I would pay a lot of money for someone to take a giant screen to Trump rallies and play clips of him talking shit.

It’s not the only reason, just the first and easiest. Also, they can say they’re not citizens all day, but unless they legally revoke it (expensive and difficult without dual citizenship because no one wants to deal with a stateless person), the Department of State knows they are. They think that they’re citizens of the state in which they were born, and they want the passport American Samoans get, which is for American nationals, not citizens. They pretty much take real things that exist and try to twist them into whatever alternate reality they’re living in.

As for the birth certificate, I’m 99% sure what that means is that they requested an apostille. It’s basically a certificate signed by the (state level) secretary of state saying the document is authentic that’s attached to certain legal documents. It’s required by certain countries, so I’m assuming they said they need it for a non-Hague country and they think that does something a lot more interesting than just saying it’s a real birth certificate.

I mean, that probably IS why they were denied. Anyone in arrears more than $2500 receives an initial letter saying to fix it within 90 days, and if they don’t, they get denied. In the state I live in, they don’t release the passport until the full balance is paid off. Other states might make payment plans. The venn diagram of sovcits and people who owe back support has a decent amount of overlap, so it wouldn’t be at all surprising if this person owes.

The Dept of State would normally either send them a regular ass passport, or a letter saying, “Your sovcit nonsense is nonsense, you can either get a regular ass passport, or we’re keeping your money and you get nothing,” but no point in that since this moron is probably not going to pay their past due support anyway.

Oh I have no doubt there will be violence if Biden wins, but they’ve already said there will be violence against opponents if Trump wins, so I think all anyone can do is be prepared.

The backfiring isn’t because Republicans are upset about it. It’s because other people are finding out about it and are rightly horrified. It may (hopefully) convince more people to vote that might have stayed home otherwise.

Where’s Dick Cheney to take this asshole hunting when you need him?

I mean, I get that, but there’s no amount of money that could make me do the things he’s done because I’d hate myself in a way money can’t fix. He (and the rest of the conservatives on the court) have hurt so many people and I don’t know how they aren’t even a little bothered. It’s like they’re legal robots who can’t feel empathy.

Weird, I appear open to pushing Clarence Thomas into the Grand Canyon. He’s such an astoundingly shitty human being that I don’t understand how he lives with himself.

Not necessarily in terms of sheer craziness, but the lying about every part of her background is pretty identifying.

Funny how I knew it was Anna Paulina Luna just from that description. She’s a nutjob.

I’d be more interested to know which Trump staff members haven’t committed crimes at this point.

I haven’t had any issue finding those amenities in hotels in Europe (at least in Berlin, Munich, Madrid, and Málaga, which is not an exhaustive study by any means). I’ve seen a few that look to be entire small apartment buildings converted into hotels, which isn’t great for the local housing market, but all the ones I’ve stayed at were clearly built for that purpose. So that’s the good news, I guess.

“Under Donald Trump, your life was better,”

The absolute stones on that man to say that. It absolutely was not in any way better.

I’m the worst about this. My mom and I will try a new restaurant and I’ll be talking about “oh this needs acid, that’s the perfect amount of heat, blah blah.” Meanwhile, I’m over here “cooking” noodles with a pile of kimchi every other day because that’s all I ever have in the fridge.