You’re not wrong, but this has nothing to do with the armed forces. I went down a rabbit hole at one point regarding what a “duly sworn” officer is. My conclusion was that if a judge needed to have someone arrested, they can reach out to any public police officer who has sworn an oath to the Constitution. Each state has its own groups of duly sworn law enforcement officers, and if a Federal judge doesn’t trust the US Marshals (who are part of the DoJ) they can likely reach our to State or local police to enforce their orders.

What a coincidence! Jeff Bezos destroyed decades of trust in the free press in about the same amount of time…

I think it’s insane that proof of citizenship isn’t a requirement

If a citizen loses their passport or birth certificate, should they be disenfranchised?

and that states aren’t mandated to give IDs to their citizens

The extreme Christians would never go for that, because they equate it to the Mark of the Beast in the Bible. I’m not joking.

https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/just-time-independence-day-renewed-call-national-id-card

This isn’t a partisan issue. In 1981, at the outset of the Reagan administration, then-Attorney General William French Smith argued that a national worker ID would be necessary to stop illegal immigration. At a cabinet meeting another member jokingly suggested that it would be easier simply to tattoo an identification number on everyone. President Reagan then exclaimed, “My God! That’s the mark of the beast,” effectively ending the Reagan administration’s discussion of a national ID system.

Employees facing resignation have been forced to attend a series of “career transition” workshops, described as “insulting.”

I would immediately look into how the contract was awarded for those workshops. I’ll bet Elon gave them to a friend in a no-bid fashion, at a grossly inflated price. Efficiency!

“Murder billions of those people”. Then a large part of his support will be people who don’t realize that they were part of the “others” all along.

If he gets a third term, it won’t be due to any election, so why should this matter?

His record doesn’t exactly stand out as extremely liberal or progressive, it’s just that anyone sane these days seems super left wing vs. the current batshit crazy. He is for Abortion rights, LGBTQ+ rights, and supports public schools in the state, but manages to do it in a way that doesn’t trigger the snowflake conservatives in the state.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Beshear

The bottom of that Wikipedia page links to some New York Times op-eds where he divulges his secret to winning as a Democrat in a red state: hyper-focus on issues that affect his constituents directly.

In recognition of this awesome development, I promise not to shit talk about NJ for the rest of the day. Hopefully I don’t have to make any left turns…

I mean, they did tell us ahead of time…

Is this a leader we want to tell our children and grandchildren they can grow up to be?

Yes. His supporters admire his “strong leadership”, and how he doesn’t let things like “laws” and “the Constitution” get in the way. They would love it if their grandkids were just as selfish.

Some lemming wrote a week or two ago that the US has an epidemic of selfishness, and it has stuck with me ever sense. Everything is all about me, and anything that doesn’t serve my interests is bad. People who worry about the common good are suckers and losers. Everything is zero-sum, and there are no win-win scenarios. This guy is the selfish President we deserve.

Italian-style, upside-down, in the Plaza

The market grabbed him by the pussy

They’re both QBs, though. Aren’t they a better fit for Secretary of Offense?

Watch, the next nominee will be Sean Hannity

American Catholicism right now is a mixed bag. On certain social issues, they are quite Conservative. We know their stance on Abortion, and even though Pope Francis said some encouraging things about same-sex relationships, nothing substantial has changed.

Where Catholics worldwide are much more liberal is in their relationship with migrants and other marginalized people. Where this administration sees “shithole countries”, the Church sees places where they can go and actively work to improve the lives of people there. They see their future strength in administering to the spiritual needs of the poor in those countries, and will always aim to help migrants. And in fact, this Pope spent a lot of his final days on earth reminding American bishops (and JD Vance) to show mercy to migrants and treat them with basic human dignity.

Oh, absolutely, I know Protestants who don’t consider Catholics to be Christians at all. And a large part of the current religious conservatism in America is based on these Protestant Evangelicals.

Catholics who are rooting on the Christofascists just because they are currently anti-abortion don’t realize that it won’t be too long before Catholics are targeted. The Christofascists never liked them anyway, they just liked their votes. Once they no longer need to rely on votes to stay in power, they don’t need the Catholics anymore.

They’ll do more than that. I hope Powell has good private security.

This is actually a key misunderstanding. Many Conservatives are so triggered by immigration because they think that anyone who is here without the proper authorization broke the law to do so. But it turns out there are lots of ways to be here without authorization that do not break any law.

So even the description of these people as “illegal” is a bit overloaded. Many of these people came here legally, and “just” overstayed their visa. While that is serious, and may impact their ability to legally enter in the future, it is not a crime.

No. This is all about the 2028 elections, which the non-fascists desperately need to win. But the DNC has been using the same “next one up” philosophy that gave us John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. (The one exception was in 2008, when Barack Obama stole Hillary’s crown out from under her).

If things at the DNC go the way they have been going, Newsom has the nomination already, and the primary will just be a formality just like all the other ones (except for 2008) have been .

Ru Paul would make an awesome President