Kamala Harris Birtherism Fail

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...btw, links to Newsweek articles should be boycotted. Don't give them traffic.

[tman]

1. I hope Trump takes the bait.

He's stupid enough.

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4. wait for it

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[ProudMNDemocrat]

2. Go FULL 14th Amendment on these assholes....

That will put the issue to rest. Cannot dispute the 14th Amendment and how it is worded..

[malaise]

3. Colin Powell had two Jamaican parents

No problem.
John Yoo was born in South Korea - no problem

[SpankMe]

24. Right wing fuck-buckets will argue that neither Yoo nor Powell ran for president. n/t

[onetexan]

5. LOL not birtherism again

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6. consider for a moment *why* the president/vice-president are required to be natural-born citizens

it was put in the constitution to reduce the risk that they would be have a strong or even primary loyalty to a country other than the united states.

and the people bringing this up are backing a russian agent instead.



that's completely putting aside the obvious lack of merits of the argument....

[Tanuki]

7. 80% of Trump's acknowledged children have foreign-born mothers.

He harbors fantasies/delusions that at least a couple of them will be PresIdent some day, despite having a foreign-born mom and Russian asset dad.

[Renew Deal]

8. It's OK if she's not. Pelosi is next in line.

[struggle4progress]

9. "I never even heard of Oakland. What country is it in?"

[Cha]

10. FO with your stupid Gaslighting, jenna ellis.. you aren't fooling

anyone but trump stupid base. I'ts an "open question" for idiots.

[muriel_volestrangler]

11. Newsweek's opinion editor Josh Hammer is a far right nutjob

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213899051#post28

[progressoid]

13. Ugh. I haven't opened a Newsweek in at least a decade.

Doesn't seem like I missed anything.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. It was only when I saw this I wondered "who is Josh Hammer?"

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(after his eulogy for John Lewis)

and was shocked to find he is Newsweek Opinion Editor. He's more openly partisan than the guys at the Wall Street Journal.

[progressoid]

25. Wow.

That is right out in the open.

[JI7]

29. Newsweek has been shit for years , I think the obsession with Clinton Lewinsky was the start

of them really going down. They lost much of their audience and then I guess they just started to turn right.

[captain queeg]

12. Similar to the open question whether wearing masks inhibits the spread of corona

[safeinOhio]

14. Do they want to see

the birth certificate?

[meadowlander]

15. Twenty years ago they were calling to change the constitution so Arnold Schwartzenegger could run.

Fuck em.

[CaptainTruth]

16. I searched "anchor baby" on Twitter last night & it was hilarious.

There were tons of ignorant right wingers (& bots) saying that because Harris' parents weren't US citizens when she was born, she isn't eligible to be president, so if anything happened to Biden (or: there's a SECRET PLAN for Biden to step aside after the election!!!) Nancy Pelosi would become president AND OH MY GOD THE WORLD WILL END!!!

I was laughing my ass off! Great fun before bed, asking these folks "What part of the 14th Amendment do you not understand? Apparently, all of it."

[rwsanders]

21. Those folks only believe there is one Amendment and that is the second...

and they can't even read that correctly.
It would probably be fun to ask bunch of NRA freaks to name the 1st, on camera.

[Mariana]

26. They like to pretend they were taught in school that eligibility requires

that one not only must have been born in the US, but that both parents must have been US citizens at the time of birth. However, no one who says this has been able to produce a single old textbook that makes this idiotic claim.

[IronLionZion]

17. Oakland, CA might be part of Jamaica

just like how I was born in the Brooklyn, NY section of India and my H1B visa looks a lot like a United States Passport.

Dumbass actually did play the birther card on Cruz during the 2016 primaries.

[CaptainTruth]

18. I recommend @BadLegalTakes on Twitter. A few examples:

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[nycbos]

19. This was sadly predictable

[karin_sj]

22. Good grief

The racism never ends with these people.

[Retrograde]

23. This was decided in 1898

In The United States v. Wong Kim Ark the US Supreme Court ruled that the child of non-citizens born on US soil was a US citizen by birth. In that particular case, the child was recognized as a citizen even though his parents, due to the Chinese exclusion laws, where not eligible to be US citizens!

[Mariana]

27. But they aren't *Natural Born Citizens* according to the RWers.

No, it doesn't make any sense to me, either.

[radius777]

28. Birtherism is racist trolling, nothing more.

It will blowback on them even worse than when they tried it on Obama.

The country is more racially liberal and diverse than it was a decade ago, with the 'racial reckoning' and 'BLM' becoming mainstream and even supported by moderates. The suburbs are trending Dem more and more and are turned off by this type of overt racism.

Please proceed Mr. President ...

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Our editorial "Does This Insolent, Oddly-Named Negress Think She Can Fool Decent Americans?" ...

... Has Nothing To Do With Racist Birth-er-ism

We have published this editorial note because, to our surprise, many people have reacted strongly, even with hostility, to the op-ed we published the other day by Dr. I.M.A. Wingnut Factotum, “Does This Insolent, Oddly-Named Negress Think She Can Fool Decent Americans?”

Dr. Factotum’s essay has been vilified as so-called alleged “birth-er-ism,” which legend has it was used by persons unknown — certainly not by anyone connected with Dr. Factotum or the Republican Party — against former president Hussein Obama to falsely suggest that he was not born in Hawaii in an attempt to suggest his ineligibility for the presidency, and we deplore any such calumnious argument against his citizenship that does not refer to the Kenyan citizenship of his father which is a known and too-little-investigated fact.

Dr. Factotum’s essay was obviously a high-minded, 10,000-foot overview of the Constitutional issues raised when an aged Democratic presidential nominee presumptive named, perhaps in a moment of dementia, a so-called alleged “black” (but not “African” “-” “American” (according to a DNA sample we got from a coffee cup which we’ll be writing about next week!) Jamaican-Indian-who-knows-what “person” “of” alleged-so-called “color” (check our Pantone analysis in an upcoming issue!) to be a heartbeat away from the AMERICAN Presidency, and only a political-motivated churl would believe otherwise. Take for example this excerpt:

The controversial 14th Amendment clause claiming “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside” is read by uneducated people to mean “all persons who are born or naturalized in the United States” would naturally be “subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” thus making such persons — again, in this fanciful view — “citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.” My studies show, however, that this anachronistic modern “birth on the soil no matter the circumstances” view would never have occurred to the Founders, nor even to the carpetbaggers and scalawags who pushed through this “Reconstruction” Amendment. Can you imagine a sensible citizen of, say, Mississippi in 1868 looking at Kamala Harris and believing her to be eligible for the Presidency? It is prima facie absurd, ipso facto. Would such a person think the same of those Mestizo seasonal workers whom we called, in a simpler and more American time, wetbacks? To follow are several Latin phrases that emphasize my point.

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https://edroso.substack.com/p/our-editorial-does-this-insolent

A classic from Roy Edroso.