Maybe I'm being dramatic. I don't know.
But it really does feel like we're at this pivotal point where we're going to find out if we have enough American spirit left in us to preserve our way of life here.
I choose to fight.
People who lived back then read it his way too.
Thomas actually argues that the fairest way to settle what the rule means is to ask how people understood it RIGHT AFTER it was written, while the meaning was still fresh.
And when you do that, he says, the evidence lines up behind his logic.
He points to a Supreme Court ruling from 1884 that read the rule exactly the way he does: you had to be fully under U.S. authority and owe loyalty to no other country.
He also points to the legal scholars of that era who studied the new rule closely and reached the same conclusion.
His larger point is that his reading isn't some clever modern reinterpretation cooked up to win this case.
It's literally just the PLAIN, ORDINARY UNDERSTANDING people had at the time the rule was new.
Germany tried to ban to ban the movie Citizen Vigilante, but it had the opposite effect gaining more than 20 million views on X!! The first clip is not a part of the movie. It’s real footage coming out the UK. #citizenvigilantepartner
When I was in France last week sweating through the heatwave, my AC was still running back home in America, not for me, but to keep my gun collection cool, dry, and rust free.
The European mind cannot comprehend this.
@eurofounder It's a voluntary tax; you have the freedom of choice to be the type of c*** who ignores it. Europeans are forcefully state taxed into peasantry status.
@GavinNewsom At least you're honest about being a dishonest thief. A paradox. Don't worry we'll steal your money and use it to expand the bureaucratic system of fraud that keeps us in power so that we can repeat the cycle.
@RWrasse Whatever, none of us care because @LeaderJohnThune can't or refuses to do the job we elected him for. So until then Thune has zero... absolutely zero credibility.
Democratic Rep. Seth Moulton appears to erupt when pressed on a potential Graham Platner endorsement.
The Massachusetts congressman seems to knock down a camera after being asked whether he plans to endorse the controversial Maine Democratic Senate nominee ahead of the midterms.
The tense exchange comes as questions continue to swirl over party unity and which candidates Democratic leaders are willing to publicly back in key races.