Britain by contrast achieved celebrations as conscription ended and loud drunken Beatles concerts, but not much else.

You forgot “Every major life event of pompous aristocrats”

That movie gives us some insight into the solution:

Slice the problem in two, and throw it in a hole.

“Fair Use” doesnt even enter into the equation: copyright protects distribution, not reception. It is illegal to send the data; it is not illegal to receive it. It is not illegal to read something you didn’t pay for. It may have been illegal for someone to provide you with that content, and it may be illegal for you to share that content with others, but it is not illegal for you to receive it and to read it.

It is the copyright-trolling “you wouldn’t download a car” types that have spread the propaganda that downloading is somehow illegal. It is not. Uploading is the illegal part: distributing without permission is the violation of copyright. There is nothing illegal in asking for a copy, nor in receiving an unauthorized copy.

Don’t let the zealotry against AI lead you to fight against your own interests.

To be clear: The Trump administration said the courts don’t have the power to order his return.

The courts certainly do have the power to order the Trump administration to return him. The court that issued the original order can find the administration in contempt, and order restitution for each day that he is held in El Salvador.

Get out of my head!!!

Dump him right on the border.

The border runs right through the middle of 4 of the 5 Great Lakes…

Certainly. I agree completely.

The correspondent’s dinner isn’t the proper venue for that.

The correspondent’s dinner is, in part, a comedy roast of the president and his administration. The guests are overtly praising and honoring the roasted. They are laughing with the guest of honor, not at him.

We should absolutely ridicule Trump, Musk, and the rest, mercilessly. But none of them deserve the honor of a roast.

Based on his rhetoric toward Greenland and Canada, I think he definitely wants to annex something. A cartel-governed central/south american country makes a pretty tempting target for imperial conquest.

Who sees what is happening in the white house and wants to crack jokes?

For the next four years, the Correspondent’s Dinner should be a wake, and not an Irish one.

Can’t. You have to be qualified to run for president in order to run as VP. He isn’t eligible to run again.

You can serve out less than two years of another president’s term, and still be eligible to be elected to two terms of your own. For example, Harris could have replaced Biden two years into his term, in which case she probably would have won in 2024, and remained eligible to run in 2028. You can be president up to (but not including) 10 years.

If he tries to do something unconstitutional, he won’t be on the ballot in many states

Of course. I was considering a worst-case scenario in which elections were somehow suspended in 2028, so that the states could not elect a different president.

Of course I know that. I can’t control whether Trump follows the constitution. I can’t control whether you follow the constitution. I can only control my own actions. And as of 20 January 2029, Trump is no longer president.

If you’re going to claim otherwise, you do so at your own peril.

Do you think the Constitution is a magical, sentient, self-enforcing entity? If the people entrusted with enforcing the Constitution are unable or unwilling to do so, the Constitution is just a really old piece of paper.

The “people entrusted with enforcing the Constitution” are “We The People”, and We The People are, indeed, following it. The Constitution tells us that Trump is currently president; we are allowing it.

Every institution that people said would hold the line against this kind of autocratic takeover has opted to roll over and play dead instead. follow the Constitution.

FTFY. We are all currently allowing Trump to be president because the Constitution says he is. That stops being true on 20 January, 2029.

All the blue states will be in open revolt by then.

The only reason they aren’t now is because they are following the Constitution, even if the Donvict won’t.

It’s not being ignored, at least not by the people who actually matter: We The People.

The constitution tells us that he’s currently the president. We are following the constitution.

When the constitution tells us someone else is president, we’ll follow that, too.

At that point, the Constitution is no longer valid, and we’ve entered into a second civil war between everyone who understands the phrase “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice,” and everyone who does not.

Without a constitutional amendment, it’s not going to happen. Even the secret service will intervene, following the orders of the legitimate president over Trump.

Even if there is no election, the 25th amendment continues to operate, and there is still a valid line of succession. Trump’s and Vance’s terms end in January, 2029. Trump is out.

Without an election, all House seats would be vacant, so there would be no Speaker. The line then goes to the President pro tempore of the Senate. Since only 1/3 of Senate terms expire in any election year, there is still a functioning Senate. It can select a “President pro tempore of the Senate”, who is 4th in line for the Presidency.

If there is an Electoral College, its votes cannot be certified by a non-existent House of Representatives, which means a president cannot be selected. However, the Senate certifies the EC votes for the Vice President, and/or selects the Vice President if the votes cannot be certified for some reason.

With either the senate-selected Vice President, or the senate-selected President pro tempore of the Senate, there will be a non-Trump president in the White House in January, 2029.

If the masses get violent enough to declare martial law, martial law ain’t gonna save the declarer.

He thinks Europe and the rest of NATO is a bunch of freeloaders, living under (expensive) security provided by the US. All the Canada/Greenland talk is bluster to get Europe to spend money on their own military.

The scary shit is the Birthright Citizenship stuff, and he doesn’t even actually care about either “birthright” or “citizenship”. What he cares about is the 14th amendment phrase “subject to the jurisdiction thereof”.

The kind of people who are not “subject to the jurisdiction” of the US are agents of a foreign government. Generally, we think “diplomat”, but the other major group is “enemy combatants”. Enemy invaders are not subject to US law, and are not entitled to constitutional protections. They can be targeted by the military. If captured, they can be detained indefinitely (until the conclusion of never-ending hostilities) as POWs, or deported without involving the courts.

He wants to solve the immigration problem with Apache gunships, B-52s, Abrams tanks, and the 82nd airborne, rather than ICE and the courts. If he needs a war to do that, a war we shall have.

I don’t see SCOTUS allowing this in this context, but they will reaffirm that it is valid during wartime.

Which just means we’re going to be in a shooting war in Central America by summer.