DOGE Calls the Cops to Evict "US Institute of Peace" "Workers" Who Barricaded Themselves Inside Their Grifter Offices

This particular grifter office refused to allow DOGE to even enter and sued to keep DOGE out. The judge, miraculously, declined to stop the president's appointed officials from doing their jobs.

This judge is Beryl Howell, the extremely partisan political actor who has granted TRO after TRO against Trump and eagerly sentenced J6ers to long terms in prison.

A federal judge on Wednesday declined to temporarily block the Department of Government Efficiency's (DOGE) takeover of the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), after the organization said its power was seized without lawful authority.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell expressed alarm about the manner in which DOGE accessed the building but said the now-fired board members likely don't have authority to sue in their official capacity, calling some aspects of the lawsuit "a stretch."
Howell declined to bar DOGE from accessing USIP's facilities and systems, acting in USIP's name or declare void the apparent removal of its board.
She also declined to forbid further trespass against the independent institute, after it said in court filings DOGE conducted a "literal trespass and takeover by force."
"I am very offended by how DOGE has operated at the institute and treated American citizens trying to do a job that they were statutorily tasked to do at the institute," Howell said. "But that concern about how this has gone down is not one that can sway me in my consideration of the factors for a [temporary restraining order], which is an emergency relief that is extraordinary."

F*** you.

Now DOGE comes in with a police presence to clear out the trash.

DOGE employees, with the aid of a master key and DC Metropolitan Police Department officers, finally gained control of the massive office building in Foggy Bottom on Monday, ending a standoff by US Institute of Peace bureaucrats barricaded in their offices. On Monday evening, DOGE employees accompanied by MPD officers and high-ranking administration officials stormed the building using a master key provided by the building security service, precipitating a brief scuffle before the building was liberated.
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DOGE staffers returned Monday and found organized resistance to entry.

Contrary to earlier reporting by The Washington Post and The New York Times, which claimed the institute merely locked its doors, photographic evidence exclusively obtained by the [Daily Caller News Foundation] shows locks had been physically removed from the exterior doors, effectively destroying entry mechanisms. The official said USIP staff removed the locks.
Moreover, staff contacted Washington's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) in an attempt to prevent DOGE personnel from entering, citing barricaded doors and security concerns. MPD officers later confirmed these obstructions upon arrival, further discrediting claims that USIP had only engaged in passive resistance. Much of USIP's leadership, including Moose, barricaded themselves on the building's fifth floor, closing window shades and blocking access points in a last-ditch effort to resist DOGE's entry, the official told the DCNF.
The obstruction didn't end at damaged doors. Prior to Monday's confrontation, USIP leaders disabled telephone lines, internet connections and other IT infrastructure, forcing communication among staff through walkie-talkies, according to the official. This deliberate effort to disrupt operations delayed DOGE's entry and added to the confusion during Monday's standoff.
Using a master key provided by the security contractor, Trump's team, accompanied by MPD officers, bypassed the damaged and barricaded entryway and "entered the facility through emergency stairs." Confronted with determined leadership and overwhelming force, resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

Read the whole thing.

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1 FIRST!!!!!

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

2 Off to recruit.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:25 PM (Zz0t1)

3 Leftists hate this one simple trick

Posted by: Iasonas at March 20, 2025 01:26 PM (gUzGB)

4 Was anyone arrested for insurrection-y sounding crimes? Trespassing? etc?

Posted by: Iasonas at March 20, 2025 01:26 PM (gUzGB)

5 Is there . . . Is there body-cam footage? Please?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2025 01:27 PM (D7oie)

6 Can't they just stop payment of their payroll?

I mean, hey, you don't want to come out, we'll cut the power, cancel your paycheck and see how long you fare.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

7 Howell declined to bar DOGE from accessing USIP's facilities and systems, acting in USIP's name or declare void the apparent removal of its board.

She also declined to forbid further trespass against the independent institute, after it said in court filings DOGE conducted a "literal trespass and takeover by force."

"I am very offended by how DOGE has operated at the institute and treated American citizens trying to do a job that they were statutorily tasked to do at the institute," Howell said. "But that concern about how this has gone down is not one that can sway me in my consideration of the factors for a [temporary restraining order], which is an emergency relief that is extraordinary."

tl:dr
Short version: I don't want a public spanking from SCOTUS.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:27 PM (xCA6C)

8 >>>The chairman of USIP's board, George Moose, determined that President Trump did not have the authority to take over the agency. Friday evening, DOGE staffers arrived and were denied entry to the building.

Please tell me he stood outside and said place was closed for repairs. Lie to me if you must.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (i24o9)

9 Moose inside should have told ya.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (63Dwl)

10 Gentlemen something something our phoney baloney jobs...

Posted by: Harrumph! at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (RZVTN)

11 "Confronted with determined leadership and overwhelming force, resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building."

In many ways, this too is the story of Trump.

Posted by: davidt at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (i0F8b)

12 Who the f*ck creates an 'institute of peace' anyway?

That sounds like a 60's grifter org that sells flowers on street corners.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (Zz0t1)

13 "I am very offended by how DOGE has operated at the institute and treated American citizens trying to do a job that they were statutorily tasked to do at the institute," Howell said. "But that concern about how this has gone down is not one that can sway me in my consideration of the factors for a [temporary restraining order], which is an emergency relief that is extraordinary."

This neatly encapulates the problem. Nobody GAS about your feelz, but you decided it was relevant to preface your remarks with your opinion of Trump. BIOYA.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (xCA6C)

14 Can't they just stop payment of their payroll?

I mean, hey, you don't want to come out, we'll cut the power, cancel your paycheck and see how long you fare.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)

And then give them helicopters, right up their ass.

Posted by: Special Agent Johnson at March 20, 2025 01:29 PM (i24o9)

15 Absolutely none of this would be happening if I had taken your retarded advice and ducked the debate with Joe Biden.

Remember that.

Posted by: Donald J Trump, 3X POTUS at March 20, 2025 01:29 PM (mv4tk)

16 GOP allowed it all. Comforting I know.

Posted by: Francis at March 20, 2025 01:29 PM (bbuBP)

17 I remember years ago when I thought simply refusing to leave the office would prevent me from getting fired and evicted from the building

I thought poorly

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Liberating The Wagshambas of Freedom from Federal Bureaucracy at March 20, 2025 01:29 PM (HYKHz)

18 The obstruction didn't end at damaged doors. Prior to Monday's confrontation, USIP leaders disabled telephone lines, internet connections and other IT infrastructure, forcing communication among staff through walkie-talkies, according to the official. This deliberate effort to disrupt operations delayed DOGE's entry and added to the confusion during Monday's standoff.

This seems all 'destruction of government property-ee.'

Anyone going to jail?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:29 PM (Zz0t1)

19 12 Who the f*ck creates an 'institute of peace' anyway?
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It's part of The Human Fund.

Posted by: George Costanza at March 20, 2025 01:30 PM (RZVTN)

20 And then give them helicopters, right up their ass.
Posted by: Special Agent Johnson at March 20, 2025 01:29 PM (i24o9)

"I was in junior high, dickhead."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:30 PM (Zz0t1)

21 Sounds kinda insurrectiony

Posted by: Life of Wryly at March 20, 2025 01:30 PM (ZmzYz)

22 Consider this an Audit!

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 20, 2025 01:30 PM (fY84s)

23 Speaking of people who are way too comfortable in their jobs to the extent that they have turned into leeching bloodbags of cancer and filth

wen fire judges?

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Liberating The Wagshambas of Freedom from Federal Bureaucracy at March 20, 2025 01:30 PM (HYKHz)

24 In the dreaded private sector part of the reason layoffs are handled as a surprise is the concern people will do crazy stuff like this.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (t0Rmr)

25 The government is our enemy.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (v0R5T)

26 US Institute of Peace ?

Whos bitch dis is ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (NtVYv)

27 Howell isn't even hiding the fact that this has no legal merit.

Keep defending this BS, Judge Roberts

Posted by: Halfhand at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (fCLft)

28 Judge rails against DOGE for 'terrorizing' U.S. Institute of Peace after using 'guns and threats' to shut it down. District Judge Beryl Howell asked Justice Department attorneys...whether Donald Trump’s administration could enforce his executive order seeking to shutter the agency “without using the force of guns and threats by DOGE against American citizens.”

“I mean, this conduct of using law enforcement, threatening criminal investigations, using arms of law enforcement … probably terrorizing employees and staff at the institute, when there are so many other lawful ways to accomplish the goals … why?” she said. “Just because DOGE is in a rush?”

The institute is not a federal agency but an independent nonprofit established by Congress under President Ronald Reagan. Its headquarters in Washington, D.C., is not government property, and its personnel are not federal employees.

If the courts allow this, then they can conceivably and forcibly go into any of the "non-white focused" Smithsonian museums and forcibly shut them down. Just. Because.

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (JCZqz)

29 Seriously though, I would have thought that a diplomat of such long service would have better ideas than "let's turn the building into CHAZ" or deciding to LARP the movie Taps

I mean he is 80 years old, what is he going to do, fight off 20 year old computer techs?

Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (D7oie)

30 The hallway poopers from EPA are missing out on a great side gig.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (u5fr9)

31 The D.C. jail is kinda' empty. Throw these actual insurrectionists in there, pronto.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (Q4IgG)

32 it's nice to know that any federal judge can decide what the president can and can't do. i'm surprised a federal judge didn't order biden to eat a different kind of ice cream

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (CWTWj)

33
“I mean, this conduct of using law enforcement, threatening criminal investigations, using arms of law enforcement … probably terrorizing employees and staff at the institute, when there are so many other lawful ways to accomplish the goals … why?” she said. “Just because DOGE is in a rush?”

Now do the entire 4 years of the Biden admin, asshole.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (Zz0t1)

34 Question.
Are all these TROs an attempt to get Trump to ignore the courts so they can tee up another impeachment?

Posted by: bob (moron incognitus) at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (VBJJ3)

35 "[...] insurrectionists exited the building."
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In cuffs and leg irons, I presume?

Posted by: Another Anon at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (wK3f3)

36 Short version: I don't want a public spanking from SCOTUS.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:27 PM (xCA6C)

I wonder if a note is going around telling them to stay in their lanes?

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (W/lyH)

37 Taps reference...nice.

Posted by: Francis at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (bbuBP)

38 If anyone was unsure what "Our Democracy" meant...

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (qSMcm)

39 "It's beautiful man"

Posted by: Francis at March 20, 2025 01:33 PM (bbuBP)

40 “I mean, this conduct of using law enforcement, threatening criminal investigations, using arms of law enforcement … probably terrorizing employees and staff at the institute, when there are so many other lawful ways to accomplish the goals … why?” she said. “Just because DOGE is in a rush?”

How many times under Biden did the feds show up with guns drawn and kill pets are suspects because they were "worried"?

Apparently only government workers have rights.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:33 PM (t0Rmr)

41 These *employees* want to rule us.

Its bad enough that our elected officials want to rule us, but at least they had the balls to run for public office. These employees nevertheless seem to think they're just as entitled to rule us as anyone else is.

The hubris is amazing. Can you imagine *employees* of a privately owned entity behaving in such a manner?

Posted by: Crusader at March 20, 2025 01:33 PM (TN0g+)

42

Worthless pieces of shit. The cost of damage they have done should be taken out of their paychecks. They shouldn't be getting paid, but get the money for the damage from them.

Posted by: four seasons at March 20, 2025 01:33 PM (3ek7K)

43 US Institute of Peace ?

Whos bitch dis is ?

Posted by: Hatari somewhere on Ventura Highway at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (NtVYv)

Sounds like State Department.

Posted by: Special Agent Johnson at March 20, 2025 01:33 PM (i24o9)

44 when there are so many other lawful ways to accomplish the goals … why?” she said.

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Spoiler alert:

They're RESPONDING to actions. Illegal actions.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:33 PM (qSMcm)

45 If anyone was unsure what "Our Democracy" meant

I always read that as "Our Hegemony"

Posted by: Halfhand at March 20, 2025 01:34 PM (fCLft)

46 Confronted with determined leadership and overwhelming force, resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.
......

Off to torch some Teslas!

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:34 PM (v0R5T)

47 "It's beautiful man"
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One of the most under-appreciated movies of its time.

Posted by: Crusader at March 20, 2025 01:34 PM (TN0g+)

48 Maybe they should get their paychecks cut off?

Posted by: Milton Waddums at March 20, 2025 01:34 PM (ZmzYz)

49 The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is funded entirely by American taxpayers, with an annual budget of approximately $56 million. It operates as an independent, nonpartisan institution focused on preventing and resolving international conflicts without violence.

If you are wholly funded by FedGov you aren't independent in any manner.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)

50 I keep dutifully checking in to see if we've reached the FO portion of the entertainment. Seems like we may be getting closer, but I really hope we have a long, drawn out, and satisfying period of Finding Out.

Posted by: 496 at March 20, 2025 01:34 PM (EQyNe)

51 Do these guys shit in the hallways, too?

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (Hpgos)

52 An entire building of George Costanzas.

Posted by: eleven at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (0HaGk)

53 Apparently this is where Antifa works during the week. F ing pussies.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (SaMN7)

54 ...precipitating a brief scuffle before the building was liberated.

The last time an unarmed civilian was in a government building without authorization, she was shot and killed by a Capitol Cop who got a medal. I wonder how the Left would feel it a similar outcome came of this latest event?

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (JCZqz)

55
These entitled fed employees have never felt want, need, or famine.

They are about to.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (+oR7L)

56 In the eighties Philly mayor Wilson Goode ended a standoff with radical racist group MoveAfrica by allowing Philly cops to drop two large flash bangs on the roof of their home. Eleven people were unfortunately killed and at least 65 homes destroyed.
Do the same thing to US Institute for Peace. Just limit collateral damage DOGE , okay

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (bVN1m)

57 independent nonprofit established by Congress

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Is the govt paying their salaries? Yes?

Then they're federal employees, DU fuckface

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Liberating The Wagshambas of Freedom from Federal Bureaucracy at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (HYKHz)

58 It operates as an independent, nonpartisan institution focused on preventing and resolving international conflicts without violence.

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Fine. Have they ever accomplished anything?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (qSMcm)

59 Their claim is that they are "a private nonprofit", so DOGE has no power over them.

The fact that they get all their money from the Federal government is irrelevant.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (u6/wt)

60 They swarmed a building by using the key Amazing

Posted by: LASue at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (mFhj8)

61 Do these guys shit in the hallways, too?

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Wait, they're H1Bs?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (qSMcm)

62 An Army buddy of mine (and an uber liberal...yeah I have a few of those as friends) got a job at USIP. He gave me a tour there about a dozen years ago. I was impressed. But he could never actually answer just exactly what they did. To me it sounded like a feel good gig for lobbyists from both sides of the aisle.

Posted by: Diogenes at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (W/lyH)

63 The Institute of Whirled Peas

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (v0R5T)

64 VOTE VANCE!

Posted by: Sid just wants to vote for Vance at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (ANi+L)

65 Summer's coming.

Enjoy funemployment, bitches.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (Zz0t1)

66 The fact that they get all their money from the Federal government is irrelevant.

Yeah I like how they leave that out of the entire discussion.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (2VST1)

67
What's funny is I'll bet NONE of these muthafuckas were even showing up at the office until a month ago. Now they won't go home to, ah, pretend to "work" from home.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (WMYRW)

68 An op-ed in the Wall Street Journal on February 16, 2011, by Republican congressman Jason Chaffetz of Utah and former Democratic congressman Anthony Weiner of New York, attacked funding for USIP as part of the broader debate about federal spending. "The USIP is a case study in how government waste thrives," they wrote. "The idea began during the Cold War as a modest proposal with $4 million in seed money. But the organization received government funding year after year essentially because it had been funded the year before—and because it had important allies."

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)

69 They swarmed a building by using the key Amazing
Posted by: LASue

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The Uvaldi police are very insulted by these types of comments.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (qSMcm)

70 I thought Musk cutting 1 trillion might be doable, but difficult considering theres only so much fraud and abuse to cut

Im starting to think 2 trillion is a more reasonable target now

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Liberating The Wagshambas of Freedom from Federal Bureaucracy at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (HYKHz)

71 I mean, hey, you don't want to come out, we'll cut the power, cancel your paycheck and see how long you fare.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:27 PM (Zz0t1)
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Cut the water, too.

When they get thirsty, they can sue for "peace." Isn't that part of their "job?"

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (7fElN)

72 Were they arrested????

How is this not an “insurrection “ jeopardizing “our democracy?”!?!?!

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2025 01:37 PM (Hkcdp)

73 I heard all the USIP employees boarded the Peace Blimp and headed to CHAZ.

Unfortunately they ran into a mooring mast in Lakehurst, NJ.

Posted by: electronic means at March 20, 2025 01:37 PM (uoSeY)

74 An Army buddy of mine (and an uber liberal...yeah I have a few of those as friends) got a job at USIP. He gave me a tour there about a dozen years ago. I was impressed. But he could never actually answer just exactly what they did. To me it sounded like a feel good gig for lobbyists from both sides of the aisle.
Posted by: Diogenes

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That plus the name?

I'm betting they're key players in color revolutions.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:37 PM (qSMcm)

75 But he could never actually answer just exactly what they did. To me it sounded like a feel good gig for lobbyists from both sides of the aisle.

Posted by: Diogenes

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"Money launderer" probably doesn't look good on a business card.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 20, 2025 01:37 PM (u5fr9)

76 An entire building of George Costanzas.
Posted by: eleven
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I'll have the calzone.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (v0R5T)

77
It's the 1960's peacenik/resistance 24/7 with the libs.
We shall overcome.
Hey,Hey, Ho Ho....
flowers in the gunbarrell.

If they want to live in the 60's, let them have it. They need the waterhoses and police dogs, police batons, road rash and cracked skulls.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (+oR7L)

78 Blast Baby Shark at the building. They'll be out in 20 minutes.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (Zz0t1)

79 >>“Are you the least bit offended with how this was executed, Mr. Hudak?” Howell asked Justice Department lawyer Brian Hudak.

>>and a declaration from the group’s chief security officer indicated that DOGE employees were accompanied by FBI agents.

>>On Monday, three sets of law enforcement — D.C. Metropolitan Police, Department of State police and the FBI — showed up to help DOGE get into the building.

>>DOGE first showed up at USIP’s Washington headquarters on Friday with two FBI agents, Goldfarb said. When they failed to gain access, FBI agents appeared at the private residence of the institute’s chief of security on Sunday to attempt to get into the building.

>>before later being told he was the subject of federal investigation as to why the institute refused to let FBI agents enter the building.

Awful lot of DOJ activity in that raid.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (LkLld)

80 It operates as an independent, nonpartisan institution focused on preventing and resolving international conflicts without violence.

Clearly they suck at this.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (2VST1)

81 What a stupid institute How many wars did they stop?

Posted by: LASue at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (mFhj8)

82 > These *employees* want to rule us.
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Some might. Most just want to collect a fat paycheck and surf porn all day. Others want to live "high on the hog" at your expense.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (Q4IgG)

83 Do these guys shit in the hallways, too?
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I think that's reserved for Indian airlines and Mexican beaches...

Posted by: Crusader at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (TN0g+)

84 I thought Musk cutting 1 trillion might be doable, but difficult considering theres only so much fraud and abuse to cut

Im starting to think 2 trillion is a more reasonable target now

Posted by: The Unvaxed and Unmasked Ranger - Liberating The Wagshambas of Freedom from Federal Bureaucracy at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (HYKHz)

That was my thought last thread. I think $1 Trillion is just low-hanging fruit, with no real hard work required to cut.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (i24o9)

85 If you are wholly funded by FedGov you aren't independent in any manner.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:34 PM (t0Rmr)
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Nor are you "nonpartisan."

He who pays the piper calls the tune.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (7fElN)

86 >>I remember years ago when I thought simply refusing to leave the office would prevent me from getting fired and evicted from the building

"If Mr Tomasauto needs me...TELL HIM I'M IN MY OFFICE!"

Posted by: George Costanza at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (yHAEf)

87 34 Question.
Are all these TROs an attempt to get Trump to ignore the courts so they can tee up another impeachment?
Posted by: bob (moron incognitus)

Does it matter? I saw some Lefties on X and DU bragging about how judges couldn't be impeached for resisting Trump, because they'd never get 2/3 of the senate to remove them.

I mentioned that Trump may as well ignore the courts, then, because the Dems will never get 2/3 of the senate to remove him. Haven't seen any responses yet (on X...I'd get banned for that kinda talk on DU!)

Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (JCZqz)

88 The very land this GOGO "NGO" is on came from land owned by the Navy. And yes it is in Foggy Bottom so it is almost certainly a cut out for State Dept to do things it otherwise can't legally do.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (t0Rmr)

89 Yes, Soothsayer, bet they were Al “”working from home before this.

But they saw how easily USAID building was emptied and repurposed and likely panicked.

Funny how Pali protesters , antifa and government workers use the same tactics, eh?

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (Hkcdp)

90 How much you wanna bet the "US Institute of Peace" is crawling with Hamas dicksmokers? Any takers? I'll give odds!

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (iFTx/)

91 I'm pretty sure it's not Mr Tomasuto...but that was a great Seinfeld.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (yHAEf)

92 We saw this building over the thirty odd years we worked in DC. It's massive, gorgeous, and...no one knows what they did. I remember asking colleagues at State twenty years ago what was the institute of peace's purpose, and no one knew. Diplomacy? Isn't that what State is "supposed" to do? (I can't do Italics, and I don't want to risk the Barrel). Why does the US govt need redundancy for diplomatic functions? That seems stupid. So, the best answer is...fraud. Massive fraud. After Ace's thread below, it will be interesting to see how many of these fake government agencies litter the DMV. And how much money the taxpayer saves when they are closed down.

Posted by: moki at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (wLjpr)

93 Using a master key provided by the security contractor, Trump's team, accompanied by MPD officers, bypassed the damaged and barricaded entryway and "entered the facility through emergency stairs." Confronted with determined leadership and overwhelming force, resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

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So, they playacted a revolution and fell apart the second someone burly showed up?

Sounds about right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

94 “Are you the least bit offended with how this was executed, Mr. Hudak?” Howell asked Justice Department lawyer Brian Hudak.

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Wait, they're asking the DOJ and not the government employees who locked themselves in their building to protect their jobs that belong to them and their family members?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (qSMcm)

95 Do these guys shit in the hallways, too?
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I think that's reserved for Indian airlines and Mexican beaches...
Posted by: Crusader at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (TN0g+)

I'm really hoping they don't do a reboot of "The Streets of San Francisco."

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (Zz0t1)

96 I thought Musk cutting 1 trillion might be doable, but difficult considering theres only so much fraud and abuse to cut

Im starting to think 2 trillion is a more reasonable target now

In the end, that can't be accomplished without cutting programs that Trump has already said he won't cut: Medicare/Medicaid and SS. He might try the old "reduce the rate of increase", but in the end, those are policy choices, not WFA as such, although there's undoubtedly enormous waste.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (xCA6C)

97
Please tell me that they used THIS master key. Lie to me if you have to.

https://tinyurl.com/mrkhk47b

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (y9nCu)

98 I thought Musk cutting 1 trillion might be doable, but difficult considering theres only so much fraud and abuse to cut

Im starting to think 2 trillion is a more reasonable target now

In 25 years fedgov has quadrupled its budget.

*At least* half of that could be cut with minimal impact to actual citizens.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (t0Rmr)

99 The chairman of USIP's board, George Moose, determined that President Trump did not have the authority to take over the agency.
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If the president doesn't have the authority to 'take over' part of the executive branch, then who does? Chairman Moose? Sounds like he was setting up an independent fiefdom on US soil. Insurrection!

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (zAWN6)

100 FINALLY!!! Sen Hawley to introduce legislation to reign in out of control Judges.

All of the TROs and orders these Judges have done, are only authorized by the Rules of Civil Justice. Congress is supposed to write these rules, but delegated that authority to the Supreme Court in 1934... but that delegation was written so the Supreme would write the rules, which would be valid UNLESS the Congress passed legislation to change or amend those rules.

Looks like some smart lawyer finally clued Congress in that they DO have oversite, over lower Courts.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (QAkQ3)

101 "Money launderer" probably doesn't look good on a business card.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 20, 2025 01:37 PM (u5fr9)
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Depends on the client, I suppose.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (7fElN)

102 I would love to see footage of US Marshalls clearing out the building 1968 Chicago DNC style.

"May I suggest using your nightstick, officer"

Seriously, who TF do these people think they are?

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (/u7Rx)

103
WTFF??

DOGE employees accompanied by MPD officers and high-ranking administration officials stormed the building...

using a master key

lol

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (WMYRW)

104 >>"I am very offended by how DOGE has operated at the institute and treated American citizens trying to do a job that they were statutorily tasked to do at the institute," Howell said.

Nobody cares.

Put. The Fries.
IN. The Bag.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (yHAEf)

105 The very land this GOGO "NGO" is on came from land owned by the Navy.

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Dang. Yeah, I'm sticking with my color revolutions hypothesis.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (qSMcm)

106 If the USIP crew needs a new hangout, I hear there’s a vacant 9 story building on K Street.

Posted by: electronic means at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (uoSeY)

107 Amazing how these Leftist Judges keep showing up in Leftist cases against the administration

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (fwDg9)

108 Whatever AI created Sid is rudimentary at best.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (fY84s)

109 Who the f*ck creates an 'institute of peace' anyway?
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It's part of The Human Fund.
Posted by: George Costanza at March 20, 2025 01:30 PM

No relation.

We don't want them.

Posted by: The Human League at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (kgE5c)

110 It's a DOGE kind of day

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (xcxpd)

111 It operates as an independent, nonpartisan institution focused on preventing and resolving international conflicts without violence.

Clearly they suck at this.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (2VST1)

Government paying people for this while they pay others groups for exactly the opposite.

How about the two sides just fight it out over half the total amount.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (i24o9)

112 before later being told he was the subject of federal investigation as to why the institute refused to let FBI agents enter the building.

My guess is that this is much less about a principled stance against DOGE or something and lot more about this being a massive clearing house for graft, a massive cutout for payoffs and funding various operations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (2VST1)

113 Who the f*ck creates an 'institute of peace' anyway?

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I'm guessing the CIA

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (qSMcm)

114 99 The chairman of USIP's board, George Moose, determined that President Trump did not have the authority to take over the agency.
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If the president doesn't have the authority to 'take over' part of the executive branch, then who does? Chairman Moose? Sounds like he was setting up an independent fiefdom on US soil. Insurrection!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (zAWN6)

USIP is closed.... Moose at Top should have told you.... but didn't want to.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (QAkQ3)

115 US Institute of Peace

Looks around, both inside the US and at the whole world.

What would you say...you do here?

Posted by: haffhowershower at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (NMT5x)

116 Who the f*ck creates an 'institute of peace' anyway?

The "institute" is one of the baby mamma's of illegal votes.

Posted by: CONFESSIONS OF TAMPON TIM at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (W2EWw)

117 "Money launderer" probably doesn't look good on a business card.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 20, 2025 01:37 PM (u5fr9)

The fact that Director Moose had such a violent response indicates that might be the true function of that totally independent institute

Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (D7oie)

118
When the first item on their list of demands was "You MUST allow our UberEats deliveries free passage to our location" everybody knew it was over.

Posted by: Frank Barone at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (+oR7L)

119 I like the "the President doesn't have the authority" line from these assholes. I guess he has the Bureaucratic Constitution on his wall. Power shall be invested in whatever douchebag holds a federal do nothing job.

Posted by: Ahhhh, so... at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (ab5KQ)

120 I like the one where George sleeps under his desk.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (v0R5T)

121 93 Using a master key provided by the security contractor
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So much oppression in these words.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (Hpgos)

122 >>Wait, they're asking the DOJ and not the government employees who locked themselves in their building to protect their jobs that belong to them and their family members?

Hey, we have another judge, the same one who oversaw the corrupt FISA court that allowed the FBI to spy on Trump, who thinks he runs foreign policy. This is what the DOJ is spending a ton of time fighting right now. An actual insurrection by the judiciary.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (LkLld)

123 96 In the end, that can't be accomplished without cutting programs that Trump has already said he won't cut: Medicare/Medicaid and SS. He might try the old "reduce the rate of increase", but in the end, those are policy choices, not WFA as such, although there's undoubtedly enormous waste.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (xCA6C)

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Biden's own administration estimated Medicare fraud was between a quarter billion and half a billion a year.

I think the whole mindset about what's possible without "cutting Medicare" is...wrong. Brainwashing. An op.

"Cutting Medicare" is meant to include the idea of cutting benefits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

124 32 it's nice to know that any federal judge can decide what the president can and can't do. i'm surprised a federal judge didn't order biden to eat a different kind of ice cream

Posted by: gnats local 678 at March 20, 2025 01:32 PM (CWTWj)

The entire United States Army and the entire United States Air Force is hereby ordered to Ukraine and shall liberate all Russian-occupied Ukrainian territory, including the Crimean Peninsula, by no later than May 1, 2025.

Posted by: Buch. N Danno, United States District Court Judge for the at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (aBgBM)

125 I hope that they prosecute every last one of these scumbags for vandalism for this little stunt. Admittedly, it's DC, so I don't expect much to be done, but the effort needs to happen.

Posted by: American Hawkman at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (9VDxG)

126 OT: Jack Bogdanski is a law professor in Portland, who for years has written acerbically about the corruption and incompetence of Portland and Oregon governments.

He has also let Trump Derangement Syndrome eat his brain.

He just shut down his blog:

But there's an even bigger reason to give up this hobby for a spell. To stop writing about state and local politics is a way of acknowledging that our hometown problems are nothing compared with the appalling horror show unfolding in the federal government. I'm not interested in being the guy who blogged about the potholes in Stuttgart in 1938.

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Folks, the United States is a dictatorship now, plain and simple. The White House is brazenly laughing off the judiciary. Congress has its tail between its legs and is going along with the daily proclamations of hate and revenge. People are being rounded up and flown God knows where, with no legal process whatsoever. Everyone knows it's horribly wrong, legally and morally, but no decent people with guts are in any position to stop the tyranny.

Of course, if he really thought he was living through the second coming of Nazi Germany, he'd be fleeing the country.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (u6/wt)

127 >>Who the f*ck creates an 'institute of peace' anyway?

Janette Rankin. Look her up.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (yHAEf)

128 Institute of Peace.

How much of their budget was sent to Ukraine?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (Zz0t1)

129
Enough with this "independent" agency bullshit.

There are NO "independent" agencies or departments within the Federal Government. NONE.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (WMYRW)

130 We saw this building over the thirty odd years we worked in DC. It's massive, gorgeous, and...no one knows what they did. I remember asking colleagues at State twenty years ago what was the institute of peace's purpose, and no one knew. Diplomacy? Isn't that what State is "supposed" to do? (I can't do Italics, and I don't want to risk the Barrel). Why does the US govt need redundancy for diplomatic functions? That seems stupid. So, the best answer is...fraud. Massive fraud. After Ace's thread below, it will be interesting to see how many of these fake government agencies litter the DMV. And how much money the taxpayer saves when they are closed down.
Posted by: moki at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (wLjpr)
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Anyone placing bets on whether or not this building has a secret torture dungeon? Whenever a place like this exists where no one can define what happens in there, you know it's not going to be good.

I've seen this movie/television show/book.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (7fElN)

131 Please tell me he stood outside and said place was closed for repairs. Lie to me if you must.
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (i24o9)

Moose inside should have told ya.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2025 01:28 PM (63Dwl)

Lol

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (/q9k6)

132 Please tell me that they used THIS master key. Lie to me if you have to.

https://tinyurl.com/mrkhk47b
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM

Don't tease...

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (kgE5c)

133 88 The very land this GOGO "NGO" is on came from land owned by the Navy. And yes it is in Foggy Bottom so it is almost certainly a cut out for State Dept to do things it otherwise can't legally do.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (t0Rmr)

My guess is that this is much less about a principled stance against DOGE or something and lot more about this being a massive clearing house for graft, a massive cutout for payoffs and funding various operations.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (2VST1)

That explains why my supervisors had no answer... I was really, really naive.

Posted by: moki at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (wLjpr)

134 I looked this George Moose cretin up. He's American, but seems to care more about African shitholes than his home country. Clinton scumbag. Love this tidbit: "He is primarily known for serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Clinton Administration during the Rwandan genocide." Great work, Georgie!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moose

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (iFTx/)

135 If you are wholly funded by FedGov you aren't independent in any manner.

Pretty sure they're using independent as a synonym for unaccountable.

Posted by: Oddbob at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (/y8xj)

136 >>I like the one where George sleeps under his desk.

Is that the one with the Calzones, too?

When Kramer gets the Pizza Guy to Bake his Jacket?

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (yHAEf)

137
Independent.
/makes Jerkoff hand-motion/

Independent of what, faggots?? What?

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:43 PM (WMYRW)

138 Git blocked entering the USIoP.org

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (fwDg9)

139 So, they playacted a revolution and fell apart the second someone burly showed up?

Sounds about right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:39 PM (GBKbO)

This, too, is the story of Obama.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (i24o9)

140 I think the whole mindset about what's possible without "cutting Medicare" is...wrong. Brainwashing. An op.

Yep - eliminating fraud in Medicare is "cutting Medicare".

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (u6/wt)

141 Find most overturned court and disband it. Rinse, repeat.

Posted by: Francis at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (bbuBP)

142 "What would you say...you do here?"

I'm a people person, dammit!

Posted by: Institute of Peace Employee at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (ab5KQ)

143 Missed a good opportunity for a little target practice.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PJuIVIZ72k&t=3s

Posted by: DaveA at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (FhXTo)

144 Google says they are not a government agency

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (fwDg9)

145 I looked this George Moose cretin up. He's American, but seems to care more about African shitholes than his home country. Clinton scumbag. Love this tidbit: "He is primarily known for serving as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs in the Clinton Administration during the Rwandan genocide." Great work, Georgie!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moose
Posted by: Elric Blade

Sounds like a slaver.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (LVaER)

146 They truly think they are lords of their own fiefdoms.

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (N1tpc)

147 using a master key

lol

LOL yeah they make it sound like there were guys in body armor with rifles and battering rams... using a key.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (2VST1)

148 I don't get the thinking here. What, are inspectors going to look at the door with no locks and say "Well, that's it then. We can't do anything now. Time to go home?"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (PzXaK)

149 It operates as an independent, nonpartisan institution focused on preventing and resolving international conflicts without violence.

Clearly they suck at this.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:38 PM (2VST1)

It's like the COVID vaccine, man! It doesn't prevent ALL war, but it reduces the length and severity of conflicts. Things would be a LOT worse without it, bro.

Posted by: Rabid, deranged Leftist Big Government Apologist at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (JCZqz)

150 The U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) is funded entirely by American taxpayers, with an annual budget of approximately $56 million. It operates as an independent, nonpartisan institution focused on preventing and resolving international conflicts without violence.
________________

Perhaps they've heard of a little matter in Ukraine?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (YqDXo)

151 Folks, the United States is a dictatorship now, plain and simple. The White House is brazenly laughing off the judiciary. Congress has its tail between its legs...

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The left is angry that someone on the right is no longer playing ball and agreeing that the courts are more equal than the POTUS

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (qSMcm)

152
Institute of Piece...

of Ass

directed by Jeffrey Epstein

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (WMYRW)

153 Find most overturned court and disband it. Rinse, repeat.
Posted by: Francis

9th Circus

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (LVaER)

154 OddBob that's my take too

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (fwDg9)

155 My Freshman Seminar was Peace Science 01.

We studied nuclear targeting strategies and Mutual Assured Destruction theory.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (RIvkX)

156 120 I like the one where George sleeps under his desk.
Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (v0R5T)
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"Nothing here but empty calories and male curiosity, eh Georgie-boy?"

-George Steinbrenner

Posted by: 496 at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (ar9Dm)

157 I wonder if someday DOGE will break into a DC basement and discover Ed Bishop in a nehru jacket, reading reports on flying saucers.

Posted by: electronic means at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (uoSeY)

158 I keep dutifully checking in to see if we've reached the FO portion of the entertainment. Seems like we may be getting closer, but I really hope we have a long, drawn out, and satisfying period of Finding Out.
Posted by: 496

There have been some armchair prosecutors here in the grey boxes. They have expressed their disappointment because we don't have any bodies hanging from lampposts yet. Personally, I want real justice. The kind that results from hardwork. I will posit that there are more than a few PAs in the the DOJ who are dealing with some serious schadenboners and at some point, when they have built solid cases, they will share those with us

Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (SaMN7)

159
52 An entire building of George Costanzas.
Posted by: eleven
++++
Was that wrong?
Should we not have done that?

Posted by: 'cuz I gotta tell you... at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (RZVTN)

160 I know this whole "barricading the doors" looks like it is bad and all, but, come on, Trump said pussy.

Posted by: blaster at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (xhfG9)

161 Google says they are not a government agency

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Ha. Yeah, on Navy property and operating off of federal funds = not a government agency

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (qSMcm)

162 Institute of Peace sounds like something Bernie or Dennis Kucinich would create. Do nothing, feel good government entity.

Posted by: Lizzy at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (Hkcdp)

163 Folks, the United States is a dictatorship now, plain and simple.

Ah yes a dictatorship where the dictator is reining in the power of the government, stopping foreign wars, and enforcing the rights of the people.

To paraphrase, if this be dictatorship let us make the most of it.

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (t0Rmr)

164 please tell me there was tear gas. I would pay $1 for some tear gas next time.

Posted by: nononeyouknowyouknow at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (oaPfe)

165 Charge them with trespass, resisting, damage to Federal property, parading and give them a three-year sentence. And general mopery.

Oh? This is in DC? Nevermind.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (v1cyc)

166 There have been some armchair prosecutors here in the grey boxes. They have expressed their disappointment because we don't have any bodies hanging from lampposts yet. Personally, I want real justice. The kind that results from hardwork. I will posit that there are more than a few PAs in the the DOJ who are dealing with some serious schadenboners and at some point, when they have built solid cases, they will share those with us
Posted by: Sock Monkey

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I'll admit that I'm still shocked that it's not even 60 days yet. That's incredible.

Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:47 PM (qSMcm)

167 158 There have been some armchair prosecutors here in the grey boxes. They have expressed their disappointment because we don't have any bodies hanging from lampposts yet. Personally, I want real justice. The kind that results from hardwork. I will posit that there are more than a few PAs in the the DOJ who are dealing with some serious schadenboners and at some point, when they have built solid cases, they will share those with us
Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (SaMN7)

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As long as Trump is ordering his people to act within the constraint of law, most of the groundwork to get people in courtrooms for trials is going to be behind the scenes stuff.

Bondi made the blunder of doing the Epstein photo-op. Without it, I suspect there'd be more patience on display.

But, she hung her ass out. It didn't work. Now, people want something more splashy for her to atone for the error.

I get it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

168
Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:36 PM (t0Rmr)

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Is Anthony Weiner getting religion after all these years? Or has he stuck his finger in the wind and figured he might get a little action by telling a few things he knows? Or maybe he's having fun twitting his ex-wife's new boyfriend.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 01:47 PM (lCaJd)

169 Yemen firing rockets into Israel, they want some of this action

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (fwDg9)

170 Institute of Piece...

of Ass

directed by Jeffrey Epstein
Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:45 PM (WMYRW)

"Hey cuteness. What's your favorite pizza? Mine's pizza ass."

- - - - - Shorsey

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (Zz0t1)

171
Seems kind of Fort Sumter-y.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (lCaJd)

172 >>>Google says they are not a government agency

Propagandists say the damnedest things.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (i24o9)

173 Jack Bogdanski is a law professor in Portland
_________________

Say no more.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (YqDXo)

174 and the little kid finds George hiding under there

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (v0R5T)

175 >>"Nothing here but empty calories and male curiosity, eh Georgie-boy?"

-George Steinbrenner

Larry David may be a douchebag...but his Steinbrenner was awesome.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (yHAEf)

176
We're still not tired of winning...

Posted by: Trump voters at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (RZVTN)

177 Looks like some smart lawyer finally clued Congress in that they DO have oversite, over lower Courts.
Posted by: Romeo13

Easier to just defund those courts and consolidate. Any changes in jurisdiction of the courts is something that can be filibustered by the Dems. Funding bills, if using reconciliation or recission cannot be. Stripped the judges in DC of their staffs, offices, typewriters, etc. and make them write their shitty opinions of Resist themselves.

Or consolidate the DC courts with federal courts in Maryland and Virginia. DC has become a rotten borough.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (ctrM5)

178 Email is in my nic.

First Lady is having a Pampered Chef sale through the 26th.

I'll send you the link if interested.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (Zz0t1)

179 175 Larry David may be a douchebag...but his Steinbrenner was awesome.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:48 PM (yHAEf)

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I did not know that David played Steinbrenner.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (GBKbO)

180
I'm really hoping they don't do a reboot of "The Streets of San Francisco."
Posted by: Sponge

It's hard to park on a hill when the road is slick.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (63Dwl)

181 Google says they are not a government agency

I assume they're trying the same dodge as Lieawatha did with her CFPB. No matter how you slice it, nobody receiving Federal dollars should be unaccountable to the taxpayers.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (xCA6C)

182 I can’t wait for the gritty Hollywood rendition of the standoff between the brave USIP employees and Elon’s evil nerds backed by the DC police..

DOGE Day Afternoon

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (/q9k6)

183 Bondi's "error" shows bad judgement bare minimum. It goes deeper as far as I'm concerned.

Posted by: Francis at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (bbuBP)

184
Production of "Trump Impeachment, pt. 3" can still use Putin as a bad guy, solemn kneeling Democrat office holders and federal judges regretfully doing what has to be done to save our democracy as the protagonists, with some exciting new characters for comic relief, as well as cameos by the Bearclaw brothers.

Release expected after the midterm elections.

Posted by: Auspex at March 20, 2025 01:50 PM (j4U/Z)

185 The troll is spitting into the wind.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at March 20, 2025 01:50 PM (RIvkX)

186 >>I did not know that David played Steinbrenner.

Don't quote me...but I am pretty sure that's Larry David doing his Steinbrenner impression via overdub.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:50 PM (yHAEf)

187 Of course, if he really thought he was living through the second coming of Nazi Germany, he'd be fleeing the country.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (u6/wt)

He did, he's in Oregon

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 01:50 PM (xcxpd)

188 Jack Bogdanski is a law professor in Portland
_________________

Say no more.

It's amazing how an otherwise smart, perceptive guy has convinced himself that the dark night of fascism is literally descending on the United States.

Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2025 01:50 PM (u6/wt)

189 Drain the swamp enough and maybe tumbleweeds will grow there.

Posted by: DaveA at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (FhXTo)

190 But, she hung her ass out. It didn't work. Now, people want something more splashy for her to atone for the error.

I get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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I think Trump's casual order to the DOJ to get the JFK files out was a shot across Bondi's bow. They had to assemble all hands to vet the releases of documents apparently to meet the 48 hr deadline that Trump set.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (ctrM5)

191 This notion that the chief executive has no authority over the executive branch is quite barmy, but typical of what passes for thinking among the contemporary America left.

Posted by: Lunatics they are at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (SIX3A)

192 186 >>I did not know that David played Steinbrenner.

Don't quote me...but I am pretty sure that's Larry David doing his Steinbrenner impression via overdub.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:50 PM (yHAEf)

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He's listed as the actor when I googled the question. I think you're right.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (GBKbO)

193 I hope DOGE doesn't discover us.

Posted by: Institute of Pie Employee at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (ab5KQ)

194 I'll admit that I'm still shocked that it's not even 60 days yet. That's incredible.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:47 PM (qSMcm)

That is only because February only had 28 days this year.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (D7oie)

195 >> I think you're right.

That almost never happens.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (yHAEf)

196 So when are their trials.

Because this crap has to stop. And it won't stop until there are major, permanent consequences for doing it.

Posted by: DudeAbiding at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (setIA)

197 185 The troll is spitting into the wind.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

San Fran,
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Hate to tell you but that ain't spit.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (ctrM5)

198 DOGE Day Afternoon
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (/q9k6)
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You, sir, have won the Internet today.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (6K6Eu)

199 "DOGE Day Afternoon". good one. Reminded me of "and Justice for All".

Imagine the modern audience remake for that one.

Posted by: Francis at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (bbuBP)

200 195 >> I think you're right.

That almost never happens.
Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:51 PM (yHAEf)

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My thinking or your rightness?

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (GBKbO)

201 180
I'm really hoping they don't do a reboot of "The Streets of San Francisco."
Posted by: Sponge

It's hard to park on a hill when the road is slick.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (63Dwl)

"Plus some motherfucker's always trying to ice skate uphill."
-Blade

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (xcxpd)

202 This does remind me a little of a recent local political flair up.

Town near mine used their "emergency, temporary" COVID funds to hire a bunch of permanent employees. When the state withdrew these funds they had a budget crises and proposed a 25% increase or else the town would fire a bunch of its teachers and close a school or two.

People looked at the budget and found among the people hired with emergency COVID funds was a Climate Change Engineer. And when taxpayers suggested that obviously this was a role that could be let go before teachers were told that Climate Change is an emergency dontchaknow!

Fedgov is $36T in the hole. Every dollar that doesn't go to an essential function needs to be cut. Now. That includes boondoggles like USIP and USAID but even important stuff that does potentially benefit citizens. However Trump is right to start with the boondoggles...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

203 Folks, the United States is a dictatorship now, plain and simple.

I love this reaction. If a judge makes an unconstitutional ruling outside the scope of their power and the president ignores it DICTATORSHIP!

If a president arrests political opponents and uses the government to censor social media: FREEDOM!

Its upside down day! Good is evil! Slavery is freedom! Orange isn't the new Black!

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (2VST1)

204 It's been said, making cases of corruption and conspiracy takes more time than listing wasteful spending. I hope Bondi found prosecutors she can trust to do the job.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (v1cyc)

205 Barricades? destroying locks?

Some 'peaceful.'

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (KgD/S)

206 201 "Plus some motherfucker's always trying to ice skate uphill."
-Blade
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (xcxpd)

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"Does anyone want to ask Wesley what the fuck that means?"

"You mean Blade?"

"Right, does anyone want to ask Blade what the fuck that means?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

207 Who the f*ck creates an 'institute of peace' anyway?

==

"Institute of War" did not sound as appealing.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2025 01:53 PM (g47mK)

208
Institute of Peace sounds like something Bernie or Dennis Kucinich would create. Do nothing, feel good government entity.
Posted by: Lizzy

And be funded by the USSR.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2025 01:53 PM (63Dwl)

209 An entire building of George Costanzas.
Posted by: eleven
......

Vandelay Industries

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:53 PM (v0R5T)

210 Bondi made the blunder of doing the Epstein photo-op. Without it, I suspect there'd be more patience on display.
But, she hung her ass out. It didn't work. Now, people want something more splashy for her to atone for the error.
I get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

El Malo Gato suggests that was just the Administration showing that they had all the Kompromat, and wanted the guilty to sit down and mind their core business instead of attacking the administration and its goals.
If we never see any of it but a few bits, then that is what is going on. We may never see it.

Posted by: Kindltot at March 20, 2025 01:53 PM (D7oie)

211 >>My thinking or your rightness?

Exactly.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:54 PM (yHAEf)

212 Activist Judge - You must fund this non government government agency

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 01:54 PM (fwDg9)

213 Theory:

The GOP sneaks in limits of judicial power by defunding it partially in the Budget bills which can pass by reconciliation.

~~Discuss~~ Laugh heartily at the idea.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

214 "It operates as an independent, nonpartisan institution focused on preventing and resolving international conflicts without violence.
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Fine. Have they ever accomplished anything?

Posted by: Boron Cobbie"

Canada hasn't attacked us, or anyone for that matter, in a very long time. So there you go.

Posted by: Ripley at March 20, 2025 01:54 PM (GUOwU)

215 There's no fighting in the Institute for Peace - President Merkin Muffley

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2025 01:54 PM (bVN1m)

216 163 Folks, the United States is a dictatorship now, plain and simple.

Ah yes a dictatorship where the dictator is reining in the power of the government, stopping foreign wars, and enforcing the rights of the people.

To paraphrase, if this be dictatorship let us make the most of it.
Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:46 PM (t0Rmr)

Cincinnatus was a Dictator. He saved Rome...

Note, there is a Society of Cincinnatus, whose original members were Officers in the American Revolution...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2025 01:54 PM (QAkQ3)

217 I hope DOGE doesn't discover us.
Posted by: Institute of Pie Employee
......

At least you'll have plenty to throw at them when they raid.

Posted by: wth at March 20, 2025 01:55 PM (v0R5T)

218 >>Vandelay Industries

We ran into some issues with Suppliers for our Tackle Company because Art Vandelay was responsible for making all of our Cold Calls.

Apparently, Seinfeld is not well appreciated in China and Taiwan.

Posted by: garrett at March 20, 2025 01:55 PM (yHAEf)

219 "Nothing here but empty calories and male curiosity, eh Georgie-boy?"

-George Steinbrenner
Posted by: 496 at March
________

Heartbreaker
Shoemaker
Won't you cut my shoes for free

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 20, 2025 01:55 PM (Dm8we)

220
You People know what the Fake News' fake "top story" is right now?

It's about "INAPPROPIATE TOUCHING!," yOu gUyS!

Yeah, last night Kevin O'Leary was on a CNN panel with other fuckfaces and he lightly brushed INNAPROPIATELY the arm of the racist cunt sitting next to him with his hand as he was talking and moving his arms around.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (WMYRW)

221 Speaking of which:

BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi charges three Tesla attackers criminally.

FAFO TIME. They face up to 20Y in prison, 5Y minimum.

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I mean...something's happening.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (GBKbO)

222 188 Jack Bogdanski is a law professor in Portland
_________________

Say no more.

It's amazing how an otherwise smart, perceptive guy has convinced himself that the dark night of fascism is literally descending on the United States.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2025 01:50 PM (u6/wt)

If the YouTube videos involving Portland police interactions are at all representative, the dark night of fascism has landed in Oregon.

Posted by: or at least twilight at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (SIX3A)

223 I would like to work at the Oprah division of this IoP.

You get a car and you get a car! Everybody gets a car!

Posted by: Ahhhh, so... at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (ab5KQ)

224 Sounds like a slaver.
Posted by: rickb223
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Predator. Lots of creeps get into those jobs to seek prey abroad that they cannot legally do in the US. Others look for ways to steal every nickel from taxpayers that they can by luxury visits abroad.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)

225 >> Ah yes a dictatorship where the dictator is reining in the power of the government, stopping foreign wars, and enforcing the rights of the people.

A dictatorship where the dictator was elected by a majority of voters and is carrying out the mandate he was given.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (/q9k6)

226 123 96 In the end, that can't be accomplished without cutting programs that Trump has already said he won't cut: Medicare/Medicaid and SS. He might try the old "reduce the rate of increase", but in the end, those are policy choices, not WFA as such, although there's undoubtedly enormous waste.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM

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Biden's own administration estimated Medicare fraud was between a quarter billion and half a billion a year.

I think the whole mindset about what's possible without "cutting Medicare" is...wrong. Brainwashing. An op.

"Cutting Medicare" is meant to include the idea of cutting benefits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM

The Democrat-Media Complex has a never-ending supply of imaginary little old black ladies who will die as a direct result of anything and everything Trump and non-GOPe Republicans propose. In FedGov or in the States. Voter ID, eliminating Medicare fraud, waste, and abuse, closing-out useless FedGov outfits, deporting illegal alien criminals, getting rid of insane environmental rules and regs, and similar will kill millions, over and over again.

Posted by: Gref at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (aBgBM)

227 "If we never see any of it but a few bits, then that is what is going on. We may never see it."

You belong to me now.

Posted by: Francis at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (bbuBP)

228 213 Theory:

The GOP sneaks in limits of judicial power by defunding it partially in the Budget bills which can pass by reconciliation.

Discuss Laugh heartily at the idea.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:54 PM (GBKbO)

They don't have to. Congress has the power to re write any rule or power any of the Lower Courts have. It is written into the original legislation that empowered the Supreme Court to write its own Rules for lower courts... and the Constitution.

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (QAkQ3)

229 BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi charges three Tesla attackers criminally.
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Ahhhhhhhh.... now we're talking Pammy. Thank God.

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (T7bgo)

230 This notion that the chief executive has no authority over the executive branch is quite barmy

Grump noted this a few days ago and its really settled into my mind:

There are three co-equal branches of government. The Executive (president), the Legislative (congress), and the Judicial (Supreme Court). Each of these can, within their area of power, rule on and affect the other. You see what's missing in that? Federal Courts.

Federal courts are the creation of the legislative branch. They are NOT part of the coequal three branches. They are subordinate to one of the three. They do not have the authority or constitutional power to rule on the executive. You know how we know this?

Because they cannot rule on the Supreme Court. They are lower powers, they have no authority to tell any of the three branches of government to do anything. ALL they can do is rule on specific employee issues or violations of federal law. They cannot tell the executive branch how to do anything, any more than they can the supreme court.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (2VST1)

231 Fedgov is $36T in the hole. Every dollar that doesn't go to an essential function needs to be cut. Now. That includes boondoggles like USIP and USAID but even important stuff that does potentially benefit citizens. However Trump is right to start with the boondoggles...

Posted by: 18-1 at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (t0Rmr)

Make Austerity Great Again.

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (i24o9)

232
So Hilaria Balwin helps gets Alec off the murder rap and now owns him. Painfully.

Too bad Rod Serling and Alfred Hitchock aren't around anymore to write this into a half hour show.

Posted by: Auspex at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (j4U/Z)

233 166 There have been some armchair prosecutors here in the grey boxes. They have expressed their disappointment because we don't have any bodies hanging from lampposts yet. Personally, I want real justice. The kind that results from hardwork. I will posit that there are more than a few PAs in the the DOJ who are dealing with some serious schadenboners and at some point, when they have built solid cases, they will share those with us
Posted by: Sock Monkey

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I'll admit that I'm still shocked that it's not even 60 days yet. That's incredible.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie
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Sock Monkey and Boron Cobbie are both correct. We want long term fixes and we're not even 8 weeks in.

Despite my desire for a few quick wins, I will try to be more patient.

Posted by: 496 at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (HQDUZ)

234 Institute of Whirled Peas !

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (g47mK)

235 Call us.
We're hiring.
Sounds like you'd be a good fit.

Posted by: Krueger Industrial Smoothing at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (RZVTN)

236 resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

Was every last one of the motherfuckers arrested for obstruction, or even better, shot dead?

And if not, why not?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (MqtqS)

237 228 They don't have to. Congress has the power to re write any rule or power any of the Lower Courts have. It is written into the original legislation that empowered the Supreme Court to write its own Rules for lower courts... and the Constitution.
Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2025 01:57 PM (QAkQ3)

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Well, the big point I wanted to make was the implication that any changes to the judiciary would need 60 vote to get through cloture, which seems doubtful to happen (I doubt 50 votes).

BUT....hiding it in the budget...which needs only 50 votes...and is must pass...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (GBKbO)

238 Quick trip to Wikipedia and I learned that USIP is an independent agency fully funded by Congress not allowed to take private funding to keep it's independence. But can and has accepted unspecified amounts from the State Dept and other agencies.

Looks to me like the 'independence' label is a fig leaf to keep its activities hidden from oversight. And this fig leaf is what Chairman Moose was counting on to keep DOGE out.

Posted by: Chuck Martel at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (zAWN6)

239 >> I think Trump's casual order to the DOJ to get the JFK files out was a shot across Bondi's bow. They had to assemble all hands to vet the releases of documents apparently to meet the 48 hr deadline that Trump set.
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Robert Barnes offers interesting observations about Bondi. He thinks she’s sincere but over her head. There are things she could do right away, such as fire Maurene Comey, daughter of one James Comey, and current assistant attorney for SDNY. She’s neck-deep in suspicious high profile cases like Epstein and Coombs. She probably helped slow-walk the release of files. Bondi can dismiss her at once.

Posted by: electronic means at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (wFFVS)

240 Like I said, keep DOGE and dump the rest of these stupid agencies that are ripping off the taxpayers.
Trump give a speech about what's going on and tell people to call their Senators and congress reps and tell them you are mad as hell. And if they want to keep their phoney jobs they had better do something about this mess.

Posted by: Case at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (OrSPY)

241 I'll say this swamp-draining thing is starting to get spicy.

Posted by: mrp at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (rj6Yv)

242
Yeah, this is big fake "news" all day.

As he was doing a zig heil salute and energetically extending his arm, like a good nazi, his hand touched a woman...and not just a woman...but a black woman!

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (WMYRW)

243
Or consolidate the DC courts with federal courts in Maryland and Virginia. DC has become a rotten borough.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 01:49 PM (ctrM5

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Just ask Mark Steyn. *Thirteen* years on one case in the corrupt cesspool of DC courts, but he finally won.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (2g/fp)

244 I mean...something's happening.

Yeah. I get the frustration and the desire for Bondi to steamroll over the people who have violated the law and justice for decades. We all have a list in our heads of who is the worst offenders and who need taking down.

But she's not doing nothing. Its just a slow process, and its only been like 3 weeks she's even been in office.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (2VST1)

245
Elon posted a picture of his DOGE office:

https://tinyurl.com/29flse9s

Note the picture on the wall. It looks very utilitarian, doesn't it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (w6EFb)

246 I get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

Definitely a bone head move. I'll take that over poorly constructed legal cases anyday. Trump has his thumb on the DOJ. He expects excellence.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (SaMN7)

247 I mean...something's happening.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison

Conservatives have become radicalized because simply put, the whole legal process mocking called the justice system has become more and more perverse. I can understand the radicalization but every frigging martyr that the Right creates by shoddy legal work resulting in acquittals or worse, undermines support for Trump.

Gotta do it fast, gotta do it right in getting a conviction, gotta do it without creating problems on appeal. Something of that is going to give.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (ctrM5)

248 The Trump order said fund it at its minimum so I suspect they'll have to eliminate it through appropriations.

Posted by: Ahhhh, so... at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (ab5KQ)

249 229 BREAKING: Attorney General Pam Bondi charges three Tesla attackers criminally.
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Ahhhhhhhh.... now we're talking Pammy. Thank God.
Posted by: ...

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Ok, but how many appearances on Fox News does that equate to?

Posted by: I gotta ask at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (RZVTN)

250 USIP was finally established in 1984 and signed into law by Reagan. The idea was to decrease world conflict.
It has failed , get rid of it.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (bVN1m)

251 This is probably the first time a lot of the USIP have ever gone into their offices

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (8IM7z)

252 Nothing sez "World Peace" more than drinking a $25 cup of coffee and $200 coaster.

Posted by: mrp at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (rj6Yv)

253
Kevin O'Leary accidentally lightly brushing his finger tip on the BLACK WOMAN'S sleeve was like Jim Crow & Slavery all over again for her!!

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (WMYRW)

254 This all sounds very insurrection-y!

Someone watched too much Les Mis - to the barricades!

Posted by: DoublySymmetric at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (fwyhL)

255
Of course, if he really thought he was living through the second coming of Nazi Germany, he'd be fleeing the country.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

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If any of them believed their own horseshyt they'd be living completely different lives.

The climatistas would be taking classes in basketweaving, swimming, agriculture, carpentry, hunting, and various other basic survival skills. DEI would have nothing to do with surviving floods, fires, famines, etc.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (lCaJd)

256 “Are you the least bit offended with how this was executed, Mr. Hudak?” Howell asked Justice Department lawyer Mayhem

Yes. Yes I am offended that these paper pushing bureaucrats locked and barricaded themselves in a building owned by the federal government aka taxpayers and damaged that building after the President, for whom they work as part of the executive branch, told them to get the hell out. They have no right to that building or those offices or those jobs! They are entitled leeches whose graft should have been shut down decades ago! When ordered, by the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES to vacate the building, they should have been out and gone PERMANENTLY, within three hours.
But noooo! Precious bureaucracy must continue! The graft must go on! Stealing from taxpayers is their GOD GIVEN RIGHT!!!!
Fuck these people! And fuck you too your high muckety judgeship!!! Eat a truckload of dicks, bitch.

Posted by: Madame Mayhem (uppity wench) at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (4XwPj)

257 Just ask Mark Steyn. *Thirteen* years on one case in the corrupt cesspool of DC courts, but he finally won.
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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In his case, literally a pyrrhic victory. His health is shot, in part from the stress of lawfare.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (ctrM5)

258 resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

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One of these insurrections, maybe we can get a Les Miserables final act.

'Exited the building.' Pffttt. That show will close in 2 weeks.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 20, 2025 02:01 PM (u5fr9)

259 255
Of course, if he really thought he was living through the second coming of Nazi Germany, he'd be fleeing the country.
Posted by: The ARC of History!

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People fled Germany en masse in 1933, and they didn't even have Hitler to compare Hitler to.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 02:01 PM (GBKbO)

260 OK.

Give Bondi some time.

But don't let up on the pressure.

Also, Bondi is a great band and deserves respect.

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 20, 2025 02:01 PM (PzXaK)

261 236 resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

Was every last one of the motherfuckers arrested for obstruction, or even better, shot dead?

And if not, why not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (MqtqS)

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+1

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:01 PM (2g/fp)

262 Ok, but how many appearances on Fox News does that equate to?
Posted by: I gotta ask at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (RZVTN)
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It depends. Do we get to see Pam's legs?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 20, 2025 02:01 PM (tT6L1)

263 They don't have to. Congress has the power to re write any rule or power any of the Lower Courts have. It is written into the original legislation that empowered the Supreme Court to write its own Rules for lower courts... and the Constitution.

The constitution literally empowers congress to create and empower lesser federal courts. Its a super simple lime that simple says that congress has the power "to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (2VST1)

264 If the courts allow this, then they can conceivably and forcibly go into any of the "non-white focused" Smithsonian museums and forcibly shut them down. Just. Because.
Posted by: Intercepted DU Transmissions brought by the Intrepid AoS Liaison at March 20, 2025 01:31 PM (JCZqz)

On this, I would want to ask what museums they think are "white-focused".

(I know, it's all of them because all whites are racist.)

Posted by: Formerly Virginian at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (N1tpc)

265 I can’t wait for the gritty Hollywood rendition of the standoff between the brave USIP employees and Elon’s evil nerds backed by the DC police..

DOGE Day Afternoon

As I recall, Pacino was robbing the bank to get money for his tranny partner's surgery.

So not far off the mark with these toads.

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (/u7Rx)

266 Elon posted a picture of his DOGE office:

https://tinyurl.com/29flse9s

Note the picture on the wall. It looks very utilitarian, doesn't it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (w6EFb)

The Emperor of Kekistan?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)

267 Ok, but how many appearances on Fox News does that equate to?
Posted by: I gotta ask at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (RZVTN)

2

Posted by: Ganowicz Commie Exterminators, Ltd. at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (gllTv)

268 206 201 "Plus some motherfucker's always trying to ice skate uphill."
-Blade
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 01:52 PM (xcxpd)

========

"Does anyone want to ask Wesley what the fuck that means?"

"You mean Blade?"

"Right, does anyone want to ask Blade what the fuck that means?"
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:53 PM (GBKbO)

You'd think a Canadian would understand that.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (xcxpd)

269 Netflix addresses the issue of Britain's stabbing epidemic.

Netflix show aims to address UK's stabbing epidemic with ... a fictional 13-year-old white boy whose "toxic masculinity" led him to murder

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (L/fGl)

270 What's amazing is the entitlement to OUR money.

Like, is there a word above entitlement?

'Cause that's where we are, way above entitlement.

Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at March 20, 2025 02:03 PM (MC8h6)

271 268 You'd think a Canadian would understand that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (xcxpd)

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Snipes has said he has no idea what it's supposed to mean in context.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

272 Sounds like a slaver.
Posted by: rickb223
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Predator. Lots of creeps get into those jobs to seek prey abroad that they cannot legally do in the US. Others look for ways to steal every nickel from taxpayers that they can by luxury visits abroad.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 01:56 PM (ctrM5)
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Yup. A while back someone did an audit or report on UN personnel stationed in Haiti. They were there ostensibly to help Haitians recover in the aftermath of one of their never-ending series of calamities. Something like half of the UN scumbags were "helping" all right: they were helping themselves to young desperate Haitians -- sexually, of course.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 02:03 PM (iFTx/)

273 It depends. Do we get to see Pam's legs?
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 20, 2025 02:01 PM (tT6L1)

*perks up*

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:03 PM (xcxpd)

274 Kevin O'Leary accidentally lightly brushing his finger tip on the BLACK WOMAN'S sleeve was like Jim Crow & Slavery all over again for her!!

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM (WMYRW)

So, absolutely nothing at all?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (i24o9)

275 "Just ask Mark Steyn. *Thirteen* years on one case in the corrupt cesspool of DC courts, but he finally won.
Posted by: JM in Illinois "

Actually I think he lost the global warming scam case to the scammer Michael Mann.

Posted by: Ripley at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (GUOwU)

276 Just ask Mark Steyn. *Thirteen* years on one case in the corrupt cesspool of DC courts, but he finally won.
Posted by: JM in Illinois
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In his case, literally a pyrrhic victory. His health is shot, in part from the stress of lawfare.
Posted by: whig
_________

I thought he lost.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (Dm8we)

277
"Vandelay Industries" was used a lot at Art Van when they were closing to explain to sucker customers why they weren't going to get the furniture they paid for.

If ever there was an evil organization that deserved to crash, that was it.

Posted by: Auspex at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (j4U/Z)

278 Robert Barnes offers interesting observations about Bondi. He thinks she’s sincere but over her head. There are things she could do right away, such as fire Maurene Comey, daughter of one James Comey, and current assistant attorney for SDNY. She’s neck-deep in suspicious high profile cases like Epstein and Coombs. She probably helped slow-walk the release of files. Bondi can dismiss her at once.
Posted by: electronic means

I don't disagree. Bondi ran a state where the rule of law existed (FL) and the work staff were not lunatics. But, I think at this point that Bondi is better off doing public appearances and let the asst and deputy AGs carry the workload. Let her be the public face as spokesperson but have her team below her run the show.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

279 no, Steyn finally won

Posted by: Black Orchid at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (Pv3Rg)

280 In his case, literally a pyrrhic victory. His health is shot, in part from the stress of lawfare.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:00 PM

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Indeed. Went to court in a wheelchair. Some days, I wonder if he will make it through his broadcast.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (2g/fp)

281
The Emperor of Kekistan?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)

Pepeus Caesar

Posted by: Ave Imperator! Morituri te salutant! at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (SIX3A)

282 271 268 You'd think a Canadian would understand that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (xcxpd)

=======

Snipes has said he has no idea what it's supposed to mean in context.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 02:03 PM (GBKbO)

I guess he didn't grow up ice skating outdoors

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (xcxpd)

283 I think the Institute of Peace should go up against the Naval War College on the third Saturday of every October. A little warm-up before the Tennessee - Alabama game...

Posted by: Grapefruit LaCroix at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (/u7Rx)

284 >>>I'm really hoping they don't do a reboot of "The Streets of San Francisco."
Posted by: Sponge

>Who would you cast as Keller and Stone?

Kevin Hart and Liam Neeson?

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (fY84s)

285 Biden's own administration estimated Medicare fraud was between a quarter billion and half a billion a year.

I think the whole mindset about what's possible without "cutting Medicare" is...wrong. Brainwashing. An op.

"Cutting Medicare" is meant to include the idea of cutting benefits.

Let's assume the MC/MA WFA is the high end of Biden's estimate, at $0.5T, and that Trump gets rid of it all, which I think is unlikely. Same for SS. That's $1T.

That's still nowhere near $2T.

The only way to get "there" from "here" is to cut benefits. TBC, I'm not opposed; that's what we have to do. We are living way beyond our means. I would start with the ACA.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (xCA6C)

286 >> I thought he lost.

He did, but recently the award was reduced to essentially nothing on appeal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (w6EFb)

287 You'd think a Canadian would understand that.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (xcxpd)

=======

Snipes has said he has no idea what it's supposed to mean in context.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman

--

Isn't it something to do with setting yourself up to fail?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (PzXaK)

288 I trust the resistance crumbled under a torrent of police batons to the skulls.

Posted by: Weasel at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (c8xsU)

289 Actually I think he lost the global warming scam case to the scammer Michael Mann.

It was several related cases. One he ended up having to pay $5k, the others, Mann got hammered. The judge was enraged with Mann and his lawyers for lying outright, hiding evidence, etc.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (2VST1)

290 Robert Barnes offers interesting observations about Bondi. He thinks she’s sincere but over her head. There are things she could do right away, such as fire Maurene Comey, daughter of one James Comey, and current assistant attorney for SDNY. She’s neck-deep in suspicious high profile cases like Epstein and Coombs. She probably helped slow-walk the release of files. Bondi can dismiss her at once.
Posted by: electronic means at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (wFFVS)

Barnes knows better than that. She needs more friends in the DOJ. How many cases are being slow-walked in the DOJ because prog DOJ attorneys and assistants are doing everything possible to discredit the administration? Bondi is facing a herculean task and it's going to take time and political dynamite to extract the swamp monsters from their lairs.

Posted by: mrp at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (rj6Yv)

291 Much of USIP's leadership, including Moose, barricaded themselves on the building's fifth floor,

...

Confronted with determined leadership and overwhelming force, resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

defenestrated?

Posted by: anachronda at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (oY6Yp)

292 It appears that at least 2 of the domestic terrorists the DOJ just charged are trannies.

Violence from the mentally unbalanced, who'd a thunk it?

Posted by: JackStraw at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (LkLld)

293 266 Elon posted a picture of his DOGE office:

https://tinyurl.com/29flse9s

Note the picture on the wall. It looks very utilitarian, doesn't it?

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 01:59 PM (w6EFb)

The Emperor of Kekistan?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:02 PM (i24o9)

PROOF the Elon is not loyal to the United States!!!!! REEEEEEEEE!!!!

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (QAkQ3)

294 It was several related cases. One he ended up having to pay $5k, the others, Mann got hammered. The judge was enraged with Mann and his lawyers for lying outright, hiding evidence, etc.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (2VST1)

And no one got disbarred or went to prison.

What a joke.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

295 He did, but recently the award was reduced to essentially nothing on appeal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (w6EFb)
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Mann was sanctioned to pay Steyn's court costs, if I understand correctly.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (6K6Eu)

296 no, Steyn finally won
Posted by: Black Orchid
________

The recent stuff was the judge imposing post-judgment sanctions on Mann, but he still got a judgment against Steyn.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (Dm8we)

297 Robert Barnes offers interesting observations about Bondi. He thinks she’s sincere but over her head. There are things she could do right away, such as fire Maurene Comey, daughter of one James Comey, and current assistant attorney for SDNY. She’s neck-deep in suspicious high profile cases like Epstein and Coombs. She probably helped slow-walk the release of files. Bondi can dismiss her at once.
Posted by: electronic means

I don't disagree. Bondi ran a state where the rule of law existed (FL) and the work staff were not lunatics. But, I think at this point that Bondi is better off doing public appearances and let the asst and deputy AGs carry the workload. Let her be the public face as spokesperson but have her team below her run the show.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (ctrM5)

If all this is the case, then she needs to hire an assistant to clearcut the grifters, evil, and lawless from the staff.

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (VNX3d)

298 Steyn had to pay out $5000, but for deceiving the court, Mann will pay far more to Steyn and others

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (2g/fp)

299 I thought he lost.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba

He had to pay $1 in damages and the judge in the case vitiated Mann and has now sanctioned Mann and his legal team for manipulating evidence in the case. Mann is going to have to pay for Steyn (and the other defendant) lawyers fee for the extra time spent on those lawyers addressing the manipulated evidence submitted by Mann.

In other words, the judge is redressing what the jury did because Mann and his legal team are liars and presented false evidence at trial.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (ctrM5)

300
Ohhhhhhh. Guess fuckingwhat.

This aforementioned "don't touch me!" cunt has a History of being a faker crybaby attention-seeker.

She posted a video of herself a couple of years ago, fake crying, while TSA was patting her down at an airport.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (WMYRW)

301 261 236 resistance crumbled, and the insurrectionists exited the building.

Was every last one of the motherfuckers arrested for obstruction, or even better, shot dead?

And if not, why not?
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2025 01:58 PM (MqtqS)
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Basically the story of Fort Sumter. At least Fort Sumpter featured fireworks.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (Hpgos)

302
It seems like doxxing Dogequest is down.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (lCaJd)

303 Of course, if he really thought he was living through the second coming of Nazi Germany, he'd be fleeing the country.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (u6/wt)

At the very least he should be smuggling boatloads of trannies, and illegals, out of the country to protect them from Orange Hitler.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (ExV1e)

304 DOGE employees, with the aid of a master key and DC Metropolitan Police Department officers, finally gained control of the massive office building in Foggy Bottom on Monday, ending a standoff by US Institute of Peace bureaucrats barricaded in their offices.

Officer, might I suggest using your nightstick?

Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine, Capricorn at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (SIX3A)

305
The picture is "Kekius Maximus" .

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:08 PM (w6EFb)

306 Give Bondi some time.

But don't let up on the pressure.

==

LOL

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2025 02:08 PM (g47mK)

307 Don't we have a missile that will go in and stab them or something without blowing up?

Posted by: Dreamingrobot at March 20, 2025 02:08 PM (38/0q)

308 Basically the story of Fort Sumter. At least Fort Sumpter featured fireworks.
Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (Hpgos)
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Rockets red glare?

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 20, 2025 02:08 PM (tT6L1)

309
Officer, might I suggest using your nightstick?
Posted by: Billy Ray Valentine, Capricorn at March 20, 2025 02:07 PM (SIX3A)

"Look, pencilneck. You do your job. Don't tell me how to do mine!!"

Posted by: Guy Who Quotes The Wrong Movie at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (Zz0t1)

310 Robert Barnes offers interesting observations about Bondi.

-
She has a heart of glass?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (L/fGl)

311 As of March 18, the department had eliminated a mere $115 billion according to its website. Most of these expenditures are particularly egregious and highlighted by Trump in his joint address to Congress:

...contrary to what we’re being told by professional Washington, Musk isn’t taking a chainsaw to the budget, but a small scalpel. Still, if so-called conservatives blanch at these micro-abrasions, imagine how they’ll collapse on the fainting couch if DOGE actually reaches its modest goal of eliminating $4 billion a day to reduce the federal deficit by $1 trillion in fiscal 2026?

And that still won’t be enough.

As Veronique de Rugy notes in Reason, we'll still be facing “a debt explosion.” Based on current projections, Social Security and Medicare alone will require the feds to borrow $124 trillion over the next 30 years, quadruple what we've borrowed in American history.

https://is.gd/SQP0rH

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (xCA6C)

312 Give Bondi some time.

But don't let up on the pressure.

==

LOL
Posted by: runner

--

What's the alternative? "Hey, we'll leave you alone and just get back to us if you have something?"

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (PzXaK)

313 "Some motherfucker's always trying to ice-skate uphill"

Isn't it obvious what it means? It means some motherfucker's always trying to do something stupid or the hard way.

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

314 Yup. A while back someone did an audit or report on UN personnel stationed in Haiti. They were there ostensibly to help Haitians recover in the aftermath of one of their never-ending series of calamities. Something like half of the UN scumbags were "helping" all right: they were helping themselves to young desperate Haitians -- sexually, of course.
Posted by: Elric Blade
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The Blue Helmets have a horrible record of that sort of thing worldwide. So do UN personnel. Both are considered to have immunity from local prosecution as a condition of them being there.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (ctrM5)

315 Google says they are not a government agency

Google says Ellen Page is a man.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (ExV1e)

316
According to Elon (retweeting something on his X account), 3/4 of those arrested for the Tesla terrorism are trans/"nonbinary".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (w6EFb)

317 He had to pay $1 in damages and the judge in the case vitiated Mann and has now sanctioned Mann and his legal team for manipulating evidence in the case. Mann is going to have to pay for Steyn (and the other defendant) lawyers fee for the extra time spent on those lawyers addressing the manipulated evidence submitted by Mann.

In other words, the judge is redressing what the jury did because Mann and his legal team are liars and presented false evidence at trial.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025

Mann also got a million in punatives.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (Dm8we)

318 >> There are three co-equal branches of government. The Executive (president), the Legislative (congress), and the Judicial (Supreme Court). Each of these can, within their area of power, rule on and affect the other. You see what's missing in that? Federal Courts.

I wouldn’t even say SCOTUS is co-equal. That’s what we were taught, but:
- SCOTUS jurisdiction as specified in the Constitution is quite narrow
- all other jurisdiction is granted by Congress. So all of these big “landmark” cases? Congress can just take away SCOTUS’ power to hear them.
- SCOTUS’ primary power these days is judicial review, which appears nowhere in the Constitution. Whether it’s implicit, or a good idea or not, it’s not spelled out.
- SCOTUS’ size and structure is defined by Congress. Congress could take away the Chief Justice title from John Roberts and give it to Clarence Thomas.

My reading of the Constitution makes it an inferior branch.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (/q9k6)

319
And no one got disbarred or went to prison.

What a joke.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (Zz0t1)

----

They should change the end to the movie: "Forget it, Jake. It's Democrat town."

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (2g/fp)

320 Officer, might I suggest using your nightstick?

Bailiff! Whack his peepee!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at March 20, 2025 02:10 PM (c1ZLh)

321 307 Don't we have a missile that will go in and stab them or something without blowing up?
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We're working on it.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2025 02:10 PM (Hpgos)

322 By the way, Lady in Black, the guy you mentioned smearing feces on a Tesla is up on Insty now.

And he's every bit the fat unprepossessing loser you said he was.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 20, 2025 02:10 PM (tT6L1)

323 Reboot of Streets of San Francisco
Episode one: I stepped in Poo
Episode two: A Deranged Homeless man Hit Me with a Brick
Episode three: I Got HIV and MonkeyPox
Episode four : My Car was Broken Into
Episode five: I Stepped in Poo, part two
Episode six : Paul Pelosi beaten. Again

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2025 02:10 PM (bVN1m)

324 Google says they are not a government agency

Google says Ellen Page is a man.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (ExV1e)

Mic status:

[ _ ] Not Dropped

[ X ] Dropped

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:10 PM (Zz0t1)

325 All I want for Christmas is a heavily armed DOGE

Like so many US government agencies.

Oh, and a DOGE here in Canada out for blood.

Posted by: Stateless...62% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 20, 2025 02:10 PM (jvJvP)

326 I don't get the thinking here. What, are inspectors going to look at the door with no locks and say "Well, that's it then. We can't do anything now. Time to go home?"
Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 20, 2025 01:44 PM (PzXaK)

Place a satchel charge on the door, set the timer, step back to a safe distance. After the blast, enter through the opening created.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2025 02:11 PM (MqtqS)

327 This aforementioned "don't touch me!" cunt has a History of being a faker crybaby attention-seeker.

Unpossible, she responded so rationally and believably in this exchange.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:11 PM (2VST1)

328 @317 I think the punatives were reduced to $5 k

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2025 02:11 PM (bVN1m)

329 Yup. A while back someone did an audit or report on UN personnel stationed in Haiti. They were there ostensibly to help Haitians recover in the aftermath of one of their never-ending series of calamities. Something like half of the UN scumbags were "helping" all right: they were helping themselves to young desperate Haitians -- sexually, of course.
Posted by: Elric Blade
=======
The Blue Helmets have a horrible record of that sort of thing worldwide. So do UN personnel. Both are considered to have immunity from local prosecution as a condition of them being there.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (ctrM5)
____

Yea and it was pretty horrible what they did. Basically their pitch to desperate Haitians was "Oh, you want some of this food that was sent? What can you do for me, if you know what I mean?"

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 02:11 PM (iFTx/)

330 What excatly was the " U.S. Institute of Peace"'s endgame here?

Did they really think, like a four-year-ld hiding in his living-room "fort" constructed out of cardboard boxes imagining that he could avoid a trip to the dentist, that they would successfully "repel the invasion" and thereby continue their outrageous grifting, with no ultimate authority over them, like an independent nation within the United States beyond the control of law enforcement, the Executive Branch, or the public? And yet -- still entirely funded by the very government and taxpayers who loathe them and have withdrawn funding?

Are these toddlers? Madmen? Glassy-eyed cult members communicating via walkie-talkies in darkened hallways as they outwit the Normies?

Jesus Christ, we live in Clown World. Or we were, until Trump conquered it.

Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2025 02:11 PM (pMi6S)

331 They should've left them barricaded inside.

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (KbCG3)

332 123 96 In the end, that can't be accomplished without cutting programs that Trump has already said he won't cut: Medicare/Medicaid and SS. He might try the old "reduce the rate of increase", but in the end, those are policy choices, not WFA as such, although there's undoubtedly enormous waste.
Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 01:40 PM (xCA6C)

=======

Biden's own administration estimated Medicare fraud was between a quarter billion and half a billion a year.

I think the whole mindset about what's possible without "cutting Medicare" is...wrong. Brainwashing. An op.

"Cutting Medicare" is meant to include the idea of cutting benefits.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:42 PM (GBKbO)

Only the legal fees charged by his lawyers to find and expose lies by Mann and his attorneys on a particular issue.

Posted by: Gref at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (aBgBM)

333 321 307 Don't we have a missile that will go in and stab them or something without blowing up?

You mean like a harpoon launcher?

Posted by: Like on whaling vessels at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (SIX3A)

334 Mann also got a million in punatives.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba
========
You would be right, dated Jan 24.

"A Washington, D.C., jury on Thursday ordered conservative pundit Mark Steyn to pay $1 million in punitive damages to climate scientist Michael Mann, determining that he was defamed in a 2012 blog post on National Review’s website.

The jury also ordered science writer Rand Simberg to pay Mann $1,000 in punitive damages for defaming him in a blog post on the website of the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute.

Mann also won $1 from each writer in compensatory damages from the six-person jury after a trial that started in mid-January and lasted three weeks."

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (ctrM5)

335 313 "Some motherfucker's always trying to ice-skate uphill"

Isn't it obvious what it means? It means some motherfucker's always trying to do something stupid or the hard way.
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 02:09 PM (iFTx/)

See?
Eric speaks Blade

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (xcxpd)

336 Remember: right now the GOPe Congress could end this reign of Hawaiian judges and bring the Supreme Court to heel, but they refuse to.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (/q9k6)

337 oops - copy and paste fail!

Posted by: Gref at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (aBgBM)

338 @332
I assume this was a cut and paste misfire.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (xCA6C)

339 328 @317 I think the punatives were reduced to $5 k
Posted by: Smell the Glove
_________

I did not know that. Then this is a win for Steyn on the money side.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (Dm8we)

340 Judge Beryl Howell?

Surprised s/he/it did not call for DOGE to be imprisoned

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (YywgB)

341 Seen outside a bar:

I voted for

_ Democrat
_ Republican
X To have another beer

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (VNX3d)

342 "Independent institute?" What kind of fantasy world do these people live in?

Posted by: front toward enemy at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (TIizU)

343 By the way, Lady in Black, the guy you mentioned smearing feces on a Tesla is up on Insty now.

And he's every bit the fat unprepossessing loser you said he was.
Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 20, 2025 02:10 PM (tT6L1)

Wife said Chad Prather had that video up.

But don't anyone say the left is brain damaged and should be institutionalized.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

344 The Blue Helmets have a horrible record of that sort of thing worldwide. So do UN personnel.

Yeah just about everywhere they are deployed to stand around and do nothing, an underage sex ring is set up, prostituting orphan and refugee children. Its like clockwork.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (2VST1)

345
Note the picture on the wall. It looks very utilitarian, doesn't it?
Posted by: publius

At first glace I thought that was Crow T. Robot.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 20, 2025 02:14 PM (63Dwl)

346 295 He did, but recently the award was reduced to essentially nothing on appeal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:05 PM (w6EFb)
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Mann was sanctioned to pay Steyn's court costs, if I understand correctly.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at March 20, 2025 02:06 PM (6K6Eu)

=======
Only the legal fees charged by his lawyers to find and expose lies by Mann and his attorneys on a particular issue.

Posted by: Gref at March 20, 2025 02:14 PM (aBgBM)

347
I don't get the thinking here. What, are inspectors going to look at the door with no locks and say "Well, that's it then. We can't do anything now. Time to go home?"
Posted by: WitchDoktor

===============

Probably the same thinking as removing all the Ws from keyboards. Juvenile carp.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 02:14 PM (lCaJd)

348 I think the punatives were reduced to $5 k
Posted by: Smell the Glove
_________

I did not know that. Then this is a win for Steyn on the money side.

IIRC, Mann was also ordered to pay Steyn's legal costs.

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 02:14 PM (xCA6C)

349 Judge Beryl Howell?

Surprised s/he/it did not call for DOGE to be imprisoned
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher

She's reading the room and doesn't want to be publicly humiliated.

Posted by: rickb223 at March 20, 2025 02:14 PM (LVaER)

350 Are these toddlers? Madmen? Glassy-eyed cult members communicating via walkie-talkies in darkened hallways as they outwit the Normies?

Jesus Christ, we live in Clown World. Or we were, until Trump conquered it.
Posted by: zombie at March 20, 2025 02:11 PM (pMi6S)

they watched Hilary, and the Bidens, walk... they have gotten away with so much, for so long, they believe they can get away with anything...

They don't understand the American People hired a New Martial...

Posted by: Romeo13 at March 20, 2025 02:14 PM (QAkQ3)

351 Wife said Chad Prather had that video up.

But don't anyone say the left is brain damaged and should be institutionalized.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (Zz0t1)

Can we say "invited" to fun camps for a stimulating program of reeducation?

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:15 PM (i24o9)

352 Make Federal Prisons Full Again

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:15 PM (Zz0t1)

353 Has DOGE do anything yet with NED - National Endowment for Democracy ?

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (g47mK)

354
Can we say "invited" to fun camps for a stimulating program of reeducation?
Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:15 PM (i24o9)

"You didn't say you were going to be giving me electric shocks!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (Zz0t1)

355 do done...

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (g47mK)

356 Yeah just about everywhere they are deployed to stand around and do nothing, an underage sex ring is set up, prostituting orphan and refugee children. Its like clockwork.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:13 PM (2VST1)

For just 98 cents a day, you can help save the children from "Save the Children."

Posted by: Stateless...62% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (jvJvP)

357 @339 Biff, the judge reduced it on 3/5/25

Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (bVN1m)

358 So it's now the US Institute of Pieces?

Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

359 Can't wait till DOGE inspects the Temple of Reason.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (Hpgos)

360 And for uncovering all this fraud Elon Musk must die or "be taken down" Jasmin Crockett says...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (VE6XX)

361 So it's now the US Institute of Pieces?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

"This office space for lease"

Posted by: mrp at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (rj6Yv)

362 And for uncovering all this fraud Elon Musk must die or "be taken down" Jasmin Crockett says...
Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (VE6XX)

Freedom of speech, you see.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

363 I love this plan. It encapsulates so much of today's left.

"Hey, let's barricade ourselves in here. We'll lock the doors so they can't get in!"

"Awesome! So, like, do you think they'll just go away and we can continue on?"

"Huh?"

"Also, when can we go home? I have some Netflix to catch up on."

"Dude, we're in a battle for our lives!"

"And how long do we anticipate this battle going on? Is it like a weekend thing?"

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2025 02:18 PM (KbCG3)

364 >>>According to Elon (retweeting something on his X account), 3/4 of those arrested for the Tesla terrorism are trans/"nonbinary".

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley

>Maybe they're upset that they can't bear his children for child-support. I could see Elon on a one night bender with a tranny considering his complex standards.

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 20, 2025 02:18 PM (fY84s)

365 For just 98 cents a day, you can help save the children from "Save the Children."
Posted by: Stateless...62% - mental state clawing up from 10% at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (jvJvP)

Cant get a cup of coffee for that anymore.

Posted by: Buy a kid a coffee for Jesus at March 20, 2025 02:18 PM (SIX3A)

366 Freedom of speech, you see.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (Zz0t1)

Sounded like a threat to me...

Posted by: It's me donna at March 20, 2025 02:18 PM (VE6XX)

367 So it's now the US Institute of Pieces?
Posted by: Elric Blade at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (iFTx/)

"This office space for lease"
Posted by: mrp at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (rj6Yv)

So, the United State Institute for Lease?

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:18 PM (Zz0t1)

368 You should see a picture of the building these USIP clowns had.

Posted by: front toward enemy at March 20, 2025 02:18 PM (TIizU)

369 Looks like they did. Funny that both NED and USIP were created in the early 80s by Reagan.

Posted by: runner at March 20, 2025 02:18 PM (g47mK)

370 Only the legal fees charged by his lawyers to find and expose lies by Mann and his attorneys on a particular issue.
Posted by: Gref

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The discrepancies above come from the 2025 decision by the judge to reduce damages to $5k against Steyn. One of the considerations in the BMW v. Gore is that the jury cannot dis proportionally levy punitive damages when the actual damage is much less. Actual damage was $1 by the jury in the case making the $1 million bucks in punitive damages levied against Steyn unconstitutional .

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (ctrM5)

371
Mann also won $1 from each writer in compensatory damages from the six-person jury after a trial that started in mid-January and lasted three weeks."
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:12 PM (

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Much has changed since January. Mann got what's coming to him, Steyn and others got redeemed.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (ao/5o)

372 What about Trump getting hit in the face with the boom mic? Is that like really old news? Kind of shocking actually. How come in my entire life I've never seen one person get hit in the face with a microphone during one of those interviews?

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (T7bgo)

373 Maybe I should get 5 or 6 Belgian Malinois and rent them out for clearing buildings.

Yes, I would put cameras on the dogs.

Posted by: PabloD at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (nHRVV)

374 And for uncovering all this fraud Elon Musk must die or "be taken down" Jasmin Crockett says...

Jasmine Ratchet

Posted by: Oh no you di'int! at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (SIX3A)

375
All inferior federal courts are entirely, per the Constitution, creations of Congress. Congress creates (and can destroy) them, and has the power to set their jurisdiction, and the rules of procedure and all that.

One the Supreme Court is a Constitutional creation. It doesn't even specify justices, save for the Chief Justice.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (w6EFb)

376 Was it a boom mic or just a big mic? Whatever it was disconcerting.

Posted by: ... at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (T7bgo)

377 Judge Beryl Howell?

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I didn't even know Thurston and Lovey had children.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (L/fGl)

378 The discrepancies above come from the 2025 decision by the judge to reduce damages to $5k against Steyn. One of the considerations in the BMW v. Gore is that the jury cannot dis proportionally levy punitive damages when the actual damage is much less. Actual damage was $1 by the jury in the case making the $1 million bucks in punitive damages levied against Steyn unconstitutional .
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (ctrM5)

And Mann was only slapped on the wrist and ordered to pay Stein's legal fees?

That's not justice.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

379 352 Make Federal Prisons Full Again
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer

WAY too expensive. A deal with Greenland like we have with El Salvidor makes more sense.

Offshore it, and make lawyer visitation a cell co-habitation.

Posted by: Auspex at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (j4U/Z)

380 353 Has DOGE do anything yet with NED - National Endowment for Democracy ?
Posted by: runner at March 20, 2025 02:16 PM (g47mK)
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If getting NED shut down is the only thing DOGE ever accomplished it would be worth its weight in gold

Posted by: 496 at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (MWbP9)

381
What excatly was the " U.S. Institute of Peace"'s endgame here?

Posted by: zombie

==============

I voted for "similar to removing the Ws from keyboards" above, but I also wouldn't be surprised if they were so deluded that they thought some judge+LEO would come to their rescue. Like that scene in The Day of the Jackal where the criminal says "No French officer will raise a weapon against me" -- and we cut to the firing squad matter-of-factly shooting him.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (lCaJd)

382 Can't wait till DOGE inspects the Temple of Reason.

Posted by: Pudinhead at March 20, 2025 02:17 PM (Hpgos)

Elon (picking up taser), "what can this strange device be?"

"When I touch it, it gives forth a sound."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (i24o9)

383 What about Trump getting hit in the face with the boom mic? Is that like really old news? Kind of shocking actually. How come in my entire life I've never seen one person get hit in the face with a microphone during one of those interviews?
Posted by: ... at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (T7bgo)
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Is there some question as to whether or not the incident was an accident? Though, these days, I suppose it's wise to assume enemy action until proven otherwise.

Posted by: blake - semi lurker in marginal standing (tT6L1) at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (tT6L1)

384 WAY too expensive. A deal with Greenland like we have with El Salvidor makes more sense.

Offshore it, and make lawyer visitation a cell co-habitation.
Posted by: Auspex at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (j4U/Z)

Your terms are acceptable.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

385 375
All inferior federal courts are entirely, per the Constitution, creations of Congress. Congress creates (and can destroy) them, and has the power to set their jurisdiction, and the rules of procedure and all that.

One the Supreme Court is a Constitutional creation. It doesn't even specify justices, save for the Chief Justice.
Posted by: publius

Old case saying just that. Stuart v Laird (1802) on reorganizing courts even with pending cases and the later Ex Parte McCardle (186

regarding jurisdiction.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:21 PM (ctrM5)

386
"When I touch it, it gives forth a sound."

Posted by: Comrade Flounder, Disinformation Demon at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (i24o9)

"DON'T PULL IT!!!"

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:21 PM (Zz0t1)

387 What about Trump getting hit in the face with the boom mic?

As odd as it was, I am willing to call that an honest mistake. Its just a matter of time before someone gets booped with a boom mic. I like how Trump treated it, like something annoying a little kid does, not worth a reaction.

So it's now the US Institute of Pieces?

Come October it will be a SPIRIT store.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:21 PM (2VST1)

388 357 @339 Biff, the judge reduced it on 3/5/25
Posted by: Smell the Glove
____________

I realize that. Now.

Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at March 20, 2025 02:21 PM (Dm8we)

389 377 Judge Beryl Howell?

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I didn't even know Thurston and Lovey had children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (L/fGl)

Oh Lovely was a freak, guaranteed satisfaction.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:21 PM (xcxpd)

390
Was it a boom mic or just a big mic? Whatever it was disconcerting.
Posted by: ...

=============

Big fuzzy boom mic, brushed his face. If they were Russkies, they might have put a little something on it like that poisoned umbrella-tip incident.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 02:22 PM (lCaJd)

391 The Robes are becoming the dictatorship, we live by their rules they make up out of whole cloth

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 02:22 PM (fwDg9)

392 'You'll never take us alive, you pig bastards!'

Heard from behind barricade of cheetos, tampons and Zima.

Posted by: Aetius451AD work phone at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (/x6eu)

393
Big fuzzy boom mic, brushed his face. If they were Russkies, they might have put a little something on it like that poisoned umbrella-tip incident.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 02:22 PM (lCaJd)

Trump should've acted like a soccer player and flopped on the floor like he'd just been shot, again.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

394 We live in interesting times, when agencies of our government resist lawful orders like kindergartners resist taking their naps.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (J2vNu)

395 That's not justice.

Its as close as we're likely to see in this life, though.

Justice would have looked something like Mann stripped of all his titles, offices, and awards, then forced to fund a documentary that laid out his malfeasance and corrupt science.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (2VST1)

396 OK.

Give Bondi some time.

But don't let up on the pressure.

Also, Bondi is a great band and deserves respect.
Posted by: WitchDoktor

Understand that right beneath Bondi are Todd Blanche, Emil Bover and John Sauer. They were all part of his defense team. I imagine they all have direct lines to the President. He has Alina Habba inside the Oval office. She was also part of the team. I don't think there are any Rod Rosensteins in that group. I have confidence we will see justice.

Posted by: Sock Monkey * slow dancing at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (SaMN7)

397 All inferior federal courts are entirely, per the Constitution, creations of Congress. Congress creates (and can destroy) them, and has the power to set their jurisdiction, and the rules of procedure and all that.

One the Supreme Court is a Constitutional creation. It doesn't even specify justices, save for the Chief Justice.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM (w6EFb)

I read Reynold's Substack post and strongly agree that an Executive-Congressional legislative strategy would be far more effective in properly adjusting the Federal Judiciary's behavior than meaningless threats to punish individual district court judges.

Posted by: mrp at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (rj6Yv)

398 And Mann was only slapped on the wrist and ordered to pay Stein's legal fees?

That's not justice.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:20 PM (Zz0t1)

Right? Thirteen years being hounded, god knows how much in legal fees, his entire life and career upended. All for giving his opinion of that fat, fetal alcohol syndrome-looking motherf*cker.

So much for free speech.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (/q9k6)

399 Sean Davis - Given the nature of the violent, terrorist threats he made that led to his suspension, I wonder if a federal criminal investigation of him is next.”

Rick Wilson’s Xtwitter account suspended.

Posted by: 13times at March 20, 2025 02:24 PM (T7m9r)

400 Sean Davis - Given the nature of the violent, terrorist threats he made that led to his suspension, I wonder if a federal criminal investigation of him is next.”

Rick Wilson’s Xtwitter account suspended.

Posted by: 13times at March 20, 2025 02:24 PM (T7m9r)

For 30 days.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:24 PM (Zz0t1)

401
One must wonder why the Secret Service allows ANYONE with a potential weapon to be within reach of the President. Fucking idiots.

Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (WMYRW)

402 395 That's not justice.

Its as close as we're likely to see in this life, though.

Justice would have looked something like Mann stripped of all his titles, offices, and awards, then forced to fund a documentary that laid out his malfeasance and corrupt science.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (2VST1)

Justice would involve a choice between 10mm and .45 acp

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (xcxpd)

403 Oh Lovely was a freak, guaranteed satisfaction.

Yeah the older I get the more I see her as the valid choice on that island. You know she was a wildcat and she was fiercely loyal and supportive.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (2VST1)

404 And Mann was only slapped on the wrist and ordered to pay Stein's legal fees?

That's not justice.
Posted by: Sponge
========
Steyn was in the DC local court system. At some point, you take the L and move on as appellate costs are expensive and would be in a rotten borough with rotten DC appellate judges.

I think that $5000:1 ratio of actual to punitive is still high regarding BMW v. Gore case but it would cost more to appeal than it is probably worth to Steyn. Guy has had two heart attacks and in a wheel chair already. This is the sort of case where lefties always get a pro bono representation from a white shoe firm to appeal. No such real network on the right for its champions.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (ctrM5)

405 399 Sean Davis - Given the nature of the violent, terrorist threats he made that led to his suspension, I wonder if a federal criminal investigation of him is next.”

Rick Wilson’s Xtwitter account suspended.

Posted by: 13times at March 20, 2025 02:24 PM (T7m9r)

"Yeah, but my NAMBLA membership is in good standing!" - The Rick

Posted by: The Central Scrutinizer at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (KbCG3)

406 Any org calling itself "The Institute for Peace" that takes taxpayer money is full of grift, bullshit, with a big side helping of Marxist ideology.

Do they own the building, pay the utilities, lease and other costs out of their own pocket? No? Should have used tear gas and smoke bombs to get them out and then arrested them.

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (oiNtH)

407 >> Congressional legislative strategy would be far more effective in properly adjusting the Federal Judiciary's behavior

This would be the way to do it. Congress could easily, by law, say that no podunk federal district court has any jurisdiction on these nationwide questions of the President's Article II powers.

They could end these nationwide injunctions and shit tomorrow. The only problem is the filibuster in the Senate.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (w6EFb)

408
"Die or be taken down" is not nearly the level of violence the world "target" is. Why is Alaska Barbi not in jail?

Posted by: Auspex at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (j4U/Z)

409 Someone remind me.

Was it The Rick Wilson who had The Confederate Cooler?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (PzXaK)

410 In what world is it okay to barricade a public building against law and order, and your ultimate boss? Who are these people and why would they think this is acceptable? They need to be put up on charges, and assessed the value of each of those doors plus whatever damage they did to furniture and other bits of property. Do they not realize what pitching a fit like this would get them out in the real world?

Posted by: tcn in AK at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (LweC0)

411 Between this post and the last, all I can say is

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot???

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (a3Q+t)

412 Steyn was in the DC local court system. At some point, you take the L and move on as appellate costs are expensive and would be in a rotten borough with rotten DC appellate judges.

I think that $5000:1 ratio of actual to punitive is still high regarding BMW v. Gore case but it would cost more to appeal than it is probably worth to Steyn. Guy has had two heart attacks and in a wheel chair already. This is the sort of case where lefties always get a pro bono representation from a white shoe firm to appeal. No such real network on the right for its champions.
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (ctrM5)

Yeah. Not justice. A rigged system the f*cks the non libtard little guy.

Broken.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

413 Big fuzzy boom mic, brushed his face. If they were Russkies, they might have put a little something on it like that poisoned umbrella-tip incident.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at March 20, 2025 02:22 PM (lCaJd)

Or what if there was a small explosive in the microphone? Secret Service is really doing a great job.,

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (/q9k6)

414 The discrepancies above come from the 2025 decision by the judge to reduce damages to $5k against Steyn. One of the considerations in the BMW v. Gore is that the jury cannot dis proportionally levy punitive damages when the actual damage is much less. Actual damage was $1 by the jury in the case making the $1 million bucks in punitive damages levied against Steyn unconstitutional .
Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:19 PM

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The DC jury went for $1 million, no doubt because Mann's lawyer talked about Steyn guest-hosting for Rush

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (xTnJ1)

415 Nood. Tesla tranny imbroglio.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (ExV1e)

416 No matter how low your opinion of leftists, it isn't low enough.

https://twitter.com/i/status/1902496799635497234

Posted by: Archimedes at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (xCA6C)

417
Was it The Rick Wilson who had The Confederate Cooler?

Posted by: WitchDoktor at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (PzXaK)

It was.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (Zz0t1)

418 Right? Thirteen years being hounded, god knows how much in legal fees, his entire life and career upended. All for giving his opinion of that fat, fetal alcohol syndrome-looking motherf*cker.

It would be worth looking into laws that punish people for using lawfare to attack opponents. Just because you are rich and powerful doesn't make it okay to use the system to obliterate someone you don't care for. Especially when its blatantly obvious you're in the wrong.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at March 20, 2025 02:27 PM (2VST1)

419 107 Amazing how these Leftist Judges keep showing up in Leftist cases against the administration
Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 01:41 PM (fwDg9)

It's the plan. The plaintiffs' lawyers all have a contact within that district court that tells them who the emergency judge is on duty that night/weekend/holiday and file it when that judge is on call ensuring that they will get a favorable injunction.

It's the SCOTUS leak of the Dobbs case when a clerk leaked it to a friendly media outlet.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper at March 20, 2025 02:27 PM (k1E2D)

420

Nood

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Posted by: Soothsayer at March 20, 2025 02:28 PM (WMYRW)

421 Shows anything created the Leftists can turn to their advantage

Posted by: Skip at March 20, 2025 02:28 PM (fwDg9)

422 So much for free speech.
Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director
=====
There is no free speech in DC nor liberty either as the Jan 6ers would find out.

Time to abolish fedgov playpen and distribute its offices across the US. Keep the old buildings around the Mall as a museums.

Virtual Congress with its members voting virtually across the US from offices in their home constituencies, Senators meet similarly with offices in state capitols, agencies sent out to different states, and so on.

Posted by: whig at March 20, 2025 02:28 PM (ctrM5)

423 Do they own the building, pay the utilities, lease and other costs out of their own pocket? No? Should have used tear gas and smoke bombs to get them out and then arrested them.
Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2025 02:25 PM (oiNtH)

Property damage charges, at least. What was the common charge applied to the J6rs - impeding a federal officer carrying out the his/her duties? They certainly did that.

Posted by: mrp at March 20, 2025 02:28 PM (rj6Yv)

424 They could end these nationwide injunctions and shit tomorrow. The only problem is the filibuster in the Senate.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at March 20, 2025 02:26 PM (w6EFb)

Filibuster isn’t law. It can easily be overcome.

The real problem is a lot of the GOP Congress are spineless wimps or outright traitors.

Posted by: Disinterested FDA Director at March 20, 2025 02:29 PM (/q9k6)

425 14 Can't they just stop payment of their payroll?

I mean, hey, you don't want to come out, we'll cut the power, cancel your paycheck and see how long you fare.

——-

“We FIXED the glitch.”

Posted by: Bob Slydell at March 20, 2025 02:29 PM (ogMW0)

426
Lits of "insurrectium" being consumed by DC bureaucrats.

Getting an all expenses paid spell in a federal hoosegow to detox and cool down seems to be in order.

I vaguely recall that such a remedy was brought to bear recently. It should be done here, too.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at March 20, 2025 02:29 PM (xG4kz)

427 And the fraud Mann several times falsetto claimed to be a Nobel Prize laureate. The Director of the Nobel Prize organization took the step of writing Mann a letter, telling him to stop

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:30 PM (xTnJ1)

428 World's greatest deliberative body? Mazie Hirono edition.

Kristina Wong @kristina_wong
Catching up on this hearing from last week and almost died laughing.
After @maziehirono slams the deployment of the military to the border, @SenDanSullivan notes he deployed to the border as a Marine…under Clinton.
She completely loses it, accuses him of insulting her.

https://shorturl.at/fmwqL

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Soldier of the Persistence at March 20, 2025 02:31 PM (L/fGl)

429 Falsetto >> falsely

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 20, 2025 02:31 PM (xTnJ1)

430 Unfortunately, President Reagan formed this in 1984 with good intentions but like so many things in government, soon became a corrupted boondoggle of a waste.

What do they do?

"The institute carries out this mission by operating programs in conflict zones, conducting research and analysis, operating a training academy[10] and public education center,[11] providing grants for research and fieldwork, convening conferences and workshops,[12] and building the academic and policy fields of international conflict management and peacebuilding.[13] On many of its projects, the institute works in partnership with non-governmental organizations, higher and secondary educational institutions, international organizations, local organizations, and U.S. government agencies, including the State Department and the Department of Defense."

In other words, they get paid to travel all over the world, pat each other on the back have fabulous meals in fabulous places and don't accomplish a damn thing but feel good about themselves and collect a big paycheck.

Posted by: Cheri at March 20, 2025 02:32 PM (oiNtH)

431 Prior to Monday's confrontation, USIP leaders disabled telephone lines, internet connections and other IT infrastructure, forcing communication among staff through walkie-talkies, according to the official.

***
Gee, I wonder if they used those new walkie-talkies that Hannity advertises on his show?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 20, 2025 02:33 PM (J2vNu)

432 Trump should've acted like a soccer player and flopped on the floor like he'd just been shot, again.
Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 02:23 PM (Zz0t1)

He should have pulled his carry piece and shot the scrunt dead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 20, 2025 02:35 PM (MqtqS)

433 were any arrested for destruction of property?

Posted by: susan Harms at March 20, 2025 02:36 PM (Kkd7F)

434 Sounds like an insurrection, jail them for 4 years that's the precedent.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2025 03:01 PM (n7h9X)

435 My parents live in an old age home and one of the residents of this last stop facility actually runs USIP.

Posted by: bjdubbbs at March 20, 2025 03:03 PM (wk30Q)

436 The guy who "runs" USIP right now is 81 so it checks out.

Posted by: bjdubbbs at March 20, 2025 03:04 PM (wk30Q)

437 In the eighties Philly mayor Wilson Goode ended a standoff with radical racist group MoveAfrica by allowing Philly cops to drop two large flash bangs on the roof of their home. Eleven people were unfortunately killed and at least 65 homes destroyed.
Do the same thing to US Institute for Peace. Just limit collateral damage DOGE , okay
Posted by: Smell the Glove at March 20, 2025 01:35 PM (bVN1m)

They weren't flash bangs they were bombs.

Not that I had any use for MOVE, but bombing a neighborhood is a bit of an over reach for a mayor.

A group called the Eurogliders from Australia made a real good song about it.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2025 03:07 PM (n7h9X)

438 "Just ask Mark Steyn. *Thirteen* years on one case in the corrupt cesspool of DC courts, but he finally won.
Posted by: JM in Illinois "

Actually I think he lost the global warming scam case to the scammer Michael Mann.
Posted by: Ripley at March 20, 2025 02:04 PM (GUOwU)

I think this is the 'punitive damages' part of the settlement. Mann lied so much the judge reduced the settlement to about 5 bucks.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2025 03:09 PM (n7h9X)

439 That plus the name?

I'm betting they're key players in color revolutions.
Posted by: Boron Cobbie - You were convinced to trade your youth and legacy for toil disguised as Girl Power at March 20, 2025 01:37 PM (qSMcm)

Not with just a 65 million budget. I think this is just a hippy grift outfit ready to go be interviewed and give a deepstate line. Not an action group like the revolutions.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2025 03:12 PM (n7h9X)

440 >>>We live in interesting times, when agencies of our government resist lawful orders like kindergartners resist taking their naps.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

>How dare you? Your going to be standing in the corner if you don't shape up, mister!

Posted by: Rev Wishbone at March 20, 2025 03:14 PM (fY84s)

441 All I want for Christmas is a heavily armed DOGE

Like so many US government agencies.

Oh, and a DOGE here in Canada out for blood.
Posted by: S

It would probably be simpler in Canada to just scrap what you have and start over. There's just one source of power there for 150 years, not even a pretense of overwatch in place. It has to be horrible.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2025 03:23 PM (n7h9X)

442 But, she hung her ass out. It didn't work. Now, people want something more splashy for her to atone for the error.

I get it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, back to the finish with Corman at March 20, 2025 01:47 PM (GBKbO)

She got a scalp and control of a major FBI fortress. You missed the chance of reading a wad of paper for a month or so. I call that a win.

Posted by: Oldcat at March 20, 2025 03:27 PM (n7h9X)

443 NOODlum.

Posted by: Sponge - F*ck Cancer at March 20, 2025 03:41 PM (Zz0t1)

444 60 people and a budget of $56 million? A million per year per person? Good work if you can find it.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable a Clear and Present Danger at March 20, 2025 03:57 PM (17s+e)

445 What der literal fuck?

Posted by: El Mariachi at March 20, 2025 04:40 PM (nLFEI)

446 These institutes (and there are multiple of them) seem designed to be prestigious no-show jobs to the rich and connected.

They operate like independent charities but are funded solely by the federal government. They have (obviously) never had to produce anything worthwhile.

It's ...bizarre.

Posted by: El Mariachi at March 20, 2025 04:42 PM (nLFEI)

447 The M.S. Media Bottom Feeders are sure to come up with some Sob Story for These Idiots

Posted by: Tamaa the Drongo Bird at March 20, 2025 04:51 PM (wGqjj)

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