Rhinehold

Host of Politinerd and Rhinehold Rants, co-host of Chris Spangle Show, co-host of Low Key WAL. Political Author, formerly of Watchblog.

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@jeffreytucker "You know what I could do without? Rapists, sexual assaulters, sexual harassers, groomers, pedophiles and all of their defenders. I'm sick of it."

[reason @reason]

Federal officials showing up at a woman's workplace to pressure her to delete a political social media post certainly makes fears about threats to free speech in America feel far less abstract.
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[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

In the past hour, the Trump admin has deleted their web page that recommended setting thermostats between 75-78 during heat waves, and 85 if you are not home, after the GOP learned that Mayor Mamdani was urging New Yorkers to follow White House guidance.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.

Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.

What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.

The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.

Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. 

Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.

Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.

Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
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[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Thomas' dissent is nothing more than when the left justices invent a reason to 'reinterpret' the 2nd amendment to support bans on guns.

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh It they had wanted to limit birthright citizenship to only those who were children of citizens they would have put that in there. They didn't and argued about it, but they all understood. Any other 'interpretation' is ignoring originalism in favor of legislating from the bench.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

And we’re all looking for the guys who did this.

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@RonFilipkowski

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@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Dred Scott. Howard explicitly states the amendment was introduced to re-affirm Jus Soli.

He lied when he spoke about 'subject to the jurisdiction' requiring allegiance, it doesn't. And frankly that's insulting to common sense, and it is completely disproven by the debate.

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh I've been pretty specific, the three I mentioned are all pretty straight forward. He lied when he said that the Congress didn't contemplate citizenship for foreign-born individuals, the record clearly shows they did.

He lied when he said the amendment was solely to overturn 1/2

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Thomas wants to re-interpret the amendment based on a misread phrase by Howard introducing the amendment. But then wants to ignore everything else in the record because it is inconvenient for his political bias.

Jus Soli has been the law since 1776 and includes 'foreigners'.

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Sure you can, but it is unnecessary. We have the debate, we know that they included foreign visitors and immigrants into the amendment, this is a fact. Thomas lying about this is beneath a SC judge.

Everyone voting knew this was a re-affirmation of existing jus soli.

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Ho calls out each one of those lies in that article with written transcripts of the debate that proves he was either lying or entirely ignorant of the history and purpose of the 14th.

I suspect lying over complete ignorance, personally. Thomas has bills to pay after all.

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Again, debatable. He is on Trump's short list for SC and clerked under Thomas.

I mean he lied several times in his dissent. Some say 'misrepresented' but why mince words.

Lied about the purpose of the 14th, that congress knew the extent of it, and what jurisdiction meant.

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Debatable, but the fact that he lied in his dissent doesn't bode well for the 'factually correct' part, does it?

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Because it was written by a qualified judge, is factually accurate and doesn't rely on agenda/fear to twist history. But keep on fearmongering if you need to, every generation has people like you, fearing Chinese, Irish, Italians, Haitians, Gypsies, Hews, Somalians, Dutch, etc

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh Judge James Ho wrote a definitive paper on this 20 years ago.

https://t.co/9KnGObqRXo

[Rhinehold @Rhinehold]

@1pckt @AlexNowrasteh They were subjects of a nation that we owned and existed entirely within our own.

Whether we agree or not, that was what the congressmen and citizens who overwhelmingly voted for the amendment understood it to mean as well.