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wildcat09

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  1. 11 minutes ago, Red Five said:

    The Supreme Court is purposefully slow-walking something that should have been pushed to the front of the line pronto, a la Bush v Gore. And everyone (well, everyone paying attention, which is probably about 10% of society) is like "Yeah that sounds about right."

    Actually, like Bush v. Gore, the Supreme Court shouldn't have taken up the immunity case at all. 

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  2. 48 minutes ago, BehoId, The Underminer! said:

    A fifth circuit buffet of trump appointees just signed a letter saying they won't hire columbia grads as clerks because of the antisemitism re gaza protests on their campus and the administration's failure to control same.

    https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/federal-judges-hiring-columbia/

    https://abovethelaw.com/2024/05/judges-boycotting-columbia-letter-lie/

     

    familiar names include James Ho, Alan Albright, Kasmaryk up in Amarillo

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    I actually love this. They're not punishing liberals with this shit, they're punishing the next generation of conservative "elites."  

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  3. A Presidential candidate getting a brain worm that starved to death in his head is some real hack writer shit. We live in the dumbest timeline. 

    On a side note, "had a brain worm that starved to death" is going to be a very common diagnosis for every Joe Rogan listener by 2030. 

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  4. 22 minutes ago, Fudge Nuggets said:

    Surly legal cartel will be here soon enough to set your ass straight.  This is how the system is intended to work, it's just unfortunate that the only time in history it has functioned this way is when it's in favor of Orange Turd Fucker.

    I’ve been here saying the law is fake for years.

  5. 3 hours ago, Macklemore said:

    You’re thinking of the Provos — the Provisional IRA that committed terrorism during the Troubles. The real IRA that fought against the yoke of the British Empire over 100 years ago, leading to the creation of the Free State and, then, later the Republic was a legitimate army that fought for independence — no different than our own Continental Army under Washington. That’s the IRA that Elon is referring to. Sadly, historical literacy is a rare commodity these days.

    And you know this how? 

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  6. What I find funny about the kneejerk "they do it too!!" you always hear from the right is that the people on the left who do flood social media with bullshit are usually doing it to small audiences, not profiting off of it, and it's almost always anti-Biden/anti-liberal content. They're just young, stupid true believers who nobody listens to, not hugely popular posters who make a good living off propaganda and frequently encourage (implicitly of course) their fans to make terroristic threats against targets of their ire, which threats are then carried out.

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  7. 3 minutes ago, WhatTheBuck said:

    By whom? You? I won’t let you tell me shit about what I should do with my life and my work. I can respect RGB’s choice to virtually tell you to fuck off as well.

    Just a few months longer and it wouldn’t be an issue. Yeah, hindsight is 20/20 but she took her shot.

    I get it. You wanted her to appease your desires, not her own. I respect her right to do what SHE wants. Sue me. 

    It wasn't "her work." It was an appointed position on the highest court in our country, an enormously important seat of public trust, and she decided to risk that after having already been treated for cancer multiple times. It's a decision that should be criticized even stronger than it has been.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, Blotto said:

    Perhaps I have you confused with Johnny Sack. Its hard to keep all the right wing dipshits straight on this site.

    Johnny Sack is the racist Trump voter who likes to say the N-word and "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" a lot while pretending he's the only non-racist on the board. He got drunk and a little too openly racist and horrible a little too often and created the new username Frank Drebin in what appeared to be an attempt to be better. But he's posted "REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE" like four times in the protest threads in DT so that attempt doesn't seem to be going too well.

  9. On 5/5/2024 at 9:24 PM, Frank Drebin said:

    Only cowards need to hide their faces.  The KKK were cowards.  So are these pussies who hide their faces while protesting.  

    He says while posting from behind his second pseudonymous internet handle, because he got a little too spicy too often under his first one. 

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  10. 41 minutes ago, Nivek said:

    It wasn't a perfect storm.  It was a corruption by Mitch McConnell and his friends.   

    Also, a strategic retirement from Kennedy. Which Democrats for some fucking reason absolutely refuse to consider for themselves.

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  11. 1 hour ago, Nivek said:


    So that is how the legal system works now? I thought ignorance of the law wasn’t an excuse, but i guess ignorance of procedure is?

    To some of us outsiders your industry is a fucking farce, under an obviously corrupt supreme court.

    Some lawyers, particularly those with a longer history of practicing while believing in the system, have a hard time accepting this. It doesn't help that for most of us, our day-to-day work is still very much engaging with a real practice in a real system with real rules and consequences for us and our clients. 

    But yeah, if you're rich enough and/or socially or politically powerful enough, the law is mostly a farce. Some lawyers will try to argue it isn't because look, he's in trial right now, facing consequences. But I think the honest, true response to that is that this isn't the legal system working as intended at all; this trial is only happening because it finally became politically advantageous for a New York prosecutor to charge Trump with some of the fucking tens of thousands of felonies he has committed in New York.  It's the same story in Georgia. And as for the federal charges, we can all see what Cannon and the Supreme Court are doing to those prosecutions.

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  12. 7 minutes ago, Mole said:

    The mainstream evangelical support of Israel is theological, but not because of end times stuff. That article is making huge leaps in order to connect the dots to paint a dishonest picture. The theological reason for evangelical support of Israel mostly has to do with supporting “God’s chosen people” and seeking God’s blessing.

    The suggestion that it has to do with speeding up end-of-the-world beliefs is mostly nonsense that people on the internet say to feel superior. There are surely those who believe that way, but they are far outside the mainstream, even in conservative evangelical circles. Any suggestions otherwise are simply not truthful.

    If the issue is specific to the Christian or white nationalist position, I can’t speak to that since I avoid those types of environments.

    Belief that we’re in the end times has probably been the mainstream position (or among the mainstream positions) since the death of Jesus.

    The two statements I've bolded seem directly at odds with each other.

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