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Ghost of LL

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  1. Wait, what?
  2. If that GDP number is right, then yes. And it would probably indicate that we're on the eve of a revolution.
  3. If that were true, then we'd have a real fucking problem with this economy. You'd be telling me that at a time when the economy grew by nearly 5%, it didn't create a single new job and payrolls remained flat. You'd be telling me that pretty much every dime of that increased economic activity went to . . . not anybody with a job or looking for one. IF that were true, then you'd have a real structural problem on your hands.
  4. Imagine being so poor that you're this jazzed about a domestic flight in First.
  5. Eh--man up and slap some penicillin on it.
  6. People need to stop saying that. We should all hope to the very core of our beings that Trump lives out his term for exactly one reason: 2028. A mentally declining Donald Trump will be little more than his malignant narcissism. People may explain to him why he can't have a third term and that he has to smooth the transition to a new Republican standard-bearer, . . . but this is Donald Trump we're talking about. The notion that the Republican Party--much less the United States--could move on without him is more than he can possibly bear. There is simply no way he can gracefully hand over the Party and his support to someone else. So starting in 2027, and in ways small and large, he will undermine and diminish whoever is leading the Repubican primary--essentially trying to position himself as the only only possible nominee. If it comes down to a contest between Cruz and Vance, for instance, he will switch his supposed support at least a dozen times. Someone will come into the Convention with enough delegates to secure the nomination, but it probably won't happen until late. And even then, it will be after a bitter primary contest. And even after someone gets the nomination, Trump will subtly (and not so subtly) undermine the nominee. Until somewhere around October 10 he'll drop the idea that people ought to write him in. And a bunch of his idiot supporters will. It won't be a huge number. But it will be enough to make a material difference in anything approaching a swing state. And ultimately, that's what Trump wants. He wants to be the last Republican president. Because the notion that the party can exist without him is noxious to his ego.
  7. Nah--this won't get to SCOTUS anytime soon. By the time it gets to the, it'll be the Newsom Administration's problem.
  8. And I'm going to tell you--the measure of the compensation due is really interesting for those of us who do this kind of work. The government is aboslutely going to argue that the loss is just the value of the lease, which is to say the lease payments that the lessor doesn't have to make. The problem with that is that the government is depriving businesses of the entire value of the business. And there is a (somewhat obscure) line of cases starting with Kimball Laundry, which holds that when a taking results in the elimination of a going concern, the just compensation is the going-concern value of the business. When we're talking about a wind farm, that's going to be in the billions. So congratulations, Mr. and Mrs. Taxpayer--the Trump Administration not only deprived you of a bunch of government revenue, but is going to cost the government billions in takings liability.
  9. I agree. When the enemy has boarded the ship and you have no hope of retaining control, you scuttle her.
  10. I am. And I happen to be a lawyer who does a lot of takings work. And it is a taking.
  11. Aggy roller coaster was late in arriving, but boy did it.
  12. But but but but—I thought Kyle Field was an impenetrable home field advantage. Was I misled?
  13. Jesus, finally.
  14. This is the worst football game I have ever seen, and I can’t forgive the committee for doing this to us.
  15. I also just realized how focused he is on Texas. He’s so perfect for aggy.
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