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  1. So the poster can get monetizable clicks. Similar messages when it's adult in nature.
  2. Does your church have a smaller service? One of the past ministers of my church declared the Easter Service a day for ladies to show off their pretty hats and advised the spiritually devout to stay at home. Easter and Christmas Eve/Day services are somewhat outliers, but the "big" service, especially if it has tinges of "rock Jesus," is not necessarily for people who are spiritually engaged, it's an effort to engage people that they might otherwise become spiritually engaged. And often, it's not much more than a social spectacle. It sounds like you are engaged and are looking for something more meaningful. Smaller services offer just that many times.
  3. This is what happens when you put very unserious people in very serious jobs.
  4. It does. A lot of folks, me included to a degree, have to remind them/ourselves that food is sustenance. It can be pleasurable, but that's not the main intention or necessity. Making that an intrinsic part of your eating habits can make a big difference as to food choices and portion control.
  5. I stopped drinking and stopped being a drunk. Didn't lose much weight. I was 30 though.
  6. When your income is social security and any income beyond that is insufficient to render the SSI taxable, you do not have to either pay tax or file a return over 65.
  7. PA really is kind of a test case or bellwether of the dying of the traditional American economy. Between the 'burgh in the west and Philly in the east, you had a lot of coal-mining and iron-steel and medium to heavy, but not very technical (here I mean a lot of value-add like cars, not software, things like knives, tools, tool and die, plastic injection molding) manufacturing. In other words, a lot of the shit that got offshored and has probably in some cases been replaced by importers of the same or similar products.
  8. Their branching out into financial services seems to correlate, if not have caused, their downfall.
  9. So, it looks like we're going to see exactly what exerting (or not exerting) soft power around the world looks like. He's ceding Africa to China and Russia.
  10. Yeah, I keep thinking that at some point, the supremes are going to have to uphold their own power, and that of the lower federal courts, no matter how badly they want to support or enable Trump or the executive more broadly. To date, they have mostly endorsed the accretion of executive power at the expense of Congress, but now they're having to confront it at the expense of their own power.
  11. Also love weak and ineffective judges that are stopping him at every turn, except the compromised and feckless political hacks at the Supreme Court.
  12. He really is fucking Damien.
  13. Surprise. I unplugged for baseball and other shit yesterday afternoon. Deets this morning are scant.
  14. Here is the government's brief. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A1007/356072/20250419170105032_A.A.R.P. Opp. FINAL.pdf Almost entirely procedural and free of blustery bullshit about executive power. Expectedly, it pretends that the government's findings that the detainees are TdA are regular and supportable. What it utterly fails to address is the lawfulness of the invocation of AEA, and the government's position taken elsewhere that once deportation is accomplished, it is irreversible. A couple of glaring problems.
  15. So, Fifth Circuit denied relief last night or yesterday and the SG has filed a brief before SCOTUS, but I can't find any details beyond that. Apparently some reference by the government to deporting on some basis other than AEA. Also reports that ICE did turn around buses for the airport after the SCOTUS ruling above.
  16. *used to be 3% Also, I was of the understanding that Trump killed the $800 exemption. Maybe that was just for Jyyyna. It ostensibly protects a lot of foreign orders, as from Temu or Alibaba, etc.
  17. Guy's name is Dan Chandler. Complete fat old fart white guy crank. Plano/Collin County. Aggy. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Gsvdlb4hZRDz3_j0dXFpA https://thedirtroadministry.com/ https://www.facebook.com/dan.chandler.56
  18. Fox News? Who's gonna talk to him? Gonna have Gutfeld and Watters try to roast him?
  19. Funny, I think the argument for Trump's variation is pretty purely textual, as opposed to originalist, while the argument against it is more originalist, that is the intent and understanding at the time of ratification
  20. Just explaining the argument. It was for the Indians. End of story. Trumpco is trying to extend it some other way. He should fail, but it's possible he wont. See Breuen. The justsecurity article goes into gorier detail and there's a similar one on lawfare from some months back that I'll try to find. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/no--native-american-citizenship-does-not-support-limits-on-birthright-citizenship
  21. The idea is that if both parents aren't citizens, they aren't subject to the jurisdiction of the United States and birthplace is irrelevant.
  22. The founders barely gave any thought to citizenship or naturalization. The "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," almost certainly referred exclusively to Native Americans, because even way back then, it was generally recognized that although they lived in the territory of the United States, they remained their own sovereign nation, sort of without territory, some with reservations of various types and flavors and some without. So even though they may have been born in the territory of the United States, in some abstract way, it was as if they were born in another country, within our country. And to attain US citizenship, had to undergo naturalization. This wasn't wholly an act of disrespect, either. Many Natives didn't want to be regarded as citizens of the US without some overt action on their part. The sovereignty of Native Americans on reservations, and reservations themselves, have become gradually more and less formalized, but even today, we recognize that Indian tribes may have many of their own laws and jurisdiction to enforce them. But we also passed the Indian Citizenship Act in 1924 that undid that aspect of the 14th Amendment. And, in keeping with the foregoing, some tribes were opposed to it. Trumpco is trying to extend that notion, that Native Americans were only partially subject to the jurisdiction of the US and therefore not citizens by birth, to citizens of any nation. It kind of fits in an abstract way, but I don't think was at all what the drafters of the 14th Amendment intended. Also, there is a "common understanding" of birthright citizenship under the 14th, but only a handful of legal decisions explicating it. And as was the usual case with century-old decisions and statutes, a bit of ambiguity.
  23. Well, you are a perfectly good white girl.
  24. I don't mind. As soon as I see one, I don't refresh. Not a complete spoiler.
  25. Kind of less about Pierce per se but the old Xs n Os. vs. Jimmys n Joes.
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