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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
To be fair (okay probably not remotely the right word for it but I used it anyway), hitler too was also a completely incoherent dumbass who couldn't even get the majority of the vote, and only managed to get the top spot because of a quirk of the system he was in (a parliamentary coalition.)
Mein Kampf is an incoherent mess, much like trump's speeches.
This holds true for many authoritarians. Most of them seem ridiculous in any context other than "oh shit they're in charge how did they get there"
I'm curious how this will affect elections next year, should he actually be convicted.
Like, people have short attention spans, and nothing more than six months before elections matter, etc. but this all seems kinda out of the ordinary so those "rules" might not apply. But then, like, would they not apply in a good or bad way?
@LSBK Hypothetically, if Trump goes to jail, it'd be pretty bad for him.
The big problem is that he can't really campaign from prison. He would likely not have social media access, the ability to give speeches, or participate in debates.
Leviticus 19:34![]()
If she gets it assigned permanently and refuses to recuse herself, the DOJ will file to get her forcibly recused and they'll get it. Like, 100%. She's literally the one judge who should have nothing to do with this case because she's already involved.
It seems like this temporary assignment is just a random roulette thing just in case something comes up in the next couple weeks and the DOJ is almost certainly trying to get that changed.
At first it was silly. But now.....
As for Trump even being in a prison meant for rich people, I wonder what are the odds of him starting a fight.
Like creepy stories? Check out my book!California's Governor Newsom proposes a 28th Amendment
to enshrine gun control into the Constitution.
- Raising the federal minimum age to purchase a firearm from 18 to 21;
- Mandating universal background checks to prevent truly dangerous people from purchasing a gun that could be used in a crime;
- Instituting a reasonable waiting period for all gun purchases; and
- Barring civilian purchase of assault weapons that serve no other purpose than to kill as many people as possible in a short amount of time – weapons of war our nation’s founders never foresaw.
I like gun control, but I do wish Newsom's 2028 grandstanding involved actually writing the proposed text of the amendment rather than just saying "yeah these things would all be pretty great"
which yeah they'd be good and all but also make the text work. The problem with the second amendment is a typo that allows it to be interpreted really weirdly, show us your proposed text!
As much as I'm pro-gun control, and all for most of this, the minimum age part just feels kinda silly to me.
Though that may be influenced by my being an Aussie who also thinks the US drinking age being 21 is just kinda silly. I feel like if you're a legal adult you should be allowed to do adult things.
Edited by Perseus on Jun 10th 2023 at 2:59:08 AM
First 3 sound reasonable, the last one is only ever used to mean "scary black stick" and never focuses on any thing that actually makes for a more dangerous weapon.
I am used to 20, 21 isn't that unreasonable by comparision.
But I do find amercia weird in that its 18 for somethings, 21 for some other things, and 25 for some last few things.
Like pick a damn number and stick to it.
The problem isn't that well-regulated militia is undefined. The argument is that because the sentence it's in in the second amendment is comma-spliced, the entire first part of the sentence doesn't actually have anything to do with the last part of the sentence, so "the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" is actually a standalone clause.
This is obviously not what is intended, but if you read purely grammatically, it is technically correct. Further, this interpretation of the second amendment is only about 30 years old. Previous interpretations were much narrower and actually interpreted it as it was clearly intended, rather than "well the grammar rules say that only the last part matters."
The easier fix would be to amend “the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” to “ the right to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed for members of well regulated militias”. It’d be the dumbest amendment ever if it was done for a literal grammar fix.
“And the Bunny nails it!” ~ Gabrael “If the UN can get through a day without everyone strangling everyone else so can we.” ~ CyranThe full text of the amendment is as follows.
As you can see, it was written before there were rules for commas, but survived into a time when commas suddenly had rules that meant the first half of the sentence is completely disconnected from the second half.
Unfortunately, a grammar fix requires a constitutional amendment. Which I suppose is fair, otherwise someone could say "I'm fixing the grammar of the 16th amendment to say slavery is legal again" or something, but nonetheless, the argument that "because this thing written before comma rules doesn't follow comma rules, it means whatever I want to be true about it is true" is certainly one that has been made (and it's not very good and I wish I could get away with arguments like that.)
EDIT: Incidentally, I just looked it up, its current meaning wasn't codified until 2000 and fucking 8 apparently
I thought it was a 90s thing but no it's not even twenty years ago that US v. Cruikshanks was overturned.
Edited by Florien on Jun 10th 2023 at 12:55:04 PM

So does anyone else think that classified documents are also in Ivana's casket now?
At first it was silly. But now.....