jvsylvester.bsky.social
Austin, Texas. Rice Grad.
Attorney; Board-certified in Civil Appellate. Huge USWNT fan. DS9 remains as the best Trek ever.
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I think they can, provided they want to.
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He says a lot of things.
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We have Ted Cruz in contention for that. And then there's Tommy Tuberville, Josh Hawley, Marsha Blackburn, Ron Johnson, Joni Ernst, and others.
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Not even close.
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My favorite assessment so far is: "The soldiers ambled along as if they were Hegseth performing a sobriety test."
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Depends on the display. Some regimes know how to do it. It helps to have a huge open plaza or square and to send them as a group.
One lone squeaking vehicle after another is a weak alternative.
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Anyone who has knowledge of the history of immigration in this country. From the days of the "braceros" in the 40s and 50s to date, farmers and growers have consistently pushed back on political efforts to eliminate their workforce.
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I like to mention that:
In 2020, Biden received more votes in California than in any other state. No surprise there.
Question: Which state was second in the number of votes cast for Biden?
Answer: Texas
We edged New York by about 18,000 votes.
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If Trump's involved with a project, it's going to cost too much and produce minimal results.
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Infant mortality was extremely high. If a couple of children made it to adulthood after surviving all the childhood diseases, a family was doing well.
It's remarkable how so many old graveyards have lots of little headstones.
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Demonstrated that, as usual, Trump is a lifelong fuckup. Images matter, and for Trump, the optics were terrible. It mattered but not in the way he dreamed of.
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Going into a neighborhood like South Central LA to find guys with rap sheets is hard. It's a lot easier to fill those quotas by going to parks to pick off nannies looking after children.
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If they're that determined to work as a part of the nation's workforce, we should find a way to accommodate their initiative.
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DPRK puts on a much better show.
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There was a huge LAPD corruption scandal in the 90s involving the "CRASH" unit.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampart...
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I once challenged a bookcase picture's owner with "Why not alpha by author?"
The response rightfully put me in my place: "Because they're chronological by publication date."
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In this case, the list includes:
China;
USSR (former);
North Korea;
The Pasadena Rose Bowl Committee;
Any Disney theme park;
Macy's (New York),
San Francisco Chinese New Year Festival ;
Any New Orleans Krewe;
Rio's Carnival;
Hannover's Schützenfest,
The pet parade at any elementary school.
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Those guys knew how to do it:
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"crowd"
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That's embarrassing.
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And that's precisely what Trump was dreaming of. He saw a Bastille Day Parade a few years ago and nearly made a mess in his pants as it went by.
Meanwhile, Paris is the world's capital for revolutions. Can't compete with that legacy.
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Dark Brandon knows all, sees all . . . .
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The Red Army of the CCCP (USSR) did May Day parades with flair.
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Lot of empty seats.
He saw a big show the French put on for Bastille Day and dreamed of something like that. Doesn't look like he got it.
I was too busy being with thousands of people at the Capitol in Austin celebrating Flag Day.
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Snow White in nicely tailored fatigues. carrying a bazooka .. I might pay attention to that.
Aurora would drive a tank. Belle would be Intelligence. Cinderella: helicopter pilot. Ariel is easily a Marine. Pocahontas: Special Forces. Jasmine would be a fighter pilot. Mulan - Space Force. Etc.
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They have real jobs to do. They're a professional outfit. That doesn't work with his narcissistic agenda.
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But there for a number of years, both Mussolini and Hitler were wildly popular. Their crowds were huge and enthusiastic.
Trump can only wish for something like that.
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Will he be advocating the use of leeches to bleed bad humors out of those who are ill?
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One of the challenges for that in Texas is that many of our prisons (we have a lot of them) are already farms.
The Department of Criminal Justice likes to talk about how the operation is largely self-sufficient. They not only grow food. They also have cotton farms and make clothes.
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I count on Trump and his people screwing things up. The ultimate saving grace may be that they are not very smart, nor are they competent. A consistent theme of Trump's career is that he's been big on talk and weak on results. Of Still, the damage will be huge.
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The thousands of staff of Congressional offices and lobbyists become part of the resistance if that happens.
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The Scandinavian countries always seem to land at the top of lists of "happiest countries."
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I carry this:
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And, while I keep repeating myself on this, Trump needs to maintain the confidence of the bond markets to continue to underwrite deficits and to service the existing $36 trillion in debt. That requires a stable system in which taxes are paid and laws are fairly applied. He risks breaking all that.
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Consider that if he somehow suspends elections next year, all of the House and 1/3 of the Senate are out of a job.
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It's a huge country. At most, there are 350k combat troops in the Army and Marines. A lot are stationed in bases overseas. Not all would comply. The logistics are daunting.
We had trouble controlling Iraq, and it's only the size of California. I don't think they can pull that off .. yet.
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But you need supervision. Any cat is ready to provide that.
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Ditto ... only with the other style of totalitarian rule.
(The old CCCP was really good at parades.)
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The turn out is going to be abysmal.
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Seems there was a deal in place about 8 years ago that Trump just threw away without ever putting a new arrangement in place.