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  1. Not my point at all. ICE gonna ICE, regardless. But declaring Antifa a DTO is a performative nothing.
  2. You've seen what grand juries and others are doing with bullshit Trump crimes haven't you?
  3. I'd suggest that the entire era was largely characterized by politicization, rather than Humphrey's Executor itself. Four of the justices politically opposed to FDR, the rest more agnostic, but also acutely aware of the scenario. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_switch_in_time_that_saved_nine But yeah, FedSoc vetting/training has been extraordinarily good for their purposes and takes things to a level heretofore unseen. Or like no one has ever seen before.
  4. I don't think they really do anything. Keyboard/video warriors.
  5. Being a "domestic terror organization" doesn't change the substantive law applicable. Those things aren't crimes and didn't become crimes overnight. To the extent being a DTO affects anything (it's kind of like Antifa, it doesn't really exist), it might make them the target of investigation by task forces.
  6. Inspirational international leadership!
  7. Eh live and learn. Those target funds aren't horrible for dumbshits. They're more diverse and less risky than even an SP500 tracker. If we'd had extended down markets, you'd probably be singing a different tune. A lot worse mistakes have been made by those not minding the store in the 401k.
  8. That and there are ways for a privileged white guy like Kirk with any gumption to increase their odds of selection in subsequent years.
  9. More evidence that it's always been Calvinball. At the risk of being a superlib, the inability of Congress to create agencies independent of the executive is another one of these problematic things that I would fix in US Constitution II, electric boogaloo.
  10. The one huge tip off on Charlie Kirk in his "debates" is that he never STFU and continued to talk over and interrupt his "opponent." You're right, I think, that debate does not arrive at truth, the winner is not the truthiest, but rather the better rhetorician. It does have value in exposing the "sides" or issues underlying a topic, some of which may be propaganda, which should be exposed in the debate but often isn't. Anyway, Kirk's rhetorical style is a variant of Trump's: keep repeating your side, ignore the other side mostly, flood the zone.
  11. Get a squeeze bulb, some tubing up under your shirt to your collar and spray some blood on them when they protest. Go ahead and call it the blood of the lamb.
  12. About 75% of the CR posters laughed at the free shit army. They're still the free shit army, with some extra hate and racism.
  13. What Kirk espouses was once stated "the soft bigotry of low expectations," which is something of a valid concern with any program that offers an advantage to the disadvantaged. As bullshit as most "bootstraps" arguments are, there are kind of a shitload of freeloaders on programs like SSDI, so that point is at least arguable. But in the context of civil rights, it ignores the fact that blacks in particular, at the time of the Civil Rights Act, weren't merely disadvantaged, they were excluded. And God knows how much longer they would have continued to be excluded. Particularly germane to Kirk and the Civil Rights Act, the first black commercial airline pilot, David Harris, was hired by AA in 1964. What a coinkidink. And he was qualified after being a Captain in the USAF after being rejected from AFROTC twice on racial grounds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_E._Harris So, it was only the military efforts to integrate, which preceded the Civil Rights Act, that produced the first black pilot. So even what might be considered Charlie Kirk's broader point about "DEI" while seeming at least arguable, is still bullshit.
  14. Not to mention, no one said Biden or Byrd wasn't racist. That's something you dredged out of nowhere that is totally irrelevant. You posited that you couldn't call Kirk racist if "half the country" thought he wasn't. Indicating that you can't think for yourself or don't want to. Then, I pointed out that whether an individual is racist is not a matter of popular opinion. I might guess a lot of Germans thought Hitler wasn't anti-Semitic, but that didn't change the fact that he was.
  15. So, I'm not a big gambler, never have been. 30-40 years ago, with dollar blackjack and equally cheap craps and free drinks, Vegas was quite the value proposition. Drinking vast quantities of meeler lite is now off the table for me and all the other expenses and minimums make it not at all a value proposition. It sounds like it's not even worth it for the freak show. Wife just likes games a lot. So, for a quick getaway, we picked Winstar in Thackerville Oklahoma. The rate for the "adjoining" hotel is $500 a fucking night. We stayed in a nearby Best Western for 275. For the record, other than the casino, which is a fairly impressive physical plant, there is jack shit in Thackerville fucking Oklahoma. Enshittification, indeed.
  16. The thing about Houston is that the suburbs are mostly disposable, meaning they get built out in a generation and essentially abandoned to lower classes in a generation. You're starting to see that in some areas of Dallas, mostly outer burbs.
  17. That's just, like, your opinion, man. Also a bizarre equivalence.
  18. Well, now he has more time to be a non-basketball piece of shit. The Senator prognostications are not far off.
  19. Finally figured out exactly what is wrong with Kirk's assertion that the Civil Rights Act and affirmative action created this "diminished expectation" against minority "achievers." That is, the assumption that black or other minorities in positions of authority or skill are not as qualified as their white male peers. Prior to the civil rights act and affirmative action/DEI, there would have been an explicit assumption that a negro could not be an airline pilot, both on the part of the airlines and others who hire pilots and their passengers. So, you never would have seen a black pilot in the first place and if you did people wouldn't be just saying "hmmm," they'd be freaking out. Like the guy in Gangs of New York.
  20. What does this whataboutism have to do with your deferring to half the country in determining whether Charlie Kirk was a racist?
  21. For all the squawking about how Kirk and TPUSA revolutionized (or some shit) the youth vote, in the interview with your Governor GCN, they shifted 13% of the white male under 25 vote. While that is certainly statistically and electorally significant, in the grand scheme, shows that Kirk's popularity and influence in that demo isn't as overwhelming as it has been made to seem. I think the reason olds like him, in addition to just liking everything MAGA, is that they suspect that they're old, out of touch, and wrong, but ol' Chuck gave em a youth voice that countered their suspicion, just like blacks and latinos for Trump assuage the nagging feeling that they're being racists.
  22. And, on Richards Layton, they are a Delaware law firm, meaning a sizable chunk of their practice is representing one side or another in corporate governance disputes dealing with Delaware's corporate laws. To that end, I believe they drafted and lobbied for revisions to the corporate law that would have ok'ed Elmo's outrageous compensation package. So, I suppose they are pretty inured to representing ratfuckers in their ratfucking. But they're usually lower profile ratfuckers than Candy and Elmo.
  23. In this argument, in which Bozo contends that the legal profession as a whole is in some sort of ethical crisis, I have said explicitly and repeatedly that it is no more in crisis than our government or nation as a whole. I don't so much contend that it isn't as I want to tease out why he says it and what is an "ethical crisis." And, I will continue to point out that a sizable fraction of the legal profession and the lower courts, at least, of the judiciary, are elements of the government that are standing up against authoritarianism. Perhaps the fecklessness of 6 of 9 of the Supreme Court swallows that whole, but I tend not to extend the rank politicization of 6 political appointees to the profession as a whole. Clearly, bozo thinks legal discipline and professional standards enforcement is inadequate. At least some of that stems from misunderstanding of how legal ethics deviate from general ethics. And, to sawbonz point, I think most professional ethics differ from personal morality in that by their nature they are highly situational, whereas an individual who employs situational ethics tends to be regarded as one step removed from unethical.
  24. Being a racist isn't a matter of popular opinion. Especially when "half the country" are pretty avowed racists themselves.
  25. Yep, that place has 124 families and despite being depicted as solidly middle class, the demos spell Papa Whisky Tango. 324 people, 50k median income, 98% white.
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