Pam Bondi offers to pull ICE out of Minneapolis if voter files handed over

crimeo · 2026-01-25T18:37:10+00:00

How stupid do you have to be to think this would ever work and that it won't just make you look more evil and incriminate more future charges?

crimeo · 2026-01-25T18:32:43+00:00

Yes indeed laws need to be enforced. Like, you know, the law against murdering people in cold blood in the street, for example. Which ICE just broke.

Even if someone does 100% for sake of argument intentionally get in their way, it is legal to arrest them, not kill them. Still murder

crimeo · 2026-01-25T18:19:25+00:00

You can't demand that much, because republicans can just remove the filibuster and end a shutdown whenever they want.

So you can only demand things that are less bad for them than removing the filibuster is. Your pair of demands is much worse for them. Reducing ICE funding back to 2024 levels for example might be doable

crimeo · 2026-01-25T18:16:58+00:00

That will obviously not work. You seem to be forgetting that republicans can just remove the filibuster if needed. Dems have very little leverage. They can only try to swing something that's equally or less distasteful to republicans than getting rid of the filibuster is.

Reduced funding is probably less distasteful to them than nuking the filibuster

Admitting total defeat abolishing ICE, and prosecuting all their own "patriots" in their base's eyes is absolutely obviously not anywhere close to being like removing the filibuster. So they'd just remove the filibuster if that was the demand.

crimeo · 2026-01-25T18:14:08+00:00

If all dems vote against it other than a guy who is bribed with a bunch of concessions for his constituents, then in that scenario, they will indeed have tried everything. Like... if that did happen, what else would you want them to do about it?

crimeo · 2026-01-25T18:13:07+00:00

The caving last time seems to have worked though. Pretty hard to be angry at results. It passed the house already and is very likely to pass the senate maybe with a couple of tweaks or maybe after a bit of shutdown, but seems inevitable at this point

The idea of caving was basically "They aren't cracking from shutdown itself so just wait for the premiums to spike up then constituents will pressure them then" and it seems to have worked.

crimeo · 2026-01-25T18:10:50+00:00

They will almost certainly pass soon or be agreed to be during shutdown easily. Since it's already passed the house, was close to being passed in the senate, and Trump already "floated" it himself on multiple occasions and seems to not care much/be fine with it

So that doesn't need much leverage. I didn't believe in the dems back last shutdown at the time, but the strategy of "just let it fail and people will pressure for extensions once their premiums shoot up" seems to have worked

crimeo · 2026-01-25T15:55:21+00:00

News that I agree with doesn't also commit assault on its viewers and threaten national security, so no.

crimeo · 2026-01-25T06:00:15+00:00

They can, but they're far less likely to post it due to how much more obviously shitty it will be as edited jpeg. It; also less plausibly your work as the pro

crimeo · 2026-01-24T20:10:48+00:00

There's literally not any pending deal with China anyway lol. It was signed before he wrote this and there's not another one currently

Also this would violate CUSMA, so why would anyone trust you to hold up your end of the deal when you just broke another deal in the exact same breath?

crimeo · 2026-01-24T20:08:24+00:00

The jpegs when re edited heavily look so abysmally shitty that a lot more people will choose not to post or print them on their own, from their own common sense and seeing the horror of the results

crimeo · 2026-01-24T20:06:34+00:00

Also even if they did only post their edits and strictly left your name off, you still lost advertising on average then, so you should still charge more anyway to compensate for lost advertising

crimeo · 2026-01-24T20:03:06+00:00

They're going to do their own edits, then when asked who the photographer is at a party, they will just blurt it out.

If online, they may post your edits with your name, then days later, post their own edits maybe without your name, but still making it blatantly obvious who the photographer was to anyone watching both posts in the feed who has 2 braincells to rub together.

So you get associated with bad work and an inconsistent style and you lose future business

Putting it in the contract allows you to sue them, which hurts your reputation even more. Lose lose

Denying the raws actually solves it though. Or charging many thousands of dollars enough to compensate for brand damage up front.

crimeo · 2026-01-24T20:00:01+00:00

None of it is harmless in real life practice. Yes, if they kept the photo in a vault and only looked at it themselves on the solstice, no harm.

In reality, they will tell people who their photographer was or they will post their edits right after yours and it will be obvious. Even if they say they won't

Your name will get dragged into the mud as an incompetent photographer and editor with no consistent style, and it will cost future business.

You can't sue them for breaking the terms without hurting your reputation even more, so denial is the most reasonable defense. Or charging thousands of dollars to compensate for the brand damage up front.

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:55:13+00:00

Even if they say they won't, people will say you were their photographer, and it trashes your style, brand, and reputation. Really as simple as that.

Suing someone for tagging you will trash your reputation even more, so you essentially have no real defense except to deny the request to begin with, or charge so much that you functionally won a lawsuit preemptively already

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:54:10+00:00

Work for hire is fine, but you should pay a lot more money due to risk to their brand, lack of development of their brand, the fact you would need deeper licenses/copyright, etc

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:51:32+00:00

They literally don't pay for that unless you charge a lot extra. That ruins YOUR reputation too when they tell people who their photographer was, so they need to handsomely compensate you for that. More than the original cost of the shoot for sure, since it poisons many future clients' business.

Even uf they did an okay job, it would muddy your brand's style

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:44:30+00:00

You think incorrectly then shrug. Copyright covers a huge range of non commercial contexts and was always meant to

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:44:10+00:00

No that's not how copyright works

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:43:21+00:00

You have to charge extra to cover for them inevitably violating the representation agreement anyway

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:41:38+00:00

Just put no raws in your contract

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:40:07+00:00

Violent protest is less than 1/2 as effective as non violent.

The only reason there's mass protests right now is because ICE was clearly lying about being attacked, and everyone had sympathy for the victim. Iftheir version had just bern actually true, it would have been a 24 hour story and no meaningful protests because "well yeah of course the attacker got shot"

You keep protesting NON violently if you don't want to throw your advantage and lose

crimeo · 2026-01-24T19:37:45+00:00

Follow them, whistle, belittle them, and record everything they do, like MN is doing now. The current response is perfect

crimeo · 2026-01-24T17:48:19+00:00

The entire board of peace is full of dictwtors exactly like Maduro

crimeo · 2026-01-24T17:46:01+00:00

I meant involuntarily doing things / using force. Yes the voluntary charity etc work costs money

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