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Brisketexan

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  1. It's going to be entirely fact-specific. Imagine if you killed someone (it could happen). The circumstances would likely be a pretty freakish one-off. Your deranged neighbor comes over and threatens you, he lunges at you. You are one of those guys who carries a basic lockblade knife with him. You are able to pull it, and you stab him, he dies. Maybe a witness saw y'all arguing beforehand, so your self-defense claim isn't enough, and you get charged with murder. The circumstances are that you have a clean record, no history of violence of violent threats, and whatever the case (murder or self-defense), your violent act here was clearly a product of a particular circumstance, not some wider violent trend. Bottom line, even if you DID murder your neighbor, you're not likely to be a threat of violence to anyone else. Compare that to someone who is charged with killing a member of a rival gang. The accused has a long record of violent offenses and threats to kill others. The accused has a record of a long-standing beef with the entire rival gang, and was heard at various times threatening members of the rival gang. He is reasonably likely to commit further violence along those lines if he's released. It's not just the act alleged (you killed someone). It's the circumstances that make you a likely future threat to others or not.
  2. A whole lot of this. Also, the ones I do see showing up in various places are just repeating the lies promulgated in right wing media: all of these guys sent down there are violent criminal gang members! Kilmar Garcia was a member of MS-13! (Ignoring that 1) there has never been any such adjudication, and 2) even the Trump admin, in a fucking official court filing, admitted that he was nabbed and deported not because it was merited, but because of an "administrative error") etc. etc. They can't help but lie. The entire philosophy and approach is a mountain of lies, built on a foundation of hate, resulting in a sacred temple of fascist bullshit. And they LIKE IT that way. Every. Single. Right-winger here. LIKES extrajudicial black-bagging of people, disappearing them into foreign prisons, without any due process.
  3. Ha! Joke's on you -- Ohio is incapable of being embarrassed.
  4. Or this was Nicole's latest way of covering her tracks. Look in the rubble for a body with lungs full of lake water.....
  5. Also....get yourself a sex tent. Trust us.
  6. Fuck running for office. He has military experience. He needs to be teaching Americans how to defend themselves.
  7. Hank knows what's up in this timeline.
  8. The Constitutional Crisis is here. The civil war will be when the Regime starts disappearing citizens. And that is as it was always going to be. For the millionth time, it's why opting out of the Rule of Law is very, very bad, and shouldn't be done.
  9. "To this Honorable Court: Fuck you. That's your update. Submitted, A guy who's gonna fuck your mom, too"
  10. (a) you dumbass, there's no gas service there, of course they needed propane. This guy agrees: (b) yeah....that part doesn't make sense. Seems like it would be one of the final things on the to-do list at completion (I suspect you'd maybe want it on in time to test any appliances running on it/related plumbing), but that's still a late-game thing.
  11. So...these women took an inspiring journey that lasted twice as long as the average "inspiring journey" that Surly posters take women on. Totally worth it.
  12. You just described my typical weekend plans.
  13. This. Those are the most relevant criteria for setting a bond. A bond is not to punish the guilty, because - and this is really important - the accused in such cases has not been adjudicated guilty of the crime charged, and often never IS so adjudicated. Bonds are to protect against flight and avoiding trial, and to protect the public if the person represents an immediate and serious threat to others. As both risks seem on the low end in this case, a bond reduction is not nonsensical. The amount of his bond will not have any bearing on his final adjudication, any finding of guilt, or any sentence. That is, if he was gonna be found guilty and sentenced to 30 years, that was going to happen regardless of the amount of his bond. Likewise, if he was going to be found not guilty by reason of self-defense, that was also going to happen regardless to the amount of his bond.
  14. Well, that's definitely not Paris, Texas. Looks more like Mineola. Am I right?
  15. To your question -- doesn't matter. El Salvador has and can have different laws. They can have a law of "your tattoos are ugly, life in prison for you." We may not agree with those laws, but sovereign gonna sovereign. The point being....it doesn't make a shit. Once someone is in the custody of a different sovereign, what happens to them is generally solely up to that sovereign (unless, if course....that sovereign has a treaty or agreement with another sovereign -- see extradition agreements and such, or see (maybe, if there actually is one) the agreement between ES and the USA regarding these prisoners). And yes, no shit we're days away from US citizens being black bagged and disappeared. That's the fucking intent, and always has been. What would you have done if the Gestapo came to your door to shove you into a vehicle and ship you off to a death camp from which you had no prospects of returning? Well....that's what you should consider doing now, because we're there.
  16. Yeah, that house on the right is a total loss. And based on what I'd suspect home values in that area are, there goes your $1 million in builder's risk coverage -- the home that blew up and that house will deplete the policy and then some.
  17. And yeah....shades of this.
  18. They are a separate sovereign state. They can do whatever the fuck we want. Which is the one - and dispositive - reason that individuals subject to the jurisdiction and actions of US law enforcement should never be sent to a prison that is not on US soil. That's a stop-down, basic rule of law thing.
  19. None of that will work. Just buy this, you're going to need it:
  20. Imagine having confidence in an "asset" that has now been fully co-opted as a tool of self-enrichment by a regime that has amply demonstrated that it will manipulate the market at will to facilitate the massive enrichment of a chosen cadre of insiders. Crypto is now an effective wealth-transfer mechanism from the rubes to the Regime's inner circle. Every other ostensible "purpose" is secondary.
  21. Besmirching my chili will not be tolerated. I make a mighty fine pot of red, nothing especially gastrointestinally distressing about it. I don't make Jade's chili, FFS....
  22. Also a bingo. Reliability and certainty - which are hallmarks of Rule of Law countries - are a huge part of why those countries prosper, compared to countries without such reliability and certainty. If you want to see a country and its economy crumble to dust functionally overnight (in a matter of months), we're doing exactly what you'd want to do to bring about that outcome. When the Rule of Law goes away, everything else collapses. Well, except for the wealth of the super-elite at the very top. We then look like every other klepto state, with a few rich super-oligarchs, and the rest of us hoping to steal a toilet someday.
  23. For the record, dude....this is not a real agency:
  24. No. Because see how Roberts has only partially neutered the SCOTUS: if a Republican president does something, SCOTUS will allow it to continue unless and until it decides the action is illegal (which they won't do)...if a Dem president does something, SCOTUS will promptly enjoin the action until it can decide whether it's legal. In any case, Roberts is the worst chief justice in history, because he has presided over the institution of the Supreme Court becoming completely irrelevant. He made the Court obsolete.
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