It’s nice to find inspiration in documents. Lots of constitutions exist, (many not written by slaveowners even) and lots of people read lots of things into them. What is American is defined by what Americans do.

And that is their intent quite obviously

The whole point is that if you remove it, slavery, or at least a society and an economy with a class of people with no rights and under constant threat of deportation if they say the wrong thing, try to ask for better pay, etc. etc. will be reintroduced.

Is he underestimating the number of people who seek exactly that visceral feel

It’s as American as slavery, the Asian exclusion acts, Jim Crow segregation laws, Johnson-Reed immigration laws, or everything about native Americans before the Indian Citizenship act of 1924, we are not going to get very far if we don’t acknowledge what American means half the time

(The “T” in TRO stands for “temporary” right)

By that logic it would be easier still to drop one or two atom bombs on the country of origin, or anywhere nearby really

Is it silent? Because he keeps saying it very explicitly and repeatedly. It’s silence of the deaf

None of this is a legal hook unless the war is legal and there are no signs they want or plan or can make it legally declared

Honestly this is aesthetically pathological

They also know about pardons

See, they would be hors de combat if there was combat, but there was no war declared and they were not really combatants so no war crime was committed, psych

…and that will still not cover foreign courts

Great minds etc. !

Yes I also wondered how the joke came about but what a good one