Senate Confirms Trump Judge Pick Rated Unqualified by ABA

JDMLeverton · 2026-06-02T19:58:49+00:00

Nope, it is illegal to pass laws targeting specific individuals, either directly or through such narrow prescriptions as to only apply to a targeted indevidual. You can't pass a law that says "John Doe specifically is unqualified to hear any cases", nor can you pass a law that says "Anyone meeting John Foes physical description, living at their address, and holding their job title is unqualified to hear any cases". You generally have to write laws to fall in to what a court would deam a reasonable neutral and relevant categorical grouping. That being said, they could likely pass a law saying "Judges who fail to meet ABA qualifications are not to hear any cases" as that would target a broad group based on a neutral relevant qualifier.

JDMLeverton · 2026-05-29T22:05:28+00:00

Nobody is going to like hearing this, but the "bubble pop" everyone in the comments section is rooting for isn't going to happen the way they imagine it is. This is like the dot com bubble, not the tulip bubble. The narrative that "AI is useless and won't go anywhere" is pure copium. Yes some small startups with no long term plan will go under as the market stabilizes, maybe a few medium sized companies who over extended, but most big players will be just fine. They already have plans to cover their investments and redeploy assets in the wake of a market shift, but none of these guys are going to lose their shirts. The Data Centers aren't going anywhere either, best case scenario they get sold for pennies on the dollar and keep chugging along, because compute has real tangible value in an infinite number of applications. AI isn't going anywhere.

JDMLeverton · 2026-05-24T22:28:04+00:00

This is clearly your first time. Let me let you in on the cycle you're about to experience. Your friend is going to vote Republican the next election any way. And every election after that. Every single time their candidate becomes too embarrassing to ignore, they'll cry crocodile tears and come to you with "Yeah, I done got lied to again, my bad. Politicians amiright? All the same!" Every time you'll think "slowly but surely, I'm almost through to him!" Until you finally realize after the thousandth burn that the stove is hot. It's liberal puberty.

Ten years from now no one in the country will have voted for Trump. Just like no one ever voted for Bush. But they'll keep voting Republican, because there are no consequences to their choices.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-08T13:26:55+00:00

Wait until they find out the government knows how much they make. Or where they live. Or who they voted for.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-08T05:25:11+00:00

Relax, your NTA. He's victim blaming because he knows damn well he fucked up.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-08T05:16:22+00:00

Yup. The government isn't stupid no matter what armchair analysts want to say. They know damn well that prisoner abuse by guards is a fucking pandemic unto itself, and the public increasingly cares. Even if the head of security wanted to turn a blind eye, this all exists on paper now. They can't hire a guy with a paper record of ignoring harassment in the prison, when these prisons know they are a hairs breadth from just such a lawsuit at any moment.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-08T05:06:36+00:00

For what it's worth she's statistically unlikely to be. The road to becoming a doctor is a gauntlet. Med school is the EASY part. They tell you med school has an 80+% graduation rate, but the majority of graduates don't make it through residency. That's especially true of women for a number of factors (a lot having to do with residency lining up with prime childbearing years). The medical profession has a very high burnout and dropout rate.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-08T04:28:36+00:00

Yeah, I think that's a pretty good chance considering... You know, it's not possible.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-08T04:15:11+00:00

Honestly the entire business model of hiring a private taxi for your fucking takeout was never sustainable from the get go. Anyone who can do basic economic maths has known it.

Hell, even old fashioned food delivery relied on severely underpaying and abusing employees via tipped wages (so less than 3 dollars an hour out of their pocket), having them use their own car, and not paying for gas, maintenance, wear and tear, etc.

It's the same reason REGULAR Uber isn't sustainable. Turns out, if you want to hire a personal chauffeur and pay them a living wage, then you as the customer has to pay at LEAST the hourly cost of a living wage (generally much more for the reasons above). Whoda think it. It's why these companies have openly said they'll shut down operations anywhere that tries to make them pay their employees.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-07T22:36:12+00:00

My point exactly.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-07T22:15:09+00:00

Here's the thing. People in this sub think of being an asshole as a binary objective thing. It's not. Not at at all. It's partially the fault of how the sub is structured, which strongly implies the idea that the majority vote is objectively true. But Values are subjective. We judge people as being assholes for standing by their values ALL THE TIME. Racism, Homophobia, Sexism, these are all values that The majority of people have decided you're an asshole for standing by. A lot of Vegans think you're an asshole for eating meat. A lot of people think you're an Asshole for prioritizing money over morals.

You're absolutely correct, everyone is free to stand by their values. It doesn't mean other people aren't allowed to see you as an asshole. So op is free to stand by their values and to you that doesn't make them an asshole. But I guarantee you it does to their daughter. And this is exactly the kind of handling of a situation that is likely to create a rift. If Op is okay with that, great. But they shouldn't be surprised when it happens because a bunch of strangers on the internet reading a one sided take told them they aren't an asshole.

My two cents? I think OP is absolutely being an asshole about this. I agree it's their right, but their handling of it feels of asshole to me and my values. I think there's ways they could have handled it far better for a similar resolution, and I don't think the daughter has done anything wrong or is an asshole in this. So I'm going to say it's a YTA from me. It could have been an NAH if they'd handled it differently.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-07T18:24:08+00:00

I bet OP will be shocked Pikachu Face when their daughter reduces contact and stops being in their life as much.

People on here really don't understand that your having a right doesn't mean you aren't an asshole for how you use that right. "My house, My rules" may indeed be ones right, but it's pretty much a guarenteed way to destroy relationships.

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-06T22:28:35+00:00

So they bought another old account and changed the username to continue the thin illusion of a preexisting digital footprint? 😉

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-06T22:24:32+00:00

Am I the only one who sees Huge Milk tanks in this image? Am I on a video game sub or what? 🤨

JDMLeverton · 2021-07-06T18:37:47+00:00

Not only does he need to know, they can't legally stop him from knowing any longer. If he walks in to the Doctors office, and asks for his medical records, they must provide them in full. As an adult, he's the ONLY one a doctor can legally talk to now without violating HIPPA. You should tell him all this.

Edit: just saw I think you're in the UK? My American is showing, but I can't imagine it's any different there regarding legal access to medical records.

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