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re: Trump’s approval ratings are significantly higher than they were in his first term 2017

Posted by CountryVolFan on 6/7/25 at 10:24 am

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Why do you think this is?

His admin is actually attempting to deal with the illegal immigration issues instead of waiting on Congress to fund a wall.

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re: ATL Thread 5/6 | Reds @ Braves

Posted by CountryVolFan on 5/6/25 at 10:24 pm

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Even when Acuna comes back, Nick Allen is still going to be in the lineup because AA seriously thought we could enter the season with Arcia still as the starting SS. As expected, that plan blew up in spectacular fashion after just two weeks and now we have a career MiLBer playing the position because he beat out AA's guy.

Nick Allen is 2nd in the MLB in Out Above Average behind Pete Crow-Armstrong

If he can keep giving us .600+ OPS with that defense I will take it. It's basically Walt Weiss like with 1.5ish WAR over the course of the Season.

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re: ATL Thread 5/6 | Reds @ Braves

Posted by CountryVolFan on 5/6/25 at 10:20 pm

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I don't think we've gotten noticeably better since that 0-7 start. It's just that we played arguably the best teams in the league on the road and got boatraced accordingly.

Getting Murphy back and adding Verdugo really helped.

Adding Acuna will help.

Gonna need guys like Albies and Harris to hit more like their Fangraphs pages.

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re: Judge reduces bail for Karmelo Anthony by 75%. Ankle monitor in home awaiting trial.

Posted by CountryVolFan on 4/14/25 at 12:10 pm

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A larger question is if he doesn't commit any new crimes and he makes all this court dates, then why are y'all so upset that he's not sitting in pre-trial detention? After a trial if he's found guilty? Put him in jail for a long time

BECAUSE HE STABBED A KID IN THE CHEST WITH WITNESSES. THE KID IS DEAD.

Probability of conviction and danger to the community are elements of bond everywhere. This is a textbook case for pretrial confinement.

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re: Judge reduces bail for Karmelo Anthony by 75%. Ankle monitor in home awaiting trial.

Posted by CountryVolFan on 4/14/25 at 11:59 am

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But yes, I knew the purported anger at the bail system for J6ers was just bullshite. Y'all are proving it now.

Can someone be angry that the bond for Criminal Trespass is excessive, while the bond for Homicide is too low?

Seems super reasonable to me.

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re: Judge reduces bail for Karmelo Anthony by 75%. Ankle monitor in home awaiting trial.

Posted by CountryVolFan on 4/14/25 at 11:56 am

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He hasn't been convicted yet and bond is just supposed to ensure his presence at trial. Do you see the issue here?

Ok Mr. Contrarian,

1st degree murder by stabbing in the presence of witnesses does not usually lead to a bond reduction. $250K with monitor is absurdly low in pretty much every jurisdiction.

But here is the attention for your post count.

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re: X - White woman strips down at DFW terminal and has mental breakdown - very much NSFW

Posted by CountryVolFan on 3/28/25 at 7:52 am

SMU Law School Grad

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re: What happened to Muh Standing?

Posted by CountryVolFan on 3/11/25 at 10:08 am

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Which "standing" ruling (s) do you think is/are comparable to display this purported change? And why isn't the Trump administration arguing standing?

You know, my torts professor didn’t go into all of my other classes to ask Socratic discussion questions.

You don’t need to drop them in 4-5 threads a day either.

If you have a comment or counter argument just make it. Quit quizzing people on message board replies.

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re: D.C. Police Demand $1.57 Million To Release Jan. 6 Bodycam Footage

Posted by CountryVolFan on 3/5/25 at 3:55 pm

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For those who don't know, using FOIA will still get you hit with a bill for the costs of copying. Now can the $1.5M be negotiated? Sometimes. But there are costs involved in copying that will have to be paid. This is SOP and not some "Deep state conspiracy" as implied.

These are not the criminal cases, but it’s absurd that this Brady material was never provided to the Defendants while they rotted in jail.

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re: How Did the Climate Change Narrative First Get Its Momentum?

Posted by CountryVolFan on 2/23/25 at 11:17 pm

Al Gore wanted some easy money

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re: AOC is big mad about being turned in to the DOJ

Posted by CountryVolFan on 2/18/25 at 3:39 pm

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Explaining rights is not legal advice and is protected speech for any person on our soil (American, legal immigrant, or illegal).

"Explaining rights" escalates to legal advice when she instructs people how to act in her slides. The slide doesn't say "You have the right to keep your door closed" it says "DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOOR." The slide doesn't say "you have the right to ask them to leave" the slide says "tell them you do not consent to enter your home and ask them to leave"

The slide are instructional and not informative. Additionally she is operating from a position of authority because she is a member of congress and is providing instructions from her official account.

She could easily have NOT done this by just having an immigration attorney on there and quoting them. But she wants to look like a hero and made a bunch of slides with bold letters telling people what to do.

She opens herself up to civil liability if someone follows her advice and is injured as a result or harms their case in Immigration court.

She opens herself up to criminal liability if someone relies on her advice and commits a crime as a result. If a landlord or employer has legal access to an area an illegal immigrant follows this advice to the letter, they could expose themselves to harm by not allowing entry. This is something an attorney would likely explain, and why we don't need Bartenders doing power point legal advice on X.

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re: AOC is big mad about being turned in to the DOJ

Posted by CountryVolFan on 2/18/25 at 3:15 pm

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Criminals have rights too. What is illegal about explaining their rights to them?

Hell, cops do it with almost every arrest (Miranda warning ).

She's basically giving legal advice on her official account. Her slides ignore exigent circumstances and voluntary consent of property owners to enter a space (landlord or employer)

But to answer the annoying part of your inquiry, an elected official doesn't need to use their official account to instruct people here illegally on how to evade enforcement. Dealing with ICE and immigration hearing is the job of their attorney, not her.

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re: Harold Ford Jr

Posted by CountryVolFan on 2/8/25 at 4:33 pm

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The one democrat that has common sense and can unite the party and deliver a sane and logical message. I am ecstatic that the left is burning and crumbling before our very eyes, but Ford is a guy that can be a good candidate for them. Lets pray these fricking idiot libs are too dumb to notice it. The guy for the future of the party is him if they want it.

Can tell you're not from Tennessee. The Ford Family is machine politics in the line of Clinton/Bush.

Hard pass

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re: Scott Presler wants to create the D.O.V.E. Department of Voter Efficiency

Posted by CountryVolFan on 2/6/25 at 12:16 pm

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Mushroom, I too felt like I needed a break this weekend but got a little rest and decided to refocus. I was being selfish. I put my own physical health above winning. It will not happen again.

We will take our breaks in shifts so that someone always has the winning covered.

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