Sadly SCOTUS has some wiggle room here. They get to interpret what “subject to the jurisdiction thereof” means. If a majority view that the parents having no legal standing to be on US soil and that somehow means they aren’t considered to meet that criteria… Well there they go

I do think the portion targeting people with Visas and such couldn’t even possibly stand.

But at this point, that should be moot either way, they are being born to people that have been recognized at citizens and nothing in the order seems to claim to be retroactive, and as far as I’ve seen, they only are claiming changes for children of non citizens.

While he’s chock full of malice and corruption, I’m thinking that this one is potentially innocuous in nature. It’s not like every single thing must have a catch, though I certainly appreciate folks looking out for what those catches are… He did promise the Lumbee tribe recognition and they have long actively sought that recognition, so this would seem to be a strangely straightforward move in a sea of weirdness.

First I’m not sure if he’s autistic or just saying “I’ve got Asperger’s so I’m allowed to be an asshole and you just need to deal.”

But let’s assume he is…

High functioning autism is not associated with involuntary Nazi salute gestures. It’s also not associated with the inability to learn the significance of the gesture.

So if autism is somehow related, then how would it be?

Well the “nice” option is he is going full 4-chan troll mode thinking it is hilarious without processing just how bad it is.

The other option is that he thought he did a credible cover to blow a dog whistle, but was unable to process that he was blowing a tuba instead.

In short, even if it was because of autism, it still almost certainly means it’s still quite on purpose, so it’s hardly an excuse that makes things any better.

I’d say the mortgage example is special, as it’s not just an investment for investment’s sake, it’s a house you are actually going to use, and your realistic alternative is to rent a place on indefinite terms.

For most folks, investments that beat the loan interest is a tricky and often outright risky proposition. If you are leveraging yourself too far then you are almost certainly not getting a good rate, and the investment may be assumed to do better, but could go significantly worse.

You may be taking quite a loss but someone would buy it. As an extreme of you offer to take one dollar for the Tesla there would be plenty of potential takers because a cars a car.

Selling used for cheap also puts pressure on new car demand.

I’m waiting to hear what they want to do with New Mexico

To be precise, it’s like your CEO sent out an email telling everyone they must do something or another. Deviating from them without a court or law backing you up means your services will no longer be required, but generally shouldn’t be facing criminal charges.

I’m unsure.

I will readily admit that Vance is younger, healthier, more competent, and just as vile but better at not saying the quiet part out loud.

However, for whatever crazy reason, Trump has his fanatics, and Vance doesn’t have those. What’s left of the GOP are people that have learned the lesson of kissing the ring of Trump. That’s no room for anyone else to lead, submit to Trump. Make no trouble for Trump, do everything you can to advance whatever he says. Do not call him on craziness, you’ll only hurt yourself. As a result, the GOP is unified behind him, with no one even pretending they would ever hold him accountable for anything anymore (remember whiffs of rhetoric early in his first term about accountability, with that having out quickly and stomped out thoroughly with the repudiation of Romney and Chaney).

I don’t see Vance having that status. Without that status, I think vying to be the head of the party is back on the table. Infighting with the current leader becomes a plausible path forward. While he may chase his particular brand of vile agenda, he would be in competition with other GOP agendas.

The daily show did a segment on this. Basically translators can’t bring themselves to speak as embarrassingly as trump. They will think audience will assume them to be bad at translating if they tried for a more true representation. Especially if they try to imitate how the words are spoken as well as what words are spoken.

A few more quarter pounders and perhaps less than four years…

It’s not like I went there often, but from what I recall it was generally very bland professional site.

But Trump is maximum narcissism, and lots of folks are leaning into it to drive autocratic sensibilities.

Given the use of the word settle, I am concerned it means Russia can promise to stop with only half of Ukraine and Trump will turn that into a victory and blame Ukraine for being unreasonable…

Have a lot of meetings with Germans. The morning after the inauguration, every one of them asked what the hell was wrong with us that we had a Nazi salute in our inauguration. The context is very very well known over there

But even in the future the language is a bit wonky. If you are sterile for some reason, does that mean you have no gender? Well, guess it does say that you don’t have to actually produce those cells, you just have to “belong to the sex that produces the cells”. Ok, but then it technically avoids defining what “belonging to the sex means”, except to say that determination is done at conception, which opens the question to whether they consider a Morris Syndrome person to be a man? Or do they consider that person to have “belonging to the sex that produces larger reproductive cells” even if they, personally do not. Some people can go many many years without knowing they don’t have ovaries.

It’s strangely awkward and even more convoluted for their attempt to avoid saying it is the y chromosone.

Except that interpretation ends up being circular in a way. They don’t have the characteristic, but one day they will belong to a sex that is associated with producing them, even if they personally never do. The wording is very weird because they think they are sidestepping chromosomal and hormonal anomalies, but end up in either taking them literally at their word (no one is any gender) or applying some looser interpretation that becomes flexible since “belonging to a sex” is then not tethered to any objective fact since the timeframe is then up for grabs.

For example, they could have said “if the sperm contributed a y chromosome, then male, else female”. But they probably were thinking of things like Morris, Kleinfelter, and Swyer and wanted to have wording flexible enough to account for those. But it results in enough ambiguity to allow for things.

I’ll say Bill Gates monopoly sucked, but didn’t represent anything like Amazon warehouse conditions or generally other terribly exploitative behaviors. He basically won the lottery of being in the right spot in a tech industry to be the benefeciary of a lot of money being freely thrown at him without him having to resort to typical billionaire measures. Sounds similar for Mark Cuban.

Except he panders to the church as it suits him.

Shoving protest crowds aside so you can awkwardly take a picture with a Bible in front of a church.

Claiming Israel has a divine right to Palestinian land.

But discards the significance and teachings of the church as it suits him. Shouldn’t have it both ways.

I tried, but couldn’t avoid seeing a specific two seconds of it…

They are back with the “no buttons” design. People swear the haptics make it better, but it doesn’t. My work gave me one and the touchpad gets phantom taps and now the pad “clicks” when it hasn’t even been touched sometimes and there’s nothing that can be done.

Reminds me of a coworker who went on a rant about how the workplace was so unfair and didn’t give opportunities to white men.

Nevermind the workplace is about 90% white men, and pretty much all the higher paid folks are white men.

The delusion is strong, to bitch to the face of the pretty much token underpaid minorities and women that they are getting way too many opportunities that should be going to white men.