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  1. 12 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

    Prices have definitely improved the last few weeks. Buddy is having his annual Spring boil on Saturday. Our mutual delivery guy is down to $2.75/lb and his sacks tend to be good size and very little dead loss. I'm sure there will be a price surge for Easter weekend, but should drop back to $2.50 or less thereafter.

    Who is your guy?  Austin local?  I'm probably doing a boil May 4th, trying to figure out where I'll buy from.

  2. 5 minutes ago, wildcat09 said:

    Moreover, the court added, addressing an argument made by lawyers for the plaintiffs during oral arguments in the lower courts, the government must provide that notice “within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.”

    Dicta which is meaningless.  Once the government does an end-around that and does not provide notice before removal occurs (which is exactly what they have been doing, and will continue to do), you will be in a prison in El Salvador.  And now, it's too late -- no remedy is available, because you are out of US government hands.  That is the fucking play.  How do we know?  Because they are actually running it, right now, in real-time.  The court alluded to a solution that the Regime will not allow to be implemented.

    You still.  Don't.  Fucking.  Get it.  (I'm referring to Ojo, not you Wildcat).

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  3. 16 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

    Answer: Even if the US fucks up and leaves NATO, no Western NATO Ally is going to integrate Chinese tech into their military.  Canada will buy Saabs or Eurofighters. 

    And they should.  We are absolutely making European defense manufacturing great again.

    Any and all of our former allies would be fools if they aren't IMMEDIATELY pursuing a plan to "de-Americanify" their defense purchasing/arming.  We are an unreliable and untrustworthy seller, who may well be at war with any one of them at any moment, on the whim of a fucking psychopath.  A European power buying an F-35 from the US at this point would be as dumb as buying SU-34s from Russia.

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  4. Just now, bolverk said:

    When the legislative branch fails to rein in the Executive,

    And the judiciary fails to stop the Executive.

    All that's left is the Executive.

    And the executioner.

    That's how this ends.  It's just a question of who is on the receiving end of the axe.  Right now, signs point to "us" as the recipients.

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  5. Oh, and attorneys representing protesters and dissidents are getting hassled at customs now. This is tinpot dictator shit
    https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/wayne/2025/04/07/lawyer-for-u-m-protester-held-at-airport-refused-to-give-feds-his-phone/82978891007/
    According to Makled, here are the events that unfolded at Detroit Metro Airport after his family landed back home from a five-day stay in Punta Canta:
    It was about 7 p.m. when the Delta flight landed back at Detroit Metro. Makled, his wife and two daughters exited the plane and made their way to the passport checkpoint for screening. Their photos were taken.
    Mom and the kids got through with no problem. But when Makled's photo was taken, a notification popped up and Makled said he heard one agent ask another agent: "Hey, are the TTRT folks around?"
    "I thought, 'What the hell is that?' So, I Google that quickly," Makled recalled of the acronym.
    He quickly learned that TTRT stands for Tactical Terrorism Response Team.
    Makled said his wife looked at him and asked what was going on, but he said he didn't know. As the border agents let his wife and kids go, they took Makled into a small interrogation room.
    While in the interrogation room, Makled said, a man in plain clothes entered and began speaking to him. He said he recalls the man telling him: "We know you're a lawyer. We know you take on big cases."
    Makled said he responded: "I said, 'I’m not a famous lawyer. Let’s get to the bottom. What's the issue here?' "
    According to Makled, there were two men in the room with him. One told him it's a federal crime to lie to a federal agent.
    "I'm aware of that," Makled said. "But you're not identifying yourself."
    One agent handed him a pamphlet about confiscating phones at the border. Makled, who is familiar with the law, said he was well aware that the government can confiscate one's phone for a period of time and then give it back. But he said he told the agents he wasn't going to let them have his phone because it contained privileged information with all of his clients.
    So, he said, the agents asked for a list of texts that he believed to be privileged. Makled said he told them that that was impossible given his thousands of texts.
    So they kept pushing.
    "I said, 'Listen, why don’t you ask me what you want. What is it that you’re looking for, and I’ll decide if I’m going to give you the answer.' "
    "He said, 'Nope. It doesn't work like that ... we want your contact list,' " Makled said he was told.
    Makled agreed to let them see his contact list. The agents asked who various people were, though Makled said he only told them that they are his clients, nothing more.
    The meeting ended with the agents writing up a report and releasing Makled without incident.
    Before Makled left the room, he said he asked the agents whether this was going to be routine in the future — him getting stopped at airports and questioned.
    The agent told him he didn't have an answer, but said he would write up a report and that "as a result, you should be fine," Makled said he was told.
    Makled said he then left the room and soon reunited with his family.
    So be aware, surlyites. ICE and CBP are looking for fuckin any reason to stop and interrogate anyone.

    Duh. We have a Stasi now, the Regime can disappear anyone it wants. It’s just a matter of time before it happens to someone here or a family member.
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  6. Yeah, this is a different case from Abrego.  As I said elsewhere, there's a jurisdiction issue that kind of taints the one before Boasberg.
    But they need to slap down this "foreign-policy/national security" shit with haste.  Don't know that they will but they should.

    You know they fucking won’t. Just stop. You know as well as I do: the rule of law is dead.
    This regime could grab YOU, sitting on your couch watching basketball, hogtie you, put you on a plane to a foreign prison, and you would be getting your head shaved and ass beaten before tonight’s trophy presentation is over….and there’s NOTHING YOU OR ANYONE ELSE COULD DO ABOUT IT. The admin will say “so sad, too bad, we can’t get Twice back,” and it’s done - YOU’RE done.
    “Disappearing” people - any person, for any reason - is now functionally legal. You have no way to stop it, save one: arm yourself. And defend yourself. That’s where we are left.
    Stop pretending that any vestige of the rule of law remains.
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  7. This is what I’ve been saying:



    If there is no means of obtaining redress through the courts…then what does a person have left? The only rational course of action is to ensure that the regime does not take you into custody at all, because if they do, they can disappear you, and it’s over. You’re done.
    Much better to fight by any means available on the front end. That’s just simple logic, and the main negative of opting out of the rule of law: all that’s left is rule of the gun.
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  8. I will now provide the list of things preventing The Regime from snatching any one of you off the street at any moment, restraining you, shoving you onto a flight to El Salvador, and having you locked away in a Salvadoran prison - with no chance of return or getting you out - within a matter of hours:

    1) You shooting your way out of the attempted detention.

    That's it.  That's your sole means of redress left.  The law is powerless.  The courts are powerless.  The Regime has complete and total power to disappear any person they want, and there's nothing you can do about it.  Your only possible way out -- slim and shitty as it is -- is to defend yourself with deadly force.  And yes, you will surely be met with deadly force, and if you survive, face the full weight of the law.  Ironically, the law that offers you zero protections.

    The District Court understood what this practice means.  The 4th Circuit understood what it means.  The SCOTUS...also understood what it means.  And what it means to them is the opportunity to crown Trump king, subject to no laws.  Thus completing the journey they began when they wrote complete and total immunity for the POTUS into the Constitution where it does not exist.

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  9. 8 minutes ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

    It would take me all of 1 minute to make both of these bitches cry like cunts.

    And this.  Jesse Watters is the least manly man out there.  He's an abhorrent human being in every possible way.

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  10. 3 minutes ago, Firemans4Horn said:

     

    Again....these are people who are mentally incapable of grasping "value exchanged for value."

    I have an LG dryer in my house.  I exchanged $500 for that.  But tracking the $500 over to Korea is only part of the deal.  In exchange, I got a valuable and useful good that was worth....$500 (remember, the value of any good is what "a willing buyer will pay a willing seller" for that good - that's literally the economic definition of "value").  We haven't "given away" any of that money.  We exchanged it for value.  In a free market, where I have the freedom and liberty to choose what I exchange my money for.  I have all kinds of things in my house that I exchanged money for - a dryer, a TV, a sofa, etc.  Some of those items, I sent the money to someone in the US...and then got something of that exact value in exchange.  For others, I sent the money to someone in Korea, or Japan, etc....and then got something of that exact value in exchange.

    God I hate stupid people, and we've made them into kings, answerable to no one.

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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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