Supreme Court Stays Left-Wing Rogue Judges' Ruling That Texas Is Not Allowed to Draw Its Own Congressional Maps

Alito stayed the decision, which means, for the moment, the map is back.

The lawless rogue left-wing judges had issued an injunction blocking the implementation of the map -- an injunction being an order granted before a trial, after a mini-hearing and a finding that the moving party is "substantially likely to succeed" at the actual trial* -- which means there is now no ruling before the full trial.

We'll see how it goes from there.

For now, this is good news.

Texas is back to using its 2025 congressional map, at least temporarily, after Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito granted the state's request to pause a court ruling that would have required using the lines legislators drew in 2021.
The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use while the court battle over the legality of the map plays out over the coming weeks and months; Friday's ruling is a short-term pause while they make that decision.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton celebrated the step as a victory, and said his office would "look forward to continuing to press forward in our case on the merits."

* As the dissenting Judge Smith pointed out, the majority (of two) acknowledged that the law requires a "substantial likelihood" of victory to obtain this extraordinary relief, but then immediately ignored the requirement of "substantial (overwhelming) likelihood" and just spoke of mere likelihood.

Related: Conservatives won another victory at the Supreme Court.

This is complicated: A liberal fired by Trump filed suit arguing he couldn't be fired. The lowly district court judge granted Yet Another Emergency Injunction blocking his firing. The DC Court of Appeals vacated that injunction. The liberal brat appealed to the Supreme Court, who then declined to hear his appeal, letting the appeals court's ruling stand. And their ruling kicked over the lowly (left-wing) district court's Yet Another Emergency Inunction.

Todd Harper, a member of the National Credit Union Administration Board, challenged his removal from that role, filing suit against Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, President Donald Trump, and other administration officials.
In July, D.C. District Judge Amir Ali granted summary judgment in favor of Harper, but the administration appealed, and the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals granted a stay of Ali's judgment pending appeal in August. Harper then filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court in September.

And that writ -- a request for a review by the Court -- was declined.

The RedState article notes that a lot of wins are found in these "short orders." People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.

Posted by: Ace at 04:50 PM

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

2 That's right......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

3 On to the next one.......

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:49 PM (Zz0t1)

4 They wouldn't have stayed the ruling if they weren't going to seriously consider overturning it.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (0N4FZ)

5 Not sure the value of a stay.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (ExV1e)

6 Well, we will see what we see

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (xcxpd)

7 Ok! I guess.

Posted by: Guy who always says "Nothing will happen" and is usually right at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (vFG9F)

8 These endless procedural rigamaroles really are going to end the common law system. "Lawyer driven" courts are just theaters to enrich lawyers, while everything takes forever to play out.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (Dg7ng)

9 The effing Federal courts need to get out of elections, period.

We're not in Reconstruction anymore.

Repeal the VRA.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:51 PM (77rzZ)

10 What all those cullid folks gonna do if they dont have they own cullid districts?

Posted by: Kunta Kinta Brown at November 24, 2025 04:52 PM (1mUlr)

11 The effing Federal courts need to get out of elections, period.

I want them enforcing uniform voting rules in Federal elections. The problem is that they don't.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (Riz8t)

12 Sorry to ask this again, Folks, but can someone please give me the e-mail for prayer requests?
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:50 PM (77rzZ)

Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (ExV1e)

13 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

14 Hey everybody. Hey ace.

I can't believe these activist judges don't know they're going to be slapped down from above. I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (xqw19)

15 I want them enforcing uniform voting rules in Federal elections. The problem is that they don't.
Posted by: Archimedes

Thus, the need to get them the hell out them.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (77rzZ)

16 >>Not sure the value of a stay.

It allows Jackson Browne to play a little longer.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (viF8m)

17 13 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

I mean....I think we should see where he's going with this...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (xcxpd)

18 Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

Thank you.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (77rzZ)

19 I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.

You'd never have heard of Judge Boasberg if he hadn't simply ignored the law.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (Riz8t)

20 How can the government even function without Todd Harper at the NCAU, or the NIC-U, or wherever he is?

Posted by: Wally at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (dx81A)

21 but the tiny little short orders

I really am a big ruling, but the water was cold today!

Posted by: Tiny Little Short Order at November 24, 2025 04:54 PM (0sNs1)

22 The high court has not yet decided what map Texas should use while the court battle over the legality of the map plays out over the coming weeks and months;
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Nor should they decide what map Texas should use. They should just decide which maps are permissible under law, and let Texas make the determination from them.

Surprise, yet another reporter does not know the function of a judge.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (krQz2)

23 In July, D.C. District Judge Amir Ali

Wait, is he one of the Richmond Alis or the Trenton Alis?

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

24 4 They wouldn't have stayed the ruling if they weren't going to seriously consider overturning it.
Posted by: Mister Scott

The grounds cited by the runaway judges were racial discrimination thus equating Democrats with minority rights to have minority set asides in gerrymandering cases.

Scotus has already heard oral arguments on the VRA giving courts (and state legislatures) the ability to interfere in redistricting to create majority minority districts -if that is struck down, then the lower court did not have the jurisdiction, aka legal right to hear the case, in the first place.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (WDjG6)

25 Has anyone lost their judgeship or been thrown in jail?

Tar and feathers?
Hung?
Keep hauled?

Bueller?

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (W2Pud)

26 iPlease submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I do owe you a gratuitous thank you for keeping the First Lady a part over the last while.

I was negligent in keeping you directly updated.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

27 The Bolsheviks are just being sand in the gears to try and derail the recovery. It is the only power that they have unless they win the midterms.

Posted by: toby928(c) at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (jc0TO)

28 I want them enforcing uniform voting rules in Federal elections. The problem is that they don't.
Posted by: Archimedes

Thus, the need to get them the hell out them.

And make who responsible for enforcing the law? The answer isn't to get rid of the judiciary, it's to get rid of judges who ignore their role in it.

Posted by: Archimedes at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Riz8t)

29 It allows Jackson Browne to play a little longer.
Posted by: JackStraw

"Nah, I'm good."
-- Daryl Hannah

Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (cYBz/)

30 Wait, is he one of the Richmond Alis or the Trenton Alis?
Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (sKqQm)

"Please to be knowing I was born in East LA!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (Zz0t1)

31 Surprise, yet another reporter does not know the function of a judge.
Posted by: Axeman
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Most reporters use press releases from interested partisans like the Brennan Center of NYU to write their stories. Legal decision coverage in the press is abysmal even by so called lawyer commentators.

Plus most of the media is simply wishcasting shit when they write about it.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (WDjG6)

32 I can't believe these activist judges don't know they're going to be slapped down from above. I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (xqw19)

They're a delaying action. The chirrens get agitated cuz things aren't happening fast enough and blame Trump for that. The olds get agitated cuz that nice man with the cashew shaped head on TV said that Trump's actions were declared illegal by a judge - without ever mentioning that the judge gets overturned.

It's all an op. A fake, gay, op.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

33 I don't think DJs even liked Jackson Browne's Loadout/Stay. But it was long enough for them to smoke some doobie and take a dump.

Posted by: Wally at November 24, 2025 04:58 PM (dx81A)

34 The SC is this close from overturning Humphrey's Executor. Get it done

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 04:58 PM (bfwj/)

35 But Commie-Fornica's Map is just, fine !!!!!!

Nothing to see there !!!!!!!!

Posted by: Jackson at November 24, 2025 04:58 PM (J9q9v)

36 Has anyone lost their judgeship or been thrown in jail?

Tar and feathers?
Hung?
Keep hauled?

Bueller?
Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 04:55 PM (W2Pud)

Punishment of judges requires action by Congress. I think you can see the issue here.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:00 PM (ExV1e)

37 25 Has anyone lost their judgeship or been thrown in jail?

Tar and feathers?
Hung?
Keep hauled?

Bueller?
Posted by: nurse ratched

Using that as a standard is not appropriate given that the Founders, for better or worse, set up an impeachment process (which a significant minority felt was likely to be useless btw at the time) to remove federal judges. Like constitutional amendments, they made the bar high for removal which makes removal of judges extremely difficult.

The easiest way to remove them is like what Roosevelt did. He sweetened the retirement packages for judges and several justices opposing him on Scotus and more lower court judges immediately responded by retiring.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:00 PM (WDjG6)

38 The SC should order a lowly federal judge to be decapitated with a butterknife.that might make butt pirates like Boasberg think twice, but nothing short of it will.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (BI5O2)

39 People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.

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

Funny how they think the world always leans their way. They can fire anyone but nobody is allowed to fire them.

Posted by: Decaf at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (unUNN)

40 Punishment of judges requires action by Congress. I think you can see the issue here.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
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It requires 2/3rds of the Senate for removal. Not an issue to impeach, but as even the Democrats found out, quite another thing to get to 2/3rds by making opposite party Senators walk the plank.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (WDjG6)

41
It's Whigs on the Green time.

Posted by: Frank Barone at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (IifOV)

42 The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)
****
Bite me.

Posted by: Dick the Bruiser at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (0pybe)

43 Oh texas tribune they are the wurst

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (bXbFr)

44 Please submit any prayer requests to me, “Annie’s Stew” at apaslo at-sign hotmail dot com.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic

I do owe you a gratuitous thank you for keeping the First Lady a part over the last while.

I was negligent in keeping you directly updated.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at November 24, 2025 04:56 PM (Zz0t1)

Permit me to clarify. I am not “Annie’s Stew”. I copied and pasted the blurb from the start of the prayer thread without noticing that it included the word 'me'.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

45 32 They're a delaying action. The chirrens get agitated cuz things aren't happening fast enough and blame Trump for that. The olds get agitated cuz that nice man with the cashew shaped head on TV said that Trump's actions were declared illegal by a judge - without ever mentioning that the judge gets overturned.

It's all an op. A fake, gay, op.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 04:57 PM (ExV1e)

======

It should be noted that no delay actually...happened here.

It was pointless, except narrative framing. And if anything has been proven over the past 9 years, since the first rise of Trump, it's that narrative framing is...overrated.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

46 Yes, judges have been thrown out.

No one remembers Rose Bird in California?

Of course, she did tons of damage before that happened. We all have her to thank for the entire Manson family living long, long lives.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:03 PM (xqw19)

47 Funny how they think the world always leans their way. They can fire anyone but nobody is allowed to fire them.
Posted by: Decaf
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Because it takes impeachment to remove and for a constitutional amendment sometimes to kill their rulings.

That being said, if convicted of crimes, then they can be sitting in prison not hearing cases until they resign or are removed by impeachment. That has happened to several judges.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:03 PM (WDjG6)

48 "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
-- Dick the Butcher (Henry VI, Part 2)
Posted by: Tonypete at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (cYBz/)

I mean....I think we should see where he's going with this...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards
_______

It's lawyers or guns. Is there any other alternative?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (XvL8K)

49 i used to have a different nic: true 100%, thanks.

Also, hello TJM! Sorry I missed your movie thread this past weekend.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (xqw19)

50 Instead of blandly refusing to grant cert, I wish someone with Italian heritage like Alito would stand up and say "aw Shaddupyoface!"

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (uWKK8)

51 narrative framing is...overrated.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 05:02 PM (GBKbO)

Certainly Hollywood seems to think so.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (ExV1e)

52 49
Also, hello TJM! Sorry I missed your movie thread this past weekend.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (xqw19)

======

Forgiven if you like and subscribe the YouTube channel.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, seeing life through the shadows with Otto Preminger at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (GBKbO)

53 Yes, judges have been thrown out.

No one remembers Rose Bird in California?

Of course, she did tons of damage before that happened. We all have her to thank for the entire Manson family living long, long lives.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:03 PM (xqw19)

She was a state judge, not federal.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:05 PM (ExV1e)

54 Yes, lawyers and judges are beyond maddening.
At the same time: I recently read a joke.

- A genie appears and grants a man three wishes.
"Okay," he says. "I want all the lawyers and judges gone."
"Done," the Genie replies. "And I'm done here. Bye!"
"Hey wait!" the guy yells. "What about my other two wishes?"
"Sue me for 'em. Call an attorney."

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:05 PM (xqw19)

55 BTW, the right is not particularly better than the left in its media and 'influencers' bloviating about court decisions. TGP is particularly bad about it.

Clickbait and rage are common recipes for increased attention for ad clicks.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (WDjG6)

56
Ace, thanks for not JCVD Nut-Punching us with this post. We couldn't take anymore.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (FzTD6)

57 X can true up its accounts but Democrat enclaves are unwilling to do such.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (uwNDP)

58 I just sent to prayer requests to the list:

ANOTHER lady in our neighborhood has cancer. F**k that shit. (Not sure what kind, though.)

Also, our son is moving out on Friday, into a house he is renting in Arlington, VA with two friends. Prayers that the move may go well, that the three might live together peaceably, and that his Mom and I might quickly adjust emotionally, to his absence.

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (77rzZ)

59 Permit me to clarify. I am not “Annie’s Stew”. I copied and pasted the blurb from the start of the prayer thread without noticing that it included the word 'me'.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (ExV1e)

=====

I was really confused for a second.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 05:07 PM (DRSnL)

60 TJM,
Meant to tell you I liked the Howard Hawks top movie countdown. Gave me several movies that I had not seen and now might go about trying to locate.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:07 PM (WDjG6)

61 It's lawyers or guns. Is there any other alternative?

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (XvL8K)

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"Send lawyers, guns, and money
The shit has hit the fan"

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:07 PM (A5ASI)

62 I used to have a different nic, true.
Still, she got thrown out.

Re Fed judges, I don't know of any being thrown out. I want to say Abe Fortas, but I think he was only denied a promotion to SCOTUS, not taken off the bench.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:08 PM (xqw19)

63 Okay, so a good thing happened

Posted by: Don Black at November 24, 2025 05:08 PM (AOsQT)

64 I think the blistering dissent from the Texas Decision by Judge Smith will live on far, far longer than the nakedly political decision by the other two on the panel will.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 05:09 PM (uWKK8)

65 Alcee Hastings was thrown out as a judge. Of course, then he was elected a Congressman. Not all the corruption and stupidity comes from the judiciary, after all.

Posted by: Wally at November 24, 2025 05:09 PM (dx81A)

66 Can the Comey and James ruling be appealed, and then be reversed?

Posted by: That Guy at November 24, 2025 05:09 PM (IeX0j)

67 Wally, just more proof that Democrats have no shame whatsoever.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:10 PM (xqw19)

68 I wonder if Ace will cover the protesters at the anti-Trump Met opera performance of Carmen?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:10 PM (uwNDP)

69 Keep hauled?"

Castled?

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (XuXeR)

70 60+% of the native born population are White. But, we can’t seem to find any Judges named John Smith.

End the filibuster. End the blue slip.

Posted by: Going deep. Out. at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (XqFM2)

71 I think the blistering dissent from the Texas Decision by Judge Smith will live on far, far longer than the nakedly political decision by the other two on the panel will.

Screw you we've still got vouchers for free Beejers from a woman on any college campus we drop by!

One question though why do these vouchers note that a woman is anyone that self identifies as a woman?

Posted by: Judge Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (sKqQm)

72 The only Federal Judge I can think of who was impeached was Alcee Hastings from Florida, and that only happened because he got caught soliciting bribes.
And then after he was impeached he got himself elected to Congress anyways. Well I guess because he proved he was well suited for the job.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (uWKK8)

73 >>Can the Comey and James ruling be appealed, and then be reversed?

Yes and yes. Already in motion.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)

74 68

Even to opera fans like me the Met is dead. I haven't listened to a broadcast in years, and that's radio where I don't have to see the hideous modernist productions. But even over the airwaves they have to virtue signal so much that I can't listen.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 05:12 PM (Dg7ng)

75 I wonder if Ace will cover the protesters at the anti-Trump Met opera performance of Carmen?
Posted by: Anna Puma

"Neither an ICE guy nor a wetback be..."

Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 05:12 PM (77rzZ)

76 Alcee Hastings was impeached by Congress and later came back as a Democrat in the House of Representatives.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:13 PM (uwNDP)

77 The easiest way to remove them is like what Roosevelt did. He sweetened the retirement packages for judges and several justices opposing him on Scotus and more lower court judges immediately responded by retiring.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:00 PM (WDjG6)
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Judges were less ideological in those days.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:13 PM (krQz2)

78 I can't believe these activist judges don't know they're going to be slapped down from above. I guess they all just really, really crave their 20 minutes of adulation from the left.
Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 04:53 PM (xqw19)

I think you underestimate their motivation and determination. Like Islam, Marxism is a whole-of-society grift. The amount of wealth in play for a victorious clique is literally unimaginable. Even federal judges have checks on their authority -- as you say -- so there is room for improvement for the power-hungry, who dream of a socialist "paradise" (for them) of no limits, just pure Will *Is* Law.

So, anything they can do to move the needle, even just a little bit here and there, is totally worth it. (Insert Terminator quote about relentless pursuit.) Maybe this ruling will be sent back, but another one might get through, or at least delay MAGA enough to give Mordor an edge. Evil never rests, and neither will they until there's a Constitutional amendment banning them and an American Inquisition to root them out.

Posted by: SciVo at November 24, 2025 05:13 PM (vQLHf)

79 One would expect that almost all judges and politicians would be natural born Americans.

They understand our politics and citizens better, in aggregate, then someone that just moved here.

And yet it seems under Biden almost all judges, and plenty of upperwardly mobile Dem pols are foreign born or first generation.

That only happens if you do it intentionally and you only do it intentionally if you want less American decisions...

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (sKqQm)

80 Annie's Stew is Right!

Posted by: Irish Stew at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (rO4EG)

81
The very very ugly Chelsea Handler, who is evil-insane & quite stupid, revived her same exact 2020 fake "I'm Breaking Up With _____ " act, but this time, she's fake "breaking up with"...

Home Depot.

Yeah, back in 2020 chelsea, who had just embarked on her quest for a plastic face, made a series of lolcow videos saying she was "breaking up" with all her Trump-supporting fake "boyfriends." And promised all her fake "boyfriends" (her imaginary Simps, I guess) she would "open her legs" again for them if she voted for biden.

handler, who looks like a Batman villain, now, made the same promise, last weekend, to her "boyfriend" Home Depot. I think she was trying to appeal to Home Depot shoppers, but didn't make that clear.

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (FzTD6)

82 and that his Mom and I might quickly adjust emotionally, to his absence."

Took us about .2483 of a second for us. Or maybe less.

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (XuXeR)

83 My SWAG? (scientific wild ass guess).

Alito knows that the Supremes are about to nuc gerrymandering along racial lines, as it is CLEARLY not only against the law, but makes Race relations WORSE in this nation...

Which means that Texass Judge's ruling, saying it was done for Race reasons, would be moot as soon as that Ruling drops.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 05:14 PM (mP0Kj)

84 It's extremely aggravating to have to go through the bullshit we go through to get a legal decision upheld while we (again) have to go through the bullshit we go through to get an illegal decision tossed.

Maybe tossed. It always depends on the judge's alliance.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 05:15 PM (NwnyJ)

85 If the Supreme Court rules against Texas, it should be scorched earth on every gerrymandered state map.

Especially cali and New England.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:15 PM (gWBY1)

86 Recreate Two-oh-one-eight is in full swing:
---
Jake Sherman @JakeSherman ·

A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (krQz2)

87 The incentives is for leftwing judges to keep this up even if their decisions are reversed.

By being leftwing activists they will get cash, status, and opportunities from other leftwingers. And there is no price to pay so...why wouldn't they?

People respond to incentives.

Posted by: 18-1 at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (sKqQm)

88 Trump should make a big trade deal with some third world hellhole where we have an extradition treaty, in exchange for some crooked judge of theirs printing off arrest warrants for our federal judges, and then send SWAT teams into their homes to serve them up to the tender mercies of Liberian Justice.

See how many more of them say some dumb shit after that.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (BI5O2)

89 I'd be content to see an actual Federal law that requires witnessed lotteries in Judge assignment that allows for no discretion or rigging.

There's no way to explain the lopsided assignment of cases to these activist judges on such a frequent basis other than purposefully. The judge selection process has not earned the benefit of the doubt. The Honor system only works when there is honor....You Honor.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:18 PM (dIske)

90 People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.

===

Everybody is an attorney, doncha know ?

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:20 PM (g47mK)

91 It requires 2/3rds of the Senate for removal. Not an issue to impeach, but as even the Democrats found out, quite another thing to get to 2/3rds by making opposite party Senators walk the plank.
Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:01 PM (WDjG6)

Not to mention all the TIME it would take to impeach Judges.... Senate already does not do much... this would put them even further behind.

Congress has the authority to regulate courts lower than the Supremes... they just need to create a mechanism... panel, Court, something, that can get rid of crappy Judges.

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 24, 2025 05:20 PM (mP0Kj)

92 86 Recreate Two-oh-one-eight is in full swing:
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Jake Sherman @JakeSherman ·

A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.
Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:17 PM (krQz2)

Maybe we won't have to wait till 2026 for the dems to take the House

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (VE6XX)

93 Supreme Court rules against Texas"

Ok...

/buys more ammo

Posted by: man at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (XuXeR)

94 Elon Musk's cat-girls randomly selecting judges would be PPV gold.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (uwNDP)

95 Hander is on the level as much as HD pressure treated lumber.

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (wBaIH)

96 I wonder if Ace will cover the protesters at the anti-Trump Met opera performance of Carmen?
Posted by: Anna Puma

The irony being that the new production of Carmen(set at the US/Mexican border)is wildly anti Trump. Soldiers dressed as ICE agents seen breaking families up. This is from what I read in the NY Post.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (lJ0H4)

97 SciVo, hmmm thanks.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (xqw19)

98 A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term.

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they weren't voting for Trump anyway , were they

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (g47mK)

99 Federal judges removed via impeachment
- John Pickering: mental instability/intoxication on the bench; removed 1804
- West H. Humphreys: accepted a position under the Confederacy; removed 1862
- Robert W. Archbald: used his office for personal gain and business transactions with litigants; removed 1913
- Charles Swayne: false expense claims; other abuses of power; removed 1909
- George W. English: alleged misconduct; resigned 1926
- Robert W. Archbald: used his office for personal gain; removed 1913
- Harry Claiborne: tax evasion; removed 1986
- Walter L. Nixon: perjury; removed 1989
- Samuel B. Kent: sexual assault/obstruction; removed 2009

Impeached judges acquitted or resigned
- Samuel Chase: misconduct; acquitted by Senate 1805
- James H. Peck: abuse of power; acquitted by Senate 1831
- Alcee L. Hastings: conspiracy/perjury; acquitted of criminal charges; elected to Congress
- George S. Nixon: alleged misconduct but Senate did not act
- Charles Swayne: misuse of funds; other offenses; resigned before Senate vote

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (xqw19)

100 The above is per Google AI.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (xqw19)

101 The lawless rogue left-wing judges had issued an injunction...

You MEANT to call them feckless, unelected, black-robed, tyrannical, inferior federal district court judges...

Posted by: Andrew Branca at November 24, 2025 05:22 PM (K+3Ak)

102
We are big; it's the judiciary that got small.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 24, 2025 05:22 PM (xG4kz)

103 The decision by the leftwing toad in favor of soyboy brat Harper wasn’t on a temporary emergency filing. It was on summary judgment after (presumably) full consideration. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse.

Posted by: Elric the Blade at November 24, 2025 05:22 PM (dZ2MG)

104 Bulg, when our son left for his senior year of college we gave a party for other parents in the same situation: "Home alone! A celebration!" It was great fun. Prizes for most embarrassing incident of child this summer, etc.

Posted by: Wenda at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (/WpRi)

105 Shoe has a new vid! She explains why actual conservatives hate the GOP better than many conservatives can explain it.

And Trump/Mamdami (Trumpdami?) is her new yaoi weird ship.

She moved to NYC for hubby's job apparently and had nuggies doordashed to her during the vid. Not sure how I feel about that! It's like tradwife meets Gen z lazy decadence. But this vid will rack up over a million views so she can afford the nugs.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (gWBY1)

106 But Massie will stick around like an engorged tick, jaws firmly attached to the monetary jugular.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (uwNDP)

107 We can't demand the Senate waste its time impeaching rogue judges! When would they ever find time to fund raise?

Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)

108 It's lawyers or guns. Is there any other alternative?
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:04 PM (XvL8K)

Judges or juries without lawyers?

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (xcxpd)

109 Now that we're done laughing that the foreign accounts faking MAGA or pro-Kamala, ShoeOnHead has a vid up.
youtu.be/gli4Ox4i54I

Posted by: gKWVE at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (gKWVE)

110
A few other GOP members messaged us over the weekend saying that they, too, are considering retiring in the middle of the term

Shades of the Paul Ryan-led skeedaddle in 2017-2018.

I loathe these cowards.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (xG4kz)

111 Judges were less ideological in those days.
Posted by: Axeman
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Offering a million dollar payday is likely to drive even obstinate judges to retire. And no, judges were pretty ideological back then too. Substantial messes created in our republic were caused by ideological judges--Dred Scott, Barron v. Baltimore, Plessy v. Ferguson, etc. Even Marshall cared more about results than the law. Read Marbury v. Madison then read his opinion on almost the same content but a different section of the Judiciary Act in Ex Parte Bollman and Ex Parte Swarthout.

Bollman and Swarthout cases was too much for one of the justices, William Johnson and he dissented in these cases and called Marshall out on his playing games with the Judiciary Act.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6)

112
"punchbowl" fake "news" is the new drudge

jake sherman is the new cuck drudge

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 05:25 PM (FzTD6)

113 BLAM BLAM BLAM!

Posted by: nurse ratched at November 24, 2025 05:25 PM (W2Pud)

114 Not to mention all the TIME it would take to impeach Judges.... Senate already does not do much... this would put them even further behind.
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Flights from Dulles to Monrovia are less than 24 hours. They could be apprehended and be arraigned by a cannibal child soldier/judge the next day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (BI5O2)

115 We should reflect upon how The Sons of Anarchy pushed judges to change.

Posted by: thug dolphin at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (EyfuW)

116 The only Federal Judge I can think of who was impeached was Alcee Hastings from Florida,

Posted by: Tom Servo
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State court judges are much more interesting. Here in Ky, one was shot by the sheriff a couple of years ago over pimping out female defendants. Another was kicked off the bench for a scandal involving a three way. Ace covered the latter, with her picture captioned "I will hold you in contempt of my snizz." That's up there with the Ana Navarro stinky feet caption.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (XvL8K)

117 good thing Trump pushed BBB through when he did

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (g47mK)

118 I'm pretty sure they already took the vote on the majority-minority districts ruling as well.

And I'll bet good money that the Left Bloc has been playing the same game as these district judges--delaying as long as they can to push that map change past the filing deadlines for as much of 2026 as possible.

The Dems know that 2026 is their last chance to take the House in the next 40 years.
And 2028 is their last chance at the Presidency for that long as well.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (VlU/R)

119 I wonder if those "members" are being paid off bigly to retire early...

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:27 PM (g47mK)

120 The irony being that the new production of Carmen(set at the US/Mexican border)is wildly anti Trump. Soldiers dressed as ICE agents seen breaking families up. This is from what I read in the NY Post.

Posted by: Tuna at November 24, 2025 05:21 PM (lJ0H4)

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Did they depict The DogEater putting the children in cages?

/rhetorical

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:27 PM (8smhG)

121 103 The decision by the leftwing toad in favor of soyboy brat Harper wasn’t on a temporary emergency filing. It was on summary judgment after (presumably) full consideration. I’m not sure if that makes it better or worse.
Posted by: Elric the Blade
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Summary judgment and jury instructions are the two most often overturned trial court decisions by appellate courts. Usually it is shitty work done by the trial judge in the first place that exceeds the deferential treatment that appellate courts usually have toward trial judge decisions.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:27 PM (WDjG6)

122 It might be true that some Republican Reps are considering retiring or it might just be more leftist psyops.

Most of these people are addicted to power. And money.

Posted by: JackStraw at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (viF8m)

123 Jake Tapper's sources were all lying to o him about Biden's brain.
Why should we believe Jake Sherman was contacted by GOPe types?

Posted by: Smell the Glove at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (bfwj/)

124 How did that Nuremberg movie do at the box office?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (uwNDP)

125 118 I'm pretty sure they already took the vote on the majority-minority districts ruling as well.

And I'll bet good money that the Left Bloc has been playing the same game as these district judges--delaying as long as they can to push that map change past the filing deadlines for as much of 2026 as possible.

The Dems know that 2026 is their last chance to take the House in the next 40 years.
And 2028 is their last chance at the Presidency for that long as well.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice
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Scotus goes into conference on the week of oral arguments on cases that week (usually Friday) to vote on merits.

After the merit vote, opinions are assigned by the most senior justice (or chief justice) on the winning side at the merits vote. Not final until opinion is published.

There are a few exceptions but that is the general rule.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (WDjG6)

126 Supreme Court Stays Left-Wing Rogue Judges' Ruling That Texas Is Not Allowed to Draw Its Own Congressional Maps

Utah has a similar case, where a judge threw out the Legislature's map, ruling that Democrats always get one of Utah's seats, regardless of how many actual votes they can muster together on Election ~~Day Week Month~~ Season.

Posted by: Half Dozen at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (mlA5S)

127 People focus on the big rulings, but the tiny little short orders, like just declining to hear this guy whine that he feels entitled to keep his job, are big, too.
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Sure. But we need a real disincentive to stop these judges. As it is, we're relying on hurt feelings.

Posted by: Eeyore at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (s0JqF)

128 '26 is muy, muy importante, and that's why X cleaning its Aegean Stables is también muy importante

Posted by: runner at November 24, 2025 05:30 PM (g47mK)

129 Bulg, one of our kids moved out and the Thanksgiving break will be redoing his room to a guest room.

Which I'm sure he'll complain about when he returns for Christmas. You moved out! It's not your room! It sucks but It's life.

Youngest misses his bro and keeps sneaking into the guest room to sleep in there now. We joke he's Dudley Dursley and It's his second bedroom. And he's upset about any changes I make to it to make it less like his brother's old room.

Kids!

I'm reminding myself it's my guest room. MINE. And all the work is worth it. It will be lovely even if boys complain.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (gWBY1)

130 So what were those protesters at the Met protesting?

Gaza or climate change?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (uwNDP)

131 How did that Nuremberg movie do at the box office?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (uwNDP)

I'm reserving judgement.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (Buz0/)

132 124 There is no box office (other than Wicked, and even that will have fewer women/gays watching it than last year's part). Movie theaters are dead. The funeral just hasn't been announced yet.

Posted by: The Lower Depths at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (Dg7ng)

133 Flights from Dulles to Monrovia are less than 24 hours. They could be apprehended and be arraigned by a cannibal child soldier/judge the next day.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:26 PM (BI5O2)

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Imagine how much money we could raise selling Safari-Hunt-like tags?

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:32 PM (K2ZXV)

134 Kids! What's the matter with kids today?!
Kids! Who believes all the things they say?!
Why can't they be like we were? Perfect in every way??
What's the matter with kids today???

Posted by: qdpsteve in his spangled Broadway getup at November 24, 2025 05:32 PM (xqw19)

135 116 The only Federal Judge I can think of who was impeached was Alcee Hastings from Florida,

Posted by: Tom Servo

Several in the 90's, one, Walter Nixon, challenged his impeachment at Scotus but lost. He challenged because he claims that he should have had a full hearing before the Senate rather than before a committee before being removed from office. He was already sitting in jail for conviction (related to bribery IRRC). Nixon was one of the judges caught related to Trent Lott's slimy BIL whose name I forgot who was a big time trial lawyer in Mississippi class action lawsuits in backwater country jurisdictions.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (WDjG6)

136 off spangled Broadway getup

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (xqw19)

137 How did that Nuremberg movie do at the box office?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:29 PM (uwNDP)

I'm reserving judgement.
Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:31 PM (Buz0/)

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Sitting through it must have been trying.

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (K2ZXV)

138 Born
Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
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So many foreigners in our government. So many foreigners in related government agencies. There ought to be a law.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:34 PM (glfD5)

139 District Judge Amir Ali

—

Of the Nantucket Alis or the Newport Alis?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:34 PM (HW6XE)

140 Does Russel Crowe deliver all his lines as Goëring in a Trump voice?

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:34 PM (BI5O2)

141 But Massie will stick around like an engorged tick, jaws firmly attached to the monetary jugular.
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:23 PM (uwNDP)

Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

142 The Dems know that 2026 is their last chance to take the House in the next 40 years.

And from what I understand, the GOP is working hard to do a repeat of the treachery of Paul Ryan and do all that they can to guarantee a Demonic Party win in 2026.

I'm revising my "All Democrats hate America" to include "Nearly All Republicans hate America" too.

Remember, this GOP beyond passing a corrupted form of the B³ has done absolutely nothing to move the MAGA agenda forward.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (a4flb)

143 Sitting through it must have been trying.
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:33 PM (K2ZXV)

Never again!

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

144 Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

Massie cares about Massie

Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (VE6XX)

145 The most dangerous place to be in America is between a congressperson and their money.

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:36 PM (xqw19)

146 Massie actually cares about this country.

That is why he routinely sides with the Demonic Party.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:36 PM (a4flb)

147 Utah has a similar case, where a judge threw out the Legislature's map, ruling that Democrats always get one of Utah's seats, regardless of how many actual votes they can muster together on Election Day Week Month Season.
Posted by: Half Dozen
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I think that was a state court judge. Utah has a court of appeals and Supreme Court so I'll bet the decision was appealed to one of them depending on Utah law.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:37 PM (WDjG6)

148 I think you underestimate their motivation and determination.
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Yup.
Go and look at how fast they are moving these cases against Trump.
They are well past "extraordinary speed."
We're talking light speed.
On a docket where almost all cases take years to resolve, they are clearing them in less than 120 days. Some under 90 days.
It's just hard to say how incredibly insane that is on the federal docket for highly-contested cases.
They are basically neglecting their entire docket--ignoring hundreds of cases--to "get Trump."
What's hilarious is, these clown judges are too stupid to see how much that slop and speed and animosity are hurting them.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:37 PM (VlU/R)

149 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel
_https //www aljazeera com/ video/newsfeed/

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (glfD5)

150 qdpsteve 👍

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (+qU29)

151 If you believe a Senator cares about anything beyond the end of his snout, I have some beachfront property in Kansas you'll just love.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (BI5O2)

152 We can't demand the Senate waste its time impeaching rogue judges! When would they ever find time to fund raise?
Posted by: Field Marshal Zhukov at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (wBaIH)

I already spend 80% of my time on Fox News. Only so many hours in a day.
- Miss Lindsey

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (HW6XE)

153 There's a bunch of good videos on how freaky codependent the two leads of Wicked are. And they are.

Wicked will have legs. The musical was made in the anti-bush era of era of the 2000s. And now the movie is during the anti Trump era. The left loves it. Even Christian Toto liked it.

I hope it wins the best picture Oscar over pro Antifa film One Battle After Another. Let a film win that people actually went to see in theaters, for once!

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:39 PM (gWBY1)

154 Or Michelle and a buffet

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:39 PM (uwNDP)

155 Massie cares about Massie
Posted by: It's me donna at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (VE6XX)

So?

Do you care about yourself?

You think any of the other 534 people in Congress don't care about themselves? What standard do you insist on?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:40 PM (Buz0/)

156 Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC
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Massie and Rand Paul, the two most caring US Senators we have.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:40 PM (glfD5)

157 Or Michelle and a buffet
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:39 PM (uwNDP)

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Assuming you mean Big Mike, she's actually looking thin and stringy lately.

Posted by: Jordan61 at November 24, 2025 05:41 PM (DRSnL)

158 Massie actually cares about this country.

Unlike the sycophantic pricks who kiss Trump's arse, and conspire behind his back.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:35 PM (Buz0/)

Massie is a smarter slightly less lunatic version of MTg. But at his core he’s still a grifter who blames da Joooooos for every problem in the world.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (HW6XE)

159 Those Wicked chicks lezzing out all over each other is all people talk about, but it's Hollywood where everyone's gay. You'd think people would be talking about they seem to be high AF on some weird drug all the time.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (BI5O2)

160 Also, our son is moving out on Friday, into a house he is renting in Arlington, VA with two friends. Prayers that the move may go well, that the three might live together peaceably, and that his Mom and I might quickly adjust emotionally, to his absence.
Posted by: Bulg at November 24, 2025 05:06 PM (77rzZ)
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So you're not changing the locks.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (8o16y)

161 Offering a million dollar payday is likely to drive even obstinate judges to retire.

Posted by: whig at November 24, 2025 05:24 PM (WDjG6)
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As I argue it should be defined, ideology came along with Marx (from Rousseau). It is defined by an academic system of progression which you are "wrong" to resist.

This is something different from being merely, even strongly partisan or having a deep-held opinion.

It's you believe that there is a theory which current reality should be made to correspond to.

And it has been exacerbated by the credo that the "personal is political". Thus, I think if you make the retirement package attractive enough, you're probably likely to get more "enlightened self-interest" types than devout ideologues.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (krQz2)

162 /jk

I'll make a prayer for all of you.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (8o16y)

163 Maybe we won't have to wait till 2026 for the dems to take the House

I think that is the plan.

Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (a4flb)

164 Burt's going for the clicks today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:43 PM (glfD5)

165 Someone isn't mourning, the person getting his job.

Posted by: Skip at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (+qU29)

166 You can't really say I actually robbed my parent's house.

But you can say I took a lot of their stuff while they weren't there.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (8o16y)

167 Go and look at how fast they are moving these cases against Trump.
They are well past "extraordinary speed."
We're talking light speed.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:37 PM (VlU/R)
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More like "Ludicrous Speed".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:44 PM (krQz2)

168 Wicked is terrible. All these mean white people bullied this witch about the color of her skin and that made the things she did bad, not the fact that they were objectively bad.

She's a victim, you see.

The other Wicked Witch who gets killed in Wizard of Oz? No mention of her greenness and bullying.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (RoO7G)

169 Apparently the wicked witch killed by Dorothy's house falling on her is in a wheelchair.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (uwNDP)

170 Maybe we won't have to wait till 2026 for the dems to take the House

I think that is the plan.
Posted by: Unknown Drip Under Pressure at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (a4flb)
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That's why I call it "Recreate 2-0-1-8".

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (krQz2)

171 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel
_https //www aljazeera com/ video/newsfeed/

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:38 PM (glfD5)

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I assume the Muslim Commie Mondami will be attending the funeral as a rising taqqiya star?

/only half-joking

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (MqnoG)

172 Burt's going for the clicks today.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:43 PM (glfD5)

So I'm getting paid too? Everyone who doesn't agree with you 100% of the time must be taking Qatari money?

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:46 PM (SOFwB)

173 The true war crime in the new movie is making Michelle Yeoh sing.

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:47 PM (uwNDP)

174 Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (HW6XE)

The fact that you are incapable of telling the difference between The Jews and The State of Israel tells me you are either a troll, or deeply stupid.

I am willing to accept the more considerate stance that you are stupid.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:47 PM (rbvCR)

175 Yudhishthira, I suspect they both have eating disorders, and are doing the codependency competitive toxic bonding people with eating disorders often do. That and weird drugs.

Ariana stole her current beau from his wife right after she gave birth. I still can't believe she has not dumped him yet. Maybe after the song and dance of the press tour is over. And then she and Cynthia can declare their undying love for each other.

Posted by: LizLem at November 24, 2025 05:47 PM (gWBY1)

176 I assume the Muslim Commie Mondami will be attending the funeral as a rising taqqiya star?

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"It's another taqqiya star-rise ..."

Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (MqnoG)

177 So I'm getting paid too? Everyone who doesn't agree with you 100% of the time must be taking Qatari money?
Posted by: BurtTC
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Nah, you're doing it just to see.
It's one of those days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (glfD5)

178 >>> Those Wicked chicks lezzing out all over each other is all people talk about, but it's Hollywood where everyone's gay. You'd think people would be talking about they seem to be high AF on some weird drug all the time.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 05:42 PM (BI5O2)

I recon they are too emaciated to lezz out, there being some minimum energy level needed for exciting the lezz to metastable states of sexual coherence, and they are under that.

Posted by: banana Dream at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (3uBP9)

179 I assume the Muslim Commie Mondami will be attending the funeral as a rising taqqiya star?

/only half-joking
Posted by: ShainS -- Bury My Heart At a Texas MoMe at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (MqnoG)

I doubt it, he stated during the campaign that he had no intention of visiting the Holy Land

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (rbvCR)

180 The fact that you are incapable of telling the difference between The Jews and The State of Israel tells me you are either a troll, or deeply stupid.

I am willing to accept the more considerate stance that you are stupid.
Posted by: Kindltot

Lol
You’re one of the I don’t hate Jews I just support Hamas types. Of course you are.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (HW6XE)

181 She's a victim, you see.

The other Wicked Witch who gets killed in Wizard of Oz? No mention of her greenness and bullying.

Posted by: blaster at November 24, 2025 05:45 PM (RoO7G)
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I'm probably in the minority on this board that I don't mind watching a deconstruction or two.

I saw a theater production of Wicked and I thought they made the point well enough, and not too heavy handed.

However, it's pretty obvious that it fits into the liberal narrative of how villains are created:

1. They were bullied and abused.
2. They just inherited their parents' conservative politics.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (krQz2)

182 Stupid. gotcha.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (rbvCR)

183 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel

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He was about to convert to Christianity. That's what I'm hearing from my sources.

Posted by: Tucker Delicto at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (BI5O2)

184 I'd be content to see an actual Federal law that requires witnessed lotteries in Judge assignment that allows for no discretion or rigging.

There's no way to explain the lopsided assignment of cases to these activist judges on such a frequent basis other than purposefully. The judge selection process has not earned the benefit of the doubt.
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With zero sarcasm intended, I'm not sure legally/ethically how Boasberg (as just one example) should not *recuse* himself from hearing even ONE more case involving the Trump administration since he's already been overturned several times and has a slew of other appeals pending. There's no way to be "human" and not have that affect his judgement, one way or the other. When I worked for the Feds, we were admonished to avoid even the *appearance* of a conflict of interest.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (TN0g+)

185 I wouldn't mind some Qatari money....just saying...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (xcxpd)

186 Hezzbollah commander wasn't an aspiring rapping cleric?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (uwNDP)

187 Funny how all the “I’m just axing questions about Israel” types never ax questions about any other country. Did you k ow Egypt gets as much money as Israel does from the US? Oddly you never whine about that. Ever.

But bro don’t you dare accuse them of being anti-Semitic. Haves that would be crazy.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (HW6XE)

188 Only eight percent of Americans believe Democrats “won” the government shutdown battle, a weekly survey from the Economist/YouGov found.

The survey asked respondents, “In your opinion, who won the shutdown battle?”

Across the board, a plurality, 39 percent, said “neither” side won the shutdown battle, followed by 35 percent who said Republicans. Only eight percent deemed Democrats the victors.

Posted by: SMOD at November 24, 2025 05:51 PM (JwQGl)

189 Thousands mourn Hezbollah commander killed by Israel

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Oh so that’s why Tommie Massie is sad today. Makes sense.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:51 PM (HW6XE)

190 Nah, you're doing it just to see.
It's one of those days.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:48 PM (glfD5)

You read my mind!

Let me know who's going to win the Super Bowl. I'll put all my money on it, and then I'll retire to an island without internet connection.

You won't have to suffer my "comments for clicks" anymore.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:52 PM (SOFwB)

191 187 Funny how all the “I’m just axing questions about Israel” types never ax questions about any other country. Did you k ow Egypt gets as much money as Israel does from the US? Oddly you never whine about that. Ever.

But bro don’t you dare accuse them of being anti-Semitic. Haves that would be crazy.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (HW6XE)
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Over the years, Egypt got in excess of $100 Million from the US to promote tourism. Of course, those dollars were coming from USAID, but there it is.

Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:53 PM (dIske)

192 I wouldn't mind some Qatari money....just saying...
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at November 24, 2025 05:50 PM (xcxpd)

For all I know they'd pay me a million drachmas, and I'm thinking I'll be filthy rich, only to find out it's worth about $17.42.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:54 PM (SOFwB)

193 $17.42?

One large Dominos pizza?

Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:55 PM (uwNDP)

194 Egypt got a lot more than $100M. They gets $2B a year.

Oddly I never hear Kindlot complain about that. Or MTG. Or any of the other “I don’t hate Jews just Israel” types.

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 05:55 PM (HW6XE)

195 Over the years, Egypt got in excess of $100 Million from the US to promote tourism. Of course, those dollars were coming from USAID, but there it is.
Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:53 PM (dIske)

well, an amazing amount went to other issues that most likely got funneled to the Muslim Brotherhood and paid for their Arab Spring, but that is what NGOs do

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (rbvCR)

196 And from what I understand, the GOP is working hard to do a repeat of the treachery of Paul Ryan and do all that they can to guarantee a Demonic Party win in 2026.
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cf. the panic I read from Reuters this weekend. Something like "Trump seizes the Midterms from the Party."

Or, you know, "leader of the Republican Party leads the Party."

But oh my are they upset that Trump is attempting to set the issues and the candidates.

No fair not following the rule of letting the Dems and the media set the issues and put their thumb on the scale of who the Rs choose.

yeah, Trump knows what's going on; knows the stakes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (VlU/R)

197 Over the years, Egypt got in excess of $100 Million from the US to promote tourism. Of course, those dollars were coming from USAID, but there it is.
Posted by: Orson at November 24, 2025 05:53 PM (dIske)

For what it's worth, my position on foreign aid is we should be giving every country that is not the United States precisely zero dollars and zero cents.

And that's me being generous. Part of me wants to threaten the whole lot of them to give us every penny we gave them.

Plus interest.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (SOFwB)

198 With zero sarcasm intended, I'm not sure legally/ethically how Boasberg (as just one example) should not *recuse* himself from hearing even ONE more case involving the Trump administration since he's already been overturned several times and has a slew of other appeals pending.

Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at November 24, 2025 05:49 PM (TN0g+)
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Anybody sentient is not falling for the idea that Boasberg keeps being picked "randomly".

I saw this video from this lefty chick who is done with lefty propaganda and over her TDS. She said that J6 was the story she most wanted to be true--but at the time, she knew--even mid-TDS--it wasn't as bad as the Dems were blowing it up to be. But it was still "her team" and pursuing the opposition over "insurrection" was an effective tactic.

So, using the idea out there that there were people who provided no opposition to the J6 narrative that were not convinced it was as bad as was reported, there are probably also people who know it's not "random" anti-Trumpers keep getting these cases.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:57 PM (krQz2)

199 $17.42?

One large Dominos pizza?
Posted by: Anna Puma at November 24, 2025 05:55 PM (uwNDP)

One topping only.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 05:57 PM (SOFwB)

200 Skip, thanks!

Posted by: qdpsteve at November 24, 2025 05:58 PM (xqw19)

201 I recon they are too emaciated to lezz out, there being some minimum energy level needed for exciting the lezz to metastable states of sexual coherence, and they are under that.
Posted by: banana Dream

I saw Metastable States Of Sexual Coherence open for Pure Reason Revolution at The Sheen Center For Thought And Culture in 2019.

https://youtu.be/YU8Bybtunxw

Posted by: mikeski at November 24, 2025 05:58 PM (nhCoE)

202 >>>I'll retire to an island without internet connection.

You won't have to suffer my "comments for clicks" anymore.
Posted by: BurtTC
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youtube.com/watch?v=XZiX0oO_3Ls

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM (glfD5)

203 Oh, we are back to both sharpening knives as well as find the antisemite salami, eh?

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM (zZu0s)

204 yeah, Trump knows what's going on; knows the stakes.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at November 24, 2025 05:56 PM (VlU/R)
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The only thing the GOP is "conserving" is the Swamp.

Posted by: Axeman at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM (krQz2)

205
Stupid still can't tell the difference between The Jews and The State of Israel, and also has reading comprehension issues.

But you want dissention and splitting of opinion, you want people fighting over "your" favorite CNN talking point, like a mindless bot. You keep popping off about "not platforming" your enemies, and demanding I adopt your enemies too. But your enemies will always expand in scope, first it was the loons like Alex Jones, and that cryer Glenn Beck, then that antisemite Tucker, and then the crazy Candice. Each one deplatformed, cancelled, targeted. I spent four years losing my job and being deplatformed and shouted down for my opinion about Covid, so you can piss off with your passive aggressive and feminine attacks, or stop making sly, sideways insinuations and justify your open attempts at censorship.

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 06:00 PM (rbvCR)

206 Egypt supported hamas through the border tribes

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (bXbFr)

207 I saw Metastable States Of Sexual Coherence open for Pure Reason Revolution at The Sheen Center For Thought And Culture in 2019.
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I saw both bands open for Corrosion of Conformity at the Chaos Festival.

Posted by: Crusader at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (TN0g+)

208 You know, Amouranth is another one i do not get. She is not pretty/attractive. Her boobs are a bad fake.

And yet, other people go crazy.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

209
How is that "protest" at Home Depot not terrorism?

How is that legal??

Posted by: Soothsayer at November 24, 2025 06:02 PM (9h7/m)

210 Here's how I look at the judicial coup;

Every hour, day, week or month the blacked robed savants can keep Trump's administration from fulfilling it's promises is time for the left to regroup, reorganize and reenergize.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at November 24, 2025 06:02 PM (NwnyJ)

211 Is TDS and anagram of STDs?

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (glfD5)

212 Just dropped in to wish y'all a Happy Thanksgiving!

Posted by: Jasmine Crockett, the next Senator from Texas at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (0sNs1)

213 Harvard, for instance, acts as a passthrough for a lot of CIA and State Department black money. There are of course many others - but Harvard's foundation (*not* the University itself) receives $9 billion annually in US government grants alone, and a lot of that gets raked off into their various "international initiatives."

They are by no means the only academic endowment the government uses in this shell game, let alone the hundreds of non-academic NGOs they launder money through... It's nearly impossible to unwind just how much money our government is sluicing off to which foreigners, but it's a fuckton.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (BI5O2)

214 NOOD Somali's

Posted by: Hawaiian Judge at November 24, 2025 06:03 PM (VE6XX)

215 Oh, we are back to both sharpening knives as well as find the antisemite salami, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 05:59 PM

Well, yes, but we go for the semite salami.

Posted by: Mohels at November 24, 2025 06:04 PM (0sNs1)

216 You keep popping off about "not platforming" your enemies, and demanding I adopt your enemies too. But your enemies will always expand in scope, first it was the loons like Alex Jones, and that cryer Glenn Beck, then that antisemite Tucker, and then the crazy Candice. Each one deplatformed, cancelled, targeted. I spent four years losing my job and being deplatformed and shouted down for my opinion about Covid, so you can piss off with your passive aggressive and feminine attacks, or stop making sly, sideways insinuations and justify your open attempts at censorship.
Posted by: Kindltot

You are touchy. Very touchy.

I’ve explained this to you before I’m not looking to cancel anyone. You want to spew your hate, go ahead free country. But I also have the freedom to call you a hateful asshole.

So you understand now? Or do I need to explain it again?

Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (HW6XE)

217 You know, Amouranth is another one i do not get. She is not pretty/attractive. Her boobs are a bad fake.

And yet, other people go crazy.
Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at November 24, 2025 06:01 PM (zZu0s)

Never heard of her. Had to look her up. Every photo online appears to be a glamour shot, whilst wearing a pushup bra to emphasis her silicone tits.

Men really do lose dozens of IQ points around fake, pushed up tits.

Posted by: BurtTC at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (2jpkJ)

218 Lawyers have been interpreting and re-interpreting the Constitution since 1788. The one part that has gone back and forth the most is an unambiguous one sentence amendment.

How can one not despise the profession.

Posted by: the way I see it at November 24, 2025 06:06 PM (KDPiq)

219
Oh so that’s why Tommie Massie is sad today. Makes sense.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald

It is sad to lose one of your feenz.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM} at November 24, 2025 06:07 PM (xG4kz)

220 203 Oh, we are back to both sharpening knives as well as find the antisemite salami, eh?
Posted by: Aetius451AD
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That fella who painted Rape of Tamar had a rather common concept of rape among certain cultures. That thing in his right hand did not look like a penis.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at November 24, 2025 06:08 PM (glfD5)

221 So you understand now? Or do I need to explain it again?
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at November 24, 2025 06:05 PM (HW6XE)

Nope, you are a concern troll

Posted by: Kindltot at November 24, 2025 06:09 PM (rbvCR)

222 I haven't called for a single person to be deplatformed. But every time I criticize any of these shameless grifters, people start shrieking that it's some kind of censorship. It is not. It is ridicule.

If you love ridiculous people, fine. But when people ridicule them you can't claim anyone is somehow silencing them. They are not being deplatformed. They still have their platforms and audiences, and if anything, they are being heavily signal-boosted, especially by Leftist media organs.

I ridicule Kristol and Goldberg and French constantly, and nobody claims I'm trying to silence those grifters, but when I ridicule *their* preferred grifters, then it's the dark night of speech control descending on Tucker Carlson.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at November 24, 2025 06:12 PM (BI5O2)

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