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Judd Stone, former TX Solicitor General, is Freak Nasty
bolverk replied to crash_davis's topic in Daily Texan
Remember, the main point of all the anti-abortion stuff is really about controlling women. With that in mind, his being a fucking psycho toward them totally checks out. -
Be dear and become a 21st-century Pied Piper for us by training an AI to hack into Cybertuck programming to lead them and their techbro drivers off the Pennybacker Bridge.
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Looks like a deranged turtle about to take a bite out of Brownsville.
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Yeah, see, I should replace my existing ride with one of these, yeah, just to get into the spirit. See? Chollie, hand me my Tommy gun! RATATATAT
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I read it as: The first one says he discussed it with colleagues for a long time, for months. The second one says he discussed it in excruciating detail with influential and powerful people for a long time, once during dinner.
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I wonder if we’ll come up with a fun 21st-century neologism to describe all the various crimes of this new fraud-filled era that we’ve ushered in by the cons in charge, or if the existing ones, such as bootlegging, piracy, smuggling, trafficking, counterfeiting, Ponzi scheming, scamming, thieving, poaching, plundering, or grifting, will suffice. Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump’s Tariffs Incentivize Fraud President Trump’s steep global tariffs have supercharged efforts to evade them. Some U.S. companies say the government is ill equipped to keep up. As President Trump’s tariffs have ratcheted up in recent months, so have the mysterious solicitations some U.S. companies have received, offering them ways to avoid the taxes. Shipping companies, many of them based in China, have reached out to U.S. firms that import apparel, auto parts and jewelry, offering solutions that they say can make the tariffs go away. “We can avoid high duties from China, which we have already done many in the past,” read one email to a U.S. importer. “Beat U.S. Tariffs,” a second read, promising to cap the tariffs “at a flat 10%.” It added: “You ship worry free.” “Good News! The tariffs has been dropped finally!” another proclaimed. The proposals — which are circulating in emails, as well as in videos on TikTok and other platforms — reflect a new flood of fraudulent activity, according to company executives and government officials. As U.S. tariffs on foreign products have increased sharply in recent months, so have the incentives for companies to find ways around them. The Chinese firms advertising these services describe their methods as valid solutions. For a fee, they find ways to bring products to the United States with much lower tariffs. But experts say these practices are methods of customs fraud. The companies may be dodging tariffs by altering the information about the shipments that is given to the U.S. government to qualify for a lower tariff rate. Or they may move the goods to another country that is subject to a lower tariff before shipping them to the United States, a technique known as transshipment. The Trump administration said this month that it would focus more on fighting trade fraud, including tariff evasion. The administration is also trying to persuade other countries to step up their own enforcement efforts, including in trade talks with Vietnam, Mexico and Malaysia. But many American companies say the scale of illicit activity now far outweighs the ability of these governments to thwart it. These schemes are costing the U.S. government billions of dollars in tariff revenue annually, executives and officials say. And they are leaving honest companies that pay tariffs deeply frustrated and worried about being left at a financial disadvantage to dishonest competitors. “If nothing is done, those willing to cheat are going to continue to win the day here,” said David Rashid, the executive chairman of Plews, a car parts company that has appealed to the government to crack down on unfair trading practices by its competitors. Mr. Rashid said that unfairly traded products had filtered into supply chains throughout the United States. “It’s easy to pull the wool over people’s eyes, especially if people like the wool over their eyes,” he added. Continued (free link): https://archive.is/7NTa4
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Trumpism has ushered in an era of corruption, fraud, and lawlessness across the board. We’re living in a Mobland, ruled over by the ultimate con artist and his incompetent capos, inspiring a horde of scammers, fraudsters, liars, cheats, thieves, grifters, and various other ne'er-do-wells to rob you fucking blind. Someone, help me find a Tommy gun, trench coat, and fedora. Trade Crime Is Soaring, U.S. Firms Say, as Trump’s Tariffs Incentivize Fraud President Trump’s steep global tariffs have supercharged efforts to evade them. Some U.S. companies say the government is ill equipped to keep up. As President Trump’s tariffs have ratcheted up in recent months, so have the mysterious solicitations some U.S. companies have received, offering them ways to avoid the taxes. Shipping companies, many of them based in China, have reached out to U.S. firms that import apparel, auto parts and jewelry, offering solutions that they say can make the tariffs go away. “We can avoid high duties from China, which we have already done many in the past,” read one email to a U.S. importer. “Beat U.S. Tariffs,” a second read, promising to cap the tariffs “at a flat 10%.” It added: “You ship worry free.” “Good News! The tariffs has been dropped finally!” another proclaimed. The proposals — which are circulating in emails, as well as in videos on TikTok and other platforms — reflect a new flood of fraudulent activity, according to company executives and government officials. As U.S. tariffs on foreign products have increased sharply in recent months, so have the incentives for companies to find ways around them. The Chinese firms advertising these services describe their methods as valid solutions. For a fee, they find ways to bring products to the United States with much lower tariffs. But experts say these practices are methods of customs fraud. The companies may be dodging tariffs by altering the information about the shipments that is given to the U.S. government to qualify for a lower tariff rate. Or they may move the goods to another country that is subject to a lower tariff before shipping them to the United States, a technique known as transshipment. The Trump administration said this month that it would focus more on fighting trade fraud, including tariff evasion. The administration is also trying to persuade other countries to step up their own enforcement efforts, including in trade talks with Vietnam, Mexico and Malaysia. But many American companies say the scale of illicit activity now far outweighs the ability of these governments to thwart it. These schemes are costing the U.S. government billions of dollars in tariff revenue annually, executives and officials say. And they are leaving honest companies that pay tariffs deeply frustrated and worried about being left at a financial disadvantage to dishonest competitors. “If nothing is done, those willing to cheat are going to continue to win the day here,” said David Rashid, the executive chairman of Plews, a car parts company that has appealed to the government to crack down on unfair trading practices by its competitors. Mr. Rashid said that unfairly traded products had filtered into supply chains throughout the United States. “It’s easy to pull the wool over people’s eyes, especially if people like the wool over their eyes,” he added. cont'd
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Noticed that, too.
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Went to the TimesMachine to see what they had on the 200th anniversary. No mention of a parade, but it's a pretty interesting read. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/06/14/archives/us-army-marking-its-200th-birthday-feels-a-kinship-with-washingtons.html https://archive.is/lXDDP About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions.
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This is a list of every team from north of the 36th parallel or on the West Coast (and not exactly a murderers’ row) that Texas has hosted at DKR for an August or September day game since 2000. We’re 4 and 3 in these relatively rare match-ups. 9/23/2006 (2:30 pm) IOWA STATE W 37-14 9/29/2007 (2:30 pm) K STATE L 21–41 9/12/2009 (2:30 pm) WYOMING W 41–10 9/25/2010 (2:30 pm) UCLA L 12–34 9/02/2017 (11:00 am) MARYLAND L 41–51 9/09/2017 (2:30 pm) SAN JOSE ST W 56–0 8/31/2024 (2:30 pm) COLORADO STATE W 52–0 I’m sure that heat matters on the margins, but coaching, caliber of players, and preparation matter as well. Moreover, the starters are young men in the athletic prime (or nearly) of their lives, so I'm also sure that they’re accustomed to or can manage it during game time. I’m sure they’re all expecting Austin to be an inferno and will do their best to prepare. Now, the Ohio State fans might be another story. I also eyeballed their listed roster for next season, and it looks like 20-25 percent are either from south of the 36th parallel (excluding So Cal) or have played college/IMG football there. It may well be an advantage, but the limited universe of data over the last quarter century doesn't really bear that out. For me, the jury is still out on this one until I start seeing Northern players collapse en masse at midfield.
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It's finally fucking over. Be sure to keep your phone handy to browse while "watching" it in the background. Edit: It looks like there's supposed to be a sequel series called 'The Testaments' based on another Atwood novel from 2019 that follows up on her original one in this universe. It supposedly will follow the daughter 3-4 years later when the kid is high school age.
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I didn’t realize you were from the Midwest. Both of the above invalidate any opinion you might hold in this debate, because: You must be a Yankee, and Your grammar sucks. Therefore, you can’t be correct about green spaces, parkland, or recreation areas, because I’m feeling a little tired and cranky this morning and reserve the right to criticize you for unrelated shit. The end.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
bolverk replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Since November, the creator of 'Succession' has written and made a movie called 'Mountainhead' (Take that, Ayn Rand!) that will premiere on HBO this Saturday about techbros trying to take over the world. -
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Still the best. Love you!
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Fuck them for not being able to or caring to differentiate between the notions of patriotism and nationalism. You can be a patriot without becoming a fucking nationalist.
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If you haven't watched Andor yet, do so. There's an episode with this line (below) in there that reflects Netanyahu's embrace of Hamas: “You need a radical insurgency you can count on -- you need Ghorman rebels to do the wrong thing.” That episode also does a lovely job of showing how the Press becomes complicit in heinous acts by either parroting a regime's outright lies or indulging in distractions for the public. Andor should be required viewing in American civics classes across the land.
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America's Foreign Policy & Other Shit Going On Around the World thread
bolverk replied to bolverk's topic in Cloak Room
Surly's been ahead of the curve on calling this. Trump’s Vision: One World, Three Powers? President Trump’s recent actions and statements suggest he might want an arrangement where the United States, China and Russia each dominate their sphere of influence. For President Trump, anytime is a good time for deal-making, but never more so than now with the leaders of China and Russia. Last week, Mr. Trump said he wanted to normalize commerce with Russia, appearing to lessen the pressure on Moscow to settle its war with Ukraine. And he is trying to limit the fallout from his own global trade war by urging China’s leader to call him. “We all want to make deals,” Mr. Trump said in a recent interview with Time magazine. “But I am this giant store. It’s a giant, beautiful store, and everybody wants to go shopping there.” Mr. Trump may have something even bigger in mind involving Russia and China, and it would be the ultimate deal. His actions and statements suggest he might be envisioning a world in which each of the three so-called great powers — the United States, China and Russia — dominates its part of the globe, some foreign policy analysts say. It would be a throwback to a 19th-century style of imperial rule. -
While welcome, I don’t have much, if any, confidence that the Israeli War on Palestine will keep Trump’s consistent interest or that he’ll continue to criticize them. Still, it’ll be interesting to see whether Trump’s supporters will do a sudden about-face and begin to do the same. That is, if they’re even paying attention. Trump’s Comments on Gaza Reflect Israel’s Growing Isolation For months, Israel’s strongest allies had been reluctant to join a wave of global censure against the war. Now, even the Trump administration appears to be growing impatient. Through more than 18 months of war in Gaza, Israel has faced intense criticism from foreign leaders and aid groups but has rarely experienced sustained public censure, let alone concrete repercussions, from its close allies. Until now. In recent weeks, partners such as the United States, Britain and France have become more willing to place Israel under overt pressure, culminating in President Trump’s call on Sunday for the war to wind down. “Israel, we’ve been talking to them, and we want to see if we can stop that whole situation as quickly as possible,” Mr. Trump told reporters in New Jersey shortly before boarding Air Force One. Those comments contrast with the public position Mr. Trump held entering office in January, when he blamed Hamas rather than Israel for the war’s continuation. He was also careful to present a united front with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel. Mr. Trump’s latest comment followed a coordinated effort by Britain, Canada and France to criticize Israel’s decision to expand its operations in Gaza. In a joint statement last week, the three countries — which had broadly supported Israel’s right to respond to the Hamas-led attack on Israel in October 2023 — said the expansion was “wholly disproportionate.” All three countries warned of concrete repercussions if Israel did not change course. Britain has since suspended trade negotiations with Israel. It also placed sanctions on Israeli extremists leading efforts to force Palestinians from land in the Israeli-occupied West Bank — one of its most consequential moves against Israeli interests since it dropped its opposition last year to an arrest warrant issued against Mr. Netanyahu. Separately, France is organizing a conference, which will be held in June in partnership with Saudi Arabia, to discuss the creation of a Palestinian state — an outcome Mr. Netanyahu has vowed to oppose. Still, all of these countries continue to support Israel in many practical ways, not least through military, economic and intelligence partnerships. The United States continues to supply Israel with billions of dollars in military aid, helping to sustain the military operations in Gaza. The U.S. secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, visited Israel on Sunday and Monday, meeting with Mr. Netanyahu and other leaders, and attended a ceremony in honor of two Israeli Embassy staff members killed in an attack in Washington last week. Britain and France helped protect Israel last year during huge barrages of ballistic missiles from Iran, and they would most likely do so again. Moreover, they remain wary and have sometimes been critical of some of the moves made against Israel by other countries, including the push to charge Israel with genocide. But the shift in the tone of their messaging, coupled with some small practical limits on Israeli interests, indicates that Israel’s strongest partners are beginning to lose patience with Mr. Netanyahu. So far, Israel appears unmoved. Responding to the European threats, Gideon Saar, the Israeli foreign minister, said that his country would take its own “unilateral measures” if further steps were taken. In Gaza, Israeli troops have continued to advance, and officials say the military now controls roughly 40 percent of the territory. The Israeli Air Force continued to strike targets in Gaza on Monday, including a school-turned-shelter that Israel said was used by militants. And while Israel has ended an 80-day blockade on food, allowing some aid into the enclave in recent days, much of that has yet to reach the people who need it most, according to aid agencies. Israel is also pushing ahead with a contentious effort to reshape how food is distributed in Gaza that critics say will accelerate the displacement of people from northern to southern Gaza. Mr. Netanyahu has remained defiant, accusing Britain, Canada and France of “emboldening Hamas.” In a speech last week, he addressed their leaders directly, saying, “You’re on the wrong side of humanity and you’re on the wrong side of history.” Within Israel, the moves have been perceived as a step toward diplomatic isolation. “After 593 days of war, Israel has reached a diplomatic nadir: Some of its most important friends in the world — Great Britain, France and Canada — have taken the liberty of issuing a statement threatening Israel with sanctions if it continues the war in Gaza,” wrote Itamar Eichner, a diplomatic correspondent, in Yediot Ahronot, a centrist broadsheet, last week. “Never before has such a statement been issued against Israel, turning it into a pariah state,” Mr. Eichner added. “The most worrisome part: The United States, which has always stood up for Israel, responded with silence.”
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First question: You must've missed Ellie telling Dina that Nora's last words were whale or wheel and then later Ellie telling Jesse that Abby must be near the ferris wheel upon seeing it. I'm not sure how she knew to look specificallyat the aquarium. Second question: You got me.
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I watched it high and enjoyed it afew nights ago but didn't find it super funny. It did have a few good moments, especially once she started talking about her recently deceased dad. The special really was all about him, but she also tells a few stories about her also decently deceased mom and stepmother. Her act was a little more subdued than past ones, but I think it was basically a tribute and she realizes she's now an orphan who's getting older. In that context, I could relate a lot with this special.
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