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  1. Maybe, just maybe, our sentencing laws are a little draconian so that 5-10 is enough
  2. That's about as solid and comprehensive a summary as I have seen.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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."
  8. 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.
  9. Well that and he pounds his tiny lil peen with his tiny lil hands thinking about being Hitler, Stalin, Putin, etc.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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.
  13. Just for the record, the Hatch Act excludes the President and Vice President from its prohibitions.
  14. 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.
  15. 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.
  16. Nice try. Screw what the economists say, try this thought experiment. Trump wants tariffs instead of a tax raise to raise revenue and punish the Chinese. The cheapest goods in our economy right now are Chinese, so they basically set the floor for pricing for whatever goods Americans can buy. Regardless of who pays tariffs, his tariffs will raise the price of Chinese goods in the amount of the tariffs, 20% I think is the number he's throwing around. Because Chinese goods set the pricing floor where they compete, the cost of those goods to Americans will rise 20%. It might mean more people buy American, or Vietnamese, or Malaysian, or whatever, but the cost of goods will rise 20% and it won't go down until the tariffs are lifted. That, friendo, is 20% right out of your pocket, whether you are rich or poor, regardless of your earning. It's stupid, it will not help anything and it will cost you and me a shit ton. And Congress can't undo it. No one can. EDIT TO ADD: I address this one because "the economy" is a frequent incantation and because unlike most of the other complaints and Trump's "concepts of a plan" to address them, this is one he can implement all by himself.
  17. I find it more telling that he hasn't answered the questions put to him by Dbeasy and me, both former Republicans. Telling of what, I don't know.
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