Mid-Morning Art Thread [Kris]

Lower Manhattan (aka Broad and Wall Streets)
Childe Hassam

This is a painting of the busy street in front of the New York Stock Exchange during the early Twentieth Century. Today the street is blocked off to motorized traffic, but Hassam depicts a wide boulevard full of pedestrians and horse-drawn buses, taxis, and other vehicles. The Stock Exchange is on the center-left. Straight ahead is the Greek-temple-like Federal Hall building where George Washington was sworn in, and the Bill of Rights was written. This painting depicts symbols of America’s political and financial power in the middle of its most populous city.

Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist. One of Impressionism’s goals was to capture a moment in time. The modern world was particularly attractive to these artists. Its busy lifestyle inspired them to capture its fleeting moments, to give an impression of what this world felt like. The rush of modernity, moving at a blur, was captured in fuzzy brushstrokes and hurried technique.

I like the composition of this piece. The artist places the viewer high over the street, maybe four or five stories above the crowd, looking down and out over the crowded streetscape. The high angle dwarfs the human figures and makes the buildings seem taller. I like how Hassam decided not to put the viewer too high up. The vanishing point and horizon line are near the canvas’ center. To me, the buildings appear to loom over the street and the people, and me. They look less like buildings and more like cliff-faces.

Hassam used a tall and narrow canvas that mimics the buildings’ height and makes the street seem narrow. In your mind’s eye, put this scene on a horizontal canvas. Notice how you lose the view and the impact. Hassam would have to either zoom the view out to something more panoramic and lose detail or zoom in and lose the deep view down the street or the buildings that line the street. Either way, the urban canyon effect is wrecked.

Another trait of Impressionism is its depiction of color and light at a specific moment in time. In Lower Manhattan, it is near midday. The sun is high in a blue, cloudless sky. The buildings on the left have a white and gold shine. The buildings on the right cast a deep shadow over the street and people — but notice what else is going on with the lighting. Not only does the sunlight shine down at a steep angle so that the Stock Exchange is in full sun, but a beam of light shining down Wall Street in the distance also points right on it. Hassam casts two huge spotlights onto the Exchange. He wants me to see it, to focus on it especially.

I decided to look this location up on Google Maps. According to StreetView, it seems that Hassam exaggerated scale some. Unfortunately, StreetView’s angle is very different (it’s street view after all), so my comparison is limited. Over the one hundred eighteen years since Hassam painted Lower Manhattan, some of the buildings have changed, but not the important landmarks. In the painting, the road seems wider and the buildings taller. Additionally, Federal Hall looks more distant here than Google Maps. I think the artist manipulated perspective and proportions to impress me.

In this painting, Childe Hassam depicted New York City, and this location specifically, as a bright, clean, busy urban center. The mood is mostly positive. I see a lot of pride here. It also feels a little oppressive. From this angle, the buildings create this narrow passageway flanked by a long, tall wall that seems to have no end. I’m above the bustling fray but far below the canyon ridge. I think Lower Manhattan accurately conveys the sense of smallness I felt when I first visited Manhattan. This work is about the wealth, power, and prestige of the United States of America, and maybe of New York City specifically.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 09:30 AM

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Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 09:31 AM (fwDg9)

2 Whoa, lots text.

Posted by: From about That Time at February 12, 2025 09:31 AM (4780s)

3 Movie review !

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle for festive little hats at February 12, 2025 09:31 AM (tw5K6)

4 Top 10?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:31 AM (J2vNu)

5 If you can make it there...

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 09:32 AM (g47mK)

6 I like it Would hang

Posted by: LASue at February 12, 2025 09:32 AM (lCppi)

7 It's busy, but you can't see any detaiils

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 09:32 AM (fwDg9)

8 Where da Bull? And more importantly, the little girl?

Posted by: Seated On The Exchange at February 12, 2025 09:33 AM (G5+As)

9 Lower part is too muddy. I like the tall buildings though.

Posted by: grammie winger - cheesehead at February 12, 2025 09:33 AM (SfhV1)

10 Sorry, too much yellow for me.

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 09:33 AM (g47mK)

11 So this was Wall Street in 1907?

Sometimes I think we were better off. Yes, we have penicillin and air-conditioning, but they didn't have to check their phones obsessively every ten seconds or worry about what somebody said on X.

Anyway, a fascinating painting!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

12 Where's the statue of the bull?

Posted by: I thought there was a statue of a bull at February 12, 2025 09:34 AM (dg+HA)

13 Yay, Kris! The Art-Thread poster who doesn’t hate us!

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:34 AM (77rzZ)

14 Except for the height of the buldings you get a sense of what a major thoroughfare in Ancient Rome might have been like, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:34 AM (J2vNu)

15 This is putting the theme from Louis Rukeyser's old "Wall Street Week" show into my head.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 09:34 AM (LxER7)

16 7 It's busy, but you can't see any detaiils
Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 09:32 AM (fwDg9)
_______
If it were by a 17th C Dutchman, you'd recognize every person portrayed.

Posted by: Eeyore at February 12, 2025 09:35 AM (1bNHn)

17 Thx Kris , would hang.
This painting almost looks pointillist.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at February 12, 2025 09:36 AM (KXtU1)

18 Where was he when he painted this? On a scaffold?

Posted by: MLCross at February 12, 2025 09:36 AM (Q2MxE)

19
No dog. Not art.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 09:37 AM (dxSpM)

20 Why is traffic closed off the road?

Posted by: Common Tater at February 12, 2025 09:37 AM (G6Lak)

21 Would hang.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 09:37 AM (lHPJf)

22 I'm not a big fan of Impressionism but I like this painting.

Thanks, Kris.

Posted by: dantesed at February 12, 2025 09:37 AM (Oy/m2)

23 Not a single moron has yet to ask where are the broads.

Unforgiveable.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (lRY8a)

24 Considering it's Broad Street, women were underrepresented here.

Posted by: He-Man Woman Haters Club at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)

25 I like this!

Posted by: redridinghood at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (NpAcC)

26
East Side, West Side, all around the town
The tots sang "ring-around-rosie," "London Bridge is falling down"
Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York

Posted by: How do you trip a light? at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (dg+HA)

27 A perfect place to let out a long fart and embrace the public.

Posted by: Giant Spiderman Balloon at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (dAYXg)

28 Yay, Kris! The Art-Thread poster who doesn’t hate us!
Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:34 AM

That we know of...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 09:39 AM (kgE5c)

29 >>>So this was Wall Street in 1907?

Sometimes I think we were better off. Yes, we have penicillin and air-conditioning, but they didn't have to check their phones obsessively every ten seconds or worry about what somebody said on X.

Also, no Commies. Well, there were Commies, but they were powerless.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 09:39 AM (lHPJf)

30 It's a pretty narrow street in reality, but Hassam makes it appear to be a broad thoroughfare, using bright sunlight and beautiful blue sky in his painting to make the artificially broad representation look even more open than it really is.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2025 09:39 AM (birkw)

31 Must have been fairly good economic time here. Don't see anyone jumping out of windows.

Posted by: Skyscraper Souls (1932) at February 12, 2025 09:40 AM (G5+As)

32 Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York
Posted by: How do you trip a light? at February 12, 2025

***
Just one of those expressions, I guess.

Posted by: Cut a Rug at February 12, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)

33 Horseshit. On the street. I guess that would make it Realism, not Impressionism, although horseshit would make an impression.

Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at February 12, 2025 09:40 AM (MZ+PY)

34 Lovely!
Enjoy Childe Hassam's work, particularly his Isles of Shoals paintings.

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2025 09:40 AM (Cki93)

35
Someone left the painting out in the rain
I don't think that I can hang it

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 09:40 AM (AOsQT)

36 Morning light, Beaux Arts architecture, what’s not to like?
Before cityscapes became brutal

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 09:41 AM (a5o5Q)

37 I never knew that there were horse-drawn buses.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 12, 2025 09:41 AM (NpAcC)

38 Posted by: He-Man Woman Haters Club at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)
-

Obviously a bona fide member.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 12, 2025 09:41 AM (lRY8a)

39 23 Not a single moron has yet to ask where are the broads.

Unforgiveable.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (lRY8a)

24 Considering it's Broad Street, women were underrepresented here.
Posted by: He-Man Woman Haters Club at February 12, 2025 09:38 AM (G5+As)

LOL

Posted by: Kris at February 12, 2025 09:41 AM (EwaUh)

40 Must have been fairly good economic time here. Don't see anyone jumping out of windows.
Posted by: Skyscraper Souls (1932) at February 12, 2025

***
There was the Panic of 1907 in October of that year.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:41 AM (J2vNu)

41 Anywhere in the city. I'll tell you the best public toilet.

https://youtu.be/JYVBRQ7t46g

Posted by: Obligatory Seinfeld reference at February 12, 2025 09:42 AM (dg+HA)

42 Prepping for a ticker-tape parade.

Posted by: BignJames at February 12, 2025 09:42 AM (Yj6Os)

43 >>Someone left the painting out in the rain
I don't think that I can hang it

Care for a piece of soggy cake?

Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2025 09:42 AM (Cki93)

44 LOL
Posted by: Kris at February 12, 2025 09:41 AM (EwaUh)
-

We are redeemed!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at February 12, 2025 09:42 AM (lRY8a)

45
FUN FACT:

In 1907, all of the buildings in Lower Manhattan were covered with a persistent growth of molds and mildew.

And the entire district smelled of bleu cheese.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

46 Magnificent piece of art. Relays a sense of grandeur, particularly with the people being so small. Great commentary on the work. Thanks for sharing this.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (u7Cty)

47 The New York Stock Exchange is not happy today.

Posted by: redridinghood at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (NpAcC)

48 So, was Hassam of Arabic ancestry? Sounds like it from the surname.

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

49 I like it. Nice use of light and color. It gives the impression of vastness that isn't oppressive.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (WPL6O)

50 Enjoy Childe Hassam's work, particularly his Isles of Shoals paintings.
Posted by: Lizzy at February 12, 2025 09:40 AM

Isles of Shoals? Now Imma have to go looking for those paintings.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (kgE5c)

51 And the entire district smelled of bleu cheese.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (iJfKG)

foul stuff

Posted by: BignJames at February 12, 2025 09:44 AM (Yj6Os)

52 I like this painting (I like Hassam's work, anyway.). It doesn't feel oppressive to me at all. There's some shadow on the right, of course,* but the blue sky and sunshine streaming in gives this a sense of lightness and happiness, IMO.

*as well as a bathroom

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 09:46 AM (Q0kLU)

53 There was the Panic of 1907 in October of that year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
___________

Every financial crisis used to be called a Panic. 1819, 1873, 1893. Sure there are others. Why did that get dropped for 1929?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2025 09:46 AM (Dm8we)

54 48 So, was Hassam of Arabic ancestry? Sounds like it from the surname.
Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM (77rzZ)

Not sure. A curator I knew once pronounced his name: chilled HASS-m. Small "i" in the first name.

Posted by: Kris at February 12, 2025 09:46 AM (EwaUh)

55 Apparently, he was not an Arab. His surname was a corruption of “Horsham,” according to Wiki.

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:47 AM (77rzZ)

56 Always a breath of fresh air when Kris posts on the Art Thread. I expect to be beaten over the head weekdays at 9:30 AM. That's why I'm a fan of Norwegian Mental Illness Art.

BTW, on this date in 1994, Munch's The Scream was stolen in Oslo. It was recovered 3 months later, undamaged, in Amsterdam. Thank goodness!

Posted by: Arts and Farces at February 12, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)

57 So, was Hassam of Arabic ancestry? Sounds like it from the surname.
Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:43 AM

According to the interwebz, old New England family of English descent. Original name was Horsham, corrupted to Hassam. Local boy, too. Dorchester, originally.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 09:48 AM (kgE5c)

58 How do you pronounce his first name? Is it "child", or "chilled" or what?

Posted by: Josephistan at February 12, 2025 09:48 AM (9XPe8)

59 >>>Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York
Posted by: How do you trip a light? at February 12, 2025

The original line, "trip the light fantastic toe" (i.e., dance) is from Milton. Dunno where the toe got dropped.

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 09:49 AM (LxER7)

60 >>>>BTW, on this date in 1994, Munch's The Scream was stolen in Oslo. It was recovered 3 months later, undamaged, in Amsterdam. Thank goodness!
Posted by: Arts and Farces at February 12, 2025 09:47 AM (G5+As)
*****
Was it recovered or returned?

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at February 12, 2025 09:49 AM (u7Cty)

61 There was the Panic of 1907 in October of that year.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
___________

Every financial crisis used to be called a Panic. 1819, 1873, 1893. Sure there are others. Why did that get dropped for 1929?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2025

***
Because it was bigger and spread worldwide, I suppose. And lasted longer?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:49 AM (J2vNu)

62 I once worked with a heart surgeon who had developed a type oof adhesive cloth that could be used internally to hold a transplanted heart valve securely in place without traditional stitches. When he presented his findings at the big American Heart Association convention in NYC they were so impressed that they gave him a ticker tape parade.

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 09:49 AM (/iMjX)

63 Without details how do you know there isn't a dog there?

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 09:50 AM (fwDg9)

64 The last Panic in NY was Panic in Needle Park (1971).

Posted by: Calm Down! Don't Panic! at February 12, 2025 09:50 AM (G5+As)

65 What the well-dressed man and woman wore in 1907:

https://tinyurl.com/2th5ar5n

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 09:50 AM (Q0kLU)

66 How do you pronounce his first name? Is it "child", or "chilled" or what?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 12, 2025

***
When I see "Childe Harold," for instance, I think "Chill-deh." No idea if that's right.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:51 AM (J2vNu)

67 59 Dunno where the toe got dropped.

Hawaiian leper colony.

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:51 AM (77rzZ)

68 A fine example of Beaux Arts building, John Wanaker dept store, is closing in a couple months. It’s currently a Macy’s dept. store. I worked at Wanamaker’s in my youth, pretty much oblivious to the beautiful neoclassical detailing of the store’s exterior and interior. I plan to go take pictures before the store shuts down. Who knows what fate awaits it?

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 09:51 AM (Y9TdF)

69 East Side, West Side, all around the town
The tots sang "ring-a-rosie"
"London Bridge is falling down"
Boys and girls together
Me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the
Sidewalks of New York

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2025 09:52 AM (Vh9CX)

70 52 I like this painting (I like Hassam's work, anyway.). It doesn't feel oppressive to me at all. There's some shadow on the right, of course,* but the blue sky and sunshine streaming in gives this a sense of lightness and happiness, IMO.

*as well as a bathroom
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 09:46 AM (Q0kLU)

Yeah. I think it's a positive painting overall. The oppressiveness comes, I think, from the tall, narrow cliff-like feel. But an oppressiveness in a similar sense as being at the bottom of the Grand Canyon -- a sense of awe and puniness.

Posted by: Kris at February 12, 2025 09:53 AM (EwaUh)

71 How do you pronounce his first name? Is it "child", or "chilled" or what?
Posted by: Josephistan at February 12, 2025 09:48 AM

Fred. But his middle name is pronounced like "child".

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 09:53 AM (kgE5c)

72 I think “Childe” is pronounced like “child,” of which it is an archaic spelling.

Posted by: Bulg at February 12, 2025 09:53 AM (77rzZ)

73 32 Boys and girls together, me and Mamie O'Rourke
Tripped the light fantastic on the sidewalks of New York
Posted by: How do you trip a light? at February 12, 2025

***
Just one of those expressions, I guess.
Posted by: Cut a Rug at February 12, 2025 09:40 AM (J2vNu)
"----
Tripped" used in the sense of "experienced." "The light fantastic" is a poetic way of saying "dazzling" as in putting on a dazzling display.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 12, 2025 09:54 AM (LPS7w)

74 The tots sang "ring-a-rosie"

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2025 09:52 AM (Vh9CX)

plague outbreak?

Posted by: BignJames at February 12, 2025 09:54 AM (Yj6Os)

75 Wakes up
Scratches
Looks around
Dang. Where the vendor selling the brats?
Goes looking for coffee.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2025 09:56 AM (W/lyH)

76 Because it was bigger and spread worldwide, I suppose. And lasted longer?
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius
________

1893 was worldwide and lasted for a while too. Plus, since they wouldn't have known how long it was going to last at the time, they must have called it something different for the first bit.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at February 12, 2025 09:56 AM (Dm8we)

77 What the well-dressed man and woman wore in 1907:

https://tinyurl.com/2th5ar5n
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025

***
I know it wasn't true, but I always think of bowler hats and derbies as being worn by plainclothes cops and salesmen ("drummers," as they were known, from "drumming up business"). To me, the upper class would have been wearing soft hats. When Jack Lemmon's C.C. Baxter buys and dons a bowler in The Apartment, he doesn't look like a Young Executive; he looks like somebody hawking patent medicines in the Old West.

Not entirely true, I'm sure. But there it is. I have a bunch of fedoras, but never wanted a bowler/derby.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

78 From Milton's L'Allegro:

Come, and trip it as ye go
On the light fantastic toe,
And in thy right hand lead with thee,
The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty;

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 09:56 AM (LxER7)

79 Nice and clean.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 09:57 AM (LHPAg)

80 True Story: Carmen San Diego and Waldo found each other and fell in love at the intersection of Wall St. and Broad on this date in 1998.

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 09:57 AM (/iMjX)

81 68 A fine example of Beaux Arts building, John Wanaker dept store, is closing in a couple months. It’s currently a Macy’s dept. store. I worked at Wanamaker’s in my youth, pretty much oblivious to the beautiful neoclassical detailing of the store’s exterior and interior. I plan to go take pictures before the store shuts down. Who knows what fate awaits it?
Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 09:51 AM (Y9TdF)

Being born in Philly, and still having some very early memories of it, your comment on Wanamakers makes me a little wistful ... sad if you will.

Posted by: browndog remembering the blizzard of 1960f at February 12, 2025 09:58 AM (TTAGa)

82 When he presented his findings at the big American Heart Association convention in NYC they were so impressed that they gave him a ticker tape parade.
Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 09:49 AM (/iMjX)

I bet that really pumped him up!

Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

83 I like impressionist urban landscapes, Pissarro has some nice ones too.

Posted by: PG at February 12, 2025 10:00 AM (uZ2lt)

84 I know it wasn't true, but I always think of bowler hats and derbies as being worn by plainclothes cops and salesmen ("drummers," as they were known, from "drumming up business"). To me, the upper class would have been wearing soft hats. When Jack Lemmon's C.C. Baxter buys and dons a bowler in The Apartment, he doesn't look like a Young Executive; he looks like somebody hawking patent medicines in the Old West.

Not entirely true, I'm sure. But there it is. I have a bunch of fedoras, but never wanted a bowler/derby.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 09:56 AM (J2vNu)

No love for top hats? Those were still around in 1907.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 10:00 AM (lHPJf)

85 A fine example of Beaux Arts building, John Wanaker dept store, is closing in a couple months. It’s currently a Macy’s dept. store. I worked at Wanamaker’s in my youth, pretty much oblivious to the beautiful neoclassical detailing of the store’s exterior and interior. I plan to go take pictures before the store shuts down. Who knows what fate awaits it?
Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 09:51 AM

Years ago I worked in a fine arts auction house and we had the original blueprints for the Wanamaker building for sale. The first submission was for a tall, skyscraper like building.

Posted by: Josephistan at February 12, 2025 10:01 AM (9XPe8)

86 When he presented his findings at the big American Heart Association convention in NYC they were so impressed that they gave him a ticker tape parade.
Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 09:49 AM (/iMjX)

I bet that really pumped him up!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

He became quite vein.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2025 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

87 https://tinyurl.com/2th5ar5n

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An interesting article, but it says the hat worn by the man in the top photograph is a "homburg." Unless the description of that hat style has changed radically in 120 years, it's not.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:01 AM (J2vNu)

88 78 From Milton's L'Allegro:

Come, and trip it as ye go
On the light fantastic toe,
And in thy right hand lead with thee,
The mountain-nymph, sweet Liberty;
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 09:56 AM (LxER7)
----
I'm going to go out on a limb and doubt that he means someone was tripped up by a fantastic toe.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 12, 2025 10:01 AM (LPS7w)

89 A pro-Hamas rally going on in the painting.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2025 10:01 AM (Vh9CX)

90 When he presented his findings at the big American Heart Association convention in NYC they were so impressed that they gave him a ticker tape parade.
Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 09:49 AM (/iMjX)

I bet that really pumped him up!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

He became quite vein.
Posted by: naturalfake

He probably thinks this song is about him.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (8NNF8)

91 No love for top hats? Those were still around in 1907.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025

***
If I ever officiate at a Punxatawney Phil event, I'll grab one!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (J2vNu)

92 Aside from the technique, which is powerful and wonderful, there is a positive feel to the scene. The buildings look clean, almost polished, the movement of the crowds seem purposeful, and the canyon created by the tall buildings is brightly lit. (I don't like large cities, any cities, but this image doesn't bring out my dislike.) It took a while to notice but after the grandeur of the buildings I started to pay attention to the people in the crowds. They are almost ant-like in the scale but each one is individual in clothing and position. Must have taken a lot of work to get that all in.

After looking at the painting for a minute, there is a growing awareness that these tiny figures, dwarfed by the buildings, are the ones who made these looming, sculpted cliffs, not massive forces of nature pushing up continents and carving canyons. That makes the scene even more impressive.

Posted by: JTB at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (yTvNw)

93 You can tell this is Wall Street by zooming in on the crowd. You can see them doing up-twinkles

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (/iMjX)

94 I bet that really pumped him up!
Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2025 10:00 AM (W/lyH)

He became quite vein.
Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2025 10:01 AM (iJfKG)

Take that nonsense out into the atrium, y'all.

Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (lHPJf)

95 What the well-dressed man and woman wore in 1907:

https://tinyurl.com/2th5ar5n
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025
MP4 brings it! And to think none of those clothes left you guessing what you were seeing.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (LHPAg)

96 You'll find many views such as this on the historic photograph site, shorpy dot com. Been my favorite historic photos site for well over 20 years. It's a great time vampire.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 12, 2025 10:03 AM (dgRL6)

97 True Story: Carmen San Diego and Waldo found each other and fell in love at the intersection of Wall St. and Broad on this date in 1998.
Posted by: muldoon

Waldo got her preggers and ghosted her. Reason he's in hiding.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:03 AM (8NNF8)

98 91 No love for top hats? Those were still around in 1907.
Posted by: Dr. T at February 12, 2025

***
If I ever officiate at a Punxatawney Phil event, I'll grab one!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (J2vNu)
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Fred Astaire wore those a lot.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 12, 2025 10:04 AM (LPS7w)

99 Being born in Philly, and still having some very early memories of it, your comment on Wanamakers makes me a little wistful ... sad if you will.
Store traffic is down considerably. The only spikes are at Christmas for the light show.
The main floor seems to have devolved into a pass through from Market St. to Chestnut. It used to be a hive of activity and hustle bustle, especially at lunch hour.
The urban dept. store shopping experience, another anachronism.

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 10:04 AM (y87dX)

100 Mr. Diogenes brings up a valid point. Wouldn't this painting be improved by a Sabrett pushcart with a festive, colorful, umbrella and a surly immigrant vendor?

Posted by: Tubesteak Tommy at February 12, 2025 10:04 AM (G5+As)

101 Yay Kris art post!
Always so educational. Thank you.

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at February 12, 2025 10:05 AM (haMMW)

102 You can tell the visitors and tourists from the locals in NYC. The residents are not gawking and looking up most of the time.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at February 12, 2025 10:05 AM (Q4IgG)

103 Wall street, 1903.

https://www.shorpy.com/NYSE_Wall_Street

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (dgRL6)

104 MTG making an excellent rant about gubmint spending live on CSPAN at the DOGE hearing.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (ufFY8)

105 I plan to go take pictures before the store shuts down. Who knows what fate awaits it?
Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 09:51 AM

_________

What's going to happen to the organ?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (dxSpM)

106 True Story: Carmen San Diego and Waldo found each other and fell in love at the intersection of Wall St. and Broad on this date in 1998.
Posted by: muldoon
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Waldo got her preggers and ghosted her. Reason he's in hiding.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025

***
I always had the impression Carmen was a major-league villainess, Thrush- or SPECTRE-level. Hard to imagine her falling in love, let alone with a "Waldo."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (J2vNu)

107

I'd rather be standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.

Posted by: But that's just me at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (dg+HA)

108 Mr. Diogenes brings up a valid point. Wouldn't this painting be improved by a Sabrett pushcart with a festive, colorful, umbrella and a surly immigrant vendor?
Posted by: Tubesteak Tommy

No soup for you! Come back one year!

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (8NNF8)

109 Years ago I worked in a fine arts auction house and we had the original blueprints for the Wanamaker building for sale. The first submission was for a tall, skyscraper like building.

I’m glad the city fathers nixed it.

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (y87dX)

110 Kris,
Thanks, as always, for your art choices and insights. You bring out features I would have missed. As much as I like this city scape, I found Hassam's landscapes using the same Impressionist techniques to be just as effective and even more enjoyable.

Sigh! So much art, so little time.

Posted by: JTB at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (yTvNw)

111 Tulsi should be confirmed today . Soon. yeah!

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:07 AM (g47mK)

112 A trailer park piled higher and deeper.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2025 10:07 AM (Wg6v7)

113 Just think of the following 60 years:

Two World Wars
Rise of Communism
Heavier than air travel
Man develops weapons that could fully destroy NYC in one explosion
Man lands on the moon
1 billion to 6 billion people on the planet

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at February 12, 2025 10:07 AM (Vh9CX)

114 Would hang.

I, by default, like Impressionism.

Been to the Chicago Art Institute a number of times.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025 10:07 AM (ufFY8)

115
He probably thinks this song is about him.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:02 AM (8NNF

________

He's only the vessel for it.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 10:07 AM (dxSpM)

116 Another view of Wall Street, circa 1905.

https://www.shorpy.com/node/9889

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 12, 2025 10:07 AM (dgRL6)

117 You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
(Tea, girls, warm and sweet, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite)
Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine...

Posted by: Murray Head at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (y7KuV)

118
EM LIMBURGER CHEESE EARL MARKS!1!1!!

Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (EFZgU)

119 I was a bit late with this on the last thread...

Is this something? http://alturl.com/ozva3

Injunction bonds might be a game changer in stopping the commie judges if true.

Posted by: Wardo at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (8ORp0)

120 What's going to happen to the organ?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (dxSpM)

It’s going to remain in place. They still hold regular concerts. I guess I should attend one soon

Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (y87dX)

121 Another view of Wall Street, circa 1905.

https://www.shorpy.com/node/9889
Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 12, 2025 10:07 AM (dgRL6)

Actually Broad Street.

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (dgRL6)

122 99

especially at lunch hour.
The urban dept. store shopping experience, another anachronism.
Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 10:04 AM (y87dX)

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Costco and Bass Pro Shops is pretty much today's pitiful version of the Mall Experience of the 80s and 90s.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (LPS7w)

123 Recent NYC Health Department survey found that most of the water for boiling hot dogs in vendors carts dates to pre-1907.

Posted by: Vintage Water Is Best Water at February 12, 2025 10:09 AM (G5+As)

124 5 I plan to go take pictures before the store shuts down. Who knows what fate awaits it?
Posted by: kallisto at February 12, 2025 09:51 AM

_________
What's going to happen to the organ?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025

***
"I'll just sit here and play with my organ."
(-- Al Bundy as The Phantom of the Opera in a scene for Kelly's Larry Storch School of Acting class)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:09 AM (J2vNu)

125
Panics

Then: Brokers throwing themselves out of windows.

Now: Computers throwing themselves out of windows.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 10:09 AM (dxSpM)

126 Willowed:

Most breeding issues come from two things:

1) Crap breeders using a small pool of interbred dogs to generate a puppy mill for popular breeds.

Go looking for a dog these days and you will see exactly that.

2) Working breeds (or any breed) no longer used for its bred-to-function.

Simple Darwinism at work. A GSD that can't act as a shepard would be put down in ye olde days thus helping to preserve the quality of the breed.

The Late Great Stormy was a Kerry Blue Terrier, a not rare but not popular breed.

She bought her from a pricey but respected breeders and she was never sick a day in her 17 yr life. The last year or so she had arthritis(?) issues and some dog senility but hey that comes with the territory.

Posted by: naturalfake at February 12, 2025 10:10 AM (iJfKG)

127 EM LIMBURGER CHEESE EARL MARKS!1!1!!
Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (EFZgU)

lol

EM LIMBURGER CHEESE BRING YOUR ASS EARL MARKS!1!1!!

---Maxine Waters' Wig

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:10 AM (g47mK)

128
+++
Costco and Bass Pro Shops is pretty much today's pitiful version of the Mall Experience of the 80s and 90s.
+++

Ahem.

Posted by: Buc-ee's at February 12, 2025 10:10 AM (dg+HA)

129 You've seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town
(Tea, girls, warm and sweet, sweet
Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite)
Get Thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
Whose every move's among the purest
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine...
Posted by: Murray Head at February 12, 2025

***
I've known that song for decades and never realized what the lyric in parentheses was!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:11 AM (J2vNu)

130 Like.

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 12, 2025 10:11 AM (Pf3h7)

131 Very pleasing painting.. Impressionistic..

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:11 AM (VE6XX)

132 "Elon Musk and Donald Trump are recklessly slashing the Federal government, and hacking the Treasury system..." -- dumb Democrat bitch from New Mexico.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025 10:12 AM (ufFY8)

133 132 "Elon Musk and Donald Trump are recklessly slashing the Federal government, and hacking the Treasury system..." -- dumb Democrat bitch from New Mexico.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025 10:12 AM (ufFY

And ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:13 AM (VE6XX)

134 "Elon Musk and his hackers..."

Stop it lady, you are getting me hard.

Posted by: anchorbabe fashion cop at February 12, 2025 10:13 AM (ufFY8)

135
Simple Darwinism at work. A GSD that can't act as a shepard would be put down in ye olde days thus helping to preserve the quality of the breed.

_________

Well, now they'd be (or should be) spayed or neutered.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 10:13 AM (dxSpM)

136 "Elon Musk and Donald Trump are recklessly slashing the Federal government, and hacking the Treasury system..." -- dumb Democrat bitch from New Mexico.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025

***
When you're confronted by a jungle, you don't politely ask the trees and vines to move aside. You slash and hack!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

137
OWS - a limerick

A crowd of protestors was espied
Camping on the sidewalks outside
But it seemed all the brokers
Just ignored the weed tokerrs
I guess they must have been preoccupied!

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 10:14 AM (/iMjX)

138 This chick's rant was so panicky and hysterical, it was hilarious.

MTG just put her in her place.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025 10:14 AM (ufFY8)

139 136 "Elon Musk and Donald Trump are recklessly slashing the Federal government, and hacking the Treasury system..." -- dumb Democrat bitch from New Mexico.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025

***
When you're confronted by a jungle, you don't politely ask the trees and vines to move aside. You slash and hack!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:13 AM (J2vNu)

=====

Chuck Schumer has slightly changed his rhetoric to include the idea that, yes, there is some fraud and waste, but Musk and Trump and just attacking it too energetically.

Democrats are caught in a vise and are flailing.

It entertains me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:14 AM (GBKbO)

140 Love how the Libs/media are ranting about the Rule of Law and Constitutional Crisis when Biden all but ignored it and went so far as to pardon his entire Family especially Hunter who was convicted of crimes and was about to be sentenced...

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:15 AM (VE6XX)

141 140 Love how the Libs/media are ranting about the Rule of Law and Constitutional Crisis when Biden all but ignored it and went so far as to pardon his entire Family especially Hunter who was convicted of crimes and was about to be sentenced...
Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:15 AM (VE6XX)

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It's narrative framing.

And what we've learned over the past 16 years, since the rise of Obama, is that the media's ability to craft narratives has not faltered one bit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:16 AM (GBKbO)

142 127 EM LIMBURGER CHEESE EARL MARKS!1!1!!
Posted by: Maxine Waters' Hair at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (EFZgU)
lol

EM LIMBURGER CHEESE BRING YOUR ASS EARL MARKS!1!1!!

---Maxine Waters' Wig
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:10 AM (g47mK
Is this what young black girls aspire for themselves? To be rich and powerful like maximum waters?

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 10:16 AM (LHPAg)

143 The buildings, especially in the upper and left portions of the painting, seem to me reminiscent of Monet's paintings of Rouen Cathedral, painted 10-15 years earlier.

Posted by: Chubfuddler at February 12, 2025 10:16 AM (Nrfxw)

144 Limburger was the name of the"TDS Reports" boss character in the movie "Office Space."

/

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 12, 2025 10:17 AM (h9jqp)

145 Okay, Horde -

Out shoveling this morning, it occurred to me that now I am thoroughly 29, perhaps I should look into getting a snow-blower. Anybody have any recommendations for a good light to moderate duty one?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 10:17 AM (LxER7)

146 I was a bit late with this on the last thread...

Is this something? http://alturl.com/ozva3

Injunction bonds might be a game changer in stopping the commie judges if true.
Posted by: Wardo at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (8ORp0)

Read some of the comments. OMG! The same stupid replies..."that's not who we are!!" Maybe a bunch of us Morons should leave some comments over there. LOL!! They'd be heading to the fainting couch!

Posted by: thatcrazyjerseyguy at February 12, 2025 10:18 AM (dgRL6)

147 I've known that song for decades and never realized what the lyric in parentheses was!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:11 AM

You and me both, Wolfus.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 10:18 AM (kgE5c)

148 Chuck Schumer has slightly changed his rhetoric to include the idea that, yes, there is some fraud and waste, but Musk and Trump and just attacking it too energetically.
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Next: sure, there's fraud and waste and it's good that there's fraud and waste!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:18 AM (6K6Eu)

149 It's not as overtly 'pointillistic' as Seurat, which is a nice touch.

Posted by: Dr_No at February 12, 2025 10:18 AM (ayRl+)

150 What's going to happen to the organ?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (dxSpM)

The Paolo, he sometimes worries about that, too.

Posted by: The Paolo at February 12, 2025 10:19 AM (9XPe8)

151 Now this old fucker Gerald Connolly is complaining that the gubmint hasn't COLLECTED taxes "left on the table", and the IRS should be doing that, not cutting people (instead of stopping improper payments).

The audacity.

Fuck that guy.

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025 10:19 AM (ufFY8)

152 What's going to happen to the organ?

inexplicably people still want to live in Center City I guess. that building already went mostly office space, but then people stopped going in to work so that's empty too.

so it will be condos. who are buying these? lol I dunno

the organ is MASSIVE. what you see isn't the organ itself! it's crazy. no idea where they might move it to! but they might just keep it, keep the eagle and some other pretty things, and place them in the central area with condos around the center.

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (Pv3Rg)

153 Well, now they'd be (or should be) spayed or neutered.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

The man responsible for more spaying or neutering than anyone else had no children.

Posted by: Bob Barker 1923-2023 at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (G5+As)

154 148 Chuck Schumer has slightly changed his rhetoric to include the idea that, yes, there is some fraud and waste, but Musk and Trump and just attacking it too energetically.
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Next: sure, there's fraud and waste and it's good that there's fraud and waste!
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:18 AM (6K6Eu)

======

Step 1: There is no waste and fraud at all. Also, BigBalls doesn't have security clearance.
Step 2: Okay, BigBalls has security clearance, but judges say you can't do this.
Step 3: Okay, all of these lawsuits are going to fail, and maybe there's some fraud, but you have to slow down.
>We are here
Step 4: Every single penny is essential and America will die without it. We will burn America to the ground to preserve that money flow.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)

155 The last time I was at the spot in the painting, late 70s, it sure as hell didn't have that positive, polished feel. I don't miss NYC or anyplace in the state from Albany and south. Upper New York state has some beautiful areas.

Posted by: JTB at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (yTvNw)

156 Some time in the 1920s a group of younger stockbrokers staged a protest against the top hat and bowler hat factions of old-school Wall Street and began wearing Pork Pie hats. This protest became know as...

...Pork Pie Wall Street

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (/iMjX)

157 I've known that song for decades and never realized what the lyric in parentheses was!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:11 AM
*
You and me both, Wolfus.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025

***
I mean, yes, the chorus was muttering something, and I think I distinguished the words "set up," but nothing more.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (J2vNu)

158 where's the diversity?

(I'm joking, but on reddit's history-themed subreddits, almost any time someone would post an old picture of a city scene that would be a top comment)

Posted by: brak at February 12, 2025 10:21 AM (jGJov)

159 151 Now this old fucker Gerald Connolly is complaining that the gubmint hasn't COLLECTED taxes "left on the table", and the IRS should be doing that, not cutting people (instead of stopping improper payments).

The audacity.

Fuck that guy.
Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at February 12, 2025 10:19 AM (ufFY

=======

Well, let's not have a complicated tax code that people can slip through the cracks on, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

160 I've known that song for decades and never realized what the lyric in parentheses was!
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:11 AM (J2vNu)
That song and video has disturbed me for decades.

Posted by: Eromero at February 12, 2025 10:21 AM (LHPAg)

161 I was a bit late with this on the last thread...

Is this something? http://alturl.com/ozva3

Injunction bonds might be a game changer in stopping the commie judges if true.

Posted by: Wardo at February 12, 2025 10:08 AM (8ORp0)

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An excellent read and idea -- thanks for posting (I sent that to Dan Bongino asking him to help get this out there and trending -- and hopefully possibly utilized by President Trump and The DOGE Team).

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 12, 2025 10:22 AM (h9jqp)

162 "Elon Musk and Donald Trump are recklessly slashing the Federal government, and hacking the Treasury system..."
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Oohh...feel my nipples!!

Posted by: Conservatives everywhere at February 12, 2025 10:22 AM (dg+HA)

163 Step 4: Every single penny is essential and America will die without it. We will burn America to the ground to preserve that money flow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM

Anytime ol' Chuck starts feeling froggy, he's welcome to jump.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at February 12, 2025 10:23 AM (kgE5c)

164 Step 4: Every single penny is essential and America will die without it. We will burn America to the ground to preserve that money flow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)
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You get an 8 out of 10. You forgot to add "racist!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:23 AM (6K6Eu)

165 164 Step 4: Every single penny is essential and America will die without it. We will burn America to the ground to preserve that money flow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (GBKbO)
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You get an 8 out of 10. You forgot to add "racist!"
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:23 AM (6K6Eu)

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It's Schumer.

Wouldn't he default to Anti-Semite? He's Uncle Leo, right?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)

166 155 The last time I was at the spot in the painting, late 70s, it sure as hell didn't have that positive, polished feel. I don't miss NYC or anyplace in the state from Albany and south. Upper New York state has some beautiful areas.
Posted by: JTB at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (yTvNw)

It's sad what NYC has become considering what it has. I want to go to the MET, the 9/11 Museum (have not been yet), and Asia Week, but it's way too dangerous right now.

Posted by: Kris at February 12, 2025 10:24 AM (EwaUh)

167 Wouldn't he default to Anti-Semite? He's Uncle Leo, right?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:23 AM (GBKbO)
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Given who his allies are, it might not be a Good Thing.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:25 AM (6K6Eu)

168 Schumer needs to rethink his life and his priorities.

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:26 AM (g47mK)

169 >>An excellent read and idea -- thanks for posting (I sent that to Dan Bongino asking him to help get this out there and trending -- and hopefully possibly utilized by President Trump and The DOGE Team).

I think they are taking a slightly different approach at least at first. I think they want to get at least one of these cases to the SC where they have at least 2 confirmed and outspoken justices, Thomas and Gorsuch, who want to end the practice of district court judges having the ability to even do national injunctions.

It's a ridiculous overreach that has gone on too long. The bond is a good backup by the idea that a single district court judge in RI or NY can make policy for the entire country is absurd and needs to be stopped once and for all.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:27 AM (LkLld)

170 Well, let's not have a complicated tax code that people can slip through the cracks on, then.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:21 AM (GBKbO)

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Of course the CongressScum would never enact it, but Trump should demand a bill eliminating the Income Tax (and maybe even The IRS itself) and make them vote on it (since they no longer pretend to "debate").

That alone might make him the greatest POTUS since Washington ...

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 12, 2025 10:27 AM (dx3mo)

171 It's a ridiculous overreach that has gone on too long. The bond is a good backup by the idea that a single district court judge in RI or NY can make policy for the entire country is absurd and needs to be stopped once and for all.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:27 AM (LkLld)
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This guy gets it.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:27 AM (6K6Eu)

172 169 I think they are taking a slightly different approach at least at first. I think they want to get at least one of these cases to the SC where they have at least 2 confirmed and outspoken justices, Thomas and Gorsuch, who want to end the practice of district court judges having the ability to even do national injunctions.

It's a ridiculous overreach that has gone on too long. The bond is a good backup by the idea that a single district court judge in RI or NY can make policy for the entire country is absurd and needs to be stopped once and for all.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:27 AM (LkLld)

========

We're jumping ahead of ourselves.

We don't even know how many of the TROs will lead to injunctions at all.

There's probably pressure within the judicial community to make these go away because of the potential blowback, like the immunity case against Trump not doing anything but reaffirming presidential immunity.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:28 AM (GBKbO)

173 I'd rather be standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.

There's a pawnshop on the corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 10:28 AM (Q0kLU)

174 >>It's sad what NYC has become considering what it has. I want to go to the MET, the 9/11 Museum (have not been yet), and Asia Week, but it's way too dangerous right now.

I highly recommend a trip to the 9/11 museum. Plan a full day, it's big, and it's very moving.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:28 AM (LkLld)

175 Childe liked to paint the US Flag a lot.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2025 10:29 AM (IOGah)

176 I'd rather be standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.

There's a pawnshop on the corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at February 12, 2025 10:28 AM (Q0kLU)
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Better than pulling into Nazareth feelin' 'bout half past dead.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:29 AM (6K6Eu)

177 Fraud =/= Waste

The words Fraud, Waste, and Abuse get lumped together, but it's a creepy, cynical ploy that i can easily be convinced was intentional to equate Fraud, which is active malfeasance, with Waste, which is the natural result of literally any endeavor of any kind. Waste can be minimized, but will always be with us no matter how efficient you try to be. That fact, though, is used to gloss over losses due to people actively stripping wealth out of the system for their own gains.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:29 AM (VoAdT)

178 >>We're jumping ahead of ourselves.

>>We don't even know how many of the TROs will lead to injunctions at all.

One is too many.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:29 AM (LkLld)

179 Okay, Horde -

Out shoveling this morning, it occurred to me that now I am thoroughly 29, perhaps I should look into getting a snow-blower. Anybody have any recommendations for a good light to moderate duty one?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 10:17 AM (LxER7)

Murkowski might be looking for a job.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 12, 2025 10:31 AM (VwHCD)

180 The words Fraud, Waste, and Abuse get lumped together, but it's a creepy, cynical ploy that i can easily be convinced was intentional to equate Fraud, which is active malfeasance, with Waste, which is the natural result of literally any endeavor of any kind. Waste can be minimized, but will always be with us no matter how efficient you try to be. That fact, though, is used to gloss over losses due to people actively stripping wealth out of the system for their own gains.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:29 AM (VoAdT)
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Once the scale of the waste reaches a certain level, they become indistinguishable.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:31 AM (6K6Eu)

181 Love the scale and perspective of this picture, this is really good.

Posted by: t-bird at February 12, 2025 10:32 AM (Av2Ad)

182 Once the scale of the waste reaches a certain level, they become indistinguishable.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:31 AM (6K6Eu)

Exactly. "Oh, it's just part of the government being so large and inscrutable. You can't fix it. It's not even a problem, really!"

Bullshit.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:32 AM (VoAdT)

183 Sounds about right.

>>@amuse
·
>>16m
USAID: The swamp is deep. One of the activist judges blocking Trump's agenda, Judge John Bates, is married to the founder of a USAID-funded NGO. Carol Rhees is a Democrat lawyer who started Hope for Children in Ethiopia a long-time USAID grant recipient.

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:32 AM (LkLld)

184 Lower Manhattan (aka Broad and Wall Streets)
Childe Hassam
1907

Instantly, this image reminds me of some of the idealized 19th century western landscapes where individuals are dwarfed by the land and its potential.

Here we have a similar landscape, but where the individual, now anonymous, is dwarfed by a landscape of man's own making. Still, this image, in spite of the loss of individual identity, oddly captures American culture full of confidence of realized potential bathed in a near divine light. In other words, Hassam has captured America, transitioning from the recently conquered Western focus to a world of our own imagination, of capital, machines, modernity that is still playing out.

An alternative understanding of this place and time is Paul Strand's photograph Wall Street, New York 1915. In this version there is no soaring point of view, where the anonymous individual is empathized and is trapped by this consequences of this imagination striding towards a different divine light, one the possibly harkens to that earlier place where individual identity is realized.

https://is.gd/pBcSFr

Really great painting.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 12, 2025 10:33 AM (Q8Bj8)

185 a Democrat lawyer who started Hope for Children in Ethiopia a long-time USAID grant recipient.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:32 AM (LkLld)

Tell me there's an actual Human Fund.

Lie if you have to.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:33 AM (VoAdT)

186 I had a million dollars once but spent most of it on women and booze.

I wasted the rest of it.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at February 12, 2025 10:33 AM (IOGah)

187 182 Exactly. "Oh, it's just part of the government being so large and inscrutable. You can't fix it. It's not even a problem, really!"

Bullshit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:32 AM (VoAdT)

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"Why even bother saving $882 million? It's just a drop in the bucket!"

$882 million represents the total, lifetime contribution of 1600 average American taxpayers.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

188 Exactly. "Oh, it's just part of the government being so large and inscrutable. You can't fix it. It's not even a problem, really!"

Bullshit.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:32 AM (VoAdT)
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You made me think of Vinnie Gambini. "Everthing dat guy just said was bullshit. Thank you."

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:34 AM (6K6Eu)

189 "Why even bother saving $882 million? It's just a drop in the bucket!"

$882 million represents the total, lifetime contribution of 1600 average American taxpayers.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:34 AM (GBKbO)

They Didn't Build That.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:35 AM (VoAdT)

190 Overreach that Rs used during Obama and Biden administration. For example Biden's program allowing illegals get some a legal status through marriage -"undocumented spouses" program.

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:35 AM (g47mK)

191 Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 12, 2025 10:33 AM (Q8Bj

Thanks for this. I saw the urban canyon image but never connected it to the American West.

Posted by: Kris at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (EwaUh)

192 a Democrat lawyer who started Hope for Children in Ethiopia a long-time USAID grant recipient.

and we all know how honest and on the up-and-up those "feed Africa" charities are

Posted by: Live Aid at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (jGJov)

193 It should work itself through the courts. These are nuisance suits without merit.

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)

194 @amuse
@amuse
USAID: The swamp is deep. One of the activist judges blocking Trump's agenda, Judge John Bates, is married to the founder of a USAID-funded NGO. Carol Rhees is a Democrat lawyer who started Hope for Children in Ethiopia a long-time USAID grant recipient.

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (AOsQT)

195 These are nuisance suits without merit.
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)

That's no way to talk about lawyers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (VoAdT)

196 Better than pulling into Nazareth feelin' 'bout half past dead.
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His dog up and died....

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (Wg6v7)

197 >It should work itself through the courts. These are nuisance suits without merit.

Posted by: runner

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time factor

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (AOsQT)

198 193 It should work itself through the courts. These are nuisance suits without merit.
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)

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We are going to end up with a 7-2 SCOTUS decision where the majority ends up saying, "Yes, the president is in charge of the executive branch."

And DU will rub Sotomayor's fire dissent all over their mounds where their genitals used to be.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (GBKbO)

199 It should work itself through the courts. These are nuisance suits without merit.
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)
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That could take years. We don't have years.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (6K6Eu)

200 "Why even bother saving $882 million? It's just a drop in the bucket!"

Why even bother fixing broken windows?

Because they're a harbinger, a signal that the rest of the system is being fixed. Ask Rudy Giuliani if that works.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (xCA6C)

201 199 It should work itself through the courts. These are nuisance suits without merit.
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)
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That could take years. We don't have years.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (6K6Eu)

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It'll probably be resolved by summer of this year.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

202 There's a pawnshop on the corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing

There's a ball club in the basement in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Posted by: $24,000 Infield at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (G5+As)

203 It won't take years.

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)

204 It'll probably be resolved by summer of this year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)
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Still half a year wasted.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (6K6Eu)

205 It will be resolved "very quickly".

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (g47mK)

206 It'll probably be resolved by summer of this year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)

Earlier !

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:39 AM (g47mK)

207 and we all know how honest and on the up-and-up those "feed Africa" charities are

Nom, nom, nom...

Posted by: Sally Struthers at February 12, 2025 10:39 AM (xCA6C)

208 204 It'll probably be resolved by summer of this year.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (GBKbO)
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Still half a year wasted.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:38 AM (6K6Eu)

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Since Trump's administration is either not complying or maliciously complying while tearing away everywhere else, it's not nearly as much lost time as it seems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)

209 JB Pritzger and Kathy Hochul, as overheard talking this morning...

"Yeah, this is probably nothing"
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The NYSE announced Wednesday that one of its electronic exchanges, NYSE Chicago, will reincorporate in Texas and be renamed NYSE Texas, giving companies an option to list their stocks in the Lone Star state.

“As the state with the largest number of NYSE listings, representing over $3.7 trillion in market value for our community, Texas is a market leader in fostering a pro-business atmosphere,” Lynn Martin, NYSE Group president, said in a release.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (vsZHH)

210 An alternative understanding of this place and time is Paul Strand's photograph Wall Street, New York 1915. In this version there is no soaring point of view, where the anonymous individual is empathized and is trapped by this consequences of this imagination striding towards a different divine light, one the possibly harkens to that earlier place where individual identity is realized.

https://is.gd/pBcSFr

. . .
Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 12, 202

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Despite being a photograph, that has a very Edward Hopper feel to it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (J2vNu)

211 Why do I say earlier ? Because DOGE is looking at kickbacks and all sorts of funny business that they thought no one would unravel...

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (g47mK)

212 There's a pawnshop on the corner in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Posted by: Mary Poppins'

*********

Down on the corner, out in the street'
Willie and the Poor Boys are playin'

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (/iMjX)

213 Carol Rhees is a Democrat lawyer who started Hope for Children in Ethiopia a long-time USAID grant recipient.

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 10:37 AM (AOsQT

I always wanted to create a NGO to save the children from the 'people' at 'Save the Children.'

Posted by: Stateless...38% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (jvJvP)

214 smuggled quite a lot into the USSR ...
Posted by: San Franpsycho
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Go on... This is gonna be some ONT gold.
Posted by: scampydog at February 11, 2025 11:12 PM (41CYW)

My guess: Blue Jeans and cigarettes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 11:13 PM (bss/y)
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And cash and prayerbooks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2025 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

215 Just read "Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong." in Politico!

Has Politico thrown in the towel and ratted out the Biden administration for statistical malfeasance!

Um,no. You see, they have helpfully explained that the stats as defined don't really show how an average American family feels about the impact of inflation or unemployment! That's why it felt like Biden was cooking the stats! No way it was because he actually was... oh, no!

Pretty slick work, Politico!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at February 12, 2025 10:41 AM (dJOZw)

216 Cleaned about 1 1/2' Global warming off driveway, hopefully traffic will be light this afternoon

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 10:41 AM (fwDg9)

217 Since Trump's administration is either not complying or maliciously complying while tearing away everywhere else, it's not nearly as much lost time as it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)
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If I'm wrong, I will happily eat...well, not my hat, I'm fond of my hats...guess I find a crow somewhere.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:41 AM (6K6Eu)

218 Well.

Datarepublican is MUCH younger than I thought she would be. I was thinking 60s. She looks like she's 20.

https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/
1889694704213598538

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

219 My guess: Blue Jeans and cigarettes.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 11, 2025 11:13 PM (bss/y)
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And cash and prayerbooks.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at February 12, 2025 10:41 AM (RIvkX)

Hah! I click on and this is the first comment I see at the bottom of the comments.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (bss/y)

220 Saving children from Save the Children

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (fwDg9)

221 and we all know how honest and on the up-and-up those "feed Africa" charities are
Posted by: Live Aid

The dusky children look so cute in their Yankees 2024 World Series Champion shirts!

Posted by: Laundering Schemes Worldwide at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (G5+As)

222 These are nuisance suits without merit.
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:36 AM (g47mK)
*
That's no way to talk about lawyers.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at February 12, 2025

***
Word!

Posted by: Jimmy McGill & Kim Wexler at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (J2vNu)

223 > the organ is MASSIVE. what you see isn't the organ itself! it's crazy. no idea where they might move it to!

I've seen videos. It's so big there are entire maintenance workshops *inside the organ*.

I'm glad it's going to be saved. That's a national treasure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (W5ArC)

224 Are they voting on Gabbard today ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (VE6XX)

225 Those couple of knee-jerk suits came in before they realized how deep DOGE got into the system. Overall , I think the swamp is a little too quiet.

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (g47mK)

226 Down on the corner, out in the street'
Willie and the Poor Boys are playin'
Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (/iMjX)
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Got my nickel!

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:43 AM (6K6Eu)

227 I like this! It’s very similar to what I have on my Frame for when the TV is off.

Posted by: Piper at February 12, 2025 10:43 AM (QzINz)

228 I assume this has been gamed out...what happens if Trump ignores the Court(s)?

Impeachment? If the GOP owns the HoR then that's possibly a non starter, but then is an impeachment even valid for a Court decision that impinges on Presidential authority? Argument made that the Court is loathe to interfere in the internal rules of the Congress, so there's little difference here....

Contempt? Is that even possible here?

There's the joke about "how many divisions does the Court have," however that's what it is. Real world implications are things that I assume the Trump Admin have gone through the various possibilities.....

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 10:43 AM (ky8PV)

229 Might not take that long.

>>@ProfMJCleveland

>>🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge enters order clarifying that Trump Administration can proceed to cancel funding of Hotels4Gangs ©️ and use normal procedures to check for fraud. 1/

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:43 AM (LkLld)

230 The painting looks pretty dead on for that location I have seen in movies. You know, other than looking like it was smeared in meringue.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2025 10:43 AM (bss/y)

231 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

goes nowhere...

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

232 > I always wanted to create a NGO to save the children from the 'people' at 'Save the Children.'
Posted by: Stateless...38% - mental state clawing up from 10% at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (jvJvP)

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

-- CS Lewis

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:44 AM (W5ArC)

233 Down on the corner, out in the street'
Willie and the Poor Boys are playin'

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (/iMjX)

---------------

The first time I heard that song it was on The Partridge Family ... and for years afterward I thought they had written it, until of course I finally heard the CCR original.

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 12, 2025 10:44 AM (MA0mR)

234 the organ is MASSIVE. what you see isn't the organ itself! it's crazy. no idea where they might move it to!

I've seen videos. It's so big there are entire maintenance workshops *inside the organ*.

I'm glad it's going to be saved. That's a national treasure.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (W5ArC)
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Organs that big are built specific to the hall that they occupy. It will be an interesting engineering/musicological problem.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:44 AM (6K6Eu)

235 217 Since Trump's administration is either not complying or maliciously complying while tearing away everywhere else, it's not nearly as much lost time as it seems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:39 AM (GBKbO)
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If I'm wrong, I will happily eat...well, not my hat, I'm fond of my hats...guess I find a crow somewhere.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:41 AM (6K6Eu)

=======

I just keep remembering how Trump ultimately won Hawaii v Trump (Muslim Ban), Trump v Anderson (the CO primary ballot case), and Trump v the United States (presidential immunity).

And all three of those cases were Trump at much weaker positions politically. The first was in the middle of Russian collusion. The second was when it wasn't even clear if he could be on the ballot or not to many people (ie, stupid people), and the third was when Kamala was at the highest point in her presidential campaign (which was a mirage).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:44 AM (GBKbO)

236 >>The dusky children look so cute in their Yankees 2024 World Series Champion shirts!

There's a whole generation of Africans who grew up thinking the Buffalo Bills won four straight Super Bowls.

Posted by: one hour sober at February 12, 2025 10:45 AM (Y1sOo)

237 223 > the organ is MASSIVE.

You rang?

Posted by: Virgil Fox And His Heavy Organ at February 12, 2025 10:45 AM (G5+As)

238 > assume this has been gamed out...what happens if Trump ignores the Court(s)?

Nothing, until it reaches the Supreme Court.

The little yappy-dog judge in East Jackoff, Massachusetts can yap all he wants, but he's not stupid enough to actually attempt to arrest Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:45 AM (W5ArC)

239 Big Boys Don't Cry...

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (Wg6v7)

240 and we all know how honest and on the up-and-up those "feed Africa" charities are

If they were on tbe up & up, there would be NO MORE hunger.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (8NNF8)

241 231 Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)

goes nowhere...
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:44 AM (g47mK)

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Combine the two lines to one.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (GBKbO)

242
The little yappy-dog judge in East Jackoff, Massachusetts can yap all he wants, but he's not stupid enough to actually attempt to arrest Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:45 AM (W5ArC)

And what about Presidential immunity ?

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

243 Okay, Horde -

Out shoveling this morning, it occurred to me that now I am thoroughly 29, perhaps I should look into getting a snow-blower. Anybody have any recommendations for a good light to moderate duty one?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 10:17 AM (LxER7)

Not sure what brands are good these days, but you absolutely want a 2 stage snowblower. Its a must have. Single stage versions can clog pretty easy, and if you own a gun I can assure you the single stage won't be around long.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (VwHCD)

244 the organ is MASSIVE.

Wait'll they get a load of me.

Posted by: Cold, deep water with a rough bottom at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (xCA6C)

245 the organ is MASSIVE. what you see isn't the organ itself! it's crazy. no idea where they might move it to!

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tell me more

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (IOGah)

246 Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions

Thanks for this. I saw the urban canyon image but never connected it to the American West.
Posted by: Kris

Edward Hopper plays with similar tensions. The early 20th century, arguably, was a time that brought the most changes in several millenniums. The art of this time crushes capturing the poetry of all the potential, chaos, and dislocation.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (Q8Bj8)

247 The major impact of the President simply ignoring the Courts will be the diminishment of judicial power. That's a plus or minus depending on the situation, but to me the real thing is not whether Marbury is vacated but how it would evolve and the attendant consequences.

The Court won't be eager to assume an air of impotence.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (ky8PV)

248 TJM, page does not exist, dude

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

249 Head of Statue of Liberty rolls down street into painting...

Posted by: stu-mick-o-sucks at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (w9Wax)

250 And what about Presidential immunity ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)
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Particularly since everything he's doing is completely lawful.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (6K6Eu)

251 USAID: The swamp is deep. One of the activist judges blocking Trump's agenda, Judge John Bates, is married to the founder of a USAID-funded NGO. Carol Rhees is a Democrat lawyer who started Hope for Children in Ethiopia a long-time USAID grant recipient.
Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:32 AM (LkLld)
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There was a 100% probability that once someone started digging they would find a connection to USAID.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (7fElN)

252 248 TJM, page does not exist, dude
Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:47 AM (g47mK)

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I made it work by copying and pasting it from my own comment. I dunno. Just go

https://x.com/DataRepublican

and go down below her pinned tweet, I guess.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

253 Nothing, until it reaches the Supreme Court.

The little yappy-dog judge in East Jackoff, Massachusetts can yap all he wants, but he's not stupid enough to actually attempt to arrest Trump.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:45 AM (W5ArC)

Thanks. I think in the back of my mind it then goes to "ignoring SCOTUS means...what?"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 10:48 AM (ky8PV)

254 I made it work by copying and pasting it from my own comment. I dunno. Just go

https://x.com/DataRepublican

and go down below her pinned tweet, I guess.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:48 AM (GBKbO)

👍

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:48 AM (g47mK)

255 >>🚨🚨🚨BREAKING: Judge enters order clarifying that Trump Administration can proceed to cancel funding of Hotels4Gangs ©️ and use normal procedures to check for fraud. 1/

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:43 AM (LkLld)

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"To oppose this travesty, please call 877-Beds4Gangs."

Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 12, 2025 10:48 AM (MA0mR)

256 Out shoveling this morning, it occurred to me that now I am thoroughly 29, perhaps I should look into getting a snow-blower. Anybody have any recommendations for a good light to moderate duty one?

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 10:17 AM (LxER7)
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Electric snow shovel? Apparently those are a thing now...

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at February 12, 2025 10:48 AM (7fElN)

257 233 Down on the corner, out in the street'
Willie and the Poor Boys are playin'

Posted by: muldoon at February 12, 2025 10:40 AM (/iMjX)

---------------

The first time I heard that song it was on The Partridge Family ... and for years afterward I thought they had written it, until of course I finally heard the CCR original.
Posted by: ShainS -- It's A Sorry State of Affairs When It's The Judges Who Need Hanging at February 12, 2025 10:44 AM (MA0mR)

https://tinyurl.com/4bmvzs5d

A good earworm.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at February 12, 2025 10:49 AM (bss/y)

258 The major impact of the President simply ignoring the Courts will be the diminishment of judicial power. That's a plus or minus depending on the situation, but to me the real thing is not whether Marbury is vacated but how it would evolve and the attendant consequences.

The Court won't be eager to assume an air of impotence.

Agreed. As I said yesterday, the activist judges faced a dilemma: just let Trump do what he wants, but maintain their facade of omnipotence, or file a bunch of bs injunctions, and prove that they've been overstepping all along.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2025 10:49 AM (xCA6C)

259 253 Thanks. I think in the back of my mind it then goes to "ignoring SCOTUS means...what?"
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 10:48 AM (ky8PV)

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Roberts, despite his well-earned reputation as a shit heel for the ACA and 2020, is not going to open up the judiciary to an attack that would nullify Marbury.

He can either rein in the lower levels of the judiciary himself, or he can have the executive rein in the entire judiciary himself.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

260 Thanks for the very interesting and helpful commentary, Kris. I appreciate Hassan's work.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at February 12, 2025 10:49 AM (W/XdM)

261 DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell

President Trump and Elon Musk exposes the EX-USAID Chief Samantha Power who accumulate a $30 million of net worth over a matter of years with a $180k annual salary.

Posted by: SMOD at February 12, 2025 10:49 AM (GITLP)

262 We are going to end up with a 7-2 SCOTUS decision where the majority ends up saying, "Yes, the president is in charge of the executive branch."

And DU will rub Sotomayor's fire dissent all over their mounds where their genitals used to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who will join Sotomayor?

Posted by: SFGoth at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (KAi1n)

263 Very nice, ace should see it - Kristol and his ilk were sucking US A id moneys big !

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (g47mK)

264 the charity that gets me now is the Alliance of Christian and Jewish ? with their commercials to help feed starving holocaust survivors living in Russia.

How many could possibly be alive ? A dozen or so?

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (IOGah)

265
Who will join Sotomayor?
Posted by: SFGoth at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (KAi1n)

Jumanji Brown Jackson

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (VE6XX)

266 262 And DU will rub Sotomayor's fire dissent all over their mounds where their genitals used to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who will join Sotomayor?
Posted by: SFGoth at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (KAi1n)

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Kentaji.

Who will probably right a concurring dissent that's all fire and emojis.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)

267 the organ is MASSIVE.

Posted by: Black Orchid at February 12, 2025 10:20 AM (Pv3Rg)
____________

That's what she said!

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (iFTx/)

268 >
And what about Presidential immunity ?
Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:46 AM (VE6XX)

Yeah, there's that, too, but I don't think it's going to come to that.

I think the probability that the Supremes are going to side with The Dishonorable Yappy Dog is minute, and that may be overstating things.

I do hope the Supremes have the courage to make it explicitly clear that yappy-dog inferior court judges have authority ONLY over the districts under their own kangaroo courts. Not nationwide.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (W5ArC)

269 Honestly, I kind of feel bad for Kagan right now.

Her two most loyal votes are literal fucking retards.

No wonder she tries so hard with ACB.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (GBKbO)

270 Predictable of course, just interesting to see it so well charted. No hiding there!

Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (g47mK)

271 264 the charity that gets me now is the Alliance of Christian and Jewish ? with their commercials to help feed starving holocaust survivors living in Russia.
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This has to be a CIA/Manhattan outfit. Very cringe worthy ads, as well.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (Wg6v7)

272 218 Well.

Datarepublican is MUCH younger than I thought she would be. I was thinking 60s. She looks like she's 20.

https://x.com/NicoleShanahan/status/
1889694704213598538
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:42 AM (GBKbO)
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And I had no idea she was deaf.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (LPS7w)

273 DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell

I hate the "thinking outside the box" expression, but that's exactly what these guys are doing. It's like nothing DC has ever seen before. It's a brilliant attack vector on those who are the problem.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (xCA6C)

274 268 I do hope the Supremes have the courage to make it explicitly clear that yappy-dog inferior court judges have authority ONLY over the districts under their own kangaroo courts. Not nationwide.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (W5ArC)

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They have to rein in the lower courts, or they risk invalidating Marbury completely by Trump just ignoring obviously bullshit lower court stuff.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:52 AM (GBKbO)

275 Federal activity falls into one of three categories:

1. Fraud
2. Waste
3. Abuse

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2025 10:52 AM (D2ajs)

276 BREAKING: Judge enters order clarifying that Trump Administration can proceed to cancel funding of Hotels4Gangs ©️ and use normal procedures to check for fraud. 1/
Posted by: JackStraw

Jack, do you have a link?

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:52 AM (8NNF8)

277 Despite being a photograph, that has a very Edward Hopper feel to it.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius

Oh yes it does. Strand at that time and Hopper later where understanding the changes the 20th century brought in similar ways. This Strand photograph is profoundly significant as it take photography from being used as a cheap way to recrate 19th painting sensibilities and instantly puts this medium on par with painting.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 12, 2025 10:52 AM (Q8Bj8)

278 Roberts, despite his well-earned reputation as a shit heel for the ACA and 2020, is not going to open up the judiciary to an attack that would nullify Marbury.

He can either rein in the lower levels of the judiciary himself, or he can have the executive rein in the entire judiciary himself.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:49 AM (GBKbO)

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Worst case though...all possibilities should be gamed out. In the abstract, what remedy exists from the Court's perspective if their pronouncement isn't followed?

It's not fifth dimensional chess or anything, but it gets dicey if a plan depends on a specific action by a specific actor and mindful that said actor is gaming things out on his side too.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 10:52 AM (ky8PV)

279 Datarepublican interview also on yt: https://youtu.be/GBHGEgAsvtE

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at February 12, 2025 10:53 AM (LPS7w)

280 > One of the activist judges blocking Trump's agenda, Judge John Bates

If I lived in that district I'd be constantly in the jug for contempt.

There's no way I could hear "Master Bates" without breaking into gales of hysterical laughter.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at February 12, 2025 10:53 AM (W5ArC)

281 262 We are going to end up with a 7-2 SCOTUS decision where the majority ends up saying, "Yes, the president is in charge of the executive branch."

And DU will rub Sotomayor's fire dissent all over their mounds where their genitals used to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who will join Sotomayor?
Posted by: SFGoth at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (KAi1n)

The DEI choice who doesn't know what a woman is...

Posted by: Nova Local at February 12, 2025 10:53 AM (exHjb)

282 278 Worst case though...all possibilities should be gamed out. In the abstract, what remedy exists from the Court's perspective if their pronouncement isn't followed?

It's not fifth dimensional chess or anything, but it gets dicey if a plan depends on a specific action by a specific actor and mindful that said actor is gaming things out on his side too.
Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 10:52 AM (ky8PV)

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Then we get back to what America was before Marbury:

The three branches arguing over what's constitutional instead of deferring to the judicial.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

283 Out of view, a few blocks east of the painting, young Slip Mahoney and the rest of the Bowery Boys are swimming in the East River.

Posted by: Urchins, All at February 12, 2025 10:53 AM (G5+As)

284 DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell

Crap. I read that as investigating judges.

Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:54 AM (8NNF8)

285 >>Jack, do you have a link?

Margot Cleveland put a link the Court Listener site where the decision was posted.

https://tinyurl.com/bdcn7n7u

Posted by: JackStraw at February 12, 2025 10:54 AM (LkLld)

286 Nice picture, would hang.

Posted by: Crusader at February 12, 2025 10:54 AM (TN0g+)

287
Crap. I read that as investigating judges.
Posted by: rickb223 at February 12, 2025 10:54 AM (8NNF

Oh I imagine that will be happening too.. Especially Merchan and his Daughter

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:55 AM (VE6XX)

288 Carol Rhees

I am a retired lawyer, professor and teacher, as well as the founder and executive director of a small nonprofit that works in Ethiopia.

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which is odd, because the NGO's website says it was created by street urchins in Ethiopia, grass roots-style

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 10:55 AM (AOsQT)

289 There's probably pressure within the judicial community to make these go away because of the potential blowback, like the immunity case against Trump not doing anything but reaffirming presidential immunity.
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I'd suggest is expanded presidential immunity.
It affirmed that he is immune civilly in all cases no matter what.
And immune criminally in core/essential functions--which are not subject to judicial review, they specifically said.
And the requirement of a full evidentiary hearing if there is a question basically said that "and yeah, everything he does is core/essential."
Which is why, after the decisions, all the judges just hand-waved past that part--knowing damned good and well what the Court really meant.

Note well: All the current judges are again hand-waiving past the mandatory full evidentiary hearing on whether the judiciary is attempting to review core/essential functions of the Executive.

Note also: the big justification of the CO disqualification, the 9-0 part was "we're not going to make a rule where we have to keep dealing with this stupid shit every election."

The left is going to lose these injunctions 9-0 and expand the unitary Executive.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2025 10:55 AM (2k0oQ)

290 Kentaji.

Who will probably right a concurring dissent that's all fire and emojis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Mostly emojis.

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 12, 2025 10:56 AM (Q8Bj8)

291 All I can say is this has made the Dems look more insane than usual.. I don't think their antics with the street "protests" saying fuck Trump are a hit with the "folks."

Posted by: It's me donna at February 12, 2025 10:57 AM (VE6XX)

292 Out of view, a few blocks east of the painting, young Slip Mahoney and the rest of the Bowery Boys are swimming in the East River.
Posted by: Urchins

For the Win!

Posted by: Altaria Pilgram - My President has convictions at February 12, 2025 10:57 AM (Q8Bj8)

293 And DU will rub Sotomayor's fire dissent all over their mounds where their genitals used to be.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Who will join Sotomayor?
Posted by: SFGoth at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (KAi1n)

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Kentaji.

Who will probably right a concurring dissent that's all fire and emojis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:50 AM (GBKbO)
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7-2 is optimistic, IMO. I think we'll be lucky to get 5 on our side. The problem isn't that the president isn't in charge of the executive. He is.

The problem is the current "executive branch" is an unholy smegma cocktail containing a rat's nest of quasi-legislative and quasi-judicial functions that not only aren't really "executive" functions, they're fucking at odds with the executive branch.

I think there could be 4-5 judges who look at this mess and say "meh, leave it alone."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 12, 2025 10:57 AM (iFTx/)

294 289 The left is going to lose these injunctions 9-0 and expand the unitary Executive.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2025 10:55 AM (2k0oQ)

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By summer at the latest.

However, I doubt 9-0. I think 7-2. Yes, all 9 agreed on CO, but this is the lifeblood of the left and the two dumbest members are most open to influence from fire trends on Twitter.

Essentially, I don't overestimate them.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:57 AM (GBKbO)

295 DOGE Investigating Feds Whose Net Worths Have Exploded After Samantha Power Bombshell

I hate the "thinking outside the box" expression, but that's exactly what these guys are doing. It's like nothing DC has ever seen before. It's a brilliant attack vector on those who are the problem.
Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2025 10:51 AM (xCA6C)

I wonder if they will find much that is actionable? The congress critters are pretty good at covering their asses.

Posted by: Diogenes at February 12, 2025 10:57 AM (W/lyH)

296 Then we get back to what America was before Marbury:

The three branches arguing over what's constitutional instead of deferring to the judicial.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:53 AM (GBKbO)

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Things get complicated bc of the timeframe of Marbury. The parties here were contemporaries of the Revolution and the Constitution. They weren't one generation removed, and presumably their interpretations would be pretty important for context. Point being that there's an argument that SCOTUS wasn't a rogue court here and that has to be addressed.

I'm being somewhat a devil's advocate, so hence the thought train. It's one thing to say "burn the fucker down" but another to game out the consequences.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 10:58 AM (ky8PV)

297 I just realized the painting has a beam of light coming right out of the front door of JP Morgan's old building, presumably as Morgan himself comes out and crosses the street to stop a stock panic.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2025 10:58 AM (oRa5r)

298 Yes, I think it can be easily done - just take everything out to ... Highway SIXTY-one ... (so saith Mr Robert 'Bob' Dylan)

Posted by: Dr_No at February 12, 2025 10:59 AM (ayRl+)

299 @241/TheJamesMadison: "Combine the two lines to one."

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Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 10:59 AM (O7YUW)

300 293 I think there could be 4-5 judges who look at this mess and say "meh, leave it alone."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at February 12, 2025 10:57 AM (iFTx/)

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Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, and Kavanaugh will be really eager and energetic about killing it.

Roberts has shown over the past couple of years that he's sick of the left's shit, especially in playing the judiciary whenever they don't get what they want politically. (Muslim ban, immunity, and CO primary ballot)

The caselaw is so solid that even Kagan will agree, and ACB will follow her bestie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 10:59 AM (GBKbO)

301 Kentaji.

Who will probably right a concurring dissent that's all fire and emojis.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

You got Kagan in the majority? I wonder what animates her. She does seem to take her job seriously, even if most here mostly disagree with her votes.

Posted by: SFGoth at February 12, 2025 10:59 AM (KAi1n)

302 Yes, I think it can be easily done - just take everything out to ... Highway SIXTY-one ... (so saith Mr Robert 'Bob' Dylan)
Posted by: Dr_No at February 12, 2025 10:59 AM (ayRl+)
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Unless the old man is down the road.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at February 12, 2025 11:00 AM (6K6Eu)

303 All I can say is this has made the Dems look more insane than usual.. I don't think their antics with the street "protests" saying f*** Trump are a hit with the "folks."

That makes a yuge difference. It is said that the legitimacy of SCOTUS is Robert's biggest concern and what he wants to leave as his legacy. If that's true, then dismissing the concerns of the voters in favor of a few rogue, obviously political, judges is the last thing he wants to do.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2025 11:00 AM (xCA6C)

304 @charliekirk11
🚨BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms that Ukraine will NOT be invited into NATO and that there will be no US troops in Ukraine as part of any negotiated settlement.

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 11:00 AM (AOsQT)

305 301 You got Kagan in the majority? I wonder what animates her. She does seem to take her job seriously, even if most here mostly disagree with her votes.
Posted by: SFGoth at February 12, 2025 10:59 AM (KAi1n)

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I think she's an honest judicial leftist.

And the idea that the executive is not in charge of the executive branch is too stupid for someone like her to believe.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching B-movies with Roger Corman at February 12, 2025 11:00 AM (GBKbO)

306 MONKEY TIME

Posted by: Skip at February 12, 2025 11:00 AM (fwDg9)

307 .
NOOD

Wednesday Morning Rant

NOOD!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at February 12, 2025 11:01 AM (O7YUW)

308 Oh look. A mugging.

Posted by: It's Not Rediculous at February 12, 2025 11:01 AM (0Gnoc)

309 I liked the suggestion yesterday that Trump can order his direct hires to proceed and violate the judge's orders.

And include a pre-emptive pardon for any contempt or crime.

A nice, FU and what are you gonna do about it now?

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at February 12, 2025 11:01 AM (2k0oQ)

310 If that's true, then dismissing the concerns of the voters in favor of a few rogue, obviously political, judges is the last thing he wants to do.
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He's done it before.

Posted by: Pudinhead at February 12, 2025 11:01 AM (Wg6v7)

311 @ 302 Yes, I think it can be easily done - just take everything out to ... Highway SIXTY-one ... (so saith Mr Robert 'Bob' Dylan)
Posted by: Dr_No at February 12, 2025 10:59 AM (ayRl+)
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Unless the old man is down the road.
________________________________

The Old Man was told he got to 'run thru the jungle' ...

Posted by: Dr_No at February 12, 2025 11:01 AM (ayRl+)

312 Also note something....

This system is resulting in a bunch of people counting specific votes in the SCOTUS for something like we're following Conclave or something.

That should be bothersome regardless of the facts here.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at February 12, 2025 11:01 AM (ky8PV)

313 If you can dance around what is a female you can make up any Leftists clap trap

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Posted by: runner at February 12, 2025 11:02 AM (g47mK)

315 I wonder if they will find much that is actionable? The congress critters are pretty good at covering their asses.

I doubt they'll get to actual congress members; there are too many potential issues with division of power. However, they might at least shine a light on them.

I don't doubt, though, that they'll go after people like Power, who are legitimately in the executive branch.

Posted by: Archimedes at February 12, 2025 11:03 AM (xCA6C)

316 What was the Samantha Power bombshell? Sounds like I missed something important.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at February 12, 2025 11:03 AM (yRbrH)

317 Brown-Jackson is perhaps the dumbest justice ever to be placed on SCOTUS. But she’s not there for intellect, she was put there to be an ideologue who opposes factual conclusions steeped in law and constitution for the fallacies and “religion” of liberals.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 12, 2025 11:03 AM (Y45pj)

318 I'd rather be standing on a corner in Winslow, Arizona.
Posted by: But that's just me at February 12, 2025 10:06 AM (dg+HA)

Works for me, too. This painting does not grab me at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2025 11:04 AM (8zz6B)

319 Glad to see you on this thread, Kris. As usual, you have superb taste and provide wonderful descriptions and clear explanations.

I like the color and movement of the painting a lot and would hang it. Thank you.

Prayers for your health continue, too.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at February 12, 2025 11:05 AM (NFX2v)

320 > she was put there to be an ideologue who opposes factual conclusions steeped in law and constitution for the fallacies and “religion” of liberals.
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she was put there because she is a Negro and has a uterus

Obama- via Biden- said as much

Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 11:07 AM (AOsQT)

321 And the fact that ACB has completely abandoned the constitution for her SJW views is dangerous to a future of liberty. For example, she voted for Bruen but now has been a force with liberals and Roberts in keeping every follow up case away from the docket. Some say perhaps for the better, since she would probably vote against the Second Amendment.

Posted by: Vengeance at February 12, 2025 11:07 AM (Y45pj)

322
It's a girl, my Lord
In a flatbed Ford...

Posted by: Such a fine sight to see at February 12, 2025 11:08 AM (dg+HA)

323 🚨BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth confirms that Ukraine will NOT be invited into NATO and that there will be no US troops in Ukraine as part of any negotiated settlement.
Posted by: Don Black at February 12, 2025 11:00 AM (AOsQT)

This is good to hear. I was pretty sure they would try to give Russia land and Ukraine nato as I wonder what could get Ukraine to back down at all, but hearing this is definitely good news.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2025 11:10 AM (D2ajs)

324 Out shoveling this morning, it occurred to me that now I am thoroughly 29, perhaps I should look into getting a snow-blower. Anybody have any recommendations for a good light to moderate duty one?
Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at February 12, 2025 10:17 AM (LxER7)

About 20 years ago, I bought a new 27" Husqvarna snow blower, and it still works fine. Has a Briggs and Stratton engine with 120 volt AC electric start. Set the choke, hit the primer bulb a few times, and press the starter button, and it fires every time. Has never let me down. Replaced drive belts once, and auger shear pins a few times. The AC start is great. No battery to keep charged in the cold. Just make sure to store it near a power outlet.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at February 12, 2025 11:14 AM (8zz6B)

325 I never liked Amy Bony Carrot (or as I also like to call her, Amy Comey Jarrett). I thought it was funny when we were memeing her but she rubbed me the wrong way from jump. We get these goo goo eyes for people that say ONE thing that sounds good to us. Fuck.

Posted by: ... at February 12, 2025 11:14 AM (D2ajs)

326 How America's biggest names are working behind the scenes in WhatsApp groups to plot Kanye's demise

https://mol.im/a/14387953

Posted by: Ciampino - They are all nuts at February 12, 2025 11:30 AM (KjLnc)

327 Broke an egg making breakfast this morning. My insurance company said an adjuster will be out tomorrow.

Posted by: Ciampino - The yolk is good at February 12, 2025 11:34 AM (KjLnc)

328 Tulsi has been confirmed. No thanks to McConnell.

Posted by: Ripley at February 12, 2025 11:54 AM (GUOwU)

329 Childe Hassam is an underrated American painter. His "Allies Day, May 1917" is similar to this painting-showing a busy day in May showing Fifth Avenue in NYC all decked out in British, French, and American flags. Hassam loved America and it shows in his art.

Posted by: SmeadLaxCoach at February 12, 2025 03:17 PM (zgOxR)

330 i see clouds.

Posted by: cmeat at February 12, 2025 03:41 PM (6+aIJ)

331 Look at all the Lonely People. Where do they all come from?

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at February 12, 2025 05:24 PM (wGqjj)

332 Attached is a Google Earth URL that will get you close to the eye point view of the artist. Unfortunately, if Google Earth has the ability to change the Field-of-View at that eye point, I haven't found it.
I just found out that Google's Earth URL is banned from your acceptable link, so I has to delete the URL.

Posted by: john at February 12, 2025 07:30 PM (nEWxZ)

333 Beautiful

Posted by: cdf_slay at February 13, 2025 12:22 AM (LjDBn)

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