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  1. Was coming here to post this. I think that the key here is that this needs to be taken as messaging guidance for politicians. I do have to say that I don’t hear many of these (I do hear some) from national level reps. I do hear most from local officials and the NGO sectors. But by far this is vocabulary most used by online people who aren’t anything except online. List below. The categories are theirs and not mine. Therapy speak: Seminar Language: Organizer Jargon: Gender/Orientation Correctness: Shifting language on race: Explaining away crime:
  2. Nope. Irregular entry is a misdemeanor or felony depending on circumstances. Overstay or unauthorized work, etc. is not a criminal offense. But there is a flip side to the coin: removal, visa revocation, denial of status is not a judicial punishment and the level of due process and burden of proof is much lower. When review is needed, you go before a special administrative judge and not to criminal court. My own stance is pretty simple: removal to a prison in a third country is clearly extrajudicial punishment and prohibited. The CECOT shit is outrageous. Expedited removals, visa revocations, toughening asylum criteria and similar tactics are not punishment and it’s squarely within the remit of the executive to do it. The level and approach to enforcement is a question for voters and Congress to address if they choose. Conditions at detention centers while waiting for removal are a clear human rights and likely 8th Amendment issue.
  3. I knew a family that used his techniques. He suggested to name a stick or belt something like the “rod of discipline” and leave it on the kid’s dresser as a “sign of authority.” Really whack shit. The kid I knew turned out all kinds of fucked up. And my dad spanked, but that kid was getting whacked for all kinds of petty shit. They’d tell him to go get the “rod of discipline” or “belt of correction” and go to town. FWIW shortly before I had my first kid, my dad said “I won’t tell you how to parent but I don’t think spanking helped you and I did it because everyone told me I needed to. I wish I hadn’t.”
  4. Tucker’s most recent guest is a chemistry professor who thinks we should have sided with Hitler in World War II and I can say that this is the trajectory we all expected.
  5. Another Dobson special: he did a sit-down interview with Ted Bundy before the execution and swallowed Ted’s bullshit that porno and liberal society made him do it.
  6. James Dobson’s book about raising the “strong-willed child” opened with an anecdote about beating the family dachshund with a belt as an example for what parenting requires.
  7. I can easily see a future where for lots of knowledge and creative work, the equivalent of bespoke tailoring or hand-crafted shoemaking emerges. Premium services where there’s a guarantee generative AI isn’t used; or where it’s clearly outlined to clients where the AI is used and where the human comes in.
  8. It sucks. It’s ten years past the “take the personality out of everything and make it corporate” movement.
  9. The Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks, not because it is woke but because it moved from a logo that told you exactly what to expect (a schlocky faux Old Timey country feed bag restaurant) to something that requires you to know what the old branding was to make any sense of the current concept (schlocky faux New Timey country feed bag restaurant). The new logo and branding are self-referential and thus… It insists upon itself.
  10. NATO expansion was basically forced by Russia and he let Jake Sullivan crisis manage Ukraine when we needed a Churchill. We had people in place offering real and manageable deterrent actions to ward of a Russian advance but in the end he backed down. I like his domestic agenda more than his foreign policy.
  11. U.S. penalties, on paper and as applied, for unauthorized entry are among the most lenient in the world and are not even close to the top of why immigration policy is awful. Basic border control and immigrant screening is a simple state capacity and security issue and a longstanding policy choice not to really do it is a big reason you’ve seen this incredible backlash. Immigration policy is broken because it hasn’t been seriously tackled in decades and so it reflects old realities and there has been no democratic process around it and a (correct) vibe that the system does not serve either desirable potential immigrants or U.S. citizens and workers but rather relatively small pockets of self-interest. The portion of America that’s foreign born is higher than it has been since the early 20th century, which coincided with another big nativist backlash. This was absolutely inevitable and foreseeable, Americans are not unique in having these sentiments, and it’s really been a failure to sensibly manage migration flows in a way that balances interests and rights that caused it.
  12. Yeah, I get it. Russians are good at this and have invested a lot in manufacturing sensible narratives that get traction. And for years (and now we are doing it again) the U.S. and West have been reactive. But even if this was 100 percent true: If the Russians said “we will take our tanks and soldiers back home and you can have your land back; in exchange we want you to open Russian schools,” I am pretty sure Ukraine would sign on. It’s a lunatic justification to invade a country.
  13. Russian isn’t banned in Ukraine. Ukrainian is the only official state language and media, official communications, elections, and state institutions are required to use Ukrainian. Russian citizens must renounce Russian citizenship and accept Ukrainian to publish books in Russian. These laws were in place before the full-scale invasion but not before the 2014 invasion. Russian books and media cannot be imported from Russia, Belarus, or occupied territories and post-Soviet Russian music and entertainment can’t be performed unless the reformers have condemned the invasion. This is because Russia uses information and culture as a weapon. Important to note that the most strident restrictions only came after the 2022 invasion. Everything Lavrov says is a lie, so it’s not really helpful to engage or respond to it. You can’t address the complaints because they are made up.
  14. Elon has a such a depressing online presence. He’s retweeting fake images of child happiness that never happened and perving out over his new online waifu. It would be really sad if he wasn’t so damaging to everyone else.
  15. It’s in Virginia. Our younger daughter has a start at 0845 for elementary school, the high schoolers start later as well. 0715 is when she needs to be in the door, I think the bell for first period rings at 0720.
  16. 40u glory is serious business.
  17. These clips of grown men with jobs playing full contact football have got me cracking up. This shit is amazing. I can’t think of a better way to guarantee an injury you will never recover from. I want this on ESPN.
  18. If only Russia and Ukraine could sit down like…..”the Aberbaijan” and Albania.
  19. Big switch from allegedly a negotiation with Anthony Joshua. There’s a six inch height and 65 pound weight difference between the two if Paul comes in at his last weight. It’s clear that Paul is using boxing to make stupid money while keeping his neural network intact. The thing is that there’s no shame in taking up the sport late and getting good at it (which it’s clear Paul has done). It’s just not in the cards to be a legitimate professional contender. &nbsp It’s too bad he couldn’t use his celebrity to make the sport more popular and shine a light on the real professionals instead of contributing to the WWE-ification of it. Then again he’ll make 100 million from this bullshit and since it’s not a sanctioned bout you can bet there will be all kinds of clauses in the contract.
  20. Volkswagen is charging a subscription to get more horsepower from an electric model in Britain. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62weyp4qqgo.amp “Upgrade” here is a misnomer. Everything is already in the car, non-subscribers just have a computer limiter.
  21. Chilis also has some good food and kept prices reasonable. A Chili’s cheeseburger for nine bucks is about as good a deal as you can find. It’s a legitimately good burger.
  22. We brought the Nazis here for rocket expertise and not build the bomb.
  23. The Ukrainian ambassador to Poland on why Ukraine should be in NATO: “We know how to kill Russians and you don’t.” Hell yeah brother.
  24. It’s generally good when populations leave behind the will to die in the millions in wars of conquest but it’s a problem when you have but your neighbors haven’t. The time to arm Ukraine was 2014 and we didn’t because we failed to see what Russia was.
  25. Cracker Barrel is enshittening its logo. I also understand they are changing from the “old timey” decor to something called “modern farmhouse.” Likely to end up an enshittening project on par with Pizza Hut going from its stained glass lamps and checkerboard table coverings to the bland and depressing “The Hut.” I had hoped we left these terrible rebrands in the 2010s.
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