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  1. Yeah, this is a different case from Abrego.  As I said elsewhere, there's a jurisdiction issue that kind of taints the one before Boasberg.
    But they need to slap down this "foreign-policy/national security" shit with haste.  Don't know that they will but they should.

    You know they fucking won’t. Just stop. You know as well as I do: the rule of law is dead.
    This regime could grab YOU, sitting on your couch watching basketball, hogtie you, put you on a plane to a foreign prison, and you would be getting your head shaved and ass beaten before tonight’s trophy presentation is over….and there’s NOTHING YOU OR ANYONE ELSE COULD DO ABOUT IT. The admin will say “so sad, too bad, we can’t get Twice back,” and it’s done - YOU’RE done.
    “Disappearing” people - any person, for any reason - is now functionally legal. You have no way to stop it, save one: arm yourself. And defend yourself. That’s where we are left.
    Stop pretending that any vestige of the rule of law remains.
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  2. This is what I’ve been saying:



    If there is no means of obtaining redress through the courts…then what does a person have left? The only rational course of action is to ensure that the regime does not take you into custody at all, because if they do, they can disappear you, and it’s over. You’re done.
    Much better to fight by any means available on the front end. That’s just simple logic, and the main negative of opting out of the rule of law: all that’s left is rule of the gun.
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  3. I will now provide the list of things preventing The Regime from snatching any one of you off the street at any moment, restraining you, shoving you onto a flight to El Salvador, and having you locked away in a Salvadoran prison - with no chance of return or getting you out - within a matter of hours:

    1) You shooting your way out of the attempted detention.

    That's it.  That's your sole means of redress left.  The law is powerless.  The courts are powerless.  The Regime has complete and total power to disappear any person they want, and there's nothing you can do about it.  Your only possible way out -- slim and shitty as it is -- is to defend yourself with deadly force.  And yes, you will surely be met with deadly force, and if you survive, face the full weight of the law.  Ironically, the law that offers you zero protections.

    The District Court understood what this practice means.  The 4th Circuit understood what it means.  The SCOTUS...also understood what it means.  And what it means to them is the opportunity to crown Trump king, subject to no laws.  Thus completing the journey they began when they wrote complete and total immunity for the POTUS into the Constitution where it does not exist.

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  4. 8 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    It would take me all of 1 minute to make both of these bitches cry like cunts.

    And this.  Jesse Watters is the least manly man out there.  He's an abhorrent human being in every possible way.

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    Again....these are people who are mentally incapable of grasping "value exchanged for value."

    I have an LG dryer in my house.  I exchanged $500 for that.  But tracking the $500 over to Korea is only part of the deal.  In exchange, I got a valuable and useful good that was worth....$500 (remember, the value of any good is what "a willing buyer will pay a willing seller" for that good - that's literally the economic definition of "value").  We haven't "given away" any of that money.  We exchanged it for value.  In a free market, where I have the freedom and liberty to choose what I exchange my money for.  I have all kinds of things in my house that I exchanged money for - a dryer, a TV, a sofa, etc.  Some of those items, I sent the money to someone in the US...and then got something of that exact value in exchange.  For others, I sent the money to someone in Korea, or Japan, etc....and then got something of that exact value in exchange.

    God I hate stupid people, and we've made them into kings, answerable to no one.

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  6. 15 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    The problem going forward is going to be how dems can relate to people who feel like they are not being heard.

    The plan is super-easy:

    1) Give them someone to hate/blame.

    2) Feed the hate.  Shovel coal onto the hate constantly, as fast as you can.  Never pause, never let up.

    The problem is, all the easy-to-hate groups are already taken by the right: minorities, gays, trans, anyone weak really.  So, now we've got to find some groups the GQP doesn't already own the "we hate 'em" license for.  

    That pretty much leaves billionaires, which is not a great choice because they have the means to fight back.  The right wins this, because they picked the target of the people who really can't fight back.  They won.  That's why it's over.  We are a country governed by decisions made based on who you hate and blame for everything wrong, even things that haven't gone wrong/don't exist (kitty litter boxes in classrooms).  We can't overcome that.

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  7. Just now, Gap03 said:

    Does that apply to John Roberts, or just Charles and Leo?  It would almost be worth it if John became a cautionary tale for ACB and the rest ...

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    Why would it apply anyone on SCOTUS?  They are doing EXACTLY what they have been told to do: create an air of legitimacy for the Imperial Reign for Life of His Royal Highness Donald Trump, long may he reign, and God save the king.

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  8. 1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

    Is this where Charles Koch falls out of a window? 

    Naah.  They'll snatch him from his home, hogtie him, and toss him on a flight to El Salvador -- he'll be locked away in a prison there before the day is done.

    Which is perfectly legal now, and there are no consequences to The Regime for doing so.  True fact.

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  9. 4 minutes ago, achooloco said:

    s.ct. Just threw a pause on the above. But still they will give a more detailed decision In the next few days? Will we have a full blown constitutional crisis by the wknd?

    Dude.  That ship has SAILED.....struck an iceberg....split in two....and sunk to the fucking bottom.

    There's no crisis.  A crisis implies that there's still a constitution.  There is not.

    Tell me one thing you can do to insure that you don't get disappeared into a foreign prison by this regime?  I mean, one thing that does NOT involve you shooting your way out of an attempt to disappear you.  Because by my count, that's the only avenue left.

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  10. On 3/31/2025 at 11:34 PM, Brisketexan said:

    If the Trump regime can disappear someone and not be subject to court enforcement because “oh well, we don’t have our hands on him anymore,” they can do and say that as to anyone and everyone. Including you.
    This is how it goes, and this is how it ends. The Trump regime now has full power - with no accountability or consequences - to disappear US citizens, political opponents, or anyone it doesn’t like.

     

    4 hours ago, Captainant said:

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258.13.0_1.pdf

    4th Circuit of Appeals denies the trumpco request for an immediate administrative stay, and affirms the order to return the plaintiff to the US by no later than 11:59 PM April 7, 2025.

    And the government rightfully concedes that it was an “error” and a “mistake” to ignore this process. Mot. for Stay at 16-17. And, if it is truly a mistake, one would also expect the government to do what it can to rectify it. Most of us attempt to undo, to the extent that we can, the mistakes that we have made. But, to the best of my knowledge, the government has not made the attempt here. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.

    come get your flowers @futureman and @ChickenSandwich, yall were hella jazzed about all these Venezuelans getting blackbagged back in February.

    "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."

    Note also that Trump just the past day or so commented that it would be "great" if El Salvador would also take US citizens as prisoners.

    This is how you "disappear" people.  Any person you want.  Without being answerable to the law in any way.  "Ooops, it was an error that we grabbed Steve Critic of the Regime off the street right outside his home and immediately put him on a plane to El Salvador, where his now held in prison.  No takesies-backsies, though!  So sad, too bad!"

    And now the SCOTUS has signed on to support that approach (see Roberts staying the lower courts' orders, just now).

    This is how authoritarian powers get full carte blanche to disappear people, with no legal remedy or consequence.  If you are a critic of the regime, you have one tool of defense against being disappeared.  Fortunately, this is America, so you can get that tool rather quickly and cheaply.  Do not count on a lawyer or court saving you.  We don't have those things anymore.  Just the thing you need to buy, and learn to use.

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  11. 7 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    8 hours in Baffin in Feb...with a unbeknownst to me newly formed hole in a cheaper pair of waders.   Not sure I saw my dick again for a week.  

    Had the same experience in Port O'Connor years ago with a pair of breathable Hodgemans.  The hole was right in the crotch.  When I went in to the store to return them the next week, I told them to send them to the goddamned CEO of Hodgmans and I would personally take him on a guided trip in January while he wears that exact pair.

    The poor minimum wage clerk just gave me my money back and smiled when I left, a reaction for which I cannot blame him.

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  12. Just now, Chuckie Finster said:

    We officially need to be in our Luigi era.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-justice-john-roberts-pauses-194915499.html

    Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison.

     

    At this point, I can pretty much write every SCOTUS opinion going forward: "If the King does it, it is by definition legal.  All hail King Trump."

    If y'all had any doubt left, it's over, it's done.  We are in a full-on autocracy.  No half-measures, no "gosh, parts of it LOOK a little authoritarian."  We're there.  We've crossed the finish line.

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  13. Just now, Captainant said:

    Historically speaking, that's usually what happens after an authoritarian fascist leader is in power for an economic collapse. It's just in this case, he had to DIY his economic collapse

    Fucking....THIS.

  14. 1 minute ago, texas08 said:

    lmfaoooo

    nuclear war w Iran incoming

    Seriously.  He desperately needs a distraction.  Starting a war is exactly what a simple-minded abject moron would do.

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  15. Just now, Bullneck said:

    When I'm shopping for a vacation I look for places I don't want to go and then hit "buy" on the cruise ship website.

    So....cruises up the Brazos to College Station are a thing now?

  16. 12 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I have it on good authority that the orange God will bring back coal, so phone me when that happens so I can cheer on the industrial revolution.

    So, you HAVE figured out how we make America Great Again.

    1) Bring back brutal, low-wage jobs.

    2) Need people to do them.

    3) Eliminate public education.

    4) Repeal all child labor laws.

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    PROFIT!

     

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