if I prompted an AI with "generate a picture of a conservative dipshit" this is exactly what it would spit out
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if I prompted an AI with "generate a picture of a conservative dipshit" this is exactly what it would spit out
(1) she didn't necessarily know she was wasn't going to run until very recently, and (2) she sincerely supported of all of the incompetent picks
I modernly wear tie bars because I'm very tall, such that the skinny end of my tie is often too short to reach the loop on the back of the wide end, and thus I utilize a tie bar to keep the skinny end in place
now as an adult I associate rollercoasters with doing math, and it sucks
I managed to ruin rollercoasters for myself as a child; wanting to grow up to be a fighter pilot/astronaut, I figured rollercoasters were a good chance to practice thinking under changing g-forces, so on the ride I would make myself mentally practice math problems
still perfectly grammatical!
Yesterday was the 11th anniversary of the biggest scandal of the Obama administration.
maybe my perception about the centrality of it to the second-wave feminist project is off, but what about the anti-porn zealotry? (I'm very prepared to be told that was a just a few loud voices)
can report since all this started I've been doing my part to keep the alcohol sector growing
tbh hunters are probably the people most likely own dogs *and* guns, and thus must be safest of all
the NRA's response to your piece is asinine; what percentage of gun-totting "violent criminals" anyone "might have to face" are ever even carrying more than *one* gun, let alone *three*, and I'm further confident the law-abiding 2-gun owner is more than equipped against the 3-gunned criminal
This is such an embarrassing way to end a democracy.
remember during the twitter acquisition litigation we got Musk's texts, and learned a redacted sender regarded Blake Masters as having "a savvy cultural/political view"
we can all have a little mustard gas, as a treat
the Massachusetts constitution's article granting the governor war powers is wild; in addition to being commander in chief they are also captain-general and admiral, and the language overall is the most metal I've ever seen in a constitution
a legitimate defense of "personal liberty" would be calling for Maryland's state police to use force to protect Kilmar Abrego Garcia from deportation. a legitimate defense of "free markets" would call Trump's theft of 10% of Intel the robbery it is.
Let us all remember how Ty Cobb was an initial investor in the Coca-Cola Company, died rich, and no one from baseball attended his funeral
We had our chance to constitutional eliminate left-hand driving and we blew it!
Americans literally wrote the post-war constitution of Japan and it's nothing like ours!
to get the thing ratified the proponents of the constitution had to explicitly promise a bill of rights including the first amendment with its religion clauses!
indeed, if congress passes a law saying doing a specific thing is illegal, the executive proceeds to do exactly that thing, and then congress does nothing in response, it's plainly abdicating its own authority
I was trying to reckon your four decades start point, realized you probably meant Iran-Contra, and felt old (I'm in my 40s)
I'm not sure if it's wrong or right to say they saw congress as remaining alert because it would be focused on slavery being legal (evidence: the concern in the Federalist Papers about "regional factions," and the clause in the constitution prohibiting banning the importation of slaves b/f 1808)
Trying to figure out if your use of “Jack Ryan book” versus “Tom Clancy book” is a sly way of saying you’ve read Red Storm Rising (his best book)
the sec'y of state being the recipient of a VP's resignation letter was a plot point in that Tom Clancy book where Jack Ryan takes over as president after a joint session of congress gets 9/11'ed
and also how US state-level secretaries of state just do stuff like registering corporations and running elections
more than anything this was a perfect illustration of the main thing accomplished by flag-burning restriction, the burning of more flags
it's going to grimly hilarious when Biden outlives him
Is it called a Hat Trick when you get no billed three times? Asking for Jeanine Pirro. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
update us on how much lighter fluid it takes to generate an exclamation point
I unironically love this comment for its casual erasure of Canadians, Brits, Australians, etc
Italy and Germany had unifying ethnic identities to draw their names from; one of the foundational principles of the US is we don't have that
I mean if you want jokes the ideal name would be "Ask About Our Country-Naming Contest"
the strength of the federal government versus the states took an incredibly bloody civil war to settle! that is to say, the people who came up with the name didn't have a shared belief in how much of a "country" the resulting entity would be
no, the purpose was to communicate what it *was*, which is independent states, in America, united together; remember the Articles of Confederation barely made for any national government *at all*, and it was controversial at the time to later ratify the constitution
what on earth is the "having an actual name for the country was too much work" bit supposed to mean; you appreciate the name has its own intentional significance, yes? it's right there in the first and last sentences of the Declaration of Independence!
that's correct en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boundar...
lawyer here; if you sued a foreign person doing this in a US court they would almost certainly just ignore the suit, and all you'd be left with is a judgment that would be functionally impossible to collect on
which would be awkward if these people through things through, but that's not at all their style
there's an even more gruesome photo! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_o...
The transformation of the Washington Post editorial page appears to be complete.
so listing out the best submarine movies I would have, in no particular order, Hunt for Red October, Das Boot, and Run Silent Run Deep
I'm disappointed it didn't include wine pairings
nonsense, the twins collectively count as one child
Walz says Harris "would have been a fantastic president... we wouldn't wake up every day to a bunch of shit on TV. We would wake up to an adult w/ compassion & dignity doing the work, not a manchild crying about whatever is wrong with him. May his fat ankles find something today. Petty as hell."
i've been in a committed relationship for close to twenty years, so the apps have never been a thing for me, but I'm a very tall man, so my vague understanding is on the apps I'd be like catnip
“space for all” is the billboard coming on to me?
MICHAEL JACKSON STEALS THRONE FROM BOB DYLAN
also this bit on that same page is mind-melting
It woulda been pretty baller if cartoon-Carter had delivered the Conan the Barbarian response
“Reagan and Bush to meet by selves in NH debate” is *such* a remarkably bad headline
I'm deeply curious as to which non-Democrat used the word "patriarchy"
that seems like an extraordinarily broad overgeneralization in the middle there; I'd be surprised if the prevalence of low-info voters was hugely different as between college attendees and non-college attendees
the canary in the coal mine is if the administration brings Terrence Howard
oh to see the moment when Trump yanks out Marco Rubio's heart plug
newly sworn-in President Vance trying to put Miller to pasture would be a sight to behold
I’m a little jealous that you were never made to take organic chemistry
I have never seen a video clip that looked more like a coup, including actual video's of a coup leader announcing a coup, then this. Grainy, poorly lit, with the "vice president" head of the military and the weird functional president surrounded by armed troops is a hell of a look.
If we can get someone close to him to mention Pluto was the only planet discovered by an American I feel there’s a substantial chance he’d actually do it
I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.
at least the US Navy has the sense to use dolphins and seals www.niwcpacific.navy.mil/About/Depart...
at least the "putting things in your ass" one *isn't* the anime girlfriend?
Mr Met is on the Epstein client list, isn’t he
the Reform Party takes power in the UK and we'll get the WWII band back together, but this time it's the bad guys
thank you! diving back into the Napoleonic Era but land-focused sounds like something I'd enjoy
man, having never heard of it, the wikipedia page makes it sound turbo-dumb, which is a shame b/c I recently completed Aubrey-Maturin for the first time and would love to find something similar in a non-maritime setting so as to branch out
more than fair!
recall during the Biden admin Breyer was pressured off SCOTUS while the Dems still had the Senate b/c of his age, and there were also voices calling for Sotomayor to do the same b/c of her diabetes
certainly not in the way patrick here seems to be raising it, but if you want to be ghoulish, seeing as we're talking about a person with a lifetime appointment their life expectancy is a legitimate topic
this is good www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/m...
Stephen Miller Tears Up As Son Says First 14 Words
yet good luck with a Bivens claim
or really in a continual turn in one direction, the NASCAR of birds
westlaw has a plugin now for ms-word that automatically generates a table of authorities for a brief and honestly it works great
that's what lets them run so fast
It's a lol, but it's also indicative of something you see all the time with these trends all the time: People aren't devoted at their core to an activity or concept, they just want to be violently anti-expertise and anti-conformity Have an edgelord propose a mainstream idea and it's suddenly good
Strength: Jumbo Weakness: Bunghole
I remember he simultaneously refilled in state court in obvious procedural shenanigans (original lawsuit was in state court but removed to federal), but I’m not sure what happened after that
I think he means if he *obtained* them *for* free; he’s positing a hypothetical in which President Deals pulls off a really good deal
Isn’t his lawsuit against Ann Selzer still pending?
I assume in those places the people go out intending to *commit* crimes, but random chance dictates they often end up someone else's victim before they can act
good point; I suppose we need an analysis of the capacity for human harm of the (curiously not further specified) "Chipotle Southwest"
if some spicy mustard got in the eye that could be mildly irritating
Durst is himself a victim of all of this; he used to *own* wearing a red ballcap, and now that's been taken entirely away from him
and think of sealed filings in patent litigation; they could have grabbed billions-worth of propriety information
of course, saying that at a talk is different that actually voting on a case, and this was in the aughts, b/f his brain was *entirely* cooked down to being a Fox News grandpa
fwiw I was at a talk w/ Scalia and he was asked, under Smith, whether a prohibition law not including an exception for sacramental wine would be constitutional, and his answer (paraphrasing) was "the law is constitutional, but I would be first on the rampart to overthrow a gov't that passed the law"
(legal conservatives now *hate* Smith; in a COVID restriction case from 2021 Alito wrote a concurrence joined by Thomas and Gorsuch arguing that Smith should be explicitly overruled)
also remember in the ostensibly still leading precedent for when laws of general applicability can override religious beliefs, Employment Division v Smith (1990), the court ruled against that Native Americans looking to take peyote for religious purposes
thank you; I'm *well* outside anything *close* to my field here; the only reason I read Biddle is I saw a blog post by @bretdevereaux.bsky.social that mentioned it and piqued my interest
got it, thank you; so strategic flaws aside, is Biddle sound in seeming to speak highly of the operational/tactical approach the Germans took?
all I know about Operation Michael is what I learned from Biddle's Military Power; wasn't Operation Michael *almost* really good? (or at least it was a preview of the smarter way to do combat in the modern era)
and don't forget re legal academia, they publish in journals run entirely by law students
I turn on my ambient social disorder machine every night to help me fall asleep
but in law school they taught me fancy words like "malum in se" and "malum prohibitum"!