THE MORNING RANT: Some Good News for Red States…the Left is Seeking to Delegitimize the Imperial Judiciary

There is a vicious smear campaign going on by Democrats and their media allies against conservative Supreme Court justices, especially Clarence Thomas. The purpose of these attacks, of course, is to neutralize the authority of the conservative majority on the Supreme Court, and perhaps to even remove a member or two by impeachment. Others in conservative media have done a great job covering this coordinated media attack, so that is not what I am writing about today.

Beyond removing justices, the left has made it clear that if it has lost its iron-fisted control of the judiciary, then the judiciary’s role in governing the country is henceforth illegitimate.

Good. I agree. The judiciary’s role in governing our lives is illegitimate, and has been for a very long time.

A country that considers itself a “democracy” (or a “representative republic,” or whatever term indicates that the people elect their government) cannot have an unelected, unaccountable, and unreplaceable judiciary that has arrogated unto itself the power to govern, irrespective of laws and lawmakers.

Don’t misunderstand, wherever the right has gained control of the courts, we should use the courts to advance our agenda, just like the left did. There is nothing principled about judicial restraint if only one side employs it. But any control we currently have over a subset of the nation’s courts is itself fleeting, since the left conquers all unelected institutions.

It’s not just the political balance of the Supreme Court that has made the left apoplectic. Thanks to Donald Trump’s judicial appointments, many lower courts have also tilted right. The left is learning that “government by judges” doesn’t always work in their favor.

The 5th Circuit Is the Blown Fuse of American Jurisprudence [Esquire – 01/30/2023]

If you want to fast-track a truly terrible idea to the carefully engineered conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the best way to do it is to file it in Texas. If your case fails there, take it down to the 5th Circuit for some CPR. Once there, your chances to prevail are fairly good. This forces the other side to throw itself on the tender mercies of the Alito Court.

This is from the Washington Post, as quoted in that Esquire article:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit in New Orleans has long leaned conservative. But the arrival of a half-dozen judges picked by President Donald Trump — many of them young, ambitious and outspoken — has put the court at the forefront of resistance to the Biden administration’s assertions of legal authority and to the regulatory power of federal agencies. Their rulings have at times broken with precedent and exposed rifts among the judges, illustrating Trump’s lasting legacy on the powerful set of federal courts that operate one step below the Supreme Court.

Never forget that all those highly principled NeverTrump Republicans who preferred Hillary (and Biden) to Trump would also prefer to have our courts packed with leftists rather than the conservatives that Trump appointed. (I’ll admit that I was a Walker/Cruz NeverTrumper in 2016, but I ultimately voted for Trump because of the courts. Specifically, there was a 0% chance that Hillary would appoint conservatives, and although I had serious doubts about Trump, there was a better-than-zero chance he would appoint conservatives, and he generally did.)

That said, government by a conservative judiciary is not feasible nor sustainable, and where we have had victories, the left will ensure that it never happens again. That is why court packing and impeachment of conservative justices is so high on the left’s wish list right now.

Above all else, conservative governance is almost impossible when seemingly any and every conservative law that is passed is likely to be blocked by some judge – any judge – and thus the will of the people is subjugated to the will of individual, unelected judges. There are thousands of examples, but this one is recent and relevant.

Judge Blocks Tennessee Law Restricting Drag Performances in Public [Reuters – 4/03/2023]

We all learned in civics classes about our government’s system of checks and balances, but there is no check on the judiciary. One federal judge has taken it upon himself to stop implementation of a state law, and there is no legal recourse against this judge. The state of Tennessee can’t remove him from office or vote to overturn his ruling, nor will Congress impeach him.

The only check on this rogue judge is that another judge will overrule him. Thus there is no “check” on his power from any other branch of government.

Some people argue that the “check” on judicial activism is to win elections and have better people appointed, but that is like stating that the check on unconstitutional legislation resides at the ballot box, and that the courts should have no authority. (Which is an argument I’m receptive to discussing at this point.)

There is no check on our omnipotent judiciary from the other two branches of government, and conservatives have never had the fortitude to even impeach one left-wing judge. It is understood by all parties that conservative legislation is usually DOA, even if passed into law by the legislative and executive branches, because the left can go judge-shopping and find one “Hawaiian Judge” somewhere to throw the legislation out.

If the left refusing to consent to a right-wing court brings a halt to the era of judicial tyranny, then that is a positive development.

Andrew Jackson is alleged to have responded to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall in regards to the Worcester vs Georgia case, "John Marshall has made his decision, now let him enforce it."

It would warm my heart to hear Joe Biden, or Gavin Newsom, or Kathy Hochul, or some other elected Democrat executive effectively state "Samuel Alito has made his decision, now let him enforce it."

There is clearly momentum building among the left to delegitimize any conservative court and its rulings so that the left can govern independently of the courts. Those terms are acceptable, so long as the right follows suit and does the same.

Red states will be much freer if emancipated from the tyranny of unelected judges.

[buck.throckmorton at protonmail dot com]

Posted by: Buck Throckmorton at 11:00 AM

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1 Well, until they take control again and can say in a case about administrative law regarding the borders between states that guns are illegal and the 2nd Amendment is unconstitutional.

Then they'll be fans again.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:01 AM (LvTSG)

2 YET THE REPUBLICANS NEVER USE LAWFARE AGAINST THE DONKEYCOMMIES.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 08, 2023 11:01 AM (17s+e)

3 3d?

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:02 AM (fywVE)

4 Read just a little content and lost a 1st. Rookie mistake.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 08, 2023 11:02 AM (17s+e)

5 Hawaiian Judge will still have national jurisdiction.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:02 AM (pwExq)

6 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I don't think that was a red cross sanctioned first aid kit.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:03 AM (Qfp8E)

7 The Left wants a few words in the 14th Amendment to swallow all of the Constitution that went before it.

e.g. your 1st and 2nd amendment rights are trumped by my right to "liberty"

e.g. Trump amd some R Congresscritters engaged in insurrrection and can't hold office

e.g. "equal protection" means you have to bake my gay wedding cake

e.g. I'm Black, pay me reparations

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:03 AM (RqMSv)

8 The vicious campaign is not just on the supreme court.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:03 AM (zZu0s)

9 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

10 That said, government by a conservative judiciary is not feasible nor sustainable, and where we have had victories, the left will ensure that it never happens again. That is why court packing and impeachment of conservative justices is so high on the left’s wish list right now.

Government by a liberal judiciary is not financially feasible nor sustainable.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (nW4TA)

11 Let's face it, the left has been trying to destroy the Supreme Court for over 100 years, they are never going to stop and anyone who thinks they won't double down going into the future is being naive.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 08, 2023 11:05 AM (ncXxy)

12 9 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

Economy would be so vastly inflated as it would not be anywhere close to 'enough'.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:05 AM (zZu0s)

13 that said, government by a conservative judiciary is not feasible nor sustainable,

See the book of Judges for an example.

Posted by: Thomas Paine at May 08, 2023 11:05 AM (lTGtQ)

14 We all learned in civics classes about our government’s system of checks and balances, but there is no check on the judiciary. One federal judge has taken it upon himself to stop implementation of a state law, and there is no legal recourse against this judge. The state of Tennessee can’t remove him from office or vote to overturn his ruling, nor will Congress impeach him.

The federal judiciary is a creation of congress. Congress can change it if they want to.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:05 AM (Qfp8E)

15 11 Let's face it, the left has been trying to destroy the Supreme Court for over 100 years, they are never going to stop and anyone who thinks they won't double down going into the future is being naive.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 08, 2023 11:05 AM (ncXxy)

Well, if you are talking about destroying the concept of 'judicial review' I kind of agree.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:06 AM (zZu0s)

16 The reason they are picking on the Supremes is cuz the lost the House and Joetatoe is an embarrassment for them. Aiming at Thomas is not smart if your future rests on black voters. All of them are not out burning down the Piggly Wiggly. Picking on Thomas appeals to AWFLs not black women.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 08, 2023 11:06 AM (ppL7t)

17 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"

After just defaulting on $17 billion to the federal government for covid reparations. They get the other money from Newscum's stash.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 08, 2023 11:06 AM (17s+e)

18 I'm not clear on what, exactly, constitutes "justice" around here anymore.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 08, 2023 11:06 AM (Q4IgG)

19 Nice essay. I thought judges were elected to a fixed term of office in some states.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2023 11:06 AM (EZebt)

20 ...If you want to fast-track a truly terrible idea to the carefully engineered conservative majority on the Supreme Court
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As if the progressive majority on the Court that lasted for eons was *not* "carefully engineered." There was, in fact, but a single mistake in the history of the hard-left Court: Ginsburg holding out to have Hillary appoint her successor.

But the implication in this kind of garbage "journalism" is clear: the Court's *natural* state is a state of prog capture. A conservative Court - even if only barely - is the result of "engineering" to overcome that natural state.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:07 AM (O4oKn)

21 When God turns a country over, He does NOT mess around.

Posted by: Jmel at May 08, 2023 11:07 AM (RWHIh)

22 9 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

I noted on JJs thread, the $1.2M is a max calculation based on the recommendation of the board.

SF Board already proposed $5M without calculation so that will be the floor of any negotiation.

Activists have already started their open at $200M.

Make. It. Burn.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:07 AM (pwExq)

23 Dave Chapelle had a skit years ago where "Tron" wins up all the reparation money shooting dice to become America's first trillionaire.

Prescient, no?

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:07 AM (RqMSv)

24 "Don’t misunderstand, wherever the right has gained control of the courts, we should use the courts to advance our agenda, just like the left did. There is nothing principled about judicial restraint if only one side employs it. But any control we currently have over a subset of the nation’s courts is itself fleeting, since the left conquers all unelected institutions."

In hindsight the refusal to contest for or build fiefdoms of comparable power is how the Right(under the theory that our ultimate goal is shrinking things) has ended up in a very weak position today. For the most part the government is now composed of Leftists. It may be that the best way to have a weaker government is building for continual power struggle than attempting only to avoid the creation of new bureaucracies.

Also possible that simply returning to the spoils system would substantially limit the size of things.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:08 AM (eYoxG)

25 The Supreme Court needs to be term-limited.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:08 AM (fywVE)

26 The Left already ignores many rulings. If the Right were to do it though, that would be cause for sending people to jail. Hoping that the Left learns is a fool's game.

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 08, 2023 11:08 AM (GNPj+)

27 Well, it's not like the liberal SCOTUS justices evey ruled on cases with conflicts of interest.

What? They did? Well, nevermind.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (ynpvh)

28 As if the progressive majority on the Court that lasted for eons was *not* "carefully engineered." There was, in fact, but a single mistake in the history of the hard-left Court: Ginsburg holding out to have Hillary appoint her successor.

But the implication in this kind of garbage "journalism" is clear: the Court's *natural* state is a state of prog capture. A conservative Court - even if only barely - is the result of "engineering" to overcome that natural state.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:07 AM (O4oKn)

Everything the Left does is the arc of history after all.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (eYoxG)

29 Translating your rant to English:
"We will be better off ignoring the Constitution"

No. We are doomed.

Posted by: Next2Nothing at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (tA1/w)

30 FWIW, Sen. Cornyn gave 15-minute Senate speech (as always, to an empty chamber), calling out Schumer and other Democrats for various attacks on the judiciary.

I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the DoJ/Garland is refusing to arrest a single protestor at the Justices's homes, even after the assassination attempt on Kavanaugh. What a vile creature is Garland.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (zGeDA)

31 Don't remember where I read this:

Equality before the law is the heart of democracy.

But it is not the heart of our precious democratocracy.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (17s+e)

32 The Marxists run the courts except the big onr

Posted by: Skip at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (lu1jT)

33 The left cares about the judiciary solely as a means to power. Liberal judge is good, conservative judge is bad. Limiting government power is bad, expanding government power is good.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (EZebt)

34 27 Well, it's not like the liberal SCOTUS justices evey ruled on cases with conflicts of interest.

What? They did? Well, nevermind.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (ynpvh)

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It was okay when they did it because they are pure of heart and would never let donations to them personally affect their line of thinking. They are the new Socialist Man and are the next stage in human evolution.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (LvTSG)

35 So, why not ignore the judge's ruling?
He made his decision, now let him enforce it.

Posted by: RockwellT at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (LyIIW)

36 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (tjClK)

37 6 34 He went to him and bandaged his wounds, pouring on oil and wine. Then he put the man on his own donkey, brought him to an inn and took care of him.
Posted by: rhennigantx

I don't think that was a red cross sanctioned first aid kit.
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:03 AM (Qfp8E)

Then the Levite and the priest did report the Samaritan to the Sanhedrin for breaking the Sabbath and practicing medicine without a license. And lo, sent they forth enforcers of the law to seize the money paid to the innkeeper, jail the Samaritan, and take his ass by violence.

Posted by: It's not canon but it could've been part of the story at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (FEapg)

38 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

$1.2 million x 2.5 million blacks in California = $3 trillion = insolvency.

It is blatantly unconstitutional, but to Buck's point, they will find a judge who will support it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (ZCCyW)

39 If the left refusing to consent to a right-wing court brings a halt to the era of judicial tyranny, then that is a positive development.
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It won't. When they reject a court's ruling and do whatever it is they do anyway, they will wrap themselves in the justification that the courts have no right to do X, Y, or Z. They will succeed, since the FedGov is largely on their side anyway and won't send an army to force them to comply with something they don't want to see happen, either.

When there's a shift and a leftist court makes a ruling that a conservative state rejects, the states will wrap themselves in the justification that the courts have no right to do X, Y, or Z. Then the feds will force them to comply, by force of arms if needed.

This isn't about rules, it's about power. If the power ambitions of the left align with the rules, then fine - the rules must be followed, right? I mean, you nasty Republicans go on about rule of law all the damn time, don't you? If the power ambitions of the left do *not* align with the rules, however, then the rules suddenly become quite irrelevant.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (O4oKn)

40 And it's not just the federal judiciary that makes the Left go nuts. Here's a headline blurb from Slate:

"Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone"

That, of course, is a reference to the NC Supreme Court's decisions to : 1) Restore the Voter ID requirements for elections, 2) Restore control of congressional re-districting to the legislature, and 3) Restoring to the legislative branch the authority to limit suffrage to felons, in this case, those who are still on parole or probation.

Posted by: mrp at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (rj6Yv)

41 YET THE REPUBLICANS NEVER USE LAWFARE AGAINST THE DONKEYCOMMIES.
Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at May 08, 2023 11:01 AM (17s+e)

Most lawyers are liberal. The Left has a whole patronage system worked out with the court system. They file cases that result in their side getting paid to file more cases. Or they perform sue and settle kabuki. How many times to do we get "no standing" or straight out rejections?

Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (GNPj+)

42 22 9 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

I noted on JJs thread, the $1.2M is a max calculation based on the recommendation of the board.

SF Board already proposed $5M without calculation so that will be the floor of any negotiation.

Activists have already started their open at $200M.

Make. It. Burn.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:07 AM (pwExq)

If Kalifornistan wants to make reparations for slaves, they have to look to their predecesssors, the Mexicans and the Spanish. Natives were treated very, very badly, so if anyone needs reparations, it's them. Then again, so many tribes have casinos, we are already paying reparations.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

43 I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the DoJ/Garland is refusing to arrest a single protestor at the Justices's homes, even after the assassination attempt on Kavanaugh. What a vile creature is Garland.
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (zGeDA)

How could someone at this late date not have their head wrapped around this?

Well, internalize this: Senator McConnell and 18 of his Republican collegaues voted to confirm Garland as AG.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (pwExq)

44 12 9 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

Economy would be so vastly inflated as it would not be anywhere close to 'enough'.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:05 AM (zZu0s)
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Not to mention that CA has failed to pay back it's 18 billion in Fed COVID loans.

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 08, 2023 11:12 AM (ssESX)

45 Read the content.

We would need to have support from the GOPe for this to happen. The corruption is SOOO deep now, I don't see that happening. If, by some miracle, Trump (or some other Republican) were to win in '24, the GOPe isn't going to support them or their choices to enforce freedom and direct this country away from tyranny. They actually think they'll be a part of the NWO that will come after.

Because they ARE that stupid.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:12 AM (tjClK)

46 Hey CBD - if you are around, thanks for the art selection this morning.

Very apropos within my life this month.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2023 11:12 AM (qoGsy)

47 38 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

$1.2 million x 2.5 million blacks in California = $3 trillion = insolvency.

It is blatantly unconstitutional, but to Buck's point, they will find a judge who will support it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (ZCCyW)

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I encourage it. This farce of a government will not collapse without a nudge. Might as well be this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

48 28 As if the progressive majority on the Court that lasted for eons was *not* "carefully engineered." There was, in fact, but a single mistake in the history of the hard-left Court: Ginsburg holding out to have Hillary appoint her successor.

But the implication in this kind of garbage "journalism" is clear: the Court's *natural* state is a state of prog capture. A conservative Court - even if only barely - is the result of "engineering" to overcome that natural state.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:07 AM (O4oKn)

Everything the Left does is the arc of history after all.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (eYoxG)

Arc of History: everything tends towards entropy. Real Civilization is a fight against that entropy.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (ynpvh)

49 Trump did appoint a number of judges; some were bad picks and not confirmed by Republican Senators.

But Biden is making up for it with a raft of Leftist, activist nominees -- from the ACLU, even from the Southern Poverty Law Center -- who have, every one, been voted up by every Democtrat Senator.

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (zGeDA)

50
If Kalifornistan wants to make reparations for slaves, they have to look to their predecesssors, the Mexicans and the Spanish. Natives were treated very, very badly, so if anyone needs reparations, it's them. Then again, so many tribes have casinos, we are already paying reparations.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

And the Chinese.. They definitely have a more justifiable grievance than the Blacks...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (bs+z0)

51 40 "Three Cases in North Carolina, Decades of Democracy Undone"

That, of course, is a reference to the NC Supreme Court's decisions to : 1) Restore the Voter ID requirements for elections, 2) Restore control of congressional re-districting to the legislature, and 3) Restoring to the legislative branch the authority to limit suffrage to felons, in this case, those who are still on parole or probation.
Posted by: mrp at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (rj6Yv)

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"Making the people's representatives more responsible for voting, and ensuring that actual voters only vote, is fascism."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (LvTSG)

52 CA will never pay that reparations money.

The plan is to keep Blacks thinking that the rest of us still owe them big-time

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (RqMSv)

53 This isn't about rules, it's about power. If the power ambitions of the left align with the rules, then fine - the rules must be followed, right? I mean, you nasty Republicans go on about rule of law all the damn time, don't you? If the power ambitions of the left do *not* align with the rules, however, then the rules suddenly become quite irrelevant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (O4oKn)

Yes, the battlefield is not one of consistently applied principles. Maximizing and exercising power to defeat the opposition is today's contest.

That's terrible for rule of law, but we have little hope of maintaining that in any case. Establishing a new government and set of laws will be for the survivors to worry about.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (eYoxG)

54 24 . . . Also possible that simply returning to the spoils system would substantially limit the size of things.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead!
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^^ This ^^

The leftist goons who rule over us would immediately change their narrow, inferior little minds and decide that bureaucrats are not "experts" whose opinions and judgments should be deferred to.

Posted by: Kam Fong as Chin Ho at May 08, 2023 11:14 AM (gf7Ez)

55 47 38 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

$1.2 million x 2.5 million blacks in California = $3 trillion = insolvency.

It is blatantly unconstitutional, but to Buck's point, they will find a judge who will support it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (ZCCyW)

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I encourage it. This farce of a government will not collapse without a nudge. Might as well be this.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:12 AM (LvTSG)

I read somewhere that the combined debt of states, localities and the Fed is greater than the GDP of the entire world. Crash that, you crash the world. Then again, that's what they want.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:14 AM (ynpvh)

56 Everything the Left does is the arc of history after all.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (eYoxG)

I was thinking the same thing. They embrace the notion that history and all human events inexorably take a path of progressivism, and anything inconsistent with that is an aberration to be ignored or crushed. It's the Hegelian dialectic okie-doke.

Posted by: Fuckin' Marxists at May 08, 2023 11:14 AM (FEapg)

57 Hawaiian Judge will still have national jurisdiction.
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The constitution's Pineapple Clause!

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:14 AM (Vwz3I)

58 Very apropos within my life this month.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2023 11:12 AM (qoGsy)

Glad to hear you liked it...

Although there is a Hawaii judge who just signed a restraining order against the Samaritan for failing to abide by OSHA regulations in carrying passengers.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:14 AM (ZCCyW)

59 Arc of History: everything tends towards entropy. Real Civilization is a fight against that entropy.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (ynpvh)
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Yes.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (O4oKn)

60 The constitution's Pineapple Clause!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:14 AM (Vwz3I)

Yeah. Sideways.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (pwExq)

61 52 CA will never pay that reparations money.

The plan is to keep Blacks thinking that the rest of us still owe them big-time
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (RqMSv)
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Interesting theory. So fhen they'll start "taking what'a theirs", ala South Africa?

Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (ssESX)

62 If you want to fast-track a truly terrible idea to the carefully engineered conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the best way to do it is to file it in Texas. If your case fails there, take it down to the 5th Circuit for some CPR. Once there, your chances to prevail are fairly good. This forces the other side to throw itself on the tender mercies of the Alito Court.

Now do the 9th Circuit and the Burger Court.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (eOEVl)

63
I cannot wrap my head around the fact that the DoJ/Garland is refusing to arrest a single protestor at the Justices's homes, even after the assassination attempt on Kavanaugh. What a vile creature is Garland.
Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 08, 2023 11:09 AM (zGeDA)

Because they want the right destroyed and will use their pawns to kill you to make it happen. It's why the borders are open. Not to import tired and hungry, but to import thugs, gangs and terrorists so you will be murdered in the streets, demand the government do something and they'll follow up by taking your guns in the name of your safety.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (tjClK)

64 I have the Gerome dog painting loaded and ready to go when we hit 100.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (zZu0s)

65 Red states will be much freer if emancipated from the tyranny of unelected judges.

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Only blue states are Dem legislation, EOs, fiats, etc. will be emancipated from the Kritarchy.

A two-tiered "justice" system if you can keep it ...

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:16 AM (idbzh)

66 Judge rejects Zooey Zephyr bid to return to Montana House. District Court Judge Mike Menahan said it was outside his authority to overrule lawmakers who voted last week to exclude Zephyr from the House floor and debates. He cited the importance of preserving the Constitution's separation of powers between the legislative, executive and judicial branches.

appeal! 1st amendment trumps state laws!

Each house may expel or punish a member for good cause shown with the concurrence of two-thirds of all its members. There is no specific definition of "good cause" just agreement of 2/3 of all members

So they can boot whomever and disenfranchise Her constituents, leaving them with zero representation.

Good cause would not include standing with your constituents against a Bill they would be adversely affected by. This is taxation without representation and a movement against Freedom of Speech in the Federal Constitution. Montana Legislators do not get to pick and choose what is followed in the Constitution.

Void for vagueness...for good cause, undefined, is the definition of vague.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 08, 2023 11:16 AM (DnqVS)

67 There is nothing principled about judicial restraint if only one side employs it.

You don't win a street fight using Marquess of Queensbury rules.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:16 AM (ynpvh)

68 Then the Levite and the priest did report the Samaritan to the Sanhedrin for breaking the Sabbath and practicing medicine without a license. And lo, sent they forth enforcers of the law to seize the money paid to the innkeeper, jail the Samaritan,

and take his ass by violence.

Posted by: It's not canon but it could've been part of the story

Democrats and ass play. Always.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:16 AM (nW4TA)

69 How many times to do we get "no standing" or straight out rejections?
Posted by: Crom Laughs at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (GNPj+)

The new thing with leftist judges is issuing 'sanctions' against the lawyers representing conservatives for daring to sue. It's a bastardization of the system.

Posted by: AZ Hi Desert (Gringo fuertemente armado-Tempus belli)) at May 08, 2023 11:17 AM (l7Kbv)

70 Sadly I believe a root cause is that many Americans have been too well off. It's cozy inside The Borg if you go along. And when they had kids they've grown up to be entitled brats.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:17 AM (RqMSv)

71 CA will never pay that reparations money.

The plan is to keep Blacks thinking that the rest of us still owe them big-time
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (RqMSv)
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Interesting theory. So fhen they'll start "taking what'a theirs", ala South Africa?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (ssESX)

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Make Necklacing and Starvation Great Again!

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:18 AM (idbzh)

72 Trump did appoint a number of judges; some were bad picks and not confirmed by Republican Senators.

But Biden is making up for it with a raft of Leftist, activist nominees -- from the ACLU, even from the Southern Poverty Law Center -- who have, every one, been voted up by every Democtrat Senator.

SCOTUS has simply become a proxy war, no matter what that ass Roberts says.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:18 AM (eOEVl)

73 The sad thing on the gerome painting is that it is in a couple places, passed off as original, modern artwork.

Kind of like the commies we are discussing.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:18 AM (zZu0s)

74 ... So they can boot whomever and disenfranchise Her constituents, leaving them with zero representation. ...
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at May 08, 2023 11:16 AM (DnqVS)
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They have representation. She can still vote on bills. She just isn't allowed into the chamber or on the committees, and she isn't allowed to disrupt the proceedings.

If her constituents don't like that and want a a representative who can serve on committees and whatnot, they can recall her (or vote her out next time - I don't know if MT has recall provisions).

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:19 AM (O4oKn)

75 38 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:04 AM (Qfp8E)

$1.2 million x 2.5 million blacks in California = $3 trillion = insolvency.

It is blatantly unconstitutional, but to Buck's point, they will find a judge who will support it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (ZCCyW)

Kali also wants to charge electricity at higher rates to folks with higher incomes/assets. I think there is a word for this: Socialism.
Another word: Clusterf*ck

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:19 AM (ynpvh)

76 Sigh. Substitute "he" for "she" in all cases in 74. I momentarily forgot that "Zooey" was a trans freak.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:19 AM (O4oKn)

77 Interesting theory. So fhen they'll start "taking what'a theirs", ala South Africa?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (ssESX)

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Make Necklacing and Starvation Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:18 AM (idbzh)

A friend of mine here at this site is from SA originally. I asked her if she missed it and she said yes, but there is no hope there.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (zZu0s)

78 her constituents

Him.. That ain't no woman

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (bs+z0)

79
SCOTUS has simply become a proxy war, no matter what that ass Roberts says.
Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:18 AM (eOEVl)

The illusion that it was not is a way the Left has won many victories over the years.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (eYoxG)

80 I would be in favor of a reparations amount in exchange to give up your US citizenship and leave the country. I'd also have a sister policy that included everyone for the same deal.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (acrwL)

81 So, an O/T update on my dad.

Things looked a bit better late last week, but it seems there were other issues which lead to complications over the weekend. We had a call with the Dr on Saturday where he declared my father's colon had failed and was no longer functioning. They did emergency surgery Sunday AM to remove it, so he'll be on a bag for the rest of his life. Attempting reattachment at this point in his life is highly unlikely.

He's a bit better today with the breathing tube removed, so he's breathing on his own but can't really talk due to soreness and all related to that.

I don't think he knows what all has gone on over the last week, but is going to be extremely pissed when he finds out, I'm quite sure.

The road just got a lot longer and steeper.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (tjClK)

82 74 They have representation. She can still vote on bills. She just isn't allowed into the chamber or on the committees, and she isn't allowed to disrupt the proceedings.

If her constituents don't like that and want a a representative who can serve on committees and whatnot, they can recall her (or vote her out next time - I don't know if MT has recall provisions).
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:19 AM (O4oKn)

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Tranny will fundraise, leave her seat, run against Tester, get crushed, and then become the progressive celebrity of Montana, surviving on speaking fees to small groups of professors at the universities about how the state that lets her run around calling for the blood of innocent Christians without getting arrested is a fascist dictatorship.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

83 The road just got a lot longer and steeper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (tjClK)
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Prayers continue to be up, Sponge.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:21 AM (O4oKn)

84 50
If Kalifornistan wants to make reparations for slaves, they have to look to their predecesssors, the Mexicans and the Spanish. Natives were treated very, very badly, so if anyone needs reparations, it's them. Then again, so many tribes have casinos, we are already paying reparations.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

And the Chinese.. They definitely have a more justifiable grievance than the Blacks...

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (bs+z0)

Oh they get reparations; they are blocked from higher education by racial quotas. They are the same in the mind of the left as with the German Gov't in WW2: Yellow Arayans.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:21 AM (ynpvh)

85 Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (tjClK)

That's tough... Prayers for him

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:21 AM (bs+z0)

86 ||Robert W Malone, MD @RWMaloneMD · 22h
Every person not of color living in California needs to get out now. About 1.2 million dollars in reparations is now approved by a CA task force (still to be voted on by the state legislation) to each black person in the state. This will not only bankrupt the state but will force homeowners to sell their property to pay the huge tax increases that may be coming. CA already charges almost 20 % per person (including sales tax). The highest tax rates in the country.

BTW - activists are demanding higher amounts -they want 200 million dollars per person (Fox news).

This is the face of modern socialism and we all need to be very scared. California has always led the way in terms of new legislation. This soon may come to other blue states - plans are in the works.

This is a massive wealth transfer. It is theft.||

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:21 AM (Vwz3I)

87 52 CA will never pay that reparations money.

The plan is to keep Blacks thinking that the rest of us still owe them big-time
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (RqMSv)
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It's a very dangerous game they're playing. One they may not be able to stop.

Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 11:21 AM (G0vdT)

88 ++++
Prayers continue to be up, Sponge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:21 AM (O4oKn)

I am forever grateful to The Horde and am incredibly humbled.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (tjClK)

89 Kali also wants to charge electricity at higher rates to folks with higher incomes/assets. I think there is a word for this: Socialism.
Another word: Clusterf*ck

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:19 AM

newsome's ultimate goal is for the *rich* to pay for the utilities that the *poor* consume. It's not like that will drive anymore rich people out of California or anything.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (ncXxy)

90 81 Sponge, that’s horrible. I will pray for your dad.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (fywVE)

91 The road just got a lot longer and steeper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (tjClK)

I hope everything starts looking up, man.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (zZu0s)

92 60 The constitution's Pineapple Clause!
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:14 AM (Vwz3I)

Yeah. Sideways.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (pwExq)

Wrapped in razor wire.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (ynpvh)

93 Has anyone put together figures on the percentage of time 'conservative' SCJs sided with the Liberal Left justices and vice versa. I would guess it's similar to confirmation vote percentage totals.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (acrwL)

94 67. Has anyone pointed out to these ignoramuses that Zooey still gets to vote and represent its district.? What it does not get to do is bring a circus into the chambers to prevent other representatives from representing their district.

Posted by: Jen the original at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (OYDJh)

95 90 And for you.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (fywVE)

96 It's a very dangerous game they're playing. One they may not be able to stop.
Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 11:21 AM (G0vdT)

They don't want to stop it. Crashing the system is what they want- they are just idiots who think they will all have the same quality of life after everything goes to hell. It is just their enemies who will be dead.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (zZu0s)

97 In a world of logic and reciprocity, Buck would be right.
However,...
The left will never fail to enforce a double standard whereby

leftist judicial ruling = Rule Of Law
conservative judicial ruling = illegitimate

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (qVln6)

98 $1.2 million x 2.5 million blacks in California = $3 trillion = insolvency.

It is blatantly unconstitutional, but to Buck's point, they will find a judge who will support it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (ZCCyW)

Just give every reparations recipient a 1.2 million dollar coin pressed out of the finest zinc.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (tkR6S)

99 The reparations nonsense in CA is absurd, and its only possible outcomes are all absurd.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (/EuRN)

100 Make Necklacing and Starvation Great Again!
Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:18 AM (idbzh)

Zim Bob the dictator did say
"Take the white farmers' land all away!"
"I don't give two cow flops
If it kills all the crops,
We're doing it NOW, Zim Bob's way'!"

Posted by: Recipe for prosperity at May 08, 2023 11:24 AM (FEapg)

101 Tranny will fundraise, leave her seat, run against Tester, get crushed, and then become the progressive celebrity of Montana, surviving on speaking fees to small groups of professors at the universities about how the state that lets her run around calling for the blood of innocent Christians without getting arrested is a fascist dictatorship.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM

Shit! I forgot the tranny grift! There's still time! I can change!

Posted by: ~~Beto~~ Bethany O'Rouke at May 08, 2023 11:24 AM (DnqVS)

102 53 This isn't about rules, it's about power. If the power ambitions of the left align with the rules, then fine - the rules must be followed, right?

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Absolutely about power.s Mollie Hemingway wrote a book about the Kavanaugh Nomination; she recounted how many precedents the Left broke in order to oppose his nomination. This "breaking of precedents" continues, from Nancy Pelosi tearing up a SOTU speech on camera, to the exclusion of selected Republicans from the J6 Committee, to the attempt to compel the SCOTUS to adopt Congress' "ethics rules".

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 08, 2023 11:24 AM (NA/it)

103 81
The road just got a lot longer and steeper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (tjClK)

Sponge -
Prayers for your dad. And for you and your family.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 08, 2023 11:25 AM (N39Ws)

104 >>>If you want to fast-track a truly terrible idea to the carefully engineered conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the best way to do it is to file it in Texas. If your case fails there, take it down to the 5th Circuit for some CPR. Once there, your chances to prevail are fairly good. This forces the other side to throw itself on the tender mercies of the Alito Court.

Shut up and take my money.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at May 08, 2023 11:25 AM (7R+co)

105 The Axios story about Tucker going to guns on FoxNews said that he would have "surrogates" start.

Megyn Kelly just issued a call for a boycott.

Is the "So it begins" guy here?

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:25 AM (pwExq)

106 Morale Booster:

Jean Leon Gerome

Study of a Dog

https://tinyurl.com/mwcets3w

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:25 AM (zZu0s)

107 Sadly I believe a root cause is that many Americans have been too well off. It's cozy inside The Borg if you go along. And when they had kids they've grown up to be entitled brats.
Posted by: Ignoramus

Yep, many times very true.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2023 11:25 AM (qoGsy)

108 "Sorry slavery was a thing that happened. Here's a bum check. By the way, the economy is dead now. Thanks for voting."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:25 AM (/EuRN)

109 There is clearly momentum building among the left to delegitimize any conservative court and its rulings so that the left can govern independently of the courts. Those terms are acceptable, so long as the right follows suit and does the same.
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PRO TIP: They won't

Posted by: deadrody at May 08, 2023 11:25 AM (qf6NU)

110 Then again, so many tribes have casinos, we are already paying reparations.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (ynpvh)

The casinos are not government regulated and managed by the tribes, yet the tribes people still live in poverty, have extensive drug and alcohol problems and have not gained the prosperity demanded when the 'deal' for it was struck. They're still getting fucked by their own people.

I no longer feel any responsibility or sorrow for what is happening to them now. Self-mutilation is not my fault.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:26 AM (tjClK)

111 The road just got a lot longer and steeper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden

Prayers for you and your father, Sponge.

Posted by: Piper at May 08, 2023 11:26 AM (ZdaMQ)

112 78 her constituents

Him.. That ain't no woman

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (bs+z0)

"It puts on the lo...what the F*ck! It has a dick!"

Posted by: Buffalo Bill at May 08, 2023 11:26 AM (ynpvh)

113 The road just got a lot longer and steeper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (tjClK)
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Prayers continue to be up, Sponge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Seconded !

Posted by: JT at May 08, 2023 11:26 AM (T4tVD)

114 1.2 million x 2.5 million blacks in California = $3 trillion = insolvency.

It is blatantly unconstitutional, but to Buck's point, they will find a judge who will support it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (ZCCyW)

They will pay it like a lottery. In installments over 20 years.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2023 11:26 AM (acrwL)

115 Those terms are acceptable, so long as the right follows suit and does the same
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And there's the rub.

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 08, 2023 11:26 AM (pzMuL)

116 Okay we're past 100.. WTF is the story on the Hispanic man with parents who don't speak English that murdered 8 people in Texas? Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (bs+z0)

117 Has anyone put together figures on the percentage of time 'conservative' SCJs sided with the Liberal Left justices and vice versa. I would guess it's similar to confirmation vote percentage totals.

Awhile back, some institute put together a look at the justices voting patterns vs. time on the bench. The y axis was conservative at the top, and liberal at the bottom. X was time.

There were two interesting takeaways.
1) The liberal justices were very tightly clustered in y, and stayed that way; virtually a horizontal line, with very little spread. IOW, they voted monolithically.

2) The Republican justices were higher on y, but more broadly distributed, and almost uniformly trended down as their time on the bench increased.

I've looked for that plot many times but can't find it, but it was extremely plausible.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (eOEVl)

118 25 The Supreme Court needs to be term-limited.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:08 AM (fywVE)

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Not just supremes, all judges.
10 years.
2 for congress, 4/8 for president, 6 senate, 10 judges.

Posted by: Monetc at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (OalnH)

119 Prayers continue to be up, Sponge.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!)

Seconded !
Posted by: JT at May 08, 2023 11:26 AM (T4tVD)

thirded.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (XGZoL)

120 Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (bs+z0)

Maybe they were German translators, you don't know.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (/EuRN)

121 116 Okay we're past 100.. WTF is the story on the Hispanic man with parents who don't speak English that murdered 8 people in Texas? Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (bs+z0)

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"Did you know that not every Hispanic person is descended from native tribes? I was, like, it blew my mind when I found out!"
-leftist reporter

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

122 89 Kali also wants to charge electricity at higher rates to folks with higher incomes/assets. I think there is a word for this: Socialism.
Another word: Clusterf*ck

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:19 AM

newsome's ultimate goal is for the *rich* to pay for the utilities that the *poor* consume. It's not like that will drive anymore rich people out of California or anything.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (ncXxy)

The target is not the rich, but those of us who work, pay off our loans (student and othewise). We've always been the target.

Posted by: Buffalo Bill at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (ynpvh)

123 Hiya Piper !

Posted by: JT at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (T4tVD)

124 CA will never pay that reparations money.

The plan is to keep Blacks thinking that the rest of us still owe them big-time
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:13 AM (RqMSv)
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Interesting theory. So fhen they'll start "taking what'a theirs", ala South Africa?
Posted by: Chairman LMAO at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (ssESX)

This is how I see it also. Plus the fact that the left is NEVER satisfied.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2023 11:28 AM (BdMk6)

125 ___

Not just supremes, all judges.
10 years.
2 for congress, 4/8 for president, 6 senate, 10 judges.

Posted by: Monetc

This only works with legitimate elections. Otherwise, we fast track an entire court of rotating KBJ.

Posted by: Piper at May 08, 2023 11:28 AM (ZdaMQ)

126 I don't think it even registers with Roberts that his bowing and scraping before the left haa bought him not even a day's peace.

Had he not cowered on Obamacare, they wouldn't dare be attacking now.

Release the Epstein travel logs

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 08, 2023 11:28 AM (R47Z/)

127 116 Okay we're past 100.. WTF is the story on the Hispanic man with parents who don't speak English that murdered 8 people in Texas? Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?

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If Mauricio Garcia isn't a neo-Nazi name, then I don't know what is.

Posted by: Monetc at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (OalnH)

128 At least it wasn't WuFlu...

Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW: Ray Liotta’s cause of death revealed one year later — The “Goodfellas” icon died in his sleep from pulmonary edema and acute heart failure, according to documents obtained by TMZ.

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (Vwz3I)

129 I don't think he knows what all has gone on over the last week, but is going to be extremely pissed when he finds out, I'm quite sure.

The road just got a lot longer and steeper.
Posted by: Sponge

Prayers for your dad. 😔

I'm going to be busy praying this week.
My boss's mom goes in for breast cancer surgery tomorrow.
Boss is one of the good ones.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (nW4TA)

130 123 hi JT!

Hope your morning is going well!

Posted by: Piper at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (ZdaMQ)

131 25 The Supreme Court needs to be term-limited.
Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:08 AM (fywVE)

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Not just supremes, all judges.
10 years.
2 for congress, 4/8 for president, 6 senate, 10 judges.

Posted by: Monetc at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (OalnH)

All federal positions, elected or appointed need a mandatory retirement age.

Posted by: polynikes at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (acrwL)

132 1.2 million x 2.5 million blacks in California = $3 trillion = insolvency.

It is blatantly unconstitutional, but to Buck's point, they will find a judge who will support it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:10 AM (ZCCyW)
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Why do they need reparations when they can go into any store and steal up to $950 worth of stuff and not have to worry about the police?

Posted by: Darth Randall at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (pzMuL)

133 99 The reparations nonsense in CA is absurd, and its only possible outcomes are all absurd.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (/EuRN)
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Wait until they wade into the details....the devil hangs out there.

Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (G0vdT)

134 In a world of logic and reciprocity, Buck would be right.
However,...
The left will never fail to enforce a double standard whereby

leftist judicial ruling = Rule Of Law
conservative judicial ruling = illegitimate

We really must break out of the paradigm that assumes ethics, logic and consistency play any role in how the Dems operate.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (eOEVl)

135 I think I remember how this works from a Schoolhouse Rock cartoon that came on between Scooby Doo and He-Man cartoons. A law is created when Congress writes hundreds of pages into a bill wherein most of the details on how it will be enacted is to be determined by bureaucrats in the executive branch. Who in turn fund NGOs who then sue the executive branch in court about the rule so that the rule can then be enshrined into law by our Black Robed Masters.

I may have some details wrong from the cartoon, but I'm pretty sure how that is how law is made.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (fs1hN)

136
Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper · 1h
NEW: Ray Liotta’s cause of death revealed one year later — The “Goodfellas” icon died in his sleep from pulmonary edema and acute heart failure, according to documents obtained by TMZ.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (Vwz3I)

"Vaxxed and boosted."

I'm sure.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (tjClK)

137
The road just got a lot longer and steeper.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (tjClK)

Damn dude. Very sorry to hear that.

Posted by: That's rough stuff at May 08, 2023 11:30 AM (FEapg)

138 Continued prayers Sponge for you and your Dad.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2023 11:30 AM (qoGsy)

139
Because they want the right destroyed and will use their pawns to kill you to make it happen. It's why the borders are open. \
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:15 AM (tjClK)

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True. And it is also a message to future GOP SCOTUS appointees: Is this what you want for daily life?

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (YpCAy)

140 When blacks get that $1.2M, they'll need to deduct all the govt benefits they've received in their life and an estimate of all future govt benefits.

Posted by: Monetc at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (OalnH)

141 Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (bs+z0)

Maybe they were German translators, you don't know.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Si se sprechen zi duetsch?

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (nW4TA)

142 The 1.2M recommendation is a max calculation.

It's based $x for y years due to slavery, another amount for crooked police, another amount for unfair incarceration.

Younger black people on this scheme get paid much less than older. There is no way that turns out badly.

But anyway it's just a recommendation from the committee. No way it gets put into law. The SF $5m will be the floor.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (pwExq)

143 Maybe they were German translators, you don't know.
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https://tinyurl.com/4fkwh23j

1:41 minutes

Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (Vwz3I)

144 121 116 Okay we're past 100.. WTF is the story on the Hispanic man with parents who don't speak English that murdered 8 people in Texas? Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?
Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (bs+z0)

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"Did you know that not every Hispanic person is descended from native tribes? I was, like, it blew my mind when I found out!"
-leftist reporter

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:27 AM (LvTSG)

Yeah, some of us are only descended from Spanish, others of us have African ancestry. I have all three (native indian, Spanish, African).

Posted by: Buffalo Bill at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (ynpvh)

145 127 116 Okay we're past 100.. WTF is the story on the Hispanic man with parents who don't speak English that murdered 8 people in Texas? Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?

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If Mauricio Garcia isn't a neo-Nazi name, then I don't know what is.
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Hitler is a rock star. Everyone wants to be a rock star.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (tiR3O)

146 NEW: Ray Liotta’s cause of death revealed one year later — The “Goodfellas” icon died in his sleep from pulmonary edema and acute heart failure, according to documents obtained by TMZ.
Posted by: andycanuck (Vwz3I) at May 08, 2023 11:29 AM (Vwz3I)

His Hill to die on.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (XGZoL)

147
Si se sprechen zi duetsch?
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (nW4TA)

See South Padre for breakfast tacos!!!

-- - - Jumpin Jill Biden

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (tjClK)

148 Yes, California is a mess, for one reason, because the courts struck down every initiative the people voted for re immigration, crime, any social issue.

Posted by: PJ at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (G1dq6)

149 46 Tonypete, I hope you are OK.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (fywVE)

150 Oakland teachers are continuing their strike, heading Monday to the picket lines for a third day after a weekend with little movement toward contract agreement, district officials said.

[D]emands include input on grant spending, a rigid process for closing schools, district housing for homeless students, reparations for Black students, subsidized transportation for all 34,000 district students and environmental requests including drought- and fire-resistant trees in future landscaping projects.

Posted by: SMOD at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

151 NEW: Ray Liotta’s cause of death revealed one year later — The “Goodfellas” icon died in his sleep from pulmonary edema and acute heart failure, according to documents obtained by TMZ.
Posted by: andycanuck

"He's gone."
What!?
"You know, gone. And there was nothing anyone could do about it."

Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (qoGsy)

152 I agree . . . but hundreds of thousands of tyrants making up the rogue administrative state poses a far greater danger than the nine tyrants on the Supreme Court.

Posted by: Elric Blade at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (iFTx/)

153 But anyway it's just a recommendation from the committee. No way it gets put into law. The SF $5m will be the floor.

That's the amazing thing. IIRC, Newsom had to appoint these people, so he knew beforehand what they would recommend. How exactly is he going to defend this to the taxpayers?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

154 Tranny will fundraise, leave her seat, run against Tester, get crushed, and then become the progressive celebrity of Montana, surviving on speaking fees to small groups of professors at the universities about how the state that lets her run around calling for the blood of innocent Christians without getting arrested is a fascist dictatorship.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:20 AM (LvTSG)

Plenty of abandoned mine shafts in Montana.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 11:33 AM (tkR6S)

155 150 Oakland teachers are continuing their strike, heading Monday to the picket lines for a third day after a weekend with little movement toward contract agreement, district officials said.

[D]emands include input on grant spending, a rigid process for closing schools, district housing for homeless students, reparations for Black students, subsidized transportation for all 34,000 district students and environmental requests including drought- and fire-resistant trees in future landscaping projects.
Posted by: SMOD at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

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Oakland is such a shithole. No wonder the A's fans that live there are so mad about the Las Vegas move.

The green of the baseball field is the only good thing they have.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:33 AM (LvTSG)

156 How exactly is he going to defend this to the taxpayers?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

As if their thoughts or opinions matter a hill of beans to Democrat leadership.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Joe Biden at May 08, 2023 11:33 AM (tjClK)

157 [D]emands include input on grant spending, a rigid process for closing schools, district housing for homeless students, reparations for Black students, subsidized transportation for all 34,000 district students and environmental requests including drought- and fire-resistant trees in future landscaping projects.
Posted by: SMOD at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (RHGPo)

Reparations for black students ? I give up... Absurd

Posted by: It's me donna at May 08, 2023 11:33 AM (bs+z0)

158 Won't matter to to the Democrats. Two seconds after they get a Supreme Court majority back, they will flip back to "The Court is God." Look at how they flip on many other things, like the Electoral College.

The goal of the Left is absolute totalitarian single-party dictatorship. Has been for decades. They don't care about consistency, the Constitution, morality, self-contradiction, and certainly not about reality itself in any form.

If it gives them power, it is good. That's the entirety of their thought on anything.

The frightening part right now is that they don't seem to care anymore about making this obvious. They don't think they can be stopped at this point.

This is uncharted territory. In the past, when a country started slipping into dictatorship, or even after, people could leave, and move to someplace more free. For a very long time, that place was usually America. If America goes, then what?

You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us? When totalitarianism is institutionalized in the very structure of things, "killing Hitler" accomplishes nothing.

Posted by: MartynWW at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (Ur3df)

159 153 But anyway it's just a recommendation from the committee. No way it gets put into law. The SF $5m will be the floor.

That's the amazing thing. IIRC, Newsom had to appoint these people, so he knew beforehand what they would recommend. How exactly is he going to defend this to the taxpayers?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

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"We'll make the rich pay for it."
*leans over and whispers to donors*
"No, we won't make you pay for it."

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (LvTSG)

160 [D]emands include input on grant spending, a rigid process for closing schools, district housing for homeless students, reparations for Black students, subsidized transportation for all 34,000 district students and environmental requests including drought- and fire-resistant trees in future landscaping projects.

It's good to know they're staying focused.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (eOEVl)

161 I'd vote for zombie Andrew Jackson over all these fools.

Posted by: fd at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (0uN1f)

162 Hey B! Yes, just fine thank you. I'm the one that needs to emulate the Good Samaritan and recognize and help those truly in need.

Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (qoGsy)

163 123 hi JT!

Hope your morning is going well!
Posted by: Piper

It is, thank you !

And I hope the same for you !

Posted by: JT at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (T4tVD)

164 That's the amazing thing. IIRC, Newsom had to appoint these people, so he knew beforehand what they would recommend.

How exactly is he going to defend this to the taxpayers?
Posted by: Archimedes

Defend? Pinche vatos are gonna have to cough of cash.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:35 AM (nW4TA)

165 "Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?
Posted by: It's me donna"

To ask the question identifies you as a sympathizer, or worse.

Posted by: Ripley at May 08, 2023 11:35 AM (cUYo/)

166 158
You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us? When totalitarianism is institutionalized in the very structure of things, "killing Hitler" accomplishes nothing.

Posted by: MartynWW at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (Ur3df)

"What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?"--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Posted by: Buffalo Bill at May 08, 2023 11:36 AM (ynpvh)

167 How exactly is he going to defend this to the taxpayers?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

As if their thoughts or opinions matter a hill of beans to Democrat leadership.

He wants to be president. Do you think the voters want to pay for this? It's an incredibly stupid own goal.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:36 AM (eOEVl)

168 Absolutely about power.s Mollie Hemingway wrote a book about the Kavanaugh Nomination; she recounted how many precedents the Left broke in order to oppose his nomination. This "breaking of precedents" continues, from Nancy Pelosi tearing up a SOTU speech on camera, to the exclusion of selected Republicans from the J6 Committee, to the attempt to compel the SCOTUS to adopt Congress' "ethics rules".

Posted by: JM in Fla/Ill - Behold the Manchurian Candidate at May 08, 2023 11:24 AM (NA/it)

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And of course the other precedents of 2020 that delivered the kill shot to the country: "mostly peaceful" Burning, Looting, and Murdering allowed, tolerated, & and encouraged; mandatory economy- and liberty-killing lockdowns, masks, and jabs for the flu-like cold virus; and unconstitutionally-enacted universal mail-in balloting and other election fraud measures enshrined by the cowardly SCOTUS.

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:36 AM (Q2OxF)

169 Off sock!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:37 AM (ynpvh)

170 Plenty of abandoned mine shafts in Montana.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 11:33 AM (tkR6S)

Dammit, people, stop throwing bodies on our miss-- uh, i mean, our... stuff, in a mineshaft, that totally isn't missiles... yeah.

Posted by: NORAD at May 08, 2023 11:37 AM (/EuRN)

171 Theory:

Newsom is predicting that the judiciary will shoot down the reparations gambit, and they'll never have to pay. He will then be able to run on changing the judiciary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:37 AM (LvTSG)

172 Theory:

Newsom is predicting that the judiciary will shoot down the reparations gambit, and they'll never have to pay. He will then be able to run on changing the judiciary.

I rate this as plausible, if not likely.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:37 AM (eOEVl)

173 newsome's ultimate goal is for the *rich* to pay for the utilities that the *poor* consume. It's not like that will drive anymore rich people out of California or anything.
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at May 08, 2023 11:22 AM (ncXxy)
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California - like New York City - is heavily dependent on its rich population. CA's budgets depend on wealthy people with large asset bases as the state hoovers off a lot of taxes from capital gains, which are taxed as income regardless of duration. Around 20% of the state revenue - conservatively - comes from those earning over $250k per year. Around 10% of the state revenue - conservatively - comes from those earning over $715k per year.

If just a plurality - not even a majority - of those very rich folks leave the state, the budget turns into a smoking crater. Add in to it a stock market decline (good-bye, capital gains) and there are extremely serious fiscal problems immediately. CA farms its very rich residents, but they *can* move and when they do, it will detonate the bugets, especially if happens at the same time as a major market decline.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:37 AM (O4oKn)

174 How exactly is he going to defend this to the taxpayers?
Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:32 AM (eOEVl)

Hahaha! Good one!

He's going to bravely lie.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:37 AM (pwExq)

175 Why not just give every black person a government visa card with no limit?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:38 AM (Qfp8E)

176 Plenty of abandoned mine shafts in Montana.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 11:33 AM (tkR6S)

Dammit, people, stop throwing bodies on our miss-- uh, i mean, our... stuff, in a mineshaft, that totally isn't missiles... yeah.
Posted by: NORAD

Lot of "train stations" in Montana.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:38 AM (nW4TA)

177 81
'The road just got a lot longer and steeper.'
I don't know what to say but I hope your dad and your family get the strength to face what comes their way.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 08, 2023 11:38 AM (qVln6)

178 175 Why not just give every black person a government visa card with no limit?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:38 AM (Qfp8E)

The Gov't doesn't like competition?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (ynpvh)

179 I think Judicial overreach should be self limiting as our system was envisioned. The Supreme Court, the only one constitutionally created, does not rule on law but rather on cases, the threat being that any similar cases that wind through the system will be equally ruled, making it effectively a ruling on the law. The counter threat is that the executive can still arrest people and flood the system. The counter-counter threat is that Congress will side with the judiciary if the Executive is overactive in this way.

What is killing us is not institutional power, but rather Party, or if you prefer, Ideological power. The Congress, the Courts, and the Executive, rather than being protective of their own power, are controlled by a faction that only cares about outcomes that benefits a Party or Ideological faction.

When you give up Institutional Power for Party Power you will inevitably end up with the Military Power running things.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (aD39U)

180 Bud Lite, the beer of the mentally defective

Posted by: SMOD at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (RHGPo)

181 CA: oh, man! State's bankrupt. Feds gotta bail us out!

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (Qfp8E)

182 162 Yes, Tonypete. As do we all.

Good to hear that you don’t have any reason to identify with the robbery victim, which is what I thought you originally meant.

Posted by: Bulgaroctonus at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (fywVE)

183
175 Why not just give every black person a government visa card with no limit?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:38 AM (Qfp8E)

Why not an AmEx Black?

Posted by: I denounce myself. Not really. at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (FEapg)

184 142 The 1.2M recommendation is a max calculation.

It's based $x for y years due to slavery, another amount for crooked police, another amount for unfair incarceration.

Younger black people on this scheme get paid much less than older. There is no way that turns out badly.

But anyway it's just a recommendation from the committee. No way it gets put into law. The SF $5m will be the floor.
Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:31 AM (pwExq)
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Does this payout go on in perpetuity for each new generation.

I mean if every CA AA alive today, never experiencing slavery, is intitled to this to money now, why wouldn't CA AA's born 10, 20, 30 years from now.

Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (G0vdT)

185
If just a plurality - not even a majority - of those very rich folks leave the state, the budget turns into a smoking crater. Add in to it a stock market decline (good-bye, capital gains) and there are extremely serious fiscal problems immediately. CA farms its very rich residents, but they *can* move and when they do, it will detonate the bugets, especially if happens at the same time as a major market decline.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:37 AM (O4oKn)

CA has been trying to pass laws to keep them from moving, or at least to continue to tax them even if they move.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (eYoxG)

186 I identify as black now. And Californian.

Well, not *that* Californian. Just enough to qualify, of course.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (/EuRN)

187 Oakland is such a shithole. No wonder the A's fans that live there are so mad about the Las Vegas move.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:33 AM (LvTSG)

I used to live in one of the few nice neighborhoods in Oakland. Great place for eating and drinking and cooking...and even the Coliseum was in good shape.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (ZCCyW)

188 184

I mean if every CA AA alive today, never experiencing slavery, is intitled to this to money now, why wouldn't CA AA's born 10, 20, 30 years from now.

Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (G0vdT)

Kali was never a slave state.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 11:40 AM (ynpvh)

189 I mean if every CA AA alive today, never experiencing slavery, is intitled to this to money now, why wouldn't CA AA's born 10, 20, 30 years from now.

Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (G0vdT)

I think you understand the game.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:40 AM (pwExq)

190 181 CA: oh, man! State's bankrupt. Feds gotta bail us out!
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NY and IL want a word with you.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 08, 2023 11:40 AM (tiR3O)

191 CA has been trying to pass laws to keep them from moving, or at least to continue to tax them even if they move.
Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (eYoxG)
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Which will *probably* fail. Exit taxes might succeed, but imposing taxes on non-residents won't because the other states will fight them tooth and nail on it. They want that money for themselves, and there is a serious - and legitimate - Constitutional problem with it. This will be one of those times that the Constitution suddenly matters again.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:41 AM (O4oKn)

192 How white supremacy bankrupted CA and why it is true conservative to bail out the state. Read more at the bulwark.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at May 08, 2023 11:41 AM (Qfp8E)

193 187 I used to live in one of the few nice neighborhoods in Oakland. Great place for eating and drinking and cooking...and even the Coliseum was in good shape.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (ZCCyW)

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So, the Coliseum was a good ugly cement slab in the middle of a parking lot?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

194 So, the Coliseum was a good ugly cement slab in the middle of a parking lot?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

It was a good place to watch local criminals get killed by the tigers.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:42 AM (/EuRN)

195 Seriously I applaud the SF reparations board getting out in front of this with their $5M recommendation. Because it will make it burn like nothing else.

If SF does it, CA will have to do it. And if CA does it, the states will have to do it. And the Federal government will have to do it.

We don't need no water.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:42 AM (pwExq)

196 I used to live in one of the few nice neighborhoods in Oakland. Great place for eating and drinking and cooking...and even the Coliseum was in good shape.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (ZCCyW)

My dad grew up in San Liandro during WW2, even went to SF State in the late 50's. My parents and I moved out of CA in the mid 70's to WA. He does not even recognized it anymore and never wants to go back.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at May 08, 2023 11:42 AM (OgrpQ)

197 How do we know that Whoopie is not a gnome?

Posted by: fd at May 08, 2023 11:42 AM (0uN1f)

198 180 Bud Lite, the beer of the mentally defective
Posted by: SMOD at May 08, 2023 11:39 AM (RHGPo)

Took my dad to dinner this weekend. What did he order? Yep - Bud Lite. SMFH.

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 08, 2023 11:42 AM (N39Ws)

199 Well, until they take control again and can say in a case about administrative law regarding the borders between states that guns are illegal and the 2nd Amendment is unconstitutional.

Then they'll be fans again.

This. They're not serious about stopping the power of the courts, just stopping them from doing things that aren't pro-Communist.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:43 AM (ZGrMX)

200 Which will *probably* fail. Exit taxes might succeed, but imposing taxes on non-residents won't because the other states will fight them tooth and nail on it. They want that money for themselves, and there is a serious - and legitimate - Constitutional problem with it. This will be one of those times that the Constitution suddenly matters again.
Posted by: Joe Mannix

Besides the whole "taxation without representation" thing.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:43 AM (nW4TA)

201 So, the Coliseum was a good ugly cement slab in the middle of a parking lot?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:41 AM (LvTSG)

Easy to get to, the field was perfect, weather was always great, and it was clean.

I went for baseball. If I had wanted to go to a mall I would have gone elsewhere.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (ZCCyW)

202 This busty blonde in a bikini top is pretty sure that will to power is the only rule remaining:
https://is.gd/peZQut

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (O4oKn)

203 Dr. Benjamin Braddock
@GraduatedBen
Chile’s millennial socialist President led a movement that successfully got a mandate to rewrite the country’s constitution.

His party wrote a socialist constitution on par with Venezuela and Cuba. It was presented to the Chilean people, and they voted it down.

So elections were held today for a new constitutional assembly, and they have been decisively won by the far-right Pinochetist “Republican Party” (38%) and the Conservative Party “Chile Seguro” (21%).

The rightwing bloc now has a supermajority to rewrite the constitution to be even more rightwing than when the leftists initiated the process of drafting a new constitution.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (fs1hN)

204 WTF is the story on the Hispanic man with parents who don't speak English that murdered 8 people in Texas? Am I supposed to believe he is a neo-Nazi white supremacist ?

There's a hilarious meme going around showing him as a member of the "Que Que Que".

Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (ZGrMX)

205 Seriously I applaud the SF reparations board getting out in front of this with their $5M recommendation. Because it will make it burn like nothing else.

If SF does it, CA will have to do it. And if CA does it, the states will have to do it. And the Federal government will have to do it.

We don't need no water.
Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:42 AM (pwExq)

I want my reparations too. I come from Catholic Irish immigrants that arrived in the late 1890s. They endured all kinds of persecution. Where's my grift?

Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (N39Ws)

206 "Theory:

Newsom is predicting that the judiciary will shoot down the reparations gambit, and they'll never have to pay. He will then be able to run on changing the judiciary.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison"

Theory:

Most Dem voters don't know this is going or if vaguely aware have no idea or care who will pay, as long as it is not them. They will continue to vote Dem because right side of history.

Posted by: Ripley at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (cUYo/)

207 The founders saw "checks and balances", the Left sees three or more opportunities to ram shit through.

Posted by: ... at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (NW06I)

208 Welp- there goes the narrative on the Brownsville crash. Driver named George (Jorge?) Alvarez, with an extensive rap sheet. He lost control of the car after running a red light. The car flipped on its side and then crashed into the crowd of migrants.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (rbKZ6)

209 205 Seriously I applaud the SF reparations board getting out in front of this with their $5M recommendation. Because it will make it burn like nothing else.

If SF does it, CA will have to do it. And if CA does it, the states will have to do it. And the Federal government will have to do it.

We don't need no water.
Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:42 AM (pwExq)

I want my reparations too. I come from Catholic Irish immigrants that arrived in the late 1890s. They endured all kinds of persecution. Where's my grift?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (N39Ws)

*looks at skin color chart*

You owe lots and lots of taxes.

Posted by: Red Turban Someguy - The Republic is already dead! at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (eYoxG)

210 "There is clearly momentum building among the left to delegitimize any conservative court and its rulings so that the left can govern independently of the courts. Those terms are acceptable, so long as the right follows suit and does the same.

Red states will be much freer if emancipated from the tyranny of unelected judges."

Today, on things that won't happen...

You know how the game is played. Whatever shenanigans the Left engages in to advance its cause by hook or by crook is sacred. It's norms, it's democracy itself!

Their courts will continue to do, and the right will be too afraid to move hand or foot for fear of angering the screaming weirdos that are always allowed to win.

Posted by: Cato, Post-Apocalyptic Scourge of the Seas at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (MIb2C)

211 203 So elections were held today for a new constitutional assembly, and they have been decisively won by the far-right Pinochetist “Republican Party” (38%) and the Conservative Party “Chile Seguro” (21%).

The rightwing bloc now has a supermajority to rewrite the constitution to be even more rightwing than when the leftists initiated the process of drafting a new constitution.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (fs1hN)

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"Communists get thrown from helicopters, 9 o'clock, day one!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

212 208 Welp- there goes the narrative on the Brownsville crash. Driver named George (Jorge?) Alvarez, with an extensive rap sheet. He lost control of the car after running a red light. The car flipped on its side and then crashed into the crowd of migrants.
Posted by: Moonbeam at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (rbKZ6)

Wherever you got that from, screencap it, because it will be gone in moments if it isn't already.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:46 AM (/EuRN)

213 Just give every reparations recipient a 1.2 million dollar coin pressed out of the finest zinc.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 11:23 AM (tkR6S)

Use Zamac alloy. In 20years, they will have disintegrated from “zinc pest”.

Posted by: Fox 2! at May 08, 2023 11:46 AM (0Ua/E)

214 This busty blonde in a bikini top is pretty sure that will to power is the only rule remaining:

You know who else had a will to power? Wait, am I doing this right?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:46 AM (eOEVl)

215 The rightwing bloc now has a supermajority to rewrite the constitution to be even more rightwing than when the leftists initiated the process of drafting a new constitution.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (fs1hN)
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Good. May this ouster of Chile's communists be as effective as the one that began on September 11, 1973.

Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:47 AM (O4oKn)

216 Look up how she got the name "Whoopie" .

Posted by: JT at May 08, 2023 11:47 AM (T4tVD)

217 When blacks get that $1.2M, they'll need to deduct all the govt benefits they've received in their life and an estimate of all future govt benefits.
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Guaranteed the proposal already accounts and included credit off-sets for that; that the $1.2 million is the net.

Anyway, debating offsets concedes the premise: That they are owed. So the question is only how much.

I think the best play is encouraging far-left groups to agitate that anything less than a "wrongful death lawsuit type settlement of $5 million" is racism. That Democrats are not offering that because they are racist.

And red states should be making $10,000 resettlement loans to any who want to move to a blue Reparations State. With terms that they cannot reclaim residency unless repaid.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 08, 2023 11:48 AM (R47Z/)

218 CA is quite aggressive in its tax collections. If you have any employees in CA, even one, you're at risk. CA ignores SCOTUS precedent on this.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 11:48 AM (RqMSv)

219 The police chief is giving a press conference- I watched it on *whispers* Fox News.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 08, 2023 11:48 AM (rbKZ6)

220 Look up how she got the name "Whoopie" .

Now that the Left is lecturing everyone about anti-Semitism again, the reason she chose "Goldberg" is pretty relevant too.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:48 AM (ZGrMX)

221 202 This busty blonde in a bikini top is pretty sure that will to power is the only rule remaining:
https://is.gd/peZQut
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (O4oKn)

She has a certain somethings...

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:49 AM (zZu0s)

222 Reports on the Twats that Murdoch intends to keep Tucker chained up until after the 2024 election. In case anyone didn't think it was an op yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:49 AM (ZGrMX)

223 And red states should be making $10,000 resettlement loans to any who want to move to a blue Reparations State. With terms that they cannot reclaim residency unless repaid.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at May 08, 2023 11:48 AM (R47Z/)

You have a newsletter, sir?

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:49 AM (pwExq)

224 "Communists get thrown from helicopters, 9 o'clock, day one!"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (LvTSG)

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"Give a man a helicopter ride, and he'll fly for an hour. Give a man half of a helicopter ride, he'll fly for the rest of his life."

/Shamelessly stolen from a Moron here years ago

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:49 AM (/StI+)

225 Sounds like its a good time to move to Chile.

Posted by: Puddinhead at May 08, 2023 11:49 AM (tiR3O)

226 You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us? When totalitarianism is institutionalized in the very structure of things, "killing Hitler" accomplishes nothing.
Posted by: MartynWW at May 08, 2023 11:34 AM (Ur3df)

I still hold faith in the concept of the power of the individual states. That really should be the focus of our efforts now. DC is irreparably broken.

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2023 11:49 AM (BdMk6)

227 I think reparations are really just a way to rationalize theft. Most of the blue shit hole urban areas have allowed the criminal element to have free reign. And not so softly encouraged the citizenry to submit.

To me, this is not that much different.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at May 08, 2023 11:50 AM (Q4IgG)

228 158
'You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us?'

I expect if the answer were 'everyone they send', it would make a difference sooner or later.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 08, 2023 11:50 AM (qVln6)

229 "Communists get thrown from helicopters, 9 o'clock, day one!"

There aren't enough Time Bandits references.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:50 AM (ZGrMX)

230 Wikipedia, How many current Supreme Court justices were appointed by Republicans? As of June 30, 2022, of the 9 justices of the Supreme Court, 6 were appointed by a Republican president, and 3 were appointed by a Democratic president. As of February 14, 2023, of the 179 Courts of Appeals judges, 91 were appointed by Republican presidents, compared to 79 by Democratic presidents.

They're as mean as sh*t house rats for one thing. But, ignoring O's proposed appointment of Garland, 2016, was shocking to them. Then the fact they thought they could block Kavanagh in 2018, in part through bad behavior at the hearings, and were again unsuccessful, cemented their now unyielding positions.

WEF 2019: The Chinese Communist Party has had some of its greatest successes in the past half-century when it proved open to major change: the shift from a command economy to market socialism, or the move from the totalitarianism that Mao espoused at the height of his regime to the relatively open periods of the 1980s and the early 2000s.

Could the development of a more liberal state, with one-party rule, but a genuinely free public sphere, be the next stage?

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 08, 2023 11:50 AM (GshMh)

231 229 "Communists get thrown from helicopters, 9 o'clock, day one!"

There aren't enough Time Bandits references.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:50 AM (ZGrMX)

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I was hoping someone would get it. I certainly didn't.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

232 Reports on the Twats that Murdoch intends to keep Tucker chained up until after the 2024 election. In case anyone didn't think it was an op yet.
Posted by: Ian S.

I'm no whiz in contract law but couldn't someone, or a bunch of someones, interview him often by asking decent questions and his take on certain subjects to get around his shackles?

Posted by: Tonypete at May 08, 2023 11:51 AM (qoGsy)

233 I remember my Dad saying when we were hiking up to an Old Old family cemetery (inside one of what is now a state park in Indiana) that he remembered his Dad 'going to visit his granddad, Jake' somewhere near where we were hiking. He (Jake, my Great great grandfather) evidently lived in a tar paper shack WAY back in the woods.

White privlidge.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:52 AM (zZu0s)

234 'Judge not, lest ye be judged.' Sounds simple, doesn't it? How about this? 'You have been weighed in the balance, and found wanting.'
- Now we have people in charge who believe neither of the above.

Posted by: Eromero at May 08, 2023 11:53 AM (z3WCn)

235 I was hoping someone would get it. I certainly didn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

MUM! DAD! Dont! It's Pure concentrated Evil!

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:54 AM (zZu0s)

236 Besides the whole "taxation without representation" thing.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:43 AM (nW4TA)

I expect there would be a way to game the exit taxes. Sell your house in L.A., make a deal to buy one in San Berdoo. As soon as the money from the L.A. sale is in your hands, the deal in S.B. falls through "because termites were discovered", and you and the cash are in Texas.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 11:54 AM (tkR6S)

237 There is no check on our omnipotent judiciary from the other two branches of government

In a system where judges are almost never impeached, this is effectively true. But there's another layer here: judges can make bad or improper rulings without rising to the level of impeachment. Blocking a law a judge simply doesn't care for doesn't justify impeachment.

But what IS supposed to happen is that laws and the constitution are under the legislative branch, and they are supposed to use that to overrule and fix bad decisions, along with the vote of the citizens.

And that's not happening, either. Aside from a few very rare instances, none of the checks and balances are being used. They're all in place, they are just not begin implemented.

Presidents are supposed to veto laws and refuse to execute bad ones. Congress is supposed to overrule bad executive vetoes and control the purse to rein in executive overreach, etc.

If all three branches wink at each other and decide to just not do that so that each can abuse their own power, all that's left is the ballot box and, well....

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 08, 2023 11:54 AM (0hOvj)

238 Couple of case either argued or are coming beith supreme court . The left is losing their minds (if they ever had any) over the possibility of affirmative action being gone ( NC and Harvard cases) and the administrative state losing power. That's why the attacks are ramping up

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 08, 2023 11:54 AM (eFaiq)

239 Reports on the Twats that Murdoch intends to keep Tucker chained up until after the 2024 election. In case anyone didn't think it was an op yet.

Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:49 AM (ZGrMX)

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So, Tucker needs to start speaking through a literal sock-puppet?

Is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog available?

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:54 AM (8AZzc)

240 I want my reparations too. I come from Catholic Irish immigrants that arrived in the late 1890s. They endured all kinds of persecution. Where's my grift?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at May 08, 2023 11:44 AM (N39Ws

Irish need not apply.

Posted by: Fox 2! at May 08, 2023 11:55 AM (0Ua/E)

241 So, Tucker needs to start speaking through a literal sock-puppet?

Is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog available?
Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 11:54 AM (8AZzc)

We should come up with a Jose Jimenez analog.

Reboot. Reimagining.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 11:55 AM (zZu0s)

242 Speaking of courts - I expect that some CA judge is going to find that the state not legislating on reparations is racist and just award it.

I know someone suggested the other way - they would legislate it and the courts would say its unConstitutional.

Your guess which one is more likely.

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:56 AM (pwExq)

243 In case anyone missed it, according to the ABC poll on Biden, he has slipped from 75% advantage in the black vote to a 35% advantage. Those are fatal numbers for a Democrat.

See the link at about 0:40.

https://tinyurl.com/5n4p4uhw

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:56 AM (eOEVl)

244 You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us?'

I expect if the answer were 'everyone they send', it would make a difference sooner or later.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Yeah. I don't have to "aim" big. I just have to make it where YOU don't want to knock on my door.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:56 AM (nW4TA)

245 "It would warm my heart to hear Joe Biden, or Gavin Newsom, or Kathy Hochul, or some other elected Democrat executive effectively state Samuel Alito has made his decision, now let him enforce it."

They already said this re: Bruen and whatever the hell the abortion related decision was (I forgot already)

They're also putting it into practice with various federal judges flipping SCOTUS the bird and refusing to follow Bruen on a new wave of suits vs. state gun bans.

Posted by: somedood at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (aNQwd)

246 In case anyone missed it, according to the ABC poll on Biden, he has slipped from 75% advantage in the black vote to a 35% advantage. Those are fatal numbers for a Democrat.

Any indication how this will affect mail in ballots?

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (pwExq)

247 'You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us?'

Lower to mid-level folks who aren't as protected. Cut their legs out from underneath them. This is all hypothetical of course.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (ik/65)

248 You get nothing, I get everything. I can say anything I want, you have to say what I tell you to say. I am Good. You are Not Me, therefore Evil.

We're up against the mental, moral and spiritual equivalent of zoo animals. Any attempt to frame current "politics" in terms of philosophies or wings or isms is doomed to failure, because there's nothing there to analyze. Just raw, brute-force, undiluted horribleness.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (/EuRN)

249 Look up how she got the name "Whoopie" .
Posted by: JT at May 08, 2023 11:47 AM (T4tVD)

She makes a farting sound when you sit on her?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (tkR6S)

250 In case anyone missed it, according to the ABC poll on Biden, he has slipped from 75% advantage in the black vote to a 35% advantage. Those are fatal numbers for a Democrat.

See the link at about 0:40.

https://tinyurl.com/5n4p4uhw

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:56 AM (eOEVl)

Vote counters say, so what?

Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (BdMk6)

251 231 229 "Communists get thrown from helicopters, 9 o'clock, day one!"

There aren't enough Time Bandits references.
Posted by: Ian S. at May 08, 2023 11:50 AM (ZGrMX)

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I was hoping someone would get it. I certainly didn't.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 11:51 AM (LvTSG)

Don't touch it! It's pure Evil!

Posted by: Zombie Robbo the Llama Butcher at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (N3zMI)

252 244 You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us?'

I expect if the answer were 'everyone they send', it would make a difference sooner or later.
Posted by: Dr. Claw

Yeah. I don't have to "aim" big. I just have to make it where YOU don't want to knock on my door.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 08, 2023 11:56 AM

For some reason, Ruth Gordon and an orangutan just popped into my head!

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 08, 2023 11:59 AM (rbKZ6)

253 I can't wait until Wisconsin legislature flips Dem and decides my lib sisters living in lilly white areas around Madison decides they are on the hook for repartitions to victim of slavery in Milwaukee, where they rarely set foot. They may even have to flee to a red state.

Posted by: Ripley at May 08, 2023 11:59 AM (cUYo/)

254 Helpful golf tips for the ladies (men will enjoy these too!)

https://www.outkick.com/paige-spiranac-drops- instructional-video-for-how-to-swing-a-golf-club-with-a- big-chest/

Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 08, 2023 12:00 PM (fs1hN)

255 If all three branches wink at each other and decide to just not do that so that each can abuse their own power, all that's left is the ballot box and, well....

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 08, 2023 11:54 AM (0hOvj)

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The Legislative branch has been co-opted by the Executive; the Executive branch has been co-opted by the Judiciary; and the CCP paychecks co-opted by the Legislative.

Posted by: ShainS at May 08, 2023 12:00 PM (JFmA+)

256 A proper ruling from California courts would be that taking money from white people to just hand to black people is not only unjust and unhistorical (Cali was never a slave state, nobody alive was either a slave or had slaves, etc) but damages millions of people through the taxation.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 08, 2023 12:00 PM (0hOvj)

257 243 In case anyone missed it, according to the ABC poll on Biden, he has slipped from 75% advantage in the black vote to a 35% advantage. Those are fatal numbers for a Democrat.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:56 AM (eOEVl)
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I'm not getting too jazzed about this. Jim Clyburn will set them straight.

Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 12:00 PM (G0vdT)

258 Hey, California, why not really show us you care? Force all CA residents to house and feed a bum. Make it two. Screw it, Ten. Do it. What? Why do you hate the homeless?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 12:01 PM (/EuRN)

259 Lower to mid-level folks who aren't as protected. Cut their legs out from underneath them. This is all hypothetical of course.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (ik/65)

*types, deletes*

Dammit, that was a real one. Even with the 'hypothetically' thing, it was probably too much.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 12:01 PM (zZu0s)

260 Welp- there goes the narrative on the Brownsville crash. Driver named George (Jorge?) Alvarez, with an extensive rap sheet. He lost control of the car after running a red light. The car flipped on its side and then crashed into the crowd of migrants.
Posted by: Moonbeam at May 08, 2023 11:45 AM (rbKZ6)

Car sliding on its side sort takes "deliberately" off the table, doesn't it?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 12:01 PM (tkR6S)

261 Judges at all levels need to be taken down a peg. Or ten.

But as long as the weapon exists, I want to hold it, not our enemies.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards (Logan Tiberius 2012-2021) at May 08, 2023 12:02 PM (xcxpd)

262 244
' I just have to make it where YOU don't want to knock on my door.'
Yep. Think globally, act locally.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 08, 2023 12:02 PM (qVln6)

263 256 A proper ruling from California courts would be that taking money from white people to just hand to black people is not only unjust and unhistorical (Cali was never a slave state, nobody alive was either a slave or had slaves, etc) but damages millions of people through the taxation.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 08, 2023 12:00 PM (0hOvj)

Did you type that with a straight face?

Posted by: blaster at May 08, 2023 12:02 PM (pwExq)

264 Car sliding on its side sort takes "deliberately" off the table, doesn't it?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 12:01 PM (tkR6S)

Don't act like you've never seen hispanic people drive before.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 12:02 PM (/EuRN)

265 who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us?'

We should shoot no one, that is a horrific idea that I pray never comes to pass. Unless things get so evil and horrific that say, Gestapo are bashing down doors to take people to death camps. In which case you shoot the people enforcing the evil death camp orders.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 08, 2023 12:02 PM (0hOvj)

266 Science cannot be the arbiter of moral choices. If “science” proved that the world would be better off in the aggregate if we carpet bombed (say) the junction of the Potomac and the Anacosta Rivers and 8 miles radially to the north, off the map, would that make it right? Obviously not, so cut it out, “science.”

Posted by: SMOD at May 08, 2023 12:02 PM (RHGPo)

267 I just noticed how rigged those scales are. The side that's broken should be never be lower than the one whose weight is not being supported by the ground. I guess that's the point.

Posted by: t-bird at May 08, 2023 12:02 PM (ptElO)

268 In case anyone missed it, according to the ABC poll on Biden, he has slipped from 75% advantage in the black vote to a 35% advantage. Those are fatal numbers for a Democrat.

We have been hearing about blacks abandoning Dems for many years now, yet it never seem to happen on election day in any meaningful numbers. I'll believe it when I see it.

Posted by: Ripley at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (cUYo/)

269 I'm not getting too jazzed about this. Jim Clyburn will set them straight.

It seems the Dems don't share your sanguinity.

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (eOEVl)

270
Yeah, Trump got a big poll bump from black guys that disappeared election day.

Posted by: Auspex at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (j4U/Z)

271 "247 'You can count all your guns, but who the hell can you actually shoot that would make a difference if the Deep State rolls over us?'

Lower to mid-level folks who aren't as protected. Cut their legs out from underneath them. This is all hypothetical of course.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (ik/65)"

This isn't the type of discussion you have at AoS, but it's certainly being had elsewhere. I have noted that 1930's Spain is an important area of study for years now and I'm not the only one.

The practical limit of open conversation here ends somewhere around "don't put all your eggs in one basket and properly cache your shit". Beans, bullets, bandaids, commo, and tools. Get 'em, learn how to use 'em. Do the work NOW to sort people in your life based on whether they can, or will, drop a dime on you and act accordingly.

Posted by: somedood at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (aNQwd)

272 Car sliding on its side sort takes "deliberately" off the table, doesn't it?

"That's just how the Duke Brothers would do it!"
--Boss Hogg

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (0hOvj)

273 268 We have been hearing about blacks abandoning Dems for many years now, yet it never seem to happen on election day in any meaningful numbers. I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Ripley at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (cUYo/)

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"Watch me turn these five ballots into 500!"
-election workers in ever urban center in America, pretty much

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

274 253 I can't wait until Wisconsin legislature flips Dem and decides my lib sisters living in lilly white areas around Madison decides they are on the hook for repartitions to victim of slavery in Milwaukee, where they rarely set foot. They may even have to flee to a red state.
Posted by: Ripley at May 08, 2023 11:59 AM (cUYo/)
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With shared revenue in this state, Madison need not worry about bearing the brunt of any reparations.

Posted by: WisRich at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (G0vdT)

275 252
'For some reason, Ruth Gordon and an orangutan just popped into my head!

Right turn, Clyde.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (qVln6)

276 We have been hearing about blacks abandoning Dems for many years now, yet it never seem to happen on election day in any meaningful numbers. I'll believe it when I see it.

Agreed, but it's silly to just ignore what we're seeing. Would you prefer that he had maintained his 75% margin?

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (eOEVl)

277 Lower to mid-level folks who aren't as protected. Cut their legs out from underneath them. This is all hypothetical of course.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 08, 2023 11:58 AM (ik/65)

Yeah, that is why rebellion is preferable to resistance. Resistance is just murder. You can't get to the Governor or a Senator, but he has a cousin not so protected.

You want the War of Independence.
You will accept the Civil War.
You will get Sarajevo.

Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (aD39U)

278 NOOD- the TuCa and Irena show.

Posted by: Moonbeam at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (rbKZ6)

279 Use Zamac alloy. In 20years, they will have disintegrated from “zinc pest”.
Posted by: Fox 2! at May 08, 2023 11:46 AM (0Ua/E)

Heh! But I think modern pot metal, say from the 1950's onward, the "zinc pest" problem has been eliminated.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (tkR6S)

280 Posted by: Chuck Martel at May 08, 2023 12:00 PM (fs1hN)]

If you're going to put that many random spaces in a URL, try tinyurl, is.gd or some other shortener.

Thnx.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (ZSK0i)

281 General Bonaparte with his Military Staff in Egypt

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A guy is walking around downtown wanting a drink but can't find a bar angwhere. Finally he sees one, walks in, and immediately recognizes that it's a gay bar. He thinks, what the heel? I'll just sit at the bar, have a couple of drinks, then get up and leave. He orders Scotch rocks and the bartender asks, "What's the man of your dick?" He says, "What the hell?" The bartender says that it's just a thing at this bar. Everybody has to name their dick and say what it is. So the guy asks another drinker what his dick's name is. "Stallion," he says. He asks another, "And you?" "Godzilla," he says. "So," says the bartender, "What's yours?" "Secret," he says. "No," says the bartender, "It can't be a secret." "No, it's Secret," the guy says. "Strong enough for a man but made for a woman."

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy? at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (FVME7)

282 As a practical matter worry less about what government goons might show up, and worry more about what NON government goons are available in your AO for some plausibly-deniable pillaging.

Posted by: somedood at May 08, 2023 12:05 PM (aNQwd)

283 You want the War of Independence.
You will accept the Civil War.
You will get Sarajevo.
Posted by: G'rump928(c) at May 08, 2023 12:04 PM (aD39U)

Commie civil wars go really bad, really quickly. Cambodia and Vietnam are just two examples. Hell, China as well.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 12:05 PM (zZu0s)

284 In case anyone missed it, according to the ABC poll on Biden, he has slipped from 75% advantage in the black vote to a 35% advantage. Those are fatal numbers for a Democrat.

See the link at about 0:40.

https://tinyurl.com/5n4p4uhw

Posted by: Archimedes at May 08, 2023 11:56 AM

Sure, but when it's [Generic Republican] v. Biden, I doubt they won't vote for Biden, because racist GOP and all.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at May 08, 2023 12:05 PM (5sOEG)

285 I'm sure Tucker is wargaming his options.

Ironically, Fox could stop paying Tucker but he won't care. He can make more on his own because he can get equity.

The enforceability of non-competes by injunction varies hugely by state. They're generally disfavored because they're a restraint on trade. Fox has a weak argument that they'll be injured. The optics of suing Tucker would be abysmal.

Posted by: Ignoramus at May 08, 2023 12:06 PM (RqMSv)

286 Commie civil wars go really bad, really quickly. Cambodia and Vietnam are just two examples. Hell, China as well.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 12:05 PM (zZu0s)

You just need a tiny clique of people to realize just how much *fun* it is to commit atrocities...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at May 08, 2023 12:06 PM (/EuRN)

287 265
'Unless things get so evil and horrific that say, Gestapo are bashing down doors to take people to death camps.'

Then they come up with a suitable lie to satisfy your conscience about their arrests that puts you in the wrong for resisting.
At that point you have to decide whether to accept their lie.

Posted by: Dr. Claw at May 08, 2023 12:08 PM (qVln6)

288 Didn't mean to cross a line. Just seems obvious, historically. Hard to believe it could happen here.

Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 08, 2023 12:09 PM (ik/65)

289 9 CA wants to give $1.2 million in reparations "as a start"

Remember, "Why did BLM buy the 6 million dollar mansion?

California has again taken upon itself to be the first state to toss out a shiny toy out covering where's all the damn money collected, donated, cojoled, etc. for the BLM movement? (The state, county, city C19 $ managing folk probably learned the art of 'misplacing' from it.)

It's a shame, people who could be legitimately deserving also get bested out by an inclusive & diverse movement but, like the rest of us, their vote, their choice.

Posted by: Lola - ALL the 1/6 videotapes from Alexandra & Jade, too. at May 08, 2023 12:11 PM (GshMh)

290 288 Didn't mean to cross a line. Just seems obvious, historically. Hard to believe it could happen here.
Posted by: Anti-Faucist at May 08, 2023 12:09 PM (ik/65)

I think you came close to it, but did not hit Taco Bell.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 12:11 PM (zZu0s)

291 I was saying the comment 'I' typed was over the line because it started to get into purely theoretical details.

Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at May 08, 2023 12:12 PM (zZu0s)

292 273 268 We have been hearing about blacks abandoning Dems for many years now, yet it never seem to happen on election day in any meaningful numbers. I'll believe it when I see it.
Posted by: Ripley at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (cUYo/)

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"Watch me turn these five ballots into 500!"
-election workers in ever urban center in America, pretty much

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, watching some more Best Pictures at May 08, 2023 12:03 PM (LvTSG)

It's a miracle!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at May 08, 2023 12:18 PM (ynpvh)

293 5th circuit...26 judges, 17 active, 6 appointed by trump, 4 appointed by W, so far One by Biden with another appointment in the works, seat is currently vacant.
As an aside, I was down in Texas for my 40th highschool reunion in 2016. Old buddy from those days ran a Legal Document delivery service in Houston. I was hanging out and visiting old haunts, eating at favorite restaurants for another week. He called me asked if I was up for a quick trip to 'Nawlins, thinking he wanted to road trip I said "Sure". Sez he, "grab a sport coat and some casual dress clothes, I'll have a driver pick yopu up in 30min". Guy rolls up, hands me a fat envelpope, breaks every traffic law in the books driving to the airport, gets me to a jet, hands me an address sez "This HAS to be there, and signed for BY FIVE!", it's a friday, plane lands at 3:50. I offer the uber dude at NO Airport a$100 tip if he gets me there through Friday Traffic, arrive with 15minutes to spare, but no one but a security gaurd in the building, I explain that it is some sort of important legal document and must be signed in, he makes some calls, locks the building, RUNS with me down the Block to the Circuit Court Building...

Posted by: birddog at May 08, 2023 12:25 PM (uAI4S)

294 In case anyone missed it, according to the ABC poll on Biden, he has slipped from 75% advantage in the black vote to a 35% advantage. Those are fatal numbers for ~~a Democrat~~ Biden.
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Edited. Sadly, it is no more than bad news for Biden (maybe). It should not be imagined that it is bad news for the Democrats.

The LIV, propagandized, inculcated voters will nonetheless reflexively march down to the polls, and pull the 'D' lever

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 08, 2023 12:26 PM (Ga8Fv)

295 ...another guard lets us in, dashes to an elevator, top floor, Clerk of Appeals court office, no clerk. One of the Justices working late comes out signs for it. Asks, do you know what this is?
"Nope, just delivering it." This is the official application/appointment package for a New Appeals court Justice...deadline is 5pm, three minutes from now. Had I known I was responsible for an Obama appointment, I would have stopped to piss.
As it turned out, my return flight was barely make able, not time for a decent meal, or even a cocktail...had to settle for airport etouffe. My buddy tried to pay me $1000 for the trip, I said no...but you can buy me dinner at a decent Cajun place.

Posted by: birddog at May 08, 2023 12:33 PM (uAI4S)

296 Do you think that anyone on the left will allow any principle to be applied equally? That ship sailed a long time ago. Our judges good, your judges bad is the rule, and once they hatchet Thomas and fortify all future elections they'll go right back to it. The Constitution is racist until the Good People rule, and then it gives us the rights to do whatever we freaking want.

Logically there are only a few options: helping sabotage a dying system, to lead to breakdown; open revolt, and hopes that being a martyr won't be buried under all the 1984 propaganda; or leaving the country and tending one's garden as best one can in a quiet corner of the world. None are perfect, but that's where we are

Posted by: John Milton's Ghost at May 08, 2023 12:34 PM (ATyck)

297 The real problem we have is that judges are appointed from lawyers, and at the moment there are very few young lawyers who will dare to take conservative cases, due to the fact that lawfare's ranks are 100% leftists.

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at May 08, 2023 12:37 PM (oSv40)

298 This isn't about rules, it's about power. If the power ambitions of the left align with the rules, then fine - the rules must be followed, right? I mean, you nasty Republicans go on about rule of law all the damn time, don't you? If the power ambitions of the left do *not* align with the rules, however, then the rules suddenly become quite irrelevant.
Posted by: Joe Mannix (Not a cop!) at May 08, 2023 11:11 AM (O4oKn)
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Agreed. This ends only one way. The left will not appreciate that ending. It will be painful to all, but the left will really dislike what happens to them.

Posted by: Black JEM at May 08, 2023 12:39 PM (UVyKP)

299 "If you want to fast-track a truly terrible idea to the carefully engineered conservative majority on the Supreme Court, the best way to do it is to file it in Texas. If your case fails there, take it down to the 5th Circuit for some CPR. Once there, your chances to prevail are fairly good. This forces the other side to throw itself on the tender mercies of the Alito Court."

It's different when we do exactly the same thing with the 9th Circuit.

Posted by: J.P. at May 08, 2023 12:39 PM (o9owH)

300 "What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling with terror at every bang on the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but understood they had nothing to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people?"--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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That was a long time ago. Nowadays, they know where you live, where your kids go to school, and where all your relatives are. And this takes them about twenty minutes to find out. They just have to wait outside until you come out with your hands up. If you get really difficult, they call in a drone strike. Waco should have taught us something. God still fights on the side of the heaviest artillery.

Posted by: MartynWW at May 08, 2023 12:49 PM (Ur3df)

301 God still fights on the side of the heaviest artillery.

That must be why we won in Afghanistan

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 08, 2023 01:16 PM (0hOvj)

302 damnit, why is it that every time the Right disarms the Left, they lay their own weapon down to make it "fair"

Posted by: Fen at May 08, 2023 01:24 PM (+LcMo)

303 Soros and his fellow Globalists/Socialists

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at May 08, 2023 04:25 PM (wGqjj)

304
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Posted by: Kristin Martinez at May 09, 2023 01:50 PM (tzFw+)

305 Yep. I think they should mostly peacefully burn fukkin NYC to the ground.

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