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Todd Gack

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  1. Really just that they have not explicitly done that to date. Miller/Rubio/Bondi all go through the trouble of lying about the 9-0 court result, lying about the criminality of Abrego-Garcia, lying about the fact that our government is helpless in bringing him back. They have not said, in simple terms, that the executive is above the courts in all matters related to deportation. Just that the courts cannot direct the executive on how to conduct foreign policy. And now that I've typed this, it really seems like it's distinction without difference. So yeah... we are proper fucked.
  2. All of this makes perfect sense and I'd not entertain the idea in a sane world. But I don't put it past the administration to draft a brand new type of agreement that precludes the signee from disclosing anything to any judge/court "due to national security concerns" or some such bullshit. And even if it's not enforceable and is deemed legally void, the message sent is clear: shut the fuck up and go live your life in the shadows or we will dead you. After today's unanimous ruling, it seems like trump really has no off ramp on this issue, aside from telling all the courts to go fuck themselves and throwing everything even further into chaos. I guess then we'll see how deep this black hole really goes.
  3. Dumb question amnesty... Would it be legal to bring this guy back on the condition that he signs an NDA? Blame the "activist judges" for forcing us to bring back a dangerous gang member criminal, put him in protective custody with his family and have some ICE goons threaten to disappear him again if he talks. It's a way for trump to take an L without losing his narrative and maybe he gets lucky and this guy's story never gets out.
  4. I think you can be at the lowest elevation in an isolated area adjacent to a floodplain and still be out of the floodplain. There would just need to be a breakline of sorts between the 100-yr floodplain and your area/subdivision. The one thing that might've boned you is there may have been a LOMR (letter of map revision) in review at the time you checked the FEMA flood maps, and said LOMR might've shifted the floodplain due to surrounding developments. Hard to know for sure what happened without lots more details. But as a general rule, if you want to buy land anywhere close to a floodplain and you notice new developments being built in the area, it's very hard to trust the publicly available flood maps as being the most current.
  5. I don't think it's nuance as much as people are trying to make sense of the potential logistics of it all. So you're stopped on the street, put in cuffs, and stuffed into a van. After that, I assume you're blindfolded and either taken to a random holding facility or straight to the airport. Is it there where someone tells you "I hope you told your family you loved them this morning because you'll never see them again. You're going to a South American torture prison where you will eventually die." Or do they take a page from the family separators at the border and lie the way ICE told parents that their kids would be returned to them after a medical evaluation? I'm not sure what exactly is gained from this clarification, but it's a mind-boggling series of events that we're witnessing and will likely need to explain to our kids someday.
  6. yeah that's the Reddit consensus I saw for a low recoil starter handgun. Wife who has never even touched a gun will need something almost toy-like to learn. And the shotgun is def on the list. Hunter buddies have been telling me that for years - pistol-grip shotgun with buckshot for general home defense.
  7. Prolly should be a separate thread, but what type of "arms" should a person who knows fuck-all about guns (me) look to invest in? Fired my first non-pellet gun at a range during my bachelor party about 8 years ago. Wife will be a hard sell to keep them in the house, but desperate times...
  8. "Nazi Barbie" in the comments pretty much sums it up
  9. Indeed it is. Another fun fact... did you know Dustin Hoffman was in Star Wars?
  10. Super PAC is my understanding http://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-america-pac-trump-d248547966bf9c6daf6f5d332bc4be66
  11. since Moore is coming back, I'll guess Vasek. As long as fuckface venebles doesn't poach him, I think we'll cope
  12. Speaking as a dad of two little ones, seeing a sandy hook once PER WEEK would be enough to just keep my kids home indefinitely. I imagine millions of parents would do the same, work be damned.... which would effectively grind the economy to a halt. And then maybe the oligarchs who don't give a shit about guns would pressure our elected officials to tell the pseudo-oligarchs who only care about guns to fuck off and pass gun control legislation. So in general I agree with you, but I think the threshold we need to reach is not as far off from present reality.
  13. At present, he's still a sooner so he sucks balls. but if he leaves, how good is he?
  14. Kakistocracy A kakistocracy (/kækɪˈstɒkrəsi/, /kækɪsˈtɒ-/) is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens.
  15. Democrats gonna democrat. They let fear guide their decisions on this, per usual. Can't give a Palestine sympathizer any speaking time for fear that they'll say fuck the prompter and go off-script. That might hurt the goals of raising $1B to run ads pandering to Liz Cheney's friends.
  16. I think/hope that the Brisket's on this board aren't actively cheering for the extermination of innocent people to teach a lesson to some Americans who voted against the best interests of said innocents. I think it's more an attitude of "this extermination is actively happening, and voting for the fascist will ensure the job is finished, while a vote for the alternative offers some hope that it'll end sooner rather than later - so all you fucktards threatening to withhold a vote or vote 3rd party better come to your fucking senses". And since they did not, the "I told you so" part of us is looking forward to telling them "you voted for this, go fuck yourself". Same with the undocumented people who went maga and are now on the doorstep of being deported. The ugliness in all of us, myself included, is taking up a lot more space in our brains post election. Anger/Lewis Black is manning the controls for the foreseeable future.
  17. The problem with Obama is he eventually fell in line with the Dem party establishment and became a run-of-the-mill corporate democrat. Likely also a big reason a bunch of Dem candidates coalesced behind Biden to make sure Bernie didn't get the nomination in 2020. I think by "trump-type" figure, we need someone who is not beholden to the corporate overlords puling the strings in DC. And who doesn't give a shit about decorum or past demons coming to light. Ideally someone who can raise a bunch of money off of their previous celebrity status. Jon Stewart comes to mind right away, but he'd never run IMO.
  18. My memory is fuzzy on this but IIRC, the cages were used solely to house the children of known criminals who crossed illegally - primarily drug and human traffickers. The parents were kept in jails awaiting trial and deportation and Obama admin had the cages made so the kids wouldn't have to stay in jail with other (presumably dangerous) criminals. Again, I could be way off on that but that's what I remember hearing from my sister who is an immigration attorney in the Valley. Trump used the cages to separate families who entered through ports of entry to LEGALLY claim asylum. And of course he did it so incompetently that some families had to wait months to be reunited.
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