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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
I can just imagine the smile on the Baboons face when he was first told he would be introduced to working business models. -
Unions are like condoms. Sure they offer real protection to those who need it but it's a whole lot more fun without them.
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Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Next up, Trump Tower. -
Post trump Legal Actions, Including his Enablers
JoeWeber replied to Phil1111's topic in Speakers Corner
Letita James was granted partial summary judgment. Skip reading the whole thing and just read the Orders. It appears his ticket has been cancelled. 452564_2022_PEOPLE_OF_THE_STATE_OF_v_PEOPLE_OF_THE_STATE_OF_DECISION___ORDER_ON_1531.pdf -
Given that Trump left Biden holding the bag and no choices I'd say it was fair game to toss out the Trump card. In the end it is always some politician (s) that call the end and what follows is more on them individually than the "US" collectively.
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That's one hell of a defense counselor.
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12000/100=1200. 1200/50=24. 24=2 cases of wine. 2 cases of wine equals 12 days, more likely 10. No matter how you add it up you can divide it. Why is that so hard to understand?
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Do you honk your horn, your car horn, and how much does that cost per honk? How much per turn signal or, and here's the biggie, can poor people even afford to drive EV's at night? I've done the maths (thanks Olof) and anyway you cut it if you are poor you cannot beat the overall economies of a Mercedes no matter how elite you are.
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And driving a Mercedes isn't signaling anything? You know, it well might be that EV's are a cul-de-sac off the super highway leading to a future not dependent on fossil fuels. But even if you believe that 1000ppm CO2 is both salubrious and an awesome goal the bottom line is still that fossil fuels will eventually be too depleted to mine economically. In your Luddite like world view we should just stay chill and enjoy the benefits now and let the future take care of itself. I can't buy that way of thinking because the risks to our one planet, and to your own kids, are too great. In the words of Marcus Aurelius: "That which isn't good for the hive, isn't good for the bee."
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We need to keep some perspective whilst we're self flagellating. We have pulled some real boners, that's a fact, but we're not alone. Russia, France, England, Spain, etc. have all had a turn in the barrel and have also done a fine job of pissing off entire countries and populations.
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You've got your tenses all mixed up.
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I've been employing homeless people for 34 years and I'm telling you they are good folks who can do the job.
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Can't we train homeless people to drive trucks? I mean, they're already used to not being home, right?
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That's a crazy premium just to look cool in a Mercedes. How much is a PCV Valve replacement in a Tesla?
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Yep, and the problem is that it's more in our nature to conquer the weak than to help them be strong.
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OK, so then what explains all of the starving people we already have? Food is one component, delivery infrastructure is another.
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Initiative almost always wins the day even when faced with a new culture and a new language. In America even those who support a strong social net do so in a somewhat limited way. Who here, for example, is willing to give up 50% or more of what they earn to feed only the hungry in America? Someone might chirp that they would but the caveat will be that it has to be the same for all and that is just not happening. I don't think it's a problem our species can solve without giving up on the idea of equal rights for all. That is: we'll feed you and house you but the choices are all ours and you'll live by our rules or else. Like the rules kids live by. But we can't do that, so that's out, too. Now, it's true that the concept of a basic income has some merit but just wait until there are enough takers on the dole to form unions and demand more. Imagine a Million Peasant March on Washington or mass sit in's on Wall Street. I wouldn't bet against the possibility.
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Indeed. We too often have abhorred, with our traditional dissonance, the fecundity of those we would welcome into our nation at a time when we need low level workers. And that group of us includes liberal cantaloupe eaters. But then here we are, encouraging our own kids to reproduce by offering them financial support while wondering where their kids might work in a future economy. Certainly, we have no worries because our kids will be the smart kids, I guess.
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Might be the only solution is an Alien Visitation (assuming they also have free food recombobulators) or, probably better, a big ass meteor. If we ever find one on a Slim Pickens trajectory and big enough to squash us we'll deserve the outcome if we don't name it Jesus.
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First, so now we don't have greenies, we have brownies? No matter, excluding the possibility that clothes and food won't appear free of charge Star Trek style by pressing a button on a transconfabulator, what percentage of a nations GDP might you guess is acceptable to provide sustenance and housing for the incapable?
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Not having children who then have grandchildren might.
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Allies all. Any way you cut it the world is going to hell in a hand basket.
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Our Brazilian friends laugh at our political travails. They say we'd never make it in Brazilian politics because it's not for beginners.
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Just random info from a lifelong learner.
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The charade is tedious. Our #1 objective today must be taking out the Kerch bridge in a serious way. It's not useful to let our impatient populous think about anything for more than a couple of weeks. Give the Ukrainians the ATACMS bridge busters now, damn it!
