I must point out that for all Trump’s bluster about how California’s governor isn’t signing imaginary documents that would magically create more water in the state, and that Newsom isn’t “raking” the forests like they do in Austria, he seems to keep forgetting that 95% of the forests in CA are OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. The guy really ought to get a clue before he opens his mouth for once.
The most disappointing legal news this week was that the Supreme Court declined to intervene in Trump's New York sentencing -- which they never should have considered in the first place -- by a bare 5 to 4 vote. So no, nothing good is to be expected from the courts for the foreseeable future.
One thing about prescribed burns in this situation is that they don't apply. What is burning now is mostly chaparral which evolved under periodic fires. It is essentially brush that grows for four or five years before a fire comes through and then the process starts all over again assuming that the fires don't become too frequent. When that happens, then some of the species of plants become extinct or at least very rare.
Prescribed burning in CA would be to reduce the underbrush in tree forests where the ground fire isn't tall enough to reach the tree crown. In tall or short grass prairie like in TX, prescribed burning is supposed to eliminate the mesquite and allow the grass to regrow.
Dems will fold and make GOP look good even after GOP shafted dems with immigration bill that was authored by GOP and then rejected by GOP. Charlie Brown dems v. Lucy fascists continues unabated...
He absolutely should. What's depressing but reality is that the MAGAs will be more interested in being upset with Biden than anything in the report. Isn't that just pathetic? They literally don't care about the real truth...just their "truth".
Absolutely correct, it's not about Maga dead enders. It's about establishing a truthful historic record. Let the lunatics flail away at it, but you can bet that report is locked down solid with facts and evidence.
As a "burn boss" myself and purveyor of prescribed fire, it's the only way to protect the landscape from catastrophic wildfires. NIMBYs need to don masks or stay indoors.
If you want to hear what the elite of the right-wing bar sound like when they're talking among themselves in front of a sympathetic audience, you owe it to yourself to listen to the October 17, 2024, episode of City Journal's 10 Blocks Podcast titled "A Supreme Court Preview."
The episode consists of "a panel discussion . . . Manhattan Institute scholars Ilya Shapiro and Jim Copland, together with Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor of Law at Georgetown, and moderated by Judge Stephen Vaden of the Court of International Trade."
There is nothing dry and boring about this exercise. It provides a window into the conservative legal establishment's views on the proper roles of the courts and Congress and their hostile attitudes toward legal principles dear to Democrats.
Here's an appetizer:
"Ilya Shaprio: Well, first I think it's a little rich for the media that's doing the battering and bruising to then note that the court is battered and bruised. But look, there are ebbs and flows, and when you think of the blockbusters that have come in recent terms, whether overturning Chevron or Roe v. Wade, the affirmative action case, reaffirming the individual right to bear arms, there's just a lot of the goals of the conservative legal movement have been achieved. So you're nibbling around the edges in certain respects. And some of this docket needs to be fleshed out in these various areas of law."
When that lot talks about "fleshing out the docket" in order fulfill FedSoc's remaining goals, not only are they deadly serious but fully capable of accomplishing their aims. How is our side ever going to catch up?
Sadly, it seems like the only way the american public will snap out of their collective lunacy is if they are forced to live through the pain and suffering that Trump/MAGA will likely impose on them. The "good and hard" theory may be the only one that has a chance of success.
Those pictures coming out of LA are a pretty good facsimile of what's coming for the rest of the country as far as the rule of law and liberal democracy are concerned.
Having had no effective controlled burns in the American political landscape since Nixon, the deadwood is now all that remains on the right side of the political canyon along with a bunch of seemingly dry hydrants on the left.
And likely the only thing that will snuff out the flames of this populist fever for fascist authoritarianism will be when enough people on the right start getting 3rd degree burns caused by the arsonists they voted for. Until then, just the smoke from the Rs will probably be enough to keep them all in line in what they've fooled themselves into believing is a bucket brigade formed to save the country from all those now empty hydrants.
Happy that I've made enough of an impression that you would make the assumption that the onesie wasn't for myself. Yes, I was thinking of Andrew's progeny. But "Keep America Trumpless" would just be a reminder of failure ten days out from our return to kakistocracy.
No, the courts will not save us. Even the idea that a state court system (in this case New York) has the right to charge someone with crimes, take them through a completed trial and jury verdict of guilty, and then impose sentence was not acceptable to 4 Supreme Court Justices! the same Justices that have no problem staying out of the way of innocent black men or poor white men (and a few women) being executed by a system they then treat as sacrosanct. This does not bode any better for the country than the Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson courts did.
Time to start looking into building products that can withstand fire. There's got to be an H-B1 we can import to do it. Imagine a house built with non-flammable product and no need for expensive house insurance.
I must point out that for all Trump’s bluster about how California’s governor isn’t signing imaginary documents that would magically create more water in the state, and that Newsom isn’t “raking” the forests like they do in Austria, he seems to keep forgetting that 95% of the forests in CA are OWNED AND CONTROLLED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. The guy really ought to get a clue before he opens his mouth for once.
The most disappointing legal news this week was that the Supreme Court declined to intervene in Trump's New York sentencing -- which they never should have considered in the first place -- by a bare 5 to 4 vote. So no, nothing good is to be expected from the courts for the foreseeable future.
One thing about prescribed burns in this situation is that they don't apply. What is burning now is mostly chaparral which evolved under periodic fires. It is essentially brush that grows for four or five years before a fire comes through and then the process starts all over again assuming that the fires don't become too frequent. When that happens, then some of the species of plants become extinct or at least very rare.
Prescribed burning in CA would be to reduce the underbrush in tree forests where the ground fire isn't tall enough to reach the tree crown. In tall or short grass prairie like in TX, prescribed burning is supposed to eliminate the mesquite and allow the grass to regrow.
Dems will fold and make GOP look good even after GOP shafted dems with immigration bill that was authored by GOP and then rejected by GOP. Charlie Brown dems v. Lucy fascists continues unabated...
"...minor victories for the rule of law."
Talk about carrying a heavy load!
As for prescribed burns, a lot more than NIMBY goes in to whether to have one or not. Also, they take more than haphazard planning: https://sourcenm.com/2024/02/23/they-lost-everything-in-new-mexicos-biggest-wildfire-now-theyre-sounding-the-alarm-for-others/
Paywalled: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/05/climate/wildfires-prescribed-burn.html
Hooray for Baby Egger! All good wishes to Mom and Dad, too.
I highly recommend this terrifying podcast from Ezra Klein:
https://youtu.be/fP77tAIkRvA?si=M-lO1fnYCTy31EQz
If Biden ordered the release of the Mar-a-Lago case report, there's not a goddamn thing anybody could do about it before or after
He absolutely should. What's depressing but reality is that the MAGAs will be more interested in being upset with Biden than anything in the report. Isn't that just pathetic? They literally don't care about the real truth...just their "truth".
That's fine, it's not for them.
Absolutely correct, it's not about Maga dead enders. It's about establishing a truthful historic record. Let the lunatics flail away at it, but you can bet that report is locked down solid with facts and evidence.
As a "burn boss" myself and purveyor of prescribed fire, it's the only way to protect the landscape from catastrophic wildfires. NIMBYs need to don masks or stay indoors.
If you want to hear what the elite of the right-wing bar sound like when they're talking among themselves in front of a sympathetic audience, you owe it to yourself to listen to the October 17, 2024, episode of City Journal's 10 Blocks Podcast titled "A Supreme Court Preview."
https://www.city-journal.org/multimedia/a-supreme-court-preview
The episode consists of "a panel discussion . . . Manhattan Institute scholars Ilya Shapiro and Jim Copland, together with Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz, Professor of Law at Georgetown, and moderated by Judge Stephen Vaden of the Court of International Trade."
There is nothing dry and boring about this exercise. It provides a window into the conservative legal establishment's views on the proper roles of the courts and Congress and their hostile attitudes toward legal principles dear to Democrats.
Here's an appetizer:
"Ilya Shaprio: Well, first I think it's a little rich for the media that's doing the battering and bruising to then note that the court is battered and bruised. But look, there are ebbs and flows, and when you think of the blockbusters that have come in recent terms, whether overturning Chevron or Roe v. Wade, the affirmative action case, reaffirming the individual right to bear arms, there's just a lot of the goals of the conservative legal movement have been achieved. So you're nibbling around the edges in certain respects. And some of this docket needs to be fleshed out in these various areas of law."
When that lot talks about "fleshing out the docket" in order fulfill FedSoc's remaining goals, not only are they deadly serious but fully capable of accomplishing their aims. How is our side ever going to catch up?
Sadly, it seems like the only way the american public will snap out of their collective lunacy is if they are forced to live through the pain and suffering that Trump/MAGA will likely impose on them. The "good and hard" theory may be the only one that has a chance of success.
RE: Trump, SCOTUS, MAGA and American government
Those pictures coming out of LA are a pretty good facsimile of what's coming for the rest of the country as far as the rule of law and liberal democracy are concerned.
Having had no effective controlled burns in the American political landscape since Nixon, the deadwood is now all that remains on the right side of the political canyon along with a bunch of seemingly dry hydrants on the left.
And likely the only thing that will snuff out the flames of this populist fever for fascist authoritarianism will be when enough people on the right start getting 3rd degree burns caused by the arsonists they voted for. Until then, just the smoke from the Rs will probably be enough to keep them all in line in what they've fooled themselves into believing is a bucket brigade formed to save the country from all those now empty hydrants.
Does anyone make a Never Trump onesie?
Close enough, maybe? I made the assumption you're not looking for an adult size...
https://www.hoodiego.com/product/keep-america-trumpless-baby-onesies-lXfR6w4
Happy that I've made enough of an impression that you would make the assumption that the onesie wasn't for myself. Yes, I was thinking of Andrew's progeny. But "Keep America Trumpless" would just be a reminder of failure ten days out from our return to kakistocracy.
Sorry. Googled the hell out of "Never Trump onesie" and that was as close as I got.
I knew it wasn't for you, Lewis. You were already here when I got here, and I've been here long enough to outgrow two or three onesies.
Sorry not sorry. Sometimes I just can't help myself. :-)
Based on today’s hearing and the questions, the Court may be about to screw Trump on TikTok as well.
No, the courts will not save us. Even the idea that a state court system (in this case New York) has the right to charge someone with crimes, take them through a completed trial and jury verdict of guilty, and then impose sentence was not acceptable to 4 Supreme Court Justices! the same Justices that have no problem staying out of the way of innocent black men or poor white men (and a few women) being executed by a system they then treat as sacrosanct. This does not bode any better for the country than the Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson courts did.
Time to start looking into building products that can withstand fire. There's got to be an H-B1 we can import to do it. Imagine a house built with non-flammable product and no need for expensive house insurance.