I said employment and public spaces. Employers in Japan aren't going to like prospective hires having tattoos, and Japanese folks in general won't like people with tattoos sitting around in parks or public bathhouses and the like.
Over in Japan, having a tattoo (whether hidden under clothing or not) means you are automatically expunged from most chances at employment and from the majority of public spaces. Whether by law or by social pressure.
Why? Because tattoos were (and arguably still are) a trademark of yakuza members. Tattoos were and are a symbol of organized crime. So most Japanese folks, who just want to live peacefully, don't tolerate it. You have a tattoo? GTFO.
We're in America, so I'm not going to say whether or not someone should get a tattoo. If someone wants to tattoo themselves, that's their prerogative. But if an interviewer or business owner decides to not hire someone because they have a tattoo, that's also their prerogative.
There is a marked difference between "I would veto but I signed it anyway because supermajority, I am now part of the problem." and "I am vetoing even if there's a supermajority, if this becomes law anyway then I had nothing to do with it."
By signing the pork, Trump agreed to dishing out the pork regardless of what else he may have done or said. Congress in turn is under no obligation to listen to any of Trump's complaints regarding the pork, especially since it's been signed and now the law.
Just because a piece of legislation has a veto-proof supermajority does not mean the president cannot veto. Any legislation can be vetoed regardless of supermajorities. Legislation needs to be voted once again by a supermajority once it's sent back to Congress for it to override a veto.
It's like you signing a contract: Don't fucking sign the dotted line if you don't agree. If you sign, you agree. End of discussion.
Someone needs to explain how and why Congress won't simply ignore Trump's message and demands.
To quote Trump's own statement:
As President I am demanding many rescissions under the Impoundment Control Act of 1974. The Act provides that, “whenever the President determines that all or part of any budget authority will not be required to carry out the full objectives or scope of programs for which it is provided, or that such budget authority should be rescinded for fiscal policy or other reasons (including termination of authorized projects or activities for which budget authority has been provided), the President shall transmit to both Houses of Congress a special message” describing the amount to be reserved, the relevant accounts, the reasons for the rescission, and the economic effects of the rescission. 2 U.S.C. § 683.
Emphasis mine. It is just a message, Congress is not obligated to act on it. Wikipedia even mentions that Congress has traditionally ignored these demands:
Title X of the Act, also known as the Impoundment Control Act of 1974, specifies that the President may request that Congress rescind appropriated funds. If both the Senate and the House of Representatives have not approved a rescission proposal (by passing legislation) within 45 days of continuous session, any funds being withheld must be made available for obligation. Congress is not required to vote on the request, and has ignored most Presidential requests.[4]
Congress simply has to ignore Trump's demands, which they absolutely will, for 45 days and then the pork will be doled out as legislated.
My disappointment in Trump's signing of this travesty is not in any way calmed by any of the "TRUST THE PLAN"-esque posts being made here.
Cash can be traced, see those unique ID numbers on every dollar bill? Law enforcement and financial institutions have been doing it for ages.
That being said, cold hard cash is still far more reliable than anything digital.
Literally here in the US. I believe it was Gab's owners who got blacklisted by pretty much every financial institution, for the grave sin of running a platform for wrongthink.
If it can happen to one, it can happen to all.
The problem isn't that people haven't noticed, the people have noticed. The fraud is in broad fucking daylight. There is no concerted effort to conceal any of this anymore.
The problem is that nobody with the capacity to make this problem a problem is willing to make it a problem.
A problem which nobody makes a problem is not a problem. So long as the state and federal legislatures, state and federal courts (including the federal Supreme Court), state governors, and law enforcement do not make a problem of the fraudulent election there is, legally speaking, no fraud and no problem.
"What? There's a 68% error rate in counting ballots? There are precincts with 700%+ voter turnouts? Ballot chain of custody can't be proven? Officials are wheeling ballots from under desks in suitcases? Election laws were changed unconstitutionally? Meh. We certify Biden has won. End of deliberations."
At this point, the question whether to make this a problem is being posed to the American people.
The joke is that Kavanaugh, ACB, Gorsuch, and Roberts sided with the Constitution while being closet leftists.
Only Thomas and Alito have any integrity left on that rotten bench, and even that seems more and more like a stretch as the days go on.
You jest, but I think having the stomach to see the food you'll soon be eating butchered alive right in front of you and served still twitching, and sincerely enjoying it, is a level of mental maturity that a lot of people have forgotten about and need to remember.
Most people don't realize the significance behind the meat or fish they see at the supermarket. Japanese people know that food is sacred, that it deserves proper respect, and part of that respect is being willing to witness the life that you're about to consume to its end.
The problem that Giuliani, Powell, and Wood (and also Texas, et al.) all have are that they are not playing in a "court of law", it's the court of leftism. All the way up to the Supreme Court Cucks.
I thank them all for showing just how absolutely fucking corrupt our country's institutions are. Now Trump needs to show his bark is backed by 300% bite; fuck being polite and peaceable anymore.
I'm glad Trump now realizes that we won't fucking vote or otherwise participate in a complete joke of an election rife with fraud.
Those two Republicans are absolutely losing the runoffs unless this shit is fixed here and now, one way or another. Whether that loss is from fraud or Republicans not voting or most likely likely both.
I will happily bet that IF one of Trump team's cases gets to SCOTUS, it'll get summarily thrown out due to either lack of standing for being filed too late or "lack of evidence".
I've seen enough to conclude that the courts are not acting in good faith; SCOTUS's response to Texas settled any doubt or naive hope I might have otherwise had.
why are we doomering now?
Because people who were apprehensive that SCOTUS would have integrity unlike quite literally every lower court were, unfortunately, proven to be correct in their apprehension.
When a fucking state can't call out another state's bullshit on a matter that will absolutely affect them, in the court of law that exists specifically to address such matters, the jury box is demonstrably broken. When SCOTUS tells 20+ states in the union to go fucking pound sand, the jury box is fucking dead.
Holding this line is not going to work. It's been blueballing and setback after setback for over a whole fucking month. Enough. Either we advance the fucking line and finish this, or this has been the most elaborate overhyping in the history of overhyping.
I'm not Georgian, but if I was I would not be voting in the runoffs under the current circumstances. Why? Because it's already predetermined that the two Democrat candidates will win.
This isn't about whether the two Republican candidates are RINOs or not, that is completely irrelevant. This is about how the two Republican candidates have already lost the "election" before its even begun.
There is literally no point to voting in an election that will have the exact same blatant fraud that we just witnessed with the 2020 election. None. Zero. Fuck your "just out-vote the fraud" plan; we did that and still "lost". There is no point going to bat in a baseball game where every single umpire will call every swing a strike, and there is no point going to vote in an election where every single ballot already says Democrat.
The fraudulent 2020 election must be addressed, fundamentally and completely. Otherwise our votes hold literally zero meaning, and we would be wasting our breaths going to vote when we could be 1776ing or otherwise doing something actually constructive instead.
Witnessing the SCOTUS failing to perform its duty and saying "nothing has changed" is like witnessing 9/11 and saying "some people did some things".
Peaceful avenues of fixing this mess are vanishing, we literally just witnessed the death of the jury box.
I was about to say "and the judges ruled it legal", but then I realized you're correct: There are no judges in our judicial system, only politicians.