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2 hours ago, TwiceHorn said:

Young man yells at clouds.

It's well-said, but storm and fury likely signifying nothing.

“There’s a place in the world for the angry young man… “

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Would be funny if as soon as their federal funding is ended Havard immediately expelled every law student who's a member of any Republican affiliated club. Once you remove the funding there's no stick left. 

Obviously they wouldn't for many obvious reasons but I can chuckle at the idea. 

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8 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

Would be funny if as soon as their federal funding is ended Havard immediately expelled every law student who's a member of any Republican affiliated club. Once you remove the funding there's no stick left. 

Obviously they wouldn't for many obvious reasons but I can chuckle at the idea. 

any student whose parents are big gop figures/pols… mid semester, you’re gone. Take your ass to Cornell. 

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Hey, just letting you know that the Endangered Species Act is pretty much over as well:

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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the Services or we) are proposing to rescind the regulatory definition of “harm” in our Endangered Species Act (ESA or the Act) regulations. The existing regulatory definition of “harm,” which includes habitat modification, runs contrary to the best meaning of the statutory term “take.” We are undertaking this change to adhere to the single, best meaning of the ESA.

So, what does that mean?  In short form, it means that yes, while it's still illegal to shoot an ocelot (for example), it will now be 100% legal to pave over every single acre of their habitat, depriving them of prey, shelter, a place to live, all of that stuff.

All habitat protection per the ESA....gone.  Completely.  Do you have your eye on that tract of land where you'd like to pave it over and build a strip mall full of MAGA gear shops, but gosh, it's some of the last remaining critical habitat for an endangered species?  Well, fret no more!  Fire up the bulldozers, and scrape it to the bedrock!

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9 minutes ago, Goofyboy said:

So, fuck those salamanders in Austin??

And the golden cheeked warbler, and every other endangered species you can think of.  You can cut down the trees they live in, bulldoze the prairie, fill in the springs, whatever you want.  So long as you don't personally grab one and kill it face-to-face, all good.  Seriously, that's only slightly hyperbolic.

You can't directly kill an animal.

But you can destroy its habitat, food source, etc.....so they all die....and that's a-ok.

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Just straight up lies. If you’re a supporter and you believe this, you’re just confirming you are dumb as fuck 

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2 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

And the golden cheeked warbler, and every other endangered species you can think of.  You can cut down the trees they live in, bulldoze the prairie, fill in the springs, whatever you want.  So long as you don't personally grab one and kill it face-to-face, all good.  Seriously, that's only slightly hyperbolic.

You can't directly kill an animal.

But you can destroy its habitat, food source, etc.....so they all die....and that's a-ok.

Look, I hear you and this is awful. Unfortunately permitting extinction lands pretty far down the list after sending innocents to concentration camps, intentionally crashing the global economy, destroying the rule of law, creating a system of bribes to the President and the President’s family, and laying the groundwork to start a war with Iran. Things are bleak 

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31 minutes ago, Pancho said:

Just straight up lies. If you’re a supporter and you believe this, you’re just confirming you are dumb as fuck 

I mean if you are still his supporter at this point, of course you will believe this.

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13 hours ago, Huckleberry said:

Would be funny if as soon as their federal funding is ended Havard immediately expelled every law student who's a member of any Republican affiliated club. Once you remove the funding there's no stick left. 

Obviously they wouldn't for many obvious reasons but I can chuckle at the idea. 

Toss out the kids and relatives of any Repub lawmakers.

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8 minutes ago, Valmy77 said:

I mean if you are still his supporter at this point, of course you will believe this.

I've said it before, but what an incredible superpower to have. To be able to say literally anything you want, and it doesn't matter how ridiculous or insane or impossible it is. Tens of millions of people will go along with it. 

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1 hour ago, Pancho said:

Just straight up lies. If you’re a supporter and you believe this, you’re just confirming you are dumb as fuck 

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I dunno, maybe this is a direct result of letting them say shit like immigrants are eating cats and dogs during the campaign without any push back or fact checking 

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1 hour ago, Pig Bellmont said:

Look, I hear you and this is awful. Unfortunately permitting extinction lands pretty far down the list after sending innocents to concentration camps, intentionally crashing the global economy, destroying the rule of law, creating a system of bribes to the President and the President’s family, and laying the groundwork to start a war with Iran. Things are bleak 

I'd say hitting fast forward on the biodiversity and climate crisis is going to be a big problem for people too. It's not just going to be a bummer for those of us who like to go on a hike occasionally.

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2 hours ago, mchookem said:

reminds me of my niece! 😊

your niece is one of the hottest women on the planet with a perfect body?

i am disappointed at how much you have been holding out on us over the years.

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Trump is halfway to making America a police state

This week’s visit to the Oval Office by Nayib Bukele offered a civics lesson to the world: America’s government pays greater respect to a foreign strongman than its own Supreme Court.

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Around noon on April 14, America ceased to have a law-abiding government. Some would argue that had already happened on January 20, when Donald Trump was inaugurated.

On Monday (Tuesday AEST), however, Trump chose to ignore a 9-0 Supreme Court ruling to repatriate an illegally deported man. He even claimed the judges ruled in his favour.

Donald Trump and Nayib Bukele, El Salvador’s president, shake hands during a meeting in the Oval Office.  Bloomberg

The US president’s middle finger to the court was echoed by his attorney-general, secretary of state, vice-president and El Salvador’s vigilante president, Nayib Bukele. The latter is playing host to what resembles an embryonic US gulag.

In terms of clarifying moments, Trump’s meeting with Bukele compares with his dressing down of Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in late February. Zelensky was berated for being insufficiently thankful for US military aid and for failing to wear a suit. A tieless Bukele, by contrast, got royal treatment.

Trump’s team nodded when Bukele said he would not consider returning the wrongly deported Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia. All baselessly agreed that Garcia was, in fact, a terrorist.

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The Oval Office drama offered a civics lesson to the world: America’s government pays greater respect to a foreign strongman than its own Supreme Court.

Trump knows how to deliver gripping television. He was also making history. The official position of the world’s oldest constitutional republic is that the courts should have no say in who its executive deports and on what grounds.

‘Homegrown’ deportees

Foreign travellers to the US should beware. They can be detained without recourse. Americans should too. Trump casually told Bukele he may need to build more supermax jails for “homegrown” deportees, which means US citizens.

If Trump deems that you are a gang member, pro-terrorist, or simply anti-national, he claims impunity over your liberty. The fact that one deportee was a hairdresser, not a gang member, and another target was an innocuous op-ed writing student, not a terrorist, is no protection.

Trump’s lawyers are barely even pretending to phone it in. Evidence can be withheld on national security grounds or seemingly invented, as it was on Monday with Garcia. A government lawyer who conceded that Garcia’s deportation was mistaken was placed on administrative leave.

Should the wrong person be deported in shackles, the US can do nothing about it. That would interfere with another country’s sovereignty, they say. This is from the same administration that is demanding other countries’ territory.

El Salvador is as sovereign as Trump chooses it to be. Bukele is Trump’s hemispheric sidekick.

That the White House will not release details about its Bukele prison contract is also informative. Grift and authoritarianism go hand in hand. America’s busiest expos nowadays are those specialising in border security, drones and paramilitary gear.

“Trump has pardoned several fraudsters and embezzlers who have contributed money to his campaign or just spoken well of him.”

El Salvador is now a hotspot of shadowy vigilantism. In that respect, the US-El Salvador relationship is threatening to become two-way. Among those angling for deportation contracts are Erik Prince, the former chief executive of the mercenary group Blackwater.

The portents are also grim for US investors. On Monday, Morgan Stanley’s research arm warned they “should be prepared to be fooled many more times”.

Analysts were referring to Trump’s constantly shifting rationale for tariffs. But their point – “Fool me once, shame on you ... ” – also describes the US rule of law.

Trump has pardoned several fraudsters and embezzlers who have contributed money to his campaign or just spoken well of him. He has also suspended a law that requires an entity’s true owner to be named, and another that penalises US companies for foreign bribery.

Now he is unleashing the investigative dogs on critics. The latest targets include a former federal official, Chris Krebs, for having “falsely ... denied that the 2020 election was rigged and stolen”.

The media is also in his sights. On Sunday, Trump issued a torrent of threats against CBS for running interviews critical of him. He called on Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, to revoke the network’s broadcast licence.

The 60 Minutes interview that angered Trump was with Zelensky. Ukraine’s leader said that “Russian narratives are prevailing in the US”. That was a fair point given Trump’s reversal of culpability for Russia’s Ukraine invasion.

But Zelensky’s observation can be applied more widely.

In Russia, dissent can cost critics their business licences, liberty and even their lives. It seems a matter of time before other less besieged western legal systems hear petitions by US citizens for asylum.

 

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5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Hey, just letting you know that the Endangered Species Act is pretty much over as well:

So, what does that mean?  In short form, it means that yes, while it's still illegal to shoot an ocelot (for example), it will now be 100% legal to pave over every single acre of their habitat, depriving them of prey, shelter, a place to live, all of that stuff.

All habitat protection per the ESA....gone.  Completely.  Do you have your eye on that tract of land where you'd like to pave it over and build a strip mall full of MAGA gear shops, but gosh, it's some of the last remaining critical habitat for an endangered species?  Well, fret no more!  Fire up the bulldozers, and scrape it to the bedrock!

Well well well, might the lack of Chevron deference come into play here?

In the lower courts, for sure.  At SCOTUS hoist on its own petard?

Or maybe major questions/nondelegation?

Watching SCOTUS twist itself in knots should provide some amusement between the wailing and the gnashing of teeth.

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13 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Well well well, might the lack of Chevron deference come into play here?

Oh, the rulemaking notice specifically cited Loper Bright -- it's all about Chevron deference.

The administration has made plain its intent to gut every and all regulations, including ones that most people presume are baseline protections under the law.  They will do so by pushing far beyond even the reach of Loper Bright to do so.  

If you want a world where it's legal to bulldoze....everything....to belch....whatever chemicals you want into the air and water.....basically, to do whatever you want, ESPECIALLY if you're a billionaire....well, you're getting it.

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6 hours ago, Pancho said:

Just straight up lies. If you’re a supporter and you believe this, you’re just confirming you are dumb as fuck 

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I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

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11 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

But he sure as shit knows how his cult members work. Including all the ones with microphones and tv cameras that will repeat all this as if it were true.

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27 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

I swear to god, he doesn't know how the internet works.  He talks as if he's describing how things are on an old-time radio broadcast where he's free to tell the listeners what's happening and they can't see it or verify anything because they're thousands of miles away.

The people who do their own research definitely don't do their own research 

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On 4/15/2025 at 3:52 PM, C-Man said:

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I quoted this post because posts like this are common and they miss half the picture. Yeah people voted for turnip, and it is fair to point out that they should have known the effect fulfilling those promises would have. Just as it is fair to point out what promises he is breaking.

The other side of the coin is what Kamala’s campaign, Democrats in general, and educated citizens, like those found here, said during the campaign. They, we, said a vote for turnip was a threat to democracy, and we have 100 days of evidence that absolutely supports the rhetoric. Obviously.
 

Lewis Black said on his rant, just after the election, that voters were willing to test our theory. Political dialogue should hammer that Harris was correct, and now our Republic has fallen, unless we take it back. It takes time for people to accept things they don’t want to accept, but the process moves faster the more times reality is experienced.

(Thank God for Lewis Black’s rant shows on YouTube).

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9 minutes ago, Willfully Horn said:

I quoted this post because posts like this are common and they miss half the picture. Yeah people voted for turnip, and it is fair to point out that they should have known the effect fulfilling those promises would have. Just as it is fair to point out what promises he is breaking.

The other side of the coin is what Kamala’s campaign, Democrats in general, and educated citizens, like those found here, said during the campaign. They, we, said a vote for turnip was a threat to democracy, and we have 100 days of evidence that absolutely supports the rhetoric. Obviously.
 

Lewis Black said on his rant, just after the election, that voters were willing to test our theory. Political dialogue should hammer that Harris was correct, and now our Republic has fallen, unless we take it back. It takes time for people to accept things they don’t want to accept, but the process moves faster the more times reality is experienced.

(Thank God for Lewis Black’s rant shows on YouTube).

Somebody should make a blue hat that reads: "Kamala Was Right About Everything"

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4 minutes ago, Chuckie Finster said:

Not sure what it was about the news today specifically, but everything has officially become too much for me.

I feel you.  Sometimes the only thing that keeps me going is the prospect of making it to the Esso Station phase of this dictatorship ... 

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