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"Sources:" Trump Backing Down on Citizenship Question, Will Drop Fight to Restore It
But: Other Sources Say He'll Use an Executive Order?
EXCLUSIVE: Pres. Trump is expected to announce he is backing down from his effort to include a citizenship question on the 2020 census, and will instead instruct the Commerce Department to get the data through other means, sources tell @ABC News. https://t.co/yZHn8Q50eU
— Evan McMurry (@evanmcmurry) July 11, 2019
It means he's going to say that in two weeks he'll announce what those other means are, and then we'll never heard about it again.
— Miss Behavior (@Rbrbndgrl) July 11, 2019
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Flyguy at July 11, 2019 03:04 PM (3sOO0)
Posted by: Gmac - Winning never gets old, like me ... But I'm still winning dammit! at July 11, 2019 03:04 PM (qZdIZ)
In light of the early understanding of and long practice under the Enumeration Clause, we conclude it permits Congress, and by extension the Secretary to inquire about citizenship on the census questionnaire. We need not, and do not, decide the constitutionality of any other question that Congress or the Secretary might decide to include in the census."
- SCOTUS, Department of Commerce v. New York
I thought that the original decision was worth repeating in part. Mostly because I am tired of the lies being propagated by media's self anointed experts who have never read it and are printing pure, unmitigated bullshit.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:05 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Burger Chef at July 11, 2019 03:05 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Bete at July 11, 2019 03:05 PM (f43Hj)
What the current odds on this being something that the MSM just made up whole cloth because they're idiots?
Posted by: Flyguy at July 11, 2019 03:05 PM (3sOO0)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at July 11, 2019 03:06 PM (2BgZB)
I keep floating the idea of invading Mexico and stealing their oil, but noooo....
Posted by: Lance McCormick at July 11, 2019 03:06 PM (l8gTz)
Posted by: Ha at July 11, 2019 03:06 PM (MAstk)
Why does this work as an intelligent strategy, for years?
Posted by: CN at July 11, 2019 03:06 PM (U7k5w)
https://tinyurl.com/yxmal8az
Trump might want to be very clear on why he's being a pussy.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:06 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Kaner at July 11, 2019 03:07 PM (rR7m4)
A citizenship form, is what the fox news guy was flailing around, but no one really knows until 5.
It's not a census, but a form used every year, speculating.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 11, 2019 03:07 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 11, 2019 03:07 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: Gmac - Winning never gets old, like me ... But I'm still winning dammit! at July 11, 2019 03:04 PM (qZdIZ)
It doesn't bother me. This is symbolic, anyways.
a) people will lie about their status on the census
and
b) so what? Even if they tell the truth about their citizenship status, it changes nothing, except maybe telling ICE where to focus their deportation efforts. But you don't need a census to know where illegals live.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:07 PM (GBteo)
This would be as good a time as any. It's a slam dunk. He needs to pop their leash.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Bete at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (f43Hj)
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (wGbBR)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:06 PM (VpIIl)
He's not being a pussy, but there's no time to open up the comment period again and go through the whole Administrative rule making process before the questionnaires all have to be printed.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Robert Ferrigno at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (VbLoi)
Trump needs to understand that his credibility is on the line. When he says he's going to do something, he should do it.
Posted by: Meade Lux Lewis at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (hjaPQ)
Posted by: Curmudgeon at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (ujg0T)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (so+oy)
Posted by: zeera My tomatos are doing GREAT at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (T9rmq)
Posted by: simplemind at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (1opb2)
And who's "Miss Behavior" planning to vote for in the 2020 election?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (+0VWg)
Like that fucking Wall.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (bcbK8)
Once the left changes something -we never go back!
Separation of church and state.
Abortion
etc.
Over one hundred years of that citizenship question
on the census.
Not any fucking more!
haha
Posted by: The MSM at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (LilNs)
Does that sound about right?
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (2BgZB)
Posted by: Puddin Head at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (2LelM)
Then start the purge.
Posted by: Burger Chef at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (RuIsu)
Posted by: Robert Ferrigno at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (VbLoi)
was it Epstein that "acquired" Robert's adopted kids illegally?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: CN at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (U7k5w)
Posted by: x at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (nFwvY)
He's not a dictator, and there is a limit to what he can do unilaterally, particularly when a good chunk of even the Executive Branch is not on his side.
Posted by: MW at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (hNTtn)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (ophxM)
And if this is the case...BFD.
Battles and Wars.
Posted by: dananjcon at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (xqfqx)
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (wmP1k)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (ophxM)
seriously. I dont know why people get so hair on fire about what is a pretty meaningless thing here.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2019 03:11 PM (aKsyK)
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that's because we're holding out for a plan to invade for their weather girls...
Posted by: joint chiefs at July 11, 2019 03:11 PM (qdxW/)
We had one every census until Obama. He took it off, and now it's impossible to include it again.
Utterly ridiculous.
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:11 PM (uKiy5)
Posted by: Duke Lowell at July 11, 2019 03:11 PM (gC2IV)
Posted by: Weasel at July 11, 2019 03:11 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: Tentotwo at July 11, 2019 03:11 PM (yhf6w)
Posted by: Puddin Head at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (2LelM)
this is what I'm hoping
he had been in a chipper mood when discussing it, so...
I wait and see
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 11, 2019 03:11 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:05 PM (VpIIl)
Great catch. Central point of the ruling IMO.
Posted by: Kaner at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (rR7m4)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (2BgZB)
Posted by: Curmudgeon
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This!
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (Fgc0C)
Posted by: Monty James at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (Zqz9o)
Pinochet, enter stage right.
Posted by: dIb at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (VJOLZ)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:08 PM (GBteo)"
The impression I got from Barr was that he didn't believe the APA would be a barrier to getting this done in time. SCOTUS ruled that Commerce did have the authority but their reasoning was contrived. But they also basically said come back with the right reason. I'm unclear how that wouldn't be a priority.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Kaner at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (rR7m4)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (ophxM)
So, let's discuss Halloween.
It's a good movie. I find it influential and it has some things it does very well. But I'd actually rank it lower in the list of enjoyable John Carpenter films.
But there we might get into the difference between 'good' and 'enjoyable'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (ophxM)
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Yeah - I don't consider this to be a very important issue on its face.
But, I think the Courts being completely lawless is a big, very important issue. Trump really needs to rub their nose in it, and put them in their place.
So, while I don't much care about the census, I think it's an ideal time to do it. The American people will not be upset, the Congress won't have the stones to impeach/convict, and the Courts will be subdued, so Trump can actually get some shit done going forward.
It's time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (AzW6q)
the whole thing was a big squirrel.
Posted by: Boulder t'hobo at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (wmP1k)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (+0VWg)
Posted by: G marks the spot at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (rJ9Bq)
Posted by: Kaner at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (rR7m4)
jah, it's down.
party time
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: CN at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (U7k5w)
Posted by: Pinochet Air Tours Flt Attendant at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (67aEn)
Posted by: Kaner at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (rR7m4)
Yup.
Posted by: Monty James at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (Zqz9o)
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: Niblick at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (Av7TK)
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (2BgZB)
I just see it all as PDT has something up his sleeve and will work as best he can within the stacked deck he has found himself in.
At least I pray that is true.
Posted by: Tonypete at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (+rvB9)
Then it becomes part of the debate that was being squelched.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (kQs4Y)
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Doubtful.. While I believe it is feasible and it is something we should be doing, I read somewhere that the various databases in D.C. are not allowed to talk to each other.. you cannot aggregate data from multiple sources,in other words.. fucking stupid of course, but that is our government.
If they let me loose on the various government databases for a month I could pinpoint the exact home and work location of every illegal and visa-overstay in the country if they are making money or sending it.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (so+oy)
I'm sure Donnie has a plan. He usually does. I wish he'd just tell Roberts to shove it up his ass, but he clearly wants the Supreme Court to stay intact for the future.
Posted by: trev006 at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (LR3Y8)
Posted by: ALH at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (uLuPn)
And Nancy Pelosi just outed herself officially and unapologetically as a
globalist. "The U.S. is a global community and has no right to stop
anyone from coming in"
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:13 PM (+0VWg)
More fodder for 2020. If only there was an opposition party that would take advantage of it.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (N39Ws)
This is great news, because we need to be true to our better nature, as a people, as a country, as a nation, and be more accomodating and open to others who are less fortunate than others, and who strive to give their children a better life, like our parents, and vote Democrat.
God Bless America.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Williams at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (7wsmM)
Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum) at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (w5jr9)
Why did the GOP let Obama take the question off anyway?
Wimps and losers. Not creative. Not smart.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (vEIlU)
Yeah, no.
Posted by: WitchDoktor, as if anyone gives a shit at July 11, 2019 03:15 PM (2BgZB)
Posted by: Requiem For A Dream at July 11, 2019 03:15 PM (wmP1k)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (VpIIl)
Right, that's the ruling. In other words, Commerce's lawyers fucked it up (on accident or on purpose).
I think the APA *will* be a problem though, since the 571 rule making (or whatever, I forget the sections of the APA) requires notice and comment periods and an entire process that typically takes a pretty long time, and I think they're on a pretty strict deadline for printing the census.
There's no reason they can't go back later and do the rule making the right way and not fuck it up, and get it included on subsequent census forms though if people really care that much about the question.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:15 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (ophxM)
So, let's discuss Halloween.
It's a good movie. I find it influential and it has some things it does very well. But I'd actually rank it lower in the list of enjoyable John Carpenter films.
But there we might get into the difference between 'good' and 'enjoyable'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (bcbK
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I think it's wonderfully effective as a slice of low budget horror. The number of movies that actually scare me is very small and Halloween doesn't fit, but it's still tension filled and fun.
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Posted by: Total Control Racist at July 11, 2019 03:17 PM (fVYgY)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:10 PM (ophxM)
So, let's discuss Halloween.
It's a good movie. I find it influential and it has some things it does very well. But I'd actually rank it lower in the list of enjoyable John Carpenter films.
But there we might get into the difference between 'good' and 'enjoyable'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:12 PM (bcbK
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I think it's wonderfully effective as a slice of low budget horror. The number of movies that actually scare me is very small and Halloween doesn't fit, but it's still tension filled and fun.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:15 PM (ophxM)
It does tension well. Good set ups and lots of background detail.
But it doesn't feel like horror in the way In the Mouth of Madness does. It's almost more of a random crime story with a slight touch of the supernatural (in the first movie) around how unkillable Michael Myers is.
That latter feature gets ramped up quite a bit more in the inferior sequels.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:17 PM (bcbK8)
If they let me loose on the various government databases for a month I could pinpoint the exact home and work location of every illegal and visa-overstay in the country if they are making money or sending it.
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (so+oy)
It's not stupid, its how the laws are written.
Would you really want the FBI to have unfettered access to everyones tax returns, for example?
Do you really think it would encourage people to be truthful? Also, what would that look like in practice? "sorry, IRS, I have a 5th amendment right against self incrimination, so I can't file a tax return this year."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:17 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2019 03:17 PM (xfb67)
If that doesn't happen then there needs to be a concerted boycott of the census by Republicans in all blue states to try to make up for the overcount of foreigners used to divvy up our electoral votes.
In either case, I don't want to hear a damned word from Democrats about how they are against disenfranchisement ever again. They will have stolen something on the order of 20-30 electoral votes and the Supreme Court will have helped them do it.
Posted by: Thatch at July 11, 2019 03:17 PM (v5Cc/)
I hold out that Trump will have options as to what he will be stating at the presser, and won't decide until the mic comes on.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (VpIIl)
yeah?
Posted by: Requiem For A Dream at July 11, 2019 03:15 PM (wmP1k)
Oh yes. And 'Logan'.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (bcbK8)
So we've got that going for us ... /SARCASM
Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (Ti0pm)
Save your efforts for things that count.
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Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (PwLYJ)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (xfb67)
It's hour 2 of the outage. I can't stop shaking. I feel like spiders are crawling all over me. I have to get this monkey off my back. I tried facebook and insta posting but it's not the same. I feel so alone.
Posted by: Allahpundit at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: yumper at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (rNi/8)
Posted by: x at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (nFwvY)
Let's not set our heads on fire and run around *just yet*.
Posted by: Curmudgeon at July 11, 2019 03:09 PM (ujg0T)
Can I set someone else's hair on fire until we find out for sure?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (hi6cA)
That will lose two new reps for NY and some for CA.
Posted by: Frosty at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (WkaWu)
Maybe you'll get a better fortune cookie next time, Kurt.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (+0VWg)
Print that form.
Let people complain Bush 43 or Clinton was rayciss
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (Czrct)
Posted by: CN at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (U7k5w)
Posted by: ThunderB at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (5rCam)
How about Kurt?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (+0VWg)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (bcbK8)
"through other means," heh.
A couple of guys from the Census Bureau show up at your door in the dead of night with some cloths and jugs of water...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (M9ntN)
Posted by: x at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (nFwvY)
Sources say that I will know the touch of a real woman.
She's from Canada, you probably don't know her.
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:19 PM (+0VWg)
Lol. Starts flicking matches.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (hi6cA)
Posted by: Puddin Head at July 11, 2019 03:16 PM (2LelM)
The question before the court wasn't whether or not the question could be on the census. Everyone agrees it COULD be on the census.
The question was whether the ridiculous rule making process under the APA was followed.
Which the court said it wasn't. There's all kinds of case law on this stuff, but basically the court said "you need to have a better reason as to why you're asking the question on the census then the one you proffered. So start over, but with a better reason, and you're good."
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Total Control Racist at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (fVYgY)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (NWiLs)
*sobs*
*runs into bedroom, slamming door*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: WonkishRogue at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (BRpqW)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (VpIIl)
I have a twitch in the prophetic knee that these breathlessly revealed secrets will turn out to be garbage. The census will ask if you identify as a Citizen watch.
Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (e1mEI)
and vote Democrat.
God Bless America.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz
LOL, Rev Dr Buzz, nice to see you.
The only thing Trump could do is send a secondary form along with the census, as there's nothing against doing so. If it's not a "census" question, the Ds can pound sand.
Maybe?
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (uKiy5)
Posted by: counter intel triple agent at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (13dPG)
But it doesn't feel like horror in the way In the Mouth of Madness does. It's almost more of a random crime story with a slight touch of the supernatural (in the first movie) around how unkillable Michael Myers is.
That latter feature gets ramped up quite a bit more in the inferior sequels.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:17 PM (bcbK
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I've only seen some of the sequels, but the immediate one was little interested in doing anything other than jumping in with the slasher crowd (that Halloween had helped popularize, though not start).
Halloween and In the Mouth of Madness are two very different types of horror, of course. Halloween's visceral while Madness is more existential. It's much harder to pull off the existential because, I think, it's related to the idea of awe.
Awe requires big things, in particular ideas. Existential terror requires conveying the idea of something so big and terrifying that we can't comprehend it. The Endless covers this well, of course.
I would say that, based on my limited viewings, Halloween is more successful at reaching its easier target than Madness is at reaching its more difficult target.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (ophxM)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (Czrct)
You brought up "In the Mouth of Madness" and sure enough, RLM did a recent re:View episode of it. Now I really want to check it out.
https://tinyurl.com/y24tjojo
Posted by: The Institute at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (nGsFZ)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (9+jnX)
Posted by: bluebell at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (KLkgD)
I don't have a lot of hair to lose, could light it up or not.
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (vEIlU)
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Kurt! at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (wmP1k)
It took us 100 years to get into this mess. One man, with half his staff against him, isn't going to make everything magically better in eight years without tumbrils and guillotines and oceans of blood and guts. Have a little faith that, for whatever reason, this battle may not worth fighting on this field at this moment.
Yes, I know, we listened to that song and dance from the GOP for decades, but for once there's a singer and dancer who's actually starting to shift the needle in the right direction. I'm willing to have a little bit of faith and patience for that.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (AURKQ)
However, adding a question about citizenship on the national census, which had been done throughout the vast majority of our history, should not be subject to the APA's rulemaking. The executive should be able to add it without jumping through hoops.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (wGbBR)
You brought up "In the Mouth of Madness" and sure enough, RLM did a recent re:View episode of it. Now I really want to check it out.
https://tinyurl.com/y24tjojo
Posted by: The Institute at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (nGsFZ)
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I brought it up last thread because I was watching the video and said I now wanted to purchase it in response.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (ophxM)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (Czrct)
Please, Mr. Dorsey... fix it. I'll do anything. And I do mean... anything. I need material for my exciting new gmail newsletter venture, and I have nowhere else to turn to crib my material, because Ace might sue me next time.
Posted by: Jonah Goldberg at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (AzW6q)
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Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (Czrct)
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It's a case study in making something really good with virtually no money.
Any and every low budget filmmaker should study it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:23 PM (ophxM)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:23 PM (BbGew)
Trump needs to just put it on. Period. Let the SCOTUS and Dems try to pull any of their shit. THis is a fight well worth having. This is the foundation of THE FIGHT.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:23 PM (bOCwl)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (NWiLs)
*sobs*
*runs into bedroom, slamming door*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (bcbK
*knock knock knock*
Mark? Come on, man, open the door.
*knock knock knock*
Mark? I didn't mean it like that!
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:23 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (NWiLs)
*sobs*
*runs into bedroom, slamming door*
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (bcbK
*knock knock knock*
Mark? Come on, man, open the door.
*knock knock knock*
Mark? I didn't mean it like that!
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:23 PM (NWiLs)
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You should see my hair.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:24 PM (ophxM)
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State gibs are determined by the count, so volunteer orgs fake them. The citizenship question is moot.
Posted by: Total Control Racist at July 11, 2019 03:24 PM (fVYgY)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2019 03:24 PM (K/2j/)
Posted by: washrivergal
They can just lie and say they are citizens. no worries.
Posted by: Martha Stewart at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (nFwvY)
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (p997d)
Just got a buzz cut with a #3 blade.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (v0R5T)
We'll see, when the idea was floated to dump illegals into sanctuary cities, he really telegraphed (or truly, this was leaked without his ok). He needs to do what Barry did, just do it. Then when he is called out on it, just ignore it and continue.
Posted by: dIb at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (VJOLZ)
So who knows.
Posted by: GnuBreed at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (Z4rgH)
Posted by: WonkishRogue at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (BRpqW)
None, it would have no impact.
That's the thing that so many people are missing here -- Read the second section of the 14th amendment.
"Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State."
They chose to use the word "persons" in the first part, and "citizens" in the other.
It's pretty clear that the number of PERSONS is what matters for apportioning seats, not the number of CITIZENS.
Whether we like it or not, short of a constitutional amendment, how many people are citizens v how many are here illegally or otherwise doesn't matter when it comes to apportioning seats.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:20 PM (GBteo)
Which is ridiculous on its face. The court knows it was on the Census for decades before Obama removed it and was to be put back on for the same reasons.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (zFzxj)
The Pitch Meeting guy did a good one on Halloween, and he's right about the peek-a-boo games and the long, long takes to pad run-time.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (PbpT7)
Forgot to mention that this made me chuckle.
Posted by: dIb at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (VJOLZ)
Posted by: Weasel at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (MVjcR)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (+0VWg)
The twits are emerging from twitter world to find the world is pretty much like they left it when they descended into the world of tweet insults and sandwich arguments.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2019 03:24 PM (K/2j/)
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Shut your whore mouth, Straw!
I hate your world! I don't want your world... I came to twitter to be with the good people.
Posted by: Bill Kristol at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (AzW6q)
But it doesn't feel like horror in the way In the Mouth of Madness does. It's almost more of a random crime story with a slight touch of the supernatural (in the first movie) around how unkillable Michael Myers is.
That latter feature gets ramped up quite a bit more in the inferior sequels.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:17 PM (bcbK
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I've only seen some of the sequels, but the immediate one was little interested in doing anything other than jumping in with the slasher crowd (that Halloween had helped popularize, though not start).
Halloween and In the Mouth of Madness are two very different types of horror, of course. Halloween's visceral while Madness is more existential. It's much harder to pull off the existential because, I think, it's related to the idea of awe.
Awe requires big things, in particular ideas. Existential terror requires conveying the idea of something so big and terrifying that we can't comprehend it. The Endless covers this well, of course.
I would say that, based on my limited viewings, Halloween is more successful at reaching its easier target than Madness is at reaching its more difficult target.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:21 PM (ophxM)
I don't know.
Considering how many sequels and how many rip offs that followed Halloween, my judgement might be outside the mean. But I feel Mouth of Madness hit it's goal better than Halloween did.
I agree that The Endless did the time loop horror better than Mouth of Madness did. But the stakes are higher in Mouth of Madness. The end of the world, the Old Ones coming to drive us all mad like in Call of Cthulhu.
Carpenter shows that madness, shows its spread, shows a skeptic forced to accept that reality...is not solid. There's a better plot and a better character arc, not to mention being true to the meaning of horror...that everything is NOT going to be all right.
Lori Strode survives Halloween, Michael is stopped, if not captured. It's more a thriller or a drama than a work of horror, ironically.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (bcbK8)
Posted by: JustALowlySoftwareEng at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (CDCKr)
This goes right along with votes that exceed registered voters.
Democrats need the fraud margin to get their Reich.
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (PbpT7)
It took us 100 years to get into this mess. One man, with half his staff against him, isn't going to make everything magically better in eight years without tumbrils and guillotines and oceans of blood and guts. Have a little faith that, for whatever reason, this battle may not worth fighting on this field at this moment.
Yes, I know, we listened to that song and dance from the GOP for decades, but for once there's a singer and dancer who's actually starting to shift the needle in the right direction. I'm willing to have a little bit of faith and patience for that.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
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Spot on brother, spot on.
Posted by: NALNAMSAM - not as lean, not as mean, still a Marine at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (Fgc0C)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (9+jnX)
Just got a buzz cut with a #3 blade.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (v0R5T)
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I dunno, we could probably get your hair to light if we dipped your head in melted candle wax first.
Just trying to be helpful.
Posted by: bluebell at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (KLkgD)
116 86 He should just release an EO directing the Citizenship question to be on the census. Print the census and see if Roberts wants to recall the court to reassess. My guess is Roberts won't call his bluff.
Posted by: Puddin Head at July 11, 2019 03:16 PM (2LelM)
The question before the court wasn't whether or not the question could be on the census. Everyone agrees it COULD be on the census.
The question was whether the ridiculous rule making process under the APA was followed.
Which the court said it wasn't. There's all kinds of case law on this stuff, but basically the court said "you need to have a better reason as to why you're asking the question on the census then the one you proffered. So start over, but with a better reason, and you're good."
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That's my point. It wasn't a decision. Roberts agreed that this is legal but wants more info. Print the Census and tell Roberts he's welcomed to come to the WH for a lesson on who is actually fucking elected and who is fucking appointed.
Posted by: Puddin Head at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (2LelM)
Posted by: x at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (nFwvY)
The Pitch Meeting guy did a good one on Halloween, and he's right about the peek-a-boo games and the long, long takes to pad run-time.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (PbpT7)
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I think that steady pace is all about building tension. It's not a terribly complex story, but I don't think the movie would work particularly well without the steadier pace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (ophxM)
EXCLUSIVE. Trump to admit to collusion and obstruction and resign along with Pence, sources say.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (KC0Xb)
Posted by: Total Control Racist at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (fVYgY)
It's pretty clear that the number of PERSONS is what matters for apportioning seats, not the number of CITIZENS.
Whether we like it or not, short of a constitutional amendment, how many people are citizens v how many are here illegally or otherwise doesn't matter when it comes to apportioning seats.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (GBteo)
And illegals clearly do NOT count for any apportionment. NONE. Legal aliens are another story but illegals clearly have no count since they have no right to be here, at all, and should rightfully be thrown out on their asses the minute they are found.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (bOCwl)
The Pitch Meeting guy did a good one on Halloween, and he's right about the peek-a-boo games and the long, long takes to pad run-time.
Posted by: ace at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (PbpT7)
Different time, different pacing.
I like the slow burn of the first half. I can see folks getting bored with it, but I liked the long takes and the subtle uses of The Shape over a faster paced/edited work.
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.........
DATING ADVICE??!! Oh, we're good at that!
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:22 PM (VpIIl)
Presumably, but idk.
SCOTUS has accepted the premise that this needs to go through the rule making process. I'm not sure if commerce tried to argue differently or that the revocation of the question previously was not done in accordance to the law.
In other words, that ship almost definitely already sailed.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:28 PM (GBteo)
Trump needs to just put it on. Period. Let the SCOTUS and Dems try to pull any of their shit. THis is a fight well worth having. This is the foundation of THE FIGHT.
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Sun Tzu which Trump has studied. One of the most important things about a battle is choosing where to fight it.
Do you fight it in the courts or not?
Do you fight on multiple fronts or not?
Do you encircle an enemy in a strong defensive position rather than make a frontal assault.
As much as people say Trump is just winging it. I don't think he is winging it. I think he's got a plan, which he has had to adjust here and there, but mostly he's still on track. I didn't give him much chance for winning the election although I saw the possibility - longest shot but only shot- and voted for him. I'm gonna give him the benefit of the doubt and see what happens.
Posted by: simplemind at July 11, 2019 03:28 PM (mZzK5)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:28 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: JustALowlySoftwareEng at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (CDCKr)
And the 2000 budget
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Posted by: bluebell at July 11, 2019 03:29 PM (KLkgD)
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:29 PM (NWiLs)
Same here.
Wait, we're talking ears, right?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 11, 2019 03:29 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:29 PM (hi6cA)
Carpenter shows that madness, shows its spread, shows a skeptic forced to accept that reality...is not solid. There's a better plot and a better character arc, not to mention being true to the meaning of horror...that everything is NOT going to be all right.
Lori Strode survives Halloween, Michael is stopped, if not captured. It's more a thriller or a drama than a work of horror, ironically.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:26 PM (bcbK
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I've only seen Madness once, and I'm really curious about reforging my opinion of the film with another viewing. The RLM video reupped my memory of the film pretty well in specific moments, but not the overall impression of the film.
Maybe now that I've seen the film and actually heard discussions of it, I'll be able to approach the film in the correct mindset to understand what it's doing more readily. Weird movies that you have to figure out as you go along can handicap themselves that way.
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Haven't found them yet.
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:29 PM (BbGew)
Only people subject to the jurisdiction of the us government are to be counted.
By definition illegals are not subject or they would be deported.
Posted by: 18-1 at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (Czrct)
I'm probably alone in this, but... I really liked Lord of Illusions.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:27 PM (bOCwl)
You really think any court in the country is going to buy your argument that illegal aliens aren't "persons"?
What kind of statutory interpretation are you going to try to get a judge to use to come to that conclusion?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (p997d)
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Get yourself a really nice pair of boobs.
Posted by: you need to lurk moar at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (AasLN)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 11, 2019 03:29 PM (6qErC)
Strictly speaking, we are all talking fingers here.
Posted by: Kurt Eichenwald at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:29 PM (hi6cA)
It was about fruit juice, so fruits too probably.
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (p997d)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: Rationalist Yoda at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (NBOA5)
Posted by: Kurt at July 11, 2019 03:28 PM (paIvI)
I assume you just forgot to mention Syria- Libya- continuing war in Iraq/
Posted by: willow at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (r/xAU)
When those outside the Left/Lib/Establishment feel alienated enough, and that there is little to nothing to lose, the violence will be shocking. But no one thinks these little things will ever be enough to tip people over the edge.
Individually, no. But the problem is that they are cumulative.
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (uKiy5)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (BbGew)
Save your efforts for things that count.
Subotai Bahadur
Posted by: Subotai Bahadur at July 11, 2019 03:18 PM (PwLYJ)
Yes, buying ammo is a regular task.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Kurt
or maybe he's come to the conclusion that you can't go to war while we have a Democrat Party because they will always betray the troops. always.
Posted by: x at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (nFwvY)
Like legal resident aliens.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (xfb67)
What kind of statutory interpretation are you going to try to get a judge to use to come to that conclusion?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (GBteo)
Harry, we go through this every time. Tourists are persons. Do they count?
Come on, man. You have to put yourself in a reasonable universe.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (bOCwl)
I'm probably alone in this, but... I really liked Lord of Illusions.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (AzW6q)
Same here.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (NWiLs)
https://tinyurl.com/oplzzeh
According to the RLM peoples, that theme is basically Carpenter's take on Metallica's "Enter Sandman", since that was what Carpenter wanted for In the Mouth of Madness, but he couldn't get it.
Posted by: The Institute at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (nGsFZ)
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That's like a Styx album or something
Posted by: Total Control Racist at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (fVYgY)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: x at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (nFwvY)
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Yup. I am against any foreign wars until such time as we have dealt with them.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: illiniwek at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (Cus5s)
amen
Posted by: willow at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (r/xAU)
Do get a clue, Kurt. Nobody here that I've read is particularly crazy with ardor about Bush.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (+0VWg)
Posted by: Some other dude at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (wmP1k)
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (PPbDD)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (xfb67)
I don't even see this as requiring an EO, except maybe one canceling the EO from the previous administration.
One sentence would do it.
Executive branch performing its Constitutional duty.
my 0.02, ymmv.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (Uxn4J)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (BbGew)
Concentrated balls of dirty ice?
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (xPJvm)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (BbGew)
Or Shooting Stars.
Posted by: Bad Company at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (ycWCI)
Unconfirmed reports are that mr mouse is unusually handsome and extraordinarily well endowed.
/ did I do that right?
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: Ha at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (MAstk)
Anyone know how to get in touch with ATC? I'd like to hit on her. Horde advice welcome.
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (p997d)
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DATING ADVICE??!! Oh, we're good at that!
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Yep. invite AtC for a manatee dinner. And she loved to talk about spiders. She collects them. Show her photos.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (hi6cA)
Then it becomes part of the debate that was being squelched.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2019 03:14 PM (kQs4Y)
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Exactly how he won -- by being the only POTUS candidate promising to build the wall (and I was initially a Cruz supporter) ... and why we've even had the debate the past couple years
Posted by: ShainS -- There are but two Parties now: Traitors and Patriots at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (TmYLg)
168 threadwinner?
Posted by: Yo! at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (1XAal)
Posted by: Some other dude at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (wmP1k)
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Chicks.
Side note: When ice cream girl was revealed to be gay in Stranger Things, I rolled my eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (ophxM)
If indians (feather) were not considered persons for the census argument because they didn't pay taxes, why would illegal aliens who don't pay taxes be counted?
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (K/2j/)
much like Hillary.
Posted by: willow at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (r/xAU)
Posted by: Krut at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (uKiy5)
I'm probably alone in this, but... I really liked Lord of Illusions.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (AzW6q)
I like...parts of it. Or the ideas in it. Or the ideas stolen from old Hammer Horror movies
But yeah, it's effective.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (bcbK8)
Concentrated balls of dirty ice?
Posted by: Pug Mahon
Harbingers of doom?
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (uKiy5)
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Are dragons coming?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (ophxM)
Pulling percentages out of your ass along with the various light bulbs and hamsters.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (zFzxj)
Like legal resident aliens.
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (xfb67)
That's the language in the first section of the 14A referring to what a citizen is.
Not the language in the second section laying out how reps are to be apportioned.
I don't know why people are even arguing this point, I'm just saying that there's nothing legally we can do short of passing a constitutional amendment changing the 14A that says illegals arent counted for apportionment purposes.
It's shitty that that's how it is, but that's how the 14A was written (by Republicans, keep in mind, trying to anticipate the kind of shady games they knew the Dems would play with the recently freed slaves and whether or not those people would be considered citizens or not). It made sense at the time, now it kind of sucks, but unfortunately we just have to live with it.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Frankovich's Monster at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (hdzef)
Posted by: sniffybigtoe at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (xfb67)
Posted by: Ha at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (MAstk)
Anyone know how to get in touch with ATC? I'd like to hit on her. Horde advice welcome.
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (p997d)
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DATING ADVICE??!! Oh, we're good at that!
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:28 PM (v0R5T)
Yep. invite AtC for a manatee dinner. And she loved to talk about spiders. She collects them. Show her photos.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (hi6cA)
And be sure to praise the administrative state. She loves that shit.
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Some other dude at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (wmP1k)
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I heard she's into pinball.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (bcbK
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The Puritan scared the living bejeebus out of me when I was a kid. And it's sad, what happened to that actor.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Some other dude at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (wmP1k)
I have some ideas.
Posted by: John Hinkley Jr. at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (iys0/)
Yep. invite AtC for a manatee dinner. And she loved to talk about spiders. She collects them. Show her photos.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (hi6cA)
*scribbles notes* Should I buy a tarantula or something to show her?
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (p997d)
Posted by: John Hinkley Jr at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (fVYgY)
Posted by: Radio guy. at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (0C4ts)
Posted by: Flyguy at July 11, 2019 03:05 PM (3sOO0) "
100 : 1
Not idiots, their daily work is to demoralize their enemies, us.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (Uxn4J)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (K/2j/)
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:25 PM (p997d)
......... Things that make you go hmmm.....
Posted by: MAC SOG at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (P4Pk9)
Posted by: Some other dude at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (wmP1k)
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I understand she likes listening to static from space.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (v0R5T)
I like to take a girl out for a tasty Panda steak on our first date because I am a classy guy
Posted by: Yo! at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (1XAal)
Posted by: Radio guy. at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (0C4ts)
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Is it numbered 66?
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Lunch over.
Hour three of meetings.
Pray for me.
And pray that I get rich. And laid by hot chicks.
Hey, can't hurt to ask...
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (ophxM)
That was stupid. And just a capper in an arc that emasculated Steve, who was badass in Season 2. Didn't like that at all.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Stu Podaso at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (SyE7a)
Posted by: Some other dude at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (wmP1k)
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I heard she's into pinball.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (vg8iE)
Please just do not try to shoot the president.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (ycWCI)
When ice cream girl was revealed to be gay in Stranger Things, I rolled my eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
so stupid. Same with Will. So dumb. And it didn't even fit with her character. Overall, though, showing the Russians as heartless commie bastards was great.
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (uKiy5)
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:30 PM (p997d)
Damn. Just developed a taste for grapes and strawberries. Ok, surely tequila is good for you right? and vodka? I mean wtf.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (hi6cA)
much like Hillary.
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We came, we saw, he died!
*cackle*
*hic*
*shart*
Posted by: Some Fat Nasty Bitch from NY at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: Some other dude at July 11, 2019 03:32 PM (wmP1k)
........
I understand she likes listening to static from space.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (v0R5T)
Has a weird aversion to pinball machines.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (zFzxj)
When ice cream girl was revealed to be gay in Stranger Things, I rolled my eyes.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
so stupid. Same with Will. So dumb. And it didn't even fit with her character. Overall, though, showing the Russians as heartless commie bastards was great.
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (uKiy5)
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Sassy black girl vociferously defending capitalism was cool, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (ophxM)
These people can be deported and therefore unrepresentable and will merely inflate the number of representatives were they dwell.
Which is more than likely the whole point.
Posted by: Radical Centrist at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (kffXg)
Posted by: Total Control Racist at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (fVYgY)
Posted by: Anon a mouse at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (6qErC)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (K/2j/)
It was a treaty thing, which is why we specified indians not taxed. They were /are mini sovereign nations inside the US, and thus not subject to US laws, essentially. It's super complicated, I don't really know exactly how it works, but that's why the "Indians not taxed" is in the original constitution and the 14th A.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (GBteo)
It's shitty that that's how it is, but that's how the 14A was written (by Republicans, keep in mind, trying to anticipate the kind of shady games they knew the Dems would play with the recently freed slaves and whether or not those people would be considered citizens or not). It made sense at the time, now it kind of sucks, but unfortunately we just have to live with it.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:34 PM (GBteo)
And tourists. What language do you need to put in to make sure that tourists aren't counted, because in your definition tourists are definitely counted, being "persons" and all?
You know, Harry, this sort of ridiculous linguistic bullshit (and it is nothing short of asinine bullshit) is why people hate lawyers and don't trust them.
Also, how do you know the "year" in the Constitution is the Christian year - the Gregorian year, specifically? It doesn't define that anywhere. How do you know that?
Sheesh.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (bOCwl)
yep
and so many fall for this
time after time after time after time after time after..
Posted by: BlackOrchid at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (Rarvo)
If indians (feather) were not considered persons for the census argument because they didn't pay taxes, why would illegal aliens who don't pay taxes be counted?
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Do sales taxes count? I mean, I'm not John Roberts or anything, but I can imagine he'd not have that much trouble screwing things up without trying that hard. . .
Posted by: I'm just saying, the ground is not a clear as it looks at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (qdxW/)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 11, 2019 03:35 PM (RD7QR)
Civil Forfeiture is one of her favorite things. She dreams of working in a DA's office where they really go after people without court findings!
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (wYseH)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (39g3+)
Hey, can't hurt to ask...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (bcbK
finally, something important to pray fr.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (hi6cA)
5s ago
Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Someguy
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Get yourself a really nice pair of boobs.
Posted by: you need to lurk moar
Snort.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (HDCbD)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (iys0/)
I understand she likes listening to static from space.
Posted by: wth
wall-to-wall shag carpeting?
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (uKiy5)
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*beep beep beep beep*
This just in: The Supreme Court is full of LAWYERS
Posted by: I'm just saying, the ground is not a clear as it looks at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (DV2jY)
Yeah I'm sure that's the argument being attempted by the left, but its spurious.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (39g3+)
..
Yep
Posted by: Kavanaugh at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (MAstk)
We seem to have an assload of mini sovereign states all over the country, full of illegal aliens.
In any case the Court has already said adding the question was legal. Roberts just objected to the reasoning for re-adding the question.
Posted by: JackStraw at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (K/2j/)
I've never received, seen or filled out a census form, ever in my life.
In fact, until recently, I had always thought that the census was more of an estimate: they look at the number of dwellings (houses, apartments, etc.) then try to figure out how many people live in each of the dwellings. But the govt. never actually contacted the individuals directly, except to do a "random sampling" (like with polling) to gather averages from which they could extrapolate the full data.
But no, I've been told: They actually claim to contact each and every individual in the nation.
Well, that's news to me, since I've been alive for {29} years, and I've never had any interaction with the census dept or a census taker or whoever it might be.
This might be related to the fact that I've also never had any interaction with the Social Security dept either. Never gotten a letter, or any form of communication, nor ever had a "Social Security card," or anything at all.
I happen to know my Social Security number by heart, but don't remember how I came to know what it was.
In fact, to my knowledge, I've never received any communication from the Federal govt. at all, ever. I mail in my taxes every year, but have never heard back from them for any reason.
I suspect they may not know I exist, or I fell through the cracks somehow.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (oFcdC)
How is it you force yourself into the egg cavity of overheated hens in order to be laid by them?
No, wait. I take that back. I don't want to know.
I will pray for you, however, but not for those things.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (+0VWg)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (zFzxj)
An interesting movie about how people react to adversity that went down the completely well trod path: liberals good, cops just controlling evil freaks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (iys0/)
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Escape from L.A. is a work of sheer genius.
Okay, not quite genius.
Alright, it's kinda stupid.
Fine, it's really stupid.
But that ending, yo.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (ophxM)
much like Hillary.
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We came, we saw, he died!
*cackle*
*hic*
*shart*
Posted by: Some Fat Nasty Bitch from NY at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (vg8iE)
Sometimes a good natural disaster will suffice.
Remember kids, you can't spell Haiti without Hate!
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (AURKQ)
Trump needs to just put it on. Period. Let the SCOTUS and Dems try to pull any of their shit. THis is a fight well worth having. This is the foundation of THE FIGHT.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:23 PM (bOCwl)
1) This.
2) any questions, see #1.
F*** the Democommies, the Democrat-Communist John Roberts, and his master with the pictures, Jeffery Epstein.
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (sy5kK)
Lunch over.
Hour three of meetings.
Pray for me.
And pray that I get rich. And laid by hot chicks.
Hey, can't hurt to ask...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, Angry, Radical, Anti-Liberal, and Dangerous Lion: buy ammo at July 11, 2019 03:36 PM (bcbK
*lights incense*
*sacrifices ram*
*reads prayer book*
*kisses Torah*
Just trying to cover all the bases.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
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1) What's fertilization?
2) Babies aren't people!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (ophxM)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
Ask her about abortion
Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (NFEMn)
The ruling hinges completely on their questioning the motivations of the Administration. In which case it seems to me to be perfectly valid for the administration to question the motivations of the court and ignore the ruling. This is the sort of horseshit they would never pull on a leftist administration which lies straight to their face. They have ALWAYS in the past accepted whatever the stated motivation is and ruled based on that. They will ALWAYS in the future rule based on the stated motivation. It is not their job to play mind reader.
This is just another Orange Man Bad rule meant to deny us the ability to see that our votes lead to the same power being exercised on our behalf that is exercised by every other administration. It is just another means of overturning the election results.
Posted by: Thatch at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (v5Cc/)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
I am not going to touch the joke that popped into my brain just now.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (ycWCI)
Come on, man. You have to put yourself in a reasonable universe.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:31 PM (bOCwl)
Yes, I looked it up. You can read the rules printed in the federal register, but the long and short of it is:
If someone has a permanent address where they spend the majority of the year that is OUTSIDE the US, they are not counted unless they are "long term visitors" (been here I think it was 4 months or longer, think foreign college students, for example), in which case they are counted.
Homeless people are counted at where they are on the day of the census, otherwise everyone else is counted where they spend six months plus a day a year.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (GBteo)
I'd be curious to hear coworker's take on abortion.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (iys0/)
I'm resigning myself to the reality that Trump does not really want to confront the establishment. Whether it's because he's an inveterate dealmaker or what, I don't know. But I was hoping for an Andrew Jackson. That's not happening.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (H8QX8)
Sassy black girl vociferously defending capitalism was cool, too.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
A little TOO precocious, but even so, it was nice they included Janice Rogers Brown as a young child.
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (uKiy5)
Yeah I'm sure that's the argument being attempted by the left, but its spurious.
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* Hidden Camera Guy* We've replaced putative conservative Supreme Court Justice John Roberts with a clone pliable to the will of George Soros. Let's see what happens . . .
Posted by: I'm just saying, the ground is not a clear as it looks at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (AasLN)
This might be related to the fact that I've also never had any interaction with the Social Security dept either. Never gotten a letter, or any form of communication, nor ever had a "Social Security card," or anything at all.
I happen to know my Social Security number by heart, but don't remember how I came to know what it was.
In fact, to my knowledge, I've never received any communication from the Federal govt. at all, ever. I mail in my taxes every year, but have never heard back from them for any reason.
I suspect they may not know I exist, or I fell through the cracks somehow.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (oFcdC)
You haven't received any of those "Estimated Benefits" letters from SS? Are you sure you are paying into the correct account, or worse, someone hasn't stolen it or hijacked your account?
Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (sy5kK)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (39g3+)
Wait for January 2021.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (208R5)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
Only if it's balut.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Jordan61
Tell her that store-bought eggs ARE'NT fertilized, and thus one is basically just eating a placenta and a (literal) egg, not a living animal.
Unless one sees a tiny red spot in the egg yolk; THEN you know it ha been fertilized.
Seeing a red spot used to happen more frequently, but now it's very rare, because of the way the chickens are kept -- zero contact with fertile males.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (oFcdC)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
Only if it's balut.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (NWiLs)
Too funny, I actually brought that up!
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (Ez6QX)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (RBOtF)
I think she needs rudimentary instruction on fertilized and non fertilized eggs. Have her ask Mark Andrew Edwards. He's interested in hot chicks.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (+0VWg)
I'd be curious to hear coworker's take on abortion.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (iys0/)
OMG! You con't eat babies. Like, ewwwwww.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (NFEMn)
She obviously unaware that most eggs are not fertilized.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2019 03:44 PM (208R5)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (oFcdC)
So it is just like an Occupy rally, but with less rape.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 11, 2019 03:44 PM (ycWCI)
Were dropping the citizenship question
No we are not
Yeah we are
We have a way to get it on the census
Nah brah
Fucking insanity
Posted by: DocJ at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (Cv4BY)
Also, how do you know the "year" in the Constitution is the Christian year - the Gregorian year, specifically? It doesn't define that anywhere. How do you know that?
Sheesh.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (bOCwl)
I'm not saying I agree with the outcome, just that this is what the law says.
And the "linguistics bullshit" you so hate is kind of the entire foundation of western civilization -- you know, the rule of law.
Or would you prefer judges who say "ah, fuck it, I don't like the law, so I'm just going to change it to say what it should say?" Because usually the right rails against judges who seemingly do that.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (GBteo)
If someone has a permanent address where they spend the majority of the year that is OUTSIDE the US, they are not counted unless they are "long term visitors" (been here I think it was 4 months or longer, think foreign college students, for example), in which case they are counted.
Homeless people are counted at where they are on the day of the census, otherwise everyone else is counted where they spend six months plus a day a year.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:41 PM (GBteo)
All that is in the Constitution? You must have a different copy than I have.
No ... I know where you are citing it from. What you just proved is that you can't just take the word "persons" in the Constitution and argue from that. THank you for proving my point. Now, just admit to it.
Illegals have no right to be here, therefore they have no right to fill out a census. This ain't rocket surgery.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (bOCwl)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (RBOtF)
You're right.
Maybe Twitter is expunging all of Trump's fake bot critics
Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (oFcdC)
Chickens play women's soccer?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (208R5)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
**************
Now do abortion.
Posted by: redridinghood at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (RBOtF)
Posted by: Someguy
Ya need to give her advice about legal matters and the law; she's very keen for that.
And bet her that she can't balance a beer glass on her head while .....occupied.
Posted by: Mr. Helpful at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (Z04f8)
Lunch over.
Hour three of meetings.
........
Well, you gotta have meetings to schedule all future meetings.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (v0R5T)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (AURKQ)
Lunch over.
Hour three of meetings.
........
Well, you gotta have meetings to schedule all future meetings.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (v0R5T)
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Meetings to prepare for the meetings to schedule the other meetings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (ophxM)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (208R5)
We're always waiting for something. The IG Report. The midterms. The Mueller Report. More like Waiting for Godot.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (H8QX8)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (GBteo)
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TBF, that's like 99.5% of judges.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Skip at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (BbGew)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (VpIIl)
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If only stupid was life-threatening.
Posted by: bicentennialguy at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (vg8iE)
Well, you gotta have meetings to schedule all future meetings.
Posted by: wth at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (v0R5T)
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Meetings to prepare for the meetings to schedule the other meetings.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (ophxM)
That half the people don't show up to.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (208R5)
We're always waiting for something. The IG Report. The midterms. The Mueller Report. More like Waiting for Godot.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (H8QX
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We just need both chambers of Congress and the presidency!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (ophxM)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (ophxM)
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Agreed. It seemed tacked on.
As if even a gay gal could resist that Harrington pompadour!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (kQs4Y)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (zFzxj)
An interesting movie about how people react to adversity that went down the completely well trod path: liberals good, cops just controlling evil freaks.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (ycWCI)
You are correct but lucky for me I automatically ignore that and just focused on the horror of the Cube itself and what I would do.
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (zFzxj)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (GBteo)
Not at all.
Calling a skyscraper a "chair" because it has a flat roof you can sit on is not "the foundation of western civilization". It's the destruction of it.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (bOCwl)
Posted by: you need to lurk moar
Snort.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (HDCbD)
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i thought that WAS the point of hitting on her
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (PPbDD)
281 OT, OMG. Talking to a coworker about vegetarians vs vegans. I said
vegetarians eat eggs, dairy, etc. She said but eating eggs is killing an
animal, because you are killing a baby chick when you eat an egg.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (3kSCU)
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1) What's fertilization?
2) Babies aren't people!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:40 PM (ophxM)
Probably didnt' pass her biology eggsam.
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (hi6cA)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2019 03:37 PM (39g3+)
Wait for January 2021.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2019 03:42 PM (208R5)
Where have heard that before?
Oh yeah, during the first term of every GOPe administration since forever
Posted by: DocJ at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (Cv4BY)
Posted by: bicentennialguy at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (vg8iE)
Or at least painful.
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (Ez6QX)
We're always waiting for something. The IG Report. The midterms. The Mueller Report. More like Waiting for Godot.
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice
I'm waiting for Bardot.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (aKsyK)
Assume they are self-interested, and don't give a damn about the truth, and you won't go far wrong.
Posted by: Gridlock at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (z/vX9)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (pw+jk)
Posted by: Kingsnake at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (3JbJY)
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I can put my legs behind my head!
Posted by: Mayor Buttplug at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (vg8iE)
Posted by: DocJ at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (Cv4BY)
Stray Voltage?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (AURKQ)
Never stick your dick in crazy.
Posted by: Insomniac at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (NWiLs)
Maybe I've missed it, but have you said anything positive about Trump today, yesterday, the last month, the last three months?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (+0VWg)
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:33 PM (ophxM)
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Agreed. It seemed tacked on.
As if even a gay gal could resist that Harrington pompadour!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf
Did the California kid bang the frustrated mom yet?
Posted by: Mr. Helpful at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (Z04f8)
THEY ARE GIVEN PEOPLE FRUIT JUICE AT THE BORDER, WHICH AKSHULLY CAUES CANCER IN CHILDREN. IN CHILDREN, IN OUR CHILDREN. IN CHILDREN OF COLOR ESPECIALLY!!!!
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Williams at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (7wsmM)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night, not an NPC at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (rw1l7)
Posted by: TRUMP at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (nFwvY)
oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god oh god when's it coming back?
Posted by: Allahpundit at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (AzW6q)
"This, alas, is true:
Patti Capello
@mrspc48
· 1h
Replying to @evanmcmurry and 2 others
Thru other means? Do I even want to know wtf that means?
Miss Behavior
@Rbrbndgrl
It means he's going to say that in two weeks he'll announce what those other means are, and then we'll never heard about it again."
Sounds like some of the fake Trump-supporting jackass club to me.
What is "true" about this unfounded opinion and where is the evidence that would support this unfounded opinion?
Posted by: Ree at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (N3yvc)
Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night, not an NPC at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (rw1l7)
Wear more leather.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Williams at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (7wsmM)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (aKsyK)
I'd wait for Gal Gadot.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (ycWCI)
Posted by: Mr. Helpful at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (Z04f
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Frustrated mom saw schlub dad asleep in his chair with cute daughter asleep in her lap and felt guilty. Billy, after being possessed by the mind flayer told her to piss off the next day when she tried to apologize for not showing up.
No further interactions.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (ophxM)
but now it's very rare, because of the way the chickens are kept -- zero
contact with fertile males.
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM (oFcdC)
So like Lib women then?
Posted by: Cannibal Bob at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (hi6cA)
Posted by: you need to lurk moar
Snort.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2019 03:38 PM (HDCbD)
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i thought that WAS the point of hitting on her
Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (PPbDD)
Yeah, pretty much. Do I need to wait around until she's done feeding her Twitter addiction(don't tell her I said that) or does she have any ladyfriends to recommend my eminent self to her?
Posted by: Someguy at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (p997d)
Posted by: DocJ at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (Cv4BY)
True, but I would argue that Trump is a different beast entirely.
I suspect - and hope - that he's biding his time on some of his issues so he will re-elected, and THEN can take off the gloves.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (208R5)
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at July 11, 2019 03:39 PM (39g3+)
Take is up with the people who wrote the 14th Amendment, not me.
I mean, honestly, I'm just explaining to non-lawyers what the law says. If you don't like what the law says, you can change it.
But as is stands -- there is not a court in the country who will agree that "persons" means anything other than "persons." And if we did somehow find a judge willing to go through the kind of pretzel logic required to change the definition of the word "persons," we probably wouldn't want him to be a judge, and he would definitely get overturned and smacked down on appeal.
But sure, shoot the messenger.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night, not an NPC at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (rw1l7)
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Who doesn't love tasty & delicious chicken abortions?
Posted by: Kingsnake at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (3JbJY)
Posted by: Sooner at July 11, 2019 03:51 PM (Fs5vw)
Twitter is back up.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at July 11, 2019 03:51 PM (TAmPV)
Posted by: washrivergal at July 11, 2019 03:51 PM (9+jnX)
8hrs
I disagree with the president's demand to ask respondents to the census whether they are citizens or not. It is such an unseemly thing to ask, and it sends the wrong message to our enemies when we tell them they should stop sending their tired, their poor and their souls yearning to breath free in the US of LDS.
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Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 03:51 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:45 PM (GBteo)
There is a built-in fuzziness to ALL human language - which legalese is part of. It is how the world is. It is how the universe is. Human language is not anything like formal systems of mathematics. Don't pretend that it is.
That is not a license to make a mockery of English, though - which is what lawyers and judges do.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:51 PM (bOCwl)
Later y'all... time to fix up.
Posted by: Allahpundit at July 11, 2019 03:51 PM (AzW6q)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (pw+jk) "
Huh, bet that would change voting patterns noticeably.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they are gaslighting us 24/365 at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (Uxn4J)
It can be done but it takes a lot of game.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (fuK7c)
Posted by: Jordan61 at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (Ez6QX)
For no other president has the deep state and judiciary been so revolutionary.
Posted by: Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (LWu6U)
Where have I heard THAT before?
Oh yeah, every GOPe administration since forever
But I am sure Lucy is gonna let old Charlie Brown kick the ball this time
Posted by: DocJ at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (Cv4BY)
Posted by: Kingsnake at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (3JbJY)
They don't call them deviled eggs for nothing.
Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night, not an NPC at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (rw1l7)
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
So california kid = Billy?
Okay. Mom banging somebody would livened things up.
Posted by: Mr. Helpful at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (Z04f8)
Posted by: andycanuck at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (Dh1wo)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:46 PM (VpIIl)
Okay, then give me a quick / short legal analysis of why my reading of the 14A is wrong.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (zFzxj)
It can be done but it takes a lot of game.
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Let 'em try. Should be funny.
Posted by: I like watching car wrecks at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (1opb2)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (bOCwl)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (RBOtF)
So california kid = Billy?
Okay. Mom banging somebody would livened things up.
Posted by: Mr. Helpful at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM (Z04f
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Gonna be honest, I felt like the melting rats and melting people being pooled together to form the our world version of the mind flayer was pretty neat.
So goopy.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, Read some Movie Thoughts and Buy Crystal Embers Today! at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (ophxM)
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at July 11, 2019 03:47 PM (pw+jk)
Can't have the black population notice this either.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: DocJ at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (Cv4BY)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (AURKQ)
I like this strategy!
Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night, not an NPC at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (rw1l7)
Posted by: Ignoramus at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (vWkLQ)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (RBOtF)
It's not hate, it's a tax.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (NFEMn)
That is not a license to make a mockery of English, though - which is what lawyers and judges do.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:51 PM (bOCwl)
There are certainly times when the statute is not clear in what it means and you can argue over the wording.
But what about the word "persons" is ambiguous?
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:49 PM (AURKQ)
I like this strategy!
Posted by: Lily, formerly of Hot Air now of AoSHQ, Assassin in the Night, not an NPC at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (rw1l7)
Way ahead of you, slaves.
Posted by: Mistress Midnight Flame at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (NWiLs)
Posted by: Can't resist temptation at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (zFzxj)
It can be done but it takes a lot of game.
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Let 'em try. Should be funny.
Posted by: I like watching car wrecks
Yes indeed.
Posted by: $5 says that he dies screaming at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (Z04f8)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:48 PM (+0VWg)
I don't keep track. Is it a requirement for membership?
Posted by: Dan Smoot's Apprentice at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (H8QX8)
The Supremes clearly overstepped their mandate. They ruled on intent, rather then the law.
ergo, they ruled on a POLICY question, while admitting there was nothing illegal about the question in the first place.
Court needs to be put in its place.
Posted by: Don Q. at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (NgKpN)
Posted by: redridinghood at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (RBOtF)
It's not hate, it's a tax.
Posted by: JoeF.
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*golf clap*
Posted by: simplemind at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (1opb2)
Posted by: Marcus T at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (VpIIl)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (GBteo)
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As a famour lawyer once said, depends on what the meaning of the word "is" is.
Posted by: Kingsnake at July 11, 2019 03:55 PM (3JbJY)
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Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
So california kid = Billy?
Okay. Mom banging somebody would livened things up.
Posted by: Mr. Helpful at July 11, 2019 03:52 PM
Oh good Lord!
I go away for a few minutes f actual work and come back to ST3 stuff?
That said, frustrated mom, aka Cara Buono is definitely MILFy.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (axyOa)
Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (2fZ2e)
Posted by: Northern Lurker, irritable, so very irritable. Have I mentioned I'm irritable? at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (JgA4k)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (GBteo)
I did.
An illegal alien has no right to be on American soil. Therefore an illegal alien has no right to fill out a census.
Tell me, do they issue census forms at detainment facilities for illegals? Just wondering. I really don't know (though I suspect they do .. because that would just be so ridiculous).
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (bOCwl)
Posted by: joncelli, because somebody had to at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (RD7QR)
Posted by: Nancy P. at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (VHuq4)
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (+0VWg)
Posted by: Lance McCormick, Alleged Threadjacker at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (l8gTz)
Posted by: LeftCoast
Don't even know what that ("Estimated Benefits" letters) is. Never heard of it, so I guess I've never gotten one.
What do you mean by "paying into the correct account"? What account?
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (oFcdC)
Posted by: kraken at July 11, 2019 03:57 PM (bCLt0)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (axyOa)
Oh yes. Indeed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 11, 2019 03:57 PM (xPJvm)
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I'm sure there is one, but right now I can't think of a bad movie staring Kurt Douglas.
Posted by: simplemind at July 11, 2019 03:58 PM (qdxW/)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 03:54 PM (GBteo)
You already pasted a list of the reasons why someone thought that "persons" was ambiguous enough to have to write more law to define it - though you really aren't allowed to define first-level Constitutional terminology in law since that is tantamount to amending the Constitution.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:58 PM (bOCwl)
To me the question has never been if we should not count all Persons. That is a straw man argument for most of us.
The question is why CAN'T the US Government ALSO count how many CITIZENS it has.
As they did in the past.
Posted by: Don Q. at July 11, 2019 03:59 PM (NgKpN)
Suppose there is an actual declared war in place, with actual soldiers of an enemy nation on US Territory during a census... (you see where i'm going with this)...
Are they legally "persons"? Are they afforded the rights and benefits of legal presence in US territory?
Obviously, No (i would hope)... but does this framework do anything to elucidate the issues in play right now?
I don't know. Just throwing it out there.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:59 PM (AURKQ)
Posted by: simplemind at July 11, 2019 04:00 PM (DV2jY)
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 03:53 PM (bOCwl)
If you have the time and money, feel free to hire a lawyer and try to argue that "year" used in the US constitution refers to something other than the gregorian calendar years.
If you lose, then we'll have case law establishing what "year" means. If you win, then we'll all have to live under a new definition of "year."
I'm really not sure what point you're trying to make here.
Typically when there is an ambiguity, judges look first to the statute itself to see if there is definitions, then previous case law, then the legislative history, then, if really desperate, law dictionaries, english language dictionaries, old treatises, and whatever other sources they can find.
When there's no real, legitimate disagreement (like what a "year" means) it doesn't come up.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 04:00 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: rhomboid at July 11, 2019 04:00 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2019 03:56 PM (axyOa)
Oh yes. Indeed.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at July 11, 2019 03:57 PM
****
Seems fairly sharp too if you believe the bio BS. She graduated from Columbia University in 3 years, class of 1993, with a double major in English and political science.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2019 04:00 PM (axyOa)
He's not a dictator, and there is a limit to what he can do unilaterally, particularly when a good chunk of even the Executive Branch is not on his side."
Damn straight. Good lord I hate a lot of "Trump supporters." I use scare quotes because I don't think most of these people are Trump supporters.
Posted by: Ree at July 11, 2019 04:01 PM (N3yvc)
Obviously, No (i would hope)... but does this framework do anything to elucidate the issues in play right now?
I don't know. Just throwing it out there.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 11, 2019 03:59 PM (AURKQ)
I imagine that yes, they would be counted for the purposes of the census if they were here for long enough. You know, assuming they filled out the paperwork and mailed it in to the Commerce Department.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 04:01 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: creeper
Wish I had hair to jabber about.
Posted by: rickb223 at July 11, 2019 04:01 PM (HDCbD)
+++
We always have them at the baby seal clubfest in Canada mmm mmmm
Posted by: Total Control Racist at July 11, 2019 04:01 PM (fVYgY)
Posted by: JoeF. at July 11, 2019 04:02 PM (NFEMn)
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2019 04:00 PM (axyOa)
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Okay, but is she conservative, or at least not completely insane?
Posted by: Kingsnake at July 11, 2019 04:02 PM (3JbJY)
Posted by: zombie at July 11, 2019 03:43 PM
Do you think that might work for me?
Posted by: Jupiter at July 11, 2019 04:02 PM (VHuq4)
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 04:00 PM (GBteo)
You're kidding, right?
We only switched to the Gregorian calendar 20 or so years before Revolution. That is RECENT. It's not as if the idea of "THE year" was deeply embedded in our culture for a hundred years before that.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at July 11, 2019 04:03 PM (bOCwl)
As they did in the past.
Posted by: Don Q. at July 11, 2019 03:59 PM (NgKpN)
They can, they just need to follow the APA procedures to get it on the census.
The problem is that there's a hard deadline on when the census needs to be printed and mailed out, and it's unclear whether or not there is enough time between now and then for any rule change to go in to affect in time for this census.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 04:03 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: Miklos from JIT Logistics at July 11, 2019 04:03 PM (QzkSJ)
Posted by: Kingsnake at July 11, 2019 04:02 PM
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New Yorker, Columbia U. Probably not.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 11, 2019 04:03 PM (axyOa)
But as is stands -- there is not a court in the country who will agree that "persons" means anything other than "persons." And if we did somehow find a judge willing to go through the kind of pretzel logic required to change the definition of the word "persons," we probably wouldn't want him to be a judge, and he would definitely get overturned and smacked down on appeal.
But sure, shoot the messenger.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
There is a built-in fuzziness to ALL human language - which legalese is part of. It is how the world is. It is how the universe is. Human language is not anything like formal systems of mathematics. Don't pretend that it is.
That is not a license to make a mockery of English, though - which is what lawyers and judges do.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
Don't harsh on Harry or on lawyers and judges for this, POP. Language isn't like math, so that's why we have a legal system to define precisely what these fuzzy words mean. Once that consensus is reached by the USSC, then that is what the word means.
Either we have a system of defined concepts (with an ultimate arbitrator) or we don't. That's what Rule of Law means. "Persons" includes illegals unless and until we get a constitutional amendment to clarify or a different Court (as the final arbiter)
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 04:05 PM (uKiy5)
Harry Paratestes,
I've herd it argued that since the Census is not a law passed by congress, but an authority/requirement given to the Executive branch... the APA procedures don't apply. Thus the path via executive order.
Regardless if the questions get on or not... we can still go for a misinformation campaign to make illegals still afraid to take survey. Make up some bullshit that a machine learning algorithm is being used to identify if you are an illegal or not.
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 11, 2019 04:05 PM (Xqo6t)
1. See what Obama did to remove it.
2. Use the same means to put it back.
This presidentin' stuff ain't so hard.
Posted by: Procedurally correct dumbass at July 11, 2019 04:07 PM (oS0xz)
Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2019 04:09 PM (2fZ2e)
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 04:05 PM (uKiy5)
Thank you. And correct, this is a huge part of the function of our judicial system.
Because no country can function outside a framework of laws. And there are always going to be some ambiguities in the law, as it's impossible to imagine every possible scenario when drafting laws, and that's what courts are for -- to clarify the laws to the best of their ability (and/or say "Congress, this is unreadable, you fucked up. Re-write the law.")
Now, you can argue that the Civil Law systems used in most of Europe and Asia function better than the common law system we use in the UK, US, Canada, etc., since judges have much less power to clarify / interpret laws then they do in the US. There are pros and cons to both systems, and both seem to work fairly well.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 04:10 PM (GBteo)
Posted by: kallisto at July 11, 2019 04:11 PM (3U3MX)
I've herd it argued that since the Census is not a law passed by congress, but an authority/requirement given to the Executive branch... the APA procedures don't apply. Thus the path via executive order.
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 11, 2019 04:05 PM (Xqo6t)
That's an interesting argument, I'm not sure if the governments' lawyers tried that argument or not.
What falls under the APA and what doesn't is always kind of a... interesting area of the law.
....But then you get in to the ridiculous headache that is formal vs. informal rule making.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 04:12 PM (GBteo)
We never learn.
Posted by: creeper at July 11, 2019 04:12 PM (2fZ2e)
Posted by: That Spongebob Meme at July 11, 2019 04:23 PM (vrsjf)
What falls under the APA and what doesn't is always kind of a... interesting area of the law.
....But then you get in to the ridiculous headache that is formal vs. informal rule making.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes
Any formal action taken by a Cabinet Agency requires APA measures, typically. I can't see why the census would be different. It's not a matter of legislative delegation is the only difference with the census forms. But agency action triggers APA notice and rulemaking procedures unless it's a quasi-judicial action.
Posted by: imp at July 11, 2019 04:23 PM (uKiy5)
Posted by: Ernst Schreiber at July 11, 2019 04:25 PM (xmKbk)
We're going to attack Iran - oh no, we're not....
Rocket Man is going to be sorry - oh no, he's not...
ICE is going to start deporting illegals tomorrow - oh no, they're not...
Mexico is going to pay a tariff - oh no, they're not...
I'm going to put citizenship question on census by executive order - oh no, I'm not...
I won't sign spending bill without funding for wall - oh yes, I will....
WTF!!!
Posted by: PaddyO' at July 11, 2019 04:29 PM (AA0mx)
What falls under the APA and what doesn't is always kind of a... interesting area of the law.
....But then you get in to the ridiculous headache that is formal vs. informal rule making.
Posted by: Harry Paratestes at July 11, 2019 04:12 PM (GBteo)
Hugh Hewitt has been pushing that idea. His plan is for the President to get a few of the relevant cabinet members together in a meeting. Discuss the reasons why this question is needed. Then sign an executive order outlining that rationale and ordering the question to be added.
Posted by: Serious Cat at July 11, 2019 04:30 PM (Xqo6t)
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