That oath doesn’t mean anything unless the other country recognizes it means something.

Here’s a link to a legal firm that claims that Canada just ignores that oath, and a Canadian who becomes an American citizen doesn’t lose their Canadian citizenship. On the other hand, the Germans apparently care, and revoke your German citizenship once you get naturalized in the US, all because of the oat h

“Careful analysis of the text of the Fourteenth Amendment and the process that led to its adoption shows that it does not degrade the concept of United States citizenship in this way,” Alito wrote. “Instead, the Fourteenth Amendment confers citizenship on only those children who, at birth, owe allegiance solely to this country.”

Hmm, let’s look a the actual text of the 14th amendment:

All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

The word “solely” doesn’t appear there once. There is absolutely nothing there that states that being a citizen of another country disqualifies you, or your kids. (If it did, it would be impossible to be naturalized as a US citizen without first renouncing your original citizenship). It’s obvious that this clause was meant to apply to diplomats and other people who get some forms of immunity from local prosecution.

What an asshat…

I’m interested in what is actually in the dissent. But I also work for a living, and I guess the dissent is over 90 pages? Who has time for that shit?

But based on news reports, the main thrust of the dissent is that the birthright citizenship clause was “always meant” for babies born here whose parents had no prior allegiance to other countries, like the children of newly emancipated slaves. But that’s bullshit, because those former slaves didn’t choose to come here, so assuming they have no allegiance to any other country after coming here is kind of insulting.

Also, all those “Dreamers” who were brought here as small children certainly feel an allegiance here, this country is all they have ever known. It doesn’t matter where their parents came from.

Maybe I shouldn’t read the whole dissent, it would just piss me off. All these conservatives who claim to be “textualists” start making shit up the minute the plain text doesn’t support their preconceived ideas.

In retrospect, we dodged a bullet when the Internet developed the way that it did, in an open fashion, at Universities, largely by hippies (and, later, furries).

Remember Compuserve? And early AOL? I remember Quantumlink (Steve Case’s company that eventually turned into AoL) and how my parents had to pay for it by the hour.

Tech Companies wanted to erect tool booths on computer communication, just like the phone network, but the Internet (and it’s open architecture) beat them to the punch. They’ve been trying to fix that bug ever since. But they figured out that if the interconnect is open, they can still charge a toll if they have root access in the hardware at both sides. Once TVs became computers, it became so much easier.

Then I wanted to turn it into a romantic fiction novel about ratios, but by publisher didn’t like that story arc tangent

But you don’t understand. All those benefits are coming directly out of Republican voters’ taxes. Like, Republicans pay money, and people who they hate might get a benefit from it. They call that Socialism, and all they know about that is when it creeps up on you, it’s bad.

Combine that with the fact that Democrats keep nominating… Ladies… for President, and what do you expect a good ol’ boy to do? Vote for a woman who is all socialist and stuff?

I mean, Congress isn’t exactly asserting their authority as a co-equal branch of government here. They should be holding the President to account, yet the House Speaker admits that he is “protecting” the President.

To his credit, Cassidy realizes that too. The full quote is:

Cassidy accused Trump of acting “as if Congress is merely an appendage, and frankly, sometimes Congress acts like it’s an appendage”.

But isn’t it clear that Congress isn’t acting like an appendage, but more kike an organ. Specifically a pussy. Congress is a bunch of pussies, and we know how Trump treats those.