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Brisketexan

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  1. Let’s put this in terms we can relate to: Court: “Trump Regime, you snatched a Surly poster, a US citizen, off the street and sent him down to a Salvadoran gulag immediately. You now admit that you did. It have a legal basis or right to do so. Return him.” Trump Regime: “Gee, sorry, we can’t.” Court: “Provide me daily reports of your effort to get the Surly poster back.” Trump Regime: “LOL OK. Here’s my report: we didn’t do shit. Result: it is 100% allowed for the Regime to disappear anyone it wants, and there is no remedy.
  2. Excellent. We told both our kids straight up that the school may do what the school does, but they will never ge tin trouble at home for def diff themselves or someone else. Because that’s how we should be. Good on your boy.
  3. Kai Ryssdal’s joke was that at this point, the tariff rates might as well be “infinity plus one,” because they are now high enough to functionally shut down all trade between China and the US. This is just idiocy.
  4. Summary of SCOTUS take: 1) humans have rights under the Constitution. 2) this guy’s rights were violated. 3) but there is no remedy for that, the Regime can violate anyone’s rights with zero repercussions, answering to no one. So you can frame the “people have rights” part of that decision and put it on the wall, it’s a pretty decoration and that’s it. What matters is the remedy - can you get one? No? Then nothing fucking matters.
  5. Fucking. BULLSHIT. The SCOTUS is a collaborator with the Regime in cementing its authoritarian powers which cannot be questioned or reversed. They have created a king, completely above the law, because they want it that way. It was not and is not an accident.
  6. This too. My wife related that the solo manicurist she uses is fucked - her products largely come from China, because that’s who makes such things. So, 1) she’ll have to raise her prices a LOT, and 2) as shit goes south, people will cut back on “unnecessary expenses.” This shit is going to wreck her business. Multiply that by literally hundreds of thousands of businesses nationwide. But fuck those people, they don’t count or matter to this admin, because they’re not billionaire oligarchs.
  7. To be fair, being able to outmaneuver this clown show doesn’t require a chess master on your side. Just someone who can exercise modest restraint and patience, and not smear shit on themselves.
  8. Next you’re gonna tell me students don’t cure their hangovers with vitamin G from G&M Steakhouse.
  9. Duh. Listened to Kai Ryssdal this morning, and he is breaking form and really not holding back. And he’s also saying the obvious: most of the capital in the world is sidelining itself because it’s apparent that one man can upset the entire global economy on a whim, there is no discernible plan or path, and he is “at best, mercurial.” He will change his mind minute to minute, to accomplish…nobody knows. Our trade issues with China are real, but will take years to unwind. If he’s trying to accomplish that in weeks, it’s madness. While money and business do some irrational things, on the whole, they at least require some certainty. And it is clear that the world’s largest economy will change course 180 degrees on one man’s whim, multiple times a week, even a day. So everyone just stays put, hunkers down, and works on their plan to weather the storm of insanity. This is catastrophic, by the way. That’s not an overstatement.
  10. We can’t all agree on that at all. I’m sure this court, at best, would conclude “he didn’t disappear someone the right way - here’s how he should do it.”
  11. Well, if you’re looking for something designed to shoot your own dick off, you chose wisely.
  12. I’m really looking at doing the same. Lemme know what you think when you get it.
  13. Yep. The SCOTUS just killed that man. Because that's the direction a cornered regime will take.
  14. See? "Meat added" makes ALL of those better. Especially the last one, says my pal Vic Mackey.
  15. But some antics do. Like, for example....a briefcase monkey.
  16. Fuck, even if he was on to something, the "as long as there's no nuclear war" is doing some HEAVY lifting. A big part of the reason we've avoided a nuclear war is because American hegemony has helped keep local rivalries (including potential wars) relatively under control. And now? We are disengaging, telling everyone out there "it's every man for himself," and pursuing policies and approaches that couldn't be better crafted to incentivize every country that can to obtain nukes. Dimon...you're a fucking fool. Not that it was in doubt, but he keeps removing any possible scintilla of doubt.
  17. Probably a ball bearing failure.
  18. Hey man, jerkin the gherkin is jerkin the gherkin. Don't judge.
  19. What....the....fuck? Because.....
  20. ....and stuff like this is how it really gets going, and snowballs. We take our ball and go home....which leaves us stuck at home, inside and alone, with our ball. Yay. What sweet victory.
  21. I know that Muscle Shoals has got the swampers.
  22. Sigh. But the people who would enforce against the hedge fund people ARE subject to the EO. “Hey SEC, don’t enforce against the guys at Hedge Fund Alpha. They’re friends of the admin. Capiche?” That’s it. That’s how a fascist mafia state works.
  23. Charles Barkley says “that real Mexican tang” found in San Antonio is…rather large.
  24. Dude. DUDE. These things are not limited to “employees of the executive branch.” This is about the Trump Regime, which includes a shitload of people who are not technically employees of the government. There are people affiliated or connected to the Trump orbit who are getting special info/favors, to their immense profit. Do they then slip a little something to the Godfather, by any of a jillion mechanisms? Yep. Wake. Up.
  25. Perfection. And truly spot-on and undeniable. That’s how Fox plays it.
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