@NancyMace Ahem - there were no restrictions, quotas or limits on immigration to America when the 14th Amendment was ratified, so the whole concept of birth tourism simply did not exist.
So how exactly did the 14th Amendment writers mean to exclude something which did not exist?
The slush fund.
The ballroom.
The IRS get-out-of-jail-free card.
Donald Trump isn’t serving the American people — he’s serving himself. And he thinks you’re dumb enough to fall for it.
@realcawthorn If you're sworn in on a Bible, is it legit if it's the translation into Swahili or Urdu, or does only the King James version count? What if it's a version that leaves out the Apocrypha (the story of Hanukkah and all that)?
Since some people seem to have forgotten how international law works. Here is a 14-second masterclass from 1990.
"It’s simple: Someone invades? You kick them out. You don't ask them about their 'security concerns' while they’re killing your people and flattening your cities to the ground."
Margaret Thatcher:
“Some people suggest there should be negotiations. What is there to negotiate about?
You don't negotiate with someone who marches into another country, devastates it, killing whoever he … stands in his way. You get him out, make him pay and see that he is never in a position to do these things again.”
(1990 October 12
Margaret Thatcher
Speech to Conservative Party Conference.)
@DougWahl1 It wasn't actually him. It was a worker bee at the Pentagon frantically trying to meet Trump's DEI purge deadline.
That's not excusing Hegseth - he's doing a lot of other really stupid stuff.