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Gatorubet

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  1. Agree, but edited.
  2. Regarding jurisdiction, 18 USC 249 is the federal hate crime statute that might have some legs. Basically, it covers offenses involving actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender, identity, or disability. If the killing involves a firearm that has “traveled in interstate commerce” (low bar, that) it seems you’d have jurisdiction. It might be a stretch, but since Charlie Kirk was a Christian nationalist, and his political beliefs that the alleged shooter disliked so much can be argued to have come from Charlie’s core religious beliefs, there is a decent chance that a sympathetic federal appellate court might agree. And I do think that the Rocket Raccoon Doctrine applies.
  3. Oh. You mean old-timey law? I refer you to the current legal doctrine as annunciated by that eminent legal scholar - rocket raccoon:
  4. Back to hard news: I heard on the drive into work that the governor of Utah says they will seek the death penalty. I haven’t searched, but I thought that Utah was one of the few states that has a firing squad option. Something about some LDS theology and blood atonement if I recall. if I had to bet, I’d guess that the feds are gonna take this thing over and the federal charges will be tried first. The state and feds will probably be elbowing each other for the right to apply justice. Feds gonna win.
  5. Naw. Then Frank won’t get that sweet, sweet pos rep from statsman.
  6. Thoughts and prayers Frank.
  7. Frank, take your sarcasm to the CR thread. Which is where I thought I was when I read your post and almost responded in a get-banned way. You too. There is a different thread for that. Come defend your nonsense over there.
  8. That’s some damn fine vision work there, matched only by the engraving skill.
  9. “I’m the only one who knows things. I’m the one who knows things first. Look how important I am with all of my knowledge that you don’t have….” It isn’t any more complicated than that.
  10. if he was LDS, every Mormon male is a minister in the church. There is no separate minister/pastor/priest class.
  11. ….in their eyes???
  12. Damn. So it was Hunter Biden.
  13. It’s a reason. Just not a good enough one.
  14. This is like saying global warming is nothing to worry about because we haven’t had a major hurricane this year. We’ll see, said the Zen Master.
  15. I am not educated enough in this area to offer any kind of meaningful opinion, but my gut is that a family taking perhaps their most major, long-term financial decision would heavily depend on if they think they will have sufficient employment stability to ensure the necessary assets are there not to lose their home. My other non-educated opinion is that I recently saw an extremely large percentage of people with student loans feel that they are impacted in a major way by recent administration decisions on student loan repayment. I think it entirely immaterial to the home buying issue whether the policy decision about student loan repayment is a wise or unwise fiscal move. That said, a significant deletion of your disposable income would seem to have an effect on your decision to make a home purchase, and upon your ability to meet underwriting qualifications at attractive interest rates. And I have no facts, but it would also seem that first time homebuyers and getting out of first starter home buyers would match closely with the demographics of people still owing student loans in a significant amount. The one thing old age has taught me is that simple causes or simple solutions are like unicorns. What causes problems or what solves them are usually a bucket of nuance and contributing factors that are hard to put your finger on. It might be that the upcoming interest rate reductions will turn on a strong flow from the now-more open rate faucet, only to see an unavoidable recession emerge that slows it down again. But the best of luck to all of you.
  16. It’s a 911 memorial, so he’s probably thinking about the beautiful foot wedges that led to his club championship.
  17. The most rage-y thing about the new GOP evangelism is the large number of prominent GOPers who engage in that while having no real belief in it (other than as a means to grift). It seems like American political leadership is looking back with fondness at the crusades. It made no difference then who you slaughtered - or why you slaughtered them. Facts were far less important than Feels. But it created a huge market for religious icons. The oligarchs got the peasants to pay to go on pilgrimages to venerate Saint Dilbert‘s Holy dehydrated penis. Erbody made bank. How many hours before Trump is selling a commemorative Charlie Kirk digital coin?
  18. Fake Christians like you are why we are in the terrible situation we are in. Your adoption of American “how many people can I hate in the name of Christianity” theology makes you the farthest thing from a Christian, no matter how much you insist that you are. It is one thing to be trash like Kirk, and quite another to revere trash like Kirk. But you do you. Brother.
  19. Uther name checks out
  20. It may have said “Norma”. Which is obviously trans-hatred towards normal people.
  21. Putin 5D chess - “Let’s get Poland up to speed on drone warfare”
  22. I can’t imagine that Russia has a lot of spare air defense assets to protect troops involved in the Belarus exercise. I have no idea what Air defense assets Belarus has on its own. I just assumed that Russia had “borrowed” them in the interim. if that is correct, I would imagine that the combination of Polish and Nordic air power would wreck some shop if they attacked - with France, Germany, and the British yet to follow. I assume the United States would evaluate the article 5 consequences for two weeks…. If Russia did bring air defense assets with them, that is robbing Peter to pay Paul, and Ukraine should be lobbing drones and flamingos at more infrastructure right now. I can’t imagine in this day and age of satellite imagery and communications theft that the Russian exercise Air defense question has not been answered.
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