[pilowsky]

Kristi Noem said:

Well, habeas corpus is a constitutional right that the President has to be able to remove people from this country.

Maybe she just looked at the words and thought, hmmm, maybe that means like, right, 'habeas corpus', like I get it.
Maybe it means 'has the corpse'.
Sure, let's go with that.

[WasWinM]

pilowsky, on 2025-May-22, 04:51, said:

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Maybe she just looked at the words and thought, hmmm, maybe that means like, right, 'habeas corpus', like I get it.
Maybe it means 'has the corpse'.
Sure, let's go with that.

Or the right to shoot dogs, both animal and human.

[WasWinM]

Zelandakh, on 2025-May-21, 17:17, said:

It's really easy to make up things that allow you to justify putting out whatever ruling you want politically but that does not make those rulings constitutional on the Plane of Truth. This is precisely the issue - most US judges don't bother using the Constitution any more; they just decide what decisions are in their interest and work backwards to find arguments to give some veneer of respectability. That Americans of genuine intelligence and political knowledge just accept this is truly sad. Almost as sad as the inability of Congress to do anything useful...

I submit the worst attack on democracy in this country is Trump’s blanket pardons of all January 6th insurrectionists and rioters.

[barmar]

pilowsky, on 2025-May-22, 04:51, said:

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Maybe she just looked at the words and thought, hmmm, maybe that means like, right, 'habeas corpus', like I get it.
Maybe it means 'has the corpse'.
Sure, let's go with that.

If I want to be charitable to her, we mostly hear the phrase in the context of "suspending habeas corpus", and she may have been explaining what she thinks that means.

But should we really give benefit of the doubt to puppy-killers?

[barmar]

WasWinM, on 2025-May-22, 06:06, said:

I submit the worst attack on democracy in this country is Trump’s blanket pardons of all January 6th insurrectionists and rioters.

James Comey was on Colbert last night, and he called it "An Obscenity That Will Stain This Country Forever"

https://www.youtube....h?v=sr5un5mrooA

[jillybean]

barmar, on 2025-May-22, 09:26, said:

James Comey was on Colbert last night, and he called it "An Obscenity That Will Stain This Country Forever"

https://www.youtube....h?v=sr5un5mrooA

Upvote

[benellis58]

Kristi Noem has the most important qualification to be in Trump's cabinet: Namely that she is a piece of trash just like the convicted felon himself and all the other spineless fools who drool over him. Being so stupid that she doesn't know what habeas corpus is and being a puppy-killer are just additional "skills" that she possesses.

[thepossum]

I do like to pop in here from time to time and see how things are going

What's going on with Harvard. I feel a certain connection and loyalty to back them up

I am searching for an amusing albeit somewhat un PC Tweet about Secretary Noem but there are so many I can't find it - and I do not wish to upset Homeland security even on this side of the Pacific

The latet MAHA news is also worth checking out - I am all for restrciting harmful chemicals being forced into our system through food or any other means

[pilowsky]

NYT said:

Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary, was pressed about this (memecoin) on Thursday."It's absurd for anyone to insinuate that this president is profiting off of the presidency..."

[thepossum]

pilowsky, on 2025-May-23, 01:22, said:

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This rubbish doesn't bother me quite as much as everything else. There are gullible fools happy to lose their money everywhere

In terms of the bigger issues I am still (not really) in total astonishment that interests over recent generations have produced this world

[thepossum]

Apparently a bit more global arbitrage overnight

But back to an earlier point about those of us who trusted our investments in USA about to be taxed

USA and our own Feds. What gives

Such a betrayal

Not sure how to break the people of the world up

Some work
Some invest
Some steal

Some may say. Risk and return. But this risk came out of nowhere. Does not count
You just think Trump - big business - Elon Musk and others - big business - bigprofits
No. taxation

Maybe explains why Mr Buffett finally hung up his investment boots

Crytpo (and other stuff) is a possible explanation. A bit scary but come on. It is still valued in real money. So we hope

You just have to have trust that people in the know. the people we all trust with our hard earned dollars have a clue

[kenberg]

thepossum, on 2025-May-26, 04:11, said:

Apparently a bit more global arbitrage overnight

But back to an earlier point about those of us who trusted our investments in USA about to be taxed

USA and our own Feds. What gives

Such a betrayal

Not sure how to break the people of the world up

Some work
Some invest
Some steal

Some may say. Risk and return. But this risk came out of nowhere. Does not count
You just think Trump - big business - Elon Musk and others - big business - bigprofits
No. taxation

Maybe explains why Mr Buffett finally hung up his investment boots

Crytpo (and other stuff) is a possible explanation. A bit scary but come on. It is still valued in real money. So we hope

You just have to have trust that people in the know. the people we all trust with our hard earned dollars have a clue

I'll take a look at "how to break the people of the world up".

Some work: I got a job stocking shelves when I was 13. I also set pins in a bowling alley and delivered papers. Paper delivery paid best, I delivered morning evening and Sunday to a hundred plus customers. It paid well enough so that I bought a car, a 47 Plymouth for $175, in 1954 when I was 15. Later I delivered furniture. As an adult I became a math prof, not the best paying job in the world, but it was fine. I retired in 2004, age 65, but worked part-time gigs for several years afterwards. Now I relax. My basic idea was to get a job that I liked, as long as it paid well enough.

Some invest: Well, I have some stocks I guess. If "investor" means someone with a plan, then I ain't one. With regard to you being an Autralian, investing in US stocks, here is my story. Maybe twenty years or so back, I investied in some UK corporation. They went through some sort of reorginization that had some sort of tax consequences. You probably get my meaning by "some sort". I read and re-read stuff and finally I wrote up tax return, attached a letter to the IRS saying "I tried, but this is the best I can do at understanding it all. If something else is needed please let me know". It went through as filed, quite possibly because nobody at the IRS, at the level my income required, understood all the stuff either. Lesson: Keep investments simple.
There is an old song, Stuff That Works , the theme being Keep It Simple Stupid. This was my father's approach and I pretty much follow it.

Some steal: Not my style.

Overall: I made a decent living doing stuff I liked and now I keep my financial activities simple enough that they can hardly be called activities. I think that describes a lot of us.

[johnu]

thepossum, on 2025-May-26, 04:11, said:

Maybe explains why Mr Buffett finally hung up his investment boots

3 reasons why Warren Buffet is retiring as Berkshire Hathaway CEO.

1. Buffet will be 95 years old at the end of 2025
2. Buffet will be 95 years old at the end of 2025
3. Buffet will be 95 years old at the end of 2025

BTW, Buffet is remaining as chairman of the board.

[pilowsky]

johnu, on 2025-May-27, 16:29, said:

3 reasons why Warren Buffet is retiring as Berkshire Hathaway CEO.

1. Buffet will be 95 years old at the end of 2025
2. Buffet will be 95 years old at the end of 2025
3. Buffet will be 95 years old at the end of 2025

BTW, Buffet is remaining as chairman of the board.

So what you are saying is that the buffeting of the market has reduced a sumptuous meal to a small buffet?

[thepossum]

But the MAGA steal
Lazy entitled MAGA - and I am not happy with them paraisting off my savings. I have plans and more worthy beneficiaries
TBH one person's life of hard work and investment can only support so many

Sorry people misread my attempt to make a point about the betrayal of investment by linking in Mr Buffet's almost retirement
Sometimes I feel that I should spell out my points more. Like a new and terrible world taking over - Edit I am used to it. I remember being marked down because I did not waste a paragraph explaining the link between two obvious statements
when I look around at the prevailing zeitgeist I wonder how people will eat in a few decades

I was pondering today how crypto people even hijacked the word work for sitting on their ass burning energy with high powered processors

[a_user]

We'll be saved by a council of ingenious influencers.

[thepossum]

a_user, on 2025-May-27, 22:22, said:

We'll be saved by a council of ingenious influencers.

I do not feel qualified enough to have a discussion about capital. What it is and what it is not
But the USA is to put it politely p**ssing its up against a wall right now

Sorry if I take it so personally but you get to a certain stage of life, having worked prepared and invested in trusted valuable produtive ventures and then all these people come along with their hands out begging or stealing it from you

I have been assured people can print capital - sorry money - but it all seems to disppear from my investments

[pilowsky]

Trump is pardoning a lot of people ATM.
But I recall reading that a pardon doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed; just that the penalty was expunged from the record of the felon.
Does this mean that a victim can still pursue civil remedies?

[WasWinM]

 pilowsky, on 2025-May-29, 21:45, said:

Trump is pardoning a lot of people ATM.
But I recall reading that a pardon doesn't mean the crime wasn't committed; just that the penalty was expunged from the record of the felon.
Does this mean that a victim can still pursue civil remedies?

Yes. Civil is separate law and unaffected by a pardon.

[benellis58]

Not surprising that a convicted felon like Donnie Dumbass is pardoning other criminals while making life a living hell for many decent people. Trump is pure garbage, pure filth of the worst sort. The only question is whether all the harm he is causing will be temporary or permanent. Shame on the voters who put this trashcan BACK into the White House for a SECOND time, even after the utter trainwreck of his first regime.