The Morning Rant: Minimalist Edition

It is a very interesting Constitutional question; what are the limits of federal control over state behavior. And as much as I want the sanctuary states (and cities) to be crushed by the federal leviathan, if the boot were on the other foot, for instance a state's refusal to abide by the NFA, I would be cheering the states on!

Lawsuits Targeting Sanctuary Policies Test Balance of Federal, State Power

President Donald Trump's administration has sued multiple states and localities for allegedly violating the Constitution by hindering federal immigration enforcement.
These areas, known as sanctuary jurisdictions, have policies or practices that prohibit cooperation with federal authorities in enforcing immigration laws. Trump has ordered the federal government to prepare for defunding these places, but hit a block after multiple jurisdictions filed lawsuits.
According to the Trump administration, the policies violate federal law and the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution, which essentially says that states and localities must abide by federal law. States counter that the federal government can't commandeer or force them to use their resources.

Those are both rational points, and they compete only partially. But the real question is: Are the states entitled to federal law enforcement funds if they refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement, and are they entitled to federal education funds if they continue to teach CRT, allow transsexuals to compete in girl's sports, and allow them in girl's locker rooms and bathrooms?

Because that is the club with which the federal government can beat California and the other blue states (currently in insurrection!).

I look forward to watching California increase its tax rates by 50% to replace lost federal dollars. Then Governor Hair Gel can look presidential by standing up to the ORANGE MAN BAD! And he can run in 2028 on that platform. "I destroyed California's economy to protect rapist wetbacks!"

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Posted by: CBD at 11:00 AM

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1 Newsom: cup your hands California I have to pee!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (VLqFi)

2 st?

Posted by: Crusader at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (TN0g+)

3 Thx CBD
Willowed: NY appellate court throws out verdict in civil case against Trump. Calls it excessive. More to come

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (ugJf8)

4 Drat! Read the content--a rookie mistake!

Posted by: Crusader at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (TN0g+)

5 Not 1st.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)

6 The answer is: “It depends.”

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at August 21, 2025 11:03 AM (rHgXV)

7 Nord stream saboteur (suspected) arrested. A Ukrainian. *My shocked face*.

Posted by: LASue at August 21, 2025 11:04 AM (lCppi)

8 Interesting question

wait for the whig-lessons or go wrestle sump pump failed soaked cardboard into the garbage truck when he gets here?

Posted by: DaveA at August 21, 2025 11:04 AM (FhXTo)

9 I see Newscum invited members of his "nonpartisan redistricting commission" to his rally on how to more gerrymander CA.

Now, the irony is the blue states are already heavily gerrymandered so if the rest of the red states follow Texas's lead we could be back to having a more normal distribution of house seats.

But the question is are they?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:05 AM (sKqQm)

10 But the real question is: Are the states entitled to federal law enforcement funds if they refuse to cooperate with federal law enforcement, and are they entitled to federal education funds if they continue to teach CRT, allow transsexuals to compete in girl's sports, and allow them in girl's locker rooms and bathrooms?

No doubt the answer to this question depends on the wording of the funding bill. If the law says that Cali shall be given a brazilian dollars then they're gonna get the money. If, as is more likely, the law says that the Secretary may award money to Cali - on the assumption that it's pretty much a rubber stamp - then it can be held back.

OTOH, states aren't just not cooperating, they've actively hindering the enforcement of federal law. The answer to that is either to declare them to be in rebellion or just start arresting Governors.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

11 Good points as always CBD.

The feds can’t force the states to use their own resources… but they have no right to federal funds and these days that’s a giant lever.

Red states would do well to wean themselves off the federal teat in anticipation of a future day when (forbid) the Fed guv is controlled by a lefty lunatic

Meanwhile I’ll applaud the Trump admin draining funds from CA NY IL etc

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (Dywz5)

12 Vlad just bombed a US business in Ukraine. Trump needs to remind Putin who is boss...

Posted by: Diabeetus at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (C278+)

13 When the Democrats regain the levers of power will they force red states to abide the transgender code of conduct in the workplace and schools or lose federal funds?

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)

14 NY appellate court throws out verdict in civil case against Trump.

Is this the 'rape' case or the 'mortgage fraud' case?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (ExV1e)

15 I would say that if local/state law enforcement doesn't want to cooperate with ICE, that's one thing. Fine, don't participate, sit it out.

But it's quite another thing for them to actually hinder ICE. That's where I think the Feds could hammer them.

But, I'm just a lowly paralegal. Not an attorney.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:07 AM (77rzZ)

16 Well the NFA is a violation of the 2nd amendment so...

Posted by: Erebus- Ex Killer Whale at August 21, 2025 11:07 AM (oWCdy)

17 OTOH, states aren't just not cooperating, they've actively hindering the enforcement of federal law. The answer to that is either to declare them to be in rebellion or just start arresting Governors.

What would FDR have done if the civil authorities in Alaska started helping the "undocumented immigrants" from Japan in 1942? That's what Trump should do to governors assisting the current southern invasion...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:07 AM (sKqQm)

18 Arizona tried to enforce immigration laws. Bunch of judges said nah you can’t do that, immigration is a federal thing. States can’t make their own immigration policies

I’m sure those same judges will figure out a way to say California can’t do what they said Arizona could not do. Because judges simply make shit up as they go along. And because OrangeManBad of course.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 21, 2025 11:07 AM (4HxCT)

19 AG Brian Schwalb@DCAttorneyGen
We are suing to block the federal government takeover of DC police.
By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law.
This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.

-
We want our rapes, murders, robberies, and car jackings, damn it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

20 @14 mortgage fraud. Trying to find decision, it was a quick blurb on Varney. The rape case was done in federal court

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (ugJf8)

21 12 Vlad just bombed a US business in Ukraine. Trump needs to remind Putin who is boss...
Posted by: Diabeetus at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (C278+)

You forgot the "According to Ukrainian sources."

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

22 Why in the hell would a US business still be in Ukraine at this point?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

23 States that actually tried to enforce immigration law during the dark Obama years were slapped down and told.only the Feds get to enforce immigration law. So F the sanctuary states right in the ear.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (WvZaB)

24 California CAN do.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (4HxCT)

25 I don't think it has to be a broad question. It's situational. Without any doubt whatsoever the Federal Government has absolute control over immigration. It just does. Federal enforcement actions centered around that arena are valid, even over the objections of the relevant states.

When it comes to internal issues however, esp 2A (as you mention) or 10A etc issues, state disobedience is understandable if not reasonable.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (PzXaK)

26 What do the citizens in those states want? If only there was some way to figure that out. It would have to be pretty big though.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:09 AM (PTRhX)

27 This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.

The last I looked DC was not a State but was under the Federal Government.. Am I wrong ?

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:09 AM (VE6XX)

28 Vlad just bombed a US business in Ukraine. Trump needs to remind Putin who is boss...

I remember when members of the Iranian military assassinated six US soldiers in Iraq. Shrub and Obama did nothing. Trump had the guy behind it assassinated and the FNM told me that was a war crime.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:09 AM (sKqQm)

29 Is this the 'rape' case or the 'mortgage fraud' case?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Mortgage fraud isn't a real crime.

NBC News@NBCNews
In recent weeks, the Trump administration has targeted Democratic officials over allegations of mortgage fraud, a new front in an effort to undermine critics.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:10 AM (L/fGl)

30 Oh pissboy!

Posted by: Gavin Newsom at August 21, 2025 11:10 AM (jc0TO)

31 11, 13 — Martini Farmer, you anticipated my fear for the future. Some lefty gets into the WH in the future and tries to dictate to red states…

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 11:10 AM (Dywz5)

32 Willowed:

Ms. Sweeney, since she's not a regular Commenter, and therefore not bound by the no-math rule, will calculate ((Commenter age / 2.0) + 7) * tan(45 degrees), and rule most of you disqualified.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at August 21, 2025 11:11 AM (0sNs1)

33 MONKEY!

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 21, 2025 11:11 AM (N1tpc)

34 Regarding immigration- it seems a fait accompli- didn’t Jan Brewer/Arizona test this a few years ago trying to actually (ironically) enforce federal immigration law, only to be slapped down by SCOTUS via supremacy and prosecutorial discretion (fed gov “occupies the field”

?Ed is even less complicated- you either accept the strings attached, or you don’t .

Posted by: Farmer Bob at August 21, 2025 11:11 AM (hlNLQ)

35 abide the transgender code of conduct
——-

1. “I will never forget, I am a chick with a dick, wearing a dress. I will accept neither parole nor special favors from the enemy.”

Posted by: Common Tater at August 21, 2025 11:11 AM (Fbq7X)

36 Vlad just bombed a US business in Ukraine. Trump needs to remind Putin who is boss...
Posted by: Diabeetus at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (C278+)

I won't send my son to die for a Vindman/Biden business venture. This problem sounds very European to me.

Posted by: RODNEY at August 21, 2025 11:11 AM (aExPs)

37 Shut up, Wesley.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 11:12 AM (WvZaB)

38 Because judges simply make shit up as they go along. And because OrangeManBad of course.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 21, 2025 11:07 AM

You say both of those things like they're bad things.

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge #7 at August 21, 2025 11:12 AM (0sNs1)

39 The oddest thing about the Uke war is the Russians could destroy Kiev at any point they want to and yet...

Hell, the Uke elites have concerts and massive parties in Kiev so they are convinced Vlad won't...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:13 AM (sKqQm)

40 I won't send my son to die for a Vindman/Biden business venture. This problem sounds very European to me.
Posted by: RODNEY

You're saying the survival of Vindman's All-You-Can-Eat Bearclaw House IS NOT the hill to die on????

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:13 AM (77rzZ)

41 Vlad just bombed a US business in Ukraine. Trump needs to remind Putin who is boss...
Posted by: Diabeetus at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (C278+)

You forgot the "According to Ukrainian sources."
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (VE6XX)

Ukes bombed a pipeline supplying Hungary with oil/gas. Hungary is a member of NATO.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:13 AM (g47mK)

42
Ukes bombed a pipeline supplying Hungary with oil/gas. Hungary is a member of NATO.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:13 AM (g47mK

Oopsie...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:14 AM (VE6XX)

43 And the Biden junta blew up a pipeline supplying Germany with natural gas...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (sKqQm)

44 Hungary is a member of NATO.
Posted by: runner

Suggested edit: "Hungary is the only member of NATO that's worth a damn."

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

45 There should be very little to no federal money flowing to the states for any reason.

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (P7Iz+)

46 13
‘ When the Democrats regain the levers of power will they force red states to abide the transgender code of conduct in the workplace and schools or lose federal funds?’

Wasn’t this stated Obama policy?

Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)

47 Suggested edit: "Hungary is the only member of NATO that's worth a damn."
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

Edit accepted.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)

48 There should be very little to no federal money flowing to the states for any reason.
Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz

Agreed.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

49 So Gov. Greaseball got the okay from the Ca. supreme court to go ahead and gerrymander.....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (VE6XX)

50 Why in the hell would a US business still be in Ukraine at this point?

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (77rzZ)

i. e. One of my bioweapon labs!!!

Posted by: Dr Fauci-Mengele at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (0eaVi)

51 You're saying the survival of Vindman's All-You-Can-Eat Bearclaw House IS NOT the hill to die on????

The bakery is just a front for the Biden Crack/Whorehouse in the rear.

Posted by: RODNEY at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (aExPs)

52 46 13
‘ When the Democrats regain the levers of power will they force red states to abide the transgender code of conduct in the workplace and schools or lose federal funds?’

Wasn’t this stated Obama policy?
Posted by: Dr. Claw at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (jbnUc)

======

Yeah, all of this bleating of, "Wait until Democrats are back in power" amount to: "Democrats have already been using this power for years."

It's no excuse not to use the power now for our own ends.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (GBKbO)

53 What do the citizens in those states want? If only there was some way to figure that out. It would have to be pretty big though.
Posted by: ...

Harry Sisson is here to help you out.

Harry Sisson@harryjsisson
I speak for every American when I say that we would be far better off if Gavin Newsom was in office. Even many MAGA fans are starting to agree!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

54 AG Brian Schwalb@DCAttorneyGen
We are suing to block the federal government takeover of DC police.
By illegally declaring a takeover of MPD, the Administration is abusing its temporary, limited authority under the law.
This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.

-
We want our rapes, murders, robberies, and car jackings, damn it!

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:07 AM (L/fGl)

Actual Brian Schwalb: Just because we've failed miserably at doing the job we are elected and paid to do doesn't mean that someone else should come in and take care of it, especially so easily. It's just so embarrassing!!

Posted by: LASue at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (lCppi)

55 So Gov. Greaseball got the okay from the Ca. supreme court to go ahead and gerrymander.....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (VE6XX)

Shock.

Posted by: LASue at August 21, 2025 11:18 AM (lCppi)

56 Harry Sisson@harryjsisson
I speak for every American when I say that we would be far better off if Gavin Newsom was in office. Even many MAGA fans are starting to agree!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

Lol.

We agree because it's hilarious.

"Oh, is that you pointing a roman candle at your own clackerbag then? Oh, what? No, nothing, carry on, good sir."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 11:18 AM (VoAdT)

57 Putin blew up the Ukrainian Child Brides And Modeling Agency and people are complaining?

Posted by: Moar, Pleez! at August 21, 2025 11:19 AM (G5+As)

58 Hey, Schwalbers, Home Rule is via a relatively recent Act of Congress. Congress can take it away, if sufficiently motivated.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 21, 2025 11:19 AM (WvZaB)

59 Vlad just bombed a US business in Ukraine. Trump needs to remind Putin who is boss...
Posted by: Diabeetus at August 21, 2025 11:06 AM (C278+)

That's big. I remember, back during WW2, when the US caught hell for bombing a Mexican business in Germany.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 11:19 AM (ExV1e)

60 An obvious first step is to cut off Federal highway money to any state that issues driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Fun fact: driver's licenses for illegal aliens was on the ballot in Oregon in 2014. It was voted down 2-1.

The Oregon legislature legalized driver's licenses for illegal aliens in 2019 anyway.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:19 AM (xTIDn)

61
The Oregon legislature legalized driver's licenses for illegal aliens in 2019 anyway.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:19 AM (xTIDn)

CA, voted no for gay marriage and they just went ahead anyway.. And this was before the supreme court ruling...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:20 AM (VE6XX)

62 This gets back to the idea of: can we coexist with these people. The entire point of letting each state do it's own thing was the idea that since movement was free between the states, each state would be evaluated and each would be a lab for what it wanted to do. If that worked either people would move to that state or another state would take up the same, successful policy (probably what the founders intended.)

Instead, we have this nightmare scenario where California imposes it's will on the rest of the country through environmental regulations or health codes regarding ingredients and due to the nature of the market being all one thing gets imposed on everyone. Whether it is successful or not. This is tyranny of the majority in the worst sense.

Also, OT, but to answer a question last thread: the addition of Country Fried Steak to Logan's Run would have made that society far less dystopian.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (bss/y)

63 That's big. I remember, back during WW2, when the US caught hell for bombing a Mexican business in Germany.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 11:19 AM

Do you have any idea how hard it was to come up with a good food truck in the middle of WW II?

Posted by: Obi Juan Sonobi at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (0sNs1)

64 th

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (ycs3a)

65 Also, OT, but to answer a question last thread: the addition of Country Fried Steak to Logan's Run would have made that society far less dystopian.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (bss/y)

Logan's Walk.

Followed by Logan's Nap.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (VoAdT)

66 64 th
Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (ycs3a)

The apex of filler. Lol.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (bss/y)

67 Logan's Walk.

Followed by Logan's Nap.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 11:21 AM (VoAdT)

Damn straight.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:22 AM (bss/y)

68 Thang Q

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 21, 2025 11:22 AM (ycs3a)

69 That's big. I remember, back during WW2, when the US caught hell for bombing a Mexican business in Germany.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Mexico declared war on Germany in May 1942, so I guess it was before then?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

70 Hell, the Uke elites have concerts and massive parties in Kiev so they are convinced Vlad won't...

A MURDEROUS GENOCIDAL TERROR ATTACK BY THE RUSSIANS HIT DOZENS OF TARGETS ACROSS KEEEEV LAST NIGHT!

THREE DEAD.

Posted by: The Usual Headline! at August 21, 2025 11:23 AM (xTIDn)

71 Lol.

We agree because it's hilarious.

"Oh, is that you pointing a roman candle at your own clackerbag then? Oh, what? No, nothing, carry on, good sir."

Posted by: Warai-otoko
===

I'm going to have to start using "clackerbag" more in my everyday speech.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:23 AM (17s+e)

72 Do you have any idea how hard it was to come up with a good food truck in the middle of WW II?
Posted by: Obi Juan Sonobi

That fact really hampered German chemical-weapons production.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:24 AM (77rzZ)

73 @65 Logan's Nap interrupted by Logan's getting up to go to the bathroom

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:24 AM (ugJf8)

74 I got the live-action "How to Train Your Dragon." Haven't watched it yet. Trying to decide between that and "How to Train Your Bitch," by Chris Brown and Phil Spector with a forward by Amber Heard.

How to Train Your Dragon >>>

There's also the new "How to Train Your Faggot," by Travis Kelce and Obama. But The Blade ain't into that homo shit. Maybe someone else here is.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:24 AM (iFTx/)

75 ‘ When the Democrats regain the levers of power will they force red states to abide the transgender code of conduct in the workplace and schools or lose federal funds?’

When the Democrats previously held power, did they force businesses to require their employees to get the shot under the flimsiest of excuses? Has the fedgov previously withheld highway funds to force states to enact specific age requirements to purchase alcohol?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 11:24 AM (ExV1e)

76 69 That's big. I remember, back during WW2, when the US caught hell for bombing a Mexican business in Germany.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Mexico declared war on Germany in May 1942, so I guess it was before then?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

Think about that: a Mexican Business in Nazi Germany.

I think he is making a joke, Bulgar.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:24 AM (bss/y)

77 Suggested edit: "Hungary is the only member of NATO that's worth a damn."
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:15 AM (77rzZ)

what about poland? i thought they were pretty good as well...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (nXhwP)

78 Logan's Walk.

Followed by Logan's Nap.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Logan's Fweeeep.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (mlg/3)

79 One thing is for sure: the Dem party is now controlled by complete lunatics and you can’t compromise with a lunatic. Saw an old interview with Margaret Thatcher recently where she made the (I think) brilliant point that most of her political opponents in the Labour Party at that time (actual politicians in office) were moderate reasonable people in private but the party as a whole was unreasonable and not reflective of the electorate at large because it was controlled by a small determined active minority… the broad swath of the British public just wanted to be left alone and therefore they got socialism in Britain

Could happen here

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (Dywz5)

80 Trumps $500M judgement tossed!

Tish has to be screaming into her pillow.

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (G0vdT)

81 Does Bed Bath and Beyond sell hair gel?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (0JzSR)

82 The NY Post headline has the Trump decision. Of course the writing , like most legal writing in newspapers , is crap. Nothing about the full verdict

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (ugJf8)

83 Logan's Matlock Marathon

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:26 AM (77rzZ)

84 I'm going to have to start using "clackerbag" more in my everyday speech.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:23 AM (17s+e)

***

Also acceptable...
Click Clack Sack

Posted by: Life of Wryly at August 21, 2025 11:26 AM (ycs3a)

85 Do you have any idea how hard it was to come up with a good food truck in the middle of WW II?
Posted by: Obi Juan Sonobi

It made the siege of Leningrad bearable when the Germans let the Taco Truck through (they knew the potential diarrhea would aid their cause.)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:26 AM (bss/y)

86 82 The NY Post headline has the Trump decision. Of course the writing , like most legal writing in newspapers , is crap. Nothing about the full verdict
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (ugJf

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WSJ says "tossed"

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 11:26 AM (G0vdT)

87 what about poland? i thought they were pretty good as well...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler

Well, they had that wobbly WEF douchebag in power for awhile. Is he still there?

Orban is da man.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

88 Even many MAGA fans are starting to agree!
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Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:16 AM (L/fGl)

Don't you love how after 10 years of lecturing about Muh Precious Normz, they all want to be Trump.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (PTRhX)

89 Mexico declared war on Germany in May 1942, so I guess it was before then?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

I mean, it was a fictitious event made to make a point but, sure, the bombing was 2 weeks before that.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (ExV1e)

90 Stock Market News: Used Galvanized Bucket Futures are down the drain this quarter as the Cracker Barrel revamp limps along. Too many hitting the market at once. Wringer values on similar precipitous free fall.

Posted by: The Daily Tick at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (G5+As)

91 "Oh, is that you pointing a roman candle at your own clackerbag then? Oh, what? No, nothing, carry on, good sir."

Posted by: Warai-otoko
===

I'm going to have to start using "clackerbag" more in my everyday speech.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:23 AM (17s+e)
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Yup. that made me chortle out loud.

Posted by: Mikey Alpha Kilo at Werk at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (PSEDc)

92 60 An obvious first step is to cut off Federal highway money to any state that issues driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Fun fact: driver's licenses for illegal aliens was on the ballot in Oregon in 2014. It was voted down 2-1.

The Oregon legislature legalized driver's licenses for illegal aliens in 2019 anyway.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

We need some red states to makes noises about not honoring Oregon driver's licenses due to the high liklihood of fraud involved in allowing the "undocumented" to obtain them. Holders of Oregon driver's licenses would, if stopped by LEO, have to show documentation sufficient for an in-state license or will be detained until ICE can clear them or detain them for deportation.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (Dv3i1)

93 80 Trumps $500M judgement tossed!

Tish has to be screaming into her pillow.

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (G0vdT)

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It was never about the money. It was about the narrative and destroying Trump personally and politically.

With that win in the courts, Trump became president.

Narrative wins don't have the bite they used to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

94 Trumps $500M judgement tossed!

Tish has to be screaming into her pillow.

Posted by: WisRich
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It would be grand if she were served with a federal grand jury indictment on mortgage fraud later in the day.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (17s+e)

95 Trumps $500M judgement tossed!

Tish has to be screaming into her pillow.

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM

So he gets his bond back, with interest.

Posted by: toby928 at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (jc0TO)

96 80 Trumps $500M judgement tossed!

Tish has to be screaming into her pillow.

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (G0vdT)

Did we ever make a ruling on 'Tish' being slang for poop/ing?

That still seemed odd.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (bss/y)

97 @86 the verdict was called excessive. I'm trying to find out if the appellate court returned the case to the trial court to recalculate the "damages".

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:28 AM (ugJf8)

98 87 what about poland? i thought they were pretty good as well...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler

Well, they had that wobbly WEF douchebag in power for awhile. Is he still there?

Orban is da man.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

Orban is in Hungary...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:28 AM (VE6XX)

99 I think he is making a joke, Bulgar.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

It's hard to tell around here sometimes.

Hitler actually kinda liked the American Indians, from the Karl May westerns he read as a youth, so he might have been OK with Mexicans.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:28 AM (77rzZ)

100 Like a floating Waffle House.

https://is.gd/SRp440

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)

101 The Oregon legislature legalized driver's licenses for illegal aliens in 2019 anyway.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:19 AM (xTIDn)

CA, voted no for gay marriage and they just went ahead anyway.. And this was before the supreme court ruling...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:20 AM (VE6XX)

In spite of a huge budget shortfall and the most massive tax increase in State history, Washington State is now receiving applications from persons or firms that will assist illegals in fighting deportation. Grants will range from $300k to $600k.
Gawd I fu*king hate Olympia.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (2WIwB)

102 Mexico declared war on Germany in May 1942, so I guess it was before then?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah. Mexico got pissed that the shipments of Mariachi band instruments stopped.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (pxUkb)

103 Orban is in Hungary...
Posted by: It's me donna

That's my point. Poland had a squish, while Hungary had Orban.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

104 > An obvious first step is to cut off Federal highway money to any state that issues driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
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It's supposed to be illegal here in KY. Guess what?

Several thousand illegals were "given" KY Real ID licenses after coughing up about $200 - $500 to various KY Transportation Cabinet (our DMV) employees.

They can get a "permit" if they're legal, but they're not supposed to get a Real ID license or any other type of official state ID if they're illegally here.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (Q4IgG)

105 Poland had a WEF scumbag foisted on them through fraud and he immediately started arrested opposition politicians.

Don't know what has happened since then to be honest.

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (sKqQm)

106 That's my point. Poland had a squish, while Hungary had Orban.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

Got it...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (VE6XX)

107 When the Democrats regain the levers of power

They intend to crush us and make sure that we can never threaten them politically again.

The January 6th trials were nothing compared to the mass trials that they are already planning of their political opponents if they win.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)

108 102 Mexico declared war on Germany in May 1942, so I guess it was before then?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:22 AM (77rzZ)

Yeah. Mexico got pissed that the shipments of Mariachi band instruments stopped.
Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (pxUkb)

They declared war because a wolfpack sank a freighter of Sombreros.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:30 AM (bss/y)

109 80 Trumps $500M judgement tossed!

Tish has to be screaming into her pillow.

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (G0vdT)

Tish is popular these days (link goes to YouTube)

https://tinyurl.com/wysfbkyx

Posted by: Bilwis Devourer of Innocent Souls, I'm starvin' over here at August 21, 2025 11:30 AM (pIfcn)

110 In spite of a huge budget shortfall and the most massive tax increase in State history, Washington State is now receiving applications from persons or firms that will assist illegals in fighting deportation. Grants will range from $300k to $600k.

Sounds like a RICO suit just waiting to be brought...

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:30 AM (sKqQm)

111 Hitler probably admired the Aztecs. Seem like his kind of people.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:31 AM (77rzZ)

112 107 When the Democrats regain the levers of power

They intend to crush us and make sure that we can never threaten them politically again.

The January 6th trials were nothing compared to the mass trials that they are already planning of their political opponents if they win.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)

I'm thinking the Military will not be on their side...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

113 The January 6th trials were nothing compared to the mass trials that they are already planning of their political opponents if they win.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)

This. That is why I keep trying to make the point that there comes a time when you have to acknowledge that you cannot deal in good faith with people.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:31 AM (bss/y)

114 27 This is the gravest threat to Home Rule DC has ever faced, and we are fighting to stop it.
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Mmm, cede them to Maryland. I think Trump can do this.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 11:31 AM (W3T6M)

115 Tish is the perfect description: Ti for tinkle, sh for shit. Covers it all and only one syllable. So you can use them elsewhere.

Posted by: Frugal Freda at August 21, 2025 11:31 AM (G5+As)

116 what about poland? i thought they were pretty good as well...
Posted by: Sturmtoddler

Well, they had that wobbly WEF douchebag in power for awhile. Is he still there?

Orban is da man.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (77rzZ)

ah that's right. but i think the general consensus was that it was a biden-esque win...

but you're correct, orban is awesome

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 21, 2025 11:32 AM (nXhwP)

117 I'm thinking the Military will not be on their side...
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:31 AM (VE6XX)

I hate to point this out: what did anyone do about J6?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:32 AM (bss/y)

118 Several thousand illegals were "given" KY Real ID licenses after coughing up about $200 - $500 to various KY Transportation Cabinet (our DMV) employees.
_____

Have you been hurt in a crash by an illegal alien with a KY driver's license? You may be entitled to compensation

Posted by: Ad that I'd actually like to see at August 21, 2025 11:32 AM (Dv3i1)

119 I preapologize for any nauseousness this causes: Tish the Mish.

I just threww up a little in my mouth typing that.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:33 AM (17s+e)

120 Oh hey, Obama is endorsing California redistricting.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:33 AM (bss/y)

121 Mmm, cede them to Maryland. I think Trump can do this.
Posted by: pudinhead

Even Maryland doesn't want DC.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:33 AM (77rzZ)

122
I hate to point this out: what did anyone do about J6?
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:32 AM (bss/y)

This is a different Military now.. Or it seems like it....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:33 AM (VE6XX)

123 They intend to crush us and make sure that we can never threaten them politically again.

An example:

One of the destabilizing things about this moment is how clear it is that the folks who are actively destroying democracy and public health while openly celebrating racist/fascist ideologies and embodying truly debased values seem to have absolutely no fear of any future reckoning.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (xTIDn)

124 Narrative wins don't have the bite they used to.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)

You know what else doesn't have the bite it used to?

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (PTRhX)

125 Trumps $500M judgement tossed!

Tish has to be screaming into her pillow.

Posted by: WisRich at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (G0vdT)

If by pillow you mean a tankard of gravy covered fudge cake, then yes.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (dGCAG)

126 "That's big. I remember, back during WW2, when the US caught hell for bombing a Mexican business in Germany."
***********
Didn't we also bomb the Ford plant in Germany?

Posted by: Cosda at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (abbhq)

127 I preapologize for any nauseousness this causes: Tish the Mish.

I just threww up a little in my mouth typing that.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorabl

Better than Elizabeth Warren as Liz the Snizz.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (77rzZ)

128 That's my point. Poland had a squish, while Hungary had Orban.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

FWIW, Miklos doesn't think much of Orban. Don't know why.

Posted by: OrangeEnt at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (0eaVi)

129 Hitler probably admired the Aztecs. Seem like his kind of people.
Posted by: Bulg

Well, considering he thought Aryans lived in Germany, his grasp of history seems weak to say the least.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (mlg/3)

130 That $500 million judgement against Trump was one of most egregious of all the lawfare abominations against him…. An attempt to ruin a lifetime of work and his entire family’s finances

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (90wEZ)

131 The January 6th trials were nothing compared to the mass trials that they are already planning of their political opponents if they win.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:30 AM (xTIDn)

I don't think they actually can, now.

The wizard been unveiled and he's just a retarded little midget with a laptop. "We find you guilty in absentia of Trumpery with intent to lurk!" Yeah? That's nice. I'll be over here not giving a fuck about your little dress-up party bullshit. Their power is completely illusory now. I mean it always kind of was, it's just that no one actually noticed that fact and simply went along with it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 21, 2025 11:35 AM (VoAdT)

132 J.K. stirring up trouble again.

https://is.gd/dU4K98

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:35 AM (L/fGl)

133 You know what else doesn't have the bite it used to?
Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (PTRhX)

My grandpappy, since we took his teef.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 21, 2025 11:35 AM (dGCAG)

134 120 Oh hey, Obama is endorsing California redistricting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:33 AM (bss/y)

I saw Gov. greaseballs map.. It throws out Daryl Issa who is popular... I foresee a growing call to split the State....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:35 AM (VE6XX)

135 Federalism is an annoying concept because its application depends on the popularity of your policy.

If people hate or don't care about your policy, you're a federalist. But if your position is generally popular, you want to crush the dissenters and make everyone fall in line.

Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (GD2xa)

136 Didn't we also bomb the Ford plant in Germany?
Posted by: Cosda

No, but they bombed the ball bearing plant in Heidelberg.

Posted by: Kolonel Wilhelm Klink at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (G5+As)

137 Well, considering he thought Aryans lived in Germany, his grasp of history seems weak to say the least.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (mlg/3)

You can fault him for other things, but his weak grasp of history is just the worst.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (dGCAG)

138 Surprise, surprise, surprise...

@seanmdav 1h
The Cracker Barrel rebrand is tanking the company’s stock price. The price immediately dropped 10% after the announcement and rollout.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (mlg/3)

139 >>They intend to crush us and make sure that we can never threaten them politically again.

What do you think we are doing to them right now?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (viF8m)

140 FWIW, Miklos doesn't think much of Orban. Don't know why.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Interesting. I'd ask him why, but I wouldn't want to harsh my (no homo) man crush.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)

141 Federalism is an annoying concept because its application depends on the popularity of your policy.

If people hate or don't care about your policy, you're a federalist. But if your position is generally popular, you want to crush the dissenters and make everyone fall in line.
Posted by: Jack Squat Bupkis at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM

Huh?

Posted by: toby928 at August 21, 2025 11:37 AM (jc0TO)

142 Hitler probably admired the Aztecs.
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Speaking of Hitler and ugly automobiles, am I the only one who thought when the Chrysler 300 first came out that it looked like what the Germans would be using for staff cars if they had won WWII?

Posted by: Crusader at August 21, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

143 No, but they bombed the ball bearing plant in Heidelberg.
Posted by: Kolonel Wilhelm Klink at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (G5+As)

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It's all about ball bearings nowadays.

Posted by: Fletch at August 21, 2025 11:37 AM (2UnvF)

144 121 Mmm, cede them to Maryland. I think Trump can do this.
Posted by: pudinhead

Even Maryland doesn't want DC.
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When has Maryland ever turned down moar money?

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (W3T6M)

145 What do you think we are doing to them right now?

I'm not seeing mass trials of prominent Democrats.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

146
What do you think we are doing to them right now?
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 11:36 AM (viF8m

And the move to do it quickly...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (VE6XX)

147 79 ...the Labour Party at that time (actual politicians in office) were moderate reasonable people in private but the party as a whole was unreasonable and not reflective of the electorate at large because it was controlled by a small determined active minority… the broad swath of the British public just wanted to be left alone and therefore they got socialism in Britain

Could happen here
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 11:25 AM (Dywz5)

That was always the Dem strategy, in a sense. The party apparatchik are elderly leftists, whose power base is grounded in far-left territories like SF. They always got the large majority of Dems to run as centrists, so when they inevitably got elected the apparatchiks would leverage the 'centrist' numbers to put forth far-left policies - like Obamacare. The difference now is that when Biden cheated his way into power off the back of the COVID lockdowns, they (and the GOPe) thought that Trumpism was vanquished and could now rule untrammeled - the masks can now come off. They are now ruing the day they showed America who they really are.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (fDCYj)

148 @139 that's why killing USAID and other Dem money operations is a must. Bankrupt the thugs

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (ugJf8)

149 By the time Democrats regain power, if they ever do, this trans-sexualism will be in the history books as the second horror foisted upon America by them.
Those that participated will be looked upon as the pitiful vulnerable or outrageous freaks; from whichever column they belong.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (0JzSR)

150 I saw Gov. greaseballs map.. It throws out Daryl Issa who is popular... I foresee a growing call to split the State....
Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:35 AM (VE6XX)

Probably for that one gal getting tossed in Texas.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (bss/y)

151 Well, considering he thought Aryans lived in Germany, his grasp of history seems weak to say the least.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:34 AM (mlg/3)

You can fault him for other things, but his weak grasp of history is just the worst.
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I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of this Hitler guy...

Posted by: Zombie Norm MacDonald at August 21, 2025 11:39 AM (TN0g+)

152 I'm not seeing mass trials of prominent Democrats.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

Not enough orange jumpsuits.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:39 AM (bss/y)

153 152 I'm not seeing mass trials of prominent Democrats.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (xTIDn)

They're dug in deep like ticks.. Takes time to burn them out

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (VE6XX)

154 I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of this Hitler guy...
Posted by: Zombie Norm MacDonald

Well, to be fair, he did kill Hitler.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

155 I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of this Hitler guy...
Posted by: Zombie Norm MacDonald at August 21, 2025 11:39 AM (TN0g+)

I mean... he was a real jerk!

Posted by: BurtTC at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (dGCAG)

156 @seanmdav 1h
The Cracker Barrel rebrand is tanking the company’s stock price. The price immediately dropped 10% after the announcement and rollout.

Posted by: weft cut-loop
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Who could have seen that coming?

Another attempt to expand your consumer base to those that were never going to your consumers by pissing off you current consumer base. It's brilliant and one of these times, like communism, it has to work when the right people are in charge.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (17s+e)

157 "American Electronics Manufacturing", 10:1 it's a Uke ex-pat/sympathizer using NGO/US AID money to set up drone production, possibly illegally.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (g47mK)

158 I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of this Hitler guy...

But what about the guy that killed him?

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (sKqQm)

159
Another attempt to expand your consumer base to those that were never going to your consumers by pissing off you current consumer base. It's brilliant and one of these times, like communism, it has to work when the right people are in charge.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (17s+e

I see they have a woke Female in charge

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (VE6XX)

160 140 FWIW, Miklos doesn't think much of Orban. Don't know why.
Posted by: OrangeEnt

Do your homework! Many people who claim to be Hungarian are really Gypsy! You can tell which ones because they STEAL!

Posted by: Leutonian Supremacist at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (G5+As)

161 I mean... he was a real jerk!
Posted by: BurtTC

But he could paint an entire apartment in an afternoon. Two coats!

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (77rzZ)

162 106 That's my point. Poland had a squish, while Hungary had Orban.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:29 AM (77rzZ)

Got it...
Posted by: It's me donna
----------------------

Tusk was illegally voted into office. The EU and (youknowwho) put heavy thumbs on the scales of that election.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (0JzSR)

163 Chilis > Applebees >>>>> Cracker Barrel

Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (sKqQm)

164
An obvious first step is to cut off Federal highway money to any state that issues driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

Does the Federal government really have any money anyway? Does anybody even care?

Posted by: Chicago Transit Authority at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (63Dwl)

165 Speaking of Hitler and ugly automobiles, am I the only one who thought when the Chrysler 300 first came out that it looked like what the Germans would be using for staff cars if they had won WWII?
Posted by: Crusader at August 21, 2025 11:37 AM (TN0g+)

Huh. That's valid. Damn.

I always took it as a sedan version of what they came up with for the Magnum (bring back more station wagons! or at least useful minivans!)

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (bss/y)

166 I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of this Hitler guy...

But what about the guy that killed him?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM

*grrrr

Posted by: Bigfoot at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (jc0TO)

167 Heh… I just saw that one of the Dems that could lose his seat in TX due to the gerrymander is Lloyd Doggett. I hadn’t heard that name in ages! He’s still in congress??!! Yeah it’s time for him to go

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (90wEZ)

168 If Waffle House were to mandate Classical Music in all its restaurants its stock price would double.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (W3T6M)

169 Another attempt to expand your consumer base to those that were never going to your consumers by pissing off you current consumer base. It's brilliant and one of these times, like communism, it has to work when the right people are in charge.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger

"Expand???" - DEI exec

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (mlg/3)

170 149 By the time Democrats regain power, if they ever do, this trans-sexualism will be in the history books as the second horror foisted upon America by them.
Those that participated will be looked upon as the pitiful vulnerable or outrageous freaks; from whichever column they belong.
Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:38 AM (0JzSR)

=======

If the fed grant money laundering scheme was as big and as influential as I think it was, the ending of that is going to drastically affect how Democrat politics works.

It'll take some time for the party to realign along lines that match policies that appeal to voters and not a scrivener class funded by unlimited dollars, though.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

171 158 I don't know about you, but I'm not a big fan of this Hitler guy...

But what about the guy that killed him?
Posted by: 18-1 at August 21, 2025 11:40 AM (sKqQm)

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I hear he had some skeletons in his closet.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

172 Over the last 3 years I found Uke linked news sources as accurate as Gaza Health Ministry.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:42 AM (g47mK)

173 >>I'm not seeing mass trials of prominent Democrats.

Do you think Schiff started his legal defense fund for grins? Why did Clapper say he has lawyered up? Why has Tish James hired Hunter Biden's criminal attorney? Why are there sitting grand juries hearing evidence in both mortgage fraud cases and Russia collusion conspiracy cases?

Some of you expect the Trump DOJ to be as corrupt as the Obama/Biden DOJ and just start dropping indictments before building cases. They aren't exposing all of the corruption and bringing in more lawyers, including the former AG of Missouri, just for optics. Give them some time to do their jobs.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)

174 Oh hey, Obama is endorsing California redistricting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:33 AM (bss/y)

so shit midas will strike again...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (nXhwP)

175 Not enough orange jumpsuits.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:39 AM (bss/y)

I wish we didn't have enough orange jumpsuits.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (PTRhX)

176 "States counter that the federal government can't commandeer or force them to use their resources."

That's probably true, but also a strawman argument. Trump isn't saying "use your state resources to help federal agents." What he is saying is "stop using your state resources to hinder federal agents."

These loathsome sanctuary jurisdictions aren't refusing to help the feds. They are actively blocking the feds from doing their jobs. Big big difference.

May every "sanctuary city" Democrap get raped in the flue by a 400-pound illegal alien faggot named "Big Dorito."

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

177 Cracker Barrel food had the stank, anyway.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (0JzSR)

178 168 If Waffle House were to mandate Classical Music in all its restaurants its stock price would double.
Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (W3T6M)

Piping in HeeHaw reruns seems more on brand.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (bss/y)

179 I wonder if judge Engeron has any mortgage or tax issues. Seems like due diligence would be having a look see.

Posted by: It's only fair at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (Fnbuk)

180 If Waffle House were to mandate Classical Music in all its restaurants its stock price would double.
Posted by: pudinhead

Fight of the Valkyries!

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

181 Oh hey, Obama is endorsing California redistricting.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:33 AM (bss/y)

so shit midas will strike again...

Posted by: Sturmtoddler
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YEP! Best news I've heard this morning.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:44 AM (17s+e)

182 176 That's probably true, but also a strawman argument. Trump isn't saying "use your state resources to help federal agents." What he is saying is "stop using your state resources to hinder federal agents."

These loathsome sanctuary jurisdictions aren't refusing to help the feds. They are actively blocking the feds from doing their jobs. Big big difference.

May every "sanctuary city" Democrap get raped in the flue by a 400-pound illegal alien faggot named "Big Dorito."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

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If I were Stephen Miller, I'd be doing press conferences outside of sanctuary city's halls and courthouses thanking the people inside for policies that allow ICE to pick up far more people than they would otherwise get.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)

183 "Expand???" - DEI exec
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The appeal of Cracker Barrel is becoming more selective.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 21, 2025 11:44 AM (4rUTl)

184 180 If Waffle House were to mandate Classical Music in all its restaurants its stock price would double.
Posted by: pudinhead

Fight of the Valkyries!
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (77rzZ)

Lots of fights but I don't think they're Valkyries...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:44 AM (VE6XX)

185 I hear he had some skeletons in his closet.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:42 AM (GBKbO)

LOL. I just had a thought riffing on your retarded question from yesterday:

"Question for the 'ettes: do any of you find this Hitler guy attractive? I can't tell anymore."

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:45 AM (bss/y)

186 Long ago, Minnesota was in the vanguard of states significantly liberalizing their welfare program and I remember having the discussion at work that we owed it to Ohio's poor that they have the information to compare Minnesota's welfare benefits with Ohio's along with assurance that free transportation would be provided. So I'm on the states' side here.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 21, 2025 11:45 AM (2ap+5)

187 Posted by: Lets Check in on JewPropaganda.mu.mu

Heh.

Posted by: toby928 at August 21, 2025 11:45 AM (jc0TO)

188 It's all about ball bearings nowadays.
Posted by: Fletch

I thought we agreed to call them clackerbags⁹.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Fire Can Too Melt Steel! at August 21, 2025 11:45 AM (L/fGl)

189 Stop funding Blue Cities and they will straighten up.
Cut their FedMon off completely.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (0JzSR)

190 173 >>I'm not seeing mass trials of prominent Democrats.

Do you think Schiff started his legal defense fund for grins? Why did Clapper say he has lawyered up? Why has Tish James hired Hunter Biden's criminal attorney? Why are there sitting grand juries hearing evidence in both mortgage fraud cases and Russia collusion conspiracy cases?

Some of you expect the Trump DOJ to be as corrupt as the Obama/Biden DOJ and just start dropping indictments before building cases. They aren't exposing all of the corruption and bringing in more lawyers, including the former AG of Missouri, just for optics. Give them some time to do their jobs.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (viF8m)

They tried to bankrupt, imprison and assassinate Donald Trump - and that's after he took the hint proffered by the MSM and not go after Hillary after he was elected the first time. I'm really not sure why people think that he's in a forgiving mood during Trump 2.0. There is nothing in his history that suggested that he would be.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (fDCYj)

191 At Legal Insurrection Bill Jacobson says the $500m judgement was tossed but the case against Trump is still alive. They did not overturn the fraud finding. Jacobson says more to follow

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (ugJf8)

192 Piping in HeeHaw reruns seems more on brand.
Posted by: Aetius451AD

Waffle House and Lulu's Truck Stop got the same ranking from the Health Department-53%!

Posted by: Fly Swatter At Every Table at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (G5+As)

193 welll, that escalated quickly

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (g47mK)

194 LOL. This is low T effort from the trolls.

Go for anti-Semitism like you've got a pair!

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (bss/y)

195 Waffle House and Lulu's Truck Stop got the same ranking from the Health Department-53%!
Posted by: Fly Swatter At Every Table at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (G5+As)

*golfclap*

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (bss/y)

196 I wash myself with a rag on a stick.

Posted by: Lets Check in on JewPropaganda.mu.mu at August 21, 2025 11:47 AM (J8LVW)

197 Or is this a sarcastic anti-semitic troll?

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:47 AM (bss/y)

198 Lots of fights but I don't think they're Valkyries...
Posted by: It's me donna

The Kennedy chick at Disney has reimagined valkyries as purple-haired, 300-lb. tattoo and piercing addicts, so it tracks.

By the way, Valkyrie used to be a Marvel superheroine. Belonged to the Defenders. Has she shown up in any of the movies?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

199 Dammit. CBD is changing the dialogue.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (bss/y)

200 193 At Legal Insurrection Bill Jacobson says the $500m judgement was tossed but the case against Trump is still alive. They did not overturn the fraud finding. Jacobson says more to follow
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:46 AM (ugJf

So they'll lower it to 499 million...

Posted by: It's me donna at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (VE6XX)

201 That's probably true, but also a strawman argument. Trump isn't saying "use your state resources to help federal agents." What he is saying is "stop using your state resources to hinder federal agents."

May every "sanctuary city" Democrap get raped in the flue by a 400-pound illegal alien faggot named "Big Dorito."
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:43 AM (iFTx/)

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If I were Stephen Miller, I'd be doing press conferences outside of sanctuary city's halls and courthouses thanking the people inside for policies that allow ICE to pick up far more people than they would otherwise get.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:44 AM (GBKbO)
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Yea, it's what we talked about yesterday. ICE is grabbing more illegal scumbags by having to grab them in the wild, rather than targeted at courthouses and jails. What percent of illegals in the "homeless" shelters and encampments are undeniably deportable? 50%? 75? 99?

It's like fishing with a rod and reel versus throwing a huge net into a school of fish.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

202 Speaking of Hitler and ugly automobiles, am I the only one who thought when the Chrysler 300 first came out that it looked like what the Germans would be using for staff cars if they had won WWII?
Posted by: Crusader

No accounting for ze tasten~!

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (mlg/3)

203 When Texas tried to unilaterally wall the border and control illegal immigration, they were shot down because that is specifically the province of the federal government. Sanctuary cities and states do essentially the same thing, but claim a moral high ground and ignore the supremacy of the federal government on this issue just because. It’s yet another application of Alinsky’s rules. The right is held to constitutional limits while the left has none.

Can the left be handled, including delegitimizing their pet judiciary, without descending into anarchy?

Posted by: Advo at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (jO4mz)

204 @14 mortgage fraud. Trying to find decision, it was a quick blurb on Varney. The rape case was done in federal court

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:08 AM (ugJf

Sounds like a soup sandwich.

The panel was sharply divided, issuing 323 pages of concurring and dissenting opinions with no majority. Rather, some judges endorsed parts of their colleagues' findings while denouncing others, enabling the court to rule.

Two judges wrote that they felt New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against Trump and his companies was justifiable and that she had proven her case but the penalty was too severe. One wrote that James exceeded her legal authority in bringing the suit, saying that if any of Trump’s lenders felt cheated, they could have sued him themselves, and none did.

One judge wrote that Engoron erred by ruling before the trial began that the attorney general had proved Trump engaged in fraud. - Yahoo News

https://tinyurl.com/ms2t835b

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (i24o9)

205 By the way, Valkyrie used to be a Marvel superheroine. Belonged to the Defenders. Has she shown up in any of the movies?
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:47 AM (77rzZ)

Yes. Thor: Ragnarok and Endgame, iirc. Tessa Thompson.

Yes, she's black.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (bss/y)

206 203 Yea, it's what we talked about yesterday. ICE is grabbing more illegal scumbags by having to grab them in the wild, rather than targeted at courthouses and jails. What percent of illegals in the "homeless" shelters and encampments are undeniably deportable? 50%? 75? 99?

It's like fishing with a rod and reel versus throwing a huge net into a school of fish.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:48 AM (iFTx/)

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I just think it's a good idea to shove the reality into the leftist's faces. Gleefully.

Insult them on their own doorsteps.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:49 AM (GBKbO)

207 Tusk was illegally voted into office. The EU and (youknowwho) put heavy thumbs on the scales of that election.

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Romania also had election shenanigans, the wrong guy was going to win, so it had to be blamed on Russia.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 21, 2025 11:49 AM (Dv3i1)

208 Give them some time to do their jobs.
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You forgot "Trust Wray".
Just kidding, but the point is that there is a reason for people to be cynical. It has been decades of the "dissappoint". I certainly agree there is reason for hope, but forgive the doubters their doubts. They aren't unreasonable, just cynically pessimistic.

Posted by: It's only fair at August 21, 2025 11:49 AM (Fnbuk)

209 Yea, it's what we talked about yesterday. ICE is grabbing more illegal scumbags by having to grab them in the wild, rather than targeted at courthouses and jails. What percent of illegals in the "homeless" shelters and encampments are undeniably deportable? 50%? 75? 99?

It's like fishing with a rod and reel versus throwing a huge net into a school of fish.

Posted by: Elric The Blade
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I'd prefer ICE used dynamite.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at August 21, 2025 11:49 AM (17s+e)

210 I read that Ukraine was buying missiles from UAE.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 11:49 AM (0JzSR)

211 Pet judiciary? Yikes, I would not want to appear before a cat judge.

Give me a nice, happy golden retriever judge any day.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:50 AM (77rzZ)

212 The whole concept of "sanctuary city " is illegal. Federal government is in charge of borders, and border-linked policies , not some local yahoo.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:50 AM (g47mK)

213 210 Give them some time to do their jobs.
==
You forgot "Trust Wray".
Just kidding, but the point is that there is a reason for people to be cynical. It has been decades of the "dissappoint". I certainly agree there is reason for hope, but forgive the doubters their doubts. They aren't unreasonable, just cynically pessimistic.
Posted by: It's only fair at August 21, 2025 11:49 AM (Fnbuk)

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DOJ working correctly is a black box until indictments come.

No indictments have come.

Will they or won't they? We have tea leaves. I read those tea leaves as they will come.

But they're still just tea leaves.

We'll see.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)

214 Heh… I just saw that one of the Dems that could lose his seat in TX due to the gerrymander is Lloyd Doggett. I hadn’t heard that name in ages! He’s still in congress??!! Yeah it’s time for him to go
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 11:41 AM (90wEZ)

Say what you will about Lloyd Doggett, but he was a good friend of Schyler Coulfax. They used to play majong together, taking long walks around the Washington Monument. Which back in those days was called the King George Monument.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 21, 2025 11:51 AM (dGCAG)

215 Yeah, all of this bleating of, "Wait until Democrats are back in power" amount to: "Democrats have already been using this power for years."

It's no excuse not to use the power now for our own ends.
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It's also an admission that no party should have the power.

And both parties should abuse the power, no party should disarm, until the public removes the power.

But 100% of the "stop--what if the Dems do this to us?!" people o our side are the No-Hill Republicans who will never find a hill to die upon.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2025 11:51 AM (tlI68)

216 214 The whole concept of "sanctuary city " is illegal. Federal government is in charge of borders, and border-linked policies , not some local yahoo.
Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:50 AM (g47mK)

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I don't think so.

A local jurisdiction saying, "We're not going to expend resources to help the feds," is fine, I think, legally and constitutionally. Cities are not extensions of the federal government.

However, it's when they start giving benefits to illegal immigrants that I think is where there are actual legal problems.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (GBKbO)

217 Give them some time to do their jobs.
==
You forgot "Trust Wray".
Just kidding, but the point is that there is a reason for people to be cynical. It has been decades of the "dissappoint". I certainly agree there is reason for hope, but forgive the doubters their doubts. They aren't unreasonable, just cynically pessimistic.
Posted by: It's only fair at August 21, 2025 11:49 AM (Fnbuk)

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DOJ working correctly is a black box until indictments come.

No indictments have come.

Will they or won't they? We have tea leaves. I read those tea leaves as they will come.

But they're still just tea leaves.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:50 AM (GBKbO)
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I have the opposite view of the tea leaves, at least for the Big Fish all of us would love to stone to death. We'll see.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

218 >>They tried to bankrupt, imprison and assassinate Donald Trump - and that's after he took the hint proffered by the MSM and not go after Hillary after he was elected the first time. I'm really not sure why people think that he's in a forgiving mood during Trump 2.0. There is nothing in his history that suggested that he would be.

He tried being the bigger man in his first term and they responded by trying to destroy him both financially and literally. I think he more than any person alive knows how corrupt and vicious they are and just how deep the corruption goes.

I don't want a few show trials, I want the while cancer cut out and Trump first 7+ months indicates to me that he wants that as well. I want indictments as much as anyone but I want all of them. How much publicity has Walter Giardina received? Virtually none. Yet he was at the heart of many of the FBI corrupt scams from Russia collusion to going after Peter Navarro and having him thrown in cuffs and leg irons at the airport over bullshit.

I want him too.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (viF8m)

219 Put not your faith in mortals.

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (PTRhX)

220 @206 thx Comrade. The court date f appeals in NY will have fun with this mess of a decision, as will Fed cts if it gets there.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (ugJf8)

221 However, it's when they start giving benefits to illegal immigrants that I think is where there are actual legal problems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And obstructing the Feds, as I mentioned above.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

222
Munkey

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 21, 2025 11:53 AM (y9nCu)

223 217 It's also an admission that no party should have the power.

And both parties should abuse the power, no party should disarm, until the public removes the power.

But 100% of the "stop--what if the Dems do this to us?!" people o our side are the No-Hill Republicans who will never find a hill to die upon.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2025 11:51 AM (tlI6

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I'd rather there not be the power, but Republicans refusing to use the power has just gotten us to the point where Democrats exclusively use it.

We're not going to improve the situation by sitting back and waiting for Democrats to regain their good sense.

Will we get back to the powers being reduced through tit for tat? I don't know. I suspect not. I also know that we won't get back to the powers being reduced by letting Democrats run around with handguns.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

224 I have the opposite view of the tea leaves, at least for the Big Fish all of us would love to stone to death.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

Bring, it, Chump. FAFO.
-- Whale sharks, basking sharks, Greenland sharks, and megamouth sharks

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:54 AM (77rzZ)

225 We should have never given women the vote. Look where we are.

Posted by: pudinhead at August 21, 2025 11:54 AM (W3T6M)

226 219 I have the opposite view of the tea leaves, at least for the Big Fish all of us would love to stone to death. We'll see.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

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I don't think the tippy top will see any legal blowback.

But Clapper? Former ODNI Director? That's not small fish.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)

227 Cracker Barrel's tag line from earlier: "Bringing Pride to the Front Porch." With a photo of a storefront's iconic porch with rainbow painted rocking chairs.

That was last year, IIRC. And people at the time knew what was going to happen. Then the redesigns of the interior showed up.

And the customers who go to C.B. overwhelmingly trashed the makeover. And everything that's come after.

Cracker Barrel might be bankrupt before the end of the year.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Q4IgG)

228 We are so profoundly dumb in Ohio that it is a rare bit of luck when we find a place that is even stupider. Thank goodness for Minnesota.

Posted by: Oglebay at August 21, 2025 11:55 AM (2ap+5)

229 But they're still just tea leaves.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer

Tea leaves have been largely debunked. Phrenology is making a big comeback.

Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at August 21, 2025 11:55 AM (G5+As)

230 A local jurisdiction saying, "We're not going to expend resources to help the feds," is fine, I think, legally and constitutionally. Cities are not extensions of the federal government.

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Cities cannot set their own international policies, which is what sanctuary cities are doing. Feds are saying " You cannot enter the country and stay if you do", local yahoos are saying " You can enter the country and stay if you do".

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:55 AM (g47mK)

231 Will we get back to the powers being reduced through tit for tat? I don't know.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

Yes you 100% do!

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:55 AM (PTRhX)

232 223 However, it's when they start giving benefits to illegal immigrants that I think is where there are actual legal problems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

And obstructing the Feds, as I mentioned above.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (77rzZ)

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What amounts to obstruction, though?

Refusing to honor an ICE detainer, is that obstruction? I'm not sure it is. Actively helping someone avoid an ICE detainer, that certainly is.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:55 AM (GBKbO)

233 No, and it goes beyond that, too.
For example:

Medical (Medicare/Medicaid; CHIP; extreme Special Education costs, PT/OT, psychological assistance and related medications provided in some regions; "luxuries" such as dental and eye glass that many citizens pay out-of-pocket for without assistance).

WIC covering family members beyond the young.

Housing (heavy subsidies and then 'investors' snap up entry level/starter home/senior properties).

Public Transportation; see PA's out-of-hand SEPTA system from which funds are also steered to into AMTRAK).

Many food warehouses, distribution centers, etc. It's not necessity but a free-for-all and 'careers' in collections in some areas of some states.

State Insurance costs increasing - homeowners, vehicular, worker's compensation, disability.

State workers salaries, many of which are very substantial. State Legislature salaries. (See PA in both cases.)

Of course, there's more but as long the the Federal government foots the bills in whole or part & improper redistricting takes place, costs will NEVER be reigned in.

Cut them off. Freeze them out. The average citizen can't keep up with states' rising costs forever.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2025 11:55 AM (NFX2v)

234 Will we get back to the powers being reduced through tit for tat? I don't know.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

No tats on tits, though. I hate those.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

235 A local jurisdiction saying, "We're not going to expend resources to help the feds," is fine, I think, legally and constitutionally. Cities are not extensions of the federal government.

However, it's when they start giving benefits to illegal immigrants that I think is where there are actual legal problems.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

I beg to differ, sirrah.

Posted by: Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman at August 21, 2025 11:57 AM (mlg/3)

236 Cracker Barrel might be bankrupt before the end of the year.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 11:54 AM (Q4IgG)

I was never a huge fan anyway. It was like a little mini redneck country theme park (complete with gift shop.)

The food was ok, but not special. It was a theme place. and they trashed their theme.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 11:57 AM (bss/y)

237 Suicide will no longer be called suicide. It will be called Cracker Barreling.

"I think I'm going to Cracker Barrel myself."

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 11:57 AM (PTRhX)

238 It's a shame about Wray.

Posted by: Lemonhead at August 21, 2025 11:57 AM (63Dwl)

239 Local yahoos cannot all of a sudden pass a law to allow manufacture and sale of arms to some sanctioned/terrorist overseas.

Posted by: runner at August 21, 2025 11:57 AM (g47mK)

240 Actively helping someone avoid an ICE detainer, that certainly is.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Yes, that's more what I had in mind.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:57 AM (77rzZ)

241
But they're still just tea leaves.

We'll see.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer

Tea leaves have been largely debunked. Phrenology is making a big comeback.
Posted by: The Eyes of Nostrildamus at August 21, 2025 11:55 AM (G5+As)

You're both wrong. Chicken entrails.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at August 21, 2025 11:58 AM (y9nCu)

242 Of course, there's more but as long the the Federal government foots the bills in whole or part & improper redistricting takes place, costs will NEVER be reigned in.

Cut them off. Freeze them out. The average citizen can't keep up with states' rising costs forever.
Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day

Good rant, but it's reined in.

Posted by: Harry The Horse at August 21, 2025 11:59 AM (G5+As)

243 Chicken entrails.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur

Jeesh, can we please stop talking about Cracker Barrel's food?

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 11:59 AM (77rzZ)

244 I have the opposite view of the tea leaves, at least for the Big Fish all of us would love to stone to death. We'll see.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:52 AM (iFTx/)

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I don't think the tippy top will see any legal blowback.

But Clapper? Former ODNI Director? That's not small fish.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:54 AM (GBKbO)
_________

Chances of Clapper getting indicted? Very low. Only slightly above the chances of me having group sex with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. I hope I'm wrong. I don't think I am wrong.

Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

245 Julie Felss Masino really has that classic Karen look in her official Cracker Barrel photo….

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 12:00 PM (/DBoU)

246 246 Chances of Clapper getting indicted? Very low. Only slightly above the chances of me having group sex with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders. I hope I'm wrong. I don't think I am wrong.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 21, 2025 11:59 AM (iFTx/)

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I think Clapper will get dragged into court.

We'll see.

Black box.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)

247 Thread hottie.

http://alturl.com/56e6v

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 12:00 PM (i24o9)

248 Tish the Mish.
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The Tish Mish is a mish-mash of mass mish; no smash.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2025 12:00 PM (tlI68)

249 I hate when that happens

@LeadingReport 9m
BREAKING: A California resident has tested positive for the plague.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 12:01 PM (mlg/3)

250 I remember, back during WW2, when the US caught hell for bombing a Mexican business in Germany.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
.......

What did they serve, schnitzeladas?

Posted by: wth at August 21, 2025 12:01 PM (v0R5T)

251 Only slightly above the chances of me having group sex with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

You mean you haven't? I am disappoint.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 12:01 PM (77rzZ)

252 What did they serve, schnitzeladas?
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*drools*

Posted by: It's only fair at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (Fnbuk)

253 Thread hottie.

http://alturl.com/56e6v
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon
.......

Looks expensive.

Posted by: wth at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (v0R5T)

254 What amounts to obstruction, though?

Refusing to honor an ICE detainer, is that obstruction? I'm not sure it is.
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Perhaps not, but its a dick move. And I wish that we were willing to go both-sides-of-the-fence with our dialogues with the American public. Let the President lead with bombast and contempt, but we also need some more logically toned members of the administration pointing out that if you're elected by a city, county, or state to a position of "law enforcement" and you're notified by the Feds that they have a pending "law enforcement" concern for an individual, its really a dick move--both to the Feds and to the *constituents that elected you*--to respond by ignoring the Federal request.

Posted by: Crusader at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (TN0g+)

255 Remember when Texas put up barbed and razor wire to secure the border? Remember when Obama had the Feds cut and bulldoze it saying "securing the border is a Federal job and you can't do it just because we won't."?

Posted by: Darth Randall at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (xp13L)

256 Thread hottie.

http://alturl.com/56e6v
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

Not bad legs. And Fen would approve of the attire.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

257 257 Remember when Texas put up barbed and razor wire to secure the border? Remember when Obama had the Feds cut and bulldoze it saying "securing the border is a Federal job and you can't do it just because we won't."?
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (xp13L)

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I think that happened under Biden's term.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (GBKbO)

258 Cut off all Federal Funding to Blue Cities and this stuff will sort out.

It's just like the experts saying how complex fixing the economy would be. No, just set us free and you see what's happening.

Set the Blue Cities free from FedGov money and see what happens.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (0JzSR)

259 244. Good rant, but it's reined in.
Posted by: Harry The Horse

Noted, and thank you. 👍

(Old & bordering on heaven knows what mentally is my partial excuse. That and poor typing.).

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2025 12:03 PM (NFX2v)

260 It's a shame about Wray.
Posted by: Lemonhead

You is old.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 21, 2025 12:03 PM (mlg/3)

261 I once saw group sex with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders live at the Hollywood Bowl. Grunge rock band; not very good

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 12:03 PM (/DBoU)

262 Not bad legs. And Fen would approve of the attire.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

I don't know. Too much ankle.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 12:03 PM (i24o9)

263 @LeadingReport 9m
BREAKING: A California resident has tested positive for the plague.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
.....

You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail !

Posted by: wth at August 21, 2025 12:04 PM (v0R5T)

264 I'd rather there not be the power, but Republicans refusing to use the power has just gotten us to the point where Democrats exclusively use it.

We're not going to improve the situation by sitting back and waiting for Democrats to regain their good sense.

Will we get back to the powers being reduced through tit for tat? I don't know. I suspect not. I also know that we won't get back to the powers being reduced by letting Democrats run around with handguns.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, searching for thrills with John Frankenheimer at August 21, 2025 11:53 AM (GBKbO)

The Dems brilliantly used political jiu-jitsu against the Republicans, by playing to their 'conservative' billing. While the Dems could be as activist as they liked (as is their wont), at the same time the bulled the Reps into not using activism to roll back the Dem gains, forcing them to use 'conservative' methods to roll them back instead - which never work. Dems used 'stare decisis' and the fear of radical activism against Reps, to great success.

The great triumph of Trump is that he broke that failing mindset. If you want to MAGA, you need to cut the Gordian Knot with a sword, not unravel it fiber by fiber.

Posted by: Darrell Harris at August 21, 2025 12:04 PM (fDCYj)

265 Only slightly above the chances of me having group sex with the Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders.
Posted by: Elric The Blade

You mean you haven't? I am disappoint.
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Such the disappoint! Not since I was informed I could trust Wray and subsequently found i could not!!!!! The world turned upside down i say!!!

Posted by: It's only fair at August 21, 2025 12:04 PM (Fnbuk)

266 > BREAKING: A California resident has tested positive for the plague.
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Legal "resident?"

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 21, 2025 12:04 PM (Q4IgG)

267 It's a shame about Wray.
Posted by: Lemonhead
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*golf clap*

But also, I won't be able to get that guitar riff that follows the chorus out of my head now.

Posted by: Crusader at August 21, 2025 12:04 PM (TN0g+)

268 259 257 Remember when Texas put up barbed and razor wire to secure the border? Remember when Obama had the Feds cut and bulldoze it saying "securing the border is a Federal job and you can't do it just because we won't."?
Posted by: Darth Randall at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (xp13L)

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I think that happened under Biden's term.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison,
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Think the wire went back up and they continued building the wall.
Something in the law about states defending itself. Maybe it's a border law.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at August 21, 2025 12:05 PM (0JzSR)

269 And Fen would approve of the attire.
Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 12:02 PM (77rzZ)

In that case, I'm not interested.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 21, 2025 12:05 PM (dGCAG)

270 What did they serve, schnitzeladas?
Posted by: wth at August 21, 2025 12:01 PM (v0R5T)

It was a leaf blower factory.

Posted by: Reforger at August 21, 2025 12:05 PM (pxUkb)

271 I've always found the waitstaff at Cracker Barrel to be good to excellent.

It's some BS that this dumb bitch is going to cost a lot of them jobs.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 21, 2025 12:05 PM (tlI68)

272 If we have an explosion of plague in the country, we need more undocumented future D voters not less!

Posted by: Dumbo Newsom at August 21, 2025 12:05 PM (g47mK)

273 I don't know. Too much ankle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 12:03 PM (i24o9)

According to my old puritan friends… you can never show too much ankle

Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 21, 2025 12:05 PM (/DBoU)

274 I don't know. Too much ankle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder

That's why I said they were "not bad," not "great."

Great legs are the hardest beauty trait for women to pull off (maybe for men, too). There are many more women out there with great racks than with great gams.

Posted by: Bulg at August 21, 2025 12:05 PM (77rzZ)

275 The process is the punishment.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at August 21, 2025 12:06 PM (MjMtL)

276 265 @LeadingReport 9m
BREAKING: A California resident has tested positive for the plague.
Posted by: weft cut-loop

Rats!

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 21, 2025 12:06 PM (PiwSw)

277 You want: Dallas Cowboy Cheerleaders

You'll Settle For: Lower Slobovia Community College Junior Varsity Majorettes

You get: The two new members of the Viking Cheer Squad

Posted by: Reality Is Not Pretty at August 21, 2025 12:06 PM (G5+As)

278 Nood. Texas.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 21, 2025 12:06 PM (ExV1e)

279 @LeadingReport 9m
BREAKING: A California resident has tested positive for the plague.
Posted by: weft cut-loop
.....

You know what will solve this problem? High Speed Rail !
Posted by: wth at August 21, 2025 12:04 PM (v0R5T)

Damn those California residents. Voted for Jerry Brown, now they're gettin' the plague.

Posted by: BurtTC at August 21, 2025 12:07 PM (dGCAG)

280 I don't know. Too much ankle.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 12:03 PM (i24o9)

Wait. You're the one who linked it! WTF?! LOL.

Posted by: Aetius451AD at August 21, 2025 12:09 PM (bss/y)

281 Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at August 21, 2025 12:00 PM (i24o9)

Indeed

Posted by: ... at August 21, 2025 12:09 PM (PTRhX)

282 You get: The two new members of the Viking Cheer Squad/i]

/Click

Posted by: Or just turn the TV off at August 21, 2025 12:17 PM (sKqQm)

283
Philadelphia Welcoming Fund
Supporting local efforts to welcome immigrants, refugees, and asylum seekers arriving to Philadelphia

WHYY, the Philadelphia Experiment, Opinion, April 2022
Refugees of color wish they could get the Ukrainian treatment

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at August 21, 2025 12:21 PM (NFX2v)

284 Harry Sisson is qualified to speak on behalf of "men" with penis-shaped moufs. And not on behalf of anything maga.

Posted by: Drink Like Vikings at August 21, 2025 12:41 PM (5NTLk)

285 If States and cities used this same argument to become sanctuaries from Federal gun laws, would we even be having this same discussion?

Posted by: Lex at August 21, 2025 12:49 PM (l5xX+)

286 I wash myself with a rag on a stick.
Posted by: Lets Check in on JewPropaganda.mu.mu
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is this 'stick' green perhaps?

Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 21, 2025 12:58 PM (EFZgU)

287 Trump's plan is pretty clear:
1) Stop the inflow (done)
2) Deport the criminals (working on it)
3) Make being illegal in the U.S. untenable.
4) Make going home easy.

My guesstimate is in six months, Trump has deported 200,000 and will likely deport 500,000 by the end of this year. Drop in the bucket of the 20 million Biden let in. BUT. my guess is about 2 million will self deport - they can't make money, can't risk going out. Can't get benefits.

But that assumes there isn't a "preference cascade" - in a year, when illegals have burned through their savings, and people get tired of supporting them, you'll see a tidal wave of self-deportation. You could see 15 million leave.

One last tiny bit - Trump needs an EO that says, if you haven't been convicted of a crime, don't have a deportation order, and leave voluntarily, and speak fluent English, you'll be readmitted LEGALLY after six months under an expedited system. And announce a tax on remittances. Oh, and 100% confiscate all assets for anyone you arrest for being here illegally. You'll get every illegal out the door in no time.

He could solve this thing in four years.

Posted by: El Mariachi - Attorney at Law at August 21, 2025 01:28 PM (gDhA9)

288 I feel pain every time I see this photo of the pierced monkey.
Whoever did this to the money needs to his his testicles pierced over and over.

Torturing an animal in this brutal way is disgusting.

Posted by: ploome at August 21, 2025 03:31 PM (AExpd)

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