I never understood the problem with what Hogg is doing. No politician should ever think their seat is safe. Every primary should be contested. If the incumbant is doing a good job, they will win, and the party gets behind them. But if the incumbent loses a primary, then they were probably not doing a good job to begin with.

What’s wrong with that?

Y’all Qaeda

You are overlooking the most valuable thing that Newsom has, that makes him even more qualified to earn enough votes to win: a penis.

Unfortunately, if you don’t have one, you can’t get elected right now.

Ladies and Gentlemen, our 48th President (whether we want him or not)…

The problem is that enough voters saw this feckless and recklessness and said “Yes! This is what we need more of in this country!”

So we kind of asked for this, didn’t we?

Furthermore, they are trying to make use of the precedent that a prior plane used as Air Force One was donated to Reagan’s library. But that was done after new planes were in use, and it went there as a museum piece.

He was very familiar with that “drained of hope” look because many of his ex-girlfriends had that same look

Shit, I need to change the password on my luggage…

(That joke hasn’t aged well, because the TSA has keys to unlock all our luggage now…)

Is the Pope American?

Which one? You could be describing Adams, or Trump. (Or Cuomo, even)

This is the first I’ve heard of sign-up forms. Got a link for that?

Still, though, there are all those Jan 6’ers who already committed violence for this man once, and they were rewarded for it. I think it’s certainly they will sign up to do violence for him again.

Adding an exit check would either slow traffic to a crawl by checking cars on a normal road

Yes, this is exactly what they could do, if they wanted to. They don’t give a shit about slowing traffic, in fact they will want that because it is making what they do more visible. Their only goal is to intimidate certain people into not coming here.

That one was during the day IIRC, there were many more planes in the air. This one at least happened overnight, with less traffic.

Exit Immigration is a real thing that can be done, even if the US doesn’t normally do it. You can leave the US on a plane without any US border agent seeing your passport. Other countries will inspect your paperwork on departure, even if just to stamp it marking that you left . (And stamps seem to be generally going away, too, I was surprised to find when I last went to the UK that I didn’t get a stamp.)

US Border patrol does have the ability to check cars at the land border as they leave, they just usually don’t bother to Canada. I haven’t crossed the land border since COVID, though, so I don’t know if they are stopping cars heading out now.

I do wonder how that handful of people got nabbed at the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit, who took a wrong turn onto the bridge without their paperwork, got caught. Did they make it to the Canadian side and then were told to turn around? Or were they nabbed before going across? I wonder if it makes a difference with regard to their immigration status…

I was wondering what the mistake was, then clicked the link and saw a big picture of Andrew Cuomo. Ah, now I get it.

NYC’s unofficial motto may as well be “He may be a crook, but at least he’s our crook!”

“The new Israeli state of Palestine will be a perfect place to build Trump Hotel Gaza”

Yeah, but he’ll just nominate someone more shitty. Like Steven Seagal…

I am a prompt engineer, I show up to work on time

Personally, I think it goes back to the Catholic Church’s special status as its own sovereign country. They didnt just elect a Pope this week. They elected an absolute monarch. Even though that monarch’s territory is only .5 sqkm, it used to be much larger, and the Church literally has outposts everywhere indirectly subject to its rule.

And a key thing to understand is that the Church doesn’t use confession to hide crimes from just anyone. If some random Catholic confessed to a priest that he was diddling kids, you can bet that as part of the penance, the priest would tell that person to turn themselves in to the authorities. But we know what has happened when the confessor was a priest.

The Church was always super arrogant when it came to transgressions by its own people. To them, subjecting a priest to civil law makes just as much sense as subjecting an Italian to Australian law. When a priest confessed he was diddling kids, they would handle it in their own manner, without getting the local authorities involved.

That’s the real reason why this law is written the way it is. It’s to keep the Church from hiding its own people. The Church, as an institution, has proven over the years that it can’t be trusted on that front.

I haven’t read the law, but it would be interesting if it explicitly allowed a “mandatory reporter” to satisfy the requirement by facilitating the transgressor to turn themselves in. That is a clear way out of this problem, keeping the confidentiality intact while keeping the local government’s jurisdiction over crimes as well.

Why should the President tell the truth, ever? He is shielded from all consequences for it, as long as a majority of the House (or, failing that, 1/3 of the Senate) agree with him.