MSNBC Shrieks at Trump's Promise to End Birthright Citizenship

I'm glad Trump is revisiting this issue, which he brought up but abandoned in his first term.

In President-elect Donald Trump's recent interview with NBC News' Kristen Welker, host of "Meet the Press," he once again promised to end birthright citizenship when he takes office in January. "You know we're the only country that has it," Trump falsely claimed.

The US is the only developed Western nation that has it. No country in Europe has it. Japan doesn't have it. Most countries in the Americas have it, but the Western Hemisphere is the exception.

...
As the Trump campaign laid out over the summer, the proposed executive order he would sign would limit the scope of automatic citizenship to children born here and require at least one parent to prove they are either a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident. In the absence of such evidence, federal agencies would be ordered to deny the newborn from receiving a Social Security number and block the parents from receiving any federal benefits like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children, better known as WIC. That baby would also be denied a U.S. passport and any other documentary proof of citizenship.
Trump first pushed a similar change back in 2018, but it got put far on the backburner by more cautious staffers. This time around, though, his incoming deputy chief of staff, Stephen Miller, and other hard-liners are preparing to move forward with as many restrictions on immigration as possible. They subscribe to a worldview that has long rejected the notion that America's white Christian heritage can stand while also freely accepting the children of nonwhite migrants or formerly enslaved Black people as equal citizens under the Constitution.

LOL. Yes, that's the reason. You nailed it.

It has nothing to do with American children being killed by illegal aliens.

Seven-year-old Ivory Smith was killed by Venezuelan migrant Joel Enrique Gonzalez Chacin in a late-night drunk driving accident in north Houston just two and a half months after ICE released a hold against him, court documents revealed.
Fox 26 Houston reported that court records revealed that Chacin had previously been placed on another ICE hold earlier this year after being arrested for assaulting a family member in June.
The felony assault charge against him ended up being dropped to a misdemeanor and, after pleading guilty, Chacin was sentenced to 113 days in jail, which he had already served, and was released that same day. The ICE detainer against him was also lifted that same day for an unknown reason.

Fox News Digital reached out to ICE to find out why the detainer against Chacin was lifted and has not yet heard back.

Of course not. Why should the Regime answer to the peasantry?

Authorities confirmed to Fox News Digital that the 41-year-old migrant was intoxicated when he T-boned Christina Smith and her daughter Ivory at 2:45 a.m. Police said that Chacin took photographs of the scene of the crash "instead of helping" and then drove off. The two victims were only a few minutes from home.
Smith was severely injured in the wreck but has since been released from the hospital. Chacin was arrested for intoxicated manslaughter and has been put on a new ICE detainer.
Ivory was in second grade. According to a statement released by the family, the mother continues to "endure immense physical and emotional pain" from the accident.
"No parent should have to suffer the unbearable loss of a child, especially under circumstances that could and should have been prevented," said the family, adding, the incident is a "stark reminder that we need stronger accountability and justice to prevent further suffering for families like ours."
"Even more troubling is the fact that this individual was released after being detained earlier this year, only to find themselves back in custody after causing irreparable harm," the family went on. "Why do we have holds in place if they fail to keep dangerous individuals off our streets? ... How can a system allow such leniency, where a person with such a record is given a chance to walk free and re-offend?"

Ivory is -- was -- a seven-year-old black girl.

But it's all about protecting the White Christian majority from non-white immigrants. MSNBC said so.

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1 Howdy!

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 12, 2024 02:11 PM (rbKZ6)

2 They subscribe to a worldview that has long rejected the notion that America's white Christian heritage can stand while also freely accepting the children of nonwhite migrants or formerly enslaved Black people as equal citizens under the Constitution./i]

You can have welfare or you can have non-trivial immigration. Pick one.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:13 PM (oZhjI)

3 I NOODed.

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 12, 2024 02:13 PM (rbKZ6)

4 RIP, Ivory.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:14 PM (v6JzV)

5 I'd like to see Mayorkas and co arrested and charged as conspirators for all of the various crimes that illegals have committed.

He is literally conspiring to commit crimes.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:14 PM (oZhjI)

6 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Welfare or Open Borders. Pick one.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 12, 2024 02:15 PM (jFCkp)

8 "You can have welfare or you can have non-trivial immigration. Pick one."

There's a ton of adults who don't seem to understand that choices have costs, and that deciding to do "everything" means the price tag is going to ridiculously expensive. The fact that so many of the "everything" don't pay taxes doesn't help them learn about consequences.

Posted by: Crusader at December 12, 2024 02:15 PM (TN0g+)

9 They subscribe to a worldview that has long rejected the notion that America's white Christian heritage can stand while also freely accepting the children of nonwhite migrants or formerly enslaved Black people as equal citizens under the Constitution.

Hey. I've got an idea. How about you f*ck right off with your racist bullshit that no one has said ever, but for some reason popped into your pea sized little racist brain.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

10 as i recall, the idea of birthright citizenship began with a ruling by a supreme court justice, arthur brenner (spelling? ) in 1968

during the debates over the 4th amendment after the civil war, it was agreed that being born to foreign parents who were in the united states at the time of birth would not make you a citizen

i'll check.

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2024 02:16 PM (CWTWj)

11 The idea is to prevent the anchor baby being used to gain entry.

Pregnant people fly here from other countries and then "unexpectantly" go into labor and have a baby that then becomes an American citizen. They then apply for permanent residence based on this relationship. This has been going on for decades.

Posted by: El Mariachi at December 12, 2024 02:16 PM (nLFEI)

12 Ivory is -- was -- a seven-year-old black girl.

When an illegal - that was receiving aid from the Mass State government - raped a 14 year old the the governor responded by saying "these things happen"

They do not care how many people are harmed as long as they get the ballots and a cut of the welfare given to these illegals.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:16 PM (oZhjI)

13 I'm more concerned with what "Tickle" on Moonshiners has to say about birthright Citizenship since he has more viewers than CNBC

Posted by: DAN at December 12, 2024 02:16 PM (wDLi3)

14 There are some doubts in my racist mind that any country can survive a large influx of muslims.

Posted by: Oglebay at December 12, 2024 02:17 PM (ogTiX)

15 MSNBC Shrieks.

That’d always be an accurate headline

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:17 PM (i5Vkf)

16 About all these criminal aliens: I'm not all that enthralled about the automatic "deport" line. It has to be conditional.

Yes, deport all illegal aliens. Period. End of story. As to the criminal class that committed a further crime (as in the non- illegal immigration portion), incarcerate and punish first, then deport with prejudice. Let's just not hand out an an "Escape from Justice" Card just because they entered illegally.

Posted by: AnonyBotymousDrivel Remembers Babbitt and Perna at December 12, 2024 02:18 PM (aXxgO)

17 Waiting in line to come over illegally while pregnant. Shesh

(spaces)

https://x.com/BenBergquam/ status/1866912901937631737

Posted by: Ann at December 12, 2024 02:18 PM (4neFu)

18 While I like the idea, I'm not sure the president can change this with an executive order -- but at least by doing so, it will 100% guaranteed be challenged in court and be solidified by a judicial ruling.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:18 PM (RsS92)

19 during the debates over the 4th amendment after the civil war, it was agreed that being born to foreign parents who were in the united states at the time of birth would not make you a citizen

Also, the American Indians were granted citizenship by a separate act. If merely being born within the boundaries of the US made you a citizen that would be unnecessary - they would already have been citizens.

But, like illegals, the Indians were not under the jurisdiction of the US government, hence, not citizens.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:18 PM (oZhjI)

20 But it's all about protecting the White Christian majority from non-white immigrants. MSNBC said so.

And all 32 of their viewers agree

Posted by: MAC V SOG at December 12, 2024 02:18 PM (P4Pk9)

21 It's all about race said the people who never shut up for even one yoctosecond about race.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (RyRnV)

22 I've long thought that ending the smelly, dripping, UTI-infected aardvark penis of "birthright citizenship" is a stone-cold winner with the vast majority of voters, including legal minority and foreign-born voters.

Nobody likes a cheater or a parasite who cuts in front of the line.

Which is of course why the left is screeching and freaking at Trump's mere mention of it. You catch the most flack when you're right over the target, and all that.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (iFTx/)

23 Such a tragedy for this poor family. She was a beautiful little girl.

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (rbKZ6)

24 Of course, the only reasonable response to accusations of rayciss is some variation of the phrase: F** you.

Or if you don't like using that word, just "Shut up." Without the "f" word in the middle there, it doesn't seem to carry as much gravitas.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (dGCAG)

25 require at least one parent to prove they are either a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident.

I think I would also prefer them to specify that the Citizen father was married to the Non-Citizen mother at least 5 months before the child was born, but this is a good start.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (hB7mE)

26 Busy day today. Gathered links in the morning. Dunno if they were referred to today:

When Bee parody becomes bee reality:

https://tinyurl.com/425b7s4s

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (R06Wo)

27 "They subscribe to a worldview that has long rejected the notion that America's white Christian heritage can stand while also freely accepting the children of non white migrants or formerly enslaved Black people as equal citizens under the Constitution."

Here, have a nice tall glass of shut the fuck up you ignorant pig.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (4XwPj)

28 Drop dead, Boulos:

https://tinyurl.com/4bmnn7nv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (R06Wo)

29 OK I have a question: is it wrong to protect Christian Americans from non-white foreigners? Does MSNBC think that Christian Americans ought not be protected?

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:19 PM (RsS92)

30 Every schmuck has his day. I'm talking to you, Ireland:

https://tinyurl.com/yv49wdh4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (R06Wo)

31 Now in the hands of ISIS. What could go wrong?!

https://tinyurl.com/pasce5xb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (R06Wo)

32 All of this can't be happening because the left keeps ASSURING me that the only one's coming to America are hard working asylum seekers looking for a better life.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

33 14th amendment bs ruling

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (RyRnV)

34 The state of Montana is after your children:

https://tinyurl.com/2av3pxe2

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (R06Wo)

35 The Vatican keffiyah kerfuffle explained. Now it all makes sense:

https://tinyurl.com/5xhfuzcz

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (R06Wo)

36 Doesn’t the 14th amendment have the words: “… and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” ?

I don’t think birthright citizenship means what they think it means

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (i5Vkf)

37 > While I like the idea, I'm not sure the president can change this with an executive order --
-------
If one has a pliable legislature, judiciary and media all things are possible with the stroke of a pen. Or someone's pen. As *biden's administration demonstrated time and again.

I'd shove it down their fucking throats and tell 'em to like it.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (Q4IgG)

38 Ivory is -- was -- a seven-year-old black girl.

---

With a name like that, obviously a white supremacist seven year old dead black girl.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (dGCAG)

39 "Purely as a thought expirement...":

https://tinyurl.com/4r7psv3e

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (R06Wo)

40 Why would Republicans want to stop all these "natural conservatives" from coming in?

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (RyRnV)

41 Pennsylvanians, heads up about Lumpy Fedderman:

https://tinyurl.com/mr4xnvdr

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (R06Wo)

42 This looks like a job for Super DOGE!

https://tinyurl.com/44sk4dfs

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (R06Wo)

43 Birthright citizenship was designed to ensure that the freed slaves were recognized as full citizens of the United States.

Posted by: Moonbeam at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (rbKZ6)

44 Theresa Brinkerhoff still DEIs like it's 2009!

https://tinyurl.com/2ee42w5j

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (R06Wo)

45 Trump falsely claimed.

Uttering those three words in the media oughta be rewarded with gas.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (3xAmh)

46 "No parent should have to suffer the unbearable loss of a child, especially under circumstances that could and should have been prevented," said the family, adding, the incident is a "stark reminder that we need stronger accountability and justice to prevent further suffering for families like ours."

Sue every sanctuary city and state leader. Sue the Biden Administration. Sue Joe Biden. Sue Kumswala Harris. Sue EVERYONE for what they've done to murder innocent Americans because the BLOOD is ON THEIR HANDS.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:22 PM (Zz0t1)

47 OK I have a question: is it wrong to protect Christian Americans from non-white foreigners? Does MSNBC think that Christian Americans ought not be protected?

The FNM: The Freedom Fighters in Iraq have every right to use any method, including killing, to protect their countries from White Christian European colonization.

Also the FNM: The racists in America have no right to use any method, even peaceful ones, to stop their country from being colonized by non-White, non-Christian, not-European colonization

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:22 PM (oZhjI)

48 Trump reconsidering not draining the swamp:

https://tinyurl.com/3ad36fjh

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:22 PM (R06Wo)

49
Going way back to Jessie Jackson I was informed that only white people could be racists because they were in a position of POWER and every other people weren't, and couldn't be.

That played out. The claim embarrasses people now. It's more a threat issued to exert dominance than a credible argument.

Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2024 02:22 PM (j4U/Z)

50 "There's a ton of adults who don't seem to understand that choices have costs, and that deciding to do "everything" means the price tag is going to ridiculously expensive. The fact that so many of the "everything" don't pay taxes doesn't help them learn about consequences.
Posted by: Crusader"

That attitudes also made possible by American prosperity(and enormous govt. deficits) that seem to indicate hard choices are not required. if/when that ends people will come to their senses. Unfortunately it will be too late. I'm not sure Trump can turn things around to avoid this reckoning.

Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2024 02:22 PM (GUOwU)

51 Super lulz:

https://tinyurl.com/mtesazhd

That's all, folks!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:22 PM (R06Wo)

52 Doesn’t the 14th amendment have the words: “… and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” ?

I don’t think birthright citizenship means what they think it means
Posted by: LinusVanPelt

The weasel-way of that argument is that "They have to follow our country's laws - speed limits and suchlike - while they are in our country, therefore they are under our country's jurisdiction. Otherwise they could break laws and it would be illegal to punish them for it."

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (hB7mE)

53 Mayorkas has demonstrably conspired to break federal law and subvert our constitution. He thumbed his nose at the pussies in Congress who make a lot of nice sound bites and do shit to stop people like him. More than almost any government official that piece of garbage is responsible for the deaths of people at the hands of illegal immigrants or the fentanyl they have poison our children with. He should be charged and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

Posted by: Truthbomb at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (4caix)

54 Not many countries have this

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (Ve0zn)

55 >>The state of Montana is after your children:

Our SC is straight outta San Francisco.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (j6KoD)

56 Doesn’t the 14th amendment have the words: “… and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” ?

I don’t think birthright citizenship means what they think it means
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (i5Vkf)

Yes it does. As I understand it Birth right citizenship is a vestige of colonialism and the only legal hook for it is a footnote in a SCOTUS decision that has never been challenged or revisted.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (CIS44)

57 Amendment XIV
Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Since illegal immigration is a crime, any illegal alien in the United States is not subject to the jurisdiction thereof and therefore their children are not citizens.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (oZhjI)

58 I'd rather MSNBC be dissolved than saved by a buyout. They started as a Microsoft-subsidized spinoff of NBC to compete with CNN's 24 hr news channel.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (LPS7w)

59 From Anja Taylor-Joy's Wiki:

"She has stated that her birth in Miami was a "fluke", since her [Argentinian] parents had been vacationing in the city at the time; because of her birthplace, she holds American citizenship due to the country's jus soli nationality law."

Maybe they didn't mean it in her case, but the practice of hopping to the US for a vacation anchor baby is an old one. End it.

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (wcIbG)

60 45 Trump falsely claimed.
Uttering those three words in the media oughta be rewarded with gas.
Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism

The correct format is, I believe, "Trump claimed, without proof".

Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (j4U/Z)

61 Frankie the Red is a cretin.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, red heifer owner at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (xhzZn)

62 Now in the hands of ISIS. What could go wrong?!

https://tinyurl.com/pasce5xb
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:20 PM (R06Wo)

Season 5 of Archer, now a documentary.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (dGCAG)

63 Does MSNBC think that Christian Americans ought not be protected?
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

Correct.

Posted by: FeatherBlade at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (hB7mE)

64 Doesn’t the 14th amendment have the words: “… and subject to the jurisdiction thereof” ?

I think the proponents of this idea would argue that being in the country puts people under the jurisdiction of the US. I do not think that was what the writers of the 14th amendment meant, but its very poorly written and that has had severe consequences.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (RsS92)

65 Mark Levin said the constitution would have to be amended to end birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (63Dwl)

66 Birthright Citizenship is a vestige of New World colonialism, which should be disposed of immediately.

It's racism! Literally.

Posted by: scottst at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (+K8z4)

67 Super lulz:

https://tinyurl.com/mtesazhd

That's all, folks!/i]

Way to ruin a beautiful photo by putting a couple of assholes where someone's head is supposed to be

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (oZhjI)

68 The legal case is to take one of the women from China or Turkey who engage in "birth tourism" - come to the United States, give birth so their kid is a US citizen, and then quickly return to their home country.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (uxCna)

69 Well, in one sense the illegals *are* subject to U.S. jurisdiction. We have the right to TOSS THEM OUT OF OUR COUNTRY.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:25 PM (J2vNu)

70 I'd start with chain migration, but go for broke, I guess.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2024 02:25 PM (IG4Id)

71 Maybe they didn't mean it in her case, but the practice of hopping to the US for a vacation anchor baby is an old one. End it.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (wcIbG)

If need be, I will marry her, so she can stay.

Because I'm a giver.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:25 PM (dGCAG)

72 Does MSNBC think that Christian Americans ought not be protected?

They also said wanting to be safe from crime was White Supremacy...and that's true even if you are a black, asian, or hispanic person...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:25 PM (oZhjI)

73 182 people killed on suspicion of voodoo in Haiti. all cultures are equally valid, though.

Posted by: Adriane the Disgusted with All. OK, Most of it Critic. . . at December 12, 2024 02:25 PM (qz+gL)

74 If need be, I will marry her, so she can stay.

Because I'm a giver.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:25 PM (dGCAG)

youll have to fight me

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (CIS44)

75 ‘Born in the USA, I was born in the USA.’
-B. Sprongsteen

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (jgmnb)

76 Amendment XIV
Section 1.

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

Since illegal immigration is a crime, any illegal alien in the United States is not subject to the jurisdiction thereof and therefore their children are not citizens.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (oZhjI)

Thank you! The words make it so clear only a judge (especially a judge like KJB) could not understand or misconstrue

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (ANuwa)

77 coulter:

The very author of the citizenship clause, Sen. Jacob Howard of Michigan, expressly said: "This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers."

https://tinyurl.com/5n76d676

[goes to the st augustine record]

Posted by: gnats local 678 at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (CWTWj)

78 I'd rather MSNBC be dissolved than saved by a buyout. They started as a Microsoft-subsidized spinoff of NBC to compete with CNN's 24 hr news channel.
Posted by: Chairman LMAO, AI Expert at December 12, 2024 02:23 PM (LPS7w)

Don't you mean it should become the proving ground for AI-generated news, with AI-generated talking heads, from Microsoft's CoPilot+ technology?

Before I allow that crap on my computers, I want to see it in action, with provable results and accuracy.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (VNX3d)

79 Super lulz:

https://tinyurl.com/mtesazhd

That's all, folks!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:22 PM (R06Wo)

Here's hoping that the recent actions of that psycho c*ntball relegates her career to selling rubber dicks on the Home Shopping Network at 3AM.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

80 Mark Levin said the constitution would have to be amended to end birthright citizenship.

I disagree. The idea of it was not enshrined in the constitution, its based on a faulty interpretation of the 14th amendment. It can be removed by a court ruling.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (RsS92)

81 She has stated that her birth in Miami was a "fluke", since her [Argentinian] parents had been vacationing in the city at the time; because of her birthplace, she holds American citizenship due to the country's jus soli nationality law."
----------

Great. I don't give a shit.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (RyRnV)

82 Maybe they didn't mean it in her case, but the practice of hopping to the US for a vacation anchor baby is an old one. End it.
Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2024

***
Well, if all the anchor babies looked like Anya Taylor-Joy . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (J2vNu)

83 If need be, I will marry her, so she can stay.

Because I'm a giver.

I saw people complaining about her eye separation distance yesterday and TBH I'd take it and her, I am sure, sharp elbows...

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (oZhjI)

84 Mark Levin said the constitution would have to be amended to end birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (63Dwl)

Was he yelling when he said this?

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:27 PM (ANuwa)

85 By EO the president should declare the 14th Amendment states exactly what the text reads. That is, if you are not a citizen, neither is a child who happens to be born here. It will be challenged, of course. Then we can rid of every person who claimed this fraud.

Posted by: Truthbomb at December 12, 2024 02:27 PM (4caix)

86 As we speak, the Biden administration is selling off sections of the wall that were purchased during the first Trump administration and Biden chose to leave them lying in the dirt rather than installing them.

He wants to make it as hard and costly as possible for Trump to secure the border. Biden is and always has been a treason POS.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2024 02:27 PM (LkLld)

87 Call Her Daddy host points out Kumala's money laundering

https://tinyurl.com/kevnvfcv

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:28 PM (CIS44)

88 Do it, end birthright citizenship.

Posted by: Lizzy at December 12, 2024 02:28 PM (Hkcdp)

89 As we speak, the Biden administration is selling off sections of the wall that were purchased during the first Trump administration and Biden chose to leave them lying in the dirt rather than installing them.

He wants to make it as hard and costly as possible for Trump to secure the border. Biden is and always has been a treason POS.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2024 02:27 PM (LkLld)

To be somewhat fair, they have been doing this for 4 years.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:28 PM (CIS44)

90 Call Her Daddy host points out Kumala's money laundering

https://tinyurl.com/kevnvfcv

Legs for days on whoever that is

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:29 PM (oZhjI)

91 The only two reasons to want illegals is either 1. Greed to exploit them or 2. Hate of our country.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at December 12, 2024 02:29 PM (wBaIH)

92 Call Her Daddy host points out Kumala's money laundering

Yeah there was definitely a lot of "campaign funds" being repurposed, shall we say, under cover of spending on campaigning. Its not like the Harris campaign is the first to do this but it really looked egregious in this case.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:29 PM (RsS92)

93 Anya Taylor-Joy… never heard of her; just looked. Ice queen. Shades of Gretchen Whitmer (blond version)

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:30 PM (ANuwa)

94 "It has nothing to do with American children being killed by illegal aliens"

I don't believe for a minute the often repeated claim illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate that citizens.(legal immigrants perhaps true) I have seen no supporting data. Even if there was data, illegals hide their criminals and in many cases will not cooperate with police so it is comparing apple to oranges. And no way are sanctuary cities reporting their illegal crime data correctly. So where did this claim come from?

Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2024 02:30 PM (GUOwU)

95 Isn't this entire "issue" a matter of dicta to a court ruling? Which not only obviously contradicted the plain meaning of the 14th, but directly contradicted the explicit legislative history? (author of amendment, and others I believe, explicitly stated that the amendment would not have the effect that the dicta and subsequent practice directed - i.e. there was no birthright citizenship implied)

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:30 PM (1m82a)

96 Biden's Dog I would never ever vote for Fetterman,

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 02:31 PM (fwDg9)

97 My guess is Scotus won’t let this stand. But we’ll see.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:31 PM (B2EzS)

98 I don't believe for a minute the often repeated claim illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate that citizens.(legal immigrants perhaps true) I have seen no supporting data. Even if there was data, illegals hide their criminals and in many cases will not cooperate with police so it is comparing apple to oranges. And no way are sanctuary cities reporting their illegal crime data correctly. So where did this claim come from?
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2024 02:30 PM (GUOwU)

Every illegal is a criminal. 100% of them.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:31 PM (CIS44)

99 What I'm enjoying is that, by all indications, Trump intends to flood the zone, overwhelm and steamroll the left from every direction.

They won't just be on defense on one issue, it'll be hundreds.

Excellent.

Even more delicious is that the one power the Democrats had--to raise outrage in the media--they destroyed in the last year and no one listens to them any more.
It's all just so much yelling now it just blends into the background.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2024 02:31 PM (MX9rJ)

100 Mark Levin said the constitution would have to be amended to end birthright citizenship.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2024 02:24 PM (63Dwl)

Was he yelling when he said this?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:27 PM (ANuwa)
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I think Levin is dead wrong about this. He's ignoring the "jurisdiction" language. BR was created almost out of whole cloth in a footnote to a Supreme Court decision. To be sure, the SC purported to be interpreting the Constitution, but it was as strangled and butchered as much as Roe v. Wade. Getting rid of BR citizenship would almost certainly require another decision by the SC, but no constitutional amendment would be needed.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2024 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

101
Is blessed to become a citizen of America.

Becomes an America-hating communist.

A tale as old as time.

Actually is she a communist, I'm only guessing. But I mean we're not exactly trying to decipher the Rosetta Stone here.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:32 PM (RyRnV)

102 Posted by: LinusVanPelt at December 12, 2024 02:30 PM (ANuwa)

I'm not a guy, but she looks strange to me, and having never had a desire to see any of the films she's been in, I don't know if she's a good actress although some people assure me she is.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2024 02:32 PM (jkRTt)

103 I think Levin is dead wrong about this. He's ignoring the "jurisdiction" language. BR was created almost out of whole cloth in a footnote to a Supreme Court decision. To be sure, the SC purported to be interpreting the Constitution, but it was as strangled and butchered as much as Roe v. Wade. Getting rid of BR citizenship would almost certainly require another decision by the SC, but no constitutional amendment would be needed.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2024 02:31 PM (iFTx/)

Hey lookie there, I was right about the footnote thing!

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:32 PM (CIS44)

104 Let's not just it it, but go back in time to end it retroactively.

Be like the Dems, for once.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at December 12, 2024 02:33 PM (u82oZ)

105 gnats local and Chris Taylor I see made the same points just above.

How in the wide wide world of sports is this even a serious argument in the courts? Clear meaning and explicit legislative intent should be dispositive and render this an open/shut "case".

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:33 PM (1m82a)

106 Also, the American Indians were granted citizenship by a separate act. If merely being born within the boundaries of the US made you a citizen that would be unnecessary - they would already have been citizens.>

The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 shows the best way out of this situation. I believe an EO by itself will be tossed out immediately by the first Fed Court that hears it, and probably not be rescued by the SCOTUS because this is outside the scope of what EO's are supposed to do. However, the Indian Citizenship Act shows that there is precedent for Citizenship matters to be dealt with legislatively, without needing to amend the Constitution. Congress is the body that needs to act here, in order to do this constitutionally.

Remember that anything done by an EO can be undone by any future President. Congressional legislation, not so much.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 02:33 PM (wyMQY)

107 I am not in favor of us jailing illegal immigrants here. We should make it a condition of trade and any aid we give that their native country will incarcerate them for the length of their sentence from our court in one of their jails.

Or if we really need to be 'nice' we could pay their native country the daily costs for incareration so long as that country proves they still have the thug in custody. I'm sure Mexico and points south spend way less per inmate day then we do.

Posted by: PaleRider at December 12, 2024 02:33 PM (CKOCg)

108 I don't believe for a minute the often repeated claim illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate that citizens.(legal immigrants perhaps true) I have seen no supporting data. Even if there was data, illegals hide their criminals and in many cases will not cooperate with police so it is comparing apple to oranges. And no way are sanctuary cities reporting their illegal crime data correctly. So where did this claim come from?
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2024 02:30 PM (GUOwU)
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The claim is being made in order to create the premise illegals are not illegal.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 12, 2024 02:33 PM (tT6L1)

109 I was born on Misawa AFB in 1958, i am not a citizen of Japan.

Posted by: Shaftoe at December 12, 2024 02:34 PM (BZYCq)

110 It's all just so much yelling now it just blends into the background.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

When people do hear their blubbering, all most of them think is, "yeh right, you lie about everything else and expect us to believe that what we want is evil. Go fuck yourself and your tranny!"

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at December 12, 2024 02:35 PM (4XwPj)

111 Well she did some overacting in the last season of Peaky Blinders which was equal parts silly and ummmm... how you say.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:35 PM (RyRnV)

112 As others noted, isn't the only court language on this in dicta (footnotes), not binding, in fact not even suggestive?

Technical question I guess. But it's the whole thing. In what other matter have dicta = court ruling? Technically this seems like one of the most ridiculous situations in our judiciary, which is sadly saying quite a bit.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:35 PM (1m82a)

113 I'm not a guy, but she looks strange to me, and having never had a desire to see any of the films she's been in, I don't know if she's a good actress although some people assure me she is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2024 02:32 PM (jkRTt)

She's very good. Has had several roles where her looks change, the type of character she's playing changes, and she's demonstrated she knows how to move in different genres.

Witch is an incredibly fine film, but some people really shouldn't watch it. For all the performances in it, having never seen her before, she's the one standout above all others.

Bewitching, one might say.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:35 PM (dGCAG)

114 I'm not a guy, but she looks strange to me, and having never had a desire to see any of the films she's been in, I don't know if she's a good actress although some people assure me she is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2024

***
I think I did see The Witchor whatever it was called with Black Philip the goat as a symbol for the Devil, but I don't recall Anya's role. She may have been only a child.

She is . . . unusual looking. The kind of face you see once and carry in your mind's eye for a long time after. She might be good casting as Catherine the psychopath in a new production of East of Eden, though she'd have to go a long way to top Jane Seymour's 1981 performance.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:35 PM (J2vNu)

115 One of the reasons all these lefties, that always threaten to leave the country when a Republican wins, never actually leave is:
Getting citizenship in any 1st world country is very difficult and very expensive.

They don't take just any asshole who claims they want to live there. They want rock-solid proof that you will be not just a net-positive but a 100% gain.

"Internet Safety and Trust" manager isn't a job any of these countries want to import.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2024 02:36 PM (MX9rJ)

116 Biden's Dog I would never ever vote for Fetterman,
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 02:31 PM (fwDg9)
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I wasn't addressing morons. We're wised up.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:36 PM (R06Wo)

117 This congress will never do it so you EO it until you have one that will.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:37 PM (RyRnV)

118 I was born on Misawa AFB in 1958, i am not a citizen of Japan.
Posted by: Shaftoe at December 12, 2024 02:34 PM (BZYCq)

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Maybe not, but I'll be getting off your lawn just the same.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2024 02:37 PM (2UnvF)

119 Citizenship by blood, not by dirt.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:37 PM (CIS44)

120 I don’t care if illegals commit crimes (other than being here illegally) at 1/10 the rate of citizens. It’s still crimes that should not ever be committed if we enforce the border. I

I want that number at zero. Period.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:37 PM (B2EzS)

121 I think I did see The Witchor whatever it was called with Black Philip the goat as a symbol for the Devil, but I don't recall Anya's role. She may have been only a child.

She is . . . unusual looking. The kind of face you see once and carry in your mind's eye for a long time after. She might be good casting as Catherine the psychopath in a new production of East of Eden, though she'd have to go a long way to top Jane Seymour's 1981 performance.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:35 PM (J2vNu)

Witch. And if you don't recall her role, I'd suggest maybe you watch it again, because I can't see how anyone would see the film and not remember her.

It would be like watching Iron Man and saying you don't remember Robert Downey in it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:38 PM (dGCAG)

122 The way it's SUPPOSED to work is, if a child is born to 2 non American legal residents, the child is granted citizenship, however, must return to the parents country of legal citizenship.

Then, when the child turns 18, they're welcome to come back as a US citizen and work to get their family members brought in legally.

What's going on now is a mockery of the rule of law.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:38 PM (Zz0t1)

123 84 Mark Levin said the constitution would have to be amended to end birthright citizenship.

well he's wrong

Posted by: BlackOrchid at December 12, 2024 02:38 PM (Pv3Rg)

124 Tom Servo, hope you're wrong, and think you are (technically). There is no law or explicit court ruling creating birthright citizenship - right? The constitutional amendment that is cited plainly does not cover illegals having kids here, and the authors of the amendment left no doubt that was *not* the intent.

It's just notes to a ruling (by a dissenter from the ruling, I think?), nothing more.

There is not the slightest chance any legislative solution will ever happen. But unless the whole system is a farce (well ... when it comes to the judiciary, sadly this is often the case), no legislation is indicated or required.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:38 PM (1m82a)

125 Nobody watches cable.

Posted by: Nowadays at December 12, 2024 02:39 PM (DobEs)

126 we knew this was coming, but it's still alarming

"Sources within the bureau said Mr. Wray has begun promoting employees among the senior executive service, those who serve within the bureau’s leadership. These sources described this as an effort to burrow establishment figures deeper within the FBI.

Sources said a plan is being formulated to delay the new FBI director’s entry into the agency for three to four months.

Given the FBI’s tense history with Mr. Trump since the 2016 presidential campaign, such a strategy is risky."

https://tinyurl.com/4a4cvjab

Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 12, 2024 02:39 PM (V6W16)

127 The Bernie-Bro in my former writing group once dismissed my statement that we need to enforce our border by saying, "Oh, they just come here for a better life!"

I came back with, "So if I rob a bank to give my family a better life, that's okay then?"

He changed the subject.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (J2vNu)

128 122 The way it's SUPPOSED to work is, if a child is born to 2 non American legal residents, the child is granted citizenship, however, must return to the parents country of legal citizenship.

—

There’s no but. You’re either a citizen or you aren’t. I don’t want separate classes of citizen.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (B2EzS)

129 Birthright Citizenship was the center of US vs Wong Kim Ark, 1898. So it's been an accepted principle in US Courts for 126 years now.

The question is, should the ruling in Wong Kim Ark be distinguished because his parents were resident aliens at the time of his birth, not illegals.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (wyMQY)

130 Maybe not, but I'll be getting off your lawn just the same.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2024 02:37 PM (2UnvF)
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Yeah, well, move along sonny. My lawn isn't available either.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (tT6L1)

131 Ana Taylor-Joy is odd looking but at this point at least attractive. She's like Julia Stiles who is very attractive despite looking like she had her face smacked with a shovel. It just works

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (RsS92)

132 Given the FBI’s tense history with Mr. Trump since the 2016 presidential campaign, such a strategy is risky."

https://tinyurl.com/4a4cvjab
Posted by: Bitcoin Fixes Everything at December 12, 2024 02:39 PM (V6W16)

Day 1: Everyone above GS13... you're fired.

There. Fixed.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (dGCAG)

133 Every leftard statistic is a lie. Every single one. No exception ever.

Remember the statistic about how illegal border crossings are way down under Biden and Kamala compared to Trump?

That's because the Left are taking them in droves to the ports of entry and moneyshotting them in by the millions.

Then they brag about their "statistic" and laugh at anyone who buys it.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:41 PM (RyRnV)

134 or formerly enslaved Black people

Nevermind the citizenship for now, I want to question them about the apparent time machine or immortality treatment

Posted by: azjaeger at December 12, 2024 02:41 PM (0ju0Q)

135 Nobody watches cable.
Posted by: Nowadays at December 12, 2024 02:39 PM (DobEs)
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/stares at ethernet cable

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:41 PM (R06Wo)

136 Ana Taylor-Joy is odd looking but at this point at least attractive. She's like Julia Stiles who is very attractive despite looking like she had her face smacked with a shovel. It just works
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (RsS92)

Unlike Fishface Zegler.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024 02:41 PM (dGCAG)

137 I came back with, "So if I rob a bank to give my family a better life, that's okay then?

Exactly. EVERYONE who commits a crime does it for a better life, even if its just "to get rid of someone I don't like". That does not somehow make it okay

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:42 PM (RsS92)

138 The Bernie-Bro in my former writing group once dismissed my statement that we need to enforce our border by saying, "Oh, they just come here for a better life!"

I came back with, "So if I rob a bank to give my family a better life, that's okay then?"

He changed the subject.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (J2vNu)

"No, dipshit. They come here for the free shit because your dumbass supports taxpayers footing that ridiculous bill. That makes their life magically better because they don't have to do shit to earn a living."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:42 PM (Zz0t1)

139 I’d eliminate the legal resident option too. If a non citizen, here legally, has a kid, kid can’t become a citizen until the patent does. That would be the system I set up.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:42 PM (B2EzS)

140 Nobody watches cable.
Posted by: Nowadays at December 12, 2024 02:39 PM (DobEs)
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/stares at ethernet cable
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at December 12, 2024 02:41 PM (R06Wo)

You haven't taught it any tricks? I haven't had any success with Ethernet, Coax, or USB cables.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 12, 2024 02:43 PM (VNX3d)

141 Anya Taylor-Joy looking very attractive deleted scene:

http://tiny.cc/ll01001

you're welcome

Posted by: brak at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (NGHTx)

142 Remember the statistic about how illegal border crossings are way down under Biden and Kamala compared to Trump?

They accomplished that by redefining illegals into refugees and asylum seekers. Its like redefining theft into not theft because its under a certain dollar value.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (RsS92)

143 >>> Anya Taylor-Joy… never heard of her

Peaky Blinders, Queen's Gambit, The VVitch, Dune 2, Emma, Princess Peach in the Super Mario Brothers Movie. I felt bad for her that the new Furiosa film flopped. She's very good. Flawless fashion.

She speaks perfect Spanish, whereas Rachel "look at meeee I'm Latina!" doesn't. They were seated next to each other at a fashion show. The stink eye Rachel gave Anja when she casually broke into spanish was everything.
https://tinyurl.com/2u3k8dh5

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (wcIbG)

144 139 I’d eliminate the legal resident option too. If a non citizen, here legally, has a kid, kid can’t become a citizen until the patent does. That would be the system I set up.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:42 PM (B2EzS)

Because of Wong Kim Ark, for that you almost certainly would have to amend the constitution.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (wyMQY)

145
Witch. And if you don't recall her role, I'd suggest maybe you watch it again, because I can't see how anyone would see the film and not remember her.

It would be like watching Iron Man and saying you don't remember Robert Downey in it.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2024

***
The whole film was shot in that grey depressive kind of cinematography that was so super cool once upon a time (say, the Fifties) but is way overused now. Maybe I was distracted by worries in my own life at the time . . . but when someone mentions the film, I think first of the big black goat, Philip.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (J2vNu)

146 Wong Kim Ark explicitly blessed the idea of birthright citizenship? Thought it was just a (baseless) idea in dicta to that ruling.

And legal aliens definitely are "subject to jurisdiction" of the US, as they have entered a system of law and regulation controlling and limiting their presence etc. So I would think that legal aliens are obviously a separate category. Legal aliens often have a path to citizenship - it's a legal path, requiring time, money, compliance with laws, etc. That removes any doubt they are in a separate category from somebody whose mother happens to be in the US when birth occurs.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (1m82a)

147 I’d eliminate the legal resident option too. If a non citizen, here legally, has a kid, kid can’t become a citizen until the patent does. That would be the system I set up.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:42 PM (B2EzS)

Hmmm. 20 years after the parent becomes a citizen, just like a patent expiration. I can go for that.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (VNX3d)

148 Why did the woke decide the word slave is no bueno and now we have to say enslaved people?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (B2EzS)

149 I've just been informed that my step-mother has spent a significant portion of the day hysterical wondering where my dad is..........

I can't wait for 2024 to go away.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

150 I came back with, "So if I rob a bank to give my family a better life, that's okay then?"

He changed the subject.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:40 PM (J2vNu)
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I used the break into your house and expect free room and board analogy with my lefty daughter. She gave up after that.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (tT6L1)

151 Joe Biden pardoned two Chinese spies and an individual accused of possessing of child pornography, also Chinese.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (noAi2)

152 not a guy, but she looks strange to me

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She looks like an alien/ human hybrid - pale skin, triangle head and big, widely spaced eyes.

Posted by: Josephistan at December 12, 2024 02:45 PM (R82fo)

153 108 I don't believe for a minute the often repeated claim illegal immigrants commit crimes at a lower rate that citizens.
Posted by: Ripley at December 12, 2024 02:30 PM --

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Dubious as it is, this can't be said enough: The acceptable rate of crimes for noncitizens residing in the United States is 0.00000000 per 330,000,000. It's the one metric we can control summarily.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 12, 2024 02:45 PM (ONKVy)

154 Mark Levin said the constitution would have to be amended to end birthright citizenship.

I disagree. The idea of it was not enshrined in the constitution, its based on a faulty interpretation of the 14th amendment. It can be removed by a court ruling.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:26 PM (RsS92)
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I agree (see my post above). The problem is the wording of the 14th amendment on this issue was clear at the time, but is now archaic and confusing. How many people today will understand what the "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" requirement means?

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2024 02:45 PM (iFTx/)

155 Because of Wong Kim Ark, for that you almost certainly would have to amend the constitution.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (wyMQY)

But what of Wi Tu Lo and Bang Ding Ow?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:45 PM (Zz0t1)

156 Imagine that. They just found them.

>>@jsolomonReports
·
>>1m
>>Huge new tranche of evidence: ⁦
@RepJamesComer
⁩ says Treasury Dept has located 400-plus Suspicious Activity Reports flagging ActBlue, more than double what was alerted for the Biden family

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2024 02:45 PM (LkLld)

157

Why does that shrieking Welker have a Lego shaped head like Larry Czonka?

Black Conservative Perspective has a recent video with Van Jones where he explains to libtarded screeching prog idiot journos whats wrong. He’s insightful actually.

The dippy imbeciles don’t get it.

Kellyanne Conway is there which is hilarious.

Posted by: E Buzz at December 12, 2024 02:45 PM (AGg8J)

158 Vladimir Putin has been alerted that Russian military personnel and equipment are now "stranded" in Syria following the dramatic downfall of Bashar al-Assad's regime.

.. damn, Vlad did an even worse job than Dementia Joe

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 02:46 PM (RHGPo)

159 I've just been informed that my step-mother has spent a significant portion of the day hysterical wondering where my dad is..........

I can't wait for 2024 to go away.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

jesus man, prayers

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:46 PM (CIS44)

160 MSNBC needs to be sued over that "worldview" blurb.

The gloves need to come off.

Posted by: Thatch at December 12, 2024 02:46 PM (bbi0+)

161
Birthright citizenship was designed to ensure that the freed slaves were recognized as full citizens of the United States.
Posted by: Moonbeam at December 12, 2024 02:21 PM (rbKZ6)

Funny how the Democrat party freaked out about Birthright citizenship in the mid 19th century when it referred to Black Americans and they just Jim Crowed everyone

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2024 02:47 PM (y9nCu)

162 Anya Taylor-Joy looking very attractive deleted scene:

http://tiny.cc/ll01001

you're welcome
Posted by: brak at December 12, 2024

***
If *that* had been in The Witch, I'd remember her for sure.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:47 PM (J2vNu)

163 Does someone on a tourist visa qualify as “under the jurisdiction of”?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:47 PM (B2EzS)

164
jesus man, prayers
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:46 PM (CIS44)

Thanks.

I'm just waiting to see if I'll need to take a road trip this afternoon.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)

165 Enter New Jersey State Rep. Brian Bergen who attended a Department of Homeland Security meeting eager for some answers, or even possibly a plan of action, but said he came away with neither. After an hour of frustrating nothing burgers, he saw the writing on the wall and walked out. “I walked out because it was worthless,” Bergen began. “It was the biggest amateur hour presentation I’ve ever seen about anything, ok? It was ridiculous, there were no answers.” “They don’t know where the drones are coming from, they don’t know who’s doing it, they don’t know why they’re doing.

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 02:48 PM (RHGPo)

166 Anya Taylor-Joy looking very attractive deleted scene:

http://tiny.cc/ll01001

you're welcome
Posted by: brak at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (NGHTx)

I think I just deleted a scene.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:48 PM (RyRnV)

167 The problem is the wording of the 14th amendment on this issue was clear at the time, but is now archaic and confusing.

Honestly, its been confusing for a long time. The 14th amendment crams too much together and is not well written at all. Its caused all manner of problems.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:48 PM (RsS92)

168 Sorry to hear that, Sponge. Prayer up.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:48 PM (v6JzV)

169 Thanks.

I'm just waiting to see if I'll need to take a road trip this afternoon.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:47 PM (Zz0t1)
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Same, Sponge. Dropping things and lighting out was the name of the game for a couple of years with mom. It's distressing, to say the least.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 12, 2024 02:49 PM (tT6L1)

170 In his latest effort to entrench Democrat control, despite Americans making their views clear, Schumer tried to ensure a Democratic majority on the National Labor Relations Board for the first two years of Trump’s presidency.

Ultimately, however, Schumer’s efforts failed after Sens. Kyrsten Sinema (I-AZ) and Joe Manchin (I-WV) voted ‘no’ on a procedural vote that would have cleared the way for Lauren McFerran’s nomination.

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 02:49 PM (RHGPo)

171 She speaks perfect Spanish, whereas Rachel "look at meeee I'm Latina!" doesn't.

that's funny. She grew up in Argentina, and is of European descent, but speaks perfect Spanish because Argentina. Which just shows how silly the "hispanic" designation is

Posted by: brak at December 12, 2024 02:49 PM (NGHTx)

172 I don't think "subject to the jurisdiction thereof" is in any way archaic or dated language. I think legislative counsel in Congress would word similar laws using exactly this phrase.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:50 PM (1m82a)

173 Anya Taylor-Joy looking very attractive deleted scene

I can see why that was deleted. Its dull and slow, other than the lovely girl in a translucent gown. If she was dressed in something opaque, its just a long pointless sequence that slows a movie down. Eye candy isn't enough, especially for half your audience (or more, given its a period piece).

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:50 PM (RsS92)

174 Since illegal immigration is a crime, any illegal alien in the United States is not subject to the jurisdiction thereof and therefore their children are not citizens.

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sounds good to me !

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2024 02:50 PM (QTCRF)

175 What causes the problem as usual is leftard emanations and penumbras that they know they are manufacturing.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:50 PM (RyRnV)

176 Sorry to hear that, Sponge. Prayer up.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:48 PM (v6JzV)

Thank you.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

177
Same, Sponge. Dropping things and lighting out was the name of the game for a couple of years with mom. It's distressing, to say the least.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at December 12, 2024 02:49 PM (tT6L1)

Much appreciated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:50 PM (Zz0t1)

178 146 Wong Kim Ark explicitly blessed the idea of birthright citizenship? Thought it was just a (baseless) idea in dicta to that ruling."

Brief synopsis - Wong Kim Ark was born in California to two Chinese nationals who were resident aliens. Wong Kim Ark as a young man took a trip abroad, and was then denied re-entry to the US under the Chinese Exclusion Act, and the fact that neither parent had been a citizen. His case for reentry made it to the Supreme Court, and the Court ruled that due to Birthright Citizenship he was a full citizen of the US and could not be denied entry. That ruling has never been challenged in 126 years, and is treated as dogma by all US Courts.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 02:51 PM (wyMQY)

179 Christopher can't say why but always liked Anya's looks

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 02:51 PM (fwDg9)

180 What causes the problem as usual is leftard emanations and penumbras that they know they are manufacturing.
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:50 PM (RyRnV)

I got your emanation right here!

*wafts hand from ass*

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:51 PM (CIS44)

181 I think the 14th is as clear as it could be. Taken along with the legislative history, it's perfectly clear (makes Nixonian "V" sign with fingers). What am I missing?

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:51 PM (1m82a)

182 How do you know she's a witch?

Posted by: Monty Python at December 12, 2024 02:51 PM (DobEs)

183 again, the point that possibly distinguishes Wong Kim Ark is that his parents were legal alien residents, not illegal.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (wyMQY)

184 I got your emanation right here!

*wafts hand from ass*
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 02:51 PM (CIS44)

That is a spot on John Roberts imitation.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (RyRnV)

185 I agree (see my post above). The problem is the wording of the 14th amendment on this issue was clear at the time, but is now archaic and confusing. How many people today will understand what the "and subject to the jurisdiction thereof" requirement means?
Posted by: Elric The Blade

I saw Indians Not Taxed open for...

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

186 Posted by: brak at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (NGHTx)

As the commentator under the clip notes, it's eye candy for guys but doesn't advance the story.

And as far as Wolfus mentioning "East of Eden" the character of Cathy is described as beautiful even though she's a psychopath. Jane Seymour was fine in the role and beautiful. I don't think Anna Taylor Joy is she looks like a human version of a flounder . Sue me. 😉

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (K/3W/)

187 No one can get a firm handle on whether illegals are more violent because no one is tabulating the crimes by illegals. The FBI doesn't and the states with the most illegals, blue states, would think it's "racist " to do so

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (YO1Vi)

188 I need a drink.

Posted by: Old Lady Emhoff at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (DobEs)

189 A lot of our problems would have not happened had peeps on the 18th and 19th century used plain English writing amendments.

You have the right to own guns.. The government cannot take that right away. Period.

If you are born in the US and your parents are legally here, you are a citizen at birth. This applies to all freed slaves too.

Instead we have…well you know.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (B2EzS)

190 His case for reentry made it to the Supreme Court, and the Court ruled that due to Birthright Citizenship he was a full citizen of the US and could not be denied entry. That ruling has never been challenged in 126 years, and is treated as dogma by all US Courts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024

***
High time it was challenged, then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:53 PM (J2vNu)

191 That ruling has never been challenged in 126 years, and is treated as dogma by all US Courts.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 02:51 PM (wyMQY)

Well Roe V. Wade and Chevron was overturned, so it seems like this one needs a revisiting.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:53 PM (Zz0t1)

192 After my Dad died, my Mom, who had dementia, would sometimes ask, "Where's that man?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:54 PM (v6JzV)

193 So Wong Kim Ark is a stellar example of court-made law, substituting their own arbitrary preferences and rationalizing it by a ridiculous inversion of a constitutional amendment that was explicitly *not* in support of their ukaz?

Sounds about right. Hamdan v. Bush and Obergefell would say "hold my beer" if they hadn't come after, and not before, I guess.

Posted by: rhomboid at December 12, 2024 02:54 PM (1m82a)

194 Anna Taylor Joy eyes are so far apart she looks like Admiral Akbar , the Star Wars character, not the commenter. She's got Jesse Jackson eyes

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2024 02:54 PM (YO1Vi)

195 We need to go back to the original 10 Amendments and recast the dice for all the rest.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2024 02:54 PM (j6KoD)

196 Well Roe V. Wade and Chevron was overturned, so it seems like this one needs a revisiting.

It might be on Justice Thomas' list

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:54 PM (RsS92)

197 As the commentator under the clip notes, it's eye candy for guys but doesn't advance the story.

it's paired with a scene of Emma's male suitor getting dressed, and just sort of reinforces their social position and shows off the fine clothes and the attention to historical detail, but yes an easy cut as it doesn't advance the plot

Posted by: brak at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (NGHTx)

198 Jane Seymour was fine in the role and beautiful. I don't think Anna Taylor Joy is she looks like a human version of a flounder . Sue me. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It's pretty hard to top Jane Seymour in the looks department.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (v6JzV)

199 I saw Indians Not Taxed open for...

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Golden Earring....

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (QTCRF)

200
I saw Indians Not Taxed open for...
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

.....Siouxsie and the Banshees at The Resevation in '98.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (Zz0t1)

201 can't wait for 2024 to go away.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (Zz0t1)

Sorry Sponge. I can understand your feelings about this year.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (K/3W/)

202 That is a spot on John Roberts imitation.

A spot on his shorts.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (3xAmh)

203 Speaking of witches, Connie Booth was a "fair cop" in her day:

https://tinyurl.com/4r8zcsbc

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (ONKVy)

204
Hope the FIN just went fishin', Sponge.

Posted by: Auspex at December 12, 2024 02:55 PM (j4U/Z)

205 The Plymouth Penumbra name was changed to Zephyr after marketing determined people thought they were selling umbrellas.

Posted by: Car Nerd at December 12, 2024 02:56 PM (DobEs)

206 >>an easy cut as it doesn't advance the plot

I don't know.

The sunlight playing through that cotton advanced something.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2024 02:56 PM (j6KoD)

207 We might lose this one before SCOUTS. They should have plan "B".

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2024 02:56 PM (QTCRF)

208 Speaking of witches, Connie Booth was a "fair cop" in her day:

https://tinyurl.com/4r8zcsbc
Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer

Kinda a poor man's Elizabeth Montgomery.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:56 PM (v6JzV)

209 I'd revisit the idea of indentured servitude.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (Q4IgG)

210 And as far as Wolfus mentioning "East of Eden" the character of Cathy is described as beautiful even though she's a psychopath. Jane Seymour was fine in the role and beautiful. I don't think Anna Taylor Joy is she looks like a human version of a flounder . Sue me. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 202

***
Cathy was also described in this way: "Groups of boys and girls avoided her as if she carried a nameless danger." Anya kind of fits that.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (J2vNu)

211 Babylon Bee, Paper of Record:

'Now Now, Let's Not Be So Hasty To Find And Assassinate Everyone Responsible For The Healthcare Crisis,' Says Nervous Obama

https://tinyurl.com/ya25j8zu

Fauci gets a mention as well.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (VNX3d)

212 Hubba hubba.

Posted by: Connie Booth fanboi at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (DobEs)

213 209 I'd revisit the idea of indentured servitude.
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Dueling needs to be revived.

Posted by: pudinhead at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (jFCkp)

214 I vaguely recall there is some genetic condition that has a marker for eyes too close set together, but there isn't one for eyes set too far apart and humans are very, very good at measuring the "correct" distance for eyes to be apart.

So for someone with close set eyes you notice and find it unappealing and for someone whose eyes are too far apart you notice it but for most it isn't inherently unappealing.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (oZhjI)

215 After my Dad died, my Mom, who had dementia, would sometimes ask, "Where's that man?"

The stress and confusion of moving mom into our house caused a serious break in her mind. She had no memory of moving. She couldn't figure out who I and my brother Jonathan were, and was convinced her two sons Christopher and Jonathan were living somewhere else. She tried repeatedly to write us letters. She referred to us as nice men who were taking care of her, but to her death refused to recognize me as her son.

That was... not easy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (RsS92)

216 I'm not a guy, but she looks strange to me, and having never had a desire to see any of the films she's been in, I don't know if she's a good actress although some people assure me she is.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

She was excellent in "Queen's Gambit". Played a chess prodigy. She is singular in her looks though.

Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (oaGWv)

217 I saw Indians Not Taxed open for...
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

.....Siouxsie and the Banshees at The Resevation in '98.
Posted by: Sponge

Thanks for finishing the joke. I couldn't come up a real band or a venue that were Indian-related.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (v6JzV)

218 The Wong Kim Ark case was decided two years after Plessy v Ferguson which said racial segregation was fine. That was overturned in 1954 by Brown v Bd of Ed of Topeka. You don't have to overturn Wong just restrict it to those with status , ie resident alien.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at December 12, 2024 02:58 PM (YO1Vi)

219 Good. Step 2 is to close the deal this time.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at December 12, 2024 02:59 PM (CwhoI)

220 Anna Taylor Joy has done a good job in every movie I've seen her in and hasn't *yet* annoyed me with her politics which is about all you can ask.

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:59 PM (oZhjI)

221 85 years after Adolf Hilter was named TIME Person of the Year, Taylor Swift followed in his footsteps

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 02:59 PM (RHGPo)

222
So for someone with close set eyes you notice and find it unappealing and for someone whose eyes are too far apart you notice it but for most it isn't inherently unappealing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (oZhjI)

Worked with a guy that used to think the pop singer Brandy was hot. I'd mentioned to him how far apart her eyes were, she was alien-like. He was a fan of the TV show she was on, but after watching it, came back to work and cursed me for ruining it for him.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)

223 Ok, but what does TayTay think?

Posted by: Young people today at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (DobEs)

224 Loathsome Pentagon Spoxhack Kirby basically said the drones in NJ are a figment of their imagination, despite some of those reports coming from .mil.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (XJzAV)

225 I don't think Anna Taylor Joy is she looks like a human version of a flounder . Sue me. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (K/3W/)

Well if she asked me to flound'er, I would politely oblige.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (RyRnV)

226
Honestly, its been confusing for a long time. The 14th amendment crams too much together and is not well written at all. Its caused all manner of problems.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

How about a well regulated militia?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (63Dwl)

227 Ok, but what does TayTay think?

Travis better be getting her more jewelry stat?

Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (oZhjI)

228 Back to how I think this situation should be addressed - in 1924, the Court had no problem with Congress completely rewriting the Citizenship treatment of Indians under the 14th amendment in a massive piece of legislation. The Court has said that when Congress passes a bill, and it is signed by the President, this represents the authority of 2 branches of government working together, and they are very hesitant to overturn something of that nature.

An EO is very weak because it's just the President acting on his own.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (wyMQY)

229 I am positive I am not the only one who likes Anya, Dailytimewaster.blogspot.com puts her up often so see lots of comments just about her.
There are often film stars who have odd or maybe call it exotic looks that just works. Every once in awhile see women casual in public with same odd looks that just works.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 03:01 PM (fwDg9)

230 Honestly, its been confusing for a long time. The 14th amendment crams too much together and is not well written at all. Its caused all manner of problems.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

How about a well regulated militia?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr.

How about "chuse?"

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:01 PM (v6JzV)

231
Travis better be getting her more jewelry stat?
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (oZhjI)

Travis should tell his brother to take a vacation from the public forum for a while. GEEZ what a train wreck that guy is turning into.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:01 PM (Zz0t1)

232 I am positive I am not the only one who likes Anya, Dailytimewaster.blogspot.com puts her up often so see lots of comments just about her.
There are often film stars who have odd or maybe call it exotic looks that just works. Every once in awhile see women casual in public with same odd looks that just works.
Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 03:01 PM (fwDg9)

Oh rest assured you are not.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (CIS44)

233 226
Honestly, its been confusing for a long time. The 14th amendment crams too much together and is not well written at all. Its caused all manner of problems.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

The 14th is the Killer Amendment that rewrote the entire Constitution in it's own image.

Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (wyMQY)

234
Loathsome Pentagon Spoxhack Kirby basically said the drones in NJ are a figment of their imagination, despite some of those reports coming from .mil.
Posted by: Marcus T

Some ex-employee of the USAF said some people may be seeing planets.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (63Dwl)

235 Anya Taylor-Joy is unusual in her looks, but very striking. And I had not known she was of Argentine extraction.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (J2vNu)

236 The 14th is the Killer Amendment that rewrote the entire Constitution in its own image.
Posted by: Tom Servo

Yep.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (v6JzV)

237
An EO is very weak because it's just the President acting on his own.
Posted by: Tom Servo at December 12, 2024 03:00 PM (wyMQY)

Proven when Biden revoked all of Trump's EO's on day one and sent this country into a tailspin flying into a shitstorm.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

238 >> A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Very confusing, isn’t it? Especially the shall not be infringed part.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (XJzAV)

239 55 years after 'The Middle Americans' were named TIME Person of the Year, Donald Trump followed in their footsteps

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:03 PM (RHGPo)

240 Proven when Biden revoked all of Trump's EO's on day one and sent this country into a tailspin flying into a shitstorm.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (Zz0t1)

headed for a sharknado.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:03 PM (CIS44)

241 So for someone with close set eyes you notice and find it unappealing and for someone whose eyes are too far apart you notice it but for most it isn't inherently unappealing.
Posted by: 18-1 at December 12, 2024 02:57 PM (oZhjI)

Worked with a guy that used to think the pop singer Brandy was hot. I'd mentioned to him how far apart her eyes were, she was alien-like. He was a fan of the TV show she was on, but after watching it, came back to work and cursed me for ruining it for him.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 02:59 PM (Zz0t1)
_______

Fuck all of you toxic MAGA misogynists!"

-- Rachel "Shit White" Zegler

Posted by: Elric The Blade at December 12, 2024 03:03 PM (iFTx/)

242 Very confusing, isn’t it? Especially the shall not be infringed part.
Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (XJzAV)

But you can't own a canon, it says.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

243 Before you know it, there will be fewer children in our sex network!

Posted by: The Cabal at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (D9hgC)

244 Why did the woke decide the word slave is no bueno and now we have to say enslaved people?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:44 PM (B2EzS)

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The Left has somewhat recently morphed "homeless person" into "person experiencing homelessness."

Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (fcgJ5)

245
headed for a sharknado.
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:03 PM (CIS44)

An acceptable addition.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (Zz0t1)

246 How about a well regulated militia?

That has also caused confusion. If we had a better public, academia, and judiciary, I would support a careful rewrite and modernization of the constitution and amendments (like the New King James Bible) but I do not trust anyone to do it today.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (RsS92)

247 214 >>I vaguely recall there is some genetic condition that has a marker for eyes too close set together, but there isn't one for eyes set too far apart and humans are very, very good at measuring the "correct" distance for eyes to be apart.
--

There's got to be some talent scouting directive out there to look for maximum eyeballs-as-a-percentage-of facial area.

Aforementioned ATJ and Emma Stone immediately come to mind, but there are others, I believe.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (ONKVy)

248 But you can't own a canon, it says.
Posted by: Sponge

That's a matter for canon law.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (v6JzV)

249 I loved the black friend in the Queens Gambit.

Not only did I guess she was going to decide to become a lawyer but when she was asked what she was going to do I without missing a beat chorused along with her - "change the world".

And would you believe none of that shit was in the book - I think her friend became a maid (?). But that's apparently too lowly for the Left so instead she had to be written as a proto Moochelle despite it not being true to a damn thing. Actually chess was invented by a sassy black woman.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (RyRnV)

250 The Left has somewhat recently morphed "homeless person" into "person experiencing homelessness."
Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (fcgJ5)

unhoused is also en vogue.

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (CIS44)

251 We have lots of canons.

Posted by: The Church at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (DobEs)

252 The Left has somewhat recently morphed "homeless person" into "person experiencing homelessness."
Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (fcgJ5)

Actually you are way behind, friend. It's now "the unhoused".

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (RyRnV)

253 189 A lot of our problems would have not happened had peeps on the 18th and 19th century used plain English writing amendments.

You have the right to own guns.. The government cannot take that right away. Period.

If you are born in the US and your parents are legally here, you are a citizen at birth. This applies to all freed slaves too.

Instead we have…well you know.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (B2EzS)

The language has evolved over time. What you refer to as plain English was nothing of the sort at the time the Constitution and various amendments were written.

That's partly what being an originalist on the Constitution meanss, going with the original meaning of the words rather than what they mean at any other given time, like they try to do with the 2nd amendment.

Posted by: Farquad at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (CFMhl)

254 The Left has somewhat recently morphed "homeless person" into "person experiencing homelessness."

no you can't say homeless anything you privileged bigot, it's "unhoused"!!!!

Posted by: The Media at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (NGHTx)

255 Shoot one down. And you need something to get a few hundred feet up

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (fwDg9)

256 An EO was never meant to be a permanent solution. It was meant to invoke immediate action whereby Congress could potentially take up the issue a craft it into permanent legislation, or the order could be litigated a claimed as an Executive power.

But of course, Congress does nothing but sit on their asses and name post offices while ceding power to other branches that isn’t theirs to cede.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (XJzAV)

257 I hope he keeps this promise.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (jPdyB)

258 >>> So for someone with close set eyes you notice and find it unappealing and for someone whose eyes are too far apart you notice it but for most it isn't inherently unappealing.

There are several actors who are extremely good looking, but their features are cobbled in such a way, that if you change one thing their face falls apart. Especially eye width or nose shape.

Benedict Cumberbund, Betty Davis, Natalie Dormer, Anja, Judy Greer, Hilary Swank, Cate Blanchette...

Posted by: LizLem at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (wcIbG)

259 The language has evolved over time. What you refer to as plain English was nothing of the sort at the time the Constitution and various amendments were written.

That's partly what being an originalist on the Constitution meanss, going with the original meaning of the words rather than what they mean at any other given time, like they try to do with the 2nd amendment.
Posted by: Farquad at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (CFMhl)

Dude. The Constitution is, like, over 100 years old, man. That's, like, so long ago, bro. There's like NO WAY it can apply to today.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (Zz0t1)

260 Biden Adviser Anita 'Brain' Dunn Claims DOJ Wasn’t Weaponized Against Trump

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

261 Why did the woke decide the word slave is no bueno and now we have to say enslaved people?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

Yeah, the local history folks I work with in my docent activities all use that.

It's stupid. "Slaves" are people by definition. No one ever talks about enslaving animals.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (v6JzV)

262 That this administration is covering up these drones it's either China or Iran doing it.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (fwDg9)

263 It used to be that airlines would not fly a woman 7 or more months pregnant.

Posted by: Ciampino - on a list? at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (i0xsb)

264 They subscribe to a worldview that has long rejected the notion that America's white Christian heritage can stand while also freely accepting the children of nonwhite migrants or formerly enslaved Black people as equal citizens under the Constitution.

Ah, you write with the Devil's Tongue. Satan will be pleased.

Posted by: The Cabal at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (FHiG2)

265 Hail, with it, baby, 'cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love...

Posted by: Redbone at December 12, 2024 03:07 PM (Jq+og)

266 >> But you can't own a canon, it says.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:03 PM (Zz0t1)

Even though during the early period of our democratic republic the government was leasing weaponry, including canon, from private citizens.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:07 PM (XJzAV)

267 It's stupid. "Slaves" are people by definition. No one ever talks about enslaving animals.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (v6JzV)

*clears throat*
-PETA

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:07 PM (CIS44)

268 No one ever talks about enslaving animals.

many not in a language you understand

Posted by: Horse that is tired of pulling this cart at December 12, 2024 03:07 PM (NGHTx)

269 The Left has somewhat recently morphed "homeless person" into "person experiencing homelessness."
Posted by: ShainS -- Deus Ex Muskina [h/t Mike Benz] at December 12, 2024
*
Actually you are way behind, friend. It's now "the unhoused".
Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024

***
It's like when a bureaucratic department "reinvents" itself: Its name gets longer. Where I work, "Personnel," a simple gender-neutral word, became "Human Resources" and then "Workforce Management Organization." They've gone back to HR, but I suspect there's a four-word title coming up in the next year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at December 12, 2024 03:08 PM (J2vNu)

270 Biden Adviser Anita 'Brain' Dunn Claims DOJ Wasn’t Weaponized Against Trump
Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

As much as my balls don't hang a little lower on the right.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:08 PM (Zz0t1)

271 Biden Adviser Anita 'Brain' Dunn Claims DOJ Wasn’t Weaponized Against Trump
Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (RHGPo)

As I often like to say about the Left - what is the point of lying if you're going to admit you're lying.

Posted by: ... at December 12, 2024 03:08 PM (RyRnV)

272 Even though during the early period of our democratic republic the government was leasing weaponry, including canon, from private citizens.
Posted by: Marcus T

Folks, it's "cannon."

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:08 PM (v6JzV)

273 Not complaining but seeing Anya video suggestions on my YouTube

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2024 03:08 PM (fwDg9)

274 As somebody noted above, birthright citizenship has never been absolute.

The children of foreign diplomats born in the United States are not US citizens, for example.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at December 12, 2024 03:09 PM (uxCna)

275 Hail, with it, baby, 'cause you're fine
And you're mine, and you look so divine
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love
Come and get your love...
Posted by: Redbone at December 12, 2024 03:07 PM (Jq+og)

Shut your eyes and love me too.
Shut your eyes and love me too.
Shut your eyes and love me too.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:09 PM (Zz0t1)

276 Take a foreign 18 yearold man. He is subject to common laws such as traffic, etc. However if his country drafts him he is expected to go. His country has jurisdiction.

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of knocking at December 12, 2024 03:09 PM (i0xsb)

277 How about a well regulated militia?

That has also caused confusion. If we had a better public, academia, and judiciary, I would support a careful rewrite and modernization of the constitution and amendments (like the New King James Bible) but I do not trust anyone to do it today.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 03:04 PM (RsS92)

I disagree on two points.

1) The NKJV doesn't rely solely on the same source texts as the KJV. There are definite differences in the locations of texts, and other additions and subtractions.

2) I think there are a lot of people here in the Horde who could do a good job on a language update, using a relatively recent, non-woke dictionary, the original Noah Webster dictionary, and other sources to ensure clarity. If so, I'd recommend having multiple teams, each responsible for one part, or integrating the useful amendments into the core document, then reviewing and reviewing the work of other teams. This would be a refining process, similar to the work done to create the KJV Bible.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf - Remember Vic and VNN! at December 12, 2024 03:09 PM (VNX3d)

278 >> Some ex-employee of the USAF said some people may be seeing planets.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2024 03:02 PM (63Dwl)

If that were south Texas, people would be waiting outside every night with a six pack for a chance to take a shot.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:10 PM (XJzAV)

279 I don't think Anna Taylor Joy is she looks like a human version of a flounder . Sue me. 😉
Posted by: FenelonSpoke
......

Think I'll go fishing.

Posted by: wth at December 12, 2024 03:10 PM (v0R5T)

280
Folks, it's "cannon."
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:08 PM (v6JzV)

It didn't put a red squiggly line under, so it's fine.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

281 254 The Left has somewhat recently morphed "homeless person" into "person experiencing homelessness."

no you can't say homeless anything you privileged bigot, it's "unhoused"!!!!
Posted by: The Media at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM

--

The phrase "enslaved people" wasn't coined, it was decreed.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 12, 2024 03:10 PM (ONKVy)

282 for someone whose eyes are too far apart you notice it but for most it isn't inherently unappealing.

I've never seen anyone with their eyes too far apart.

Posted by: Lori Lightfoot at December 12, 2024 03:10 PM (c5wrR)

283 How about a well regulated militia?

That has also caused confusion. If we had a better public, academia, and judiciary, I would support a careful rewrite and modernization of the constitution and amendments (like the New King James Bible) but I do not trust anyone to do it today.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I agree, but I think you'd need an amendment to authorize a rewrite.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:11 PM (v6JzV)

284 It didn't put a red squiggly line under, so it's fine.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at December 12, 2024 03:10 PM (Zz0t1)

MY MAN!

*fist bump*

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:11 PM (CIS44)

285 The 14th is the Killer Amendment that rewrote the entire Constitution in it's own image.

In its essence, what its trying to accomplish, is good. How its written and how much it tries to pack into a single amendment, is not. I would like to see it be overruled with a series of like 3-4 much better and more clearly written amendments that do the same thing.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 03:11 PM (RsS92)

286 >> Folks, it's "cannon."
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:08 PM (v6JzV

Ok “Grammar Nazi”.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:11 PM (XJzAV)

287 85 74 years after Adolf Hitler was named TIME Person of the Year, ~~Taylor Swift~~ Barack Hussein Obama followed in his footsteps
Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 02:59 PM (RHGPo)

there, much better !

Posted by: runner at December 12, 2024 03:11 PM (QTCRF)

288 How about a well regulated militia?

That has also caused confusion. If we had a better public, academia, and judiciary, I would support a careful rewrite and modernization of the constitution and amendments (like the New King James Bible) but I do not trust anyone to do it today.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor

I agree, but I think you'd need an amendment to authorize a rewrite.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:11 PM (v6JzV)

Or you could just read the Federalist Papers...

Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:11 PM (CIS44)

289 Spicy nood.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at December 12, 2024 03:12 PM (ONKVy)

290 Kamala Harris was given birthright citizenship as both of her parrents were not US citizens

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:13 PM (RHGPo)

291 It's stupid. "Slaves" are people by definition. No one ever talks about enslaving animals.

Well, some people do but they are such raging outsider lunatics nobody pays them any heed.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 03:14 PM (RsS92)

292 BabylonBee: McDonald’s Surpasses FBI In Number Of Shooters Apprehended In 2024.

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:14 PM (RHGPo)

293 I think the opening negotiation bid should be to end birthright citizenship retroactively based on the original intent.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at December 12, 2024 03:16 PM (jPdyB)

294 Most of the Civil War and Antebellum amendments were unnecessary. The entire idea that people were not citizens or subject to the Constitution due to the color of their skin is both insidious and antithetical to the text. All those amendments did was provide a means to subvert the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

Posted by: Marcus T at December 12, 2024 03:16 PM (XJzAV)

295 It didn't put a red squiggly line under, so it's fine.
Posted by: Sponge

That's one of the things that really bothers me about Spellcheck.

I was once Christmas shopping for my WWII veteran father-in-law, and found a book I thought he'd like which were the memoirs of a German panzer commander. On the title page it said "Translated form the German by..". At this point I shut the book and put it back on the shelf. I knew my FIL would not countenance that kind of thing in a published work.

But there was no red sqiggle under that "form," so some lazy kid working in the printing house never caught the error.

I don't do withous Spellcheck entirely, since it does catch things that the human eye might otherwise miss, but I always make sure to print out the doc and do a proofread of the hard copy as well.

Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:16 PM (v6JzV)

296 254 The Left has somewhat recently morphed "homeless person" into "person experiencing homelessness."

no you can't say homeless anything you privileged bigot, it's "unhoused"!!!!

Posted by: The Media at December 12, 2024 03:05 PM (NGHTx)
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So the Wicked Witch Of The West was "housed"? Or was it "floored"?

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of housing at December 12, 2024 03:17 PM (i0xsb)

297 PARDONED: Abraham W. Bolden Sr., Secret service agent soliciting money to commit fraud; obstruction of justice

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:18 PM (RHGPo)

298 There's a very clearly defined route to immigrating into this Republic legally, and if one cannot be bothered to observe it, then stay the fuck out. The degree of difficulty observing that protocol is fitting, to embrace a change of one's fealty to a country is not to be taken lightly.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at December 12, 2024 03:21 PM (hKoQL)

299 One of the reasons all these lefties, that always threaten to leave the country when a Republican wins, never actually leave is:
Getting citizenship in any 1st world country is very difficult and very expensive.

They don't take just any asshole who claims they want to live there. They want rock-solid proof that you will be not just a net-positive but a 100% gain.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at December 12, 2024 02:36 PM (MX9rJ)
________________

Try to get a work permit in any European country. It's no mean feat.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2024 03:23 PM (YqDXo)

300 290 Kamala Harris was given birthright citizenship as both of her parrents were not US citizens

Posted by: SMOD at December 12, 2024 03:13 PM (RHGPo)
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So she wasn't eligible for POTUSb then, not natural born (at least one parent being a citizen at the time of birth).

Posted by: Ciampino - Talking of housings at December 12, 2024 03:24 PM (i0xsb)

301 I saw Indians Not Taxed open for...
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 02:52 PM (v6JzV)

Blackfoot at the Mohegan Sun in 2010.

Posted by: CTHillary, dead but dreaming at December 12, 2024 03:40 PM (zSyrn)

302 Unintended consequence - your US birth certificate won't be proof of citizenship any longer, so everyone who wants a passport will be filling out some new 50-page form to documentwho their parents are and were they here legally.

Posted by: rickyRicardo at December 12, 2024 04:25 PM (PvHs+)

303 It's stupid. "Slaves" are people by definition. No one ever talks about enslaving animals.

Well, some people do but they are such raging outsider lunatics nobody pays them any heed.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2024 03:14 PM (RsS92)

The constitution does not mention slaves. It calls them persons in each case

Posted by: Oldcat at December 12, 2024 04:37 PM (n7h9X)

304 It's stupid. "Slaves" are people by definition. No one ever talks about enslaving animals.
Posted by: Bulg at December 12, 2024 03:06 PM (v6JzV)

*clears throat*
-PETA
Posted by: BruceWayne at December 12, 2024 03:07 PM (CIS44)

PETA kills any animal it gets its hands on. Freeing the slaves just to kill them isn't the moral side

Posted by: Oldcat at December 12, 2024 04:41 PM (n7h9X)

305 A-Mess-NBC the Lying Peacock News continues to destroy its credibility and like the other news networks just marches off the cliff like Lemmings. PETA so far I havn,t heard a thing from them about Haitians Eating Cats and Ducks

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at December 12, 2024 04:51 PM (wGqjj)

306 children of... formerly enslaved Black people

Who is still enslaving Blacks? The Muzzies MSLSD wants to flood us with.

Posted by: Hal Dall at December 12, 2024 05:15 PM (KrKxR)

307 They've got it all wrong. We reject the notion that formerly-Black people of heritage, accepting enslaved children, can freely equal Christian citizens while also standing as ideas under the migrants, can be a Constitution.

Posted by: Bombadil at December 12, 2024 06:12 PM (MX0bI)

308 There is nothing wrong with White Christians being concerned primarily about protecting White Christians.

There is something odd about White Christians being concerned primarily with protecting Jewish Americans

Posted by: Deceased Head Football Coach Howard Schnellenberger at December 12, 2024 06:14 PM (ZVtdY)

309 No country in Europe has it.
Not true, Ace. Germany allowed me the choice to choose American or German citizenship when I turned 18 - merely because I had been born there, even though it was an American military hospital. And nowadays you don't even have to choose as both nations allow some dual citizenship.

(I chose America, btw.)

Posted by: GWB at December 12, 2024 08:08 PM (WlvCt)

310 My mother was a US citizen living in Canada, having been brought there by her parents when she was 8 years old, when I was born. When I went through the immigration process, to obtain legal residency, this bit of fact did me not one bit of good. Yet a foreign woman can enter the US, even illegally, have a child and that child is automatically a US citizen?

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