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In less than one week time, Trump has done more damage to the United States, than any other president in history. Some of the people still supporting this man, obviously need the equivalent of de-Nazifacation. Even Hitler had the good sense to wait for half a year to withdraw from the League of Nations, and five years to threaten another nations sovereignty (Austria)

On a simplistic level yes the Court could unilaterally declare that "persons" in the Constitution only means those with green eyes and a Hapsburg jaw. Realistically though there is such a thing as a strong and a weak precedent. Firearm precedents have long been and continue to be weak. Citizenship precidents are very strong. The Court has very few enforcement mechanisms, so they rely on a veneer of trust, consistency, and institutional impartiality to the law. Incrementally shifting the interpretation of grey areas in the 2nd Amended took place over decades and culminated in DC v Heller (2008). However, the 14th Amendment lacks the grey area open to interpretation and there is no prior case law on which to build a new judicial priniciple on citizenship or jurisdiction. Doing so would have to be out of nowhere. And would be a major strike against the Courts credibility and prestige, and would produce a weak precident easily overturned by a furure Court.

It's true. They've been systematically undone by a movement that does not believe in democracy or the institutions that preserve it. And a disengaged public voted for it.

The Green Revolution isn’t going to stop because Trump doesn’t like it. If he withdraws government support he only harms American manufacturers. He helps China if he does that.

Climate cataclysm is supposed to destroy us in 7 years, so who cares?

Oh, jeebus. Mark Levin is a certified arsehole, but he's not a constitutional scholar. And he's marketing insanity at you--apparently successfully. And my goodness, imagine how farking stupid someone would have to be to declare that undocumented immigrants are not subject to the jurisdiction of federal and state governments--the equivalent of diplomatic immunity. Good luck arresting them. They can try to amend the constitution, but the way it's currently written is clear and has been supported by binding precedent. Trying to invent a convenient, novel reading for it now is dishonest and desperate. -- And this from the same people dishonestly lionizing constitutional originalism and literalism. Oy.

They believe very much in the power of their pocket. My next reelection, the most important issue of them all. Affordable medications, who needs that seriously? Big buck in politics is the undoing of the great democracy.

Their vaunted constitution and checks and balances were all an illusion because they have stopped believing in them.

It would be some extreme activism indeed. Nobody anywhere actually believes the meaning is unclear--because it isn't. And the precedent at the SCOTUS level is also very clear. This specious "legal theory" is as absurd as the coup memo. Even the people promoting it don't believe it. They just hope they have enough shameless ideologues in the right places to get away with it. Once, I would have said that even this corrupt and compromised court couldn't go that far, but every time I think that, they stoop lower.

^This is how Trump does business. Take as much as he can, and give as little as possible in return. Don't care about pissing off "allies." Russia and China will be pleased.

You see her true colours shining through and that's why she loves you...♫

the extra judicial Declaration of Independence & Emancipation Proclamation FTW Onward Christian Soldiers

The second amendment is plain english to but you all constantly try to regulate it

" Donald Trump was warned by an expert on Saturday that the President is causing great harm to the world and the U.S. Atul Gawande, a former professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and former United States Agency for International Development official, took to social media over the weekend to sound the alarm. The surgeon and medical professor has studied hospital profits in the past. "I ran USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US," Gawande said. Citing some purported "examples," Gawande said the stop work order "stops work battling a deadly Marburg outbreak in Tanzania and a wide outbreak of a mpox variant killing children in west Africa before it spreads further," "stops monitoring of bird flu in 49 countries, a disease which already killed an American on home soil," "stops critical work to eradicate polio," and even "stops >$1B in corporate drug donations and coordination eradicating tropical diseases like river blindness, elephantiasis, and others on the verge of elimination in whole regions." Further, he said, the plan "stops medicines, supplies, systems building, staff support aiding >90 million women and children to get low cost vaccinations, prenatal care, safe childbirth, contraception, and other basic lifesaving health needs." He added that it also "stops direct services for 6.5 million orphans, vulnerable children, and their caregivers affected by HIV in 23 countries," "stops donated drug supplies keeping 20 million people living with HIV alive," and "would furlough all USAID contract staff — which includes half of its global health bureau—unless exempted." "This Administration is trashing US standing, alliances with scores of countries built over half a century, world-leading capacity and expertise, and American security," the expert added." 'Killed an American': Expert puts Trump on notice over President causing 'serious damage' This could likely cause widespread loss of life in the world. This is shocking.

https://apnews.com/article/covid-cia-trump-china-pandemic-lab-leak-9ab7e84c626fed68ca13c8d2e453dde1 Very sad

@Hodad See what I mean? But sometimes it's funny even vindicating to watch. Back in the day you'd be cancelled as an Islamofascist commie for talking like this around these parts. 🤣

It'll be painful watching it dawn on them slowly but this is exactly how progressivism works. As I see it we have two steps forward coming our way after we take this one back.

Trump cult is awful quiet.

Jeebus, dude, he's a pundit. A constitutional scholar is an academic occupation with a primary output being rigorous scholarly publishing. This is roughly like scientific research publishing in peer reviewed journals. It's not for dilettantes. And his legal career is thin. I am deeply skeptical that he's argued cases before the SCOTUS. I suspect you made that up. Gonna need a citation there.

Because of. That correct and it's how I should have phrased it.

No 'free stuff'? So who is paying for them to stay in the migrant hotels? Who pays for their food? Clothing? https://nypost.com/2024/10/09/us-news/nyc-seeking-14000-hotel-rooms-to-shelter-migrants-through-2025/ You're making it sound like all of them are working and not in need of benefits. No doubt many of them are working, and helping to keep wages for Americans low.

He doesn't have copies. He has the real thing. Well, he did until he donated it. He has written at least six books about constitutional issues. He's presented cases to the SCOTUS. So, who are you to say he's not a Constitutional scholar?

Lol...just wait until the triumph wears off and the long slow grind reasserts itself. Then what will you do?

Fixed your post, but i'm afraid fixing you would require a team of psychologists and a research grant

Dude, there's no substantive "bill paying" going on. That's not how NATO works. Countries aren't sending money to a central military. We're all spending money domestically on our own military strength. So, no. The US is not tired of paying other countries' bills. That's spending that we're going to do regardless, to maintain our own security. -- or potentially invade Greenland and Panama now that we've elected a giant orange toddler to the presidency. At any rate, the alliance is more potent if the member nations to do meet spending targets, but nobody here feels anything about it. It's not an issue people here even know about outside of the absurd campaign rhetoric.

American political system, if not the society in general (I couldn't comment in general but there were some significant protests) appears to be paralyzed; in a deep scared slumber; and totally unprepared to deal with this challenge, one of the main reasons it was created for, to safeguard the foundations of democracy and the rule of law. Looks like an accomplished failure, on both sides and regardless of ideology. Paralysis, ostrich syndrome in the face of a present and grave danger. Please don't wake us up it's so cozy here. Can't be good.

The US and Canada and every other western or economically developed country can only grow in population via immigration. Otherwise they'll shrink.

I would suggest the experts have politicized their agencies and caused significant damage due to lies.

I have to ask, how is this shocking? This is exactly what was advertised. This what the dumb half of America voted for.

The problem with NAFTA is that it leaves the other countries utterly at the mercy of the largest one. In the EU, Germany doesn’t have anything like this power - Trump even changed the name of the deal to an unpronounceable acronym and most of us went along with it! Unfortunately, I don’t think we can join the EU. As the US retreats from the world and grows meaner we may be in for a very rough time.

Short answers work for people who are either liars or not interested in the truth. I guess in that sense it would have sufficed for you As to the rest, simply admitting that you can't understand the concepts being discussed would have been more than enough.

A Deluge of the Deluded

Damn bro can't you read?

And it applies to children of immigrants, documented or undocumented. Cope and seethe. Lol the Constitution is the supreme law of the land you mongrel so you've got that backasswards.

From the GM Editorial Board What matters is that it is now clear that the starting assumption for economic and defence decisions in the future can no longer be that the U.S. will always be there for Canada. Seriously? The US was there for Canada when it was overthrowing other people's governments and propping up dictators for decades around the planet? And now we're expected to pay the bills for all this munificence? Fu ck Trump, America and the buttsniffs sitting around the GM Editorial Board.

Why? Birthright citizenship only applies to people born in a place. Hence the "birth" part.

Meanwhile, Putin’s useful idi*t in the White House has : 1) frozen aid to Ukraine 2) reneged on his ridiculous promise to magically end the Russian war within 24hours of being president and now seems to be no longer interested in doing anything other than watching Russia overrun a choked-off Ukraine 3) pledged to withdraw tens of thousands of US troops from Europe during its darkest hours 4) preparing to launch completely unprovoked and unnecessary trade wars against NATO allies, threatening use military or economic force to annex their territory 5) barely found a single critical word for Putin, despite the fact that he throughly enjoys insulting , trolling, shitposting and otherwise criticizing everyone including his fellow Republicans and his own VP and cabinet picks Trumps “America first” foreign policy will only surrender the US sphere of influence to Moscow. Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Houthis, Hamas and Hezbollah have now all formed a bloc. Russia is also bringing several west African dictatorships into the fold. Helping Russia is helping the others in the bloc even if the Dictator On Day One and his MAGA cult are too stupid figure it out

This is true...for what it's worth. Humans riot. It happens. The ways government and police have reacted, vary as much as the reasons humans riot. The reaction for the J6 riot was...a tad over the top. 2 life sentences PLUS 40 years? Please... Now he's out. Enjoy...

It is always greener on the other side of the fence Europe is not the golden goose you may think it is, they have their problems as well, for years they to have been ruled by the left, we are now seeing more governments that are on the right or even far right, not everything is rainbows and unicorns in Europe...UK left for a reason... US is our allied, and is doing Canada a huge favor by forcing us to get our sh!t together, and start taking our global responsibilities seriously... Seeing how we have not responded to the polite poking from past Presidents and other NATO allied nations have been doing for decades...We have taken advantage of them for decades, and enjoyed giving them the finger or just ignoring them when it benefits us.... Now Canadians are pissed they don't have a choice, we have been given a time out...fix it or they will destroy our economy....And instead of listening to what the US is saying coming up with a plan to fix it, we are preparing to do battle with the world's largest economy thumping our chests...think we are going to win this hands down...tit for tat...Your a ****** if you think we are going going to win this, unscathed...we are the Ant in this battle fighting the elephant...

Time to start putting Canadian flags on our backpacks and luggage again and wear tee shirts that say, I am not an American. I'm in Mexico now and the Trump is despised here. The first thing the cab driver from the airport said after he asked where we were from was, "what do you think of Trump".

We CAN'T OMG we're all gonna die! FFS almost every other country on the planet out-competes the USA. That's why the Omniscient Orange wants to hide behind tariffs. The CANTservative attitude took their country from one that couldn't get off the ground to the Moon in just over a decade to one that can't even walk anymore.

They are all Nazis! You are a Nazi! I am a Nazi! He is a Nazi! She is a Nazi! Everyone is a Nazi!

That’s just shouting, not debate.

This topic is about Proud Canadians, Dougie. Of which you are not one, so take off, eh?

Yes, an easy decision. Pierre Poilievre.

The West thinks this culture likes us. Haha, Jews first, then Westerners.