Travel Ban 2.0

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  1. shootER

    shootER Insubordinate...and churlish Administrator

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  2. Dayton Kitchens

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    Nothing but net.......
  3. Bickendan

    Bickendan Custom Title Administrator Faceless Mook Writer

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  4. Dayton Kitchens

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    "nothing but net" is a basketball reference to a perfect shot that goes through the goal without touching the metal rim or bouncing around before dropping through.
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  5. Bickendan

    Bickendan Custom Title Administrator Faceless Mook Writer

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    Not that.

    :dayton:
  6. Amaris

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    Indeed. They haven't ruled it constitutional yet, but with the makeup of the court, with how they're behaving now, it won't be that way much longer.
  7. Lanzman

    Lanzman Vast, Cool and Unsympathetic Formerly Important

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    How shocking that a nation-state would seek to enforce its own borders.
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  8. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Pervert.


    nothing but net
    Nothing but net is the name of an entire category of some of the most intimate sexual positions. The criteria that a sexual position must meet in order to be considered part of the nothing but net category is rigidly defined as any position such that only genitals are touching.

    Paying homage to its namesake, it is considered top form to make a "swish" soundat the outset of a nothing but net position. Neglecting to "swish" at adequate volume greatly increases risk of penile fracture.

    For a couple containing a male that is not well endowed, it is likely that only limited exploration of the nothing but net category will take place due to anatomical restrictions only permitting a just the tip (or JT squared) scenario.
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  9. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Hasn't the travel ban long since expired anyway? It was supposed to only be for 90 days.
  10. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    It never went into place to begin with. They have to halt the immigration in order to overhaul the system.

    *clutches pearls*
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  11. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    Right, but haven't they had more than enough time to overhaul the system, regardless of halting immigration? Originally they thought it would take 3 months to overhaul with the travel ban in place. In the mean time, it's been 9 months since the initial travel ban. What exactly have they been doing?

    Or have they just been sitting around doing nothing? *he asks, already knowing the answer*
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  12. Paladin

    Paladin Overjoyed Man of Liberty

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    If you have to shut the system down to overhaul it, you can't overhaul it until the system is shut down. :shrug:
  13. Fisherman's Worf

    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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    But it's not shutting down the whole system. It's not banning immigration entirely for 90 days. That would be ludicrous. It's not a computer or car; it's a system we can figure out fixes for while it's still simultaneously running. It's not an either or type deal.
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  14. Anduril

    Anduril So tired Git

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    Stop that. What are you? A racist or something?:lol:
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  15. Anduril

    Anduril So tired Git

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    Get the fuck out. We’re full.
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    Fisherman's Worf I am the Seaman, I am the Walrus, Qu-Qu-Qapla'!

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  17. Bickendan

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    Fuck you, asshole.
    They come here legally, they're welcome to stay.
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  18. NAHTMMM

    NAHTMMM Perpetually sondering

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    They should just follow the Democrats' example of taking 9 seconds to overhaul the system by calling everyone racists and sticking their heads in the sand. Representative governing at its finest!
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    ohdeve the obvious dual FUCK YO GRAPES!

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  20. Dinner

    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    Non-citizens can have their temperary status revoked at any time for just about any reason. :shrug:

    Perminent legal residents are different though.
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    Well yeah. It's not necessarily moral or ethical, but one fight at a time.
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    Dinner 2012 & 2014 Master Prognosticator

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    So SCotUS has ruled that the President does have the constitutional authority to block travel from countries which do not conform to the criteria he specifies.

    This was always pretty obviously going to be the default ruling as everyone in the reality based community knew.
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  24. We Are Borg

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    You guys just keep doing your best to piss off the planet and alienate pretty much everyone. :clap:

    What happened to you, America? :(
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  25. El Chup

    El Chup Fuck Trump Deceased Member Git

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    Hardly surprising when you have a Supreme Court made up of partisan appointments. It speaks volumes that the lower courts all went against the ban.
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  26. Dayton Kitchens

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    The thing that annoyed me about people wanting the ban overruled was that they wanted it based in large part on statements President Trump had made or tweeted saying they went to "motivation".

    To me it would set a very dangerous precedent to have presidential actions interpreted based on simply things he said in the past rather than the actual text of executive orders or legislation. It is bad to conflate and equate campaign hyperbole or other public rabble rousing with actual policy.
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  27. Zombie

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    Oh shut up.

    I can’t see how none of you idiots on this board can see that the ban was in place because the countries banned were unable to furnish any reliable information about the people who wanted to travel to America. That the ban was temporary. That the ban only applied to seven countries. That the ban only affected 8% of the worlds Muslim population so it would be a lie to say it was a religious ban.

    Oh and of course you all squawk about the ban but had ZERO problem with the ban when Obama did it. In fact the countries that were banned were the ones that Obama’s own people decided should be banned. Clearly all of you doing the same thing you all accuse the right of doing which is changing your stance on an issue based on whose dealing with the issue currently.

    And Congress was very clear several decades ago that POTUS had the legal right by federal law to control who came into the country as visitors.
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  28. Dinner

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    Except the lower courts didn't all go against the ban, my ignorant friend. Why do you think SCotUS picked the case up in the first place? Because various lower courts came to contradictory rulings.
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  29. cpurick

    cpurick Why don't they just call it "Leftforge"?

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    We got a border.

    Just like you Canadians.
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  30. cpurick

    cpurick Why don't they just call it "Leftforge"?

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    ...because the lower courts are somehow magically "not partisan"?

    Or perhaps because when there are so many lower courts, you can always go shopping for one that is reliably partisan in your favor? Funny how there's always so much interest in Islamic immigration in Hawaii, don't you think?
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