ben_vulpes: some dogs are just delightfully stupid and willing to please
jhvh1: asciilifeform: The operation succeeded.
BingoBoingo: So Trump has unleashed Bannon, Gorkha, relieving them of obligations related to actual white house attachment. As this happens he's trapped Jared and Ivanka's establishment friends in Daddy's house, and Daddy's making the rules now.
mircea_popescu: aaanyway. zee pantsuits have serious reason tyo be worried, in a police state the unchecked power to pardon is very dangerous.
mircea_popescu: way us works, "everyone's guilty", of nothing in particular but nevertheless. then trump's guys walk and the pantsuits are left to do 5+ years "sentencing guidelines".
mircea_popescu: a coupla years of this, the pantsuit party will be akin to 1880s russian futurists.
BingoBoingo: Yeah, pardoning is the only power that matters when original sin is on the line
mircea_popescu: that's how all the rooseveltian bs was imposed in the 50s.
BingoBoingo: "You broke the rules" "Fuck you, you're breaking the rules" "Fuck you I'm Tom Brady"
BingoBoingo: The Cartman who is in the nightmare with Commisioner Cartman and Coach Cartman
BingoBoingo: A perfect storm of hypocrisy that captures America's attention for months on end...
mircea_popescu: "i think alf fucks chickens" "Why would he do that" "i dunno, ask him"
hanbot: does mircea_popescu assert you can't suspect someone of something without knowing a plausible motive?
mircea_popescu: well gotta have some basis ; otherwise what are you suspecting them of, "i suspect thee of me not liking you" ?
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform ok, that works. indicate such set of knowns.
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> nor the 'judges'. << Pardon theology doesn't work that way.
BingoBoingo: Right, but this is why not call on judges over executive orders. It's a theological question.
BingoBoingo: Pardon vacates decisions judges attach to people.
BingoBoingo: Decisions judges make about decisions are condemned to float around judge wank
BingoBoingo: It's why you can national guard over one point and not the other
BingoBoingo: <asciilifeform> could have called it to get the illicit immigrants out of berkeley, also << And on this point INS is scaling up enforcment, can't National Guard while they can scale up unless salable "crisis".
BingoBoingo: While 'Murica may have been denied the possibility of a functioning culture by the Puritains, the Xtian possibility of absolution is the only role President and Governors have which seperates them from retail managers and traffic cops
BingoBoingo: Without pardon there is no executive, which means dissolution
BingoBoingo: If pantsuit kills Trump on this they won't have anything left to take
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shinohai: yay, trinque is still alive! :P
trinque: no tx weather is allowed to kill me without my permission
shinohai: If only we had bigger blox, could fit more weather in those tx's
mircea_popescu: trinque so how alt-weather did it get ? pictures post ?
trinque: as yet, hasn't done much of anything in houston, though I think I slept through a wave of rain last night. corpus christi and surrounding areas got a pounding.
trinque: we're right in between two bands atm, and sun is peaking through.
trinque: could still flood if the thing turns NE
trinque: if we get a decent deluge, will post
mircea_popescu chuckles at the thought that while all this was brought about by 40 inches of rain,
mod6: glad to see you stayed safe trinque
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