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TwiceHorn

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  1. What a load of shit.
  2. Clemson really looks like a better team.
  3. "I would have excepted . . . ." Guess the class president isn't an academic distinction.
  4. Really, all you can say with any confidence is, I'd never take that first drink or drug. So, you can get all self-righteous about "I'd never try heroin/coke/meth/Xanax" or what have you. But, if you're predisposed to be an addict, that drink'll probably get you too.
  5. Well, and sometimes you can pay for "sobriety coaches" and such that enforce abstinence, for a while, that you can't obtain yourself.
  6. I have been slightly taken aback that handwriting is no longer taught. But it's not that big a deal. After I took mechanical drawing in high school, I took notes in a rough version of single-stroke Gothic lettering all through undergrad. Had to go back to cursive in law school to be able to puke out essays faster.
  7. As has been pointed out, most of the vouchers available to families don't even cover the full tuition for a single student, much less the operating budget of an entire school. But I think the main difference is vouchers are payments to parents/citizens/taxpayers, that may be used at a religious school, or not. While the payments at issue here are directly to a religious organization and they get whatever secular charter schools get.
  8. That's a great point about the bond. For the peanut gallery, in a civil case, when a party is temporarily (as opposed to permanently at the conclusion of a case) enjoined, so by TRO or preliminary injunction, the party seeking the injunction has to post a bond against damages the enjoined party may suffer if the injunction proves wrongful. So, sometimes it's a pretty substantial bond. In public-interest cases with the government as a defendant, the bond is often waived. But by the wording of the statute, the bond could be set at $1, or $20, and the whole issue is avoided. I assume "appropriated funds" gives Congress the hook to legislate, probably invalidly. Although I'm sure they'd argue they have the power to determine jurisdiction and this is a jurisdiction issue. And I think just about anything a US District court, funded by appropriated funds, does then would be in violation of the statute.
  9. Actually, I think Rex is pretty bright and actually a pretty decent person. He's a Westlake honk that now lives in the Park Cities with a brief stop at the SAE house on the way. And he's in a field that while often educated is pretty hideously Trumpy and definitely big-business oriented. I can empathize with a lot of that (the irony that one can empathize with so much privilege). I think he's experiencing a bit of an existential crisis that he may not even be aware of. So much of Trumpism is exposing recent American conservatism as just a complete sham that it's really throwing some people that are so thoroughly immersed in a traditional conservative milieu. It often manifests itself as a free admission that Trump is an asshole, but a tendency to deny that he's really a fascist with valid comparisons to historical fascists and also denial that there aren't any redeeming Republicans left, and almost no valid Republican ideas.
  10. I'm not a huge fan either, but those that get a vacay tend to be pretty persistent and with imma.
  11. Actually yes it was. It was the initial proposition. And you then quoted the second paragraph out of context. For the record I do believe Trump is a larval Hitler, Stalin, etc. Had he started in a time and place more akin to post-war Germany or Soviet Russia,or the other fucked up places referenced, he'd be much further along the murderous psychopathic asshole spectrum.
  12. I didn't need any caveats. The point of my post was that this psychopathic asshole is abusing world leaders to their faces in a public forum. For all of the late-stage psychopathic assholery of the rest of em, they never did that.
  13. To be fair, the comparison was of one psychopathic asshole to other psychopathic assholes. Completely accurate in that they're all psychopathic assholes. The degree to which their psychopathic assholery has progressed differs.
  14. This is fucking hideous.
  15. The Atlantic and Tribune articles are quite different. The Atlantic piece is mostly an explainer, while noting that an outbreak seems to have occurred in Florida, thought to be from Cuban screwworms evading the COPEG barrier. Now it seems the COPEG barrier has failed and is threatening Texas livestock.
  16. So, in one of the several lawsuits challenging presidential authority to set tariffs unilaterally, the Trump Administration is formally telling the Court of International Trade that he is using the tariffs as "leverage" to make trade deals and nothing else. https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/us-states-mount-court-challenge-trumps-tariffs-2025-05-21/
  17. You want to talk about the O&G industry without talking about local and global politics?
  18. I guess you laugh because Trump hasn't committed genocide. True enough. But unlike all those other assholes, who did commit genocide in the shithole countries they took over, Trump took over the richest, arguably free-est, and most stable country in history, and has actually thrown the entire country into reverse at an alarming rate. He'd commit genocide in a heartbeat if he thought he could get away with it and it would help his ratings. But because he probably can't as it currently stands, berating national leaders will have to do.
  19. Yeah, true. For reference, past pardon attorneys have been seasoned criminal practitioners attuned to systemic flaws in sentencing and the courts more generally as well as criminal psychology and evidence of rehabilitation/tendency to recidivate. Given that their role is to assess people who have been sentenced over-harshly under flawed regimes (crack disparity for example) and/or who are deserving of early release or pardon. It should be a highly respectable and important position. Of course, they are often largely ignored for political expedience. They are rarely tools of expedience. Leave it to Trump, though.
  20. And independents that are actually independent are dumb as fuck and don't know shit about fuck. I saw an NYT article about the huge number of independents that don't know what's going on, currently.
  21. Has any national leader, ever, berated another national leader in a public forum before? You have Norks, Hitler, Stalin, Putin, Idi Amin, Robert Mugabe, Tojo, Mao and on and on. Just a plethora of assholes and psychopaths, none of whom can top this psychopathic asshole for psychotic assholery.
  22. She is an horrid cooze.
  23. More on this. https://www.forbes.com/sites/chloesorvino/2025/05/13/jbs-meatpacking-history-of-bribery-prepares-ipo-batista-brothers-joesley-batista-wesley-batista/ Joesley and Wesley Batista, the billionaire brothers behind JBS, went to jail after paying off more than 1,800 politicians in their native Brazil and have struggled to launch a public offering in the U.S. But after one of their companies donated $5 million to Donald Trump’s second inaugural, their SEC troubles miraculously disappeared.
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