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  1. JAG lawyers are not going to be much different from any other lawyers, so that aspect doesn't bother me much. The complete lack of experience in immigration law is problematic, as is the fact that they're taking JAG lawyers away from their duty. And, of course, it was stupid and political, DOGE like, to shitcan a bunch of immigration judges right when they're trying to do this.
  2. That's really it. There's a tiny nugget of truth in just about everything MAGA fucks up. It's always the wrong answer to the right question.
  3. But Fauci should be in JAIL!
  4. And, we have the sunk cost of the military but for Trump's political capital, we're gonna dump a couple billiion into mercs.
  5. Wait, about the only Indian I see doing that is . . . Vivek Ramasthwamy.
  6. Let's not forget that those pushing the narrative that CDC/FDA was some bastion of deep state fascism are the same ones pushing bullshit like this. The MAGA Influencers Rehabilitating Hitler
  7. See, now that's just a dumbfuck, performative use of bail. Yeah the guy "did it," but there's no evidence that he's a flight risk or continuing threat.
  8. They wasted a probably $75k munition on that?
  9. Adding on to this, there were mask mandates, shutdowns, and maybe over-recommendation of vaccines that, in the full light of hindsight, might have been overkill and unnecessary. But these were done not out of ignorance or willful stupidity, but an overabundance of caution when confronting a pandemic that infected 800 million worldwide and killed 7 million people, including more than a million in the US alone. These horrible inflictions on our civil rights were entirely justified under the circumstances. It's not like habeas corpus was suspended or anything.
  10. We got here because of morons and disinformation and horse paste, not because of much the CDC really did wrong. There is not a single goddamn thing that Anthony Fauci or anyone else at FDA/CDC did in your wildest, wettest fever dream that justifies puttting Robert Fucking Kennedy Junior in charge of the public health apparatus of the United States of America.
  11. From a President who claims to hate war and want to end them all.
  12. Yeah, the phrase "good communicator" doesn't sit right with me, because, particularly in his current state, he's not a good communicator in terms of delivering information. He's good at driving attention and engagement. "Any attention is good attention." I suppose that, too, is a form of information. I saw a piece dissecting the effectiveness of the Newsom trolls. One theory is that the cultists "know" Trump's rambling is insane and that it's coming from a librul parodist forces them to confront that knowledge.
  13. Yeah, there's a great deal of confusion between the business "ethic" (ha) of shareholder primacy and fiduciary duty. So much so that greedhead corporate lawyers like Marty Lipton and Skadden have to write articles reminding people that Friedman Doctrine isn't the law and that even "public benefit" corporations don't need a special statute (although there is one in Delaware and elsewhere). https://www.skadden.com/insights/publications/2019/08/putting-to-rest-the-debate https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2024/05/07/stakeholder-governance-and-the-eclipse-of-shareholder-primacy/
  14. Perhaps he has an appointment in Samarra.
  15. In short, it doesn't. The fiduciary duty of corporate officers and directors has existed as long as corporations have existed. The fiduciary duty permits consideration of interests other than the immediate share price/book value/earnings-profit of the corporation. That little bastard Milton Friedman proposed in 1970 that corporate governance should consider nothing other than profit and return to shareholders. That's never been the law, but it has been a canon of business ethics for a good long while, to our great detriment. This is known as the Friedman Doctrine, or shareholder doctrine, as opposed to the broader "stakeholder doctrine," which explicitly considers the interests of others as part of the broader interests of the corporation. Also, regarding Wisconsin Aluminum Foundry: And, in 2019, Sachin Shivaram brings his vision for growth to WAF as the first non-family CEO of the family-owned company. Likely all Trump voters, wildcat's petit bourgeouisie.
  16. I don't think it does, we're in agreement. I didn't tag Captainant to antagonize him, but the quote was a perfect example of an executive using fiduciary duty as an excuse for layoffs. Friedman Doctrine might require such a thing, fiduciary duty does not.
  17. Yeah it is. Abe lost the lottery, but survived. They had to cut about a 1/4 lb of meat off him.
  18. This is so utterly stupid. As if shitfunnel could understand any of it, or the public. And, the vaccine manufacturers already "show" them to the only people that should count, the FDA. That's not to say the FDA is perfect or even good, but they're all we've got and light years more competent than anyone else we've got.
  19. PSA, for real. Veterinary vaccines with aluminum adjuvants can cause injection site sarcomas, an aggressive sarcoma, in less than 10% of animals. Try to get your vet to use non-aluminum adjuvant vaccines.
  20. He's not wrong that it is used to justify all kinds of shit and is a copout that the law does not require. Totally agree, but the Friedman Doctrine is not fiduciary duty.
  21. It is situational, but the fiduciary duty of corporate officers and the board rarely drives a single "permissible" outcome like layoffs.
  22. I mean, he's not wrong, boards and CEOs hide behind it to do the short-term expedient thing all the time. But it's a copout. A CEO that wants to do the right thing can, but needs a willing board, but both of them will be shielded from shareholder suits by the business judgment rule.
  23. I think Ewers had that tendency going back to high school. We had never seen that before with Arch, IIRC. Watching the "every pass" video, it seemed he did that when he thought he needed to get the ball out quick, in many cases on a check down/pretty complete coveragae and maybe with an illusion of imminent pressure. And maybe when he thought he could get away with it.
  24. So, yeah, on a lot of those passes, he seemed to be trying to get rid of the ball super-fast once he made a decision, which I suppose led to him sidearming without his feet set. Didn't look like it was ever necessary to get rid of it that fast, but I suppose the checking down and swirling, speedy defenders made him think that.
  25. A good piece from a guy that seems to see mostly straight. One thing I quibble with: "In such a situation, companies have a fiduciary duty to bring costs down, and the one surefire way to do that is layoffs. At our company, we’ve had little choice but to lay workers off at all of our plants." No, you don't have a fucking fiduciary duty to lay anyone off, or even lower costs. @Captainant
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