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Keef

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  1. Keef

    The Supremes

    I don't disagree with the premise that old people (including old people I like, like RBG) shouldn't get to pick and choose when they deem themselves ready to step down. There's mandatory retirement ages in almost every major law firm for exactly this reason.
  2. Keef

    The Supremes

    I don't disagree with the premise that the Republican gloves were off and the Democrats failed (and are continuing to fail) at addressing it. That being said, I don't know how you can fault them for not anticipating that McConnell would refuse to hold a hearing, contrary to how every other supreme court justice nominee has been treated to my knowledge, with 1+ year left in Obama's presidency.
  3. Keef

    The Supremes

    There was no urgency until McConnell broke the game when Scalia died.
  4. Keef

    The Supremes

    Uh huh. Yeah. That totally would have worked. Did you miss the whole Merrick Garland thing?
  5. To be fair to the police officer here, that's literally an impossible question to answer.
  6. Per the NYT, the Border Patrol swat team unit was there at noon - far earlier than previously disclosed - and was ordered by the UPD not to go in (Border Patrol had no idea why).
  7. Maybe we could also shift some of that police funding to teachers. If we expect them, on top of teaching overcrowded classes with limited resources, navigating all the testing bureaucracy, etc. to risk their lives to protect their students (including by being armed and exchanging gunfire with shooters!), maybe we should pay them more than $40k/yr.
  8. Agree with all of this. To be clear, I'd be scared shitless. I have no idea what I do or how I would react when bullets started flying. I hope that I'd be brave and risk my life for the kids, but really, I have no idea. I'm just a pencil pusher and everything I've read about combat is that you just don't know what its like until you're there. That being said...there was a lot of self congratulation, "I'm thankful for the police officers", everyone did a great job!, etc. from the police captains that were all over TV after the shooting, and it sounds like we should really only be thanking the border patrol of all people. From the WSJ/NYT reporting on this, the cops basically "secured the perimeter", handcuffed some parents trying to get in and stop the shooter, and called it day.
  9. Presumably not everyone would use grenades and nuclear weapons if they were readily available either, but that's not a reason they shouldn't be banned. The evidence is irrefutable that we have an insane amount of violent gun crime, and that's correlated to our high levels of gun ownership. Britain had a mass shooting in a school decades ago. You know what happened? They cracked down on guns and magically the problem has diminished significantly. If you own guns, ESPECIALLY the tactical stuff and you're against regulation, what you are saying is that the level of death due to gun violence (including the murder of children) is at an acceptable level to you where you don't feel like you should be inconvenienced. I mean, that's what it is, isn't it? So spare me the thoughts and prayers. It's a result that, while sad to you I'm sure, is an acceptable horse trade. So spare me the "mental health" (which we don't invest in and no R would ever support raising taxes for) and "video games". At the crux of it, this is our faustian bargain in America.
  10. I know Patrick is a nut and we're all desensitized to him at this point. But MY GOD. This is insane. His proposal is turn our ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS into armed fortresses instead of putting forward any sort of restriction on firearms. What civilized society does this?
  11. I mean, sheesh, sounds like a citizen of legal age purchased a gun, and golly, no history of mental illness on his record it seems (not that it matters, we wouldn't invest to support that anyway). Guess there's really nothing we can do here aside from turn our elementary schools into forts and arm the teachers. Stupid libs for politicizing this.
  12. Damn those pictures of the kids are tough to see. I have one and my life would be in absolute shambles if anything ever happened to her.
  13. The American way. Kids just need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps a little more.
  14. Contrast this with Abbott who sounded like he was reading off census data.
  15. LOL. I'm sure this is definitely not politically motivated and he publicly announces/tweets about every person he decides not to give communion to.
  16. Whatever it is, I'm convinced we know what it is. The notion that all this shit would occur over our airspace and there would be a collective shrug from the military is beyond belief to me. At the very least, we'd move heaven and earth to ensure it isn't Chinese or Russian.
  17. Keef

    The Supremes

    What strikes me from that chart is how utterly absurd it is that a party that has won the popular vote 2x in the last 30 years has 2x the justices. Really is remarkable (some might say corrupt) the extent to which a minority party has managed to entrench itself in power with jerrymandering, the nonsense of the electoral college, Wyoming getting the same number of senators as California and Texas, and lots of SCOTUS chicanery. Oh, and the notion that literally anyone on this planet is less partisan to Clarence Thomas is ridiculous.
  18. LOL. No way that's a "material adverse effect". People sue as to whether an MAE has occurred pretty frequently, and I think Delaware has only ever agreed there was an MAE in one case.
  19. Keef

    The Supremes

    What women need to do is invent a religion where abortion rights are an important tenant. Because, as conservative america has taught me, as long as you say your opinion is derived from your religion (no matter how tenuous/unsupported your belief is in the actual religious texts), you can do whatever you want and skate a whole host of laws.
  20. Keef

    The Supremes

    I had Sandy Levinson in law school and he thought we should just tear up the constitution and start fresh. His argument was that its an old document that doesn't deal with modern problems (meaning, you can read it however you damn well please on issues like abortion, firearms, etc.), pretty short/lacking on details compared to other constitutions, and all the loop holes are known/exploited. There's of course no way to practically accomplish this, but I often think back to his class and how right he was.
  21. Well I'd think the choices would either be vaporized immediately or starve to death over the next 6 months (nuclear winter/destruction of crops around the world), so I'll go with vaporized immediately.
  22. It's been that way literally for decades. It's the status quo.
  23. I cannot express how horrible what is happening in Ukraine enough, but could not agree with this more. And for all the people worried about Russia going after Poland or Lithuania or whatever, do you seriously think Russia will be able to mount a credible invasion/occupation on multiple fronts?
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