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I did say "suppose it is something of a valid point." That's not exactly a ringing endorsement of the handcruser position. One other thing about political experience as a DA or AG. Yes, it is an elected position and requires some political savvy. But, in another sense, the job(s) have more "measurables" than most political offices (at least until recently, when the notion of "progressive prosecutor" became tenable, and the rise of AG offices in promoting a hard right agenda, see, e.g. Missouri and Texas) in the form of budget, conviction rate, etc. So people weren't voting in wholly partisan fashion, and certainly not in Cali. You raise valider points.

Exactly how did Montel Williams advance her political career? Also, why sidepiece? He was unmarried at the time. Also, no one here really ever gave a shit about the dossier except the amusing part about the pee tapes. There's a shit ton of evidence that Trump wittingly and unwittingly received assistance from Russia. Your takes are so breathtakingly "alternative." Who exactly is obedient here? Who is slurping dildos?

Fuck the federal response part, what about the Soros/747/black women part. JFC this guy is a troglodyte.

So, the 11th Circuit set a deadline for Appellant's brief in 30 days. That means they're expediting the appeal. For whatever that's worth.

Yeah, that's all fair. She was the obvious choice to replace Biden on the ticket, but that whole thing made me nervous. Seems to have worked out swimmingly.

I used to love WP. But there's a Linux VM built into every chromebook. The only problem is the LibreOffice version in the apt repository is several versions back. Can either install a tarball or use flatpak. I had success with the former for a while, but then it stopped opening, flatpak has become my solution.

Lotta lard in that video.

I suppose it is something of a valid point that she was not even hardly in contention in the Democratic Primary in 2020. Part of it was inexperience and part I think that she was "a cop." Now she's wildly popular. But one thing I think has changed, and it's not so much her experience as Veep, but the fact that Biden has a fully functional and fairly smoothly operating Cabinet and other appointed officials (Officers of the United States). I assume that she's not going to fuck with that much. I really hope she learned from the debacle that apparently was her VP staff and will stick with Joey Two-Scoops' people. Also, yes she can be considered a "lesser of two evils" vote. But, unlike most times that shibboleth is uncorked, the greater of the evils is actually, well, evil.

For me, word processing was the deal breaker on apps. But Linux to the rescue.

And I imagine they are hideously shitty running W11.

I guess my point is that they are more capable than people give them credit for, depending on your usage. I've been out of the Windows ecosystem for nearly a decade now and don't miss it at all.

Point of order. The "Border Czar" thing is complete bullshit. She was tasked with working in the Northern Triangle to stop immigration at the source. Which is why she never went to the southwestern border. Her remit was further south. https://time.com/7001817/kamala-harris-immigration/

A few years back, my MBP had to go into the shop for a keyboard/top case replacement. They said it might take two days and it was over a weekend. I realized that my old laptops were probably pretty non-functional and therefore I had no real backup. So, that provoked me to go buy about the cheapest Chromebook I could find, an all-plastic 15-incher that I wound up loving despite its limitations. It gave up the ghost after a couple of years, which didn't bother me much because of its low cost. So, I hunted around for a replacement and found a really good deal on a Chromebook Plus for about 200 bucks at the Acer Refurb store. The main item of interest there was 8GB memory, but it has a Ryzen 5 and 128GB storage, both of which are probably overkill. It also happens to be convertible with a touchscreen, neither of which I use very much. Occasionally, "tenting it" is handy to show people something in a low-key presentation sort of way. The 128 allows me to be lazy about moving stuff to Dropbox for more permanent storage, but I try to be rigorous about it and it forces me to be somewhat disciplined about maintaining my files. I don't sync up my phone. I found Android apps to be pretty useless on a Chromebook, so install everything as a "webapp." I use dropbox for cloud storage/backup/sync on my MBP and also with the Chromebook. Not as convenient as Google Drive, but fuck Google anyway. I started to use my unlimited Google Drive from utexas.edu instead of Dropbox, but Google yoinked that, so fuck Google again. I don't like the file organization on Google drive anyway. I have installed Linux and use flatpak to keep Libre Office installed and am about 90% functional on this thing. Obviously, I don't do media editing/production. I really like these things.

Well, SecDef is a classic political appointee and always has been. This is the equivalent of replacing all the Captains, Majors, Lieutenants, and Lieutenant Commanders, and Sergeants and Petty Officers with political hacks. Commissars, if you will. This is, I'm sure, the part of P2025 that appeals most to Trump, not for political expedience, but because he loves him some bootlickers.

Couldn't remember precisely what context it came up in in the past, but NY has pretty stringent protections against a second trial in NY courts. However, they amended their law to create an exception when the offense was pardoned. https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/new-york-appellate-court-double-jeopardy-rule-bars-state-charges-against-pardoned-paul-manafort/

Pretty sure res judicata doesn't come up in criminal stuff except double jeopardy. And, there's no double jeopardy between state and federal prosecutions, except where state law provides. And NY state law does provide, in certain circumstances, but not these apparently.

State law charges.

Wadsack. Think about that for a minute.

Completely random thought here. Reading Thiel's bio, there's a statement that he believes democracy is inconsistent with freedom. Apart from what elite assholes like Thiel think constitutes freedom (to make more money without taxation), and what gun-toting dipshits think constitutes freedumb, it occurs to me that we have actually pretty well maximized freedom here. Such that the various freedoms are now running into conflict with each other.

And, assuming he is referring to Venezuelans seeking political asylum in the US, they are very likely staunch anti-communists akin to Cubans and Eastern Bloc immigrants, and, if naturalized, highly likely to vote for him. Fucking moron.

The irony of an immigrant autistic homosexual New Zealander running shit for the GQP is rich.

There is a slight bit of wiggle room in the law. But, the FEC regs seem to be concerned with donations earmarked by the donor (in writing) for a specific candidate and/or a specific election. First, I doubt that many donor are that specific in their donations. Second, the way campaign finance is structured these days, PACs, etc., there's little way to make a donation to, say, Joe Biden, specifically, for November 2024. Such donations that were that specific would likely have to be returned.

Chief deputy constable. He's an Oath Keeper and a Constitutional Sheriff type. https://www.linkedin.com/today/author/scott-m-london?trk=public_profile_see-all-articles And ranks somewhere with dogcatcher.

Ask them to define the "bullshit" without using other code words like "woke" or "DEI." Then ask them to point to specific things that constitute the "great job" Trump did. We're honestly quite lucky that we didn't have more crises during the Trump presidency.

I love the term "political pervert." Hat tip. Bravo.