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  1. Tuco
    Also included in the decree: That's got to be a kick in the balls for the Russian soldiers who are on the ground now. They are there for the duration. There are five ways out: victory, defeat, death, debilitating injury, or desertion. Maybe Putin figures that will commit them to victory. But, with every Ukrainian victory, that path seems further out of reach. And, for the average Russian soldier, the differences between victory and defeat are inconsequential. It's not like he's defending his homeland.
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    So, if I am understanding you correctly, the appointment of the Special Master cannot be appealed but the decision on whether to have certain documents bypass is. So, in theory, the DOJ could file a motion to be able to use all the documents prior to Special Master review, Cannon would shoot it down, but that decision could be appealed, rendering the unappealable Special Master pointless. Did I get that right? Because it sounds kind of fucked to me. (FWIW, I am not really that worried about the delay, I just think that it's funny how the legal system can be ridiculous. It was invented by man, man is a ridiculous creature, so this should not surprise anyone.)
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    I assume they were searching for evidence of election fraud. They didn't just advocate for the Koolaid, they drank it. They were convinced that 1) there was evidence of fraud, 2) they were entitled to break multiple laws to demonstrate its existence. Just like they were entitled to invade the Capitol to reinstate the once and future king. They are fucking idiots.
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    Not a bad way to play it. Make Vance say that he was perfectly comfortable with how Trump portrayed their relationship or make him push back.
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    "J.D. is kissing my ass he wants my support so bad," Trump said. I love that Trump endorses dipshits in the most dipshitastic way imaginable. Not, "I know he is a great leader and will advocate strongly for Ohio." Not, "He represents conservative values that made our country what it is." Nope, Trump just comes right out and says it. The only qualification that JD needs to be in the Senate is that he is willing to debase himself for Emperor Trump. I mean, that's got to appeal to independent voters, right?
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    As an extension of this court, is he allowed to make any decision on executive privilege, or does that need to go through the DC court?
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    Ok, from a practical standpoint, now the special master has been appointed. I assume it should take him about a day to review the classified documents (or, perhaps I should say "the documents with classified markings") and provide them to the prosecution. Is there any reason he would hold on to documents which are clearly marked classified which have no Trump notes on them?
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    I get this image of the queue for the Queen's visitation, except it's filled with Surly posters drinking beer and eating asparagus.
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    Just to be clear, Donald Trump doesn't know jack shit about judges. Stacking the courts with shitty ideologues has very little to do with Trump. This is the Republican Party competently executing a plan, to the detriment of the country.
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    Yep. Shifting from sports to movies, good acting and blocking should be able tell the story without dialogue. In this scene, Trump is ranting about something and his sycophants are trying to look as concerned. You can almost see the heads slowly nodding and the twisted frowns. Notice the three on the right turn away from his gaze. He's asking for something they can't provide.
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    UT prof suing A&M

    Tuco replied to Pancho's topic in Cloak Room

    That's ok. When they lose, they get to be victims again.
  12. Tuco
    I’m just imagining the level of stupid shit said. I mean, it would break your soul.
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    I am sure there are some troops Putin would rather keep as far from Moscow as possible. I can't fathom what moral must be like. Keep in mind, a decent percentage of them actually thought they were being deployed for war games, not war. They weren't mentally prepared for a tough fight. Add in the wide spread incompetence, the failing equipment because of corruption, the failing supply lines, and the frequent killings of high ranking officers, and I am not sure Putin would be comfortable with his options of the military protecting his control.
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    I don't think that has much to do with it. Just about anything that isn't the alcohol molecule gets distilled out. And it's not like "trace levels of corn" is some kind of outlier in our diets. More likely, expensive shit has better distillation and quality control. And you are less likely to use mixers high in sugar or choke it down as a shot.
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    Maybe he is back in town to retrieve stolen classified shit he stashed. I could see his lawyers recommending that.
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    Corn is grain. I did some work at an ethanol plant in Kansas. It produced both fuel grade ethanol and food grade. The difference was the food grade went through a third distillation tower to remove methanol and the fuel grade had gasoline added for tax purposes. The food grade was shipped to another facility where water was added to make it Skyy Vodka. Corn based ethanol is about as cheap of alcohol you can get, so it's the default unless someone is marketing otherwise. Even in other types of hard liquor, they will use corn based ethanol to augment the traditional ingredients. Tequila can have 51% agave, and the rest corn based alcohol. Premium tequila is 100% agave. Gin just has juniper berries to flavor alcohol made from corn. I think rum is usually sugarcane (relatively cheap in those regions). So, it was wrong to say "almost all" hard liquor is corn based, but I would be willing to bet better than 50% is corn.
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    I believe the DOJ's motion was that classified documents should bypass the Special Master. The crime is not based on the classification, but the classified documents are the main evidence for the crime.
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    "Yet the Government apparently contends that President Trump, who had full authority to declassify documents, "willfully" retained classified information in violation of the law" Well, yeah. It does sound idiotic, but that's only because we're dealing with an idiot.
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    Do they have a choice? If the documents marked Top Secret are actually Top Secret, it seems like a pretty easy prosecution, regardless of any executive privilege issues. I could see an EP argument that no one should be allowed to look at the documents, but that doesn't mean Trump is allowed to do what he wants with them. At the end of the day, the defense will need to show that Trump did not have Top Secret documents in Maralargo. That means either convincing people they weren't at Maralargo or that they weren't TS. The first options means convincing a jury that 20-30 FBI agents set him up and that witnesses from the Trump camp are perjuring themselves, because certainly the DOJ has informants. That is less likely to work than just claiming that they weren't actually Top Secret.
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    Almost all vodka, and hard liquor in general, is made out of corn. I've never seen anything to suggest that Buffet gives a shit about Husker football. He's gave $100k to the school paper. He's given money for buildings. I don't recall any donations to the athletic department. Well, yeah, except for the money, most jobs suck. I agree it's not a great job in college football - high expectations with little recruiting draw - but still.
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    I am posting a picture of a cheeseburger. It's not the best looking cheeseburger on the internet, but it is about ten thousand times more appetizing than that deconstructed bullshit image that will not fucking leave my tapa screen. Hopefully this cheeseburger will displace that nonsense. I have as much interest in deconstructing a hamburger as I do in pulling the engine out of a Ferrari and pretending it makes it better. ( Bozo, I don't care if you like it. It's a pointlessly fussy version of something God intended to be simple and messy. It is heresy. You should be burned at the fucking stake. Not really, but you get my drift.
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    Self deleting. User incompetence.
  23. Tuco
    I would argue that some of the documents had hand-written notes on them, which were part of decision making process, and therefore protected. And it would take a Special Master to review the all the documents to find those notes. It would be idiotic for the defense to argue that classified documents were not in Trump's possession - particularly if there were handwritten notes on them. I think they will concede that. I assume that they will argue that he had the rights to the documents for extremely murky, but previously untested, rationalizations.
  24. Tuco
    White supremacists believe their genetics and history gives them the god-given right to hold an elevated position in society. Monarchists take that same basic construct and exaggerates it to absurd proportions. So yeah, its whole premise is ridiculous. Without the charisma and the life-long continuity to hold it together, I think it will rattle apart. Maybe they keep the titles like the rest of the aristocracy, but I think their official duties and protections will diminish, and I could see them recede into background. I think most of them would rather just be rich than royal anyway.
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    Or we can stop pretending that racist cosplaying disphits are the last defense for democracy. Because it's just fucking stupid.

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