Trump 2028

Plus: AEA deportations, Glenn Greenwald on civil liberties under Trump, and more...

Trolling or actual issue? For just $50, you can own a "Trump 2028" hat, courtesy of the Trump Organization's online store. "The future looks bright!" reads the product description. "Rewrite the rules with the Trump 2028 high crown hat."

President Donald Trump (born in 1946, and getting up there in the years) being elected to a third term in 2028 would be a violation of the 22nd Amendment.

"A lot of people would like me to do that," Trump told NBC earlier this year. "But, I mean, I basically tell them, we have a long way to go, you know, it's very early in the administration." Steve Bannon has also planted seeds along the same lines.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt had these aspirations too, prior to the 22nd Amendment's passage in 1951, yet his fourth term ended with his death in April 1945, just three months into it. Given that we're still recovering from FDR's 12 years of government and executive power expansion, and given that it would be a huge violation of the Constitution, I don't think Trump seeking another term would be appropriate at all. But is there harm in joking about it?

Team Trump loves both their trolling and retaining some plausible deniability via jokes. Putting a Trump hotel up in the Gaza Strip: joke or real idea for a peace process? Building five more Terrorism Confinement Centers (CECOT) and sending "homegrown" criminals off to Uncle Nayib Bukele in El Salvador: friendly chit-chat or legitimate concept? Third term hat: fashion statement or an idea they're working to seed? Your mileage may vary, but I don't love this joke, personally.

ACLU tries to get Venezuelan deportees back to U.S. soil: Early today, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—an organization with great roots that has, in recent years, strayed awfully far from its mission—filed a new version of the lawsuit they brought against the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) on March 15. This lawsuit, instead of trying to make it so groups of Venezuelans cannot be deported under the AEA, seeks to bring back the roughly 140 Venezuelan nationals who were already deported to El Salvador last month under the act.

The ACLU won its earlier suit, with Judge James E. Boasberg rebuking the administration, ordering it to stop using the AEA to send planes of Venezuelans to El Salvador, and to turn around flights that were already in the air (an order the administration claimed it could not comply with). The Boasberg-Trump showdown is ongoing, but the new ACLU suit seeks to essentially undo the initial act by the Trump administration.

The New York Times describes both the procedural question at play—"whether the Trump administration has provided migrants whom officials have asserted are subject to removal under the law with sufficient time and opportunity to challenge their deportations in court"—and the substantive one—"whether the White House should be allowed to use the act at all against the Venezuelan migrants." Does the in-migration of Venezuelans actually constitute an invasion by a hostile nation? Because that's what the AEA is meant to be used for, and this sure looks like a stretched use of that act.

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Scenes from New York: Yesterday, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said it had axed several of the federal attorneys tasked with defending it in a lawsuit over New York City's congestion pricing program, saying they harmed the DOT's case.

"There is considerable litigation risk in defending [Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy's] February 19, 2025 decision [to attempt to revoke congestion pricing authorization] against [the Metropolitan Transit Authority's] claims…that the decision was contrary to law, pretextual, procedurally arbitrary and capricious, and violated due process," wrote three of the assistant U.S. Attorneys tasked with…defending Duffy's case in a private memo that they accidentally filed in federal court in Manhattan on Wednesday. "It is unlikely that Judge [Lewis] Liman or further courts of review will accept the argument that [congestion pricing] was not a statutorily authorized 'value pricing' pilot under [the relevant law]," the memo continues.

"The 11-page letter instead suggested that the department could build a stronger case if it sought to terminate the federal government's approval of the tolling program 'as a matter of changed agency priorities,' rather than stick with the previous tactic of questioning the legality of the toll," notes The New York Times.

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QUICK HITS

• On the use of the word "terrorist," the parallels between this era and the war on terror, and how alarmed we should really be:

One of my favorite things about Glenn Greenwald is that he's not afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome (TDS); he's a straight shooter with real principles and a thorough understanding of the law. He defends the civil liberties of the most vile and the most sympathetic alike. The full episode is worth your time.

• "President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Thursday targeting ActBlue, the Democratic Party's main fundraising platform—taking aim at one of the key pillars of the financial infrastructure for Democratic candidates," reports CNN. "A fact sheet about the memo said it directs Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch an investigation into online fundraising platforms with the goal of cracking down on illegal 'straw donors'—or those who make donations in the name of others—and foreign contributions in US elections."
• Yesterday, some people amusingly interpreted my criticism of a certain pundit/COVID-19 revisionist as praise, which it was decidedly not. (The take that the "liberal elite" were huge advocates for school reopening is…not at all how I—or millions of others—remember it.)

My favorite thing about Matt Yglesias is where he is a millionaire pundit who confidently & smugly tries to rewrite history and then he gets completely pwned by my favorite internet rando pic.twitter.com/PlUYQfQG9t

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) April 24, 2025

• Good forecasting of what might happen once we fully feel the effect of tariffs, and a great explanation of how the lags in the global supply chain work:

The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn't realize it yet.

Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down.

It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA.

45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train.

55 to New York by sea.

That… pic.twitter.com/8vnGDMWCpt

— molson ????⚙️ (@Molson_Hart) April 24, 2025

• "The idea that the internet carries a scythe is familiar—think of Blockbuster Video, the pay phone and other early victims of the digital transition," writes Ross Douthat, our Just Asking Questions guest for next week. "But the scale of the potential extinction still isn't adequately appreciated."
• Yes:

WSJ is exactly right: using the IRS to target nonprofits because of their views or speech will very quickly come back to haunt the people cheering it on today pic.twitter.com/jC9wFBp9Dr

— Carolyn Iodice (@CarolynIodice) April 23, 2025

Comments

[Fist of Etiquette]

Trolling or actual issue?

Does it matter at this point?

[Minadin]

I think we should start a pool and donate a case of these to the Reason DC offices.

[Medulla Oblongata]

No no no.

You need to be more exasperated, haughty, and condescending when you say it, and you have to stretch it out...

"What difference, at this point, does it make?"

[Public Entelectual]

And that goes double for wearing hats:
https://x.com/RussellSeitz/status/1915801709948874884/photo/1

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Donald Trump (born in 1946, and getting up there in the years) being elected to a third term in 2028 would be a violation of the 22nd Amendment.

Yeah, well, me not being able to carry in all public areas is a violation of the 2nd Amendment but here we are.

[Longtobefree]

How about he does it this way?
gets elected a representative from Florida
gets elected speaker
republicans win the presidency
President and voce president resign
TA-DA! Trump has a third term.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Reluctantly and strategically?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

It's just crazy enough to work!

[Fist of Etiquette]

But is there harm in joking about it?

That Trump 2028 hat is basically Hitler.

[Don't look at me! (Tariffs are killing the penguin industry!)]

He’s as sharp as ever!

[Ajsloss]

That hat is very Hugo Boss.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Double-plus Hitler!

[Medulla Oblongata]

Second judge harboring illegals, this one hid illegal aliens ICE was in the courthouse to pick up in her jury sequestration room...

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/politics/2025/04/22/fbi-probing-claim-mke-judge-helped-undocumented-defendant-evade-arrest/83220833007/

FBI investigating allegations Milwaukee County judge tried to help undocumented defendant avoid arrest

https://www.wisn.com/article/milwaukee-judge-faces-probe-courthouse-incident-immigration-agents/64568995

Milwaukee judge faces probe after courthouse incident with immigration agents

A nine-year veteran of the Milwaukee County bench faces scrutiny over alleged interference with federal immigration enforcement at the courthouse.

Judge Hannah Dugan has been on the Milwaukee County bench for nine years but is now herself under scrutiny after an incident involving a man wanted by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents outside her courtroom Friday.

According to a law enforcement source, ICE agents were waiting outside Dugan's courtroom for a man making a court appearance.

But Dugan is alleged to have shielded him to avoid his ICE detention.

In an email to other judges shared with WISN 12 News, Chief Judge Carl Ashley confirmed the presence of ICE agents Friday on the sixth floor of the courthouse, explaining they had a warrant and were asked to wait outside the courtroom.

[Idaho-Bob]

I'm just waiting for a random district judge to tell ICE they can have to release this "judge" and then no longer enforce immigration laws as long as Trump is in office.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, do you want judges to follow actual laws or do what they think is "justice"?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Looks like Bondi is going to have her hands full. They’ve got to prosecute these judges and others for their corruption. It’ll be the biggest scandal in US history, but it’s got to be done for the health of the nation.

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

It is already the biggest scandal in American judicial history.

Judge Temporarily Blocks Part of Trump’s Executive Order on Voting

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order to secure our elections and provide proof of citizenship to vote.

Democrats and nonprofits immediately sued Trump over the order because minorities and women are apparently too stupid to get an ID.

Kollar-Kotelly granted a preliminary injunction regarding Sections 2(a) and 2(d).

The judge stopped those ordered in Section 2(a) from “taking any action…to modify the content of the federal voter registration application form described in 52 U.S.C. § 20508(a)(2) to require documentary proof of United States citizenship.”

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Leave the rules for voting to the states.

If you empowered the feds, you would already have vote anywhere any way.

[MT-Man]

That would be nice but I don't think their fate is any different on attempts then the above.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Feds control federal elections...

[TrickyVic (old school)]

So if the next dem president decides everyone can vote from home are you going to change your mind?

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

The law already states citizenship is required. It does not say you have to allow voting from home.

Next?

[TrickyVic (old school)]

Besides one of the arguments that Trump was cheated in 2020 was states didn't follow their rules. SCOTUS largely let state courts have the say by not taking cases.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Incorrect. Under Obama the Feds literally sued states like Arizona and forced them to accept federal voting forms without proof of ID.

SO as sarc always says, democrats did it first.

Next?

[middlefinger]

It gets tricky when a judge in Mew Mexico has a paramilitary or guerrilla warfare simulation range setup on his property.

Looks like the leftist revolution will go after transportation. I’d guess they have cells set up further north near the northern major transportation hubs. It’s the houthis all over again!

So yeah, in this open borders shitshow, everything is a federal national security concern.

[Jefferson Paul]

“taking any action…to modify the content of the federal voter registration application form described in 52 U.S.C. § 20508(a)(2) to require documentary proof of United States citizenship.”

Except this FEDERAL form to register to vote is already in existence. It was used by the Biden admin to offer registration to prospective voter registrants the ability to register to vote without having to use ID, in contravention of states that require ID to register to vote.

So I don't see why, if there is a FEDERAL form to register to vote, that ID requirements can't be included.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Democrats and nonprofits immediately sued Trump over the order because minorities and women are apparently too stupid to get an ID."

How dare you! Don't you realize darkies and women-folk still carry the trauma of slavery and oppression? Forcing them to get an ID is like forcing Jews to get arm tattoos--and maybe worse!

[Gaear Grimsrud]

I believe she has been arrested by the FBI.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Sarc is big upset she is being held to the law in the other thread.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Ooops. Update:

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan charged with 2 felonies in ICE case

Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Hannah Dugan was charged April 25 with two felonies for her role in helping an undocumented immigrant avoid arrest after he appeared in her courtroom last week.

Dugan, 65, appeared before U.S. Magistrate Judge Stephen C. Dries during a brief hearing in a packed courtroom at the federal courthouse. Dugan, who was wearing a black dress with white flowers, made no public comments during the brief hearing.

As it ended, her attorney, Craig Mastantuono, told the court: "Judge Dugan wholeheartedly regrets and protests her arrest. It was not made in the interest of public safety."

The federal criminal charges have not yet been made available.

But Brady McCarron, spokesman for U.S. Marshals Service in Washington, D.C., said Dugan is being charged with two federal felony counts: obstruction and concealing an individual. McCarron also confirmed Dugan was arrested at about 8 a.m. at the Milwaukee County Courthouse.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/news/breaking/2025/04/25/milwaukee-county-judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-by-feds-at-courthouse/83270885007/

[Medulla Oblongata]

8 U.S. Code § 1324 - Bringing in and harboring certain aliens

(a)Criminal penalties
(1)
(A)Any person who—
...
(iii)knowing or in reckless disregard of the fact that an alien has come to, entered, or remains in the United States in violation of law, conceals, harbors, or shields from detection, or attempts to conceal, harbor, or shield from detection, such alien in any place, including any building or any means of transportation;
...
shall be punished as provided in subparagraph (B).
(B)A person who violates subparagraph (A) shall, for each alien in respect to whom such a violation occurs—
(i)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i) or (v)(I) or in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), or (iv) in which the offense was done for the purpose of commercial advantage or private financial gain, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both;
(ii)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(ii), (iii), (iv), or (v)(II), be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 5 years, or both;
(iii)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) during and in relation to which the person causes serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 of title 18) to, or places in jeopardy the life of, any person, be fined under title 18, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both; and
(iv)in the case of a violation of subparagraph (A)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv), or (v) resulting in the death of any person, be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, fined under title 18, or both.

[Medulla Oblongata]

I see expectations multi-tier justice system?

Franklyn Gimbel, a prominent Milwaukee defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, called Dugan’s arrest “outrageous.”

“First and foremost, I know -- as a former federal prosecutor and as a defense lawyer for decades – that a person who is a judge, who has a residence who has no problem being found, should not be arrested, if you will, like some common criminal,” Gimbel said. “And I'm shocked and surprised that the US Attorney's office or the FBI would not have invited her to show up and accept process if they're going to charge her with a crime.”

[See.More]

“First and foremost, I know -- as a former federal prosecutor and as a defense lawyer for decades – that a person who is a judge, who has a residence who has no problem being found, should not be arrested, if you will, like some common criminal,” Gimbel said. . .

Play games like a common criminal, win prizes like a common criminal.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Nah. Break the law while in some exalted position (judge, cop, DA) and get ten times the punishment of a common criminal.

[BYODB]

^ This is the way.

[Jefferson Paul]

Didn't they send SWAT to arrest Steve Bannon or one of the other Trump lackeys for contempt of Congress? I believe they even notified CNN or other media outlets so they could record him being cuffed in full arm and leg cuffs. Couldn't they have just invited Bannon to show up instead of making a criminal and political spectacle of it all?

[Idaho-Bob]

ACLU tries to get Venezuelan deportees back to U.S. soil

I guess the "A" in ACLU now cover S. Americans.

[Medulla Oblongata]

Well, it is the Gulf of America now.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

I thought they became the Asshole Communist Lackeys United in the recent past.

[Minadin]

No, they were founded that way.

[Zeb]

Covers anyone subject to US laws.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

No it doesn't. For example visitors have no right to work, no right to serve on a jury, etc.

[Zeb]

That doesn't contradict what I said. The things you mention are all US law.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Right to work is literally listed as a constitutional right even in the due process articles the left here keeps posting. The only regulation, like for voting or crimes, is age.

Most visas also can restrict right to travel, such as to Canada. Which os a right established for citizens in America.

[Ra's al Gore]

We're going to solar power to fight climate change!
We're going to dim the sun to fight climate change!
We are idiots!

Experiments to dim the Sun will be approved within weeks
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/04/22/experiments-to-dim-the-sun-get-green-light/

[Idaho-Bob]

These tards can't control CO2, but they are going to dim the sun.

With any luck, they turn the island into 28 Days Later

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Who do they think they are, Montgomery Burns?

[Minadin]

At least Monty Burns still has an empire of sorts.

[Ajsloss]

It's all fun and games until a child shoots you.

[Dillinger]

there's not a jury in the world who'd convict a baby ... mmm, maybe Texas.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, Texas is NOT a baby-killer state.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Illinois on the other hand seems to celebrate it under Dictator Pritzker.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Spoiler alert please. I just got to that season ender.

[Jefferson Paul]

Be sure to go to 7-11 and buy the Slurpee cup with the picture of the character you think shot Burns, for a chance to win an appearance on season 5 of the Simpsons.

[Dillinger]

this is very funny.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Your mileage may vary, but I don't love this joke, personally.

It's the reactions that are the joke.

[Jefferson Paul]

Reactions such as "just as bad" Liz.

[Jefferson Paul]

such as from just as bad Liz

[Fist of Etiquette]

Well, I guess you can legitimately say the president should govern his words carefully as they can affect markets and such. Personally I'm hoping for a day when it doesn't matter that much if the White House trolls the press. Maybe that's today.

[Jefferson Paul]

I don't think that day will ever come. Whether Trump was the cause, or just a symptom, I don't think the toothpaste can be put back into the tube.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"Given that we're still recovering from FDR's 12 years of government and executive power expansion, and given that it would be a huge violation of the Constitution, I don't think Trump seeking another term would be appropriate at all. But is there harm in joking about it?"

No. We all know it's a joke, except for the hyperventilating pink-hairs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

There's greater utility for Trump in the reactions than there is for The Resistance (depending on their actual goals). They need to learn this.

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

Look at trumps expantionof power where he... Checks notes... Lowers regulation

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, not letting progressives impose woke authoritarianism is authoritarian.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

And there’s the reason for it, to make the pink hairs hyperventilate and hopefully keel over from heart attacks.

[Ra's al Gore]

That's (D)ifferent.

https://www.cbsnews.com/miami/news/elian-gonzalez-25-years-after-custody-battle-seeks-to-bridge-divide-between-cuba-and-u-s/

The fight over custody of Elian Gonzalez ended on April 22, 2000, when heavily armed federal agents raided the Little Havana home of his Miami family. Elian was seized at gunpoint and returned to his father, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, who was soon back in Cuba with his 5-year-old son.

[Azathoth!!]

I am reminded of the tear that came to Winston Smith's eye as he realized he did love Big Brother.

Of the Emperor Pu-Yi's face as he defended the Chinese Communist Party.

That poor child. Clinton will burn in Hell for many things, but what happened to Elian Gonzalez is up there.

[Ra's al Gore]

How many injunctions did the ACLU get?

Speed Over Fairness: Deportation Under the Obama Administration
https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/speed-over-fairness-deportation-under-obama

[Chinny Chin Chin]

https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-sues-obama-administration-detaining-asylum-seekers-intimidation-tactic

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

"Speed over fairness"?

How about law over fairness?

And they could at least change their name to American Liberal Fairness Union. ALFU?

[Fats of Fury]

ACLU deep into this too.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trans-inmate-killed-baby-blames-172808184.html

[Medulla Oblongata]

"American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—an organization with great roots that has, in recent years, strayed awfully far from its mission"

That's putting it mildly.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Sounds like a certain libertarian mag.

[Moonrocks]

using the IRS to target nonprofits because of their views or speech will very quickly come back to haunt the people cheering it on today

"Last year" is pretty quick.

[Minadin]

using the IRS to target nonprofits because of their views

Like the Obama Admin? Lois Lerner anyone?

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

(D)ifferent.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

Yeah, this sort of "just wait until the Democrats get power and do the same thing!" retort blatantly ignores the fact that they've been doing this shit ever since Obama implemented his "whole of society" project on to the federal government. They went all-in on the practice during COVID with their mass media psy-ops and assertions that anything pushing back against them was "Russian disinformation." The horse left the barn on this a long time ago.

The issue isn't that the Dems might implement their own censorship regime; they've already done so using the typical leftist double standard as the keystone of the policy. The issue is that they've established a political framework that deliberately set up the us/them, oppressed/oppressor ideology as the national consensus.

Which is why a national divorce is going to be the only way to ultimately resolve this. The Dems decided to implement Marcuse's "liberating tolerance" as policy. It's expected that they'll complain when it's directed back at them. So why bother reconciling a political climate that's unreconcilable? Let's break up, they can have their Union of Soviet Socialist Americas with Canada and Mexico, and we can have the United States of America, since they don't even like the US to begin with.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

RE: national divorce.

Breaking up by states is most practical, but will still leave us with many deeply conflicted areas. Counties would better segregate political leanings but create a patchwork. Putting boundaries around legacy cultures, e.g. Woodard's American Nations, could be even more fun.

Even bringing separated peace to Colorado is a challenge. We could make Denver-Boulder a city-state, but also need to deal with Aspen and other resort towns.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

The problem comes in that the Dems don't want to give up control of the red areas. We may want to be left alone and leave them alone, but they don't want to leave us to be.

[Ra's al Gore]

Trump admin blasts NY Times over 'sob' story on deported kidnapper
A year after his arrival, Nascimento Blair was arrested for kidnapping and subsequently tried, found guilty,and sentenced to 15 years in prison
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-admin-blasts-ny-times-over-sob-story-deported-kidnapper

The outlet wrote that "to Mr. Blair and his supporters, his life story was one of rehabilitation, nuanced and filled with qualities that they believe Mr. Trump’s deportation machine disregards as it flies out immigrants en masse."

Slamming The Times’ coverage, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin asked, "Why does the New York Times continue to peddle sob stories about criminal illegal aliens and ignore their victims?"

According to a statement by ICE, Blair entered the U.S. in 2004 and then violated the terms of his admission. A year after his arrival, Blair was arrested by the Mount Vernon Police Department for first-degree kidnapping. He was convicted of the crime and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

[Idaho-Bob]

...about criminal illegal aliens and ignore their victims?

I asked our resident criminal alien ally this yesterday.

They hate Americans. Even other leftists.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

If an American is harmed by a non-American, all else equal, should that person receive harsher treatment than if he was an American?

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Nice try at a strawman with a side of false equivalence and redirection.

[VinniUSMC]

Yes, because their punishment also includes (should include) removal from the US after completion of their sentence.

[Idaho-Bob]

Is sending an illegal back to his/her country of origin "harsher treatment"?

[middlefinger]

How we have the socialist revolution if Bernies sending his foot soldiers back to the socialist shitholes they came from?

[Medulla Oblongata]

"said it had axed several of the federal attorneys tasked with defending it in a lawsuit over New York City's congestion pricing program, saying they harmed the DOT's case."

Not unexpected. I assumed these lawyers were part of "the resistance inside the administration" and did this on purpose.

[Ra's al Gore]

IRS Apologizes For Aggressive Scrutiny Of Conservative Groups
https://www.npr.org/2017/10/27/560308997/irs-apologizes-for-aggressive-scrutiny-of-conservative-groups

Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the two settlements Thursday. The Justice Department quoted him as saying of the IRS activity: "There is no excuse for this conduct. Hundreds of organizations were affected by these actions, and they deserve an apology from the IRS. We hope that today's settlement makes clear that this abuse of power will not be tolerated."

[Idaho-Bob]

There are a shitload of things the democrats did first, and they are all perfectly acceptable when democrats do it.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/stillgray/status/1915709151717499237

Following a Romanian judge's heroic decision to reinstate the canceled elections, the country's top judicial authority has launched a disciplinary investigation against him.

Romania's Superior Council of Magistracy has begun a "disciplinary probe" into Judge Vasile Alexandru, who reversed the Constitutional Court's ruling to annul the presidential elections after Calin Georgescu won the first round.

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

Now every non-autocratic politician in the West has globalist cross-hairs on the back of his head thanks to America's precedent.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Local news. Not libertarian related.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1915536035871904154

BREAKING: The Charlotte County, FL Sheriff announces the arrest of a Mexican illegal alien who allegedly “anally” and “orally” raped a 13-year-old boy in the woods behind his home as he was playing hide & seek w/ his 8 year old brother. The Sheriff says the alien was caught & released by the Biden/Harris admin in 2022.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/BillMelugin_/status/1915032586533081534

EXCLUSIVE: The families of two teens killed by an illegal alien who crashed into them while drunk, high, & speeding at 100 mph in OC in 2021 have been told by the state of CA that their killer will be released from prison early in July, just 3.5 years into a 10-year sentence for killing the teens, who both burned alive.

Oscar Eduardo Ortega-Anguiano, a twice deported Mexican illegal alien, had a lengthy rap sheet prior to killing 19-year-olds Anya Varfolomeev & Nikolay Osokin in the DUI crash on the 405 freeway in Seal Beach in November 2021. Both were US citizens, and they were dating. Ortega-Anguiano had several felony convictions, had gone to state prison, and had multiple convictions for driving without a license, but was still on the streets when he crashed into the teens' vehicle.

In spring of 2022, Ortega-Anguiano was convicted in OC of two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated for killing the teens, and a judge sentenced him to serve 10 years in prison for each count, but concurrently, meaning he would serve both 10-year-sentences at the same time.

The victims' families felt that was already a weak sentence, but they tell me they were notified by the CA Department of Corrections on Easter Sunday that Ortega-Anguiano is scheduled for an early release on July 19th, 2025, only a little more than 3 years into his sentence, leaving the victims' families shocked, and outraged given the seriousness of the crime and his prior criminal history. They provided us the CDCR document showing the July 19th release date.

[Z Crazy]

Whatever happened to the time-honored tradition of lynching?

[Zeb]

I'm not in favor of lynching coming back. But this is how lynching comes back.

[mad.casual]

And this is pretty much my stance on capital punishment. Your stance against cruel and unusual punishment is admirable right up until you turf out execution/enforcement, then it becomes humorously naive and trite.

I would suspect people who kill people in such context, if they did happen across nitrogen asphyxiation or even lethal injection, would reject them out of hand as too banal.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

I'm not in favor of lynching coming back. But this is how lynching comes back.

Pretty much. Besides the deliberately targeted attacks against blacks in the South, elsewhere it was mostly an extrajudicial act when the populace didn't think that actual justice would be served. It's not an accident that it was so prevalent in the West up until the early 20th century, when law enforcement was relatively unavailable thanks to the distances that circuit judges had to travel to conduct trials. Most towns didn't want to wait around a month for the judge to arrive.

[Fats of Fury]

Reportedly Jackie Coogan (Uncle Fester) was part of a lynch mob at the last lynching in California in 1933.

https://tinyurl.com/4a28ksf5

[BYODB]

If one of those had been my kid you can bet I'd be waiting outside the prison for this guy. I don't care what law enforcement does to me after the fact, but he's going in the ground.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Kill Ortega-Anguiano. And then kill Soros.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Thank you for posting these stories. From them, and too many other stories like them, we should conclude that illegal immigrants as a group are violent predators and criminals, and should be rounded up and deported en masse with little regard to rights or due process. Normal Americans have nothing to fear from this because they would never be mistaken for illegal immigrants, they are superior people who have paler complexions.

[VinniUSMC]

Illegal immigrants should never be given an opportunity to kill US citizens, or to commit further crimes on US soil.

Tardjeff fatfuck false-equivalencer should get an opportunity to go feet first into a wood chipper.

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

When I call Jeff "evil" I'm not resorting to hyperbole.

[mad.casual]

Illegal immigrants should never be given an opportunity to kill US citizens, or to commit further crimes on US soil.

And, in completely fair turn, any foreign town, nation, municipality, jurisdiction, post office, library, etc., wants to toss Americans back to the US or intervening soil for a similarly serious crime or even fairly reasonable suspicion of one, fair game.

[Finrod]

Be sure to use an electric woodchipper; they're slower.

[Z Crazy]

Now you get the point.

This obsession with rights and process are tying the hands of cops, keeping them from keeping us safe! The cops know who the bad guys are and we should trust them!

Whatever happened to the good ol' days. 100 years ago, someone who did what Orgeta-Anguano did would have been lynched by a mob!

Why don't people gather anymore to deliver instant justice like their ancestors did?

[Zeb]

This obsession with rights and process are tying the hands of cops, keeping them from keeping us safe! The cops know who the bad guys are and we should trust them!

Parody?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

Obviously.

[Zeb]

No, that's not what we should conclude. But we should expect that immigrants that commit terrible crimes will be adequately punished and removed from the country.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Sounds like Pluggo’s hero.

[Chupacabra]

It's ChemJeff's preferred method of sex ed.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Sadly already saw Jeff in the comments.

Also a pedo/murderer illegal in California. Was able to coach without a background check. Multiple kids got molested.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"One of my favorite things about Glenn Greenwald is that he's not afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome (TDS)"

I'm not sure if anyone at Reason is really qualified to judge someone else's TDS level.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Hey, it's just like when people judge other drivers, i.e. maniacs vs slowpokes.

So anyone who hates Trump more has TDS. Anyone who hates Trump less is MAGA.

[Zeb]

Pretty much. I wouldn't say Liz is TDS. I'm pretty sure she voted for him and she isn't reflexively against whatever Trump is for. I think that's a defining characteristic for TDS.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

True. If you want a case of TDS and what it looks like, just see Sarcasmic’s comments. It’s damn near textbook.

[VinniUSMC]

A variant of the Dunning-Kruger effect at work here.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

But IQ tests are racist!

[Moonrocks]

Strange that cracking down on illegal straw donors and foreign contributions in US elections is a direct attack on Act Blue.

[Ra's al Gore]

We need arrests.

[Fist of Etiquette]

ACLU tries to get Venezuelan deportees back to U.S. soil...

Those commies don't want the deportees to languish under communism.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/WallStreetApes/status/1915412457780388264
Financial Manager for the Army setup a fake NGO and stole $108 million dollars from taxpayers. Buys 31 homes and 80 vehicles, paid for by you

“She incorporates a fake children's charity and awards herself an army contract — US Army approves this children's charity — A totally fake nonprofit. There's absolutely nothing for children. 7 year period. She steals $108 million

From you and I, the taxpayer. All of it goes into her pocket. Not a dime of that money goes to the kids. It's all going into her bank accounts

She spends the money

- 31 different homes in Colorado, Maryland, New Mexico, Texas, and Washington
- She bought 80 motor vehicles
- Packages were arriving every day from high end retailers. The UPS guy is the one who gave her the nickname, the Gucci goddess, because he was constantly delivering these high end items to this McMansion that she bought.“

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

There's hundreds of these stories now, but not a single Reason article on something of such obvious libertarian interest.

[Quicktown Brix]

From DOGE?

I remember the headline that DOD was next like 2 months ago, but Elon has been bumped from the headlines.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

That story was absolutely fucking wild, a BLM or Klaus Schwab-tier grift that went mostly unnoticed for years. She only got caught because she got too fucking greedy.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

“You can spot these assholes by watching the way they bet. Like this guy. He's betting lavender chips at five hundred each with only one little problem: He's always guessed right. If he wasn't so fuckin' greedy, he'd have been tougher to spot. But in the end, they're all greedy.”

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

You aren't allowed to audit this stuff. Why are you supporting revenge. Someone get me an inferior court judge.

[Fats of Fury]

The ACLU will sue to get this minority woman freed from jail and to get her money returned.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

DUE PROCESS!

[Ra's al Gore]

Deported ‘Maryland man’ championed by Dems was pulled over driving car belonging to human smuggler
DHS sources confirmed that Abrego Garcia was pulled over driving an SUV belonging to confessed human smuggler and illegal alien Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/deported-maryland-man-championed-dems-pulled-over-driving-car-belonging-human-smuggler?intcmp=tw_fnc

...The trooper noticed eight individuals in the car with Abrego Garcia, who said he began driving three days prior from Houston, Texas, to Temple Hills, Maryland, via St. Louis, Missouri, to "perform construction work." The report on the stop states that the trooper suspected it was a human trafficking incident, as there was no luggage in the vehicle. Additionally, the individuals in the car reportedly gave the same address as Abrego Garcia's home address.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

And AG told the cops in TN the SUV belonged to his “boss” - a MS-13 Gang Member arrested for human trafficking and deported who illegally reentered.

Also, the ‘MD Man’ is no longer a ‘MD Father’ in the news reports, because his wife’s kids are someone else’s- who sued for custody when she began dating a “Gang Member”.

It’s not enough for Getting Worse Liz he has MS13 tattooed on his hands, or that he wears their colors and logos, that he drives vehicles belonging to MS13 traffickers while getting stopped for trafficking - it’s just that a CI “claimed” he was MS13 and she’s sticking to this Treasonista line from 3 weeks ago.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

At this point, an actual laminated membership card would not suffice for the KAG propagandists

[chemjeff radical individualist]

If Garcia is guilty of human trafficking, shouldn't he receive a trial and be punished according to the appropriate laws?
Shouldn't the government have to meet some burden of proof in order to prove these allegations instead? What has happened in this case is that the government has already sentenced and punished Garcia and is now trying him in the court of public opinion after the fact. I believe there is nothing that will ever change your mind on this unless the government does it to you.

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

"If Garcia is guilty of human trafficking, shouldn't he receive a trial and be punished according to the appropriate laws?"

Yes, the second he attempts to come back.

[But SkyNet is a Private Company]

WE . DONT. NEED. A. TRIAL. TO. DEPORT. HIM.

And, before your dumb ass chimes in with part 2, he’s been convicted of crimes in El Salvador

[VinniUSMC]

Anonymous sources are only ok for journalists.

[Fats of Fury]

I suspected those weren't his kids. He didn't marry her until he was jailed and facing deportation. I'd like to know if she's receiving any welfare benefits.
Liz should bake Garcia a pupusa with a file in it and send it him.

I'd still like to know why those Tennessee cops let a guy, without a drivers license, off. Plus transporting a van full of men who couldn't speak English. Did the order to release come from someone in the Biden administration? Were he and others paid by the government to do this?

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

Why were there only 2000 mexicans at the battle of the Alamo?
They only had 2 Pontiacs to get there

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

The funny thing is that joke was probably originally made by a Mexican.

[Dillinger]

one of the Taco Bell guys told me that when I was a teenager but he said Monte Carlo because I drove a '75 Monte Carlo

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Pontiacs?

Hey, ese, ain't nobody rolling low and slow in a Pontiac. Chevy or nothing, Holmes.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yesterday, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said it had axed several of the federal attorneys tasked with defending it in a lawsuit over New York City's congestion pricing program, saying they harmed the DOT's case.

Heaven forbid Transportation include incompetent employees.

[Fats of Fury]

They were probably hired by Mayor Petey.

[Fist of Etiquette]

One of my favorite things about Glenn Greenwald is that he's not afflicted by Trump derangement syndrome (TDS)...

I will admit that this much seems to be true.

[Dillinger]

he was pleasant to listen to with Megyn Kelly as he did not stray into imaginary due process.

[Ra's al Gore]

Dear open borders crowd, y'all are about to be the cause of something so horrific here that the border will be shut down for 100 years after the most brutal mass deportations ever, and you will never make the connection between that and your refusal to compromise at all.

https://x.com/MarinaMedvin/status/1915208237160554808

Mohamad Hamad, 23, a dual Lebanese/ US citizen and a member of the US Air Force Pennsylvania Air National Guard, is accused of lying to get a top secret security clearance. He is also charged with a bomb threat plot to attack Jews.

In private messages he said that he is loyal to Lebanon and “Palestine,” that he only joined the military to learn skills to protect those places, and referred to himself as a terrorist and “Hamas operative.” He said his ultimate goal in life was to be an Islamic martyr. At his security clearance interview he lied and said he was 100% devoted to America.

He also purchased materials to make multiple pipe bombs and sent pictures of completed pipe bombs.

[Spiritus Mundi]

The next dem potus will make the border wide open again, with zero pushback.

[VinniUSMC]

The next dem potus will make the border wide open again, with zero pushback great fanfare.

FTFY

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

This is SOP for Arabs. They don't give a squirt of piss for the places they're living, their loyalty first and foremost is to their homeland in the Middle East. Everywhere else is just a place to squat and parasitize from.

[Fist of Etiquette]

President Donald Trump signed a memorandum Thursday targeting ActBlue, the Democratic Party's main fundraising platform...

While I personally believe that campaign finance laws violate 1st Amendment protections, HAHAHA. Lawfare coming back around.

[VinniUSMC]

Campaign finance is fine. Fraudulent money laundering, not so much.

[Ra's al Gore]

Evidently British girls had to go back to their rapists to keep the rest of their families safe from immigrant gangs.

Fuck you, Reason.

https://x.com/rapeganginquiry

[Medulla Oblongata]

It would have been racist for them to do anything else.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Lie back and think of England?

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

You can have rag heads or a civilization. Not both

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

That's the point. Active destruction of the West by a social class who think that they're going to be able to rule over the ashes.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

The problem with their plan is that those they bring in have their own non-Western civilization and will not hesitate to push it when they reach critical mass. The stupid elites are playing with fire and we’re all going to get burned.

[Ra's al Gore]

If I didn't have family who will suffer these bad decisions, I'd be looking forward to watching all the AWFLs losing everything to unassimilated migrants and their unassimilated descendants while blaming the White Male Menace.

[mad.casual]

Again, Jean Raspail wrote a book where a Naturalized Indian, in France, is among the titular Camp of Saints who are being bombed to death by the last of more tolerant Europeans for holding out against a tide of culture-less, violent, third-world rapists and shit-eating immigrants.

It gets called racist and has been called to be purged even by this very magazine for daring to present ideas like not caving into a mob, valuing one's own and even related or mirrored cultures, and not raping people en masse as valuable and the opposite as needing violent rejection. It gets called racist because post-modern and anti-racist racists, the pointedly secondary antagonists in the book, *literally* think it's wrong to discriminate against rapists and violent mobs because of their ethnicity.

The book absolutely and unequivocally has social and literary merit. If you've got two bookshelves in your house and one has 1984, Atlas Shrugged, The Handmaid's Tale, Catcher in The Rye, To Kill A Mockingbird, Brave New World, and/or even things LOTR and Dune on it's shelves and the other has Das Kapital, Mein Kampf, The Motorcycle Diaries, Mao's Little Red Book, Gaddafi's Green Book... Camp of Saints is *perfectly* at home on the former shelf and insanely out of place on the latter. The parallels and simultaneous inverted reception or depiction between Atwood's penning of The Handmaid's Tale in her culture at the time and Raspail's penning of A Camp Of Saints in his culture are astounding. Like if white people, men and women, out of survival or necessity; reduced reproduction to regimented practice it would be brutally oppressive and evil. However, if other people raped and murdered their way to the point that it necessitated such a subsistence state just to survive, that's OK and we should be more enlightened and culturally sensitive to that. It shouldn't take any particular race or cultural heritage to see the insane and insanely destructive disconnect.

[Spiritus Mundi]

seeks to bring back the roughly 140 Venezuelan nationals who were already deported to El Salvador

If they didn't want to be deported to El Salvador they could of left whenever they wanted on their own accord. They are hear illegally, they know this, but refuse to follow our laws (and I am sure they have the utmost respect for all the others) and have to be forcibly removed. The only thing these assholes are victims of is their own bad decisions.

[Fist of Etiquette]

The take that the "liberal elite" were huge advocates for school reopening is…not at all how I—or millions of others—remember it.

Well, well, well. Look who's uniquely immune to gaslighting.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/CherylWroteIt/status/1915760760090726552

The U.S. Department of Justice has ruled that UNRWA is no longer entitled to immunity from lawsuits in U.S. courts. This legal opinion was submitted in a landmark case brought by the families of over 100 victims of the October 7 Hamas-led massacre. The plaintiffs are seeking $1 billion in damages, alleging that UNRWA knowingly supported and facilitated Hamas in executing the deadly attack.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Good. Time to sue them into oblivion.

[VinniUSMC]

Awesome. Hope they succeed.

[Medulla Oblongata]

"WSJ is exactly right: using the IRS to target nonprofits because of their views or speech will very quickly come back to haunt the people cheering it on today"

Indeed, but Dems did it first and set the precedent...the new rules of the game, as it were.

OTOH, considering Act Blue, as an example, when there are widespread media reports of straw donations, 1000s of donations from one person who says they never donated at all, etc., then what should an administration do? Should it *not* conduct a real investigation (IRS or FEC or whichever agency is most applicable) just because it might (will) be seen as political in nature, irrespective of actual malfeasance?

Also, "The were rightly indignant when..." I remember that no one was fired, despite obvious signs of coverup (like her harddrive "crashed" and others were "accidentally erased"). There were effectively zero consequences for the actions, other than Learner eventually and reluctantly resigning.

Finally, no group should be shutdown or investigated for being on the wrong side of the administration, but if they repeatedly and openly pursue actions not permitted under their tax-exempt charter status, then it is rational to reconsider their status as under that exemption charter.

[Mike Parsons]

Seeing two big whingings going on today:

Targeting of the "disparate outcomes", as a mechanism to go after the CRA.

Targeting of non profits that are highly likely to be dems.

Well guess the fuck what. You know who we just watch shit all over the CRA for years? Who exactly pushed affirmative action, pushed for race quotas, pushed for whites/asians to get fucked so people with lower credentials could get in based on skin color, pushed for limits on white and asian students/applicants to all kinds of fields/jobs...Who pushed for prioritization of vaccine distribution to people based on their skin color? Ya, you can get rightly fucked.

Also, who was totes fine going after conservative and religious groups with the IRS? Who was totally fine shadow banning and silencing conservative voices using govt coercion?

Schadenfreude isnt enough to describe it. We told you that giving the govt this kind of power is bad because, there is a chance, someone you dont like gets those powers. So now, fucking choke on it.

They wont learn until they have suffered enough

[sarcasmic]

President Donald Trump (born in 1946, and getting up there in the years) being elected to a third term in 2028 would be a violation of the 22nd Amendment.

You don't complain when Democrats violate Amendments you hypocrite. That means you can't talk about Trump violating Amendments. And since Democrats violated Amendments first, it's ok for Trump to rule for as many terms as he wants until he dies in office.

[Idaho-Bob]

There it is.

[sarcasmic]

Trump defenders have already said so much, but seriously instead of sarcastically. When you guys stop I'll stop. Fair?

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

If you would change "didn't complain" to "actively defended" then it would be fair.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Gee, they sound a lot like you, twerp.

[Idaho-Bob]

If you would change "didn't complain" to "actively defended" then it would be fair.

Needs repeating.

[sarcasmic]

Oh yeah. I forgot that you guys moved the goalposts. My bad.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Criticism of your idiotic comment is not moving the goalposts, retard.

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

As Bertram and Bob have already pointed out, if you change "didn't complain" to "actively defended" then it would be fair.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Never stop, Sarc.

[sarcasmic]

I'll stop mocking you when you stop giving me something to mock.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Sarc, likewise. I’ll stop mocking you once you stop giving me so much material to mock.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

You're not mocking anyone. You're just being a retarded leftist hypocrite troll.

[Medulla Oblongata]

What did the grey box say now? Nevermind, I don't really care.

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

His usual troll, where it's an indictment of him, but he's too stupid to see that and instead blames others.

[sarcasmic]

It said that when you cross a penis, a potato, and an ocean liner, you get a dictatorship. You know, that thing you hope the Trump administration will become.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Sad, sad lame ass attempt at a joke. Yet another thing Sarc doesn’t understand: how to make a proper joke.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

You troll all the fucking time here, yet when someone is trolling in real life, for some reason, you fail to see it. Obviously self-awareness is not your superpower, Sarc.

[Marshal]

I find it wonderfully amusing that sarc's great contribution is trying to convince people that everyone he hates are awful people for being just like him. There is nothing more sarc than that.

[Fist of Etiquette]

That means that there are no economic effects of what was done on April 10th until about May 10th.

We'll just have to build our factories before then, smart guy.

[mad.casual]

It's hard to read that Tweet and not get the impression the guy has been in a coma for the last 5 yrs.

[Fist of Etiquette]

But the scale of the potential extinction still isn't adequately appreciated.

The internet's just getting started, is it?

[Fist of Etiquette]

WSJ is exactly right: using the IRS to target nonprofits because of their views or speech will very quickly come back to haunt the people cheering it on today

The Tea Party has entered the chat.

[sarcasmic]

Exactly. Democrats did it first. That means it's ok for Trump to weaponize the IRS against nonprofits that say things he doesn't like. Preach it brother!

[Fist of Etiquette]

Yeah, that's my point.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

You mean it's only wrong when the republicans do it.

Maybe if dems would quit being assholes they would stop leading the way.

[Mike Parsons]

What he's saying is he wants the dems to be able to do it, and the R to have principles and take it on the chin, then turn the other cheek.

You know, so they left can continue to grab power while the right virtue signals but gives up all ground. You know, like the last 20+ years of politics.

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

Sarc's principled like that.

[sarcasmic]

No, I'm saying that it was outrageous and inexcusable when Democrats did it. But when Trump does it it's no longer outrageous and inexcusable because Democrats did it first. Anyone who gets outraged is a leftist who cheered when Democrats did it. Doesn't matter if they can prove they were outraged. They were pretending. They were not outraged. They were lying. That excuses Trump.

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Everyone knows you're bullshitting.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""No, I'm saying that it was outrageous and inexcusable when Democrats did it.""

We don't hear you say that at all. Perhaps it's lost in the "but dems" and trump supporter hate you post many times a day, every day.

[Jefferson Paul]

It doesn't matter if ActBlue is actually laundering money/donations, and if there is already evidence and reports of that happening. You can't investigate that or sarc will get a sad.

[Michael Ejercito]

What consequences did those who did it the first time around suffer?

[sarcasmic]

WSJ is exactly right: using the IRS to target nonprofits because of their views or speech will very quickly come back to haunt the people cheering it on today

You didn't complain when Democrats did it...

[Ra's al Gore]

Democrats did it to icky people with the wrong beliefs on immigration and abortion, so its ok.

[sarcasmic]

Trump using the IRS against icky people with wrong beliefs on immigration, trade, due process, free speech, elections, J6, disappearing people, concentration camps, foreign prisons, court orders, and anything else he can think of is ok because Democrats did it first.

Glad you agree.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Oddly, you just described the entirety of the Biden Administration.

[TrickyVic (old school)]

""concentration camps,""

This is how you spot a liberal. The term is part of their Trump is Hitler propaganda.

[Marshal]

They are not liberals.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/matt_vanswol/status/1915417721891655944

Maybe now someone can explain why donations were made, in my name, to Act Blue candidates in KANSAS...

...when I've never been to Kansas.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

"The New York Times describes both the procedural question ..."

Liz, stop using NYT and WaPo links. It's not just the paywall and the way back machine archive hassle. They are untrustworthy. They were part of the Biden senility coverup, the Hunter Biden laptop coverup, the Hunter Biden Ukraine corruption coverup, and frankly, they may as well have been on the Biden reelection campaign team.

They have lied far too often to be trusted on anything. I'd trust X tweets more; they at least have community notes to illuminate the lies.

[VinniUSMC]

At this point, I would expect Liz will just go from WaPoo and NYT to Vox and Salon.

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

Liz yglasias counter : 3 days

[Ska]

Good thing I got that cooties vax - though its effectiveness is questionable.

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

How about this take liz
The chinks unleashed biological warfare against the planet. They are totalitarian slaves, and anything short of killing all of them is appeasement.

[Sarah Palin's Buttplug - Jan 6 = 9/11 (same motive)]

For just $50, you can own a "Trump 2028" hat

Made in China.

Exempt from tariff.

[sarcasmic]

*spit take*

[Bertram Guilfoyle]

Now you have bottom shelf liquor all over your floor.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

It’s just Boones Farm so it’s not much of a loss.

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

Fuck off with your boos farm! It's mad dog 20/20 or bust. Perhaps even wild turkey 151

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Hey now, we used to sell Boones Farm for a mere $1.99 a bottle at the grocery store I worked at while in college, a mere block from the university itself. Those others were more expensive. I just can’t see Sarcasmic being able to spend for Wild Turkey, much less Crown Royal.

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

A bottle of 151 is ~20x boons farm from a booze perspective

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

You want teens and/or drunks to do economics?

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

We're talking sarc here

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

He can sense the alcohol content just by looking at it through the bottle.

[Ska]

So not a huge loss.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

Cite?

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd, the ass-clown of the commentariat, lies; it’s all he ever does. turd is a kiddie diddler, and a pathological liar, entirely too stupid to remember which lies he posted even minutes ago, and also too stupid to understand we all know he’s a liar.
If anything he posts isn’t a lie, it’s totally accidental.
turd lies; it’s what he does. turd is a lying pile of lefty shit.

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

Again fuck off Liz and reason. You had no problem when Obama and Biden used the irs to target conservative non profits. You are all cancers

[Quicktown Brix]

Have you been reading her middle school essay assignments?

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

No, I hate retards

[Zeb]

A quick search shows that that is not a fair characterization of their coverage.

[Ra's al Gore]

Deport the bottom quartile.

https://x.com/wanyeburkett/status/1915603732164735166

Maybe the most important thing you learn by attending public school is that we are all at the mercy of the bottom quintile. The rules you follow in life will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile, the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile, the greatest risks to your life and property will come from the bottom quintile, the dearth of comfortable public spaces is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to be there, our zoning laws are developed for fear of the bottom quintile.

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

That's racist

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

Or just trade them (and any others who think the US is the Great Satan) for those hard-working immigrants we hear so much about.

[Fats of Fury]

They sort of did in South Central Los Angeles, Watts is 70% Latino.
So much for racial harmony.
By the early 2000's this area became a major flashpoint of race based gang killings. In the mid 1990s, the Mexican Mafia, a prison gang with control over most of the Latino gangs in L.A., gave the green light to kill all blacks in sight.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Los_Angeles
Same thing going on in Chicago.

[VinniUSMC]

There's always a bottom quintile.

[Minadin]

On the use of the word "terrorist,"

https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/st-peter-shoplifting-arrest-mass-casualty-event-plans-charges/

An investigating officer, noting the listed items, recalled that he had been on a call for service within the week prior due to Mohamed ‘making several media posts showing firearms and ammunition and one post showing himself pointing an apparent assault rifle at the camera,' the complaint said. The hashtag for the social media post was '#deathtoamerikkan&israelliImperialism.'

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/robinmonotti/status/1915374728870613471
David Keith acknowledges that UK dimming of the Sun will kill tens of thousands of people. This is because ten times more people die of cold than of heat. Cooling kills, that's why they want you to think warming is bad: to depopulate & save on pensions

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

That’s the WEF goal here. It’s a feature, not a bug.

[Fats of Fury]

Well they can always bring back coal burning. London was well known for their ssun blocking smog.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://x.com/FoxNews/status/1915597647408214240

Former New Mexico Magistrate Judge Joel Cano and his wife were arrested after federal agents raided their Las Cruces home. They face charges of evidence tampering amid allegations they harbored an alleged illegal immigrant who is also believed to be a member of Tren de Aragua.

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

In my opinion, every judge issuing these injunctions should be investigated for this and other corruption.

[Medulla Oblongata]

So charges, now too? On top of being barred for life?

N. Mexican judge harboring suspected TdA member in his home dismissed and barred for life.

Link give "AI summary":

New Mexico Judge Jose "Joel" Cano resigned and is permanently barred from holding judicial office in the state.

Cano's resignation follows the February arrest of suspected Venezuelan gang member Cristhian Ortega-Lopez at Cano's home.

Ortega-Lopez, allegedly living in the U.S. illegally, faces charges for firearm possession and is suspected of ties to the Tren de Aragua gang.

https://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/crime/2025/04/24/judge-joel-cano-to-never-hold-office-in-the-state-again-supreme-court/83194921007/

New Mexico Supreme Court says Judge Joel Cano can never hold office in the state again

The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled that Doña Ana County Magistrate Judge Jose "Joel" Cano could never again hold a judicial office, an order that followed Cano's resignation from the judiciary on March 3.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

"...reports CNN..."

Stop right there. Like turd, CNN lies.

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

turd has a new hero:
"Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist arrested on child porn charges"
[...]
"A Trump-bashing, Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist — whose illustrations have been published by the Washington Post, New Yorker and Los Angeles Times — was arrested for possession of child pornography.

Darrin Bell, the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for editorial cartoons, was busted Wednesday and booked in California’s Sacramento County after detectives from the Internet Crimes Against Children unit were tipped off by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, law enforcement officials said.
In a search of Bell’s home, detectives found 134 videos of child pornography linked to an account owned and controlled by the 49-year-old married father of four as well as computer-generated artificial intelligence child pornography, authorities said Thursday..."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/trump-bashing-pulitzer-prize-winning-political-cartoonist-arrested-on-child-porn-charges/ar-AA1xkmhT

But turd will tell us he wears a MAGA hat!

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Given that we're still recovering from FDR's 12 years of government and executive power expansion, and given that it would be a huge violation of the Constitution, I don't think Trump seeking another term would be appropriate at all. But is there harm in joking about it?'

1. Leftists and most Democrats don't get humor.
2. In fact they would like to ban humor since words can cause "harm".
3. Trump!
4. But if Obama said he wanted to run again...

[Sevo, 5-30-24, embarrassment]

But TRUMP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[creech]

Didn't Obama's third term just end in January? I suppose now, however, his next term will have to be Michelle's too? The girls will just have to wait awhile.

[Longtobefree]

Actually
Crazy
Liberals
United

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Yesterday, the Department of Transportation (DOT) said it had axed several of the federal attorneys tasked with defending it in a lawsuit over New York City's congestion pricing program, saying they harmed the DOT's case.'

Axed? Like chopped off some heads? Or just fired them?

I mean, both are good, but one is way better.

[Minadin]

“The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers” . . .

[Fats of Fury]

What did they axe them?

[EISTAU Gree-Vance]

For about tree fitty.

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

The day after a judge in Romania reversed The Blob's cancellation of its elections, the higher judicial body just now stepped in and announced a disciplinary probe against him.

Daily Romania @daily_romania
The Superior Council of Magistracy of Romania has initiated a "disciplinary investigation" against Judge Vasile Alexandru, who overturned the Constitutional Court's decision to cancel the presidential elections

[InsaneTrollLogic (Did the penguin tell you to do this?)]

The EUSSR will stop at nothing to get their way.

[Earth-based Human Skeptic]

'Good forecasting of what might happen once we fully feel the effect of tariffs, and a great explanation of how the lags in the global supply chain work'

Does this also explain something about the idiocy in relying on certain supply chains?

[mad.casual]

Does this also explain something about the idiocy in relying on certain supply chains?

JD Vance is wrong when he conceptualizes immigration as people literally lined up at the border to get into the country. There is no line.

But supply chains are in no way a metaphor. Have you ever heard of a supply turnbuckle or a supply tow bar or supply safety chains supply carabiners... supply one-way ratchets? That's because there is no such thing! Like regular chains, even a single broken link in a supply chain invariably causes a feedback loop killing everyone and everything in the blast radius. That's why it's called a chain reaction. It's just what chains do.

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

Jd Vance defeated the pope in single handed combat.
And he's still wron

[Longtobefree]

If Trump signed an executive order declaring the sun rises in the east, Judge James E. Boasberg would issue a TRO because it discriminates against California.

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

With riots, fires, mudslides, earthquakes, and tsunamis, God discriminates against california

[mad.casual]

You say that like, save riots, it wasn't all there *before* people got there.

[mad.casual]

Yesterday, some people amusingly interpreted my criticism of a certain pundit/COVID-19 revisionist as praise, which it was decidedly not. (The take that the "liberal elite" were huge advocates for school reopening is…not at all how I—or millions of others—remember it.)

That said, I'm pretty sure by the same pundit's own principals; witnessing others dunk on him is full and outright justification for dunking on him yourself.

[Fats of Fury]

I thought the derision was because of his rich tax cheater comments

[TrickyVic (old school)]

I think he's Trolling.

But maybe he has some hope because he witnessed NYC juggle the rules to keep Bloomberg in office for another term.

[Fats of Fury]

They earlier jiggled the rules to limit Giuliani to two terms.

[Ra's al Gore]

https://tomknighton.substack.com/p/yet-another-reasons-no-one-can-trust

Of the medical schools Speech First investigated, 99 percent of them mandated commitments to racial justice ideology and 89 percent did so for gender ideology. Almost a third, 30 percent, required the promotion of “weight inclusivity.”

“Weight inclusivity” is a lesser known left-wing belief that obese people are victims of oppression whose condition should not be viewed as a serious medical issue. Obesity is a significant medical issue that greatly increases the risk of having other diseases such as heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, liver disease, and certain cancers, among other health issues, according to the Mayo Clinic.

In recent decades, obesity has become a nationwide epidemic, with 40.3 percent of Americans qualifying as obese as of 2023, according to data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

Obesity related cardiovascular deaths tripled from 1999 to 2020, increasing from 2.2 per 100,000 to 6.6 per 100,000, according to American Heart Association research. A separate study published last year found that obesity-related mortality went up from 1.8 per 100,000 in 2010 to 3.1 per 100,000 in 2020.

Each year, obesity is responsible for an estimated 2.5 million deaths worldwide, per the World Health Organization. A June 2022 study of U.S. deaths attributed nearly 500,000 deaths to it per year, an increase from related studies taken in 1999 showing it caused roughly 300,000 U.S. deaths annually.

Nonetheless, students at some medical schools are encouraged to demonstrate “weight inclusivity,” which requires them to speak about obesity in neutral terms, rather than acknowledging its negative consequences.

[mad.casual]

In recent decades, obesity has become a nationwide epidemic

Eventually, girth will separate all the whales' blow holes by more than 6 ft. and the epidemic will solve itself.

[Dillinger]

>>Trolling or actual issue?

what, this week's Roundups?

[Dillinger]

>>ACLU tries to get Venezuelan deportees back to U.S. soil:

wouldn't that make them the VCLU?

[mad.casual]

Dominican Oaxacan Nicaraguan Tupi Honduran Aztlan Venezuelan Ecuadorian American Civil Liberties Union

[Dillinger]

>>The full episode is worth your time.

I'd rather know whether MobLand is worth my time.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

Just a reminder of the hierarchy of liberty that conservatives believe in.

First, conservatives have superior rights to all others. They are entitled to break the law in support of their cause, such as on January 6th and even suggesting that they ought to be punished for violating ordinary laws is a type of unacceptable lawfare and should be condemned.

Next, most other Americans have simply ordinary rights: right to a trial, right to vote, etc. Those sorts of things. But they're not entitled to break the law because "rule of law".

Next, a small number of Americans have very few rights, such as trans people, gays, drag queens, etc. Everyone else is entitled to limit their rights because, if they were to exercise their rights, "children might be harmed", which is code for "they make conservatives upset and they need to use children as a rationalization to justify limiting their rights".

Finally, foreigners have little or no rights. The government may do whatever they like to foreigners, including arbitrarily, sending them to a third world prison without any trial. They may even kick foreigners out of the country for any reason whatsoever, even on the arbitrary whim of the executive. They barely have a right to even breathe, let alone be here. When foreigners are here they should be eternally grateful that the government doesn't simply murder them on the spot.

And as long as everyone knows their proper place in the hierarchy of liberty, then social harmony will ensue and America will be great again.

[VinniUSMC]

Pedojeff sisteranal trunkbear has the right, unfortunately, to post shit-eating drivel such as the above.

[Chupacabra]

Thank you, Ms Maddow.

[Minadin]

It's sad that you believe what you just wrote.

[chemjeff radical individualist]

I'm not wrong.

[Red Rocks White Privilege]

chemtard doesn't like the inverse of his lefty boos' "liberating tolerance" being fed back to them.

[rbike]

Just Jeffy being a dumbass.

[Dillinger]

>>Does the in-migration of Venezuelans actually constitute an invasion by a hostile nation?

idk how close do you let one non-local get with their surfboard before you complain out loud?

[Ajsloss]

Beat it, Haole!

[Dillinger]

didn't know what to call them @Rockaway

[Dillinger]

>>Good forecasting of what might happen once we fully feel the effect of tariffs

you may not be old enough, but even worse is feeling the full effect of a broken record

[mad.casual]

225 lbs. for a set of 23 on the bench press felt fine this morning but we'll see tomorrow.

[Dillinger]

nice. I'll try to strike out more than 15 old guys in 7 innings tomorrow morning.

[Dillinger]

>>reports CNN.

it's bad enough you read the NYT to us nobody comes here to know what CNN thinks

[Dillinger]

>>WSJ is exactly right: using the IRS to target nonprofits because of their views or speech will very quickly come back to haunt the people cheering it on today

posting this is giving in to the Uniparty.

[JFree]

what might happen once we fully feel the effect of tariffs, and a great explanation of how the lags in the global supply chain work

What a child. Tariffs will not create a huge impact. Even if ALL trade with China is cut off and ALL retailers do absolutely nothing to restock their shelves and ALL American consumers have an immediate reaction of pooping themselves if prices are passed through to them. Stop being such a fucking snowflake.

We already had our reaction to broken global supply chains with covid a few years ago. It's going to happen again because globalization is BROKEN. It will keep breaking - and breaking - and breaking - until a replacement is found for the current global trading system.

Tariffs is nothing compared to what's going to happen in about the same time frame - say 90 days - when all the ratings agencies downgrade US debt. That too is a consequence of distorted demand for US currency caused by globalization and permanent deficits and hence debt-fueled growth in the US.

[jagjr]

"American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)—an organization with great roots that has, in recent years, strayed awfully far from its mission"

Ms. Wolfe, are you really that young?? it has been many years (not recent) since the ACLU has faithfully defended ALL of our rights and civil liberties. they abandoned the second amendment decades ago despite ample evidence that it was the wrong lane to take. they've never gotten a thin dime from me due to that failing, despite my deep admiration for their stands on many other issues.