US Courts: "Maybe Canadian Mounties could help us with enforcement?
Canada: “Eh? No way, hoser.”
I’ll be initiating the retirement process as of tomorrow.
Everything he-who-must-not-be-named touches turns into 
He’s been huffing it for years. How do you think he got to be so utterly dumb?
They share the same intellectual interests.
Sorry to hear that!
Hope you’re not feeling especially bad about a new chapter in life, however bad the circumstances of your leaving work.
Someone left this comment on Jamelle Bouie’s NYTimes opinion piece about the anti-constitutionality of Trump:
And all I can think is: does the writer of that comment think that it’s legal to just straight-out murder visitors to/non-citizens of the United States? Because if they have no rights, they have no rights.
Of course it’s not! The Ten Commandments make it illegal to murder people.
“ "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights”
He needs to file a complaint with Franklin and Jefferson.
Yeah, it’s profoundly stupid on multiple levels, one of which being that it just straight-out ignores what the actual Constitution and Declaration of Independence have to say… and it also appears to be the MAGA position.
I have had the same argument with people recently. To make it clear, let’s look at the first section of the 14th Amendment:
All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
I highlighted a couple of sentences there. The first one says that no state can make or enforce a law that abridges the rights of citizens. So that clause specifically only applies to citizens. This is important because the very next sentence doesn’t make that limitation. It says, “nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” ANY PERSON. Not “any citizen” but “any person”. Had the drafters of the 14th Amendment wanted to limit the equal protection clause to citizens, they could have done so quite easily, just as they did in the previous clause. The only possible interpretation of this is that they intended this clause to apply to everyone in the country, not just citizens. And this is the only interpretation of the clause the courts, including SCOTUS, have ever made of the equal protection clause. Anyone arguing that the Constitution nowhere protects the rights of noncitizens is a fucking moron, or is lying.
¿Por que no los dos?
There is a third option: a fucking psychopathic fascist.
Oh, sorry. That’s redundant.
Michigan has its own environmental protection agency, which covers 4 of the 5 Great Lakes, and The Great Lakes Compact is likely now in effect. I guess we now find out how serious Wisconsin, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Illinois and New York were. Pretty sure Michigan, Minnesota, Manitoba, Ontario and Québec were very serious about it.
After all he went through!
