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06 July 2023

[Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of SCOTUS has confirmed that her career advancements have been based on ‘Section 8’ promotions. Her dissent from last week's ruling against racial preferences in college admissions demonstrates both her gullibility and overall ignorance (terminally innumerate). In there she argues for benefits of diversity in education, and presents a preposterous example of black infant survival rates under black physicians (here). It reminds me of the congressman, a few years back, who warned of a Pacific island with a military base on it tipping over because we were stationing too many troops there. Talk about our republic suffering its slings and arrows from elected officials and promoted bureaucrats. gjr]

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297 responses to “Sandbox – 6jul23”

fishanthrope

06 July 2023

My….how perfectly progressive.

Bill DeBlasio And Wife Chirlane McCray To Separate, Date Other People While Still Living Together

“De Blasio went on to acknowledge that McCray had been calling herself a lesbian when they first met…”

With judgement like this I can’t fathom why DeBlasio couldn’t make any headway on New York’s problems.
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/bill-deblasio-and-wife-separate-and-date-other-people-while-still-living-together

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fishanthrope

06 July 2023

Philadelphia Shooting Perp Says He Opened Fire to Help the City Do Something About ‘Gun Violence’
Inspired no doubt by Homer Simpson’s marketing methods!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BT7_owW2sU
https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/philadelphia-shooting-perp-says-he-opened-fire-to-help-the-city-do-something-about-gun-violence/

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Gregory

06 July 2023

Here’s an analysis of Justice Jackson’s failed math example, from the Volokh Conspiracy hosted by Reason:
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/07/06/ted-frank-on-justice-jacksons-dubious-claim-about-infant-mortality-among-black-americans/
by
David Bernstein, University Professor and the Executive Director of the Liberty & Law Center at the Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University.

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Don Bessee

06 July 2023

Go woke go broke –
https://www.breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/07/06/sound-of-freedom-beats-disneys-indiana-jones-5-by-millions-of-dollars-on-2000-fewer-screens-on-july-4th/
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Don Bessee

06 July 2023

It begs the question what degree did she pay 250k for that she has 4 nothing jobs?!? –
‘Pack a sandwich’: This woman worked 4 jobs — and still couldn’t keep up with her $250K in student debt. Here’s the advice she got from a popular finance YouTuber
https://currently.att.yahoo.com/finance/news/woman-texas-worked-4-jobs-120000784.html
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Gregory

06 July 2023

The debt youngsters will take on to get nothing degrees from nothing colleges is a crime.

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Gregory

06 July 2023

“I am a graduate of Baylor University, with a Bachelor’s of Science in Child and Family Studies. I enjoy working with people, especially children and families.”
Ouch. 250K?

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06 July 2023

Posted by: Gregory | 06 July 2023 at 07:14 PM
250K??
She’s going to have to work at the daycare center for ten thousand years….

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Don Bessee

06 July 2023

Perhaps the time has come to put a governor on student loans to limit them to careers that have a reasonable chance of the loan being paid back. Ya think?
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Scott O

06 July 2023

If you read the article, there are a couple of issues they gloss over that seem to indicate that there is way more to be explored. I’d love to know how much of that debt was for tuition and books and fees and how much was for “living expenses”. Was she working at a job on spring break or out partying?
Is this a crime?
No.
It is the result of a crime.
K – 12th govt education in this country is largely worthless.
Any 18 year old that is accepted for higher ed should have the brains and common sense to understand the debt they are getting into vs the payoff from whatever degree they are after. This poor woman has made a series of very poor choices and she will have to pay for it. Trying to remember the last time I went crying for someone else to pay off my mistakes.
I feel sorry for her, but if she is bailed out, she will blunder right back into another financial mess.

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scenes

07 July 2023

“Perhaps the time has come to put a governor on student loans”
Simply allow people to bankruptcy their way out of them.
“K – 12th govt education in this country is largely worthless.”
Maybe extend that to K – 16th.
There’s more than a few STEM jobs I can think of that would be well suited to an apprentice system. Of course, the modern push to be an Activist! leads people down a rabbit hole to the truly useless ‘degrees’. There simply aren’t that many gubmint jobs or gigs in Woke Corporate HR to accept the inflow.
I guess it all depends on the point of post-secondary education. Trade school? Great Books program? Political indoctrination? Maybe it would help to break them up by goal.

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scenes

07 July 2023

“K-12”
Speaking of which, did this ever happen?
https://caofstpatrick.org/
Seems rather like a dead link to me.
I can see the problem in setting up a thing like this. You have to run new organizations of that type at a serious deficit for some time before it breaks even, and there’s always going to be money problems. Brave words in a meeting room somewhere don’t always equate to strength on the ground.

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Gregory

07 July 2023

so 1009p
“This poor woman has made a series of very poor choices and she will have to pay for it. Trying to remember the last time I went crying for someone else to pay off my mistakes”
The folks who sold her on the loans got the money, and has a $2b endowment. It’s their mistake, too.

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Scott O

07 July 2023

“The folks who sold her on the loans got the money, and has a $2b endowment. It’s their mistake, too.”
Maybe. Exactly what did they “sell” her? What did they promise?
Are we going to shut down all the new and used car sales?
If they lied or made material misrepresentations, then she can sue.
She is a black woman with a degree. She shouldn’t have any problem making an easy 100K plus in govt.
I do feel bad for her. But once you’re 18 you get to screw your life up all on your own.
Ask all the folks in prison.
Tired of this group and that group all clamoring to the govt to bail them out financially. Once you remove the idea of moral hazard, all you will get is more problems and “mistakes”.
I totally agree that non-STEM higher ed has become a racket, but they did it all right in front of us and legally to boot. Good luck trying to untangle the mess. You’re dealing with big money that the left counts on as life blood. The idea that not everyone should go to college or university is as popular as messing with SS. Good luck.

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scenes

07 July 2023

lol. Well, this had to suck for somebody.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/thunder-bay/ev-charger-outtages-northern-ontario-1.6895863

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scenes

07 July 2023

Scotto: “You’re dealing with big money that the left counts on as life blood. ”
true dat. It’s a ‘gift’ to particular groups, especially the ‘maybe we’ll forgive it’ carrot that gets hung out there. You jam plenty of people through an indoctrination system. Part 2 is to expand the ever-useful HR and bureaucracy sector for your good friends.
Maybe it’s similar to the metastasizing of semi-useless gubmint desk jobs. You never can take them away because ‘IT WILL HARM A VULNERABLE POPULATION!!!’. Given their physical attributes, maybe the thing to do is to sit all of those folks on pedal electric generators at the office. Everyone would benefit. We’ll call them Equity Bikes.

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Don Bessee

07 July 2023

Well that did not take long for folks to get zucked –
Mark Zuckerberg ‘Twitter killer’ Threads enrages users over mass data collection: ‘Near zero privacy’
The new app from Meta collects info related to a user’s credit score, religious affiliation and sexual orientation
“Mark Zuckerberg says he’s not thinking about monetization of users on his Twitter clone, Threads, but that’s a lie. His business model is selling our data to advertisers,” he tweeted Thursday.
“If you are looking to have your speech censored and your data pillaged, then Mark Zuckerberg has an app for you.”
“Zuckerberg’s Threads app looks interesting,” The Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry tweeted. “They mine you for data and will probably censor you, but the upside is that you can read the political opinions of Instagram yoga pants influencers.”
Think seriously for one second about how @elonmusk bringing back banned accounts from old Twitter was a bigger and much longer discussed controversy in the media then Instagram actually serving as a network for pedophiles to find child porn.
According to the “Data Linked to You” page found on Apple devices, the following information may be collected by Threads and linked to your identity:
Location: Approximate location and precise location
Personal Info: Name, email, user IDs, address, phone number, political or religious beliefs, sexual orientation and other info
Financial: User payment info, purchase history, credit score and other financial info
Health and Fitness information
Messages: Emails, SMS or MMS, other in-app messages
Photos and Videos
Audio: Voice or sound recordings, music files and other audio files
Files and documents, calendar events, contacts, web browsing history and devices.
App activity: App interactions, in-app search history, installed apps, other user-generated content and other actions
App info and performance: Crash logs, diagnostics and other app performance data
Twitter, in comparison, does not ask users to fork over health and fitness data, financial information, sensitive information and “other data.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mark-zuckerberg-twitter-killer-threads-enrages-users-data-collection-privacy
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scenes

07 July 2023

Mr Kunstler tells it like it is:
“Consider for a moment, and be grateful for, how perfect “Joe Biden” is as president of this foundering republic. He and his family project the rectified essence of every depravity now driving the life of our nation to some murky bottom, where it may be forced to assess its sorry state, repent, and perhaps recover (or just give up and die). There he stands, without ambiguity or conscience: “Joe Biden,” the personification of a failed state…”
https://kunstler.com/clusterfuck-nation/father-of-our-country/

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Don Bessee

07 July 2023

Ah yes newspeak and all its perversions. –
The district’s website explains restorative justice on its website.
Restorative justice is a re-education of students and gaining control over a situation based on the perceived wrongs they committed.
“If you could smash one thing… what would you smash?”
“Describe the ideal family.”
https://www.foxnews.com/media/california-school-districts-suspends-kids-5-days-misgendering-trans-student-restorative-justice?dicbo=v2-LuCLXd2
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scenes

07 July 2023

re: DonB@6:01PM
I see that the person identifying as a woman doing the Restorative Justice (RJ) assignments is also mentioned here…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4i7V9Ndr2Y
lol. It’s all just madness. Anyone who keeps their kids in a California K-12 public school is either poor or crazy. Poor is an acceptable excuse, crazy not so much.

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scenes

07 July 2023

moi@8:12PM
I had to look up her salary to see if I heard right.
https://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2019/school-districts/los-angeles/glendale-unified/kelly-a-king/
Excellent. She’s probably worth 10x as much I bet.

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scenes

08 July 2023

Coleman Hughes on SCOTUS and affirmative action.
https://colemanhughes.substack.com/p/10-notes-on-the-end-of-affirmative
Sometimes you just have to laugh at the world the ‘Progressives’ want to set up for everyone. These sorts of crazy quasi-religious things often end up with labor camps or machetes used against badthinkers, but maybe we’ll be spared that either due to exhaustion or a lack of competently aggressive males in Team Blue.

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scenes

08 July 2023

Perfect news story for the 2020s.
“Indigenous Chief Wants To Take Back Ben & Jerry’s HQ Built on ‘Stolen’ Land”
https://www.newsweek.com/ben-jerrys-headquarters-vermont-indigenous-chief-stolen-land-1811532

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Don Bessee

08 July 2023

While the peoples republic of portland burns and you cant walk the streets but they have their priorities don’t they –
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/portland-city-govt-tells-staff-avoid-mentioning-pregnant-women-citizens-woke-language-directive
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Gregory

08 July 2023

I can’t help but notice Stephen Frisch, of the wretchedly misnamed Sierra Business Council (it isn’t a Council of businesses), hasn’t been around for awhile.
His Modus operandi of coming around to rub salt into wounds hasn’t had many opportunities as of late.
Punchy, o punchy, where are you?

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Scott O

08 July 2023

It turns out that George’s (and others’) thoughts on the claims about black infant mortality rates are based on their “confusion”.
“In a letter Friday filed to the Supreme Court docket, Norton Rose Fulbright wrote that the argument cited by Jackson in her opinion “warrants clarification” and sought to clear up any “confusion.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-ketanji-jacksons-faulty-claim-affirmative-action-case-takes-another-hit-lawyers-clarify-brief
One thing we are not confused about is the pathetic performance of Biden’s racist, illegal choice for the SCOTUS. Would you want similarly chosen people to be the crew of your airline flight?
Actually – a full analysis of the Florida study showed that since more black babies needed specialists for survival, and a much higher percentage of specialists are white, the whole idea of black babies having a higher chance to live if their doctor is black doesn’t even make sense statistically.

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08 July 2023

Oooh…..more copium from the left!
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/06/california-political-crisis

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08 July 2023

Listening to KJP speak is almost …..almost….as much fun as listening to Kamala.

White House Spox Defends Admissions Discrimination As ‘Important Constitutional Right’

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/white-house-spox-defends-admissions-discrimination-important-constitutional-right

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Scott O

08 July 2023

re 4:26 – Vanity Fair article.
Remember when the left went on and on about the Gini index?
And you never hear about it anymore?
That’s because Kali is totally under Dem control and Kali has the worst (and growing even more so) Gini index of all the states.
I tried to read that article awhile ago and as a 3rd gen native, I just had to stop.
You didn’t expect a Vanity Fair writer to seek out schlubs born and raised there to talk to, did you?
The funniest part was Nancy saying that they need to get the “mentally ill” off the streets. What in hell has she ever actually done to move the authorities in that direction? Just like Biden – too busy slurping ice cream to actually make an intelligent comment.
Interesting that she spews the common lefty Kali line about how that once-golden state is a bell-weather for the rest of the country. You mean losing so much population that they lost a House seat? Ha ha.
Now – being broke and having a liar for the top executive spot certainly speaks to our national situation. She has that correct.
Whoopee!

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Scott O

08 July 2023

Hey – how’s that “investigation” of the bag of blow at the WH coming along?
Like they say – “it can’t be Hunter’s – his dose is all of it”.
One thing is certain – the idiot that found it should have kept it on the QT so the bag could have been quietly taken care of.
Now they have to figure out how to claim they can’t know who left it there and not appear to be completely incompetent.
Although after the Epstein debacle, it would appear they don’t actually care.
All those poor young girls taken advantage of by dozens of horny old white rich men and the authorities have absolutely no idea who those men were.
No idea whatever.
Even though many of the girls (women, now) are willing to testify.

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scenes

09 July 2023

“What in hell has she ever actually done to move the authorities in that direction?”
Oh, probably something now and again.
Like anyone in one of her many pairs of shoes, her primary focus is going to be accumulation and maintenance of power. Close friends, relatives get a ride. Members of the same social class, religion, general tribe get dragged along. Nothing new here.
It’s a bummer that folks manage to leverage rule sets and mass opinion to scarf up resources without producing anything of value, but it’s really no different than convincing the plebes in Rome that you should be important. Fake it until you make it.
To me, what makes modern times interesting is groups that actively work against their own self-interest. It breaks the inherent balance of the system. The moment that you saw white libruls, including professional LEOs, physically kneeling to Saint Floyd and BLM, it became obvious that there was a new Snake Cult in the land. These Jihads can cause a lot of damage before they (always) devolve into fights over the spoils.

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Scott O

09 July 2023

” These Jihads can cause a lot of damage before they (always) devolve into fights over the spoils.”
Yeah – after ginning up so much fuss about “reparations”, the Dems have to figure out a way to blame the Rs for the fact that it was just another 20 acres and a mule promise.
I’m guessing that despite all the high profile blacks in the news licking their lips over the latest million dollar promise, the average black knew all along it would never happen.
We’ll see.

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Scott O

09 July 2023

“9 injured in mass shooting in Cleveland; Mayor Bibb blames Republicans as police search for the suspect”
“The suspect is a black male who may have had a gold grill in his mouth, Chief Drummond said, adding that officials do have some leads.”
Yeah, definitely a MAGA Republican for sure.
““I’m sick and tired of Republicans … blaming us as mayors for violent crime … It’s important that we hold them accountable for passing dangerous gun laws in our state that make it hard to keep our communities safe and secure.””
He’s got a point – the Dems worked hard in the Jim Crow era to not sell guns to blacks. Now those rascally Rs are undoing all the Klan’s efforts.
https://dnyuz.com/2023/07/09/9-injured-in-mass-shooting-in-cleveland-mayor-bibb-blames-republicans-as-police-search-for-the-suspect/

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Don Bessee

09 July 2023

When you lose the gangster rappers you know you have gone crazy –
https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/50-cent-says-los-angeles-finished-zero-bail-policy-reinstatement-watch-how-bad-gets
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Scott O

09 July 2023

re zero bail policy article:
“”The County is also working with the court and other stakeholders to explore ways to reduce the number of people held before arraignment because they can’t afford bail and to provide the Sheriff greater release options to safely reduce the jail population, while always prioritizing public safety.””
“…always prioritizing public safety”
“prioritizing”
You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means

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The Estonian Fox

09 July 2023

Wayback machine – fish 11/17/22 7:19AM-
Karen Bass – newly elected mayor of Los Angeles:
To the people of our city, my message is this: We are going to solve homelessness.
We are going to prevent and respond urgently to crime. Our city is no longer going to be unaffordable for working families.
And know this — that work has already begun.

I’ll take “No we’re not, no we’re not, yes it will, and no it hasn’t” for $800 Alex!

“Los Angeles initiative to house the homeless behind schedule and over budget”
“LA is finished watch how bad it gets out there.SMH [shaking my head]” the “Candy Shop” rapper (50 Cent) wrote on Instagram.

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Don Bessee

09 July 2023

The chi coms have bought and paid for the creepy grampa joe admin. Exhibit 3849 –
‘Never, ever, ever…an American official does not bow’: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is slammed for BOWING multiple times to China’s vice-premier and giving Beijing ‘optics that they love’
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12279395/Bizarre-moment-Treasury-Secretary-Janet-Yellen-BOWS-multiple-times-Chinas-vice-premier.html
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09 July 2023

Soon an entire staff for post ruling sanitation.

Justice Ketanji Jackson’s faulty claim in affirmative action case takes another hit as lawyers ‘clarify’ brief

https://news.yahoo.com/justice-ketanji-jacksons-faulty-claim-215214348.html

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scenes

10 July 2023

Scotto@5:09, EF@6:35, 🐠@7:11PM
The common theme here is that of producing a public policy based on feelz.
Any kind of hard logic based on results will never see the light of day. The cutting edge version will be all the front-end censorship and back-end filtering of training data you’ll see on AIs. DEI-AI will be a huge growth industry.
Kind of a pity really since you could always run experiments on geographically distinct areas. More punishment results in outrage and burning buildings, more benefits results in the usual suspects waltzing in and carting off most of the lucre as little actually makes it to the ground. The smart money simply steers clear of dysfunctional places.

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10 July 2023

re: Ivy League affirmative action.
It just occurred to me that a person could bet good money that the primary result goes as follows.
. AA student gets accepted, has normal expectations of what they will study.
. Arrives at school, finds themselves unable to keep up, completely overwhelmed
. Leaves or switches to EZ major, puts chip on shoulder
. EZ major grad w/chip on shoulder gets gubmint or ‘non-profit’ gig, fights for more AA
. Wash,rinse,repeat.
A pretty slick feedback loop to be sure.
Potential solution. Harvard Community College. Run your Ivy low achievers through that first. Specialize in remedial education with reasonable standards for graduation. Those who meet standards get Ivy League slot.

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fishanthrope

10 July 2023

RULE OF LAW: Biden White House Attacks Supreme Court, Bizarrely Claiming Affirmative Action Is a ‘Constitutional Right.’

“Everything Democrats want is a constitutional right. Everything they oppose is unconstitutional. If their wants and opposition change, so does the Constitution. It’s a magic wish-fulfillment tool!”

Truer words…….
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/07/biden-white-house-attacks-supreme-court-bizarrely-claiming-affirmative-action-is-a-constitutional-right/

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Paul Emery

10 July 2023

This direct quote from Trump shows how pathetic and desperate he has became.
“Was Crooked Joe Biden on Cocaine when he instructed the FBI/DOJ to illegally invade my home, Mar-a-Lago, in complete and total violation of my 4th Amendment Rights?”
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/110690752194028613

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10 July 2023

Posted by: psul Emery | 10 July 2023 at 11:45 AM
This direct quote from Trump shows how pathetic and desperate he has became.
Trump to psul…..

I am the wellspring from which you flow.

He truly is your only reason to go on living isn’t he psul?

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Paul Emery

10 July 2023

Your response fishhole shows how pathetic and desperate you have become. Hmmm-just like you hero and role model Trump.

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10 July 2023

Ooooh…..sick burn psul.

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Gregory

10 July 2023

punch 1145a
” This direct quote from Trump shows how pathetic and desperate he has became(very sic)”
Punch… English, mfker, do you speak it?

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Paul Emery

10 July 2023

Once again Gregory is showing what loyal Trumper he is. Nothing new from our resident fake libertarian.

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Gregory

10 July 2023

That’s another purely slanderous taunt from Punchy.

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Scott O

10 July 2023

scenes 6:45 – “The common theme here is that of producing a public policy based on feelz.”
No shite. Have you read Justice Jackson’s dissent in the UNC affirmative action case?
The woman has no clue whatever how American jurisprudence should be conducted. She goes off on a history lesson of the poor treatment of blacks taken from Africa in chains and their time as slaves as well as their lack of equal treatment under the law after they were freed from bondage. I’m surprised she didn’t include the lyrics to Ol’ Man River.
All of which is largely true, but it has no bearing on the actual case at hand. She even manages to insert the snark that race is only “one” of many other considerations in the admittance process. As if she would be happy if Deputy Dan threw her in the back of the patrol car and told her that her skin color was only one of the reasons he was arresting her! Yeah, that would be just swell.
The dissent certainly does reflect the “modern” idea that we can just ignore the Constitution and conduct a judicial reasoning from how badly we all FEEL about past injustices. It does appear the poor woman is capable of nothing better. If this country ends up with a SCOTUS majority of this type of jr high school cluck clucks, we are screwed.

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Paul Emery

10 July 2023

Gregory-Ha Sue me.

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