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  1. I'm not but ackshually anything. I'm starting to consider what needs to be done post-Trump if there is a post-Trump. One thing, Congressional gridlock and inaction and general chickenshittedness is really coming home to roost. And delegating emergency powers without guardrails and/or having their legislative veto overruled and then sitting there with their collective thumbs up their collective asses needs to fucking stop. Also, you seemed to elide the word "excuse" in my original post on this subject matter.
  2. Lindsey Halligan made her first appearance in federal court in 2022 and has never handled a criminal case on either side of the docket.
  3. People are irrationally afraid of Trump. I suppose because of how he commands his base and the recklessness with which he'll turn the state against his enemies. I don't see anyone else being able to or really even inclined to do similar things.
  4. Alpha Phi hasn't had a chick that skinny evar.
  5. Rhinos will charge your ass.
  6. Goddamn. Lookit you Arch.
  7. Cast lvl 7 cock of the infinite
  8. thetvapp.to SD but clean and reliable.
  9. Careful, ol' Jase is on your team.
  10. You know right now the excuse for even some of the lower courts is that when the pres is given unfettered emergency discretion, the courts can't review it? Even when the "emergency" is clearly counterfactual. Although the Fifth Circuit just couldn't bring itself to do it.
  11. thetvapp.to with a plus that you're not giving money to enablers.
  12. Was that a DEI TD? I missed most of last week.
  13. "When asked if the Macrons would be supplying pictures of Brigitte pregnant and raising her children, Mr Clare said they existed and would be presented in court where there are rules and standards." I don't blame her for not doing this outside of court, that just invites a whole raft of further conspiracy theories, as would any DNA-type test. But I am assuming that the Macrons will provide such test results under attorneys-eyes-only protective order to conclusively prove the falsity of the allegation. Owens has real lawyers, at least local counsel, in the form of Richards, Layton & Finger, a pretty old-line Delaware firm. Really a bit surprised they'd associate with her.
  14. Fair enough. To the extent it's an actual H-1B visa fee, which it apparently is not, it would go as I stated. So this is one of those things that needs to be purged from future Immigration Acts, if any, most Rikki tik. If the rationals ever get power back, they need to purge all presidential emergency powers and/or put guardrails on them and provide for judicial review of those guardrails.
  15. Well, given that the original probe occurred under the Biden Administration, observing norms and oldlaw, you wouldn't hear about a criminal investigation until and unless an indictment was filed. Special Counsels and politicized prosecutions and leakers have created an abnormal expectation among the public for information about criminal investigations before charges are filed. Even Special Counsel don't reveal much about their investigations, but the nature of the thing reveals more than what's normal, with the reporting to the AG and to Congress.
  16. This is more than a month old, and yes, suit was filed challenging it 3 days later.
  17. To be fair, the Yarvins, Thiels, and Andreesens of the world have been simmering in the background. They're starting to boil over here in Trump II electric boogaloo. People might be getting a wakeup call soon. Does remain to be seen whether they actually wake up.
  18. So, as far as the legality of the fee change goes, in normal times, that fee is either set by Congress in the immigration act, or, more likely, set by the administering agency, presumably USCIS, in a rulemaking setting. In normal times, that means the agency publishes the proposed fee change with a period for public comment, like this https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/11/20/2024-26821/setting-and-adjusting-patent-fees-during-fiscal-year-2025 Theoretically, the public comments are taken into account and the rule either does or does not go into effect. So, above, in January 2024, the USPTO published proposed fee changes to be effective starting January 2025 and the rule actually became final in September 2024 after a public comment period. So, under oldlaw, the most Trump can do by EO is strongly suggest the fee change to the responsible agency, which then has to go thru some rigmarole to implement it. It's still a fait accompli, but not in much of a hurry.
  19. Also, I'm not an expert on these online communities, but I think there's a lot of daylight between those who wear animal ears or animal onesies as a cutesie thing, and actual furries. As in thatguy's daughter.
  20. If you Google or duckduckgo any conservative talking point, you will find it on dozens of right-wing shitposting sites. It oftentimes looks like new information, but most of the time just cites the one "original" source, whatever it is and however credible it is. And you have to wade through dozens of those sites, using your google-fu intuition, until you get to either the original source or some credible site that actually tackles the underlying facts and/or credibility of the original source. It's one of the ways they have of flooding the zone with bullshit and works particularly well to buffalo those without internet bullshit detectors like olds, dumbdumbs, and old dumbdumbs. To wit, and this one isn't too bad, actually.
  21. I'm not sure white women are the problem.
  22. Re: Cruises generally. If you don't mind "chillin on the boat," the floating hotel concept with shore excursions; and You can "control" for the other passengers, ie not hordes of people of Walmart. You should be just fine with a cruise. The Carnival commoditization of them is what has given them the bad rap over the last 25 years or so.
  23. They deserve blame. Assuming they is the internet/software "titans" and not merely the users. Most of these technocrats have an insufferable social arrogance. Their belief in their own "disruption" and that the rules of bricks and mortar business didn't apply to them was seriously internalized. Now they think they're too good for democracy, or really any existing government that might try to regulate or restrain their disruptive greatness and unbelievable intellect. And everyone that doesn't wholeheartedly share their self-belief is an intellectual pygmy moron. Part of it is flat greed, but another pretty serious part of their sociopathy is their belief in the infallibility of their products and services. There's a reason most of them, from Gates and Jobs on down, are weird little sociopaths. And now they have undue influence on how this country is run.
  24. His term is up in less than a year. For some reason I don't really get, Trump's people are restraining him.
  25. I think these terminally online communities of youngsters are a great example of the back end of the horseshoe, or the flat circle, where extreme right and left wing beliefs start to merge or become indistinguishable.
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