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Apr 19, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Right. Now do the same exercise looking for mortality stats at your state/local health department. My state Maryland has yet to publish all cause mortality stats for 2020- that data was due November 2021.....the reason for this delay for these data sets is not provided, but one can speculate....

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Apr 19, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

I bet they have a whole chapter in the annual report on Diversity and Inclusion.

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Christ, what a sad state of decay we are enjoying as the Titanic sinks.

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Just a thought: are incarceration statistics published? Assuming convictions remain at the same right, then the prison population should remain steady, all else being equal. On the other hand, if the penitentiaries are getting roomier, then that would suggest the conviction rate is down (either due to court backlog, or Soros DAs taking an L on purpose for every petty street thug who comes shuffling their way).

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It doesn't work, because the state and the counties all released a whole bunch of prisoners to protect them against getting Covid-19. So the incarcerated population doesn't currently reflect convictions and sentences -- it's been pandemicked.

California courts went to a zero-bail policy to keep people from being infected in jail, which has led to outcomes like this:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/man-arrested-times-day-cas-coronavirus-based-bail/story?id=70481605

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Right. So the jails emptied out for other reasons, and therefore lower incarceration numbers can't be used to check whether the courts are functioning.

Remarkable how effective they are at ensuring no one can tell if they're doing their jobs.

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I mean, at least they're good at SOMETHING.

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Credit where it's due.

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I strongly believe that all statistics, from any agency, at any level of government, are suspect. They have been lying to us, as a matter of policy, for at least two generations. And, for the last two years, blatantly so.

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Lies, damned lies, and statistics.

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Austin Rhodes, our local (CSRA) radio talk show host goes on about this at pretty much the beginning of many of his daily shows. "Two gangs had a shootout, one is dead, they all walk because the POS SOB DA can't figure out who shot first!"

Look folks, I have a different take.

It is TERRORISM against the responsible hard working American Citizens, period!

Taxes, inflation, collapse of "Rule of Law," gangs, drugs, pedophilia, school grooming, CRT, racism, crime individual & gang/cartel, immigration, and all the rest all have but a single purpose. Even the home invasions in Beverly Hills are just further proof of this.

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They even just passed "Constitutional Carry" here in Georgia.

More PROOF that they are not going to do anything to make the streets safer.

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Astrophysicist killed by random Atlanta gunfire.

At this rate, we'll never get to Mars, much less Europa.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/girlfriend-brit-shot-dead-bed-26024609

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Robespierre was the result of ineffectual French Elites. We are at the brink except we may get it worse.

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Apr 19, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

If this were a John Hughes movie the tagline would be, "One county judiciary's struggle to take it easy"

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Apr 19, 2022Liked by Chris Bray

Grew up in San Gabriel Valley. It looks A LOT different now than it did 15 years ago

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Zombie apocalypses don't just happen all by themselves, you know. Or, as they used to say, Rome wasn't burnt in a day.

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Sadly, the courts aren’t functioning anywhere. And neither are most other entities. The pandemic scam has turned our productive country into a cesspool of the lazy. If you weren’t lazy by nature before, you probably are now as you got swept along in the tide of mediocre, anxiety-ridden victims who spend their days social media surfing while making excuses for their lack of productivity.

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Wow. Joe Rogan would love to hear about this, having moved to Austin shortly after the pandemic started. Joey Diaz too, now in New Jersey. I wonder if Michael Schellenberger who is running for California Governor, is clear about what sort of wicked nest of maladjustment he is wading into? There's yer liberal utopia, Woke.

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One of the implications of the bankrupt USA corporation is the lack of legal standing of the penal code. If we are not citizens, ie, agents of a foreign power (of the Bank of England--the apparent owners of the defunct USA corporation), we no longer fall under jurisdiction of British maritime law and therefore the penal code doesn't apply. Furthermore, as the dollar crashes, I don't see how the courts can continue. Prisons, government offices, legislative bodies, cops, regulatory bodies, etc. All will find a lack of incentives in the marketplace. It's an open question whether lawyers will have standing if corporate governance crashes. In a common law court you have an advocate not a lawyer. Will a law degree have any value in a post corporate governance world? I suspect we are about to find out whether we are ready for lawless anarchy or not. How will people act after they discover that they aren't subject to the penal code anymore? I could understand if enforcement came down to the county level and the sheriff's office. You know...wild, wild, west.

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