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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • The entire reason they’re so hard to change is so they don’t get changed on a whim. If it’s in that document it’s because 3/4 of every elected representative in every state thought it was that important. Letting Congress change something like that with a simple majority or filibuster majority is ridiculous and means either party could completely re-write the basis of our laws at will just by changing that document. For example instead of trying to change and enforce every law about marriage and benefits they could simply pass a constitutional change to define marriage conservatively and let the courts go through striking down the now unconstitutional normal laws.

    Making that document hard to change is one of the things America got right.


  • Okay, we don’t need to go adding extra stupid stuff. At the base level you’re doing their normalization for them. At the high level we need an accurate idea of what’s coming so we can prepare.

    Watching the actual interview it’s clear he makes some assertions. They don’t want to separate families so they will send the US citizens with the family if the family wants. What this generally means is when the parents are undocumented but a kid is a citizen. This interview does not support denaturalizing people, (but he did do that in his first term), or forcing American citizens in a mixed status family who are adults to leave.

    On the 14th the interviewer wanted and got an answer from an 80 year old partially senile man. His first, natural answer to the 14th amendment question was he would go to the people. He only noncommittally said he would look at an EO when then interviewer kept asking him but what about an executive order. If he’s mentioned doing that before the proper way is to bring up what he said before and see if he still holds that position. Not repeating, “but what about an EO” 5 times until you get the funny and the headline writers can celebrate.

    The open question is how will this highly suggestable man fare around the likes of Stephen Miller.



  • They did the worst thing. They found him, named him, and published a glamour shot. This should have been the school shooting procedure if they didn’t want copycats. Instead of an unnamed killer they can vilify they now have the story of a normal, well educated, young man pushed over the edge. An Anti-Hero. I predict one of two things in the next 1-6 years. The death of health insurance or the death of more health insurance executives.

    I’d like to take this time to point out that CEOs are cogs in a machine, important, highly placed cogs, but cogs all the same. They couldn’t run the place any other way without their majority shareholders firing them. Those are generally groups like Blackrock and Vanguard, (The largest shareholders in UHC). They have that status in many publicly traded companies. This gives them an outsized say in the board composition of companies across the economy; on issues like food, housing, and yes healthcare. If you’re looking for a deep state or shadow government, these guys are close as it gets. They don’t directly make the twisted policies but they do fire CEOs that don’t make the green line go up in any way possible.

    Once Americans figure that out I think the rage is going to be surreal in it’s magnitude.











  • To be a little fair I think that got overblown. When you listen to him talk about it he frames it as having listened on family separation. He also says there will be a choice. Now how much do I believe him over cretins like Miller who literally salivating at the chance to do Operation Wetback 2? I can’t say. But that news interview did several weird things. Like when he said he’d go to the people about the 14th, the interviewer kept badgering him about executive orders until he shrugs and says, “sure if we can”, in a noncommittal way. That’s just pure badgering of an old partially senile man until he says the funny and everyone breathlessly prints newspaper headlines.