Everything posted by Brisketexan
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ICE activity/raids
American. Fucking. Hero. We need more of this. So much more. Stand up. Say “no more, not in my country and. It only watch.” Stand firm.
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
See, e.g., the State of Florida spending over half a BILLION of its taxpayer dollars to build "Alligator Alcatraz" to suck DJT's dick....and the Regime then tells Florida "cool, thanks for the gift. Get fucked, we ain't paying you shit." Half a billion of YOUR dollars Floridians, so your governor could curry favor with a president who doesn't even fucking like him, and doesn't give a shit about what he does. Fucking 10-D chess your guys are playing. Just lighting your money on fire to make the mad king happy, and he doesn't even give a shit. How pathetic are you? Yeah. All the pathetic.
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ICE activity/raids
So. You've never read a goddamned thing I have ever posted, and you take the gold fucking medal in "missing the fucking point." Do I WANT that gal to burn down a building? NO. THAT'S MY FUCKING POINT. I don't want our fucking government to create an environment where that sort of response is a human inevitability. I don't want the government to dissolve the Rule of Law. I don't want the citizens to respond to said dissolution of the Rule of Law by taking violent action. I don't want either thing. But I know, as a matter of human and historical certainty, that if the government does thing 1, then thing 2 is gonna start happening, a lot. My thesis -- my whole thesis, for a long fucking time now, is "as a society, we really, really shouldn't go down that road." Alas, we are careening down that road and picking up speed. Don't want citizens responding to lawless governments with lawless violent reactions? Then maybe don't do the "lawless government" thing. Two wrongs don't make a right and all that shit. But if I walk up to your wife and call her a cunt and punch her in the face and then walk away, I sure as shit bet you'll kick my ass (even though I'm walking away, and thus it's no longer a "defense of others"). Inevitable, natural response to a certain event. If we don't want you and me to end up in a fight, then MAYBE I should NOT walk up to your wife and punch her in the face. I know human nature. I bet you do too. How about we not light everything on fire and then complain about all the shit that goes up in flames?
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Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
This. Anyone who uses the term "sanctuary city" should be able to (1) define what specific actions/inactions by the city (not arguments made by locals, but actual things DONE BY the city) make it a "sanctuary city," and (2) how those actions violate any federal law or policy. Walking up to me and demanding that I round up all squirrels in my jurisdiction does not make me obligated in any way to round up squirrels, particularly in our federal system. If YOU have the lawful authority to round up squirrels, you may do so. By the way, I don't want you to -- and will oppose -- any actions by you to, say, burn down every tree in the city to get at those pesky squirrels. You have the legal power and right to catch squirrels, you don't have the right to destroy property or deprive people of their civil rights to do so. So, go forth and chase squirrels, within the law and as allowed by the law. No, I won't help you, but I don't have to. Besides, my crews have other priorities -- like putting out fires, catching actual criminals, etc. But if squirrels are that important to you, have at it. Oh, and also, running into people's yards and firing indiscriminately into trees to maybe get a squirrel is just gonna piss people off, and we (city personnel) live here and have to work with these people day in day out, so no, we're not going to engage in stupid shit that only pisses people off. And when I do get a squirrel in one of my nuisance animal traps, I'll let you know. But I'm not gonna hold him for you for months on end. If you want him, come and get him. Otherwise, I need to use that trap again tomorrow. The whole "sanctuary city" trope is 99% utter fucking bullshit.
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ICE activity/raids
The answer he will give is "never." If the government either (1) chucks the Rule of Law, or (2) so alters the actual law so that it's not the Rule of Law anymore, so that the government can just gun down any non-loyalists in the street, then the non-loyalists should say "I COULD shoot back at the government forces slaughtering my family and friends, but that would be against the law, so I can't. I guess I'll just stand here, and wait for them to shoot me too." An extreme example? Nope. That's the exact conundrum that has come up time and time again. Remember, most every thing the Nazis did to the Jews was within German law (both the actual written law, and DEFINITELY the de facto law of "if the Regime does it, it is by definition legal"). Thus, any jew who resisted the Final Solution was breaking the law. And we just can't support that.
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ICE activity/raids
Or....I realize we are in a state of transition. We still have many trappings of the Rule of Law (in most cases, you can go down to the courthouse and enforce your contract; in most cases, someone who commits regular old assault in a bar will get charged and convicted). That's still the bulk of things that go to the courthouse. But in situations when the Rule of Law runs up against The Goals of the Regime, the Rule of Law yields completely. So, in matters involving the Regime or its goals, the Rule of Law is on life support, if not already fucking dead. Shit, at the height of Nazi Germany, I bet you could go down to the courthouse in Berlin and mostly get a divorce like normal, or enforce a contract like normal, etc.....unless one of the counterparties was a favored party official....or unless the issue could be couched as one of "being sympathetic towards the jews," etc. In which case, the case path would be....not normal. You know....a lot like we're in RIGHT NOW. And yes, it has affected the way I practice law. On occasion, I have matters (high enough profile) that matter to the MAGA world. And part of the advice I have to give my clients is "the law on this says we should get outcome X. But MAGA likes outcome Y, and if any of them get their teeth in this, and we end up in a court with the wrong judge (or we end up at the 5th Circuit at all).....then bet on outcome Y." That's a thing, that has actually happened, to me and many lawyers I know. So, don't think we don't know exactly what the fuck we're talking about in this respect. We live it.
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Texas -- a failed state
These are foundational beliefs for the MAGA movement, and every single person who supports it. Some will tell you they don't believe that. They are lying to you. How do we know? Because they will still support - without any wavering or hesitation - the exact groups and people advancing that agenda. Saying you don't support the Final Solution while voting for the people who say "I am going to bring you the Final Solution!" means....you fucking support the Final Solution.
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ICE activity/raids
You get it....you just haven't put it all together yet.
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ICE activity/raids
It is EXACTLY what I have been talking about. Lawlessness is the inevitable outcome when the parties/people in authority opt for lawlessness. There are two options for how a society is ruled: 1) the Rule of Law 2) Rule of the gun/sword/force When you opt OUT of option 1, you necessarily have opted IN to option 2. So, the folks who opted OUT of the Rule of Law (the admin, and the "law and order" hypocrites who support them) have lost all right to complain about society operating under Rule of the Gun -- that's what they chose for all of us. Which is why it's a very bad, no good, terrible idea to opt OUT of the Rule of Law, and why people like me have shouted that it's incredibly dangerous for the government to do so. Once "all bets are off," then....all bets are off. If the Regime and its supporters can kill you with no accountability or consequences (and they're demonstrating that they can -- all the way to handing out pardons to people on their team who attack and kill members of the "other team"), then what the FUCK did you think was going to happen? If you can kill me with no impediment or consequences, isn't the only smart move under game theory....me killing you FIRST? I don't support the arson of that building. But it is an inevitable, natural consequence of leadership sending the very clear message that the Rule of Law does not apply. And once you understand that is the natural result, then it doesn't take much of a leap to conclude "cool. Under the new rules, all I have to decide is whether I agree with the reason for the action. And here, I do -- ICE is fucking bullshit. I vote not guilty." Either everyone lives by the Rule of Law, or nobody does.
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ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
- The France Thread
Sigh. I am jealous of my kid's lives. Living/studying where they do (Scotland and Germany), hopping over to/around the continent is super easy and cheap. For example, the boy is in Paris this weekend. Like a 80 euro round trip from Glasgow to CDG. So, he's meeting his German girlfriend in Paris for a valentine's weekend. And as we chatted on WhatsApp this morning, we got to talking about the food. He shared that they stumbled upon....a taqueria. He peered inside, it smelled delicious, so they went (so he could introduce her to real mexican food). He said they got carnitas that were among the best he'd ever had. I reminded him of a little brasserie that we stumbled upon and had dinner at our first night in Paris many years ago (he was with us). La Charrette des Beaux Arts, on the edge of the St. Germaine area. We had a fantastic, affordable, classic french meal. It's under new owners, but here's a sampling: And I reminded him that there are 5,000 similar places in Paris. You CAN go wrong...but the odds are really in your favor that you'll end up eating something really good. That f'n bastard. I sure as shit wasn't able to hop over to Paris for a weekend with my girlfriend when I was his age.- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
The analogy I thought of is how music on vinyl is still quite popular in some circles, precisely because of its tiny imperfections compared to digital formats. Humans can offer work, thought, and ideas in analog format. There is a creativity enhancement, and a human interface (and suitability for human interface) enhancement to that kind of work that the machine just can't duplicate. Capitalize on that value.- ChatGPT AI Tool— We all work for robots now
I very much think there's something to this. You have to offer something that the machines cannot. The most obvious thing you can offer is "being a human being," which is a feature that is really only experienced and realized face-to-face. If you are just a node sending in electronic work-product to your employer....you are just another machine. And you are graded as a machine, competing with machines. You have an edge here: being an actual human. You should use every fucking edge you have. I am sure as shit preaching this to my kids.- The Trump Economy
Imagine a fed chair being appointed who admitted “I didn’t know the first thing about interest rates until Trump appointed me.” So. Fucking. Dumb. This fucking timeline.- Papers, please. Surly thread of deportation cruelty dominance
The difference is for a very plain reason: today, "deportation" and "immigration enforcement" is NOT the mission that ICE is performing. "Immigration enforcement" is the PRETEXT for their actual mission: inflict violent vengeance against districts that have not shown sufficient loyalty to the regime, and put on a show of force to demonstrate to the people that the Secret Police are in charge, can do whatever they want to you with no repercussions, and don't you fucking forget it, peasant. The purpose of ICE's activities this year have been a totalitarian show of force and vengeance. Immigration issues is just the excuse.- Trump’s America
It's just Wilhoit's law, yet again, being demonstrated as the Supreme Law of the Land. MAGA? You are protected by the law, but not bound by it. Not MAGA? You are bound by the law, but not protected by it. MAGA can absolutely go out hunting non-MAGAs, at will, and they are at much, much lower risk of consequences than in any society with the actual Rule of Law.- Jeffrey Epstein needs his own thread
2016 Iowa caucuses had three people other than trump with more votes than JEB! -- Ben Carson, Ted Cruz, and Marco Rubio.- ICE activity/raids
A more practical solution is that all the false statements by the government should come into evidence, to demonstrate to the jury that the entire governmental apparatus at issue lies habitually, calling into question anything and everything any of their witnesses say in testimony. And those are all admissible as hearsay exceptions, as they are admissions of a party opponent. Let the government's full course of psychotic lying conduct come in, and good luck trying to craft a defense based on "but here's my sworn testimony today!"- Epstein and Maxwell
He probably thinks that "Chagrin" is some eastern european country from which he can source more women to rape.- Trump’s America
J. F. C. We torpedo our fucking global standing. We fucking torch the dollar. We cause much of the world to start fleeing it as a reserve currency. And our saving move is to....partner with fucking Russia. A year ago, we were the fucking captain of the football team, with every cheerleader around swooning when we walked by. Today? Here's our crew: Also reminds me of various stupid conference realignment moves. Burn all bridges, and end up the Sunbelt West Cornmeal conference with Upper Mankato State Barber College as your permanent rival.- Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
I like how his criticism is that a rival AI hates whites, chinese, heterosexuals, and men. The unwritten part is "see, a GOOD AI would hate gays, trans, women, jews, and immigrants!" Fucking fantastic. The problem isn't that the rival AI is misanthropic....it's that it hates the WRONG people.- Trump’s America
....and getting dumber, every single fucking second. - The France Thread
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