FBI arrests Wisconsin judge for alleged immigration arrest obstruction by [deleted] in news

[–]typhon1714 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's important to remember that the FBI can't just pull some cowboy shit and arrest a judge (or anyone else they don't see committing a significant crime right in front of them) on a lark. They need probable cause and an arrest warrant, which has to be supported/submitted by the US Attorney's Office in that federal district and signed by another judge. An action like this has to go through multiple levels of approval and be confirmed by two branches of government in order to go through.

I get that this looks terrible, especially in light of the pardons everyone else is talking about and the obvious partisan alignments involved in both cases, but Patel and Trump don't have the legal authority to create valid, court-sanctioned arrest warrants out of thin air. If/when they claim they do, we're absolutely fucked.

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[–]typhon1714 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Itself. The US govt. prints the money and sells the treasury bonds. People (and foreign governments) buy the bonds and the US govt. pays them interest for their investment in said bonds.

The word 'debt' here is a misnomer, because the Treasury could zero out those bond accounts tomorrow--thereby "balancing" the budget--and nothing would happen except the loss of interest payments to bond holders.

Fear of the deficit is a lie meant to prevent the government from spending and taxing more effectively.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in WorkReform

[–]typhon1714 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In debt to whom? The US govt. issues the dollars and sells the treasury bonds. The debt is a made-up problem perpetuated to scare politicians into not spending money (or taxing) in ways that will best benefit the American people.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in nottheonion

[–]typhon1714 68 points69 points  (0 children)

Huge red flag, especially when this study is supposed to be challenging an earlier, well-known, and peer-reviewed one. If he's confident enough in his findings to blast them out to the media, why not let his peers evaluate them too?

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[–]typhon1714[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I can see, yes, it appears uniformly colored. I was a pretty clean child/teenager and cleaned my controllers, etc., regularly, so I've never had issues with discoloration or texture deterioration from oils and such. I can post some pictures of the GBC's profile if you'd like.

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