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  • In order for those to be connected, women would have to have more difficulty in producing that proof than men (which may be the case, but the article doesn’t show that).

    Just for clarification, this part has been answered in other articles discussing this subject. Married women would have a tougher time meeting proof-of-citizenship requirements if they took their husbands’ name (which happens 99.9% of the time) because their birth certificate would still have their maiden name. Since the voting rolls contain their married name and not their maiden name, the names wouldn’t match which would be grounds for removal from rolls. This would be made worse for those women who were married recently, as it’s more likely that even more documentation such as a drivers’ license would also still contain their maiden name and would therefore not be considered acceptable proof.

    Women would have to provide additional documentation (such as a marriage license), but it’s expected that this alone would cause some women to consider it not worth the hassle and therefore not bother voting.

    P.s., there are definitely plenty of conservative women too stupid or unwilling to admit to themselves that the conservative position is women as second class citizens, but I wanted to respond with the perspective I’ve heard from people who seemed to be more honest.

    Sadly, there are women who openly embrace this line of thinking. Particularly those who were raised in ultra-religious households where women being subservient to men in all matters is the norm, and have no problems forcing those views on the secular women that they view as “whores”. Mostly, it’s a subconscious way of lashing out against the fact that they themselves have been oppressed for their whole lives and therefore feel better being the oppressor instead of the oppressed. But they are out there.




  • This should absolutely scare the shit out of literally everybody.

    You can literally be disappeared into an El Salvadoran prison, with no charge or due process, and even on the off chance that there is someone willing to fight on your behalf while you rot in a foreign prison, the courts are literally powerless to do anything about it. The Trump administration is literally saying that yeah, they may send some people who aren’t actually gang members down there, but if there’s a mistake, that’s your problem.

    And even if Trump does ask for your return (spoiler alert: This will happen exactly zero times), the Salvador government may not even play ball. They may not even know which one of the tens of thousands of prisoners there he even is. And that’s assuming you haven’t been killed by one of the literally 79 other cellmates you have or you haven’t died of some kind of disease due to the conditions there in the process.

    If you for one second think that this won’t eventually apply to US citizens or Trump’s enemies, you haven’t been paying attention.

    The courts are doing nothing to stop it. The GOP have bent the knee. And what’s worst is that a not-insignificant portion of the population is welcoming this with thunderous applause. But this is the world we live in now. Cross Trump, and he will find someone to say that you’re a Venezuelan gang member and have you shipped off to El Salvador where you will never return no matter what kind of money and resources you have. This is the United States.

    The rest of the free world needs to start cutting ties with the US. Because it’s only going to get much, much worse from here.





  • This “loophole” wouldn’t work. There are plenty of people in the line of succession that are ineligible to be President either due to being too young or being foreign-born. First, if it gets to the point where one of them would even become President, we have much bigger problems to worry about. Second, those people that would be ineligible would simply be skipped over for the next person in line who’s actually eligible.

    Sure, they could use the same backwards logic and hand-waving of Constitutional amendments that they’ve been using all along, but at that point they might as well just make an exception for the 22nd amendment and call it a day. If they’re just planning to hand-wave away the rules anyway, why go through all those extra steps when just saying that the 22nd amendment is unenforceable would be quicker, easier, and accomplish the same thing?





  • I’m dumbfounded. Completely dumbfounded.

    Trump is literally telling French companies operating in France that they have to comply with his Executive Orders.

    French companies. In France. How fucking arrogant do you have to be?

    Between insulting Denmark, threatening Greenland, and now trying to tell French companies how to conduct business, the entirety of Europe needs to start collectively standing up and telling Trump exactly how far he can go fuck off. Because he is not going to stop. If this goes unanswered, he will consider your ignorance as capitulation and therefore weakness and start making more batfuck stupid demands and act as if he genuinely believes he rules over your country.

    Mark my words, Trump’s next step is ordering tariffs on something from France because of their DEI policies. I give it 7 days.





  • Why?

    Trump sees appeasement as weakness that can be exploited. Give the man an inch and he will consider the entire light-year his by divine birthright. Appeasing Trump is only viewed as weakness to him and will only cause him to come after you harder until he gets everything.

    These companies (Meta, Google, Apple) will all completely ignore whatever mandates EU hands down, especially if they know they can just hide behind Trump to avoid further actions.

    The EU as a regulating body will become weaker as a result, viewed as a paper tiger unwilling to stand up to the US.

    This is why Trump keeps winning. Because everybody else folds at the first whiff of pressure.