I’m just curious about whether there is an inverse correlation between frequency of fly-by downvoting with no comment and the IQ of the downvoter.
I can’t gather a coherent theory in my mind, but something would appear to be completely fucked on their grifting game. Maybe they needed a multi year build up of dark money to pull off COVID and the 2020 rig? But they appear short on cash these days. Russia in Ukraine kills two birds with one stone. It cuts off the cash influx from corrupt and illegal black market businesses, and it really screws up their laundering scheme with taxpayer dollars that get sent back to them.
So with that in mind, this conflict to me is about trying to preserve whatever grift is left and also in case that can’t happen, squeezing as much grift out of the place until it can’t be done anymore.
Nor that horse muscle fuel called oxygen.
Dude cheated his ass off with performance enhancing pureblood. This is unacceptable.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/488/445/
This case covered a search warrant for a greenhouse believed to be growing marijuana that was discovered by a police helicopter. District court suppressed the evidence. Court of appeals reversed. Florida Supreme Court revered the appeals court. SCOTUS reversed the Florida Supreme Court.
The only property that receives 4th amendment protection is the curtilege. Which “includes area immediately surrounding a dwelling, and it counts as part of the home for many legal purposes, including searches and many self-defense laws. When considering whether something is in a dwelling's curtilage, courts consider four factors:
The proximity of the thing to the dwelling. Whether the thing is within an enclosure surrounding the home. What the thing is used for. What steps, if any, the resident took to protect the thing from observation/access by people passing by. These factors were determined by the Supreme Court in United States v. Dunn.”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/curtilage
Justice O’Conner disagreed with the other 4 justices in the majority on the reasoning, rendering it a plurality opinion and not binding precedent. The dissent is pretty solid. It describes a hypothetical that did not exist in 1989, but it sure does now. I will first cite Brennan in dissent citing from the plurality, then his dissent:
“Neither is there any intimation here that the helicopter interfered with respondent's normal use of the greenhouse or of other parts of the curtilage. As far as this record reveals, no intimate details connected with the use of the home or curtilage were observed, and there was no undue noise, and no wind, dust, or threat of injury. In these circumstances, there was no violation of the Fourth Amendment."
I will deal with the "intimate details" below. For the rest, one wonders what the plurality believes the purpose of the Fourth Amendment to be. If through noise, wind, dust, and threat of injury from helicopters the State "interfered with respondent's normal use of the greenhouse or of other parts of the curtilage," Riley might have a cause of action in inverse condemnation, but that is not what the Fourth Amendment is all about. Nowhere is this better stated than in JUSTICE WHITE's opinion for the Court in Camara v. Municipal Court, 387 U. S. 523, 387 U. S. 528 (1967):
"The basic purpose of this Amendment, as recognized in countless decisions of this Court, is to safeguard the privacy and security of individuals against arbitrary invasions by governmental officials."
Justice Brennan then says:
“If indeed the purpose of the restraints imposed by the Fourth Amendment is to "safeguard the privacy and security of individuals," then it is puzzling why it should be the helicopter's noise, wind, and dust that provides the measure of whether this constitutional safeguard has been infringed. Imagine a helicopter capable of hovering just above an enclosed courtyard or patio without generating any noise, wind, or dust at all -- and, for good measure, without posing any threat of injury. Suppose the police employed this miraculous tool to discover not only what crops people were growing in their greenhouses, but also what books they were reading and who their dinner guests were. Suppose, finally, that the FAA regulations remained unchanged, so that the police were undeniably "where they had a right to be." Would today's plurality continue to assert that "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures" was not infringed by such surveillance? Yet that is the logical consequence of the plurality's rule that, so long as the police are where they have a right to be under air traffic regulations, the Fourth Amendment is offended only if the aerial surveillance interferes with the use of the backyard as a garden spot. Nor is there anything in the plurality's opinion to suggest that any different rule would apply were the police looking from their helicopter, not into the open curtilage, but through an open window into a room viewable only from the air.”
I think it is safe for police to rely on this case law. But, if SCOTUS took a case on this issue, I am doubtful they would still decide it the way they did in 1989. Not just because I think the reasoning is questionable; but the Court had been on a tear trying to undo the Warren & Burger Courts at that point and were basically weaving a word salad of faulty logic to uphold nearly every act of government. We actually got a good decision in 2018 that barred police from getting warrantless cell tower tracking data. However they did this while not abrogating US v. Miller (1976); a case which held that there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in information made available to third parties.
That case has an amazing dissent by Justice Thurgood Marshall (who does not get near enough credit around these parts for upholding these types of constitutional protections). Two issues were here: (1) an invalid subpoena issued by a US Attorney and not a court; and (2) whether a warrant is required vs a subpoena. I won’t cite his dissent, I recommend you read it directly.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/425/435/#tab-opinion-1951689
Yes. This. What in the hell is up with that?
If there was any place you’d expect things to have sparked off, its Memphis. And who could argue with that incident? Was frickin egregious and horrible. I for one cannot see a good faith argument in defense of those cops. Yet I have seen people say some pretty awful things. Where’s ANTIFA on that one? Not a good enough cause?
Add West Memphis to the list of cities with deployed NG
Would appear to be so. Good find!
No warrant required to surveil what is in plain view
I accept your mulligan concession
How about you stop seething and say something substantive? Why don’t you show how what I said is not wrong. You can’t do it. You are married to a narrative and you can’t separate yourself from it. You know what reduces wages for Americans? Fiscal policy that results in the outflow of manufacturing to places like China. You actually think that people would come here if there wasn’t demand for their labor? Show me Americans that are displaced by this. I cannot find an American to do any of these jobs at any price. We are basically at full employment at least in terms of people who are willing to work. Which is why nobody can find anyone to hire. But go ahead and keep thinking that Americans are out of work because of illegals. The biggest non sequitur in modern American political discourse.
But you have time to respond with no substance. And telling me I contradict myself. Pot, meet kettle.
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Stolen from a random internet site I was too derp to copy the link from before closing the tab
I accept your concession
^^^ Imagine having no substantive argument to rebut what was said so you cope with personal insults ^^^
No way! When you see this, open season has begun. “Hey Jim! $50 if you can shoot him in the knee from 800 yards, $100 for a crotch shot, $500 for a helmet shot in the middle of the U!”
“Hold muh beer!”
Guess what? You are part of the problem for not knowing that you cannot lawfully ask for the immigration status of an independent contractor. You have no idea how the immigration system works, and the reason why these people come here. You even think I said that they take jobs Americans don’t want. That’s how married to this narrative you are. I am trying to point out that there is no amount of money that will get those Americans to work. And I illustrate this with how much I am paying to get this work done. Have you not noticed the insane shortage of people to hire? Do you run payroll every week? If so, have you noticed how much more money flies out of that account every Friday than just a few years ago?
Why the hell is immigration enforcement my job? I don’t make policy. I don’t work for border patrol or ICE. It is not my job to report what these people are up to. Just like I am not going to buy a radar gun and report all the speeders on the interstate. I carry no responsibility to enforce the laws that the Feds refuse to enforce. You want to LARP as an ICE agent, be my guest. I am going to keep running a business to feed my family.
Where are the “driven down wages” for the American worker? You can only advance a “they took errr jerrrrbs” argument without showing how that ever happened. What “job” is being done by an illegal that is so “cheap” it is keeping Americans at home? The only examples of this come from our lawful temporary labor visas, not illegal immigrants.
What the hell does what Biden “gives” them have to do with this? So they charge me 6 figure salaries AND the demented dipshit gives them more? You won’t get any argument from me that they cost too much. I am pushing back on the fake news bullshit narrative you are claiming that somehow these guys “lower wages” for Americans. They don’t. And you cannot show a smidge of proof of this.
I found this while looking for more articles on the JBS meat packing plant in Grand Island, NE getting raided for child labor that was possibility trafficked this week. Archer Daniels in the Omaha area has frequent ICE raids too. Is this more “food shortage” false flags?
What are “normal” labor prices? Whatever you want them to be? This is all faulty logic. I live in this world.
I paid a framing crew $24,000 to frame a house. It took them 4.5 days. There were 6 of them. The only “overhead” is the cost of a lift - which is minimal. Guess how many non Hispanics were on the crew? Zero. I’d venture a guess that 100% of them were illegals.
Granted, the guy that speaks english on the crew gets paid more than the others. But being on that crew is a 6 figure job. Do you think that doing manual labor framing houses is way below market prices for labor at $150,000 a year?
How about painters? I just paid a crew $17,000 to paint this house. There were 3 of them. It took them 7 days. Is that way below market price? Guess how many non Hispanics were on that 3 man crew? Zero. And all of them likely illegal.
Speaking of sheet rockers, I paid those guys $14,500 to drywall this house. Took them 1.5 days to hang it, 3/4 of a day to tape and mud, and then they had to come back 3 or 4 trips for a couple of hours to sand and finish. Sure sounds like less than normal labor prices, doesn’t it?
I hired a siding crew to put the cement board siding/metal soffit/fascia on. It cost me $7,800 in labor. It took these 4 guys about 3 days to do it. $650 a day seems too cheap, doesn’t it?
Have you ever thought about how the price of new housing is absurdly high? How can that reconcile with “below normal labor prices” when most of that increase is NOT from the cost of land. This is literally “They took errr jerrrbs!!” Argument. It simply isn’t happening.
This is a supply and demand issue. “Hey lets kick all these illegals out so Americans can get ‘normal market wages’ for labor!” Will result in the average roofer making more than an emergency trauma surgeon or cardiologist. They would not be here at all if not for the fact there is demand that is unmet. That demand is so high they make more than most college graduates. And that demand exists because there is not a “normal wage rate” possible that will get these Americans out of bed. Period. They would rather sit on their asses, smoke weed, knock up obese chicks and not pay for their kids, and get broadcast on LivePD for a domestic incident every Friday/Saturday for our enjoyment.
If this price is “cheap” I am fucked and out of business with further increases. And I doubt you would pay for my product at substantially higher prices. Especially now that mortgage rates are at 20 year highs.
You know where the slave labor comes from? Seasonal farm workers with temporary visas. Those are sub market wages. Have you seen what happens at the meat packing plants in Nebraska? https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/feds-dhs-investigating-human-trafficking-children-slaughterhouses-rcna66081
Those places are rackets. The plants NEVER hire anyone. Always a fall guy independent contractor company that “hires” these illegals. These people are defacto slaves. They have to kick back a portion of their ridiculously low wages to the big guy under threat of being handed over to ICE.
Temporary farm workers get $3 an hour because law allows them to duck minimum wage requirements when you provide food and housing. They get gruel and a shanty + back breaking long hours. These are lawful immigrants doing this who then return back to Mexico at the end of the season. Who is hurting wages with that program? Uncle Sam. They gotta go to Mexico and retrieve some people who aren’t already here. Because the illegal Mexicans already here laugh at that wage and went up north to earn big money.
They are probably citing experts from the Foundation for Advancing Goodwill Sustainably (FAGS).
Illegals don’t take anyone’s job. They fill the jobs that lazy asses who are slaves to the welfare state won’t get out of bed to do. Those people wouldn’t get out of bed for a 6 figure job. We have created an almost permanent underclass who are multigenerational victims of government handouts and inner city public schools.
Sure seems like it. Feels like a sine wave. The frequency appears to have significantly increased since November.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/26/us/politics/durham-trump-russia-barr.html
This is such a crock of shit I couldn’t finish it. Be careful with that link. You might burp up your dinner.
There is no reason to smear this guy if he is about to wrap up with a nothingburger. If anything, you’d praise him for being evenhanded or whatever other bogus accolades the uniparty circle jerk typically does. Then you quit talking about it.
HIPPA has nothing to do with this. It only applies to medical providers, insurance companies, and other healthcare type of contractors that come in contact with PHI. It would only apply to your employer if your employer managed your PHI as part of a self administered health insurance policy. Most simply buy it from a company. There has been debate within Health & Human Services as to whether obtaining employees jab status would put them in possession of PHI covered by HIPPA and require associated protections; but HIPPA doesn’t prevent them from asking and acquiring - only possibly having to comply with the data protections.
You might be surprised to know that most state medical boards can simply demand your records from a provider and get them. No warrant necessary. It has even been upheld that cops at the hospital in quite a few circumstances can simply seize your medical records on the spot with certain crimes.
The Americans with disabilities act actually covers this. They have to do an “individualized inquiry” and a couple other steps that every single jab shill business is skipping right over. This will catch up to them. And might already have started.