Steve Lauer

Humanist. I remember the horror of Watergate, but 1/6/2021 far exceeds that scandal

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

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[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

I'm pretty certain that Linda was responsible for the Eagles' formation as she pulled them together to back her and then suggested that they record their own songs.

[Roy Rogers Happy Trails Music Shop  @RoyRogers_HTMS]

Linda Ronstadt performing “Silver Threads and Golden Needles” with her backing band… who just happened to be The Eagles before they were famous!
This is pure early ‘70s California magic — that voice, that band, that chemistry. What a moment in music history! 🔥

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

I see you.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

So, that South African Nazi fuck Elon Musk is limiting my tweet views. Please, tell me, do you see this tweet? Can you see me?

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

I see you.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Hey 👋🏽 guys, I’ve been throttled for two weeks now. Please reply with a . If you see me. Thank you, y’all!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: SOUNDS OF SILENCE — Senate hearing goes deadly quiet as Trump’s federal judicial nominees REFUSE to admit third term is illegal.
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Donald Trump is nominating people to lifetime federal judgeships who won't confirm that he can't run for a third term when they come before the Senate for their approval hearings.

Let that sink in.

Senator Chris Coons of Delaware asked what should be the easiest constitutional law question in American history at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing this week. He asked Trump's judicial nominees about the 22nd Amendment.

The first nominee, John Marck, said that his career had been in criminal prosecution and that he hadn't had occasion to use that particular amendment.

A federal judicial nominee. Unfamiliar with the 22nd Amendment. Seeking a lifetime appointment to interpret the Constitution.

Another candidate eventually offered that it "deals with the two-term limitation." Correct. Gold star.

Coons then asked the simple follow-up: is President Trump eligible to run for president again in 2028?

Marck's response was a masterpiece of evasion: "Without considering all the facts and looking at everything, depending on what the situation is, this to me strikes as more of a hypothetical."

Coons was patient. He walked Marck through it like a kindergarten teacher explaining why you can't eat paste. Has Trump been elected president twice? "President Trump has been certified the President of the United States two times." Is he eligible to run for a third term? "I would have to review the actual wording of it."

A man seeking a lifetime federal judgeship needs to review the actual wording. Of the 22nd Amendment. Which is 61 words long.

Coons then turned to the full panel and asked if anyone — anyone — was willing to simply state that the Constitution of the United States bars Trump from seeking a third term.

A heartbreakingly long silence ensued.

He asked again. Anyone willing to apply the Constitution by its plain language?

More ominous silence.

Nobody. Not one of Trump's judicial nominees would say out loud, under oath, in a Senate hearing, that the 22nd Amendment means what it plainly says.

This isn't ignorance. These are lawyers. They know what the 22nd Amendment says. They know Trump has been talking openly about a third term. And they calculated — correctly, based on what happens to people who cross this president — that telling the constitutional truth was more dangerous than staying silent.

The frightening thing is that these are the people who will be interpreting your rights for the next 30 years.

Please like and share this post if you think federal judges should be willing to say the Constitution means what it says — even when the president doesn't want to hear it.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

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[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

Hey guys, X is suppressing my account. I’m gonna need you to reply with: hey @LePapillonBlu2 if you see me! 💙

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE deported a U.S. born citizen.

Brian Morales is a U.S. citizen, born in a hospital in Denver, Colorado, with documentation to prove it…

And yet, after a traffic stop in Texas, he was taken into custody and deported to Mexico with no charges, no conviction, and no due process.

Morales repeatedly told officers he was a citizen and had proof, but instead of verifying that, he was threatened with fraud charges, and prison time, if he didn’t comply.

He was ultimately pressured into signing removal paperwork out of fear… which is coercion, and illegal.

There is no law in the United States that allows the government to deport a U.S. citizen.

Citizenship is not something ICE can ignore because they don’t believe you, and it’s not something that can be stripped through intimidation.

If you are born here, you belong here… period.

DHS claims he admitted to being undocumented… even though he had proof he was not… and we’re expected to accept that version without questioning how that “admission” was obtained in the first place.

This also didn’t happen at the border, it happened after a routine traffic stop in Texas, which means the standard here wasn’t immigration enforcement at the border, it was treating citizenship like it’s conditional, and revocable, on the spot.

If citizenship can be ignored, if proof can be dismissed, and if people can be threatened into signing away their rights, then due process is being bypassed entirely… and if this can happen to Brian Morales, it can happen to anyone.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

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[Mia @MiaForTrump]

Trump wants Jimmy Kimmel fired for a joke.

I want Trump fired for rape, abuse, fraud, theft, corruption, and a derelict of duty.

Thumbs up 👍🏻 if you agree.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

@JamesTate121 He is not a great communicator, by far. His speeches are word salad. He cannot finish a sentence without multiple nonsensical digressions. He knows nothing but claims to be the best at everything. His actions are all based on impulse and not on rational thought.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

We had a 235-pound English mastiff named Boris. The gentlest dog I’ve ever met.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

If only Republicans still felt shame for what they’ve done and do!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Stevens to RFK Jr: "To top it off, Mr Secretary, I got a copy of HR-944. You know what it is? It's your impeachment articles, sir. You have abused your office, you have gutted America's public health! You should be ashamed."

[Mark Cockerton @CockertonMark]

Trump has removed this image he posted of himself as Jesus because of the backlash from his own supporters.
Please DO NOT post this far and wide as it’s best to confine it to the dustbin of history in case it causes him ongoing damage.
#TrumpBlasphemy

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

Watching what?

[Atheist Girl @iamAtheistGirl]

are you watching? 🚀 😬

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s birthright citizenship scheme implodes after lawyer’s JAW-DROPPING courtroom blunder about Native Americans.

Donald Trump sent his top lawyer to the Supreme Court to argue that birthright citizenship should be stripped from hundreds of thousands of American-born babies. It went so badly that his own solicitor general nearly argued Native Americans aren't citizens either — and had to be rescued by a Trump-appointed justice.

In one of the most jaw-dropping exchanges of Wednesday's already disastrous hearing, Justice Neil Gorsuch — appointed by Trump himself — pressed Solicitor General D. John Sauer on the logical consequences of the administration's own legal theory. The exchange was as stunning as it was revealing.

Gorsuch asked a simple question: under the administration's proposed test for birthright citizenship, are Native Americans born today automatically citizens?

Sauer's answer was a slow-motion legal train wreck. First, he said yes — obviously. Then Gorsuch pushed him to set aside the statutes granting Native Americans citizenship and answer based purely on the administration's own constitutional theory. Sauer's answer changed: "No." Under the 1868 congressional debates, he explained, children of tribal Indians were not considered birthright citizens.

The courtroom went quiet.

Gorsuch pressed harder. But under your test — the domicile test you want this court to adopt today — are tribal Native Americans born on U.S. soil birthright citizens?

Sauer fumbled. "I think so... I have to think that through, but that's my reaction."

"I'll take the yes," Gorsuch replied — essentially throwing the solicitor general a life preserver before he could drown any further.

Let's be absolutely clear about what just happened. The Trump administration walked into the highest court in the land with a legal theory so sweeping, so poorly thought through, that when a justice applied it logically, the government's own lawyer couldn't guarantee that Native Americans — people whose nations existed on this continent thousands of years before the United States did — would qualify as birthright citizens.

This is the constitutional chaos that Trump's executive order invites. Once you start unraveling the 14th Amendment's guarantee that all persons born on American soil are citizens, there is no clean stopping point. The administration's own lawyer proved that in real time, in front of the entire nation, while Trump was still in the building — before he turned tail and fled.

The 14th Amendment was written to be clear precisely because America had already lived through the horror of deciding that some people born here weren't really citizens. The Supreme Court has upheld birthright citizenship for 157 years.

And Trump's lawyer just demonstrated, in spectacular fashion, exactly why those 157 years of precedent exist.

Please like and share this post if you believe the Constitution means what it says — for everyone born on American soil.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

💙 Done.

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

Mayo lost her account for speaking out against Trump and the Republican Party.

If You are anti-Trump follow @Mayoisspicyy

Drop a 💙 and Repost so others can follow you too!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Donald Trump doesn’t want you talking about the fact that his disapproval rating is an all-time high 62%, so whatever you do, don’t share this tweet.

It will make him very mad.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

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[Haters_gonna_hate @princess_kim_k]

I AM FREE!

If YOU CAN SEE ME-

Please SAY HI!

I HAVE MISSED YOU ALL

XOXOS

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

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[Ashlar @RealAshlar]

Do you still consider Joe Biden one of the best leaders of our time?

A. Absolutely 👍
B. No, one of the worst

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Let’s push this one up to 100K just to send that fucker a message.

[Steve Lauer @SteveLauer4]

What’s wrong with the other 25%?

[The Day Warrior @thedaywar90]

Breaking: CNN claims 75% American want Donald Trump impeached, prosecuted, and imprisoned.

What do you think about this?