Well, Sears went under because the CEO was a True Believer in the Libertarian/Atlas Shrugged/Starve The Beast method of running a business. He genuinely thought that making stores and even individual departments fight for ever reducing funding was going to make them better. What he learned is that when people have their livelihood at stake, they fight dirty and lie.

When Sears finally closed forever, he said he regretted it. Probably not as much as the people whose lives he ruined.

Afaik they’d have to go through customs for the country they’re trying to enter. I can’t recall ever having to deal with US customs when leaving the US, it’s always been the country I’m traveling to.

The Trump administration is operating on a “it’s not legal/constitutionally protected until a judge says it is” and if they punish you before the judge says you don’t deserve punishment, oh well!

So in this case, because we don’t have any case law saying that deportation is an infringement of the 1st amendment, Trump gets to say it isn’t until a judge says otherwise. At which point maybe Trump will obey the court, or (probably) not.

It’s bullshit and backwards, but that’s what we’re up against.

What do you mean? We’ve always been at war with Eurasia

Huh. TIL.

I guess this is exactly what the judicial branch was created for. We’ve got an undefined area of legality, somebody’s got to sort it out, and until they do we just can’t say for sure one way or the other

IMO you’re overthinking it.

The Constitution applies to all people within jurisdiction of the United States. Immigration or citizenship status isn’t a factor; he absolutely has a first amendment right to say what he said.

The question you’re struggling with is regarding people who aren’t already within the jurisdiction, or are applying for citizenship.

All of that said, if ICE already deported him then that complicates things. Normally somebody who’s been deported will be denied reentry for that reason alone; there’s a waiting period (5 years iirc) if they’re ever going to be allowed back in at all. But you’re correct that they could also deny him reentry for his political views. It’s likely that, if he’s already out of the country, legally removed or not, a judge will have to order him to be allowed reentry despite both of this things.

Not enough

Approving the post and then locking it before anyone could comment would be a hilarious and fitting way to answer the question!

He already wants to send people to Gitmo, you don’t have to sell him on it even more

Exactly. Putin has leverage on almost the entire GOP. Additionally, I’m pretty sure this is all stuff they want to do anyway. It’s easy to blackmail people into doing something they already want to do.

We’re in this mess because First Past The Post (FPTP) voting inherently results in a two-party system, which in turn creates polarization and extremism.

To create lasting, meaningful change we need to move away from FPTP to Rank Choice (my preference) or Proportional Representation. Thankfully, the voting process is determined at the local level (state, county, or city depending on your location) which means the goons taking over the federal government will have a much more difficult time resisting this change.

We need people in local governments pushing for this change. Once we’re off FPTP a lot of other changes are going to be easier to make.

Could you be more specific? Because the only safeguard I’m aware of is impeachment and removal, which requires both chambers of Congress to act against Trump and I just don’t believe that’s going to happen while Republicans control both chambers and impeachment certainly isn’t going to “kick in” as if it’s some automatic process.

So I’m genuinely curious about what’s got you so optimistic

Wasn’t the stated goal to eliminate 2 trillion in spending? So, he’s destroyed the government’s ability to function and compromised the security of the government’s computer systems he’s only reached 2.75% of his stated goal? But not actually?

I want off this ride

Not anymore :(

Ordinarily you’d need ground for dismissal, yes. But one of the first things Trump did was follow the plan for Project 2025 which included, amongst other things, reclassifying a fuck ton of government jobs as political jobs, enabling Trump to hire and fire people for political reasons.

They either have a death wish, they’re stupid or there’s something else

You know what they say. Everything that comes out of their mouths is either a confession or projection!

Unfortunately this isn’t true, which is too bad because it’d be hilarious if it were.

The “everyone is female” thing doesn’t apply until the embryonic stage, weeks after fertilization, while the EO specifies “at conception” which is the germinal stage when the offspring is only a zygote. As a zygote it has no phenotypical sex, only chromosomal sex.

“Everyone is female” may be funny, but bad information doesn’t help anyone and it certainly doesn’t save trans lives.

The only unintended consequence of the EO that I can see is that anyone who’s infertile (specifically anyone who doesn’t produce sperm or eggs) as a direct result of their DNA is now legally unrecognizable by the federal government.

This isn’t the same as The Boy Who Cried Wolf.

Unless you’re talking about a version of the story where there really were wolves every time he cried wolf and nobody believed him until the wolves were eating people.

Still not a perfect analogy but much closer.

Great question! Thankfully somebody is already working on that, and it’s pretty neat.

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleistocene_Park

Yeah, hypothetically anyway. I technically count as being “in the thousands” because I own my home and car but I have no savings, no retirement, and have only 3 digits in my bank account which will go down to 2 digits soon enough.

That’s the tricky thing about “net worth.” It can be a very descriptive deceptive way of measuring things.

Edit: is the autocorrect error why I was getting down votes? I can’t figure out what else people would be objecting to :(