The Administration Is Playing Dumb

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"To date nothing has been done," federal Judge Paula Xinis told a lawyer with the Department of Justice (DOJ), rebuking them, referring to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. "Nothing."

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned decision this past Thursday instructing the Trump administration to facilitate the Salvadoran man's return to the United States. "The order properly requires the Government to 'facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador," said the ruling.

This has not happened. Now, Xinis is investigating why—and receiving rather dissatisfying responses from the administration and its lawyers.

"If Abrego Garcia presents himself at a port of entry," DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign told Xinis at a hearing yesterday, "we will facilitate his entry to the United States." This is an obnoxious and unserious response, as Abrego Garcia is currently locked up in El Salvador's Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT), a maximum-security prison, and thus unable to board a freaking Avianca flight and roll up to customs at Dulles airport.

"There will be no tolerance for gamesmanship or grandstanding," said Xinis at yesterday's hearing, the start of a two-week inquiry into what the Trump administration is doing to facilitate Abrego Garcia's return.

Over the course of this inquiry, "four senior officials from the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State will have to sit for depositions by April 23," reports Politico, describing these as "essentially out-of-court interviews in which the officials will have to answer questions under oath from Abrego Garcia's lawyers."

Xinis summed up her thoughts on the government's very passive stance toward complying with the Supreme Court's order to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return: "Defendants therefore remain obligated, at a minimum, to take the steps available to them toward aiding, assisting, or making easier Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador." Ensign playing dumb won't cut it, in other words.

"The government has not even unambiguously requested his return," one of Abrego Garcia's lawyers said yesterday in court, adding that it's not uncommon for the U.S. to do so in immigration cases. "The government routinely seeks return by taking low-level actions outside the United States that do not implicate foreign policy."

"How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?" said Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Monday from the Oval Office, where he was meeting with President Donald Trump. "I don't have the power to return him to the United States." Vice President J.D. Vance took to X to call Abrego Garcia a "gang member." Then multiple Fox News commentators sounded off on the case, with once-libertarian Greg Gutfeld saying "At worst, a guy gets sent to a country he doesn't want to go to—you know what? I can live with that."

That's a wild way to describe Abrego Garcia being wrongly deported to CECOT, El Salvador's worst and most brutal prison, despite a judge granting him withholding of removal in 2019, having found his fear of persecution in El Salvador credible and protecting him from exactly this fate. Now, he's being tarred by Bukele, Vance, Trump, and their media helpers, called an MS-13 member when the only evidence we have to establish that comes from a police informant saying so and the fact that he was wearing a Chicago Bulls hoodie. Where's the justice in that?

Now, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–Md.)—who counts Abrego Garcia and his family as his constituents—is traveling to El Salvador to attempt to speak with him and report back to his family about his condition. "We were in the gray zone before this. But if the Trump administration continues to thumb its nose at the federal courts in this case we're in, we're clearly in constitutional crisis territory," said Van Hollen.

JUST IN: Sen. Van Hollen says he is going to El Salvador tomorrow to see if he can talk to Abrego Garcia.

— Kyle Cheney (@kyledcheney.bsky.social) 2025-04-15T23:02:59.039Z

Trump's deporting "home-growns" plan: Useful thread from Cato expert David Bier, quoted in yesterday's Roundup. (The origin of that 500-mile rule? The legislation Trump himself signed into law.)

In case you were wondering, the US code provides for incarceration by the Bureau of Prisons for anyone sentenced under federal law. And it needs to be as close as practicable to the prisoner's primary residence and within 500 miles of that residence (rules out El Salvador). https://t.co/8ZLmNwYKRC pic.twitter.com/tUoKjVR0OI

— David J. Bier (@David_J_Bier) April 15, 2025

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Scenes from New York: Are we seriously going to have Mayor Andrew Cuomo? "Two influential New York City labor unions that backed Mayor Eric Adams in 2021 switched their support on Monday to former Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, reflecting his growing dominance as the race for mayor accelerates," reports The New York Times. The unions—the Hotel and Gaming Trades Council and Local 32BJ of the Service Employees International Union—have a combined 125,000 members and are (unfortunately) politically important within New York City.

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Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Administration Is Playing Dumb

The previous administration had to play coherent, so this is a step up.

[Minadin]

Yeah, at least this one is only playing with the dumb.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

From the short bus to the kids in detention.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

At least dems brought back the incoherent last night to talk about being shocked by colored people on a bus.

[Randy Sax]

They can't get ID and they don't know what a computer is. How do you expect them to know what a bus is?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Do you really want THAT to be the face of your bran(D)?!

[mad.casual]

Trump is so youthful and facile at playing dumb that the 20 and 30-something journalists around him struggle to keep up.

[Anomalous]

They're not playing.

[Quicktown Brix]

I told you Fist is a national treasure. Here's the proof.

[Fist of Etiquette]

I've been saying this for years.

[Dillinger]

ya that was a good first line.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Gavin Newsom is asking for a $2.8 billion BAILOUT for CA’s Medicaid program after he opened it up to illegals. This is on top of a $3.4 billion loan issued last week.

This marks nearly $6.2 billion in just a few weeks. Why should taxpayers fund Medicaid for illegals?

[Idaho-Bob]

Virtue signaling.

The leftists do not give a shit about Americans. It's quite the opposite in fact.

[Marshal]

Left wingers have never imagined a dollar they didn't spend twice. Every dollar they spend creates pressure to raise taxes, and government control of all funds is their top priority.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Keyenesian multiplier > 1 is still used by the CBO for scoring of democrat authored bills at their request. Pelosi was famous for 1.4 multiplier. The highest multiplier that had been found in actual data is .3.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Is that .3 of 1%?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Multiplier.

Spend 1000 by government, get 300 in value.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

I’m sure the food truck industry brought in at least that much over the same time.

[Mickey Rat]

Toxic empathy is a social contract suicide pact.

[mad.casual]

Yeah, "Empathy without expectation is enablement." is the turn of phrase I picked up recently.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://fee.org/articles/book-review-the-tragedy-of-american-compassion-by-marvin-olasky/

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

I like Gad Saad’s Suicidal Empathy.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The actual total is 12B over the last year alone.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

To defy Trump?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Just like with Sarcasmic, everything was projection with the Trump charges.

In a Monday night letter, William J. Pulter, director of the U.S. Federal Housing Agency (FHFA), referred New York Attorney General Letitia James to the Department of Justice for prosecution of mortgage fraud.

"Pursuant to my authority as Director of the U.S. Federal Housing Finance Agency (“U.S.Federal Housing” or “FHFA”), I am referring the matter below. As regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Home Loan Banks, we take very seriously allegations of mortgage fraud or other criminal activity. Such misconduct jeopardizes the safety and soundness of FHFA’s regulated entities and the security and stability of the U.S. mortgage market."

"...US Federal Housing has identified matters that are appropriate for referral to the U.S. Department of Justice for consideration of criminal prosecution."

"...Ms. Letitia James has, in multiple instances, falsified bank documents and property records to acquire government backed assistance and loans and more favorable loan terms."

"1) Falsifying residence status for a Norfolk, Virginia-based home in order to secure a lower mortgage rate, and 2) Misrepresenting property descriptions to meet stringent requirements for government backed loans and government assistance"

"In a FannieMae/Freddie Mac Form 3047 and in mortgage documents, she reaffirmed [the Norfok, Va., home] would be her primary residence, despite being a statewide public office holder in the state of New York at that same time and primarily residing in the state of New York,"

The state of New York requires the attorney general to live in the state. She lied on the application forms, claiming the Norfolk home would be her primary residence. In addition, she listed a property in Brooklyn, N.Y., as "four units instead of five units in order to meet the conforming loan requirements, and thus receive better interest rates."

"Ms. James, for both properties listed above, appears to have falsified records in order to meet certain lending requirements and receive favorable loan terms."

Misconduct like this violates multiple federal laws, including wire fraud, mail fraud, and bank fraud. In addition to state laws.

[Idaho-Bob]

Whoa, wait a minute.

You forgot the "democrats did it first" mantra.

Trump is just being vengeful.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

But if she gives the loan documents back, she isn't guilty. Ask sarc.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Where's Sarcasmic when you need him? Saving the day somewhere else?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

He was crying pretty badly yesterday about how he is misunderstood because I post his actual comments.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Just yesterday?

[Jefferson Paul]

Every day ending in "y."

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

I had him on the list for a while. But did see repeated calls to JDS which made me laugh.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I had the odd thought the other day that Nelson is a sock Sarc uses when he's sober...

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Same level of intelligence. But Nelson is far more obvious to be a Democrat.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

For some reason, that makes some kind of sense. I could totally see Sarcasmic socking as Nelson.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Busy building strawmen in other threads.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Democrats used strawman arguments first, so it is okay.

[Don't look at me! (No longer muted!)]

Probably inflated the value of those properties, the biggest crime known to man.

[damikesc]

Actually, with some of her fraud, her prosecution of Trump becomes null and void. She claimed Virginia was her primary home and, with that, she violated the law on being AG of NY. That entire nonsense should be nullified.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You guys are forgetting about the New Justice, based on woke intersectionality, moral reparations, and banana-flavored politics.

[Marshal]

Interest and insurance rates are lower on primary homes, so she designated the home as primary to get the lower rates.

[Anomalous]

She also named her father as her husband on the loan applications.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Yep. Projection. Virtually everything the left denounces is simply an admission of things they are currently doing but that they don't want the other side to do.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

James has releases a statement. Absent in that statement was a denial of the claims against her.

[Quicktown Brix]

Even with severe advanced TDS, I find this hilarious.

[Fats of Fury]

Time to put her fat ass in jail.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

She could share a cell with big fat Fanni and a trans illegal immigrant of color, just for yucks.

That’s a good sitcom premise. Livestream that shit.

[charliehall]

New York law allows you to have multiple primary residences and pick whichever one you want as your voting address. NY politicians have been doing this for a long time. For example, the late Sen. James Buckley actually lived in Connecticut.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned decision this past Thursday instructing the Trump administration to facilitate the Salvadoran man's return to the United States.

This ruling compelling action essentially attempts to make the president a SLAVE to the other branches!

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Bring out the gimp

[Randy Sax]

I read the volokh comments about this. Basically, the guy is in El Salvador, Trump is not in charge of El Salvador, nor are the courts. The word "facilitate" has pretty much no meaning. The courts cannot force the executive to conduct foreign policy the way they want. That's why the word "effectuate" was was struck from the order. If Bukele says "no", that's the end of the conversation.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Which he did in the best way possible: by mocking that bitch from CNN.

[Fats of Fury]

The ruling needed more penumbras and emanations and maybe a bit of foot stamping.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Months after CEO's killing, an intruder is arrested near UnitedHealthcare headquarters in Minnesota

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Is he as dreamy as the other perp?

[Ajsloss]

Morally good.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Now, Xinis is investigating why—and receiving rather dissatisfying responses from the administration and its lawyers.

How is no one talking about how we have an apparent SPACE ALIEN sitting behind the bench???

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

I want to know when inferior court judges were granted the office of the president.

[mad.casual]

Space Alien... ungendered Mexican female penis... jurist... who among us is an intergalactic transnational xenobiologist, really?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Do we really need another First [fill in blank] Dog Catcher article? She's a Space Alien, get over it people. And no I won't be using Space Alien pronouns, assimilate or get off our rock.

[Fist of Etiquette]

WHERE IS HER ALLEGIANCE?

[Spiritus Mundi]

Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

I believe her home planet was destroyed by Climate Change and now she is a rogue maverick who stops off at different planets solving problems while juggling her 3 kids and her lesbian love interest on planet.

At least that is what I'm trying to sell to Disney.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Make her love interest a tranny, and you're gold!

[Fats of Fury]

Miss Swan say "She looka like a man".

[Dillinger]

always good to know someone else remembers Ms. Swan

[Jefferson Paul]

It was the same routine done repeatedly, but I couldn't help but laugh for every situation Ms. Swan found herself in, leading to her inevitable catch phrase.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"If Abrego Garcia presents himself at a port of entry," DOJ lawyer Drew Ensign told Xinis at a hearing yesterday, "we will facilitate his entry to the United States."

The president helps those who help themselves.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Will they fund a phone app to help Garcia navigate to the border?

[Don't look at me! (No longer muted!)]

This is bad, as Reuters and the Associated Press tend to be relatively reliable, with less spin than places like The Washington Post:

LOL

[Fist of Etiquette]

Relatively is doing a whole lot of work there.

[Spiritus Mundi]

"Reportedly"

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Literally"?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

[Fist of Etiquette]

Exactly my point.

[Mike Parsons]

The AP is quite literally the reason for the press briefing turning into the shit show that it did over the years, and are absolutely a partisan hack outfit.

[mad.casual]

Both for the "relatively" and the "Are you *sure* that's what you want?" pwnage.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Imagine how upset Liz would be if they took my suggestion.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Al Reuters and Associated Propaganda can always be relied on to be partisan shills.

[Super Scary]

As a "person familiar with their thinking," I'm calling bullshit.

[Fist of Etiquette]

"How can I smuggle a terrorist into the United States?" said Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele on Monday from the Oval Office...

Why, the American way: get your courts to facilitate it.

[damikesc]

""To date nothing has been done," federal Judge Paula Xinis told a lawyer with the Department of Justice (DOJ), rebuking them, referring to the Kilmar Abrego Garcia case. "Nothing.""

Good, it should not be. They should do NOTHING this clown in a robe wants. In fact, they should look to remove her power to convict people by looking at her history and finding all of her overturned convictions.

They'd have as much a right to do so as she does to demand info on international diplomacy.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned decision this past Thursday instructing the Trump administration to facilitate the Salvadoran man's return to the United States

Why does Reason keep on outright lying about this? Everyone can read the decision.

This is like when chemjeff and sarcasmic try to lie about what an original post said, when it's in the same thread just one or two posts above their own.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

It has been amazingly consistent with the bullshittery. Like Damon linking to Sotomayors statement yesterday.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What? You reject Latina wisdom?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

An entire article on Stephen Miller being wrong where Damon used her statement instead of the unsigned direction to the DoJ and Judge.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Why does Reason keep on outright lying about this?

Because they’re following the liberal-tarian propaganda playbook. It’s the open borders/food trucks part.

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

“…., Salvadoran man’s return….”

Hey, at least she didn’t say “Maryland man’s return..”

Baby steps.

[Fist of Etiquette]

JUST IN: Sen. Van Hollen says he is going to El Salvador tomorrow to see if he can talk to Abrego Garcia.

I wonder how much effort these people put into helping the Americans they were elected to represent.

[damikesc]

This sounds a lot like a Logan Act violation.

Just sayin'.

If only the Dems cared about citizens. At all.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Citizens" is racist!

[mad.casual]

Do you think that he can't find North Carolina on a map... or that he can?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Letitia James referred to the DoJ for multiple counts of mortgage fraud. Primary residence false declaration. Declaring her dad is her husband (got some Omar in her). Of course yesterday she announced an investigation into Trump about insider trading.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-administration-refers-ny-ag-letitia-james-possible-prosecution-allegations-mortgage-fraud

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

CNN: "We do NOT hate America"

Also CNN: [clip]

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

The corporate press are the enemy of the people.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

You may think you hate them enough, but you don't.

[Mike Parsons]

The retort the one cunt comes back with "first of all, America was never great" has been uttered by so many MSM pundits its basically a cliche at this point.

They hate the country out and open. I dont know why they would even bother trying to hide it other than the fun of gaslighting

[Marshal]

They've always been able to get away with both saying it and denying saying it. The beauty of a media & education monopoly is that there is noting left to pierce the propaganda.

The internet broke the media monopoly, and the next step is for red states to take back their education systems from the extreme left. Trump is addressing this, but not in the best way. He should be cutting off the grants and federal funding while the states appoint new leadership.

Trump should also launch a civil rights investigation into Title IX with the end goal of eradicating it completely and preventing federal funds from going to any entity which employs anyone involved in the development or implementation of Title IX pursuant to the illegally issued Dear Colleague Letter from the Obama Era.

Separately, isn't it interesting that so many people claim Due Process is a critical first step, yet none of these people criticize Title IX for completely eradicating Due Process. As usual left wingers only care how their allies are treated. They couldn't care less about the general public.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Obviously this young British racist isn't enjoying her cultural enrichment. We need to send Fiona over to explain about food trucks and doing the jobs indigenous Britons don't want to do.

I am sick to my stomach that this rape gang scandal was ever allowed to happen in what so many call a ‘civilised country’.

We cannot claim to be civilised while children were abused and failed like this. And yet every time the truth surfaces, it’s buried again under the next wave of headlines. It keeps coming up, then fading away — but this can’t be something we forget because the news moves on.

This horror doesn’t just stop overnight. Without a proper national inquiry, it’s extremely likely this is still happening in towns and cities across the UK today.

Survivors deserve justice, and those who still don’t understand the sheer severity of this crisis will only realise it if we keep going, keep speaking out, and refuse to let this be pushed aside again.

[damikesc]

If only those child rapists posted memes online, THEN we'd see some action.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Meanwhile:

THIS Labour government has many delusions, but perhaps most astonishing is that it seems to believe we still live in the pre-internet era. That’s the only possible explanation for Jess Phillips, Minister for Safeguarding and Violence Against Women and Girls, sneaking into the Chamber on Tuesday afternoon, hours before the Commons broke for Easter Recess, in the hope of brushing the betrayal of grooming gang survivors under the carpet.

By all accounts, her fellow Parliamentarians were given just 45 minutes’ notice of the statement that Phillips read out. Phillips herself seemed almost bored by what she was reading, racing through it at breakneck speed with the attitude of a surly teenager. But the words are there in Hansard, available to all online. They read: ‘We will set out the process through which local authorities can access the £5million national fund to support locally-led work on grooming gangs.’

In other words, the five inquiries for which the £5million had been earmarked have been scrapped. Instead, any local authority will be able to apply for funding for ‘more bespoke work’ – victims’ panels, audits of the handling of historical cases, and suchlike. With more than 50 towns implicated in the atrocity, that £5million won’t stretch very far.

[Medulla Oblongata]

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/04/16/time-to-break-the-culture-of-silence-on-grooming-gangs/

Earlier this month, the UK government’s safeguarding minister, Jess Phillips, delivered yet another betrayal to grooming-gangs victims. Having promised to hold five local inquiries in areas where the gangs were operating, Phillips announced that there would now only be one local inquiry – in Oldham.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

They said they were sorry. - Jeff.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Plus you know how British 10 year old girls like to hit the bottle. Waddaya gonna do, amiright?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

In their culture drunk 10 year old girls are the aggressors whose parents should be arrested when they came to get them.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Any apology is simply taqiyya.

[mad.casual]

Once again, here's Shikha Dalmia, in Reason Magazine, in 2016, telling you to purge libraries of a book because in a discussion about immigration, mob mentality, wanton murder in support of eradication of Western Civilization, and open rape of women and children... the worst thing anyone could possibly do is portray those people, who happen to have come from S. Asia/India, as terrible people.

They don't care about children being murdered or raped. They don't care about the destruction of all of human history. They don't care about anyone's culture. They only care about making people bend the knee. And if they have to steal and burn and rape and imprison and shoot people in the back to make that happen, it's you who is immoral for doubting their own righteousness.

[Randy Sax]

You know who else wrote a book that is considered racist?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Mark Twain?

[Fats of Fury]

Dr Seuss?
Laura Ingalls?

[Dillinger]

Alex Haley?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Matthew, Mark, Luke and John?

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

J.R.R. Tolkien?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Salman Rushdie?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Dems really love being on the 20% side of an issue.

Sending delegation to El Salvador prisons. They do more for illegal immigrants ordered deported than they do for citizens arrested abroad.

https://www.axios.com/2025/04/15/house-democrats-el-salvador-cecot-trump-bukele?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial&utm_medium=social

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Speaking of being the 20%ers, the Guardian and Mother Jones just came out against dogs.

Apparently your best friend is now the one killing the planet. The government should do something.

Nothing like hating peoples dogs to garner more support.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The rise of the cat ladies will not be stopped.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

The UK wanted to kill all cats during Covid. These assholes don’t like any pets or livestock whatsoever.

[Randy Sax]

Peta is an extensionist cult.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

I do see some hypocrisy in self-proclaimed socialists owning dogs.

[VinniUSMC]

Someone at Guardian has a "word-a-day" calendar and really, really wanted to show off how SMRT they are.

[Randy Sax]

ATF celebrates new environmentally conscientious award.

[mad.casual]

They're free to come and try and take Bulletsponge and Meatshield.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The Ancient North Eurasian People, ancestors to both northern Europeans and native Americans, probably domesticated the dog between 24,000 and 36,000 years ago.

They would have predated other domestication events by 20,000 years. If you're psychotically misanthropic and hate humans, you're going to hate their oldest and best friends too.

[Quicktown Brix]

In Australia, attacks by unrestrained dogs on little penguins in Tasmania may contribute to colony collapse

It always comes back to the penguins.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

This guy gets it.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

This is why we need tariffs.

[See.More]

In Australia, attacks by unrestrained dogs on little penguins in Tasmania may contribute to colony collapse

It always comes back to the penguins.

You cut off the quote before the telling phrase, "modelling suggests."

They have no evidence. Just suggestions from modelling.

[Fats of Fury]

They should get some machine guns, a helicopter, dig up Charles Bronson and break this guy out.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...the US code provides for incarceration by the Bureau of Prisons for anyone sentenced under federal law. And it needs to be as close as practicable to the prisoner's primary residence and within 500 miles of that residence (rules out El Salvador).

But nonetheless Trump got everyone talking about it.

[Minadin]

Then why was Blago placed in a facility in Colorado? Is that within 500 miles of Chicago?

(It isn't)

[Medulla Oblongata]

It wasn't practicable.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

For his own protection?

[Don't look at me! (No longer muted!)]

Some people will do anything to get out of Illinois.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Newsome signs 180M bill to protect against fires. Attaches 2B more to give free Healthcare to illegals.

https://www.mercurynews.com/2025/04/14/newsom-signs-180-million-more-for-fire-prevention-plus-slew-of-democratic-priorities/

Priorities.

[mad.casual]

And that's going to get reported in the newspaper and on the internet where English speakers of any nationality can read it.

It's almost like a trap to lure illiterate immigrants to live in an pay into the tax base of an underfunded tinderbox.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Are we seriously going to have Mayor Andrew Cuomo?

New York City deserves no less.

[Minadin]

No more, either.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

What about Hillary? Is it her turn?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

That would actually be hilarious.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

That what she kept asking Bill when he was sleeping with other women.

[Randy Sax]

I honestly think she was just glad she didn't have to give the bjs anymore. Gives me a business idea. "Come blow my husband, so he'll stop asking me to do it." ENB will love it.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Wait, she's not a lesbian?

[Minadin]

Are we talking about ENB or HRC?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Umm... hmm.

[Fats of Fury]

She was asking for sloppy seconds.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

China's government keeps pushing cimmand economy acts to give the appearance they are winning the tariff wars.

https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-limits-stocks-sales-maintain-impression-stability-bessent-hints-boosting-treasury

[Minadin]

Commies gonna commie.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

They can’t lose face. It’s a rock and a hard place for them. On one hand, they can’t afford to lose the US market. On the other, they have to save face and look tough or they lose their mandate of heaven.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Is it possible that an anti-war faction within Defense Department was responsible for the leak?

No.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Even Lloyd had a million to 1 shot with Mary.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Judge rules parents can't wear XX wrist bands because it may offend men in womens sports.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/15/federal-judge-blocks-new-hampshire-parents-protesting-trans-athletes-wristbands/

[damikesc]

The sacrosanct nature of the First Amendment is duly noted by this federal judge decision.

Perhaps if the family were MS-13 members with active deportation orders...

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

What can we do with judges who flout the constitution and law? Seriously

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

The same problem in Canada. Judges shouldn't be afraid to rule and interpret, but by the same token there needs to be some sort of penalty for flouting the law from the bench.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Tar and feathers is a traditional treatment.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

So were public hangings and drawing and quartering. Perhaps it’s time the latter made a comeback.

[Stuck in California]

There's a lovely dyptich in Brugge called The Judgement of Cambyses

[See.More]

Feet first into woodchippers?

[Idaho-Bob]

We could behave like the left. At this point, taking the ethical stance isn't working. At all.

Seriously, a judge said you can't wear a bracelet? That's some crazy shit.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"We could behave like the left."

What, set Teslas on fire?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

And shoot CEOs because Marx, and run over kids and old men for being keen on Trump, and try to imprison political opponents, and pocket billions through USAID scams.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Maybe create some sort of group of people who’s job it is to look at what government actors are doing objectively and inform the public so there could be appropriate outrage?

[charliehall]

We ha President who is doing that and this judge is trying to rein him in.

[Idaho-Bob]

Do not comply. Take this all the way to the end.

[Rev Arthur L kuckland (5-30-24 banana republic day)]

Funny the hypocritical trash from cato had no problems with the j6ers being moved multiple times without notifying the persons family or lawyers. That must be different. Fuck cato, and fuck everyone that quotes them

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

CATO has long been captured.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Gotta hand it to the WEF Neo-Marxists.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

They did it on their own accord groveling to Soros for donations in 2015.

Since then they've brought in actual Marxists for many of their takes. Looking at the bios of a few of their employees is wild.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The White House announced Tuesday that it was eliminating the traditional press pool access for wire services...

If corralling them in mobile rope pens was good enough for other 90's democrats, it would be good enough for Trump.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"He put us in cages!"

A fun headline I would enjoy reading.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

I am SO GLAD the Trump administration decided to completely UNLEASH Stephen Miller on the media.

He regularly displays a masterclass in debunking their lies.

"Guys - do you know the difference between a deportation order and a withholding order? Do you know the difference? Any of you, please? Do you?"

REPORTER: "Well, we're not in the government!"

MILLER: "So you couldn't even spend 72 hours over the weekend learning the distinction you've been writing and talking about this entire time?"

He goes off for over 10 minutes.

[damikesc]

I know Reason hates him...but it likely because he is more intelligent than every writer here. Combined.

A low bar to clear, admittedly.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

72 hours. They could have found the difference in 72 seconds.

They call themselves journalist but they don’t ask questions like a journalist would.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

They are propagandists for the left and should be treated as such.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

That’s because they aren’t old school, blue collar journalists. They’re propagandists who would make Josef Goebbels proud.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

When some were asked about why they didn’t ask questions regarding Biden’s mental health, the reply was well his is what the administration told us. They repeated the Biden admin’s claims, no questions asked. As if their job is was to represent the Biden admin.

[Marshal]

As if their job is was to represent the Biden admin.

It is. Our job is to not let them lie about that fact.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

And Liz’s job is to complain when they don’t get special privileges, apparently.

[mad.casual]

They call themselves journalist but they don’t ask questions like a journalist would.

At this point, I'm pretty sure we've got it backwards. "Journalists" is actually closer to something between "Human Myna Bird" or "Human Link Aggregator". The highest honor they can bestow each other is The Pulitzer.

Asking questions, compiling facts, getting to the bottom of things... you're talking about an investigator or detective. Detectives don't give each other Pulitzers.

At one very superficial and brief moment there were "investigative journalists" but still, to the point, they don't actually understand the investigation or detection, they can't themselves produce any meaningful outcome directly. Just rustle feathers and call "Look'ere! Look'ere! Wah Wah Wah!"

[Mickey Rat]

Abrego Garcia is an El Salvadoran citizen, apparently convicted of crimes in that country.

As a practical matter, the administration cannot force the El Salvadoran government to return him to the US, even if they really wanted to. All they can do is ask. If El Salvador does not cooperate, all the courts can do is gripe at the adminstratoon as Garcia is effectively out of US control.

[damikesc]

They also do not seem to realize a court order demanding you do something does not mean you have to try terribly hard.

Perhaps the lawyers should ask her to give them a precise script.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

They can also not send any more money to El Salvador until their request is granted.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Or not. It is an article 2 decision. Not an article 3 decision.

[VinniUSMC]

Why would they? He isn't coming back to the US. He's not allowed to be here. He's not a US citizen. Rachel Maddow's clone cosplaying as a judge has no power to force anything.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Why, is another question that involves so many different factors. It could be that Trump wants something else from Congress and to secure Dems votes he brings the dude back. Anyones guess until he did. I was just speaking to what other tools he has at his disposal.

[VinniUSMC]

Fair enough. I absolutely agree that Trump, as someone else wrote in one of the comments to one of the articles crying about this, could have Garcia back by lunch, if he wanted.

But, "back" is a non-sequitur. Garcia isn't coming "back" to the US. His options are to be not here, and to not be here.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I thought sending money to other countries had to be done at Congress's direction, you know, like USAID stuff, and the President has no say over it. Which is it?

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

IFC, This was an executive payment, not directly funded by Congress (Not, Funding El Salvador Prisons Act) Part of DOJ discretionary funds.

USAID as far as I understand was also a discretionary account completely under the control of the President once Congress funded it. Ukraine defense bill money that he got into trouble for holding for 5 days(?) was directly funded by Congress.

[Jerry B.]

Yeah. It was extradition, not deportation. That's the ticket.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Judge ordered him deported in 2019.

The gang he cried about in fear of to not be deported to El Salvador no longer exists.

Whats the issue?

Would you buy the argument that a blood can't be sent to jail because a member of the crypts is there?

[Mickey Rat]

As I looked further ,and apparently he was not convicted or even really indicted with criminal acts within El Salvador, I do question how he is being detained in a prison for the worstbofvthe worst criminals.

But again, as a practical matter, the courts have little actual authority to compel the executive to take up a particular foreign policy.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

El Salvador has been arresting gang members and putting them in prison since Bukele was elected. The citizens love him. Crime is way down. Reason has often complained about this.

2 judges agreed Garcia was a member of MS13.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

That's the rub I have. Deported back is one thing - adios amigo. Deported into a maximum security prison that we are paying for his stay in when not an actual violent gang member, well that's wrong on a human rights level and a waste of US tax dollars.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

If district judges can assign executive powers to themselves here why not everywhere?

[The Margrave of Azilia]

The way to deal with kidnapping is to sue the kidnappers. And assure the defendants that you won't ask for as much damages if you get un-kidnapped.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Democrats are now using ChaptGPT for their planning. They don't even edit it.

https://hellgatenyc.com/andrew-cuomo-chatgpt-housing-plan/

[damikesc]

"despite a judge"

An executive branch employee, not an actual judge. I was hoping you'd know better, but I'd be disappointed.

And I love you calling somebody "once-libertarian". Fuck, those are the only "libertarians" you clowns slobber over.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Identify the weakest links, keep markets functioning as smoothly as possible, and provide solvent firms with ample access to cash...

Too weak to fail.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The Supreme Court issued an unsigned decision this past Thursday instructing the Trump administration to facilitate the Salvadoran man's return to the United States.

This continues to be false Liz.

Don't be like your coworkers.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

This has not happened. Now, Xinis is investigating why—and receiving rather dissatisfying responses from the administration and its lawyers.

A) the judge us actually ignoring SCOTUS here who told her to respect article 2 negotiations with other countries.

B) this is a citizen if el salvador in el salvador.

When will you beltway libertarians understand judges can't run rough shod over the constitution. First it was congress is supreme. Now it is the judiciary is supreme.

You have zero interest in constitutional powers.

This judge is making a mockery of the judicial branch and their actual function.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Xinis summed up her thoughts on the government's very passive stance toward complying with the Supreme Court's order to "facilitate" Abrego Garcia's return:

Which is not what SCOTUS said.

This judge is ignoring the supreme court of the land and you don't bat an eye.

A judge can not impede on article 2 powers. Whats next, saying an inferior court can order the POTUS to launch nukes?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

"The government has not even unambiguously requested his return," one of Abrego Garcia's lawyers said yesterday in court, adding that it's not uncommon for the U.S. to do so in immigration cases. "The government routinely seeks return by taking low-level actions outside the United States that do not implicate foreign policy."

Which, as SCOTUS said, is an inherent article 2 power. A judge can not impede on those powers.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Then multiple Fox News commentators sounded off on the case, with once-libertarian Greg Gutfeld saying "At worst, a guy gets sent to a country he doesn't want to go to—you know what? I can live with that."

And here is the complete transformation to bad Liz. If you're not advocating for the return of a foreign national ordered deported 6 years ago, you're not libertarian?

Fuck off Liz.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

He's an illegal, but a DoJ hearing officer said it would also be illegal to send him back to El Salvador.

For all I know, he could be a bad guy, but so was Miranda of Miranda-warning fame.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The United Kingdom's highest court ruled on Wednesday that the definition of a woman under equality legislation referred to 'biological sex'...

GASP!

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

JD Vance was wrong about UK being lost.

Well no. He is still right.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Don't gloat. The US had a very near miss.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

I’m not completely sure we’re even remotely clear of the woods just yet.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Ever since Kash Patel and Dan Bongino took over at the FBI, Patriot Front seems to have disappeared.

So strange. If the narratives are correct you'd think they'd have upped their activity. Why hasn’t there been any sort of story talking about that? Did we miss something?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Also strange how many fugitives they've caught instead of parents at school boards.

[Medulla Oblongata]

They banged through like half of 10 Most Wanted List in the first few weeks.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Turns out that when feds have to do actual work, they don’t have time to cosplay as the Patriot Front on the weekends.

[Fats of Fury]

Their pants are out being pressed.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Man, you guys sure have a hard on for illegal immigrant gang members. What a hill to die on.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

It's the BLM of Reason.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Not much difference than all their pro restorative justice articles. No matter how much it fails, it will work next time.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

He *might* be a gang member. The evidence was literally hearsay.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Long, sad piece about Elon Musk's desire to use his sperm and the eggs of various women he finds to create a "'legion' [of children]..."

BURN THAT TESLA DEALERSHIP DOWN.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Who knew that the whole electric car thing was a front for implementing the hand maid tale future.

[Don't look at me! (No longer muted!)]

It would be a total tragedy to continue the bloodline of a modern day Tom Edison.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

SKYROCKETS IN FLIGHT!

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Afternoon delight.

[Don't look at me! (No longer muted!)]

More like afternoon delight, amirite?

[Don't look at me! (No longer muted!)]

Dang it, ITL beat me by 2 minutes…..

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

My motto's always been "When it's right, it's right"
Why wait until the middle of a cold, dark night

[Spiritus Mundi]

Meanwhile in liberatian news intrests:

EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Any bets on how many Reason articles we'll get on this versus a certain Venezuelan gang banger?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, reducing bureaucratic government is not as "libertarian" as destroying borders.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Yeah. Was thinking about mentioning this this morning. News is a month old. Zero mentions here.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Orangemanbad trumps the libertarian moment.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Regulations don't add costs like tariffs. The 5T under Biden was actual profit.

Plus if they celebrate deregulation and lowering of additive costs to domestic markets, they may lose their narrative regarding unilateral markets being solely positive. US reducing production costs would be horrible. How can they supplicate themselves to China if that happens?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Does this mean we’ll finally get that $16,000 truck?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Only if we get rid of NHTSA regs as well.

[Spiritus Mundi]

Like this one?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Yep.

[Fist of Etiquette]

...I attempted to make sense of the furor that met Matt & Abby Howard last year, when it seemed they'd left their kids sleeping in a cruise cabin while eating dinner & monitoring the kids via Facetime.

After all this time, people still can't grasp the concept of manufactured outrage in service of virtue signaling???

[mad.casual]

Taking kids that need to be monitored through nap times around dinner on a cruise sounds awful. Don't they know that they can eat too much, get drunk, and neglect their children much cheaper at home?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'"[Financial authorities] should have three priorities [to maintain market stability]: Identify the weakest links, keep markets functioning as smoothly as possible, and provide solvent firms with ample access to cash, so they won't dump assets or fail unnecessarily," argue Bloomberg writers.'

And what if those priorities, especially the ample cash--in the form of bailouts--encourage banks and investment firms to do all sorts of risky, self-serving "creative" finance without fear of consequences?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Conspiracy theory.

[charliehall]

The oligarchs never get real consequences.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

This is bad, as Reuters and the Associated Press

No, it reflects the changing landscape in media as new players emerge and the old guard dies out. May not be pretty, Trump and the next few Prez will probably screw up the new regime till everything settles, but it isn't bad.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Libertarians for special privileges for corporations!

[Fist of Etiquette]

And, lest you still have hunger for more parenting and babymaking discourse...

Thank you, no. The species has been doing it since inception, so I think the science is settled.

[Randy Sax]

Baby making isn't even the biggest issue. It's the graying population living way too long being a drain on society.

[Fats of Fury]

Did your granny leave you out of the will?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

This is bad, as Reuters and the Associated Press tend to be relatively reliable, with less spin than places like The Washington Post

Based on what? Your feels?

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Literally two USAID funded agitprop outlets for the WEF.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

My guess is this is where bad Liz gets her Garcia news which is why she continues to repeat what SCOTUS said incorrectly.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Twitter Liz is far more libertarian than Reason Liz. I really do suspect the hand of KMW here.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Much agreed. I follow Liz on Twitter, and she’s much more libertarian there.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Happy Donald Rumsfeld IRS letter day to all who celebrate ????

If only he had led us into war with the tax code.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

As you know, you pay your taxes with the tax code you have, not the tax code you might want or wish to have at a later time.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

I thought Iraqis were going to pay our taxes?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'But we're sorely in need of a normie wing: people who are just…extremely reasonable about it all'

Where's the money--and the partisan political utility--in that?

[Medulla Oblongata]

"Now, Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D–Md.)—who counts Abrego Garcia and his family as his constituents—is traveling to El Salvador "

But--like most Democrats--he doesn't seem to give a damn about the Maryland mother raped and murdered by an El Salvadoran illegal alien. My idea here is to extradite him to El Salvador to face the charges in the murder he's wanted for there, and he can join the other guy in CECOT.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/el-salvadoran-fugitive-convicted-in-high-profile-rape-murder-of-maryland-mom-rachel-morin/ar-AA1CXWrh

Authorities stated Martinez-Hernandez is also a suspect in a woman's murder in his native El Salvador in January 2023 and that he entered the United States unlawfully in February 2023.

[Minadin]

An illegal alien who previously resided (without permission) in his district - and can't legally vote - is his 'constituent'?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Now you’re getting it!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, do you want our elected representatives to prioritize actual voters over illegal aliens? What kind of Nazi scum are you?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Liz thinks I’m an “ex-libertarian”.

[Jefferson Paul]

I guess the only solution is to make him a citizen.

/sarcasm

[Fats of Fury]

Garcia's family is in El Salvador, he hasn't married his knocked up girlfriend and if she's getting welfare benefits, he isn't going to.

[Fats of Fury]

Bring me the head of Abrego Garcia.

[Ska]

to create a "'legion' [of children], a reference to the ancient military units that could contain thousands of soldiers and were key to extending the reach of the Roman Empire."

Wait till they find out what decimate meant in the Roman Empire.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Seems like US Code 3621 doesn't apply, since the guy was not--as we're CONSTANTLY reminded--convicted of anything, let alone federal charges warranting incarceration in a federal facility.

He was deported pursuant to a deportation order. Yes, he was deported to the one country he was not supposed to be deported to, and that should not have happened. But he was rightfully removed from the US and had he been sent to some other country willing to take him, Democrats would still be crying about it ,but would have even that leg to stand on.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

I still don't know what law the judge relied on to deny asylum while still commanding where he can be deported to.

Also the gang referenced in the order was shut down by ES 3 years ago.

[Fats of Fury]

Catch 22.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

They could have reopened the case and, if the evidence warranted it, let him go back El Salvador. But they never changed his status.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

His status was ordered to be deported.

[The Margrave of Azilia]

To a non-El-Salvador country.

If they could have found some other country willing to take him, there would have been no problem.

But with a legal classification that precluded him from being sent back to El Salvador, then sending him back to El Salvador was illegal.

They could have reopened the case and perhaps found, after notice and hearing, that El Salvador is finally OK for him to be sent to.

But they didn't reopen the case. They kept his status as no removal to El Salvador. And despite this status, he was removed to El Salvador anyway.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

"Long, sad piece about Elon Musk's desire to use his sperm and the eggs of various women he finds to create a "'legion' [of children]"

I'm a one man, one woman type of guy, and follow those Western religious principles because I believe that they create best outcomes.
However, from a purely evolutionary perspective Elon is trying to fulfill the only actual directive of life itself.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or just another African-American male doing what comes naturally.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

It’s like Genghis Khan only instead of horses it’s electric cars.

[Alan Vanneman]

Donald Rumsfeld was so wealthy he had "accountants". He had nothing to worry about. Back in the 1950s, Texas millionaire Sid Luckman complained to President Eisenhower about high taxes. "I had to pay over a million dollars last year," Sid told the president. Ike laughed "You're so rich you had to a million in taxes and you're complaining?" We should all have such problems.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Wut? I had an accountant do my taxes when I was 24 and making less than $20k/yr. I had a bunch of donation receipts. It cost me $65.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Did you itemize donated underwear at 5 bucks a pop like Bill Clinton?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Come on. At one time Bill's undies sold for way more than $5.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Only saw his returns from when he was governor. But probably at least tripled after lewenski.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

That’s something I’ve never done. I’ve done my own taxes since I started working in my teens. Sure, I have done Schedule A deductions, more than the standard deduction, but that’s about it. It would cost me more to go to H&R Block than it’s worth it, both in time and money (this year took me 40 minutes for both federal and state taxes).

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

My wife’s a director of finance and she does ours, but the first year after I created an LLC we did pay someone.

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

I was like 18-19 mentally at that age and thought having someone do my taxes for me made me a grown up.
Also, Canada taxes far lower income brackets than the US does, and some of the deductions can be convoluted.

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

LMAO. Willie Nelson, the millionaire with an accountant, would like a word.

[Fats of Fury]

Here are income tax rates from 1956. Ike sounded like Bernie Sanders
1956
20.0% > $ 0
22.0% > $ 4.000
26.0% > $ 8.000
30.0% > $ 12.000
34.0% > $ 16.000
38.0% > $ 20.000
43.0% > $ 24.000
47.0% > $ 28.000
50.0% > $ 32.000
53.0% > $ 36.000
56.0% > $ 40.000
59.0% > $ 44.000
62.0% > $ 52.000
65.0% > $ 64.000
69.0% > $ 76.000
72.0% > $ 88.000
75.0% > $100.000
78.0% > $120.000
81.0% > $140.000
84.0% > $160.000
87.0% > $180.000
89.0% > $200.000
90.0% > $300.000
91.0% > $400.000

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Holy confiscation, Batman!

[Fats of Fury]

From Grok
Final Answer: Approximately $1,127,578 in taxable income would generate $1,000,000 in federal income taxes in 1956 for a single filer. If gross income is intended, an estimate of $1,253,531 is reasonable, assuming typical deductions.

[Longtobefree]

"when the only evidence we have to establish that comes from a police informant saying so"

And the minor detail of a judge saying it is correct, and an appellate judge confirming that.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Look. I don't know what history you were taught, but the rulings of 2 different courts is not due process. But the unconstitutional rulings of one inferior court activist judges is.

Why don't you get this?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

WE WANT DUE PROCESS!!!

Here’s the judges order after he got due process.

WE DON’T AGREE WITH HOW THAT JUDGE MADE HIS DECISION!!

(5 minutes later)

WE WANT DUE PROCESS!!!

[Sometimes a Great Notion]

Not convicted of any crime, so he shouldn't be locked up in an El Salvador Super Max prison paid for by USA taxpayers on behalf of our government. I don't care about the deportion one way or another - part of the actual legitimate administration state's job to sus out stay or leave orders.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Judge ruled he was a gang member here. Up to ES legal system, who has been locking up gang members, if he is free or not there. Our judicial system doesn't make that determination for ES.

[VinniUSMC]

I was really hoping that this wasn't a Liz Wolfe authored Roundup. Methinks "Good Liz" is a lost cause. Leftism is a disease, and it seems Reason missed their inoculation. Bummer.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Agreed. Full transition to ENB levels.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Open borders (and no tariffs) uber alles!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Don't forget the free weed and ass sex.

[Dillinger]

shoulda taken the WaPo editor job

[Marshal]

Are we seriously going to have Mayor Andrew Cuomo?

Why not? We've always known left wingers put power above anything else, which is why they supported both Bill Clinton after his sexual assaults and Hillary after her leading the political effort to ruin their lives.

Nor is sexual assault the only instance of this. Robert Byrd was a Dem Senator for decades after being a known KKK member and leader. Plus of course we all know Biden was a racist as Kamala helpfully pointed out.

When have Dems ever put anything over power?

[Incunabulum]

He wasn't even the only one - Dems supported more than one 'former' member into the 21st century.

[Incunabulum]

Is Reason playing dumb?

No update on the Khalil case? Where's there's more than just 'peaceful protest'?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Wait til they find out he lied on his green card application.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Moved on the to next one.

NYT:

Mohsen Mahdawi, an organizer of pro-Palestinian demonstrations last year at Columbia University, was detained by immigration officials on Monday after arriving for an appointment in Vermont that he thought was a step toward becoming a U.S. citizen, his lawyers said.

Hours later, Mr. Mahdawi’s mother, older sister and lawyers were scrambling to find him after his abrupt detention at an immigration center in Colchester, Vt. His lawyers requested a temporary restraining order to prevent federal officials from transferring him to a more conservative jurisdiction — a tactic used to deport at least four other college demonstrators.

A Vermont federal judge, William K. Sessions III, swiftly granted that request, ordering that Mr. Mahdawi, an outspoken critic of Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, not be removed from the United States or transferred out of Vermont until he orders otherwise. His lawyers said that as of Monday afternoon, they had confirmed that he was still in Vermont.

“This is their M.O.,” Mr. Mahdawi’s lawyer, Luna Droubi, said. “They just continue to hide the individual to the point where their attorneys can’t quite understand or identify where to file. And so, you know, we’re operating blind, and they have all the information, and yet we’re tasked with attempting to file in the right jurisdiction.”

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

His lawyer added "we can't treat these guys like J6ers"

[Minadin]

Dearborn Heights Fundraiser and Poetry Night for Palestine: This American Empire Must Fall; People Here Are Willing to Fight and Put Their Lives on the Line to Bring These Western Empires Down

https://x.com/MEMRIReports/status/1912156369433620847

[Dillinger]

wonder if they snap along with the poetry ala the Beats

[VinniUSMC]

They will find that, if it comes to it, their lives will definitely be the ones on the line. I'll gladly assist in their haste to meet Allah. Fucking terrorists. The Left wants to die on this hill, but they'll find that the terrorists are more than happy to kill them in their beds, rape their children, and kidnap their goats.

[Minadin]

And if we're very lucky, they'll do it in that order*

*or they might rape the goats and kidnap the children . . .

[Square = Circle]

People Here Are Willing to Fight and Put Their Lives on the Line

Just not, you know, in Gaza. There's important work to be done in college-town coffee shops.

[Jefferson Paul]

Who is the Aiel Maiden of the Spear standing next to him?

Despite the changes to the story (from the books) and making the cast more "diverse," I'm really enjoying season 3 of Wheel of Time. That just means Amazon will likely cancel the series.

[Marshal]

Even though this season is better there's still so little character development it doesn't compare to the books. They seem to have replaced that with idiotic and meaningless personal conflicts.

It's like they took the writers for the latest tween middle school dramedy and replicated the mean girls. This infests TV these days, ROP had the same problem.

[Jefferson Paul]

The books are far better. But I came into the Amazon series understanding that it's impossible to be 100% true to the 14-book series, so I didn't expect that. And let's be honest, the chapters of the books focusing on the female characters were generally the worst part of the series, anyway (with some exceptions).

The one casting that matched exactly how I saw him in my head when reading the series was Ishamael. The actor's portrayal of Rand has grown on me, as I didn't like him for it in season one, but I think he's doing fine at it now. Lanfear was also well-cast.

I do find it kinda odd, though, to be "lookist," how generally unattractive almost all of the cast is. Usually for television/streaming good-looking people are more likely to be cast. This is like the inversion of that.

[Longtobefree]

OK Liz. Trump asked El Salvador to return him, and they said no.
What actions, short of military invasion, does the inferior court judge expect to be "effective"?
And, oh by the way, how does the inferior court judge get to say he has to be returned to the USA when he was legally deported with full due process? The administrative error was only in the destination, not in the deportation.

[Randy Sax]

The original ruling said "facilitate" and "effectuate". SCOTUS struck down the "effectuate" part. And "facilitate" has no real meaning.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

Well, it allows D assholes to grandstand!

[Randy Sax]

There are a few behaviors that lots of parents do but refrain from talking about in public due to the absolutely insane ire you can attract from the online hordes who get off on judging you. (Letting kids go carseat-free in taxis is another one of those things.)

Clucking hens pecking at each other.

[sarcasmic]

Funny how it occurred to exactly zero Trump defenders that if He threatened to withdraw foreign aid or slap huge tariffs on goods from El Salvador that dude would be sent back lickety split.

Just kidding. Nobody is stupid enough to have never thought of that. Fact is that Trump defenders want Him to defy the court and leave that guy in prison.

[Randy Sax]

Do you honestly think a court could make Trump threatened to withdraw foreign aid or slap huge tariffs on goods from El Salvador? You know they don't have that power.

[sarcasmic]

My point is that if he wanted to bring the guy back that he could do so easily. You know this. He knows this. His defenders know this. His critics know this. Anyone who says otherwise is a liar.

Instead he wants to maliciously let the guy rot in defiance of the court, as do his malicious defenders.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

So you think he should send Seal Team Six in to bring the guy back, Sarc?

[Randy Sax]

My point is that if he wanted to bring the guy back that he could do so easily. You know this. He knows this.
Completely agree.
Instead he wants to let the guy rot in defiance of the court,
Completely disagree. My point was that the court cannot compel him to do it.

[sarcasmic]

Yes the court can't compel him to do anything. That's why he's defying them. The only people who can are Congress, in the form of impeachment. And at this point I kind of hope they do (in 2027, after Trump tanks the economy, and as a result Republicans are thrown out in 2026 elections, which will no doubt be called fraudulent). This incident has proven where his morals are at, along with those of his defenders. And it's pretty disgusting.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Lol. Impeachment over a ms13 gang member ordered to be deported at the behest of an inferior court judgr defying what scotus said.

Never change leftist.

Your TDS is wild.

[Randy Sax]

Yes the court can't compel him to do anything. That's why he's defying them.

This feel circular. How could he be defying anything if he isn't compelled top do anything?

[sarcasmic]

The courts have given him an order which he is defying because the courts lack the power to compel him to obey. Does that make sense, or are you being daft on purpose?

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Pot, kettle.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

No, he isn’t daft, but you’re delusional.

[Randy Sax]

Does that make sense
No.
courts lack the power---->courts have given him an order
Do you not see what I'm getting at?

[sarcasmic]

Daft it is.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Poor Sarc.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

What was the actual order sarc?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Cite? Bukele was pretty clear on his stance. Now you're demanding taxpayer money and threats be used for compliance. Yet you were for impeachment 1.0 based on the same theory.

Do you have any consistency?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Level 10 stupidity?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

Your attempt at trolling sucks, dudette.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Thanks for admitting you think a judge has the authority to impose tariffs and withdraw aid dumbass.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Funny how you don't demand congress has to let him do this. Whats (D)ifferent?

[rrgg]

That's not what facilitate means.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

To be fair...

Sarc doesn't know what many words mean.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Kinda sad we didn’t literally start a sarctionary when we first started joking about it.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Sarcasia’s disloyal opposition)]

It’s easier to list the terms Sarc understands than those he doesn’t. A hell of a lot shorter.

[Dillinger]

so you still haven't read the 9-0 then ...

[Dillinger]

>>Yesterday was theft day.

you guys waited until April 16th and dedicated one line. at Reason.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Dude, TARIFFS!!!!!

[Dillinger]

15 years ago maybe I bought a pack of bumper stickers from Reason it was probably advertised @NRO two of them are in my office right now and one of them says "Repeal the 16th Amendment!"

[sarcasmic]

The 17th was even worse.

[Dillinger]

gotta start somewhere.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

And mean deportations!

[Dillinger]

>> it seemed they’d left their kids sleeping in a cruise cabin while eating dinner & monitoring the kids via Facetime

meh. it's a bitch to get anywhere on a cruise ship should emergency arise and I probably wouldn't but I don't tell people how to raise their kids ... unless the dad can't throw then I help out

[rbike]

Took a cruise with the kids when they were little. They went to a youth club during the days in ship. Several times we saw them running around in unchaperoned groups doing kid stuff. None of them fell off the ship and they had a fun time. Good times in the 90's.

[Dillinger]

>>The United Kingdom's highest court ruled on Wednesday that the definition of a woman under equality legislation referred to 'biological sex,'

is jeff okay? how is England going to defend against the Transanistas if nobody is armed?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"Biden calls Trump's 'damage' to Social Security 'breathtaking' in first official speech since leaving office"
[...]
"Biden, 82, spoke for just under 30 minutes, during which he criticized Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency for searching out benefits fraud. The former president claimed the Trump administration's efforts could put many disabled people in jeopardy..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-calls-trumps-damage-to-social-security-breathtaking-in-first-official-speech-since-leaving-office/ar-AA1CZOhe

Biden defending fraud? Well, it really isn't surprising.

[Dillinger]

>>Long, sad piece about Elon Musk's desire to use his sperm and the eggs of various women he finds to create a "'legion' [of children]

be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth or something

[Dillinger]

>>interested in changing parenting culture so that it's less onerous and judgmental

why give a shit what anyone else thinks about how you raise your children?

[VinniUSMC]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/post-production-los-angeles-music-tax-incentives-1236190752/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

Oh noes. Hollywood might soon be Hollywouldn't.

[Dillinger]

>>once-libertarian Greg Gutfeld

cat fight?

[Marshal]

It's ok to claim self identified libertarians are really conservatives, it's only outrageous to claim self identified libertarians are leftists - Jeffsarc.

[Dillinger]

>>Sen. Van Hollen says he is going to El Salvador tomorrow to see if he can talk to Abrego Garcia.

Runnin' with the devil ...

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

Reminds me of when Congressman Ryan went south to visit Jim Jones.

[Dillinger]

ya when I saw the headline last night I thought same thing ... I'll see if I can make a VH reference to Jonestown ...

oh! Women and Children First

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...That's a wild way to describe Abrego Garcia being wrongly deported to CECOT,..."

This is total and complete bullshit; the US has not the power to 'deport' anyone to a prison.
Liz, stuff your TDS up your ass.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

Just as everyone, including Good Liz, was silent on the Columbia "spokesman" and his part in trespassing, blocking students going to class, and disturbing the peace with bullhorns, and preferred to just shout "freedom of speech" over and over as without addressing actual criminal acts; so is everyone silent on an aspect of this I have never seem addressed anywhere: this guy was legally undeportable because of the fear that MS-13 would murder him if he went back to his home country of El Salvador. Yet he has lived in the US for the last 6 years, unmurdered by MS-13, who have murdered others here in the US. What explains this? Is he, perhaps, not really at danger of being murdered by MS-13?

*crickets*

I don't like the way Trump has handled this, but it's ridiculous to focus on court orders on foreign policy. The correct judicial remedy for kidnapping is a trial for the alleged kidnappers, not ordering them to undo the kidnapping. The correct judicial remedy for murder is a trial, not ordering the alleged murderer to revive the dead corpse.

And guess what? Prosecutors are the only ones who can prosecute a kidnapping, per design of the judicial system. No victim criminal prosecution. And guess what else? Prosecutors have absolute discretion in who they prosecute. Obama ordered all prosecutors to not prosecute illegal immigrants who had been brought here by their parents when they were too young to have made the choice on their own. All legal, said the courts, prosecutorial discretion. Millions of children not prosecuted or deported, and the courts had no say in the matter.

Hey, you who know that Rule of Law is merely a fig leaf covering up the Rule of Men that is too naughty to be seen: you've got the Rule of Men you wanted. Suck it up.

There aren't very many with judicial principles, and Trump sure isn't one of them. But you who whine about this and holler "Rule of Law!": did you also whine and holler about Obama and his prosecutorial discretion? If not, your partisan slip is showing.

[sarcasmic]

did you also whine and holler about Obama and his prosecutorial discretion?

Of course not. Anyone who criticizes Trump never criticizes Democrats. That makes them all hypocrites who need to shut the fuck up already. Glad you're catching on.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

You're still free to cite when you criticized democrats. I can go through the last 10 articles that criticized them. Last 2 times I did I found your posts almost exclusively attacking conservatives

[Mother's Lament - (Sarcasian Meanister of Foreign Affairs)]

BUTTPLUG WAS RIGHT! IT WAS MAGA!!!!

Police warrant says arsonist targeted Pa. Gov. Shapiro for “what he wants to do to Palestinian people”

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Duh?

[Fats of Fury]

That guy looks exactly like you'd expect a mad bomber to look like.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Many folks now claiming it's a Mossad false flag.

But it could be a Hamas false flag, pretending to be a Mossad false flag...

Propaganda all the down.

[Minadin]

Registered Socialist, too. So MAGA.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Daily KOS is mad that DHS Sec. is making the rounds to see her various departments and rally them to the cause.

KOSplayers comments accuse Trump supporters of being too sexist to ever let a woman succeed.

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2025/4/15/2316630/-You-won-t-believe-how-much-Homeland-Security-pays-for-secretary-s-cosplay?detail=emaildkre

But Noem’s team of photographers and videographers costs money, which is interesting considering the Trump administration’s supposed efforts to cut “waste, fraud, and abuse.”

[Fats of Fury]

We are not a nation of men nor of law. We are a nation of Lawyers.
Hoover and Roosevelt repatriated up to 2 million Mexicans from 1929 to 1940, reportedly including a large number of US citizens.
Eisenhower got rid of over a million Mexicans in 1953. A class action lawsuit for the 30's deportations filed in 2005 failed.

The Attorney/Industrial Complex in DC. wants to drag these expulsions out one at a time and like the anti death penalty warriors tell us that it's so expensive to deport we might as well leave them here.

[Don't get eliminated(Don't forget to eat your penguin meat)]

Oh, so you just want Trump to give illegal subhumans the death penalty?

— jeffsarc

[jagjr]

bad news. the administration is not playing.