Comments by "Jack B" (@WindFireAllThatKindOfThing) on "LegalEagle" channel.

  1. You have to admire that he spent his entire adult career building his insanity plea That's hardcore foresight
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  2. Colorado Court: "A Traitor to the Constitution who was once honored with the highest office in the land and betrayed it cannot do it again. Why do you all find this so hard?" Well, at least ONE Supreme Court has enough sense to stop playing the 'it's unprecedented' game anymore.
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  3.  @lemonpics24  I got a gun pointed at my car on the freeway outside San Antonio for having plastic Longhorns duct-taped to the hood of my '88 VW Scirocco when I was stationed at Ft Sam. Well, *I* thought it was funny...homeboy in a stepside Chevy apparently did not.
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  4. Now the real question is how many of the serial abusers are getting off light because nobody is asking how many victims simply....disappeared. Or turned up in the morgue.
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  5. When I was a fed employee, they don't pay overtime. We get "comp time", which means they just owe us hours back as vacation or...more likely, it will expire before you can use it because you're slammed with work, or you donate it to another fed employee because they got sick or injured. I make x2 overtime in the private sector. It's a myth that fed GS/WG pay scales higher than private.
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  6. And textbooks aren't just a pair of clay tablets being told to you by a Holy Man interpreting them to your kids however it suits his fancy
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  7. The Shroud of the Rich Side has fallen. Begun the Embezzlement Wars have.
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  8. Not only can NCOs take the heat round for YOUR dereliction, but they are often SACRIFICED to save the offending officers career, by the prosecuting authority. This is not official, naturally, but officers protect other officers, even when punishing them. It's the nature of the Officer vs Meatball relationship. The Abu Ghraib prison scandal is a classic example, where they tried lining up and focus fire on the enlisted first. I've seen this scenario play out again and again in my time around Field Grade and General Officer circles. Let's just say...I saw some real s**t in my 24 years in boots that would boggle your mind and DEFINITELY never made the news.
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  9. "The nicer your attorney's suit, the more sh*t you can get away with" - Genghis Khan
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  10. Too high brow. This case is more about the precedent set in I Know You Are v What Am I, the landmark ruling upheld after I Am Rubber v You Are Glue
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  11. And this is why we're both a Constitutional Republic AND a Representative Democracy. The kneejerk, populist actions of 1 generation cannot be allowed to wreck the struggles and achievements of the past ones nor take away the bedrock of future generations. Which is why we proved in 1865 secession and balkanization isn't a thing we do.
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  12.  @Mysteryspy  They haven't conserved a single damned thing since Teddy Roosevelt signed into law the National Parks act
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  13. Us: Lucky to get Due Process Them: Undue amounts of Process.
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  14. Lying is their crack of choice. The meth is just a chaser.
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  15.  @WhaleManMan  Run with the joke, my man. Not faceplant into it.
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  16. "Don't say believing you're rich enough to start an apartheid race war"
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  17.  @spookerredmenace3950  We have 5 states that vote by mail as a standard. The ballots are serial numbered, you sign them, and you can look yours up online to verify it was counted properly. You also get a couple weeks to sit and have a good, hard think about what you vote for. And research that local state representative you never heard of running unopposed. We do not have fraud issues. If anything, it's an anti-fraud measure. If someone stole your ballot and voted in your name, you would be able to find out online when you realize it didn't arrive on time, and call the cops. Because yes, that's a crime. It also prevents voter suppression.
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  18. You should be worried when The Next Inevitable Thing Happens: The little green men are going to kill someone. On the street, in front of the world. The whole thing which started this in the first place. They almost did it once already. It will involve every "I felt threatened, they shouldn't have been there in the first place" excuse that can be fast-balled at the media But in the end, they WANT this. They want it all to ratchet up. The want the fires higher so they can escalate further. They are hunting for enough bedlam to drop Red Martial Law on a Blue State.
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  19. The CONSTITUTION says no Immunity. End of discussion. From Article 1, Section 3, Clause 7: Impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from Office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any Office of honor, Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law
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  20. You just know his every female employee was picked only for their modelling headshots. Like Fox anchors.
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  21. You should be worried about ALL of them rather than thinking there are good guys with your best interests at heart. There aren't. This is an All Villain Cast
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  22. And for some reason made a bunch of new Russian friends while he put away Italian ones Edit: Yes, I am pointing out that Rudy is the reason why the Russian Bratva replaced the 5 Mafia Families in NYC
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  23.  @zhcultivator  Brawndo bought the FDA about 500 years earlier than expected.
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  24. Well, he can be a victim of sharing a couch in a cramped Moscow safehouse with Snowden when he flees the country, too, then
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  25.  @LordHeadcheez  I agree, he was the last ACTUAL Republican, which was the moderate marriage with the little left of Lincoln's legacy, and the little Right of Teddy Roosevelt. It was a big tent that could piss off everyone and satisfy no one, and somehow keep the peace because we could understand the compromises. And that died with Eisenhower, as you said. His own VP, Nixon, was the harbinger of this doom. Swiftly followed by Goldwater and the Southern Strategy
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  26. And put Free Speech for sale to the highest bidder, and you and I can't afford it. There is no Free Speech here. Just megaphones with pricetags.
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  27.  @UpYourArsenal  It says according to Law as the qualifier. Not 'according to impeachment', which the Republican Senate already punted and said indictment gets done in the courts, which is why it even opens with 'shall not extend further' part. So clearly, Shakespeare, I ain't the one failing at English comprehension here. Want a crayon?
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  28. @ That's been a pretty thin right of late anways. 2 parties who both represent the Silver and Gold medal teams control what goes on that ballot, and those ballots only show up about every 2 to 4 years. Meanwhile, the largest voting bloc, Independents, has maybe 3 out of 535 seats in Congress. For 47% of the voters who are in neither, they get a ballot that is written by those parties. Taxation without representation, indeed
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  29.  @BigBing1987  Your rights don't start or stop because you spent money at the DMV for a picture ID. If you were so worried about it, why do conservatives like you throw such a fit about a free Federal Photo ID replacing the Social Security Card? Oh yeah, that's right. Because you do a 180 degree about face and claim it's ThE gOVeRNmeNt TRacKiNg yoU!
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  30.  @JakobeOG  Just like he was going to declassify all the JFK and Roswell alien files, hmmm? And did he? Oh but wait, he's saying he really will this time! PINKY PROMISE! A really fat, orange pinky.
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  31. You're talking about a voter base that thinks HandMaids Tale sounds like a pretty sweet future for them
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  32.  @mangalegends  He doesn't know what he means, 'mandate' has 2 syllables and it sounded like a fancy $2 word to him is all
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  33. Just often enough to try and throw off the scent.
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  34. As a Maritime Attorney, I couldn't agree more
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  35.  @robertsmithUH60driver  My BC. Relieved for about 13 whole days, during which time the XO thought he had just become King and lost his mind. Then the Division and Brigade commander & JAG staff sacked his CSM, a Battle Captain, and Ops SGM, and he came right back. The words Courts Martial were never once uttered about the BC despite him being the host of the 'Good Idea Fairy'. This was in JBB (Edit: Anaconda, as a BlackHawk boss I'm sure you've probably visited it), Iraq and involved a KIA and a WIA in a Convoy Escort Team who were sent on some side shenanigans from the TOC. I don't even recall a letter of reprimand ending up in his jacket, in fact I saw him make full bird (promoted up and away from a guide on maybe?) the year after refrad.
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  36.  @nicholasmckenzie7403  yes, but with different verbiage. DD 256A, and it's formally called dismissal. But even the manual calls it being discharged honorably. Discharge is more a semi-formal term of art as meant to describe the character of the separation. I'm given to undestand by my Admin NCO battle buddy that Op is right, technically there is no Dishonorable Officer Discharge unless they did something naughty in the latrine. They can simply be forced out by direction of dismissal for reasons both good and bad. Lost a leg, aged out gracefully after a lifetime of service, said the wrong thing on the Evening News, couldn't keep his dirty hands off his SPC-4 admin assistant, got passed over too many times, some Field Grade officer didn't like his face, lost a plane because he zigged when he shoulda zagged, etc. etc.
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  37.  @carlosmartinez4811  You are such a liar. Citation needed, otherwise that goes right into the Alex Jones Said category
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  38. It's crazytown trying to dispell this myth of Federal employees being some kind of lazy freeloaders with ultimate job security or that there's no Oversight, when 50% of our time was spent beancounting. They've NO idea about life in the Hamster Wheel, or why I got out of a 'cushy fed job' because life was sloppier, lazier and paid better in the Private sector for the same gig. Benefits may vary.
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  39. Just your daily reminder concerning the documents case: His 3 oldest are the grandkids of a Czech KGB informant And he forced the government to give some of them security clearance they disqualified for
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  40. The funniest thing: the term Dungeon Master might end up walking out of a courtroom with some standing in the legal lexicon as creators here, because decades of Dungeon Master Guides have always, ALWAYS, explicitly endorsed custom campaign creation. Can't give that implicit permission, stated in plain english, edition after edition, and then try to fool a crowd of rules-lawyer-nerd customers.
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  41.  @spookerredmenace3950  The 5 All-Mail election states are nearly evenly split. 3 liberal, 2 conservative. It's not really a partisan issue unless your party's state office is trying to get press attention and gaslight everyone because they routinely suck at winning elections. A solution in search of a problem.
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  42. Just think about it like this: It's not HIS half billion dollars. It's half a billion stolen by fraud from others.
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  43. I learned that they lie in groups, and get the DA to lie with them, when one committed hit and run against my son's car while off duty and leaving a bar.
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  44. This is why Congress, who sets their own rules, should be compelled by legislation to swear in before setting foot on the floor or in committee chambers to bear truth faith under penalty of perjury, barring classified info. Consequences to be enforced by the SGT At Arms and the Congressional Jail (which needs to be built up into a real thing) and a 3 Strikes and You're Out rule.
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  45. Like the rest of us who get mobilized for wildland fires, they get fed REALLY well at camp though
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  46.  @sharper68  Too simplistic. I'm simply saying that if you're a serial killer, you shouldn't laugh and say 'well played, sir, please proceed' when another serial killer jumps you. We're not playing Checkers, here.
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  47. They don't want to ban porn. They want to ban YOUR porn. THEIR hard drives and browser history will still be absolutely LOADED with it
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  48. And, no doubt, the mercenar....erm, 'private security contractor' business suddenly finds itself booming even more as every major exec surrounds himself with a goonsquad.
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  49. He can't show us the SF-715's proving declassification. He's going to prison. Or cutting a deal.
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  50. Are you really an adult? Because adults aren't supposed to still believe in magic. That's.... irrational
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  51.  @theomegajuice8660  I hear you, but the referendums were so close that blaming ONLY the shepherds and not the sheep is disingenuous. British tribalism is a legendary thing, too. And the epitome of irony in a 'united Kingdom' where the Scots were begged not to leave on one hand (on the belief they would remain in the EU) by the English, and then the English up and left the EU against their wishes. Pro gamer move.
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  52. As thrilled as I am that Jones got his peepee slapped, I am discouraged that the only reason it happened is because of tech bumbling on the part of his defense team. Justice should not arrive as the result of whoopsie-daisies.
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  53. Will's "I showed that b*tch what's up" swagger and smug look of satisfaction just highlights the lack of boundaries when you're rich and/or famous enough. He will be called a Man's Man for this. To our great detriment. The number of macho dickweeds looking for the flimsiest of alibis to assault someone to impress a girl and feel dominant about to see an upward trend.
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  54. No, no...I really mean it this time **snicker** - Trump swearing back into office
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  55. PDX East sider here, can confirm: The difference is one's bummy clothes cost $500, the other an 8-ball. It costs a lot of money to look properly bummy here. Especially if you're trying to pull off that 145 lb. Machoman Randy Savage gone-Vegan look.
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  56.  @woogha  <---- Bailiff......tackle that man.
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  57. Dictators are often overthrown and live in fear of the Peasants. Kings, on the other hand, have all the same benefits and a whole lot more perks that they pass down through generations of their Royal family. I think you know which one he styles himself as.
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  58.  @lunacouer  It really, really is. One of those times I felt my state was spending my tax dollar beautifully: to ensure my most sacred right can't be taken away by a party. I don't even mind sitting in my car for a few minutes while we all drop our ballots at the drive-thru post office or library line.
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  59. @ And yet all we heard out of you during the Obama years was 'tyranny, tyranny, tyranny' So much for your principled stand.
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  60.  @KatherineBoleyn  Keep your hands to yourself. - Every decent (and law abiding) person, ever. Everyone looking for a loophole to that rule just hoping for their own Dirty Harry moment And there endeth the lesson.
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  61. To wit: The phrase 'elected officers' is always thrown our direction when discussing the authority of the civilians over our chain of command. They speak of Governors regarding the National Guards (edit: yes, plural), and ranked members of congress and Executive Branch in the Regular Military components. The language is explicit and common.
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  62.  @brayanvelez2517  Jefferson didn't write the Constitution. He was in France at the time. He just penned the declaration, and even that he did in collaboration with Franklin and Adams. Edit: JAMES MADISON penned the constitution. And I mean PENNED, not COMPOSED. He did the scribbling. It's language was written by 39 delegates from 12 states over 4 months.
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  63. In 2025 Donald Trump was sworn in for his second term to finish his work dismantling America into tasty nuggets to feed hungry Rich people. Just 36 years after the release of Belgian Techno anthem Pump Up The Jam.
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  64. Cheeeeeeese, Gromit!
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  65. Still doesn't mean you shouldn't do it.
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  66. Remember when he said to take away the metal detectors so his minions could sneak guns in for J6 because 'these are my people, they're not going to shoot at ME, just others'? Yeah, that was right before his own started shooting at him. Play games with crazy players, win crazy prizes
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  67. Hasn't been a secret since long ago the American Gun Lobby was outed as a mechanism for funneling Russian money to Conservative legislators and honeypots to ugly, lonely NRA functionaries. YouTubers are just mercenaries too.
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  68. Wait, did their guy just admit to distributing counterfeit money to the homeless? How very Trump.
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  69. @ Well, thanks for that authentic frontier jibberish that was in no way germane to the convo, cowboy
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  70. The damage caused by Nixon, Reagan, and President Dick Chene...er, Bush, was never fixed. They wore down the guardrails specifically for this ultimate post-Southern Strategy Republican endgame: The end of the United States. To break it up, sell off parts, and keep the rest as little kingdoms for the Rich. The Balkanization of the Shining City on the Hill into a series of Royal Mansions in gated communities surrounded by homeless camps filled with desperate peasants who will do what they're told for scraps of food.
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  71. Hammering the like button
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  72. Does this mean the Wookie Defense is now valid Respondeat Superior doctrine?
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  73. And we've been a very naughty boy
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  74. Which will be followed by the same kind of scoop-it-up land grab that we saw when Insurance companies screwed over all their policy holders in New Orleans after Hurricane Kitrana and Rita. I saw it in person: Desperate people who weren't going to be made whole anymore sold their property for pennies on the dollar to vulture capital groups, and THAT'S when the giant pumps showed up to dry the place out.
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  75. It needs to be held within a certain level of reason (and review/oversight) but it beats the 'Push you off the edge of Society's Grid' methods we have now. And once the Economy or the Law pushes you off the grid, you ain't climbing back up. There are tangible mechanisms in place to make this Social/Fiscal Darwinism a fact of American life.
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  76.  @krowlyy  You haven't paid enough attention to the French.
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  77. Couldn't happen to a nicer a**hole.
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  78. The greatest thing Biden could do before leaving office is encourage his own party to impeach and remove him The first time ever in history, setting a precedent that hamstrings the 'I can do whatever I want' plots of Trump
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  79. It's a human problem. Or the Babel curse, if you're religious. Balkanization. The idea that you can elevate your personal status if you could just slice a little piece of the kingdom off for yourself. That's what this is really about, convincing fools to make you king by playing Revolutionary and chopping a great nation into petty little kingdoms.
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  80. The only thing surprising about the PRC's boilerplate response was the watered down version of their usual 'You shall Rue the Day!' outro. I, for one, welcome our new inflatable overlords. As long as they bring Char Siu
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  81. Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrico..............SUAVE. - Thanks, Gerardo
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  82. After many years of watching the ever-increasing litigious velocity of Games Workshop, we knew this was gonna happen sooner or later after Hasbro bought TSR in '97. I hope they fail a saving throw vs. fair use
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  83. Never trust a Texan. Heritage of traitors. No other state in the union has flipped sides 4 different times like they have. And they're going for #5
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  84. So in summary, qualified immunity stems from Judges universally being unwilling to stick their necks out to establish a precedent detrimental to a mafia they're simultaneously associated with & afraid of: the cops.
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  85. Looks like he gets to do a live action remake of his prison scenes from Monster's Ball
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  86. I can't help but laugh at how a bunch of silly Luddites have so much more voting power, man-for-man, because of this silly anachronism. The popular vote majority are still just the 3rd estate of pre-revolution France. Let's just cut the foreplay and put the Amish in charge of NASA, while we're at it.
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  87. A textualist is someone who only accepts porn in written verse, no pics
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  88. Me: Objection, Your Honor! Judge: On what grounds? Me: That sponsor segue was too sneaky.
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  89. It's almost as if pandering to people known for their vicious nature will someday make you the target of their vicious nature. Leopards, faces, who knew, amirite?
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  90. The Business of America isn't business...that's a lie told by Businessmen. The Business of America is being America. Which is not a business. The moment the SCOTUS said Money = Speech, all speech stopped being free and wears a pricetag. Best democracy money can buy.
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  91. These rulings have made it clear these judges are not just praetorians of establishment, but of status quo in what is a hostage situation vis-a-vis citizens with the state putting a gun to their head being forced to hand the safety and trust of their children over to the people with a gun to their head and no duties whatsoever to the lives and safety of those families. And being forced to pay for that hostage/kidnapper relationship. Intolerable. And the stuff of revolutions and rightful civil disobedience.
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  92.  @minagica  And the sad state of the legal system to take obvious action against someone who is using notoriety, money, & the lawyers it buys to actively exploit the loopholes to get close enough to pull an OJ Simpson. It's almost like the system WANTS a repeat to happen. I'm sure Nicole Simpson would have a compelling, dissenting opinion of her own here.
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  93. Walk into a bar?
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  94. "In order to Save The Trees, we must create mountains of legal documentation. Take that, Fossil Fuel industry."
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  95.  @amethystimagination3332  That's how it works, and cheaper and easier than trying to buy them out or a controlling interest in the company. It's like short selling, but even nastier. See: When ZeniMax (Bethesda software) tried to preempt the emergent VR market by suing Oculus for nothing less than control of the company, but only after Facebook offered billions for it.
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  96. 18 USC 201. Felony. A big one. 15 years. Period.
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  97. 18 USC 201. Felony.
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  98. Ah yes, the Copyright system. Where creativity goes to die. Only now the Adeptus Mechanicus is on the bench and wants wants a word with you about your tech heresy.
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  99. What Jones does (did, he's nearly irrelevant now) isn't free speech. It's slander for profit. Every time he screeches something, it hurts someone somewhere but he still gets paid.
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  100.  @nohatheanimal  Oh is it? Just like your comment is just so 'objectively correct' that you had to say so? You wanna call 'Base' and 'Times Infinity' now too?
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  101.  @nohatheanimal  But you speak as a child, understand as a child, and think as a child and cannot seem to put away childish things
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  102. They should label this the 'Dominatrix Doctrine' You paid extra for the pain, and should tip for good service. This just sounds like Ranger school to me, without the starvation and ruck marching. 10/10, would break collarbone again.
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  103. Ah, so the REAL reason he's being prosecuted is that he burned a couple rich white guys. I just looked up all relevant legal precedents and can confirm: this checks out.
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  104. Constitution doesn't say to better split up and balkanize the country and sell it off to the highest bidder. It says in the very opening line: In order to form a more perfect union. First damn sentence. We're like a roach motel: States can check in, but they don't check out. F off and leave, Johnny Rebs.
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  105. They had no problem with charging Bill Clinton for Perjury, a crime that was going to lock him up for 2 years. He cut a plea deal his last day, got disbarred and fined. Funny how we all forget about that. He was going to jail the moment he walked out the White House door. So, clearly, Republicans are willing to jail an Ex POTUS. Just not one of their own.
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  106. This all goes back to our entire history of Politicians refusing to use the Guard Rails that hold Politicians accountable. In our entire history, our 'representative' Politicians have refused to impeach and REMOVE the ultimate Politician. Never expect one who considers themselves a Baron or Duke to remove a King, because they think they could be next. This is Feudal Lords fighting to protect their Station.
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  107. ESPECIALLY important are the Secretaries of State, who lean on the county elections offices in 38/50 states
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  108. Why, whatever for, lol ?!?!? **Schadenfreude intensifies**
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  109. "They all think it's about more detail. But that's not how memory works. We recall with our feelings. Anything real should be a mess." - Dr. Ana Stelline, circa 2049
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  110. And yet, if a single witness said something like 'the country would be better off if Trump were JFK'd' you can bet the Secret Service would be on their doorstep in 2 minutes and they would be convicted in 5. Enough. Trump used up his mulligans long ago.
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  111. @ It didn't launch my career. I grew up poor, so I ended up in the Military as soon as I graduated high school. The Fed job came later after I too bought into the myth that a fed job was "the best, last job you could get". So I applied for one. The realities were usually the polar opposite of what everyone (who clearly never had a federal job) mythologizes about them. Lots of short-notice travel taking you away from home, no overtime pay but lots of overtime worked, tons of mandatory in-person and online training, paperwork, paperwork, paperowork (all in the name of preventing Fraud, Waste, & Abuse), a paranoid culture of trying to not make tiny clerical mistakes that gets you written up, getting set up for failure by back-stabbing coworkers who behave like it's an episode of Survivor, and most of all: absolutely no forgiveness and the threat of legal consequences for administrative & utterly inconsequential mistakes. Example: I kid you not, a gas jockey accidentally put Plus unleaded in a GSA car on a travel job, and they literally sent an investigator to interview everyone for 'fraud waste and abuse' and start a whole inquisition. In 2009. We counted our beans and expenses with more excruciating detail than anyone in the private sector. To the penny. You have to learn systems within systems within systems just to be a janitor or forklift jockey. These DOGE clowns aren't concerned with 'fraud, waste, and abuse', they're there to CREATE fraud waste and abuse, and profit from it while blaming someone else. Nobody spends more time trying to prevent it than Fed managers themselves. We had lots of sayings in the fed world, but this one is most relevant: "You've never seen an organization more willing to spend a dollar to save a dime." Some of our other sayings: - I file everything, therefore I know nothing - Those who shred history are doomed to repeat it - Anything worth doing is worth doing in Triplicate It's the Administratum of 40k lore. You may think that Park Ranger has a cush job sitting in a booth charging $5 for a parking pass to everyone, but what you don't know is that the moment they leave the booth, they have a pile of admin work and mandatory training waiting for them in the office and voice call meetings with supervisors.
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  112. They didn't just "See it on TV". They saw it on a TV news network that claims to be news. Not satire. Editorial hour is not satire. It's a facet of Journalism, straight up. Even after courts forced them to say they're not journalists, they still get away with stating they are without disclaimer, as opposed to The Daily Show, which is plainly on Comedy Central.
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  113. It is the responsibility and role of Hunter's LAWYERS to fight that fight, not the goddamned President acting like a Royal using his rank to make his Heir untouchable.
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  114.  @Ch1pp007  It comes down to politicians who someday dream of being an untouchable president themselves, and having a knock-on invincibility effect trickle out to all politicians. All politicians, at all times, are trying to make themselves more above the law than they have already made themselves. That's how Feudal Lordship invents itself.
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  115. Once again, preferential rulings for the party duopoly, not for anyone or anything else
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  116. Wait, is Diddy just Matt Gaetz in blackface?!?
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  117. When he invokes himself as President, he doesn't get free speech. He must pay for everything he says. Because he is presuming to speak for us. For the United States. With force of authority. He certainly tried to leverage that rank when committing his crimes.
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  118. The constitution says 'in order to form a more perfect UNION' quite explicitly in the very first sentence. In ages past, nations grew through conquest and capitulation. The US was unique at the time by forming it through consensus. Teamwork. In the face of a common enemy, sure. Today, nations only fall apart, whittle down, and get smaller to appease tribalists. Weaking themselves. It's not an good thing.
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  119. There's a reason why so many bases are in the South, and it ain't to juice small hick town economies
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  120. Dude, if MARGE FREAKIN' GREENE is the thing that ends America after a quarter millenia.... Than a whole lotta apologies are owed to the Union Army dead and the Klan has won.
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  121. Man, if only Walt lived long enough to learn about the Tunnels in NYC...
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  122. After I went to the Joint Fires course at Nellis in '08, it was a trend I noticed has grown. Only the most senior officers get stick time anymore, because Drones really have caused so many junior officers to be unemployed. I asked an Air Force Colonel (Full Bird) who lost his A-10 seat to run a Drone wing why he still walked around in a flight suit...he told me "Because I can and because chicks dig it"
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  123.  @Anvilman  That changes once a president is finally REMOVED after impeachment. Duh, cause and effect, dude. He skipped the effects last time because politicians want to NEVER set the precedent that a POTUS can be kicked TF out
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  124. I hearby call dibs on "The Kalamazoo Stapler" for my firm that specializes in fastener technology IPs
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  125. My problem with the language is the law is specifying international terrorism as a viable target. Which, as 'Murica will do, continues to shelter and offer loopholes to it's domestic ones
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  126. "You can win an argument and still lose the argument" In the matter of FAA vs Don Ready: Defendant: Judge, did you know in 1969 when smoking was allowed on all flights, we put a man on the moon? Judge: You mother****er. Case dismissed. Now let's all smoke one for America.
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  127. Ugh....this is MORE than corruption, this is arms dealing AND Espionage-adjacent 18 USC 794 violations. This guy ALSO is playing footsie with the Electric Chair. Bribery is the LEAST of his crimes here.
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  128. The question always remains: Who pulls Trump's strings and puts those little folders in front of him to sign He's just their old, fat puppet useful for rabble rousing the moron vote.
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  129. Best. Democracy. Money. Can. Buy.
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  130. We have checked every single block of post '33 Germany that ended their Republic from brownshirts trying to burn down the Reichstag to weirdos in cults of pseudoscientists literally heading the government agencies.
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  131. So does that mean that since microorganisms in the body continue to grow after someone is dead that they are still 'alive' and have Personhood status before the law? This would be wonderful since it means rich senators have to give back all that silver spoon inheritance cash that got them to where they could be senators.
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  132. My takeaway: Golf is still stupid
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  133. Alina: Baby, I'll do anything you want for $200 Trump: Dress up and pretend to be a lawyer Also Trump: Just kidding, there is no $200
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  134. Money is now speech. Money is now 'paying your debt to society' for murdering an individual. Money is how you get Undue amounts of process where others don't get their due at all. Money and Democracy do not mix. One replaces the other.
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  135. Disabled veterans. Guaranteed. Between Trump's dislike of people who aren't draft dodgers like him and Republican's greedy hand rubbing to keep every penny every American paid into Social Security, it's a sure bet Elon is going to try to end Veteran's benefits. Everything they do mirrors what Republicans has been salivating to do since FDR.
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  136. Yet more proof that cash registers mean more than flesh and blood Oh he shoulda gotten his peepee slapped good, but he spilled not one drop of blood. Whereas we've got gun waving, treasonous domestic terrorists with blood on their hands 'aplenty walking free
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  137. With money. Like any rich man, he wonders 'Why aren't I royalty? This whole America thing is standing in my way.' And so the party of the Rich, by the Rich, for the Rich played the rubes into supporting a Feudal takeover.
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  138. The only solution is the investigation, prosecution, and overturning as part of a criminal conspiracy the compromised, self-evidently corrupt rulings of this SCOTUS. They did what they did for bribes, arrest them and annul their actions on the bench. And why not? They ruled a President could do that, after all. As long as he does it 'officially'
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  139. I'm fairly certain that was the backdrop story of the movie The Bad Batch. Naturally, all trade with Texas would have to be embargoed and any 'Hey, I'm gonna go with Texas if it means I can own Brown People like my grandpappy did' states like Mississippi be reminded at gunpoint why there are so many US military bases in Southern states. Never trust a Texan.
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  140. You really have to admire his alibi that he needs immunity to enjoy his golden years as an ex POTUS. A point of view shared by every Nazi War Criminal in Argentina regarding their golden years.
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  141. I'm not too surprised. His career was built on prosecuting the Sicilian Mafia, and deliberately leaving the Russian Bratva mob untouched. Who swept in and filled the power vacuum to this very day. Weird how nobody seems to wonder about his chummy relationship with Russians.
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  142. It feels like a social control experiment to see how far you can push the suspension of disbelief before a large enough mass of people resort to Guillotines. The two parties seem like cartoonish control methods and a 'democracy' that somehow, mysteriously, keeps turning up results within a few tiny percentage points again and again and again. It really does beggar belief. Too much.
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  143. God, I miss The Onion having the dopest videos on U2b.
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  144.  @tgmjrtgmjr8221  No they do not. Federal jobs usually lag behind City jobs for benefits, and WG/GS payscales are set to establish **the** baseline for a Middle Class Income. My friend who is a city bus driver ($39 hr) as well as fabricators and truckers at my current shop ($35 hr) make WAY more per hour than Federal payscale. You know nothing.
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  145. Literal plot pillar to the movie Cherry 2000.
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  146. LANA! Danger zone.
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  147.  @sharper68  You're adorable. But playing the wrong game. Or at least you showed up playing with the wrong rules. There's a word for people who use those rules: victims. Forgotten victims. Not survivors. Which means we shouldn't listen to you.
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  148. And yet not one of them was smart enough to just Copyright/Trademark "The Big Lie" so they could sue CNN or anyone else who used that phrase
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  149.  @Psyda  Like it matters. He already gained a reputation for violating local authority and jurisdictions in his first term by simply sending federal goons to bigfoot in 'liberal' places that offended his personal sensibilities. Did we all forget when he had unmarked Feds snatching rando people off the streets of Portland for wearing black hoodies in public as 'sus'?
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  150. It's the home of Wall Street, Donald Trump, the Subprime Mortgage Crash and bailout, and the entire history of NYC mayors. There were no surprises about 'corruption' here.
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  151. Asking Lawyers to police other Lawyers, lol Where have we heard something like that before?
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  152.  @johnjones3813  No we don't. That's an old myth held over from the Reagan era. You should take a look at the colors of faces standing in formation over the last 25 years. The Poor and the Brown are more heavily represented among us that among you. Edit: And we sure as hell haven't forgotten how many of us Bush killed and mangled to get re-elected.
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  153. To those who can hear me, I say do not despair. The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish - Charles Chaplin, The Great Dictator, 1940. A great movie that Hitler actually saw, and it did nothing to dissuade him
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  154. Cookies are nothing more than legal viruses, and always have been. It's amazing what you can get the government to protect so long as you have a business card. U2b can get it's algorithm fix when I log in, that's a tacit agreement on my part, not with spyware with fake veneer of respectability just because it's 'for business purposes'.
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  155. Late stage capitalism becomes early phase Feudalism every time. Ask the Pharaohs. Or their slaves.
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  156.  @toriblue  MARKET capitalism is what we do here, hotrod. And yes, it is the problem. It is fundamentally incompatible with democracy for the simple reason that MARKET capitalism is built for those WITH money to be the only ones who MAKE the money, and that money is used to create that corruption you speak of so they can take MORE money, and thus be the only ones who can make the rules. Its not "free" speech if it's only for sale to the highest bidder, and buddy....you can't afford to have a say.
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  157. I'm gonna go with Mens Rea for $200, Alex. One was clearly stooopid, one was clearly stoooopid and malicious and up to no good
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  158.  @odinfromcentr2  Exactly. And, just as everything else we've suspected about him, the suspicions have not only proven to always be true (don't trust your lyin' eyes), but generally worse than any reasonable person thought possible.
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  159. There's no way the drafters DIDN'T consider the President and Vice President to be included officers by definition considering they just impeached Andrew Johnson 4 months before they ratified the 14th amendment.
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  160. Sovereign Citizen is just a pretty way to say 'Self-made Illegal Alien' Way to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, boys. Now leave.
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  161. Judge: Mr Simmons, do you have any new evidence to present to the court? DMX: X GONNA GIVE IT TO YA. Judge: Thanks, X.
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  162. I really couldn't care less. They're both part of the stupid 'lookatmeImmacelebrity' internet. I'm one of those old-internet normies who still thinks 'YouTubers' are people who create content for artistic merit that isn't an attention-whoring daily selfie upload. They just make cool videos WITHOUT their stupid face front and center. That thinks narratives are better delivered with a voiceover, not a ring light. Yes, Devin too.
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  163. All of this hubbub and mishigas by thousands of scholars.... for the self-evident crimes of a nitwit
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  164. "If you listen to Fools, the Mob Rules" - Black Sabbath "Do not try to escape, you are in my control. Look at me, I am the sum of all evils." - Donald J. Loc-Nar "Death! Death! Death to all who oppose us! To the Council Chambers!" - Trump's Mutants
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  165. The moral here: When you've betrayed the country and end up with a USDA approved Ankle Bracelet for your efforts...Hello Fresh will still be your flavor advocate
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  166.  @andrewprahst  He has ALWAYS been calling for this, ever since he decided to recruit the "tough guy" demographic claiming he had the Bikers, the Miltary (that hasn't worked out for him like he hoped), and the Police (which worked out very much like he hoped) It was always to recruit an army of Brown Shirts. And everyone saw it coming, because it happened in real time in front of them
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  167.  @andrewprahst  You do realize we already went down this road in 1861, yes?
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  168. Whenever I hear the words Southern District of New York, Dade County, Maricopa County, or Broward County, I immediately picture an Idiocracy sized Costco with great herds of people migrating to and fro just from the sheer quantity of legal wrangling going down in what must be courthouses that look more like subway terminals
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  169. I come here for the White Collar Scholar take on things I go to Beau of the Fifth Column for the Blue Collar one
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  170. Not a Third World Country, but a Two Party one. Who exist only to vex each other at our expense. Two parties that do not represent or listen to the largest group of voters...people who are in neither party. Yet they have almost every single seat in Congress and always, always the Presidency. Edit: We live every day caught between 2 gangs who have taken over what is now THEIR prison.
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  171. lol, arguing that Boycotts are 'illegal' This is the kind of argument only Royals would make when the Peasants escape their feifs
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  172. The Constitution was a sweet, beautiful, hopeful 16 year old virgin who just got molested by the John Gacy of politics. Even if she survived the assault, she will either be scarred and bitter forever, or end herself. Just for knowing there are other Trumps waiting out there. One thing is for sure, she can never go home again after having that innocence ripped away. The shining city on the hill is now a shabby trailer park for sale.
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  173. The White House's case of a double standard paints them into a corner in direct opposition to their own defense of Trump being caught with SCI documents: They said Bolton was an original classifying authority and allege this to be a conflict of interest. Problem is: They said Trump has the same power in his defense, but disregard the same conflict.
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  174.  @joshwist556  You must be joking. We train 18 year olds who've never shot a gun in their life to hit 300 meter targets in 1 shot that are only up for 8 seconds from a foxhole with iron sights, not a rooftop with a rotund stationary target for MINUTES with flags and all manner of wind indicators. You literally don't get to graduate basic training until you can do that. Edit: He took 8 shots?!?
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  175. True, but he serves a valuable function in society as the classic 'Her Ex' meme popping up in every new ship. What amazes me is how common they are, like every The Obnoxious Ex is hassling at least a dozen ex girlfriends/wives at once.
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  176. Correction: The 24 hour News Media FORCED us to watch live. They bumped literally everything else out of the way to make this the Trial of the Century, per the plan. It turned out exactly as they hoped, and as they shaped it. Because people who should have known better let cameras in the courtroom.
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  177.  @logancade342  Sure there is. It's a clear cut felony. And that they went to lengths to hide it makes it a conspiracy, because they knew it was a crime. Show me a single official piece of paper that says the DOJ doesn't have the power to arrest a criminal on the SCOTUS. That rap barely even works for the POTUS.
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  178. Need any more proof that Market Capitalism and Democracy are mutually exclusive terms?
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  179. I fear Fox News could rebrand in court themselves as Parodists, instead of 'entertainment'. Because sooner or later, their use of the word 'news' in their official title when they are anything but has a major Karmic debt that is overdue. I don't want them to have this as a legal out when the guillotine blade finally drops.
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  180. That's just solid math, right thar.
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  181. What a coincidence. I, too, support the Right to Bear Arms. By the well-regulated militia. My state's national guard. Who keep their guns in an armory, as intended. So where's my ticket for a chance at a million bucks, Elon?
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  182. Hillary was just a coffee girl, he never met her
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  183. Because few have shame anymore. Lying has fewer, or no consequences or sense of shame than ever before in our culture. Because everyone wants to keep that 'get out of jail with a lie' card in their pocket, and take a sort of pride in getting away with it now. We have truly, literally normalized lying whereas just a few decades ago, telling a lie was instant Pariah turf. We forgive it because everyone wants it handy.
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  184. I take serious issue with the legal system treating recordings as hearsay. Two years ago my '09 Triumph was stolen in Oregon, and found in Washington. Guy was caught, and laid out an argument that he knew me and gave him permission to use it, and we had a falling out. Obviously, I didn't know the guy. But the neighbors camera caught it, and neither I, the DA, or the defense knew about the video file until the day before I was going to testify. Therefore, being presented late, on the day of trial. DA told the defense and guy changed his plea to guilty. But if they had called it 'hearsay', he would have had a bogus defense.
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  185. It was always about comfortably 'native' born people looking around and seeing too many Latino faces, and Republicans playing on that. "Dems lost because of their messaging on the Economy" is how they avoid saying what we know "Republicans won because nativist white, black, and asian voters see too many Mexicans around."
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  186. @ The price of gas is tanking (pun intended), and lines at gas stations are disappearing, but that's entirely down to the faster adoption of hybrids, PHEVs, and EVs. Just count the number of freakin' Toyota Hybrid RAV-4's everywhere that go unnoticed. It always starts that way, the OPEC guys raise prices to save their revenues when gas sales go down, then when that doesn't work, they desperately lower oil prices to entice people away from economy vehicles. We saw this in the 80s too
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  187. @ You'd think the well-documented fact that only 25% of businesses don't fail after 15 years would have gotten the message through to citizens, but nope...the Rich & Famous convinced them that if they 'fail', they can just file for National Bankruptcy and that they won't wind up living on Fury Road
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  188. I love that Jones' lawyer Reynal had to write "Don't Lie To The Jury" on the board like a naughty 3rd grader.
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  189. Just call it what it is: An economic warfare counter blow. China is absolutely trying to replace the US's halo corporations and tech industries as part of economic warfare...which translates to REAL warfare quicker than you think. Rich countries can buy the better guns. So you target the things that make them rich, and take them for yourself.
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  190. It doesn't matter if Democrats will unite. Dems vote for Dems, Republicans vote for Republicans. What matters is if Independents will show up for Harris, not if they would switch to Trump. They weren't thrilled to show up to vote at all for Biden. Something the DNC should have admitted sooner. Stop pretending it's about registered party minions 'switching their vote'. It never is, and never was.
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  191.  @geraltofrivia7823  Whatever. My ex wife tried to get me into fights (and succeeded sometimes) because at some point she decided that was my role. Big guy, wore combat boots for a living, obviously I must be her personal thug. Pulled this crap all the time. Hence the "Ex". Last time was in line for the kids to do the Mall Santa photo thing. Decided the lady and her kids in front cut her off, and BOTH of them tried to rope me and other husband into a brawl for their 'honor'. We stepped out and got a beer at Chilis. Wife punched me in the car after. We divorced about 9 months later. A tiny, 105 lb battleaxe with a princess complex.
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  192. Pfffft. Deviantart. Everyone knows you go to NewGrounds. Clearly, standards at UCLA have fallen if they no longer teach the Law of Internet Rule.
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  193.  @martinricardo4503  I'll do you one better: Imagine the US, Canada, Australia, and UK were still one big empire. You might cringe at the thought and make liberal college students heads explode, but that's a far bigger superpower capable of doing far more than what we can individually do today. We might've had people on Mars already. But we don't, do we? WHY IS THAT? Tribalism, the need to keep breaking a platoon up into little squads so some idiot can be de facto leader. Small Fish like to make themselves Big Fish by breaking up the Big Pond into useless little ones.
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  194. "Brick, do you really love the lamp or are you just saying you love the lamp?" ..... .... "I love lamp."
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  195. That's the literal description of the Confederate constitution of 1862 Read the opening lines of that perverse document. It's a twisted funhouse mirror parody of the real deal.
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  196. Worst loot drop from a PUG boss ever
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  197. 'He didn't make a Football move' The Refs are the toughest team in the league. Ain't no one beat them yet.
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  198.  @HumbleWooper  I would normally agree with you. Except that I live in Portland, a town literally targeted by a POTUS who sent his fave gestapo fed goons in unmarked vehicles to grab people off the street for 'looking' wrong. Wearing black hoodies. Which they did, with relish. Streets reeked of the cherry and pepper smell of riot agents because people wouldn't vote for or verbally kiss that man's arse to his satisfaction. That was an extremely local issue created by the guy at the top.
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  199. This is what happens when you reward prosecutors simply for taking scalps to protect their career K/D ratio and not for simply doing the right thing
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  200. They're mistaken in comparing themselves to Shutterstock as if they were anything but copyright trolls AND content thieves themselves. Does no one remember Shutterstock laying bare their theft shenanigans when they mistakenly tried to enjoin the original photographer of a pic Shutterstock misappropriated without realizing they were dealing with the creator? A creator who never gave them one iota of authority to use his image. That was when it became clear they simply mine the internet for meida and lay claim to things that aren't theirs.
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  201. Brawndo Corp has finally succeeded in buying the government.
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  202. Thats literally now how the US dollar works. Our debt is specifically WHERE the power comes from. That others know their investment in the Dollar keeps it safe because it has to pay out. You clearly have no idea what would happen if we magically just paid every debt all at once. You would then be banking on the Chinese Yuan forever after.
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  203.  @RisingAurora  Yes, and as we have all done time as the de facto range safety NCOs, we also know that once you let an amateur fiddle with something you yourself verified as clear, it's no longer cleared, and you need to check it again So I would have also made sure Baldwin didn't fiddle with it again after it was safed by a pro. But the pro failed, and obviously, they were not being pros. They lost positive control of those firearms when they were used for target shooting that morning by idiots who brought real cartidges to the set to shoot cans with what should have been permanently cold, never-fired-a-live-round-ever weapons. That's the root cause of this whole situation. Just like we were all warned of the UCMJ criminal consequences by Range Control of bringing your own non-mil-issue ammo to the range and plink targets for fun as if the MRF range was our Grandaddy's shootin' pasture because we thought no one was looking.
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  204. They could have cut the foreplay and just titled it 'The South Will Rise Again' GOP hasn't been the party of 'personal freedom' since they decided they needed Jerry Falwell's voters
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  205. Not really, this is exactly how Musk likes business done. I had Tesla's damn insurance on my car when I got hit by someone, until I had to sue them. They pretend to be the Keystone Cops as an alibi for not doing what they are supposed to do. Its deliberate incompetence, and always that line 'did you use our broken app??'
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