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Brisketexan

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  1. Oh, that reminds me. A decision that just came down from the 5th Circuit, considering nearly the exact same legal issues. Spoiler: when the kid is from a country/has a parent from a country that the current Regime hates....well, it's just fine so ship him back. Amazing how the "principles" of the conservative movement aren't principles at all: Brito Guevara v. Francisco Castro No. 24-10520 https://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/24/24-10520-CV0.pdf Oral Argument Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIY57lB5Eyg Before RICHMAN, WILLETT, and DOUGLAS, Circuit Judges. REVERSED and REMANDED. (June 2, 2025). Judge DOUGLAS dissented. When A.F. was five years old, her mother, Samantha Estefania Francisco Castro, removed her from the lawful custody of her father, Jose Leonardo Brito Guevara, in Venezuela and then illegally immigrated with A.F. to the United States. Brito petitioned for A.F.’s return under the Hague Convention on Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. The District Court denied the petition, finding that although Brito had established a prima facie case of wrongful removal, A.F. was now well-settled in Texas. Brito appealed. A panel majority of the Fifth Circuit is not persuaded that A.F. had formed such deep or enduring ties to her new environment that returning to her home in Venezuela would contravene her best interests. Explaining that making this decision is neither easy nor without sorrow, the majority reasons that A.F.'s young age, the instability of her residence and her mother's employment, and the uncertain immigration status of both A.F. and her mother weigh against a finding that A.F. was well-settled in the United States. Emphasizing that its ruling accords with the Hague Convention's core objective, namely to restore the pre-abduction status quo and deter parents from seeking more favorable Courts across borders, the Fifth Circuit reverses the District Court's decision, renders judgment in favor of Brito, and remands the case to the District Court with instructions that it enter an order directing A.F.'s return to Venezuela. A dissenting Judge charges the majority opinion with reweighing evidence and failing to provide proper deference to the District Court’s findings. The dissenting opinion emphasizes that A.F. has formed significant connections in Texas and that the District Court’s findings on her well-settled status were not clearly erroneous. _____________________ For the record, I believe this is likely the correct decision under the law. Just like I thought the court decisions to return Elian Gonzalez were correct under the law. Because I - unlike any MAGAts - actually believe in the Rule of Law, and its objective application to the facts. MAGAts, on the other hand, are entirely outcome-based, with zero guiding principles and no adherence to the Rule of Law.
  2. A lovely dish of braised human flesh deserves the best.
  3. Well, I mean.....there's obtaining the right cuts of meat, the prep, setting up the right mise en place.... ....then the kitchen cleanup, washing dishes, etc. All-in-all, I'd guess that his percentage of actual cannibalism-focused activity time was closer to 5% of his time. So, a real number. Anything worth doing is worth doing right.
  4. That's what you get for . . . checks notes . . . having the temerity to exist in the same country as an operating Gestapo.
  5. ....every one of which has been used to generate AI porn of said character. Some of which is AI-generated porn using ALL of those characters. Elsa on the couch surrounded by Minions while Darth Vader gives her the light-saber treatment gets a LOT of hits. Or at least that's what @MissingInAction told me.
  6. Descending into a fascist hellscape will do that to a people. Believe me, most of us long for a time when we could forget, for months at a time, that we even had a president, and we could focus on what was important: the college sports program choices made by immature, showboating 18 year olds, women with particularly admirable chestal areas, and muledick.
  7. Groovy how the flooding rains seem to have said "fuck this part of Liberty County in particular."
  8. 99% of the time, cops weren't purposefully aiming at and shooting reporters who were simply filming and recording an event. See how easy this is? What makes it even better is that MAGA has higher standards of behavior that they impose on . . . actual criminals . . . than they impose on law enforcement and government officials who 1) work for We the People and 2) swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. That's really all you need to know about MAGAts. Me? I say that we should impose legal consequences on EVERYONE who violates the law or constitution. Wouldn't that be a cool deal? Instead.....the Regime pardons anyone who violates the law or constitution in service of the Regime's ideals (or who pays the Dear Leader lots of money). But, you know, "LAW AND ORDER!"
  9. Do you know the top way to avoid being beaten by your rapist? Just don't resist, and let him rape you, as he threatens to kill you if you resist. It is undeniably effective. So, really, any person who is beaten by their rapist because they resist is responsible for the ensuing assault/murder. If only the victim simply assented to the violent blackmail of their assailant, most of the risk of violent outcomes could be avoided. And if we really want to get down to it, it's the victim's fault anyway, what with her looking all sexy and not giving it up for her assailant when he demanded it and said "I should be able to get laid too," even though he has very little to offer. Duh.
  10. It's because they are stupid and bad at math: Bottom line, while any large city will have crime and homicides, they are 1) mostly localized (stay out of the wrong 20 block area, and your chance of being involved in a homicide drop 90%), and 2) they are mostly tied to other criminal activity (avoid being part of a drug deal, and you won't get shot in a "drug deal gone wrong"), and 3) even if you don't adjust for those things, you are materially more likely to die from gun violence in a rural area than in a metro area.
  11. See, folks....when you see images of protesters NOT being violent, that's propaganda. When you see images of protesters being violent, that's what's really happening. Just making it clear for those of you who don't live in Chicken Sandwich land.
  12. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    The left's shit IS squared away, if you look at two determinative issues: 1) Believe that we should continue to have a Republic instead of an autocratic Monarchy, subject to no checks, balances, or laws. 2) Believe in baseline human rights and treating human beings like human beings. Everything else is secondary, because without those two things, not a single other thing fucking matters. Funny thing is, I grew up and voted mostly "conservative" because I (apparently mistakenly) believed those were core values of conservative political thought. Those are, were, and always have been pretty foundational points for me, and I've never deviated from them. Imagine what today's "conservatives" reaction would be to namby-pamby shit like this: That pussy-ass RINO would be run out of today's "conservative" party before the evening's Hannity show was over. America doesn't have a conservative party any longer. It has a fascist, xenophobic, authoritarian party. Those are its sole bedrock values. And as long as they are, it must be opposed as we have opposed such movements in the past. My grandfather shot fascists in the face. The least I can do is vote against them every fucking chance I get.
  13. In case there was any cause for confusion, let's clarify the reason for this policy choice. Check the majority of CEOs etc. against this handy-dandy policy chart: Now check the majority of undocumented laborers against that same handy-dandy policy chart: I think we're done here.
  14. Brisketexan

    LBGTQ

    Goddamn I'm old. Jon Tigar's dad was one of my law school profs.
  15. I said it on another thread, but it certainly goes here: any MAGAs lecturing society on "alpha males" and such shit is a fucking joke, because there are only two types of men in MAGAland: 1) Donald Trump, and 2) men who are cucks and simps for Donald Trump. What a pathetic little beta bitch Elon Musk is. Not a single person in his world or Trump's orbit has a non-gelatinous spine and an ounce of willingness to stand tall, strong, and independent of/in opposition to Trump. They all drop to their knees to gobble the orange knob. Every. Single. One of them. PATHETIC. And the MAGAts worship them as "alphas." PATHETIC.
  16. Maybe take a split second to verify and digest what you're posting. I'm clearly no cop-defender or friend of the fascists, but he video shows the cops hitting a windshield that is ALREADY broken and not usable due to all the cracking. Their blows are clearing out that already broken glass. I've had to do that to a broken windshield before myself, so we could limp the car home - you can't see with the busted windshield in place, so you knock it out so you can see to drive the car away. The bolded is the giant hole that the right never, ever, ever, explains. Want to shut down illegal immigrants coming here/being here to work? Arrest their employers. Throw 4-5 CEOs who hire illegals into federal prison for a coupla years, and those jobs will go "poof" in an instant. Yet....it doesn't happen. Hmm, I wonder why that is? Could it be that it's politically expedient to demonize dirty brown people to create an "other" to hate, and this actually has NOTHING to do with enforcing immigration laws and policies? Gosh, I wonder....
  17. Kept me warm.
  18. This is correct. And expected. People keep thinking "well....sure, THAT institution totally failed, but THIS institution will save us!" And every time, they are wrong. I told y'all how this sort of thing ends. Always. 100% of the time. That's where we're headed. It's stupid, it's awful, and we the American people will be the ones who pay the ultimate price....but it's where we're going, at breakneck speed.
  19. Also rain. And shadows. And dirt. But other than that, it's unstoppable.
  20. Excellent. Take it to a full jury trial.
  21. TLDR version: to get a meaningful positive change, it's going to take what it almost always takes....a tropical system to meander into the hill country and then park in the right place.
  22. welcome to the party pal gif.
  23. Spout idiocy incessantly and have a stumpy mushroom dick -- DJT
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