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  1. They said the laptop was authentic, in the sense that it was Hunter Biden's. They have never confirmed the authenticity of all of its contents. There was evidence that the contents had been tampered with, in the sense of accessed and potentially altered by someone other than Hunter Biden. Some of the emails from Hunter that could be authenticated were used against him in his criminal trial to indicate things like he was still seeking drugs and considered himself an addict in the timeframe in which he purchased his gun. These were authenticated by comparing them to the email accounts of those he sent the emails to or received them from. There was no evidence implicating Joe that was ever authenticated or even placed in any kind of context, particularly a context of criminality involving Joe. As far as facts, that link provides the letter itself. I didn't intend to post the article. I am largely sticking to the facts. I'm not sure if you can tell the difference between facts and opinion.
  2. I don't disagree that Texas doesn't invest enough in education. But, that doesn't have much to do with the difficulty in securing admission to the University of Texas these days.
  3. Maybe, just maybe, our sentencing laws are a little draconian so that 5-10 is enough
  4. That's about as solid and comprehensive a summary as I have seen.
  5. None of that was affected by DEI. That's affirmative action, and it was banned, which is why there's a top X% rule. And, your bit about Native American status is probably wrong, again because affirmative action in college admissions is banned and has been at UT for longer than most of the rest of the country. Although you admit you don't understand the admission decision, you haven't stated what you think DEI is and you clearly do not understand it. Nursing is one of the smallest undergraduate schools at UT, topped only, I believe, by Architecture. Architecture has always been extremely competitive, before the 5% rule, due to its size and prestige. I imagine the same applies to Nursing.
  6. Yes, let's talk some more about Hunter's laptop. Gym Jordan and his pal Jimmy Cumface wasted millions of dollars in taxpayer money trying to show that the Hunter Biden laptop somehow implicated Joe in some "Biden crime family." Abject failure. All they wound up proving is that Hunter is a drug addict, has poor judgment, and a big dick. We knew all but the last part.
  7. I'm not sure what he meant to say in that weird-ass ramble, but one of the biggest mistakes media made was freaking out over and mischaracterizing the small stuff in the early going. It fed into the fake news mantra. And then they overreacted the other way in normalizing even the truly crazy-ass shit.
  8. Do you understand how political parties and primaries work? The Democratic party can do whatever the fuck it wants, including just appointing a nominee. Democrats don't mind, they're happy about it. Why do you care what Democrats do if you aren't going to vote for one? You are clearly informed only by right-wing media and pundits.
  9. Well, according to bozo, and this sounds pretty rational, in highly competitive industries like groceries, they are in a fairly constant price war and eventually that will cause prices to return to "normal."
  10. DEI is not affirmative action and affirmative action has been around since the 1960s and is going away. DEI is an attempt to include, at school, at work, wherever, those who have historically been excluded. And, the 51 officials didn't say conclusively that it was fake, they said it had all the earmarks of being fake. No one knew whether it was fake or not until fairly recently, except maybe Hunter. And, y'know, there's nothing actually incriminating of Joe anywhere on the laptop. Never been proven. Read it for yourself. And go look at my post on tariffs. You don't need an economist to figure that out. When all the cheap shit at Walmart goes up 20%, your cost of living went up 20%, or more.
  11. Well that and he pounds his tiny lil peen with his tiny lil hands thinking about being Hitler, Stalin, Putin, etc.
  12. Well, declining population means smaller census, which in turn means a state may lose seats in Congress, whether those seats were or are won by D or R. However, they are stretching for standing there by trying to allege an injury. And I think that's going to be a tad attenuated for most of the courts.
  13. Yeah, it'll run ok for a while, but if you like your car, don't do it. Google LSPI, low-speed pre-ignition. It's not just plain old detonation/knocking due to temperature and compression, it's something unique to forced induction, direct-injection engines.
  14. When they weren't trying to blow him the fuck up. And, most damning of all and showing that Trump is an ignorant pussy, he'd never heard of Erwin Rommel.
  15. Just for the record, the Hatch Act excludes the President and Vice President from its prohibitions.
  16. Well, Republicans are the party of "businessmen." Turns out that means they're more likely to fuck you than run things efficiently and let you benefit from it. EDIT TO ADD: unless you're a major shareholder or someone else who can "do unto them." If you're a little guy like labor, or a bystander who could be hurt or helped by your actions (environmental for example), they're going to fuck you whenever they can, or if not actively fuck, give you as little benefit as they can possibly get away with. Took me a bit to figure that out. I think it started happening during the Clinton administration.
  17. No. Recapture is based on a right to equal education financing found in the Texas Constitution that SCOTUS ruled does not exist in the US Constitution, as argued by "our own" Charles Alan Wright. Ironically, it was an attempt to equalize funding between property- and revenue-rich districts and property- and revenue-poor districts. Which is nice in theory, but in operation not so much. I'm not going to say that it's an example of why government always fucks up, but it is an example of what happens when you attempt too much "do-gooding" all at once. A more incremental change there would probably have been good. See, there's the benign conservative coming through.
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