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• On the post: RFK Jr. Finally Says Something Sensible: ‘Don’t Take Medical Advice From Me’

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 16 May, 2025 @ 02:18pm

  "Don't sue me for the harm I'm causing."

  RFK Jr has made a very public career out of giving medical advice, very bad medical advice -- loudly and at length, unashamedly, repentantly, and willfully disregarding all evidence against his claims. RFK has written many books, not only to dispense his medical recommendations but to smear those who disagree with him. He's founded global organizations dedicated to promoting that unfounded, fact-adverse advice as far and wide as possible, RFK Jr and his pet organizations have produced and promoted "documentaries" to convince parents to follow his dangerous medical advice. And now he expects people to take him seriously when he says "Don't take medical advice from me"? What he's really saying is "Don't sue me when my advice causes harm."

• On the post: RFK Jr.’s Measles Policy: Deaths Are Expected And It’s The Victim’s Fault

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 09 May, 2025 @ 03:30pm

  But adventures like that aren't "child raising", just "the fun parts".

• On the post: Judge To ICE: No, You Can’t Actually Kidnap Students For Writing Op-Eds

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 09 May, 2025 @ 03:25pm

  So. Ice is now officially the gestapo.

  Just the street-level enforcement wing. Intelligence functions will largely be handled by DOGE.

• On the post: RFK Jr.’s Measles Policy: Deaths Are Expected And It’s The Victim’s Fault

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 08 May, 2025 @ 10:38pm

  Him, or his Ex? Because honestly, RFK Jr. doesn't strike me as the kind to be personally involved with all the little chores of child raising -- like soccer practice and music lessons, doctor's visits, and vaccinations.

• On the post: Yet Again, The Data Shows Migrants Are More Law-Abiding Than US Citizens

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 08 May, 2025 @ 12:15pm

  Does this Cato Institute report offer any comments* on the implications of this study for the broader sociological aspects of race, crime statistics and demographics in general? . *) Ie. Any acknowledgment that since any supposed propensity to criminal behavior is clearly not some "inherent" consequence of "race" in itself, it follows that history and/or socio-economic conditions may be largely responsible for any apparent correlation with "race"... (I did take a brief skim, and the report appeared to focus quite narrowly on the immigration angle.)

• On the post: Texas Bookstores Push Back Against Bill That Would Allow Them To Be Sued Over ‘Harmful’ Content

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 02 May, 2025 @ 06:21pm

  So, under this proposed legislation, an accused* can be convicted even if what they did was legal when they did it, and even if the law is unconstitutional? Land of the Free, you say...

  • Sounds like "victim" would be a more accurate term

• On the post: RFK Jr. Wants You To Know HHS Is Committed To Stopping Chemtrails From Poisoning You

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 01 May, 2025 @ 10:42pm

  It's become evident...

  It's become depressingly evident that I'm living in some sort of crazy, messed up, dystopian science fiction reality. I just haven't figured out whether it's being written by Phillip K. Dick, or Kurt Vonnegut.

• On the post: FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge For Allegedly Obstructing The Arrest Of An Undocumented Immigrant

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 01 May, 2025 @ 03:22pm

  Actually, the documents were very careful to not clearly state any such claim (which would be perjury), but merely imply such to an uninformed or superficial reader. There was literally no way for Flores-Ruiz to exit except through the public hallway -- where at least two agents in that hall saw Florez-Ruiz and his lawyer leaving. One of the agents even rode down with them on the elevator. The agents testimony was an exercise in how to spin innocent facts (mostly by blatant slanting and careful exclusion of immediately relevant facts) to make it look like the judge was doing something hinky. But all the judge did was tell them "Hold on. You don't have a valid warrant. And you don't have a valid reason to be in my courtroom. You have no right to disrupt the court's business. See the courthouse administrator about how to handle this." This is nothing but an attempt to make a fight out of thin air, as a way to intimidate the courts so they won't get in the way by upholding trivialities like the Law, the Constitution, or Due Process.

• On the post: FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge For Allegedly Obstructing The Arrest Of An Undocumented Immigrant

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 01 May, 2025 @ 03:06pm

  How about the part (agreed by both sides) that the agents admitted they didn't have a proper judicial warrant -- just an "administrative warrant". (An administrative warrant is just a fancy-looking piece of paper which the agents can fill out and sign themselves -- no actual judge involved -- in other words, not a real warrant that carries any weight in law.)

• On the post: Texas Lawyer Harassed At Home By Federal Agents, Fired By His Employer After He Tells His Story

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 01 May, 2025 @ 02:47pm

  Less than a quarter of the United States population cast their vote for this. Always remember that.

  And even less than that less than a quarter voted against it. Maybe that's what you need to be remembering right now.

• On the post: Texas Lawyer Harassed At Home By Federal Agents, Fired By His Employer After He Tells His Story

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 01 May, 2025 @ 02:43pm

  Perhaps we should take a page out of their book, and call them Illegal Officers.

  With Officers like these, who needs criminals?

• On the post: Federal Judge Shreds DOJ’s Bullshit Venezuelan Gang Affiliation Claims

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2025 @ 08:21pm

  This could just be part of an expedition to identify the ‘disloyal’ members of the judiciary…

  In the end, pretty much everything the Trump administration is doing these days is, effectively, some sort of loyalty test.

• On the post: One Of RFK Jr.’s ‘Extraordinary Healers’ Caught Measles, Kept Treating Patients In Facilities

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2025 @ 08:09pm

  Rubeola F. Kennedy

• On the post: One Of RFK Jr.’s ‘Extraordinary Healers’ Caught Measles, Kept Treating Patients In Facilities

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2025 @ 08:06pm

  I have officially changed my mind:

  I am forced to concede that "death cult" is not a rhetorical exaggeration.

• On the post: FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge For Allegedly Obstructing The Arrest Of An Undocumented Immigrant

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2025 @ 07:41pm

  The judge had no obligation to help the agents enforce an admitted extrajudicial action, and did have an obligation to prevent these 'agents' from disrupting the activity of the court.

• On the post: FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge For Allegedly Obstructing The Arrest Of An Undocumented Immigrant

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2025 @ 07:38pm

  Except that the agents had already admitted that they didn't have a valid judicial warrant. They additionally admitted that they no legal matter before the court requiring them to be in her courtroom.

• On the post: FBI Arrests Wisconsin Judge For Allegedly Obstructing The Arrest Of An Undocumented Immigrant

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2025 @ 02:46pm

  Aparrently, there are two elevators in that public hall -- one giving access to the street exit, and the other giving access to the parking garage (and there's prominent signage indicating which was where). Imagine the contempt for Law that this arrestee and his lawyer both displayed in this deplorable incident, first by appearing before a judge in court of their own volition, and secondly, when their business was done, having the chutzpah to head for the correct elevator! Monsters like this are truly a threat -- not only to Law and Order, but to The American Way itself! They must therefor be dealt with harshly, and shipped out of the country with all (un)due haste, without recourse to foppish remedies such as human dignity or due process.

• On the post: Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2025 @ 11:04pm

  That's rather unfair -- Melon appears to be pretty good at both shit-posting and harassing women.

• On the post: Trump Admin, DOGE Are Turning Multiple Gov’t Components Into A Giant Racist Database

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2025 @ 10:58pm

  From up here in Canada, it appears that DOGE is becoming -- arguably has become -- the nascent intelligence wing of the new American Gestapo. And ICE is already the street muscle. I wish that I could dismiss that perception as mere hyperbole, but I can't.

• On the post: Elon Musk Pretends He’s Leaving The Job He Supposedly Doesn’t Have To Not Return To The Job He Supposedly Never Left

  

  BernardoVerda ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2025 @ 12:41pm

  Based on DOGE's actual actions to date, this exercise wasn't ever about performing an audit. You should ask yourself what purpose those action are best suited for.

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