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  1. 15 minutes ago, UTEE97 said:

    The problem going forward is going to be how dems can relate to people who feel like they are not being heard.

    The plan is super-easy:

    1) Give them someone to hate/blame.

    2) Feed the hate.  Shovel coal onto the hate constantly, as fast as you can.  Never pause, never let up.

    The problem is, all the easy-to-hate groups are already taken by the right: minorities, gays, trans, anyone weak really.  So, now we've got to find some groups the GQP doesn't already own the "we hate 'em" license for.  

    That pretty much leaves billionaires, which is not a great choice because they have the means to fight back.  The right wins this, because they picked the target of the people who really can't fight back.  They won.  That's why it's over.  We are a country governed by decisions made based on who you hate and blame for everything wrong, even things that haven't gone wrong/don't exist (kitty litter boxes in classrooms).  We can't overcome that.

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  2. Just now, Gap03 said:

    Does that apply to John Roberts, or just Charles and Leo?  It would almost be worth it if John became a cautionary tale for ACB and the rest ...

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    Why would it apply anyone on SCOTUS?  They are doing EXACTLY what they have been told to do: create an air of legitimacy for the Imperial Reign for Life of His Royal Highness Donald Trump, long may he reign, and God save the king.

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  3. 1 minute ago, Huckleberry said:

    Is this where Charles Koch falls out of a window? 

    Naah.  They'll snatch him from his home, hogtie him, and toss him on a flight to El Salvador -- he'll be locked away in a prison there before the day is done.

    Which is perfectly legal now, and there are no consequences to The Regime for doing so.  True fact.

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  4. 4 minutes ago, achooloco said:

    s.ct. Just threw a pause on the above. But still they will give a more detailed decision In the next few days? Will we have a full blown constitutional crisis by the wknd?

    Dude.  That ship has SAILED.....struck an iceberg....split in two....and sunk to the fucking bottom.

    There's no crisis.  A crisis implies that there's still a constitution.  There is not.

    Tell me one thing you can do to insure that you don't get disappeared into a foreign prison by this regime?  I mean, one thing that does NOT involve you shooting your way out of an attempt to disappear you.  Because by my count, that's the only avenue left.

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  5. On 3/31/2025 at 11:34 PM, Brisketexan said:

    If the Trump regime can disappear someone and not be subject to court enforcement because “oh well, we don’t have our hands on him anymore,” they can do and say that as to anyone and everyone. Including you.
    This is how it goes, and this is how it ends. The Trump regime now has full power - with no accountability or consequences - to disappear US citizens, political opponents, or anyone it doesn’t like.

     

    4 hours ago, Captainant said:

    https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258/gov.uscourts.ca4.178258.13.0_1.pdf

    4th Circuit of Appeals denies the trumpco request for an immediate administrative stay, and affirms the order to return the plaintiff to the US by no later than 11:59 PM April 7, 2025.

    And the government rightfully concedes that it was an “error” and a “mistake” to ignore this process. Mot. for Stay at 16-17. And, if it is truly a mistake, one would also expect the government to do what it can to rectify it. Most of us attempt to undo, to the extent that we can, the mistakes that we have made. But, to the best of my knowledge, the government has not made the attempt here. The facts of this case thus present the potential for a disturbing loophole: namely that the government could whisk individuals to foreign prisons in violation of court orders and then contend, invoking its Article II powers, that it is no longer their custodian, and there is nothing that can be done. It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone.

    come get your flowers @futureman and @ChickenSandwich, yall were hella jazzed about all these Venezuelans getting blackbagged back in February.

    "It takes no small amount of imagination to understand that this is a path of perfect lawlessness, one that courts cannot condone."

    Note also that Trump just the past day or so commented that it would be "great" if El Salvador would also take US citizens as prisoners.

    This is how you "disappear" people.  Any person you want.  Without being answerable to the law in any way.  "Ooops, it was an error that we grabbed Steve Critic of the Regime off the street right outside his home and immediately put him on a plane to El Salvador, where his now held in prison.  No takesies-backsies, though!  So sad, too bad!"

    And now the SCOTUS has signed on to support that approach (see Roberts staying the lower courts' orders, just now).

    This is how authoritarian powers get full carte blanche to disappear people, with no legal remedy or consequence.  If you are a critic of the regime, you have one tool of defense against being disappeared.  Fortunately, this is America, so you can get that tool rather quickly and cheaply.  Do not count on a lawyer or court saving you.  We don't have those things anymore.  Just the thing you need to buy, and learn to use.

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  6. 7 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

    8 hours in Baffin in Feb...with a unbeknownst to me newly formed hole in a cheaper pair of waders.   Not sure I saw my dick again for a week.  

    Had the same experience in Port O'Connor years ago with a pair of breathable Hodgemans.  The hole was right in the crotch.  When I went in to the store to return them the next week, I told them to send them to the goddamned CEO of Hodgmans and I would personally take him on a guided trip in January while he wears that exact pair.

    The poor minimum wage clerk just gave me my money back and smiled when I left, a reaction for which I cannot blame him.

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  7. Just now, Chuckie Finster said:

    We officially need to be in our Luigi era.

    https://www.yahoo.com/news/chief-justice-john-roberts-pauses-194915499.html

    Chief Justice John Roberts pauses order for Trump administration to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador prison.

     

    At this point, I can pretty much write every SCOTUS opinion going forward: "If the King does it, it is by definition legal.  All hail King Trump."

    If y'all had any doubt left, it's over, it's done.  We are in a full-on autocracy.  No half-measures, no "gosh, parts of it LOOK a little authoritarian."  We're there.  We've crossed the finish line.

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  8. Just now, Captainant said:

    Historically speaking, that's usually what happens after an authoritarian fascist leader is in power for an economic collapse. It's just in this case, he had to DIY his economic collapse

    Fucking....THIS.

  9. 1 minute ago, texas08 said:

    lmfaoooo

    nuclear war w Iran incoming

    Seriously.  He desperately needs a distraction.  Starting a war is exactly what a simple-minded abject moron would do.

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  10. Just now, Bullneck said:

    When I'm shopping for a vacation I look for places I don't want to go and then hit "buy" on the cruise ship website.

    So....cruises up the Brazos to College Station are a thing now?

  11. 12 minutes ago, Gatorubet said:

    I have it on good authority that the orange God will bring back coal, so phone me when that happens so I can cheer on the industrial revolution.

    So, you HAVE figured out how we make America Great Again.

    1) Bring back brutal, low-wage jobs.

    2) Need people to do them.

    3) Eliminate public education.

    4) Repeal all child labor laws.

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    PROFIT!

     

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  12. Just now, elfenix said:

    And as all state workers are being ordered to come back to the office....where there is not even parking for all of those people (because TXDOT has had some workers working remotely for YEARS): https://www.kvue.com/article/news/local/txdot-parking-austin-return-to-office-abbott-state-workers/269-dd7fbbb0-ed93-4233-8431-01f716c0980c

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  13. 1 minute ago, chainsaw said:

    What has to happen in your life to run into someone who looks like this, and think to yourself, "he's got all the answers. i should trust him unconditionally."

    You should ask 77 million Trump voters.

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  14. 8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

    Great point about full employment.  We do need better jobs, though, and higher wages in the jobs we do have and any we "bring back."  Wages are really a separate issue from onshoring manufacturing.  As has been pointed out, there are a lot of offshored jobs we really don't want back, because they're inherently low-wage and/or hazardous to workers or to society at large.

    But, a combination of bringing back, or at least to non-hostile neighbors like Canada and Mexico, manufacturing and industry that implicates national security and potentially provides higher-wage jobs is a reasonable goal.  But this assuredly is not the way to accomplish it.

    Fantastic post, all the way around.  We do not want to re-shore jobs stitching together Nikes or making plastic toy soldiers or screwing together small low-cost electronic components.  Industry that implicates national security provides higher wage jobs (read: "manufacturing jobs that require a bunny suit and/or real technical training")?  You bet.  And there are ways to do that......

    6 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

    Yeah, it was called the CHIPS act and it was fucking working

    Bingo.  Capital is much easier to attract than it is to compel.  Because once you've held capital at gunpoint, it correctly fears that you'll do so again, so it is loathe to commit itself long-term.

    Imagine spotting an attractive girl in a bar.  She's been talking to another guy.  So, you walk up to her, pull a gun, and say "you're coming with me.  You are going to move in with me, we're going to get married, and have a long and happy life together."  She will most likely go with you right then, because....you fucking have her at gun point.  But the minute she thinks she can get away -- not necessarily to run back to some other dude, but specifically to get away from YOU, the erratic psycho with a gun -- she will.  And she ain't coming back.

    We are trying to force capital to do things that don't make long-term sense at gunpoint.  The only way that has any chance of success is to keep the gun on them, 24/7 for eternity.  And even then....they'll find ways to game the system and get as much as they can far away from the barrel of our gun.

    We're doing this the completely wrong way.  Which is maddening, because the CHIPS act was an example of how to do it the right way.

    And nevermind how counterproductive this is when it comes to immigration.  We want people from south of the border to stay home.  The KEY way to get them to do so is to help their countries become stable and prosperous.  So, what do we do?  Undermine their whole economy because they all are -- Mexico, Honduras, everyone on earth -- "ripping us off."  We're being "ripped off" by a country with a per capita income of $6,650.  Jesus monkeyfuck, the stupidity.

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  15. 52 minutes ago, Rex Kramer said:

    He speaks from the experience of a very intentionally contrarian nerd. And I’m just not in the mood to engage him, Brisket or Twice without being a direct dick. At least Brisket had good sense to drop the political narrative and shut chainsaw the fuck up. 

    Of course, the fact that you equate a comment on a SOCIAL issue as a POLITICAL comment is a big part of the fucking problem.  Politics is a trailing indicator of social function.  And our current dominant social ethos is "fuck you, me me me."  Yeah, that translates to politics, but importantly for society, it is most directly seen in utterly stupid shit like this event, people acting like entitled, selfish dicks on the road, in the grocery store, at school, everywhere.  Commenting on that real-deal social issue isn't "politics"....although the fact that it's taken as slamming a particularly sensitive segment of our political landscape is telling in its own right.

    A kid is dead, and another life ruined, because of some really stupid decisionmaking - multiple layers of it, actually, at the very least starting with the decision to bring a fucking knife to a track meet.  FFS, it's one of the reasons I preach against carrying a fucking gun everywhere you go - because then, every confrontation has a real chance of escalating into a gunfight, and that's always a bad outcome.  But it may also include bad decisions beforehand if there was some sort of beef.  Bad decisions in the heat of the moment if two 17 yr olds bowed up to each other over nothing.  Hell if I know what the whole story is.  I just know that in cases like this, it's often a layer cake of bad decisions that gets us to the ultimate bad outcome.  And woven through all of them is a focus on self to the exclusion of evaluating the social purposes and consequences of our actions.

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