Federal Judge: To Hell with Trump! Long Live Barack Obama’s DACA Program!
A third federal judge has ruled that President Trump is not allowed to terminate Barack Obama’s illegal DACA program. This is not the first time a judge has done this, so I’ll quote myself from one of the previous times:
This decision is outrageous. Immigration is Congress’s business. Obama overstepped his authority in issuing a blanket amnesty to a group of people under the guise of prosecutorial discretion. Trump had every right to undo that decision and return the issue to Congress, where it belongs.
. . . .
I hope that this order is swiftly appealed and reversed. It’s a naked power grab by the courts and has no basis in law.
But this decision is worse than the previous ones. Until yesterday, judges had simply ordered that Homeland Security process renewal applications from who had already applied. But this ruling is different:
But the ruling by Bates, an appointee of President George W. Bush, is far more expansive: If the government does not come up with a better explanation within 90 days, he will rescind the government memo that terminated the program and require Homeland Security to enroll new applicants, as well. Thousands could be eligible to apply.
The judge has put his absurd decision on hold for that 90-day period.
Here’s the centerpiece of the “reasoning” offered by the court:
The Court further concludes that, under the APA, DACA’s rescission was arbitrary and capricious because the Department failed adequately to explain its conclusion that the program was unlawful. Neither the meager legal reasoning nor the assessment of litigation risk provided by DHS to support its rescission decision is sufficient to sustain termination of the DACA program.
This is nonsense. Obama’s proffered justification for undermining Congressional legislation in the area of immigration was that he was making a resource allocation decision in enforcement, which is an executive function. Decisions like this mean that one president’s decision about how to allocate resources binds the hands of all future presidents, who are not allowed to make different decisions unless they can explain to a judge’s satisfaction why the previous decisions were illegal.
Even if you accept the resource allocation justification (and I don’t), it makes no sense to say that all future presidents are bound by a previous president’s resource allocation. Obama’s not the President anymore. Donald Trump is, and he’s the one who gets to decide how to allocate the resources available in his administration.
I can’t wait for the Supreme Court to overrule this and decisions like it.
P.S. Today is the day that the Supreme Court hears arguments on Trump’s travel ban. I’ll do my best to offer analysis later today or tomorrow.
P.P.S. This has nothing to do with the subject matter of this post, but if you haven’t read Kira Davis’s post on the tragic and infuriating Alfie Evans case out of the U.K., read it now. I was going to write a post about that myself, but realized that I’d never be able to write anything as effective as her piece. So instead of writing my own piece, I’m promoting hers, and recommending that everyone read it. It’s that good.
[Cross-posted at RedState and The Jury Talks Back.]
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happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 8:57 amThis is why I believe in following the Constitution and not the decisions of our robed clergy. Law schools have damaged the rule of law by focusing on court decisions and not the law.
NJRob (b00189) — 4/25/2018 @ 9:11 amOnly lawyers go unscathed while they abort the justice system. You people really succ.
mg (9e54f8) — 4/25/2018 @ 9:12 amFor those who seem to persist in the thinking that Obama wasn’t “far left” and didn’t govern that way, that sonuvagun biscuit thumbed his nose at the constitution and the separation of powers each and every day and in every way.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 9:14 amSomeone needs to write a book about how lawyers have raped this country of its constitutional law.
mg (9e54f8) — 4/25/2018 @ 9:20 amI welcome the ridiculous decisions by these courts. They illustrate clearly the difference between the right and the left.
I think I know which side most Americans are on. The coming elections should be interesting.
Patricia (3363ec) — 4/25/2018 @ 9:27 amThanks for the link, Patterico. I read Kira Davis’s article in disbelief that a supposed “free” and “enlightened” country like England could be so gripped by the socialist fist they have become not amoral but virtually immoral. Sad end to Western Civilization. I wonder what comes after us? A New Dark Age perhaps?
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:02 amAs I said at the time (in an admitted Bunkerism) Obama has no power to discrete green cards.
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:10 amThere have been several district court judges lately who have massively overstepped their authority in order to counter the administration. As Patterico notes, the “ratchet effect” — used in the past to lock in judge-approved “rights” — is now being used with abandon to lock in usurpations by the Executive.
Not only is the administration entitled to it’s own discretion, but the original DACA program had no basis in discretion in the first place. It was a bald-faced refusal to follow clear law.
We made a decision long ago (circa 1802) not to impeach judges for mere policy differences, but this latest rash of abuse of office is beyond the pale. This judge needs to be impeached. He may not be convicted, but the case has to be made, pour encourager les autres.
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:19 am* its
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:19 amIt’s not a surprise that the judge is a Bush appointee. Chamber of Commerce Republicans want a cheap labor pool more than Democrats want welfare recipients to pander to. In point of fact, the Shrub wanted to create a new class of visas, like HB-1, for unskilled workers.
nk (dbc370) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:21 amHe won’t be, though. It won’t even be introduced. Not even “Trump’s GOP.”
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:22 amAs for Baby Alfie, when was England ever a free country? It does not have citizens, it has subjects. Its present day socialism is merely an extension of the feudalism it started out with.
nk (dbc370) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:26 amTrump vs Hawaii audio here: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/audio/2017/17-965
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:28 amTranscript: https://www.supremecourt.gov/oral_arguments/argument_transcripts/2017/17-965_3314.pdf
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:31 amOT:
Alex Griswold
@HashtagGriswold
Given that this is a Politico write-up, I’m a bit surprised they left off the fact that she’s a former Ready for Hillary staffer, Clinton campaign staffer, and Democratic lobbyist
The surprise is that you’re surprised.
Check out the video of Port Authority board member and [cough] ethics chair dealing with two cops who had pulled over and impounded a car in which her daughter was a passenger:
https://mobile.twitter.com/politico/status/988894869635633153
Cherry on top: check out her profile:
https://mobile.twitter.com/MichelBrewer/status/988896672229900288/photo/1
Maybe she can change the law on unregistered vehicles.
harkin (fc723d) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:48 amChicago, Chicago, that tottering town…
“Byrd had run afoul of Chicago’s aggressive vehicle impound program, which seizes cars and fines owners thousands of dollars for dozens of different offenses. The program impounds cars when the owner beats a criminal case or isn’t charged with a crime in the first place. It impounds cars even when the owner isn’t even driving, like when a child is borrowing a parent’s car.
In total, Chicago fined motorists more than $17 million between March 2017 and March of this year for 31 different types of offenses, ranging from DUI to having illegal fireworks in a car to playing music too loud, according to data from the Chicago Administrative Hearings Department. About $10 million of those fines were for driving on a suspended license, and more than $3 million were for drug offenses like the one that resulted in the impoundment of Byrd’s car.
The city says it is simply enforcing nuisance laws and cracking down on scofflaws. But community activists and civil liberties groups say the laws are predatory, burying guilty and innocent owners alike in debt, regardless of their ability to pay or the effect losing a vehicle will have on their lives.
“There’s plenty of reason to be concerned that there’s injustice being done to people who are mostly poor, people who aren’t in a position to fight back,” says Ben Ruddell, a staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Illinois. “The city has been perpetuating an exploitative system, charging exorbitant fees in a way that it knows is likely to make it so folks never get their cars out of impoundment.”
https://reason.com/archives/2018/04/25/chicago-debt-impound-cars-innocent
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:52 am16… and she’s their “Ethics” chair because ethics!!!
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 10:54 amReason! Aw fer …! Jonathan Chait is more credible.
nk (dbc370) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:06 am#11 I agree with your sentiment, but to lay this mess at the feet of a single party is a half measure a best.
#19 I will be charitable and assume you left out the sarc tag.
The post: informative and well reasoned. The dubious application of executive privilege to create what is in fact legislation, and binding at that, must be met with vociferous opposition regardless of the partisan affiliation of the President. And thank you for the link: I would have not seen this otherwise.
Estarcatus (d19e9c) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:17 amEnglishmen have considered themselves Free Men for hundreds of years regardless of what you believe being a subject means. They did invent common law and that certainly was for free men.
BTW, just cause you don’t like Reason does not make this incorrect.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:20 amChait over Reason says it all.
harkin (fc723d) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:23 amThere is nothing either good or bad
But Reason makes it so
Pinandpuller (f2928d) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:35 amJust the sloppiness and inattention to detail that we’ve come to expect from Trump’s Romper Room administration.
The judge isn’t saying that Trump can’t change Obama’s rules, he’s saying that Trump has to follow the law concerning administrative procedures to do so.
The judge stayed his own decision for 90 days. Hopefully they will find someone who knows what they’re doing and can comply with the law by then.
Dave (445e97) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:40 amReason is a bunch of drama queens. I’ve practiced law in Chicago since 1982. I dare you to come here and try and get your drivers license suspended. You won’t even know where to start and if somebody tells you, you’ll give up halfway through. It’s hard work. And, yeah, if a drivers license is suspended, license plate registered to that driver are also suspended, and the car will be towed if it’s caught being driven. Heavens to Betsy!
nk (dbc370) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:42 amAnd Chait was messing with Haiku.
nk (dbc370) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:43 amGun Control Now! for Chicago… dumb bastards will shoot themselves if left unsupervised.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:58 amAccording to the New York Times story, what the judge seemed to do is say that the program was discontinued on the grounds it was not legal.
But they did not give much of an argument that it was illegal.
The judge gave them three months to come up with a more detailed legal analysis. He stgayed his ruling for taht time. There is no oractical effect since there is a ruling requiring it continue anyway from other judges.
This does not get into the question of whether it might be legal, but discretionary – both ways.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:58 amOne way to prop up teh Failed Blue State Model…
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:59 amThe NHS doesn’t want to be proven wrong about Alfies chances for survival.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:00 pmOne can only imagine the circle jerk of payoffs with the city bureaucracy and the tow companies.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:01 pmAnd teh lawyers standing in teh middle of it all, coated in a whitish substance…
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:02 pmJust kidding on that last part…
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:03 pmJustice Louis Brandeis so simply and eloquently stated, “If we desire that the law be respected, we must first make the law respectful.”
The purpose of the law is to provide a large measure of certainty, clarity, through reasoned and wise laws and court decisions that interpret and rule on those laws. If well reasoned and followed by just result, the people will respect the law. Conversely, if there is no certainty, there can be no justice; without certainty it would be hard know even what the law is and the concept of justice was.
Fact is, for too long there have been too, too, many decisions from the Supreme Court with votes of 5/4, that are too long and contain many separate opinions. Such provides little certainty or clarity, and instead offer much uncertainty and confusion – and if allowed to continue chaos.
Judge Bates’ decision above, provides the most recent example. Precedent has turned to whim.
So why should any reasoned person respect Judge Bates’ decision?
Where is the Rule of Law to respect in America today? How can one respect such sophistry?
How and who will we make the law respectful again in America?
Justice Brandeis also stated, “The most important political office, is that of private citizen.”
Judge Bates’ decision disrespects both the law and the American citizen. Such conduct is coming more and more often from judges/judiciary, as well as from the two other twigs (branches) of our government. Here are two (2) recent examples of two more judges acting badly: (1) Florida – https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/04/23/judge-no-longer-allowed-in-court-after-chiding-sickly-inmate-who-later-died; and, (2) New York – http://www.scjc.state.ny.us/Press.Releases/2018.Releases/Astacio.Leticia.D.Release.2018-04-24.pdf
Liberty & Truth require constant vigilance. GLZ.
Gary L. Zerman (ab669e) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:23 pmMan, could this Sacramento DA be any more “all about me” on this east area rapist case? Now with the Sheriff… Why can’t these people ever just be focusing on the business at hand? Preening sons of biscuits.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:25 pmIt is sooooo great that they’ve caught this monster… what a trail of victims… dead and devastated lives left in his wake.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:27 pm40 years… wow.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:28 pmChait gives us no advantage over the beasts of the field.
Funny enough, mr nk, I know a 21 year old girl who is on her sixth DL suspension. There’s a DMV on Murfreesboro road that only processes the suspended licences and a metro bus arrives every eight minutes.
Pinandpuller (4c1023) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:32 pm12 murders and 51 rapes
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:45 pmMulti-generational victims of this monster.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:45 pmShaming California State Senator John Burton “I shamed you then and I shame you now.”
— Bruce Harrington, speaking about the “buzzsaw of opposition” re: using DNA he got he says “Burton acolytes” are still controlling the public safety committees
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:51 pmLegislatures can approve ridiculous laws, but it takes judges to reduce the entire legal system to a dirty joke.
ropelight (46c65c) — 4/25/2018 @ 12:53 pmI hope the transcript of what this DNA evidence advocate Bruce Harrington had to say becomes available. Very moving.
Colonel Haiku (43fb26) — 4/25/2018 @ 1:09 pmIt’s a long way from Tiperneni
It’s a long way to go
Pinandpuller (aa51da) — 4/25/2018 @ 1:18 pmRespect muh Port Authoritay. That’s “Big C-“a-r-e-n.
The Mean Police they come to me in my head
The Mean Police they come to me in my bed
The Mean Police are coming to tow me
Pinandpuller (aa51da) — 4/25/2018 @ 1:33 pmpoor lady she got it all twisted
and now she’s paying a heavy price
and everyone hates her
even her daughter probably hates her guts
my favorite part was how she was talking about mit and yale like it would make the popos get a tingle somewhere
poor lady
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 4:05 pm1. laughingstock legal system
FBI Showmanship, Mr. Feet! Stop wire tapping; start toe-tapping:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?vM1hDabZZv9c
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/25/2018 @ 4:19 pmAs I understand it, it was the car the Port Authority lady was driving that was guilty of something. Not her. Anybody know what it was?
nk (dbc370) — 4/25/2018 @ 4:23 pm#25 You’re defense of Chait over Reason is weak tea.
#34: Excellent and thoughtful comment. I don’t much care for the Blaze, but your sentiment, and quotes, are both eloquently stated and must give one pause. You are correct that the law becomes meaningless where there is no possibility of justice. And yes, it is up to each American, every American, to jealously guard their liberties, which are necessarily undergirded by both Natural laws and those conceived by men to, ideally, put a check on the supremacy of any one branch of our system of governance lest they become tyrannical (small “t”, don’t want to get all rowdy quite yet). That it appears to so many that the institutions that must be pure in intention for the Republic to continue as a going concern have jettisoned principle in favor of activism is a bit of a problem. As stated, though, it is up to the Citizenry to restore discipline. The problem is that we have too many cheerleaders on both sidelines and too few honest men on the field. At least in the context of our failing fourth estate (the best and brightest find no home in journalism school, only ideologues), the popular culture and a certain apathetic malaise that seems to have infected the body politic. I find it disheartening, but I also see an awakening that gives me hope.
As Franklin said coming from the Great Debates that formed our nation, when asked by a passerby what would be the form of our governance: a Republic, if you can keep it. Apocryphal, maybe. But even so. It is the duty of each generation to carry the torch forward and to hand it off to the next generation, the flame intact. If we choose not to do this, we will be forever known as the Least Generation, and the architects of the demise of our collective dream, the end of the greatest Experiment in self governance the world has ever known. I don’t know about anyone else, but I’d like to keep that dream alive, and hand to our children a better nation than we found it. Petty squabbling concerning “Well, he did it too” is not helpful in this regard, to say the least. Where are the men who shun the petty and will stay the course? Look in the mirror, and be honest with yourself: are you part of the problem or part of the solution. We are all prone to fall victim to the curse of our times, but a regular and honest self appraisal is the antidote. If any man will not do this, they are indeed part of what must be overcome.
Damn those who have cast aside the necessary grounding in civics and the superior ideals of Western values and systems of belief that have evolved through the centuries due to our children. This is but one part of the problem we face today, and it must be rectified. If our public educational system fails our children while we idly stand by, those that come after us will be ill prepared to serve our nation.
End of rant.
Estarcatus (d19e9c) — 4/25/2018 @ 4:24 pmhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?U0ULA6z1Ks
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/25/2018 @ 4:25 pmExpired plates.
nk (dbc370) — 4/25/2018 @ 4:41 pm#50
Bad link?
Estarcatus (d19e9c) — 4/25/2018 @ 6:47 pmMr. Anderson Coupier has found a tentative backbone
god save the queen
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 6:49 pm#53 Whether one buys into the notion of the deep state, this is a bit of a cringe worthy interview. And I wouldn’t bet good money on the Cooper backbone theory quite yet. Not even on a tentative basis, Mr. Feet. Unless you bet a buck, and the odds are enough to turn a tidy profit just in case. Given that the odds are a zillion to one, why not thrown down a dollar?
Estarcatus (d19e9c) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:06 pmBut they did not give much of an argument that it was illegal.
How much of an argument is needed when the law specifically says “You cannot do this.” In particular, you cannot give work permits to people who are not entitled to them.
Using his discretion, Obama COULD say “I will not prosecute these people for illegal entry.” He could even say “I will not prosecute these people for working without legal status, nor will I prosecute those who hire them.”
What he CAN NOT do is say “I will grant them legal status, and give them documents saying so”. That last is not “discretion”, but a grant of status that is not within his power, and a fraud upon employers.
To STOP doing something that the Executive has no legal power to do ought not take a court to decide, and IF it was a matter of discretion before, why is it not discretion now?
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:15 pmi’m just a glass half full kinda pikachu
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:16 pmAgain, either the judge is WAY too stupid to be on the bench, or he is using his court to engage in political warfare. Either way the House should impeach him. Thursday.
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:18 pmKevin M, you are arguing logic, consistency and the Constitution to a jurist, the very last person who could comprehend such abstracts.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:19 pmif judges were promoted on the basis of intelligence we’d be sitting pretty
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:25 pmsotomayor for example is a nasty witless diabetic
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:28 pmAll the broads on the SC are A-holes, happyfeet. In fact, most women in government are leftist toads.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:33 pmi like this Marsha Blackburn lady even if i often disagree with her on policy
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:35 pmHoagie–
In what twisted universe does the President need a court’s permission to follow the law as written? Surely, following the law is within his discretion? If not, they’ve really got him now!
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:43 pmThe dem has a small lead over Blackburn. I hope she wins, at least she’s not a leftist. She’s not part of “most”. She’s part of the some who aren’t.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:47 pmKevin M, you got me by the nads. I was as stunned as could be that a supposed educated “jurist” would make a dumbassed decision like that. I just as befuddeled that Trump didn’t have him removed by “executive order” and when all the lawyers started b!tching say: “If the Kenyan can issue illegal EO’s so can I”.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:50 pmIt wasn’t the blowhard, Port Authority woman’s car, nk… she was just picking up all the passengers – including her daughter – who were riding in the car that was being towed by the officers… driven by a young man who knew it was better to keep his yap shut than run his mouth.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2018 @ 8:04 pmI thought that too, but in fact there is a regulation on the books allowing work permits to be granted to aliens who are subject to deferred action, and it was on the books before Obama’s first term began:
https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2009-title8-vol1/xml/CFR-2009-title8-vol1-sec274a-12.xml
That page is from January 1, 2009 (regulation appears to date from 1987 though).
You can find the same language on the current US Customs and Immigration Service site here:
https://www.uscis.gov/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-11261/0-0-0-28757/0-0-0-29424.html
Dave (445e97) — 4/25/2018 @ 8:04 pmDamn… he did it. ConDave wrote an entire comment that didn’t mention Trump!
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/25/2018 @ 8:08 pm@52. Google 2011 Tony Awards: Don’t Break The Rules and watch how the FBI taps toes, not wires.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/25/2018 @ 8:08 pmtonight i created a twatter
and i followed yon kanye yes i did
if this be wrong then i’m most willingly fallen
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 8:11 pmYou say naked power grab by the courts, I say goodbye, Chevron.
Jerryskids (cfad51) — 4/25/2018 @ 9:04 pmI just as befuddeled that Trump didn’t have him removed by “executive order” and when all the lawyers started b!tching say…
“I’ve got a phone and a pen. Anyone else want a defrocking?!”
I mean, aren’t we done with this “rule of law” stuff by now?
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:23 pmBut still, Dave, nothing in that section says that discretion cannot change, nor does it say that the agency must treat each of those 20-some classes the same.
For example, the dependent of a NATO person might be treated differently than a person present only because it’s too much trouble to deport them.
Further, so long as judges are demanding “proof” of things that are supposed to be discretion, perhaps someone should have to show cause that the deferment IS “an act of administrative convenience to the government.” From what I read of these deferments, they’re more costly in money,, manpower and facilities than a straight deportation would have been.
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/25/2018 @ 11:36 pmKevin, I tried to read the decision, but while I can often get a general understanding of the legal points by doing that, this one is densely cross-referenced to obscure precedents of administrative law.
What I gathered is that the APA requires jumping through certain hoops unless the changes qualify for specific exceptions enumerated in the act and/or the case law associated with it, and the judge decided the government had not met the requirements to qualify for any of those exceptions.
So the judge gave them 90 days to cross their t’s and dot their i’s properly.
Dave (445e97) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:12 ami like this Marsha Blackburn lady even if i often disagree with her on policy
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/25/2018 @ 7:35 pm
Real Talk
Pinandpuller (aa065b) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:58 amI’m actually a little afraid that Marcia Blackburn is going to walk into TV studio to do an interview and accidentally get hired to be a talk show host.
Pinandpuller (aa065b) — 4/26/2018 @ 2:03 amCelebrating British Royalty Is Anathema To America
As Americans, we must be completely clear that any form of royalty should be mocked and derided.
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:39 amNoted and agreed, but there will be a cruel fascination with the first progeny of Harry and Leggy as to the assigned…aesthetics.
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 9:02 amTrump to Fox and Friends – yeah, Cohen was representing me on that perfectly legal hush money payment he took the Fifth on, that I didn’t know anything about and which wasn’t made to the porn actress I didn’t have an affair with and that certainly didn’t have anything to do with the election one week later.
Dave (445e97) — 4/26/2018 @ 9:09 amTrump – I’m too busy to get my wife a birthday present, but not too busy to pay off the hooker I screwed eleven years ago.
Dave (445e97) — 4/26/2018 @ 9:20 amJury finds Bill Cosby guilty on all 3 counts.
ropelight (60df36) — 4/26/2018 @ 10:53 amNarciso hardest Hit, looking forward to the hip hop twitterverse indignation, even from Kimye.
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:23 ami’m all about this spam sandwich thing kevin williamson is all up into
there’s the recipe at the link
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:39 amHey, people want us to trust prosecutors like Robert Mueller but it sounds like a state attorney in PA just tried to lie about Doc Huxtible having a private plane. How are we supposed to trust the process?
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:46 am76.I’m actually a little afraid that Marcia Blackburn is going to walk into TV studio to do an interview and accidentally get hired to be a talk show host.
QVC or HSN?
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:47 ampoor Mr. Cosby he’s gotta go to the pokey and probably die there
it’s so sad and there’s nothing i can do to help
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:48 am81.Jury finds Bill Cosby guilty on all 3 counts.
“Hey, hey, hey!’ – Fat Albert
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:48 amJury finds Bill Cosby guilty on all 3 counts.
ropelight (60df36) — 4/26/2018 @ 10:53 am
So was the bail hearing for from now until his sentencing?
I saw Paterno was on HBO last night but I don’t really care for football or boy diddling.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:48 am@86. From Culp to culprit; what a long, strange trip it’s been, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:51 amMy dad bought some property from a guy. He had some fellas living on the land. They were awaiting sentencing for sexual assault. Actually, while they were out on bail awaiting sentencing they grabbed another girl off the street and did the same thing to her. So my dad didn’t end up having to evict them really.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:51 am@88. From Penn State to State Pen.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:52 amQVC or HSN?
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:47 am
She’s not a Nasty Woman.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:53 amI may have conflated a few things but you lawyers might be interested in this guy’s appeal Phillips v State
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:59 am@80. Are you kidding? Plucked from Slovenian obscurity to shine in the White House; every day is a gift.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:10 pmThis guy I went to school with went on to become a lawyer and worked for the Dale Wayne Eaton defense on the Lil’ Miss Murder Trial
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:10 pmfidelity lol
guess hot and horny Lisa Page didn’t get the memo
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:12 pmJoe Pa, the most beloved figure of northeastern Eye-talians before ol’ 45.
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:16 pm@96…. perfectly summed up the FBI’s values in September 2011, Mr. Feet- ‘Don’t Break The Rules:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McQ8a-7Ml-0
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:20 pmdensely cross-referenced to obscure precedents of administrative law.
Accumulated penumbrae of regulatory decisions? Sounds like a Gordian Knot. What to do!?
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:25 pmThey should try: “Fabrication … Bureaucracy … Iniquity”
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:28 pmthe men and women of the fbi are terrible people
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:30 pm@100. Or Broadway; Americans love to be entertained.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McQ8a-7Ml-0
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:32 pmdid we know that Dane Cook charted a pop single in 2006?
it made me sign in cause of it’s inappropriate somehow for america according to the googletwats at youtube
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:33 pm@101. But they sing and dance well, Mr. Feet.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:34 pm86.poor Mr. Cosby he’s gotta go to the pokey and probably die there; it’s so sad and there’s nothing i can do to help
The Lord is with him, Mr. Feet: he raised his cane, waved and walked briskly from courthouse; it’s an Emmy-award-winning miracle.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:05 pmhe’s a good man
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:23 pmJoe Pa, the most beloved figure of northeastern Eye-talians before ol’ 45.
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 12:16 pm
Some goodfellas were just talking about how much the Italian Horn looks like a DNA reentry vehicle.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:30 pmMrs Cosby and Mrs Stzok can open a whistlestop cafe called Fried Green Tomatoes.
Here’s to you, Mr Cos, Bang Camaro Nightlife Commando
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:33 pmi liked his pudding pops when i was little
not anymore but when i was little i did
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:34 pmTo quote Richard Pryor, recipient of strange new respect, tell Bill to have a Coke and a Smile and STFU (Eddie Murphy RAW, 1987)
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 1:47 pmmom we’re outta puddin pops i’d say
and off to the store we’d go
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 2:09 pmIt’s a judicial lynching.
Take my advice guys, if you want to have sex with strange women, don’t be either rich or famous. That way the chippies and their sleazy lawyers won’t have the money motive to accuse you of “sexual misconduct”. Likewise, prosecutors will not have the publicity motive. It won’t be worth the trouble for them.
nk (dbc370) — 4/26/2018 @ 2:19 pmyes yes a lynching
good word choice (Mr. Cosby happens to be African American and plus he went off the plantation)
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 2:23 pm….only in regards to behavior and dress of the young men. Went from a John Conyers Dem to a Doug Jones Dem.
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 2:26 pmthat’s a good start Mr. Pruitt but you have a lot more work to do picklehead
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 2:28 pm@113. (Mr. Cosby happens to be African American and plus he went off the plantation)
Not anymore, Mr. Feet- Cos-celeb is being fitted for a tracking device.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 3:07 pm@112. Guilty of committing lude acts.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/26/2018 @ 3:08 pmI was sad to find out a guy I admire is several years passed but he was noteworthy for playing bass on The Democratic Socialist National Anthem
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 3:36 pmHonorable Mention:
Money Money Money
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 3:40 pmTRUMP: … When you look at some of the others — you look at like a CNN, they’ll have a council of seven people and of the seven people every one of them is against me. I’m saying, where do we — where do they even find these people? I appreciate the —
Davethulhu (fab944) — 4/26/2018 @ 3:49 pmKILMEADE: I’m not your doctor, Mr. President, but I would — I would recommend you watch less of them.
TRUMP: I don’t watch them at all. I watched last night.
Watching Baier’s Interview of Comey… so Comey says he’s “not familiar with the term collusion” but says an investigation is opened “to determine if any Americans are in cahoots with Russians”.
Okay then.
Colonel Haiku (b32ce9) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:01 pmI don’t watch CNN at all either but coincidently I too watched it last night. It reminded me why I don’t watch it.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:03 pmSo Comey asked a “close friend” of his and “professor” (Richman) to provide info on an unclassified conversation with the president to the media in hopes that a special prosecutor would be engaged, never telling anyone Richman was an FBI employee. Shared info – “work product” – even though rules covering his employment expressly forbid it.
It’s good to see someone asking Comey the tough questions in lieu of another butt-munch, would-be-comedian ass-slurping for 15 minutes.
Colonel Haiku (b32ce9) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:13 pmI’ve said before that I think Comey “lost it” sometime back in 2016. He’s operating on reserves.
nk (dbc370) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:15 pmCNN – you mean that network that presented Scott Israel as an expert on gun violence?
BREAKING: By a 534-94 margin, deputies vote ‘no confidence’ in Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel – WPLG
harkin (711b68) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:28 pmI think sheriff Israel should move to California where they are appreciative of his type of “law enforcement”.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:33 pmhey look at how the sleazy tranny-trash mattis military is spending our money
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:35 pmThe good sheriff will fit right in:
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:39 pmCommies, crossexuals, illegals…the democrat base is in a constant state of expansion. Too bad they can’t attract real Americans.
Way to go, happyfeet. They have another bull crap prediction that won’t happen but we should all give up something and pay something yadda, yadda, yadda. We’ve heard it all a hundred times before. The left invented Fake News right after they invented Phony Science. They really thrive on this stupidity.
Rev.Hoagie (1b0402) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:42 pmJoe Pa, the most beloved figure of northeastern Eye-talians before ol’ 45.
Sounds like someone has forgotten about one Mr. Francis Albert Sinatra.
JVW (30a532) — 4/26/2018 @ 4:53 pmIt’s too bad that Teddy Kennedy isn’t still alive.
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/26/2018 @ 6:42 pmupending the populations of some island nations …
… leading to an inevitable capsizing!
Kevin M (752a26) — 4/26/2018 @ 6:43 pmNasty Nissan builds their cars so I have to take a wheel off to change a headlamp. Bad!
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:02 pmFNC’s Bret Baier grills Comey over dossier, e-Mail, leaks in EPIC interview…
“The questioning began with the Hillary Clinton e-mail probe and if it was “true that you and your FBI colleagues made the decision to exonerate Secretary Clinton well before she was interviewed.”
Comey denied that despite having written a memo exonerating her and emphasized that it’s crucial for investigators to have an idea of where a probe that ended up lasting almost a year.
It was soon after that Baier showed his mettle, telling Comey that “you already knew that she had been telling, whatever you want to say, lies, mistruths about this investigation of what — and how she handled those emails” and played a clip of Comey stating just that in congressional testimony in July 2016.
Here’s more of that exchange, including a question about why Cheryl Mills was allowed to sit in on Clinton’s FBI interview.”
https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2018/04/26/tour-de-force-fncs-baier-grills-comey-over-dossier-e-mail-leaks
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:07 pmi bought a car from nissan once their #1 dealership actually on ventura
never again
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:11 pmi’m a sell the car and bet it all on megyn kelly that’s what i’m a do
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:21 pmHf,
I think that’s bet the farm…
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:22 pmshe’s got sturdy hips
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:23 pmMy mistake, J,V,W, (your handle without punctuation autocorrects to a slur)…certainly amongst the bobby socksers
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:25 pmIt used to be the most you would have to do is take off a #10 hex bolt or a screw. I got pulled over twice in 10 minutes by super friendly Nashville cops. We had some great chats about guns and all that but come on.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:34 pmguns are fun
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:36 pmthis blog are morbledun
whatever happened to the topicality aspect
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:39 pmWell it’s a more intimate form of the now-nightly Instapundit open thread.
urbanleftbehind (6ce600) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:44 pmWhen the driver side low beam went out six months ago I got pulled over twice in the same night. I changed the high beam by accident and two nights later I got pulled over again. I think this time I will get that part right if I ever make it home.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 7:50 pmI’m reading the first volume of Deadpool comics, volume not issue, and have seven more volumes, volumes not issues, available for the rest of the month. (I’d have nine but I used up two of my monthly quota on two Jackie Chan movies, one in which he played a bad guy and one I couldn’t stand more than five minutes of.) That’s like 250 pages or more than 1,000 panels (my viewer can do panel by panel) per volume.
nk (dbc370) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:01 pmWhat sort of unironic reverse psychology re-railing the topic sorcery is this?
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:04 pmMake that like closer to 2,000 panels.
nk (dbc370) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:04 pmThere’s no topic left. Alfie’s daddy was on the news and he had the most wonderful things to say about the people who are killing his baby. For real, I’m not being sarcastic. If he’s not outraged, what right do we have to be outraged?
DACA will be sorted out one way or another. Likely by amnesty. It’s what they were after to begin with, anyway.
nk (dbc370) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:09 pmi have a bunch of comics on cds from back when i used some napster-ish thing to download … cbf files?
i should look at that
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:12 pmbut do i have a computer with a cd drive
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:13 pmi think this is it
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:16 pmapparently there are people what need an explainer from “Haley Byrd” about why harvardtrash lickspittle benji sassafrass voted against an unconstitutional bill
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:26 pmSo I met a guy named D’Artagnan and, good news, I have a duel at noon tomorrow.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:40 pmmy friend d has a blind dog named darty
because
when the sun shines we shine together
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:42 pmHe’s one of those French guys with really prominent eyebrows, if you know what I mean. So I have to choose from C4 or Semtex.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 8:43 pmWell mr nk, my son is rather fond of comics or graphic novels. Whatever one calls them these days. He’s coming to visit in June so I will let him hijack my screen name or have him create his own as I’m sure he’d love to talk to a lawyer about Deadpool on a late night dead end thread.
Pinandpuller (16b0b5) — 4/26/2018 @ 9:08 pmmr deadpool is witty and topical unlike this morbledun thread hello
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/26/2018 @ 9:13 pmHaupuna Beach is the best place on earth for aqua therapy.
mg (9e54f8) — 4/26/2018 @ 11:37 pmAnd the sunsets Rock!
I think the family cares about what the doctors are doing, nk, but they have been told that they can’t even take their child home to die unless they change their attitude:
It’s not enough for the parents to lose their child. Now they have to be grateful.
DRJ (0280d9) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:05 amBreaking… North and South Korean leaders meet in DMZ, hold presser; declare they will ‘officially’ end Korean War this year.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:09 amFor legal reasons they have to be…solicitous.
Pinandpuller (e69a18) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:32 amTrump is into three ways: expect a Peace of Nobel.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/27/2018 @ 3:02 amI suspected as much, DRJ. Also, the draconian libel and slander laws of that “Country of Free Men”. They have no First Amendment, and opinion and truth are not necessarily defenses to a charge of defamation.
nk (dbc370) — 4/27/2018 @ 5:04 amPinandpuller @156. I am not a plump young man who goes to Comic-Cons. The Deadpool comics are merely what I happen to be reading at this time. It might have to do with my daughter being assigned “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” in her English class. Sympathetic rebellion?
nk (dbc370) — 4/27/2018 @ 5:12 amTrump, Moon, and Xi deserve a Nobel Prize if this results in Kim and North Korea opening the NK borders.
DRJ (15874d) — 4/27/2018 @ 6:24 amIt would be a Tear Down The Wall moment, but it actually has to open the border for the people and not just the leaders.
DRJ (15874d) — 4/27/2018 @ 6:38 amI read a little bit of Korean history recently. All of Korea used to be, and was called, The Hermit Kingdom until the late 1800’s. It had closed its shores to maritime commerce and its only interactions with the outside world were diplomatic relations with China and raids by Japanese pirates. The Kim dynasty is also very similar to the monarchies at the head of feudal/bureaucratic/military oligarchies that ruled it.
nk (dbc370) — 4/27/2018 @ 6:41 amEngland loves Big Brother and the American left wants the same for us.
NJRob (b00189) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:08 amRock the
CasbahJong UnNow teh Trump told teh funny man
You must forget about teh Bombs
The path to teh DMZ
Is the path you should be on
The Un drove his DeSoto
He went a’ cruisin’ down the hill
Baggy pants and funny hair
And a smile upon his grill
Patterico don’t like it
Rockin’ teh Un man
Rock the Jong Un
Patterico don’t like it
Rockin’ the Un man
Rock the Jong Un
By order of the Trumpster
We ban that nukey blast
Start generatin’ power
Or this year may be your last
But teh Un man surprised ‘em
And started thinkin’ with his head
He put his funky clothes on
His hair-don’t lookin’ fine
As soon as teh SoKos
Had cleared the square
Teh Un man crossed teh line
Patterico don’t like it
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:09 amRockin’ the Un man
Rock teh Jong Un
Patterico don’t like it
Rockin’ the Un man
Rock teh Jong Un
DRJ,
I’m in wait and see mode on North Korea as we’ve seen this game from them before.
But if it truly is them standing down and opening up their nation, than that is the biggest diplomatic victory for America since the Cold War ended.
And just a couple of days after some on here called Trump’s international actions to be the worst in American history.
NJRob (b00189) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:10 amGood news for teh NoKos:
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:13 amThey get to stop eating shoe leather and insects and start eating dogs!
Yes, Rob. If it does come to pass, the line
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:15 amstarts over there to get your goddam NeverTrump noses rubbed in it
Unfortunately, I think it is extremely foolish to believe the north korean dictatorship. It’s practically mental illness to believe them when they have lied about the nuclear program so recently and so frequently.
But yeah, the potential benefit of opening up between the countries is tremendous. It’s hard to turn down that opportunity even if it’s almost certainly not going to work, and I guess I’ll give Trump credit for being bold enough to give it a shot. But the Madeline Albright strategy, a weak strategy, has a built-in incentive to look the other way. To not let the ‘big deal’ and ‘legacy accomplishment’ fail. The North Koreans absolutely want to take advantage of that.
I’m not really seeing any point in a wait and see approach. This is obviously a con, and if it turns out to work out, that’s a miracle that no one should be counting on.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:24 amDustin,
Trump is just as skeptical, but China knows with a snap of our fingers we can destroy their economy, just like that. Vietnam, Taiwan, Japan can easily replace the lost goods China is manufacturing for sale. China will be preoccupied with the unrest among its burgeoning middle class, this is what happened to the last gasps of the USSR.
So China is going to play nice, they have no choice. Apparently food shipments have stopped to the North Koreans. Oil, coal, spare parts, medical supplies.
China has made enemies out of Vietnam, Malaysia, Indonesia, not wise, that’s 550 million people who oppose the regimes reckless expansion by trying to claim millions of square mile thousands of mile from China capital.
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:46 am171, dont forget “night soil” Mangos as well!!
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:50 amSomewhat OT, but some say, in the same vein that The Cosby Show primed the electorate for Barack Obama, that Roseanne version 1 primed the electorate for Donald Trump. I actually think Mad Men primed the electorate for Trump, and I mean that in a complimentary sense.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/27/2018 @ 7:54 amWould you be amenable to “presaged” instead of “primed”? The shows’ successes were due to the same attitudes in culture that later helped Obama and Trump?
If nothing else, I hate to think that dippy TV shows could affect our culture that much and not, as I want to believe, merely reflect a small aspect of it.
nk (dbc370) — 4/27/2018 @ 8:10 amI lay much blame at teh feet of L.A. Law for teh sheer idiocy of this litigious society.
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/27/2018 @ 8:13 amPublic Service Announcement:
nk (dbc370) — 4/27/2018 @ 8:21 amThere is a Veterans Assistance Foundation which is a legitimate charity that helps veterans.
WARNING: There has sprung up something which calls itself the U.S. Veterans Assistance Foundation which calls people on the phone asking for money. It is not the same organization. Look out!
Probably one of those outfits that calls from a number that shares your 3-digit mobile phone prefix – my primary cellphone # is from a differing area code in the Chicago metro than where I actually live and I can spot these b.s. numbers because I barely know anyone in that area code.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/27/2018 @ 8:25 am“Nothing good can come from making Trump nervous. It’s like asking Bill Cosby to top off your drink.”
—- Rob Schneider
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/27/2018 @ 8:42 am#MeToo. At first I thought it was local volunteers electioneering.
nk (dbc370) — 4/27/2018 @ 8:44 amWhat the heck’s going on at Red State?
http://money.cnn.com/2018/04/27/media/redstate-blog-salem-media/index.html
harkin (711b68) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:10 amPjmedia purged a bunch of writers, including Goldstein, I think the Evil Blogger lady etc, they blamed criticism of Bush if I remember correctly, it was a decade or so ago, and the Hill did the same thing, got rid of the 7 original contributors who made the blog replaced them with staff writers, a new 7 standard commentators…
People click on their advertisers, etc. I don’t know why these three organizations purged the writers that made their sites, but they did. Hot air also purged writers, and stopped comments, their traffic is in the gutter some say.
I have seen a sea change of late in Allahpundits anti trump frothings, also a sharp decline in the number of daily postings from him and a raft of who are these guys but hey there here posting on hot air taking up where he used to post 8 or 9 articles a day. Jazz Shaw, ed morrisey share equal time with allah who used to be the whole show.
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:27 am@183. Where have you been? There’s a civil war going on– and you should have figured out by now which side is which, which is winning and which has been losing.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:30 amThey’re not there here
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:30 amDCSCA
Daily kos, liberal land has purged literally hundreds of contributors.
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:31 amClapper leaked the briefing of the dossier to Trump to the press. This is outrageous. What kind of intel officer does something like this? How can the President trust his people? How can the transitioning President get any kind of transition? This is a complete break of trust and likely a formal breach of security. Clapper needs to get time in the brig. What a slimy weasel
Anonymous (ea5569) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:33 am183.What the heck’s going on at Red State?
In case of emergency, shout “Reagan!” But then, every battery has an expiration date.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:34 am@183. “Where have you been? There’s a civil war going on– and you should have figured out by now which side is which, which is winning and which has been losing.”
I have no idea who’s winning. The only sense I get is that the Constitution, common sense, individuality, media/political standards and civil discourse are losing.
harkin (711b68) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:49 amRyan Struyk
@ryanstruyk
Only 37% of Republican voters say the news media is “an important part of democracy” vs. a majority, 51%, who says it’s “the enemy of the people,” via new Quinnipiac poll today.
— –
Brian Stelter
@brianstelter
What do you see in this data? I see an infection that’s spreading…
— –
Peter J. Hasson
harkin (711b68) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:58 am@peterjhasson
Replying to @brianstelter
If a group of people doesn’t trust you, calling them an “infection” might not be the best way to win over their trust.
I’m sorry, it was hard to hear you over the sound of a million Trump fans talking about giving him the Nobel for this coup that we all agree is almost certainly going to not work and is merely repeating the Clinton era mistakes.
Allahpundit is the man and I’m grateful there are a few conservatives with balls. These days if you criticize Trump a lot of people will just hate your guts. I don’t blame him for having other stuff to do. Politics is extremely boring now. Both parties are virtually identical in purpose, ethics, family values, and functionality. Both operate by trolling eachother. It gets a little tedious.
I can go a month without reading a thing about politics.
Dustin (ba94b2) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:10 pm188. Anonymous (ea5569) — 4/27/2018 @ 11:33 am
I am noit sure what hapepned where with whom but here is soem more information:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/mccabe-the-new-deep-throat-1523915645
…….
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:13 pmMark Felt’s lawyer wrote a letter to the Wall Street Journal saying Mark Felt was honorable, and he said something which I never heard before, and I am not sure is right, but it could be.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-lawyer-for-deep-throat-defends-the-late-mark-felt-1524602927
I never heard of this order to finish the investigation in 3 days.
This is not in the usual Watergate stories, but it does fit with the chronology.
You see, at the very beginning, Nixon was trying to, or willing to go along with ideas of some of his subordinates, mainly or only John Dean, to conceal the connection between the burglars and the Commmittee to Re-Elect the President.
Once he knew that that was out (and he was late getting or perceiving the news) he had no more interest in a coverup.
N.B. In March 1973, John Dean had to claim that E. Howard Hunt was threatenibg to reveal the burglary of Daniel Ellsberg’s pychiatrist’s office to get Nixon to agree to paying “hush money” (which by the way John Dean had already given Hunt before asking Nixon for approval.) Nixon had no interest in hiding anything about the Watergate burglary by that point, or at any point after late June, 1972.
His only interest had ever been trying to distance his campaign from that, which was actually a lost cause right from the beginning.
Bob Woodward’s version of recruiting Mark Felt as an informant has him practically blackmailing Mark Felt.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:26 pmAnother thing (from Karl Rove)
Comey was not present at the famous encounter he supposedly had with Attorney General John Ashcroft in the hospital.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/comeys-loyalty-isnt-to-the-truth-1524696380
His story was supposedly verified by Mueller,although all that Mueller has is supposedly contemporaneous typewritten notes of what Comey told him. (And they were so redacted when released it might be hard to check their general conformity with the truth)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/16/AR2007081601358.html
That proved Comey was telling the truth?
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:32 pmSome rumors are coming in that it was abuse of their readers that initiated the purge
ObamaFails chrisinva
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:33 pman hour ago
Yup! RedState became a bunch of snowflakes. They were willing to lose the Supreme Court and pay higher taxes in their blind hatred of Trump. They blocked all conservatives who posted pro-Trump comments and now they are our of work
Anyone who thinks Salem media purged never trumpers
Today on town hall
Erick Erickson
David Hasarnyi
Jonah Goldberg
Lauretta Brown
Guy Benson
That’s quite a who’s who of never trumpers
But they don’t ban their commentators like those at RedState
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:42 pmActually going through the last three weeks of contributors on townhall, there’s a whole raft of never trumpers
John stossel
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:50 pmMichelle Malkin
Frank Cannon
Byron York
Oh and the article at the hill was written by a writer from mediaite
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:53 pm197.
Maybe somebody only paid them off to purge never trumpers from RedState.
Besides the RedState commentators are less famous.\
The Daily Beast says several Trump critics — including Sarah Rumpf and Joe Cunningham remain.
(Maybe it is no anti-Trump but anti some other writers or commentators)
Erickson says some of thse fired had higher cost contracts, but when it came to those making less per click, they only fired those who were regularly critical of Trump
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 4/27/2018 @ 12:56 pmWell daily beast says the most popular anti trump authors were kept, the ones with the most views.
Several vocal Trump critics—including Sarah Rumpf and Joe Cunningham—remain with the site. But Friday’s dismissals have been interpreted by those on staff, and those let go, as a purge of anti-Trump writers
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:02 pmMeh. Such is this facet of the media biz. Clicks vs. costs; looks more like corporate consolidation than content conflicts.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:03 pm@164 nk
Yes, lol. I don’t know that I have conservative kids per se, but anti-leftism independent thinkers. If Stan Lee of all people could draw them into discussions and reading in the periphery of economics, philosophy and politics I would like that.
Actually, my daughter dropped her welding aspirations and is supposedly going towards secondary education, where she would be very subversive to the system if she’s anything like me. I have to look it up later but there’s a monty Python skit about a writer who gets into it with his coal miner son. Very funny as I recall.
Pinandpuller (82a104) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:04 pmThere’s 2 kinds of NeverTrumpers, another thing to consider – I would say Malkin is of the “not-conservative enough” branch and Stossel and Kristol are of the achingly centrist branch.
urbanleftbehind (5eecdb) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:06 pmErickson was fired from fox in 2015 for getting into an argument with several female fox anchors and then he “left”nredstate about the same time
Erickson is a major league douchbag, he’s the guy who got his blog going by being so outrageously nasty like saying Kay bailey Hutchinson’s adoptedbkids were political show ponies and much more.
Disinvited trump, yeah, purging other conservative opinions?
And now the sanctimonious from him is getting rancid
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:06 pmhttp://ace.mu.nu/archives/375026.php
This about sums it up. Temper tantrums don’t actually generate much interest. You can only sustain a business model when people, you know, see some value. Too cute by half. I genuinely believe just simply calling for Trump’s impeachment instead of half assing it, then defending said open and honest position, would make for an interesting and lively debate. It would have the side benefit of forcing people to actually admit which side of the fence they stand. Novel concept, I know.
Estarcatus (dbff87) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:09 pmI’d like to thank you folks for bringing this to mind. It sums up #nevertrump nicely:
Monty Python Coal Mining Son
Pinandpuller (42e6a6) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:15 pm@197/198. Yes, but unless the media model is using some of those names as loss leaders to generate traffic/clicks, you could easily trim some of them from the roster, particularly those echoed and available on other sites– especially if they’re not drawing, save $ and still present the same POV. This looks like a business move.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:27 pmBest comment ever
Ace-
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:32 pmwhile we’re talking about nevertrump media
that’s a better than 15% decline
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:46 pmPatterico, “is you is or is you ain’t” still with RedState? ‘Sounds like a mass firing of those not licking Spanky’s um, boots.
Tillman (a95660) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:49 pmhttp://money.cnn.com/2018/04/27/media/redstate-blog-salem-media/index.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3LU-DzT8i4
Tillman (a95660) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:51 pmi’d never be fired from redstate cause my love for our president, President Donald Trump, is palpable and brings great cheer to the people
but i think you should never be fired just for not being in proper alignment with President Trump unless you’re a hugely incompetent manboober like rex tillerson
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:59 pmWell, it sounds like RedState might be hiring hf.
Tillman (a95660) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:03 pmi’d be happy to do a Daily Affirmation post where we talk about all the good stuff going on in America cause of our president
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:05 pmthat part aside though my sense is today’s events really raised Mr. P’s profile so that’s what they call a “silver lining”
silver linings are good cause that’s how you make lemonade from the lemons
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:08 pmthe inspector general’s office at the EPA stinks like corruption
it’s led by a corrupt lil gov-pig lifer named Arthur Elkins
nasty crooked little man with nasty crooked teeth
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:15 pmWriters are an important part of a nutritious breakfast but having so damn many of them is a luxury of The Industrial Revolution. Could many of them be automated?
Trump bad…Trump bad…Trump bad…
Pinandpuller (bb2c7f) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:16 pmA silver lining on glass, mr happyfeet, gives one a mirror.
Pinandpuller (bb2c7f) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:18 pmmirror mirror on the wall who’s the bestest president of them all?
oh hi happyfeet it’s President Trump that’s who!
ok i knew that but just wanted to check
anytime happy that’s what i’m here for
i like you so much better than alexa
thanks she gets on my nerves
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:21 pmMichelle Malkin is a Never Trumper?
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:28 pmBig time, pissed at trump now, Ann Coulter is too every other week, they also have Mona Charon on staff as well
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:31 pmI’d call her more of a reluctant Trumper.
Anon Y. Mous (6cc438) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:42 pmEPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 1:32 pm
Dear lord, I’m not the only one who notices.
On top of that, say you love the Giants, but hate Eli Manning. fair enough. But then you decide to heap scorn on everyone who likes Eli Manning, and scorn on those that cheer for his wins, and those that cheer for the Giants to win, despite Manning. You call those people idiots and losers. You taunt them relentlessly. If only they would accept your premise that Eli Manning is a loser and needs to be fired! As the Giants begin to have a fairly successful season, you become ever more deranged and full of excuses. Oh sure, the Giants won that game, but it was against a weak team. Oh sure the Giants won the next game, but not because of Manning. And that next game? Dumb luck. Because your initial premise, that Manning is a poor leader, and should be fired, cannot be changed. It cannot be shaken by events. It never occurs to you that Eli might get better at playing, or was not the root of all failure to begin with.
Expect to be sitting in the stands alone.
Cassandra (a815b9) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:48 pmAnon,
Oh she is buuuut, she also knows her audience
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:56 pmbots could work as writers…
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:57 pmCassandra
Only far left wing news sites are reporting on it.
The hill used their pet mediaite writer to pen their article
EPWJ (5022ab) — 4/27/2018 @ 2:57 pmSad that Redstate had fired people. Not sure where I can read brave voices opposing Trump. Suggestions?
rcocean (1a839e) — 4/27/2018 @ 3:07 pmHeard WaPo, NYT, PBS, NPR, National Review, Weekly Standard, CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, MSBNC, and WS editorial page occasionally criticize Trump but want someone who won’t suck up to him.
Suggestions?
rcocean (1a839e) — 4/27/2018 @ 3:10 pmWhat!?!? A purge at Red State?
Colonel Haiku (2601c0) — 4/27/2018 @ 3:12 pmI have a new post about it. I suggest commenting there.
Patterico (115b1f) — 4/27/2018 @ 3:20 pmthis is worth a click just for the gorgeous photography
happyfeet (28a91b) — 4/27/2018 @ 4:09 pmR.I.P. Alfie Evans.
nk (dbc370) — 4/28/2018 @ 9:43 am