stevenkesslar

Well, he's not really blaming Biden, Sis. He is blaming the "Biden overhang". Can you blame him?

Apparently that is the conclusion he reached during his four years in exile. Jan. 11th and rape and being a felon just don't matter. I think it's actually worse. In his first act he had no particular agenda, really. Something about THE WALL while fentanyl poured in. But now he wants retribution. That is the agenda. Just tear shit down. Including the law, and judges. Meanwhile, coming soon to an economy near you: And And At least sometimes Trump tells the truth.

US economy shrinks as Americans brace for Trump’s trade war Canada, could you please take us over, so we can be one of your provinces? Then we can have a leader who understands the economy. Asking for a friend.

You're funny. Seriously. We should just agree to disagree. This was interesting for me because I learned some things, albeit about "legal nuances". But you really should take my word for what I said. It would be stupid for Democrats, or judges, to defend wife beaters who break the law. I said that, and I stand by it. And now I have to defend it. I did not say that was what Dugan did. For example, if she said "ICE is full of Nazis, you are evil, and I will not let you assholes torture this poor innocent man," that would be an extreme example of a stupid judge saying stupid shit defending someone who broke the law. But she did none of that. And we actually don't know if he is a criminal, regarding any allegations of what he did to his roommate. But we do know he did enter the US illegally and was deported in 2013. If you think Dugan defended anything the guy did, you are again factually incorrect. Note that most of what we know about what she said is from ICE, and their written documentation. We know she asked them about an arrest warrant. And what type it was. We know she directed them to the chief judge. So she was not defending a wife beater who breaks the law. She was defending due process. These nuances do not concern you. You have made a perfectly fine argument that Dugan is stupid, and immoral. But don't put that on me. It does make sense to me that you can only see this one way: she is stupid, and immoral. It follows that unless she is helping ICE, she must be defending a wife beater. That is how you appear to see it. I did not say that, and I don't think that. I do think it is smart that the Wisconsin Supreme Court suspended her. But you obviously don't agree with, or perhaps understand, my political point. When Trump is going after illegal immigrants who beat their wives, he is winning. Polls show that. When he is going after judges, he is losing. Polls show that. So the more this is about Dugan, a judge, I don't see how that helps Trump or ICE in any way. It of course depends on whether they prosecute her, and what happens. If she did not break the law, she will be a hero and martyr to many. That does not help Trump or ICE. We can be certain that Dugan's attorney will not argue she was trying to defend the actions of a criminal. The attorney will argue she was defending due process and the rule of law. Again, these nuances are not of interest to you. You think she is stupid and immoral. One other new point, that just goes more into nuances that disinterest you. It would be interesting to know what Dugan was thinking. On one end, there are good MAGA folk who I'm sure feel like unless she was bending over backward to help ICE, she is immoral. Immigration activists will treat her like Joan of Arc. But what was she actually thinking when she did what she did? The comical thing to me is that I'm guessing (I'm not a lawyer) that to find her guilty of helping this guy, they have to show intent. Like she would have to say, "I wanted to help him evade ICE. That was my plan." And she is a judge, who knows the law. So I think we already know that she will likely argue her concern is due process and the rule of law. The last thing she or her attorney will likely do is say she was trying to help a criminal avoid arrest. Again, at this point it is almost all just repetition. I think we have both learned whatever we are willing to learn.

I was surprised about all that. My simplistic idea of Hoover was he was the guy who screwed up the Depression. A client in Iowa took me to his Presidential museum years ago. As you state, he had an admirable history of achievement and humanitarianism. This guy is not Donald Trump. You can also make a good case he get left holding the bag for a problem he did not cause. That said, it is fair to go after him for how he dealt with the problem. His policies versus the New Deal was a very stark comparison. Which is why the New Deal political coalition lasted so long. I don't think we have to worry about Trump's 49.8 % coalition lasting as long as FDR's. 😉

I think it's better if we just agree to disagree. Your main point is that you don't like what she did. Fine. There is no poll on that. But there is a poll that says most Democrats and Republicans agree that most judges are not "fair and impartial". So I think most people would agree with you that Dugan was not being fair and impartial in this situation. In my words, not hers, she told ICE to go fuck off, basically. You don't like that, especially if it is stated that way. To quote you directly, it was "stupid" and "immoral". Fine. Most people might agree with you. I have two main points, neither of which you agree with, or even understand. First, the law does matter. That is actually the point. You have made clear that "legal nuances" are not the point to you, and you don't care. And now you are back to your imaginary deportation order. So here we go again. THERE WAS NO DEPORTATION ORDER. IT DID NOT EXIST. YOU KEEP MAKING THAT UP. It is the kind of "legal nuance" that bores you, I guess. The guy was deported once, shortly after an "expedited" deportation order was put together back in 2013, when Deporter In Chief Obama was President. Somehow he got back in. No article I have read said when, or how. ICE finds out about this by matching fingerprints after he beats the shit out of his roommate for playing music too loud. They put together an administrative arrest warrant, which means ICE's "do it yourself" arrest warrant, not an arrest warrant by a judge. That is a "legal nuance" that matters a lot, and will be important when Dugan herself has to defend her actions in court. But there was no deportation order, period. ICE had an arrest warrant and they planned to arrest the guy. Your position is that Dugan should have helped ICE, or at least should not have allegedly helped the guy they came there to arrest. Fine. Again, I suspect if this were polled most people would agree with you. Certainly most Republicans. And the immigration activists who would disagree with you are the problem, as I have made clear. They pushed Biden to do things he could have resisted, but did not. So middle America got pissed, and that led to Trump. I have no problem blaming a lot of this on immigration activists who could be labelled as "fanatics". My second point is that Trump is now fucking up, by targeting judges rather than illegal immigrants. No matter what you think about what Judge Dugan did, that is just a fact now. He now has net disapproval on immigration. And I think the reason is clear. Most Americans want him to follow the law. Even though they also think most judges, like Dugan, are hardly fair and impartial. I cited the polls above. So, even if you think she should be jailed or deported, what I think you fail to recognize is that she is winning the political fight. If Trump is making the target judges, and due process, he is the one losing. The polls show this. He is a moron. Dugan will likely have zero consequences, even if they prosecute her - which they may not, when smarter people than Trump think through that it just looks bad to try to jail a social justice activist judge. And, to be be clear, I am not saying Dugan picked this fight. That is the point, too. She did not pick this fight. Trump and ICE did. Which is just really fucking stupid on their part, no matter what you think about Dugan. They could have just arrested the guy, which they did, and left her alone. I think Dugan herself sees this. Because she understands these nuances of the law that you are unconcerned with. This is just repetitive, but that is untrue. I did not say Dugan was stupid, or that her actions were stupid. I said Trump is a moron. Or stupid. Or whatever similar word you want to use. It is stupid of him to go after a judge based on due process. And his stupidity is being rewarded with plummeting poll ratings on an issue he was winning. Now he is losing. He is a moron. That concept is simple. I don't view Dugan as immoral, or stupid. She is a social justice warrior. I can't read her mind. But it's a safe bet that she feels she did the right thing and followed the law. On a much more general level, it would be fair enough to say that I think immigration activists were stupid. But I would not use that word. They were fighting for what they believed in, as is Judge Dugan. So stupid is not the best word. They went too far, and they did not heed the warnings they were going too far. Biden, unlike Obama, was stupid for not saying NO earlier. But this is politics. Dugan seems to be politically nimble. There is another nuance here, political rather than legal, that you don't get. It follows that if everyone spent as much time as we have picking this apart, what Dugan did might help Trump. For sure, if every judge in America organized together and they all called for immigration officials to be jailed, there would be a massive reaction against that. But that is not what is happening. Most people seem to care about political nuances as much as you care about legal ones. Trump knows that, and keeps saying, "I am going after bad hombres who beat their wives." And people want that. I sure do. But the minute he says, "I am going after a judge," that shifts very quickly. The nuances don't really matter. Then people say, "Oh, Trump is not following the law." That is what is happening right now. The polls confirm it. You can dislike what Dugan did but still see this as political stupidity on Trump's part. He is stupid for picking fights with judges. Period.

Meanwhile, it looks more and more like they will take an ax to Medicaid, including for working class Trump voters in red states, while they dole out relief to Elon Musk and other billionaires who pay too much in taxes. There was talk about how Republicans were maybe actually gonna raise taxes on the rich, and expand the child tax credit to help the working class. Of course, there was also talk about how Trump would lower prices when he ran for President. Ha ha ha.

Hey, come on. I'm not into prestige or names or fancy destinations. I'm a romantic. I want the Golfer of America.

I am starting this as a new post to pull it back from Judge Dugan on to the broader issue. And my main point is that Trump is a moron. So even on an issue that he should be winning on, immigration, he is starting to lose. This is a gift to Democrats. It is a gift to Democrats because this was a huge unforced error of Biden, Harris, and Democrats. Trump and Chris LaCivita have both broken down why he won very simply: high prices, and the border. I'd add a third issue they ran on, but left unsaid: old Biden. I don't think Biden could stop high prices, any more than Trump could stop COVID. Biden could not stop aging. Arguably if he had stepped out of the way earlier and there were a Democratic primary ........... blah blah blah ............... Harris or someone else could have won. But she did an amazing job shifting the momentum late in the game. She almost snatched victory from the jaws of defeat. So the only thing I would single out as a huge error that was completely avoidable was the border. Biden could have been Deporter In Chief like Obama. Some of Harris's worst moments were early in her term as Veep when she did come across very badly on TV specifically on the border. They tried to fix the problem in 2024, with a bipartisan bill. But by then it may have been too little too late. Killing that bill was a bittersweet victory for Trump. Killing it may have helped him win. But it also would have helped him - AND JUDGES - fix the problem he was elected to fix right now. So he can only blame himself. I think part of the problem is that Democrats simply can't help themselves. There are too many liberal activist groups with an agenda that does not resonate with working class Hispanics or Blacks, but that does resonate with liberal donors and activists. This does drive people like Ruy Teixeira up the fucking wall. Biden could not or would not say no to them. Had Harris been like Bill Clinton and gone after the immigration liberals to make a "Sister Souljah" point, who knows? Like she could have said the one thing she would have done differently was close the fucking border, which she wanted to all along. But she didn't, or couldn't. If someone like Bill Clinton (let's say Rahm Emanuel) comes along in 2028 and says this stuff that will horrify the White college liberals Teixeira despises, maybe he or she can win. But my point is that if you believe that Democrats simply can't help themselves, Trump can help us by creating law or precedent that boxes Democrats in. If Trump does that, it will be a gift in disguise. Behind Trump’s push to erode immigrant due process rights In his first 100 days, Donald Trump has attacked due process rights in the immigration system, which could lead to more permanent consequences than his first term. Trump seems to love to throw a bomb in the middle of the room as a way to force change. I posted a great essay written by a conservative explaining why the bomb he threw in the room on tariffs is almost certain to fuck things up. It created chaos already. It may cause a recession, and destroy his Presidency. On immigration, I'd argue his strategy actually makes more sense. While that headline plays to the idea that Trump is evil or Hitler, I think the story illustrates some method to the madness. People are pissed about immigration. And last year lots of polls said that a majority wanted it fixed. Trump and LaCivita are right. They knew this, and used it to pound nails in Kamala's coffin. Even if Trump wants to be a dictator, I think there are people around him that know he won't be. They are more interested in moving things to the right - permanently. So what that articles says, which seems accurate, is that there is a strategy to throw bombs in the room to try to force SCOTUS, or Congress, or both to lay down law or precedent that makes life harder for undocumented immigrants. Or bad hombres, if you prefer. If that is what actually happens, which seems likely, I'll argue it is a gift to Democrats. Immigration activists might say it is a tragedy. But if I wanted to piss them off, I would say blame yourselves, assholes. You went way too far, and pissed off middle America. Like working class Latinos. So you created this extreme reaction. So learn something. But to make my party sound worse, and helpless, maybe Democrats can't do that. Politics can be very complicated. So instead SCOTUS and a Republican Congress pass laws that say this is the way it is gonna be. I could see that as a gift. That way, whether AOC or Rahm Emanuel win in 2028, who I only use to represent two different wings, they know what the law says. And then they can say, "Sorry. I can't open the border. I have to follow the law." I hope Trump with his chaos and bomb throwing at least manages to do that in four years. What I also hope Trump does is be stupid, which of course he predictably will be. And the moron wannabe dictator inside him, a pig-brained narcissist, is fucking seething with fury that some activist judge has the power to thwart him. I am quite sure he would love to send Judge Dugan to El Salvador. Who gives a flying fuck whether there is a judicial warrant to do so? Trump doesn't. He has made that very clear. Trump administration must follow court orders, most Americans say I'd guess this is where and why Trump is going too far, just 100 days in. I think it mostly explains why he has moved from net approval on immigration, to net disapproval. It is one thing to go after bad hombres who beat their wife. It is another thing to go after due process and activist judges, who actually are trying to fix the problem. Americans don't like it. Even a conservative SCOTUS does not like it. Why would Trump want to pick this fight? Maybe, like Democrats, he can not help himself. He is a wannabe dictator, who does cry like a bitch when he does not get his way. And he does have the brain of a pig. So someone like Bill Clinton could usually override his worst narcissistic impulses with his brain. Trump can't. So he constantly does really dumb shit that cripples his Presidency. This is the same script as Act One. He really can't help himself. It is worth noting that Democrats and Republicans agree that most judges are not "fair and impartial". SCOTUS itself has net disapproval, and that is partly because Americans now see SCOTUS as too conservative. I have no doubt that most Republicans and perhaps most Democrats would see Judge Dugan as not being "fair and impartial." I would not argue she is impartial. She is a social justice activist who cleverly told ICE to go fuck themselves, and will probably get away with it. The axiom in politics is when you're explaining, you're losing. I think in this case the equivalent is when you are fighting judges, rather than bad hombres who beat their wives, Trump is losing. And the polls do confirm that Trump is now losing. It is a fact. So maybe some MAGA fanatics feel happy that Judge Dugan was arrested. But as far as I am concerned, she won and Trump lost already. It may be true that most Americans would say she is not "fair and impartial". Many, maybe a majority, might say she should go to jail. But in her eyes, so what? In her eyes, she stood up for what she believes in - due process. She may actually be thinking, "I won, and Trump lost." And if she thinks that, she is probably right. The polls are clear. Trump does not want this to be a fight with judges over due process. And yet HE is making it that way. Democrats should be grateful. It is a gift.

They may prosecute her. Will they win? I'm not a lawyer. But I doubt it. I know I went overboard on posting. But this is one where the devil is in the details. With the law, the devil is always in the details. And she is a judge with a background as a social justice warrior. So that right there strongly suggests she knows what she is doing. There is no way she could have planned this. I also think it is unlikely that ICE planned to target the judge as an "activist judge". I don't think ICE is that organized. If they were, they would have had a judicial warrant, which they did not. I think a lot of this is just how it happened to work out, in the moment. That said, since the judge has a history as a social justice activist, I would not be surprised if she wants this to go to a trial. In the eyes of many MAGA folks, she is the Wicked Witch. In the eyes of a lot of people, who are not fanatics, she is a hero fighting against Trump and for due process. And it seems clear that Team Trump is making unforced errors by shifting the target from bad hombres who beat their wife to a female judge who is devoted to due process. Depending on how strong her beliefs are, she may want to ride this thing and use it as a vehicle to push back against Trump. Certainly there are a lot of people, including many moderates, who feel that way on this issue.

I’m a Conservative Economist. Here Are 6 Reasons Trump’s Plans Won’t Work. Even on their own terms, Trump’s economic promises defy logic. That is far and away the best article I have read since Trump was elected about why his economic policies will not only fail. Trump's policies don't even make sense. And it's all written from the perspective of a conservative agenda. There's a lot of whining about how Democrats are lost, and have no clue what to do about it. Meanwhile, Democrats are now leading in the generic ballot by a few points. So much for the death of the Democratic Party, which actually gained one House seat in 2024 while Trump won by 49.8 % of the vote. I think the best choice, largely because it is the only choice, is for Democrats to just let the train race toward the brick wall it is headed to. The deficit will get a lot worse. Budget hawks will gasp in horror. The rich will get richer, and fat cat tax cuts will help. We may have a recession. They will whack away at Medicaid that hurts working class Trump supporters. And this won't bring back the millions of manufacturing jobs America lost while a Republican, George W. Bush, was President and pushing a free trade agenda. Let them eat economic misery that they are creating.

How do you solve a problem like Maria? In other words, good luck. That's a simple answer. Here's the book length version, anchored in a really thoughtful Politico article. How Gen Z Became the Most Gullible Generation The almighty algorithm is fueling conspiracy theories among young people and ruining their ability to tell fact from fiction on the internet. That recent article does not answer your question. It just expands it. Or, I could say, it expands the horror. Arguably, we now have an entire generation of Americans who knows nothing but this. This is reality now. Meaning, there is no reality. Reality is the bullshit they see on the internet. And believe. I have a specific memory, which is weird one, about when this started. So I'll blame it on Barack Obama and Big Bird! 😨 There was a moment in the debate in 2012 when Romney was pushed on how he would cut the federal deficit. He said he would cut PBS. So one of Obama's clever staffers used that to come up with this clever meme-like idea. I forget the name of the woman who came up with the idea. But she said in an interview that the point was not really the ad, which was funny and effective. The point was the meme. It spread online virally. Big Bird! So the whole idea was that Romney was a doofus, because he saw the villain as Big Bird. To go one step further, in 2012 the Obama campaign was generally viewed as having done an amazing job of using social media, like Facebook, to get Millennials to vote for him. While I was delighted with Obama winning, I also remember being horrified at the time. And thinking we are introducing gremlins into the body politic. In fairness, the ad and meme are funny and effective. And it is about a real issue: budget deficits, fiscal priorities, economic stewardship, just expressed in a funny way. But it felt like we are really bringing this down to a dumb level, and it will probably only get worse. It did. In 2016 there were a lot of articles about how Trump had artfully used Facebook algorithms and simple and often deceptive micro-targeted ads to win. Most of it was probably bullshit that Facebook pushed to promote how effective Facebook is. But by 2016 I felt the gremlins have now come back to haunt us. 2024 was a cesspool. It becomes more and more stupid, and less and less connected to reality. To their credit, I would say The Nelk Boys came up with some wicked funny stuff mocking "woke" bullshit that I laugh my ass off when I watch it. Trump credited them, probably appropriately, with helping him to win by getting young men to watch their funny pro-Trump videos. So, again, it is not all just lies and bullshit. It was getting young men to laugh at woke bullshit. It is a way of doing politics. But there is no question that social media has lowered the standards, to the point that there are almost no standards left. Reality is just whatever bullshit you see on social media. And nobody trusts anybody like Walter Cronkite to mediate the truth. So I just believe whatever Trump says, if I'm MAGA. That said, we have been here and done this before. We've had periods of massive polarization (like The Civil War) where a lot of journalism was no more lies than and propaganda. This is not new. One of the most interesting comments I heard in the last few years was by one of my nephew's wife. I was with a few of my brothers and a few nephews and nieces. And we were talking about whether we were optimistic or pessimistic about the future. The comment the wife made is that artificial intelligence is going to be the huge challenge of her generation, that will cause massive problems. But she is optimistic that eventually Millennials and Gen Z will figure it out. I hope. It will likely get worse before it gets better. But I hope she is right that eventually young people will sort it out. And I also think she is right that Boomers probably don't even matter, anymore. Even though she didn't say it that bluntly. I think it's younger generations who will have to sort out, assuming they can, whether this great social media experiment is really new and improved, or just a nightmare of lies and bullshit. I will say this. We are for sure no longer in the cute days when Barack Obama was using social media to spread funny memes that are based on truth. The social media titans, especially X and Musk, are aligning closer and closer to Trump. Give us our fucking tax cuts. Get rid of regulations and laws we don't like. Fuck everything and everyone else. We are the new robber barons. We bought America. We run it. We tell people what stupid lies we want them to listen to that support what we want. Fuck you and fuck what you want. We could give a shit. I think a powerful reaction to all that is going to build. A lot of younger Gen Z, especially young men, voted for Trump because they reacted to real things: Biden's inflation, wars, COVID lockdowns, attacks on toxic masculinity, cancel culture. Now the pendulum is probably going to swing the other way. And, like my nephew's wife suggested, this bullshit is part of the reason why.

For anyone actually interested in the law, I found what appears to be a long and thoughtful analysis of this issue. Specifically, did Judge Dugan break the law, which her attorney already says she did not do? Of course, we should always be suspicious of what we read on the internet. But, in a nutshell, this poster argues that this is a legal grey area. After reading this, it clarifies to me why Judge Dugan asked if ICE had a judicial warrant. If they had one, which arguably they should have if they wanted to do this right, it seems to me (I'm not a lawyer) like she would have had little or no legal space but to help ICE. Since they did not have a judicial warrant, she may have decided this was her call, in her courtroom. And clearly she did not feel she had to, or wanted to, help them. Instead of using the quote function, for ease of reading I am just going to cut, paste, and italicize this long post from Reddit that hopefully outlines what the law says about this situation, and specifically about the arrest warrant. Did ICE have a warrant? Let's find another source. https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-hannah-dugan-arrested-fbi-allegedly-helping-undocumented/story?id=121161497%C2%A0 Let's see what the difference is. https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/us-news/hannah-dugans-arrest-brings-up-judicial-vs-administrative-warrant-debate-key-differences-101745615265117.html If they want access to a non-public space, they need a judicial warrant. I'm going to assume it's not advised practice for ICE to arrest people at the courthouse as it disincentives people from actually showing up for their trial. This administration and their cult following don't really care about procedures though or due process. If they're a criminal defendant, it should have been easy to get a judicial warrant. Instead, they wanted to create a spectacle with ICE because Trump supporters eat that up. In conclusion, it's a grey area. That won't stop them from saying it's clear and they should have more room to arrest "activist judges" which the Trump cult will naturally defend. Obviously that post is from someone left of center, but who bothered to try to explain some legal nuances. The thread itself is interesting. Most of the posts are attacks on Trump and his authoritarian or even "Nazi" proclivities. But others point out a very sensible question: why is this a hill Democrats want to die on? The guy was already deported once, and he entered the US illegally again. And he now has a criminal complaint. It was the criminal complaint that enabled ICE to do their job and match fingerprints and plan to arrest this guy. Nothing wrong, so far. Just ICE doing its job. And even targeting a bad hombre, not some poor farm worker. It is interesting that ICE did not have a judicial warrant. The author implies ICE had an intent to purposely target an "activist" judge. I would not assume that. Whatever the reason, which could have been they did not have the time, or maybe it was just easier to sign their own arrest warrant, it clearly ended up making a legal difference as this played out with this particular judge. There's a separate issue cited in articles and posts about whether it is bad form for ICE to arrest undocumented immigrants at their own court proceedings, since it "disincentivizes" them from appearing in court. I am glad no one identifying themselves as a Democratic leader is making THAT argument. The guy beat the shit out of his room mate. That was what got ICE involved. I have no problem with the idea that if you beat the shit out of anyone and end up in court after already being deported once, of course we will bust your ass at the court house. And please. Tell your bad hombre amigos, asshole. As a practical matter, of course the word will get out and other undocumented immigrants who allegedly commit crimes will simply avoid the court house. But that is not ICE's fault. And arguably it just helps build an even clearer legal case against some asshole who doesn't show up in court when he is supposed to. I won't weigh in on the legal question of what Dugan did. Some MAGA judge likely would have done the opposite, and congratulated ICE for doing their job. So some of this is about dissent. Can people disagree with Trump, or does anyone who does not agree have to worry about being arrested? I'm pretty sure Dugan was thinking that through as it played out. If I had to bet, she covered her ass legally. Although if it is a grey area, she also must have decided she was willing to take some risk. She has a history as a social justice advocate. So one way to look at this is, "Why piss this person off? Why make her the bad hombre, instead of the asshole who appeared in her court?" Whatever the legal verdict, I have reached my political verdict. This actually explains why Trump and Homan are stupid and reckless. They constantly make unforced errors. Someone thorough and cautious would have probably had the judicial warrant in hand. But, had he not, why target an activist judge? They got the bad hombre, anyway. Why make the activist judge the issue? She clearly is a hero to a lot of people now. It is just a fact that it is easier to go after a bad hombre who breaks the law and assaults people than it is to go after any judge of any political ideology who is a warrior for due process, at least in her own mind. Why this fight? Two opposing things can be true in politics at the same time. I think it is also true that it would be stupid for Democrats, or judges, to defend wife beaters who break the law. And no doubt many people will be just like @unicorn, and conclude very quickly that legal nuances mean nothing. And this judge is just wrong for not helping ICE. But she is not defending a criminal, or his behavior. She is defending due process. If she said, "You are Nazi scum, ICE should be abolished, and you are picking on a nice guy," she is defending an alleged criminal. If she makes the issue the arrest warrant, and says go talk to the chief judge, she has made the issue due process. At the very least, once the target is a judge who says she is passionate about due process, you are on a much more slippery slope. And whether this judge actually woke up that morning itching for a public fight that shifted the focus from the male wife beater to the female judge, she clearly decided to embrace it as it was happening. She sounds like she knows what she is doing. Why make the target judges? It just seems like the same kind of incompetent unforced political error Trump makes constantly, that erodes public confidence in him. And that's not my theory. The polls already reflect growing disapproval, specifically on his immigration policies. I think this is why. It would be far smarter to embrace the bill a moderate Democrat and a conservative Republican wrote that empowers judges to deport people, and hires more of them.

So thanks for answering my question. No, and no. You do not understand what happened. And you confirmed that you think there is only one way to view this, regardless of the facts or the law. I do not agree with you. So now you have told me I am a "fanatic" twice. While I am not a judge or lawyer, it is clear that there is both a general issue about due process, which SCOTUS and a majority of Americans say Trump is inattentive to, and a specific issue about due process in the case you cite. Again, you don't care about the law, or due process, or the legality or morality of what the judge did. You have judged her already, and reached a verdict. Because I am interested in the facts and the law and don't agree with your pre-determined verdict, I am a "fanatic". I don't know that your verdict would stand up in a court of law. First, you said something about a deportation order. I don't think such an order exists, and now you seem to have dropped the idea. The guy was legally deported once, during Obama's Presidency. And we probably agree he should be deported again - legally. Nothing fanatical about that. Your post is about what the judge did. What she said, according to the news reports, is that the arrest warrant was not legal. This is a key point, which you don't care about or view as relevant. I have no way of knowing whether the judge is correct, and they did not have a legal arrest warrant. But she certainly was not "ignoring" it. She was saying she is a judge, and this arrest warrant is not legal. That does not sound like the actions of a "fanatic" or a fan of wife battering to me. But thanks for your opinion. I have been a landlord for 25 years, with hundreds of tenants. And I can count the number of evictions I ever needed on one hand. The first and only time I tried to do it myself, as a young and ignorant landlord, I got a book on landlord/tenant law in my state and copied verbatim a draft eviction notice. The notice was thrown out as illegal because in the year since the book was published the law changed. And specified that the notice must not only state the day the tenant must leave by, but the time of day. It was a minor technicality. But the lesson I learned was always have a lawyer do it for me. Of course, the great thing about El Salvador is these legal nuances don't matter, at least in some cases. You can do lots of fun stuff with golf clubs, and the heads of assholes with no legal rights. So if your point is that these details of the law are irrelevant, and the judge is guilty and ICE should be free to arrest the guy because they want to deport him and he has no rights, you are entitled to your opinion. But the more you write the more you are exposing that you are the one who does not understand, or care about, the law. The thing that turned me off the most about the story, at least in the brief explanation you initially gave, is the idea that this guy was issued an "Expedited Removal Order" in 2013, and he is still here. How expedited is that? It sounds like a joke. This is not accurate. The source you cited, ABC, is technically not wrong. They just left out this key fact, which USA Today did not: Again, this is when Deporter In Chief Obama reigned. He was not a fanatic, nor am I. He legally deported a lot of people, including this guy. I want Andy Beshear or someone like him as POTUS, who will make it incredibly clear, with a handsome farm boy Southern drawl, that we Democrats will legally deport your ass if you are an undocumented Mexican who beats your wife. I think the Mexican women I know would generally agree. Obama did, and in fact deported his ass. Legally. I am curious about this issue about an arrest warrant. You are not. I think this is why Tom Homan was an abject failure in Act One, and seems like he is well on his way to being a failure again. And it may be why Americans are now turning against Trump even on immigration, and saying they don't approve of his actions. I am way more concerned about fentanyl flooding in and killing over 100,000 Americans than I am about some Mexican guy who beats someone up for playing loud music. That is not either/or. But Homan opened the floodgates that killed huge numbers of Americans. It is not acceptable. So if he instead wants to grandstand because he can't stop Americans from being killed, he better make sure his agents understand the law, and follow it. Maybe they did. But they may not have. And, either way, you don't give a shit. Trump is an asshole and largely to blame. One of the best parts of that bipartisan immigration law Trump got killed in 2024 is they wanted to empower judges, and hire more of them, to expedite these legal processes. Trump killed that. If you cared, which you don't, you would know that the authors of the bill, like Lankford and Sinema, stressed that with immigration law in particular, it is all about the legal details. So once you say you don't care about the details, you make yourself irrelevant to any pragmatic and workable solution. I am actually glad to know that when this guy was ordered deported in 2013, they did deport him quickly. I spent lots of time in Mexico at that time. And it aligns with my general understanding. Obama was seen as a bad ass deporter. Lots of stories about that. If Trump wants to argue the problem is judges who believe in due process and won't let a murderous failure like Homan do whatever the fuck he wants, he is just planning his own failure in Act Two. The polls already are starting to reflect this.

I didn't bother to watch the videos, because you are boring and predictable. It's always going to be some GIF or JPG with some insult that shows you are better at insults than facts. Kudos to upgrading the insults with a video. Do you know what the law actually says regarding what the judge did? Do you care? Is there any small part of your professional experience or canon or ethics as a doctor that suggests in any way that a judge might know the law on this matter, better than you or me? Or even better than immigration officials? Do you care? Do you actually even understand what happened? It seems not. Instead of trying to understand what happened, you just go off about "fanatics" and "fans of wife batterers" and whatever goofy insult you can come up with. You keep referring to a "deportation order" which seems to be a figment of your imagination, or ego. At least based on what you posted, and I read. If the articles I cited are correct, we know this guy was legally deported in 2013, when Obama was POTUS. Neither Obama, nor I, are fanatics or fans of wife batterers. So all you have are ignorant insults. What I think we know is immigration officers had an arrest warrant, which is not a deportation order. We know the judge said the warrant was not valid for some reason, and she referred them to the chief judge. We have no idea when or how this guy got back in the US, at least based on what I read. I can imply that the law is of no concern to you. Basically you think this guy is an asshole. So ICE should just cart his ass away, and let's not worry about the law. Fine. But you have no evidence that most people agree with you. I posted evidence that a bare majority of Americans want due process, even with assholes who should be deported - legally. I hope SCOTUS, as conservative as it is, upholds judges who uphold due process. To me, that actually is a conservative idea.