That's what my wife says 🤣

What Is Democratic 'Legality'? What Is Democratic 'Legality'? https://amgreatness.com/2025/04/24/what-is-democratic-legality/ Since 2021, the left has waged a veritable war against the American legal system in a variety of ways. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-04-24_10-57-23.jpg?itok=KVI5E7Z6 One serial target of Democrats and the Left has been the Supreme Court. In 2020, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) spoke to an angry throng of pro-abortion protestors assembled at the very doors of the court chambers. He threatened two of the justices, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch, by name. Schumer yelled to the volatile crowd that the justices’ views would make them “reap the whirlwind,” and the two would not know what “hit” them. In the ensuing months, protestors mobbed some of the conservative justices’ homes—likely committing felonies. The sympathetic Biden Justice Department chose not to follow the law, and so did nothing—although eventually a would-be assassin turned up. Joe Biden himself bragged that he would try to ignore the Supreme Court ruling banning his arbitrary cancellation of billions of dollars in student loans. Indeed, he boasted, “The Supreme Court blocked it, but that didn’t stop me.” In response, no one on the left ever complained about endangering the “rule of law” or Biden as “a dictator.” For three years, four local, state, and federal prosecutors warped the law to neuter Donald Trump. Most of the charges had never been brought against other political figures in similar circumstances. The vast majority of the 93 weaponized indictments backfired on the liberal prosecutors, who had contorted the legal system for political purposes and now face their own ethical or legal quagmires. The federal prosecutor Jack Smith belatedly reported accepting $140,000 in free legal services. Georgia prosecutor Fani Willis was removed from the Trump case and fined, and is now under further investigation. New York prosecutor Letitia James is now facing allegations of falsification of documents and loan fraud. Federal immigration law prohibits the illegal entry into and residence within the United States. Yet the Biden administration deliberately violated the law by allowing somewhere between 10-12 million illegal aliens to cross the border. Thousands had criminal records. No one on the left decried any of these various affronts to the legal system. In polls, by overwhelming majorities—above 70 percent—the public wants the Trump administration to close the border, begin deportations, and start with criminals or those with violent histories and gang ties. The recent deportation of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal alien from El Salvador, to the vast majority of Americans seems to fit that profile. Garcia entered the U.S. illegally and was later found consorting with members of M-13—a State Department-designated terrorist organization—who were selling drugs. Informants reported that he was a gang member. His own tattoos likely confirm those accusations. Two prior immigration judges found such evidence sufficient to allow deportation proceedings. In 2019, a third judge allowed Garcia to stay temporarily, but only on the grounds that hostile gangs might harm him should he return to El Salvador. Garcia was pulled over for speeding without a driver’s license—but with eight illegal aliens who reportedly all lived at the Garcia residence. The officer released him, despite suspicions that Garcia was engaged in human trafficking. Garcia’s live-in girlfriend, now wife, was physically assaulted by Garcia on two occasions, suffered injuries, and initially sought restraining orders against him. The left claims Garcia is a “Maryland man” without an arrest record. But he is not a U.S. citizen or a legal resident of Maryland. Instead, Garcia is in legal limbo and remains what he always was—a citizen of El Salvador with gang ties and formerly residing illegally in the U.S. Garcia is now back home on El Salvadorian soil and was mistakenly sent to a high-security prison. But his own government in El Salvador will ultimately decide how involved Garcia is or was with M-13 gangs. And then, as a sovereign nation, it will act according to its own policies about its own citizens’ associations with that terrorist organization. The left has demanded that Garcia be returned to the U.S. He has become a cause célèbre as a purported victim of the supposedly fascist Trump. Returning Garcia is seen by leftists as a performance art-act to derail the Trump agenda, which otherwise they have neither the power nor public support to thwart. The left also ignores its own hypocrisies and ironies. Those who weaponized the court system and destroyed the border now rail that Trump is acting unlawfully by not returning an illegal alien, an M-13 member, and a domestic abuser with a propensity to ignore our laws. How ironic that those who rail about colonialism now sound like 19th-century Yankee imperialists. Democrats do not own El Salvador - although they act like it when dictating to its government that El Salvador cannot detain one of its own citizens on its own soil for its own reasons. https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden Thu, 04/24/2025 - 16:40 https://www.zerohedge.com/political/what-democratic-legality

Neat! Nice work, Seth 🫂 nostr:note1nchc29zugvx9495wjwmseuav79h4fhaqf0nx0cvs75enwwseqtjqqyc4nr

Hello and welcome to Nostr and the decentralized social future

Oh. That's interesting.

Highly recommend and love the dev (cloud fodder) 🥰🫂

Exactly. Insert meme: we're still early.

LLMs are just another tool in a person's arsenal.

Cool, so we pretty much made the same thing. nostr:nevent1qqsznudclrthfpr3kud07ul9dfwfcr2swepzrdlh5xcj8csvzv897yqpz4mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wchsygrwg6zz9hahfftnsup23q3mnv5pdz46hpj4l2ktdpfu6rhpthhwjvpsgqqqqqqsdnawnh

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I like that way of framing it.

The more people throwing ideas at the wall and seeing what sticks the better.

You want to play dense and pedantic, or maybe you really are those things, and I have zero interest in wasting my time catering to a child.

curious how long will it take, until we won't have phone numbers anymore will it even happen?

need to sleep, but i want to study and read grr

yeah same

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Alphabet Surges After Easily Beating Estimates, New $70 Billion Stock Buyback https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/alphabet-surges-after-easily-beating-estimates-new-70-billion-stock-buyback

Alphabet Surges After Easily Beating Estimates, New $70 Billion Stock Buyback Alphabet Surges After Easily Beating Estimates, New $70 Billion Stock Buyback In our preview of Alphabet's Q1 earnings, we said the company was "https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/alphabet-q1-earnings-preview-cheap-room-error-and-optimism-worst-over ", and sure enough, the company is surging after hours after the company reported earnings that largely beat expectations across the board, including capex (with the exception of cloud which came in light on revenue but more than made up for it on profit). Here is what the company just reported for Q1: EPS $2.81 vs. $1.89 y/y, smashed estimate $2.01 (Bloomberg Consensus) Revenue ex-TAC $76.49 billion, +13% y/y, beat estimate $75.4 billion Total TAC $13.75 billion, +6.2% y/y, higher than estimated $13.66 billion Revenue $90.23 billion, +12% y/y, beat estimate $89.1 billion Google Services revenue $77.26 billion, +9.8% y/y, beat estimate $76.31 billion Google advertising revenue $66.89 billion, +8.5% y/y, beat estimate $66.39 billion Google Search & Other Revenue $50.70 billion, -6.2% q/q, beat estimate $50.3 billion YouTube ads revenue $8.93 billion, +10% y/y, missed estimate $8.94 billion Google Network Revenue $7.26 billion, -8.8% q/q, beat estimate $7.13 billion Google Subscriptions, Platforms and Devices Revenue $10.38 billion, -11% q/q, beat estimate $9.91 billion Google Cloud revenue $12.26 billion, +28% y/y, missed estimate $12.32 billion Other Bets revenue $450 million, -9.1% y/y, missed estimate $473.9 million https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/alpbaet%20income%20statement%20q1%2025.jpg?itok=bJa0T5bj Operating income $30.61 billion, +20% y/y, beat estimate $28.86 billion Google Services operating income $32.68 billion, +17% y/y, estimate $30.42 billion Google Cloud operating income $2.18 billion vs. $900 million y/y, estimate $1.94 billion Other Bets operating loss $1.23 billion, +20% y/y, estimate loss $1.12 billion Operating margin 34% vs. 32% y/y, beat estimate 32.3% Number of employees 185,719, +2.7% y/y, estimate 183,718 https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/TAC%20number%20of%20employees.jpg?itok=WgefsGXt Notably, in a time when many are expecting capex to be slashed, Alphabet's capital expenditures came in hotter than expected, at $17.2BN, up 43% YoY, and just above the median estimate of $17.1BN. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/google%20capex%20q1.jpg?itok=A1ZDXtRg Commenting on the quarter, Sundar Pichai, CEO, said: “We’re pleased with our strong Q1 results, which reflect healthy growth and momentum across the business. Underpinning this growth is our unique full stack approach to AI. This quarter was super exciting as we rolled out Gemini 2.5, our most intelligent AI model, which is achieving breakthroughs in performance and is an extraordinary foundation for our future innovation. Search saw continued strong growth, boosted by the engagement we’re seeing with features like AI Overviews, which now has 1.5 billion users per month. Driven by YouTube and Google One, we surpassed 270 million paid subscriptions. And Cloud grew rapidly with significant demand for our solutions.” That said, Alphabet needs to ensure momentum in its search advertising and cloud businesses in order to justify its heightened investment in the artificial intelligence race. Competition is prompting the company and its rivals to spend heavily on infrastructure, research and talent, and as noted above, While Google benefits from AI startups spending on its cloud and business tools, it’s also racing to present an answer to popular conversational AI chatbots, which consumers are beginning to think of as an alternative to using Google Search. Google’s beginning of the answer to that threat: its “AI Overviews” and “AI Mode” in search, in which summarized responses are drafted by generative AI and highlighted ahead of Google’s web links, have seen mixed success. Meanwhile, Google’s AI changes to search have decimated traffic to independent websites across the open web.  Tough for them, as for Alphabet, just to make sure the stock would not slump despite the solid beat, the company also announced a new $70 billion stock buyback authorization. Then again, with $75BN in LTM FCF and soaring capex, one wonders if GOOGL will soon need debt to meet all its funding needs. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/TTM%20FCF.jpg?itok=mo6eGrRb GOOGL stock jumped as much as 5% after hours, precisely what the straddle implied move said it would do, rising just above $169 - the highest price since mid-March and well above its Liberation Day levels - before fading some of the gains. https://cms.zerohedge.com/s3/files/inline-images/2025-04-24_13-11-20.jpg?itok=CZoyq-a2 https://cms.zerohedge.com/users/tyler-durden Thu, 04/24/2025 - 16:29 https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/alphabet-surges-after-easily-beating-estimates-new-70-billion-stock-buyback

Precisely. And it will get better still.

if you have one of these, a cast iron skillet, and a chuck wagon style cast iron dutch oven(the ones with the legs), you can cook almost anything.

/me misses old school irc

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I particularly like when they try to offer me the services my business offers.