June 06, 2025
The Fifth Branch
Timothy Birdnow
NGO's - the fifth branch of government.
This was just a trick for politicians to avoid sullying their hands and having to defend wasting taxpayer money on political causes.
NGO's - the fifth branch of government.
This was just a trick for politicians to avoid sullying their hands and having to defend wasting taxpayer money on political causes.
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The Brink of the Apocalypse
Timothy Birdnow
The Doomsday Clock is at one minute to midnight.
Roll Out The Nukes: The Risk Level Just Went "Way Up” And Trump Warns "We’ll Be Very, Very Tough” If Russia Doesn’t End The War
We have been fortunate indeed that Putin didn't launch the birds already.
The Russians changed their nuclear launch protocols to say "any attack on infrastructure needed for defense" can be met with a nuclear response, meaning the Ukrainian drone attack would have authorized a launch.
Putin WILL do this if he feels he has no other choice. He's not going to be caught in a spider hole like Saddam Hussein.
Americans are completely clueless about all this. Most think that we are the only ones to have nuclear weapons, and they think our arsenal is top of the line too. None of that is true.
The Russians have a much larger and more modern arsenal than do we. The Chinese arsenal is smaller but not insignificant (at about 200 warheads). If the Russians launch on us the Chinese probably will as well. Better to fry us now that leave us wounded and enraged.
A nuclear war will NOT cause a nuclear winter as the author of this article claims; studies done back in the nineties proved that. But it might cause a "nuclear autumn" and certainly we won't get a crop in that season.
The contamination from fallout will dissipate in about two weeks, but the soil will still be contaminated for a number of years. So will wells. There will be some very difficult problems.
The cities will be gone, by and large. That would be most of the population would be dead (including myself - I live in the city of St. Louis itself, not even in the 'burbs). The only consolation we can take (limited as it is) is that the Democrats will be forever out of power as most of their voters would be dead. Their power base is entirely in the big cities.
One nuclear war can ruin your whole day, even if it gets rid of a few creeps.
At any rate I largely agree and we've been playing with fire since this war began. Without a clear victory (and it wasn't going to happen with Western money and weapons pouring into Ukraine) or a negotiated settlement (which the Biden Administration opposed when it was possible) this thing was destined to grind on year after bloody year, and it was assured to continue to escalate. Now we are on the brink of nuclear war.
And STILL so many people in both parties are beating their chests and calling for more. It's insane.
General, you don't have a war plan! All you have is a kind of horrible spasm!
Robert McNamara ·
Robert McNamara ·
The Doomsday Clock is at one minute to midnight.
Roll Out The Nukes: The Risk Level Just Went "Way Up” And Trump Warns "We’ll Be Very, Very Tough” If Russia Doesn’t End The War
We have been fortunate indeed that Putin didn't launch the birds already.
The Russians changed their nuclear launch protocols to say "any attack on infrastructure needed for defense" can be met with a nuclear response, meaning the Ukrainian drone attack would have authorized a launch.
Putin WILL do this if he feels he has no other choice. He's not going to be caught in a spider hole like Saddam Hussein.
Americans are completely clueless about all this. Most think that we are the only ones to have nuclear weapons, and they think our arsenal is top of the line too. None of that is true.
The Russians have a much larger and more modern arsenal than do we. The Chinese arsenal is smaller but not insignificant (at about 200 warheads). If the Russians launch on us the Chinese probably will as well. Better to fry us now that leave us wounded and enraged.
A nuclear war will NOT cause a nuclear winter as the author of this article claims; studies done back in the nineties proved that. But it might cause a "nuclear autumn" and certainly we won't get a crop in that season.
The contamination from fallout will dissipate in about two weeks, but the soil will still be contaminated for a number of years. So will wells. There will be some very difficult problems.
The cities will be gone, by and large. That would be most of the population would be dead (including myself - I live in the city of St. Louis itself, not even in the 'burbs). The only consolation we can take (limited as it is) is that the Democrats will be forever out of power as most of their voters would be dead. Their power base is entirely in the big cities.
One nuclear war can ruin your whole day, even if it gets rid of a few creeps.
At any rate I largely agree and we've been playing with fire since this war began. Without a clear victory (and it wasn't going to happen with Western money and weapons pouring into Ukraine) or a negotiated settlement (which the Biden Administration opposed when it was possible) this thing was destined to grind on year after bloody year, and it was assured to continue to escalate. Now we are on the brink of nuclear war.
And STILL so many people in both parties are beating their chests and calling for more. It's insane.
"Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed. But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.”
General Turgis in Dr. Strangelove
General Turgis in Dr. Strangelove
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Musk V. Trump
Timothy Birdnow
Not sure what's happening in this Musk/Trump feud but it seems to me Mr. Musk has somehow lost his South African blood diamond marbles. He is just fierce in going after the President, the man whom he helped elect.
I can't help but think this is some sort of strategic move. Not sure of the purpose of it.
On the other hand I've never trusted Elon Musk, and I'm sure some of my readers (all four of you) may remember my reluctance to invest trust in the man.
BTW Musk has Aspbergers, a cognitive disorder with a number of symptoms including obsessive behavior and trust issues.
I don't know but Musk is way too angry for this to be about spending. He isn't stupid; he knows this is just a start and that Congress can do recissions to eliminate much of this waste. No, this is personal.
And this right after Trump gave Musk a symbolic "key to the White House" just a week or so ago.
Is it because, as Musk claims, Trump's name is on the Epstein files? Well duh! We all knew Trump had met with Epstein a few times; he's admitted as much. He is on record saying that as soon as he realized there was something amiss with Epstein he cut him off. So no doubt he's mentioned in the files. But what do those files say? Musk can't know.
I would like to understand what is happening. I don't see any of this as being helpful.
Maybe Musk wants to get back his old customer base for Tesla? Throwing Trump under the bus would do that.
Not sure what's happening in this Musk/Trump feud but it seems to me Mr. Musk has somehow lost his South African blood diamond marbles. He is just fierce in going after the President, the man whom he helped elect.
I can't help but think this is some sort of strategic move. Not sure of the purpose of it.
On the other hand I've never trusted Elon Musk, and I'm sure some of my readers (all four of you) may remember my reluctance to invest trust in the man.
BTW Musk has Aspbergers, a cognitive disorder with a number of symptoms including obsessive behavior and trust issues.
I don't know but Musk is way too angry for this to be about spending. He isn't stupid; he knows this is just a start and that Congress can do recissions to eliminate much of this waste. No, this is personal.
And this right after Trump gave Musk a symbolic "key to the White House" just a week or so ago.
Is it because, as Musk claims, Trump's name is on the Epstein files? Well duh! We all knew Trump had met with Epstein a few times; he's admitted as much. He is on record saying that as soon as he realized there was something amiss with Epstein he cut him off. So no doubt he's mentioned in the files. But what do those files say? Musk can't know.
I would like to understand what is happening. I don't see any of this as being helpful.
Maybe Musk wants to get back his old customer base for Tesla? Throwing Trump under the bus would do that.
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Democrats Have Lost Men
Timothy Birdnow
A Democratic strategist admits the Donkey Party has lost men and won't be getting them back any time soon.
As he points out the Democrats are clueless about their once traditional power base and are studying them as if they were some exotic species. As he points out the simple solution is to go and hang out with them. But the elitist snobs in the part would never so sully themselves as to do THAT.
In point of fact the Democrats were never the party of the working class, much less middle class. They were good at talking the talk, and they doled out tax money paid by those workers back to them to buy their votes. Oh, and they owned the labor unions, and so many blue collar workers took what the unions said as gospel.
Eventually their duplicity caught up with the Democrats. Blue collar workers were destroyed by so many policies of the Demo-left. Unrestrained immigration, for one, obviously took American jobs and yet the champions of the working man kept pushing for it. Inflation particularly hurt the working class. DEI and "gender" promotions disgusted the working class, who are nothing if not normals (generally you have to be when you work for a living; there isn't time to play these little games.) They didn't want weak national security. They didn't want to become second class citizens in their own country. They didn't want to not be able to, say, start their own business if they chose because of overregulation. They did not want to have their neighborhoods overrun with thugs and criminals as the Biden Administration sought to integrate all neighborhoods, moving thugs into public housing next door to good working folks. They didn't want rampant crime.
It goes on and on. But the Democrats can no longer stop the runaway train of offenses because their coalition was never that strong and there were different groups tugging this way and that. It held together far longer than it ever should because the media helped tampe down anger and were able to gin up fear of the Republicans. But it was the Boy Who Cried Wolf and the working class has now seen that voting Republican didn't lead to the monopoly man lighting his cigars with $100 bills while they lived in tarpapre shacks. The GOP turned out to not be the ogres they always beleived them to be.
All the Democrats can do now is another round of "how do we fool 'em today?" when the trust is irrevocably broken.
I'm sure they may make some headway at some point but I suspect they've lost the male vote for good - and the working class vote. And the Middle Class vote.
This mirrors what happened in the '30's when so man y groups became vassals of the Democratic Party. Blacks had always voted Republican until Roosevelt, for instance; after all it was the GOP that freed blacks. But the GOP took those voters for granted and became obsessed with the monied class. The black people heard Roosevelt and liked what he said. He was going to give people money and when you are poor that's hard to resist. The black community flipped to the Democratic Party and stayed there to the present day. Only now they are starting to wake up to the fact the Democrats don't care about them either.
So big flips DO happen and Roosevelt flipped much of the country. The Roosevelt coalition is finally coming to an end thanks to the radicalization of his party. Roosevelt may have had socialistic tendencies but he never openly advocated for it. The current crop of Democrats have eschewed any pretense they are American. They are international socialists and want to PUNISH Americans. Americans don't like that.
So let us be careful not to alienate this block of voters. I doubt the Dems will get them back, but they will if the GOP returns to it's vomit like a dog and starts promoting the things that the Democrats promote as well.
A Democratic strategist admits the Donkey Party has lost men and won't be getting them back any time soon.
As he points out the Democrats are clueless about their once traditional power base and are studying them as if they were some exotic species. As he points out the simple solution is to go and hang out with them. But the elitist snobs in the part would never so sully themselves as to do THAT.
In point of fact the Democrats were never the party of the working class, much less middle class. They were good at talking the talk, and they doled out tax money paid by those workers back to them to buy their votes. Oh, and they owned the labor unions, and so many blue collar workers took what the unions said as gospel.
Eventually their duplicity caught up with the Democrats. Blue collar workers were destroyed by so many policies of the Demo-left. Unrestrained immigration, for one, obviously took American jobs and yet the champions of the working man kept pushing for it. Inflation particularly hurt the working class. DEI and "gender" promotions disgusted the working class, who are nothing if not normals (generally you have to be when you work for a living; there isn't time to play these little games.) They didn't want weak national security. They didn't want to become second class citizens in their own country. They didn't want to not be able to, say, start their own business if they chose because of overregulation. They did not want to have their neighborhoods overrun with thugs and criminals as the Biden Administration sought to integrate all neighborhoods, moving thugs into public housing next door to good working folks. They didn't want rampant crime.
It goes on and on. But the Democrats can no longer stop the runaway train of offenses because their coalition was never that strong and there were different groups tugging this way and that. It held together far longer than it ever should because the media helped tampe down anger and were able to gin up fear of the Republicans. But it was the Boy Who Cried Wolf and the working class has now seen that voting Republican didn't lead to the monopoly man lighting his cigars with $100 bills while they lived in tarpapre shacks. The GOP turned out to not be the ogres they always beleived them to be.
All the Democrats can do now is another round of "how do we fool 'em today?" when the trust is irrevocably broken.
I'm sure they may make some headway at some point but I suspect they've lost the male vote for good - and the working class vote. And the Middle Class vote.
This mirrors what happened in the '30's when so man y groups became vassals of the Democratic Party. Blacks had always voted Republican until Roosevelt, for instance; after all it was the GOP that freed blacks. But the GOP took those voters for granted and became obsessed with the monied class. The black people heard Roosevelt and liked what he said. He was going to give people money and when you are poor that's hard to resist. The black community flipped to the Democratic Party and stayed there to the present day. Only now they are starting to wake up to the fact the Democrats don't care about them either.
So big flips DO happen and Roosevelt flipped much of the country. The Roosevelt coalition is finally coming to an end thanks to the radicalization of his party. Roosevelt may have had socialistic tendencies but he never openly advocated for it. The current crop of Democrats have eschewed any pretense they are American. They are international socialists and want to PUNISH Americans. Americans don't like that.
So let us be careful not to alienate this block of voters. I doubt the Dems will get them back, but they will if the GOP returns to it's vomit like a dog and starts promoting the things that the Democrats promote as well.
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Ethics Complaint Against Bondi
Timothy Birdnow
The Empire strikes back as a collection of leftists in Florida, including at least one state supreme court justice, file an ethics complaint against Pam Bondi.
The caolition of the whining who filed the complaint are mostly out-of-state attorneys and law professors.
Among the "ethical lapses" they claim for Bindi are that she breached ethical duties in her current role and that "serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice”
Interesting; the article does not cite any particulars being asserted by this group. Just ad-hominem accusations.
They also acc use her of having "sought to compel Department of Justice lawyers to violate their ethical obligations under the guise of ‘zealous advocacy,’” Again, no details.
The Hill article horribly mischaracterizes Trump and Bondi. It claims Bondi is acquiscing to Trump's demands for vengeance "Democrats pressed Bondi amid her confirmation hearing over her ability to push back against Trump, who had repeatedly stated he would come for his enemies and that he has the "absolute right” to do what he wants with her department."
Trump did not ever state he is "coming for his enemies" nor did Bondi say he had an absolute right. Trump wants justice, a justice he was repeatedly denied in the endless lawfare campaign that those enemies indulged. Bondi wants justice, wants the law enforced. To Democrats that appears to be vengeance, because they are so used to flaunting the law and getting away with it. To the Left any pushback is "coming for them" and unethical and illegal. THEY are the rightful rulers of America and THEY and they alone are deserving of legal protections. Trump refused to do the "decent" thing and slink away into the night. And he is now encouraging justice be serv ed. How DARE he!
So now they are yet again using lawfare, this time against the Attorney General and at the state level where they hope to pull it off.
Previous ethics complaints against Bondi have failed in the past.
There should be similar ethics complaints filed against each and every one of these activists who have signed their names to this. This is the REAL ethical lapse, not Bondi investigating crooks and cheats and abuse of power.
The Empire strikes back as a collection of leftists in Florida, including at least one state supreme court justice, file an ethics complaint against Pam Bondi.
The caolition of the whining who filed the complaint are mostly out-of-state attorneys and law professors.
Among the "ethical lapses" they claim for Bindi are that she breached ethical duties in her current role and that "serious professional misconduct that threatens the rule of law and the administration of justice”
Interesting; the article does not cite any particulars being asserted by this group. Just ad-hominem accusations.
They also acc use her of having "sought to compel Department of Justice lawyers to violate their ethical obligations under the guise of ‘zealous advocacy,’” Again, no details.
The Hill article horribly mischaracterizes Trump and Bondi. It claims Bondi is acquiscing to Trump's demands for vengeance "Democrats pressed Bondi amid her confirmation hearing over her ability to push back against Trump, who had repeatedly stated he would come for his enemies and that he has the "absolute right” to do what he wants with her department."
Trump did not ever state he is "coming for his enemies" nor did Bondi say he had an absolute right. Trump wants justice, a justice he was repeatedly denied in the endless lawfare campaign that those enemies indulged. Bondi wants justice, wants the law enforced. To Democrats that appears to be vengeance, because they are so used to flaunting the law and getting away with it. To the Left any pushback is "coming for them" and unethical and illegal. THEY are the rightful rulers of America and THEY and they alone are deserving of legal protections. Trump refused to do the "decent" thing and slink away into the night. And he is now encouraging justice be serv ed. How DARE he!
So now they are yet again using lawfare, this time against the Attorney General and at the state level where they hope to pull it off.
Previous ethics complaints against Bondi have failed in the past.
There should be similar ethics complaints filed against each and every one of these activists who have signed their names to this. This is the REAL ethical lapse, not Bondi investigating crooks and cheats and abuse of power.
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Boasberg's Amazing Good Fortune
Timothy Birdnow
Missouri's excellent U.S. Senator Eric Schmidt questions the "random" assignment of judges, most particularly the assignment of Judge James Bozobugger, er, Boasburg to Trump cases.
Old clown Shoe Jim keeps getting high-profile cases assigned to him "randomly" even though he has repeatedly shown himself to be a Nevertrumper, and his daughter is a radical left wing activist. She works for an outfit called "Partners for Justice" which is exactly how it sounds, a leftist legal terrorist group. Also he's married to Elizabeth Manson, a heavy donor to the Democrats, having donated more than $11,000 to the Donkey Party. Oh, and she's a founder of an abortion NGO named Grace Reproductive Health and funded by USAID and Soros.
As Mr. Schmidt points out, it is almost statistically imporrible for Boasberg to get this many high-profile cases.
Bozobooger is Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It's odd the Chief Judge KEEPS getting these cases.
Among them are a duspute over the use of Signal to discuss national security (Boasberg ruled they have to preserve all of the Signal posts), Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal illegal aliens, and others.
Schmidt said:
And ALWAYS Boasberg rules against the Administration. Looks like a rigged game to me.
BTW did I mention Boasberg was appointed to the FISA court by none other than the swing vote of the Suprme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts?
Missouri's excellent U.S. Senator Eric Schmidt questions the "random" assignment of judges, most particularly the assignment of Judge James Bozobugger, er, Boasburg to Trump cases.
Old clown Shoe Jim keeps getting high-profile cases assigned to him "randomly" even though he has repeatedly shown himself to be a Nevertrumper, and his daughter is a radical left wing activist. She works for an outfit called "Partners for Justice" which is exactly how it sounds, a leftist legal terrorist group. Also he's married to Elizabeth Manson, a heavy donor to the Democrats, having donated more than $11,000 to the Donkey Party. Oh, and she's a founder of an abortion NGO named Grace Reproductive Health and funded by USAID and Soros.
As Mr. Schmidt points out, it is almost statistically imporrible for Boasberg to get this many high-profile cases.
"Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases. A statistical impossibility. That isn’t ‘random.’ It’s rigged,” Schmitt posted.
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Following Schmitt’s remarks, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), joined by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Chip Roy (R-TX), sent a letter to the Clerk of the Court for the District of Columbia requesting details about the case assignment procedures.
The lawmakers stated that the repeated involvement of Judge Boasberg in matters concerning President Trump "raises serious questions about the integrity of the assignment process and the appearance of impartiality.”
The court, in previous statements, has maintained that the assignment of cases is performed randomly and in accordance with standard procedures.
[...]
Following Schmitt’s remarks, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH), joined by Reps. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and Chip Roy (R-TX), sent a letter to the Clerk of the Court for the District of Columbia requesting details about the case assignment procedures.
The lawmakers stated that the repeated involvement of Judge Boasberg in matters concerning President Trump "raises serious questions about the integrity of the assignment process and the appearance of impartiality.”
The court, in previous statements, has maintained that the assignment of cases is performed randomly and in accordance with standard procedures.
Bozobooger is Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. It's odd the Chief Judge KEEPS getting these cases.
Among them are a duspute over the use of Signal to discuss national security (Boasberg ruled they have to preserve all of the Signal posts), Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport criminal illegal aliens, and others.
Schmidt said:
Judge James Boasberg has somehow been assigned FOUR major Trump cases.
A statistical impossibility.
That isn’t "random.” It’s rigged. pic.twitter.com/wHpj6XqjUF
A statistical impossibility.
That isn’t "random.” It’s rigged. pic.twitter.com/wHpj6XqjUF
— Senator Eric Schmitt (@SenEricSchmitt) June 3, 2025
And ALWAYS Boasberg rules against the Administration. Looks like a rigged game to me.
BTW did I mention Boasberg was appointed to the FISA court by none other than the swing vote of the Suprme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts?
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Character and Butt Wiping
Timothy Birdnow
I beg to differ.
Vermont Democrat Rep: Without Illegals, Who Would Wipe Our *sses?
I don't know about the good people of Vermont, but here in Missouri we are taught as children basic personal hygiene.
Oh, and we do fine without illegal nurses. My wife has been in a facility for months now and has requires such services and guess what? Just about every one of her nurses and aids have no accent at all. Plenty of people willing to do it.
Which is interesting as the hospitals she has been in have had quite a few accented folks, meaning hospitals hire based on DEI. But the private nursing home, which undoubtedly pays less, is pretty much immigrant free. Now why do you suppose that is?
There have never been "jobs Americans just won't do" - employers just need to pay market rates and stop looking for bargain basement employees. And the government should stop encouraging illegal immigration. And they need to relax the stifling regulations that lead employers to look outside the system. And we need to get rid of DEI and the other abominations that masquerade as kindness in America. People will do any job if it's worth it for them to do.
I remember an old comedy bit from when I was a kid. It was a spoof on the old Bic ligher commercial "flick of the Bic sir" where a butler with white gloves asks "pick of the nose sir?" It was intended as humor but it was always possible to find people to be "gentleman's gentlemen" and do jobs "Americans just won't do" (or Brits either.) There was pride in any work, and while today some may think it beneath them there was a whole group of people who proudly did such jobs. An easy job does not give one a sense of pride. Doing a hard or dirty or thanksless job does because only the really dedicated do them.
We need to start teaching those values again. And especially with the young who don't work or bear any real responsibility. Time was the hard and dirty jobs went to teenagers who would learn proper work ethic. From there they would work their way up. But no more; now we think we can just bring in illegal aliens to do this work and our kids can just hang out all day playing on their i-phones.
Well, I did my share of hard and dirty and thankless jobs, starting at age 16 when I could legally work (actually before that as I cut grass and did basic labor for people in the neighborhood.) It was good for me even though I may not have liked it at the time. Built character.
And that is why our young seem so devoid of character these days; they are never challenged, never face tasks that are unpleasant but must be done. If we had had another Great Depression these kids would have been in a world of hurt.
So if Vermont wants illegals to wipe their posteriors then perhaps it's time they build some character in themselves and learned to do the job. At some point everyone has to grow up.
I beg to differ.
Vermont Democrat Rep: Without Illegals, Who Would Wipe Our *sses?
I don't know about the good people of Vermont, but here in Missouri we are taught as children basic personal hygiene.
Oh, and we do fine without illegal nurses. My wife has been in a facility for months now and has requires such services and guess what? Just about every one of her nurses and aids have no accent at all. Plenty of people willing to do it.
Which is interesting as the hospitals she has been in have had quite a few accented folks, meaning hospitals hire based on DEI. But the private nursing home, which undoubtedly pays less, is pretty much immigrant free. Now why do you suppose that is?
There have never been "jobs Americans just won't do" - employers just need to pay market rates and stop looking for bargain basement employees. And the government should stop encouraging illegal immigration. And they need to relax the stifling regulations that lead employers to look outside the system. And we need to get rid of DEI and the other abominations that masquerade as kindness in America. People will do any job if it's worth it for them to do.
I remember an old comedy bit from when I was a kid. It was a spoof on the old Bic ligher commercial "flick of the Bic sir" where a butler with white gloves asks "pick of the nose sir?" It was intended as humor but it was always possible to find people to be "gentleman's gentlemen" and do jobs "Americans just won't do" (or Brits either.) There was pride in any work, and while today some may think it beneath them there was a whole group of people who proudly did such jobs. An easy job does not give one a sense of pride. Doing a hard or dirty or thanksless job does because only the really dedicated do them.
We need to start teaching those values again. And especially with the young who don't work or bear any real responsibility. Time was the hard and dirty jobs went to teenagers who would learn proper work ethic. From there they would work their way up. But no more; now we think we can just bring in illegal aliens to do this work and our kids can just hang out all day playing on their i-phones.
Well, I did my share of hard and dirty and thankless jobs, starting at age 16 when I could legally work (actually before that as I cut grass and did basic labor for people in the neighborhood.) It was good for me even though I may not have liked it at the time. Built character.
And that is why our young seem so devoid of character these days; they are never challenged, never face tasks that are unpleasant but must be done. If we had had another Great Depression these kids would have been in a world of hurt.
So if Vermont wants illegals to wipe their posteriors then perhaps it's time they build some character in themselves and learned to do the job. At some point everyone has to grow up.
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All Hat and no Cattle
Timothy Birdnow
This is hilarious! A white dude in a covid mask says white people deserve to be robbed for stealing land from everyone else and a black guy conversing with him calls his bluff.
White Guy - I Deserve to be Robbed - Guess what Happens Next
Like most liberals the man is all talk. When it comes to his personal stuff he has a very different view.
This is hilarious! A white dude in a covid mask says white people deserve to be robbed for stealing land from everyone else and a black guy conversing with him calls his bluff.
White Guy - I Deserve to be Robbed - Guess what Happens Next
Like most liberals the man is all talk. When it comes to his personal stuff he has a very different view.
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June 05, 2025
Radical in Charge of Ethics at IRS
Timothy Birdnow
You can't make this stuff up!
Obama-Era IRS Scandal Figure Now Heads Agency’s Ethics Division
Yes, the person who brought you the targeting of conservatives by the IRS is now running their ethics division!
FTA:
We won big, our guy is in power, and yet we STILL get the radicals in charge in our bloated bureaucracy. Why wasn't this chick shown the door when DOJE was busy cutting the IRS budget?
The Left is like Athlete's Foot; you have a devil of a time getting rid of them.
You can't make this stuff up!
Obama-Era IRS Scandal Figure Now Heads Agency’s Ethics Division
Yes, the person who brought you the targeting of conservatives by the IRS is now running their ethics division!
FTA:
Elizabeth Kastenberg, who was directly involved in overseeing IRS scrutiny of Tea Party-affiliated organizations seeking tax-exempt status, is now tasked with enforcing professional conduct among tax practitioners, preparers, and other third parties.
Her appointment was highlighted in new research conducted by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), a nonprofit watchdog group, and first reported by the Washington Examiner.
Kastenberg was a central figure during the 2010–2013 IRS controversy, when conservative groups seeking 501(c)(4) nonprofit status were flagged for extra scrutiny.
According to 2013 congressional testimony, Kastenberg was involved in reviewing audits of right-leaning groups and was present at senior-level discussions involving decisions tied to the targeting of those organizations.
A December 2014 House Oversight Committee report stated that Kastenberg was directed by a senior staffer under Lois Lerner—the former IRS official who ultimately resigned over the scandal—to help construct legal grounds to deny tax-exempt status to Tea Party-aligned groups.
Her appointment was highlighted in new research conducted by the American Accountability Foundation (AAF), a nonprofit watchdog group, and first reported by the Washington Examiner.
Kastenberg was a central figure during the 2010–2013 IRS controversy, when conservative groups seeking 501(c)(4) nonprofit status were flagged for extra scrutiny.
According to 2013 congressional testimony, Kastenberg was involved in reviewing audits of right-leaning groups and was present at senior-level discussions involving decisions tied to the targeting of those organizations.
A December 2014 House Oversight Committee report stated that Kastenberg was directed by a senior staffer under Lois Lerner—the former IRS official who ultimately resigned over the scandal—to help construct legal grounds to deny tax-exempt status to Tea Party-aligned groups.
We won big, our guy is in power, and yet we STILL get the radicals in charge in our bloated bureaucracy. Why wasn't this chick shown the door when DOJE was busy cutting the IRS budget?
The Left is like Athlete's Foot; you have a devil of a time getting rid of them.
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Jean-Pierre Quits the Democratic Party
https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-era-white-house-reporters-express-disbelief-karine-jean-pierres-sudden-party-switch
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Judge Blocks Terrorist Family Deportation
Timothy Birdnow
Did anyone doubt it for a minute?
Biden Appointed Judge Blocks Deportation of Bouler Attacker's Family
Bear in mind these are all Egyptian citizens; not one of them is an American.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man who doused Jews attending a peace rally, with an accelerant (probably gasoline) and tossed a molotov cocktail at them, incinerating them because they were Jews. Soliman was here illegally, having overstayed his Visa. That means his wife and children were here illegally as well, no doubt.
So how can a Federal judge issue an injunction to prevent DHS from evicting them from the country? It's not a CRIMINAL charge but an immigration enforcement issue.
FTA:
This isn't punishing these people for the crimes of their father/husband, it's kicking illegal aliens out of the country.
I refer you to this:
This judge is stepping WAY over the line here. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the almost absolute power of the Executive Branch to enforce immigration laws, and have stated in the past that courts have no jurisdiction over the President in this regard. This judge is just making his own law.
In U.S. v Texas the Supreme Court ruled that the courts could not override any immigration priorites set by the President and DHS. At the time this favored the Biden Administration and Allejandro Myorkas, who "deprioritized" deporting anyone. Now that the shoe is on the other foot we are supposed to forget Texas.
I think the Solimon family should be moved into a house next door to judge Gallagher. Then when their makeshift bombs explode he's the one who loses his home.
Did anyone doubt it for a minute?
Biden Appointed Judge Blocks Deportation of Bouler Attacker's Family
Bear in mind these are all Egyptian citizens; not one of them is an American.
Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the man who doused Jews attending a peace rally, with an accelerant (probably gasoline) and tossed a molotov cocktail at them, incinerating them because they were Jews. Soliman was here illegally, having overstayed his Visa. That means his wife and children were here illegally as well, no doubt.
So how can a Federal judge issue an injunction to prevent DHS from evicting them from the country? It's not a CRIMINAL charge but an immigration enforcement issue.
FTA:
U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher granted a request from the family of Mohamed Sabry Soliman to block their deportation, after U.S. immigration officials took them into federal custody Tuesday.
"The court finds that deportation without process could work irreparable harm and an order must issue without notice due to the urgency this situation presents," Gallagher wrote in the order.
[...]
"It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives," attorneys for the family wrote in the lawsuit. "Such methods of collective or family punishment violates the very foundations of a democratic justice system."
Fin
"The court finds that deportation without process could work irreparable harm and an order must issue without notice due to the urgency this situation presents," Gallagher wrote in the order.
[...]
"It is patently unlawful to punish individuals for the crimes of their relatives," attorneys for the family wrote in the lawsuit. "Such methods of collective or family punishment violates the very foundations of a democratic justice system."
Fin
This isn't punishing these people for the crimes of their father/husband, it's kicking illegal aliens out of the country.
I refer you to this:
Under expedited removal processes, certain noncitizens are deported in as little as a single day without an immigration court hearing or other appearance before an immigration judge .
This judge is stepping WAY over the line here. The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed the almost absolute power of the Executive Branch to enforce immigration laws, and have stated in the past that courts have no jurisdiction over the President in this regard. This judge is just making his own law.
In U.S. v Texas the Supreme Court ruled that the courts could not override any immigration priorites set by the President and DHS. At the time this favored the Biden Administration and Allejandro Myorkas, who "deprioritized" deporting anyone. Now that the shoe is on the other foot we are supposed to forget Texas.
I think the Solimon family should be moved into a house next door to judge Gallagher. Then when their makeshift bombs explode he's the one who loses his home.
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S&P Near Record High
Timothy Birdnow
I thought Trump and the tariffs were going to wreck the economy.
S&P 500 nears new record high, live market trading.
I hope he keeps wrecking it' I'm getting rich off all this bad economic news.
I thought Trump and the tariffs were going to wreck the economy.
S&P 500 nears new record high, live market trading.
I hope he keeps wrecking it' I'm getting rich off all this bad economic news.
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Competetive Edge
Timothy Birdnow
There was an old joke about the guy who walks into a bar and says "I can lick any girl in here". (Get your mind out of the gutter; in those days that meant beat in a fight.) Well...
Fearless Imane Khalif XY Gender Test
Turns out this female boxer is really a dude. Oh, and she's an Olympic CHAMPION.
So now we have men beating up on women for fun and profit. What kind of society has this become?
I am mindful of the movie Scary Movie in which "Miss Mann" talks about getting the competitive edge, while "her" scrotum slips out of her gym shorts. It's kinda like that.
There was an old joke about the guy who walks into a bar and says "I can lick any girl in here". (Get your mind out of the gutter; in those days that meant beat in a fight.) Well...
Fearless Imane Khalif XY Gender Test
Turns out this female boxer is really a dude. Oh, and she's an Olympic CHAMPION.
So now we have men beating up on women for fun and profit. What kind of society has this become?
I am mindful of the movie Scary Movie in which "Miss Mann" talks about getting the competitive edge, while "her" scrotum slips out of her gym shorts. It's kinda like that.
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And the Dead Shall Rise ffrom their Graves
Timothy Birdnow
Well, why not? I mean they are all registered voters after all...
Thousands of Dead People Got Student Aid, Trump Admin Finds
Now where do you suppose all that aid went? I have a sneaking suspicion it found it's way into the coffers of the DNC or to Democratic candidates.
Well, why not? I mean they are all registered voters after all...
Thousands of Dead People Got Student Aid, Trump Admin Finds
Now where do you suppose all that aid went? I have a sneaking suspicion it found it's way into the coffers of the DNC or to Democratic candidates.
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Libs: If it Ain't Broke Fix It!
Timothy Birdnow
It's always about the POWER to do it, not what they are doing.
NYS lawmakers want to ban nonstick cookware over chemical that feds say isn’t dangerous
It's always about the POWER to do it, not what they are doing.
NYS lawmakers want to ban nonstick cookware over chemical that feds say isn’t dangerous
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June 04, 2025
Sharia Takes Britain
Timothy Birdnow
Sharia takes Britain!
Blasphemy Law: Man Convicted for Burning Qur’an During London Protest
Under British law it is not a crime to burn a Koran or a Bible, but if you burn a Koran you will be charged with crimes like inciting violence or disorderly conduct. Nothing happens to you if you burn a Bible.
THAT is Sharia; law favoring the Muslims. Britain is fast becoming a caliphate, and King Charles may well be her last monarch. He's presiding over the fall of Britain.
Sharia takes Britain!
Blasphemy Law: Man Convicted for Burning Qur’an During London Protest
Under British law it is not a crime to burn a Koran or a Bible, but if you burn a Koran you will be charged with crimes like inciting violence or disorderly conduct. Nothing happens to you if you burn a Bible.
THAT is Sharia; law favoring the Muslims. Britain is fast becoming a caliphate, and King Charles may well be her last monarch. He's presiding over the fall of Britain.
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"Pride Month" to Become "Family Month"
Timothy Birdnow
Now they're getting it!
GOP Resolution Declares June "Family Month" Instead Of Pride Month
Now they're getting it!
GOP Resolution Declares June "Family Month" Instead Of Pride Month
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Woke American Birthday Party
Timothy Birdnow
A woke Biden appointee and former Obamaite who said "Mexico is my country" is running the planning for America's 250th birthday celebration.
Heavy sigh!
Rosie Rios is currently chairing the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission.
Rios said Mexico is her country. She is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. I could't ascertain if her mother was legal or not.
when asked which Founding Father she most admired she praised Harriett Tubman and Susan B. Anthony! Neither of them were Founding Fathers. Tubman was an abolitionist born in 1822 while Anthony was a suffragette born in 1820. You would think she at least could have said "Betsy Ross" or some other woman from the Revolution.
In other words she's a dimwit. I doubt she knows these two women were not contemporaries of the Founding Fathers.
This will be the most woke celebration ever.
A woke Biden appointee and former Obamaite who said "Mexico is my country" is running the planning for America's 250th birthday celebration.
Heavy sigh!
Rosie Rios is currently chairing the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission.
"She’s trashed President Trump, downplayed the Founding Fathers, and pushed woke identity politics,” Hild wrote, calling Rios out for her apparently loyalty to Mexico over the U.S. and for pushing to "elevate ‘Founding Mothers’ over the Founding Fathers and flood the commemoration with DEI messaging.”
"Let’s be clear: Rosie Rios has no interest in making President Trump’s vision a reality,” the nonprofit director stated. "She was appointed by Biden, and thanks to the recent Trump v. Wilcox decision, President Trump has full authority to remove her. He should — immediately.”
Will Held
"The person in charge of our 250th anniversary shouldn’t struggle to choose between America and another country,”
"America is a unique, distinctive, sovereign nation and people. Our 250th anniversary should be a celebration of our unique, distinctive history and heritage.”
"Let’s be clear: Rosie Rios has no interest in making President Trump’s vision a reality,” the nonprofit director stated. "She was appointed by Biden, and thanks to the recent Trump v. Wilcox decision, President Trump has full authority to remove her. He should — immediately.”
Will Held
"The person in charge of our 250th anniversary shouldn’t struggle to choose between America and another country,”
"America is a unique, distinctive, sovereign nation and people. Our 250th anniversary should be a celebration of our unique, distinctive history and heritage.”
Senator Eric Schmidt
Rios said Mexico is her country. She is the daughter of a Mexican immigrant. I could't ascertain if her mother was legal or not.
when asked which Founding Father she most admired she praised Harriett Tubman and Susan B. Anthony! Neither of them were Founding Fathers. Tubman was an abolitionist born in 1822 while Anthony was a suffragette born in 1820. You would think she at least could have said "Betsy Ross" or some other woman from the Revolution.
In other words she's a dimwit. I doubt she knows these two women were not contemporaries of the Founding Fathers.
This will be the most woke celebration ever.
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Irrationality at Reason
Timothy Birdnow
More proof libertarians just don't get it. Neither do some of the so-called "constitutionalists" who have conveniently forgotten that the Constitution has been used as toiletry for decades now and is now being employed as a weapon to preserve the power of those who befouled it.
The president treats legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat
Most of these "legal constraints" of which he bemoans were put in place not that long ago and are tools to stymie any effort to truly reform Washington.
FTA:
I Suppose author Jacob Sullum can be forgiven for not knowing that the very next day an appalate court overturned this ruling. So if it was a case of Trump treating "legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat" then apparently an independent court is doing the same.
The fact is Congress granted this authority to the President and it's been used by almost every President since Carter. There are no constraints written into the law. IF Congress doesn't like it they can pass a law overturning it, but they won't.
Trump HAS to move with great dispatch. He has two years of guaranteed momentum. If the GOP loses the midterms there will be no legal remedies for anything and Trump knows that. He has to act decisively and now. And this is exactly what the public voted for when they elected a man convicted of a felony to be President.
The article continues:
Now we have as many as 30 MILLION illegal aliens scattered all around the country and this dimwit thinks we should deport under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which would reqauire a lenthy hearing and appeal from each and every one of these thirty million. Even if the number is half that (and I don't believe it for a second) we're talking about fifteen MILLION trials. This guy is writing for a magazine called Reason; he should be capable of doing basic math.
And the longer these people stay the more damage they do. They are suckling off the government and stealing taxpayer dollars at a time when we can't afford it. They are stealing jobs from Americans who want to work. They have already inflated the housing prices. And we know there are terrorists here too; we just saw one terrorist attack in Colorado by an illegal alien.
You are going to find it extremely hard to deport these people the longer they stay; look at the "Dreamers" who were only supposed to be here temporarily.
And Trump was elected to a large extent by promising to kick these people out of the country. The public wants this.
Again, time is of the essence, and the longer it takes to get going the more the opposition will organize to resist. Just look at that judge who helped a criminal illegal alien escape ICE! That will metastasize if we dilly-dalley.
To continue:
So this fellow would rather follow form, ignoring the fact that most of the illegal aliens here are precisely that and the Biden Administration broke the law letting them in. He reminds me of the quartermaster in the movie Zulu Dawn; yelling at desperate soldiers trying to get bullets and carefully, slowing meting them out while British soldiers were falling to the onslaught of Zulu warriors.
I tire of these Ashley Wilkes types who are happy to lose as long as they can tell themselves they are the bigger person, and haven't sullied their pointless honor by getting down and dirty in the political mud. We've been cursed by those types for generations now. There are many on the Right who were happy being losers and having their own little fiefdoms. Trump came along and showed how to win - and they don't want to win. Better to lose with good form!
There are times for being slow and deliberate; this isn't one of them. We need to move. We have for decades been trapped like flies in amber, with the rising tide of radicalism pushing ever forward and people who do not understand that this is in fact a war for our very survival, that our nation is at stake, argue for slavish obeisance to the law and a slow, phegmatic approach which doesn't catch up to where we once were before the Left ran roughshod. It's a loser's game.
Uh, Trump and DHS were not trying to deport criminals alone. He wants to kick out so many of the radicals who are here, and especially in the universities. This author has to know he isn't going to get anyone out using the byzantine procedures in place. Everything in America is aimed at making it easy to get in, hard to get out. It's like a prison - there's a one-way door. It's been under construction since Ted Kennedy reformed our immigration laws back in the sixties.
Here the author's heart is revealed and his Nevertrump pathology is on display:
But who is disregarding the law? Trump has faced more judicial challenges than any President in history; it's a planned play by the Democrats. They are calling in all their favors from judges who have had it easy until now. The LAW isn't being followed; it's being used as a weapon to stop Trump from enacting the agenda he was elected to enact. Trump has won most of these challenges on appeal, but that sucks up time and costs American taxpayers money. The Democrats are afraid to oppose him too vigorously; it only makes him more popular. So they are using their pet judges.
I would add Joe Biden appointed most of them. Biden appointed 252 judges to the Federal Bench. Obama appointed the largest share of currently active federal judges at 38%, or 334 judges, while George W. Bush named 20%. Clinton appointed 11%. The fact is enemies of MAGA infest most of our courts.
And this author thinks using the system is going to work. Fat chance. Especially since Trump is trying to restore the old system and break the new, and all of these judges are there because they came out of Babylon.
Mr. Sullum concludes with a quote from John Marshall (the guy who granted himself the power of judicial review despite it not being anywehre in the Constitution) saying it is the province of judges to say what the law is. That's fine but they aren't doing that; they are rewriting the law to say what THEY want it to say. We have Trump precisely because of judicial activism.
Trump DOES care, contrary to what Sullum says. He cares enough to fight against the creeping usurpation of power by courts. Trump is doing nothing that previous Presidents hadn't already done. The difference is that his enemies will use any and all means, fair and foul, to stop the restoration of the Republic.
I would think a publicatin named Reason would feature more than cartoonish logic and mischaracterizations.
More proof libertarians just don't get it. Neither do some of the so-called "constitutionalists" who have conveniently forgotten that the Constitution has been used as toiletry for decades now and is now being employed as a weapon to preserve the power of those who befouled it.
The president treats legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat
Most of these "legal constraints" of which he bemoans were put in place not that long ago and are tools to stymie any effort to truly reform Washington.
FTA:
"Last week, a federal court ruled that President Donald Trump had exceeded his statutory authority by imposing a raft of tariffs based on the "national emergency" supposedly caused by the longstanding U.S. trade deficit. Those tariffs are part of an alarming pattern: In his rush to enact his agenda, Trump frequently treats legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat.
The U.S. Court of International Trade rejected Trump's reliance on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify sweeping import taxes he announced in February and April. The three-judge panel said that 48-year-old law, which does not even mention tariffs and had never been used this way before, does not authorize the president to "impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world."
The U.S. Court of International Trade rejected Trump's reliance on the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) to justify sweeping import taxes he announced in February and April. The three-judge panel said that 48-year-old law, which does not even mention tariffs and had never been used this way before, does not authorize the president to "impose unlimited tariffs on goods from nearly every country in the world."
I Suppose author Jacob Sullum can be forgiven for not knowing that the very next day an appalate court overturned this ruling. So if it was a case of Trump treating "legal constraints as inconveniences that can be overridden by executive fiat" then apparently an independent court is doing the same.
The fact is Congress granted this authority to the President and it's been used by almost every President since Carter. There are no constraints written into the law. IF Congress doesn't like it they can pass a law overturning it, but they won't.
Trump HAS to move with great dispatch. He has two years of guaranteed momentum. If the GOP loses the midterms there will be no legal remedies for anything and Trump knows that. He has to act decisively and now. And this is exactly what the public voted for when they elected a man convicted of a felony to be President.
The article continues:
"Trump's immigration crackdown features similar legal shortcuts. After he asserted the power to summarily deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang as "alien enemies," for example, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that they had a due process right to contest that designation.
That decision did not address Trump's dubious interpretation of the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act. But several federal judges, including a Trump appointee, subsequently concluded that it made no sense to portray gang members as "natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects" of a "hostile nation or government" that had launched an "invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States."
As with tariffs, Trump had a more legally defensible option: deportation of unauthorized residents under the Immigration and Nationality Act. But in both cases, he chose the course he thought would avoid pesky procedural requirements.
That decision did not address Trump's dubious interpretation of the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act. But several federal judges, including a Trump appointee, subsequently concluded that it made no sense to portray gang members as "natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects" of a "hostile nation or government" that had launched an "invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States."
As with tariffs, Trump had a more legally defensible option: deportation of unauthorized residents under the Immigration and Nationality Act. But in both cases, he chose the course he thought would avoid pesky procedural requirements.
Now we have as many as 30 MILLION illegal aliens scattered all around the country and this dimwit thinks we should deport under the Immigration and Nationality Act, which would reqauire a lenthy hearing and appeal from each and every one of these thirty million. Even if the number is half that (and I don't believe it for a second) we're talking about fifteen MILLION trials. This guy is writing for a magazine called Reason; he should be capable of doing basic math.
And the longer these people stay the more damage they do. They are suckling off the government and stealing taxpayer dollars at a time when we can't afford it. They are stealing jobs from Americans who want to work. They have already inflated the housing prices. And we know there are terrorists here too; we just saw one terrorist attack in Colorado by an illegal alien.
You are going to find it extremely hard to deport these people the longer they stay; look at the "Dreamers" who were only supposed to be here temporarily.
And Trump was elected to a large extent by promising to kick these people out of the country. The public wants this.
Again, time is of the essence, and the longer it takes to get going the more the opposition will organize to resist. Just look at that judge who helped a criminal illegal alien escape ICE! That will metastasize if we dilly-dalley.
To continue:
"Trump's immigration crackdown features similar legal shortcuts. After he asserted the power to summarily deport alleged members of a Venezuelan gang as "alien enemies," for example, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that they had a due process right to contest that designation.
That decision did not address Trump's dubious interpretation of the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act. But several federal judges, including a Trump appointee, subsequently concluded that it made no sense to portray gang members as "natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects" of a "hostile nation or government" that had launched an "invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States."
As with tariffs, Trump had a more legally defensible option: deportation of unauthorized residents under the Immigration and Nationality Act. But in both cases, he chose the course he thought would avoid pesky procedural requirements.
Something similar happened when Immigration and Customs Enforcement suddenly terminated thousands of records in the database of foreign students with visas authorizing them to attend American universities. Although that move was described as part of a "Student Criminal Alien Initiative," it affected many people without disqualifying criminal records—in some cases, without any criminal records at all.
Those terminations "reflect an instinct that has become prevalent in our society to effectuate change: move fast and break things," U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White wrote when he issued a preliminary injunction against the initiative on May 22. "That instinct must be checked when it conflicts with established principles of law."
The same instinct is apparent in Trump's conflict with Harvard University. The administration froze more than $2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard, ostensibly because the university, by tolerating antisemitism on campus, had failed to meet its "responsibility to uphold civil rights laws."
That decision ignored the legal process for rescinding federal funding based on such alleged violations. The process includes "a lot of steps, but they're important," the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression notes. "They protect students by making sure colleges live up to their obligations. And they protect colleges by making sure they have an opportunity to contest the allegations as well as a chance to make things right.
That decision did not address Trump's dubious interpretation of the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act. But several federal judges, including a Trump appointee, subsequently concluded that it made no sense to portray gang members as "natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects" of a "hostile nation or government" that had launched an "invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States."
As with tariffs, Trump had a more legally defensible option: deportation of unauthorized residents under the Immigration and Nationality Act. But in both cases, he chose the course he thought would avoid pesky procedural requirements.
Something similar happened when Immigration and Customs Enforcement suddenly terminated thousands of records in the database of foreign students with visas authorizing them to attend American universities. Although that move was described as part of a "Student Criminal Alien Initiative," it affected many people without disqualifying criminal records—in some cases, without any criminal records at all.
Those terminations "reflect an instinct that has become prevalent in our society to effectuate change: move fast and break things," U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White wrote when he issued a preliminary injunction against the initiative on May 22. "That instinct must be checked when it conflicts with established principles of law."
The same instinct is apparent in Trump's conflict with Harvard University. The administration froze more than $2 billion in federal research grants to Harvard, ostensibly because the university, by tolerating antisemitism on campus, had failed to meet its "responsibility to uphold civil rights laws."
That decision ignored the legal process for rescinding federal funding based on such alleged violations. The process includes "a lot of steps, but they're important," the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression notes. "They protect students by making sure colleges live up to their obligations. And they protect colleges by making sure they have an opportunity to contest the allegations as well as a chance to make things right.
So this fellow would rather follow form, ignoring the fact that most of the illegal aliens here are precisely that and the Biden Administration broke the law letting them in. He reminds me of the quartermaster in the movie Zulu Dawn; yelling at desperate soldiers trying to get bullets and carefully, slowing meting them out while British soldiers were falling to the onslaught of Zulu warriors.
I tire of these Ashley Wilkes types who are happy to lose as long as they can tell themselves they are the bigger person, and haven't sullied their pointless honor by getting down and dirty in the political mud. We've been cursed by those types for generations now. There are many on the Right who were happy being losers and having their own little fiefdoms. Trump came along and showed how to win - and they don't want to win. Better to lose with good form!
There are times for being slow and deliberate; this isn't one of them. We need to move. We have for decades been trapped like flies in amber, with the rising tide of radicalism pushing ever forward and people who do not understand that this is in fact a war for our very survival, that our nation is at stake, argue for slavish obeisance to the law and a slow, phegmatic approach which doesn't catch up to where we once were before the Left ran roughshod. It's a loser's game.
Uh, Trump and DHS were not trying to deport criminals alone. He wants to kick out so many of the radicals who are here, and especially in the universities. This author has to know he isn't going to get anyone out using the byzantine procedures in place. Everything in America is aimed at making it easy to get in, hard to get out. It's like a prison - there's a one-way door. It's been under construction since Ted Kennedy reformed our immigration laws back in the sixties.
Here the author's heart is revealed and his Nevertrump pathology is on display:
Trump's disregard for the law is coupled with angry dismay at judicial review. As he sees it, any judge who dares to impede his will is a "Radical Left Lunatic," a "troublemaker" and "agitator" who "should be IMPEACHED!!!
But who is disregarding the law? Trump has faced more judicial challenges than any President in history; it's a planned play by the Democrats. They are calling in all their favors from judges who have had it easy until now. The LAW isn't being followed; it's being used as a weapon to stop Trump from enacting the agenda he was elected to enact. Trump has won most of these challenges on appeal, but that sucks up time and costs American taxpayers money. The Democrats are afraid to oppose him too vigorously; it only makes him more popular. So they are using their pet judges.
I would add Joe Biden appointed most of them. Biden appointed 252 judges to the Federal Bench. Obama appointed the largest share of currently active federal judges at 38%, or 334 judges, while George W. Bush named 20%. Clinton appointed 11%. The fact is enemies of MAGA infest most of our courts.
And this author thinks using the system is going to work. Fat chance. Especially since Trump is trying to restore the old system and break the new, and all of these judges are there because they came out of Babylon.
Mr. Sullum concludes with a quote from John Marshall (the guy who granted himself the power of judicial review despite it not being anywehre in the Constitution) saying it is the province of judges to say what the law is. That's fine but they aren't doing that; they are rewriting the law to say what THEY want it to say. We have Trump precisely because of judicial activism.
Trump DOES care, contrary to what Sullum says. He cares enough to fight against the creeping usurpation of power by courts. Trump is doing nothing that previous Presidents hadn't already done. The difference is that his enemies will use any and all means, fair and foul, to stop the restoration of the Republic.
I would think a publicatin named Reason would feature more than cartoonish logic and mischaracterizations.
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