Deadlines? What Deadlines?

Take my breath AWO-AAAAAAAAAAAAY...

Is this supposed to be some kind of reverse psychology to get millenials to vote Republican? The Swifties are going to FFFffffuck... You... Up.

I've heard this. Some speculation about Yahweh being a god of war in an earlier pantheon... with a consort. There were early Christian sects that were polytheistic.

I know this doesn't apply to Hailey. Just an interesting bit of history. Not for nothing, the people who will soon be pushing this line also know that it's bullshit; just like they knew it was bullshit with Obama. I mean, how many fake photoshopped Kenyan birth certificates does it take? What they do know is that they cane get some political mileage out of it. and that the Hailey campaign may have to spend some of their limited bandwidth to quash it. And if they can appeal to the more xenophobic elements oif the base, even better.

Yeah. Absolutely. I was talking about the "grey areas". Here's a link to the congressional white paper. https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R42097.pdf

Imperial Britain had racial hierarchies, obviously with white men at the top (as long as they aren't Irish). This presents a problem in multi-racial british territories; that being the inevitable offspring who don't fit neatly into any category. Hence, Partus sequitur ventrem. It turned out that a lot of those cultured, southern gentlemen really liked getting it on with women who couldn't say, "No" without getting whipped and raped anyway. "Our suthun' way of life", as apologists for the Confederacy like to say these days. But even within that system's internal logic, you start to get into idiotic territory really quickly. Sally Hemmings? The slave-born woman Thomas Jefferson fathered multiple children on? She was Martha Jefferson's half sibling and only 1/4 black. She had a grandmother who came to America on a slave ship. No actual portraits exist but descriptions have her as having fair skin and long (straight) hair. She would have been the same "degree of mixed" as Meghan and Harry's children. Her children, 1/8 black, born slaves, lived on both sides of the color line after they were freed in Jefferson's will, although that history is a little murky. Some of them may have been allowed to escape north before Jefferson's death. The earliest known photograph, probably colorized after the fact, is of a grandson of hers living in Wisconsin. The guy looks Irish as fuck. I wonder if he knew.

Grab your popcorn. It's about to get wet.

There was a congressional white paper published on this back in 2008. It's an interesting read. At the time, there were three challenges in US history based on "Nartural Born Citizen" grounds: Goldwater: Born in the Arizona Territory before Arizona achieved statehood. McCain: born in the Panama canal zone to Military parents stationed there. Obama: because he isn't Irish. The problem is that neither the Constitution or the federalist papers define what "natural born citizen" actually means. So they look at legal precedent. In short: "What was the citizenship status of the child at the moment of its birth?" Goldwater and McCain are natural born citizens because their parents are American. It doesn't matter where they were born. Obama's citizenship comes from his mother. Born in Kenya? Doesn't fucking matter.' Ironically, this status-inherited-from-the-mom stuff came from a british precedent that bound the mixed-race children of african slave women (likely raped by their masters) to slavery.

Click it. Click it. Click it. Just a teeny tiny little click? No. Fine. Trump posting an article from gateway pundit suggesting Nikki Haley isn't eligible because of her citizenship status.

I could be wrong, but I think the Birchers were largely pushed to the fringe by the public souring on McCarthyism and Goldwater getting blown out of the water in '64. The problem is these guys are infinitely more crazy and its been a successful strategy for them. "Never Trump" isn't nearly lucrative enough.

Click on it. You know you wanna.

Here we go. https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111721484609384209

Nope. I'm fine with their tactics. "Crazy stupid and proud of it" is just right I think. I've always said these guys would be terrifying if they were subtle (or smart). I would have said "never ordered a missile attack on someone". But then I remembered there was that one time... Never. The american right has always had its lunatic fringe. In the 1950's it was Birchers calling Eisenhower a communist. In the 80's it was neocons saying, "Fuck this glasnost shit. Russia's on its knees! Kill them now!!!" In the '90's it was those super-capslock emails your uncle used to send you and Rush Limbaugh accusing Hillary Clinton of ordering assassinations. You get the idea. You had a generation of unscrupulous politicos who cynically used this noise to their advantage. You now have a new generation that actually believes this shit. The fringe has come to dominate the center. Certain media companies have cynically fed into this for advertising dollars. This is how it is from now on.

Cringe on many levels. I can't even. - Anyway.

Never work for free.

The denial is for the plebs. At the top there is no denial.

Hold on. The Q fuckers and MAGA chuds are flirting with Swiftie rage? Do they know what that crowd is like? Holy shit. Might as well tip one out for Q. Their days are numbered. This is known. Keaton always said, "I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of him."Well I believe in God, and the only thing that scares me is Taylor Swift fans.

You... You go too far, Sir.

I'm not sure if this belongs in a politics thread, but can someone please tell me what the hell is going on with Taylor Swift? She seems to be getting an awful lot of MAGA wonks really excited for some reason.

Did you see Mace glancing down while she was chewing Biden out? She was reading a prepared statement that was rendered moot because he was literally sitting in the room. She just said to herself, "Fuck it, I'm going anyway." Priceless.

In my lifetime.

Like a boss.

They're trying to replicate "Barbenheimer" with a single film. "MandoGrogu! Are you going to see MandoGrogu? You better believe I'm going to see MandoGrogu! I love them so much!!!" I'll bet you cash moneys that those conversations have been had.

I still haven’t seen the finale from season 1. I guess I can’t watch season 2 then. Oh well. Season 1 has 86% on the tomatometer. A good portion of those positive reviews are absolute raves. Let that sink in… - This is the first time, in my life, there has ever been a SW movie announcement and I literally felt nothing about it. I guess that means I’m out after all. And yeah, it is a stupid title.