When I was in law school, we learned about something called “the one-way ratchet theory of rights.” This legalistic abomination, pushed by Thurgood Marshall among others, contended that once a governmental entity created a new “right,” it could not later decide to take that “right” away. It now appears federal district courts are putting the one-way ratchet theory to a new use: if a Democrat administration expands the government, a Republican administration cannot later undo the expansion, even if it uses the same procedural mechanisms. Government can never shrink; it can only grow. As with all of The Left’s “legal” theories, The Left always wins.
@Avonleebythesea It would be scary/ funny if AI was so jealous that it decided to sabotage your response. Humans glean the best things from the the most inauspicious places. I can still remember getting way too much out of a section of "inexhaustible well" prose from The Sheltering Sky
@callme_Chari I have fox news on my car and that's the only subject. Every once in a while they have this exhausted guest expert lament that this disappearance isn't more important than any other. He is quickly shuffled out for someone to talk about "the glove"
@zhao_dashuai You can go to Chinatown in San Francisco today and see a little old man spouting Chi-Com propaganda from a soap box. It's quaint because everyone knows he's a shill.
@truthstreamnews Interesting image. Whoever originally posted it probably doesn't see the irony of them not checking on the person laying there yet they thought they were so clever as to video the juxtaposition
@SawyerMerritt I like a self driving car as much as would like to plug a book into my head. Not long ago, I went back to cars with manual transmissions and hope to stay that way.