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Brisketexan

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  1. How does that reduction track the rate of overall crime reduction nationwide/in the rest of California? That is, crime rates have been on and continue on a downward trend in areas that have NOT recalled their DAs. Is this rate of reduction better, worse, or about the same, as the rate of reduction in the "control" group? I genuinely don't know. And again, not defending Garza here at all. Just noting that large-scale crime rates typically have low correlation to a particular short-term trend in how prosecutors and cops behave. If that's a longer-term trend? The correlation surely becomes greater. But the factors affecting the crime rate are multiple and largely outside of the realm of law enforcement activities.
  2. KFC has its time and place. Generally, top choices are Popeyes or Church's spicy. Then, Krispy Krunchy chicken (don't sleep on a chain that exists only in gas stations). But then, KFC has its place. And Chicken Express exists for the purpose of serving fried gizzards, dusted with cajun sparkle seasoning, dipped in gravy, eaten in the truck on the way to go hunting. Bill Miller's is also a solid choice for fried yardbird, but it just doesn't pop up for me very often. Golden Chick and Bush's are also-rans. If there's another option, choose it. But they'll do in a pinch. And one mediocre bbq joint. Hinze's should be much better than it is. I bet cops like Hinze's.
  3. This is the way. Seriously, it’s a tough battle with the Norumbegas, but you chose well.
  4. All this got me thinking bout some KFC. I dig me some original recipe every now and then.
  5. They believe many things even dumber and more easily falsifiable than that. Because we are not even Idiocracy; an Idiocracy would thoroughly outsmart us.
  6. I mean, you laugh. When you file bankruptcy, you have to list your assets, because if you have stuff worth a lot of money, the court expects you to sell as much of it as possible to satisfy your creditors. We are within view of a world where you need to list your sellable organs as assets, and your bankruptcy will not be discharged until you have sold all sellable organs with the proceeds going to the bankruptcy trustee. You think I'm kidding or being hyperbolic. For the 1000th time, no I'm not, and almost all of this shit we discussed before has ended up coming to pass. This will too. You will go into debt, a hole you can't get out of, and the courts literally will not let you out of it until you sell one of your kidneys.
  7. He also called for the death penalty for anyone dealing drugs, but when his son was busted transporting hundreds of pounds of weed, he cried like a bitch and begged for leniency. And of course, he himself was an actual convicted crook who took millions in bribes while he was a congressman. Meh. Glad he could fly an F-4 really well. Otherwise, he was a giant piece of shit.
  8. The billionaires and their crooks stole your money, destroyed your jobs, and stole your future. Donald Trump used YOUR White House to get $10 billion richer, while you got poorer. He stole all that money from you. And [whichever candidate you're running against here] helped him, and smiled while he did it. America got poorer, and further in debt, while Donald Trump fucked you over and got richer. Enough. Don't vote for someone who smiles while they steal from you. Vote for someone who will go in spitting mad and fight for you. Enough bullshit. Enough theft. More fight. I'm here to fuck shit up. And I won't stop till the fucking thieves are on the floor with a bloody nose asking for mercy. And we won't give it to them, because they didn't fucking give it to us while they fucked us over. Every candidate needs to repeat some version of that everywhere. Online, signs, interviews, podcasts, when they are ordering a fucking coffee at a cafe. Everywhere. Constantly. On repeat. Shorthand is "No more billionaires and thieves taking what's yours. I'll fight the billionaires and thieves for you and get it all back. Every penny." It doesn't have to be true, be tied to real numbers, any of that shit. It needs to be truthy enough, and inflammatory as hell. But this. Always this. We crossed the rubicon a while back. A violent and bloody outcome is an inevitability. Once one side has opted out of the Rule of Law and into the Rule of the Gun/Force, it's over. We've lost, no matter how you cut it, because a Republic "saved" by bloody strife isn't saved at all.
  9. Oh, also....this is exactly the playbook of how hard-right fascism goes. The judges on the 15th court aren't liberal, by any measure. They have very solid conservative and GOP bona fides. But that's not the point. It's not about political or legal philosophy or leanings. We have crossed that rubicon. See, all three of those justices, while they may be conservative, also believe in The Rule of Law. They actually believe that the role of a judge is to call balls and strikes according to what the law says and provides. Sure, they have leans, and may even get it blatantly wrong sometimes because of those leans, but their foundational approach is one that is inextricably bound to a belief that our system is one of The Rule of Law. That is no longer true. Our system is an authoritarian system which expects and demands only one guiding principle: loyalty to the authoritarian. That means Trump, and his anointed lieutenants, like Paxton. And the second part of that is where it gets gruesome. All authoritarian states - fascist, communist, what have you - have this in common: whether you are sufficiently loyal is both a creature of the whims of the leader, and is easily cratered by doubts planted by rivals and such in the leader's ear. You've all seen the meme: Every single "conservative" who is at all aligned with the Regime or its minions -- and by the way, they ALL are now, there are no "conservatives" who are not at least nominally aligned with Trumpism -- is Nikolai Yeshov in that photo. The only question is WHEN they will find themselves out of favor and pushed out of leadership (or worse....remember, worse is coming), not if. There are only two groups of people right now. Those who will be stabbed by the regime despite their attempted service to it, and those who the regime will try to stab because they are actively fighting against it. Either way, the regime is coming to stab you. Wouldn't you rather die on your feet than live on your knees? Of course, all GOP leaders and supporters have already answered that question, and strapped on their kneepads.
  10. Seriously. He could have someone go on there to tell him that Hitler's whole rise to power and governance was a false flag operation put together by a global jewish syndicate and the Ringling Brothers, and he'd swallow the whole fucking story.
  11. Bingo. An (unethical) experiment would be to compare the suicide/violence rates among diagnosed individuals while under SSRI treatment, and then when SSRI treatment is no longer allowed. There may be an individual here and there who is MORE likely to be violent while on SSRIs.....which would almost certainly be countered (or more than countered) by the number of individuals who are LESS likely to be violent while on SSRIs. Thus, all-in-all, proper SSRI use almost certainly REDUCES the overall rate of violence among mentally ill individuals.
  12. I am dead serious when I say that some senior dem leader should say "Donald Trump is all talk. He's not a man, he's a coward. And I look forward to kicking his ass. I'll be in Washington this Friday. I'll be at the White House at noon. If Trump isn't the gutless coward that we all know he is, he'll come out and meet me, and man up." Is that breathtakingly stupid and juvenile? 100%. Is that sort of stunt exactly where we are? Also yes, 100%. Someone needs to challenge DOTARD to a fight, over and over, to prove that he's a cowardly pussy. Oh, and if the fight happens....yeah, most anyone will kick that tub of goo's ass.
  13. Similar. Pregnancy and its hormone storm literally made my wife batshit. She realized halfway through here 2nd of 3 pregnancies that she needed help. Doc put her on Zoloft, and it was life-changing. She was on it during pregnancy, and for a period after to deal with post-partum issues. The attacks on SSRIs as the cause of violent/suicidal action strikes me as one of the more absurd "correlation = causation" conclusions imaginable. Who is more likely to commit crazy acts of violence/suicide? People suffering from depression and similar mental disorders. Who is more likely to be on SSRIs? People suffering from depression and similar mental disorders. I would suspect that the percentage of people who commit acts consistent with mental illness would have disproportionately high numbers of actually mentally ill people (and thus people being treated for mental illness) within their ranks. And again, CONTROLLING for that . . . . other countries have relatively high numbers of SSRI use, yet don't have anywhere near our level of mass shootings and the like. If SSRIs were the cause, a country with, say, 50% the SSRI use rate as the US would have around 50% the "crazy acts of violence/mass shooting" rate that we have. They don't.
  14. CSB: had a buddy a year older than me who went to USC. I went and visited him spring break of my senior year of high school. One of the things we did was go to a USC-UCLA baseball game (someday, I'll wax poetic for a page or two about how gorgeous the bat girls were). When we got to our seats, I noticed that they were named after particular donors. I sat in the Al Campanis seat, and jokingly asked my buddy if I was now obligated to make racially insensitive observations about the players for the afternoon. We thought it was funny. Some of the old farts sitting around us didn't.
  15. Yeah. No matter how long I live, I'll never see things Paxton's way.
  16. You get it! Also, eliminate all minority competition for jobs by having the DOJ/local AGs (Paxton) sue any business that hires minorities for any job of any real pay/responsibility as "illegally practicing DEI." Hiring a minority for a position that requires any real education and qualifications is per se evidence that it's a DEI hire because....well, you know.....some types just really aren't as qualified as good white folks. We all know that. Don't listen to me, listen to THEM, they've told you flatly that is their plan. So, finally....we'll make America great for white men again, which was always its only permissible purpose for existing. Letting dirty people infiltrate and "poison the blood of our country" was a huge mistake. We won't make it again.
  17. Look, man....you take your "holistic medicine," and I'll take mine. Thought we were in the nest in the trust tree around here, dammit.
  18. I'll take the alternative as well. If it happens soon enough, his death will be one of the most historically significant turning points of the last 300 years.
  19. This: If you are a democracy-loving American and what's happening now makes you uncomfortable.....start popping the Tums, because what we'll have to do if we ever get a chance to try to fix this will likely make you fucking puke. Once doesn't cure a horrific case of cancer with almond milk and good thoughts. You do it with brutal chemo and radiation that comes within a hairs-breadth of killing the patient. We are dying right now. And the only cure to what's killing us may also kill us. That's just reality.
  20. Yeah, but who are you gonna trust....some nerdy actual computer scientist, or a meme-lord who is extreme hardcore?
  21. We'll get fewer votes than Jill Stein did. The problem isn't just the leadership we have to choose from. It's that our leaders are a reflection of who we the people are and what we want and believe. Turns out, "we the people" are really shitty.
  22. The baseline for our collective level of mental illness is because not only do we not foster community and collective well-being, we demonize them as evil, communist, etc. Other countries give a shit about collective well being and the community. America cares about the individual, and only the individual. We have made a god of the individual, and worship that god at the expense of all others, to our great detriment. Mental illness will exist in any world. It will be worst in a world where you are told that you are on your own, that's a good thing, and if you dare suggest otherwise, you're an enemy of our society and everything we're about.
  23. Well, there seem to be two schools of thought on that. One school -- the one that is winning, and presently governing our country -- is that "allowing minorities to exist, and women to have agency and rights, REALLY pisses white men off, so we should get rid of those irritants." Another school is that "maybe we shouldn't tell white men that nothing is their fault, it's really the fault of minorities and women who don't know their place, because that inevitably motivates some of those white men to be violent against the various 'others.'" That school of thought is toast, and has no chance of even being influential, much less prevailing. So, there we are. We are following path 1. We will stop stoking the flames that piss off white American once we finally purge America of the people who are -- and these aren't my words, they are literally the president's -- "poisoning the blood of our country" and such. So, we'll accomplish that goal, and white men will be happy once again.....once my family and I are purged from this great nation.
  24. Then maybe....just maybe.....we shouldn't reward and empower movements that enthusiastically shovel coal on those fires, like telling people over and over and over that brown people are vermin and invaders and the cause of all problems in America. And maybe.....just maybe....we shouldn't demonize people for what they are, driving them to desperation and psychosis (mostly manifesting in suicide and self-harm, sometimes manifesting in outward violence). Instead.....both those things are cornerstones of modern American society. We are defined by, and enthusiastically reward with empowerment, both approaches. Call brown people vermin who need to be exterminated, and trans people who are abominations who should not be allowed to walk among us, and you're on the fast-track to holding high office/being given a public microphone to disseminate those views. We are all capable of wickedness. Maybe stoking those flames with utter assholery and cruelty is a bad idea.
  25. Bolded for emphasis. We think that crime can and should be addressed with a single tool: aggressive, typically violent, policing....and the highest level of imprisonment in the developed world. Which we've tried, for a long-ass time.....and has been proven not to yield positive results. But....if we just stick with it for another 50 years, surely it will work. By NO means should we treat crime as a complex outcome that has many factors and can be be addressed by multiple adjustments.
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