The women athletes and their coaches are standing up for themselves, and the left is not amused.
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Uh, maybe I missed something, but where did “forcefully” come from? To be clear, I don’t mean some, or any, or all, or one - I mean where did it enter our discussion, AT ALL?
Two things:
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So is "forcefully now defined as “nudge”, or is this a different point you’re making?
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Following the “nudge” definition … so it must also be illegal to take someone’s ballot to the the ballot-
stuffingcollection box?
I don’t want to put something in your mouth, but are you saying that people that might sign this petition in support of the First and Second Amendment are desperately lacking in personal hygiene? I hope you misspoke, more honestly so than President Robinette Biden’s disgusting “garbage” description of Trump supporters, or Teatotaler Clinton’s “deporables” description of Trump supporters, or the hilarious “bitter clingers” description of Romney “supporters” by the Anointed One.
Signing a petition in support of these amendments is support, is it not? Otherwise, what is the significance of petitions?
While I respect your right to your opinion, I disagree with your opinion. The person/group/party that started the petition does not limit the entrant to being a Republican or Communist or Democrat. They only require that you support the First and Second amendments to the Constitution.
Are you saying that one party is more inclined to not support the First and Second Amendments?
What about them? For that matter, what about criminals, what about the insane, what about the homeless, what about victims of ADHD, what about mouth breathers, what about high school graduates that can’t read, what about college graduates that can’t read (don’t pretend there are none), what about illegal aliens who though the border wall was just part of an obstacle course, what about Jihadists who have conned the current Border Czar that are now roaming our country without the opportunity to anoint more Jihadists as elected officials, what about bookety boo boo ad infinitum?
I didn’t think so, but carpenters also see all problems as nails, so I may have been a hammer. 
Rather than looking up “reciprocity principle”, which I probably wouldn’t understand, please consider the following:
Candidate 0IQ says that they were going to offer “you a tax break” but that candidate 47IQ was going to offer “billionaires a tax break”.
Is Candidate 0IQ making a reciprocity principled, and thus illegal, offer?
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Judge ruled in favor of Musk’s lottery style thing.
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There’s a significant difference between campaign promises - many of which never happen - of a future tax break that would have to be enacted by Congress, and a guaranteed immediate cash handout.
Maybe because it was never actually a lottery but instead an application for being a paid spokesman…
But I don’t think the judge ruled on the $100/$47 handouts however. If you want to energize people about the 1st and 2nd amendments, I’d totally welcome a standard petition w/o the money. There are countless legal ways to get people motivated to vote/register.
But to each their own, if some feel that our elections do not already have enough big money interference and that we need more direct vote buying in swing states, then we’ll have to agree to disagree since I believe that any direct money handout, especially focused on swing state voters, crosses the line between legal campaigning and corruption of the process.
I wouldn’t be surprised if we find out the legality of it in the following weeks though. My bet is that our incorruptible SCOTUS judges will likely deem it fair for regular citizens to also get their shot at money hand outs from “friends”. 
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Pentagon cleaning up its DIE act ahead of the incoming administration. Found some waste for the DOGE guys to start with and they’re already winning before they showed up.
“The Pentagon is legitimately scared of [Hegseth] because of his opposition to DEI — keep in mind, the Defense Department is spending around $86 BILLION on various DEI initiatives,” Kaylee McGhee White said. “Hegseth wants to root that out.”
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yes still waiting on my check(s). will post here when received…
Did they give an ETA for you to receive the promised bribes?
I’d imagine it shouldn’t take too long since the checks are not huge for wealthy PACs.
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EOM. We didn’t vote the way they “bribed”, but did sign up en masse, “early and often”
Fun fact: We own a Tesla, and I was at Upenn while Elon was a student there. I wish I had some pics with him to auction, too 
Former classmates, girlfriend of Elon Musk reflect on his time at Penn | The Daily Pennsylvanian
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I was not critical. I would have done the same and milked the system as much as possible, especially since I was going to vote anyway.
I just thought the verbs incentivize, motivate, energize, galvanize, etc. using money, seemed like sweet convenient euphemisms for bribe.
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LOL, we’ll see if the juice was worth the squeeze. Elon does have a history of referral check delays (with our TESLA). I
They’d better pony up sooner than later or I think they’ll get sued in class action. Can’t be a small number of voters who are expecting $47/$100 checks.
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When you are in a hole stop digging.
Jaguar Managing Director Rawdon Glover is on damage control to end the week, appearing in an interview with the Financial Times after the iconic British sports car manufacturer decided to nuke its 90-year legacy with a cringe-worthy 30-second ad published on X.
Glover said the ad’s “intended message” had been lost in “a blaze of intolerance” on social media platforms and rejected the notion that the video was a “woke” statement.
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As DJT will tell you all publicity is good publicity. When was the last time you talked about jaguar?
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A lot of people were talking about Bud Light too.
Edit.
See this article by a previous Jaguar owner
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2024/11/how-to-ruin-a-brand.php
HOW TO RUIN A BRAND [UPDATED]
Jaguars have traditionally been stylish muscle cars. Just a few years ago, the entire Jaguar product line had big V-8 engines. That was why people bought them. For 20 years I drove Jaguars; actually just two cars, one for 11 years and one for nine. They were great vehicles, and I enjoyed driving them.
Jaguar began going off the rails when it announced that it would transition to an all-electric lineup. At the time, several years ago, that no doubt seemed like signing on to the next big thing. Since then, the EV bubble has burst, and Jaguar has deferred the supposed transition.
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Had to watch the actual ad to make my opinion. Felt like watching an old Star Trek episode while on an acid trip. Is that their brand now? How was this going to sell cars? Was weirdos or aliens the target demographic? Definitely not getting a Jaguar if their engineering matches their marketing department lol.
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A different view:
This should be on the DOGE chopping block
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I agree that it sounds expensive and at least partially needless for just DEI initiatives. But even assuming the $68M is only for purely DEI initiatives (seems questionable since minority health gap is proven so work in that area may not be just wokeness), that is merely a rounding error.
That $68M would be 0.01% of the ambitious goal (from WSJ Op Ed) to find $500B in wastes.
And btw it doesn’t sound very reassuring to me that this goal shrunk by a factor of 4 in a week… By the time the actual debloating is done, I wonder if we’d be lucky to see spending cut by $100B. Better than currently but still not sustainable when considering the usual budget deficits ran by the last two administrations ($0.67-3.1T in 2017-2020 and $1.4-2.8T from 2021-2024). Annual budget deficits 2000-2024