Isn’t he basically admitting that ICE is his private paramilitary organization?

Dick Cheney shot his friend in the face, who later apologized for being in the way of the bullet.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/18/usa.dickcheney

He said there are “a handful of states in which some local elections openly allow noncitizens to vote” and where local officials have declined to explain how they ensure those noncitizen voters aren’t also voting in federal elections.

The issue of non-citizens voting in local elections has quite an interesting history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizen_suffrage_in_the_United_States

Many states let non-citizens vote historically, as long as they met residency requirements. It wasn’t until the “wrong” types of people started coming over (like the Irish) in the late 1800’s that some states started clamping down on the practice. And, believe it or not, non-citizens voting in Federal elections was not made illegal on the national level until 1997!

Hopefully the Democrats kill it. But if this passes, and the inevitable challenges make it to the SCOTUS, it will be interesting to see this case where the Democrats actually have the founders on their side, and the contortions the SCOTUS goes through to rubber-stamp the act in spite of their Originalism…

Doc Gooden certainly has more wins than RFK Jr. Still not sure who has done more coke, though

Sir! You offend me. Those judges do not take bribes. That would be illegal!

They take gratuities. See? Those are totally different.

He’s just making it sexier

Seems to me like ChatGPT isn’t even the main plot. This is a CEO who has bad ideas and doesn’t take “No” for an answer. In the before times, he would just fire people who don’t agree wih him until he has a staff who can’t think for themselves. But that takes time, so all the bot did is speed it all up.

I always thought that Joe Biden’s campaign slogan should have been “Make Politics Boring Again”

I would have voted for Pikachu

FYI, Newt Gingrich has a Ph.D. in European History…

But you don’t understand! Some of those Charizards were shiny!

Well, there is some wiggle room, as the date of Federal elections is determined by Congress. The current election date is set by statute. So, it can be rescheduled with a statute as well.

However, the term of Congress is set by the Constitution. And House seats, in particular, must be assigned based on election results. If the election is postponed into the New Year, then all House seats would be vacant. So if a Federal law either abolishes or postpones elections so they cannot be certified in time for the new Congress to convene, States would immediately challenge, and Blue states would probably hold the election on time anyway, anticipating a ruling in their favor. We may end up with a new Congress controlled by Democrats, only because Red states never held elections.

It would get a fast track to the Supreme Court, and then who knows? The outcome might depend on what gratuities are promised by both sides…

He realizes exactly what’s going on, he’s counting on it. It wouldn’t surprise me if he is working through back channels to ensure that Iran launches a major terrorist attack in October. He needs that to try to cancel elections.

Zelenskyy has been President all this time, after all, because they suspended elections while his country is being actively invaded. Trump heard this and thinks it can work here, too. It shouldn’t work here, but who knows? Congress has abdicated it’s ability to declare war to the President, they might just concede their ability to schedule elections too.

Right, but a lot of Catholics voted MAGA last time around, solely on the basis of abortion policy. Not realizing that Catholics have always been on The List. Maybe after pregnant women, immigrants, and trans folks. But eventually, MAGA is coming for them too.

Honestly, I’m just surprised this is the first time someone has dared to put a phone SOC in a laptop chassis.

I’m probably missing something fundamental, but isn’t this just a Chromebook?

I’m kind of hoping the rest of the world wakes up and realizes that sending teams to the US to compete right now us just as bad as sending teams to Russia. The world should boycott it, and let the US claim its trophy after the Saudis field the only other team.

May as well just pay the bots directly then…

The article lists an insane revenue of $1.6B, yet the losses are only on the order of $42M in the last 3 months. Against that much revenue, it looks to me like they are managing the company at a slight loss on purpose. They probably could close that gap if they wanted to, but have some favorable tax implications or something by running that “slight” loss.

(And who knows, maybe this is part of the attempt to close that gap and show a profit before the founders cash out and it all gets sold to a Shittier company)

there are 69 current representatives and senators who are retiring

Nice!

I just use the same combination that I have on my luggage