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The shadow docket, historically, was rarely used. However since 2017, the current extremist majority of the Supreme Court has been using the shadow docket as a means of issuing emergency stays of lower-court rulings at the behest of the Incompetent-in-Chief's Justice Department. The shadow docket has been rightly criticized for it's lack of transparency or accountability. These are unsigned rulings where no oral arguments have been heard and little is any legal basis for the decision is provided. Ruling without arguments or precedents. My question is given the lack of transparency, the lack of accountability, the lack of any provision of a legal reasoning and the…

What is keeping these old Senators in office? The PAC money must be too tempting. But at some point, isn't the US better served by young, sharp minds serving in the legislative branch, House and Senate? Yeah, I know, Susan Collins is not nearly the oldest, but she is still f*cking old, with apparent physical health issues. We must move these old timers out. They seem to want to remain in office, no matter how old.

From Truth Social: From Reality: From Forbes: More gold! Less health care! More dead children with HIV in Africa and Asia. More tax subsidies for Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos! Bark, dog, bark!

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This is a long rant about Mark Halperin. It involves Anthony Fauci. And the general pessimism about having any trust in anything or anyone anymore. I said in another recent post I have a love/hate relationship with Halperin's journalism. I think he did the best job of any journalist covering the 2024 election. Mostly that means his 2way platform was a way for countless undecided voters to say day after day what was on their minds. And it was, in most cases, a lesser of two evils decision they were trying to make. I love it that Halperin just let them speak their minds. This post and this video is what I really dislike about Halperin. He arguably was Mr. Ins…

R.I.P. Bad news comes in threes. Has anyone checked Chuck Grassley's pulse?

Max Miller (R-Ohio) has had a checkered past going back to his high school days. In 2007, Miller pleaded no contest to two misdemeanor charges after being charged with assault, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest; the charges were later dismissed as part of a diversion program. In 2009, he was charged with underage drinking; after he pleaded no contest, that charge was also dismissed under a first-time offenders' program. In 2010, Miller pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct stemming from a late-night physical altercation in Cleveland Heights, Ohio.[5][8] In 2011, he was charged with "operating a vehicle without reasonable control" and operating a …

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That photo was posted by Trump on "Truth" Social. El Sayed's wife is a psychiatrist whose parents come from India. JD Vance's wife is a lawyer whose parents come from India. Trump's wife is an immigrant who opposes bullying on social media. Sing it, Neil. There's still hope.

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The Contentious History Between Elon Musk and Former FAA Administrator Mike Whitaker Here's some good news for people heartbroken about this tragedy. Musk won't last. That is now certain. Trump does not like messes he did not cause. Even though he would never admit that publicly. And only Trump is arrogant enough to think God chose him to save the human race. Having JD for an obedient lap dog who backs his attacks on the FAA? That's fine. Having a No. 2 in the job of saving the human race? Or at least savings America? Or Trumpland, or whatever he thinks it is? That's too much. And if Trump is too weak to do it, time for Democrats to kick in. Th…

To be fair - 175,000 is actually quite good for a GOP president. (Remember that under the last three Democratic presidents a net 80 million jobs were created, and under the last two GOP presidents the net total job growth was 1 million.) What was very GOP president about this jobs report was that wage growth slowed to 3%. The slowest/lowest wage growth recorded in 5 years. Make America great again for billionaires only.

Cornyn wants Trump IRS settlement rewritten before voting for Blanche I just love it! It's one thing when I, or my dearest and most darlingest Sister In Cock, talk about how Trump is a lying raping grifting piece of shit. We just get accused of Trump Derangement Syndrome. But when John Cornyn politely - or not so politely - takes the stinky bile of shit from Trump's own fat disgusting ass and shoves it down Trump's grifting raping lying throat, it's just a fact. Cornyn is saying Trump is, in fact, a grifting piece of shit. Tom Tillis is the same way these days. He got in trouble with Trump for saying Trump was a piece of shit in so many ways. …

I first became aware of Senator Chris Murphy after the Sandy Hook murders. Over the years it seems to be an event, and the issue of gun safety reforms in general, that he hasn't forgotten about, that he has been continually working on. Sticking to an issue, whether it's in the headlines or not, that consistency is an attribute that appeals to me both in politicians and people who I have in my life generally. Consistency. Starting with facts and building out from there. That's the impression I've gotten from interviews with him. Lately I've been doing a bit of reading on his background. He started out as an elected representative in his 20's, moving his way throu…

New poll reveals majority of voters oppose US strike on Iran, say Trump has gone too far abroad National polls show broad voter resistance to military action abroad and rising support for a less active role in global issues. Trump's message to Democrats: Fuck you. I'm King. Pay higher prices. Trump's message to Independents: Fuck you. I'm King. Pay higher prices. Only half of Republicans support the piece of shit's warmongering. They want him to do what he promised. Lower prices. Kiss that idea goodbye, MAGA. It's just how it rolls, you poor MAGA dopes. Trump thrives on war. Trump thrives on division. Tr…

You can call him unhinged, delusional, racist, misogynist, Hitler, Nazi, blah, blah, blah..... Just remember that in 2 months, we will all ne calling him Mr. President! TRUMP2024 MAGA

I was working out with Joe Rogan today. And I mentioned we have a goofy dumb mascot dog here that mostly just barks all the time. When I mentioned his name Rogan was stunned. "Dude, you don't know about @Barknaway? Damn! I mean this dog is smarter than any human being! His IQ is 407. He's even smarter than Elon. Who everyone knows is the smartest guy alive." So I was like, "Shit. And here I thought the dog was stupid, and dangerous. Should I apologize?" "Fuck yeah," Rogan said. "You better apologize fast. And while you're at it better apologize to Elon, too. Elon stopped the biggest fraudster money laundering operation in history at USAID." …

Once the case is dismissed, with prejudice, I am awaiting David Hearn's wrongfully charged suit against Jeanine Pirro's Office.

Trump, under pressure on Iran, takes his Cabinet to the woods I'm not sure whether to view this as comedy or tragedy. It's obviously both. President Genocide nods off more and more every day. As @RockyRoadTravel noted, he's less dangerous when he's asleep. When he is awake, he says things even Pete Hegseth can't make up good lies about. About how we didn't burn Iranian school girls to death. And how the zealot Gay murdering theocrats will just "peter out" after half a century. LOL. Trump is visibly petering out after more than half a century. Maybe Trump thought the symbolism of Camp David would add seriousness to what could generously be called "d…

It appears the coalescence of the left, center and right-wing around the right-wing candidate without a history of corruption (Peter Magyar) has won a massive (more than 2/3rds) victory in Hungary, and the extremist wight-wing candidate (Orban) has lost. I was a bit surprised that Orban quickly stepped up to acknowledge defeat. Hopefully that attitude holds. I fully expect our Incompetent-in-Chief to question the election results. With a 2/3rds majority Magyar's government can clean up the gerrymandering done by Orban, and also reform the equivalent of their supreme court which has been stacked with Orban loyalists.

For the fall elections, I think the winning message is speaking to the incompetency and corruption of this current regime in Washington DC. The economy, this is the second time The Incompetent has been handed a growing economy and then completely fucked it up. The first time with the disastrous response to COVID, the second time with the tariffs and attacking our allies. He's been an economic incompetent. Foreign policy, The Incompetent likes dropping bombs. He likes causing chaos in other countries, he likes causing chaos at home. A negotiated peace? He's incapable of that, it's win or lose with him and a negotiated peace deal is beyond his abilities. Hi…

Trump dings longtime ally Jeanine Pirro for dropping Reflecting Pool vandalism case Lies and coverup. Lies and coverup. Lies and coverup. I was curious how Trump would react when Pirro dropped the case. I can't say I am surprised. Trump was pissed when even He Man Ass Licker Pete Hegseth wouldn't insist that Trump's lie - that we didn't burn Iranian school girls to death - was something that needed to be investigated., I'm guessing after a thorough investigation there was no chance in hell that Pirro could defend Trump Lie #1,629,045. Bitch! And that is being generous to Pirro. This is what she said before: And here's what for…

Despite all the furore of the recent World Cup with interference by Trump, corrupt referees, banning of an official from the USA, extremely questionable decisions by VAR operators and massive price gounging, the World Cup prior to this year had always been for the fans and the countries who make it to the finals. Now the corrupt President Infantino who is beginning to seem worse than his corrupt (as proven in the Swiss courts) predecessor, the former women's underwear salesman cum FIFA President Sepp Blatter, wants to privatise soccer's gold mine. Fifa has announced plans to sell the commercial rights to its tournaments, including the World Cup, to private investors…

Melania has a new book, $40, or collectors edition for $250, and is promoting it online. In her promotion, she makes it pretty clear she believes the Trump assasination attempt was "fishy", and suggests the FBI was involved to try to "silence" Trump, and then cover up their involvement. Although she is NOT supporting Trump in his re-election bid, and says should he win, she will NOT be assuming the typical First Lady role, she sure know how to promote and sell shit. Does anyone care, or is Melania now "irrelevant". ? Does embracing MAGA conspiracy theory just keep her in the headlines and sell books, or do you think she actually BELIEVES it ?