Petroleum exhaust was proven to greatly accelerate viral multiplication. Same with reciting religious language. Sitting down while eating retarded it…

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

During Whitmer's closure of all businesses he DID manage to get his dock put in....by illegals. Whitmer's husband was turned in by a local marina with whom he broke a contract with for the dock installation, because his wife shut them down.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

Never Forget!

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w nor's avatar

I agree that I didn't see the obvious comparison. But now thanks to you..again..I have re-juice my stomach acids and recall the anger of sitting seething beneath a face diaper looking at my entire liberal triple boosted family staring at me after my singular outburst that this is all kabuki! And left sans diaper. To this day I and my wife are the only ones at that table of 30 who never ever got the vid.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Been there. It sucks.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

But you know who they blame for lockdowns, right?

Trump.

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Chris Bray's avatar

While they were also furious with him for not issuing national lockdown orders. He's not PROTECTING us! I had this conversation with other parents in Los Angeles all the time.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

I certainly do not need, nor want, the government to ‘protect’ me or keep me ‘safe’. That’s my responsibility.

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the long warred's avatar

You need Trump to protect you from government, Madam.

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Hollis Brown's avatar

for three years we heard about how authoritarian Trump was. until Covid.

and then, literally overnight, all we heard was that Trump wasn’t authoritarian ENOUGH!

he won’t lock us down harder!!!

a government of emotion, for emotion and solely based off of emotion.

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Mitch's avatar

they were outraged when he said the States had the public health authority, not POTUS. What a dictator!

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

He did implement travel restrictions early on from countries who already were experiencing COVID epidemics. Then the left played their favorite card: Rraaayycissst! Nancy Pelosi even encouraged travel to San Fran to celebrate Chinese New Year. Later when COVID reached epidemic levels here they accused him of not doing enough to guard against it and allowing it to be brought to our shores.

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old coyote's avatar

"woe to those who allow women and children to rule over them" ... or some other tribal group which inherits their special choseness through their mothers....

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Transcriber B's avatar

I well remember that time and the things that were said.

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Arne's avatar

So many things turned on a dime, depending on politics/ideology. One month it was bad, racist, to malign Asian Americans over covid; another month it was good to malign "the unvaccinated" as filthy.

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CB's avatar

But blaming China (even though it was Ralph Baric of University of North Carolina doing the dirty science) isn't the same as blaming Asian Americans. I don't recall any conservatives doing that, though when black criminals attacked Asians, the media blamed MAGA white supremacists.

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the long warred's avatar

Which is why the USSR settled on Democratic Centralism (Lenin with the Bolsheviks first so they struck unified, then Stalin).

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John Geis's avatar

It’s all in who says or does it. If a white male hetrrosexual burns down a black-owned business, he’s a racist & terrorist. If a white liberal sporting a man-bun does it, he’s protesting George Floyd and the oppression of all blacks.

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kapock's avatar

*I* blame Trump for lockdowns.

I don’t think “they” (i.e., the covidians) do. I think they try to ignore his responsibility for them, while blaming him for whatever pitiful remnants of normal life persisted through 2020.

If forced to acknowledge Trump’s lockdown, I think the blob-aligned reluctantly deem it one of his few legitimately “presidential” actions, along with cruise-missiling Syria.

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Sherman Homan's avatar

They padlocked the gate of the playgrounds in my town so that little children could not play, outside in the sun.

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Chris Bray's avatar

Imagine how dangerous all that fresh air and exercise would have been for children

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Mitch's avatar

sun and fresh air are the true killers

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

They spray foamed our HOA playgrounds.

I just shook my head. Split town to Florida a couple weeks later.

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Dena's avatar

They could stop the skate boarders from skating so they Filled the skate board parks with wood chips. That one kinda pushed me over the edge.

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Francis Turner's avatar

That BS, which was observed in multiple countries, was ridiculous.

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Robert Shannon's avatar

As Jeffrey Tucker commented in an Epoch Times article, What most of Trump's executive orders are doing is bringing us back following what the Constitution laid out.

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Tom's avatar

Jeffrey Tucker is my second favorite political commentator...guess who is #1 ...

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Art's avatar

He’s so good he even gets a pass on the bow tie.

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Cathleen Manny's avatar

When I first saw Trump (before he first ran for prez, I didn’t know who he was; never heard of The Apprentice), I wondered why he was always saying ‘fake news’’ - I had no idea what he meant (he’s not very good at articulating thoughts, which didn’t help). After awhile I realized the extreme double standard he’s been subjected to (and, no, I don’t worship Trump nor anyone else). Of course the media is entirely complicit in following the double standard.

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Skenny's avatar

Trump may be too direct for those who would be able to understand, for example, Biden and/or Harris.

"Our leaders are stupid.". - DJT, June 2015

He had me from "stupid."

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John Geis's avatar

I think Trump was referring to Obama, whom he correctly saw as a anti-colonialist Marxist using race-baiting as a tool to destroy Western civilization.

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Skenny's avatar

He was absolutely referring to Obama, as well as some of his appointees, in the famous escalator announcement Trump made in 2015. The specific topic was trade, and Trump observed how the Chinese were running circles around Obama and Company.

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John Geis's avatar

Perhaps the phrasing “America hating race pimp” would be more Trumpian? 😂

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A Whip of Cords's avatar

Their “executive orders” are just fine. Because they’re experts, but humble and kind with only the best interests of their subjects… er… citizens at heart. Republican executive orders are heartless and cruel and worse than the Nazis because Republicans are not experts, arrogant and cruel. “When we do it, it’s for the good of mankind. When you do it, it’s illegal.”

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Gen Chang's avatar

As my highschool chemistry teacher often said, shaking his chubby cheeks, "Burnnnnnn it with Fireeee! He was Italian, and had a flare for the dramatic. 😉

And so Trump marches through the EO Garden with a flamethrower 😂🤣😂🤣😂

You Go Mr. President! 😁👍

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

It feels fucking good.

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Gen Chang's avatar

I think it was Bannon who said something about "flooding the Zone" to which Bongino reinforces near daily reminders. The Dems, their Media, are struggling to keep up. And they are having their collective Asses handed to them on a daily basis. Truly awesome!

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Like i said;

All gas, no brakes, baby!

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John Geis's avatar

My recent comment to a friend:

“I don’t want to be sacrilegious, but this is beginning to feel like the money changers being thrown out of the Temple, or maybe aspects of Revelations.”

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Flippin’ Jersey's avatar

Gonna be lit when the Dem lawsuits blow up in their faces!

Screeching harpy AWFLs: “Birthright citizenship is in the Constitution! 14th Amendment! We’re gonna sue!”

Supreme Court: “No, it ain’t.”

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Hugh Wayne Black's avatar

I'm gonna be lit when Kash reveals all the secrets the FBI has been hiding all these years. Good thing Trump emptied the DC gulag, they're gonna need the room for all operatives who've been conspiring against him.

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John Geis's avatar

The legal research has already been done on the agreed meaning of the 14A at the time of its adoption and the modern Dems are utterly full of 💩:

https://static.heritage.org/legal-and-judicial/birthright-citizenship/Law%20Review%20Final%20Print.pdf

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Ofifoto's avatar

Easy answer, but it was worse in other places, and the minions encouraged it. The greatest joy for me in this piece is that the man who was then-Premier of the State of Victoria in Australia, who maintained *the longest* lockdowns and draconian measures throughout 2020-2022 is not mentioned. Hahahaha

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Chris Bray's avatar

That dude creeped me out. Hard. From 8,000 miles away he seemed like an obvious sociopath.

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Ofifoto's avatar

And continues to for many of us. He's a clever tyrant and did what all clever tyrants do, sniffed the wind and got out to convert his tyranny to riches.

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Sez77's avatar

Daniel Andrews didn't get his U.N gig, but totally-rationally-not-an-insane-decision-at-all he's made Chair of the Board of Orygen Youth Mental Health Services in October 2024 (ostensibly, I assume, because he knows a thing or two about the forces that impact and collapse the stability of young minds).

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

I'd like to think this is just a hostile government take over in progress by the American people.

Trumps just our instrument.

HOORAY!

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Randy Farnum's avatar

My neighbor asked me what I thought of Trumps actions so far? My answer- harder, faster!

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the long warred's avatar

Exactly a hostile takeover, they replaced the .gov and especially OPM servers the first week.

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Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

I started watching the Jacinda video, but had seen it 4 years ago.

1 of 2 people I refer to as "horse mouth". (I'm sure you'll guess the other).

Where is she now?

WEF, WHO, or UN?

I don't care, but haven't heard anything about her...

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Chris Bray's avatar

Harvard. She's at Harvard.

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/about/rt-hon-dame-jacinda-ardern

Not that surprising.

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Clever Pseudonym's avatar

And there she takes her place next to the other political giants of our time, Lori Lightfoot and Bill DeBlasio. (Among many other useless parasites.)

They may have been totally incompetent clowns but they were always loyal to the Party and maintained omerta, which guarantees you can only fail upward.

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Mitch's avatar

that's where we send the worst and dumbest

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