Heather McDonald: The Coming Crime Catastrophe In California

The coming crime catastrophe?!, I hear you saying.

But it's about to get worse. California passed a law giving murderers and gang-members -- all criminals, really, but let's focus on the worst offenders -- the right to have their previous sentences voided if they can prove that anyone of their racial group had been discriminated against by the courts in the past.

Not that their own trials were tainted by bias -- just that someone in the past had experienced bias.

So California is about to begin releasing thousands and thousands of hardcore killers back into the streets.

California is about to demonstrate what a world constructed from the tenets of critical race studies looks like. The sentencing reversal in California v. Windom is the result of a recent law that will likely bring the state's criminal-justice system to its knees. The Racial Justice Act, passed in 2020 without meaningful public review, turns long-standing academic tropes about implicit bias and white privilege into potent legal tools. And the floodgates are about to open. Starting this year, the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge his conviction and sentencing retroactively on the ground of systemic racial bias.
The Racial Justice Act operationalizes the proposition that every aspect of the criminal-justice system is biased against blacks. But according to the act's legislative authors, it's too hard to prove such bias in the case of individual arrests and prosecutions. Therefore, the act does away with the concept of individual fault and individual proof. From now on, statistics about past convictions are sufficient to invalidate a present trial or sentence.
The RJA explicitly repudiates a key Supreme Court precedent that had governed bias challenges in criminal trials. The plaintiff in McCleskey v. Kemp (1987), Warren McCleskey, a black man, was facing the death penalty for murdering a white police officer in Fulton County, Georgia. McCleskey presented a study purportedly showing that killers of all races in Georgia were more likely to be sentenced to death if their victim was white. Blacks who killed whites were at greatest risk of capital punishment. That alleged historical disparity in sentencing invalidated his own death sentence, argued McCleskey. The Court, in a 5 - 4 decision, disagreed.
Defendants must show that criminal-justice decision-makers were purposefully biased against them, in order to throw out a conviction or a sentence under the Equal Protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, the Court ruled. Statistics purporting to show a historical pattern of bias are not enough to support the requisite showing of individual discriminatory purpose against a particular defendant.
Thanks to the RJA, McCleskey no longer governs bias challenges in California. From now on in California, statistics purporting to show a pattern of bias in the past are enough to invalidate a current arrest, criminal charge, or judicial sentence.
And what statistics they are! The Antioch Racial Justice Act case, California v. Windom, exemplifies the analyses that pass muster under the act. Through discovery requests to the district attorney's office, defense counsel assembled a database of 89 defendants who had been charged with gang murder in Contra Costa County from 2015 to 2022. Forty-eight of those defendants were black. There were 41 defendants in the comparison pool, made up of any nonblack race the defendants could get their hands on, since white gang-murder defendants in Contra Costa County were virtually nonexistent. Sixty-two percent of the black gang murderers (30) got a sentence of life without parole because of the egregiousness of their killings. It was that so-called LWOP sentence that the four defendants in Windom were challenging. A little over 53 percent of the nonblack gang murderers (24) got a sentence of life without parole. The defense expert, University of California--Irvine criminologist Richard McCleary, used fancy statistical footwork to massage those small differences in an already-small sample size into larger significance. That was the least of the analysis's problems, however. The real deficiency was that McCleary discarded the rule of comparing like with like. He made no effort to determine the criminal histories of the defendants in the various comparison pools to see if those defendants really were similarly situated. He made no effort to determine how heinous were the murders committed by members of the various comparison pools.
But charging and sentencing always take a defendant's particular history and the details of his crime into account. Two defendants can both be charged under an aggravated assault statute, but if one defendant has 11 prior convictions for attempted murder, robbery, and carjacking, say, while the second defendant has never been arrested before, a prosecutor will seek different sentences in their two cases.
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After the judge had ruled in California v. Windom, a Contra Costa prosecutor commissioned his own study of the data. It turned out that the black gang members in the life-without-parole pool had committed more heinous murders than the nonblack gang members, as measured by the special circumstances in their cases. Once that difference was considered, there was no racial difference in the likelihood that a defendant would get life without parole. The district attorney’s office chose not to publicize the study and has not made it publicly available.

Posted by: Disinformation Expert Ace at 03:10 PM

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1 Anyone ready for the weekend?

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:11 PM (2UnvF)

2 "Hey, you know that movie what had Kurt Russell with an eyepatch running around LA and it was all bombed out and janked up?"

"Yeah."

"Let's do that!"

"OK!"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 24, 2024 03:11 PM (+yhUM)

3 Otters called

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:11 PM (2UnvF)

4 So California is about to begin releasing thousands and thousands of hardcore killers back into the streets.

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Oh no.

Anyway.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:12 PM (GBKbO)

5 What could go wrong?

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 03:12 PM (2MUet)

6 It's okay since they're allowing p()rn in elementary schools.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 03:12 PM (w67Ex)

7 But if you happen to be a person of color who shoots one of these folks with a "divine spark" for trying to kill you, watch out! No protection for you!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:12 PM (ynpvh)

8 As long as their student loans are paid, I'm good with this.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 24, 2024 03:13 PM (RIvkX)

9 But it's about to get worse. California passed a law giving murderers and gang-members -- all criminals, really, but let's focus on the worst offenders -- the right to have their previous sentences voided if they can prove that anyone of their racial group had been discriminated against by the courts in the past.
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There was a time when I would read something like this and think, "that's impossible."

Then came a time when I would think, "this is probably being misconstrued."

Then came a time when I would think, "this is a gaping hole in what they were trying to do, and it won't last long."

Then came a time when I would think, "Even for them, this seems a bit extreme."

Then came a time when I would think, "This is amazing, but I believe it."

Now, we have arrived at the time when I think, "I didn't guess it, but now that I know about it, yeah, this is the most to-be-expected thing in the world."

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:14 PM (d04cU)

10 California is a giant pitch meeting now. "Imagine we defund the cops, take away self-defense, and then we let all the murderers out of prison! What a movie!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 03:14 PM (2MUet)

11 (censored)

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 03:15 PM (Z8Yh2)

12 Anyone ready for the weekend?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:11 PM (2UnvF)

Ace is honing his Pin The Tail On The Donkey tactics.

Posted by: spindrift at May 24, 2024 03:15 PM (OguvZ)

13 the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge his conviction and sentencing retroactively on the ground of systemic racial bias.

And you can bet Soros is funding teams if lawyers to file cases pro bono.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:15 PM (seACy)

14 https://youtu.be/o1tj2zJ2Wvg?si=37MurC95CZq07Mzi

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2024 03:15 PM (sAmhv)

15 Chinese should have a leg up on this; there were actual LAWS excluding them from immigrating in the 1880's, I believe.
Up until the 1950's, miscegenation was illegal in Kalifornia.

It's okay. We'll have our own Insane Kalifornia Klown Possee Krime Katastrophe.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:15 PM (ynpvh)

16 Screw Mexico. Build a CA wall.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (seACy)

17 Forget Mexico. We need to wall off California.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (1bNHn)

18 California: People Would Kill To Live Here!

And do.

Posted by: Joe Mama at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (lZVy/)

19 You want death squads? Because this is how you get death squads.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (2UnvF)

20 I am all for granting CA its independence.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (seACy)

21 Ultimately, if you start from the assumptions the left claims to believe everything they are doing does make sense.

The two problems of course are:

1) Their assumptions are wrong

2) They know their assumptions are wrong

Overall, the intent is to use crime to force the populace into compliance in other areas - in a similar sense to the way government terror was used in the Soviet Union.

And yes, the major criminal gangs are part of the Democrat coalition and all of this is being operated hand and glove with the Democrat party.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (ibTVg)

22 Horde mind.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (seACy)

23 No sympathy for the idiots who vote for the idiots who enact these laws. Did Newsome sign this?

Posted by: GrapeApe at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (IUb/E)

24 A person familiar with the Biden campaign’s deliberations confirms to Mediaite that discussions are underway as to whether or not the campaign will dub him a “convicted felon” if a guilty verdict is rendered
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"if"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (2MUet)

25 Biden will only win CA by 2,233,400 votes instead of 2,233,500 votes.

It's not vote fraud--millions of California voters eagerly voted for this.

Better that than voting for a Republican.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (g9W3m)

26 White Guilt. (to be sung in the style of "Whitebird")

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (Z8Yh2)

27 "Not that their own trials were tainted by bias -- just that someone in the past had experienced bias."

That's easy. It's Californica, of COURSE there have been trials that were tainted by bias.

They wouldn't be able to get all those convictions if they didn't. Just ask Cummala Harris.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (dGCAG)

28 Criminal gangs will be able to commit crimes with impunity while the average CA citizen will be disarmed.

And cops will just sit back, collect their paycheck and refuse to deal with crime because they're being paid to do a job the CA legislature has rendered meaningless.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (tT6L1)

29 ... if they can prove that anyone of their racial group had been discriminated against by the courts in the past...

Honkey need not apply.

With that, only one from each need be discriminated against in the past for all to be set free.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (cOq4q)

30 19 You want death squads? Because this is how you get death squads.
Posted by: Duke Lowell

Ah yes, the unintended consequences of the constant strive to reach Utopia.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (sAmhv)

31 Therefore, the act does away with the concept of individual fault and individual proof. From now on, statistics about past convictions are sufficient to invalidate a present trial or sentence.
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This is more than slightly amusing if you stop to think about it in the context of the 2020 election.

"The loss of nearly 100% of so-called 'bellwether counties,' the coordinated six-state stop, the greater-than-100% turnout, etc. is merely circumstantial evidence and for something as important an election, a mile-high pile of statistical irregularities and oddities is insufficient to question an election and you're a terrorist for bringing it up" is the standard.

Yet, "judicially-defined 'disparate-impact' standards create a statistical case strong enough that crimes will be expunged if you're from a preferred racial group" is perfectly reasonable.

To the same people.

At the same time.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (d04cU)

32 25 Biden will only win CA by 2,233,400 votes instead of 2,233,500 votes.

It's not vote fraud--millions of California voters eagerly voted for this.

Better that than voting for a Republican.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (g9W3m)

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Well, fraud is definitely part of it, especially with mail in balloting being the method of voting in the state.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (GBKbO)

33 I am going to love this. Other than the millions of people that are going to flee California and infest other states.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (lTGtQ)

34 Is it possible to have a Fourth World country?

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (19xED)

35 Silver lining: 90% of the victims were black so now the victims families and friends will be able to avenge the victim's death.

Posted by: torabora at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (0Gnoc)

36 25 Biden will only win CA by 2,233,400 votes instead of 2,233,500 votes.

It's not vote fraud--millions of California voters eagerly voted for this.

Better that than voting for a Republican.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (g9W3m)

Doesn't even matter if there aren't that many voters...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

37 Call some place paradise. Kiss it goodbye.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)

38 28 Criminal gangs will be able to commit crimes with impunity while the average CA citizen will be disarmed.

And cops will just sit back, collect their paycheck and refuse to deal with crime because they're being paid to do a job the CA legislature has rendered meaningless.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 24, 2024 03:17 PM (tT6L1)

========

"But my family's almond farm!"
-Soon to be famous last words

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (GBKbO)

39 34 Is it possible to have a Fourth World country?

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (19xED)

Did Ebonia program in Forth?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

40 "No sympathy for the idiots who vote for the idiots"

Did they though?

81 million.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (Z8Yh2)

41 For decades CA was a trend setter, in culture (hippies, hot rods, movies) and in regulation (pollution etc). That's stopped, the rest of the US looks at CA and says No.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (Iynsv)

42 Missed opportunity for "Crimetastrophy," here, Ace.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (38yoF)

43 And cops will just sit back, collect their paycheck and refuse to deal with crime because they're being paid to do a job the CA legislature has rendered meaningless.

The job of a cop in any major city has changed* from protecting the public to protecting the political structure and its allies.

*Yes there was always some corruption like this, but it has now become the norm

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (ibTVg)

44 Not that their own trials were tainted by bias -- just that someone in the past had experienced bias.
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Even that needn't be proven, by my reading. "Disparate Impact" alone is enough to "prove bias" and roll it along.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (d04cU)

45 ace, I didn't see it mentioned but some county/court (maybe state?) changed the wording on documents from "offender" to something like "Justice-involved individual"

Maybe another moron can help.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (w67Ex)

46 The RJA explicitly repudiates a key Supreme Court precedent that had governed bias challenges in criminal trials.

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Therefore, the supreme court is no longer relevant.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (lTGtQ)

47 If the prisons in your state are overcrowded, grant parole and a one way ticket to CA.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (seACy)

48 37 Call some place paradise. Kiss it goodbye.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (dGCAG)

Isn't there something about nuking into a parking lot in the song?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (ynpvh)

49 I don't want to live in a country with these crazies.

Wall off the northeast corridor, wall off California and exile everyone that's just like them to those places.

They get what they want, we get our country back.

Won't happen, of course.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (JMAcK)

50 This is certainly illegal.

There was a time when that might have mattered.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (d04cU)

51 46 The RJA explicitly repudiates a key Supreme Court precedent that had governed bias challenges in criminal trials.

-

Therefore, the supreme court is no longer relevant.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:19 PM (lTGtQ)

Spirit of Aloha, Bitches.

Posted by: Hawaii! at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (ynpvh)

52 .....bias in the case of individual arrests and prosecutions
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Exurbias are about to learn about bias.

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (2bFN5)

53 Remember when they said "no one needs an AK-47"?

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (19xED)

54 Golden State > Golden Rule

Posted by: California at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (9hxVr)

55 And cops will just sit back, collect their paycheck and refuse to deal with crime because they're being paid to do a job the CA legislature has rendered meaningless.

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Yep, like teachers did wih academics a couple of decades ago.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (w67Ex)

56 I for one, can hardly wait for racial disparity to hit criminal sentencing.

Oh, you've convicted a Black guy? Okay, well, they're only 15% of the population of CA. You need to start charging and convicting whitey, stat. We gotta get that criminal convection count in line with the general population.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (tT6L1)

57 Did Ebonia program in Forth?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

Ah, FORTH. The programming language of choice by Yoda.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (AiZBA)

58 Missed opportunity for "Crimetastrophy," here, Ace.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider

I might suggest a headline, too.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (seACy)

59 I'm a bit surprised they haven't taken the step of rounding up white people, who have been accused of no crimes, and just locking them up to even out the stats.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (1bNHn)

60 54 Golden State > Golden Rule

Posted by: California at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (9hxVr)

Golden Showers > Golden State > Golden Rule

Posted by: California at May 24, 2024 03:21 PM (ynpvh)

61 the RJA allows anyone serving time in a California prison or jail for a felony to challenge his conviction and sentencing retroactively on the ground of systemic racial bias.

And you can bet Soros is funding teams if lawyers to file cases pro bono.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

Make it a class action and get this party started!

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 03:21 PM (cOq4q)

62 Anyone ready for the weekend?
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:11 PM (2UnvF)

Every day is a weekend, when you don't work.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:21 PM (0eaVi)

63 57 Did Ebonia program in Forth?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:18 PM (ynpvh)

Ah, FORTH. The programming language of choice by Yoda.

Posted by: Napoleon XIV at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (AiZBA)

Don't forget HP calculators. RPN, aka Reverse Polish Notation.

Posted by: California at May 24, 2024 03:21 PM (ynpvh)

64 As Christopher Caldwell suggested, the US is governed by two constitutions- the original constitution and the civil rights act.

Posted by: mr tmz at May 24, 2024 03:21 PM (rJ48h)

65 Every day is a weekend, when you don't work.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:21 PM (0eaVi)
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I'll have a "life of Saturdays" period this summer. Hopefully it won't be permanent

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (d04cU)

66 In 2028 Gavin Newsom hopes to become the next POTUS where he will get to implement his California policies across the nation.
God help us.

Posted by: redridinghood at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (NpAcC)

67 16 Screw Mexico. Build a CA wall.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (seACy)

17 Forget Mexico. We need to wall off California.
Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (1bNHn)
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Great Moron minds think alike.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (1bNHn)

68 By the way, I sincerely doubt CA is as weirdly left as it appears to be. I think voter fraud is so baked into the CA cake it's almost impossible for anyone other than a D to win.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (tT6L1)

69 "No sympathy for the idiots who vote for the idiots"

Did they though?

81 million.

Even in benighted New England the rural and in many places the suburban areas are covered in Trump signs...to this day.

The FNM and official government vote totals tell me that these rural areas vote about the same for hard left candidates as the cities (which are full of Biden/Hillary signs).

I...don't believe it. I think our formal vote totals bear only a marginal similarity to how citizens are actually voting.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (ibTVg)

70 I am all for granting CA its independence.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:16 PM (seACy)

All of us. Grant us all our freedom. CA can have the murder-friendly country it wants, and other countries can make immigration from California illegal and punishable with execution by rape dogs.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (0FoWg)

71 I'm coming back, baby!

Posted by: SSS at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (0eaVi)

72 Oh, you've convicted a Black guy? Okay, well, they're only 15% of the population of CA. You need to start charging and convicting whitey, stat. We gotta get that criminal convection count in line with the general population.

Posted by: blake

Jaywalking - six months' hard labor.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (lTGtQ)

73 Unfortunately, St Andrew's (San Andreas's) Day isn't until Nov 30.

Posted by: Eeyore at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (1bNHn)

74 My Mom and Dad left the San Diego area in the early 50's. Dad said even then, the place was full of fruits and nuts.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (NBtzd)

75 It is more of the disparate impact BS. It does not matter that blacks committed more/worse crimes, only that blacks were impacted more.

The first case of this was "driving while black" meme, which later found blacks did more speeding, which is why they got more tickets. But now, by law, it does not matter if they speed more, only that whites get a proportionately equal number of tickets ... or long time murder sentences.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (Cus5s)

76 California is the new Haiti.

OT, Missouri Congressman Ben Baker lost his daughter and SIL in Haiti yesterday. Both missionaries, they were killed in a gang attack. The Baker family is asking for prayers.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (hLKO7)

77 As Christopher Caldwell suggested, the US is governed by two constitutions- the original constitution and the civil rights act.
Posted by: mr tmz at May 24, 2024 03:21 PM (rJ48h)
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For a while, perhaps. There is something to be said for this idea, but I don't think it applies anymore.

The US is governed by pure will to power now. There are no guardrails, standards or constraints. It will end as all jungle governments end: a catastrophic failure, after which it is replaced by something else that has constraints of some kind.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (d04cU)

78 Build a wall now - to stop Californians from entering the rest of the country’

*I know there a few ‘tons and ‘ettes there, you can come in…

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (Hkcdp)

79 72 Oh, you've convicted a Black guy? Okay, well, they're only 15% of the population of CA. You need to start charging and convicting whitey, stat. We gotta get that criminal convection count in line with the general population.

Posted by: blake

Jaywalking - six months' hard labor.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (lTGtQ)

You'd have to change the Kali law; jaywalking has been legal for at least a year now.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:24 PM (ynpvh)

80 I'm a bit surprised they haven't taken the step of rounding up white people, who have been accused of no crimes, and just locking them up to even out the stats.

Posted by: Eeyore

They are doing that already, albeit in DC.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:24 PM (lTGtQ)

81 Every day is a weekend, when you don't work.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

True dat. But, somehow, I am busier than I have ever been.

BUT! I'm doing the things I want to.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 03:24 PM (NBtzd)

82 74 My Mom and Dad left the San Diego area in the early 50's. Dad said even then, the place was full of fruits and nuts.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (NBtzd)

Kalifornia, the cereal: Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:24 PM (ynpvh)

83 And cops will just sit back, collect their paycheck and refuse to deal with crime because they're being paid to do a job the CA legislature has rendered meaningless.

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Yep, like teachers did wih academics a couple of decades ago.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 03:20 PM (w67Ex)

All those public servants quitting... where oh where are we going to find replacements...

Oh hey, you. In the dress, with the five o'clock shadow, speaking Spanish. Are you tired of sitting in the back seat, and wanna sit in the front seat? Call 1-800-Calicop.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 03:24 PM (dGCAG)

84 You'd have to change the Kali law; jaywalking has been legal for at least a year now.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:24 PM (ynpvh)
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JWW, jaywalking while white, will become a crime.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at May 24, 2024 03:24 PM (tT6L1)

85 Expect to see this introduced in every blue state soon, just like no cash bail.

Slippery slope is not a fallacy, it’s a proven Lefty strategy.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:25 PM (Hkcdp)

86 85 Expect to see this introduced in every blue state soon, just like no cash bail.

Slippery slope is not a fallacy, it’s a proven Lefty strategy.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:25 PM (Hkcdp)

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And yet...no leftist state will implement single payer healthcare.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:25 PM (GBKbO)

87 Remember, Gavin Newsome was the disastrous mayor of San Francisco, he was rewarded with the Governor's Mansion, where he proceeded to do such a catastrophic job as Governor that he faced a recall election but inexplicably, he was so popular, that he won his recall in a landslide bigger than his general election victory.

Or alternatively...

Ersatz Ballot Counter 1: Hey Bob, looks like we got a stack of ballots for "The Republican Candidate," over here, what do you want me to do with them?

Ersatz Ballot Counter 2: Ehh, run ten of them, throw the rest in the shredder, you know, the usual.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at May 24, 2024 03:25 PM (XV/Pl)

88 78 Build a wall now - to stop Californians from entering the rest of the country’

*I know there a few ‘tons and ‘ettes there, you can come in…

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (Hkcdp)

Well, I don't weigh a ton...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:25 PM (ynpvh)

89
Jaywalking - six months' hard labor.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (lTGtQ)

You'd have to change the Kali law; jaywalking has been legal for at least a year now.

Posted by: jim

It is hard to make a joke, when that joke of a state changes things so fast one can't keep up.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:25 PM (lTGtQ)

90 Racial Justice Act = wipipo don't get to defend themselves.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at May 24, 2024 03:25 PM (AESag)

91 I'll have a "life of Saturdays" period this summer. Hopefully it won't be permanent

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:22 PM (d04cU)

You can find yourself at loose ends once in a while, but since there's a check coming in, I can always find something to do.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:26 PM (0eaVi)

92 The first case of this was "driving while black" meme, which later found blacks did more speeding, which is why they got more tickets.

I remember when some lefty activist got permission to ride along with cops on traffic detail in...NJ?

He was certain the cops were targeting black people both to pull over and to give tickets to.

He found once he got out with the cops that you couldn't identify the race of the driver until after you put the lights on. And then he found they were less likely to give black people tickets then white people BUT because so many more of the people violating the law were black then white that more black people (per capita) still ended up with tickets.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 03:26 PM (ibTVg)

93 Kalifornia, the cereal: Fruits, Nuts, and Flakes...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Minnesota too.

Posted by: Land of 10,000 Flakes at May 24, 2024 03:26 PM (2bFN5)

94 Just send me the fentanyl now.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle at May 24, 2024 03:27 PM (AESag)

95 You can find yourself at loose ends once in a while, but since there's a check coming in, I can always find something to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:26 PM (0eaVi)
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LOL. I won't have that "check" part.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:27 PM (d04cU)

96 If I had a magic wand I could wave and dissolve the Union, a whole lot different things could happen. Some good, some bad, all fairly unpredictable.

But I could count on one thing: not a single fucking state would issue visas to Californians. They are rightly despised by everyone else.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 03:27 PM (0FoWg)

97 92 The first case of this was "driving while black" meme, which later found blacks did more speeding, which is why they got more tickets.

I remember when some lefty activist got permission to ride along with cops on traffic detail in...NJ?

He was certain the cops were targeting black people both to pull over and to give tickets to.

He found once he got out with the cops that you couldn't identify the race of the driver until after you put the lights on. And then he found they were less likely to give black people tickets then white people BUT because so many more of the people violating the law were black then white that more black people (per capita) still ended up with tickets.

Posted by: 18-1 at May 24, 2024 03:26 PM (ibTVg)

Clarence Thomas had his "Come to Jesus" moment working as an assistant AG in Missouri...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (ynpvh)

98 This is how you get a narco state.

We’ll, probably already happened and the cartels are pushing for this.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (Hkcdp)

99 What role does *unconscious bias* play in all of this?

Unconscious bias says we show bigotry and prejudice when we are not aware of it, so we effectively have no control over it. We're guilty for all eternity under such a framework.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (BpYfr)

100 Gooder and harder, Cali. Don't ever change. Not that you will, and certainly if it would involve voting for Orange Man Bad.

Posted by: Martin Tell at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (rVVOv)

101 Dear Californians,

Texas is closed. Longhorn out front should have told you.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (8F31h)

102 95 You can find yourself at loose ends once in a while, but since there's a check coming in, I can always find something to do.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:26 PM (0eaVi)
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LOL. I won't have that "check" part.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:27 PM (d04cU)

=======

Joe is part of us young guns.

We are only beginning to feel creaks in our nearly 29 year old joints.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (GBKbO)

103 Demolition Man for realz

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (xrAlj)

104 101 Dear Californians,

Texas is closed. Longhorn out front should have told you.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (8F31h)

That's okay; I'm thinking Missouri, or as they say it, Misery.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 24, 2024 03:29 PM (ynpvh)

105 The first case of this was "driving while black" meme, which later found blacks did more speeding, which is why they got more tickets.

--

Even setting aside car types and wheel selection, almost anyone in the South - if they're honest - could probably predict the race of a driver with 4 to 7 seconds of driving near them or being approached by them.

It's not racism. It's a cultural thing. It's a shame the two coincide like they do.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 03:29 PM (w67Ex)

106 This is an excellent law for incentivizing criminals to move to California and to keep California's criminals from leaving. Endorsed!
-49 Other States

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM (VXRhG)

107 Morons (the good kind) living in California: it's time to leave.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM (WPL6O)

108 106 This is an excellent law for incentivizing criminals to move to California and to keep California's criminals from leaving. Endorsed!
-49 Other States
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM (VXRhG)

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"Shut up. We're doing this."
-Illinois, 5 minutes in the future

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM (GBKbO)

109 >Ben Shapiro is a dipshit.

Evergreen statement.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM (cf/0E)

110 So, Leroy Abdul 'Two Bears' Garcia-Jones, a convicted murderer, gets out because someone in one or more of them's (no assumptions here!) racial 'groups' was discriminated against.

Now them commits murder again. Why even arrest them again, since they can ride this carousel forever?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 03:31 PM (a3Q+t)

111 Build a wall now - to stop Californians from entering the rest of the country’

*I know there a few ‘tons and ‘ettes there, you can come in…

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (Hkcdp)
......

Do I need a secret password or will my A0S ID card suffice?

Posted by: wth at May 24, 2024 03:31 PM (v0R5T)

112 OT, Missouri Congressman Ben Baker lost his daughter and SIL in Haiti yesterday. Both missionaries, they were killed in a gang attack. The Baker family is asking for prayers.
Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 03:23 PM (hLKO7)

Sad.

They never should have been there.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (dGCAG)

113 May the first throats cut be those of academics supporting this genius notion. As a co-worker used to say: "If you're gonna be stupid, you better be tough".

Posted by: Matthew Kant Cipher at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (kOluj)

114 What role does *unconscious bias* play in all of this?

Unconscious bias says we show bigotry and prejudice when we are not aware of it, so we effectively have no control over it. We're guilty for all eternity under such a framework.
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 03:28 PM (BpYfr)
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Unconscious Bias Theory is a con. It's so stupid that even its creator backed off of it, not that it matters.

A blinded study that shows - shockingly - in-group preference was concluded with, essentially, "that's interesting." Then the Complex glommed onto it and re-concluded, essentially, "there is inherent prejudicial bias that must be corrected," took a meaningless statistical discovery and converted it into a clinical and social diagnosis, then implemented policy around it.

Even the discoverer of phenomenon - a phenomenon that is predictable and utterly uninteresting, with no correlation on *behavior* ever once demonstrated - came out and said that it was wildly inappropriate to use the study for prescriptive purposes or intervention. It didn't matter. It was too useful.

They're not traditionally religious, but they needed Original Sin to feed their ambitions. They got it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (d04cU)

115 more black people (per capita) still ended up with tickets.
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use of 'per capita' is evidence of white supremacy and structural racism

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (VXRhG)

116 Calizuela.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (qUkBO)

117 Demolition Man for realz
Posted by: Anna Puma

Except the cops are more than happy to beat down & arrest the 'normies.'

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (IG4Id)

118 "Shut up. We're doing this."
-Illinois, 5 minutes in the future
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM

Wait for us!

Posted by: New York and Oregon at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (a3Q+t)

119 Do I need a secret password or will my A0S ID card suffice?
Posted by: wth at May 24, 2024 03:31 PM (v0R5T)

The border guards will know to let through the dune buggies festooned with purple-haired heads on sticks.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 03:33 PM (0FoWg)

120 I guess this means Criminal-American is the latest protected class to be added to the intersectionality grid.

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 03:33 PM (991eG)

121 Looking logistically, this means that there will be a quota system for crimes by race.

Hey you orientals, start robbing, raping, and killing! You aren't holding up your stats!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:34 PM (lTGtQ)

122 My favorite part of this is the explicit racism--actual hatred of minorities.

How else can you explain it?

I mean, these are black criminals who commit-- overwhelmingly--crimes against other blacks.

You have to be the most vile of racist to say, "yes more of that, kill more of them, rob more of them, rape more of them-- they don't deserve protection of the white man's law. Safety and security are for rich whites only."

Taylor Swift is safe walking down Rodeo Drive but Tyrrell Smith isn't safe on MLK Blvd.
Cali police are for there only for protection of rich whites ....

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:34 PM (g9W3m)

123 118 "Shut up. We're doing this."
-Illinois, 5 minutes in the future
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM

Wait for us!
Posted by: New York and Oregon at May 24, 2024 03:32 PM (a3Q+t)

=========

"We want to try, too!"
-like, half of the GOP-led states

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:34 PM (GBKbO)

124 secret password or will my A0S ID card suffice?
Posted by: wth
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Original card out of Kaboom box, you're in. Otherwise see the 2FA method of secret handshakes and passcodes.

Posted by: Shifty Eyes at May 24, 2024 03:35 PM (2bFN5)

125 I guess this means Criminal-American is the latest protected class to be added to the intersectionality grid.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 03:33 PM (991eG)
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With LGBTQ+ POC criminals at the very tippy top of the pyramid?

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 03:35 PM (BpYfr)

126 It turned out that the black gang members in the life-without-parole pool had committed more heinous murders than the nonblack gang members

Portland has black gangs, white gangs, and Asian gangs.

The white and Asian gangs may do other heinous things, but only the black gangs kill people (usually, each other).

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 03:35 PM (uxCna)

127 Hey you orientals, start robbing, raping, and killing! You aren't holding up your stats!
____

Doing what I can. Hand me my hat.

Posted by: Oddjob at May 24, 2024 03:35 PM (VXRhG)

128 Cali police are for there only for protection of rich whites ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:34 PM (g9W3m)

And to torment and persecute their perceived enemies, of course.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 03:36 PM (0FoWg)

129 This will work so well to reduce crime, they won't need to report crime statistics anymore.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:36 PM (g9W3m)

130 "What role does *unconscious bias* play in all of this?"

Is that different than subconscious bias? I'd think an unconscious person would be less biased. heh

Posted by: illiniwek at May 24, 2024 03:36 PM (Cus5s)

131 The System is at fault. We must change the System.

Posted by: Zombie Prog 9000 at May 24, 2024 03:36 PM (qUkBO)

132 FREE MUMIA!!!!

Posted by: Orson at May 24, 2024 03:36 PM (dIske)

133 Do I need a secret password or will my A0S ID card suffice?
Posted by: wth at May 24, 2024 03:31 PM

Depends. Do you affiliate with the Day Walkers or Night Crawlers? The Maryannians or the Gingerovians? Do you put carrots in chili?

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 03:36 PM (a3Q+t)

134 But, but the weather!

Posted by: Beartooth at May 24, 2024 03:36 PM (XT+5H)

135 Only in California?

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 03:37 PM (fwDg9)

136 If I think a politician is crooked, he should go straight to jail and I get all his shit and money.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 24, 2024 03:37 PM (J8LnB)

137 This will end well

Posted by: steevy at May 24, 2024 03:37 PM (FQmDC)

138 This will work so well to reduce crime, they won't need to report crime statistics anymore.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice

They don't already. The national crime stats so loudly trumpeted recently as going down - did not include the five largest cities in the country.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:37 PM (lTGtQ)

139
BREAKING: Mexican Cartels Begin Fully Relocating to California. Developing ...

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 03:37 PM (r9kV9)

140 that more black people (per capita) still ended up with tickets

Chicago installed a bunch of traffic cameras, in part to get away from racist police traffic enforcement.

Blacks still got a disproportionate amount of tickets.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 03:38 PM (uxCna)

141 Ben Shapiro is a dipshit.
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Evergreen statement.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM (cf/0E)

What did he do now? Or is this a "Francisco Franco is still dead" kind of thing?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 03:38 PM (dGCAG)

142 Marxism theory is any criminal act is caused by society working against the person doing the crime

Sounds like California is ruled by Bolsheviks to me

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 03:38 PM (fwDg9)

143
Chicago installed a bunch of traffic cameras, in part to get away from racist police traffic enforcement.

Blacks still got a disproportionate amount of tickets.

Posted by: The ARC of History!

Computers must be racist, too!

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:39 PM (lTGtQ)

144 "The coming crime catastrophe?!, I hear you saying."

In my mind before I clicked on the link. The *exact* sentence.

Posted by: You Really Don't Want to Know at May 24, 2024 03:39 PM (+xYe0)

145 16 Screw Mexico. Build a CA wall.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy

17 Forget Mexico. We need to wall off California.
Posted by: Eeyore

********

Listen up, kids. Keep your eyes on your own test paper!!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 03:39 PM (991eG)

146 Saw a map of the counties in Oregon that want to secede and join Idaho. Looks like about half the state wants out.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:39 PM (2UnvF)

147 If I think a politician is crooked, he should go straight to jail and I get all his shit and money.
Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 24, 2024 03:37 PM (J8LnB)

If I'm ever in charge, every prominent American from the ancien regime gets a letter of marque. Whoever presents the head gets all the assets - of their entire family. That should encourage these families to take out their own trash before an angry peasant does it.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 03:39 PM (0FoWg)

148 146 Saw a map of the counties in Oregon that want to secede and join Idaho. Looks like about half the state wants out.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:39 PM (2UnvF)

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And probably something like a tenth of the population.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

149 Saw a map of the counties in Oregon that want to secede and join Idaho. Looks like about half the state wants out.

Posted by: Duke Lowell

Yes, it was astounding. I was guessing about 55%.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:40 PM (lTGtQ)

150 Since I want to see California sink into absolute despair and collapse, I think this is a good thing.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2024 03:41 PM (i9ffA)

151 Chicago installed a bunch of traffic cameras, in part to get away from racist police traffic enforcement.

Blacks still got a disproportionate amount of tickets.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 03:38 PM (uxCna)
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This happens all the time (well, things like it). "AI bias" is an offshoot of it.

A prime (if you'll pardon the pun) example of it came out of Amazon. In an effort to avoid "bias" affecting the promotion and pay of women in the organization, AWS built an AI system for performance reviews. They never deferred to it, they piloted it. They let the system do performance reviews and then compared results to the actual performance reviews from the bosses.

The AI recommended far fewer female promotions and far smaller female raises, on average, than the (usually male) human managers did. There are two obvious conclusions one could draw from this outcome:
1. The human managers are biased - favorably - toward women and promote and pay them at higher rates than they should
2. The AI is broken and wrong because it didn't promote and give raises to enough women.

It was #2, of course. They canceled the program and started a new one to "tackle AI bias" or somesuch.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:41 PM (d04cU)

152 Computers are not racist per se. Speed limits on the other hand are.

Posted by: Disgusted at May 24, 2024 03:41 PM (Z8Yh2)

153 And probably something like a tenth of the population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda
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Grant County, OR, population about 7,500. Pretty sparse on that side of the state.

Posted by: scampydog at May 24, 2024 03:42 PM (2bFN5)

154 Expect to see this introduced in every blue state soon, just like no cash bail.

Slippery slope is not a fallacy, it’s a proven Lefty strategy.
Posted by: Lizzy

aka - The Greasy Dick
/sounds better in the original German

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 24, 2024 03:42 PM (cOq4q)

155 Nate Silver again comes out with a Biden must step down article. MSN: Prominent Pollster Urges Biden To ‘Consider Stepping Aside’ If He’s ‘Still Struggling In August.
Nate Silver is full of it, if he thinks Joe Biden has any reason to step down.

who does he think is going to take over at this point? Biden is doing a good job of presidenting. he's going to win pretty big in November. I cannot believe 50+% of my fellow Americans (or in swing states at least) will actually choose to vote for a vicious felon who insults and threatens us every day-- and who FAILED as president already.

I think Biden is going to win big too!! The powers that be on the right have gone after Niki Haley to come out and support Trump because 20% of committed Republican voters are still going to the primaries and voting against Trump

A supposed statistician doesn't understand the miserable statistical odds of a last-minute replacement for Biden somehow doing better than Biden? That would be an epic failure!

Makes you wonder whose payroll he's on. Way to late for such a foolish move. Silver is completely suspect now.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 24, 2024 03:42 PM (JCZqz)

156 And, of course, if you notice that your family and friends are increasingly victims of major crimes, it's because you are racist.

In fact the word crime is racist.

Posted by: Just Lily at May 24, 2024 03:42 PM (V5BKX)

157 And probably something like a tenth of the population.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:40 PM (GBKbO)

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If that's the case then Eugene should have no problem letting them go.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:42 PM (2UnvF)

158 Posted by: Tom Servo at May 24, 2024 03:41 PM (i9ffA)

Eh, the rest of the country can scarcely afford 40M more of those swine swarming over the border. Gotta seal it off before it destroys itself.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 03:43 PM (0FoWg)

159 Computers are not racist per se. Speed limits on the other hand are.
Posted by: Disgusted
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We are working on that.

Posted by: Chat GPT Programmers at May 24, 2024 03:43 PM (2bFN5)

160 The defense expert, University of California--Irvine criminologist Richard McCleary, used fancy statistical footwork to massage those small differences in an already-small sample size into larger significance.
_______________

Is it wrong to hope that McCleary gets murdered by a black gang member who'd been released through McCleary's efforts?

If so, I don't want to be right.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 03:43 PM (YqDXo)

161 157 If that's the case then Eugene should have no problem letting them go.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:42 PM (2UnvF)

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But power.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:43 PM (GBKbO)

162 This lounging Asian's immigrant parents settled in California, but she's eyeing the exit:
http://tiny.cc/82p7yz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:43 PM (d04cU)

163 How much does a politician cost in bullets, gold, guns or drugs?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 24, 2024 03:44 PM (J8LnB)

164 In celebration, New York Congresswoman Grace Meng has introduced HR 3247, which outlaws civilian possession of body armor.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 03:44 PM (Sgc7Z)

165 There are two obvious conclusions one could draw from this outcome:
1. The human managers are biased - favorably - toward women and promote and pay them at higher rates than they should
2. The AI is broken and wrong because it didn't promote and give raises to enough women.

-

The AI didn't feel sorry for the women for being feeble and feeble-minded women and treat them as "lessers" because darnit the little ladies deserve something for working so hard

The AI didn't care about lawsuits

The AI worked entirely without biases (which was the problem)

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Men don't care about women's accomplishments, only looks and not nagging at May 24, 2024 03:44 PM (w67Ex)

166 since white gang-murder defendants in Contra Costa County were virtually nonexistent.
__________________

Imagine.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 03:44 PM (YqDXo)

167 BREAKING: Mexican Cartels Begin Fully Relocating to California. Developing ...
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Si, si, we will "begin" to "relocate"
/s/ Mexican Cartels already living in and controlling most of California.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:44 PM (g9W3m)

168 I guess this means Criminal-American is the latest protected class to be added to the intersectionality grid.
Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 03:33 PM (991eG)
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With LGBTQ+ POC criminals at the very tippy top of the pyramid?
Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at May 24, 2024 03:35 PM (BpYfr)

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Pedo-Americans will soon be second at the top of the LGBTQIA+PEDO Victim Hierarchy Totem Pyramid -- only to be surpassed by Pedo-Illegal-Aliens.

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 03:44 PM (tWPoY)

169 California Purgin'

Posted by: CZ=FNG, Free State of Florida at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (MkuC5)

170 "Saw a map of the counties in Oregon that want to secede and join Idaho. Looks like about half the state wants out."

At least half of "downstate" Illinois would likely vote to join Missouri, or maybe Indiana.

Posted by: illiniwek at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (Cus5s)

171 Saw a map of the counties in Oregon that want to secede and join Idaho. Looks like about half the state wants out.

And it's weird that "progressives" in Portland furiously denounce this.

Even in Oregon, there are a lot of things "progressives" want that they can't pass - state-level government-only health care, California-style crime legislation, much higher taxes on the "rich", $30/hr minimum wage, and so on.

You get rid of the most conservative 20% of the state, and passing all these things gets much, much easier.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (uxCna)

172 1. The human managers are biased - favorably - toward women and promote and pay them at higher rates than they should

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:41 PM (d04cU)

Based on studies women on average have a strong bias in favor of women and men on average have a weak bias in favor of women(yes, also in favor of women).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (eYoxG)

173 This lounging Asian's immigrant parents settled in California, but she's eyeing the exit:

Wel, as long as this isn't a reflection on her last partner's lovemaking abilities, because she looks pretty fed up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (XkYcA)

174 A supposed statistician doesn't understand the miserable statistical odds of a last-minute replacement for Biden somehow doing better than Biden? That would be an epic failure!

Makes you wonder whose payroll he's on. Way to late for such a foolish move. Silver is completely suspect now.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions

And yet, the DNC scheduled their convention less than 75 days out from the election, and scheduled a debate for June, well before that convention. Those clever democrats.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 03:46 PM (lTGtQ)

175 This lounging Asian's immigrant parents settled in California, but she's eyeing the exit:
http://tiny.cc/82p7yz

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:43 PM (d04cU)

There, Joe. She could probably keep you occupied during your no work period.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:46 PM (0eaVi)

176 Remember Hill Street Blues? They had a white gang called the Shamrocks led by a young David Caruso.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:46 PM (2UnvF)

177 Whew! Add it to the myriad reasons I'm glad I'm no longer InCali.

The "media competency" classes for middle schoolers is a really awful policy as well. It's trying to turn kids against their families, but what else is new for the left?

Posted by: InZona at May 24, 2024 03:46 PM (b626B)

178 99/
Perfesser, that is going to be their #1 argument in all of this.

If you lived there, you knew this was inevitable. And you know it will get worse. This is raw power with no consequences.

I vote instead of the wall to just cut out along the San Andreas fault and let it drift aimlessly in the Pacific. Just make sure Sacramento is in session before pushing it out.

Posted by: Grateful at May 24, 2024 03:46 PM (IQ6Gq)

179 Is it wrong to hope that McCleary gets murdered by a black gang member who'd been released through McCleary's efforts?
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

In Irvine? Pffft. Hell, he probably lives in Newport Beach.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (IG4Id)

180 171 Even in Oregon, there are a lot of things "progressives" want that they can't pass - state-level government-only health care, California-style crime legislation, much higher taxes on the "rich", $30/hr minimum wage, and so on.

You get rid of the most conservative 20% of the state, and passing all these things gets much, much easier.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (uxCna)

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Because the establishment knows that these priorities are either impossible (single payer) or simply insane (pretty much everything else), and use the conservative part of the state as an excuse for any failure theater around those issues?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (GBKbO)

181 I visited California in late 90s, doubt I have any use ir see it again, it can sink into the ocean or destitution, I don't care.

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (fwDg9)

182 Is it wrong to hope that McCleary gets murdered by a black gang member who'd been released through McCleary's efforts?

If so, I don't want to be right.
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His family and friends would learn nothing from it.

See the family of that Kate gal murdered by a prior-deported illegal.
See also the Haitian aid worked contemplating her white sins to deserve it as she's being raped.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (g9W3m)

183 This lounging Asian's immigrant parents settled in California, but she's eyeing the exit:
http://tiny.cc/82p7yz
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)
.......

Now that's a "I just farted" pose if I ever saw one.

Posted by: wth at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (v0R5T)

184 Marxism theory is any criminal act is caused by society working against the person doing the crime

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 03:38 PM (fwDg9)

Is it though? What about Trump?

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (19xED)

185 176 Remember Hill Street Blues? They had a white gang called the Shamrocks led by a young David Caruso.
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Shamrocks?

Do you feel lucky, mick, well, do ya?

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (VXRhG)

186 In case there are White people here who still don't get it: the people who make these policies want you dead; they want your children raped and murdered. They think that's a good thing.

That's why they're doing this, the same reason why they're flooding the US with as many 80 IQ Haitians and Latin Americans as they can and then weaponizing them to hate you.

The people doing this aren't stupid, crazy or misguided; they're evil. They just hate you and want you dead, and they will say or do anything it takes to get what they want.

That's what we're dealing with.

Posted by: BunnyFooFoo at May 24, 2024 03:48 PM (0Uf+z)

187 Ben Shapiro is a dipshit.
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Evergreen statement.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 24, 2024 03:30 PM (cf/0E)

What did he do now? Or is this a "Francisco Franco is still dead" kind of thing?
Posted by: BurtTC

Might have been an old speech, but he basically declares gay marriage and trannies in the bathroom to be not a hill to die on because only God sanctified marriage counts, anyway.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:48 PM (seACy)

188 Si, si, we will "begin" to "relocate"
/s/ Mexican Cartels already living in and controlling most of California.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 24, 2024 03:44 PM (g9W3m)

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Yeah, after initially typing -- but before hitting -- I realized I needed to insert the "Fully" adverb for accuracy.

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 03:48 PM (tWPoY)

189 You get rid of the most conservative 20% of the state, and passing all these things gets much, much easier.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (uxCna)

But you don't get to impose those laws on conservatives which is really the point. Nothing more than school bullies.

Posted by: InZona at May 24, 2024 03:49 PM (b626B)

190 California is a giant pitch meeting now. "Imagine we defund the cops, take away self-defense, and then we let all the murderers out of prison! What a movie!"

Posted by: Huck Follywood at May 24, 2024 03:14 PM (2MUet)
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KKK recruiters cheer.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 03:49 PM (YqDXo)

191 A lot of California would like to secede to Nevada but the gamblers, hookers and alcoholics don't want them.

Posted by: wth at May 24, 2024 03:50 PM (v0R5T)

192 Total anarchy. When you go out dress in all black with a hoodie, sunglasses and a mask. Wear gloves when you load your mags.

Posted by: Bartolomeo at May 24, 2024 03:50 PM (an/nn)

193 There, Joe. She could probably keep you occupied during your no work period.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:46 PM (0eaVi)
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LOL.

I know what my league is.

She ain't in it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:50 PM (d04cU)

194 *before hitting "ENTER"

[using angle brackets around ENTER got that text swallowed]

Posted by: ShainS -- Future Secretary of Retribution candidate at May 24, 2024 03:50 PM (tWPoY)

195 176 Remember Hill Street Blues? They had a white gang called the Shamrocks led by a young David Caruso.
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Included in an attempt to avoid the inevitable accusations of racism.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 03:50 PM (YqDXo)

196 That's okay; I'm thinking Missouri, or as they say it, Misery.

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Proper pronunciation is "Missour-ah". Just our way of deluding ourselves. It is a state of misery.

If only Illinois would annex St Louis and Kansas take all of Kansas City...

Posted by: NIVQII at May 24, 2024 03:51 PM (FO+ZA)

197 They had a white gang called the Shamrocks led by a young David Caruso.

********

...as primitive as can be!!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 24, 2024 03:51 PM (991eG)

198 Marxism theory is any criminal act is caused by society working against the person doing the crime

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 03:38 PM (fwDg9)

Is it though? What about Trump?

Posted by: ... at May 24, 2024 03:47 PM (19xED)
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There was a little codicil to "Capital" which specifically exempts Trump from that assertion.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 03:52 PM (YqDXo)

199 I'm staring to have this nagging feeling diversity is not our greatest strength.

Posted by: Ripley at May 24, 2024 03:52 PM (JojsZ)

200 This lounging Asian's immigrant parents settled in California, but she's eyeing the exit:
http://tiny.cc/82p7yz

Very much better looking than the normal thots you inflict on this blog.

Posted by: Outside of Life at May 24, 2024 03:53 PM (89Sog)

201 A lot of California would like to secede to Nevada but the gamblers, hookers and alcoholics don't want them.

Posted by: wth at May 24, 2024 03:50 PM (v0R5T)
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Most of California is just fine. Nuke SF, LA, and sadly now most of SD as well, and the state would again be paradise.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 03:53 PM (YqDXo)

202 200 comments in I won't be the first to say California is an enemy nation. Border wall needed out West.

Posted by: These Fish Sticks Are Hard As Tits at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (OeTik)

203 LOL.

I know what my league is.

She ain't in it.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:50 PM (d04cU)

Too low class? She is a little darker than the ideal.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (0eaVi)

204 Saw a map of the counties in Oregon that want to secede and join Idaho. Looks like about half the state wants out.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 24, 2024 03:39 PM (

There are two or three southern countries that want to leave and form a new state with some northern California countries. New state would be called Jefferson. Oregon would be reduced to the counties west of the Cascades and south from Portland to Eugene.

Posted by: Beartooth at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (XT+5H)

205 No blue toilet or their fed palz are ever going to permit their conservative areas to break away. The very moment one of them lets its slaves leave the plantation, every blue state, and then the federal government cracks and shatters. People are not going to look at one small group throw off its shackles and just sit still. Every froggy will jump.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (0FoWg)

206 Too low class? She is a little darker than the ideal.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (0eaVi)
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Heh. I appreciate the effort.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (d04cU)

207 Home Depot: “sales in quick Lyme and shovels are up! Oh…”

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (Hkcdp)

208 Is Heather McDonald a well known writer around these parts? I didn't recognize it, clicked the "about the author" link at the bottom of the page, and thought it was a Mannix girl!

https://tinyurl.com/2dmea6ec

Hubba hubba. The bona fides and background look pretty liberal though, so probably a "no" on the crazy-hot matrix.

Posted by: The Mon Calamari Menace at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (JCZqz)

209 Speaking of Cali -

San Diego Firefighters have flown in experts to the Otay Mesa Battery Storage site to study the fire because they don't know how to extinguish it. The fire has already consumed 5 million gallons of water, and firefighters estimate it will take an additional 7-10 days to control, using a total of 15-20 million gallons. LETHAL amounts of Hydrogen Cyanide were present in the air for 3 hours after the fire began. This project clearly doesn't belong in a residential area.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (VXRhG)

210 Because the establishment knows that these priorities are either impossible (single payer) or simply insane (pretty much everything else), and use the conservative part of the state as an excuse for any failure theater around those issues?

Possibly. Portland now has a maximum marginal income tax at about the same level as New York City (maximum taxes kick in in New York at $5 million/yr, in Portland at $125,000/yr), and to the great surprise of "progressives", lots of affluent people are moving across the river to Washington, which doesn't even have a state income tax.

Extend that sort of thinking state-wide, and Oregon becomes much, much poorer, as everyone with any money flees.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at May 24, 2024 03:55 PM (uxCna)

211 >Most of California is just fine. Nuke SF, LA, and sadly now most of SD as well, and the state would again be paradise.

What am I, chopped liver?

Posted by: oakland at May 24, 2024 03:55 PM (rJ48h)

212 The Coming Crime Catastrophe In California

It's only a crime if there's a criminal!

Posted by: Grewsom Newsom at May 24, 2024 03:55 PM (LbnIB)

213 When I first spoke of driving and target practice with a 9mm as a sport, you laughed.

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 24, 2024 03:55 PM (J8LnB)

214 206 Too low class? She is a little darker than the ideal.
Posted by: OrangeEnt at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (0eaVi)
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Heh. I appreciate the effort.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (d04cU)

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Joe's gonna be the swol king at his local gym soon. He'll have plenty to occupy his summer of Saturdays.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:55 PM (GBKbO)

215 Posted by: The Mon Calamari Menace at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (JCZqz)
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That is subtle enough that it might drift into "unfair" territory.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 03:55 PM (d04cU)

216 Mon Mothma is Mon Calamari?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 03:56 PM (GBKbO)

217 If Trump wins a border walk between California and the nation should be built immediately

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 03:57 PM (fwDg9)

218 Might have been an old speech, but he basically declares gay marriage and trannies in the bathroom to be not a hill to die on because only God sanctified marriage counts, anyway.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 24, 2024 03:48 PM (seACy)

I wouldn't put it past him, to be trying to drum up support for his sinking media empire.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 24, 2024 03:57 PM (dGCAG)

219 “The Purge was a movie, not a policy suggestion!!!”

— Hollywood

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:59 PM (Hkcdp)

220 Based on studies women on average have a strong bias in favor of women and men on average have a weak bias in favor of women(yes, also in favor of women).

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 24, 2024 03:45 PM (eYoxG)
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When I moved to industry I ~~was saddled with~~ blessed with three women who'd been hired by the boss's wife (an ardent feminist), none of whom had the slightest qualification for doing the kind of research we were doing. The boss's wife slipped the punch by shoveling them off onto me, where they proceeded to do f-all except bicker with each other and whine to me about how mean the others were.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 04:00 PM (YqDXo)

221 “The Purge was a movie, not a policy suggestion!!!”
— Hollywood
Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:59 PM (Hkcdp)
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LOL. If it comes out of Hollywood, it's a policy suggestion.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 04:00 PM (d04cU)

222 221 “The Purge was a movie, not a policy suggestion!!!”
— Hollywood
Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 03:59 PM (Hkcdp)
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LOL. If it comes out of Hollywood, it's a policy suggestion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 04:00 PM (d04cU)

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The Purge is a series of anti-conservative screeds about how red state America wants to murder minorities.

So...the kind of projection the left uses for accusations against Republicans.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, fighting kaiju with Ishiro Honda at May 24, 2024 04:01 PM (GBKbO)

223 This just in:
MURDER is now legal in California...if you're black, anyway.

Posted by: Norm Macdonald's ghost at May 24, 2024 04:01 PM (OBuuS)

224 215 Posted by: The Mon Calamari Menace at May 24, 2024 03:54 PM (JCZqz)
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That is subtle enough that it might drift into "unfair" territory.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

I suppose a newer AoS reader might be unfairly fooled, and scarred for life. The name does have a nice ring to it, though...

Posted by: Admiral Ackbar at May 24, 2024 04:01 PM (JCZqz)

225 If Trump wins a border wall between California and the nation should be built immediately

Posted by: Skip at May 24, 2024 03:57 PM (fwDg9)
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If we'd had that wall in 1970 California would still be paradise, because it would've kept all the liberals from the Northeast and upper Midwest back in their own shitty states, where they belong.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 04:02 PM (YqDXo)

226 >>209

Yikes, sounds like terrorism.
And terrifying .

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 04:02 PM (Hkcdp)

227 I think its getting pretty apparent that the Florida Federal District Judge Cannon in the Mar-a-Logo document case has plenty of ammunition to dismiss it and no appeal by the DOJ is going to resurrect it...so, why hasn't she?

Well, it could be she is convinced, as July Kelly is and others, that DOJ leadership and Smith should be tried for willful prosecutorial misconduct in the case, and the more she allows the unredacted motions with the evidence required in each to just pour out, the more the American people realize the criminal nature of what the DOJ and the FBI leadership have performed here...

These revelations would be enormous news in any other world that didn't revolve around the mentally ill, mostly gay and liberal single women "all in for one party", American media that we have right now...but the good news is that it isn't lost on the majority of Americans who actually hate these people.

Posted by: Boswell at May 24, 2024 04:02 PM (K+UlC)

228 Nood
https://acecomments.mu.nu/?post=409834

Posted by: BifBewalski at May 24, 2024 04:03 PM (MsrgL)

229 The Purge is a series of anti-conservative screeds about how red state America wants to murder minorities.
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Why bother? The minorities are doing a pretty good job of that themselves.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 04:03 PM (YqDXo)

230 200 This lounging Asian's immigrant parents settled in California, but she's eyeing the exit:
http://tiny.cc/82p7yz
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Odd inflection; right, mid-lower thigh. Looks like she has two knee joints. I'll take her anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 24, 2024 04:03 PM (Iynsv)

231 LOL. If it comes out of Hollywood, it's a policy suggestion.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 24, 2024 04:00 PM (d04cU)

These haven't been suggestions in awhile. The Party decides on X - say, "we're gonna chop your son's wieners off and then bugger them at a black-tie garden party," or whatever - and then Hollywood just softens everyone up for the inevitable.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at May 24, 2024 04:03 PM (0FoWg)

232 These revelations would be enormous news in any other world that didn't revolve around the mentally ill, mostly gay and liberal single women "all in for one party", American media that we have right now.
________________

The 19th Amendment was a huge mistake.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 04:04 PM (YqDXo)

233 _______________

Why bother? The minorities are doing a pretty good job of that themselves.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara
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Red State minority murder rate is down.

Posted by: Braenyard at May 24, 2024 04:04 PM (Iynsv)

234 Prediction:

1) Half of the counties in Oregon try to secede.
2) A new genetically-engineered bioweapon is deployed in eastern Oregon.

Result: "You have died of dysentery".

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 04:05 PM (a3Q+t)

235 Well, it could be she is convinced, as July Kelly is and others, that DOJ leadership and Smith should be tried for willful prosecutorial misconduct in the case,
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Prosecuter Jay Bratt (?) was literally pounding on the table like a toddler when Judge Cannon was challenging the prosecution's arguments.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 04:05 PM (VXRhG)

236
I expect that the Irish aren't included.

Luckily, us Mexi-Irish have a chance.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 24, 2024 04:06 PM (n+4am)

237 At what point does shit hole become a failed state? The only reason that Cali isn't a failed state is Silicon Valley and beautiful weather

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 24, 2024 04:07 PM (O8bOp)

238 and liberal single women "all in for one party"
Posted by: Boswell at May 24, 2024 04:02 PM

Cats need homes too, you know!

Posted by: Garfield, et. al. at May 24, 2024 04:07 PM (a3Q+t)

239 firefighters estimate it will take an additional 7-10 days to control, using a total of 15-20 million gallons. LETHAL amounts of Hydrogen Cyanide were present in the air for 3 hours after the fire began. This project clearly doesn't belong in a residential area.

Posted by: Chuck Martel

On the contrary, the humans are the problem, not the new tech.

- your betters.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 24, 2024 04:09 PM (lTGtQ)

240 Prosecuter Jay Bratt (?) was literally pounding on the table like a toddler when Judge Cannon was challenging the prosecution's arguments.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 24, 2024 04:05 PM

There's an old legal aphorism: "If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at May 24, 2024 04:09 PM (a3Q+t)

241 Yeah, the number of Purge movies AND a tv series gives the impression Hollywood really wants to gin up a race war. Always poor non -whites being killed by white, Christians and white government /military types.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 24, 2024 04:11 PM (Hkcdp)

242 The 19th Amendment was a huge mistake.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 24, 2024 04:04 PM

The 2nd was bigger.

Posted by: Chuckie and The Authoritarians at May 24, 2024 04:11 PM (a3Q+t)

243 If you are racist, do you hate which race. White is a color coverings many different races from Europe. Which white makes you racist?

Posted by: Humphreyrobot at May 24, 2024 04:22 PM (J8LnB)

244 If they stick to just slaughtering each other I'm not only not against it, I support it wholeheartedly

Posted by: SamIam at May 24, 2024 04:35 PM (oasF3)

245 Soft on Crime, Catch and Release is what Liberal Democrats support thinking Counceling will work when its a failed Liberal Idea

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 24, 2024 04:48 PM (wGqjj)

246 Time to kick California to the curb. Revoke its state status, and designate it an outlaw territory where the rule of law no longer exists, like in Old West mythology. Let the citizens and criminals fight it out.

Oh, and a big-ass wall around the entire state.

Posted by: Occasional Commenter at May 24, 2024 08:53 PM (MV++E)

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