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  1. A role-reversal of sorts with us and them and now and then.
  2. Yeah, my grandfather had one, too. But my cousin has it.
  3. Oh, right, but he's not my guy. It's crazy, when Abbott was on the Supreme Court, he was relatively moderate. Kind of a milquetoasty Cornyn type. But he quietly went satanic as AG.
  4. So, extrapolating from the above, Comey is probably going to be able to get discovery on vindictive prosecution, which means Fitzgerald will be able to delve into questions like: Why did Erik Seibert resign What was Lindsey Halligan told to do upon her appointment Why are no other AUSAs appearing in this case All communications between Main Justice and the Eastern District of Virginia concerning James Comey So, this could be quite embarrassing for the Administration, to the extent it is capable of being embarrassed. But, I'm not sure it will lead to dismissal of the indictment. Will Comey and Fitzgerald do this dance in the public interest, even though it is unlikely to result in the dismissal of charges? Or will they just press for an early trial date and stuff Lindsey Halligan through the hoop?
  5. Possibly very true insofar as Alexandria is probably populating with Trumpist strivers. However, I think the usual reasons a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich is that a) the standard is low and b) they generally trust the government and prosecutors to do the right thing, a variant of the presumption of regularity. It's becoming clear that, as in the trial courts, and especially in "put upon" jurisdictions, Trumpist prosecutors are not enjoying any presumption of regularity. So grand juries don't trust the prosecutors in front of them. Alexandria is just far enough removed from DC itself, demographically, that the "normal rules" still apply. Still, for petit/trial juries, I imagine the government would like to be even further away.
  6. Walz seems like the kind of guy that shoots a Ted Williams or Ithaca pump in real life, that was grandadddies that's actually IC despite being marked MOD . Or on special occasions a Remington A5 from 1940. These fucking newfangled eyetalian goddamn machine guns confuse him.
  7. Ok, and I am the one making shit up? About 39 million Mexicans decamped to the US? When was this? I don't need evidence that the "average American LEO is racist." The administration is racist and the administration is driving this unprecedented and unprincipled roundup that is theater for a hideously racist bunch that support it.
  8. Whiskey Pete makes CPT. Sobel look like Audie Murphy. And, I have to guess or hope that if Trumpco tried this with an active duty combat unit instead of guards, we'd start to see some revolt. I think most of Trumpco's "army games," including drone strikes on south Americans, are not using actual "war fighters" and who are sufficiently outside the chain of command that they aren't provoking the military establishment.
  9. If the people enforcing laws are doing so motivated by racial animus, then they are racists and the enforcement is racist. The only times in American history we have had these sweeping efforts to deport people, that are so unprincipled and unmoored that they commonly sweep citizens, lawful immigrants, and unlawful immigrants, they were some of the most shameful racist incidents in our history. https://www.texasstandard.org/stories/texas-exhibit-refuses-to-forget-one-of-the-worst-periods-of-state-sanctioned-violence/ When we're not only deporting people, but reversing humanitarian immigration policies (TPS for Venezuelans, among others) enacted by the same President, we're getting goddamn near racist territory. Tell me with a straight face that Stephen Miller isn't the most blatantly racist American politician since George Wallace.
  10. Not sure what your point is here. But to you and brisket, there have been a number of instances of people on record saying things to the effect of "I thought he was just deporting the criminals," notably from a goodly number of Latin-Americans, and expressing dismay at ICE tactics and the deportation of non-criminal immigrants. For the MAGAts, there's almost no question it's cover for racism. But Democrats lost some non-MAGAt votes to people who were concerned about immigration and seem to have bought the notion that a large percentage of immigrants are criminals.
  11. Also sort of related, Abrego-Garcia clears the first hurdle in a vindictive prosecution claim, entitling him to discovery from the government. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kilmar-abrego-may-have-been-vindictively-prosecuted-by-trump-administration-us-2025-10-03/ Fitzgerald is going to have some fun with this one.
  12. Going back a few pages, Kilmar Abrego-Garcia passed the first hurdle in a vindictive prosecution claim, entitling him to discovery from the government on his prosecution decision. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/kilmar-abrego-may-have-been-vindictively-prosecuted-by-trump-administration-us-2025-10-03/
  13. Confirmed. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi-agent-relieved-duty-over-refusing-comey-perp-walk-four-people-familiar-say-2025-10-03/ Not sure I trust msnbc completely. Saw that a couple of ED Va prosecutors were fired, one the first assistant to the US Attorney that refused to indict Comey, the other the head of the national security deivision there. The latter on the strength of a social media post, but not by Loomer.
  14. Yep, brown shirts on parade. Unsere ICE! Blut und ehre.
  15. Yeah, Newsom proposes no litmus test other than not capitulating to Trumpco. In some really broad sense, don't capitulate is a policy or sort of litmus test of its own, but not really. Unless you believe the California governor and Newsom in particular has been dictating California university education policy.
  16. Fify. And so probably not.
  17. For an absurdly long time (or maybe it just kept getting redone). The facade of Hillcrest HS, facing Hillcrest Road in Dallas, looked like this:
  18. They're a lot like commemorative plates from Franklin Mint and others. But highly favored by tools and douches.
  19. The guy is just a massive tool. I expect he has been hated all his life by neighbors, schoolmates, everyone that didn't have to suck up to him for one reason or another. If he hadn't inherited millions from his drunken slumlord father, we'd have never heard of him.
  20. No the AG hates Ryan Walters as well.
  21. Also, Stitt isn't quite reliably MAGA and the AG hates him, and Ryan Walters.
  22. As pointed out earlier, Newsom's post doesn't require adherence to any particular policies of his or any other administration.
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