SatanicNotMessianic

Yup, that’s it, thanks.

It also explains why I thought I remembered it was a demon doing it…

Thank you - that makes perfect sense.

I do believe I remember reading that individuals could still appeal their inclusion.

I’m not sure I understand this post. Dune is (or was) a trilogy. Dune, Dune Messiah, and Children of Dune. At least, that’s how I grew up knowing them.

So in the movies they’re doing a good enough job that they split the first book, Dune, into two parts. I don’t remember the author doing this, though. So the second book, Messiah, will be the third movie and if they’re still making money by then I’m sure we will get Children.

I’m not too sure about that. I think it’s pretty open and shut and scotus can’t do anything about it.

Case law has found time and again that states can decide their own election laws, and that the federal government cannot override that except in the most egregious cases.

But the very cases where they chose to defer were huge, election changing cases, like Bush v Gore and the VRA.

I don’t think they can even issue a stay without doing the exact same thing. The current stay is through the 4th because CO law says they have to set the ballots by Jan 5. So even issuing a stay would be the feds overstepping the bounds.

Overstepping their own bounds in fact, since people still on this court decided those cases, and Gorsuch actually ruled on this same Colorado law in favor of CO having the right to control its own ballot.

What this means is very possible sweep in CO, because if Trump isn’t on the ballot, that will hurt turnout which would flip some new areas blue. That’s the entire downticket from senators to dogcatchers.

Sure, but buying stocks is one way of buying companies. You’d also need to have those funds transferred into your trading account.

Actually there may be a technicality there. If you do a funds transfer, it takes time (2-3 days iirc) for the money to actually show up in your trading account. So let’s say you have $1M in your checking account from this qquestion (plus whatever was already there), and you have $1M in your trading account already because you’re investing in the market. So for that brief window of time (which would include the post-24h period) you will have the exact same starting amounts of money net in both accounts. The reset doesn’t need to actually reset anything because that $1M is in limbo. That’s better than hiding in another account or some of the other suggestions, if it works, because you really just don’t technically have that money.

But in any case, you can absolutely buy houses. Just double the asking price in exchange for a binding contract selling you the house for cash. If someone were to knock on my door tomorrow morning with a cash offer of 4M for my house, I’d have to seriously think about it. If they offered me $40M, I’d have to just do it. With $40M, I can figure out my next steps pretty easily. Make it $400M, and I can’t see anyone turning that down. And the thing is, if you have infinite money, all of those numbers are exactly the same for you. Never having bought or sold a house for all cash, I’m not sure how long the actual closing takes, but I do know when I bought that the longest part was getting the mortgage done. I’m just saying that you could (probably) establish a contract and exchange the money, locking in the deal. Give a million lawyers a million dollars each to do the same thing across the country.

That kind of thing occurred in a movie or show that I saw. The (I think) bad guy needed this one particular house for his fiendish plot and walked up to the door with $1M (or whatever it was - it was obviously well more than the house was worth) on the condition that the family move out immediately. That’s obviously glossing over some details that my approach addresses - as long as the contract is signed and the money is transferred I don’t need that house today.

I mean you’d completely crash the economy- possibly the entire global economy - by dumping what would likely be trillions into it within 24h, at which point your houses might not be worth that much. So maybe just a few times.

Then the government is going to ask you where you got all that money and you’ll have to show them the tweet.

Then you’ll have to pay taxes on all of that, which you could do by selling off half your houses…

But if that’s too complicated, you could buy every car on the planet or anything else you could pull off with a cash transaction.

Or just buy Lichtenstein or something. The problem is that Brewster’s Millions was an interesting question because he had to spend $100M (or whatever it was within a week but be left with nothing. There were restrictions (can’t destroy something - no buying the Mona Lisa and setting it on fire, I think they disallowed donations so no sending it to orphans, that kind of thing). That’s a bit of a challenge. I guess you could rent Salesforce Tower and/or other buildings for a week.

It’s bigger than that, because I suspect it’ll strongly affect the down ticket votes as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if an election-changing number of Trump voters would sit it out if they can’t vote for him.

I’ll have to read more about it, but I don’t know what the appeal process would be for this. Gore v Bush meant that SCOTUS wants to be hands off on state election laws. Since that one effectively decided the election (and this one likely would not, as far as president goes), I’d think the bar would have to be higher.

Who knows these days though. I bet I know how Thomas would vote though.

Here’s an article talking about his idea of attacking Venezuela. Here’s one that mentions how Woodward identified people removing docs from his desk because they created national security threats. That one is very short but there are longer and more detailed write ups. The Iran crack plan he ordered is well known, because it’s one of the top secret docs he showed to reporters.

The difference for me comes down to the relative power both men had. If the US had been the sole hyperpower on the planet, Jackson may well have out-Hitlered Hitler. If Trump’s administration wasn’t actively engaged in sabotaging his deranged orders to attack Venezuela and Iran, we’d probably still be at war. Trump exercised authority over 300M people and has, probably for the remainder of our lifetimes, permanently altered politics in the US and around the world, while Jackson’s ability, monster that he was, was constrained that the US was not a significant world power at the time.

You know they physically removed his presidential order to attack Venezuela, and that they’d frequently do similar tactics because he’d forgot that he signed an order that would have started a war, right?

How odd. I can speak a bit of Spanish. I used to be able to hold casual conversations (after a few drinks) but was nowhere near fluent. I was able to understand just a bit of Portuguese such that I was able to watch some Brazilian shows on Netflix and get the gist of about every third sentence.

I’ve been told that Portuguese speakers can understand Spanish pretty well, but that the reverse isn’t always true, and that both can muddle by in Italian with short phrases. French, on the other hand, is a whole different animal for me.

Given the current behavior of autocorrect, I’m assuming that’s not the author’s fault. My brain has reached the point that it skips over that and just reads “currents.” I don’t know how you get from a typo for currents to become parasites, but I’ve seen even worse corrections in my writing.