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Holy fuck

This is brutal.

Video in the thread. I assume the judge will be pleased about this.

He’s had a torn larynx for 10 years? What a gamer.

Yea, that’s rough. There’s is a hell of a crawfish place in Leesville near the highway split though, so he’s got that going for him.

Outlawing ARs is possible but not probable. I think the only common ground to be found is adding hurdles to getting them. Age restrictions, licensing, etc is about as far as you’ll get the voters you need to pass anything substantial. We aren’t putting that genie back in the bottle, and there’s way too much money in the system steering politicians away from any action at all. Even with strong majority support of restrictions, plenty of politicians will steer around the issue and be protected by gerrymandering or bigger social issues driving single party voters. Our shit is broken.

Oh I’m sure. It’s a bizarre transformation for her sister. She used to be extremely strong willed, and now she’s very passive and apologetic for him. Might be age (over 50 now), kids, religious brainwashing, or all of the above. She and her husband are both college educated, both went through public schools, and now they are completely against their daughters being exposed to all of the things that they “survived.” No clue what they expect to happen when they pass and their kids are still sheltering at home.

They are definitely stunted socially, which was by design. This is being driven largely by the father. Outside of the home schooling they are big tree hugging hippies. Lots of camping and annual trips to rock crawls. They don’t lean right on much outside of sheltering their kids AFAIK. No guns, no interest military/police/law and order, etc. If I had to put money on it the religion push is more about trying to shelter his girls. I could be wrong though, we don’t talk very often. They have withdrawn more and more over the years, I think largely to avoid the awkward questions about the kids. They used to come to all our holiday get togethers and we would watch their dogs when they went on long trips. He yelled at his wife in our house during one of our holidays and my wife stepped in and gave him the not in my house speech. He’s been butt hurt ever since.

My wife’s sister homeschools her 3 daughters near Leander, mainly for religious and sheltering reasons. 1 is now 20, still at home, didn’t take any standardized tests because college wasn’t even a consideration. Middle kid is really smart, to the point that she had to attend some community college classes because the mom couldn’t keep up with the material. I would expect her to go to college despite her parents intent. Youngest is probably on the same path as the oldest. I’m sure the higher achieving home school kids gain an advantage in the right homeschooling environment based on the 1:1 teacher to student ratio and curriculum that stays on pace with the child. I don’t think we have any real insight into how bad the lower achieving kids wind up if their parents aren’t disciplined enough to push their kids, the kids have educational needs that the parents can’t provide, or the parents only cared about pushing the Bible.

I’m curious what you mean by massive layer of self-serving administration specifically. My wife has recently moved into a district level job and yes, the pay is better, but she also now works year round. One week off during the summer, and just as much after hours/weekend work when she was teaching/counseling/APing. Her office is in one of the oldest buildings in town, and she gets plenty of duties outside of her scope because they don’t have the bodies to dedicate that work to. She just broke into a 6 figure salary despite having two masters degrees for over 20 years, and she’s in her 22nd year in the district and 25+ years of experience. I talked her out of pursuing her doctorate after her second masters because there was zero return on investment. There’s no incentive to getting a doctorate in education unless you’re gunning for a board or superintendent position. I’m ignorant of AISD’s structure, but I’m curious why you think it’s a statewide issue. School boards have always struck me as more self serving, and super pay can look obscene, but when you look at the number of employees, students, facilities, budgets, etc they are managing it’s likely still underpaid wrt peers in other industries.

El Paso is a shit hole, but Bliss got a ton of money a few years ago and is really nice now. Only place I’ve seen a cigar shop on base.

This probably should have kicked off way earlier. The committee could have used it to pressure agents and staff into testifying.

Really good thread. This has been gnawing at me, and I hope the J6 attempts to connect these dots. Between Grassley’s slip about not expecting Pence to be there for the certification of the votes, Pence’s refusal to get in the car, Trump’s failure to act for 3 hours, and now this loss of texts, I think the plot is fairly understood at this point. Trump was aware that Pence was not going along with the plan, so the real plan was for the riot to force Pence to evacuate the Capitol so Grassley could certify the false electors. That’s why Trump held out as long as he did. I’m sure his lizard brain enjoyed the show, but he was really holding out for Pence to leave. My guess is a small part of the SS was in on it, and smart enough not to text in the clear about it, but the missing texts would probably expose a lot of confusion about broken protocol or finger pointing as the smart ones started putting shit together. The SS is as the thread points out, extremely aware of the protocols around cyber data even before they started getting records requests. There would be no confusion about those requests and what they required, so this data loss after the fact is is a flagrant middle finger to congress and the law. If heads don’t roll from this, we really are beyond repair.

Govt IT requires least privilege and separation of duties expressly for this scenario. Insider threat is a massive focal point for IT depts since Snowden, so layered defense has been mandatory for a while. There should be a pretty clear cut paper trail of someone requesting exceptions to policy to make this happen. This essentially can’t be negligence unless the SS has been operating well outside of govt norms for a while.

I can’t speak for the SS, but I know for DoD phones you can’t install any apps. They are completely locked down and you consent to monitoring of everything you do on that phone.

I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. I said to be in a party leadership position you have to support party pillars. Nothing Joe has done is counter to any DNC pillars. I never said he was hyper partisan or extreme in any of his positions. The things I listed aren’t extreme examples, they align with DNC party pillars. You are taking moderate out of the context I used it in. I completely agree Biden is a moderate. I said you couldn’t be moderate about a party pillar. You can’t be on the fence about being pro choice and be in DNC leadership. Same for being pro life as a Republican. You can’t avoid the answer or hem and haw about it. Hence the entire discussion about polarization and binary positions.

We had gun restrictions in 1870 too. Their vision of an unrestricted gun ownership utopia isn’t grounded in anything from the past.

Fair, but I don’t know how, at a minimum, the school police IC wouldn’t have an immediate handoff to the local PD IC. Maybe I’m underestimating school police qualifications, but I would think that local PD would be a tad more qualified with incident response and response management in general. And in an active shooter or barricaded shooter situation, why wouldn’t swat take over immediately?

Holy shit dude go back and read page 66. You’re violently agreeing with me. I completely agree that Joe Biden is completely in line with the DNC platform. Even if he wasn’t a full on blue liberal (he is), the entire OP was that to get to any party leadership position, you can’t be on the fence (moderate) about any party pillars. Joe Manchin is the example of what I’m saying. You can’t hedge on either side, and it drives things towards binary, polarized positions. We don’t have blue dog democrats or country club republicans anymore. They can’t exist in our current hyper partisan reality.

I don’t know where you or BLKNSTY interpreted what I said meant anything radical or extreme. I said you couldn’t be in party leadership if you don’t support the party pillars. Joe electing a black woman is totally in line with the DNC platform. The two party system forces both sides to align more and more to rigid pillars, and that purity test is now moving down to the rank and file party members.

What pillar was Joe Biden the candidate a moderate on exactly? He promised to get rid of student debt, elect a black woman to the SC, kill fossil fuels, yada yada. He’s being crushed by the left for not eliminating student debt, and the majority of the party doesn’t want him to run again. It’s largely impossible to be a moderate in any party leadership position, and absolutely impossible on the right.

The 2 party system drives everyone to passing purity tests. You can’t be moderate on a party pillar and expect to have any serious influence on that party. It also discourages minority party engagement in red or blue states because it’s becoming an all or nothing game. At least in a parliamentary system there is some level of compromise. Our shit is broken and only getting worse, the SC is going to ensure that.

Lesser evil is still evil. Both parties gerrymander, both have people that go straight party ticket. I agree that the issue is worse on one side of the aisle, but the two party system is the biggest problem. It makes issues binary, zero room for compromise. Congress no longer functions as a body, and now the judiciary has been fully compromised.

Political parties are the problem. They are driving the gerrymandering that leads to MTG, Bobert, etc. They nullify impeachment, inability to pass bipartisan legislation, etc.

For the law dogs: do criminal statues like witness tampering apply to congressional hearing? I know Cheney said they referred it to the DoJ, but I thought these hearings had different (non criminal) rules? Is there a tampering with a congressional witness statue or rule as well?