Somewhere in this country a baby was born this morning to parents without papers. And that baby is an American. Because six justices said the Constitution meant what it plainly says. The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship 6–3, striking down the executive order Trump signed his first day back, the one that tried to carve the 14th Amendment into a smaller, meaner shape.
Believably unbelievable that the court came through on this one. They still stink!
Someone pointed out that Trump's dad and mom would not have been US citizens by this criteria, which means Trump would not have been either. Then, neither would his children have been citizens except for his daughter with Marla Maples.
The 14th Amendment has meant one thing since 1868: born here, subject to our laws, you're one of us. Roberts, writing for the majority, called Trump's rewrite what it was — a position with, in his own dry phrasing, scant evidence.Barrett crossed the aisle to join him. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch (Prolapse AnusWaddles all of them) wanted to hand the president his knife.
If normal people ever take over the government, it is important that we address the problem of presidential executive orders. They are not legal nor official. They are not automatically laws. Also, presidential pardons should be limited.
They certainly are legal (well, if they're Constitutional) but only apply to the government. Trump may imagine he's ruling by decree, but he can't make people outside the government obey them, and the next president can erase all of them with the stroke of a pen.
What I understand is that presidential executive orders apply only to the Executive Branch, not the other two branches of the federal government, Legislative and Judicial. Not to any state governments either. And as Daniel said, only if the executive orders are Constitutional.
A lot of the media fail to mention this and give the impression that presidents have powers which they do not have.
Many Americans never learned this stuff in school. I did, because it was required to graduate “back in my day.” Later, it was required to get a teaching credential in California. Husband had to learn it to become a naturalized citizen.
Any change to Pardons requires a change to the Constitution, and doing that is a real Pandora's box (or can of worms, hornet's nest, choose your metaphor)
Some years ago, I saw a column that referenced Roberts being concerned about the reputation of the court during his tenure as Chief Justice. You hack, that ship has sailed, and every day that passes during this shittiest of regimes, the chance of redemption diminishes more and more rapidly, despite the occasional correct ruling, which we have come to see as an aberration rather than the court functioning as it was intended to.
Continuing with your ship metaphor, the court is listing to the right and has been that way for some time. It is extremely troubling that the decision was not 9-0. Since Oreo Clarence Thomas was all in favor of gutting birthright citizenship he should from now on be referred to as 5/8 a person.
5/8 is too generous. That works out to 62.5%. During antebellum times, the slave states counted each enslaved human being as 3/5 of a person for census purposes.
What about “little” Barron, whose mom was not a citizen when he was born? Didn’t she come to the US under a false work visa? Both, from what I read somewhere, hold Dual US/Slovenian citizenship, too. Americans?!?
Yes. The chain would be that Donald's parents would not legitimately have citizenship, and then he would not, and then Barron, Ivanka, Don Jr, and Eric would also not have citizenship. They would just be ethnic Germans, Scots, Czechs and Slovenians living in the US.
They won't be so white if they live on some island they plan to develop, or perhaps in Gaza. You did read that Israeli military leader says he plans to have 100% control of Gaza. Things are looking less good for the Albanian Island.
Think about the problems with "proof of citizenship" for voting.
Can YOU prove your great grandfather and grandmother--were citizens when your grandfather was born (and if not, then gramps wasn't a citizen) and that GRAMPS married someone who was in the same boat (a woman born to non-citizens) which leaves DAD with no citizenship--and prove it on both sides--otherwise you can't vote.
The problem with all of their whining and argument is that none of us born to people whose ancestors were immigrants would be citizens except for Native Americans.
heh. My maternal ancestor came over in 1636 so if colonists became citizens (despite the indigenous folk already here) than I’m safe. So only WASPS who can belong to the DAR can vote. That’s just what they’d like.
(I’m not a member of the DAR, though qualified. My cynical uncle, during Vietnam, tried to enroll me as a joke but I wouldn’t sign).
I have ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, but not on the first, most important voyage. Therefore, my family did not qualify to belong to the Mayflower Society (descendants of that first trip). I turned to my highly disappointed mother and said in my best Maxwell Smart voice, "Missed it by *that* much!"
She was not amused. Mom traced lineage back that far, but I am glad I don't have to root around in her boxes of papers to find the trail and put it before people demanding proof that I belong here beyond my birth certificate, passport, etc., documents that employers began demanding a while back as proof of citizenship and are acceptable to them.
On my maternal line, ancestors date back to the mid-1600s. So I guess I get to vote too. That family participated in our Revolution, and one of its members was a good friend of Washington. Not interested in the DAR. I'm sure IF I attended, they would have a nervous breakdown.
Yeah! What about those of us (like me) whose great-great-plus grandparents were born here before the USA was an actual country? Shouldn’t that be birthright-plus citizenship? We should get an extra vote! This whole fight is 100 percent (maybe 200 or 300 percent) stupid. Birthright citizenship has been the law of the land for decades. This ruling changed nothing. These MAGA idiots are so afraid that someone with a dark complexion is going to take something away from them. Maybe they oughta be a little more concerned with who is really trying to steal their money and their rights.
I have some Native American in me. My father's dad was a quarter. That makes me 1/16 Native American. Don't have any connection with the culture other than that I studied some aspects of Native American life. In Canada, they understand being Native differently than in the US. There they understand colonization to have removed people from their legitimate culture, just as boarding schools and adoptions did. In the US, if you are not able to name your tribe, or have connection to the Res. You are considered not Native.
'Proof of Citizenship' would be a significant roadblock for women who've changed their name when they married . . .
you'd need your birth certificate and marriage certificate(s) to 'prove' that your current voter id name can actually be tied back to the birth certificate of an American citizen.
Plenty of power grabbing MAGA's would love to disenfranchise women and send 'em all back to the Stone Age.
The Republicans have systematically gone after the voting groups that vote Democratic for decades. Unfortunately, white women have trended toward voting Republican for years. I don't get why they would want to prevent white women from voting, unless it is of greater value to prevent minority women from voting.
Kamala would have won if all the black votes had been counted in 2024. It was only by disqualifying a wildly disproportionate number of black votes that Trump even won. The contemporary attack is not just on preventing voting, it's on what happens after people vote, i.e., counting the votes.
The election was clearly fixed in a couple of states. Trump came out and said Muskhad a hand in getting him elected and "he's really good with computers." However, surprisingly a majority of Hispanic men and percentage of Black men voted for Trump.
Not at all. There is a form that has your info and your new name. I dont remember if I had to show my marriage certificate. This is true for legal documents, drivers license, social security card, passpor, voter registration. Its a process, but not that hard.
Someone needs to ask Nosferatu Miller about his refugee family and their arrival in the US. Maybe his citizenship doesn't pass the sniff test. Maybe he should go back to where they came from.
I'd slip a reporter $20 to do this: Nosferatu's echolocator voice would spike so high that every piece of crystal in the White House would instantly shatter.
If you're a first-time voter, you are voting in a federal election, you registered by mail, and didn't include your driver's license or California ID number or the last 4 digits of your Social Security number on your registration, you may be asked to provide ID if you vote in person.
And the ballot would be provisional. I was an election worker. Anyone can vote but if you are not registered your ballot is provisional and registration status will be checked. However, unless the election is tied or very, very close, provisional ballots aren't counted.
My great-grandfather could probably be proven on my father's side, but not sure. My mom's side is all German, including her. My father's ancestors were slave brought here and Native Americans. I don't think Trump wants to count slaves as having citizenship after the end of slavery, or Native Americans as having citizenship from what I have read. Like Flat-Earthers, history for them is also truncated. It starts with the Pilgrims.
In Germany I can prove my family tree back to 1646 on my maternal grandfather's side. I can probably find the documents on my maternal grandmother 's side too. It depends what the DDR regime did with their documents. I am living her right now with full citizenship. Since I lived back and forth, I always had 2 passports and that is my proof of citizenship.
My daughter feels any documents needed for voting should be FREE TO ALL! I agree with her.
It'll be even easier if they also get unauthorized voter information from states so that they can 'weed out' any of dose Lib ballots that need to go into the dumpster
My ancestors arrived on the Mayflower so I'm not a citizen either. According to 4 Supreme Court judges. If I am not, none of the Roberts Court can claim citizenship either.
SCOTUS is in desperate need of reform Linda, they had multiple idiotic decisions before adjourning, which everyone is well aware of by now! Whether, by adding more justices, term limits, or ethics rules like all of our other courts have in place. The corruption of our highest court has been years in the making…colour me disgusted!
Unless they applied for a visa and worked toward citizenship. There is a very legal process for people to become citizens. They take classes, they file papers, they take a test and they swear allegiance.
Yeah,I agree.The SCROTUS still stinks to high heaven.They are not done screwing We the People either. It’s just a matter of time before the racist, sexist corrupt court throws down some completely outrageous decision.You can mark my words.
Victoria, as far as I am concerned they (SCOTUS) are mixing it up and have been coming up with totally racist decisions like allowing states to gerrymander, and allowing Trump not to give immigrants due process, and to send them to death camps in other countries that they have no affinity to. Once again, Europe follows in the US's Nazi footsteps, just like Hitler got a lot of ideas from the Jim Crow South. It is all so sickening that these evil people exist, but they do, and deal with them we must.
Nothing can be much worse than citizens united. It opened a Pandora’s box that gave us rule by money right out in the open and shut up, lightweight - you’re not even a billionaire so you don’t get to have an opinion.
We will assume for now that Tiffany would have birthright citizenship because her mom Marla Maples does. However, how far back do we go to see if people should have citizenship if birth in the US or to US citizens does not confer it?
Birthright citizenship exists in almost all of the New World, including Canada and Mexico. I am waiting for someone in the press to point that out when Donnie makes his false claims. Capital is allowed to cross borders at will, destroying communities and lives, but people aren't? Ridiculous. Also, my grandmother was an undocumented immigrant. At one point, the right wing was even threatening to strip citizenship from the grandchildren of undocumented immigrants. Now that Canada has clarified my citizenship rights, I am all for it!
No it does not. Mexico and Canada may do this, but other countries do not. In most European countries, you need to be born to citizens or permanent residents of the country to gain birth citizenship. Otherwise, you grow up with the nationality of your parents. The exception is made of children whose parents are stateless.
Wikipedia says it is 35 countries, and if you look at the restrictions on it, it is not clear cut in all.
Notice I referred to the New World, I.e. North and South America, not Europe. Most countries in the New World recognize birthright citizenship. It reflects our shared history.
I see. I missed the idea of the "New World" since I was taught not to view it like that, since it was only new to the Europeans and the African slaves they brought with them. You mean the Americas.
Make that 3 justices believed the 14th amendment. Two of the six agreed for the meantime but suggested that it can be overturned if congress does it’s magic. and change the law. Kavanaugh said as much and Barrett is standing by waiting for any change congress will make. This is why democrats need to increase the court to 11 as soon as they win the presidency.
The problem with saying people should "follow the rules" is that there ARE no clear rules. People have been fighting to reform immigration rules for years (the last time it was done was during the Regan administration) but a certain group of right-wingers had blocked it at every turn. I recall when George Bush proposed an immigrant reform bill in 2005 right after his reelection — sensible bipartisan reforms — right wing media was screeching that he was a "closet Democrat." (Ha. If only!) Without that, people like Trump can change the rules at will (he probably would anyway) and block people from Haiti where their lives are in danger from coming but giving special dispensation to white South Africans by lying that they are in extreme danger (they're not; they're just white.)
Then get your congress critters going on amending the constitution. Two thirds of the house and senate or three fourths of the states have to pass said amendment. That’s how you stop rich people from coming here to birth their children. Good luck!
Oh do regularly email my Congressman and Senator. Always get a "thank you for your question...." response. For the most part they do okay and I have no expectation that they or anyone else is going to address birthright tourism.
Thanks Wendy. What I'm wondering is how any of the justices could vote no in this matter. Even so, Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch did just that. As Jeff points out, the justices had no business agreeing to hear the case.
I read on BlueSky that Russian oligarchs who launder $ to trump through his real estate also use the real estate to bring their wives/mistresses here to deliver a baby with resulting dual citizenship & found several sources, including PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/ttc-extra-russian-birth-tourism-trump-properties-qj0wgl/ But they’re white, so he’ll probably give them an exception from his next executive order & a $1M gold trump visa card.
Yeah, that came to light I think back in the ‘90s. He was putting them up in his Miami hotel until they gave birth. Kind of went along with the rise of the Russian mafia in NYC. I remember the headlines.
I know this is true. Having lived in Sunny Isles, FL, rich white Russians would come to Aventura or Miami to have their babies, resulting in automatic citizenship for baby
The grift continues: "PAB [Pervert Hoover] says US ‘couldn’t build a plane like this’ as Qatari-gifted Air Force One embarks on inaugural flight." Sure hope their spyware crashes it soon!!
Depends what he means by "build", which due to his ignorance and word salad bullshit, is unclear if he knows Boeing is an American company or if he is acknowledging that the Qataris wouldn't waste close to a $billion on that old white elephant so they gave it to him for favors.
Aircraft are ungodly expensive to maintain properly and after maintenance there is a storage fee which are also prohibitive, a friend is a private pilot, I fly with him a lot.
The Qataris had been trying to sell the garish plane, for well over a decade, no one would buy it.
from the NYT
"Yes, the Qatari royal family had been trying to sell their luxury Boeing 747-8 jet since 2020 before ultimately gifting it to the United States government. The fuel-guzzling aircraft had lingered on the market without finding a buyer, which made donating it an attractive and creative way to offload exorbitant storage and maintenance fees.
The Background The Qatari Amiri Flight fleet featured a highly customized Boeing 747-8 valued at roughly $400 million. Because massive four-engine jumbo jets have largely fallen out of favor globally in pursuit of more economical aircraft, the royal family had attempted to quietly sell the spare "flying palace" for years."
Well, there's this obit: Victor "'Y.M.C.A.'-isn't-a-gay-anthem" Willis, the cop and frontman of the Village People. I wonder if Donny's gonna do a special double-jerkoff dance in his memory ...
Earlier this year the thinnest skinned infantile leader ever got his panties in a twist and accused Venezuelan leader Maduro of appropriating trump's YMCA spasms:
I was 19 when "YMCA" was released. The Village People. Their outfits. The album title "Cruisin'." The song lyrics. Even in my relatively sheltered little world, I knew all those references to Greenwich Village gay culture.......
Jeff, you missed the most bigliest event of today! Donnie taking a ride in his shiny new bouncy castle, the Qatari Air Force One, heading off randomly to North Dakota. The birthright citizen thing is so yesterday, and that American State Fair thingy was all JD's idea anyway.
Someone convinced (threatened? coerced?) SLOTUS (Usha Vance) to hold some event at the Great American Ghost Town where she congratulated winners of a bookmark contest.
The news station is based in Arlington, VA, and is owned by (shocker) Sinclair.
(Young minds shine alongside Second Lady Usha Vance at the Great American State Fair,
OMG, I think our current reality is being authored by The Onion. Today's Fair theme is the “Future of America: Innovation, Technology and Progress." So the aspiration of every young mind is to design ... a bookmark. Yep, we are aiming for Mars.
"US and Iranian negotiators head to Doha" which in trump world means he's sending Kushner and Witkoff. Again. Two unqualified, unserious, soulless money grubbers trying to leverage the carrot of US financial resources and the stick of US military might to cadge investment and real estate deals for themselves. Using taxpayer money for their own self dealing. Again. Just as news broke that trump made "at least $1.4 billion" from cryptocurrency grifts in 2025. I struggle to even coalesce how much loathing I have for him, his crime family, and the associated crooks like Witkoff, his son, and all the other remoras.
Interestingly the only "birther tourism on record is from Russian oligarch's mistresses and probably wives too. And they rent trump properties, so many of them the area in Miami is called "little Moscow"!
The Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation want to nullify the authority of the Constitution so they can call for a Constitutional Convention. Chaos is part of the plan: confusing originalists and modernists both. Trump is the useful idiot who is being paid out of the treasury to make it as messy as possible.
Im sure I heard Stephen Miller’s head explode upon hearing the SCOTUS decision. Obviously he was hatched in the basement of Chernobyl so birthright citizenship doesn’t apply to him.
A matador in bed? Does rhat mean he puts on a funny hat and drapes a red cape over her when they have sex? Or that he has to put on a sparkly uniform and make her dress like a bull? That is possibly THE DUMBEST way to describe how someone is in bed
I'm missing her analogy: she does know that the term for the bull is not matador, right? The matador is the guy wearing sequins and satin and little ballet flats.
Submitted to Trump on the "contact the President" form at whitehouse.gov:
"Trump,
THIS IS WHAT NAZI’S DO!
Sister Leticia "Letty" Ugboaja, a Catholic nun and registered nurse, was released by ICE after being detained in her habit while walking to Mass in McAllen, Texas. Federal lawmakers intervened, prompting the Department of Homeland Security to release her hours later.
The incident sparked widespread discussion on immigration enforcement. Here are the key details:
Who is Sister Letty?
• Background: She is a Nigerian-born member of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy.
• Occupation: She is a registered nurse at the South Texas Health System in McAllen.
• Community Role: She volunteers as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion at Our Lady of Sorrows Church.
What Happened
• The Arrest: ICE officers stopped her on her way to Sunday morning Mass, handcuffed her, and confiscated her rosary.
• The Release: Parish officials announced the detainment on social media. Local representatives and U.S. Congress members intervened, securing her release later that day.
Reaction
• Church Officials: The Diocese of Brownsville condemned the arrest. Bishop Daniel E. Flores called protocols that allow a religious sister to be handcuffed while peacefully walking to church "wildly disturbing".
• Political Response: Politicians from both parties spoke out against the detainment, with some utilizing the moment to criticize aggressive immigration policies.
Actually, I’ve known some pretty “dangerous” nuns who, in the name of Catholic Social Teaching, protested for peace and justice and committed acts of civil disobedience, were arrested, and sent to Federal Prison. Then there’s the four Church Women who were murdered by US supported government militia in El Salvador in 1980. However, it sounds like Sr. Letty was just heading to Mass. Yes, even nuns scare them.
There's a visual, did you ever see the picture of the piles of rosaries they took away from the people they threw in the internment camps in Texas in trump's first fiasco of a regime? The cruelty is the point.
THAT WILL SHOW THAT COMMIE POPE! Sister Letty was a clear and present danger to all around her, especially ICE thugs cosplaying as humans in camouflage outfits.
I'm sure that all those deeply Christian thugs thought she was wearing an abaya and hijab.....
Jeff, I have some good news this morning.. In the continuing saga of “Golf with MAGAs”, I was paired with a MAGAs, been sending him facts, evidence and how the law is applied. Unprovoked by me on the course my partner who is 82 starts screaming about all the lying, cheating, corruption, law breaking by this crew.. he told me that Donald and his associates are robbing the country blind… utter disgust.. I sat there with my mouth opened, thought I was going to have a case of the vapors.
Anyway, if I could get through to this red hat I think we may turned the corner🎉 Best to all fellow travelers…
I don't know how you do it. My blood pressure would be thru the roof after playing with that crew although it sounds like you did some good by getting thru to at least one of them. Just curious and I'm sure you've already thought this thru but aren't there any other golf courses where you could find more like-minded, sane people?
Good point Barb.. I’m in a senior community in the nw valley of Phoenix.. I assume all are MAGAS unless they prove otherwise.. I was amazed at all the F bombs my partner was throwing out there.. I enjoy small victories.. best to u..
I was born and raised in N Phoenix so I exactly the kind of place you're referring to as I would visit my grandparents there. Kudos to you for sticking to it and congrats!
I play golf with his cousin and so far, he hasn't repented. I was supposed to play tomorrow but canceled for no reason. Now the cat's out of the bag and it's hard being around MAGA's.
We actually had one years ago. Beautiful antique velvet one. Sadly, it got burnt up in a fire at the place we were storing it. No more fainting for me!
The funniest part of MAGA melting down over birthright citizenship is watching people who carry pocket Constitutions suddenly discover they meant “terms and conditions may apply.” The 14th Amendment is not a hotel rewards program. It says what it says, which is apparently devastating news to the crowd that treats every baby with the wrong parents like a border crisis in diapers. And yes, 6–3 is better than losing, but three justices looking at plain constitutional text and reaching for the shredder should keep everyone wide awake.
Most of their decisions have been just awful, including on voting rights, transgender athletes, and Trump's new power to fire whomever he wants in the agencies except for the Federal Reserve.
Of course, they looked at the plain, Constitutional text of Sec 3 of the 14th Amendment that states a felon cannot be put on the ballot & reversed that
Hey, I have a really fun idea. Instead of awarding the Pulitzer to the first journalist to ask Donny what the fuck is wrong with him (since they’re already proven it’s never gonna happen), let’s offer it to the first person to ask him if Melania was a U.S. citizen when she gave birth to her anchor baby, Barron. Or whether Ivana was a citizen when she birthed Don Jr., Eric or Ivanka. Because if we’re overturning birthright citizenship, let’s do it right! It seems that the only child who belongs here is the one he wouldn’t be able to point to in a lineup.
“People who support automatic birthright citizenship need to answer a simple question. Are you also okay with birthright home ownership?
You know what random asshole. If the United States Constitution said that a person could do that, then yes, I would be ok with it. But it doesn't does it? Because the Founders weren't morons like you.
They are right that a nation should be able to choose its own citizens. They just refuse to accept that we already have.
My positions on 'birthright citizenship' and 'birthright home ownership' are identical. Both apply to a child of a non-citizen if and only if they apply to a child of a citizen.
MAGA can go and quickly fuck itself unless any of them can trace their lineage to one or more of the indigenous nations that occupied this continent long before the white assholes showed up. That said, I am all for the end of birth tourism for Czech and Slovenian rent-a-wife skanks who fucked Trump and for the mistresses of all the Russian oligarchs who hand out at Whorehouse a lago until their kids are born.
We forget that Native Americans weren't granted the right to citizenship until June 2, 1924 under the Snyder Act. The 14th Amendment (1868) granted birthright citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. but excluded Native Americans who were members of sovereign tribes.
What a fucked up stupid anti Indian Government they wanted to make sure they didn’t give the American Indian any power to use against them!! when I went out to see the Grand Canyon I have never met such nice friendly people as the American Indians very laid back!!
So many of them forget that their ancestors came over with little more than a hope for a better life. That includes Nosferatu McGoebbles, who seems to forget that there's a possibility he wouldn't exist if Hitler had his way with his family.
Sorry, I have to disagree on this one. Bands need to take any gig they can get. They don't make a lot of money unless they get famous. Most have second jobs as waiters or whatever.
Sorry- I know plenty of teenagers who would never stoop to playing for Donnie's egofest, even if it was their only gig. The saddest part is that this pathetic flop is replacing the formerly annual summer Smithsonian Folklife festival, celebrating all the cultures in the US. 4.5 million people from the US and around the world visitied in the 1976 celebration. The racists claimed that there was no room on the mall for the festival.
That's a lovely picture of Claudia having her picture taken for the millionth time. We should all stop and take more pictures of our loved ones, sometimes that's all we have left.
I am almost at 100 subscribers! Will you please put my Substack subscriber total over three digits? You'll get a frequent dose of limericks, poems and song parodies that tear into the GOP's lunacy.... with a bit of humor.
Good one! Yeah, the only rhyme for Alito that I could think of was mosquito, so I gave up trying to write a limerick about him. Besides he and his insurrectionist wife being corrupt assholes, he doesn't have the decency to have an easily rhymed name. Fucker.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Busy Writing This Shit—
no clue. this one was a bear to write and I never got around to checking the notifications on my phone. what did I miss?
Damn right Jeff.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-what-burns-us-now-always-has
Somewhere in this country a baby was born this morning to parents without papers. And that baby is an American. Because six justices said the Constitution meant what it plainly says. The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship 6–3, striking down the executive order Trump signed his first day back, the one that tried to carve the 14th Amendment into a smaller, meaner shape.
Believably unbelievable that the court came through on this one. They still stink!
Someone pointed out that Trump's dad and mom would not have been US citizens by this criteria, which means Trump would not have been either. Then, neither would his children have been citizens except for his daughter with Marla Maples.
The 14th Amendment has meant one thing since 1868: born here, subject to our laws, you're one of us. Roberts, writing for the majority, called Trump's rewrite what it was — a position with, in his own dry phrasing, scant evidence.Barrett crossed the aisle to join him. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch (Prolapse AnusWaddles all of them) wanted to hand the president his knife.
If normal people ever take over the government, it is important that we address the problem of presidential executive orders. They are not legal nor official. They are not automatically laws. Also, presidential pardons should be limited.
They certainly are legal (well, if they're Constitutional) but only apply to the government. Trump may imagine he's ruling by decree, but he can't make people outside the government obey them, and the next president can erase all of them with the stroke of a pen.
What I understand is that presidential executive orders apply only to the Executive Branch, not the other two branches of the federal government, Legislative and Judicial. Not to any state governments either. And as Daniel said, only if the executive orders are Constitutional.
A lot of the media fail to mention this and give the impression that presidents have powers which they do not have.
Many Americans never learned this stuff in school. I did, because it was required to graduate “back in my day.” Later, it was required to get a teaching credential in California. Husband had to learn it to become a naturalized citizen.
Even an auto pen! 🤪
Any change to Pardons requires a change to the Constitution, and doing that is a real Pandora's box (or can of worms, hornet's nest, choose your metaphor)
I am with you 1000000% arne.
Some years ago, I saw a column that referenced Roberts being concerned about the reputation of the court during his tenure as Chief Justice. You hack, that ship has sailed, and every day that passes during this shittiest of regimes, the chance of redemption diminishes more and more rapidly, despite the occasional correct ruling, which we have come to see as an aberration rather than the court functioning as it was intended to.
That ship didn't sail: it ripped off the dock as it made way, stove in its own side, and sank in the harbor. All he's achieved is a shipping hazard.
How many times is he named in the Epstein Files? Inquiring minds would like to know.
Continuing with your ship metaphor, the court is listing to the right and has been that way for some time. It is extremely troubling that the decision was not 9-0. Since Oreo Clarence Thomas was all in favor of gutting birthright citizenship he should from now on be referred to as 5/8 a person.
5/8 is too generous. That works out to 62.5%. During antebellum times, the slave states counted each enslaved human being as 3/5 of a person for census purposes.
afraid of being labeled racists like they are
Suddenly they're shy about it???
What about “little” Barron, whose mom was not a citizen when he was born? Didn’t she come to the US under a false work visa? Both, from what I read somewhere, hold Dual US/Slovenian citizenship, too. Americans?!?
Yes. The chain would be that Donald's parents would not legitimately have citizenship, and then he would not, and then Barron, Ivanka, Don Jr, and Eric would also not have citizenship. They would just be ethnic Germans, Scots, Czechs and Slovenians living in the US.
But they’re white, so it wouldn’t count on the right.
They won't be so white if they live on some island they plan to develop, or perhaps in Gaza. You did read that Israeli military leader says he plans to have 100% control of Gaza. Things are looking less good for the Albanian Island.
Think about the problems with "proof of citizenship" for voting.
Can YOU prove your great grandfather and grandmother--were citizens when your grandfather was born (and if not, then gramps wasn't a citizen) and that GRAMPS married someone who was in the same boat (a woman born to non-citizens) which leaves DAD with no citizenship--and prove it on both sides--otherwise you can't vote.
The problem with all of their whining and argument is that none of us born to people whose ancestors were immigrants would be citizens except for Native Americans.
Native Americans were not citizens until 1924. The US even denied that they were citizens for hundreds of years.
yep. Shameful.
heh. My maternal ancestor came over in 1636 so if colonists became citizens (despite the indigenous folk already here) than I’m safe. So only WASPS who can belong to the DAR can vote. That’s just what they’d like.
(I’m not a member of the DAR, though qualified. My cynical uncle, during Vietnam, tried to enroll me as a joke but I wouldn’t sign).
I have ancestors who came over on the Mayflower, but not on the first, most important voyage. Therefore, my family did not qualify to belong to the Mayflower Society (descendants of that first trip). I turned to my highly disappointed mother and said in my best Maxwell Smart voice, "Missed it by *that* much!"
She was not amused. Mom traced lineage back that far, but I am glad I don't have to root around in her boxes of papers to find the trail and put it before people demanding proof that I belong here beyond my birth certificate, passport, etc., documents that employers began demanding a while back as proof of citizenship and are acceptable to them.
On my maternal line, ancestors date back to the mid-1600s. So I guess I get to vote too. That family participated in our Revolution, and one of its members was a good friend of Washington. Not interested in the DAR. I'm sure IF I attended, they would have a nervous breakdown.
Bless you!
Yeah! What about those of us (like me) whose great-great-plus grandparents were born here before the USA was an actual country? Shouldn’t that be birthright-plus citizenship? We should get an extra vote! This whole fight is 100 percent (maybe 200 or 300 percent) stupid. Birthright citizenship has been the law of the land for decades. This ruling changed nothing. These MAGA idiots are so afraid that someone with a dark complexion is going to take something away from them. Maybe they oughta be a little more concerned with who is really trying to steal their money and their rights.
What complexion is Alito and Thomas? Alito is not pasty white.
The MAGAs have resentment that will just get another focus if everyone with darker skin left or was sent away.
BINGPOT
I have some Native American in me. My father's dad was a quarter. That makes me 1/16 Native American. Don't have any connection with the culture other than that I studied some aspects of Native American life. In Canada, they understand being Native differently than in the US. There they understand colonization to have removed people from their legitimate culture, just as boarding schools and adoptions did. In the US, if you are not able to name your tribe, or have connection to the Res. You are considered not Native.
Not if they walked in!
'Proof of Citizenship' would be a significant roadblock for women who've changed their name when they married . . .
you'd need your birth certificate and marriage certificate(s) to 'prove' that your current voter id name can actually be tied back to the birth certificate of an American citizen.
Plenty of power grabbing MAGA's would love to disenfranchise women and send 'em all back to the Stone Age.
The Republicans have systematically gone after the voting groups that vote Democratic for decades. Unfortunately, white women have trended toward voting Republican for years. I don't get why they would want to prevent white women from voting, unless it is of greater value to prevent minority women from voting.
Kamala would have won if all the black votes had been counted in 2024. It was only by disqualifying a wildly disproportionate number of black votes that Trump even won. The contemporary attack is not just on preventing voting, it's on what happens after people vote, i.e., counting the votes.
The election was clearly fixed in a couple of states. Trump came out and said Muskhad a hand in getting him elected and "he's really good with computers." However, surprisingly a majority of Hispanic men and percentage of Black men voted for Trump.
Not at all. There is a form that has your info and your new name. I dont remember if I had to show my marriage certificate. This is true for legal documents, drivers license, social security card, passpor, voter registration. Its a process, but not that hard.
That was then. This is now.
Demanding new Proof of Citizenship to vote is apparently an attack on those of us who are already registered to vote.
Because anyone who isn't registered can't even request or be allowed to fill in a ballot.
They are now going after currently registered voters, demanding that we 'prove' our citizenship.
Someone needs to ask Nosferatu Miller about his refugee family and their arrival in the US. Maybe his citizenship doesn't pass the sniff test. Maybe he should go back to where they came from.
I'd slip a reporter $20 to do this: Nosferatu's echolocator voice would spike so high that every piece of crystal in the White House would instantly shatter.
If you're a first-time voter, you are voting in a federal election, you registered by mail, and didn't include your driver's license or California ID number or the last 4 digits of your Social Security number on your registration, you may be asked to provide ID if you vote in person.
And the ballot would be provisional. I was an election worker. Anyone can vote but if you are not registered your ballot is provisional and registration status will be checked. However, unless the election is tied or very, very close, provisional ballots aren't counted.
My great-grandfather could probably be proven on my father's side, but not sure. My mom's side is all German, including her. My father's ancestors were slave brought here and Native Americans. I don't think Trump wants to count slaves as having citizenship after the end of slavery, or Native Americans as having citizenship from what I have read. Like Flat-Earthers, history for them is also truncated. It starts with the Pilgrims.
In Germany I can prove my family tree back to 1646 on my maternal grandfather's side. I can probably find the documents on my maternal grandmother 's side too. It depends what the DDR regime did with their documents. I am living her right now with full citizenship. Since I lived back and forth, I always had 2 passports and that is my proof of citizenship.
My daughter feels any documents needed for voting should be FREE TO ALL! I agree with her.
They'll say it's actually pretty easy
https://imgflip.com/i/avmnl4
It'll be even easier if they also get unauthorized voter information from states so that they can 'weed out' any of dose Lib ballots that need to go into the dumpster
My ancestors arrived on the Mayflower so I'm not a citizen either. According to 4 Supreme Court judges. If I am not, none of the Roberts Court can claim citizenship either.
Especially Barron because apparently Melania lied to get her immigration status.
They all lie. They lie to themselves. They like to each other. They lie to us. Only, we don't believe them.
Gasp!
SCOTUS is in desperate need of reform Linda, they had multiple idiotic decisions before adjourning, which everyone is well aware of by now! Whether, by adding more justices, term limits, or ethics rules like all of our other courts have in place. The corruption of our highest court has been years in the making…colour me disgusted!
Unless they applied for a visa and worked toward citizenship. There is a very legal process for people to become citizens. They take classes, they file papers, they take a test and they swear allegiance.
Not if you can only have birth right if your parents are born in the USA. Not then.
Yeah,I agree.The SCROTUS still stinks to high heaven.They are not done screwing We the People either. It’s just a matter of time before the racist, sexist corrupt court throws down some completely outrageous decision.You can mark my words.
Victoria, as far as I am concerned they (SCOTUS) are mixing it up and have been coming up with totally racist decisions like allowing states to gerrymander, and allowing Trump not to give immigrants due process, and to send them to death camps in other countries that they have no affinity to. Once again, Europe follows in the US's Nazi footsteps, just like Hitler got a lot of ideas from the Jim Crow South. It is all so sickening that these evil people exist, but they do, and deal with them we must.
Nothing can be much worse than citizens united. It opened a Pandora’s box that gave us rule by money right out in the open and shut up, lightweight - you’re not even a billionaire so you don’t get to have an opinion.
Oh, yes. Roberts will be remembered.
If you follow their logic, even Tiffany would be excluded, because her dad would be an "illegal."
Marla was born where? I don’t know that I’ve ever heard. 🤔
Per Wikipedia: Cohutta, Georgia
Tiffany, the one he can’t remember that he has.
We will assume for now that Tiffany would have birthright citizenship because her mom Marla Maples does. However, how far back do we go to see if people should have citizenship if birth in the US or to US citizens does not confer it?
Well I have to say I’d have been happy with that. No Trumps at all. 8 years of our lives back.
10-11 years back.
Birthright citizenship exists in almost all of the New World, including Canada and Mexico. I am waiting for someone in the press to point that out when Donnie makes his false claims. Capital is allowed to cross borders at will, destroying communities and lives, but people aren't? Ridiculous. Also, my grandmother was an undocumented immigrant. At one point, the right wing was even threatening to strip citizenship from the grandchildren of undocumented immigrants. Now that Canada has clarified my citizenship rights, I am all for it!
No it does not. Mexico and Canada may do this, but other countries do not. In most European countries, you need to be born to citizens or permanent residents of the country to gain birth citizenship. Otherwise, you grow up with the nationality of your parents. The exception is made of children whose parents are stateless.
Wikipedia says it is 35 countries, and if you look at the restrictions on it, it is not clear cut in all.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jus_soli
Notice I referred to the New World, I.e. North and South America, not Europe. Most countries in the New World recognize birthright citizenship. It reflects our shared history.
I see. I missed the idea of the "New World" since I was taught not to view it like that, since it was only new to the Europeans and the African slaves they brought with them. You mean the Americas.
Make that 3 justices believed the 14th amendment. Two of the six agreed for the meantime but suggested that it can be overturned if congress does it’s magic. and change the law. Kavanaugh said as much and Barrett is standing by waiting for any change congress will make. This is why democrats need to increase the court to 11 as soon as they win the presidency.
I believe in birth right citizenship, but not for uber wealthy tourists. Come on guys, there has to be a way to deal with this.
So called birthright tourism accounts for 1% of all children born to immigrants. Once again, it’s a solution in need of a problem.
Doesn't matter. Its not fair to the people who follow the rules. I really get angry when uber wealthy get away with breaking the law.
The problem with saying people should "follow the rules" is that there ARE no clear rules. People have been fighting to reform immigration rules for years (the last time it was done was during the Regan administration) but a certain group of right-wingers had blocked it at every turn. I recall when George Bush proposed an immigrant reform bill in 2005 right after his reelection — sensible bipartisan reforms — right wing media was screeching that he was a "closet Democrat." (Ha. If only!) Without that, people like Trump can change the rules at will (he probably would anyway) and block people from Haiti where their lives are in danger from coming but giving special dispensation to white South Africans by lying that they are in extreme danger (they're not; they're just white.)
I’m surprised tRump hasn’t included housing in his goodie bags for white Afrikaners
And Russians renting his properties. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121
What about the other 99% of births? You can’t change the way things have been done in this country just to penalize rich people with ulterior motives.
Then get your congress critters going on amending the constitution. Two thirds of the house and senate or three fourths of the states have to pass said amendment. That’s how you stop rich people from coming here to birth their children. Good luck!
Oh do regularly email my Congressman and Senator. Always get a "thank you for your question...." response. For the most part they do okay and I have no expectation that they or anyone else is going to address birthright tourism.
Either it exists or it does not.
Thanks Wendy. What I'm wondering is how any of the justices could vote no in this matter. Even so, Alito, Thomas, and Gorsuch did just that. As Jeff points out, the justices had no business agreeing to hear the case.
I read on BlueSky that Russian oligarchs who launder $ to trump through his real estate also use the real estate to bring their wives/mistresses here to deliver a baby with resulting dual citizenship & found several sources, including PBS: https://www.pbs.org/video/ttc-extra-russian-birth-tourism-trump-properties-qj0wgl/ But they’re white, so he’ll probably give them an exception from his next executive order & a $1M gold trump visa card.
Yep. The men who order Russian brides would be very upset if women “furiners” were banned from the US.
Or Slovenian brides
They’d only be upset about the white “Christian” ones being banned.
Yeah, that came to light I think back in the ‘90s. He was putting them up in his Miami hotel until they gave birth. Kind of went along with the rise of the Russian mafia in NYC. I remember the headlines.
I thought I remember reading some of that was happening at Mar-a-Lago.
I know this is true. Having lived in Sunny Isles, FL, rich white Russians would come to Aventura or Miami to have their babies, resulting in automatic citizenship for baby
And a ton more corruption
Yep, here's another report by NBC.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121
The grift continues: "PAB [Pervert Hoover] says US ‘couldn’t build a plane like this’ as Qatari-gifted Air Force One embarks on inaugural flight." Sure hope their spyware crashes it soon!!
Depends what he means by "build", which due to his ignorance and word salad bullshit, is unclear if he knows Boeing is an American company or if he is acknowledging that the Qataris wouldn't waste close to a $billion on that old white elephant so they gave it to him for favors.
Thats probably the real story behind it.
Aircraft are ungodly expensive to maintain properly and after maintenance there is a storage fee which are also prohibitive, a friend is a private pilot, I fly with him a lot.
The Qataris had been trying to sell the garish plane, for well over a decade, no one would buy it.
from the NYT
"Yes, the Qatari royal family had been trying to sell their luxury Boeing 747-8 jet since 2020 before ultimately gifting it to the United States government. The fuel-guzzling aircraft had lingered on the market without finding a buyer, which made donating it an attractive and creative way to offload exorbitant storage and maintenance fees.
The Background The Qatari Amiri Flight fleet featured a highly customized Boeing 747-8 valued at roughly $400 million. Because massive four-engine jumbo jets have largely fallen out of favor globally in pursuit of more economical aircraft, the royal family had attempted to quietly sell the spare "flying palace" for years."
The plane was made by BOEING. Guess where they're located, Pervert Hoover.
And it was upfitted by L3Harris in FL
I wonder if they found even half of the bugs.
There has to be a deadman's switch hidden somewhere on that plane.
Well, there's this obit: Victor "'Y.M.C.A.'-isn't-a-gay-anthem" Willis, the cop and frontman of the Village People. I wonder if Donny's gonna do a special double-jerkoff dance in his memory ...
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/arts/music/victor-willis-dead.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Donny did post about it, and he managed not to be a dick, which is remarkable. someone else probably wrote it.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116844345882299067
okay.
he still used it to brag about rally attendance tho.
I just read it. I guess this the part where this Python fan says "Hails of derisive laughter, Bruce!" 😄
Earlier this year the thinnest skinned infantile leader ever got his panties in a twist and accused Venezuelan leader Maduro of appropriating trump's YMCA spasms:
SShitler has looked askance
And given Maduro no chance
drumpf's royally pissed
That he has been dissed
Over his giraffe jerking-off dance
😂😂😂
When it first came out all the Gay people I knew said it was.
Plus in many cities the Y was where gay guys lived. As for “in the navy,” that too.
Yes, it was so obvious!
I was 19 when "YMCA" was released. The Village People. Their outfits. The album title "Cruisin'." The song lyrics. Even in my relatively sheltered little world, I knew all those references to Greenwich Village gay culture.......
Yes, singing about gay pick-up sex isn't gay at all...*snort*
Jeff, you missed the most bigliest event of today! Donnie taking a ride in his shiny new bouncy castle, the Qatari Air Force One, heading off randomly to North Dakota. The birthright citizen thing is so yesterday, and that American State Fair thingy was all JD's idea anyway.
Yep. These days it's hard to keep up with the onslaught of daily atrocities - which is by design, as Bannon explained.
Gonna take decades, if not an entire generation, to repair all the damage inflicted, so far.
Ostensibly it's for the opening of the Teddy Roosevelt presidential library. He'll probably want to add his name to it.
he's going to the opening of the Teddy Roosevelt library. it's 2 more flights halfway across the country. Clots & stairs.
Not an official museum or library. He missed the real one last week, wasn't invited.
We all know how he hates having to say positive things about anyone who isn't named Donald Trump.
Someone convinced (threatened? coerced?) SLOTUS (Usha Vance) to hold some event at the Great American Ghost Town where she congratulated winners of a bookmark contest.
The news station is based in Arlington, VA, and is owned by (shocker) Sinclair.
(Young minds shine alongside Second Lady Usha Vance at the Great American State Fair,
https://wjla.com/news/local/young-minds-shine-alongside-second-lady-usha-vance-at-the-great-american-state-fair-bookmark-design-challenge-americas-250th-anniversary-innovation-technology-nations-capital-c)
OMG, I think our current reality is being authored by The Onion. Today's Fair theme is the “Future of America: Innovation, Technology and Progress." So the aspiration of every young mind is to design ... a bookmark. Yep, we are aiming for Mars.
What person under 20 doesn't read on an electronic device? Really? A book mark?!
I knew Vance would scapegoated.
"US and Iranian negotiators head to Doha" which in trump world means he's sending Kushner and Witkoff. Again. Two unqualified, unserious, soulless money grubbers trying to leverage the carrot of US financial resources and the stick of US military might to cadge investment and real estate deals for themselves. Using taxpayer money for their own self dealing. Again. Just as news broke that trump made "at least $1.4 billion" from cryptocurrency grifts in 2025. I struggle to even coalesce how much loathing I have for him, his crime family, and the associated crooks like Witkoff, his son, and all the other remoras.
Its disgusting. There are laws against this, isnt there?
Preznit Predator paraphrasing Doc Brown in Back to the Future: "Laws? Where we're going we don't need no...laws!"
Unbelievable
Interestingly the only "birther tourism on record is from Russian oligarch's mistresses and probably wives too. And they rent trump properties, so many of them the area in Miami is called "little Moscow"!
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/birth-tourism-brings-russian-baby-boom-miami-n836121
In the meantime, your president is having real time conversations with Teddy Roosevelt. 😆😆😆🇦🇺
I just read that after that decision he's now saying pregnant women should not be allowed in this country, even to "visit".
So who's gonna be the pregnancy police? If you're of childbearing age you must submit to a pregnancy test before boarding a plane to the US?
The Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation want to nullify the authority of the Constitution so they can call for a Constitutional Convention. Chaos is part of the plan: confusing originalists and modernists both. Trump is the useful idiot who is being paid out of the treasury to make it as messy as possible.
I did it not once, not twice, but three times, ignorance is bliss!!
Dunno. I’m in the middle of a life upheaval on the other side of the Atlantic.
Bodega Bay? As in ‘The Birds’? Looks lush!
Im sure I heard Stephen Miller’s head explode upon hearing the SCOTUS decision. Obviously he was hatched in the basement of Chernobyl so birthright citizenship doesn’t apply to him.
It is kind of fun to watch bats fly out of his mouth when he talks, though.
He must think that his right side is his best side. He's always appearing on TV tilted like that.
You have no good side, Stephen.
True--Inside or out
So accurate!
His mother dropped him in the toilet and a plumber related to Mark Wayne saved his cute little ass.
Ahem - it’s Markwayne. 🤨
Of course it is!
I'm seriously relieved that you cleared that up. We don't want to make him any more petty than he is.
It’s just such a ridiculous name - everyone deserves the opportunity to snicker when one sees it written out.
Nitpicking really!
Like Kellyanne?
😂😂😂👏👏👏
There is nothing cute about that Monster!!
🤣
Idiots like him need to be kicked OUT of America, we Dems should make a new law for them!!
Your best stuff is for Nosferatu.
"...he starts excitedly shrieking in a pitch so high that you can’t tell if he’s speaking English, or if he’s trying to help bats to echolocate."
Coffee. Through the nose. I was wearing a GODDAMN t-shirt this time because I cannot trust you anymore.
If it's about Nosferatu I automatically set down my coffee and pull my bib up.
Props on your foresight. Jeff can sneak up on me on little cat feet. He's crafty that way.
Some of the Jeff fans can be pretty hilarious in their comments. This is the best group anywhere!
He get hysterical if you ask him a question.
He gets hysterical if you look in his general direction.
But his Nazi Wife Katie says he’s a matador in bed. 😜🤮🤮
A matador in bed? Does rhat mean he puts on a funny hat and drapes a red cape over her when they have sex? Or that he has to put on a sparkly uniform and make her dress like a bull? That is possibly THE DUMBEST way to describe how someone is in bed
Thank you, this comment made me laugh out loud, and also eliminated the gross visual of the wife’s statement.
Agree! She was referring to his “manliness “. Gross!
I'm missing her analogy: she does know that the term for the bull is not matador, right? The matador is the guy wearing sequins and satin and little ballet flats.
Ew! Ew! EWWWW!!!
Sounds like he has to catch her & kill her before she’ll have sex with him? Sounds about right for a vampire tho.
🤣🤣
The thought of sex with him could cause lifelong celibacy.
Ain’t that the truth. 🙄
🤮🤮🤮🤢🤢🤢🤢
As in challenging her with his Swords
What does that say about this weirdo
So agree!!!
Submitted to Trump on the "contact the President" form at whitehouse.gov:
"Trump,
THIS IS WHAT NAZI’S DO!
Sister Leticia "Letty" Ugboaja, a Catholic nun and registered nurse, was released by ICE after being detained in her habit while walking to Mass in McAllen, Texas. Federal lawmakers intervened, prompting the Department of Homeland Security to release her hours later.
The incident sparked widespread discussion on immigration enforcement. Here are the key details:
Who is Sister Letty?
• Background: She is a Nigerian-born member of the Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy.
• Occupation: She is a registered nurse at the South Texas Health System in McAllen.
• Community Role: She volunteers as an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion at Our Lady of Sorrows Church.
What Happened
• The Arrest: ICE officers stopped her on her way to Sunday morning Mass, handcuffed her, and confiscated her rosary.
• The Release: Parish officials announced the detainment on social media. Local representatives and U.S. Congress members intervened, securing her release later that day.
Reaction
• Church Officials: The Diocese of Brownsville condemned the arrest. Bishop Daniel E. Flores called protocols that allow a religious sister to be handcuffed while peacefully walking to church "wildly disturbing".
• Political Response: Politicians from both parties spoke out against the detainment, with some utilizing the moment to criticize aggressive immigration policies.
THIS IS WHAT NAZI’S DO.
THIS IS WHAT NAZI’S DO.
THIS IS WHAT NAZI’S DO.
THIS IS WHAT NAZI’S DO.
T H I S I S W H A T N A Z I ‘ S DO !"
Well, you never know; nuns have been known to use their rosaries as nunchucks /s 😆
Gotta watch those nuns. You never know which one will have a ruler folded into her habit.
Damn straight.
Actually, I’ve known some pretty “dangerous” nuns who, in the name of Catholic Social Teaching, protested for peace and justice and committed acts of civil disobedience, were arrested, and sent to Federal Prison. Then there’s the four Church Women who were murdered by US supported government militia in El Salvador in 1980. However, it sounds like Sr. Letty was just heading to Mass. Yes, even nuns scare them.
Oh my goodness ‼️Sounds like a Monty Python sketch ‼️
We're they worried that she'd hang herself with it? A Catholic nun suicide???
The image will be in my head for a while- thanks for the chuckle 🤭
There's a visual, did you ever see the picture of the piles of rosaries they took away from the people they threw in the internment camps in Texas in trump's first fiasco of a regime? The cruelty is the point.
THAT WILL SHOW THAT COMMIE POPE! Sister Letty was a clear and present danger to all around her, especially ICE thugs cosplaying as humans in camouflage outfits.
I'm sure that all those deeply Christian thugs thought she was wearing an abaya and hijab.....
And she's Nigerian, so double bonus for them. That is why they picked her, as you said.
Apparently the do it impunity .
they do it with impunity
Jeff, I have some good news this morning.. In the continuing saga of “Golf with MAGAs”, I was paired with a MAGAs, been sending him facts, evidence and how the law is applied. Unprovoked by me on the course my partner who is 82 starts screaming about all the lying, cheating, corruption, law breaking by this crew.. he told me that Donald and his associates are robbing the country blind… utter disgust.. I sat there with my mouth opened, thought I was going to have a case of the vapors.
Anyway, if I could get through to this red hat I think we may turned the corner🎉 Best to all fellow travelers…
Wow. What a wonderful reward for your tireless work. Bravo!
Fastball Fredo, you're a man I admire
For never seeming to tire
Of engaging MAGA turds
And enduring their words
To your patience do I aspire
Hear hear!!!
Appreciate your rhetoric today.. you are too kind Doc..
I don't know how you do it. My blood pressure would be thru the roof after playing with that crew although it sounds like you did some good by getting thru to at least one of them. Just curious and I'm sure you've already thought this thru but aren't there any other golf courses where you could find more like-minded, sane people?
Good point Barb.. I’m in a senior community in the nw valley of Phoenix.. I assume all are MAGAS unless they prove otherwise.. I was amazed at all the F bombs my partner was throwing out there.. I enjoy small victories.. best to u..
He has awoken from his metaphorical coma! Good work, Fredo!
I was born and raised in N Phoenix so I exactly the kind of place you're referring to as I would visit my grandparents there. Kudos to you for sticking to it and congrats!
I play golf with his cousin and so far, he hasn't repented. I was supposed to play tomorrow but canceled for no reason. Now the cat's out of the bag and it's hard being around MAGA's.
“Case of the vapors!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"Vapors!" nothing quite like it!!!
Yeah, my wife is threatening to buy a fainting couch for me😃
I always wanted one of those, Scarlett O'Hara looked so good on hers.
We actually had one years ago. Beautiful antique velvet one. Sadly, it got burnt up in a fire at the place we were storing it. No more fainting for me!
I grieve your loss with you!
Great work! You are a rock star!
Another 50 million to go!
Kudos. There's hope.
The funniest part of MAGA melting down over birthright citizenship is watching people who carry pocket Constitutions suddenly discover they meant “terms and conditions may apply.” The 14th Amendment is not a hotel rewards program. It says what it says, which is apparently devastating news to the crowd that treats every baby with the wrong parents like a border crisis in diapers. And yes, 6–3 is better than losing, but three justices looking at plain constitutional text and reaching for the shredder should keep everyone wide awake.
I think they've finally cut their own throats with their decisions this week. Even hard-core opponents now agree it's time to change the court.
Most of their decisions have been just awful, including on voting rights, transgender athletes, and Trump's new power to fire whomever he wants in the agencies except for the Federal Reserve.
And more unlimited Dark money in politics!
Because their close to getting booted out themselves anarchy or resignation.. hit the road this is not working out for half the people
Wide. Awake. SMDH. 🤬😡
Of course, they looked at the plain, Constitutional text of Sec 3 of the 14th Amendment that states a felon cannot be put on the ballot & reversed that
Hey, I have a really fun idea. Instead of awarding the Pulitzer to the first journalist to ask Donny what the fuck is wrong with him (since they’re already proven it’s never gonna happen), let’s offer it to the first person to ask him if Melania was a U.S. citizen when she gave birth to her anchor baby, Barron. Or whether Ivana was a citizen when she birthed Don Jr., Eric or Ivanka. Because if we’re overturning birthright citizenship, let’s do it right! It seems that the only child who belongs here is the one he wouldn’t be able to point to in a lineup.
Hell, or whether Mary Anne was a citizen when she birthed Donny.
“…point to in a lineup!” 🤣🤣🤣 Brilliant!
“People who support automatic birthright citizenship need to answer a simple question. Are you also okay with birthright home ownership?
You know what random asshole. If the United States Constitution said that a person could do that, then yes, I would be ok with it. But it doesn't does it? Because the Founders weren't morons like you.
There actually is a close cousin to birthright citizenship regarding home ownership - it’s called inheritance.
We should definitely get rid of inheritance. What? You get money just because your parents had money. Get yer boostraps and make your own wealth.
The wealthy see it as THEIR reward. It should at least have a hefty tax.
Hell, yeah!!!
They are right that a nation should be able to choose its own citizens. They just refuse to accept that we already have.
My positions on 'birthright citizenship' and 'birthright home ownership' are identical. Both apply to a child of a non-citizen if and only if they apply to a child of a citizen.
Well pointed out. Excellent. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
So how do all the foreign companies buying up residential real estate factor into this?
The dumbest unrelated question I’ve heard in a long time, eat less pancakes and read more a lot more
The 3 justices who voted against the Constitution should be impeached immediately!
And then what? You have 67 votes to convict in the Senate?
Well, I said SHOULD. I don’t expect it to happen, but it should at least be filed to make a point.
MAGA can go and quickly fuck itself unless any of them can trace their lineage to one or more of the indigenous nations that occupied this continent long before the white assholes showed up. That said, I am all for the end of birth tourism for Czech and Slovenian rent-a-wife skanks who fucked Trump and for the mistresses of all the Russian oligarchs who hand out at Whorehouse a lago until their kids are born.
We forget that Native Americans weren't granted the right to citizenship until June 2, 1924 under the Snyder Act. The 14th Amendment (1868) granted birthright citizenship to all persons born in the U.S. but excluded Native Americans who were members of sovereign tribes.
The racism boggles my mind
Before 1924 tribal members had the right to die of disease and starvation on reservations.
Not much has changed.
Interesting article in today's Boston Herald about overwhelming racism by some law enforcement . Google it ; The Few , the Racist , the Punch Drunk. .
That's ass backwards . Native Americans have been her for thousands of years ; Europeans , a few hundred at most .
What a fucked up stupid anti Indian Government they wanted to make sure they didn’t give the American Indian any power to use against them!! when I went out to see the Grand Canyon I have never met such nice friendly people as the American Indians very laid back!!
So many of them forget that their ancestors came over with little more than a hope for a better life. That includes Nosferatu McGoebbles, who seems to forget that there's a possibility he wouldn't exist if Hitler had his way with his family.
They always project
With Trump the accusation is really a confession.
I adore your well-worded and righteous rage. Right the fuck on!!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm fine with a band that agreed to play at the fascist clown show Donny inflicted on the country having no audience.
Sorry, I have to disagree on this one. Bands need to take any gig they can get. They don't make a lot of money unless they get famous. Most have second jobs as waiters or whatever.
Hugs.
I get that, but there's a difference between second jobs and playing at a Nazi festival.
I get it. I just hate to denigrate a band trying to make a living. They weren't playing Nazi songs, just trying to make a buck.
Is Drumpf actually paying them? (Count me gobsmacked if he is!)
I think I saw that Army and Navy bands (or the like) were scheduled to perform - maybe that's who they were?
The band appears to be made up of teenagers. I feel bad that they didn't get an audience.
Sorry- I know plenty of teenagers who would never stoop to playing for Donnie's egofest, even if it was their only gig. The saddest part is that this pathetic flop is replacing the formerly annual summer Smithsonian Folklife festival, celebrating all the cultures in the US. 4.5 million people from the US and around the world visitied in the 1976 celebration. The racists claimed that there was no room on the mall for the festival.
That's a lovely picture of Claudia having her picture taken for the millionth time. We should all stop and take more pictures of our loved ones, sometimes that's all we have left.
Your lede photo selections are always perfection.
Mine is never that good.
The SC is more of a SCROTUS
"Put immigrants straight on a boat-us!"
Said four right wing hackers
Who should have been slackers
Get down on your knees and just blowt us!
Thomas and douchefuck Alito
That bloodsucking fuckwad mosquito
A self-hating Black man
The other a hack, man
Just ship them both off to Toledo!
I am almost at 100 subscribers! Will you please put my Substack subscriber total over three digits? You'll get a frequent dose of limericks, poems and song parodies that tear into the GOP's lunacy.... with a bit of humor.
Good one! Yeah, the only rhyme for Alito that I could think of was mosquito, so I gave up trying to write a limerick about him. Besides he and his insurrectionist wife being corrupt assholes, he doesn't have the decency to have an easily rhymed name. Fucker.
"Finito" rhymes with Alito.....which makes me wish he was finito already.
Finito, Alito, Mosquito, Rightwingchristiannationalistbabyto....
I mean, the annoying bloodsucker metaphor is right there!
I should change that right now!
The nerve…🤭
Tuxedo
Damn. We are so close to losing America. SCOTUS isn’t even trying to hide their corruption and racism.
I hate it here.
Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch are the 3 jackasses of the apocalypse
Brilliant!