Everything posted by hayden_horn
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well, i don't know shit, but i was once voir dired for a federal case here as a jury member. i've also been voir dired (and chosen) as a travis county juror. i've also stood in travis county court as a defendant more than one time and once spent a night in the building as a guest. i've also testified as a witness in a murder trial. so those are my non-lawdog bona fides, ymmv. the federal case was a humdinger - it was the relatively open and shut case of the guy who shot judge kocurek. nevertheless, i had to fill out something like a 30 page questionnaire before even showing up for jury duty. there must have been some 150+ of us in the pool. and most of us faced some form of question from either the defense or the prosecution. it took pretty much three whole days. this was for one defendent, in a fairly complicated case, because the shooting was really only a minor part of a larger racketeering thing. i was not selected for the jury, in part, because my voir dire had to do with my being a witness in a murder trial, and whether i would just rather "not go through that again" or whatever. pretty sure that was disqualifying for me in that one. anyways, as i recall, that trial took months. they found him guilty, but not of attempted murder - it was all the racketeering, which was also a big part of our questionnaire (have you ever had your identity stolen, etc). the county case was also a humdinger - super aggravated sexual assault of a minor. prior to showing up, i also received a lengthy (probably 10 page) questionnaire. the jury pool was pretty big, i'm told, and there was maybe 100 of us? jury selection took all day, and at the end of that day i was selected as a juror. we found the guy guilty, and he's gone away for awhile. this trial took us four days. both of those trials were kind of big local prosecutions, so i imagine my experience was vastly different from most jurors. we had a talk about how to handle journalists in both cases if contacted. neither obviously involved the former president of the united states of america and his many lawyers who also are accused of breaking the law. i can't imagine how long it would take for jury selection in such a trial - the number of questions asked pre-selection, and the follow ups necessary during selection, for 19 different defendants? impossible. this isn't a mafia trial of some mob bosses in a huge racket. or is it? i don't really know.
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Desantis is a POS and needs his own thread
what's incredible to me still is how disinterested desantis is in winning this election. it's texas democratic governor candidate bad.
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HOW AMERICA GOT MEAN
people have always been mean. been meaner than now. and we are gonna get meaner before we get more civil. main reason is that good old fashioned god fearing white folks are running out of acceptable boogeymen upon whom to project all their anger about their own insecurities. this is having the double result of 1) that formerly directed anger spilling over and hitting friendlies amd 2) that anger has metastasized as it has lost its original scapegoat direction and cathartic release
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Yeah she did say that and you did hear that right
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Abbott being Abbott
them kids born? yeah? fuck them kids.
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Kerrville’s Founder’s Tree cut down. It was too damn big.
just read my editorial link above. It's not political to say these people have very political seeming motivations. honestly i don't know how to separate that from the discussion
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Kerrville’s Founder’s Tree cut down. It was too damn big.
edit: jesus christ i remember that being much, much funnier
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What, no Joe Manchin thread?
uncle jack also smoked unfiltered camels like everyone up there. they fucking smoke in the denny's up there. it's a depressing slice of americana.
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Kerrville’s Founder’s Tree cut down. It was too damn big.
https://kerrcountylead.com/editorial-a-vile-smear-on-kerrvilles-history-beauty-in-destruction-of-founders-tree/ lo fucking l
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Kerrville’s Founder’s Tree cut down. It was too damn big.
ok, jokes aside, this is fucking tragic. how on earth could this have happened? the fucking founder's tree in kerrville? how is that not somehow a protected tree?
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Kerrville’s Founder’s Tree cut down. It was too damn big.
to be fair, that guy on the right has actually worked very hard to reach level 48 wizard necromancer, so, you know, uh, just, um, steer clear of him at dinner parties?
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What, no Joe Manchin thread?
yeah, but the shift has happened up in those parts. all my old reliable democratic union family members have gone full maga. mostly because the coal mining is dead, all the frac jobs have been taken by transient texans by way of north dakota and aren't going to the local union. everything up there is fucking broken, rusty and gross. it really is the rust belt, and most people are on some kind of public benefits. the world has passed them by and they are pissed, so they've gone maga. instead of being a man of principles, manchin has chosen to sow the maga wind. good luck with that i guess.
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Abbott being Abbott
lol dps racist? STOP THE PRESSES
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Blastfurnace 2023
i could smell it over in manchaca. saw something last night that there was a fire at 1826 and william cannon. i dunno, it was breezy which makes me nervous. i back up to a greenbelt which is wonderful until my wonderful wife says last night "you know that's just a tinderbox back there? that catches on fire and we are fucked" which was mildly terrifying
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Desantis is a POS and needs his own thread
I'm just going by my own lyin eyes bro. maralago is also there. florida man is there. can't say gay there and if you go woke you go broke YOU FUCKING CUCKS
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Desantis is a POS and needs his own thread
most republicans do tho
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The Supremes
bought and paid for shameful
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
jesus christ is anyone more a beating than westlake people?
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i mean, subselects is clearly superior. it combines sub and select and MAKES THEM CUCKS
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wait, the Unselects? edit: ohhh, that's what he calls the jan 6 select subcommittee. the unselects. jesus fucking christos
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What the fuck is wrong with you, Austin?
i also think it's unfortunate that with the police presence we have downtown, and i'm just talking apd and no other agencies, we cannot control our own downtown streets. there's no excuse for it. you can talk personnel shortage all you want, downtown hasn't been policed since...ever. you can sense when the street is getting edgy. so can the cops. then why not intervene before the fight or take intervention steps to prevent a fight, by, oh, being fucking present? the central police station is blocks away from this area. it's RIGHTNEXTDOOR to the arch. and yet, that's been an open air prositution and drug market for nearly a decade now. also, uh, guys, policing doesn't always have to mean "arresting." you can prevent crime, too, you know.
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Texas tops list of worst places to live and work in America
to this day, leaving an always-too-cold public place and stepping out into the shattering heat is my fucking jam. so much so, i just walked to the mailboxes because just typing about it got me excited haha
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lol of course old donny wriggled his way into some dms ah well nevertheless
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The Sound of Freedom
it's this sort of thing that's so off-putting. like, they want to fight you because you are for child trafficking. they feel like they have to be all up in everyone's face about it. meanwhile, people are fucking dying to get here. But whatever.
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Sen. Feinstein dies at age 90
there should be some mechanism that everyone can agree on where a member of their own party needs to be replaced. the opposing party shouldn't really have a say, i guess, but i don't have a clear answer. all i know is that keeping someone around to their own detriment and to the detriment of the government is counterproductive. it's sad, it really is. my mom doesn't remember my children's names. i know how hard this is for people. you know what though? my ma is just an old woman living in east texas, she's not voting on the fucking budget of a fucking country. this isn't working. even if the change won't work, we need to figure it out tout fucking suite. our government is outrageously old and full of boomers losing their minds.