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You really should stop regurgitating what you see in the right-wing info-sphere. Cash bail is still very much alive in CA. Next time you're in CA, feel free to swing by any public courthouse and watch

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Here's a nice, timely read from today's paper given the emergence of this stupid thread. A Handy Guide to the Republican Definition of a Crime If you think Republicans are still member

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1 hour ago, Gil Bang said:

@Foosterscan you do the board a favor, and take a photo of your office...the perfectly clean desk, the empty file drawers, all of that?  Because if nobody's being prosecuted, surely a Los Angeles Public Defender doesn't have any work to do.  Jack off two or three times a day, post on surly, check out r/buttholesharpies, just another day at the office for a PD.

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As a born and raised Texan living in California the last 20 years @Incredulity take on CA lawlessness and horrible quality of life makes me laugh. So dumb, yet not surprising. 

I love it here and find it amusing that someone is scanning the internet to say SQUIRREL! when they find something to tell me or someone else why the shouldn’t. Look in the mirror.

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10 hours ago, Poe It Up said:

California sucks and what they call Mexican food is even worse. 

 

I moved here in 2017 and love it, beach is an hour away (Texas beaches are awful), Napa 30 mins (Texas wines are a joke), Tahoe a little over 2 hours (Cant ski in Texas). My high temp yesterday was 76, low was 50, I see you guys are above 100, no thanks. I do miss TexMex but that's about it

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20 minutes ago, Smax said:

 

I moved here in 2017 and love it, beach is an hour away (Texas beaches are awful), Napa 30 mins (Texas wines are a joke), Tahoe a little over 2 hours (Cant ski in Texas). My high temp yesterday was 76, low was 50, I see you guys are above 100, no thanks. I do miss TexMex but that's about it

My family is from LA, so I was forced to go there every summer as a kid. God I fucking hated it. 

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I was on a consulting project for M&M (RE) for a while, so I was in Calabasas every week for half a year-- it was awesome. It felt like if you took the best parts of Texas suburbs and put them in a beautiful setting and then it was equidistant from Malibu and Santa Monica/Venice, so if you wanted to bougie it up or slum it up, respectively, you could.

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14 hours ago, StassneyHorn said:

You haven’t belly laughed an uncontrollable amount followed up with tears after you had Florida Panhandle Mexican food. 

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Ohio and Minnesota Mexican food was so damn depressing, surprisingly really good Indian food though. 

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3 hours ago, DigglerontheHoof said:

I've been to California dozens of times and, outside the fucking traffic, it's awesome.  Anyone who can't find fun in California is just a miserable sonofabitch. 

I love it. Been going for work every other week for months, granted I’m staying in Pasadena and Glendale but I did meet a hood rat that lives in Montebello so I’ve seen that side. I love California and really considering relocating at least for a year. Her rent is cheaper than mine in north Dallas

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Here's a nice, timely read from today's paper given the emergence of this stupid thread.

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A Handy Guide to the Republican Definition of a Crime

If you think Republicans are still members of the law-and-order party, you haven’t been paying close attention lately. Since the rise of Donald Trump, the Republican definition of a crime has veered sharply from the law books and become extremely selective. For readers confused about the party’s new positions on law and order, here’s a guide to what today’s Republicans consider a crime, and what they do not.

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Not a crime: Federal crimes.
All federal crimes are charged and prosecuted by the Department of Justice. Now that Republicans believe the department has been weaponized into a Democratic Party strike force, particularly against Mr. Trump, its prosecutions can no longer be trusted. “The weaponization of federal law enforcement represents a mortal threat to a free society,” Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida recently tweeted.

The F.B.I., which investigates many federal crimes, has also become corrupted by the same political forces. “The F.B.I. has become a political weapon for the ruling elite rather than an impartial, law-enforcement agency,” said Kevin D. Roberts, the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation.

And because tax crimes are not real crimes, Republicans have fought for years to slash the number of I.R.S. investigators who fight against cheating.

Crime: State and local crimes, if they happen in an urban area or in states run by Democrats.
“There is a brutal crime wave gripping Democrat-run New York City,” the Republican National Committee wrote last year. “And it’s not just New York. In 2021, violent crime spiked across the country, with 14 major Democrat-run cities setting new record highs for homicide.” (In fact, the crime rate went up in the city during the pandemic, as it did almost everywhere, but it has already begun to recede, and remains far lower than its peak in the 1990s. New York continues to be one of the safest big cities in the United States.)

Crime is so bad in many cities, Republican state leaders say, that they have been forced to try to remove local prosecutors who are letting it happen. Some of these moves, however, are entirely political; a New York Times investigation found no connection between the policies of a prosecutor removed by Mr. DeSantis and the local crime rate.

Not a crime: Any crime that happens in rural areas or in states run by Republicans.
Between 2000 and 2021, the per capita murder rate in states that voted for Donald Trump was 23 percent higher than in states that voted for Joe Biden, according to one major study. The gap is growing, and it is visible even in the rural areas of Trump states.

But this didn’t come up when a Trump ally, Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio, held a hearing in New York in April to blast Manhattan’s prosecutor for being lax on crime, even though rates for all seven major crime categories are higher in Ohio than in New York City. Nor does House Speaker Kevin McCarthy — who tweets about Democratic “lawlessness” — talk about the per capita homicide rate in Bakersfield, Calif., which he represents, which has been the highest in California for years and is higher than New York City’s.

Crime: What they imagine Hunter Biden did.
The Republican fantasy, being actively pursued by the House Oversight Committee, is that Hunter Biden and his father, President Biden, engaged in “influence peddling” by cashing in on the family name through foreign business deals. Republicans have yet to discover a single piece of evidence proving this theory, but they appear to have no doubt it really happened.

Not a crime: What Hunter Biden will actually plead guilty to.
Specifically: two misdemeanor counts of failing to pay his taxes on time. Because tax crimes are not real crimes to Republicans, the charges are thus proof of a sweetheart deal to let the president’s son off easy, when they would prefer he be charged with bribery and other forms of corruption. Mr. Trump said the plea amounted to a “traffic ticket.” The government also charged Mr. Biden with a handgun-related crime (though it said it would not prosecute this charge); gun-purchasing crimes are also not considered real crimes.

Also not a crime: What the Trump family did.
There is vast evidence of actual influence-peddling and self-dealing by the Trump family and the Trump Organization during and after Mr. Trump’s presidency, which would seem to violate the emoluments clause of the Constitution and any number of federal ethics guidelines. Just last week The Times published new details of Mr. Trump’s entanglement with the government of Oman, which will bring his company millions of dollars from a Mideast power player even as he runs for re-election.

Crime: Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
“Hillary Clinton used a hammer to destroy evidence of a private e-mail server and classified information on that server and was never indicted,” wrote Nancy Mace, a Republican congresswoman from South Carolina. In fact, a three-year State Department investigation found that instances of classified information being deliberately transmitted on Mrs. Clinton’s server were a “rare exception,” and determined that “there was no persuasive evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information.”

Not a crime: Donald Trump’s mishandling of government secrets.
The Justice Department has accused Mr. Trump of willfully purloining classified documents from the White House — including top military secrets — and then lying about having them and refusing the government’s demands that they be returned. Nonetheless, former Vice President Mike Pence warned against indicting his old boss because it would be “terribly divisive,” and Mr. McCarthy said “this judgment is wrong by this D.O.J.” because it treats Mr. Trump differently than other officials in the same position. (Except no other official has ever been in the same position, refusing to return classified material that was improperly taken from the White House.)

Crime: Any urban disruption that occurred during the protests after George Floyd was killed.
Republicans have long claimed that the federal government turned a blind eye to widespread violence during the 2020 protests, and in 2021 five Republican senators accused the Justice Department of an “apparent unwillingness to punish these individuals.” In fact, though the protests were largely peaceful, The Associated Press found that more than 120 defendants around the country pleaded guilty or were convicted of federal crimes related to the protests, including rioting, arson and conspiracy, and that scores received significant prison terms.

Not a crime: The invasion of the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
Many Republicans are brushing aside the insurrection that occurred when hundreds of people, egged on by Mr. Trump, tried to stop the certification of the 2020 electoral votes. “It was not an insurrection,” said Andrew Clyde, a Republican congressman from Georgia, who said many rioters seemed to be on a “normal tourist visit.” Paul Gosar, a Republican congressman from Arizona, described Jan. 6 defendants as “political prisoners” who were being “persecuted” by federal prosecutors. Mr. Trump said he was inclined to pardon many of the more than 600 people convicted, and Mr. DeSantis said he was open to the possibility of pardoning any Jan. 6 defendant who was the victim of a politicized or weaponized prosecution, including Mr. Trump.

Crime against children: Abortion and transgender care.
Performing most abortions is now a crime in 14 states, and 20 states have banned or restricted gender-affirming care for transgender minors (though some of those bans have been blocked in court).

Not a crime against children: The possession of guns that kill them.
The sale or possession of assault weapons, used in so many school shootings, is permitted by federal law, even though the leading cause of death for American children is now firearms-related incidents. Republicans will also not pass a federal law requiring gun owners to store their weapons safely, away from children. It is not a federal crime for unlicensed gun dealers to sell a gun without a background check, which is how millions of guns are sold each year.

Any questions? Better not call CrimeStoppers.

 

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Yeah that whole thing was a real "But Trump" lmao

I actually think we've got two posters with a humiliation fetish on our hands. No shame,  but you really should ask the rest of the board's consent first, Incredulity

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1 hour ago, bolverk said:

the per capita murder rate in states that voted for Donald Trump

 

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vast evidence of actual influence-peddling and self-dealing by the Trump family

 

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accused Mr. Trump

 

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

egged on by Mr. Trump

 

1 hour ago, bolverk said:

. Since the rise of Donald Trump

NOPE, definitely NOT a but, but, but, Trump.   LOL.

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46 minutes ago, gmr548 said:


I for one am happy you found your paradise in College Station

He's in Montgomery County where there are no gays and girls don't climb trees. Also, don't ask him about the third episode of the "Last of Us" lest he gets the willies.

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10 minutes ago, bolverk said:

He's in Montgomery County where there are no gays and girls don't climb trees. Also, don't ask him about the episode of the "Last of Us" lest he gets the willies.

Let's be honest, most of MoCo is CS east.

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It's a sarcastic, but salient point on Montgomery County (as an example).    For the few years I was not very tolerant...not homophobic or anti-gay...more like "pipe down, keep to yourselves"...I just didn't think about it much.  I didn't really become an advocate until friends and family came out to me, and I saw the family values crusades against these people (and lived in NoCal and Austin). 

But looking back now, the real icing on the cake was, "I can't just say 'whatever', I gotta at least listen, if not help, if not broadly advocate" was when I started hearing fellow Texans that I knew saying shit like, "Ain't no gays where I'm from or I'd know about it."  And I used to think, "Well no shit, look at you.........what gay person in a million years would ever tell you they were gay?  You think you're the first to know, last to blow?  You might know where the black and brown families live, but there's a reason you don't know where the gays live in your community.  They don't want you to know.  You're surrounded by meth heads, wife beaters, and child molesters...and suddenly you're Hercule Poirot? 

You don't wave your hand at the monster to notice you.  California and Texas have the exact same percentage of LGBTQ+ by population/per capita.  In terms of the whole of the state (you can't just isolate San Francisco versus Vidor).  Nature has always and forever created about the same percentage (maybe not post-o[p trans because of lack of scientific advancements for millennia) but LGBTQ+ across all epochs and meridians.  People just lived in the shadows, that's all.  What we see today is the exact same demography.................only difference now is access to quality real estate.  Here's my card.

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36 minutes ago, Ten Bears said:

So east Texas.  Of course.

No. 

13 minutes ago, StassneyHorn said:

Beat me to it, but he’s said he lives in the land of no-gay people, Montgomery Co. He downloaded Grindr and proved it.

Fewer for sure. I’m not getting any takers. 

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5 hours ago, Zepol87 said:

Ohio and Minnesota Mexican food was so damn depressing, surprisingly really good Indian food though. 

I actually had pretty decent Mexican food in Ohio. It was a trip because it seemed like the place and staff were teleported from San Antonio's Southside.

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Cleveland is actually about 15% Hispanic, stands to reason a few of 'em could get together and fashion a good Mexican food joint.  Supply chain may be an issue, but wouldn't surprise me.  Rest of the state is like 2-3% Hispanic and none of them want to open a restaurant because it means they have to stay there.  There's a hidden gem for Mexican in every city, but it can also be hit or miss given the day you see them.  

My mother was just here and took home all kinda frozen menudo, tortillas, fideo, dried lengua, chorizo from the valley where they grew up, etc.  All this stuff from different little markets I've shown her in Austin over the years.  Granted she paid $50 for a luggage piece that probably contained $49 worth of food...but she insists every time.  And my cousins and I joke each time she leaves back to Chicago.  A city with 800,000 Hispanics and she can't find one decent tortilla up there.  But obviously it's just the taste of Texas they miss---she makes meals for my uncle and cousins up there.  One year, we sent them a bunch of the exact same shit in like a care box via the web...and they all complained it didn't taste the same.  Even though it got there next day with ice packs and my mom takes it home in a hot suitcase with no temperature control and leaves it outside because she wants the airline germs to blow away.  And my uncle woofs it all down with a cocktail and chaser as my cousins gather around to eat leftovers.  And after each of her visits, I get texts from them asking where we got the food from because they all have violent diarrhea.  

It's a family tradition....

 

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21 hours ago, Gil Bang said:

you don't know shit about fuck. 

SoCal Mexican is the greatest thing on planet earth.

 

20 hours ago, Poe It Up said:

Gross.

Having to choose between tex-mex and baja mex is like having to choose a favorite child. Or "would you rather have a roof over your house, or a floor underneath it?" Or which one of your car's four wheels you would keep. Any choice is the wrong answer.

The correct answer is both. At the same time. Start with some proper Tex-Mex fajitas, with a side of fried fish tacos. Drag in some Santa Fe style adovada for a threesome. Add some real Mexican mole, and the party is just beginning.

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2 minutes ago, Rimbo said:

 

Having to choose between tex-mex and baja mex is like having to choose a favorite child. Or "would you rather have a roof over your house, or a floor underneath it?" Or which one of your car's four wheels you would keep. Any choice is the wrong answer.

The correct answer is both. At the same time. Start with some proper Tex-Mex fajitas, with a side of fried fish tacos. Drag in some Santa Fe style adovada for a threesome. Add some real Mexican mole, and the party is just beginning.

I feel like when you throw a tri tip on the grill and invite the neighborhood, everyone is throwing their keys in a bowl on the way in…and that’s cool. 

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10 hours ago, Poe It Up said:

My family is from LA, so I was forced to go there every summer as a kid. God I fucking hated it. 

 

10 hours ago, 4th&Five said:

You may just be miserable. 

no, no, no, he's right... Los Angeles sucks balls.

Just like Texas, California has its great parts (San Diego, Austin) and its shitty parts (Los Angeles, Lubbock).

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3 minutes ago, SydneyCarton said:

I feel like when you throw a tri tip on the grill and invite the neighborhood, everyone is throwing their keys in a bowl on the way in…and that’s cool. 

i had to look up what that meant

and I mean look, I'm not opposed to the idea, but they'd better be really attractive neighbors, right?

When I think of Tex Mex, New Mex, or Baja Mex, I'm thinking of the good shit. I'm not imagining banging some obese Dallas hausfrau, Leona the cleaning lady, and Marge Simpson. I'm thinking about 1972 Farrah Fawcett, 1996 Salma Hayek and 1984 Tawny Kitaen.

I eat well.

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