Why is murder the crime they commit? How about financial crimes or permittless construction and demolition?

Killing people isn't profitable compared to other crimes.

I could go blast fishing and have frozen crappie for the next year.

11 days.

Texas ice storm in 2021 froze the pipes from the well. We had stored water in jugs and the bathtubs in anticipation of the storm, but it was for drinking, cooking, and flushing the toilet.

Born in 83.

Was there for the shuttle, remember the Berlon wall and the first Iraq war pretty well, was a senior in high school for 9/11.

Meanwhile, on 9/11 my sister was at her office working her new job she got after graduating college.

At Enron.

Being better educated doesn't make them smart. I know some geniuses who had to drop out of high school to work and some real dumbasses with doctorates.

I guess I'm used to Texas where our tacos have seasoning.

They want to make an example of him. Their goal is for everyone to fear them.

They're trying to be Machiavellian. In The Prince, he wrote that weak rulers are loved and strong rulers are feared.

What they forget is that he wrote that worst of all was to be hated.

Yes, LA food is awful.

It's a separate legal issue.

The sad fact is he already had his asylum denied years ago and is eligible for detention and deportation to any nation except El Salvador. The fact that he can't be held for pretrial detention for the bullshit human trafficking charges is immaterial to that.

The second he's acquitted, I expect they'll deport him to one of the other torture prisons they're opening up.

There's no happy ending for him without a US regime change.

I don't think there's a person on the planet who would take that bet in good faith, except maybe Trump himself.

He truly believes he's a genius. Everyone else on the planet, including his supporters, knows deep down that he's by far the dumbest person to hold the office.

There's a reason ICE conceal their faces.

They know what they're doing is wrong and don't want to be held accountable if their fascist rule collapses.

Are people required to know how their car works?

Do people have to understand chemistry to buy gasoline or mercury thermometers?

That's simply not true. People can't be expected to know what's going on under the hood of services designed specifically to simplify things for non-technical users and conceal what's under the hood.