Citizen

As for the tweet / twat to the left here, I don't know if the first sentence of the bottom message is actually accurate. 

I think someone could make that argument for sure. I mean, how far back are we talking?  At some point many of us come of people off the boat who were not documented citizens. 

If the children of those folks are not considered citizens, what does that do downstream to you and me? 

What I really do not get is this was a BLOTUS executive order - intended to end birthright citizenship, a foundational principle that grants U.S. citizenship to all children born on U.S. soil. 

I've seen the social media posts saying that Ivana and Melnoma were not U.S. citizens when they had their children with BLOTUS, so they should be deported.  .....and if this order stands, I'd like to see them gone - though I think Baron and Melanoma will fist-bump and go "YES! We're FREE!"

SCOTUS has backed this up - to a degree - last week and I am just fucking flummoxed. 

If the U.S. Constitution can be amended (read: abolished) with an executive order then yes, we are all fucked. 

The Fourteenth amendment defines citizenship, stating that all persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to its jurisdiction are citizens of the U.S. and of the state where they reside.

Amending the Constitution is not a SCOTUS function. It is Congress led - though with this fucking Congress who the hell knows what would happen.  

So, why is ANY of this a thing? 

The last part of the tweet is the one that is hair raising. 

Yes, I get people are shrugging at it - and me - but this is it. Strip away enough and leave things ambiguous and the previous slippery slope becomes a waterfall. 

This is an administration that has been systematically stripping away rights. And now with SCOTUS' help, you know..........why not go all the way. 

Project 2025 is pretty clear about this. 

U.S. policy should be informed by Christian nationalist teachings and morality. It states that it seeks for families to have the freedom to above all pursue “religious devotion and spirituality.” One of its core goals is to “Secure our God-given individual rights to live freely.” It is clear that the initiative defaults to a conservative Christian understanding of God – elsewhere it states that “God ordained the Sabbath as a day of rest”, referring exclusively to Sunday, as opposed to the days of rest held by other religions.

I get some - even here - might see me as an alarmist or paranoid. And I'd rather be that and wrong than laissez-faire and shrug saying "we never thought it would really happen". 

I think it's really happening. No one is stopping this guy or this administration. 

No One. 

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