The worst Scouse accent ever Blackfishing Trump and Tish Lawyers and lawfare A lunatic DEI artifact from…that company Congress’s Venceremos Brigade The immigrant song The lads disagree… With burning concern Fetterman, Mitch, Biden, Tucker again Matt Remke
It's hugely underplayed how insane the Trump NY real estate case actually is. There is no such thing as an objective value for real estate. Read it again. It doesn't exist. I appraise real estate for a living and it's on every form we use: "estimate of value" opinion of value". Go find another appraiser and ask he/she/they/them. It's an opinion, your county tax value is an opinion. "Market value" stipulates very specific things that are likely not the case in most real transactions (usually related to what constitutes being "typically motivated"). What NY is doing here is more corrosive to society than anything Trump ever did, sorry to say but it just is.
It’s astonishing how wrong you realise John Oliver is when he’s talking about a topic you actually know about. Describing Chevron Deference as “deference to a regulatory agency’s experience” when others would describe it as a removal of an independent umpire when it comes to interpretation of the law. Or the proposal to expand the court, which is *blatantly* an attempt to pack the court in a particular ideological direction. There have been a lot of moves to pack federal courts, but expanding the court with this explicit purpose just seems beyond the pale.
Moynihan nailed it re: the murder of the Georgia nursing student. Her killer had no business being in the USA. He had already had interactions with law enforcement. Why on earth are we screwing around like this? We can attract the best and brightest from all over the world, but instead of that we incentivize people with no regard for our laws to walk on in.
Every day I have to try to figure out why I should vote for Biden again.
Even though the title of the episode really wasn't the main focus, I can't help but comment about something that happened to you two mornings ago.
I live in Chile. I'm in an Uber with a Venezuelan driver, like most of them here. He hears I'm American and starts asking how much money one can make there. He says he's lived in Chile peacefully for 7 years but "it's boring" because people just work and go home with their families. He's done the math and thinks he can save a thousand dollars a month working in the US. How will he enter? "Ask for asylum". Asylum from what, from boredom??? Obviously I didn't press it since he was friendly and driving a car, but shocking that someone would openly admit to plan to commit fraud.
If Moynihan has reached the point of being fed up about the border, imagine how the average American is feeling. Is there anything Biden can do at this point for this not to work in Trump’s favor?
In the mid 1980s a guy I worked with killed himself by setting himself on fire in his car in a remote location. This guy was extremely mentally unwell and his marriage had broken up as a result. Just being in his company at work was tough because you could see his pain and distress but not help in any way.
Co-opting Bushnell as a poster boy for Palestine/Hamas is beyond disgusting. It erases his mental distress and it erases all the pain that his illness would have inflicted on his family and friends. Now they have to tolerate arseholes who knew nothing about him preaching about his 'sacrifice'.
Shifting definitions and vernacular is interesting. I use the word folks all the time. But also I’m southern so folks = my parents as in my folks are coming over to dinner tonight
Not sure if this is the hidden tribes study Moynihan was referring to, but here’s one from a nonpartisan organization called More In Common that publishes really interesting findings. Their perception gaps study is also very eye-opening (perhaps less so for the Fif crowd 😊), but it’s a continual frame of reference for me.
The Fifth Column should host a Coleman Hughes - Radley Balko get together over the George Floyd documentary discussion. Balko doesn’t want to do it at TFP nor at Coleman’s podcast.
Holy shit, it’s been a while, but I’ve finally found vehement, I say vehement, disagreement, with Welch. Current border enforcement policy does not result in a “large percentage” of turn-always vis a vis. admissions. The border is “open” in every meaningful sense. Matt it sounds like you’re arguing there can only be an “open” border if there is zero enforcement of any flavor.
It's hugely underplayed how insane the Trump NY real estate case actually is. There is no such thing as an objective value for real estate. Read it again. It doesn't exist. I appraise real estate for a living and it's on every form we use: "estimate of value" opinion of value". Go find another appraiser and ask he/she/they/them. It's an opinion, your county tax value is an opinion. "Market value" stipulates very specific things that are likely not the case in most real transactions (usually related to what constitutes being "typically motivated"). What NY is doing here is more corrosive to society than anything Trump ever did, sorry to say but it just is.
These are so good when you're all in the same place.
It’s astonishing how wrong you realise John Oliver is when he’s talking about a topic you actually know about. Describing Chevron Deference as “deference to a regulatory agency’s experience” when others would describe it as a removal of an independent umpire when it comes to interpretation of the law. Or the proposal to expand the court, which is *blatantly* an attempt to pack the court in a particular ideological direction. There have been a lot of moves to pack federal courts, but expanding the court with this explicit purpose just seems beyond the pale.
Moynihan nailed it re: the murder of the Georgia nursing student. Her killer had no business being in the USA. He had already had interactions with law enforcement. Why on earth are we screwing around like this? We can attract the best and brightest from all over the world, but instead of that we incentivize people with no regard for our laws to walk on in.
Every day I have to try to figure out why I should vote for Biden again.
Disappointing that you guys aren't brave enough to call bullshit on Stevie Wonder being blind. Everyone knows he can really see.
Even though the title of the episode really wasn't the main focus, I can't help but comment about something that happened to you two mornings ago.
I live in Chile. I'm in an Uber with a Venezuelan driver, like most of them here. He hears I'm American and starts asking how much money one can make there. He says he's lived in Chile peacefully for 7 years but "it's boring" because people just work and go home with their families. He's done the math and thinks he can save a thousand dollars a month working in the US. How will he enter? "Ask for asylum". Asylum from what, from boredom??? Obviously I didn't press it since he was friendly and driving a car, but shocking that someone would openly admit to plan to commit fraud.
If Moynihan has reached the point of being fed up about the border, imagine how the average American is feeling. Is there anything Biden can do at this point for this not to work in Trump’s favor?
Re Aaron Bushnell.
In the mid 1980s a guy I worked with killed himself by setting himself on fire in his car in a remote location. This guy was extremely mentally unwell and his marriage had broken up as a result. Just being in his company at work was tough because you could see his pain and distress but not help in any way.
Co-opting Bushnell as a poster boy for Palestine/Hamas is beyond disgusting. It erases his mental distress and it erases all the pain that his illness would have inflicted on his family and friends. Now they have to tolerate arseholes who knew nothing about him preaching about his 'sacrifice'.
Does Nancy Pelosi wearing Kente cloth qualify as blackfishing?
Burning Bush was the movie/miniseries about Jan Palach by the great Agnieszka Holland:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2280344/
Here's an article about Gregory D. Levey, the guy who self-immolated in Amherst, including some of the veneration he received:
https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/20/us/amherst-journal-candles-in-the-snow-honor-suffering.html
And.... the excellent Putin doco series parts 1-3 here:
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7vje64
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7vlkij
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7vlkqo
Shifting definitions and vernacular is interesting. I use the word folks all the time. But also I’m southern so folks = my parents as in my folks are coming over to dinner tonight
Moynihan absolutely on fire this episode, loving it.
2 hours?! LFG!
Not sure if this is the hidden tribes study Moynihan was referring to, but here’s one from a nonpartisan organization called More In Common that publishes really interesting findings. Their perception gaps study is also very eye-opening (perhaps less so for the Fif crowd 😊), but it’s a continual frame of reference for me.
https://hiddentribes.us
The Fifth Column should host a Coleman Hughes - Radley Balko get together over the George Floyd documentary discussion. Balko doesn’t want to do it at TFP nor at Coleman’s podcast.
Holy shit, it’s been a while, but I’ve finally found vehement, I say vehement, disagreement, with Welch. Current border enforcement policy does not result in a “large percentage” of turn-always vis a vis. admissions. The border is “open” in every meaningful sense. Matt it sounds like you’re arguing there can only be an “open” border if there is zero enforcement of any flavor.