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On 11/23/2024 at 2:25 AM, InkaUtexas said:

I have been to Paducah so this hits close. Did you know they have the World Quilt Museum or something like that? Oh, and an old ass reactor.

Been to Paducah? 

Pshaw, I lived in a tiny town about 20 miles away for a couple years.  Paducah and Murray, KY were the big cities for me.  

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3 hours ago, GenXer said:

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I figured doctors would be leaving states that are embracing christofascism. Appears to be the case.

Too many screenshots so here’s the article

Heard that on NPR a few months ago... OB doctors and nurses are leaving states with strict abortion bans.

I'd be interested in tracking the life expectancy between those living in red and blue states starting from now. I wager the people living in blue states live longer.

 

 

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10 hours ago, GenXer said:

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Yeah. You and your conspiracy of dunces should’ve done your own research.

 

I have this conversation too much, and where they usually end up is similar to when I explained why the 2001, 2003 & 2017 tax cuts could not ever pay for themselves: in general they shrug it off and continue to vote for their team. 
only this, unlike the deficits, will touch them personally. 
That said- the national dynamic looks a lot like Texas now, and I suspect the GOP will trick Democrats into standing in the line of fire when the voters are looking for someone to blame. 

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10 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

hello Docs fleeing red states:  San Diego is pretty great, and I will be happy to find you the perfect house. 

Bookmarked.  Not in a red state anymore (thank god) but wife and I have been talking about moving to SD  in a few years as I transition out of medicine  or if things get trumpier in VA. 

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I gotta hand it to those Republicans.

Never in a million years would I have thought you could throw America into reverse and outlaw women voting, equal rights for minorities, porn, and renewable energy while mandating repatriation and deportation and child labor. 

These guys think big, and get it done!

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23 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Thank god ive stockpiled mezcal for the last 7 yeaes

 

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Ballgame

Honestly, on the list of the most shocking and surprising things I've seen on this website this is definitely top 10

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1 hour ago, Bullneck said:

I gotta hand it to those Republicans.

Never in a million years would I have thought you could throw America into reverse and outlaw women voting, equal rights for minorities, porn, and renewable energy while mandating repatriation and deportation and child labor. 

These guys think big, and get it done!

Remember the Muslim terror pandemonium?  Just a few short years later, the R’s wanna turn America into today’s Afghanistan.  Mind boggling.  

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55 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

f a court isn't regularly issuing rulings with a thought of "I really don't like this outcome, and really don't want to do this, but following the law and precedent, it's what I have to do," then it isn't a real court.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a real court.

I've been a practicing attorney for decades....and I never thought I would say that, but here we are.

But I’m not sure this is limited to the supremes. What has happened to the Supreme Court seems the natural endpoint of what has happened to lawyers.
With sincerely great respect and reverence towards your profession, what I see is practitioners of law not protecting the very thing that pays their bills, hiding behind their “first duty to the client” to the exclusion of the most basic ethics while the tragedy of the commons plays out on a grand scale. Not you, obviously, but I don’t understand why there’s not more alarm. 

If the system doesn’t appear to be legitimate anymore (and it doesn’t), people will return to their original modes of settling things. And for that we don’t need lawyers. 

1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Thank god ive stockpiled mezcal for the last 7 yeaes

 

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This is a man with vision.

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13 minutes ago, ChiTownDoc said:

Remember the Muslim terror pandemonium?  Just a few short years later, the R’s wanna turn America into today’s Afghanistan.  Mind boggling.  

No, no - tooooootally different. Here, it's going to be Christians running things - but doing the exact same shit ... so, uhhh ...

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I mean nobody saw this coming.

Auto insurance costs poised for further rises with Trump tariffs

https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/business-news/auto-insurance-costs-poised-for-further-rises-with-trump-tariffs-515647.aspx?hsmemberId=1024080&tu=55D7E01A-A2EE-4DD3-8B33-867AD97B08C1&utm_campaign=&utm_medium=20241127&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_z6Dsvv-emwjYmGpEgyy8Z0QCqpU8sPp9SCW_yGisEOehpkJVFAhuNQalv3kj8Q9zRLS5fMq4zL_oRoPVUqP12505nm0O1g1zR7PNXe4JHAhvAHfs&_hsmi=335918526&utm_content=55D7E01A-A2EE-4DD3-8B33-867AD97B08C1&utm_source=

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Auto insurance is poised to become even more expensive under President-elect Donald Trump’s plan to impose new tariffs on top US trading partners.

About 60% of replacement parts used to repair cars in the US are imported, mainly from Mexico, China and Canada, said Bob Passmore, a vice president for the American Property Casualty Insurance Association. New tariffs would increase the cost of parts, which account for about 40% of the average total repair bills borne by insurers, and would prompt them to eventually increase rates, he said.

“A broad tariff on auto parts would create a problem — it would definitely have an impact,” Passmore said in an interview. “Ultimately, the cost of claims is the primary driver of what we pay for our insurance.”

Trump announced Monday that he would impose additional tariffs of 10% on goods from China and 25% on all products from Mexico and Canada. Such levies would dash consumer hopes for a stabilization in car insurance premiums amid lower insurance losses this year, after several years of increased pricing. 

In 2023, the average premium jumped about 20% on average, according to the Insurance Information Institute.

“We’ve dealt with inflation in auto parts and skilled labor since the supply-chain tightening during Covid,” said Jerry Theodorou, director of the finance, insurance and trade policy program for R Street Institute, a nonprofit public-policy research organization. Those subcomponents of inflation have abated only recently, he added.

Ripple effects from potential tariffs could weigh even more on the budgets of car owners, as longer repair times may force them to rent vehicles.

“Sometimes, a lot people don’t carry rental-reimbursement coverage, and so they pay from those out of their own pocket,” Passmore said.

To soften the blow to consumers, the US could seek alternative supply-chain options, potentially in Brazil or Ecuador, though it will take time to compensate for the lost business with China and Mexico, according to Theodorou.

Still, it remains to be seen whether Trump will eventually follow through on his threats.

“We need to distinguish between rhetoric and reality,” Theodorou said. “Trump was unpredictable in his first administration.”

Trump’s transition team didn’t reply to a message seeking comment.

 

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1 hour ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Thank god ive stockpiled mezcal for the last 7 yeaes

 

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Are you sure you're not a Mexican nightclub?

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11 minutes ago, C-Man said:

Yep.

See, the dumbasses who voted for him think that Trump is going to serve up a tailored, single serving of fuckery, aimed only at the people they hate.  What they are too fucking stupid to realize is that Trumpery is a massive layer cake of fuckery, "at levels no one has ever seen before."

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Eat up, Trumpers.  Oh, and when you dig in, enjoy -- that isn't icing between the layers, it's pure spreadable shit.  DIG IN.

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47 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

But I’m not sure this is limited to the supremes. What has happened to the Supreme Court seems the natural endpoint of what has happened to lawyers.
With sincerely great respect and reverence towards your profession, what I see is practitioners of law not protecting the very thing that pays their bills, hiding behind their “first duty to the client” to the exclusion of the most basic ethics while the tragedy of the commons plays out on a grand scale. Not you, obviously, but I don’t understand why there’s not more alarm. 

If the system doesn’t appear to be legitimate anymore (and it doesn’t), people will return to their original modes of settling things. And for that we don’t need lawyers. 

This is a man with vision.

I think there's certainly some problems with lawyers letting their duties to their clients overwhelm their other duties, but I don't really think that's the source of the problem. I think the source of the problem is basically the same liberal capitulation in legal academia that we've seen in politics. And I don't mean "liberal" in the sense of left-of-center politically, I mean it in the sense of liberalism.  

Right wing careerist assholes and dipshits lavishly funded by billionaires began laundering clearly bullshit legal theories that were fundamentally opposed to a liberal order into legal academia several decades ago now, and liberal academia (and increasingly as time went on, the courts) treated those theories as, and those who proffered them in, good faith rather than for what they were: a virus. 

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2 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Perfect post.

It's entirely results-oriented Calvinball now.  Bruen is the single worst-reasoned decision from SCOTUS I've ever read.  It's a perfect mix of idiocy and jaw-dropping dishonesty, and it 100% means what it said -- Thomas reiterated that point.  It elevated the Second Amendment above the entire rest of the Constitution, and formalized a method of "Constitutional Interpretation" that is complete nonsense, a recipe for disingenuous bullshit, and we've already seen that recipe followed.  Rahimi didn't save shit.  It's a band-aid on an era of SCOTUS that is going to make Dred Scott look like a work of genius in comparison.

This is what the Federalist Society wants: a Court that does what it wants, whenever it wants, employing only the "guiding principles" that conveniently allow for the "whatever we want, whenever we want" outcome.

If a court isn't regularly issuing rulings with a thought of "I really don't like this outcome, and really don't want to do this, but following the law and precedent, it's what I have to do," then it isn't a real court.

The Supreme Court of the United States is no longer a real court.

I've been a practicing attorney for decades....and I never thought I would say that, but here we are.

Me verbatim with my attorney friends.  It's also trickling down to the inferior courts at the District/ Bankruptcy Courts where I practice.  It's not yet pervasive, and I still believe the majority of jurists hew to the Rule of Law.  But in the past it seemed like the judges who backed into their opinions were less frequently encoutntered than they are today.  The bold displays of "fuck the law, I am the law," usually couched in more refined langauge, coming from the bench seem more frequent.  While I've always recognized human frailties are to be encountered everywhere there are humans, those frailties were were less often encountered in the courtroom.  It is...disappointing.  

 

 

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Just now, wildcat09 said:

I think there's certainly some problems with lawyers letting their duties to their clients overwhelm their other duties, but I don't really think that's the source of the problem. I think the source of the problem is basically the same liberal capitulation in legal academia that we've seen in politics. And I don't mean "liberal" in the sense of left-of-center politically, I mean it in the sense of liberalism.  

Right wing careerist assholes and dipshits lavishly funded by billionaires began laundering clearly bullshit legal theories that were fundamentally opposed to a liberal order into legal academia several decades ago now, and liberal academia (and increasingly as time went on, the courts) treated those theories as, and those who proffered them in, good faith rather than for what they were: a virus. 

Generally agreed.

As tends to happen with beneficial things that liberals do on a small scale, like manufacture test cases to create/expand civil rights, conservatives have turned things on their head and doubled down, and been extremely effective at it.

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10 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

Yep.

See, the dumbasses who voted for him think that Trump is going to serve up a tailored, single serving of fuckery, aimed only at the people they hate.  What they are too fucking stupid to realize is that Trumpery is a massive layer cake of fuckery, "at levels no one has ever seen before."

AUG19-southern-style-layer-cake-north-ca

 

Eat up, Trumpers.  Oh, and when you dig in, enjoy -- that isn't icing between the layers, it's pure spreadable shit.  DIG IN.

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Trump voter: 'He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting'

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trump-voter-hes-not-hurting-the-people-he-needs-be-hurting-msna1181316

There's going to be a lot of this.  Which would be great, as I've said.  If only the rest of us who could foresee the fucking around didn't have to ride along with the finding out.  

 

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2 minutes ago, Chad Fuck said:

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There's going to be a lot of this.  Which would be great, as I've said.  If only the rest of us who could foresee the fucking around didn't have to ride along with the finding out.  

 

Yep.  It was always that.  That has always been the philosophy behind the far right bullshit (see Pat Buchanan), but they found a truly god-like figure in an actual pathological narcissist who not only doesn't care who he hurts, he thinks that causing pain is a display of power, which feeds his unquenchable ego.  He thinks that causing pain is power, and having power will fill the void inside him, but nothing can fill that void, so the only thing to do is inflict more pain.

It could not be more obvious if it was a 10,000 mile wide neon sign in orbit around the earth for all to see.....but here we are.  People refuse to see the obvious, and make a hate-filled man the avatar for THEIR hate, disregarding the obviously erratic and universal nature of the hate their avatar will express.  Just fucking dumb.  But "just fucking dumb" is who we fucking are now and who we have steadfastly decided to be, so buckle up.

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1 hour ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

But I’m not sure this is limited to the supremes. What has happened to the Supreme Court seems the natural endpoint of what has happened to lawyers.
With sincerely great respect and reverence towards your profession, what I see is practitioners of law not protecting the very thing that pays their bills, hiding behind their “first duty to the client” to the exclusion of the most basic ethics while the tragedy of the commons plays out on a grand scale. Not you, obviously, but I don’t understand why there’s not more alarm. 

If the system doesn’t appear to be legitimate anymore (and it doesn’t), people will return to their original modes of settling things. And for that we don’t need lawyers. 

This is a man with vision.

Double vision at least. 

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3 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

around the earth

I guess the earth doesn’t have to be spheroid for a sign to orbit around it, but you might want to edit that to above the earth to reflect the other reality which we’ve just voted into power. 

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

I guess the earth doesn’t have to be spheroid for a sign to orbit around it, but you might want to edit that to above the earth to reflect the other reality which we’ve just voted into power. 

Well, yeah.  And it would be placed up there by the chemtrail crews, after they finish their chemtrailing for the day.

Duh.

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I think that the ultra-upper class is convinced the way forward is with less humans, way way less humans.  They dream of the world as basically a huge theme park and only want enough minions around to keep the park secure, tidy and running.  The less humans, the more food, the less consumption of natural resources, less trash, etc, and after 100 years like that the earth is reset into some idyllic place.  

The fastest way there would be nuciear, but that would be too damaging to the planet and leave lingering radiation.  The next fastest would be to go for global economic collapse leading to something akin to Mad Max.  And those bands can be taken out in time.   

This thought was put into my head by a guy who used to be pretty liberal and now is full blown Trumpkin thanks to Q-anon.   He might have this one right, which would be the first one ever.  But it does make sense.  And it's doable to a certain degree, especially if you can pull it off Wizard of Oz style, so no one ever sees it coming until it's here.  What would be your first move if you were them?  Pit the lower classes against each other?

 

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13 minutes ago, pyrohornIII said:

I think that the ultra-upper class is convinced the way forward is with less humans, way way less humans.  They dream of the world as basically a huge theme park and only want enough minions around to keep the park secure, tidy and running.  The less humans, the more food, the less consumption of natural resources, less trash, etc, and after 100 years like that the earth is reset into some idyllic place.  

The fastest way there would be nuciear, but that would be too damaging to the planet and leave lingering radiation.  The next fastest would be to go for global economic collapse leading to something akin to Mad Max.  And those bands can be taken out in time.   

This thought was put into my head by a guy who used to be pretty liberal and now is full blown Trumpkin thanks to Q-anon.   He might have this one right, which would be the first one ever.  But it does make sense.  And it's doable to a certain degree, especially if you can pull it off Wizard of Oz style, so no one ever sees it coming until it's here.  What would be your first move if you were them?  Pit the lower classes against each other?

 

The last line.  Lol

Pitting the lower classes against eachother is a tradition as old as time.  

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1 hour ago, Brisketexan said:

This is what many of us (lawyers) have been saying, dude.

What I'll suggest to you is that the legal profession is no more or less immune to the greater decay that is wrecking our society as a whole.  The vast majority of attorneys are not just practicing in an ethical way that reflects their position as officers of the court, but most are also sounding the alarm, speaking as to the importance of the rule of law, and the like.  But like any other element of society/the social order, it only takes a relatively low percentage of turds in the punchbowl to turn the whole thing into a bowl of shitpunch.  There's always a bad actor here and there, in every facet of society.  But so long as that element is a manageably low number, the system works.  Once that element builds and hits a critical mass......it's shitpunch.

None of our systems -- not a single one -- are equipped to handle a critical mass of people simply opting out of the social contract.  That's all that EVERYTHING is -- our legal system, economic system and transactions, social dynamics, all of it -- it's just an agreement.  A handshake deal.  I'll sell you a widget with a price of $10, you pay me $10.  I won't run a red light to kill you or me, I get to go through the intersection on green.  When that breaks down, it is a total breakdown, across all systems.  You are correct - we are experiencing a tragedy of the commons playing out on a grand scale.

Agreed, and incidentally many of the forces at work got loose in corporate America at the boardroom level a couple of decades ago, which is how the obsessive focus on maximizing shareholder value ultimately destroyed quite a lot of shareholder value a few years later. And now a lot of those behaviors have gone away, and there are a whole new set of bad ones that the market punish in due time. 
So I'm not trying to give everyone else a pass or assert that the legal profession is uniquely in crisis. However,  I'm just a tradesman, and so is every business person in America. The market is not fair and is not fast, but ultimately it will correct behavior that isn't profitable, productive or sustainable. Business people are subject to the law, and to regulation, but are ultimately subject to the market, whether they like it or not. I do believe that lawyers, on the other hand, have a unique obligation that comes with admission, because the law itself is an alternative to extrinsic forces and individual action/ 

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12 minutes ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Agreed, and incidentally many of the forces at work got loose in corporate America at the boardroom level a couple of decades ago, which is how the obsessive focus on maximizing shareholder value ultimately destroyed quite a lot of shareholder value a few years later. And now a lot of those behaviors have gone away, and there are a whole new set of bad ones that the market punish in due time. 
So I'm not trying to give everyone else a pass or assert that the legal profession is uniquely in crisis. However,  I'm just a tradesman, and so is every business person in America. The market is not fair and is not fast, but ultimately it will correct behavior that isn't profitable, productive or sustainable. Business people are subject to the law, and to regulation, but are ultimately subject to the market, whether they like it or not. I do believe that lawyers, on the other hand, have a unique obligation that comes with admission, because the law itself is an alternative to extrinsic forces and individual action/ 

Hence I’m not on the ledge.  Trump will fuck those who voted for him harder than those who didn’t in many, if not most, instances.  

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14 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Yep.

See, the dumbasses who voted for him think that Trump is going to serve up a tailored, single serving of fuckery, aimed only at the people they hate.  What they are too fucking stupid to realize is that Trumpery is a massive layer cake of fuckery, "at levels no one has ever seen before."

AUG19-southern-style-layer-cake-north-ca

 

Eat up, Trumpers.  Oh, and when you dig in, enjoy -- that isn't icing between the layers, it's pure spreadable shit.  DIG IN.

Pretty sure one of dotard's campaign promises was cutting insurance premiums in half.

 

13 hours ago, pyrohornIII said:

I think that the ultra-upper class is convinced the way forward is with less humans, way way less humans.  They dream of the world as basically a huge theme park and only want enough minions around to keep the park secure, tidy and running.  The less humans, the more food, the less consumption of natural resources, less trash, etc, and after 100 years like that the earth is reset into some idyllic place.  

The fastest way there would be nuciear, but that would be too damaging to the planet and leave lingering radiation.  The next fastest would be to go for global economic collapse leading to something akin to Mad Max.  And those bands can be taken out in time.   

This thought was put into my head by a guy who used to be pretty liberal and now is full blown Trumpkin thanks to Q-anon.   He might have this one right, which would be the first one ever.  But it does make sense.  And it's doable to a certain degree, especially if you can pull it off Wizard of Oz style, so no one ever sees it coming until it's here.  What would be your first move if you were them?  Pit the lower classes against each other?

 

So why are Elon and every other economist out there saying we're not producing enough babies in the US? They know the only way for the US to continue to grow GDP is to have more people fueling the economy. They don't like the "imported" people even though they're the most cost-efficient and can be abused more.

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1 minute ago, GreenspointTexas said:

When the machine breaks down, we break down. And i aint gonna allow that

And if you fuck up in a firefight, I guaran-gotdamn-tee you a trip out of the bush.  In a bodybag!

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4 minutes ago, Ojo Rojo said:

And if you fuck up in a firefight, I guaran-gotdamn-tee you a trip out of the bush.  In a bodybag!

Body bags? Ain't gonna be no money left for body bags. You are worm castings for future generations to grow trees on.

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