Comments by "Don Taylor" (@dontaylor7315) on "Steve Lehto" channel.

  1.  @M167A1  If Congress passed ANYTHING that says federal courts can't enforce the 14th Amendment and the SCOTUS didn't strike it down then I'm mad at the Supreme Court AND Congress.
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  2. ​ @spudd86  Couples at the very least should get each other's medical power of attorney so doctors can feel free to communicate fully with one partner about the other's health.
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  3. And here the SCOTUS argued "sanctity of the jury" in upholding the state's right to DENY the jury complete pertinent information.
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  4. I agree that ideally the taxpayers shouldn't have to foot the bill for a prosecutor's wrongdoing but, if it falls out that way, don't forget it's the public that elects DAs so the public is ultimately responsible for their wrongdoing. An analogy: If your kid smashes up somebody's car you don't get to shrug off the cost because you didn't do it personally; at the end of the day your kid is your responsibility.
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  5.  @thomasmathews7421  I agree but I'm not even sure "both sides" is an applicable phrase. The local government that oversees (and fails to hold accountable) the prosecutors is the same local entity that pays (and doesn't demand adequate performance from) public defenders.
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  6.  @thomasmathews7421  Again I agree, but demanding the best is no guarantee the attorney is listening - especially if they're being paid by the municipality.
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  7. The standard narrative: If the public distrusts law enforcement it's groundless and there must be something wrong with the public - HA! They say that even as they're operating as professional highwaymen.
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  8. Civil asset forfeiture is outright racketeering by the government and should be reviewed, but I'm not optimistic about the outcome when the entity being trusted with the task just happens to be the most corrupt SCOTUS I've seen in my lifetime, which spans from the Truman administration to the present.
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  9. Not positive, but I don't think Steve mentioned whether the Ohio Supreme Court justices are elected. If they run for their places on the bench, they have campaign funds. I daresay the boneless chicken business has a lobby with deep pockets.
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  10. ​ @AFloridaSon  Lol autocorrect pranked you. You meant to type "back into" and your keyboard changed it to "mackintosh."
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  11. Steve only mentioned it in passing but I can't help wondering if the fact he won't be able to to vote might be the underlying cause of this whole fiasco. Voter suppression is mighty popular these days.
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  12. "No barking" is a covert way of saying "No dogs." A sign like that is stupid but it's also more than just stupid, it's actively anti-pet. Looks to me like someone with a mental disorder in need of treatment is behind this.
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  13. A jury of 12 Gops, maybe? Gops love cops unless they're defending the Capitol.
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  14.  @tvc184  Those magic words "You are not in custody" are like the mantra "Stop resisting." I've lost count of how many YT videos I've seen of a cop working over a detainee while reciting that phrase "Stop resisting" SOCK "Stop resisting" PUNCH "Stop resisting" POW "Stop resisting"... And no I'm not going to dig up links to such videos. Someone's liable to demand links but they're too numerous to require my doing other people's searches for them. Anyone who "can't find" them didn't want to see them.
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  15. @davidpawson9047 Hey really? Thanks, I'm delighted to hear it. Maybe those signs won't fall under the ban since they're not the overhead electronic type.
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  16. Shouldn't we have a better name for it, like Artificial Stupidity or Artificial Delirium?
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  17. ​ @gta4everrr  Darn good plan, thanks for laying it out so succinctly.
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  18. ​ @michaelhanson5773  @nightlightabcd I wasn't interested in frats but was invited to join the English honors fraternity (it was co-ed so "fraternity" didn't exactly mean what it usually does). There wasn't any hazing or pranking and the meetings were boring.
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  19. "That horse has already sailed" cracked me up. Is that an expression in current usage or did Steve just make it up on the spur of the moment?
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  20. I'm in Texas. Years ago I had a new roof put on and the work was done by an honest contractor so the issue never came up. But Texas law is notoriously corporate-owned and consumer-hostile, so I wonder if my state is one of the 27 that have that law.
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  21. The current SCOTUS is making it pretty clear that in its eyes a court can rule in favor of the wealthy and powerful and against the people on just about any grounds it pleases.
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  22.  @cgi2002  Based on your information, is Steve then mistaken that this decision is unusual?
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  23.  @cgi2002  It's that overall result that nags at me. We've got a SCOTUS that seems willing to take precedent from anywhere to expand corporate power. It might be counterintuitive to think this decision, international in its nature, could be applied domestically...but we've got justices on the highest bench in the land who just might not care.
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  24.  @danielboone8435  Guess I'm addicted to lost causes.
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  25.  @niyablake  I know, I know. It's just a reflex.
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  26.  @MattW-vh1ew  You're correct that the people we elect are bought off by the donor class. This is a condition that we as voters have complacently permitted for generations. At the federal level Bernie and his few cohorts in the House are just about the only exceptions and they're hated for it by the leaderships of both parties. However the idea that I'm implying that we, as the electorate, should share prison sentences with any corrupt officials who do get held accountable is just extending any responsibility on our part to its most absurd conclusion merely for absurdity's sake. The implication is that we the people should be more or less free of any responsibility for how carelessly we vote and how seldom we keep the officials we elect under close.scrutiny. I disagree.
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  27.  @MattW-vh1ew  You're correct that the people we elect are bought off by the donor class. This is a condition we, as voters, have complacently permtted for generations. However, suggesting that the whole electorate should share the prison sentences of any corrupt officials who get caught is merely extending any responsibility on our part to its most absurd conclusion just for absurdity's sake. The implication is that we the people aren't seriously responsible for the short-term and long-term consequences of how carelessly we vote and how seldom we keep those we elect under close scrutiny. I disagree.
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  28. A quarter mil isn't really enough for violating a citizen's rights that way and it's nowhere near enough when immigrants are arrested for trying to apply for asylum and quickly transported to a distant detainment location to make sure family members, advocates and lawyers can't find them.
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  29. Given that a recent president built his whole career on not paying off contractors, maybe legal agreements are no longer binding? Goshen sounds like a good site for a brand-new hotel and golf course...
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  30. If the precedent cited in the court's decision said this sort of thing leads to a police state, that pretty much explains why the case is appealed; they're confident the current SCOTUS supports the police state.
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  31. If I understood this correctly it's now legal for the police to fabricate a crime, fabricate evidence, extract false confessions by harassment and false pretenses, and lie under oath in court. Someone in the comments below suggested juries may have to start assuming all police testimony is perjured. Under those circumstances what else can a jury assume, if they're interested in justice?
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  32. Of course a taco is a sandwich. So are sausage wraps and hot dogs, they're all food enclosed in bread. Can't exclude the taco just because its design is superior to food loosely held between loose slices. I claim expertise because I'm a Texan; the Southwest was intimate with tacos before the rest of y'all were familiar with the word, much less the actuality.
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  33. Steve, I think I've figured it out: Based on all those diagnoses, you must have died long ago and you're uploading these videos from beyond the grave. You imagine you're still alive because you're in denial. That's fine with me because if you realized you're dead I wouldn't get to keep watching new content, so I don't see any serious problem here.
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  34. Now that the whole country knows the Ohio state constitution can be amended by referendum with a simple majority vote, the solution looks doable as soon as they clean up their State House, which I imagine they will next election.
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  35.  @SayAhh  That's fair but it only hits the individual perpetrators. It doesn't touch the kingpins who crafted civil assets forfeiture in the first place, or the agency heads who implement it.
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  36.  @Dave-ty2qp  I don't have a plan I'm just highlighting the problem that needs addressing. Like I said, your proposal helps. Now I'm hoping someone comes up with a way to attack the other part of this situation.
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  37.  @rustymustard7798  Agreed on all points, and thanks for the point about "equating use with abuse." I've been using (approximately) that very phrase since 1968 or so.
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  38. ​ @jonimaricruz1692  Knocking a guy to the ground and damaging his eyes with pepper spray while he's being held down is OBVIOUSLY "assault pure and simple." Wtf are you ranting about?
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  39. More reasons I'm glad I've NEVER had a FB page no matter how much my friends and family urge me to.
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  40. Debtor's prison is a national disgrace and it's happening coast-to-coast. I'm glad to know that in at least in one state, Alabama, there's a judge taking a stand.
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  41. Thanks, Steve, for doing this segment on a piece by Lenore Skenazy the founder of Free Range Kids. She's been one of my heroes ever since I first read about her and then read her book. She's a rare voice of sanity in a world gone mad.
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  42.  @xonx209  Good plan to create a bonanza for the lawyering industry and a financial burden for everyone else. Meanwhile the judge could continue undisturbed in his new court.
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  43. ​ @ProudRegressive  False arrests, acquittals, dismissals, exonerations and exculpatory evidence have been withheld to protect the authorities from the innocent.
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  44.  @russellmania5349  Oh I suppose they probably did. I was just letting my imagination run wild.
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  45.  @deusvult6920  It's business-as-usual here in Texas.
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  46.  @jddrafts  That means we'll have professional jurors instead of regular citizens doing a civic duty, but if you're going to place juries under onerous threats then that's what it could come to.
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  47.  @radolfkalis4041  Did you see the post I was replying to? I neglected to write /s on my reply but I thought the context would make it obvious.
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  48.  @A-GreenWhiteGreen-Patriot  "If he judges wrong, he should not be a judge." Then human beings can't be judges. A judge who's never made a decision in error is like a lawyer who's never lost a case, a doctor who's never lost a patient or a bus driver who's never been late to a stop - there's no such thing. The only way a judge or ANYONE ELSE should be punished for an error is if it WASN'T an error but a matter of knowingly taking part in a miscarriage of justice, especially a frame-up.
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  49. So all you have to do is get a tv station on your side and a lot of local bad PR for the bank and you'll eventually get a good outcome. Sure, easy. Anybody can count on media backup on such a large scale anytime they need it, right?
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  50. I hope the jury recommends that the property owner buy the public lands a helicopter to transport visitors in and out at an FAA-approved altitude.
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