American Politics from 2019 on

[Cunt]

Pure nonsense.

What is? Burning holy books? Or my notion that the response from authorities would be quite different, depending which brand of holy book you burned?

Maybe a blasphemy map could be created, which shows where individuals have the right, and protection, to criticize a religion by burning a copy of all the holy books.

In Canada, such an experiment has been going. Holy buildings, not books, but anyone can look at the responses to the different ones.

[Brian Peacock]

The idea that Islam is overtaking or swamping Christianity in the UK is pure nonsense. Hadn't you heard, they're all falling to atheism these days. There's nothing by way of a political religious divide in the UK, unlike the US of course, where God always votes Republican. If you think UK Muslims have some special rights or protections try leaving a pig's head on the steps of a synagogue and a mosque and see what happens (you'd be roundly condemned by most and prosecuted for both).

[Sean Hayden]

Right, the true measure of freedom is how batshit crazy you can be around others and get away with it. Even using that metric, all the major democratic powers must be freer than ever!

[Cunt]

The idea that Islam is overtaking or swamping Christianity in the UK is pure nonsense. Hadn't you heard, they're all falling to atheism these days. There's nothing by way of a political religious divide in the UK, unlike the US of course, where God always votes Republican. If you think UK Muslims have some special rights or protections try leaving a pig's head on the steps of a synagogue and a mosque and see what happens (you'd be roundly condemned by most and prosecuted for both).

How do you think the test I proposed would go?

The pigs head thing doesn't track well as a test, because christians don't feel weird about pork.

What's wrong with testing fairly?

[macdoc]

C's been slugging the Koolaid back .....perhaps a well spiked version.

[pErvinalia]

Jesus has second-hand embarrassment. Christianity is the state religion, and it’s alive and well in workplaces everywhere.

The irony is that in Britain, the anglican church actually is officially the state religion, but anglican christianity, at least in Britain, is so mild as to effectively be a non-religion, more of a social club...

Yeah, it's not uncommon for people to say, "I'm not religious - I'm CofE!"

Is funny how the official brand of chretinity has shrunk into near nothingness.

I think Britain has a new flavour of religious chretinity. Didn't Vance say they were poised to be the first nuclear-capable Islamic state?

Vance is an idiot. Pakistan has had nukes for decades.

[Tero]

Trump signs executive order making it illegal to disagree with him.

https://www.threads.net/@david.heath.wr ... y1u98b_C9w

[Cunt]

Is Letitia James really being investigated for the same thing she was (is?) prosecuting Trump for?

Because that would be some funny shit

[Tero]

The court has been busy:
April 7 court ALLOWS use of alien enemies act, even though there is no war with Venezuela

Critically, the court made clear in its unsigned order that officials must give migrants subject to Trump’s proclamation adequate notice that they are being removed pursuant to the wartime authority so they have “reasonable time” to bring habeas complaints. Those are suits brought by people who claim they are being detained by the government unlawfully.

A key concern among attorneys representing the migrants has been that the government’s rush to remove migrants under the act leaves them with little to no time to file such legal claims.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, the court’s most senior liberal, argued the Trump administration’s conduct in the case “poses an extraordinary threat to the rule of law.”

April 18th

Washington, DC
CNN
—
The Supreme Court early Saturday morning paused the deportation of immigrants potentially subject to the Alien Enemies Act, freezing action in a fast-developing case involving a group of immigrants in Texas who say the Trump administration was working to remove them.

The court’s brief order drew dissents from conservative Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.

Attorneys for the Venezuelans at issue in the case filed an emergency appeal at the high court on Friday, claiming they were at immediate risk of being removed from the country and had not been provided sufficient notice to challenge their deportation.

The court’s brief order on Saturday did not explain the court’s reasoning. The court ordered the Trump administration to respond to the emergency appeal once a federal appeals court in Louisiana takes action in the case.

In the meantime, the court said, “The government is directed not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court.”

Previously, a federal judge in Washington, DC, told lawyers for the migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations, even though he was concerned about the administration’s actions.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/18/politics ... index.html

[Tero]

Day 89 summary of legal activity on behalf of Trump and against Trump
https://reportersonline.eu/trump-day-89 ... rvard-was/

[Tero]

Our little crowd. Prominent pro Palestinian group.
https://www.threads.net/@ang_in_real_ti ... fLEI70CVbQ

[Brian Peacock]

Is Letitia James really being investigated for the same thing she was (is?) prosecuting Trump for?

Because that would be some funny shit

What's the right-o-sphere telling you?

[Cunt]

Is Letitia James really being investigated for the same thing she was (is?) prosecuting Trump for?

Because that would be some funny shit

What's the right-o-sphere telling you?

Well (without googling) it sounded like her case against Trump had paused an uncharacteristically long time. Also that she was being investigated for fudging around with her properties, claiming an out-of-state residence was her primary residence, which can't be lawful because of her residence in the state she works for.

So tax weaving and bobbing, just like she wanted to prosecute Trump for. At least I think hers was the one where they hilariously under-valued Mar-a-lago and tried to say he lied about its value to get a loan. But the lender was very happy with the entire transaction (the loan has been repaid)

Anyway, maybe she's on the up-and-up, but some of the cases against him were certainly law-fare, rather than legitimate.

If she's the one who ran on a campaign of 'get Trump', then this could look even more motivated by politics, rather than by justice.

[Tero]

[Cunt]

Kilmar snuck into the country illegally, then got tattoos matching a terrorist gang, and was a known associate of gang members.

I wonder how many of them will get the knuckle tattoos identifying them as an MS-13 prospect...