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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 kinda respect Frederick's entrepreneurial spirit to have served food and sex to miners in Whitehorse in the Yukon while speculating in gold claims. Let others do all that hard work of working claims!
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He should have made the price $4,999,995.00.
This is crass and disgusting. But then that's Donald Trump.
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Fort Cornwallis and Fort Burgoyne
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Newsom is scoring heavily these days. He just needs to stay authentic.
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Going after employees at meat packing plants and agricultural workers isn't going to help food prices. Those "undocumented workers" are woven into the economy. The lust for "mass deportation" will have its consequences.
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The problem is that they're just sweeping people up and shipping them to really bad places without much concern about probable cause, evidence, or due process. That warrants the "Nazi" label.
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Scafe?
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It's always just smoke and mirrors and no genuine substance with him.
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Just the damage to D.C. streets is expected to run $14-$15 million.
It's why the casinos went bankrupt. The revenues weren't able to cover the cost of the lavish interiors and the ongoing costs of operations. But that was largely "other people's money," so he didn't care all that much.
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That doesn't include the San Fernando Valley, the San Gabriel Valley, the Inland Empire, the High Desert, or any of the suburbs in Orange or Riverside County.
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They certainly would know about "crass political stunts," but I think they're wrong on this one.
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If someone, they'll all lounge around with nothing to do. That gets expensive quickly, and it would also impair the military's ability to do the jobs they're normally assigned to do.
Already Trump's big crisis is looking like nothing but overkill. He always spends too much.
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I only want the light to come on when I open the door.
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"You've Got to Be Carefully Taught" (to learn how to hate) is always a poignant choice.
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I was fortunate to spend most of a summer in college in what was then Yugoslavia. I have fond memories of the way Sarajevo and Mostar were before the war. The shelling of Dubrovnik was a crime against our collective heritage.
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It's nothing I'm suggesting be done seriously. I'm just proposing a stupid idea to match the kind of stupid ideas that TACO comes up with at 3:00 in the morning.
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A budget for maintenance and spare parts is never as much fun as buying F35s and new aircraft carriers.
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I was surprised to learn that the combat part of the military is not more than 15% of the total personnel. They rely on sophisticated technology to expand their effect. They are not the Red Army of WW2.
So, they're just not a police force. That requires large numbers of bodies to impose order.
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A default on the US debt would be ... very bad.
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He hates nature. (And I'm not being glib here.)
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I only say that because it's the type of ridiculous tripe that Trump offers up.
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It's time for President Sheinbaum to call for annulment of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo.
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Most everything Trump does is a deflection from everything else.
Now, the stuff about a "federal permitting process" to allow homes to be rebuilt in the areas affected by the SoCal fires -- that was pure distraction, but most everything else is important and bad on its own.
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And that's a partial list.
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I also continue to think the kicker is the $36 trillion in debt and the need for the domestic and foreign money to continue to underwrite that. The bond markets may balk at an America that's subject to a lawless dictatorship run by a group of fascist idiots.
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I was interested to learn that the total number of combat troops (Army & Marines) is not that great -- maybe 350,000 total. They rely heavily on technology to kill other military formations. There just aren't the numbers or training to occupy a huge country of 330 million. They aren't police.
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There's also an element of pretext. Trump knows by experience that he can rile people up through appealing to their prejudices. That opens the door for him to assert "emergency measures" to seize more power. His whole political career is based on scaring people of the "others."|
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May I suggest that it's "FEDERAL PERMITTING PROCESS."
And if there were any such "FPP," I assume that implies the Biden administration was diligent. Under Trump, D.O.G.E. would have disbanded any "FPP Office."
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Our large cities in Texas are *very* blue. They might not be bothered about slams vs. Houston, Austin, D/FW, and San Antonio. We are a schizophrenic state with a lot of people. We just have about 53-54% Republicans who dominate our politics, but we are not WY or WV.
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If they're going after "the worst of the worst," why are they raiding places of employment, immigration courts, and elementary schools?