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Brisketexan

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  1. Man. I gotta tell ya, I am DEFINITELY tired of all the winning. And I'm truly shocked. I mean, who woulda thought that functionally every economist in the world would be right on all of this, and a band of utter losers more focused on individual grift and creating self-serving insider wins would be wrong? Man, NEVER could have seen that coming.
  2. But not always rationally. "FOMO" investment is not necessarily a wise strategy.
  3. We have experienced similar things with the Texas Attorney General's office. Again, what was long regarded as one of the better "law firms" around, with competent and dedicated practitioners.....is now a revolving door. The number of 2-3 year attorneys you see as first chair on cases that are on the front page of newspapers (as in, you'd expect a 10 year or better attorney on those cases in the past) is staggering. Shit, it's hard to get things done on many cases with a long lifespan, because within a year, you're on your third 3 year attorney trying to figure out a whole new area of law, and catch up on the full case history. The other constituency of lawyers at the office are the "true believers" who stand with Paxton, who will say and do any outrageous thing they want. People need to understand how important institutions and norms are to how their lives function on a daily basis. Imagine a water treatment plant that ran off all of its competent and experienced staff, and replaced them with either entirely inexperienced people who had never worked at a treatment plant in their lives, or ideologues who believe that treating water for bacteria is woke. You depend on clean water coming out of your tap every time you turn it on. Would you be comfortable drinking from THAT tap? That's where we are with a huge number of our institutions, including legal ones. It's fucking bad, people.
  4. I'd think that a court could issue a show-cause order for someone at DHS with supervisory responsibilities. And, absent sufficient explanation/reason for failing to follow a court order, jail a motherfucker for contempt. Put a couple of functionaries in the hoosegow, you'll get their fucking attention. You just have to do it a couple of times. Trust me, I've advised a client (including government officials at times) on a course of action from time to time where my advice was pretty much "you could follow path A, or you could follow path B, in which case you need to think about how you look in an orange jumpsuit and crocs." That shit gets people's attention, and right quick. But your concluding point is spot-on. The system is built on trust, rules, and norms. When someone just says "fuck you, I'm going to ignore 500 of your orders," it's not built to handle that. My suggestion is that when parties disregard norms....so should the courts.
  5. McBryde's a whole different ballgame. Of course, Sparks also had a harsh reputation among some, and I never had any issues with him. We knew where we stood, mutual respect, all that. He would occasionally remind me of his opinions, and I would remind him of my client's position, and all was good. He also took time to host me in his chambers for an hour one day to offer me advice and counsel when I was at a troubling career crossroads. AGAIN, these are the courtesies and norms that should exist in the practice of law. Hell, my whole career, I have been able to say - when the DOJ was involved in one of my cases - "we at least know they're shooting straight with us, they play things straight." Today? If the issue was even possibly adjacent to something political (which....most of my cases are)? I wouldn't trust a single thing out of the DOJ. In my career, I've felt that way about just a handful of lawyers/firms. Seriously, maybe 3. And now....I feel that way about the entire DOJ, and most every lawyer I know has the same view. Fucking amazing.
  6. Except those high prices have been incurred by companies that (a) make up like 40% of the value of the fucking S&P 500....when they shit the bed, that will be....bad, and (b) those high prices have been financed by a shitload of circular transactions, with a bunch of those companies tied together and standing on a house of cards. Which takes us back to point (a).
  7. If you HAVE counsel and the court knows it....and we're dealing in a regular, ordinary world....the judge would have you/someone call your counsel, and ask "where are you, we have a hearing?" It would be most unusual, and unfair to the client, if the court said "tough, we're proceeding -- citizen, handle this the best you can, because we'll be proceeding without your lawyer." Again, I only know how the world works in normal, ordinary circumstances. All rules, norms, and boundaries have been shattered with respect to the DOJ now. They don't get the benefit of the doubt or courtesy the way they used to, nor should they. And I DO know what happens when a particular lawyer neglects his hearing calendar, from experience. It's how I ended up defending a Federal criminal case. A lawyer had a full slate of such cases. He missed a hearing, with no excuse. Judge Sparks was quite perturbed, and promptly re-assigned all of his cases to new counsel, including counsel he decided to appoint, which included....me. Judge Sparks also presided over a hearing at which I was counsel, but did not appear (but...and this is important, it was the COURT'S fault, not mine). The Court had set a hearing on a matter in which I was local counsel, and had not sent notice to any of the lawyers for our client. My phone rings. It's Judge Sparks. He explains "so, it was our mistake, you didn't get notice, but we're down here right now in a hearing on case X, considering motion Y. And I'm sure you object to us going forward [I did, quite promptly]. I understand, but let's suppose we go forward, what is your position?" First....I had to ask who my client was, as I was just local and I hadn't touched the file in months. Then, Judge Sparks explained the dispute. And I explained that I expect that our position was that X should happen. He responded "that sounds right. So, everyone, here's what I'm going to do." And he ruled pretty much our way. At the end of the hearing, he asked me to stay on the line. He actually apologized for the court's error, and I chuckled and told him I might need to send the court a bill for my cardiologist visit, as he made my heart rate double right quick. Then he laughed and said "I don't know, counselor. When the hearing started, you didn't even know who your client was, and by the end, you'd won. That seems like a pretty good day." This is the way our courts are supposed to work. There are norms, courtesies, decorum.....just basic honesty, candor, and decency. In matters involving the DOJ now, all of those are fucking GONE.
  8. "Defying the constitution itself” Is literally the entire purpose of existence for this iteration of ICE.
  9. You shouldn't allow yourself any hope based on polls or anything else. The people of this state should be presumed to be committed shit-demons until it is definitively proven otherwise. Texas deserves zero benefit of the doubt, and you should have zero hope.
  10. THE BOSS IS NOT FOR SALE, MOTHERFUCKER.
  11. Trump literally campaigned, HEAVILY, on releasing them. And he's now directed his brainless minions to declare the very thing he campaigned on releasing, because they were super-duper important and contained really important information, a "hoax." And the minions gobble it up, because cognitive dissonance is the order of the day.
  12. 1) Duh, because DHS and ICE have been turned into a Secret Police force that is not restrained by any laws or the Constitution. This is EXACTLY what this force was created for in this incarnation, and exactly how many of us knew it would be used all along. 2) Fucking BRING IT. I wish a motherfucker would with me -- I'm a dream plaintiff. Go ahead. Pick a constitutional fight with me. Do it, you fucking feckless cowards.
  13. Dude. It's MAGA-land. "I don't like what it says" = "hoax." It has nothing to do with the actual meaning of the word "hoax."
  14. Truly. I'm quite shocked, actually. One would expect something like that out of the two shittiest justices in modern history.
  15. Don't skip the part where maybe he'd have been charged with a crime, but on the off chance he was convicted, he was promptly pardoned by Greg Abbott. That's an important step.
  16. If a low-end STD was granted its wish to take human form, that's what it would look like. If Chlamydia was a person....that would be it.
  17. If you're looking for someone to argue that our investment environment ISN'T a den of utterly rigged fuckery large parts of which are built on scams, vibes, or both.....don't look at me. I'm right there with you. I just think that crypto is the worst of all of those worlds. Actual stock in actual companies is a proven concept. Actual ownership of actual real estate is a proven concept. Actual ownership of other physical assets is a proven concept. All of which are reality-based. They have become skewed by a market that is now designed for maximum insider benefit and grift, and minimal transparency or real value reflection, but they ARE "real." Maybe we shouldn't have given a small cadre of billionaires complete and total control over all of our laws and rules, and allowed them to remove/dissolve every imaginable safeguard, guarantee of transparency and fairness, etc., and then installed a regime that is built entirely on sustaining and maximizing said grift/scams/insider advantages. Just, you know, maybe that was bad, and we shouldn't have done that.
  18. Yep. Indeed, see the studies on "who gets buttfucked the hardest by crypto." It's ordinary folks, like the people on this site. The majority of crypto investors lose money, and that majority is made up almost entirely of regular folks, not big players. Crypto is clearly a winner for big-time players (who are often big enough to be manipulators/insiders). It's often a loser for everyone else. Which makes sense, as it is entirely made up and imaginary.
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