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  1. Trump and Trumpism caused the scales to fall from my eyes. And look around you and consider what is the lunatic fringe these days. Maybe it's not so fringe, but it's definitely lunatic.
  2. I dunno nuffin bout Mexican politics, but what gmr said sounds right. Now, I agree that Biden or any D could possibly overcome the stupidity by giving handouts like AMLO. That is, returning the "free shit army" to that status instead of the "hate the browns and fags army." They're both stupid as fuck, but I'll take the free shit army any day. But there's a big part of me that desires real solutions and I don't think handouts are that. Mostly, I'm just mad. Big mad. I'm not sure Biden is the greatest president of my lifetime, but he got some shit done despite a pretty seriously adverse political climate. I normally dislike career politicians like him, but concede that it is just that that permitted him to accomplish what he did. I think he was the right man for the time at the time and he's earned my respect. He definitely does not deserve all-time low approval ratings.
  3. Some good advice on the thread and this part is very possibly true. Are you in Texas? For a long time, it was hard to make even a bullshit lawsuit go away in Texas in the short term. That has changed some, but I'll have to let the state court practitioners opine on that. And, would your new employer be aware of and supportive of any such poaching or raiding scheme? One thing you have to watch for is potential trade secrets claims about some information, including customers, of the old employer.
  4. The Meadows Foundation is legit, I believe. And that seems to be an arm of it.
  5. I am essentially excluding partisans from the poll, which splits approval at roughly 50-50. The thing that makes Biden so unpopular is stupidity. A good chunk of that stupidity applies to the partisan chunks of the electorate, obviously, but extends beyond it too.
  6. There's the real economy, which has sucked shit through a straw, or at least deteriorated, for most people for several decades. Not Biden or anyone else is gonna fix that in four or eight years. And then there's inflation. No president is going to have an approval rating much over about 60% just due to partisanship and the perennial discontents in his/her own party. But the difference between a bit over half and much, much lower depends on actual job performance, that is the opinions of clear-eyed, informed, and not hyperpartisans. But the reasons Biden's is so low are dumb. As fuck.
  7. Nonetheless, the reasons people disapprove of Biden are moronic. The economy, Israel (by Muslims), etc.
  8. I think it was mostly a symbolic gesture and Biden knew as much.
  9. The reasons for their disapproval are almost universally moronic.
  10. Well, you have stated a rather classic conservative constitutional position: that, if the Constitution is to address modern concerns that the founders could not have conceived, then it should be re-written entirely or amended rather than being bent like a nose of wax to accommodate those modern concerns. Not saying I necessarily agree with that position, but that is more or less what underlies textualism and orignalism.
  11. More practically for Trump, an indoor inauguration will make the crowd look bigger and thus easier to lie about. (surlyhorn patented sidebar: did not know or recall that about WH Harrison, but reading the wiki article, the medical treatments in those days: mustard plasters, leeches, cupping, castor oil, laudanum, opium, camphor (probably then known as asofoetida). It's a wonder anyone survived anything).
  12. Assuming speech is actually involved, the government can ban or limit speech, or, more accurately do things that impact speech indirectly, if it has a compelling interest in doing so and the means are narrowly tailored to the the end. National security is going to be one of the more fruitful government interests in this inquiry.
  13. I mean, fuck, look at Hegseth. I bet he aced all the physical fitness tests. I'll also bet that he's more of Norman Dike than a Dick Winters.
  14. Even if you accept that it was "the economy, stupid," what in the name of God would have made you think Trump would improve it? Asshole is already crawfishing on consumer prices. That he's a bidnessmen? Jeezus jumped-up Christ on a cracker.
  15. And the only person that approval ratings matter to is Donald J. Trump. The people who disapprove of Biden are too stupid to live.
  16. This all goes back to the "conservative" obsession with "standards." The guy with the best grades from the best school is undoubtedly the best lawyer, or doctor, or whatever. My experience tells me that standards can only tell you so much and the correlation between top-top and actually best in the field is pretty slim. What it really is is an ostensibly neutral justification for discriminating in favor of certain groups, primarily white men. Audie Murphy was 5-5 and 132 give or take when he earned the MOH. I'll defer to the military types as to combat qualifications.
  17. The tests are the same. We also have different standards for different ages, all based on average capabilities of men and women of certain ages. The variance among big and small weak and strong men is taken into account by the average, but age provides a different standard. Similarly, women are smaller than men in weight and height, so their averages are accounted for by the different standards. At the passing level, the deadlift difference is 20lbs, power throw is 2m, pushups are the same, 2 mile run is a minute and a half (out of 20). BFD.
  18. A "company" owned by Steven Hotze that hawks bullshit supplements. And has been a plaintiff on multiple ACA/religion cases. Because Hotze is in Texas, it's not much of a forum-shop. And the case is really about whether the officials that decide what treatments shall be free under the ACA are officers that require appointment with advise and consent of the Senate. Told you that's a pesky fucking issue all over the law.
  19. Or two weevils, which may be the case here.
  20. Well, Google just lost an antitrust suit and the proposed remedy is divestiture of Chrome, among other things. And that suit was filed during the Trump administration. There's an ongoing case by the FTC against Meta that commenced during the Biden administration. Apple and Amazon are pending trial, also. Ds and Rs may have different reasons for pursuing antitrust actions, the Ds more pure, obviously, but the result is about the same.
  21. Why are we talking about 30-year old shit?
  22. There has actually been a pretty bipartisan effort against big tech.
  23. Would have guessed older than that. Blue Velvet was a highly quotable film during undergrad and for a few years after and set up Twin Peaks nicely, which unfortunately fell off a cliff. I'd forgotten some of his more mainstream flicks. RIP.
  24. How about combat fitness tests? https://www.army.mil/acft/ https://www.mynavyhr.navy.mil/Portals/55/Support/Culture Resilience/Physical/Guide_5-Physical_Readiness_Test_PRT_JAN_2023.pdf?ver=OlmOLoZTfCA641JUkAnIaw%3d%3d
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