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The Morning Rant: Mortgage Fraud Is The New "Resistance!"
In his letter to Cook, posted on Truth Social, Trump said that there was cause to remove Cook because of a criminal referral related to alleged false statements on mortgage documents. “In light of your deceitful and potentially criminal conduct in a financial matter, [the American people] cannot and I do not have such confidence in your integrity,” wrote Trump in the letter. Following Trump’s announcement, Cook said she will not resign and will continue to carry out her duties. “President Trump purported to fire me ‘for cause’ when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so,” she said in a statement. Her lawyer Abbe David Lowell said Trump’s demands lacked proper process, basis, or legal authority, and “we will take whatever actions are needed to prevent his attempted illegal action.”
Notice that this DEI leftist didn't deny the accusation. No, she is hiding behind the curious position the Federal Reserve holds in our government. It is supposedly independent and non-political, and thus is insulated from political maneuvering. That is transparently false, as her nasty street-thug socialism proves. I am a little disappointed that she didn't play the race card, but I imagine that is coming soon. Donald Trump didn't fire her because of political or policy differences. He fired he because she violated the trust of the American people. That is an entirely appropriate reason, and should have been unexceptional, except for the stupidity and pretense of the Fed's independence. Hopefully the Republican hold on the senate after the 2026 election is strong enough that real reform can occur, and changing the Federal Reserve's governance is high up on my list. It won't happen, because the Republican party is a fundamentally cowardly organization that is terrified of substantive change, but making the governors of the Federal Reserve clearly answerable is a good idea. [Crossposted at CutJibNewsletter and X/Twitter]. If you folks who are on X/Twitter would follow us it would be much appreciated!
Comments
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1st?
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
2
Wow, lookee there.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
3
It's OK for Democrats to cheat ... on voting and loans and ... everything.
Posted by: illiniwek at August 26, 2025 11:01 AM (vbXSk)
4
3d, too?
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:01 AM (77rzZ)
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You're fired!
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 26, 2025 11:02 AM (5TUbN)
6
Nope, not 3d.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:02 AM (77rzZ)
Posted by: kallisto at August 26, 2025 11:02 AM (dCxaZ)
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It annoys me that the people being pinched for mortgage fraud can afford the multi-million dollar mortgages they're defrauding.
Lazy, cheapskate fucks.
May they rot in prison as would any normal person.
Lazy, cheapskate fucks.
May they rot in prison as would any normal person.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 11:02 AM (Q4IgG)
9
I think all Republicans (even those representing Alaska, Main) voted against her. But Kramola got her over the line. She was that good !
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:04 AM (g47mK)
10
Shut down her access to the building, to the network from her laptop, her email, ect...
Enough of this BS.
Enough of this BS.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GbwPZ)
11
MONKEY!
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (N1tpc)
12
"You attest that the information you provide on this form is accurate under penalty of law."
-not very clear, apparently, also optional, I guess
-not very clear, apparently, also optional, I guess
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
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Cause is cause, bitch. get lost.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (g47mK)
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We're governed by mediocre scofflaws.
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (rJ48h)
15
She really thinks she is all that.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:06 AM (g47mK)
16
Trump Fires Cook; Obamas Ask, "How Are Her Paddleboarding Skills?"
Trump Fires Cook; Obamas Ask, "How Are Her Paddleboarding Skills?"
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at August 26, 2025 11:06 AM (YW5wb)
17
Honest question: even if she refuses to go away does she have to get a paycheck?
Posted by: Northernlurker , Maple Syrup MAGA at August 26, 2025 11:06 AM (kTd/k)
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We're governed by mediocre scofflaws.
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (rJ48h)
Half of whom are apparently named Lisa.
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (rJ48h)
Half of whom are apparently named Lisa.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:06 AM (TFE9n)
19
There's an odd phenomenon developing wherein overweight liberal black women are in the news a lot. Curious.
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 11:06 AM (AOsQT)
20
Fully half of all black woman college grads take a job in government, Fed, State, Local. This is a problem.
Posted by: Chicken Tender Melee at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (G5+As)
21
I am a little disappointed that she didn't play the race card, but I imagine that is coming soon.
Don't worry, Hakeem Jeffries played it for her.
Dr. Lisa Cook is the first Black
woman ever to serve on the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors. Donald
Trump is trying to remove her
without a shred of credible evidence
that she has done anything wrong.
To the extent anyone is unfit to
serve in a position of responsibility
because of deceitful and potentially
criminal conduct, it is the current
occupant of the White House. The
American people are not buying
your phony projection and slander
of a distinguished public servant.
Don't worry, Hakeem Jeffries played it for her.
Dr. Lisa Cook is the first Black
woman ever to serve on the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors. Donald
Trump is trying to remove her
without a shred of credible evidence
that she has done anything wrong.
To the extent anyone is unfit to
serve in a position of responsibility
because of deceitful and potentially
criminal conduct, it is the current
occupant of the White House. The
American people are not buying
your phony projection and slander
of a distinguished public servant.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (xTIDn)
22
>> No, she is hiding behind the curious position the Federal Reserve holds in our government. It is supposedly independent and non-political, and thus is insulated from political maneuvering.
Who's paying for the multi-billion dollar renovations?
The Fed -- or the US taxpayer?
Or are they just printing money/writing checks for it from nowhere as Elon Musk discovered during the initial DOGE efforts?
No more taxpayer funds if they are "independent."
Who's paying for the multi-billion dollar renovations?
The Fed -- or the US taxpayer?
Or are they just printing money/writing checks for it from nowhere as Elon Musk discovered during the initial DOGE efforts?
No more taxpayer funds if they are "independent."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (GbwPZ)
23
You'd think the Moral High Ground and Defender of the Weak Democrats would applaud prosecution of high-ranking government law breakers.
OK, I denounce myself.
OK, I denounce myself.
Posted by: Gref at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (aBgBM)
24
“It” will never be enough. Those with long memories recall the admonition to only judge people on their behavior - their character. “We all have to get along”. “We want jobs!” De-Segregation. Treat everyone equally.
All of those reasonable ideas have been jettisoned, seemingly replaced with “Whitey Needs to Die”; this apparently is not resonating with the electorate, outside of crazy cat ladies and other pharmaceutically enhanced eunuchs, sandal wearers, vegetarians, fruititarians, sex perverts, etc.
All of those reasonable ideas have been jettisoned, seemingly replaced with “Whitey Needs to Die”; this apparently is not resonating with the electorate, outside of crazy cat ladies and other pharmaceutically enhanced eunuchs, sandal wearers, vegetarians, fruititarians, sex perverts, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (9Y5zL)
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I am a little disappointed that she didn't play the race card
She has it up her sleeve ready to deploy.
I am a little disappointed that she didn't play the race card
She has it up her sleeve ready to deploy.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (63Dwl)
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She is of a type with Ketanji Brown-Jackson- in their position because of their race and sex, not because of competence.
I'm willing to bet a little investigating of the most incompetent supreme court justice will uncover some crimes as well. Because these types of people are all the same and believe they are above the rules for the little people.
I'm willing to bet a little investigating of the most incompetent supreme court justice will uncover some crimes as well. Because these types of people are all the same and believe they are above the rules for the little people.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 11:08 AM (N1tpc)
27
Trump - now do the Fed Chair. What's it take to can his ass?
Posted by: Seven Costanza at August 26, 2025 11:08 AM (n/tgy)
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But she’s the fist woman of color to do something. She’s untouchable!!!!!!
- msm
- msm
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 26, 2025 11:08 AM (wrRTB)
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>>There's an odd phenomenon developing wherein overweight liberal black women are in the news a lot. Curious.
Because so many are in power lately.
(Or was that you're point, lol?)
Because so many are in power lately.
(Or was that you're point, lol?)
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2025 11:08 AM (GbwPZ)
30
The Patriot Oasis™@ThePatriotOasis
JUST IN: AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen claims that the FBI raid on John Bolton's home made Donald Trump Republicans[MAGA] "Uncomfortable"
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Well, I did nearly piss myself laughing.
JUST IN: AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen claims that the FBI raid on John Bolton's home made Donald Trump Republicans[MAGA] "Uncomfortable"
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Well, I did nearly piss myself laughing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:08 AM (L/fGl)
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Posted by: Chicken Tender Melee at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (G5+As)
it's the Kween to Government Bennies Pipeline
it's the Kween to Government Bennies Pipeline
Posted by: kallisto at August 26, 2025 11:08 AM (dCxaZ)
32
But she is also a liar and a crook, and for that she should be fired.
They're in a pickle. If they let her go, people will think it's a government agency and Trump will keep picking them off. If they assert they're a private bank, people will go, "wait, wut?!".
They're in a pickle. If they let her go, people will think it's a government agency and Trump will keep picking them off. If they assert they're a private bank, people will go, "wait, wut?!".
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:08 AM (IYMzU)
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Fully half of all black woman college grads take a job in government, Fed, State, Local. This is a problem.
Posted by: Chicken Tender Melee at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (G5+As)
It's also by design.
Posted by: Chicken Tender Melee at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (G5+As)
It's also by design.
Posted by: Formerly Virginian at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (N1tpc)
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Fully half of all black woman college grads take a job in government, Fed, State, Local"
Marked "true"
Marked "true"
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (tubbA)
35
Like so many other institutions, the senate is obviously broken… no other way to explain how this hack got confirmed to the federal reserve. It’s truly unbelievable
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (nrfI8)
36
No, she is hiding behind the curious position the Federal Reserve holds in our government. It is supposedly independent and non-political, and thus is insulated from political maneuvering.
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The idea that there is a government entity free from politics, free from feedback from the body politic, free from input by the people, is inherently unAmerican.
Also, the act that created the Fed gave the president power to fire governors, so...we just settled into this weird fiction where the Fed gets to do whatever it wants and presidents don't get a say.
Why did we get to that point?
=======
The idea that there is a government entity free from politics, free from feedback from the body politic, free from input by the people, is inherently unAmerican.
Also, the act that created the Fed gave the president power to fire governors, so...we just settled into this weird fiction where the Fed gets to do whatever it wants and presidents don't get a say.
Why did we get to that point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)
37
I’m so old I remember when nobody was above the law.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (wrRTB)
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:10 AM (tubbA)
39
Donald Trump didn't fire her because of political or policy differences. He fired he because she violated the trust of the American people.
BURN THE WITCH!
BURN THE WITCH!
Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2025 11:10 AM (Yh9jm)
40
Suppose you committed mortgage fraud and it was discovered. You would face criminal penalties. This hack is placed in a position of trust, and is indirectly over the market rate for every mortgage issued in the country.
She believes that it is perfectly fine for her to commit mortgage fraud, and not only not face any legal consequences, but to remain in her job helping to set mortgage rates for everyone else.
She believes that it is perfectly fine for her to commit mortgage fraud, and not only not face any legal consequences, but to remain in her job helping to set mortgage rates for everyone else.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:10 AM (0U5gm)
41
"You attest that the information you provide on this form is accurate under penalty of law."
-not very clear, apparently, also optional, I guess
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
Well, she's a DEI hire, so maybe that could be her defense.
"Your honor...I don't know how to read! I didn't know what I was signing."
-not very clear, apparently, also optional, I guess
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GBKbO)
Well, she's a DEI hire, so maybe that could be her defense.
"Your honor...I don't know how to read! I didn't know what I was signing."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 26, 2025 11:10 AM (L5An7)
42
NYPost:
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday that the city’s police force has crime under control and doesn’t need the National Guard, law-enforcement sources said.
The pair met for about 30 minutes behind closed doors at One Police Plaza in Manhattan, with the tête-à-tête occurring as President Trump has taken a keen interest in boosting public safety in the city — including by potentially deploying additional boots on the ground in the five boroughs.
NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday that the city’s police force has crime under control and doesn’t need the National Guard, law-enforcement sources said.
The pair met for about 30 minutes behind closed doors at One Police Plaza in Manhattan, with the tête-à-tête occurring as President Trump has taken a keen interest in boosting public safety in the city — including by potentially deploying additional boots on the ground in the five boroughs.
Posted by: SMOD at August 26, 2025 11:11 AM (RHGPo)
43
41 Well, she's a DEI hire, so maybe that could be her defense.
"Your honor...I don't know how to read! I didn't know what I was signing."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 26, 2025 11:10 AM (L5An7)
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That's my move!
"Your honor...I don't know how to read! I didn't know what I was signing."
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 26, 2025 11:10 AM (L5An7)
=======
That's my move!
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:11 AM (GBKbO)
44
>>JUST IN: AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen claims that the FBI raid on John Bolton's home made Donald Trump Republicans[MAGA] "Uncomfortable"
Lemme guess: he heard this in the MSNBC green room during a recent to his pal, "Republican" Joe Scarborough's, show, "Morning Joe."
Lemme guess: he heard this in the MSNBC green room during a recent to his pal, "Republican" Joe Scarborough's, show, "Morning Joe."
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2025 11:11 AM (GbwPZ)
45
You'd think the Moral High Ground and Defender of the Weak Democrats would applaud prosecution of high-ranking government law breakers.
OK, I denounce myself.
Posted by: Gref
nah, you're good. You just forgot the heavy sarcasm tag.
OK, I denounce myself.
Posted by: Gref
nah, you're good. You just forgot the heavy sarcasm tag.
Posted by: clarence at August 26, 2025 11:11 AM (dL2Vj)
46
You’d think mortgage companies would do some more due diligence. But they don’t really give a fuck because they just sell the mortgage to the govt. Which is why this type of thing happens all the time.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (wrRTB)
47
The idea that there is a government entity free from politics, free from feedback from the body politic, free from input by the people, is inherently unAmerican.
Also, the act that created the Fed gave the president power to fire governors, so...we just settled into this weird fiction where the Fed gets to do whatever it wants and presidents don't get a say.
Why did we get to that point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)
The press and dems (redundant) have argued the same about the DOJ since at least Watergate. The sacrosanct independent DOJ when the reality is the AG serves at the pleasure of the president. Their logic is… deficient?
Also, the act that created the Fed gave the president power to fire governors, so...we just settled into this weird fiction where the Fed gets to do whatever it wants and presidents don't get a say.
Why did we get to that point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)
The press and dems (redundant) have argued the same about the DOJ since at least Watergate. The sacrosanct independent DOJ when the reality is the AG serves at the pleasure of the president. Their logic is… deficient?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (nrfI8)
48
>>NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch told US Attorney General Pam Bondi on Monday that the city’s police force has crime under control and doesn’t need the National Guard, law-enforcement sources said.
Love this.
Now, every murder, horrid rape and brutal attack will demonstrate this woman is a liar.
OWN IT, TISH! It's all on you now.
Love this.
Now, every murder, horrid rape and brutal attack will demonstrate this woman is a liar.
OWN IT, TISH! It's all on you now.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (GbwPZ)
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But she’s the fist woman of color to do something. She’s untouchable!!!!!!
- msm
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
So Eddie Bernice Johnson, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, among many others don't count? Got it.
- msm
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald
So Eddie Bernice Johnson, Maxine Waters, Kamala Harris, among many others don't count? Got it.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (Yh9jm)
50
It's fairly apparent that our political betters feel they are above the laws that govern the rest of us.
In another time they'd be strung up by their necks and hanged until dead in a public square as a warning to others not to do that.
The old ways were some of the best ways.
In another time they'd be strung up by their necks and hanged until dead in a public square as a warning to others not to do that.
The old ways were some of the best ways.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 11:13 AM (Q4IgG)
51
I hope I'm wrong, but I don't think the mortgage fraud angle is going anywhere on any of these honkey sucker pig-head jive turkey fools. Why? At least two reasons:
1. Unless the banks themselves get involved and can claim some kind of damage or injury, this is basically a victimless crime. If the banks don't care -- and they don't -- why should we?
2. Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary. In some cases, the mortgages are with the same bank. The banks don't care. They could easily determine which house is primary (such as on the tax returns). They don't, because they don't care. Why should we?
You know who often has two homes? Judges. You think they want to punish someone for doing what they themselves are doing?
All this being said, I think we should hound these pricks to the end of the Earth. That's what they'd do to us (and did). Let the process be the punishment. I just don't think any of this is going anywhere.
1. Unless the banks themselves get involved and can claim some kind of damage or injury, this is basically a victimless crime. If the banks don't care -- and they don't -- why should we?
2. Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary. In some cases, the mortgages are with the same bank. The banks don't care. They could easily determine which house is primary (such as on the tax returns). They don't, because they don't care. Why should we?
You know who often has two homes? Judges. You think they want to punish someone for doing what they themselves are doing?
All this being said, I think we should hound these pricks to the end of the Earth. That's what they'd do to us (and did). Let the process be the punishment. I just don't think any of this is going anywhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
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No more taxpayer funds if they are "independent."
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I hate to break it to you, but with a phony baloney confetti-buck currency, they don’t even need taxes. That’s kind of the whole point.
Virtually none of the myriad open air insane asylum cultural problems we have now would have been remotely even possible otherwise. With an essentially unlimited currency supply, while it takes a while, the laws don’t matter, as we’ve witnessed for decades now.
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I hate to break it to you, but with a phony baloney confetti-buck currency, they don’t even need taxes. That’s kind of the whole point.
Virtually none of the myriad open air insane asylum cultural problems we have now would have been remotely even possible otherwise. With an essentially unlimited currency supply, while it takes a while, the laws don’t matter, as we’ve witnessed for decades now.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 11:14 AM (9Y5zL)
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10 Shut down her access to the building, to the network from her laptop, her email, etc...
Posted by: Lizzy
That should be done the instant she gets notice and security escorts her out. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: Lizzy
That should be done the instant she gets notice and security escorts her out. Lather, rinse, repeat.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 26, 2025 11:14 AM (NR6c1)
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:14 AM (tubbA)
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DOCTOR Lisa Cook, if you please. Author of such articles as...
"The idea gap in pink and black.", published in the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2010.
"The idea gap in pink and black.", published in the National Bureau of Economic Research in 2010.
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:15 AM (IYMzU)
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10 Shut down her access to the building, to the network from her laptop, her email, ect...
Enough of this BS.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GbwPZ)
No one is above the law. That was their rule, their card they played.
Enough of this BS.
Posted by: Lizzy at August 26, 2025 11:05 AM (GbwPZ)
No one is above the law. That was their rule, their card they played.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2025 11:15 AM (N39Ws)
57
“It” will never be enough. Those with long memories recall the admonition to only judge people on their behavior - their character. “We all have to get along”. “We want jobs!” De-Segregation. Treat everyone equally.
All of those reasonable ideas have been jettisoned, seemingly replaced with “Whitey Needs to Die”; this apparently is not resonating with the electorate, outside of crazy cat ladies and other pharmaceutically enhanced eunuchs, sandal wearers, vegetarians, fruititarians, sex perverts, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (9Y5zL)
"When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles"
All of those reasonable ideas have been jettisoned, seemingly replaced with “Whitey Needs to Die”; this apparently is not resonating with the electorate, outside of crazy cat ladies and other pharmaceutically enhanced eunuchs, sandal wearers, vegetarians, fruititarians, sex perverts, etc.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 11:07 AM (9Y5zL)
"When I am weaker than you I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles"
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:15 AM (ExV1e)
58
Dr. Lisa Cook is the first Black
woman ever to serve on the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors. Donald
Trump is trying to remove her
without a shred of credible evidence
that she has done anything wrong.
To the extent anyone is unfit to
serve in a position of responsibility
because of deceitful and potentially
criminal conduct, it is the current
occupant of the White House. The
American people are not buying
your phony projection and slander
of a distinguished public servant.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
An American folk hero.
woman ever to serve on the Federal
Reserve Board of Governors. Donald
Trump is trying to remove her
without a shred of credible evidence
that she has done anything wrong.
To the extent anyone is unfit to
serve in a position of responsibility
because of deceitful and potentially
criminal conduct, it is the current
occupant of the White House. The
American people are not buying
your phony projection and slander
of a distinguished public servant.
Posted by: The ARC of History!
An American folk hero.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:15 AM (L/fGl)
59
She thought she had a guaranteed 14 year gig.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:15 AM (g47mK)
60
You’d think mortgage companies would do some more due diligence. But they don’t really give a fuck because they just sell the mortgage to the govt.
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That's not actually how that works.
Just like "Gutting a company yet still selling it for full price" isn't how things work.
Just because something is inefficient and/or corrupt or negligent doesn't mean "our" side gets to do a sloppy job of describing the process.
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That's not actually how that works.
Just like "Gutting a company yet still selling it for full price" isn't how things work.
Just because something is inefficient and/or corrupt or negligent doesn't mean "our" side gets to do a sloppy job of describing the process.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at August 26, 2025 11:16 AM (TN0g+)
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Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary."
Boy, do I feel like a sucker now. Paid extra fees, rates, and property taxes for what, now?
Boy, do I feel like a sucker now. Paid extra fees, rates, and property taxes for what, now?
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:17 AM (tubbA)
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30 The Patriot Oasis™@ThePatriotOasis
JUST IN: AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen claims that the FBI raid on John Bolton's home made Donald Trump Republicans[MAGA] "Uncomfortable"
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Well, I did nearly piss myself laughing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Axios idiots write from the perspective of the Beltway Bandits. The point of the Uniparty was to sell America out to foreign parties and domestic interests for profit and power. So yes, Bolton getting that particular raid resonated with those posing as patriots inside the DC Beltway.
To them, in their view of normality, who in DC hasn't used their secrecy clearances and inside information from government to sell on the open market and be an unregistered representative for foreign powers.
JUST IN: AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen claims that the FBI raid on John Bolton's home made Donald Trump Republicans[MAGA] "Uncomfortable"
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Well, I did nearly piss myself laughing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
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Axios idiots write from the perspective of the Beltway Bandits. The point of the Uniparty was to sell America out to foreign parties and domestic interests for profit and power. So yes, Bolton getting that particular raid resonated with those posing as patriots inside the DC Beltway.
To them, in their view of normality, who in DC hasn't used their secrecy clearances and inside information from government to sell on the open market and be an unregistered representative for foreign powers.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:17 AM (ctrM5)
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I owned and lived in home A and was buying home B. The mortgage I got for B was a primary home mortgage. And I did move in to Home B. But I kept A as a rental with the primary home mortgage still in tact.
I suppose I’m technically committing “fraud”? Because I’m guessing somewhere in the 200 pages of documents I signed when I took the loan out is says if I convert the home to a rental I have to let the mortgage company know or something.
I suppose I’m technically committing “fraud”? Because I’m guessing somewhere in the 200 pages of documents I signed when I took the loan out is says if I convert the home to a rental I have to let the mortgage company know or something.
Posted by: Its Go Time Donald at August 26, 2025 11:17 AM (wrRTB)
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Want proof that the democrats are slipping? They didn't accuse republicans of mortgage fraud before they, themselves, were discovered to have committed mortgage fraud.
They need to up their game and return to their previous pedestal of projection.
I'm concerned and disappointed.
They need to up their game and return to their previous pedestal of projection.
I'm concerned and disappointed.
Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (dIske)
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The photo I saw of Cook on YT wearing a black t-shirt - good grief, just another morbidly obese behemoth slob with her chin rolling into her chest like Jabba the Hutt. Those traits are absolute indicator of mental unfitness. Good thing we have that strong wall of protection in the Senate. /S/
Posted by: Seven Costanza at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (n/tgy)
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If you read this woman's bio, it is all grievances, agitation and community organizing since a very young age. Georgia native. Figures.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (g47mK)
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Hopefully the Republican hold on the senate after the 2026 election is strong enough that real reform can occur, and changing the Federal Reserve's governance is high up on my list. It won't happen, because the Republican party is a fundamentally cowardly organization that is terrified of substantive change,
There's a good chance that useless feckless fuck Cornyn will lose the Primary to Paxton.
If Paxton wins the Senate seat, and a couple more Republican'ts are replaced by Trump supporters.
That could put the fear of losing their cushy, no-work jobs into the rest of the Republican'ts.
And then, yes maybe we can get some real change put into law, get rid of more swamp rats.
There's a good chance that useless feckless fuck Cornyn will lose the Primary to Paxton.
If Paxton wins the Senate seat, and a couple more Republican'ts are replaced by Trump supporters.
That could put the fear of losing their cushy, no-work jobs into the rest of the Republican'ts.
And then, yes maybe we can get some real change put into law, get rid of more swamp rats.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (iJfKG)
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>Because so many are in power lately.
(Or was that you're point, lol?)
Posted by: Lizzy
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nudge nudge wink wink
(Or was that you're point, lol?)
Posted by: Lizzy
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nudge nudge wink wink
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (AOsQT)
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The press and dems (redundant) have argued the same about the DOJ since at least Watergate. The sacrosanct independent DOJ when the reality is the AG serves at the pleasure of the president. Their logic is… deficient?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (nrfI
This has been the method the Deep State has been using to insulate themselves, from any form of oversight by the American People. Been working for quite a few years so far. Trump is the first one to try to break it.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (nrfI
This has been the method the Deep State has been using to insulate themselves, from any form of oversight by the American People. Been working for quite a few years so far. Trump is the first one to try to break it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK8)
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There's a Seinfeld episode about this vary situation.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (wVcYX)
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Want proof that the democrats are slipping? They didn't accuse republicans of mortgage fraud before they, themselves, were discovered to have committed mortgage fraud.
They need to up their game and return to their previous pedestal of projection.
I'm concerned and disappointed.
Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (dIske)
It was one of the many phony cases Trump was tried for over the past few years.
They need to up their game and return to their previous pedestal of projection.
I'm concerned and disappointed.
Posted by: Orson at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (dIske)
It was one of the many phony cases Trump was tried for over the past few years.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (TFE9n)
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2. Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary. In some cases, the mortgages are with the same bank. The banks don't care. They could easily determine which house is primary (such as on the tax returns). They don't, because they don't care. Why should we?
You know who often has two homes? Judges. You think they want to punish someone for doing what they themselves are doing?
All this being said, I think we should hound these pricks to the end of the Earth. That's what they'd do to us (and did). Let the process be the punishment. I just don't think any of this is going anywhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I have had multiple properties for years, and never lied on a loan form to count more than one property as my residence.
You know who often has two homes? Judges. You think they want to punish someone for doing what they themselves are doing?
All this being said, I think we should hound these pricks to the end of the Earth. That's what they'd do to us (and did). Let the process be the punishment. I just don't think any of this is going anywhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I have had multiple properties for years, and never lied on a loan form to count more than one property as my residence.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (0U5gm)
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30 The Patriot Oasis™@ThePatriotOasis
JUST IN: AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen claims that the FBI raid on John Bolton's home made Donald Trump Republicans[MAGA] "Uncomfortable"
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Well, I did nearly piss myself laughing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Only "uncomfortable" moment I had was when I started watching the raid coverage on tv. I was worried we'd see the 'Stache walking around in his tightie whities.
JUST IN: AXIOS co-founder Mike Allen claims that the FBI raid on John Bolton's home made Donald Trump Republicans[MAGA] "Uncomfortable"
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Well, I did nearly piss myself laughing.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
Only "uncomfortable" moment I had was when I started watching the raid coverage on tv. I was worried we'd see the 'Stache walking around in his tightie whities.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (N39Ws)
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69 This has been the method the Deep State has been using to insulate themselves, from any form of oversight by the American People. Been working for quite a few years so far. Trump is the first one to try to break it.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK
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Nixon, for all his shitbird antics on policy, did try this as well.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (uWKK
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Nixon, for all his shitbird antics on policy, did try this as well.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (GBKbO)
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Incorrigible parasites.
I bet it's easier to rehab a dope fiend than to get a dem to give up a shred of their phony pseudo authority.
I hope Trump guts it all until everyone of these clowns is in the basement asking for their stapler back.
I bet it's easier to rehab a dope fiend than to get a dem to give up a shred of their phony pseudo authority.
I hope Trump guts it all until everyone of these clowns is in the basement asking for their stapler back.
Posted by: Cmonman at August 26, 2025 11:20 AM (GgwvW)
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Fed members can only be fired by the heirs to these assholes:
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich – Republican from Rhode Island, chairman of the National Monetary Commission, and father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He led the meeting.
A. Piatt Andrew – Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and former economics professor at Harvard.
Frank A. Vanderlip – President of the National City Bank of New York (the bank of the Rockefeller interests).
Henry P. Davison – Senior partner at J.P. Morgan & Co.
Charles D. Norton – President of the First National Bank of New York (closely tied to Morgan).
Benjamin Strong – Vice president of Bankers Trust Company (a Morgan institution). He later became the first Governor (President) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most powerful regional Fed bank.
Paul M. Warburg – Partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co., originally from a prominent German banking family, and a major advocate of central banking in the U.S.
Senator Nelson W. Aldrich – Republican from Rhode Island, chairman of the National Monetary Commission, and father-in-law of John D. Rockefeller Jr. He led the meeting.
A. Piatt Andrew – Assistant Secretary of the Treasury and former economics professor at Harvard.
Frank A. Vanderlip – President of the National City Bank of New York (the bank of the Rockefeller interests).
Henry P. Davison – Senior partner at J.P. Morgan & Co.
Charles D. Norton – President of the First National Bank of New York (closely tied to Morgan).
Benjamin Strong – Vice president of Bankers Trust Company (a Morgan institution). He later became the first Governor (President) of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the most powerful regional Fed bank.
Paul M. Warburg – Partner at Kuhn, Loeb & Co., originally from a prominent German banking family, and a major advocate of central banking in the U.S.
Posted by: Oglebay at August 26, 2025 11:20 AM (2ap+5)
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very, even.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 11:20 AM (wVcYX)
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> Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary. In some cases, the mortgages are with the same bank. The banks don't care. They could easily determine which house is primary (such as on the tax returns). They don't, because they don't care. Why should we?
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I have 3 mortgages. Only one is "primary." One other can be used as a deduction on my taxes for the mortgage interest only. The third one is out of the picture unless I want to swap it with #2 for the interest deduction. I never declared homes #2 and #3 as "primary." And was never asked what my intentions were for them.
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I have 3 mortgages. Only one is "primary." One other can be used as a deduction on my taxes for the mortgage interest only. The third one is out of the picture unless I want to swap it with #2 for the interest deduction. I never declared homes #2 and #3 as "primary." And was never asked what my intentions were for them.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 11:20 AM (Q4IgG)
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It won't happen, because the Republican party is a fundamentally cowardly organization that is terrified of substantive change...
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Also a feckless and deeply corrupt organization
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Also a feckless and deeply corrupt organization
Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (cFTPD)
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Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
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It's true that this crap isn't inherently a huge deal.
But they decided to make crap like this a huge deal.
So now it is.
But they decided to make crap like this a huge deal.
So now it is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (TFE9n)
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Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary. In some cases, the mortgages are with the same bank. The banks don't care. They could easily determine which house is primary (such as on the tax returns). They don't, because they don't care. Why should we?
You know who often has two homes? Judges. You think they want to punish someone for doing what they themselves are doing?
All this being said, I think we should hound these pricks to the end of the Earth. That's what they'd do to us (and did). Let the process be the punishment. I just don't think any of this is going anywhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I have had multiple properties for years, and never lied on a loan form to count more than one property as my residence.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (0U5gm)
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Too each his own. If you are OK paying more to a bank than you have to, well then that's your right. I don't give a shit about bank profits and I don't give a shit about the government. If I can cheat either of them with very low risk, then I do it. Proudly.
You know who often has two homes? Judges. You think they want to punish someone for doing what they themselves are doing?
All this being said, I think we should hound these pricks to the end of the Earth. That's what they'd do to us (and did). Let the process be the punishment. I just don't think any of this is going anywhere.
Posted by: Elric The Blade
I have had multiple properties for years, and never lied on a loan form to count more than one property as my residence.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:19 AM (0U5gm)
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Too each his own. If you are OK paying more to a bank than you have to, well then that's your right. I don't give a shit about bank profits and I don't give a shit about the government. If I can cheat either of them with very low risk, then I do it. Proudly.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (iFTx/)
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Keith Olbermann@KeithOlbermann
Replying to @atrupar
WTF WITH TRUMP'S HAND? IS TRUMP DYING, OR IS HE JUST FINE? And why doesn't the media fixate on HIS health crisis 1% as much as it did and still does about Biden's?
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Yeah, boy, the press just wouldn't shut up about Biden's obvious health problems.
Replying to @atrupar
WTF WITH TRUMP'S HAND? IS TRUMP DYING, OR IS HE JUST FINE? And why doesn't the media fixate on HIS health crisis 1% as much as it did and still does about Biden's?
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Yeah, boy, the press just wouldn't shut up about Biden's obvious health problems.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:22 AM (L/fGl)
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Everyone employed in Government should have to meet the height and weight standards on the 1988 US Army PT test. Get on the fat boy program, lady. You’re a disgrace.
Piss test, then a Two mile run. Shower. Then off to the mess hall for SOS and coffee.
Piss test, then a Two mile run. Shower. Then off to the mess hall for SOS and coffee.
Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 11:22 AM (9Y5zL)
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...and, as President, I have a solemn duty to ensure that the laws of the United States are faithfully executed. I have determined that faithfully executing the law requires your immediate removal from office.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
It's the literary flourish at the end that I like.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
It's the literary flourish at the end that I like.
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:22 AM (IYMzU)
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Everybody does it, so it's not illegal.
I'm talking about overstaying a visa and crossing the border and bypassing the border check-in.
I'm talking about overstaying a visa and crossing the border and bypassing the border check-in.
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 26, 2025 11:22 AM (Dv3i1)
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Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
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Then pay more. That's your right. I'd rather pay less. And I do.
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
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Then pay more. That's your right. I'd rather pay less. And I do.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:23 AM (iFTx/)
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"I am completely, demonstrably guilty of mortgage fraud; however, the mechanism by which the President attempted to fire me is not procedurally correct. Therefore, fuck you, I'm not leaving."
I don't think that's the flex she thinks it is...
I don't think that's the flex she thinks it is...
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at August 26, 2025 11:23 AM (buExO)
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40 Suppose you committed mortgage fraud and it was discovered. You would face criminal penalties. This hack is placed in a position of trust, and is indirectly over the market rate for every mortgage issued in the country.
She believes that it is perfectly fine for her to commit mortgage fraud, and not only not face any legal consequences, but to remain in her job helping to set mortgage rates for everyone else.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
The act that sets up the Fed specifically allows the President to fire governors for 'cause'. Unethical as well as illegal acts qualify as cause. This is not a Humphrey's Executor case wherein the FTC appointee was not accused of any wrongdoing but simply the wrong politics.
Powell, by apparently lying to Congress over the remodel of the Fed has likewise created a fireable 'cause' also without invoking Humphrey's precedent.
All independent officers of the United States have to be fireable for cause due to separation of powers doctrine (not showing up for work, criminal actions, substance abuse, incompetence (see Myers case) even if Congress puts safeguards on removal (a factor in Humphrey's Executor and the later Weiner v. US precedents).
She believes that it is perfectly fine for her to commit mortgage fraud, and not only not face any legal consequences, but to remain in her job helping to set mortgage rates for everyone else.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
The act that sets up the Fed specifically allows the President to fire governors for 'cause'. Unethical as well as illegal acts qualify as cause. This is not a Humphrey's Executor case wherein the FTC appointee was not accused of any wrongdoing but simply the wrong politics.
Powell, by apparently lying to Congress over the remodel of the Fed has likewise created a fireable 'cause' also without invoking Humphrey's precedent.
All independent officers of the United States have to be fireable for cause due to separation of powers doctrine (not showing up for work, criminal actions, substance abuse, incompetence (see Myers case) even if Congress puts safeguards on removal (a factor in Humphrey's Executor and the later Weiner v. US precedents).
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:23 AM (ctrM5)
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The thing that gets me about the spate of mortgage fraudsters is that they're all wealthy people. They're cheating to save what, to them, is chump change. I'm with this guy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qileP4bAzek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qileP4bAzek
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (WvZaB)
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There's a good chance that useless feckless fuck Cornyn will lose the Primary to Paxton.
If Paxton wins the Senate seat, and a couple more Republican'ts are replaced by Trump supporters.
That could put the fear of losing their cushy, no-work jobs into the rest of the Republican'ts.
And then, yes maybe we can get some real change put into law, get rid of more swamp rats.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (iJfKG)
Cornyn doesn't understand why he's behind Paxton by so much. It's not actually about conservative/squish repub so much; rather once Cornyn went to DC he quit paying attention to Texas completely, barely even comes home anymore, and most everyone in the state is pissed off at him about it. And because he hardly ever leaves DC, I don't think that Cornyn understands it even now.
Critics love to talk about Paxton's negatives, but want to know the one thing he's doing that Cornyn isn't? Traveling around the state, meeting voters and talking to them face to face, every day. And not just in a handful of big cities, either. Paxton has won 3 statewide races because he knows how to campaign, something most of the DC rats seem to have forgotten how to do.
If Paxton wins the Senate seat, and a couple more Republican'ts are replaced by Trump supporters.
That could put the fear of losing their cushy, no-work jobs into the rest of the Republican'ts.
And then, yes maybe we can get some real change put into law, get rid of more swamp rats.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 11:18 AM (iJfKG)
Cornyn doesn't understand why he's behind Paxton by so much. It's not actually about conservative/squish repub so much; rather once Cornyn went to DC he quit paying attention to Texas completely, barely even comes home anymore, and most everyone in the state is pissed off at him about it. And because he hardly ever leaves DC, I don't think that Cornyn understands it even now.
Critics love to talk about Paxton's negatives, but want to know the one thing he's doing that Cornyn isn't? Traveling around the state, meeting voters and talking to them face to face, every day. And not just in a handful of big cities, either. Paxton has won 3 statewide races because he knows how to campaign, something most of the DC rats seem to have forgotten how to do.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (uWKK8)
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Hmm. Mebbe I should file all my unfiled tax returns and get on a payment plan.
Posted by: Career IRS Manager at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (wVcYX)
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OT:
Left-wing Bluesky (but I repeat myself) is in a panic over the New York Times article saying that eleven Congressional seats will shift from blue states to red states in the 2030 census.
But, not to worry, they have a solution - build housing in blue states!
They are convinced that the only reason why more people don't live in blue states is that there isn't enough housing for them.
So, are they going to build hundreds of thousands of single-family houses in car-dependent exurbs like Texas is doing - you know, the kinds of housing people actually want to buy?
Of course not, since they hate cars, and they hate single-family housing.
No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Left-wing Bluesky (but I repeat myself) is in a panic over the New York Times article saying that eleven Congressional seats will shift from blue states to red states in the 2030 census.
But, not to worry, they have a solution - build housing in blue states!
They are convinced that the only reason why more people don't live in blue states is that there isn't enough housing for them.
So, are they going to build hundreds of thousands of single-family houses in car-dependent exurbs like Texas is doing - you know, the kinds of housing people actually want to buy?
Of course not, since they hate cars, and they hate single-family housing.
No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
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I'm so tired of fatties.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
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No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
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15 minute cities FTW!
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15 minute cities FTW!
Posted by: Chuck Martel at August 26, 2025 11:25 AM (Dv3i1)
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I'm so tired of fatties.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
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"I'm skinny!" [Makes "call me" gesture]
-- Dylan Mulvaney
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:25 AM (77rzZ)
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"I'm skinny!" [Makes "call me" gesture]
-- Dylan Mulvaney
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:26 AM (iFTx/)
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I owned and lived in home A and was buying home B. The mortgage I got for B was a primary home mortgage. And I did move in to Home B. But I kept A as a rental with the primary home mortgage still in tact.
I suppose I’m technically committing “fraud”?
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No, you're not. It was your intent and your action to buy home A as your primary residence. Later, after you in good faith closed and occupied home A, life moved on and at some point you decided to buy home B. That's not fraud.
I suppose I’m technically committing “fraud”?
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No, you're not. It was your intent and your action to buy home A as your primary residence. Later, after you in good faith closed and occupied home A, life moved on and at some point you decided to buy home B. That's not fraud.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at August 26, 2025 11:26 AM (TN0g+)
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I have had multiple properties for years, and never lied on a loan form to count more than one property as my residence."
You know, we might be tiring of following the rules for so long.
Wonder what would/ will happen if/when more of us shrug off said rules...
I'm guessing it won't be happyfuntimes...
You know, we might be tiring of following the rules for so long.
Wonder what would/ will happen if/when more of us shrug off said rules...
I'm guessing it won't be happyfuntimes...
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:26 AM (tubbA)
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93 But, not to worry, they have a solution - build housing in blue states!
They are convinced that the only reason why more people don't live in blue states is that there isn't enough housing for them.
So, are they going to build hundreds of thousands of single-family houses in car-dependent exurbs like Texas is doing - you know, the kinds of housing people actually want to buy?
Of course not, since they hate cars, and they hate single-family housing.
No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
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I keep seeing this. It's the one policy failure they'll acknowledge, housing is to expensive.
So, they must build a bunch of apartments.
Also, deporting illegal aliens won't affect housing prices because only addressing the supply side (very poorly in ways people don't want while doing it in a way that keeps prices high anyway) is the way to do it.
Seriously, America is going to feel very different in 2028 when 16 million people have left America (2 million through the first six months of 2025, played out to late 2028 ).
They are convinced that the only reason why more people don't live in blue states is that there isn't enough housing for them.
So, are they going to build hundreds of thousands of single-family houses in car-dependent exurbs like Texas is doing - you know, the kinds of housing people actually want to buy?
Of course not, since they hate cars, and they hate single-family housing.
No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
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I keep seeing this. It's the one policy failure they'll acknowledge, housing is to expensive.
So, they must build a bunch of apartments.
Also, deporting illegal aliens won't affect housing prices because only addressing the supply side (very poorly in ways people don't want while doing it in a way that keeps prices high anyway) is the way to do it.
Seriously, America is going to feel very different in 2028 when 16 million people have left America (2 million through the first six months of 2025, played out to late 2028 ).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
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Another issue that Trump is addressing by pushing this is how insanely disruptive lawfare can be, and it can sure as hell be used to target all the High and Mighty who thought they were immune. The only way to end it is to jam it down everyone's throats until they choke on it and beg for it all to stop.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (uWKK8)
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Why are all these fat, ugly, untalented, lazy, incompetent, low IQ, black democrat woman also criminals?
Posted by: DNA at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (jL7Si)
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1. Unless the banks themselves get involved and can claim some kind of damage or injury, this is basically a victimless crime. If the banks don't care -- and they don't -- why should we?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
Victimless crime about which the banks didn't care was enough to try to imprison Trump for life. It's enough to imprison her for life, too.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
Victimless crime about which the banks didn't care was enough to try to imprison Trump for life. It's enough to imprison her for life, too.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (buExO)
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Second amendment hero Adam Kinzinger.
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) @AdamKinzinger
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) @AdamKinzinger
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
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Seriously, America is going to feel very different in 2028 when 16 million people have left America (2 million through the first six months of 2025, played out to late 2028 ).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
I can already feel the traffic getting less awful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
I can already feel the traffic getting less awful.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:28 AM (TFE9n)
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Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary.
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No, they don't. Not even close. The majority of real estate investors I've worked with over the years might have financed one or two properties as "owner-occupied", and then once they began to build a portfolio understood the rules of the game and decided 3/4's of a single percent in higher interest rate was worth it to stay on the legal side of the game.
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No, they don't. Not even close. The majority of real estate investors I've worked with over the years might have financed one or two properties as "owner-occupied", and then once they began to build a portfolio understood the rules of the game and decided 3/4's of a single percent in higher interest rate was worth it to stay on the legal side of the game.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at August 26, 2025 11:30 AM (TN0g+)
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They're cheating to save what, to them, is chump change"
That's the cheating we all see, but behind the curtain...
That's the cheating we all see, but behind the curtain...
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:30 AM (tubbA)
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>The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
What?
What?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (rJ48h)
Posted by: flyin' green dildo at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (EFZgU)
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No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
This is funny - in fact quite hilarious! The best part - suppose they somehow resurrected USAID and got the funding to do this; what would happen is that their own grifters would piss away the first billion dollars and 10 years on "environmental and gender impact studies" and it would be just like the California train to nowhere; ground never even broken.
This is a key fact that the left does not even comprehend; they have fallen so deeply into corruption that they no longer have the ability to carry out any of their schemes and plans.
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
This is funny - in fact quite hilarious! The best part - suppose they somehow resurrected USAID and got the funding to do this; what would happen is that their own grifters would piss away the first billion dollars and 10 years on "environmental and gender impact studies" and it would be just like the California train to nowhere; ground never even broken.
This is a key fact that the left does not even comprehend; they have fallen so deeply into corruption that they no longer have the ability to carry out any of their schemes and plans.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (uWKK8)
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Well, I guess if a Fed governor, and multiple US senators and representatives, democrats of whom we should all be proud of and support, are all committing mortgage fraud, then everyone should be committing mortgage fraud.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (0U5gm)
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Critics love to talk about Paxton's negatives, but want to know the one thing he's doing that Cornyn isn't? Traveling around the state, meeting voters and talking to them face to face, every day. And not just in a handful of big cities, either. Paxton has won 3 statewide races because he knows how to campaign, something most of the DC rats seem to have forgotten how to do.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Because donors captured the GOP Senate in particular with Mitch running that side. GOP senators relied upon huge war chests in red states to prevent primary challengers and get easy wins in red states.
The center for the Uniparty is the US Senate and Cornyn is a fully paid up member in that hideous conglomeration of traitors, poltroons, fame seekers, and paid whores for oligarchs.
Posted by: Tom Servo
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Because donors captured the GOP Senate in particular with Mitch running that side. GOP senators relied upon huge war chests in red states to prevent primary challengers and get easy wins in red states.
The center for the Uniparty is the US Senate and Cornyn is a fully paid up member in that hideous conglomeration of traitors, poltroons, fame seekers, and paid whores for oligarchs.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (ctrM5)
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The best part about Cook?
Her vote as a Fed Governor heavily influences mortgage rates.
If she wanted a lower mortgage rate, she could have voted to lower rates on fed debt.
Instead, she lied on a form that said she would be punished by the law for lying on it.
Her vote as a Fed Governor heavily influences mortgage rates.
If she wanted a lower mortgage rate, she could have voted to lower rates on fed debt.
Instead, she lied on a form that said she would be punished by the law for lying on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (GBKbO)
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109 This is a key fact that the left does not even comprehend; they have fallen so deeply into corruption that they no longer have the ability to carry out any of their schemes and plans.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (uWKK
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It is the one piece of sustained self-criticism since the election.
And it's hilariously stupid.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (uWKK
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It is the one piece of sustained self-criticism since the election.
And it's hilariously stupid.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:32 AM (GBKbO)
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Their logic is… deficient?
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (nrfI
I’d say the left’s logic usually boils down to convenience.
It was convenient for the to say “Nobody is above the law” when it came to Trump.
It’s not convenient when they are about to lose a leftist vote on an “independent” board that controls the money supply of this country.
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 26, 2025 11:12 AM (nrfI
I’d say the left’s logic usually boils down to convenience.
It was convenient for the to say “Nobody is above the law” when it came to Trump.
It’s not convenient when they are about to lose a leftist vote on an “independent” board that controls the money supply of this country.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:32 AM (6ydKt)
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Seriously, America is going to feel very different in 2028 when 16 million people have left America
The one effect that I've felt so far, is that traffic seems better. Everyone drives the same now. Roads are often emptier, but when they're not, people aren't doing dumb shit anymore.
Purely anecdotal, but it's the only difference I've experienced so far. Gas is the same, food is the same, but life is a little better.
The one effect that I've felt so far, is that traffic seems better. Everyone drives the same now. Roads are often emptier, but when they're not, people aren't doing dumb shit anymore.
Purely anecdotal, but it's the only difference I've experienced so far. Gas is the same, food is the same, but life is a little better.
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:32 AM (IYMzU)
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What the hell is Cuntzinger blathering on about?
It's just a string of words mashed together to look kind of like a sentence but it doesn't actually mean anything.
It's like he got a five year old chat bot to write his posts for him.
It's just a string of words mashed together to look kind of like a sentence but it doesn't actually mean anything.
It's like he got a five year old chat bot to write his posts for him.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:32 AM (TFE9n)
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110 Well, I guess if a Fed governor, and multiple US senators and representatives, democrats of whom we should all be proud of and support, are all committing mortgage fraud, then everyone should be committing mortgage fraud.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
We have a de facto aristocracy here where laws do not apply to those rich enough, famous enough, leftist enough, and powerful enough.
Posted by: Thomas Paine
We have a de facto aristocracy here where laws do not apply to those rich enough, famous enough, leftist enough, and powerful enough.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:32 AM (ctrM5)
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Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) @AdamKinzinger
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
So Kinziger holds that President Eisenhower acted unconstitutionally when he used the National Guard to force integration of Arkansas schools in 1957, against the wished of Governor Faubus.
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
So Kinziger holds that President Eisenhower acted unconstitutionally when he used the National Guard to force integration of Arkansas schools in 1957, against the wished of Governor Faubus.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (uWKK8)
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Unless the banks themselves get involved and can claim some kind of damage or injury, this is basically a victimless crime. If the banks don't care -- and they don't -- why should we?
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
Victimless crime about which the banks didn't care was enough to try to imprison Trump for life. It's enough to imprison her for life, too.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (buExO)
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That was a civil, not criminal case. And Trump ended up beating it because it was stupid. The centerpiece of the appeals court decision was there was no victims. The same is true here. As I said above, we should make these assholes suffer as much as possible, but in the end I don't think it will go anywhere because there are no victims.
This fat DEI hire Lisa Cook is in a different category, though. She was fired for cause based on her false statements. That might not require victims. But even then, I have my doubts a judge -- who is probably doing the same thing on his mortgages -- will let that stand.
I also don't know what Cook's employment agreement or enabling statute says about "for cause" firing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:13 AM (iFTx/)
Victimless crime about which the banks didn't care was enough to try to imprison Trump for life. It's enough to imprison her for life, too.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (buExO)
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That was a civil, not criminal case. And Trump ended up beating it because it was stupid. The centerpiece of the appeals court decision was there was no victims. The same is true here. As I said above, we should make these assholes suffer as much as possible, but in the end I don't think it will go anywhere because there are no victims.
This fat DEI hire Lisa Cook is in a different category, though. She was fired for cause based on her false statements. That might not require victims. But even then, I have my doubts a judge -- who is probably doing the same thing on his mortgages -- will let that stand.
I also don't know what Cook's employment agreement or enabling statute says about "for cause" firing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Another American hero or two.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal@RepJayapal
This is fantastic news and I am thrilled for Kilmar Abrego Garcia! The Trump administration must stop their unfounded investigations and let his family remain together.
Rep. Pramila Jayapal@RepJayapal
This is fantastic news and I am thrilled for Kilmar Abrego Garcia! The Trump administration must stop their unfounded investigations and let his family remain together.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (L/fGl)
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I keep seeing this. It's the one policy failure they'll acknowledge, housing is to expensive.
So, they must build a bunch of apartments.
Half the Portland city council are socialists, and one of them (a PhD economist, amazingly) wants the city to spend billions on "social housing".
Everyone in social housing pays 30% of their income in rent - if you make $10,000 a year, you pay $3,000 a year in rent, and if you make $100,000 a year, you pay $30,000 in rent. (This is the actual example that the guy uses.)
That way, the rich people living in social housing subsidize the poor people in social housing.
Left unexplained is how you make the guy making $100,000 and paying $30,000 in rent move into social housing.
I assume that it will be at gunpoint.
So, they must build a bunch of apartments.
Half the Portland city council are socialists, and one of them (a PhD economist, amazingly) wants the city to spend billions on "social housing".
Everyone in social housing pays 30% of their income in rent - if you make $10,000 a year, you pay $3,000 a year in rent, and if you make $100,000 a year, you pay $30,000 in rent. (This is the actual example that the guy uses.)
That way, the rich people living in social housing subsidize the poor people in social housing.
Left unexplained is how you make the guy making $100,000 and paying $30,000 in rent move into social housing.
I assume that it will be at gunpoint.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (xTIDn)
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115
Purely anecdotal, but it's the only difference I've experienced so far. Gas is the same, food is the same, but life is a little better.
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:32 AM (IYMzU)
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The housing bubble in my area is deflating (we bought at THE WORST time, by the way).
Probably related somehow.
Purely anecdotal, but it's the only difference I've experienced so far. Gas is the same, food is the same, but life is a little better.
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:32 AM (IYMzU)
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The housing bubble in my area is deflating (we bought at THE WORST time, by the way).
Probably related somehow.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (GBKbO)
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Also, the act that created the Fed gave the president power to fire governors, so...we just settled into this weird fiction where the Fed gets to do whatever it wants and presidents don't get a say.
Why did we get to that point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)
Rasputin foresaw the coming of the Orange Man.
Why did we get to that point?
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:09 AM (GBKbO)
Rasputin foresaw the coming of the Orange Man.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (ExV1e)
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We have a de facto aristocracy here where laws do not apply to those rich enough, famous enough, leftist enough, and powerful enough.
which is a sure path towards me sitting in front of some interesting structures, knitting happily.
which is a sure path towards me sitting in front of some interesting structures, knitting happily.
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:34 AM (Pv3Rg)
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I can already feel the traffic getting less awful."
Interesting- Mrs. mentioned that last week... there seems to be fewer half trashed, expired registration crapwagons careening thru the area (N of Houston)...
Interesting- Mrs. mentioned that last week... there seems to be fewer half trashed, expired registration crapwagons careening thru the area (N of Houston)...
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:34 AM (tubbA)
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Old lameness: Driving while black.
New hotness: Signing legal document while female, black, and overweight.
Clearly we are making progress here, folks!
New hotness: Signing legal document while female, black, and overweight.
Clearly we are making progress here, folks!
Posted by: Ray Van Dune at August 26, 2025 11:34 AM (PQOq3)
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119 This fat DEI hire Lisa Cook is in a different category, though. She was fired for cause based on her false statements. That might not require victims. But even then, I have my doubts a judge -- who is probably doing the same thing on his mortgages -- will let that stand.
I also don't know what Cook's employment agreement or enabling statute says about "for cause" firing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Statute is clear that president's discretion as to the cause is all that's required.
And SCOTUS has been backing him up on all of these firing decisions so far.
I seriously doubt that Humphrey's Executor survives.
I also don't know what Cook's employment agreement or enabling statute says about "for cause" firing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Statute is clear that president's discretion as to the cause is all that's required.
And SCOTUS has been backing him up on all of these firing decisions so far.
I seriously doubt that Humphrey's Executor survives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
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107 >The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
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Someone dig up Ike and tell him that sending the troops and nationalizing the Guard in the Little Rock Central crisis was unconstitutional.
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Someone dig up Ike and tell him that sending the troops and nationalizing the Guard in the Little Rock Central crisis was unconstitutional.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrM5)
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What?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (rJ48h)
When a non sequitur and a busted syllogism love each other very much and have the rubber break behind the gas station dumpster around back from the shitter....
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (rJ48h)
When a non sequitur and a busted syllogism love each other very much and have the rubber break behind the gas station dumpster around back from the shitter....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (TFE9n)
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I also don't know what Cook's employment agreement or enabling statute says about "for cause" firing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
Fair points, all.
And I'm on board with them suffering. This may be a time wherein the process is the punishment, and I'm here for it.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
Fair points, all.
And I'm on board with them suffering. This may be a time wherein the process is the punishment, and I'm here for it.
Posted by: Washington Nearsider at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (buExO)
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> There's a good chance that useless feckless fuck Cornyn will lose the Primary to Paxton.
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he is utterly devoid of feck
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he is utterly devoid of feck
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (AOsQT)
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128 Someone dig up Ike and tell him that sending the troops and nationalizing the Guard in the Little Rock Central crisis was unconstitutional.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrM5)
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Dude loves George Wallace.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (ctrM5)
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Dude loves George Wallace.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (GBKbO)
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I saw Traitors, Poltroons and Whores open for Earth, Wind and Fire a really long time ago.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (WvZaB)
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It's fairly apparent that our political betters feel they are above the laws that govern the rest of us.
What's the point of being a Noble if you must obey the same rules as the Peasants?
What's the point of being a Noble if you must obey the same rules as the Peasants?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:35 AM (ExV1e)
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I seriously doubt that Humphrey's Executor survives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Well, he should the chair for executing Humphrey.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
Well, he should the chair for executing Humphrey.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:36 AM (77rzZ)
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This fat DEI hire Lisa Cook is in a different category, though. She was fired for cause based on her false statements. That might not require victims. But even then, I have my doubts a judge -- who is probably doing the same thing on his mortgages -- will let that stand.
I also don't know what Cook's employment agreement or enabling statute says about "for cause" firing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Statute is clear that president's discretion as to the cause is all that's required.
And SCOTUS has been backing him up on all of these firing decisions so far.
I seriously doubt that Humphrey's Executor survives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
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Well then, we have nothing to worry about, right? Cook will be gone by the end of the week!
I also don't know what Cook's employment agreement or enabling statute says about "for cause" firing.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
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Statute is clear that president's discretion as to the cause is all that's required.
And SCOTUS has been backing him up on all of these firing decisions so far.
I seriously doubt that Humphrey's Executor survives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:34 AM (GBKbO)
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Well then, we have nothing to worry about, right? Cook will be gone by the end of the week!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:36 AM (iFTx/)
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Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
Eric rationalized monetary fraud in another AoS post. Seems he wants to defend financial lawlessness. Perhaps he needs to be investigated too.
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
Eric rationalized monetary fraud in another AoS post. Seems he wants to defend financial lawlessness. Perhaps he needs to be investigated too.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (g8Ew8)
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should *get* the chair
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (77rzZ)
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2. Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary. In some cases, the mortgages are with the same bank. The banks don't care. They could easily determine which house is primary (such as on the tax returns). They don't, because they don't care. Why should we?
I see transitioning from one residence to another, as listed in your example - completely different than what we see with Cook, or Letisha James, or Schiff.
I see transitioning from one residence to another, as listed in your example - completely different than what we see with Cook, or Letisha James, or Schiff.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (N39Ws)
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Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (uWKK
Basically, you're right, but Cornyn did two recent things that, for voters paying attention, do not look good.
1)He and Miss Lindsay and other guy were the first Reps to jump out and abandon Trump and frankly side with the Dims over Trump's questioning of the 2020 election.
2) After Uvalde, he jumped right in with Biden's plan to gut the 2nd Amendment, supported it full blast.
At best he's something like a Democrat Cuck Lite but mostly he's a Cornynist. I hope he loses.
Basically, you're right, but Cornyn did two recent things that, for voters paying attention, do not look good.
1)He and Miss Lindsay and other guy were the first Reps to jump out and abandon Trump and frankly side with the Dims over Trump's questioning of the 2020 election.
2) After Uvalde, he jumped right in with Biden's plan to gut the 2nd Amendment, supported it full blast.
At best he's something like a Democrat Cuck Lite but mostly he's a Cornynist. I hope he loses.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (iJfKG)
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Cook is a crook!
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (wVcYX)
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Trump can just forget about the Nobel Prize.
Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
I just talked to some friends in Norway, where the Nobel Prize is awarded. They’re saying “Nobel Newsom” is all the buzz. Pack your bags, @GavinNewsom, you’re going to Oslo!
Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
I just talked to some friends in Norway, where the Nobel Prize is awarded. They’re saying “Nobel Newsom” is all the buzz. Pack your bags, @GavinNewsom, you’re going to Oslo!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
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136 Well then, we have nothing to worry about, right? Cook will be gone by the end of the week!
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:36 AM (iFTx/)
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It'll follow the normal pattern.
District court orders her staying on the job in a TRO. Trump maliciously complies and delays. 14 day clock stops, and the PI is implemented. Appeal. Stayed within a couple of days.
She's off the job until it works its way up to SCOTUS in a couple of months where they lay the groundwork for the district court to shut the fuck up.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:36 AM (iFTx/)
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It'll follow the normal pattern.
District court orders her staying on the job in a TRO. Trump maliciously complies and delays. 14 day clock stops, and the PI is implemented. Appeal. Stayed within a couple of days.
She's off the job until it works its way up to SCOTUS in a couple of months where they lay the groundwork for the district court to shut the fuck up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (GBKbO)
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So there are four branches of government now? Congress, Judiciary, Executive, and the Federal Reserve? Attention all Jr. High school teachers: update your civics exams accordingly.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (PgMGV)
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I noticed they are pushing Trump's health !11! now. Ok, fine. Get Vance in place.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (g47mK)
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Isn't mortgage fraud also what Schiff's accused of? What's the status on him? Prison yet?
Same for what's her name... the chubby DA... Tish?
Or... nah.
Same for what's her name... the chubby DA... Tish?
Or... nah.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (Q4IgG)
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The one effect that I've felt so far, is that traffic seems better.
I went to a U-pick farm in the Portland area to pick peaches a few days ago.
It turned out to be too late for picking, and there was a ton of peaches on the ground, rotting.
Normally, these U-pick farms bring in a professional crew to finish picking the remaining crop at the end of the season, but that didn't happen this year.
I went to a U-pick farm in the Portland area to pick peaches a few days ago.
It turned out to be too late for picking, and there was a ton of peaches on the ground, rotting.
Normally, these U-pick farms bring in a professional crew to finish picking the remaining crop at the end of the season, but that didn't happen this year.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:39 AM (xTIDn)
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118 - Good point. He would have to concede that integrating schools is more important than preventing inner city blacks from killing each other. I'd love to see his response if asked.
118 - Good point. He would have to concede that integrating schools is more important than preventing inner city blacks from killing each other. I'd love to see his response if asked.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 11:39 AM (XvL8K)
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110 Well, I guess if a Fed governor, and multiple US senators and representatives, democrats of whom we should all be proud of and support, are all committing mortgage fraud, then everyone should be committing mortgage fraud.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (0U5gm)
Letitia James, Schiff, and now Cook.
Apparently this is such a widespread thing that everybody thinks it’s impossible to get caught lying to get a lower mortgage rate.
The left has the same attitude to most crime.
“Everybody else is doing it, why can’t I?”
Do it all you want, just don’t complain when you get caught. Take your punishment like all the others who erroneously thought the same thing you did.
But no, they all think they are special people who should never be punished for their criminal acts.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (0U5gm)
Letitia James, Schiff, and now Cook.
Apparently this is such a widespread thing that everybody thinks it’s impossible to get caught lying to get a lower mortgage rate.
The left has the same attitude to most crime.
“Everybody else is doing it, why can’t I?”
Do it all you want, just don’t complain when you get caught. Take your punishment like all the others who erroneously thought the same thing you did.
But no, they all think they are special people who should never be punished for their criminal acts.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:39 AM (6ydKt)
150
I keep seeing this. It's the one policy failure they'll acknowledge, housing is to expensive.
So, they must build a bunch of apartments.
[ . . . ]
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
There are studies that claim that the price of housing could drop up to 50% in some areas if the local governments were to drop their land use and permitting regulations.
(I think this is overstated for the claimed "all" housing, since there are requirements for infrastructure that are often overlooked, like sewage, and water supplies - completely deregulation risks people living in tents in public parks, after all)
So, they must build a bunch of apartments.
[ . . . ]
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:27 AM (GBKbO)
There are studies that claim that the price of housing could drop up to 50% in some areas if the local governments were to drop their land use and permitting regulations.
(I think this is overstated for the claimed "all" housing, since there are requirements for infrastructure that are often overlooked, like sewage, and water supplies - completely deregulation risks people living in tents in public parks, after all)
Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 11:39 AM (rbvCR)
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I am so, so glad that she is refusing to resign and is going to sue to keep her job.
That is exactly what Trump wanted.
And the bonus is that she's claiming it's racism and all that.
If the left wasn't so deranged with Trump hatred, they'd see that this is the perfect case for SCOTUS to directly over-rule Humphrey's Executor.
It was never Constitutional.
And it was followed out of precedent but mostly b/c it wasn't worth fighting as it suited the Uniparty just fine.
But, even Roberts said it might--might--permit members of the Fed from being removed except for cause. But no further.
And here's this dumb B, giving the Court the opening to say, "for cause means for cause but since she want to claim for cause means 'can never be fired' we're just going to do away with all restrictions--Congress' limit on the Executive is the purse, not in the management of the Executive."
It's going to be so much fun watching all the left's precious "independent" agencies be gutted and the whole Executive brought back under full control of the President.
That is exactly what Trump wanted.
And the bonus is that she's claiming it's racism and all that.
If the left wasn't so deranged with Trump hatred, they'd see that this is the perfect case for SCOTUS to directly over-rule Humphrey's Executor.
It was never Constitutional.
And it was followed out of precedent but mostly b/c it wasn't worth fighting as it suited the Uniparty just fine.
But, even Roberts said it might--might--permit members of the Fed from being removed except for cause. But no further.
And here's this dumb B, giving the Court the opening to say, "for cause means for cause but since she want to claim for cause means 'can never be fired' we're just going to do away with all restrictions--Congress' limit on the Executive is the purse, not in the management of the Executive."
It's going to be so much fun watching all the left's precious "independent" agencies be gutted and the whole Executive brought back under full control of the President.
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 26, 2025 11:39 AM (T4D6/)
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people aren't doing dumb shit anymore."
Here's the thing - it only takes a tiny fraction of a given population to have a negative impact on the rest of us.
And it's noticeable. I'm driving to Austin weekly, and it's been less stressful than in the recent past.
Here's the thing - it only takes a tiny fraction of a given population to have a negative impact on the rest of us.
And it's noticeable. I'm driving to Austin weekly, and it's been less stressful than in the recent past.
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:40 AM (tubbA)
153
Was not this Abbe Normal Lowell also the lawyer of little Hunter?
Posted by: Anacleto Mitraglia at August 26, 2025 11:40 AM (g2jBC)
154
Trump can just forget about the Nobel Prize.
Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
I just talked to some friends in Norway, where the Nobel Prize is awarded. They’re saying “Nobel Newsom” is all the buzz. Pack your bags, @GavinNewsom, you’re going to Oslo!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Holy shit yes yes do it yes take my money take my dog i don't care just make this happen
Rep. Eric Swalwell@RepSwalwell
I just talked to some friends in Norway, where the Nobel Prize is awarded. They’re saying “Nobel Newsom” is all the buzz. Pack your bags, @GavinNewsom, you’re going to Oslo!
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (L/fGl)
Holy shit yes yes do it yes take my money take my dog i don't care just make this happen
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:40 AM (TFE9n)
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That might not require victims.
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What a strange position. There *was* a victim--a bank that per their underwriting guidelines was allowed a (made up numbers for the purpose of example alert) 7% rate of interest is instead earning only 6%. Any bank that does that too often will feel it in the bottom line, because the rate charged isn't just "profit", but money being earned to offset a portion of the portfolio that *won't* pay as agreed at some point.
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What a strange position. There *was* a victim--a bank that per their underwriting guidelines was allowed a (made up numbers for the purpose of example alert) 7% rate of interest is instead earning only 6%. Any bank that does that too often will feel it in the bottom line, because the rate charged isn't just "profit", but money being earned to offset a portion of the portfolio that *won't* pay as agreed at some point.
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at August 26, 2025 11:40 AM (TN0g+)
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Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
Eric rationalized monetary fraud in another AoS post. Seems he wants to defend financial lawlessness. Perhaps he needs to be investigated too.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (g8Ew
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I play the game to win. No apologies for that. I don't give a rat's ass about banks or the dogshit they want me to disclose on their application forms -- while they are doing everything possible to rip you off each other and some of their customers.
If you don't play to win, then that's your choice.
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
Eric rationalized monetary fraud in another AoS post. Seems he wants to defend financial lawlessness. Perhaps he needs to be investigated too.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (g8Ew
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I play the game to win. No apologies for that. I don't give a rat's ass about banks or the dogshit they want me to disclose on their application forms -- while they are doing everything possible to rip you off each other and some of their customers.
If you don't play to win, then that's your choice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)
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completely different than what we see with Cook, or Letisha James
They're also not paying extra for that additional airline seat they have to use...
They're also not paying extra for that additional airline seat they have to use...
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:41 AM (IYMzU)
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I seriously doubt that Humphrey's Executor survives.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I doubt the court even engages Humphrey's Executor in litigation here from discharge due to misconduct . If Powell or Cook get fired for cause, then it doesn't apply to the case. Humphrey was fired purely for political reasons as even the FDR administration admitted in court. He was the wrong party and the Democrats wanted that FTC seat.
During the court battles, Humphreys died so his widow was seeking compensation for his time on the FTC after the firing but before his death.
Same issue came in Weiner v. US. Weiner was not being fired by Ike from a War Claims board for misconduct but rather that Ike was seeking to wrap up that WWII era War Claims board about a decade after it was created. Regular Court of Claims could handle the remaining issues.
Quasi managerial and Quasi political functionaries could be summarily fired without cause. Quasi judicial and quasi legislative roles like the Fed, FTC, etc., Congress could create protection from removal but had to include firings for cause due to separation of powers. No more Tenure in Office Act bullshit (spurred Andy Johnson's impeachment).
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
I doubt the court even engages Humphrey's Executor in litigation here from discharge due to misconduct . If Powell or Cook get fired for cause, then it doesn't apply to the case. Humphrey was fired purely for political reasons as even the FDR administration admitted in court. He was the wrong party and the Democrats wanted that FTC seat.
During the court battles, Humphreys died so his widow was seeking compensation for his time on the FTC after the firing but before his death.
Same issue came in Weiner v. US. Weiner was not being fired by Ike from a War Claims board for misconduct but rather that Ike was seeking to wrap up that WWII era War Claims board about a decade after it was created. Regular Court of Claims could handle the remaining issues.
Quasi managerial and Quasi political functionaries could be summarily fired without cause. Quasi judicial and quasi legislative roles like the Fed, FTC, etc., Congress could create protection from removal but had to include firings for cause due to separation of powers. No more Tenure in Office Act bullshit (spurred Andy Johnson's impeachment).
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:41 AM (ctrM5)
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Real headline from the WaPo:
"The Trump administration's new weapon against foes: mortgage filings"
"The Trump administration's new weapon against foes: mortgage filings"
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 26, 2025 11:42 AM (PiwSw)
160
there is no game, kiddo
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:42 AM (Pv3Rg)
161
What?
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (rJ48h)
Mr Kinzinger is adopting the South Carolina position on States Rights
Posted by: mr tmz at August 26, 2025 11:31 AM (rJ48h)
Mr Kinzinger is adopting the South Carolina position on States Rights
Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 11:42 AM (rbvCR)
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The Dems decide getting rid of Trump was so important they ignored the unwritten rules of Mutually Assured Destruction that kept the ruling party from using the govt to criminally prosecute the the party out of power. Screw them, they broke that agreement. Nuke the fuck out f them.
Posted by: Ripley at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (GUOwU)
163
WTF WITH TRUMP'S HAND?
Has something happened to Trump's hand? Or is he referring to a bruise or something?
Has something happened to Trump's hand? Or is he referring to a bruise or something?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)
164
that's interesting backstory, whig, thank you.
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (Pv3Rg)
165
Norway is a prick.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g47mK)
166
I did not know they awarded the Nobel Prize for the shoulder shimmy.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 26, 2025 11:44 AM (PiwSw)
167
The left has the same attitude to most crime.
“Everybody else is doing it, why can’t I?”
Hmm. That's not exactly the path to peaceful coexistence...
“Everybody else is doing it, why can’t I?”
Hmm. That's not exactly the path to peaceful coexistence...
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:44 AM (tubbA)
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If you don't play to win, then that's your choice.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)
You either don't play the game, or you play and then make sure you keep the ref on your side.
Getting pinched just means you did it wrong.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:41 AM (iFTx/)
You either don't play the game, or you play and then make sure you keep the ref on your side.
Getting pinched just means you did it wrong.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:44 AM (TFE9n)
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Has something happened to Trump's hand? Or is he referring to a bruise or something?
yeah it's a bruise
I'm a lot younger than PDJT and seem to get stupid hand bruises all the time and I can't remember how. I do lift tho, and garden kind of a lot and never bother with gloves, which is dumb
it's an easy place to get a gnarly (but not serious) bruise.
yeah it's a bruise
I'm a lot younger than PDJT and seem to get stupid hand bruises all the time and I can't remember how. I do lift tho, and garden kind of a lot and never bother with gloves, which is dumb
it's an easy place to get a gnarly (but not serious) bruise.
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:44 AM (Pv3Rg)
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I don't give a rat's ass about banks or the dogshit they want me to disclose on their application forms -- while they are doing everything possible to rip you off each other and some of their customers.
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Examples of "rip you off, each other, and some of their customers"?
Examples of "dogshit they want (you) to disclose"?
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Examples of "rip you off, each other, and some of their customers"?
Examples of "dogshit they want (you) to disclose"?
Posted by: Crusader, former Federal Bank Examiner at August 26, 2025 11:45 AM (TN0g+)
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Hmm. That's not exactly the path to peaceful coexistence...
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:44 AM (tubbA)
Now do highway speed limits.
Posted by: man at August 26, 2025 11:44 AM (tubbA)
Now do highway speed limits.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:45 AM (TFE9n)
172
Real headline from the WaPo:
"The Trump administration's new weapon against foes:
...the weapon we used against him (fraudulently, but that's another story)"
"The Trump administration's new weapon against foes:
...the weapon we used against him (fraudulently, but that's another story)"
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:45 AM (IYMzU)
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Norway is a prick.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g47mK)
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He could never have outfought Sweden.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g47mK)
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He could never have outfought Sweden.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 26, 2025 11:45 AM (WvZaB)
174
I noticed they are pushing Trump's health !11! now. Ok, fine. Get Vance in place.
Posted by: runner
I've seen three stories in the last 24 hours that Trump's debilitating health problems are being covered up by the media.
Posted by: runner
I've seen three stories in the last 24 hours that Trump's debilitating health problems are being covered up by the media.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)
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But, not to worry, they have a solution - build housing in blue states!
They are convinced that the only reason why more people don't live in blue states is that there isn't enough housing for them...
One easy solution is to implement a law or tax-disincentive against companies like Blackrock that are gobbling up family homes to rent and driving up prices while removing supply.
Simple solution that would have an immediate effect, buuuuuut Blackrock is a fully bribed out, DEI powerhouse, so I doubt that will happen.
They are convinced that the only reason why more people don't live in blue states is that there isn't enough housing for them...
One easy solution is to implement a law or tax-disincentive against companies like Blackrock that are gobbling up family homes to rent and driving up prices while removing supply.
Simple solution that would have an immediate effect, buuuuuut Blackrock is a fully bribed out, DEI powerhouse, so I doubt that will happen.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (iJfKG)
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Our government operates the same way that gangs do. Everyone has to commit a crime or indecent act of some sort, so that everyone has something on the others, which keeps the entire corrupt edifice intact.
Unfortunately for them, one clean man can throw that entire charade out of whack.
Unfortunately for them, one clean man can throw that entire charade out of whack.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (0U5gm)
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2) After Uvalde, he jumped right in with Biden's plan to gut the 2nd Amendment, supported it full blast.
At best he's something like a Democrat Cuck Lite but mostly he's a Cornynist. I hope he loses.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (iJfKG)
The Uvalde thing was an idiotic mistake, and highlighted how completely out of touch Cornyn is with his voters in Texas. It happened in Texas, and I suppose Cornyn listened to some east coast consultants who told him "voters will be outraged, they'll want gun control now!" Nope, Texans were pissed that a donut munching police force stood around doing nothing for an hour and a half while a shooter walked around killing kids.
At best he's something like a Democrat Cuck Lite but mostly he's a Cornynist. I hope he loses.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (iJfKG)
The Uvalde thing was an idiotic mistake, and highlighted how completely out of touch Cornyn is with his voters in Texas. It happened in Texas, and I suppose Cornyn listened to some east coast consultants who told him "voters will be outraged, they'll want gun control now!" Nope, Texans were pissed that a donut munching police force stood around doing nothing for an hour and a half while a shooter walked around killing kids.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (uWKK8)
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144 So there are four branches of government now? Congress, Judiciary, Executive, and the Federal Reserve? Attention all Jr. High school teachers: update your civics exams accordingly.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (PgMGV)
Add the DOJ, FBI, USAID, and the Media to the branches.
As far as I can tell the Dems believe everything but the White House itself is an independent government agency when a Republican is in the Oval. The civil “servants” never disabuse them of the notion.
When it’s a Dem president nothing is independent within the executive branch.
Posted by: Oddbob at August 26, 2025 11:38 AM (PgMGV)
Add the DOJ, FBI, USAID, and the Media to the branches.
As far as I can tell the Dems believe everything but the White House itself is an independent government agency when a Republican is in the Oval. The civil “servants” never disabuse them of the notion.
When it’s a Dem president nothing is independent within the executive branch.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (6ydKt)
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It'll follow the normal pattern.
District court orders her staying on the job in a TRO. Trump maliciously complies and delays. 14 day clock stops, and the PI is implemented. Appeal. Stayed within a couple of days.
She's off the job until it works its way up to SCOTUS in a couple of months where they lay the groundwork for the district court to shut the fuck up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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My guess is that the DC Court of Appeals will shortcircuit federal review in Cook's case to try to preserve Humphrey's as precedent.
I think Cook is a goner because of the specific alleged crimes, even though process based, directly are related to her job on the Fed Board. She might have beat the wrap if she was arrested for dope smoking or breaking other laws.
Powell is also in trouble due to his misleading if not lying testimony before Congress. Again, it is misconduct by a government official that directly impinges on their ability to function. I think Trump is laying back a bit on Powell because of financial market impact plus leverage reasons. Cook has no such cards to play.
District court orders her staying on the job in a TRO. Trump maliciously complies and delays. 14 day clock stops, and the PI is implemented. Appeal. Stayed within a couple of days.
She's off the job until it works its way up to SCOTUS in a couple of months where they lay the groundwork for the district court to shut the fuck up.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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My guess is that the DC Court of Appeals will shortcircuit federal review in Cook's case to try to preserve Humphrey's as precedent.
I think Cook is a goner because of the specific alleged crimes, even though process based, directly are related to her job on the Fed Board. She might have beat the wrap if she was arrested for dope smoking or breaking other laws.
Powell is also in trouble due to his misleading if not lying testimony before Congress. Again, it is misconduct by a government official that directly impinges on their ability to function. I think Trump is laying back a bit on Powell because of financial market impact plus leverage reasons. Cook has no such cards to play.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)
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No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
They should talk to the Chinese. I understand that they have a lot of experience in "build it and they will come" real estate.
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
They should talk to the Chinese. I understand that they have a lot of experience in "build it and they will come" real estate.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:47 AM (ExV1e)
181
There have been concern trolls here about Trump's health too.
The word has gone out. They tried this ploy during his first term, it won't work any better now than it did then.
The word has gone out. They tried this ploy during his first term, it won't work any better now than it did then.
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards, buy ammo at August 26, 2025 11:47 AM (xcxpd)
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137 Literally everyone in the country -- ok, maybe not 100% but close to it -- who has two homes claims for mortgage purposes they are both primary
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
Eric rationalized monetary fraud in another AoS post. Seems he wants to defend financial lawlessness. Perhaps he needs to be investigated too.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (g8Ew
I must live in another world b/c before the elites had been outed doing this, I didn't think folks really broke this law much b/c they have so much to lose...
nope.
maybe all big city lawyers of a certain age do?
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:21 AM (Pv3Rg)
Eric rationalized monetary fraud in another AoS post. Seems he wants to defend financial lawlessness. Perhaps he needs to be investigated too.
Posted by: Dr. Pork Chops & Bacons at August 26, 2025 11:37 AM (g8Ew
I must live in another world b/c before the elites had been outed doing this, I didn't think folks really broke this law much b/c they have so much to lose...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 26, 2025 11:47 AM (tOcjL)
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Unfortunately for them, one clean man can throw that entire charade out of whack.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (0U5gm)
Gangs usually have a crew on the payroll of "clean" men. They can be incredibly handy to have around.
Posted by: Thomas Paine at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (0U5gm)
Gangs usually have a crew on the payroll of "clean" men. They can be incredibly handy to have around.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:47 AM (TFE9n)
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Same "crime" Adam "Pencil Neck" Schiff has been alledged to have committed.
Turn out SOME people ARE above the law.
Turn out SOME people ARE above the law.
Posted by: proudvastrightwingguy at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (MNCvZ)
185
Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) @AdamKinzinger
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
If only the founders had considered the dangers of only allowing the government to have weapons... ah, well, live and learn.
The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:28 AM (L/fGl)
If only the founders had considered the dangers of only allowing the government to have weapons... ah, well, live and learn.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (ExV1e)
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I must live in another world b/c before the elites had been outed doing this, I didn't think folks really broke this law much b/c they have so much to lose...
yeah nova lots more to lose than to gain! foolishness
yeah nova lots more to lose than to gain! foolishness
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (Pv3Rg)
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Funny how when the Left talks about housing, they go to a purely Stalinist solution. Who is going to buy those? Where are they going to find jobs in a city that's not creating any?
And the answer comes down to moving in tens of thousands of foreign nationals, giving them housing for free, and pumping income to them to keep them there.
And the answer comes down to moving in tens of thousands of foreign nationals, giving them housing for free, and pumping income to them to keep them there.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (uWKK8)
188
Lisa Cook just announced she's suing. Surprise, surprise , surprise. This couldn't set a precedent the Dems don't like. I believe the president has the power to fire a member of the Fed pursuant to statute , but now the courts get to say yes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
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The word has gone out. They tried this ploy during his first term, it won't work any better now than it did then.
All they have left is hoping that Trump dies.
They think that MAGA is purely Trump's creation, and that if he dies, people like Mike Pence will start running the Republican Party again, and things will return to "normal".
No one said that they were rational.
All they have left is hoping that Trump dies.
They think that MAGA is purely Trump's creation, and that if he dies, people like Mike Pence will start running the Republican Party again, and things will return to "normal".
No one said that they were rational.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:50 AM (xTIDn)
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188 Lisa Cook just announced she's suing. Surprise, surprise , surprise. This couldn't set a precedent the Dems don't like. I believe the president has the power to fire a member of the Fed pursuant to statute , but now the courts get to say yes
she's not very bright
I hope she keeps yammering on
she's not very bright
I hope she keeps yammering on
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 11:51 AM (Pv3Rg)
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but now the courts get to say yes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
Or... they say no, and Trump can then pack the swamp to the rafters with compatriots who can never be fired.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
Or... they say no, and Trump can then pack the swamp to the rafters with compatriots who can never be fired.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 26, 2025 11:51 AM (TFE9n)
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188 Lisa Cook just announced she's suing. Surprise, surprise , surprise. This couldn't set a precedent the Dems don't like. I believe the president has the power to fire a member of the Fed pursuant to statute , but now the courts get to say yes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
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whig is probably right that the DC Circuit kills this as fast as they can (has to go through district shenanigans first).
I'd forgotten that the DC Circuit has killed a few things that could directly attack Humphrey's. They're playing a rearguard action to keep that precedent in place by effectively undermining it every chance they get.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
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whig is probably right that the DC Circuit kills this as fast as they can (has to go through district shenanigans first).
I'd forgotten that the DC Circuit has killed a few things that could directly attack Humphrey's. They're playing a rearguard action to keep that precedent in place by effectively undermining it every chance they get.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:51 AM (GBKbO)
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188 Lisa Cook just announced she's suing. Surprise, surprise , surprise. This couldn't set a precedent the Dems don't like. I believe the president has the power to fire a member of the Fed pursuant to statute , but now the courts get to say yes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
Back into the "F*** around" phase we go. The "Find Out" phase never turns out the way the left thinks it will.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
Back into the "F*** around" phase we go. The "Find Out" phase never turns out the way the left thinks it will.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (N39Ws)
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Has something happened to Trump's hand? Or is he referring to a bruise or something?
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)
There’s some bruising in the top of Trump’s hand.
Pretty common thing for someone in their late 70s.
They’re also on a tear about him not walking in a straight line on the red carpet greeting Putin.
Back to trying to get him out via the 25th amendment again.
Hypocrite propagandists, one and all.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (ExV1e)
There’s some bruising in the top of Trump’s hand.
Pretty common thing for someone in their late 70s.
They’re also on a tear about him not walking in a straight line on the red carpet greeting Putin.
Back to trying to get him out via the 25th amendment again.
Hypocrite propagandists, one and all.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (6ydKt)
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Out of the frying pan . . .
Ukrainian Woman Escapes War, Gets Stabbed To Death In North Carolina Train Station
New York Post@nypost
Ukrainian refugee, 23, who fled war for safer life in US knifed to death by homeless career criminal in North Carolina
https://is.gd/99YT1O
Ukrainian Woman Escapes War, Gets Stabbed To Death In North Carolina Train Station
New York Post@nypost
Ukrainian refugee, 23, who fled war for safer life in US knifed to death by homeless career criminal in North Carolina
https://is.gd/99YT1O
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)
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I've seen three stories in the last 24 hours that Trump's debilitating health problems are being covered up by the media.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)
Well, at least they moved on from starving Hamas children.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (L/fGl)
Well, at least they moved on from starving Hamas children.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (g47mK)
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And the answer comes down to moving in tens of thousands of foreign nationals, giving them housing for free, and pumping income to them to keep them there.
The R wing of the Uniparty: And we must do it to preserve the value of your real estate!
The R wing of the Uniparty: And we must do it to preserve the value of your real estate!
Posted by: t-bird at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (IYMzU)
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The second amendment guarantees the right to a militia to guard against federal tyranny. But if a president can use that force against its own state, against the wishes of that state, then it is no militia at all and a clear violation of the second amendment.
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Someone dig up Ike and tell him that sending the troops and nationalizing the Guard in the Little Rock Central crisis was unconstitutional.
Posted by: whig
SO NOW THE MILITIA IS IMPORTANT????
I thought that's what the National Guard was for???
Make it make sense.
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Someone dig up Ike and tell him that sending the troops and nationalizing the Guard in the Little Rock Central crisis was unconstitutional.
Posted by: whig
SO NOW THE MILITIA IS IMPORTANT????
I thought that's what the National Guard was for???
Make it make sense.
Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (Yh9jm)
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Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 11:33 AM (iFTx/)
Is it not the case that the judgement holds but the fine was sent back to the lower court? If so then Trump did not "beat it", he just isn't being fined 500M.
Is it not the case that the judgement holds but the fine was sent back to the lower court? If so then Trump did not "beat it", he just isn't being fined 500M.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:53 AM (ExV1e)
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Lisa Cook just announced she's suing. Surprise, surprise , surprise. This couldn't set a precedent the Dems don't like. I believe the president has the power to fire a member of the Fed pursuant to statute , but now the courts get to say yes
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Of course she is.
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Of course she is.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:53 AM (g47mK)
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I've seen three stories in the last 24 hours that Trump's debilitating health problems are being covered up by the media.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
The media that hates his guts? LOLOLOLOLOL
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks
The media that hates his guts? LOLOLOLOLOL
Posted by: rickb223 at August 26, 2025 11:53 AM (Yh9jm)
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Funny how when the Left talks about housing, they go to a purely Stalinist solution. Who is going to buy those? Where are they going to find jobs in a city that's not creating any?
They hate suburbs, they hate cars, and they hate single-family housing.
At the suburban stops of Portland's light rail system, there are a lot of park-and-rides, so you can drive a few miles to the light rail stop, park, and then take light rail.
True "transportation advocates" hate this, since it allows commuters to continue to live in single-family housing.
Everyone should be made to live within a quarter-mile of a light-rail stop.
They hate suburbs, they hate cars, and they hate single-family housing.
At the suburban stops of Portland's light rail system, there are a lot of park-and-rides, so you can drive a few miles to the light rail stop, park, and then take light rail.
True "transportation advocates" hate this, since it allows commuters to continue to live in single-family housing.
Everyone should be made to live within a quarter-mile of a light-rail stop.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:54 AM (xTIDn)
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Lisa Cook just announced she's suing. Surprise, surprise , surprise. This couldn't set a precedent the Dems don't like. I believe the president has the power to fire a member of the Fed pursuant to statute , but now the courts get to say yes
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Of course she is.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:53 AM (g47mK)
Go Girl Boss! She gots the swagger.
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Of course she is.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:53 AM (g47mK)
Go Girl Boss! She gots the swagger.
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 11:55 AM (wVcYX)
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No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
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I think I saw that TX has issued something like 3 times the number of building permits that CA has.
Even if they started today, as we see in the Palisades, it's a year+ just to get the first permits.
Then you're looking at 6 months to a year+ to build.
And somehow, they're going to complete all that and lure 2, 3, 4 million people back in 1-2 years?
And that's without explaining why it'll be the 1st migration in history driven by cheap housing and not job opportunities ....
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I think I saw that TX has issued something like 3 times the number of building permits that CA has.
Even if they started today, as we see in the Palisades, it's a year+ just to get the first permits.
Then you're looking at 6 months to a year+ to build.
And somehow, they're going to complete all that and lure 2, 3, 4 million people back in 1-2 years?
And that's without explaining why it'll be the 1st migration in history driven by cheap housing and not job opportunities ....
Posted by: People's Hippo Voice at August 26, 2025 11:56 AM (T4D6/)
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As I've pointed out before, Al Capone went to prison for income taxes, not all the guys he murdered, or had murdered. Sometimes you have to take the path available to you to get the result you need.
Posted by: Ex Rex Reeder at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (MZ+PY)
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Trump's fault!
Sex crimes committed by foreign nationals in the UK have risen 62% in four years (and that's not all)
Sex crimes committed by foreign nationals in the UK have risen 62% in four years (and that's not all)
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (L/fGl)
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If they had their wish everybody would be stuffed into Soviet style apartment blocks and only the special (themselves) people would be allowed to own a home.
They want everybody dependent on government living in the projects.
It’s never about the issue, it’s always about the revolution.
They want everybody dependent on government living in the projects.
It’s never about the issue, it’s always about the revolution.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6ydKt)
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I must live in another world b/c before the elites had been outed doing this, I didn't think folks really broke this law much b/c they have so much to lose...
Posted by: Nova Local
The horrid nature of the mish-mash of statutes, bad court decisions, opaque contract language, and malicious corrupt prosecutors means that the law is what the prosecutor, courts, and jury say it is in a specific application of facts in the case plus the law. All sorts of vague laws just wait to be interpreted and contract law has become criminalized in some applications like insurance, mortgages, finances, investments, etc. due to criminals exploiting the cracks in the rule of law.
That leads often to those laws not being applied to scoundrels who figure in trials, etc. as part of the business they are in but to honest folks simply being ground up in the process because they have no one to stand up for them.
Posted by: Nova Local
The horrid nature of the mish-mash of statutes, bad court decisions, opaque contract language, and malicious corrupt prosecutors means that the law is what the prosecutor, courts, and jury say it is in a specific application of facts in the case plus the law. All sorts of vague laws just wait to be interpreted and contract law has become criminalized in some applications like insurance, mortgages, finances, investments, etc. due to criminals exploiting the cracks in the rule of law.
That leads often to those laws not being applied to scoundrels who figure in trials, etc. as part of the business they are in but to honest folks simply being ground up in the process because they have no one to stand up for them.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (ctrM5)
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@192 TJM, and whig , probably correct. The lawyer who was fired was apparently convinced not to take his case back to the SC because it could overturn Humphrey's Executor. The Dems will find him a job at a DC firm . They'll find Cook a job at the new improved Cracker Barrel .
Humphrey's is on its last legs no matter what
Humphrey's is on its last legs no matter what
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:58 AM (rRoxM)
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New York Post@nypost
Ukrainian refugee, 23, who fled war for safer life in US knifed to death by homeless career criminal in North Carolina
https://is.gd/99YT1O
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)
TJM, East/West Blvd Station. Lynx Blue Line
Ukrainian refugee, 23, who fled war for safer life in US knifed to death by homeless career criminal in North Carolina
https://is.gd/99YT1O
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (L/fGl)
TJM, East/West Blvd Station. Lynx Blue Line
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 26, 2025 11:58 AM (PiwSw)
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Norway is a prick.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g47mK)
And, yet, now a member of NATO who we are pledged to defend.
Posted by: runner at August 26, 2025 11:43 AM (g47mK)
And, yet, now a member of NATO who we are pledged to defend.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:59 AM (ExV1e)
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209 @192 TJM, and whig , probably correct. The lawyer who was fired was apparently convinced not to take his case back to the SC because it could overturn Humphrey's Executor. The Dems will find him a job at a DC firm . They'll find Cook a job at the new improved Cracker Barrel .
Humphrey's is on its last legs no matter what
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:58 AM (rRoxM)
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I just find it kind of funny that the final defense of Humphrey's is to pretty much ignore it and let the president fire heads of "independent" agencies.
Humphrey's is on its last legs no matter what
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:58 AM (rRoxM)
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I just find it kind of funny that the final defense of Humphrey's is to pretty much ignore it and let the president fire heads of "independent" agencies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 11:59 AM (GBKbO)
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210 TJM, East/West Blvd Station. Lynx Blue Line
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 26, 2025 11:58 AM (PiwSw)
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Bruh. I live in the country, and I work from home. I don't take that rail stuff.
Thanks for thinking of me, though.
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at August 26, 2025 11:58 AM (PiwSw)
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Bruh. I live in the country, and I work from home. I don't take that rail stuff.
Thanks for thinking of me, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
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I just find it kind of funny that the final defense of Humphrey's is to pretty much ignore it and let the president fire heads of "independent" agencies.
not ideal nor a lasting solution, but for now it's fun
not ideal nor a lasting solution, but for now it's fun
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (Pv3Rg)
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And, yet, now a member of NATO who we are pledged to defend.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:59 AM (ExV1e)
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They've been in NATO since 1949.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 11:59 AM (ExV1e)
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They've been in NATO since 1949.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (WvZaB)
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214 I just find it kind of funny that the final defense of Humphrey's is to pretty much ignore it and let the president fire heads of "independent" agencies.
not ideal nor a lasting solution, but for now it's fun
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (Pv3Rg)
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It is ideal.
The independency of agencies is anAmerican.
Republicans should be able to appoint whomever they want, just like Democrats.
not ideal nor a lasting solution, but for now it's fun
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (Pv3Rg)
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It is ideal.
The independency of agencies is anAmerican.
Republicans should be able to appoint whomever they want, just like Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
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Nope, Texans were pissed that a donut munching police force stood around doing nothing for an hour and a half while a shooter walked around killing kids.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (uWKK
That is slander, sir. We were quite busy preventing parents from storming the building. -- Uvalde police
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (uWKK
That is slander, sir. We were quite busy preventing parents from storming the building. -- Uvalde police
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 12:01 PM (ExV1e)
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They’re also on a tear about him not walking in a straight line on the red carpet greeting Putin.
Back to trying to get him out via the 25th amendment again.
Hypocrite propagandists, one and all.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (6ydKt)
I saw two versions of a video of Trump on a red carpet. One appears to be normal and probably the actual video. The other has been altered to depict Trump as weaving back and forth.
Back to trying to get him out via the 25th amendment again.
Hypocrite propagandists, one and all.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:52 AM (6ydKt)
I saw two versions of a video of Trump on a red carpet. One appears to be normal and probably the actual video. The other has been altered to depict Trump as weaving back and forth.
Posted by: Emmie at August 26, 2025 12:02 PM (FMtrg)
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SO NOW THE MILITIA IS IMPORTANT????
I thought that's what the National Guard was for???
Make it make sense.
Posted by: rickb223
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I am too bored to go into the unorganized and organized militias and the history of militias in the US. But yes, Kinzinger is aping what he thinks a 2A fundamentalist would say.
The problem for him is that most 2A fundamentalist believe the militia clause is describing the universal unorganized militia as in all able bodied men described in the 1790 era statutes.
National Guard is simply the organized state militias which are in fact designed at times to serve to prevent riots, internal rebellions, etc. Unlike the unorganized militia, National Guard troops also retain the ability under Posse Comitatus to be able to arrest individual rioters, etc. which active duty troops need a proclamation of insurrection, etc. to be able to do.
I thought that's what the National Guard was for???
Make it make sense.
Posted by: rickb223
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I am too bored to go into the unorganized and organized militias and the history of militias in the US. But yes, Kinzinger is aping what he thinks a 2A fundamentalist would say.
The problem for him is that most 2A fundamentalist believe the militia clause is describing the universal unorganized militia as in all able bodied men described in the 1790 era statutes.
National Guard is simply the organized state militias which are in fact designed at times to serve to prevent riots, internal rebellions, etc. Unlike the unorganized militia, National Guard troops also retain the ability under Posse Comitatus to be able to arrest individual rioters, etc. which active duty troops need a proclamation of insurrection, etc. to be able to do.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:03 PM (ctrM5)
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I saw "massive haboob" and got excited but turns out it just means windstorm.
https://is.gd/kMyCUQ
https://is.gd/kMyCUQ
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 12:03 PM (L/fGl)
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They want everybody dependent on government living in the projects.
A Californian transgender Communist "housing advocate" made that point explicitly a few years ago.
Making people rent apartments and be dependent on light rail makes them "collectivist" in their thinking.
A Californian transgender Communist "housing advocate" made that point explicitly a few years ago.
Making people rent apartments and be dependent on light rail makes them "collectivist" in their thinking.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 12:03 PM (xTIDn)
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Yahoo's take this morning on the mortgage issue is of course 'who's behind all these mortgages being investigated' because of corse.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 26, 2025 12:04 PM (n4GiU)
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Making people rent apartments and be dependent on light rail makes them "collectivist" in their thinking.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 12:03 PM (xTIDn)
Like making us all wear masks ?
Making people rent apartments and be dependent on light rail makes them "collectivist" in their thinking.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 12:03 PM (xTIDn)
Like making us all wear masks ?
Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2025 12:04 PM (VE6XX)
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https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/
1960361733274439842
"Come on judges! I need the judges to step up! I'm surprised at the number of judges...they do not hold someone on bail who, common sense says should have been held!"
-Kathy Hochul, governor of NY
1960361733274439842
"Come on judges! I need the judges to step up! I'm surprised at the number of judges...they do not hold someone on bail who, common sense says should have been held!"
-Kathy Hochul, governor of NY
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:05 PM (GBKbO)
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Bruh. I live in the country, and I work from home. I don't take that rail stuff.
Thanks for thinking of me, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
We were in Charlotte earlier this summer.
Wholley Kau, that place must have the worst civil engineers in the world. Terrible, insufficient roads into/out of town no matter which direction you come in.
Nice, that you work at home in the 'burbs cuz it'd probably take you an hour or more each way if you had to drive into the city.
Other than that though, it appears to be a nice place to live.
Thanks for thinking of me, though.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (GBKbO)
We were in Charlotte earlier this summer.
Wholley Kau, that place must have the worst civil engineers in the world. Terrible, insufficient roads into/out of town no matter which direction you come in.
Nice, that you work at home in the 'burbs cuz it'd probably take you an hour or more each way if you had to drive into the city.
Other than that though, it appears to be a nice place to live.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 12:05 PM (iJfKG)
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Fantastic billboard just south of downtown Houston a few years ago for a new residential development.
"Don't Live Like Bees!"
"Don't Live Like Bees!"
Posted by: Count de Monet at August 26, 2025 12:05 PM (wVcYX)
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Powell is also in trouble due to his misleading if not lying testimony before Congress. [ . . . ]
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)
does this mean we can drag Alan Greenspan in and prosecute him too?
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 11:46 AM (ctrM5)
does this mean we can drag Alan Greenspan in and prosecute him too?
Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 12:05 PM (rbvCR)
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225 Nice, that you work at home in the 'burbs cuz it'd probably take you an hour or more each way if you had to drive into the city.
Other than that though, it appears to be a nice place to live.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 12:05 PM (iJfKG)
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Dolley does drive uptown three days a week. It takes 45min to an hour.
Seems miserable.
I'm clinging to my remote job like my life depends on it.
Other than that though, it appears to be a nice place to live.
Posted by: naturalfake at August 26, 2025 12:05 PM (iJfKG)
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Dolley does drive uptown three days a week. It takes 45min to an hour.
Seems miserable.
I'm clinging to my remote job like my life depends on it.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:06 PM (GBKbO)
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No, no - they are going to build hundreds of thousands of "car-free" apartments in big cities dependent on public transportation.
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
Peach Tree on the Willamette.
Keith Willliams is the LAW
The fact that private developers show little interest in building "car-free" apartments in places like Portland is no problem - they'll have the government build the housing!
Take that, red states!
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 11:24 AM (xTIDn)
Peach Tree on the Willamette.
Keith Willliams is the LAW
Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 12:06 PM (rbvCR)
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Making people rent apartments and be dependent on light rail makes them "collectivist" in their thinking.
...
Opinion: Why Building Housing Near Mass Transit Promotes Collectivism
It will break us from the chains of capitalistic individualism and the destructive car-centric lifestyle.
https://tinyurl.com/yj4tdah3
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Opinion: Why Building Housing Near Mass Transit Promotes Collectivism
It will break us from the chains of capitalistic individualism and the destructive car-centric lifestyle.
https://tinyurl.com/yj4tdah3
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 12:06 PM (xTIDn)
Posted by: The ARC of History! at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (xTIDn)
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I just find it kind of funny that the final defense of Humphrey's is to pretty much ignore it and let the president fire heads of "independent" agencies.
not ideal nor a lasting solution, but for now it's fun
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (Pv3Rg)
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It is ideal.
The independency of agencies is anAmerican.
Republicans should be able to appoint whomever they want, just like Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
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In theory, a truly independent agency dispensing rational advice and actions makes sense. In theory. But in reality, we always get rank partisan fucks like Powell and that Lisa Cook fatty. So let's just end the charade and let the victor appoint who he or she wants.
It's insane that a president's economic policy -- the policy he expressly ran on and won a landslide -- is being thwarted by a handful of shifty assholes with yuge axes to grind.
not ideal nor a lasting solution, but for now it's fun
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (Pv3Rg)
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It is ideal.
The independency of agencies is anAmerican.
Republicans should be able to appoint whomever they want, just like Democrats.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:01 PM (GBKbO)
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In theory, a truly independent agency dispensing rational advice and actions makes sense. In theory. But in reality, we always get rank partisan fucks like Powell and that Lisa Cook fatty. So let's just end the charade and let the victor appoint who he or she wants.
It's insane that a president's economic policy -- the policy he expressly ran on and won a landslide -- is being thwarted by a handful of shifty assholes with yuge axes to grind.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)
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Has an Obama appointed judge said it's illegal for Trump to fire black people yet? It's been long enough.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (NR6c1)
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I just find it kind of funny that the final defense of Humphrey's is to pretty much ignore it and let the president fire heads of "independent" agencies.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Actually fairly common in constitutional law. Courts distinguish aka massage the holy facts in a case so that the new court has a plausible fig leaf to claim this case is not like that old unfavored precedent. Enough distinguishing and the exceptions swallow the old constitutional rule.
US v. Cruikshank, Lemon v. Kurtzman, and other cases drift in the nebulous region where they have not been formally overruled but no court seriously regards them as binding precedent anymore.
Formal overruling of precedent is far more rare by comparison than simply abandoning the hulk of a sinking precedent.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison
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Actually fairly common in constitutional law. Courts distinguish aka massage the holy facts in a case so that the new court has a plausible fig leaf to claim this case is not like that old unfavored precedent. Enough distinguishing and the exceptions swallow the old constitutional rule.
US v. Cruikshank, Lemon v. Kurtzman, and other cases drift in the nebulous region where they have not been formally overruled but no court seriously regards them as binding precedent anymore.
Formal overruling of precedent is far more rare by comparison than simply abandoning the hulk of a sinking precedent.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (ctrM5)
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I Meme Therefore I Am @ImMeme0
COMEDY GOLD!
Guy chased by police in a stolen car stops for gas in LA… and still escapes.
The reporter covering the chase couldn’t hold back laughter.
Meanwhile, Karen Bass says she has everything under control.
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Races are won in the pit.
COMEDY GOLD!
Guy chased by police in a stolen car stops for gas in LA… and still escapes.
The reporter covering the chase couldn’t hold back laughter.
Meanwhile, Karen Bass says she has everything under control.
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Races are won in the pit.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, We're Living On Land Stolen From the Dinosaur! at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (L/fGl)
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I can already feel the traffic getting less awful.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Agreed. Even the rush hours don't seem as bad now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko
Agreed. Even the rush hours don't seem as bad now.
Posted by: NR Pax at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (NR6c1)
237
They've been in NATO since 1949.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (WvZaB)
Fine, we've been pledged to defend them for 76 years. I feel so much better.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 26, 2025 12:00 PM (WvZaB)
Fine, we've been pledged to defend them for 76 years. I feel so much better.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (ExV1e)
238
232 In theory, a truly independent agency dispensing rational advice and actions makes sense. In theory. But in reality, we always get rank partisan fucks like Powell and that Lisa Cook fatty. So let's just end the charade and let the victor appoint who he or she wants.
It's insane that a president's economic policy -- the policy he expressly ran on and won a landslide -- is being thwarted by a handful of shifty assholes with yuge axes to grind.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)
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"If men were angels,..."
-some dead white dude
It's insane that a president's economic policy -- the policy he expressly ran on and won a landslide -- is being thwarted by a handful of shifty assholes with yuge axes to grind.
Posted by: Elric The Blade at August 26, 2025 12:07 PM (iFTx/)
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"If men were angels,..."
-some dead white dude
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:08 PM (GBKbO)
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Everyone should be made to live within a quarter-mile of a light-rail stop.
Posted by: The ARC of History! at
When scheduled, please load yourself into your assigned cattle car.
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When scheduled, please load yourself into your assigned cattle car.
Posted by: From about That Time at August 26, 2025 12:08 PM (n4GiU)
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Lisa Cook just announced she's suing. Surprise, surprise , surprise. This couldn't set a precedent the Dems don't like. I believe the president has the power to fire a member of the Fed pursuant to statute , but now the courts get to say yes
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
Cook got her position becasue Yellen wound up as SecTreas, but IIRC there were a few others in 22 and 23 that chose to resign instead of have Elizabeth Warren investigate their stock holdings.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 11:49 AM (rRoxM)
Cook got her position becasue Yellen wound up as SecTreas, but IIRC there were a few others in 22 and 23 that chose to resign instead of have Elizabeth Warren investigate their stock holdings.
Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 12:09 PM (rbvCR)
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@232 the Founding Fathers were very wary of mankind and realized that checks and balances were necessary. Even then partisan aholes were everywhere
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (rRoxM)
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fundamentally cowardly organization that is terrified of substantive change
This is French for "in on it" right?
This is French for "in on it" right?
Posted by: DaveA at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (FhXTo)
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Art I Sec
it's totally cool for Congress....
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
you will all now tell me why this doesn't apply to Chicago, LA, etc
it's totally cool for Congress....
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
you will all now tell me why this doesn't apply to Chicago, LA, etc
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (AOsQT)
244
Why didn't you come to me like a cracker man and tell me I could only claim one residence as primary?
Posted by: Lisa Cook at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (wVcYX)
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does this mean we can drag Alan Greenspan in and prosecute him too?
Posted by: Kindltot
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Greenspan has already been sentenced to a far worse fate--he is married to Andrea Mitchell for a life sentence.
Plus Greenspan was intentionally so unclear in his public statements that it would be difficult to pin intentional misleading statements to him. All his statements were unclear--Ike used the same strategy btw in public which often led to people thinking Ike was of average IQ.
Posted by: Kindltot
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Greenspan has already been sentenced to a far worse fate--he is married to Andrea Mitchell for a life sentence.
Plus Greenspan was intentionally so unclear in his public statements that it would be difficult to pin intentional misleading statements to him. All his statements were unclear--Ike used the same strategy btw in public which often led to people thinking Ike was of average IQ.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)
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243 Art I Sec
it's totally cool for Congress....
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
you will all now tell me why this doesn't apply to Chicago, LA, etc
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (AOsQT)
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It'd be fun to have Congress vote on that.
it's totally cool for Congress....
To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
you will all now tell me why this doesn't apply to Chicago, LA, etc
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (AOsQT)
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It'd be fun to have Congress vote on that.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison, growing up with John Hughes at August 26, 2025 12:11 PM (GBKbO)
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 12:11 PM (AOsQT)
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Greenspan must be like, what, now, 128?
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 12:12 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:12 PM (ctrM5)
250
Greenspan is still ALIVE?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (Pv3Rg)
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (ctrM5)
252
Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
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Kind of makes one wonder - just a little bit - what the point of a mortgage application is, if nobody's going to do the underwriting.
Posted by: FeatherBlade at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (a+4eV)
254
50 years ago, I was of the opinion that the Constitution says whatever the SCOTUS says it says.
I haven't changed my mind on that.
I haven't changed my mind on that.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at August 26, 2025 12:14 PM (ZmEVT)
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It’s never about the issue, it’s always about the revolution.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6ydKt)
I will take, "what is the guiding ethos of Trotskyism for $500 Alex"
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6ydKt)
I will take, "what is the guiding ethos of Trotskyism for $500 Alex"
Posted by: Kindltot at August 26, 2025 12:14 PM (rbvCR)
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252 Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
do they have a basement full of children?!?!
do they have a basement full of children?!?!
Posted by: Black Orchid at August 26, 2025 12:14 PM (Pv3Rg)
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Cook is sufficiently different than Humphrey's case that I think even John Roberts will support the firing. It isn't changing any precedent.
Hell, Even Kagen would support it if she weren't so doctrinaire.
Hell, Even Kagen would support it if she weren't so doctrinaire.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 26, 2025 12:14 PM (L5An7)
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Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM
Come on, man, I'm trying to eat my lunch here!
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM
Come on, man, I'm trying to eat my lunch here!
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 26, 2025 12:14 PM (kgE5c)
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Hey guys,
Missed you last night. Someone cut and tried to steal our cable, so we had no internet, tv or landline. Our neighbor's employee saw a couple of guys in yellow vests in our yard. Said they looked Mexican. Figured with the vests they might be city workers, so he didn't call the cops.
We're back in business now. Cable guy just left.
Missed you last night. Someone cut and tried to steal our cable, so we had no internet, tv or landline. Our neighbor's employee saw a couple of guys in yellow vests in our yard. Said they looked Mexican. Figured with the vests they might be city workers, so he didn't call the cops.
We're back in business now. Cable guy just left.
Posted by: Joyenz at August 26, 2025 12:15 PM (qzEbd)
260
Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
This gives me an idea . . .
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
This gives me an idea . . .
Posted by: Tim Burton at August 26, 2025 12:15 PM (wVcYX)
261
Welcome back, Joyenz!
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 12:16 PM (77rzZ)
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> Cook got her position becasue Yellen wound up as SecTreas, but IIRC there were a few others in 22 and 23 that chose to resign instead of have Elizabeth Warren investigate their stock holdings.
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Someone should investigate Lizzy's stock holdings.
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Someone should investigate Lizzy's stock holdings.
Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 26, 2025 12:16 PM (Q4IgG)
263
Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
This gives me an idea . . .
Posted by: Tim Burton at August 26, 2025 12:15 PM
Corpse Bride II?
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
This gives me an idea . . .
Posted by: Tim Burton at August 26, 2025 12:15 PM
Corpse Bride II?
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 26, 2025 12:16 PM (kgE5c)
Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 26, 2025 12:16 PM (KAi1n)
265
I saw two versions of a video of Trump on a red carpet. One appears to be normal and probably the actual video. The other has been altered to depict Trump as weaving back and forth.
Posted by: Emmie at August 26, 2025 12:02 PM (FMtrg)
It was a bit of a walk.
They may be using clips from different parts of the walk.
I saw the weaving bit but couldn’t care less.
Who says you have to walk in a straight line down the center of a ten-foot wide carpet?
Is that a rule that must be followed else everybody think you’re drunk or disabled?
They act like this brief walk was some kind of elaborate, rehearsed, marching spectacle and Trump was doing it wrong.
Posted by: Emmie at August 26, 2025 12:02 PM (FMtrg)
It was a bit of a walk.
They may be using clips from different parts of the walk.
I saw the weaving bit but couldn’t care less.
Who says you have to walk in a straight line down the center of a ten-foot wide carpet?
Is that a rule that must be followed else everybody think you’re drunk or disabled?
They act like this brief walk was some kind of elaborate, rehearsed, marching spectacle and Trump was doing it wrong.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 12:16 PM (6ydKt)
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260 Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
I imagine that could be dangerous.. Something is bound to break
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
I imagine that could be dangerous.. Something is bound to break
Posted by: It's me donna at August 26, 2025 12:16 PM (VE6XX)
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252 Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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They like roleplay. Andrea interviews Alan at length while he tries to say nothing with many words.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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They like roleplay. Andrea interviews Alan at length while he tries to say nothing with many words.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)
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I really don't think the FNM/left's line is going to help them much here.
Trump is a NAZI because he is making elites feel the consequences of "minor" crimes like mortgage fraud.
There are a lot of people barely making their mortgage payments that are not amused by this line, and the more the FNM draws attention to it the more these people are going to get pissed.
Oh, and a smaller number of people that got busted for what Cooke did...but that's nowhere the number of the other group...
Trump is a NAZI because he is making elites feel the consequences of "minor" crimes like mortgage fraud.
There are a lot of people barely making their mortgage payments that are not amused by this line, and the more the FNM draws attention to it the more these people are going to get pissed.
Oh, and a smaller number of people that got busted for what Cooke did...but that's nowhere the number of the other group...
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (sKqQm)
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We have a launch in about 2 hours
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SpaceX - Falcon 9 - NAOS (LUXEOSys)
SLC-4E - Vandenberg SFB, CA - Space Affairs Live
Launch Date: August 26, 2025
Launch Time: 11:53 a.m. PDT (1853 UTC, 20:53 CEST)
https://youtu.be/a6WLibFqhwM
Posted by: Joyenz at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (qzEbd)
270
Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
You wouldn't see through the dust clouds.
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
You wouldn't see through the dust clouds.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (snZF9)
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Isn't Ken Paxton under investigation for montage fraud, which is what this post is about?
If you have been keeping track of things there seems to be a large amount of hanky-panky going on with this guy and is "ex" wife.
If you have been keeping track of things there seems to be a large amount of hanky-panky going on with this guy and is "ex" wife.
Posted by: pawn at August 26, 2025 12:18 PM (Tx/gC)
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One difference, years ago Democrats would take the advice from higher ups. Take one for the team, lest precedent be set.
Lisa sez “Oh Hell No!”
Lisa sez “Oh Hell No!”
Posted by: Common Tater at August 26, 2025 12:18 PM (1cMxB)
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Ike used the same strategy btw in public which often led to people thinking Ike was of average IQ.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)
My grandfather's best friend worked for IKE (science advisor). He was a very smart guy, and he said that IKE was extremely intelligent.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:10 PM (ctrM5)
My grandfather's best friend worked for IKE (science advisor). He was a very smart guy, and he said that IKE was extremely intelligent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 26, 2025 12:18 PM (L5An7)
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It’s never about the issue, it’s always about the revolution.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6ydKt)
I will take, "what is the guiding ethos of Trotskyism for $500 Alex"
Posted by: Kindltot
That is correct but the judges would also have accepted hammer time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at August 26, 2025 11:57 AM (6ydKt)
I will take, "what is the guiding ethos of Trotskyism for $500 Alex"
Posted by: Kindltot
That is correct but the judges would also have accepted hammer time.
Posted by: Dark Litigator at August 26, 2025 12:18 PM (KAi1n)
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267 252 Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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They like roleplay. Andrea interviews Alan at length while he tries to say nothing with many words.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)
they both wear lederhosen.
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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They like roleplay. Andrea interviews Alan at length while he tries to say nothing with many words.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)
they both wear lederhosen.
Posted by: Tom Servo at August 26, 2025 12:18 PM (uWKK8)
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253 Kind of makes one wonder - just a little bit - what the point of a mortgage application is, if nobody's going to do the underwriting.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Gives banks, etc. reverse leverage if things go south on a mortgage--they put it on the borrower behaving badly.
Posted by: FeatherBlade
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Gives banks, etc. reverse leverage if things go south on a mortgage--they put it on the borrower behaving badly.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:18 PM (ctrM5)
Posted by: Joyenz at August 26, 2025 12:18 PM (qzEbd)
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the Founding Fathers were very wary of mankind and realized that checks and balances were necessary. Even then partisan aholes were everywhere
The difference though now is a lot of the original constitutional balances have failed - congress, for example, does not jealously guard its authority, instead handing off much of it to the unelected bureaucracy
The difference though now is a lot of the original constitutional balances have failed - congress, for example, does not jealously guard its authority, instead handing off much of it to the unelected bureaucracy
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:19 PM (sKqQm)
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Democrats of the most corrupt variety hire Abbe Lowell, it seems. He's "Hunter Endorsed"!
Posted by: Huck Follywood at August 26, 2025 12:19 PM (mSqSf)
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Nood. Same subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic at August 26, 2025 12:20 PM (ExV1e)
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And I see the "defense" Cooke is offering is...mortgages are too complex.
Well toots, good thing you don't have a job at what is arguably the most complex financial institution on the planet. Well...any more.
Well toots, good thing you don't have a job at what is arguably the most complex financial institution on the planet. Well...any more.
Posted by: 18-1 at August 26, 2025 12:20 PM (sKqQm)
282
Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
You wouldn't see through the dust clouds.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (snZF9)
Come on y’all… I’m eating lunch for Pete’s sake
Posted by: Smell the Glove at August 26, 2025 12:13 PM (rRoxM)
You wouldn't see through the dust clouds.
Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Division at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (snZF9)
Come on y’all… I’m eating lunch for Pete’s sake
Posted by: LinusVanPelt at August 26, 2025 12:21 PM (FNvF+)
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My grandfather's best friend worked for IKE (science advisor). He was a very smart guy, and he said that IKE was extremely intelligent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Watch Ike's press conference clips on YT sometime. A historian named Fred Greenstein wrote a well received book about it: The Hidden Hand Presidency.
Had a similar tendency as SHAEF commander--blister people in private while being non committal and smiling in public.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
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Watch Ike's press conference clips on YT sometime. A historian named Fred Greenstein wrote a well received book about it: The Hidden Hand Presidency.
Had a similar tendency as SHAEF commander--blister people in private while being non committal and smiling in public.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:21 PM (ctrM5)
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252 Greenspan and Andrea Mitchell getting busy is the stuff of nightmares
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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They like roleplay. Andrea interviews Alan at length while he tries to say nothing with many words.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)
We really enjoy the oral sex. First, I talk about the sex we used to have. Then, Andrea talks about the sex we had. After a short nap, we go for Round 2!
Posted by: Smell the Glove
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They like roleplay. Andrea interviews Alan at length while he tries to say nothing with many words.
Posted by: whig at August 26, 2025 12:17 PM (ctrM5)
We really enjoy the oral sex. First, I talk about the sex we used to have. Then, Andrea talks about the sex we had. After a short nap, we go for Round 2!
Posted by: Alan Greenspan at August 26, 2025 12:21 PM (wVcYX)
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He was a very smart guy, and he said that IKE was extremely intelligent.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
People seem to forget that successful military commanders have to be very intelligent. Warfare does not suffer fools gladly.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
People seem to forget that successful military commanders have to be very intelligent. Warfare does not suffer fools gladly.
Posted by: Bulg at August 26, 2025 12:21 PM (77rzZ)
Posted by: Don Black at August 26, 2025 12:22 PM (AOsQT)
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Nood. Same subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
________
So Ace doesn't read the content either.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
________
So Ace doesn't read the content either.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 12:22 PM (XvL8K)
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Nood. Same subject.
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
________
So Ace doesn't read the content either.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 12:22 PM (XvL8K)
LOL. Zinger!
Posted by: I used to have a different nic
________
So Ace doesn't read the content either.
Posted by: Biff Pocoroba at August 26, 2025 12:22 PM (XvL8K)
LOL. Zinger!
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Clearly our judicial system is corrupt. We see it daily, worse its race based. So tired of the aMISH GETTING AWAUYWITH MURDER.
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