The Trump Presidency 2.0

This has always been perplexing to me. I know 2 people with US-Israeli citizenship, both left the US in October to go back in the Israeli military. Makes no sense.

Did they have to do their conscription service, or lose their Israeli citizenship?

All of the US hostages in Gaza were Israelis who lived in Israel and had US citizenship. It irritated me when the media would harp on the US hostages in Gaza.
 
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Found a fascinating quote on naturalized citizenship today.

"Every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons." Jacob B. Howard, 1866. Bolded is mine for emphasis.

The quote is from Jacob B. Howard- the principal draftsman of the 14th. The intent, stated clearly- is that illegal immigrants (aliens) are not "subject to the jurisdiction" of the United States and are not entitled to birthright citizenship.

Sen. Howard died 5 years after this quote, but he made the intent of the 14th very clear- if you're a foreigner or an alien, you're not entitled to birthright citizenship. In the 138 years since, this has somehow twisted into "if you cross the border and have a child then poof! You're an American."

ETA- forgot the sawce
 
So Mitch Mcconnell voted no on Hegseth. It's not about what's best for the country. It's all about getting even with Trump. Looking like JD will have to break the tie.
 
Isn't McConnell the turd who basically had a stroke or two in press conferences? The guy is arguably more far gone than Biden, just standing there, lights on but nobody's home. His office probably has one of those vacuums dentists use so his staff can evac the drool pooling in his mouth. The guy I'm thinking of could eat chilled Elmer's glue if you told him it was vanilla pudding because his brain is little more than a bucket of wet sand and random beach detritus.

ETA: Yeah, that's the same guy. Dude has a smile like the puppet thing in the Saw series or maybe Venom or some Tim Burton cartoon character. Running around DC looking like Jack Skellington's older brother. That dude's mouth is straight out of a Japanese horror film.
 
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A lot of people don't want to say it, but Trump is doing what we all know needs to be done.

Why do we have DEI if we have... EO? EEO? IG? Commanders? UCMJ? Army Values? Get all of the politics and racism out of the way and let Soldiers be Soldiers.
 
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