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  2. MIght want to revise that to Supreme Court. Because, again, the judicial branch is really the only thing standing in Trump's way. I don't love the Supreme Court. It has always been almost exclusively a political entity when it comes to political issues, ie Calvinball. They also happen to do regular, actual law. It just so happens that sometimes what people think is a nakedly political decision is really more of an application of law. Sometimes, more rarely, what appears to be a strictly or fairly "legal" decision is nakedly political. It has to be something of an accident, a lucky one for the right, that the Roberts court learned to use and abuse the shadow docket in favor of Trump/executive power. Because if and when these cases come up on the merits, and they do what they did on the shadow docket but with reasoning this time, shit's going to get even more unpleasant for them.
  3. This is the problem.... You and I feel that way but to a much larger chunk of Americans than we would like to admit, he did. This is what I keep coming back too... Most Americans aren't paying attention to what inanity comes out of Kirk and Trump's mouths every day. The media only play the 20 second sound bites where they says something sort of in-line with normal. In Kirk's case, I used to think that they didn't know his positions but now I know they. They knew enough about Charlie Kirk to support him and his positions. I said this is an another thread but I used to be able to at least understand some of those who voted for Trump as "I've always voted GOP" or that Republicans are more pro-business or would "fix" immigration. It is pretty evident that isn't the case. They want a President who spews vile words. They want to be told what to do and are OK with authoritarianism. And the outpouring of grief from so many on the right, not just talking heads, but regular people has me convinced that there are just too many that are OK with the racism and misogyny and the move to authoritarianism. The NFL having a moment of silence last night... Kirk's body being taken to Phoenix on AF2 (whatever happened to waste, fraud and abuse)... A commentator losing his job for comments that were not incendiary and certainly far less egregious than things that have come from Kirk and GOP leadership over the past 10 years. These got thumbs up from a lot of people on the right. There is a dark undercurrent in American conservatives that isn't going to get fixed. The right has spent the last 48 hours declaring war on those who don't support Trump and his cause. They are spewing bile about how terrible to left is. I'm just perplexed at where we are. It, whatever it is, is broken and I don't think there's a solution. There's no deprograming to to do. This country is populated by too many who don't like those not like them. Whether that is LGBTQ, minorities, liberals, whatever. I used to look at Texags or SECRant posters and think (or maybe hope) that it really was a small undercurrent of Americans. It's not. This is America.
  4. It’s the Republican machine at work controlling narratives. Unfortunately democrats have no counter to this because the left media as a whole is fractured.
  5. There is no fire with this team. Shitty at bats, half hearted base running. No hunger. Almost complacency. I really don’t even sense any joy in them. Something just seems off in the dugout from recent years. I used to watch every inning of every game but I’ve turned the page to football. It’s not the losing, it’s the way they lose. If they don’t care then I don’t care. Maybe I’ll watch again next year. Maybe.
  6. Left game hurt... Syracuse, N.Y. — Syracuse wide receiver Johntay Cook was enjoying a stellar debut against No. 24 Tennessee before the muscles in one of his legs started to tighten up on him in the second half. Cook had five catches for 59 yards and a touchdown in the first half against the Volunteers, and he looked like one of the Orange’s most dangerous weapons on offense. Another article...
  7. Considering that tossing citizens and others into vans to be taken to facilities out of the public eye was already believed to be okay, this should come as no surprise. An etiquette for killing is something humans have been negotiating for much longer than our lifetime.
  8. So Steven Crowder lies his ass off or has a Trump flunky in the ATF lie to him and this nonsense about trans writing being engraved on the bullets gets sent out into the world. Now Megyn Kelly is telling everyone that vicious trans activists are on a killing spree against innocent Americans. /facepalm Fuck this sociopathic bitch and all the right-wing grifters like her. Spewing hate 24/7 and then when one of their own gets tagged they still find a way to endanger minority groups by painting them as the evil other who is sullying their lily white, straight, Christofascist utopia.
  9. This is fun... State Department warns immigrants not to mock Kirk's death https://share.google/2UpOOY5370wPb3EYQ
  10. I’m most curious if it is the young man in the video that was debating Charlie. Maybe he felt slighted by the exchange and was mad there was a comeback tour? No motive will ever truly make sense. Particularly not to his wife and kids and family.
  11. What's going on with Arch in that photo on the right? He looks like he's in serious pain. Why are we now just seeing this? What else is Sark covering up???
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  13. Ten years ago this was a tiny minority on Congress we just laughed off. Now its the norm, and is controlling our federal government.
  14. I'm just glad that I'm not the host of a liberal podcast on a college tour right now.
  15. Gossip might be the only thing this man has ever truly loved. I actually don’t think it’s any more complicated than that, in this instance.
  16. Plus in this way he reminds me of my late uncle. If you want a secret known…you’d tell my uncle. Within a minute everyone knew the secret.
  17. This better? Lol Unwind your mind, by Hop Butcher for the World, Double New England, 7.5%
  18. Now we wait and see if 4 Chan solved it yesterday or not
  19. Double fuck him. If he is sharp, no question, and he's talking castration of transpersons, then he chose to be a monster for popularity. I only knew his name and basic stance, thanks for filling me in on just how bad this has become. It was already bad that such monsters were not shouted down; it's particularly grotesque to have the raper-in-chief disgrace state decorum by heroizing Kirk.
  20. I am intrigued by Oxbridge and that level of British education. From here, it seems to be more rigorous than US university education. But I can't really be sure. I work with Oxbridge educated lawyers on a pretty regular basis and they're sharp, no question, but I can't say moreso than US lawyers.
  21. w/o getting political, nuance is under-rated. Perhaps it goes hand-in-hand with critical thinking and maturity, but then again the young were (are?) often the ones who would notice and point out the generational inconsistencies and failings of their elders pronounced 'wisdoms.' It is interesting how experience and environment and age shape and mold humans. Looking at the world at large with a very *binary viewpoint from adolescence onward (no matter how 'easy' it might be) seems like such a limited existence given the human lifespan. It seems to contradict everything about being human at all with respect to survival and cooperation and society. With respect to society specifically, it smacks of the 'know your place' pronouncement one hears whether overtly or subconsciously by those in power. *binary as in either/or, not sex and gender
  22. His beloved judicial branch is raping our country so he’s a pretty distraught right now in having to balance his love of SCOTUS with their terrible actions.
  23. I agree. Someone in the king's court was assassinated. If he can't administer justice for that, it kind of undermines his shadow of power and authority. He was always going to be directly involved as a figurehead.
  24. Well the portion I added makes it seem like the minister knew the kid and alerted a friend who was a federal Marshall. I guess they worked to bring the kid in safely with the dad.
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