… wait, what? Next are you gonna me that the “cocksucking” badge I got from that one scoutmaster is fake?

Maybe they’ll start a new organization, not only for Trump fans, but specifically for the Youth. Where have I heard that idea before?

Doesn’t the SecDef have more important things to do right now? Like fight a war no one but his boss wanted?

Sort of. US citizens owe US taxes on their worldwide income, no matter the source. US citizens working abroad also owe taxes to the country they work in. However, the US has tax treaties with many countries that cover how each countries’ citizens are taxed.

If a US citizen earns income in these countries, they may be able to deduct any taxes paid out to the other country against their US tax bill. (And since US tax rates are low compared to many of these other countries, this often results in zero US taxes owed.)

This article is paywalled for me, but it’s very important to understand that these people who are leaving are still citizens. It is very difficult (and expensive) to renounce US citizenship.

So, they are moving abroad, while still retaining their US citizenship. Which includes their right to vote, which can be exercised in the last district they resided in within the US. But Trump sees mail-in voting as a threat, so expect his illegal Executive Ordersto not even recognize that ex-pats have a right to vote at all.

But if the President does it, it’s not illegal…

I have always felt that the only arbiter of academic qualifications should be the voters. If someone can make their case to voters directly, the it shouldn’t matter how formally educated they are.

However, this assumes that voters actually determine who gets those seats. More than 90% of House seats are in districts that are drawn to be so safe for one side or the other that the general election is a formality. A politician who can fend off primary challenges can essentially hold on to that seat forever, regardless of qualifications.

That’s why we keep electing dumbasses to Congress. They know how to game the system. How do we fix that? I don’t see any way out as long as parties can game districts like that.

But if you are not actively aligning your political views with the Administrations’ priorities, aren’t you a domestic terrorist anyway?

I would be in favor of amending the Constitution to make the qualifications for President “Be a natural-born citizen and at least 35 years old, or be a naturalized citizen for at least 35 years”. Maybe if we pull out of this fascist decline we could get that passed in his lifetime.

That last part is super important. We know this administration is building concentration camps for non-citizens. It’s a logical next step to extend that to citizens and non-citizens alike with ties to the counties he doesnt like. Whose gonna stop him?

Well, if it comes to that Mamdani will try his best to stop him. And since Trump seems to have a man crush on Mamdani, maybe it will work where other interventions haven’t.

Well, the Furher has decreed that birthright citizenship is verboten, so these mothers can be forced to give birth, and then when the stateless babies are deported they can pad ICE’s deportation stats. A win-win proposition! (For everyone but the people whose lives are being ruined, but this Administration does not care.)

In attempting to eliminate the alleged regional threat that Iran poses, Trump is inviting an even greater threat to the world. For there is simply no more dangerous world than one filled with nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump doesn’t give a fuck about the future. He only cares about himself. And while it’s taking his sweet time about it, he is aware that his meat sack will eventually rot away.

He doesn’t care about making the world a safer place for his children, and they’re children. He wants people to respect and fear him, now! The military is an extension of his tiny hands, and he’s letting us know he can grab us by the pussy, because when you’re the President they let you do it.

I count myself as one of those Democrats, and no, it wasn’t a matter of “losing my nerve”, that performance was just that bad. In 2020 you could tell he was an old man, but he still had it. 2024 Biden was a marked deterioration.

The real blame is on Biden for not realizing he simply didn’t have it anymore, and for the rest of the party for not convincing him to stick to his one-term promise in the first place. If we had a full Primary we may or may not have had Harris as the candidate, but whoever won would have been in a much better position.

Actually, I think this is unimportant. It’s not that she isn’t a medical doctor, but rather that she let her license lapse because it wasn’t necessary for the things she was doing.

There are plenty of other reasons she is a bad choice, this is just a distraction.

Literally not possible as no such people exist.

Have you ever been to Manhattan? It’s chock full of them. Part of Trump’s deep-seated inferiority complex stems from the fact that the deal makers in Manhattan never fully recognized him as anything but a huckster and a fraud.

Doubtful. MAGA was always revolting, in all senses of the word.

No one becomes the Mayor of a town like New York without knowing how to deal with entitled narcissists. Mamdani has to deal with much more abrasive personalities than Donald Trump on a day-to-day basis.

But you don’t understand, it’s his turn!