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  1. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Ok, then you're an illegal and we're shipping you to El Salvador on the next plane. There's no process we have to follow to make sure you're illegal, right ? We can just stamp "deport his ass" on anyone's forehead and off they go right ? If that’s the new standard, I have *a lot* of suggestions.
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    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    The problem is that as soon as *anyone* can be denied due process, everyone can. If you don't get due process to determine if you are a citizen or not, then citizens can be denied as easily as anyone else. But, this is the wrong conversation to have. It accepts the left wing lie that these...
  3. spat

    What is the status of Starter pistols in NY law

    "Designed to expel a projectile". Modern starter pistols do not. And the exception in the second bullet point, starter pistols that are not considered handguns (i.e. can't expel a projectile) are exempt.
  4. spat

    Houthis bomb Israeli airport

    Not underground. More like just arrived from Iran yesterday. It wasn't always this way, but for the last decade or more 90% of the trouble in the middle east has been Iran's work. You will never solve the problem until you cut off the head.
  5. spat

    Highway Superintendent Shoots Door dash Driver

    I doubt there are enough missing pieces that would make this seem justified. But with what we have it's just plain incomprehensible.
  6. spat

    Highway Superintendent Shoots Door dash Driver

    Yea, there's a lot of missing pieces here for sure.
  7. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    You're not wrong, but i don't know why you think they weren't offered that choice. The kid *wasn't* deported. How many mothers do you know who would choose to give the kid up to the state under those circumstances ? The kid has citizenship, he can come back whenever he wants. If it was...
  8. spat

    Thieves Go Door-to-Door… NYC Homes ‘Emptied Out’ in Minutes

    If they tried that out here something would get emptied, but it wouldn't be the house.
  9. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Because congress exempted themselves from insider trading laws. They openly admit that what they do would be a felony for anyone else.
  10. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Then the kids are free to return any time. Provided they come in with an adult who is entering legally. What would *you* suggest should have happened ? What would the kids lawyer even request ? It's not like you can just release the kid to his own devices while the parents get sent back...
  11. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Think of it this way. Anyone can be arrested and thrown in jail based on a single police officer merely thinking there is probable cause that they committed a crime. The standard for deportation is about the same. You get a trial and all that, but not until *after* you spent time in jail...
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    Thieves Go Door-to-Door… NYC Homes ‘Emptied Out’ in Minutes

    Technology is right on the cusp of building those now. Would make a fantastic replacement for mine fields. If I had more ambition I would seriously think about designing one and trying to get someone military interested.
  13. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Did the kid *ask* for a lawyer ? Even in a criminal case it's not automatic, you do need to ask. I find it implausible that a 4 year old asked for a lawyer and was denied anyway.
  14. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    The kid wasn't deported. His mother was deported and the kid stayed with her. And if they'd made the kid a ward of the state so that he could stay, then people would be up in arms about them being separated. Presumably the kid *could* have stayed, if that's what the family wanted. But the...
  15. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Were those kids *actually* deported, or were their illegal parents deported and the kids just followed along ? If you deport a parent with minor children, you either need to keep the kids with the parents or take them away, whether the kid is a citizen or not.
  16. spat

    Federal student loan repayments to restart

    I do think there's a fair bit of fraud involved in modern marketing for academic degrees. That's why I think the colleges have some liability in this.
  17. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Due process, certainly. But the process that is due for a illegal to be deported is drastically different than the process to imprison a criminal citizen. You don't get a trial before deportation. Never have.
  18. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Science works on data. It's politics that works on consensus. Don't let politics trick you by claiming to be science.
  19. spat

    Lockport man arrest with scary guns after a traffic stop

    I am fine with your initial example, because they started with a crime and then developed a suspect based on evidence they found while investing the crime. That's perfectly reasonable. As for the cop and the salter incident, yea, some of them get an idea in their head based on what amounts to...
  20. spat

    Federal student loan repayments to restart

    Imagine someone mortgaged their house to invest with Bernie Madoff. Then they lost it all when his scheme collapsed. And people insisted the taxpayers should pay off that mortgage for him, and let Bernie keep all the money he stole. Student loan forgiveness is like that. If someone should be...
  21. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Imagine the combined beast and pope mobile combo. Built on a monster truck chassis LOL. With alternating Swiss guard and secret service running next to it.
  22. spat

    Lockport man arrest with scary guns after a traffic stop

    The other thing that I hear a lot of that both pisses me off and scares me is the media reporting about some *person* being investigated. Whether it's Hunter, Trump, or even Letitia James. Investigating people to find a crime is the definition of a police state. "Show me the man and I'll find...
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    Lockport man arrest with scary guns after a traffic stop

    Oh, I have no illusions that this was some upstanding citizen. I am sure society would be better off if they put him under the jail. What I have a problem with is people who think it's "good policing" to find some pretense to stop and search like this. That's terrible policing. Absolutely...
  24. spat

    Lockport man arrest with scary guns after a traffic stop

    You're not wrong, but it's still victim blaming. It isn't wise for a woman to walk around a sketchy neighborhood in a short skirt late at night either, but when she gets attacked it's still 100% the fault of her attackers. This is like that.
  25. spat

    Gun Humor thread

    Some guy: "I can hit a golf ball 300 yards" You: "I can hit a golf ball at 300 yards, we are not the same".
  26. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    The better solution would be to assign everyone an individual crypto key that they could use to sign with.
  27. spat

    What Ruger 10/22 is this?

    Musk renamed Twitter to X shortly after he bought it. No idea why he's so obsessed with the letter X, but he names everything he touches X.
  28. spat

    Epstein Files ..the saga continues

    You ask that as if the US and Isreali intelligence organizations aren't more closely aligned with each other than they are to their respective countries. And I bet it's not just those two. If the CIA had to choose between MI6 and the American people, I can almost guarantee which if those they...
  29. spat

    THE ADVENTURES OF THE 47TH PRESIDENT....

    Just use the same guys that protect Area 51. They have no sense of humor when it comes to illegally crossing that border.
  30. spat

    Latecia James, indicted!

    Yea, that's why I think the people with the suicide hotline on speed dial don't care. But I don't think Hochul is that high up, and I think there are probably some very incriminating conversations that Hochul absolutely doesn't want James testifying about. I would assume Hochul was in on the...
  31. spat

    Latecia James, indicted!

    The fact that James would roll over like a trained seal at the first opportunity is probably *why* Hochul is defending her so aggressively. James knows where at least a couple of bodies are buried and Hochul may not have the number for Hillaries suicide hotline.
  32. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Congress has the power to change the way illegals are counted. Next Census is in 2030. If they changed it yo count only citizens the dems would never win a national election again this century.
  33. spat

    Federal student loan repayments to restart

    The solution to run away costs is *not* to pass them on to the taxpayers. That's like throwing gasoline on a fire. You need to ask yourself *why* the cost of a college degree has risen at 4x the rate of inflation for the last 50 years. In the 1970s a degree was affordable for most people...
  34. spat

    Epstein Files ..the saga continues

    90% Very little of what the federal government does is actually a legitimate power authorized by the constitution. Almost all government power is meant to be exercised by the states. The feds are basically just supposed to conduct foreign affairs, and mediate disputes between the states, and...
  35. spat

    What Ruger 10/22 is this?

    Musk named it after the word Grok from Heinlein's "stranger in a strange land". It basically means "to understand something".
  36. spat

    California bans pistols that accept switches - here we go

    The feds have no power over the states themselves, but the individual officers in those states don't have a "get out of jail free" card for violating federal law just because they were acting in official capacity. Violating the constitutional rights of their citizens is illegal, and people...
  37. spat

    Federal student loan repayments to restart

    Absolutely not. That would be an absolute disaster. If you think college costs a lot now, wait till it's "free". What should happen is colleges themselves should be on the hook for any default on a student loan. Not the taxpayers, but the institution that charged some dumb kid $200k for a...
  38. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Wait till he finds out that the ingredients in table salt are a chemical weapon and a metal that explodes on contact with water.
  39. spat

    California bans pistols that accept switches - here we go

    Someone should re-market one of those vibrating "adult toys" that you attach to your finger as a gun accessory. "Instantly convert any semi auto firearm into a full auto". About as useful as a bump stocks, but it would make a point. Plus it would be hilarious for this to be the new gangbanger...
  40. spat

    Hegseth caught in second Signal chat breach

    If Trump decides to replace him, he should pick Flynn or someone that will throw the left into an even bigger dizzy. I would think Flynn would be a good choice to root out the DEI BS from the DOJ.
  41. spat

    New one on me: Spin on reloading 45/70 govt.

    The original spec was a 45 caliber bullet with 70 grains of black powder (i.e. 45/70) ... Maybe they're for cowboy action shooting and he wanted the authentic smoke...
  42. spat

    California bans pistols that accept switches - here we go

    Better switch to velcro shoes... https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/when-a-shoe-string-is-a-machine-gun/
  43. spat

    California bans pistols that accept switches - here we go

    Doesn't federal law already say that something that is easily converted into a machine gun is a machinegun ? So, if it isn't *currently* considered a machinegun, then it doesn't "accept" a component that converts it. May not be logical, but gun laws seldom are. FWIW, that's why the 3rd hole...
  44. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    Their George Floyd sect has run it's course, they needed a refresh.
  45. spat

    Rep. Jamie Raskin Promises Retaliation When Democrats Return to Power

    The difference is that a civil war knows no rules of engagement. If the ROE in Afghanistan or Iraq was just "kill 'em all" it would have been a cake walk.
  46. spat

    Rep. Jamie Raskin Promises Retaliation When Democrats Return to Power

    Imagine accusing your opponents of fascism, and promising to bring the most fascism you can muster if you gain power again.
  47. spat

    GLOCK LAWSUIT?

    You're not wrong. But both Glock and 9mm are also popular for the same reason they're popular with cops. They're good and they're reliable.
  48. spat

    Political Picture thread. (humor/memes/etc)

    The entire strategy of the left is to weaponize envy and sow division.
  49. spat

    Latecia James, indicted!

    Historically, they they're right.
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