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  1. Most Poles he will work with speak English or German. Suggest he learn it for day to day, not for business. The business language will come with time, but being able to talk about sports, the weather, family, etc is a great way to start. 
    I know a lot of people (Americans) who went to study Urdu or Pashto. Well now they have a language skill that does not mean much. 
    Working in the Balkans, SW Asia, and the Middle East the people outside of the market and day to day life spoke English. 
    And watch Romania. They are doing some interesting things. 

    Well, he’s already got the English and German down, so there’s that. And there’s also Polish girls…
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  2. 25 minutes ago, bolverk said:

    Poland will continue to provide aid but that the countries may become future rivals within the EU.

    My crystal ball (which is really just a snowglobe with a hula dancer in it) tells me that there's a good chance that the eastern parts of central europe have a chance of becoming a new center of gravity in Europe's economic future.  There is some real untapped potential in Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltics.  Maybe even Romania and Bulgaria (nowhere to go but up, dudes).  Hungary?  Dunno.  Former Yugoslavian states?  Maybe some of them.  Once the war is over, they could be some real lands of opportunity.

    I will say that in talking to some folks planning ahead, several of them told my son (international relations major) "it'd be a great idea to learn Polish."

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  3. 18 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Yes, and if it was closer to trial, one of them might.  Note that his lawyers are withdrawing from a Smartmatic suit, a Dominion suit, a Coomer suit, and one other.

    And....note that the defendant in the captioned case is "My Pillow, Inc."  A corporation generally CANNOT appear pro se (so, Mike Lindell can't just say "I'll represent myself," because MPI isn't "myself" -- it's a separate entity).  So....the corporation doesn't have counsel.  And it NEEDS counsel, or else it will end up defaulting.

    Which ultimately, may not make a shit, as it seems MPI is outta money and headed for bankruptcy sooner rather than later.  So, get the judgment....you'll never collect on it from MPI.

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  4. 7 minutes ago, Gil Bang said:

    Lindell is obviously very mentally ill.  I feel bad for the guy.  I don't think he's a horrible person, he just needs a ton of psychiatric help.  His family should be ashamed for not getting him help. 

    Counterpoint: I'm sick of the empowered and weaponized mentally ill being allowed - fuck, being EMPOWERED AND ENABLED BY THE MAGA MOVEMENT - to fuck over our country. 

    If he was on the corner yelling at clouds, I'd feel bad for him.  He's made millions, and has spent it trying to destroy our democracy.  Suffering is too good for him.  Hell is too good for him.

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  5. 1 minute ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    I'm amazed that any lawyer would take cases from any of the MAGA crew and not require 100% of estimated fees upfront. Maybe 150%.

    This.  It's the only rational course.  Except the bottom line should be 200% of the estimated fees.  Paid, with all transfers having cleared, before I do a .1 entry of work on the file.

  6. 1 minute ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

    Put yourself in his shoes, just for a moment.

    He owes millions in legal fees he cannot pay.  He owes someone $5 million for a "Prove Mike Wrong" election challenge that he lost, was ordered to pay, and is now appealing that.  He has lawsuits from 2 election companies that are slowly moving forward.  His company, while not bankrupt yet, will be soon, and aside from MAGA folks, there is no market for his goods.  He can't even get his product placed in brick and mortar stores because of his lunacy.  Now, having said all that, I couldn't care less what happens to him, because all of this is his own doing.  But shit, imagine having all this hang over your head, day to day.  

    Ah well, back to the entertainment.  Oh, and fuck him.  Reap what you sow, bitch.

    https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/mypillow-lawyers-say-ceo-mike-lindell-owes-millions-dollars-rcna119058

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    In a March interview with Newsweek, Lindell said he'd been forced to borrow $10 million to pay for his legal fees.

    In April, an arbitration panel ordered Lindell to pay $5 million for losing his “Prove Mike Wrong” 2020 election challenge, in which participants were asked to find proof that his cyber data was not valid data from the November 2020 election, as he’d contended it was.

    “For the people who find the evidence, 5 million is their reward,” the contest said.

    Software developer Robert Zeidman won the challenge, but Lindell refused to pay. Lindell is now challenging the arbitration panel's ruling.

    On Thursday, Lindell told NBC that despite the financial strains on him and his company, he plans to keep pushing his stolen election claims.

    "I will never stop trying to secure our elections," he said.

    Lindell is not the only Trump ally facing an action on unpaid legal fees tied to false claims about the 2020 election.

    Last month, longtime Rudy Giuliani attorney Robert Costello and his firm sued the former New York City mayor for $1.4 million in unpaid fees.

    Giuliani, who's also being sued by Smartmatic, Dominion and Coomer, has been found liable for defaming two Georgia election workers, and is facing related criminal charges in Fulton County. He's pleaded not guilty to the Georgia election interference charges.

    Trump held a fundraiser in September in support of Giuliani's legal defense fund.

    Giuliani’s son, Andrew Giuliani, who worked in the Trump White House, touted the fundraiser in an interview on WABC radio of New York City in the hours before the fundraiser, saying that while they'd raised over $1 million for this event alone,” it “won’t be enough to get through this.

     

    So, we're well into the "finding out" portion of our program.  Let's see what happens next.

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  7. 1 hour ago, FirstTimeCaller said:

    I can feel all the shit in my teeth from eating that just looking at the picture. 

    That's why you have the whiskey.  Great for a good rinse.  Still got some butterfinger in your teeth?  Pour another glass.

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  8. 12 minutes ago, Native Horn said:

    I served on a Travis Co DWI jury trial last week.  Defendant found not guilty due to lack of evidence (didn't collect breath or blood, even though defendant said he would offer them - field sobriety tests seemed OK according to video).  After trial was over, I did some research on the defendant.  It appears that 18 days after his DWI stop in Austin (this was in 2021), he had another incident in his hometown (not near Austin) where he was driving drunk and two of his passengers died.  Furk.  Hated to see that, but the jury I was on still made the right call in his Travis Co case.

    That's one of the under-considered pieces of fallout from police work that has contempt for the law, evidence, and due process: they do shitty policing when it comes to guilty people as well as innocent people, so guilty people end up going free.

    When the cops' approach to matters is "fuck it, he's guilty because we SAY he's guilty," that's a recipe for any jury worth its salt saying "I mean....maybe not?"

    Bad policing hurts EVERYONE.  It hurts the "law and order!" types as much as it hurts the hardcore civil libertarians.

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  9. 1 minute ago, tx ind said:

    we're getting closer to OnlyFans once she loses her seat

    Maybe.

    But what is a certainty is that her career path as a $5k+ per night escort is coming along nicely.  It's a sales pitch that writes itself: "Fuck a former congresswoman for $5k."  Her calendar will be full the moment she starts accepting bookings.

  10. 4 minutes ago, ztejas said:

    Since when has APD ever been heavy-handed? I've never gotten the sense that police brutality or abuse of power was a big issue within Travis County. 

    They enforced the shit out of some DWIs back in the day - I'll give them that. 

    Since always.  Many of us didn't experience much of it because we were college types....not the types being targeted.  That said, when you got in their crosshairs, they were HAPPY to bodyslam you, lie on the arrest affidavit, all that shit.  I've seen it both first and secondhand.

    And the DWI enforcement was one of their worst things -- if they pulled you over for DWI, you were going to get charged, even if you were sober as a judge.  And if you dared question them, you were going to get ANOTHER charge (for contempt of cop).  If you were NEARBY and questioned what they were doing, you'd get charged with something.  They've been heavy-handed as shit, for a long damned time.  Comfy white Austin didn't experience it as much, so assumed it wasn't a problem.  They were wrong.

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  11. 20 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    There's the other side of the coin.  The Karen / Cancel culture where they blame cops for anything and everything.  Again, doing your job correctly leads to an internal investigation for police brutality because some dumbass thinks they shouldn't have been pulled over for doing 20 over in a school zone.  The inherent lack of respect for authority paired with the customer's always right mindset leads to crap like this. 

     

    I know there are lazy / corrupt / bad cops, but I don't believe the entire APD force is conspiring to defraud the city of Austin for political carte blanche to bring about Marshall Law.

    Yes.

    Clearly what minorities have been telling society as a whole for decades, and that we can see in incident after incident after incident (camera phones are a cop's worst enemy)....well, those were lies.  And cops don't abuse citizens.  Bullshit.  I'm a pretty model citizen, from a pretty model family -- honest, hardworking parents, the whole deal.  But I've had a family member get the shit beaten out of him and tossed in jail (and not allowed to contact anyone...he literally had to bribe a jailer to make a call), and I've had a cop flat-out LIE on a citation to me, so GTFO with that bullshit.

    Sure, there are citizens who bitch when it's their own damned fault, but decades upon decades of letting cops get away with whatever the fuck they want leads to a culture that sees itself as completely above the law and accountable to nobody.  You don't have to believe that, that doesn't make it any less true.

    Cops in this country have made it clear that they want three things: 1) high pay (I don't fault them for that), 2) lots of military toys and tech, and 3) zero accountability or consequences for anything they do.  

    Nobody is saying it's not a hard job.  Lots of jobs are hard.  And a lot of jobs are way more dangerous. 

    You seem to subscribe to the "there's just a couple of bad apples in law enforcement" theory, and not the "the culture of law enforcement is broken" truth.  It's broken.  It's utterly and completely broken.  That doesn't mean that bad guys are also shitty, and that people complain about cops doing stuff that shouldn't be complained about.  Both things are true.  What the cops are doing in Austin is an open secret.  They're proud of it.

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  12. 31 minutes ago, PvilleStang said:

    I think a huge part of the problem is the cops are afraid to do their jobs. 

    That's absolutely their story.  Let me translate it for you: "we used to be able to beat the shit out of anybody we wanted.  Now we're being held accountable.  We can't do our jobs under such draconian conditions!"  That's not unique to APD.  American policing culture is pushing back, and pushing back hard because they don't like things like "being subject to the law," and "being accountable to the communities they serve."  Instead, we should just give them badges, guns, and clubs, and give them a license to do whatever they want.  And if we don't like it?  Well then, we'll just leave, and you can secure your community yourself!

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  13. At this point, the complete lack of enforcement action by APD (what ARE they doing with their time, exactly?) is purposeful.  And the reason for it is simple, but it's not what some of you might think it is.  It's not because the City Council has directed them not to arrest people for violent crimes.  It's not because we have a shitty DA (and we do have a shitty DA).  It's the strategy of an abuser.

    The police are pissed off about being called out on their bullshit -- abuse of citizens and such.  So, they are functionally going on a strike: they are simply refusing to take action against violent crime.  The goal is to get the population to be frightened and desperate enough to BEG the cops to do their job, and say "we'll give you whatever you want!  Be cops however you want!  Just protect us!"  

    It's contemptible and frankly fucking evil.  I don't see a fix.  They are making the choice pretty clear.  You can have bad cops with no limits on their behavior, or you can have no cops at all.  Pretty shitty choices.

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  14. 2 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

    Super important caveat here.

    Nearly everyone believes that they allow the evidence to inform their opinions.

    Almost no one ever does.

    The only time we allow evidence to possibly inform our opinions is when we are switching our tribal association, or when there is a conflict within the tribe. (For example, people generally came around on gay marriage because nearly everyone knows, and cares about, someone who is gay.)

    That's what makes what's going on in the GOP now so interesting to watch. The conflict within the tribe is going to cause people to review their beliefs.

    True.  But the bolded is depressing.  Because what do you think is more likely: 1) the review of said beliefs causes them to take a more rational, empathetic view of things, or 2) the review of said beliefs leads them to conclude that they don't hate ENOUGH/have ENOUGH anger at everyone who isn't like them?

    I know where I'm putting my money.

    1) There is no bottom.

    2) It only gets worse.

  15. Just now, immamac said:

    How early are you arriving? You are likely going to have to pre-buy a parking pass if you get there too late and just park in the gates. I wouldn't park anywhere outside fenced areas/gates anymore unless you are in a beater you don't give a shit about with nothing inside. Stuff's gotten much worse around the cotton bowl.

    Probably arriving around 8:00 am.  From what outfits can I pre-buy a parking pass, and where would those parking sites be?

  16. 3 minutes ago, The Dog said:

    you know "Trump as Speaker" is DOA when a guy from an R+19 district says "hell naw."

    .....because Trump isn't MAGA-crazy enough.  That part is really, really important.

    So, as many people hoped, the GQP is moving on from Trump.....by leaving him behind to head to even more psychotic destinations.

    Remember Brisket's Rules of the GQP:

    1) There is no bottom.

    2) It only gets worse.

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