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  1. 1 hour ago, Fastbreak said:

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    "Mike Lee, seen here demonstrating the average penis size of a Republican male voter, noting that porn really upsets them because it often 'contains unrealistic depictions of penis size, often larger than 4 inches,' urges for its ban to save GQPers from hurt fee-fees."

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  2. 3 minutes ago, royiv said:

    we have attorneys patting themselves on the back and telling us that everything is fine

    I don't see either one of those things happening.

    I'm an attorney, and I'm pretty sure I have a pretty well-settled reputation around here for reporting that things are very much NOT fine.  And part of my lament, for that entire time, has been that the "not fine" is due in large part to the fact that lawyers, with pens and paper, are ill-equipped to even slow down a society dead-set on ditching the rule of law.  We can file the best cases, motions, and briefs, we can get all the writs and judgments you want....at the end of the day, they are LITERALLY just words and ideas.  When a society has opted OUT of words and ideas, and INTO brute force, then what the fuck?  You think all the lawyers in the world standing in front of the mob, saying "but I have a writ!", will make 1 billionth of a shit?

    Lawyers are indeed becoming irrelevant.  Because that's how society wants it.  And if that's what society wants, no amount of lawyering will make a difference.

    That is very, very, very bad.  Society shouldn't choose that, because the alternative is horrible, violent, unpredictable, and is inevitably completely coopted by those with the most power at the expense of everyone else.  But that message falls on deaf ears.  It doesn't matter if we follow that message with "Respectfully Submitted, Brisketexan, Bar Card # 12345" or not.

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  3. 7 minutes ago, Longhorn_Fan68 said:

    we great yet?

    Depends.  Are you one of the handful of people who have made hundreds of millions/billions from Trump memecoins and insider stock trading?  If so, fuck yeah, we're fucking AMAZING.

    If you're not one of those 100 or so people....get fucked, peasant, you don't matter anyway.

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  4. Bozo is both not wrong.....and wildly wrong.  Lemme esplain...wait, there is too much...lemme sum up.

    Yes, the legal profession is in an ethical crisis.  That is because the legal profession is a REFLECTION of society, not aside and apart from it.  Its crisis is society's crisis.  People ignore the one thing that every "slimy, unethical" lawyer has: a client.  Lawyers go as society goes, in large part.  That means I'm not holding lawyers up as anything particularly exalted.  They don't deserve it, they really aren't much better or worse than society as a whole.  SOCIETY is in an ethical crisis, because we've abandoned any notion of a common set of rules that should apply to all (in groups who the law protects, but does not bind, vs. out groups who the law binds, but does not protect).

    ALSO, this matches up perfectly with the alarm bells Brisket has been ringing for a decade-plus: the Rule of Law is a tissue-paper-thin veneer.  It is only a set of gentlemen's agreements, that society across-the-board will agree to a set of objective standards.  Once a material segment of society opts out of those standards, and has the collective power to do so (and it's a shockingly small percentage.  Like, think 10%, so long as it's the right (white) 10%), then it's over.  I can go down to the courthouse and argue what the law IS, and be dead-right....and if either 1) a shameless political appointee says "sure, but see, the law doesn't apply to people named 'Trump,'" or hell, maybe I even get the judgment, but the other side simply ignores it and says "come and make us follow it," and that other side has armed troops/ICE/etc. at its disposal....it's over.  It doesn't matter how many suits I file, how many show-cause proceedings I initiate, etc....it's over.

    Finally, even presuming that lawyers ARE truly essential, be really, really, really fucking careful of setting standards that amount to "action that undermines the Rule of Law" as being subject to sanction by ANY body that can be manipulated and controlled by political forces.  Because legal positions like "black people should be treated equally, per the 14the amendment," and "interracial marriage should be legal, per the Constitution" are positions that absolutely undermine and go against society, the long-standing social order, the long-understood interpretation of the Constitution, and the very fabric of our Republic (all arguments used against lawyers asserting those exact positions).  Building a system that makes it easy to sanction lawyers for "acting against the Rule of Law" is tailor-made for a system run by a despot who says "I AM THE RULE OF LAW, and therefore, any action against what I decree is an act against the Rule of Law" - I'm not making that up, this admin is literally saying that shit right now.

    I take legal positions that are/would be opposed by Trumpists.  If you want to set up a system where I risk losing my license, being imprisoned, etc. for doing so, then the nebulous vision you propose would do just that.  This admin is not shy about going after attorneys for the "against the Rule of Law" action of taking a position contrary to the admin's preferences - they've already done it, repeatedly.  I cannot envision any further mechanisms for legal accountability that would not promptly be taken over and used by the admin to go after their legal enemies.  Be careful about the "accountability" you wish for.  In a world with no objective legal realities (the one we live in now), you've just handed the fascists all the tools they need to complete their coup de grace.

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  5. 7 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

    Hell, they don't give a shit if your feet fall off.

    The ones who have the inside scoop on making and selling prosthetics care.

    Everything comes back to one singularity: oligarchs with the inside track in this admin will profit.  It is exactly like the Russian system.

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  6. 42 minutes ago, Hookah Horns said:

    I can't believe I just read someone call dotard "a genius with word delivery."

    Being fluent in stupidity does not make one a genius. 

    Counterpoint: as "stupid" is the lingua franca of this millennium....yeah.

  7. 19 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

    Tariffs have still increased, meaning the average citizen will pay more... but they have not increased enough 1) for any company to move manufacturing stateside or 2) to eliminate income taxes.

    This.

    Will tariff revenues be large enough to meaningfully offset income taxes?  NOPE.

    Will tariffs be high enough to truly force companies to move meaningful volumes of manufacturing back to the US?   NOPE.

    Will tariffs be high enough that John and Jane consumer will see additional price inflation on countless goods they offer, likely in the range of 10-30%, when we were told that 8% inflation at the height of the supply chain crisis was "the worst thing ever?"  YEP.

    Nothing but losing, as far as the eye can see.

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  8. 31 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    But it's free. What are you, some CROOKED DEMOCRAT?

    29 minutes ago, GhostOfTomJoad said:

    Remember in Trump's first term when he accepted a fucking soccer ball from Russia that had an NFC chip in it? I 'member.

    Texasgs: "You fucking stupid libtards. It is a giant, wooden horse, being given to us for FREE!  Only stupid dumbocrat wouldn't take such a generous gift to save the taxpayers bazillions!  The fiscally responsible thing to do is to wheel it inside the city gates right away, so nobody else can take it!"

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  9. 40 minutes ago, GenXer said:

    Nope. Just to the billionaires per usual.

    But, think about what we are getting for it.  We are getting a certificate for a "Platinum Preferred" place in line to lick the boots of our oligarchs!  Where is YOUR spot in line, libtard?  Yeah, that's what I thought.  You losers aren't even going to GET to taste their delicious boots!

  10. [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention]
    Si usted es capaz de sentir indignacion por las injusticias cometidas por todo el miundo, somos companeros.

    No puedo hablar por [mention=593]Brisketexan[/mention] pero todos los que luchan por la justicia son mis companèros de armas. 

    I feel those injustices. Deeply. Empathy is one of my weaknesses.
    But I no longer feel it for those for whom the injustice is self-inflicted. Wanted to hurt the least among us because you thought that just meant brown people and Haitians? And now the leopard is eating your poor white trash face? GOOD. FEAST, LEOPARD.
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  11. realistically, what does this mean?
     

    Nothing, absolutely nothing. It’s propaganda to keep the cult happy. TFG will be pocketing some money on this somehow, but Americans won’t see any benefit. It’s kinda how he has operated for his entire adult life. 

    My guess? He's going to ensure that pharmaceutical prices around the world are elevated so that a) American prices are the lowest (in spite of not changing), b) 'those people' will be deprived affordable medications, and c) his donors in the drug industry will continue to profit 

    NW gets it. What will happen will be a perfect combo of a) not much, b) some drugs will go way up in price around the world (killing people elsewhere), but wont come down a penny here, and c) some drugs will become unavailable here (because the company simply can’t sell it for the same price they charge elsewhere), harming/killing Americans.
    Everything he does hurts people. It never helps people. Because his understanding of economics is on par with Greg Davis’s understanding of how to use DJ Monroe.
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  12. 2 minutes ago, mdmost said:

    All this talk about the Biden Crime Family for 4 years and they'll all just be a-okay with Trump being "gifted" a jet for personal use after he's no longer in office. 

    Every accusation is a confession, exhibit infinity squared.

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  13. My old man sometimes ate awful things like a sardine sandwich.  I just remembered he would get a hankering for a “salad” sandwich.  Usually tuna fish but sometimes ham or chicken.  He’d sometimes make a baloney salad sandwich of chopped baloney, mayo, pickle relish, onion. Wasn’t my favorite but wasn’t awful.

    Ain’t nothin’ wrong with a sardine sammich.
    Damn, why all the hate for mid-century canned goodness?
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  14. Restaurant recs for London with kids (6-8 years old)? Staying near Kings Cross but comfortable taking the tube and walking. 
    genre’s: Indian, Sunday Roast, Thai, traditional, fish and chips, desserts

    Whatever the case, you should pick up some soup mix and make it in your flat. Here, my daughter was at Tesco today in Hackney and picked up the one you were looking for:

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  15. Woke up with a mouthful of my own hair so I went ahead and cue balled it.
    Now I look like Charlton Heston's penis, and not in a good way.

    “Please describe Charlton Heston’s penis” said nobody on Surly, ever.
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  16. My mom used to make a round iron skillet of cornbread, cut it into wedges, put it on a plate and slice it in half.
    Top it with Ranch Style Beans, cheese and chopped onion.
    Damn tasty and cheap.

    L-I-V-I-N
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