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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think you are getting dragged into a bad and useless semantic debate.

Are you saying that my only mistake was saying Court of New York rather than New York Court of Appeal? Or is there any more fundamental problem to my earlier argument?

I'm not pretending to be a lawyer here. But the state level courts are independent of the federal courts. And Federal Agencies (like ICE) have been historically hampered due to 10th Amendment issues. ICE overwhelmingly relies upon local police to cooperate to get much done.

This might be a legal issue that will be battled over the next 4 years in the supreme court, but I'd expect that Blue State resistance of this manner is our next best battleground to choose. We've lost the Presidency and both houses of Congress and the Supreme Court. That leaves Blue State courts (whatever their name) as the next defensive bulwark.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Blue States overwhelmingly voted for Harris.

It was PA, Michigan, Arizona and Georgia where the Presidency was lost. But California and New York will solidly resist Trump, much as free states resisted slavery centuries ago.


Don't knock out history here. Sanctuary states/cities, free states, etc. etc. have a huge cultural impact and the states people WILL rally to the call. As long as we frame it correctly

I've got my Harriet Tubman underground railroad stop and the history all part of my State Public education, and I know all my fellow state citizens also got that education. We know the drill.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

https://courts.delaware.gov/supreme/

The Delaware Supreme Court is the highest court in the State of Delaware. The Court has final appellate jurisdiction in criminal cases in which the sentence exceeds certain minimums, in civil cases as to final judgments and for certain other orders of the Court of Chancery, the Superior Court, and the Family Court. The Supreme Court has discretionary jurisdiction to issue writs of prohibition, quo warranto, certiorari, mandamus or to accept appeals of certain non-final orders or certified questions.

There is a single Delaware Supreme Court. There is a SINGLE New York Supreme Court.

If the Federal Courts are cooked, then we will make judgements within our state-level courts. And the state-level courts have the final word within their respective jurisdictions. The Federal Supreme Court has very little power over state-level courts.

This shit is WHY we have the 10th amendment.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

With all due respect: I'm talking about the age-old strategy of Blue States protecting who Red States cannot protect. During the time of slavery, Northern States emancipated the slaves. The slaves had to get to the north somehow (ie: Harriet Tubman), but that's just how our laws and legal systems work.

Is this a good thing that we have to go back to centuries-old bulwarks to protect ourselves? No. This is a regression. Nonetheless, these old fortresses of law stood the test of time, and its time for us to man this next level of posts. This legal tradition can also be blown over by a chaotic enough group, but its the most obvious place as the "next stand" we should do together.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (12 children)

Unless the Supreme Court is about to make some sweeping changes to "State Rights", good luck to them fucking over state prosecutors and state legal systems.

The Court of Delaware continues to be in control of Twitter (and other corporate cases), not the Supreme Court. The Court of New York remains in control of Donald Trump's felonies. Etc. etc. Sanctuary cities (and sanctuary states) will likely be able to thumb their noses at ICE (a Federal Agency with little power over the local state's residents).

State-level resistance is the next step. I know not everyone can move to a Blue State, and a lot of this is Red States purposefully purging "undesirables" out of their state. But... Blue States can accept the runaway migrants and protect them. As well as a lot of the other citizens who feel threatened (ex: LGBT and whatnot as well).

Will it completely hold? I dunno. But its the next bulwark we have available, and we might as well defend it as a community.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I know basically nothing about any of those countries other than having vacationed in Mexico twice. I haven’t seen anyone say they are fed up with the U.S. and moving to Paraguay.

Note: Mexicans have been emigrating out of USA for about a full decade now.

So statistically speaking, Mexicans have been saying they're tired of USA and have moved back to Mexico.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago

English common law: a citizen is born in a land and that land was owned by a king. As such, the citizen and the land are like one. Citizens based upon birth are owed protection by the local king, while the local king is owed the work of said citizens.

The tradition of birthright citizenship is far older than the 14th Amendment. People were arguing about this crap in the middle ages.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Well, it keeps getting worse until some point. But it took like a decade of shitty CDOs of CDOs finally collapsed in 2007.

It got to the point where strippers (and other not so wealthy people) where buying 2 or 3 houses aiming to flip.

Bubbles always bubble longer than expected


And if Trump does the trillions in tax cuts like hes trying to do, then the economy floats longer

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (2 children)

overdue

That's the problem. Bubbles keep growing until they don't. And there's no way to know when that will pop. This AI crap has been growing since 2016 AlphaGo or even 2012 IBM Watson.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

Trump doesn't do what he says he will do. Its pretty much random.

The reliable grift, such as anti-immigramt hate and anti-muslim stuff is obviously coming. And as awful as they will be, I'm not convinced that it will have an obvious effect on our economy.

When we start looking at things like Elon's grift or other Billionaires he's with, the stock market, crypto coins and other assets will go up. It seems unlikely to me that a crash would necessarily occur at the right timing you desire (this is bad for us in the long term. But the modern corporate economics world has become very good at hiding fraud and kicking cans down the road. Elon especially).

If they can hold most money together and make their supporters money (see Cryptocoin and Tesla stock right now), then they have a winning economic message for their core supporters.

Or do you think anyone actually gives a shit about how middle America will feel from this?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm not about conceding the information space.

What I'm saying is that without an allied media that you can actually trust to get the big news out, then people will be wondering about When Did Biden Drop Out again.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago (6 children)

What if the economy doesn't tank?

The President doesn't have that much control over the economy. That's a fundamental truth.

There will be awful policies but there's no guarantee of an economic collapse here.

 

Despite all the doom scrolling, Harris has a comfortable lead in the electoral college right now.

The time for vibing is over. It's too late to change anyone's opinions (especially because national level events like debates are over). Harris will finish her Media Blitz soon (including a Fox News showing) while Trump retreats into his shell hoping no one notices how damn stupid his mouth is.

This is the time for doing. The focus should be on voter drives and other get out the vote pushes. It's mid October, and the October surprises are against Trump and in our favor.

It's not the lead we wanted but it's a lead nonetheless. Don't talk yourself out of believing this lead because of a bad poll or two.

 

TL;DR: Porsche 911 wins everything, even the 1/8th mile... even the slowest Porsche 911 they could find.

That starts by racing against a 2023 Porsche 911 Carrera T with a seven-speed manual transmission. This is the slowest new 911 you can buy today, but it’s hardly a dog. In prior MotorTrend tests, we’ve run the 379-hp stick-shift Carrera T to 60 mph in 3.9 seconds and through the quarter mile in 12.2 seconds at 116.4 mph. Per our usual test procedures, we raced the 911 with a full tank of gas.

Elon lied.

 

Yet another (effective) price cut from Tesla this past weekend. Sure, its not really a price cut, but with APYs this low, its clear that Tesla is eating the cost of the loan.

I'm guessing that inventory has been piling up more that has forced them to figure out this hidden price cut / APY trick.

 

This fresh post from teamblind.com suggests another round of layoffs has already begun at Tesla.

 

naLP67 at Blind creating a rumor that 25% new layoffs are incoming. This here is a "Threads" where people are discussing the rumor.

Given the 20% initial layoff round and this 25% additional round, we're looking at a ~40% cut to all of Tesla compared to just a few weeks ago.

 

This is a week-old article now, but its huge proof of the growing Tesla inventory problem. Tesla simply isn't selling all their vehicles anymore, and thus large scale storage sites like this Chesterfield Mall are seeing a huge number of Tesla vehicles pile up in storage.

 

Thanks to OddAbbreviations5749 from Reddit (https://old.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/1cn9geh/teslas_10q_from_q32023_warned_this_investigation/)

You can find this 10Q here: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1318605/000162828023034847/tsla-20230930.htm

Scroll down to page 24, "Certain Investigations and Other Matters".

The relevant "Ctrl+F" is:

Separately, the Company has received requests for information, including subpoenas, from the DOJ. These have included requests for documents related to Tesla’s Autopilot and FSD features. Additionally, the Company has received requests for information, including subpoenas from the DOJ, regarding certain matters associated with personal benefits, related parties, vehicle range and personnel decisions. To our knowledge no government agency in any ongoing investigation has concluded that any wrongdoing occurred. We cannot predict the outcome or impact of any ongoing matters. Should the government decide to pursue an enforcement action, there exists the possibility of a material adverse impact on our business, results of operation, prospects, cash flows, financial position or brand.

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