Here's the especially fun part: the people deciding 'norm' will always find a way to slice the in group into ever smaller wedges.
The Right Wing is a death cult. It eats everything until they're forced to eat themselves because without an out group to persecute they don't have any real purpose. So, they just keep making more out group until they're forced to shoot themselves too.
Land of the free! Small government!
Just small enough to fit into your pants...
Every vote for a Republican/Conservative is a vote against liberty.
It's been that way on a lot of vectors. For example, if you are neurotic about something and poor, you are called crazy. If you're neurotic about the same thing and rich, then you're eccentric.
That is a gute Idee.
I'll make a note and see if I can convince someone to tag along for our appointment.
So far my German immigration process has been hazy at every step. It's more like the information isn't clear and the process requires careful reading of shifting rules all the time. Not so much antagonism, more like underfunded infrastructure.
We're moving with as many of our adult children as we can convince and logistically manage out of this place. The US is losing two STEM PhD holders, multiple bachelors in engineering, and other bachelors degree holders. Yes, we're stupidly lucky to have the resources to make the move, but it's going to basically destroy my retirement resources. It's worth it if my children have a chance of a better life. We're racing the clock to get out before the borders are closed.
Fuck the Nazis in charge of this place and the people who voted them into power.
When the various circuit courts allowed slower level judges like Canon to keep not enforcing good law on the people staging a coup, the judges allowed the Constitution to be destroyed. It's just a piece of paper unless it's upheld and defended.
The right wing has been undermining the federal courts for decades with unqualified ideologue appointments and this is the result. The rule of law is gone and the coup needs to remove any and all remaining opposition. It's classic dictatorship 101 to remove judges who oppose you, both through legal and violent means. The courts failed to act as a body of law for decades and now they are in serious trouble.
Pride wasn't a parade. Pride was a riot. The parades are the compromise to stop lighting things on fire until people were treated as people.
... so no contempt of court? Every person "just following orders" from the top on down needs to be arrested, charged, and detained until the courts decide on the punishment for refusing to follow the law. Unless that happens there's no law and no Constitutional Republic in play.
Have fun paying your taxes, fellow peasants.
The US administration did disband/downsize (who can tell anymore since they're being illegally secret about government doings) the agency who develops the annual GDP numbers. In the future it will all be made up numbers to suit their immediate goals.
1984 here we go.
According to the US Supreme Court, a US president cannot be prosecuted for crimes (if they're related to their official duties, but whatever goes, I guess). This means that Canada is faced with the fact that they're being attacked by a foreign power with a ruler not beholden to the rule of law. If they give in, they're going to be conquered by a king who is not bound by a national constitution, legislative body, nor courts. This is an existential threat to their freedom as individuals with rights.
The "Land of the Brave" but was completely belied by our response to the 9/11/2001 terrorist attacks. We cried and lashes out at random thing until we hurt ourselves over and over.
Brave would have been standing strong and not trying to genocide the middle East writ large. Instead we did the PATRIOT act maneuver and removed our civil liberties before flushing our world leadership position down the toilet out of fear.