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  1. Motherfucker, what do you think "setting the persons aside" means? Sometimes I think you don't read very carefully. My post quietly shat on corporations, director compensation practices, and Trump world in particular. Also, apparently the grants, although not options, were restricted. Probably restricted so they don't dump all their shares at once and tank the stock price, not for any semi-legitimate shareholder compensation reason. It's a fucky transaction any way you slice it.
  2. To be clear, I knew Jeff some in undergrad. He's a decent guy, seemed sharp. I know very little about his practice or ethics or any of that. However, I have found that most pretty decent, sharp people I have known that ultimately went to law school turned out to be sharp, decent attorneys. It's the ones that might be some kind of savant, that is outwardly kind of meh, but maybe stacking grades in undergrad and law school that you may have to worry about. Or not.
  3. Fair enough and I heartily agree that bad management is as or more responsible for problems with unions.
  4. Pretty accurate, I think. "We'll do our best to stop those danged immigrants and that nasty ol' fentanyl." And someone will declare a huge victory.
  5. The irony here is thicc af.
  6. Also one of the effects of more recent rounds of tariffs was to find alternative sources of goods/manufacturing. Principally, apparently, Vietnam, where a lot of Asian manufacturing was headed anyway.
  7. Without commentary. Revenue generation. Fix trade imbalances. Potentially incentivize purchasing of US goods and increasing US manufacturing. That will take a decade or more.
  8. Also, I think historically, tariffs have not been applied to consumer goods, per se, except in fairly narrow categories like EVs. They have certainly been applied to raw materials and commodities that end up in consumer goods, metals, timber/lumber, wheat. Across-the-board tariffs with major trading partners are pretty unprecedented, I believe.
  9. But schools should be under local control! @Balcones Hypocrites.
  10. Setting aside the persons involved, it's not a completely unusual transaction. Members of the BOD granted shares. Two things do stand out, they're not options, apparently, but outright shares, and it's $800,000+ at current prices. Corporations grant options to directors as a form of compensation and to "align" their performance with that of the company. Options meaning restricted as to vesting and subsequent sale, so that the director is incentivized to stick around and make the company profitable. Even though directors of major, Fortune 500 companies tend to be overcompensated, it's usually to the tune of a couple hundred grand for a few meetings a year and some ostensible liability. A one-time payment of $800k to undistinguished directors of a shitass, unprofitable corporation is pretty extraordinary. Then you add in the Trump circle jerk and it's pretty disgusting.
  11. Some presidential tariff powers are delegated by Congress, generally, see the above CRS links. Some are pursuant to treaties, which may permit and circumscribe POTUS or the US' ability to impose tariffs, in accordance with the treaty. Tariffs imposed in violation of the treaty may breach the treaty, causing it to dissolve.
  12. More than you wanted to know about that. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R44707
  13. It wasn't based on "unflattering data points." Those came out later. It was pure-dee racism and a threat to the mediocre white man order. Similarly, you can't justify criticism of the BLM protests because their "leaders" are minor-league shitstains. The movement itself was righteous, as was King's. Both of them ignited a public dialog about the subject of their protests and MLK's with landmark legislation. There's not been any landmark legislation as a result of BLM, but it's definitely under discussion.
  14. I have, by and large, changed my tune on unions. I remain somewhat skeptical of government employee unions. Unlike the private sector, government is not really known for abusing employees, and there are other means that can be used to exert upward wage/benefit pressures. I'm willing to entertain discussion on it.
  15. Amusing thing. I have had one argument before the Texas Supreme Court. The argument that preceded mine concerned whether the administrative suspension of a driver's license that coincides with arrest for DWI was a violation of due process. So, the lawyer that was arguing it was some poor schlub misdemeanor criminal defense lawyer with little appellate experience, especially outside criminal law. He wasn't bad by any stretch, but just . . . so . . . casual about the whole thing.
  16. I think another aspect of this is that, rather than seeking children in the first place, they believe or are led to believe that faith can conquer their predilections. I don't believe Catholics explicitly teach this, nor do mainstream Prod denominations. Catholics do "offer" celibacy, which may be attractive, while fundagelicals tend to believe and evangelize that faith can conquer anything, and, indeed that such "deviations" (real and perceived) are the result of inadequate faith.
  17. Let's not forget that presidential track record on budget deficit explosions.
  18. Because they don't give a fuck. Actual job performance means nothing if it doesn't toe the MAGA line. There's no guarantee, and an absolute likelihood, that MAGA replacements will suck shit through a straw, and also orange man's crank.
  19. Has anyone checked out Whitehouse.gov? Just the landing page?
  20. Fair nough. My knowledge of such things is outdated. My law school roommate did insurance defense way back in the day that included a lot of car wreck cases. And I knew Brian Loncar somewhat well outside of strictly professional settings and learned some of the business from him. He may have been a schock jock, but from all of my interaction with him, he was a pretty authentic, sincere dude that cared about getting his clients their due. Then again, once you can fake sincerity, you've got it made. He was definitely a volume shop and employed a lot of adjusters/former claims reps that he said were quite profitable and did good work for their clients.
  21. Aren't car wreck firms a little cheaper than that if they don't have to file suit? Decades ago, the "multiples" In Dallas County, at least, that is what extra percentage over out-of-pocket medicals juries tended to award so insurers would come close to paying out pretty easily justified even a 33% contingency. Meaning, for OP and others, if you could submit legit out-of-pocket medicals of X, a Dallas County jury would award 2x+ plus property damage. So you'd still come out pretty far ahead with a skilled insurance negotiator from a PI firm. It is my understanding that the multiples have narrowed, so that may be less true than it was.
  22. It may well be dying, but it has more intrinsic value in the sense you just specified, than all the rest combined. There is some damned good discussion and information in here.
  23. Well, it's not really that dumb because a lot of right-wingers feel free to dog-whistle, at best, in DT alleged news threads. But they're afraid to come into CR and get pantsed in their counter-factual and otherwise ill-informed opinions. And then they whinge about their Fox news sound-bites not being given equal time or debated or some shit.
  24. Well, Fox is now considered "news," so what the fuck do you expect. Reaping, sowing, kinda how that works.
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