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NameAlreadyInUse

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  1. So to fight socialism, Tucker seems to be advocating for Communism now....
  2. So let's say the first 6 happen, and even the first part of the 7th. Can you point me to the part of the Constitution that says that all acts of an impeached official that happened while they are in office are automatically null and void? I'll admit I'm no Constitutional scholar, so I probably missed it.
  3. Yup, once married we had to go through all that as well, and it was a giant pain in the ass. I have a very large binder sitting in my closet that we used to prove we were in a real relationship when we were required to go in person to an immigration office to be interviewed for the green card, and another ream of paperwork beside that we had to send in to prove we were in a real relationship 2 years later to get the conditions removed. And when I say a ream, I mean a ream. We spent $60 to make copies of all of it so in case it got lost in transit we wouldn't have to start from scratch on building the case again. We haven't gone through the nightmare of citizenship yet, so that one I can't speak to. And by the way, all we were looking for was the same change to go through those nightmare processes as every other married couple, so my comments about the shittiness of that process are more general in nature, and related to our fucked up immigration laws in general, and not how those laws were used to make it harder for us as a gay couple, post marriage, to get a green card. It all felt pretty easy at the time, mainly because we were just so ecstatic we were finally allowed to do it, all the hurdles felt like speed bumps.
  4. Because he was not born in the United States. We had finally, a year before the rulings, gotten him through a masters degree so he had an H-1B visa, so he could've worked for 5 more years before that expired, but the only way he was going to get a green card was to get that employer to go through the massive expense of sponsoring him (which frankly they couldn't afford, and by law we wouldn't have been allowed to help them pay for) or for him to marry a citizen.
  5. Yeah, and I can tell you a few things about my marriage specifically. #1. We went through 12 long years, most of which my now-husband was not allowed to work because we weren't allowed to get married, so economically, getting married was fucking huge from us. Once he was allowed to work as well, suddenly we could plan for the future, we could put aside money for retirement, we could think about a life with vacations and potentially starting a business, and all the other things that were just not a possibility before the laws were changed. It wasn't all bad before hand though. I was a lower level project manager for a computer company making jack shit when we got together, and him not being able to work forced me to actually apply myself and grow my career, because I got tired of wondering monthly whether we were going to be able to pay all of our bills if we decided to go out for dinner once a month. He also wound up with 2 American degrees, because the only way we could keep him here was to put him in school. And it hasn't been all good since we got married either. We're still paying for those 2 American degrees and will be for awhile. All in all though, the financial stability of not having to worry that missing a paycheck would be a catastrophe that would be difficult to overcome, the emotional stability we have because we can make our own choices about our lives now, the comfort that we take in knowing that if something happened to one of us, the other could make decisions without having to carry around lawyer drafted paperwork everywhere we go, those things have been invaluable. I'm going to pretend like you are being honest in your question and the inflammatory parts are just your immature attempt to appear to be cool.... There are hundreds and hundreds of data points that quantify the marked improvements in quality of life. I have lived with those marked improvements daily since the Windsor decision. In my specific case: 1. Financial security - being allowed to be a 2 income household means we aren't living paycheck to paycheck 2. Emotional security - the very fact we no longer have carry around powers of attorney so that we could go wave them in the face of some hospital administrator if one of us was incapacitated and hospitalized has been bigger than you'd think. Imagine going on vacation and an emergency happens and the hospital wouldn't let you see your loved one because of no defined legal arrangement. That happened routinely before Windsor and Obergefell. That meant that gay couples had to carry paperwork with them every time they left town just in case, or risk not being able to make decisions about their significant other. 3. Mental stability - we no longer have to spend all of our days obsessing over the ins and outs of what could happen because of the whims of elected officials who are feeling some heat from their right flank, and therefore veer off to attack us. The amount of brain power we expended just worrying about that can now be put to better use, and I can tell you it's a loss less taxing to support other groups in the same boat and to work with them to get out of that attack cycle than it is to be the person that is getting attacked directly. I'm sure I could go on and on, but I think I've probably already given you more than you actually cared to read so I'll leave it here for now. To sum up, I will always be thankful for Edie Windsor and Jim Obergefell for their willingness to walk the paths they walked so the rest of us would be able to live a life much closer to free than most of us ever dreamed would be possible. I also won't forget you oldtimes that go back to the Hornfans days, because while most of you were on the Republican side of the fence back then on this issue, you were almost all willing to listen to the arguments and to rethink your conclusions. Y'all being willing to entertain the arguments made me a better person, helped me articulate what I wanted in a clearer way, which paid dividends in my life well beyond this message board. I'll always have a soft spot in my heart for you group of assholes, so thank you too.
  6. I only read through that 3 times, so maybe I'm just not being thorough enough, but I didn't see any reference to safeguarding our electrical grid. Can someone point me to that part of the document?
  7. LOL I'm 6'2 and 200 pounds. I probably need to lose 15 to have an athletic build. Unless athletic is a code word for fat and I missed the memo, then just ignore this.
  8. Yeah it’d take a billion dollars to get them if you are running around with a dick size that average.
  9. Thinking this over, why on the hell would you make your first restaurant after 3.5 months be a meal that you are only willing to eat under very particular circumstances? Seems like after taking a quarter off you’d want to pick your absolute favorite thing as a welcome back. So entitled and stupid.
  10. I'm not sure that beast exists anymore. You want to try to name some?
  11. Wait, some of them have been in solitary confinement, in jail, since January 5, the day before they tried to overthrow the government? She's dumb.
  12. I've wondered about this as well. Closest I can come to it is that he once played a man that dressed like a woman so he and his roommate could live in a women's only place with cheaper rent. That was his first sitcom I think. If he'd put on a dress he must have some problems something something.
  13. Could've fooled me, man.
  14. Even his face is shitting itself.
  15. Summer camp was pretty fucking fun at Friday Mountain, but it wasn't like that place.
  16. Not sure why you think I'm mad.
  17. I'm almost 50 years old. I've never known anyone that has died of the flu. I know at least 10 people that died of COVID-19. I don't know where you are getting your numbers, but my life experience leads me to believe that your numbers are bullshit.
  18. In general I find it hard to reconcile the dual belief that a member of my organization should be protected from the law if he is a pedophile, but at the same time some random gay couple shouldn't be allowed to raise children or to teach them, or in some cases even attend the schools my organization runs. I don't know what the answer is other than to not give money to any organizations with those views and to encourage others to follow my example. I will say that US churches in general have spent the better part of the life of this country persecuting my people, and the part of me that craves revenge would be completely on board with a little reverse persecution. They've definitely earned it. I also do not like the idea of my taxes being what they are in part to make up the shortfall that happens because these persecutors are tax exempt. I try not to be revenge minded, though, so I don't have a good answer to this question.
  19. My company in Seattle is still voluntary to go to the office, but you must sign an attestation that you are fully vaccinated before you are able to participate in person in any company event. You are also not allowed to travel without signing the attestation and you will be accommodated for not getting vaccinated in the short term by the teams having zoom links for you to join remotely. Oh, and if you signed, you can't expense anything you do with a fellow employee who hasn't signed. This policy will be revisited in September. They did it for 2 reasons, #1, liability, they don't want it, and #2, some people have been going into the office for awhile and they want to be able to be with their fellow vaccinated employees without a mask. So they are finally going to get that. It had other unintended consequences, it's brought the company kooks out of the woodwork, so now I know which morons I need to avoid. It also got one of my colleagues to finally get off his ass and get a vaccine scheduled. I'm ok with both of those outcomes.
  20. Isn't that "Think twice cause I won't" sticker redundant? It's clear from all the other stickers that this person doesn't often even think once, much less twice.
  21. I somehow missed the dark web story. Oh wait was that the person that was running something something pirate's cove something something?
  22. Funny enough, I'm looking for exactly the same amount for exactly the same reason. While for the purposes of future court documents I'm not participating in this venture, I may have some ideas.
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