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  1. Before I bought my first/only Japanese car, I asked my Dad, a veteran of the PTO, whether that bothered him or not. I knew the answer would be "no," because he worked with people at Sony and developed the highest respect for Japanese. And he wasn't the type to personalize that sort of thing in the first place. Nevertheless, it was a Honda/Acura, and I checked to make sure they had no connection to wartime Japanese zaibatsu. Mitsubishi is obvious. Subaru was Nakajima. Nissan was extant during the war, but was not heavily involved in arms manufacturing. Toyota manufactured trucks during the war, but not much else. Mazda's predecessors built rifles.
  2. A whole bunch of disengaged people and their disengagement very likely includes religion, as well as the specific things you mention. And they're not narcissists either, just big dummies that woke up one day this fall and said life sucks because my job sucks and prices are too high. And Trump, as is his wont, managed to gather their attention just long enough to get them to vote. Further, I might retract my statement that christofascists are the but-for cause of Trump. Trump came out of nowhere in particular theo-philosophically and politically. He opportunistically aligned with Republicans. Only after he won power and complete obeisance from the GOP did the christofascists begin to work behind the scenes to further their agenda.
  3. The dignity paraphrase is plagiarized from you. And, yeah, @Pokoloco, I'm afraid this is where you are "at." Perhaps look at it this way: he has a deadly disease that will put him in an early grave if not stopped. Prison sentences pale in comparison to that, and, self-inflicted ass-kickings are the surest way to drive him to long term sobriety.
  4. Ant expresses an opinion. To use a possibly disgusting cliche, most of the posters here are "free white and 21" (and thus validly exercise free choice in your preferred world) and free to take or leave Ant's opinion, and yours, for that matter.
  5. Well, the concept of territorial jurisdiction is broad: you do crimes or civil wrongs here, you are subject to our laws governing them. Pretty much everyone located here satisfies that test. Diplomats are immune from our laws, both civil and criminal, and thus outside our jurisdiction in pretty much every conceivable way. And the history indicates that this guy's kids would not be citizens if born here.
  6. What he means is that if "subject to the jurisdiction [of the United States]" means what proponents of the EO say it means, then we can't validly prosecute aliens, or unlawful residents. But I'm not sure that's really right. There's "territorial jurisdiction," meaning subject to/must obey civil and criminal laws while residing or domiciled here, and "diplomatic jurisdiction," which means something like has allegiance or potential allegiance to another country. One thing is abundantly clear from the legislative history and that is Indians and foreign diplomats were excluded or intended to be, from its ambit. Indians because they were and remain subject to different laws, and diplomats because they are immune from the aforementioned civil and criminal laws.
  7. Congressional Research Service article on the issues, preceding the current debate. https://sgp.fas.org/crs/misc/R44251.pdf It's good stuff, as CRS is, usually.
  8. Was reading a story on the birthright citizenship injunction hearing. One of the things the challenging states offered is the enormous cost in retooling systems to consider different citizenship status occurring at birth. There's going to be so many "hidden" costs to all this bullshit.
  9. Yeah, no, fuck Trump altogether. There's nothing obviously in this for him politically except maybe courting techbros, so there's probably something more insidious behind it. Criminal sentencing and our general overenthusiasm for it, is one of my pet issues. Likewise, pardons and commutations and under what circumstances they are appropriate, in the abstract, is also a pet issue.
  10. One thing we should probably point out. All courts/jurisdictions have an obligation to provide counsel for the indigent. Some jurisdictions have an actual office, like the DA, called "Office of Public Defender" or similar, that hires and pays lawyers like a law firm to represent indigent defendants. Others appoint counsel on a case-by-case basis, the lawyers volunteering to put themselves in a pool of counsel for this purpose. Some out of charity or public service, others from desperation to turn a buck. The former tend to be more formally referrred to as "public defenders" while the latter tend to be called "court-appointed counsel." Like everything else, quality varies immensely, but I think the "public defender" type system tends to provide better defense than "court-appointed counsel." Public defenders usually have hideous caseloads, but have training, some interest in the job, some accountability for results, and their salary isn't tied to volume or dispositions. The others may just be a judge's brother in law.
  11. The adults are definitely in charge this time. @realgreggym
  12. A whole bunch of the dipshits that voted Trump this time round just knew that life sucked in the Covid inflation/recession and incorrectly blamed it on Biden And were too stupid to understand that Trump offered no solutions. It's a worldwide phenomenon. Sure, christofascists are behind Trump because he's a useful idiot, but they were behind him in 2016 and 2020 too. They're "but for" liable for Trump, but a large proximate cause of the 2020 to 2024 swing was anti-incumbency. And a complete failure to understand what Trump offered, including Christofascism.
  13. Love that scene so much, along with the one in Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada. He reminds me of some of my kin, also from Arkansas.
  14. You dorks, that's a wireless mic receiver. A guy would have it on his belt to the side or back, she can't do that because dress and the way she has to move in front of the camera.
  15. Yes, reading between the lines, this is exactly what happened. And yeah, it does make a certain amount of sense from a variety of perspectives.
  16. And a hideous beast. Jason has aged much better, despite years of alcohol and drugs, and you kind of got to think it's because she's such a toxic piece of shit.
  17. I think he means he's a framer. Or maybe a sheetrock hanger. NTTIWT, but not known for their education or sophistication.
  18. You did? I mean, I remember the thread and found your posts very helpful as to understanding the situation with modern insulin practices.
  19. What an epic lying piece of shit. Hilarious that he worked for the Laffer Center.
  20. Addict? Even if not, clearly suffering behavior difficulties. Sometimes, for those people, certainly the addict, you must give them the dignity to suffer the consequences of their actions.
  21. That's not trial testimony, but something else. It's certainly damning, but apparently there was a reason he wasn't charged with solicitation of murder. Very possibly because there's no federal offense there (oddly enough, murder isn't much of a federal offense unless it occurs on an Indian reservation or federal property). Nonetheless, it should be axiomatic in this country that we don't punish people for uncharged and unconvicted conduct. The federal Sentencing Guidelines attempt in some cases to sentence based on uncharged and/or unconvicted conduct, including charged conduct on which the jury acquitted. Somewhat amazingly, the courts of appeal and Supreme Court are just now coming around to the idea that that conduct has no role in sentencing or anything else in a criminal trial.
  22. JP Morgan does sound like he has his dick halfway up your ass before you even start, doesn't it?
  23. Aileen Cannons, Reed O'Connors, and Matthew Kaczmaryks are fewer and further between than people think. And the plaintiffs will get to pick the fora, so the Trumpist jurists will be far less in play than during the Biden administration.
  24. He needs to get got.
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