I’m still not convinced that the Daily Beast didn’t get trolled, I havebt seen this anywhere else yet

For those of you who don’t know, Putin literally stole one of the Patriots’ owners SB rings.

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/heres-how-vladimir-putin-stole-a-super-bowl-ring-from-the-patriots-robert-kraft/

No, I disagree. I know 80 year olds who won the genetic lottery and are still sharp and can operate a car just fine. I know others who probably shouldn’t be on the highway anymore, but they have accepted that and only use their car to get around locally. They know their limits and work within them.

One older person I know is a perfectly safe driver, who used to be an expert navigator, but now once you get him off of his well-known routes he will spend forever looking for “that next turn” and end up driving off in a random direction. His family tries very hard to discourage him from driving alone now.

Yes, younger people mature at different rates, but the decline of older people is much more varied and there is a much larger range of age and abilities to consider. There is no practical way to differentiate solely based on age. Even in states where they periodically retest older drivers, all 3 of the cases I stated above would probably pass. (While a 4th older driver, who is perfectly fine driving by themselves but gets confused while being talked to while driving, would fail because they wouldn’t process the tester’s directions in real time).

It’s a convenient filter to weed out any lawyers in the department with ethics, and replace them with lawyers who will do what the Boss wants, no matter what. They even admit it:

“Any sanctimonious career bureaucrat expressing faux outrage over the President’s policies while sitting idly by during the rank weaponization by the previous administration has no grounds to stand on,” White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said in a statement.

Which is Trumpspeak for “We want anyone with an independant code of ethics gone”…

Well, yeah, he wants to award all the contracts to companies him and his cronies control…

He can do whatever the fuck he wants, as long as half of Congress permits him to do so by not impeaching him.

I’m not. The next phase of Trumpism won’t need votes from citizens, only from Congress…

“Oh shoot, when the DOGEies were here they must have deleted it all. No biggie though, there was nothing interesting in it at all…”

He doesn’t care, if he stays in power past Jan 2029 he won’t need votes to do it…

Of course not. You only get the refund if you “behave”, and we’ve already established that this Administration thinks any foreigner who can’t afford 5 million dollars is a criminal…

Well, there are… let’s call them extra-judicial remedies. But those might turn out doing more harm than good.

I am referring specifically to the Supreme Court case that gave the President immunity to break the law in his official capacity, and reserved for the Court itself the task of determining what is Official. So if the President breaks rhe law in his official capacity, the only way to punish him is impeachment…

The Gold Card is a residency permit, so unless rules change again Gold Card holders wouldn’t need visas so wouldn’t have to pay the new fee.

And I don’t think it’s that we want only rich tourists. It’s that we are treating all foreigners as criminals. If you think of it more like “every foreigner belongs in jail, but you can pay bail to get out” it makes more sense. You only get your “bail” refunded if you “behave”…

Yes, and he is right. The President can basically do whatever the fuck he wants now, as long as at least 1/2 the House (or 1/3 of the Senate) let him, because the sole remedy for a rogue President is impeachment.

His early career arc is kind of bonkers. He was one of only a small handful of black law students at Yale, and graduated with honors. But he had trouble finding a job after graduation, because the racist mid-70’s law partners thought he only got his law degree because of affirmative action. He ended up blaming Yale for giving him a worthless degree, when he wouldn’t have gotten into Yale at all, no matter how talented he was, if it weren’t for affirmative action.

If he had blamed the systemic racism in the profession instead, we might have had a very different Clarence Thomas.

He did all that, we all found out about it, and we still re-elected him…

Not as a whole, but the margins were so thin in some states that Trump won that if Harris didn’t lose that small percentage of Black voters, she might have swung enough states to win the election.

What’s really heartbreaking is that when these veterans, who took bullets for us, get told by our country that they need to leave, they just say “Yup, I guess I gotta leave”, and don’t make a huge deal about it. Donald Trump whines, in an extremely public matter, whenever he doesn’t get his way, and these people just continue to do what their country asks them to, even when the country tells them to leave.

Life just isn’t fair.

… then later he will complain about all these things that he wil claim he didn’t see coming. Maybe we should call Elon’s new party the Not-See’s…

Deep down, I think this guy knows all those reasons are bullshit, too. But he uses them because he doesn’t want to publicly admit the real reason – he would never vote for anyone with a vagina.

The article states

The government can only do this in specific situations. It must prove someone “illegally procured” citizenship by not meeting the requirements, or that they lied or hid important facts during the citizenship process.

So, basically, it all goes back to that person’s naturalization process, and the notion that there was something wrong with it. But for this administration, “hiding important facts” might mean “didn’t tell us this tiny detail”, or “didn’t tell us they intended to vote for Liberals”…