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nycfan said:
But a lot of people are struggling to make sense of this. David Frum has a damning suggestion:



“… The pro-Tate advocacy resurfaced at the Munich Security Conference at the end of January, when Richard Grenell, a Trump envoy there, spoke with the Romanian foreign minister. Grenell said he’d taken an interest in the Tate brothers’ situation; the Romanians got the message. Today, the Tate brothers are at liberty in Florida.

One of Grenell’s other jobs is now to lead the Kennedy Center. A few days after his return from Munich, he told the audience at the Conservative Political Action Conference that his goal was to bring more Christian programming to the Kennedy Center. Christ and human trafficking: In Trump’s America, we can have both.

… a presumption of the Tates’ innocence doesn’t explain why MAGA world loves them so much. This is the week, after all, that MAGA world is rejoicing in the release of Jeffrey Epstein’s contact lists, material that has largely been in the public domain for a decade. How does the human mind hold the simultaneous beliefs that Epstein was bad and the Tate brothers are good?

For that, one must understand that the MAGA movement is about sexual grievance, even more than racial resentment. It is an expression of male disgruntlement that depends on the votes of men—not just any men, but those who feel disrespected and undervalued.

Andrew Tate offers unhappy men an exciting fantasy: They don’t need education or challenging work; they don’t need families or children; instead, they can fulfill themselves by dominating and brutalizing women. In this scenario, women will do the chores and provide sexual favors to order, while men can be little sultans ruling their harems as they harden their hearts against empathy and love.

MAGA, too, has a fantasy to offer the men who feel superfluous.

Its one big economic idea is to impose tariffs to keep out foreign manufactured goods. If the goal is to make America more prosperous and secure, it’s not a good idea. In fact, it’s overwhelmingly counterproductive. …”
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FWIW, I think there’s a reasonable argument to be made that some branches of Christianity - including mainstream, not just the extremely freaky types - are frameworks that favor human trafficking. It just needs to be one trafficked woman per man and carry the imprimatur of a holy blessing.
 
Ramrouser said:
HOAs are private entities
Established through private contracts between willing parties
Recorded on county property records
HOAs exercise no governmental power or authority over property owners
They can only levy contractually mandated fines and penalties.
No violation of any federal law - no federal question
Infringement upon states' property rights.
Chief Executive with an EO cannot declare null and void private property rights of citizens.
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Really, I thought they were mandatory for new neighborhoods in Georgia. One really only has the choice of in neighborhood or out of neighborhood. It's not really a willing agreement between parties.
 
336Heel said:
And here's how the right is defending it.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">This is entirely Zelensky’s fault. Trump greeted him graciously, was ready to turn the page. Just said he wanted to get help Ukraine get it’s territory back. And Z comes in and gets into a fight in public? I’ve never seen anything like it in my life. <a href="https://t.co/633sPiJQPn">https://t.co/633sPiJQPn</a></p>&mdash; Marc Thiessen 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇦🇹🇼🇮🇱 (@marcthiessen) <a href="">February 28, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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The dude is literally fighting to save his country from being overrun by Trump's buddy and hero Putin, and Trump has made it clear that he doesn't care about the fate of Ukraine, the heroic fight they've made thus far to save their country, or Zelensky himself. In fact, he just over the past two weeks has gone out of his way to attack, criticize, and demean him. Trump and Vance are lucky that Zelensky didn't punch them both in the jaw while Dear Leader was running his big mouth. God he's a lousy, contemptible excuse for a human being. He loves calling other people "nasty" or "horrible" and as usual it's just projection, as those two words describe him much better.
 
UNCatTech said:
Really, I thought they were mandatory for new neighborhoods in Georgia. One really only has the choice of in neighborhood or out of neighborhood. It's not really a willing agreement between parties.
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You willingly and knowingly agree to subject your property to the covenants and restrictions. Plenty of free agent residential property in GA…..FLA not so much.
 


“… The school’s board of visitors, which voted 10-6 not to extend General Wins’s contract, did not give an official reason for the decision, which was made after a closed session that lasted more than two hours.

The move followed years of pushback from conservative alumni of the college who had objected to what they called General Wins’s “woke” efforts to increase campus diversity. And it followed accusations from a Virginia state senator that the effort to remove him was racially motivated.

The school is the oldest state-supported military college in the country, and all students participate in reserve officers training, a pathway to leadership roles in the U.S. military.

General Wins, a V.M.I. alumnus, was appointed to the job in 2021, although he began on an interim basis the previous year.

He was responsible for removing the statue of Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson, a Confederate general, that had been prominently positioned on campus.

… He also led efforts to increase diversity on campus following reports of “relentless racism” experienced by Black cadets published by The Washington Post in 2020, shortly before he took over.

A subsequent state investigation concluded that there was a racist and sexist culture at V.M.I.

When the statue was removed, General Wins acknowledged Jackson’s ties to the school, where he was an instructor, and the strong opinions about the decision. General Wins said in a statement at the time, “Though change can sometimes be difficult, it is time for our beloved Institution to move forward.” …”
 
nycfan said:
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“… The pardon has nothing to do with Rose’s baseball career or gambling problems. He was sentenced in 1990 to five months in federal prison for filing false income tax returns.

… While Mr. Trump can issue a posthumous pardon for that crime, his presidential powers do not extend to the Hall of Fame's rules, or the baseball writers association and committees that choose Hall of Fame inductees. …”

www.nytimes.com

Trump Says He Will Posthumously Pardon the Baseball Star Pete Rose

President Trump also repeated his call for Rose, who was banned from the sport for gambling, to be inducted into the Hall of Fame.
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This reminds me of his EO renaming the Gulf of Mexico — he is drunk on his own power and trying to bend the world to his will for matters greater than and small.
 
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