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  1. Why tho? Gullible people?
  2. Coming back to this, didn't realize he was on Infowars. That close an association with Jones does not speak well of him. But, I'm sure he's quite used to dealing with lunatics and inured to it. And that is a great place to drum up business from lunatics, which is sort of his stock in trade. This from their website, which reflects what I said about being absolutists: We went up against the government because they were trying to censor a guy who protested in favor of LGBTQ rights. Then, we used the same underlying briefing to support a woman who protested against Pride Month. We are Catholics who assist pro-abortion protesters and Satanists. We are Jews who fight for Nazis’ free speech rights. We are gays who fight for people who want to end marriage equality. We find the greatest purity in supporting speech we despise, because that is what freedom is about.
  3. Why? For teh lulz?
  4. It also costs money, but at least it might be Trump money this time around.
  5. Maybe they're pissed because their union leader told them they should be pissed. For what reason, I don't really get. Seems like they might have an axe to grind with the Chief. @wood? As our local firefighter mentioned, it's not like Austin has excess capacity and is flood-free.
  6. If Austin swiftwater rescue knew they needed to knock on doors, why were they needed in Kerr County? Do you really need specialized rescue personnel to knock on doors with two days' notice?
  7. Business Owner at Faciti Consulting https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradfaciti Brad may be going through some things atm.
  8. Bannon was at one time an officer in the US Navy and served in the Pentagon and later a bit of a wheel at Goldman Sachs.
  9. Randazza is one of the top first amendment lawyers in the country. He started out repping porn companies, but has done a good bit of ACLU-worthy stuff too. I guess he's a bit of an absolutist because he's repped some right-wing douchebags as well. I don't think he aligns that way, though.
  10. Saw an article about Trump talking more shit on Putin than ever before. Trump thought he could do peace there, but he was wrong. So his supporters saw things as more weapons to Ukraine or peace and because of Trump's fellatio of Putin that Zelensky was the obstacle there. Now that Trump can't do peace and Putin is being seen as the obstacle, I think Ukraine is gonna get popular again.
  11. He absolutely dictated that letter and no one was allowed to correct it. Either that or it was written in collaboration with the same person that writes his Truths.
  12. And there's a nugget of truth there, too, in that the Big Beautiful Buttfucking and most bills like it are 1000 pages of dense, incomprehensible text that very few outside the CBO fully understand (and even then on a "per-section" type basis). So you can lie with near impunity because very few can correct you with simple truth.
  13. And that's exactly what I meant about the argument, if any.
  14. There's also this. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4190530/
  15. Just for the sake of elabotion of the concept, you can make much better state arguments, such as Better knowing the nature of local disasters Better knowing how to respond to them with available resources (and what should be brought in) And maybe best of all If you are going to stiff disaster victims (or reimburse them generously) you have a local electorate to deal with the fallout
  16. Factual bias? Concerning. At least it's not 787 Million worth and counting of outright lies.
  17. Yeah I don't think you can justify it as some kind of naive mistake. Where the debate comes in, if any, is how justifiable is it to take advantage of a program, without committing actual fraud or deceit, when you know you don't need it and aren't the intended beneficiary. People do that all the time with tax breaks. PPP loans, all sorts of shit, without incurring severe moral judgment. There was a guy in my law school class, an Hispanic Californio, very well off (twin turbo Supra as his grad gift from ND), white, actually Jewish looking and may have been with a German surname, but he could legit check the "Hispanic" or "Mexican-American" or whatever the box was and was getting free tuition to UT Law.
  18. Corollary to this, though. Although in theory, I think the notion of federalism and state primacy is a good one, in my experience and observation, the federal government does a better job with almost all of the functions where the state, or Texas in particular, has a parallel function. But yeah, we can cut FEMA, cut federal taxes accordingly and maybe do that for a lot of things where the state has a primary interest, knowledge, and responsiveness to local priorities. They're also gonna need to raise taxes.
  19. I can actually buy the notion that disaster response should be primarily a state activity. That makes a certain amount of good sense. But, we've had FEMA for who knows how long and many/most states have abdicated their disaster response functions. Like tariffs, or the notion of incentivizing domestic manufacturing, I could get on board with "we're gonna devolve FEMA's responsibilities back on the states where they belong." But that needs to take place over like 10 years, maybe 20.
  20. Freshman Senator from Florida. Replaced lil Marco by appointment from Meatball Ron. Former Florida AG, and as such sued to repeal Obamacare joined in Texas v. Pennsylvania, Paxton's frivolous Supreme Court original jurisdiction case opposed legalization opposed restoration of felon voting Also, with the exception of Brennan's testimony to Congress in 2023, criminal prosecution for "Russia gate" is barred by limitations, having occurred more than five years ago. Performative nonsense and she knows it. And let's not forget this was also the subject of the Durham investigation, five some-odd years ago now.
  21. Hell, most of Florida and a good bit of the rest of the Gulf and Atlantic Coast states.
  22. Well, glad it worked out. I just did the one on mine and my wife's car recently. They did not suggest doing all four, or give me a 4-for-1. One thing I did do before letting Discount do it was check Rock Auto. There are various "flavors" of TPMS sensors, from generic one-sensor-fits-most, to OEM, to OEM-equivalent. Many times, Rock Auto will sell you an OEM part or very good equivalent, for a lot less than even an AutoZone or OReillys will sell a generic, or a shop will charge you for the part. For example, I recently bought AC-Delco iridium plugs for a tuneup for about half what AZ and OR wanted for them. An AC-Delco O2 sensor was more like 1/3. For my car, the GM-AC-Delco monitors were about $30 more than Discount's installed, so I decided to go that route.
  23. This may be a blinding glimpse of the obvious, but it just occurred to me with clarity. This seems to be symptomatic of the "American Dream." Even without knowledge of the normal distribution, morons seem to know that they are morons, not smart and/or not educated, and are close to the majority. And intelligence and education correlate pretty well with success in America. Yes, a moron can get rich or attain the middle class by hard work, pretty much alone, but the odds are not great. In order to maintain the illusion that "anyone can 'make it' in America," there needs to be a devaluation of intelligence and education. Add in a little demagoguery and you have an elevation of ignorance.
  24. One can come to a theological certainty that their faith is the only way to salvation without engaging in imperialism, colonization, and greed. One can be nominally a member of a faith, engage in imperialism, colonization, and greed, and justify it by claiming faith certainty compels it without ever having broached the question from a theological or philosophical standpoint and otherwise having little or no opinion on the matter. As stated above, war, imperialism et cetera happen wherever there is man, with or without religion. If man/society happens to be religious, religion will often be claimed as a justification. Rome was expanding its empire long before Christ and the RCC. Heathen Celts and Carthaginians were invading resisting them.
  25. I'm not really sure that certainty was the result of any theological or philisophical thinking. I think it's more a post-hoc justification for imperialism, colonization, and greed.
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