This is turning out to be a game of hot potato where no one wants to be the one who is deemed responsible for keeping Trump off the ballot. Reading the 14th Amendment, it’s clear as day that he is no longer eligible to become president, seeing how he led an insurrection and all.
But everyone who is in a position of authority to do something about it (save for the 5 justices on the Colorado Supreme Court) is too scared to step up. Instead, they keep passing the potato along, hoping that someone else will do something about it.
I hate to say it, but I’m sure the Supreme Court is going to pass the potato as well. They’ll say “the enforcement mechanism of the 14th Amendment isn’t clear, so it’s up to Congress to determine if someone is in violation and must be kept off the ballot.” That final pass of the potato back to Congress will be what kills the whole issue.
We need republicans to loose the house and senate in november. Get control. that I’m aware of, the Victor Berger was the only guy, until recently who was barred by the 14th outside of being a civil war leader. He was a German-American senator that opposed entering WW1, even after the 1917 espionage act. He ran for office, won, then was convicted just before getting off to office.
they created a special committee and had a full vote in the senate. Granted, Berger was a senator, and not POTUS, so it might require both houses.
If we can take the house back and maintain control of the senate… there’s a chance.
Interesting. I’d never heard of Victor Berger before. So he won a seat for Congress, but the House refused to seat him, citing the 14th Amendment. That doesn’t really work for the presidency, since there’s no one to “seat” the president. I guess John Roberts could refuse to swear a president in, citing the 14th Amendment, but it’s not a requirement that the Chief Justice administer the presidential oath .
Probably best to just keep him off the ballot to avoid this mess, but like I said, I’m sure they’ll keep kicking the can down the road.
They’ll say “the enforcement mechanism of the 14th Amendment isn’t clear, so it’s up to Congress to determine if someone is in violation and must be kept off the ballot.”
Which would be such a stupid take, because if someone were deemed ineligible, Congress can override that per the last sentence of section 3
But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Why would Congress be designated the one to make that decision if it’s also the one to override it? Especially when 2/3 is a pretty big threshold to make?
I’m not saying you’re wrong in predicting the possibility, it would just be a terrible ruling if you’re right.
I agree that it would be a terrible ruling. But unfortunately, I’m 99% sure that was the argument made by one of the dissenting judges in the Colorado case. I’m working right now or I’d link it.
The story here isn’t that Trump doesn’t understand magnets, it’s that he was transparently told to say something by a donor associated with John Deere and he fucked it up because he didn’t understand it.
Yeah the best part is that he jumped from elevator magnets and how they stop working when they get wet, to something about they should have stuck with John Deere. His cognitive decline is very real and accelerating quickly, and likely being fed by all his legal issues and knowing that there is a very good possibility that if he can’t get himself into the white house he’ll never be a free man again.
It will be interesting if they use his deteriorated mental state as a defence when he is found guilty in any of these criminal cases trying to get him a lesser sentence.
I said it years ago, after it became clear that punishment for Jan 6th was going to be slow. Trump won. He shat all over our democracy and its people, pillaged the country as much as he could. And by the time any real consequences reach him, he will be too far mentally gone as to be meaningless.
“Here we’ve gone beyond war. This isn’t war anymore, this is terrorism,” Francis told the crowd. “Please, let us go ahead with peace. Pray for peace, pray a lot for peace.”
He also asked for God to help both Israeli and Palestinian people “resolve problems and not go ahead with passions that are killing everyone in the end.”
Sourced from a different article. It’s an absolutely reasonable statement.
I seriously can’t fucking stand the organizations that don’t believe Isreal could ever do wrong… those folks are fucking assholes and destroy our ability to have reasonable conversations.
They often appeal to victimhood for nazism, but ironically their lack of critical thinking, criminalization of victims, tolerance of systematic ethnic discrimination and crimes would make them perfect nazis; they were just born in the wrong time and place.
Strange Days revolves around the use of the SQUID, an illegal device that records memories and sensations from the cerebral cortex of the person wearing it. The SQUID device itself is designed comparably to modern medical devices that read brain activity. Moreover, the idea of a black market for illegally obtained memories for pleasure seekers is a great premise for a sci-fi thriller. However, Strange Days takes a laughable turn when it’s revealed that the SQUID records memories on a classic '90s MiniDisc, which stores a maximum of 80 minutes of audio. Strange Days has a great futuristic concept, but it missed the mark in terms of data storage.
Or, maybe it’s a little storage device that just happens to use the MiniDisc form factor. That’s it, that’s the whole complaint about the whole movie, that the storage device was wrong.
A lot of the other bullet points are pretty similar, like “yeah the movie was great and the premise was well handled but they didn’t predict how this particular thing which was perfectly realistic and sensible would look” or “they missed this technological development and didn’t include it in their future world to go along with the 5 others they got more or less right.”
Bro if you want clicks just make an article about how AI is scary.
What is it with the obsession with infinite growth for every company anyways? Why can’t they be happy with a stable, still extremely high, income? The people at the top already have more money than they need but still want more for no reason
Why can’t they be happy with a stable, still extremely high, income?
Shareholders. If you buy a share of a company for $5, you expect it to go up in value so you can make money from your investment.
Any publicly traded company must (by law!) try to maximize profit beyond what they're already doing, to satisfy shareholders. They could be sued if they don't.
It’s capitalism. Driving the economy by profit means that each company has to race to obtain as much profit as possible, or risk losing to their competitors who are trying to do the exact same thing.
Because capitalism is broken. It’s predicated on increasing share price. This means a functional company regularly making good stable income based on consistent product is a failure, because share price becomes stable if income and production remain stable.
Wouldn’t the share price follow inflation, and wouldn’t the stock holders keep getting dividends that themselves follow inflation? I’d say that a stagnant company can still be profitable. But yeah, there’s greed and people expecting to make fast, big earnings by buying low and selling high…
I'd suggest reading the original short story, Story of Your Life, by Ted Chiang. It makes the underlying premise much clearer.
Learning the heptapod language doesn't make you precognitive. It unlocks time as a dimension, allowing you to navigate forward and backward through time the same way you do through space. It causes you to "remember" things that you will experience in the future and apply those memories to your present experience. You start experiencing all of time at once, instead of in a regimented sequence.
The overall effect is the realization that the arrow of time is an illusion, with questions about what that means for free will, fate, predestination.
The movie itself is good, but it's a great adaptation of the source material, which is incredibly difficult to translate to film. Just the way it starts by fooling you into thinking the main character is at a later stage of her own life than she really is while later revealing what she's actually experiencing was really handled well in the script.
I thought that the reveal of the heptapods being much larger creatures, and our earlier understanding of them to be based on the characters limited perception, to be a really neet allusion to the overall premise of the story as well.
I love Arrival, it's one of my favorites. The scene where she meets with the Chinese general at the gala was chilling, I love how she herself is confused for most of the movie and formulates her plan in that moment, in collaboration with him. I also love that the reason for first contact is that the aliens will need help centuries in the future, that's a pretty unique spin on the usual story.
The piece about her daughter is interesting I think but it's not the strongest part of the movie. I was disappointed that they shoehorn the romance at the end and have her and Ian fall in love. Honestly I would have been fine never knowing who her husband was, because the poignancy of the story was her own personal choices about having a child.
It's not a sunk cost fallacy. We cannot let Russia run rampant over other sovereign nations. Make no mistake, there is 0 legitimate reason for them to be fighting Ukraine. Letting them do so sends the message to them that we are all talk no show, and also shows China the same thing.
However, we've lucked into a great situation. Ukraine fought back fiercely; the US can just proxy war Russia through money now. No cost of human life, we aren't exactly going balls to the wall in sending equipment either. The EU gets the same benefit.
Also, I don't know what you mean by the war is costing too many Ukrainian lives. RUSSIA INVADED UKRAINE. It isn't on the US to stop donating to force the Ukrainians to roll over and accept it? In what world do you tell the citizens to just lie down and take it for their own good? That's the most asinine thing I've seen.
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