We’ve had birth right citizenship for 157 years.
And, while Matt Walsh hates it, it takes only a few hours with an Ancestry subscription to find out it’s the only reason he is American.
Like nearly all Americans, within 2+ generations you’ll find that Matt’s relatives only became American by birthright citizenship.
They came from Ireland, Australia, England, Scotland and Austria.
Most of them *never* naturalized as citizens.
But their children born here became citizens.
“Ending birthright citizenship” isn’t about “illegals” if it was then Trump’s team would have had a more tailored argument and would have likely won today.
It’s fully kicking the ladder out from underneath you.
When people like Matt act as if they’ve got some right to the land of opportunity that you and your children don’t deserve.
The reality is, 80% of Americans today have ancestors who came to America and never naturalized between now and 1866.
And if you go back 2-4 generations in their family tree basically none of those relatives were in America.
Meaning they owe their own American status to the very policy they want to get rid of.
There is a hubris in thinking “just because my Grandparents were American we must have been American forever” when the only reason they were American is because of birthright citizenship.
Remember how mad y'all were when Mamdani said he would arrest Netanyahu? How that would be illegal, and he'd have no jurisdiction to do that?
But Trump goes and does almost the same thing Maduro and it's cheering all the way down.
You can believe (as I do) three things:
1. Donald Trump shouldn't be president.
2. Donald Trump *is* the duly elected president, and must be allowed to exercise the powers of the office. Nobody has legitimate federal executive power to work against him.
3. The courts and Congress have a constitutional duty to keep Trump within the lines of executive power - by acting within the lines of their own powers.
@realJacobAirey I assume it's because the most common interpretations of them belong to, for instance, Marvel, so you can use Conan but he'd have to be a very different character
This is really horrible. When one has seen the holiness of the Lord, and heard his call "Who will go for us?" it means the proclamation of God's holiness, and the cleansing of our hearts, not this.
Christians ought to be disgusted with this.
@RowdyRick73 This is not the original logo. It was created for a Magic: the Gathering subreddit. It's become a meme to attribute it to various other entities.
https://t.co/x9U4gSHmg7
One oddly common cross-ideological take is "I don't know how anything works, and things keep happening that surprise me, and that's the fault of the things".