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originalleftist · 25 days ago
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Someone should remind Orange Hitler that Canada is a member of NATO.
If he tries to claim his Lebensraum here, Canada can and will invoke NATO's mutual defense clause, which would obligate the rest of NATO, including the UK and France with their nuclear arsenals, to come to our defense.
Fuck around and find out, Donald.
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racefortheironthrone · 2 years ago
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apparently the senate cannot be removed without the consent of every state so would it be feasible to amend that requirement out of the constitution then have a 2nd amendment that abolishes the senate or amend the constitution to remove the senate once every state has consented than go about pushing legislation to consent to the removal of the senate in every state?
Let's be a little bit clearer about what Roger Sherman of Connecticut inserted into the Constitution to assuage his deeply stupid fears about the need to protect the world's most meaningless political category:
"no State, without its Consent, shall be deprived of its equal Suffrage in the Senate."
In other words, you cannot fix the disproportionality built into the Senate - even if you manage the immense task of passing a Constitutional Amendment, it would be null and void because of Article V. And no, you can't amend the language that says you can't amend the language - judges really won't go for it.
There are been various schemes proposed to try and get around this - do it through legislation instead of amendment, pass an amendment that changes the definition of the world "equal," abolish the Senate altogether. - but I don't think any of them would work either.
However, Article V only affects the disproportionality of the Senate; anything else about the Senate is up for grabs:
The filibuster is purely a matter of internal Senate rules and potentially can be changed by simple majority vote as long as that majority is willing to change the Senate rules.
bicameralism - Article V doesn't protect the Senate's role in passing legislation - an amendment altering Article I and Article II would be entirely valid - so that you could essentially turn the U.S Senate into the equivalent of the House of Lords. In fact, technically I think you could do it by a Senate Rule basically saying "any bill passed by the House shall be considered to be passed by the Senate." The difficulty is finding a majority of Senators willing to politically neuter themselves.
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yetisidelblog · 2 days ago
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What if you woke up tomorrow morning and learned that, overnight, there was a brand-new Constitution that banned abortion in all 50 states? Ended Medicare and Social Security? Or made peaceful protest a felony?
The fact is well-funded right-wing groups have been working in the shadows for years to make this nightmare scenario a reality. And after this year’s election results, they smell the opportunity to sign the last few states they need onto their plan.
I’m talking about Article V – a plot that would allow unelected, unaccountable delegates to radically reshape our Constitution.
The conspirators behind Article V have been working in secret on this clear and disturbing agenda. Shredding First Amendment protections. Gutting environmental regulations. Rolling back civil rights advances. And enshrining far-right economics as permanent fiscal policy – gutting Medicare, Medicaid, and other safety-net programs.
Many constitutional experts are sounding the alarm bells: with extremists already threatening to upend our checks and balances, Article V is more likely to happen than ever before.
Even worse, this threat to our democracy is being cooked up behind closed doors and out of the public eye.
Here at Common Cause, we have a track record of winning the state-by-state fights against Article V.
With your help, we’ve stopped nearly 150 new calls for a convention each year in states across the country. And we're playing offense too! We’ve successfully rescinded existing convention calls in New Jersey, Illinois, Colorado, New Hampshire, Delaware, New Mexico, Maryland, and Nevada – meaning that if Common Cause hadn’t acted, we’d be one or two states from going off the Article V cliff!
But. I don’t need to tell you that the right-wing extremists and billionaire donors behind this effort are feeling more emboldened than ever right now, which means you and I must redouble our efforts and prepare to defend in multiple states next year.
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tracyorama · 4 months ago
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liberty1776 · 2 years ago
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Constitutional Convention
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theloveinc · 4 months ago
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Just thought about … oh my god. Bakugo’s first real battle with a formidable villain after your kid is born; he’s not exactly “out of shape” (he never quit the gym, routine, etc… just changed it), but he’s thrown down hard in the first couple seconds, and he’s slower to get back into position—taking the time to steady his feet and assess the terrain, pushing out the lil tummy he gained feeding you postpartum delicacies as he cracks his back—
And the villain, god help them, decides to call out to him as they use the few seconds of vulnerability to attack again, screaming, “hey pop pop, don’t tell me parenthood has made you soft! How ‘bout I start calling you ‘daddy,’ too?”
Just as Bakugo’s turning back around with a new fire in his eyes, blood all warmed up, and shooting off to grab them by the throat to end the fight in one single move.
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enbeees · 9 months ago
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lonestarflight · 2 months ago
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"Dramatic view of the launch of Apollo 4, the first full-up test of the awesome Saturn V, 7:00:01 a.m. (EST), Launch Complex 39A, Kennedy Space Center."
Date: November 9, 1967
NAR-Rocketdyne photo no. VEH690
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originalleftist · 7 months ago
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Russia redraws maritime borders with NATO countries.
This is exceedingly dangerous on Putin's part. By doing this, he is walking right up to the line of outright annexing NATO territory, which would trigger NATO's mutual defence clause and likely initiate World War III.
My guess? He's testing NATO. If we let this slide, he'll conclude we don't have the resolve to fight Russia, and the next step will be a full-scale invasion of one or more of the Baltic countries.
Putin must die, or the world will burn.
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grif-hawaiian-rolls · 2 months ago
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sometimes u just get so filled w thoughts about a pair of characters u gotta just go bonkers ya know
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zenobiaseptimia · 4 months ago
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everyone who mistreats cats is going to hell :-(
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sunshineandlyrics · 6 months ago
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freshvinculum2 · 7 months ago
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batfleckgifs · 2 years ago
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Batman v Superman : Dawn of Homoeroticism (2016) Directed by Zack Snyder
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millenniallust4death · 9 months ago
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On April 22, the Supreme Court is set to hear the case of Johnson v. Grants Pass, the most significant case in decades about homeless people’s rights. The case will determine whether cities can arrest or fine the homeless — even if there’s no other shelter. As the homeless plaintiffs wrote, this would be “punishing the city’s involuntarily homeless residents for their existence.”
Mark Horvath, Adam Westbrook, and Lindsay Crous in "Criminalizing Homelessness Won’t Make It Go Away". The New York Times (16 April 2024). Link here.
The city of Grants Pass in Oregon wants to make being homeless a crime in order to drive the homeless into other areas. I am so tired.
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smashorpass50plus · 2 months ago
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B52 Flying Fortress. It’s gonna outlive us all anyway
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