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Mer fra msn. news. Trump unveils a new scheme to seize more power Denne artikkelen kort oppsummert at hvis det ikke er mulig å få ut de illegale migrantene (og eventuelt legale, også) fysisk sett - skulle man later som hvis ikke er der. Alle land må ha pålitelig folketelling uten unntak uansett status og tilhørighet, dette er et politisk kontrollverktøy som de færreste nøle med å røre selv med en ildtang av frykt for byråkratisk og politisk kaos. Trump aktet å ødelegge det fordi han vil gjøre flere millioner mennesker helt usynlig for myndighetene... According to reporter Catherine Rampell, the Trump administration quietly submitted a regulatory filing. It was a notification that critics fear would ultimately try to "recategorize millions of immigrants (both unauthorized and legal) as not actually living here in the United States." Trump has spent his first 18 months in office trying to remove as many immigrants from the United States as possible. For the ones yet to be removed, the Department of Homeland Security has them in holding cells after being snatched by immigration agents. The goal set by Trump deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller was to nab at least 3,000 immigrants per day across the U.S., Axios reported. However, the administration has struggled to make that a reality. The next step, explained Rampell, is to pretend they were eliminated. "Through the census, it can continue the spirit of that campaign. Put another way: If you can’t deport every immigrant, you can at least remove evidence they exist," she wrote. The way the law works currently is that the census counts every person in the country regardless of status. The goal is to understand how many people live in each location to inform financial decisions about the allocation of federal funds. The fewer people that are counted, the less funding a community may get for things like schools, health care, housing, food assistance, roads, and child programs. It can also mean less political representation and ultimately a weaker business investment too. Rampell is concerned because thus far no one has noticed, with the exception of "hard-core data nerds." "All that’s officially public right now about that proposed rule change is the title, which was published on an Office of Management and Budget website," she cited. That title is “Decennial Census of the Population of Americans; Proposed Residence Criteria and Proposed Regulations for Demographic Questions." The Constitution does not define ‘resident’ in modern terms. In the original text, it required counting "the whole Number of free Persons" and, at the time, three-fifths of "all other Persons," while excluding "Indians not taxed." The latter two were eliminated by the 14th Amendment. It did not say people had to be citizens, and it did not set a time requirement for how long someone had to live in the U.S. There's no citizenship test for the census. It merely considers a "usual residence," meaning the place where a person sleeps the most often. Trump's new rules appear to be trying to change that by rewriting new criteria for what constitutes a "residence." "In a way, this is a brilliant idea," quipped Rampell. "After all, 'residence criteria' sounds so . . . benign. It’s a thing that usually matters only to the bean-counters within the Census Bureau, who occasionally need guidance about how to categorize where someone lives on the official day of the decennial enumeration, known as 'Census Day' (always April 1, in a year divisible by ten)." Det vil ramme USA meget kraftig på meget mange forskjellige steder. Republikanskstyrte delstater risikere å bli svært hardt rammet fordi føderal støtte og skattlegging vil reduseres, hvis en skattebetalende migrant uansett status kan ikke betale skatt ved å falle helt ut av folketellingen og dermed miste alle rettigheter - vil han eller hun bli en seriøs belastning for delstaten som kan med ett finne seg med flere hundretusener personer i praksis som rettsløse - ordet "apartheid" kan hentes fram. Det betyr også at meget mange valgdistrikter kan forsvinne i alle berørte delstater, det virker som mange i MAGA ikke vet om at migrantene utgjør en meget stor del av befolkningen i "røde" delstater deriblant Texas. Selv hvis de ikke kan stemme, betyr deres vekt at disse med stemmerett kan velge deres egne representanter. 16 % av befolkningen kan med ett bli rettsløse mennesker uten tilgang på statlige og sosiale som tekniske tjenester, de vil bli en "zombiebefolkning" - det er snakk om opptil førti millioner mennesker. Ved å ikke befinne seg på folketellingen kan de rett og slett miste tilgjengelighet på alle livsnødvendigheter. Trump og hans folk kan ha et håp om at det vil tvinge dem ut av USA, uten å begripe skadevirkninger av det. Det er så ekstraordinært ondskapsfull stupid. Historian exposes dark Civil War secret behind Trump’s master plan Even though Americans are largely rejecting his election denial conspiracy theories, President Donald Trump does not care because he is not only hoping to steal the 2026 midterms — he plans on turning America into the Confederacy, right down to the white supremacy and lack of democracy, at least according to a prominent historian. Thom Hartmann, author of books like “The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment” and “The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream,” told AlterNet on Thursday that Trump has a multi-faceted plan to destroy American democracy. It includes sending the military to polling places, seizing ballot boxes, taking unprecedented measures to purge voters from the rolls, seizing on smaller cases of voter fraud — like the one recently revealed in New Jersey, which only led to 400 non-citizen votes since 2023, too small to change election results — and using the post office to stop mail-in voters. According to Hartmann, Trump is drawing directly from the anti-democracy politics used in the South prior to, during and after the Civil War. “By the 1840s and early 1850s, even white people who spoke out against the oligarchy or who tried to run against it faced lynching, beatings, and social and economic ostracism,” Hartmann told AlterNet. “The polls were rigged. The elections were — you know, many of these systems, the old jellybean system and everything else — many of these systems that are the precedent for what Trump is proposing were just the law.” People who opposed the economic oligarchy in America “couldn't win an election.” When marginalized people realized they couldn’t win an election, “the people revolt, essentially. The government is then faced with two choices: they can either back off and say, ‘Okay, no more oligarchy, we'll go back to democracy’ — which is what happened after the Civil War [which started when the South rejected Abraham Lincoln’s election in 1860] — or, it's what happened in 1933 when Franklin Roosevelt was elected president [in 1932]. We had basically become an oligarchy in the 1920s. Roosevelt backed down the oligarchs. He said, ‘They hate me, and I welcome their hatred.’ He literally took them on, and they tried to kill him — in fact, they tried to kidnap him and kill him. So, 80 years ago it was Roosevelt. 80 years before that, it was Lincoln. 80 years before that, it was Jefferson and his allies [defeating the Federalists, who they believed were monarchical, in 1800] — in each case taking on oligarchy, and in each case defeating it.” He concluded, “The big question this time — 80 years later, 80 years after World War II, pretty much to the year — is: will this time, when we have a government that supports the oligarchy, be followed by a government that confronts it? Will the next government, put into power in two and a half years, be willing to take on the oligarchy? And can they beat the oligarchy? Or, as I said, are the oligarchs confronted with two choices? One is to revert back to democracy. The other is to come down with the iron fist.” While Hartmann could not predict whether anti-Trump forces will be able to defeat Trump, he was clear about what Trump is planning on doing — that is, coming down the iron fist against opponents. “Clearly, that is what Trump is planning,” Hartmann wrote. “It's why he's building out ICE. It's why he's put together this rapid reaction force within the National Guard. It's why he and Hegseth have been purging the senior levels of the military of anybody who might object to that. I think the question that's going to determine the survival of democracy in the United States — and consequently, perhaps, democracy around the world — is whether this transitional oligarchy we're in right now will end up as tyranny or will revert to democracy.” AlterNet then asked Hartmann about whether Democrats are doing enough to prevent Trump from doing this. Earlier on Thursday, MS NOW reported that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer convened other Democrats for an emergency meeting on how to counter Trump’s various election theft plans. “I don't know much about what Schumer was planning — probably another strongly worded letter,” Hartmann wrote. “But what I do know is that after the 2024 election, a friend of mine, Greg Palast, a former BBC and Guardian reporter who broke the story in 2000 about how Jeb Bush purged 90,000 Black people off the rolls just weeks before the 2000 election so his brother could win Florida and become president — Greg Palast, who has a master's degree in statistics in addition to his journalism background, and was a student of Milton Friedman's at the University of Chicago, went to the official government statistics, state by state and federal, on who was allowed to vote and who was purged from the voting rolls leading up to and during the 2024 election. What he found was that about four million people who were legally qualified citizen voters were not allowed to vote.” He added, “About half of them had been purged in these massive voter purges — Georgia was kind of the epicenter of this; Greg made a movie about it called Vigilantes, Inc. The other half were affected by a variety of techniques: Republican poll workers challenging mail-in ballot signatures, people being given provisional ballots instead of real ballots. With a provisional ballot, in most states you have to show up in person at the Secretary of State's office within a week or two in order for your ballot to be counted — it's called being cured. There's a whole bunch of other things too — cutting the hours the polling places were open, moving them around without notice, phoning in bomb threats. You can't say that was the Republican Party, but that happened a lot in 2024 in very critical swing districts for Democrats.” Hartmann concluded, “He was able to demonstrate — and he's published this — that had those four million people been able to vote (and we now know who those four million people were), Kamala Harris would have been president, and Democrats would control the House and Senate. So it has already worked for them. And this time, they realize it's going to take more than purging four million people — they're going to have to do six, eight, ten million people.” Overall, the historian concluded that “the question is, will the Democrats be able to turn out enough people, and will Republican voters be sufficiently disheartened by the failures of the Trump administration that an overwhelming blue wave crashes upon our shores? If it turns out to be a tight election, the voter suppression efforts will probably succeed. So we've got a big job ahead of us.” Speaking with AlterNet in June, two election experts elaborated on the same concerns that Hartmann broke down in the July interview. “I think there are two things to consider,” Pooja Chaudhuri, Senior Counsel/Deputy Legal Director at Democracy Defenders Fund, told AlterNet. “One is that the election is made up of voters, and so the outcome depends on people turning out to the polls and voting. The problem is ... the chilling effect on voters.” Chaudhuri continued, “When voters hear that ICE may be deployed to the polls, that mail-in voting rules are changing close to the election, a lot of voters might say, ‘I'm just not going to go out and vote.’ That could happen in many different ways. There are vulnerable communities — people may come from mixed-status families — they're US citizens, but they might decide, "I'm not going to vote." So one aspect is the chilling effect on voters that all of these actions would have.” In addition to that intimidating factor, Chaudhuri argued the gerrymandering and FBI seizure of Fulton County, GA also could keep voters away from the polls. “We're going to see consequences in terms of voters saying, ‘I don't want the FBI to get my personal ballot in the future,’” Chaudhuri concluded. “So, to sum up, I do agree that putting it all together, it does paint an ominous picture.” Dan Vicuña, Senior Policy Director for Voting and Fair Representation at Common Cause, said that Trump’s overall plan is to make sure he cannot lose the midterms. “What they all add up to is a desire to avoid any accountability to the voters in the midterm elections — to ensure, to preordain the outcome of a midterm that he thinks is going to go badly for him,” Vicuña told AlterNet. “We know, from the Big Lie of the 2020 election to spurring on a violent revolt to overthrow a free and fair election, that he has no respect for democratic norms, for the voice of the people. This is entirely about his own power and his own ego. He will even invest in protecting that ego and protecting his power at the expense of the needs of the public. People are suffering with high gas prices and affordability issues, and he does not care. All that matters is protecting his power, and he has no interest in whether he does that through democratic means.” He continued, “I think this all adds up to a desire to ensure that his party stays in power and his ability to do what he wants — to attack vulnerable communities — remains intact.” Det Hartmann sa om sørstatene er riktig; velgerne i de amerikanske sørstatene hadde nemlig ikke ønsket å forlate unionen og det var omfattende politisk misnøye i lang tid fordi mens resten av USA gikk videre hadde sørstatene prøvd å unngå den samme demokratiseringsprosessen som resten av landet. Det store problemet med situasjonen i USA er den ikke-demokratiske forfatningsteksten i 1789-konstitusjonen som tok sikte på å etablere et stenderdelt valgbart oligarkistyre hvor folkevalgte var president, kongressmedlem og dommer hvor flesteparten av befolkningen ikke skulle ha representasjonsvalg som skulle bare være for de rike og velstående. Det gjør at det stadig oppstår oligarkitilstand gang på gang fordi i resten av verden er oligarkidanning motarbeidet i de fleste konstitusjonene inkludert den norske Grunnloven av 1814, forakten for de rike satt ganske dypt i Norge fram til midten av 1800-tallet som i resten av Europa. Det er dessverre et faktum at en for stor del av befolkningen i USA er nødt til å gjennomgå en grufull katastrofe med smerte direkte på kroppen før de kan komme til sans og samling. Trump’s latest import taxes could set a precedent for a ‘broad tariff generator’ on anything a president wants to target, expert warns Det er berettiget frykt for at toll vil bli benyttet som våpen ikke bare av Trump, men også fremtidige presidenter gjennom misbruk av unntaktilstandsloven Seksjon 301. Since they largely replace import taxes that were in place earlier, the immediate economic impact of the Section 301 tariffs is seen as minimal, but they still set a precedent that future presidents could invoke, according to Scott Lincicome, vice president of general economics at the Cato Institute. In a column in the Dispatch, he dismantled the administration’s justifications, saying the tariffs looked predetermined, relied on thin evidence, applied rates far out of proportion to forced labor’s actual trade impact, and offered no off-ramp. “The forced labor action is a clear abuse of the law and a serious departure from past U.S. government practice—even under President Trump,” Lincicome wrote. “By no reasonable measure can it be considered anything other than a ham-fisted way to reinstall Trump’s tariff wall and protect it from another IEEPA-like defeat in federal court.” As a result, Section 301 could be used to tariff “any country, at any rate, and for any reason and duration, as long as it checks the law’s minor procedural boxes,” according to Lincicome. While Section 301 requires an investigation into unfair trade practices before tariffs can be imposed, any administration can simply go through the motions by claiming some form of harm and offering justifications with little merit, he warned. “This is precisely the open-ended tariff power grab the courts checked with their IEEPA rulings, just with a little more procedural window-dressing,” Lincicome wrote. “In such a case, Section 301 would be a broad tariff generator instead of the targeted tool Congress thought it designed, and it’ll surely be used by Trump or any future president who wants to tariff trading partners over carbon emissions, labor standards, AI regulation, or anything else.” Meanwhile, more tariffs are in the works that will add to the overall bill for imports. Oxford Economics estimated the effective U.S. tariff rate will rise to 9.2% from 8.6%, then climb further to 9.6% when new pharmaceutical tariffs take effect later this month. The U.S. also has three other investigations pending under Section 301: one on 16 countries relating to excess capacity and manufacturing; another on Vietnam over intellectual property protection; and a probe on Germany regarding underpayment for pharmaceutical innovations. “Once in place, Section 301 tariffs can be stacked and adjusted rapidly, creating risk to our baseline tariff assumptions,” Sara Godfrey, associate U.S. economist at Oxford Economics, wrote in a note Friday. Trump respektere ingenting i det hele tatt, han bryr seg ikke om at hans tollpolitikk er veldig dypt upopulært i det amerikanske folket.

Man kan kanskje si at det som står i Bibelen ikke alltid er så gjennomtenkt eller kanskje ikke i det hele tatt?

Bibelen er jo en stor konspiteori.

Og Ornstein melder om reel interesse for Vini Jr, det skulle tatt seg ut. Inntrykk at han er litt vel stjerne og skaper mye støy, men skulle vært gøy å se han i PL.

Første dødsfall er bekreftet.

Jeg skrev ytre. Kjenner personlig enkelte fra ytre som anser homofile som "Untermensch".. men det er deres mening. Mullaene er de verste.

Det er heller ingen her som argumenterer for unødvendig lidelse, eller for at lidelse ikke er et problem. Det er en vesentlig forskjell mellom å bagatellisere lidelse og å forsøke å forstå hvorfor ondskap og lidelse finnes i den verden vi faktisk lever i. Det ligger også en elementær logikk i dette. Man kan selvfølgelig ha tanker om hvordan verden ideelt sett burde være, men man må samtidig forholde seg til hvordan den faktisk er. Mennesket er satt inn i en verden med bestemte fysiske og menneskelige rammer, og innenfor disse rammene har vi frihet og ansvar for våre egne valg. Vi kan velge å gjøre godt eller ondt, hjelpe eller skade, vise omsorg eller likegyldighet. Uten en reell mulighet til å velge annerledes ville det heller ikke vært noen virkelig moralsk betydning i å velge det gode. Det er nettopp her fri vilje kommer inn. Gud og Jesus er ikke ment som en erstatning for menneskets fornuft, ansvar eller handling. De er ment å veilede mennesket gjennom livet. Men veiledning gir bare mening dersom mennesket faktisk kan velge om det vil følge den. Uten fri vilje ville vi ikke vært moralske individer, men viljeløse vesener som bare utførte en forhåndsbestemt handling. Det betyr heller ikke at kristne aksepterer ondskap. Å erkjenne at ondskap finnes, og å prøve å forstå hvorfor den kan finnes i en verden med frie mennesker, er ikke det samme som å forsvare den. Tvert imot innebærer kristen tro at mennesket har ansvar for hvordan det møter ondskapen det faktisk står overfor. Samtidig er det urealistisk å kreve at hvert enkelt menneske skal bekjempe all ondskap og all lidelse i verden. Ingen av oss har makt, kapasitet eller oversikt til det. Man må velge sine kamper, arbeide med sine egne svakheter og demoner og forsøke å gjøre noe med det man faktisk kan påvirke. Det er ikke likegyldighet, men en erkjennelse av menneskets begrensninger. Dersom du står foran ti bøller, er det ikke nødvendigvis modig eller moralsk overlegent å kaste seg tankeløst inn i en kamp du ikke kan vinne. Det fornuftige er å vurdere situasjonen, søke hjelp og håndtere utfordringen på en måte som faktisk kan føre til noe godt. Allerede dersom det blir to mot én, kan oddsen være imot deg. Tro betyr ikke at man skal koble ut hodet, overse virkeligheten eller late som om de jordiske reglene ikke gjelder. En kristen kan be Gud om hjelp, styrke eller veiledning, samtidig som han bruker fornuften og handler etter beste evne. Bønn og handling er ikke motsetninger. Det er heller ikke slik at bønn er en bestilling der Gud må levere akkurat det resultatet mennesket ønsker. At man ikke alltid får et synlig eller ønsket utfall, beviser ikke at bønn er uten verdi. Hvordan kan noen med sikkerhet vite at bønn ikke har hjulpet et menneske med å finne styrke, håp, klarhet, selvbeherskelse eller en vei gjennom en vanskelig situasjon? Kristen tro handler derfor ikke om å lene seg passivt tilbake og forvente at Gud skal ordne alt. Mennesket må fortsatt handle, tenke, velge og ta ansvar. Gud og Jesus viser en vei, men de tvinger ikke mennesket til å følge den. Det er forskjellen mellom veiledning og kontroll. Det er også en forskjell mellom tro og fanatisme. Fanatisme kan innebære at man ser bort fra virkeligheten og forventer at Gud skal oppheve alle menneskelige begrensninger og naturlige forhold. En realistisk tro innebærer at man ber, men også bruker hodet; at man håper, men også handler; og at man erkjenner at man ikke kan bære hele verdens lidelse alene. Når det gjelder tanken om at lidelse er Guds straff, er det heller ikke kristent forsvarlig å betrakte enhver sykdom, ulykke eller tragedie som en direkte straff fra Gud. Mennesket lever sitt liv innenfor denne verdenens rammer, med frihet, ansvar og konsekvenser. Den endelige vurderingen av mennesket tilhører Gud når livet er levd. Derfor kan man ikke bare peke på lidelse og konkludere med at Gud straffer den som rammes, eller at lidelsens eksistens i seg selv beviser at Gud ikke finnes. Fri vilje forklarer riktignok ikke alene enhver form for lidelse, særlig ikke naturkatastrofer, sykdom eller dyrs lidelse. Men det blir likevel urimelig å hevde at kristne mener at lidelsen «ikke er noe problem», bare fordi de ikke aksepterer at lidelsens eksistens automatisk motbeviser Gud. Man kan fullt ut erkjenne lidelsen som virkelig og tragisk, ha empati med dem som rammes og samtidig mene at mennesket er gitt frihet, ansvar og veiledning til å møte verden slik den faktisk er.

Vil ikke dette i praksis bety at også styresmaktene i blant annet Nazi-Tyskland, Sovjet, Maos Kina, og Nord-Korea var/er Guds tjenere, innsatt av Gud? «For det finnes ingen myndigheter som ikke er fra Gud»? Vil det si at tyskere som f.eks. gjemte jøder således stod imot det Gud har bestemt? «For de som styrer, skal ikke skape frykt hos den som gjør det gode, men hos den som gjør det onde.». Om du gjemte jøder i Tyskland under krigen så hadde du vitterlig all grunn til å frykte myndighetene, så vil ikke det bety at å gjemme jøder var «å gjøre det onde»?

Hvem på høyresiden ønsker å skade homofile?

Mange som koser seg nå. Er det en ting mullaene og ytre fløy har til felles så er det å skade woke/homoseksuelle mennesker.

Om det blir lovpålagt går nok prisgulvet opp.

Må bestille baderomsskap snart og få det gjort.

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Dette er jo bare tull. Uavhengig av om DNA til dama er native eller amerikansk, har hun gjort en kjempejobb med å fremme amerikanske urinnvåner sin sak. Utakk er verdens lønn. Siden hun var adoptert som voksen inn i en native familie, er hun å regne som native. Slike eldgamle stammekulturer har mekanismer for at du kan bli døpt eller innvidd som et fullverdig medlem av stammen. Det mest åpenbare eksemplet er faktisk jødene. Hvis du konverterer til jødedommen er du jøde. Vanskelig prosess i akkurat det tilfellet da… Hun kunne spart seg den historien om å bli bortadoptert som baby selvsagt.

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1 dag, 2 timer og 48 minutter siden.

Cobweb på Amazon prime var hysterisk skummel. Anbefales, kan røpe at Homelander skuespilleren fra the Boys er med.

Jeg tar patent på pipebrann.

Cia er nede på havna hvor Sprengern påstår at jeg er en bavian selv, det er feil, jeg er en gal sjimpanse bananas er jeg dog uansett

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Banner Cia for å ikke være CIA.

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