Couldna bring m’sel’ to run that visage on the thumbnail … just a link HERE.
And here’s a song to go with it:
11. Been looking at the IRS
… and other sites, trying to sort out this “naturally born” thing. It’s clear that for tax purposes, the term “citizen” is broad and does not require being born on US soil.
“Natural born” though is associated with becoming POTUS and VPOTUS:
“What qualifies as a natural born US citizen? Anyone born on American soil whose parents are citizens of the United States is a ‘natural born citizen'”.
The key there, imho, is parents (plural). Plus “soil” may well include overseas territories. There’s also this:
Amendment XIV, Section 1, Clause 1 of the U.S. Constitution directs that all persons born in the United States are U.S. citizens. This is the case regardless of the tax or immigration status of a person’s parents.
John Armor Bingham, the American lawyer and politician who framed the 14th Amendment spoke on it, then:
He expanded his statement four years later on 9 March 1866, emphasizing twice that this required a man born to “parents not owing allegiance to any foreign sovereignty” so he would be “not owing a foreign allegiance”.[75]
Also:
In a 2012 New York case, Strunk v. N.Y. State Board of Elections,[5] the pro seplaintiff challenged Barack Obama‘s presence on the presidential ballot, based on his own interpretation that “natural born citizen” required the president “to have been born on United States soil and have two United States born parents” (emphasis added). To this the Court responded, “Article II, section 1, clause 5 does not state this. No legal authority has ever stated that the Natural Born Citizen clause means what plaintiff Strunk claims it says. … Moreover, President Obama is the sixth U.S. President to have had one or both of his parents not born on U.S. soil”. The opinion then listed Andrew Jackson, James Buchanan, Chester A. Arthur, Woodrow Wilson, and Herbert Hoover.[5]
To me, there is sophistry going on … the issue certainly is not both parents born on the soil plus under the jurisdiction but just “citizens” by any route. Both parents citizens does not mean both parents born on the soil
Obama’s mother was American, the father not … did he become naturalised? Also, did the mother rush to Hawaii so Barry would be born on US soil? The prime issue here is the status of Soetoro Snr.
With Harris, if the parentage is of importance, there seems skullduggery there but does it preclude her? Just what is it they don’t want known of her antecedents? How important are those antecedents?
Well, given her Starmeresque unleashing of hell on America coming up if DJT doesn’t make it … I’d say pretty vital.
Foreign allegiance doesn’t seem an issue here … Boris, plus Starmer in thrall to the WEF, also Blair and Brown.
Austria’s Right Wing ‘Freedom Party’ Receives Most Votes in Today’s Election – Exit Polls
JH with this:
MftWC 3:
MSNBC Contributor Admits Harris Campaign is Struggling With Men: ‘Young Men, Older Men, Men of Color, White Men’
MftWC 2:
Massive Drone Strikes Targeted Seven Russian Rear Region
MftWC 1:
Scotland’s Chief Medical Officer tells UK Covid Inquiry hospitals were inundated with Covid patients – hospital records show the opposite
5. Leggy
4. Ain’t no chickens around here, boss
3. Daily Sceptic (TDS, in blogrolls)
2. Jenrick’s gambit
When one needs to steal the entire quote but there’s a thing called netiquette, so one can only post a fragment and a link. AKH wrote, about Jenrick’s rubbish:
Asked about his past defence of former Conservative Party policies, the shadow home secretary said: “I have been a team player, which has meant I have had to promote other people’s ideas. I was happy to do so, it’s what you do as part of a team.”
Other people’s ideas eh? A pity they weren’t conservative ideas or even common sense ideas, true ideas, insightful ideas, scientific ideas, ideas about integrity and veracity …. (JH: and much more) …
These people are out of touch and morally bankrupt. Let’s return to the system, in the hands of and supposedly defended by paragons of virtue … MPs.
Essentially, 16.9% of eligible voters or 20.5%, depending on your figures, returned this govt, in these gerrymandered numbers, where the people engineering this fraud knew full well that people were either voting alien pressure group or red rosette as they always have.
What there was not … and the unprincipled again know this full well … what there was not was any political savvy among normies, any knowledge of political history, any thinking through … any interest in it at all.
There are various things at work:
*the lying by the wholly bought media, keeping normies in ignorance
*the parachuting in of candidates, often in the final stages, reducing scrutiny
*the notion of collective responsibility to Party only and Whips (thugs) to enforce it
*the electoral system itself
*this quote about “democracy”:
On the electoral system, first past the post enables, in this case, a single large party due to voter disgust with another party, without considering the untried but in France, it was often a coalition of various shades of left, until Micron just said no … and seemingly got away with it.
What is called AV here and downunder preferential, requires voters to put 1, 2, 3, 4 etc. in boxes next to names. In the hand count, whoever had the least votes goes out and his/her supporter’s second preferences come into play, votes placed on those other piles. Eventually, it ends up two-party preferred, with one winner. Produces two party parlmts.
Proportional … favouring coalitions of the left and few good policies.
None of those are good but the most iniquitous, perhaps, is a minority govt, on votes, ramming through policies anathema to a vast majority on votes but minority on seats.
1. DAD at 825
a) France’s vast public debt pile grew in the second quarter, official figures showed Friday, as Prime Minister Michel Barnier’s shaky minority government girds itself for a gruelling budget debate.
b) This “way of managing money and doing business that is consistent with the moral principles of Islam”, as defined by the Bank of England, has long flown under the radar of the general public.
JH: I plan to run this from DAD elsewhere too, not sure where yet.
c) Whilst literature teachers were once the only ones to sound the alarm, it is now all secondary and university teachers who are paying the price for this drop in standards. “My final year students are becoming incapable of constructing a sentence logically…”
There’s footage which won’t embed but here’s a still:
H/T Steve
21. Steve at 824
a. (Flying things)
”I had a Saturn V on my bedroom dresser for some years but like all my models it eventually went in the bin (or were used as target practice with the air rifle).”
As one does of course.
b. (The steal)
”If they just count the legal votes he could get 90, or even a 100 million. We know they’ll try and steal it again, but this time they’re up against this …”
c. (Link over there)
The man who made ‘Climate: The Movie’ is well worth a listen: Hearts of Oak: Tom Nelson – Carbon Conundrum: Rethinking CO2 in the Climate Debate.
(To my mind her greatest song of all but worst video, visually, jury’s out … so appropriate for certain people today. Plus she was 16 I think at the time.)
19. The minds of the brainwashed
Yes … today we’ve hitherto admittedly been looking at our Beloved Leaders but here’s a little snippet about the mindcontrolled themselves … the karens and budding karens, plus the simons.
We’re told to pray for them … tough ask but needs must.
18. Starmer, by Rolf at Now and Next
Just an excerpt from the article HERE … interesting for me that I saw it after posting Sun 16.
”And now we are inside Starmer’s dream; or the one he subcontracted to ‘Golden’ Brown, the great micromanager.
Sir Keir’s dad was an engineer, one of the trades that attract ‘autism spectrum’ neurotypes who are more task-oriented than people-focused; and it’s a heritable trait. Could it be something like that? And if the task is a political ideal…
Do not get in the way of a man with a vision; if he has enough power he will roll right over you, and with 400+ MPs Starmer is a juggernaut; he does not need social skills. Rosie Duffield? A crunching of bones.”
17. TDS today (blogrolls)
16. Time for a discursive rant
The thing in Russia was that, in the town I was in and I’m sure in many other towns … the true ideologues, the psychos, were dead and gone … Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin … replaced by greedy oligrachs and plutocrats, politburos and not being ideological, greed was and is the only ruling principle.
Now, I’m not saying Starmer’s not greedy … he is, plus as thick as pig excrement, as piggy brained meatheads are, plus he’s surrounded by incompetent women ideologues, also greedy little bints.
Problem with Starmer is he is actually capable of huge damage, e.g. via NI where the puppet govt is mandating the deathjabs.
Now, Putin is quite capable of damage but he’s no ideologue, he’s head of the siloviki (the power) and they’re not interested in crushing the people, killing them all, as WEFer Starmer is, plus Harris and Biden, although the dementia helped there … Vlad is only interested in Russian strength and he’s not particularly interested in personally rubbing individuals’ faces into the faeces, in towns.
The common people got to understand this after some time. Yes, there were occasional blanket, Russia-wide pronouncements from time to time … e.g. all foreign alcohol off supermart shelves in 48 hours, plus the one which saw Brits evicted after Brown here had got uppity over something … Russia hit the British Council first in Vladivostock … but overall, the people discovered something.
Firstly, the Soviet illogicality had one law militating against another. If you’d like to see a modern example, it’s in TDS today … first item. How can you have an Is****ohobia bill when the Equalities Act does not permit it? Starmer is breaking the law. Plus Starmer Sodom-gate (allegedly) helps bggr up that bill.
So, back in Russia, the PTB got around it, now stymied, by ignoring it … let the provinces run themselves and as a result, people had freedom of action, speech, thought, as long as you did not take on the powerful, themselves only interested in assets and living the good life.
And there were spinoffs. Where I was, there were only a couple of bottlenecks into town from the north to south shores across a wide river … a right pain, so they found a cheapo solution so that important people could quickly cross … they built a “pontonni most” (pontoon bridge), low to the water, in the way a Corps of Engineers might … dirt cheap.
Thing was … the “pontonni most” was good, very good for us, personally, worked a treat … and as cars increased, the bridge became popular. But oh dear … the bigwig with the house he’d just bought on the hill looking down over the pontonni most .. he was not having plebs going back and forth to work each day past his house. So he got onto Vlad or the local Prez and said it was a bit distasteful, lowered the tone, plus there were some major world events coming up.
They’d already started the Sydney and Newcastle type sweeping majesty bridge, the town’s soon to be masterpiece … so they hurried it up and removed the “pontonni most”.
What did the masses of commuters now do?
Who cared, thought the bigwigs … and thus traffic gridlock was born. About the time I sold my car and bought the Macbook Pro.
Right, so the people started to have it confirmed that it was better under greedy oligarchs and mafia bosses than under greedy ideologues like Starmer … far more freedom, room to move, as long as you did not tread on their toes. Everyone basically left the others alone. My mate just mentioned some guy called George Santanywhatever who spoke or wrote of mafiosi, who take and are satiated … but ideologues are never satiated.
In fact, the power gets to the non-comps remaining vestiges of brain, from Salem witch hunts to Starmer, to Harris. The only reason the Pope is ignored is he was long ago exploded as a commie ideologue.
If the Donald was as home and hosed as he seems, why then the barrage of attacks on her, Harris, many times a day?
Answer might be firstly that the boomer biddies with the cats, plus the soyboy clowns of the left, together are a formidable voting bloc. Secondly, Harris is far more dangerous than her stupidity suggests … remember what she nearly did to Kavanaugh? Not bad for a gal who “grew up middle-class”, unencumbered by the past, spending much time on hands and knees (allegedly only). Thirdly, she has The Machine right behind her, with endless moolah from perversion..
Let’s say Starmer doesn’t make it past New Year, that we “collectively” do for him? Who then? Rayner? Phillips? But this rant is getting a bit long and I need a shot of coffee.
… plus all sorts of spooky, otherworldly things we no speak of (1116)
15. Time for a roundup
a. The Falklands and oil:
Interesting that Argentina has the leader it currently does. For how long?
b. It’s all on purpose … we want none of it:
c. They’ll get theirs …
… if and when the Donald gets in … he’ll be in Butler again next week.
d. “Who hosted”? Past tense? Interesting …
Maybe there aren’t those heavy hitters she mentions … maybe only the satanic corrupt left have the moolah.
e. The mouse that roared …
New game in town for Them. Bye bye the Ukraine.
14. TPA weekly (no url)
It’s that time of year again where the different parties descend on various cities across the country to set out their platforms, dish out some freebies 😉 and, on paper anyway, engage with their memberships.
The Lib Dems kicked things off in Brighton a week and a half ago (there really wasn’t much to report from that one).
JH: Actually, he’s wrong … Reform was the first of the big three, more important for the country.
John O’Connell, our chief executive, hit the nail on the head when he said (JH: about the clowns):
“Labour came in promising to step more lightly on people’s lives, but the change they are set to deliver looks likely to be yet another round of spending increases and tax hikes that only further damages household budgets while doing little to reform gravely underperforming public services.”
JH: Ah, sorry … Reform do get a mention:
All this was in stark contrast to the hundreds of people we spoke to at the Reform UK conference in Birmingham the weekend before. We spoke to countless individuals and small business owners who simply want the government off their backs and out of their pockets. If you’re one of those who came over for a chat, welcome!
This week, the TPA team are heading to Birmingham for this year’s ThinkTent at the Conservative conference. As the Conservatives come to terms with their defeat at the general election, and candidates vie for the leadership, this year’s ThinkTent promises to be one of the most important yet.
JH: Yeah, well, the Tory’s are a busted flush now … down the loo and not before time. You can only thoroughly P people off for so long.
a. Doesn’t need comment from me (UK Defence Journal)
b. Another reason to crush the Russian Federation and divide it up into manageable pieces?
c. (At 824) The man who shares these initials, a gnuther gno. Sorry, I do have a quirky sense of humour. Neil has been on a journey, some might suggest a choreographed journey (I’m seeing him as the genuine article), to get to where many of us arrived a long time ago. This recent video brings him pretty much into alignment with what we see and suspect.
11. Steve at 823
War Room snippets…
a. Natalie Winters Delivers Stephen K. Bannon’s ‘Victory is Within Reach’ Letter to the Posse from Danbury Prison
b. Todd Bensman: The Biden Administration Loves This Mass Migration
c. Sam Faddis Breaks Down Zelensky’s Request For Long Range Missiles
d. Mike Davis Highlights The Election Interference Allies Of Biden And Kamala
Evets drops (one selection from each drop):
1. German state parliament descends into chaos after AfD insists on adhering to established laws and procedures
2. Zelensky US Trip Flops; West Says [The] Ukraine Losing; Vuhledar Siege; F16s Destroyed; MidEast All Out War
3. Biden’s Gestapo DOJ Sues Alabama for Removing Noncitizens on the Voter Rolls
4. “We Are Going to Close The Border” – Trump Takes Question From Michigan Autoworker Who Was Just Laid Off: “Illegal Immigrants Are Hurting American Workers Like Me”
10. Snippet from Kathy’s newsletter (linked earlier)
“The person I found myself asking questions about last week was Lord Alli and his ‘mission’. Does he own the Labour Party, I asked. And what is his game? I have been aware of him since, with his then-partner Charlie Parsons and singer Bob Geldof, he helped set up Planet 24, the TV company behind Channel Four’s The Big Breakfast. Remember Paula Yates interviewing people on the double bed? Or rather, don’t. Wikipedia describes him as one of only a few openly gay Muslim politicians in the world. The thought that came to my mind was the inner Labour Party turmoil. The strife is not just between the Corbynista left and the Starmer-style globalists but between its Islamic (fundamentalist) support versus its ever-growing LGBT contingent and their union support. Labour astonishingly and worryingly now has 54 declared LGBT MPs. The listing is weird and ‘sectarian’ in itself.Did we have lists of married and unmarried MPs in the past?”
JH: I say nuffink, nuffink u unnerstan? 😎 Obama, Castro, Micron, Starmer (?), “partners”….
9. DAD drops at 824
… our France based contingent are never short of dramas …
a) Only a week. It feels like several months. Bruno Retailleau [The new French Home Secretary] had barely put down his bags at Place Beauvau when he was plunged into the whirlwind of current events, punctuated by terrible dramas, murders, settling of scores, rapes, violence and assaults, like those that France experiences every day …
b) ……….This poll may help him. According to a CSA poll for Europe 1, CNews and the “Journal du dimanche”, 78% of French people say they are in favour of imprisoning individuals under OQTF ….
c) In a country that has become accustomed to atrocities in the last decade, the brutal murder of a 19-year-old student [by an OQTF] has outraged France ….
d) How does one deal with someone like this? Hundreds of humanitarian workers and volunteers are trying to alleviate the precariousness of those seeking exile to England, with growing dismay in the face of numerous deadly shipwrecks.
