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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh. You think a court system with this SCOTUS at the top will actually preserve the Constitution and the Rule of Law. You are fucking adorable.
  2. Vladek, as usual, with the fucking bullseye. This is it. This is the question. All the fucking marbles. The problem is, it's already been fucking answered - The Regime can do whatever it wants. The Rule of Law is over. Rule of the Gun is all that remains.
  3. Or, let's just talk about whether constitutional protections, such as due process protections, are due to aliens/foreigners in the United States. Let's ask noted bleeding heart liberal, super libtard......Antonin Scalia: What a fucking pussy libtard that Scalia was.
  4. Your past association with known PCP dealer Louis Winthorpe III is not going to do you any favors.
  5. To be a master asshole, one must 1) have many, many asshole moments, and 2) not wish to take ANY of them back. I have a black belt in asshole.
  6. You sound like a socialist. The dead kids are what tells us the freedom is working.
  7. Oh, my brother....you and I have never been more in agreement than we are right now.
  8. Just remember.....it could have been worse....
  9. So....I presume that Officer Mendez's appointment to a senior position at ICE is incoming?
  10. Shit, realized an important typo there: Most everyone would agree with the principle of "society can't lock you up in prison unless and until you've been convicted of a crime."
  11. The reply that sums it up: Stop overthinking it. The Regime has TOLD US THIS IS WHAT THEY INTEND TO DO. EVERY ONE OF THOSE STEPS. Once you remove due process -- that is the foundation of the Rule of Law -- then it's all over, and it all happens. "Why did you send those citizens to a Salvadoran concentration camp? "Because they were criminals." "How do we know they were criminals, as they were not tried and convicted of any crimes?" "You know they're criminals because I sent them to a Salvadoran concentration camp. They wouldn't be in that camp if they weren't criminals." And that's it. It's over by tautology.
  12. The average person's understanding of bail and the reasons for it is.....very, very low. The fact that the lack of understanding is so ubiquitous doesn't speak as poorly of the audience as it does of how we as a society have messaged it over the years (meaning that we haven't messaged it at all). Most everyone would agree with the principle of "society can lock you up in prison unless and until you've been convicted of a crime." Yet we also look at people accused of a crime who are arrested and detained in jail . . . and based on the fact that they are accused of a crime (but NOT yet convicted), we default to thinking that they should stay in jail. Cool, cool....what if they are ultimately found not-guilty? Do we say "whoops, our bad, sorry we kept you in jail for a year, ruining your life, only to find out we had it wrong/had the wrong guy/etc.?" And the response of "well, we KNOW this guy did it, there were witnesses, etc. etc."....again, the one thing we know with certainty is that we don't know everything about the event and its circumstances. Maybe the victim said -- in a voice audible only to the killer and one other person -- "I'm gonna fucking kill you." That changes the self-defense picture. I'm not saying that's what happened here -- I'm simply noting that nearly 100% of the time, "shit that we didn't know about" comes out as the process moves forward. So, we stick with foundational principles: innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Bail is to 1) ensure appearance at future proceedings, and 2) protect society from ongoing threats. And understand that it's not really good at the second thing. It's not like someone who is a threat to commit more violence is LESS of a threat if they post $500k bail instead of $250k bail. Other conditions of release are much more effective in that respect (e.g., ankle monitoring and house arrest). Even bail for smaller crimes can fail in that respect -- look a the asshole going around UT punching people. After the second or third offense in rapid sequence, it seems that the calculus on future threat should be one of "he fucking definitely is," and he should be denied bail or have it set prohibitively high.
  13. Interestingly, word on the street is that "Swank" was your favorite mid-range porno mag back in the day.
  14. Fuck those guys....especially for making Poncho shirts associated with douchewear. I like Poncho shirts -- I've been wearing some version of a pearl-snap shirt for better than 50 years, and I welcome new fabric that makes them even more hospitable in hot weather. Fucking johnny-come-lately tech bros can shove their Tesla up their asses using their Tecovas to push it in.
  15. It's going to be entirely fact-specific. Imagine if you killed someone (it could happen). The circumstances would likely be a pretty freakish one-off. Your deranged neighbor comes over and threatens you, he lunges at you. You are one of those guys who carries a basic lockblade knife with him. You are able to pull it, and you stab him, he dies. Maybe a witness saw y'all arguing beforehand, so your self-defense claim isn't enough, and you get charged with murder. The circumstances are that you have a clean record, no history of violence of violent threats, and whatever the case (murder or self-defense), your violent act here was clearly a product of a particular circumstance, not some wider violent trend. Bottom line, even if you DID murder your neighbor, you're not likely to be a threat of violence to anyone else. Compare that to someone who is charged with killing a member of a rival gang. The accused has a long record of violent offenses and threats to kill others. The accused has a record of a long-standing beef with the entire rival gang, and was heard at various times threatening members of the rival gang. He is reasonably likely to commit further violence along those lines if he's released. It's not just the act alleged (you killed someone). It's the circumstances that make you a likely future threat to others or not.
  16. A whole lot of this. Also, the ones I do see showing up in various places are just repeating the lies promulgated in right wing media: all of these guys sent down there are violent criminal gang members! Kilmar Garcia was a member of MS-13! (Ignoring that 1) there has never been any such adjudication, and 2) even the Trump admin, in a fucking official court filing, admitted that he was nabbed and deported not because it was merited, but because of an "administrative error") etc. etc. They can't help but lie. The entire philosophy and approach is a mountain of lies, built on a foundation of hate, resulting in a sacred temple of fascist bullshit. And they LIKE IT that way. Every. Single. Right-winger here. LIKES extrajudicial black-bagging of people, disappearing them into foreign prisons, without any due process.
  17. Ha! Joke's on you -- Ohio is incapable of being embarrassed.
  18. Or this was Nicole's latest way of covering her tracks. Look in the rubble for a body with lungs full of lake water.....
  19. Also....get yourself a sex tent. Trust us.
  20. Fuck running for office. He has military experience. He needs to be teaching Americans how to defend themselves.
  21. Hank knows what's up in this timeline.
  22. The Constitutional Crisis is here. The civil war will be when the Regime starts disappearing citizens. And that is as it was always going to be. For the millionth time, it's why opting out of the Rule of Law is very, very bad, and shouldn't be done.
  23. "To this Honorable Court: Fuck you. That's your update. Submitted, A guy who's gonna fuck your mom, too"
  24. (a) you dumbass, there's no gas service there, of course they needed propane. This guy agrees: (b) yeah....that part doesn't make sense. Seems like it would be one of the final things on the to-do list at completion (I suspect you'd maybe want it on in time to test any appliances running on it/related plumbing), but that's still a late-game thing.
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