There is a large disconnect between media reporting, general chit chat on the internet, and what’s really happening. The general consensus on the news seems to be “the economy isn’t collapsing the way some alarmists kept saying it would”, and most people I know haven’t really changed anything about their lives, going on like grasshoppers in the summer in a fable. Personally we haven’t gone into emergency mode yet, but I definitely put the kibosh on certain things we would normally spend on. But meanwhile, multiple non-profits I tangentially am involved with are having meetings about enormous shortfalls, and then there’s that you posted. Shit’s starting to roll downhill, lots of (additional) destabilizing consequences will be hitting by next fall/next year.
A business also cannot run the way he thinks it does. He kept bankrupting businesses until he found a foreign country to underwrite his increasingly unsustainable loans in exchange for completely selling out his own country.
Before the Senate parliamentarian forced it’s removal, Montana cut a deal to be excluded from the public land sale part of the Murder Bill. Other states could hypothetically do the same with things like Medicaid, which is already managed state-by-state.
Those of us who are doing okay financially are going to feel it much later than people already on the margins. They’re going to start falling off the cliff, and then it’ll spiral from there.
Indeed. We have accelerated our mortgage payments to get it paid off this fall. Taking all efforts to get our fixed expenses to near as possible to zero. No new major expenses until things normalize, and right now, i have no idea what that would even look like. At best, i see stagflation. At worst? Let’s not go there.
The only reason to revoke someone’s citizenship should be fraud in the process of gaining citizenship.
If you’re a criminal here; you’re our responsibility.
It’s early and I haven’t been checking the news so this might not even make today’s top wtf but it’s in the running.
This sounds unconstitutional. The constitution requires an actual count of all people. And the schedule to be used to apportion representatives.
They can likely ask additional questions regarding citizenship. And do additional counts for whatever reason they want other than apportionment.
At least, that’s how I read it.
Not that it matters to the MAGA folks (and perhaps not to a majority of Supreme Court justices either) but Article I Section 2 of the Constitution says in plain language that apportionment of seats is based on the “whole number of free persons” living in each state.
But I guess it’s not a stretch to say that they don’t think that non-citizens should be considered to be free persons. And I guess that if they can lock up enough people in ICE prisons then they literally aren’t free.
I think personhood is what they are going after. They are already arguing that they don’t have human rights.
I’ll just say that I’m not fully born yet.
Whew! Glad I got Irish citizenship. I may need to book out.
I have heard (can’t remember where), that this was a low stakes bargaining chip on the part of Carney. I guess we’ll see.
I hope you don’t have to use it but I firmly believe that the obligation in this country, after the Gender Recognition Act, and the Marriage Equality Referendum, is to be a refuge. Because I know for a fact that many people I have met came here because of those. So even if you didn’t have citizenship you should be welcomed. It’s a moral obligation.
Thank you.
From your lips etc.
Let’s hope Ireland can keep on that track when so many countries just seem willing to fully give into the far right’s bullshit.
