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  1. 29 minutes ago, Gooby said:

    I'm to the point where I feel like I need to give up social media and likely news in general for one reason and one reason only:  I am fucking sick of the cruelty and the fact that it is so widely celebrated.  It is simply beyond me that this president and his whole fucking party are fucking jubilant at the idea of immigrants...criminal records or no...are being shipped to 'Alligator Alcatraz'.  Hot as balls, it took a good deal of water just from a simple rainstorm, and it's basically tents in the middle of the Everglades.  What happens when the inevitable hurricane hits?  Are these people evacuated out of there or will the fact that they may just have to ride it out where they are just something else these fucking mouthbreathing retards can whip their skippies over.  What the fuck have we become?

     

    And where the fuck is Congress?  Where are the fucking guardrails that are supposed to be keeping shit like this from happening?

    It's not humane.  It sure as hell ain't Christian. 

    I'd like to think that the majority of people are mortified by all of this and it's impossible to believe that all we can do is wait for the next election cycle and pray that the majority of people see it for what it is.  But I'm not sure that will happen.

     

     

     

    I did this a couple of months ago. I'm better for it.

    What has happened is that a sizeable and politically significant number of voters have evolved into racist, misogynistic, transphobic, homophobic, xenophobic, hate- and fear-mongering ignorant assholes. The reasons are varied, but can all be traced to various societal factors.  The declining population (as a total percentage) of whites in the U.S., media being driven (by market necessity) by profits instead of journalistic integrity, the internet and waves of false and misleading information that anyone can send out to millions of gullible and uninformed people, the failure of our education system, the fact that the U.S. is rich, bloated, overly stimulated and infected with such false myths as "anyone call pull themselves up by their bootstraps" and "welfare queens" and "illegals are sucking up all of the resources paid for by our hard-earned tax dollars." When you add to that politicians who have absolutely zero integrity, no intentions of ever doing anything "good" for the country or the people at large and are only self-interested (which is, itself, caused by fucked up campaign finance laws) and, as a result, they are willing to tell people anything, no matter how untrue, farfetched or dangerous.  You know, things like, "Illegals are taking all of the jobs!" "Democrats are socialists!" "Sandy Hook families are crisis actors!" "Trans women are taking over women's sports and gaining access to women's bathrooms to spy on little girls' pee-pees!" and various other outrageous and stupid shit like that.  Whites feel (or believe) they are losing their grip on power and want to hear it's not happening or that there is someone to blame and there are things to do about it.  So they vote for the assholes riling them up because it makes them feel good.  So, in a word - dopamine.  Dopamine is to blame for all of this.

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  2. 4 hours ago, Chad Fuck said:

    Yeah, the Feds are trying to get him thrown out again.  I believe the US Attorney in TN where the case is filed resigned rather than oversee the sham. 

    This.  They have charged him with human trafficking.  They allege that he brought MS 13 gang members into the U.S.  The investigation into the trafficking charges started after he was sent to El Salvador.

  3. My son started select ball last summer.  The coach was recommended by another family at our school.  The coach is great - knowledgeable, motivating, not over the top with criticism. The other parents on the team are pretty chill - no loudmouths.  As far as the team goes, it's been good.  Going to tournaments was eye-opening though.  There are A LOT of people who take this shit VERY seriously.  I just wonder what they are all thinking.  Do they think their kid has a chance to play MLB?  My son's goal is to make his HS team.  He's going to be a freshman next year.  I think he has a pretty good chance of making the freshman team.  Whether we continue with select ball remains to be seen.  He's definitely improved because of it and has had a generally positive experience.  I just don't know how much is too much in terms of commitment by our family.

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  4. 1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

    Maybe this is a Hindu perspective, but I’m not sure what the distinction is between “religion” and “other aspects of life” is supposed to be. The Church is not The Faith. 
     

    Like what?

     

    Well, you have religion, and then you have everything else about life.  If you want an example, instead of going inside of a church, go look at the stars.

    Basically any other reason than, because my religion told me to.  Again, if you want an example - one definition of "good" is anything that promotes humanity and "evil" is anything that harms or hinders humanity.  So being a good person is to promote humanity.

  5. On 4/21/2025 at 10:14 AM, Hermanator said:

    Honestly, the best thing you can do is really learn about what you supposedly "believe". Learn about it's origins. Learn where it all came from. 

    I had the same thing as a kid. All the supernatural stuff just seemed like extremely far fetched bullshit. When I asked in my Wednesday church "school" where to find evidence and proof for all this very difficult to believe stuff I was shut down. Told not to question it. Got a much nicer but similar reply when directly asking the priest for the evidence this is actually real.

    That was my giant red flag. I got in a bit of trouble with my parents for asking the CCD teacher if she would pay $15,000 for a used car from a person that refused to show her the car or let her know the car even exists. Pay him the money only on his word and "faith". When she replied obviously no I asked "then why are you asking me to do the same thing with something far more valuable than $15k"? 

    Anyway, that led to me deciding I need to know all about this religion and why it exists. Where it came from. I spent time off and on during college and my 20s, I'd say a few hundred hours total, finding out every archeological record I could of the origins of it all. Then also did the same for Islam and Judaism. That research project changed life for the better, because I could finally understand what I was forced to believe on a level far greater than you learn in church. 

    If you dig in and it brings you closer to your religion, then at least you have a stronger foundation for believing it than "my parents made me" or "I was conned during a low point in my life". If, like me, you see it's all made up nonsense co-opted from various far older pagan religions? Then you're set free from it's mental and emotional shackles. 

    Similar.  Grew up Catholic - Catholic school PK4-12.  In 3rd grade the nun who taught us told us that Adam and Eve didn't really exist, but were rather an allegory.  I was like, WTF?  Then my mom told me Santa Claus wasn't real.  I started questioning everything and didn't stop until after college.  I became an anthropology major for the same reasons you undertook study - to find out what the fuck was going on and why.  I reached conclusions that were satisfactory enough for me and stopped questioning so much and stressing about the answers, or lack thereof.

    Specifically with respect to religion - there is absolutely nothing religion can give you that you cannot get in other aspects of life.  Morality, righteousness, charity, community, divinity, everything that religion has to offer, you can get somewhere else.  In fact, I'd submit that receiving all of those things outside of religion actually is far better.  Do you want to be a good person only so you don't go to an imaginary hell?  What, are we children who can only do right to avoid punishment?  Not me. I'd rather be a good person for reasons that I've come to through reason and logic.  Given all of the flaws with religion and that it has nothing to offer I can't get better somewhere else, I've got no use for it.

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  6. 1 hour ago, Ghost of NMAS said:

    It’s quickly becoming obvious that convincing them will take violence, and probably a lot of it, 

    Convincing?  We don't need no stinking convincing! 
    Not only would it be impossible (even with violence), it is unnecessary. Trump is fucking his own supporters by killing the economy and taking away their benefits.  The only question is the degree of fucking before they start to notice and turn on him.

  7. 2 hours ago, TexasEd said:

    Apparently it is in Florida.  Insurance rates are skyrocketing and the flood plains are being expanded because of the continued effects of global warming.  Older houses are uninsurable and whole neighborhoods are in new floodplain zones.  If you pull a permit or rebuild you have to raise the foundation several feet to get insurance and even then it's through the roof.

    90% of insurance lawsuits are filed in Florida and insurance companies are going bankrupt.  Add on top of that people not making premium payments.

    https://news.fiu.edu/2022/the-big-reason-florida-insurance-companies-are-failing-isnt-just-hurricane-risk-its-fraud-and-lawsuits

    https://www.newsweek.com/florida-home-insurers-worst-claim-payment-rates-2057407

    Combine that with rising property taxes and people are literally and figuratively underwater in their homes.

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    Good.  Fuck Florida.

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  8. 2 hours ago, hobbes2702 said:

    Great. Really awesome stuff that still does nothing to get the guy home anytime soon.

    If this is really all that can be done to enforce basic due process protections then there is no due process protection. This country is dead.

    This is an extraordinary case, for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is THE test case for whether the executive is subject in any way to the judiciary.  When there is this much at stake a lot more shit happens, which takes a lot more time. It's the same reason why death row inmates take so long to execute - they get maximum due process.  Not only because there is a human life hanging in the balance, but also it actually preserves the death penalty as a thing because the system can say, "See, we gave him years and years and umpteen chances in court."  For an issue of this much gravity, we actually want it to take as long as it needs to for Trump to try every fucking thing to avoid complying with the court's rulings so they can't come back and try that one thing they didn't try this time. We want SCOTUS and every federal judge to be able to tell Trump, "Nope.  Sorry, motherfucker.  You already tried that and it didn't work."

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  9. Vladeck's latest on the Abrego Garcia case:

    Spoiler

    143. The State of Play in the Abrego Garcia Case

    The Trump administration isn't defying the letter of Thursday's Supreme Court ruling. But it's daring the federal courts to take much more aggressive steps to block its immigration policies.

    Monday brought a ton of headlines, many of them misleading, respecting the various statements made by President Trump and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele about the fate of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia—the Salvadoran national who the Trump administration wrongfully removed from the United States in March and who, according to the Justice Department, remains imprisoned in the CECOT mega-jail in El Salvador. Given last Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling, many of the headlines suggested that Trump is openly, if not gleefully, defying the Court. Other stories seemed to accept, without any real challenge, the government’s suggestion that it’s powerless to do anything about Abrego Garcia’s fate—and that the federal courts therefore are, as well.

    I’ve written before about both the background of the case and Thursday night’s (unanimous) ruling by the justices, and won’t rehash those analyses here. Rather, I wanted to ask and try to answer three questions about what is happening, and what is likely to happen next—that is, about what Trump is (or, really, isn’t) doing; what Judge Xinis might do next in Abrego Garcia’s case, specifically; and what the federal courts might (and, indeed, should) do in immigration cases more generally if the government keeps up its (mockingly) lawless behavior.

    1: Is the Trump administration defying the Supreme Court?

    In spirit, yes; directly, no.

    As I explained last Friday, the central problem with the Supreme Court’s ruling on Thursday night, in which the justices unanimously affirmed the power of federal courts to review Abrego Garcia’s detention and to order the government to at least attempt to return Abrego Garcia to the United States, is that it left a little bit of wiggle room—by (1) not mandating Abrego Garcia’s return; (2) not setting any deadline for any next steps; and (3) using malleable language (“facilitate”) to describe the government’s underlying obligation. Critically, the Court “affirmed” the heart of Judge Xinis’s order that the government has such an obligation. But it also was deliberately vague about the scope of that obligation—especially as balanced against “the deference owed to the Executive Branch in the conduct of foreign affairs.”

    To be clear, the Trump administration, and especially Stephen Miller, keeps mis-describing what the Supreme Court actually ruled last Thursday. Miller, for instance, has publicly claimed that the Court unanimously rejected the power of federal courts to intervene in this case—which is laughably and demonstrably false. (From the Court’s opinion: “The order properly requires the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.”).

    And the Justice Department’s foot-dragging before Judge Paula Xinis (the Maryland district judge presiding over the case on remand) has been unquestionably inconsistent with the spirit of the Court’s ruling. But at least some of this mess is the Supreme Court’s fault. If the government had actually attempted to do everything within its power to “facilitate” Abrego Garcia’s return, and it simply was unable to do so, then that would be entirely consistent with the Supreme Court’s mandate. The problem is that, thanks at least in part to the government’s own public behavior both before Thursday’s ruling and since, no one actually believes that the government is making even modest efforts—let along exhaustive ones—to comply.

    2: Can a federal court order the government to invade El Salvador?

    Of course not, but that’s not the point.

    In a Tuesday morning tweet, Vice President Vance rhetorically asked a critic whether they were “proposing that we invade El Salvador to retrieve a gang member with no legal right to be in our country?” Leaving aside that there actually is a statute on the books that requires the use of military force against a foreign government in an analogous circumstance, this is a ridiculous strawman. If a federal court orders a defendant to take all lawfully available steps to remedy an ongoing legal violation, the defendant has an obligation to do so—even if those lawful steps turn out to be insufficient. So, for instance, a federal court could order the government to request Abrego Garcia’s return. A federal court could order the government to stop paying El Salvador to detain Abrego Garcia. A federal court could order the government to pursue any and all diplomatic means to “effectuate” Abrego Garcia’s return. And it could require a senior government official with direct knowledge of the facts to testify as to what efforts the government has (and has not) made in this case—and, to illustrate the distinction, what efforts the government has made in other, prior cases where it has been able to get folks back who were wrongfully removed, extradited, or otherwise transferred.

    Finally, even if a federal court can’t order the government to invade El Salvador, it can at least attempt to impose consequences on the government for failing to take all possible steps to procure Abrego Garcia’s release. Thus, a court could consider monetary sanctions (against Secretary Noem, for example) if, by a specific date, the United States hasn’t, in the judge’s view, done everything lawfully possible in this case. The sanctions thus become the incentive for more aggressive efforts at “facilitating” Abrego Garcia’s return. A court could refer lawyers who refuse to follow its instructions or otherwise fail to live up to their obligations of candor to the tribunal to their state bars. And so on. In other words, there’s a wide swath of daylight—and of judicially available relief—between invading El Salvador and just taking the government at its (facially preposterous) claim that it’s totally powerless. (Indeed, if the United States really is totally powerless in this case, what does that say about the Trump administration??)

    It wouldn’t surprise me if this is where things go in court—with Judge Xinis ratcheting up the pressure on the government, and contemplating, if not imposing, escalating sanctions for every day in which it does nothing to even try to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s return, at least to her satisfaction. (The next hearing before Judge Xinis is set for 4 p.m. today.) That might get this case back to the Supreme Court quickly—where the justices will have to decide what to do now that President Trump has so publicly called their bluff. My suspicion is that even justices who are more sympathetic to the need for deference to the President when it comes to foreign affairs will not take kindly to the conduct we’ve seen since Thursday.

    3: Can federal courts prevent other cases like this one?

    Yes—and this is perhaps the most important way the courts can impose consequences for the Trump administration’s openly (indeed, mockingly) lawless behavior. For if the Trump administration is going to so publicly take the position that anyone removed from the United States is no longer its responsibility, and that courts are powerless to compel it to take any steps to bring back even those who were removed in error, then it seems like there’s an obvious response from the federal courts: No more removals of anyone until and unless the entire judicial process has run its full course.

    That means no more use of the Alien Enemy Act until the Supreme Court (and not just a district court) has specifically ruled on both whether it applies to Tren de Aragua in the first place, and, even if it does, how much process the government must provide to prove that specific individuals are members of TdA (and, thus, removable under the Act). That means no more ordinary removals under the Immigration and Nationality Act (the normal process) until and unless individuals the government claims are subject to removal (like Mahmoud Kahlil) have had a full opportunity to challenge the factual and legal basis for their removal—not just before an executive branch immigration judge, but in an independent federal court. The obvious antidote to post-removal lawlessness and non-compliance is to ramp up pre-removal judicial review. That ought to ensure that there won’t be future cases like Abrego Garcia’s—and it might even provide incentives for the government to behave in his case, too.

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    I’ve thought, from its inception, that Abrego Garcia’s case is as big a test case for the rule of law during the Trump administration as anything else we’ve seen. Part of that is because, if the government can wrongfully remove someone like Abrego Garcia to a Salvadoran prison without any consequence, it can do that to any of us—alleged gang member or not; Salvadoran or not; citizen or not.

    But part of it is because Abrego Garcia is also a case about what, historically, has been a gray area when it comes to the relationship between the federal courts and the executive branch. Federal courts can’t tell the executive branch what to do, but they can tell it what it can’t do, and they can provide increasingly powerful incentives for the executive branch to choose to take specific steps on its own. Maybe those incentives can’t come in Abrego Garcia’s case, specifically. But the government simply can’t afford to alienate the entire federal judiciary. And a world in which the federal courts become reflexively skeptical of any effort to remove anyone from the United States is one in which the Trump administration’s deceptive and deceitful conduct in this one case will prevent it from accomplishing many of its broader immigration policy goals. Of course, Trump and his advisers might think that’s a price worth paying. But like so much of their behavior in this case to this point, that, too, would be revealing.

     

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  10. 2 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Let's say best case scenario SCOTUS issues an order this afternoon saying Trump MUST return the man to the United States.  What do you think happens next?  If Trump doesn't want him back, explain to me how he gets back here?

    They issue a contempt order, after a couple of other procedural steps.  I think that would mean they would issue a bench warrant for Kristi Noem, the named party.  She stays jailed until Abrego Garcia is returned. Several other things could happen.  The U.S. Marshals, who would enforce the contempt order, might be instructed not to do so by DOJ.  Those marshals would then have a choice to make - follow the law or obey Trump.

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  11. 6 minutes ago, Dahobbs said:

    There is no legal mechanism to make Trump return him. SCOTUS already gave that out. It also took away the only mechanism to prevent this shit. You're whistling past the graveyard. You were confident that Roberts would respect the law, that a legal mechanism exists to get him home, that he would be returned home. All of that is wrong. There is no law. There is no remedy. Only a dark van and a gag. 

    IT'S NOT OVER YET.

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