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The Overton Window has turned me into a flaming liberal. Attorney, law professor, LGBTQ+ supporter, and velomobile rider. No DMs and no porn please.
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I don’t know if he’s a racist, but I do know he has given sufficient reason for any litigant to fear they will not be treated fairly.
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Every attorney in Florida should write the Chief Judge of the Middle District, The Honorable Marcia Morales Howard, at [email protected],and demanded the resignation of Judge Badalamenti.
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Please explain shutting down the suicide hotline for LGBTQ+ kids. If that doesn't work, do you have a backup plan, perhaps institutionalization followed by euthanasia? I can't imagine how you look in the mirror and see a decent human being.
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That's CRT. It says official racism in this country had a negative effect on those it targeted, and those effects continue to today.
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The difference was driven entirely by official US government policy, and those who benefited from it continue to benefit from it today. Those who suffered from it continue to suffer from it today.
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The white man, who died just a few days later, left his children and grandchildren with enough money to pay off all the kids' debts and to pay for college for the grandchildren.
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60 years after coming home from the war, the black man's net worth was approximately 6% of the white man's. He couldn't fund his children's education through a second mortgage, because he had no equity. And when he died, he left his children and grandchildren with nothing but debt.
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Soon after he bought, an interstate highway was built through downtown, right through the middle of the black man's neighborhood. Property values dropped to almost zero, and the lead build-up from car fumes, though he didn't know it, was damaging his young children's brains.
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The white man, after a few years, had enough equity in his house to buy a new, bigger house. The black man took several more years to buy a small home in the black business and residential community downtown.
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The white man bought a home in one of the new Levittown suburbs, which were white only, and his loan was funded with a very inexpensive FHA loan. The black man wasn't eligible for an FHA loan. He rented a house and saved as much as he could.
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After the war, they both came home. The white man went to college on the GI Bill, and graduated with a degree in accounting. The black man was excluded from GI education benefits, so he went to work as a laborer.
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Imagine, please, two men who served on the same aircraft carrier in WWII, one white and one black.
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There's a lot of talk about Critical Race Theory, from the theoretical to the hyperbolic.
Please allow me to put it in a relatively simple context, with examples that flow from our lifetimes and the lifetimes of our immediate families.
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Then it was the whole damned world, and it was just too late. And I say to all of you, Democrat, Republican, Libertarian, involved, uninvolved, uninterested, we'll all be damned if we willingly travel single step down that road. Because we've been down this road before, and we know where it ends.
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So when we see the same thing happening here, we're not saying we'll all be Nazis tomorrow. Too many people did not speak up, because nobody was talking about them in 1933, or 1934, or 1935. But then it was them, and it was too late.
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It is only after you've done that for years that you could hand over that rifle and be confident the trigger would be pulled, the bodies, large, small, and even tiny, still clutched in dead, twitching arms, would tumble into that wound torn into the ground by fated hands.
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Once that happened enough that the people were willing to accept it, you strip them of their citizenship, you take their property, you call them vermin, you dehumanize them.
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Before that could happen you'd have to first identify those people as the enemies of the nation, the people who are threatening it from the inside, taking away jobs, endangering people. You would highlight every crime committed by one, though the proportion is truly no different than anybody else.
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You could not simply transport a German from a cafe in 1933 to 1943, hand him a rifle, and tell him to shoot women and children kneeling at the side of a ditch, women and children who were stripped bare for their belonging and forced to dig their own mass grave.
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Imagine a German in 1933. Germany at the time is one of the most educated and cosmopolitan countries on earth.
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It's always about the money.
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It might, if TACO Don cared what The People think. But he doesn't. He never has. He sees us as marks, as suckers, as fools. But watching 10,000 liberals protest against his actions won't upset him. He'll probably loop the reel over and over and jerk off to it.
Take away the money.
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2. Take the money you're saving and send it to Democrats. Perhaps our last best chance to turn this sh*t-show around is the midterms.
That's it.
Nothing else matters.
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If you want to send a message there are only two messages that will be heard.
1. Stop buying stuff. Just stop. TACO Don and his minions care about only one thing - money. When Bezos and Zuckerberg and Musk and the rest start hurting, that's when things will change.
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We can’t waste taxpayer money on Hurricane relief. We need it for tax cuts for the top 1% of the top 1%.
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I wouldn't look at this guy's browser history without asbestos eyeshades.
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Because that's how the emoluments clause works.
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I am a lawyer and he’s an idiot.
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www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
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Because they know they can be convicted of war crimes when this insanity ends.
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What could go wrong?
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society can prevent those who are manifestly unfit from continuing their kind. The principle that sustains compulsory vaccination is broad enough to cover cutting the Fallopian tubes. Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
Buck v. Bell, 274 U.S. 200, 207-208 (1927)
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often not felt to be such by those concerned, in order to prevent our being swamped with incompetence. It is better for all the world if, instead of waiting to execute degenerate offspring for crime or to let them starve for their imbecility,