Fourteenth Amendment Section 1 All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

I don't get how you square those two together.

Relevant xkcd as always

https://xkcd.com/435/

Op Sec was fantastic from Ukraine. With that and Russia ignoring what info on troop buildup they did have, they managed operational surprise.

https://xkcd.com/1138

I wonder how many times this needs to be reposted and downscaled to no longer be true. It looks like this is already not the original resolution of the picture.

Crypto trade

There's where all the money went I guess. Gotta steal toilet paper to leverage that crypto position. (After you've already lost everything several times)

Star wars a new hope started out with Luke as an everyman. But since then it's all become about the bloodline. Rise of Skywalker is especially bad, tearing down the anyone can be special and saying you can only be special because of your bloodline.

Without nato membership, nothing prevents Russia from trying again once they've regenerated their forces. Russia has already broken their promise to

reaffirm their commitment to Ukraine, in accordance with the principles of the CSCE [Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe] Final Act, to respect the Independence and Sovereignty and the existing borders of Ukraine

So Russians pledges are worth less than nothing.

https://policymemos.hks.harvard.edu/files/policymemos/files/2-23-22_ukraine-the_budapest_memo.pdf?m=1645824948

They're also recruiting from prisons and promising freedom afterwards, right? That probably doesn't help.

Last time I checked, corn flakes weren't that cheap. My go to is still rice.

There's a war going on right now in Ukraine, helping them win it will make Russia launching a next war less likely and further off.

If this was just a DUI or something, the driver is going to have a very very bad time.