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5 hours ago, hookem2010 said:
Found a really good migrant for central Texas today in MacGillivray's warbler. I also found the gas company cutting a wide path through this particular stretch of woods during peak migration and early nesting season. Fuckers.
Went to a place a few times that I counted over 20 turkeys, multiple harriers, a horned owl nest with owlets, 4 or 5 short eared owls, fox and coyote dens, a red tailed hawks nest, several eagles, multitude of different ducks, deer, snipe and woodcock and now there's a bulldozer where they're about to begin developing. What I love about development is all the empty buildings of prior developments already leading up to it. This land has been dormant for 30 years so kudos I guess, for allowing nature for little while and us on a few birding tours, but in the end, somebody wanted to get paid while they were still alive. The place should be a nature preserve. Progress.
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4 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:
If the trump wins, the only people who can work for the federal govt are people who pledge their loyalty towards Trump. This will go beyond the cabinet. I seriously believe that it will be anyone who has decision power in the federal govt. sure, a mail carrier won’t have to make a pledge but any mgmt level will.
If they're pressing teachers, and pressed mgmt to ferret out insubordinate government employees previously under Trump, they def will demand from the mail carrier that he swear fealty. It was the regular employees that helped uncover DeJoy dismantling postal machines during the last election. And why is he still Postmaster General?
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Good opinion piece: https://www.yahoo.com/news/opinion-supreme-court-just-showed-184314188.html. Excerpts below:
I have badly underestimated Donald Trump. Thursday was the day that his justices — it turns out that they are indeed his justices on the Supreme Court, just as he claimed — got it through my thick head: Trump is not just competent but masterful. He is not just capable, he is supreme.
Crime is a largely private endeavor. Corruption is public. It seeps into the muscle and sinew of democratic society and institutions; it devours from within. The Supreme Court, drunk on arrogated power, cut loose from rudimentary ethics, has been eaten alive by it. But the court is just one plot of a vast terrain that Trump has conquered — not with crime, but corruption.
Crime is when you launch a violent attempt to overthrow the republic. Corruption is when you convince an entire political party to pretend they didn’t watch it live on television, or cower from it inside the Capitol while dozens of police officers were being bludgeoned by the mob.
Crime is when you make off with top-secret documents. Corruption is when a MAGA judge can’t find time to schedule your trial, or process the mountainous evidence of your guilt.
Crime is when your lawyers tell the Senate not to convict you in an impeachment trial because you can be charged in court. Corruption is when your lawyers inform the Supreme Court that you are immune from criminal courts and only the Senate can judge you — but, alas, the senators have missed their window.
But it was the Republican Supreme Court — mostly men again — that put the shiv a little deeper in democracy’s back this week. Originalists or textualists, all sounded more or less Trumpist as they seriously entertained Trump’s argument that his assaults on the constitutional order are protected by the Constitution itself. There is no way to make honest sense of such a liar’s mash. But Larry, Moe and Curly aren’t just chairing committees in Congress. They wear robes and furrowed brows now, too. And they seem eager to pretend that crimes are just constitutional exercises of power, and that one ex-president is a king.
SpoilerI have badly underestimated Donald Trump. Thursday was the day that his justices — it turns out that they are indeed his justices on the Supreme Court, just as he claimed — got it through my thick head: Trump is not just competent but masterful. He is not just capable, he is supreme.
Because Trump is clumsy at his alleged crimes, surrounding himself with flagrant thugs, telling obvious lies, leaving prolific trails of damning evidence, offering ridiculous defenses for indefensible conduct, I had long concluded that he is incompetent at crookery along with his other manifest failings. That’s true as far as it goes. But for all his mad greed and compulsive lawlessness, for all his sleaze and stupidity, crime is ultimately not Trump’s game. Trump is nothing like a master criminal. But he is a master of something far more sinister and complex: corruption.
Crime is a largely private endeavor. Corruption is public. It seeps into the muscle and sinew of democratic society and institutions; it devours from within. The Supreme Court, drunk on arrogated power, cut loose from rudimentary ethics, has been eaten alive by it. But the court is just one plot of a vast terrain that Trump has conquered — not with crime, but corruption.
Crime is when you launch a violent attempt to overthrow the republic. Corruption is when you convince an entire political party to pretend they didn’t watch it live on television, or cower from it inside the Capitol while dozens of police officers were being bludgeoned by the mob.
Crime is when you make off with top-secret documents. Corruption is when a MAGA judge can’t find time to schedule your trial, or process the mountainous evidence of your guilt.
Crime is when a U.S. resident is murdered and dismembered by Saudi hit men. Corruption is when the all but acknowledged killer invests $2 billion in your talentless son-in-law’s fund, which other investors shun.
Crime is when you fake business expenses to cover up a payoff to an adult film actress who wants to cash in on your campaign for president. Corruption is when the head of the nation’s greasiest tabloid, a perpetual fount of lies and nonsense, expresses concern that your deeds are too sleazy for him.
Crime is when your lawyers tell the Senate not to convict you in an impeachment trial because you can be charged in court. Corruption is when your lawyers inform the Supreme Court that you are immune from criminal courts and only the Senate can judge you — but, alas, the senators have missed their window.
Trump has already succeeded at corrupting much of what’s corruptible. Government. Elections. Foreign policy. Democracy. Religion. Above all, people, and mostly men. Truckloads, boatloads, tiki-torch-parade-loads, courtloads of weak men all standing in the shadow that Trump casts.
The Republican Party has been corrupted absolutely. House Republicans have combined McCarthyism with Larry, Moe and Curlyism to twist Congress to comically corrupt ends — all to serve the greater degeneracy of Trump. In the Senate, the young hyenas, Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.), study Trump’s demagogy and lick their chops, hoping for a turn at democracy’s carcass.
The establishment has utterly caved. Former Atty. Gen. William Barr’s endorsement of Trump this week, after having called Trump unfit, a psychologically damaged incompetent who cares only about himself, was barely newsworthy. What is Barr but another in the long line of weak men, one more debased Republican offering fealty to the grease king? Trump thanked Barr by humiliating him again.
But it was the Republican Supreme Court — mostly men again — that put the shiv a little deeper in democracy’s back this week. Originalists or textualists, all sounded more or less Trumpist as they seriously entertained Trump’s argument that his assaults on the constitutional order are protected by the Constitution itself. There is no way to make honest sense of such a liar’s mash. But Larry, Moe and Curly aren’t just chairing committees in Congress. They wear robes and furrowed brows now, too. And they seem eager to pretend that crimes are just constitutional exercises of power, and that one ex-president is a king.
Richard Nixon, a self-made, and self-corrupted, man who studied geopolitics and government assiduously, never achieved such a broad subjugation of American values and institutions. Trump, the ignorant, n’er-do-well heir to his father’s crooked fortune, has achieved so much more. Trump hasn’t just captured the trenches of conservative America, he has taken the commanding heights. He owns all of it, from the most racist backwater saloon to the Federalist Society clubhouse. They are his corrupted subjects. He is their corrupt and demented king. If he can somehow get through the next few perilous months, he may yet render corruption sacred, and the republic irredeemable.
Francis Wilkinson is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. @fdwilkinson
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22 hours ago, Js1 said:
Yes I endorse the catapult method for Trump. Send his fat ass to Siberia via catapult
Gonna need a bigger catapult.
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6 minutes ago, Vito Andolini said:
JT Sanders gonna drop to KC, and they get their Kelce replacement.
Edit: just saw Mo Horn with the same sentiment
Nah, KC has to protect Mahomes.
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Biden should perp walk several SCOTUS members to some very public gallows set up on the National Mall, and on the way, repeatedly loudly ask the justices at what point do they understand why a president shouldn't have absolute immunity. It's like they rely on Democrats being decent, whereas they and who they represent are not. If you're taking a billionaire's money, you're not representing the average citizen.
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And the Ravens get their man in Wiggins.
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2 minutes ago, DixonHur said:
Are you guys watching the draft over dial-up?
Next best thing--sling.
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3 minutes ago, Pato del Muerto said:
Gonna slay on that team
I can't think of a better match, as long as Mahomes has pass protection.
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The rich get richer. Go KC!
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WTF is the Pack doing?
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1 hour ago, Red Five said:
Sydney Sweeney. $130k. Hmmm.
Does that require a catch and kill point man? Because I'd want everybody to know.
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5 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
it's EXACTLY what they are arguing. I can't wait!
What about a corrupt SCOTUS member and his wife, especially if they could be determined a threat to the US? Or something similar to the open window policy granted to Putin.
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35 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:
Can we ff to the point where scotus rules Biden can shoot Trump in the face and get it over with?
I was going to go with bone saw in memory of Khashoggi.
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Back to dumb punk and the Clean.
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This band is blowing up. I'm sad that I waited too long to buy tickets and now they're sold out up and down the East Coast. Waited because I would be the oldest person there, and expect a lot of teens and/or college kids. I coulda worn a mask and just silently enjoyed their jangly pop sounds.
And they're trying to sound a little Cureish.
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Just saw Robyn Hitchcock. Fantastic show, just him playing acoustic and a few songs on piano--sounded superb. Makes me sad he's 71, because he's not likely doing many more trips my way.
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23 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:
I wish Trump would go away. I don't want him to get elected again.
But the Fucking Democrats are running a guy who wants us to choose Freedom over Democracy.
This was 5 days ago. You can't make this shit up.
Biden's going to make several public gaffs. Meanwhile, Trump is going to try and overthrow the law, say more racist stuff along the way, disavow more of his lawyers and insiders, threaten more judges and jurists, all the while hemorrhaging damaging personal secrets in multiple courtrooms. So far, we've learned that Trump had the aid of a faux news channel (Fox lost a billion recently in court) and press (National Enquirer) interfering and disparaging opposition. Biden still overcame it. All eyes are going to be on Trump going forward, and the courtroom appearances aren't going to allow him as much time to work on interfering with future elections. More and bigger stuff is going to be released and Trump is going to lose a lot more money. He may not be getting jail, but he's losing everything he values via death by a thousand cuts. I don't know how or when, but I almost expect the Supreme Court will intervene on his behalf to halt the information being released through courts on Trump because it's a brutal look publicly to any sane, rational human being.
While there are several better Democrat candidates I'd consider over Biden--if Biden is the Dem nominee, it's literally ride or die. And a super bonus if he has people like Buttigieg working in his cabinet, because that's one of my candidates that I'd consider as better. But here's the thing, it's not about who's smarter or up and coming, it's about who has experience, knows the players, and can broker deals. And Biden shows that he can absolutely still get stuff done. That's difficult to beat.
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6 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:
Just about everyone is head and shoulder above Trump. But Biden has to be on the same stage with Trump in one or more National Debates. You feeling good about those debates?
Yes. Trump wouldn't ask for Biden to be drug tested before future debates if he felt secure in his own mental advantage. I don't think Trump debates this go around.
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42 minutes ago, 0xdeadbeef said:
Biden from 4 years ago isn't running in this election. His cognitive skills appear to have diminished far more than Trumps. He was always a gaffe machine, but have you heard or seen him talk (or walk) lately? He looks old, frail and not all there.
He just needs to appoint the right people to the right jobs, and bingo-bango, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he commits no crimes and can keep his hands off prostitutes, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he doesn't plead for presidential immunity for life, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he doesn't use the words covfefe, hamburders, and person-woman-man-camera-tv as president, he's head and shoulders above Trump. If he doesn't aspire to hang out with dictators and fascists, he's head and shoulders above Trump. Damn, this list gets tiring, so I'll just end it here--besides, Trump's got a lot of courtroom napping to do from now until the election, which makes Biden head and shoulders above Trump.
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14 minutes ago, jimmyjazz said:
This likely means nothing from a legal perspective, but why would someone pay another $130K if they didn't have sex?
or $420k?
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1 hour ago, tx 3 putt said:
"If the judge was really prejudiced, wouldn't that make him a Trump voter?"
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With all his secret service guys.