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  1. Ok this is officially weird.
  2. My Dad had a low-intensity war going on with the cafeteria at Texas Instruments over sweetened cornbread. Every now and then, the cook or chef would change, or they'd get the wrong stuff from Sysco or whatever and the cornbread would be sweet. Dad would lodge his complaints first with the lunch ladies, who typically vehemently agreed with him. And there were just enough southerners and Texans employed that there was a majority agin' sweet cornbread.
  3. Well, he also doesn't want to run afoul of Texas' presumption of intent to distribute, which arises upon possession of six dildos.
  4. I am curious why it always seems that "civil rights advocates" constantly seem to have sketchy backgrounds and often seem to be taking advantage of those they represent. I think there's a need for such advocates and don't see that such a calling or occupation is inherently "grifty," but it inevitably seems that it is.
  5. Well, ackshually, we kind of didn't. We had norms that most or all Presidents respected. The Emoluments Clause sets a norm, but without a statute/law enacted pursuant to it, is basically unenforceable. One of our problems is that our do-nothing Congress has been lax in enacting laws that constrain the behavior of public officials, in no small part because they would constrain Congress as well.
  6. I guess is is as simple(ton) as Europeans pay more for their own goods than they charge Americans because of VAT. That's. Just. We tall did.
  7. What is the fucking deal with VAT? The only one with which I am familiar is Europe's, and it applies equally to domestic or imported goods purchased for consumption or use in Europe. I cannot figure any way in which it affects trade balances. I guess because it isn't charged on goods exported from Europe?
  8. Well, Trump doesn't give a fuck about classified information if it's "neat" and he can show it to people to impress them. Multiple episodes of that during and after Trump I. Why should he give a fuck about Hegseth doing the same thing?
  9. For search warrants directed to attorneys or their offices, USDOJ had (past tense may be key here) a policy that required review and approval of the warrant at Main Justice including a plan for segregating without unnecessary review of privileged matter from an attorney's files, property and devices. And those reviewing for privilege had to be "chinese walled" from the prosecution or investigation team, so that even snippets of privileged information couldn't be used by the prosecution team ("I saw an email to Gotti . . . ."). You may recall this was a big to-do when Giuliani's and Cohen's cell phones were seized. But by letting them know you're a lawyer, or if not a lawyer, that your devices contain attorney-client communications, you should be able to make life harder on them. Should doing a lot of heavy lifting here.
  10. Oh yes it is. Suck it Tom. Gobble it right on down, get every fuckng drop, you lickspittle.
  11. Not all STEM is the same. Some of it, including medicine, includes massive amounts of memorization, in addition to analytical application of that information. Most engineering, on the other hand, doesn't ask you to memorize shit, it's all analytical application. One thing in common, though, most STEM reading is dense, hyper-factual stuff, nothing that asks you to accept or reject or criticize it. It's pretty much 100% "this is it." You rarely if ever compare and contrast histories, authors, philosophies, politics or policy. Except in your 12 hours of electives, which most STEM people do well on. So, you're still thinking, and actually in a way that's quite analogous to critical thinking. But you aren't "practicing" it, so to speak, on subjective subject matter. And, I think whoever posted about taking mental shortcuts on non-essential (ie non-work-related) information, e.g. news, is spot on. Probably a habit that develops during school.
  12. That would be the erratic part.
  13. Think you read that backward. He wants to hate on them. Dre has been erratic, but with bursts of great. Jaden is basically a JAG. No reason to hate. EDIT Oh, 100% wrong. I read you wrong. Soz mate.
  14. As posted on one of the other tariff threads, the irony of being accused of inconsistency by an Asian counter-party is thick. Although, to be fair, Japan apparently has more "westernized" its approach to contracts and negotiations than, say, China.
  15. https://www.reuters.com/business/japan-voice-concern-over-us-trade-deal-inconsistency-pm-ishiba-says-2025-04-21/ The irony of being accused of inconsistency in a negotiation by an Asian counter-party.
  16. I would expect, of course, that this is the subject of discovery requests in the litigation. But very good point as to why the media and watchdogs aren't pressing the issue. Of course, Trumpco is going to hide behind executive privilege, but I don't think that holds up for anything shared with a foreign sovereign.
  17. And they love "facilitate" because they claim it has a meaning, without citation, that is to "remove domestic barriers."
  18. Such a contract would seem to be in the nature of a treaty, and thus subject to ratification by 2/3 of the Senate. Existing law acknowledges that Presidents may make "lesser" international agreements without ratification. The enforceability of them as federal or international law is questionable, and it seems clear that such agreements are voided when the President leaves office.
  19. Yep, this is what you get with political hacks instead of civil servants.
  20. That would seem to be it, yes. As usual, poorly reported by the media. I do have this vague notion that you have to move through civil contempt before going criminal.
  21. And that's before you figure in that you are some sort of consultant/1099 "employee," hired without the consent of the BoD and given extremely high-level executive functions with no vetting of your apparent conflicts of interest, no NDA or other employment agreement giving you any sort of fiduciary or contractual duty to the company. And you employ as assistants a bunch of equally or more sketchy minions that are very young and have no training or experience in executive operation of a business. Oh, and the bylaws of the corporation give the CEO no direct control over payroll and HR functions, only the ability to hire and fire the directors of those departments, with the consent of the BoD.
  22. First off, I don't trust it so I'd never use it. But legal citations, cases, form the basic "facts" from which one might synthesize a legal argument, supported by those cases. I might expect it to get the holdings of some cases wrong or say that Plessy v. Ferguson stood for the principle that equal but separate satisfies the Equal Protection Clause. I would not expect it to fabricate citations such as Captainant v. TwiceHorn, 8 Surly 223, 225 (2024). Which is what it did, apparently. I have no idea what kind of prompts these dipshits used.
  23. He also would have to stand on a box.
  24. I tend to think you're correct on this. But, Mike Flynn makes me worry.
  25. Entices? Agressor? No one is defending anyone or claiming it's anyone's fault. There's got to be more to this story regardless of whose favor the more falls on.
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