“Have any of you realized how much money we spent on this?!”

This is the most important thing, in my opinion, that the fucked up Trump court has ruled on. Saying a president can’t be prosecuted for crimes that were performed as part of his job was wild but unlikely to actually occur. This is both wild and already occurring on a daily basis. This is so unbelievably asinine.

To sum up: if a judge rules a law or action is obviously unconstitutional, the only person it is unconstitutional for is the person who brought the case to that specific judge.

Rather someone with a silver spoon than a golden dick in their mouth.

Yeah, let’s parse that out in real terms:

Need to have completed trade school or 2 years of apprenticeship, neither of which they are willing to pay for.

12 hour days, including many weekends.

SAP experience for an electrician?

Extreme physical danger from being an electrician, especially in a commercial environment that is more likely to have high voltage work.

Pay tops out at $67k…

Let’s repeat: pay tops out at $67k for an experienced person working a dangerous job with long hours and weekends. I’m shocked they are having trouble finding people!!

And employers cannot simply hire people right out of high school without providing specialized training programs to bring them up to speed.

It is 100% money. You are so close to seeing the point with this sentence. If the factory owners paid for specialized training programs for new hires, then they would have specialized employees who can do the job. They are neither willing to invest money in new people, stubbornly insisting that people already come fully trained, but also not willing to appropriately compensate those who are both trained and willing to put their bodies at risk on a factory floor.

There’s not enough skilled talent because the jobs are not paying enough when considering the physical risk and pain involved compared to what the execs make. I grew up surrounded by factory workers who made an OK salary in Indiana, enough to have a small house and 2 cars, but who always seemed to be on the verge of a strike. Constantly fighting with management to get basic benefits and decent pay, then having their bodies wrecked after years of a hard job. It was a thankless, hard job that was only made palatable by the wages and benefits unions had to constantly fight for. It’s no wonder young people look at that life and decide it isn’t worth all the specialized training to spend your life being dehumanized by the corporations who are making so much more money than you. At least in the skilled trades like construction and electrical you can go it alone and get most of the money for yourself. Not much of an option for that for factory workers.

Without reading I can give a most likely answer: money. If the job is exhausting and dangerous but pays a tenth of what middle management makes, which is a tenth of what the CEO makes, then I think we might have the reason.

Dear Diary, I’m hungry.

Signed, me.

Since this was an “emergency” ruling, the majority opinion was not required to say why they felt it was constitutional to send a person to a prison in a war-torn country they’re not a citizen of without having due process. This is straight up kidnapping and human trafficking. It’s one thing to argue that a person who doesn’t have proof of citizenship in the US has to go back to the country where they do have citizenship, but to send them to a prison in Africa without any kind of court trial? That’s insane. I can’t even imagine what justification the judges would give for saying that doesn’t violate due process rights of all people in the US. Because the constitution doesn’t say only citizens have the right to due process. Even the evil nutjob Scalia formally stated, “aliens [non-citizens] [are entitled] to due process of law in deportation proceedings.”

I liked this part of the story:

"Kasper Erikesen, a Danish father of four and green card holder who made posts supporting Trump, was among those detained while actively trying to become a U.S. citizen. "

This is so fucked up. The wife was brought in illegally when she was a minor by her mother. Her mom applied for asylum to make their status legal but missed an immigration hearing 7 years ago, triggering a deportation order. After getting married she applied for a green card like she was supposed to do, but instead they are going to deport her based on her mom’s mistake.

She didn’t choose to come to the US, didn’t choose to do so illegally, didn’t choose (or even know about) her mother missing an immigration hearing, and didn’t choose to stay even though there was a deportation order because she didn’t know about the order. She followed the rules and is being punished.

So you don’t agree with granting amnesty to kids brought over illegally by their parents? You’re fine with them suffering for the actions of their parents?

He’s from the country that murdered thousands of native children, so he therefore fully supports murdering children who aren’t white.

Yeah, I think the word “star” is a bit of an embellishment. He might have been the star of his highschool team or a starter in college, but by 19 if you aren’t on a pro roster then you aren’t a star. You can become a pro later in your life after college, like many in MLS have, but almost none of them are stars.

EDIT: Found it: he was the star of his highschool club team but didn’t even get any offers for college. His club coach is trying to get him a college offer to help him get back to the US on a student visa. That’s really far from being a “star.”

My legal opinion is they are FABULOUS!

I think it would be a hard case for a serious lawyer to make that a man wearing women’s clothing is obscene (or vice versa), seeing as PG rated movies have had men dressed as women for decades. That doesn’t mean the AG here won’t decree it, just that it should be easy to challenge in federal court.

No. The answer is only no.

There are so many excellent reasons to visit the US… just not necessarily right now.

Our cities are fun to explore and have great restaurants and museums. Most need a car to explore, unfortunately, but some don’t. Our nature is honestly amazing. From forests to deserts to mountains to beaches to lakes and rivers. Yes, other places have some of those, but not many countries have all of those.

Longhorn… the hype was strong with that one. I don’t even remember what the hype was about, just that Longhorn was supposed to be amazing.

Shoot one millionaire? Terrorist.

Shoot two Democratic politicians and their families and dog? Just a Saturday.

Italy is even worse than France for this kind of thing. More than a few times I’ve found myself on streets that DEFINITELY were not car streets, but Google maps sent me there. Florence was the worst for this. I’ve also found myself on streets in Italy that only very very narrow cars could fit down because of Google maps. I had to reverse down a long alley because it kept narrowing and narrowing until even with the mirrors pulled back it was narrower than my rental car (with a small car in front of me pissed off because I was blocking her).

Germany also has a lot of pedestrian/restaurant squares that do allow cars but only early in the morning or late at night, but there are no signs saying WHEN those times are. And I needed to drive through those squares to get to my hotels, so that was interesting a couple times.