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Visvires 1 point ago +1 / -0

Predict it doesn't make the odds; their traders do. If you think, as I do, that Trump is more than 36% likely to win then you can, as I did, purchase $1 Biden-no contracts at 36 cents each. And this will drive the price up...

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Visvires 3 points ago +5 / -2

Slow down. Boycotting a business for being labeled by Yelp means punishing the business for Yelp's action. If it is a fact that they are black owned they can hardly demand that the information be taken down. Save the boycotts for the businesses who take the position that being [insert woke preferred class] owned means they deserve your business.

But specially patronizing the ones they ask you not to? Yeah, that's effective.

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Visvires 1 point ago +1 / -0

Well, yes. You say that like they won it alone, or were the only beneficiaries. In many cases we won an area but let them have a foot hold (Korea, in particular), which turned out to be a mistake. Massive loss of life from those errors.

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Visvires 3 points ago +3 / -0

It need not even be an across the board proposition. For example, if we were to restrict House of Representatives voting to taxpayers it would put the power of the purse solely in the hands of the people who are filling it. Pork becomes a significantly less viable proposition, permanently. Because retirement causes a loss of such power, no government plan can be guaranteed to be present. Government aid becomes fundamentally less appealing than private retirement plans. The strategy of taxing the productive to fund a dependent voter class becomes non viable.

And protections against abuse survive via Presidency and Senate, and therefore also through the Judiciary.

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Visvires 1 point ago +1 / -0

To clarify:

Sealing the record only restricts access to the record itself. That's the pleadings, motions, evidence, etc filed with the Clerk of Court. It can be everything or only certain things. But the effect is that if you file a piece of paper with the message "Kilroy was here" and the record gets sealed, that particular piece of paper is no longer going to be publicly visible. (In the absence of sealing, anyone can look up the record of any case. PACER is 10 cents a page.) The Clerk's office will hide it until and unless the Judge says otherwise. If you have another copy of that paper, however, that copy is outside their control. The factors that led the matter to be sealed may also lead to an order to keep the copies private, but that'd be enforced by punishment not prevention.

And while contempt powers are highly effective against the general public, I'm not sure a district judge can have POTUS locked up for contempt. Set him up for impeachment, sure. But arrest? He has made his ruling, now let him enforce it?

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Visvires 2 points ago +2 / -0

He identifies as half bullfrog. Legitimately.

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Visvires 13 points ago +14 / -1

Or proffer them, when the Judge says not to. But the record can be sealed and that is a matter of Judicial authority.

If he has them, he could tweet them. Or post them on pirate bay. Consequences would ensue (another impeachment pretense, for example) but it goes from cover up to "how dare you tell on us."

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Visvires 5 points ago +5 / -0

When one does not even aim for standards of beauty, one tends to miss horribly.

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Visvires 7 points ago +7 / -0

Their tears when RBG died were real. They lost power that day, and they grieved for it.

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Visvires 9 points ago +9 / -0

Other posters have the meme angle covered, so I'll explain for anyone actually interested: Usually, scientific discoveries get named after whoever discovers them. E.g. Newton discovered three laws about force and movement, so they carry his name. Euler discovered so many things that it would be impractical to name them all after him. So, instead, they get named after the next guy to discover them after him.

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Visvires 1 point ago +1 / -0

Oh, he lacks decorum in my eyes, too. It's an acceptable price to pay. My longtime aversion to presidential communication continues largely unabated, but I get to be giddy when I read what POTUS has done. That's a win. I'm not yet tired of winning.

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Visvires 1 point ago +1 / -0

Her brother already took care of that?

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Visvires 1 point ago +1 / -0

I have not missed a single day of work. I happily delayed in paying/filing taxes. I will happily take the $1200 tax refund, whatever it is captioned as.

Now, if I could just pay $1200 less in taxes, and at a months later date, every year, that would be a good start.

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