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  1. I don't care if he's lying. That's the way you do it (money for nothing and your chicks for free).
  2. Health insurance is higher here, too. And that nasty lil 8% on everything you buy. I've seen several Californians that moved to Texas only to find out the overall tax burden is actually lower there.
  3. Make no mistake, my scorn isn't limited to this guy in particular. It's anyone and everyone (lawyers) that tries to try a case in the press. I suppose non-lawyer parties are entitled to do what they want, but I don't like it any better.
  4. I'll take pig all day every day over the tigahs. That said, go cleers.
  5. That's a great point. America is, or was fine. It didn't need to be made great. It could certainly be improved, but not in any of the ways these assholes are touting. None of these alleged crises, are actually crises. They're just made up bullshit to stoke people's fears. Possibly more importantly, though, there are a lot of "loopholes" in our legal schema that allow for unilateral executive power in emergencies. Thankfully, these crises and emergencies are so clearly neither that the courts aren't having problems cutting back the power.
  6. Or he could have left off the little political dig and given the rocket science opinion that was requested.
  7. One classical symptom of active addiction is "terminal uniqueness," the notion that the addict's problems are worse than those of other addicts, or people in general, for that matter. So, yeah you can combine that with general purpose political ennui and disengagement and get right here.
  8. These protests, and the Floyd protests, are not even remotely comparable to the Capitol invasion on January 6. Let me know when these protestors break into a government building, during working hours, and while the occupants of the building are engaged in an important, if mostly ceremonial, quasi-legislative session. Arresting, trying, and convicting lawbreakers is what "Biden" did, more accurately, those in his administration tasked to do those things on a daily basis. All lawbreaking protestors should be treated similarly. What Biden never did was mobilize a military force against American citizens. Sure, it's "just the national guard," but read what Trump writes. He truly wants the US military to crack down on civilians within the territorial United States. He verily wants Delta Force and Seal Team 6 to be unleashed on protestors. He won't get that, most likely, so he'll settle for the 76th BCT. How soon you forget that this is a man who asked his second Sec Def if the military couldn't just "shoot em in the legs or something"? This is a guy that wants to push the boundaries of his power in the most foolish and juvenile ways possible.
  9. Well, he has been called on it, including by SCOTUS, and before it could finish out and he could defy the courts outright, lo,TACO. The Congressional response has been horrifyingly negligible, but the courts are standing tall before the man.
  10. Yeah, he's/they're probably gonna try to keep his/they're powder dry for 2028.
  11. Yeah, it's becoming clear that the main criteria for deportation and visa revocation are a) brown, from somewhere south and b) not a citizen. And even b) is becoming debatable. Alleged political activity is just a cover from a) and b). At this point, Trump is just trying to pump up the deportation numbers, he doesn't give a fuck who he actually deports.
  12. Well, remember, these are Trumpco's fanciful interpretations of the laws and constitution that considerably err on the side of executive power.
  13. I guess I understand many or most things about various guard units. Some are weekend warriors, and that only, others are former active duty serving out a hitch or volunteering. What I don't understand, I guess, is the chain of command and when and how active duty officers command guard units. And I suppose Air National Guard units tend to have more former active duty than weekend warriors due to the skills required, and maybe require active duty command on a full-time basis, as opposed to during deployments only. Also, at least for national guard units, it seems it is a mistake to assume they are all or even mostly "gravy seals." It seems many may be regular-service veterans, and even the weekend warriors may be actual veterans of deployments, including in combat roles.
  14. So, I generally understand these units, but I have trouble in a couple of areas regarding their relationship to the regular armed forces. I am given to understand that state guards are even less professional than national guards, and national guards tend to have personnel with real military experience among the weekend warriors, less so with state guards. I understand that the officers of guard units tend to be drawn from regular forces, either retired or serving out a hitch on reserve duty. But sometimes (often?) an active duty officer commands a guard unit? But I kind of fail to understand, for example, how a guy like Dan Caine serves most of his active-duty USAF career commanding guard units. How does that happen and why isn't it a "fitted and retained" barrier to advancement. How is a guy like that even up for consideration for senior command of USAF. Hegseth commanded a guard unit in the Middle East. What's up with that?
  15. The one thing I'll say about this, which is generally just fucking absurd, is that we have too many agencies dicking around with domestic terrorism, and domestic/internal threats generally. The same type of problem we had that led to 9/11. It is and should be the FBI, full stop. Not that that is particularly reassuring under Kashyap.
  16. It's not a judge's ruling, it's a jury's and they tend not to explain their reasoning. But, reckoning around the issues, it seems that the jury accepted that "pedo guy" was a statement of opinion and not an allegation of fact. One weird factoid, notorious MAGA lunatic Lin Wood represented Unsworth, this before the surrender of his law license. Elmo was represented by this other kind of lunatic at Quinn Emmanuel. Alex Spiro.
  17. It's not even shades, anymore. It's "us" and "other," and the line between the two is becoming increasingly dim. Not even your voting record firmly makes you an "us."
  18. Well, I guess because looking at the immediate present required looking at the batting order. Grim.
  19. Although they sure stymied our asses, I don't think UTSA has the pitching to go anywhere.
  20. Class of 88 ftmfw.
  21. I have to go to incognito to get ESPN+ streams to play. Extensions are a mail app, ublock origin lite (not blocking anything on ESPN), a world clock, and a weather app. Any ideas? Error Code 83.
  22. Well, the Babbitt suit had a few more factual issues, but still a winner for the government. I don't think you can make these kinds of claims, as a matter of law, after a conviction that is undisturbed on appeal.
  23. That's a pretty good example of how it should be done. I think?
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