Does this not directly, nakedly violate the sovereignty clause?

Nah, not alcohol - they’ll start with drugs, because that gives them a convenient casus belli to say “Mexico isn’t doing enough to suppress the cartels, so the carpet bombing began 20 minutes ago”.

Actually they’ve been trying to invoke the Comstock Act constantly to force ISPs to block porn sites. This particular rallying cry is something I remember since the late Bush II years.

More specifically, this lets them eavesdrop on phone calls with other world leaders in flight, conversations he might have onboard, and email/cell communication onboard. All of which the Qatari government will be selling to the rest of OPEC, I’m sure.

Watch for more “gifts” like this from EU countries as they try to close the intel gap.

Other dictators and conservative authoritarians, mostly. El Salvador, Rwanda, Russia, Hungary, Belarus maybe.

Unless they’re on their way to a session of Congress (in which case they get to ignore a multitude of vehicular laws), not really LEGALLY. De facto, they’ve been immune from prosecution in a lot of cases (and moreover immune to actual consequences) because congresspeople are, by and large, wealthy, white, and male.

Some white South African landowners are upset that the government is cracking down on land speculation. The government can seize land that’s not being actively utilized under a new law they passed a few years ago.

Basically trying to do the thing Jacobo Arbenz got killed for.

It was Flavor-Aid, a knockoff brand.

Because it was cheaper.

Jones wanted the whole thing to be cheap, because the man was a skinflint. The entire massacre, including the bullets that some people wound up with after refusing to drink, was done for less than $20 adjusted.

I was gonna say “or like 10 minutes to Falkreath,” but Falkreath has nothing either.

It’s actually a worse idea. There will still be, nominally, federal control, centralized in him. Other than that, every local and state FBI branch will act as, effectively, a terror cell - they work their own leads, make their own arrests on their own recognizance, and generally conduct business as they see fit. This makes for an incredibly dangerous form of secret police - they have no leaders above the local level, no real command and control, and they’re all tasked with only one thing: make less crime.

Imagine the Cheka, but they’re organized like al-Qaeda.

If you ever say the words, “we should separate kids from their families as a deterrent”, you should be immediately shunned from society. Your job should fire you. Your colleagues, your family, your friends should all pretend like you do not exist. The entire community where you live should write you out of their lives.

It worked WONDERS for early modern societies.

Not even that. I don’t think there’s a larger political force at work than “we need to make more money and we can pay kids the same wages we paid those immigrants, they won’t know their rights anyway.”

Which I’m surprised no cities have challenged this as a sovereignty issue.

Well, not that surprised, but if you’re a city government and figure out that a state government can just completely nullify your labor protections…well, it raises questions of just how much actual legal power you have.

I know that legal power and legal challenges mean absolutely nothing now, considering everything, but still, I’m surprised that the Florida SC hasn’t been hit with questions of “hey I thought we had a right to self-organize”.

Quite literally this is why a lot of public transit got cancelled and destroyed - it made it easier for “those people” to come to the wealthier white parts of the city. In my city they literally built an interstate straight through downtown to make it harder for the large black population here to get out of the traditionally-black parts of the city.

Arguably, our whole approach to small housing spaces needs to be looked at. Unlike in the UK and a lot of other European countries, you can’t lease or buy out your apartment, which really leaves you at the mercy of your landlord or your property company when they sell out or decide to throw you out for someone who can pay more.

I think I managed to get the Earth and Fire Crystals and couldn’t figure out how to get to where the Water Crystal was. All of THAT was from literal wandering.

I even know a few people who have insect fursonas.

That’s the result of them passing the hat around their local militia.

Publicly televised military massacre. Trump is doing Saddam shit, and I wouldn’t put it past him to simply try to order the military to either start a shooting war with a near peer during said parade, or order them to gun down Congress/the SC.

Then jail everyone involved in the deportation for kidnapping. Sure, you can’t get Trump - get everyone else. The chilling effect should be immediate.