I won't link to it, but I happened upon a YT video, apropos of an unrelated search a while ago, in which a worker took a shovel and, as a big fat alligator swam up him, he wacked it smack on the noggin.
I'm sure the DC judge doesn't have legal authority to stop Trump and his appointees from doing WHATEVER they want to do within said Executive branch department. So just do it and let said judge enforce his decree. How many unconstitutional troops does he have at his disposal?
However, it seems the controlling power in DC is the national-wide network of federal judges. Do you think that is what the FF desired? The Constitution does not give them the power they seem to have.
I lost track o this thread. The founding fathers warned of this systems weaknesses if the populace was not Godly and moral. Now we're hoping "good" judges, out judge, bad judges. I have no illusions about Trump, but he's the lesser evil I voted for. So far, he's been a pleasant surprize. He learned from the deep state ass whipping he got. "The People" seem to have awakened from the WOKE mind disease. I'm cautiously optimistic. We may not have to shoot our way out of this. THAT would be nice.
Yeah! Sounds like a bunch of pedophiles...a "nationwide network" of "Federal Judges"! Where'd THEY come from???? (Oh, right..the Constitution...)They're next for the chopping block, huh, JohnAZ?
"I'm sure the DC judge doesn't have legal authority to stop Trump and his appointees from doing WHATEVER they want to do within said Executive branch department."
Oh! You're sure? Good...clearly you're not a constitutional lawyer.
"Article I describes the design of the legislative branch of US Government -- the Congress. Important ideas include the separation of powers between branches of government (checks and balances), the election of Senators and Representatives, the process by which laws are made, and the powers that Congress has."
"Article III establishes the judicial branch. The judicial branch interprets the Constitution and laws passed by Congress."
Maria, read it again. The Constitution does NOT identify the responsibility of judicial review at all and does not call out the function of Federal judges, only allowing their existence per acts of Congress. Judicial Review was started with Marburg vs. Madison and is not supposed to be political as it has evolved into. The only thing judicial review is supposed to do is test the Constitutionality of laws passed by Congress and approved by the president. It has been turned into a political monster, being used almost exclusively by the Left to attempt to make law and modify what Rightist presidents want to do. EOs are a target with Trump and were not so much with Biden. If EOs can be a target, why aren’t by-laws and regulations set up by unelected bureaucrats under judicial review. This is probably the number one success story of the Democrats over the last 70 years.
I lost track of this this thread, sorry about dropping my Notzee duties (FUCK STALIN!). Legal precedent was set at the beginning of the Bribem administration, when left wing judges set precedent that the President has , basically, dictatorial powers over firing and reconstruction the Executive Branch. What was it Lenin said? " You have to break eggs to make an omelette." what goes around, comes around. There's my "Deep Thoughts" for the chat.
All I care about is getting rid of the pedo, Commie, Satanist, Deep State, NWO. mo fos. The rest will sort itself out.
With the recent "Great Awakening", everybody's eyes are going to be on what's going on. Whistle blowers have new found respect. Transparency up the deep state ass!!! (not a sexual innuendo)
I noticed one name missing from the list of people no longer having a security clearance, the ketchup lady’s husband, John effing Kerry. Who knows what devious S.O.B. is up to.
Agreed! Once you are no longer in office one should automatically lose their clearance.
If, for some reasons related to National Security come along to make it necessary to “read that person in” on the Intel, than that could be handled strictly on a case by case basis, with distinct and narrow parameters.
There would be major advantages to pulling security clearances when people leave office. But I would NOT have liked Trump losing his clearance 2021-2025.
Gertz warned us back in the '90s that Clinton was selling us out, but not many listened -- and those of us who did were called "nuts" and told to shut up so we didn't hurt the economy. Thirty years later, and people are finally waking up to the tech that we've had several traitors in the Oval Orifice: FDR, LBJ, Carter, probably the Bushes, definitely Clinton, Obama, and Biden. So what's anybody actually gonna do about it?
Linda Li (former DNC fund raiser now turned conservative) has revealed that after the CNN debate debacle Hunter Biden was the local puppet master for "Joe Biden", sat in on all the WH meetings and filtered the news for his dad.
Oh yeah, and he never had a security clearance either. I bet BO was a bit jealous.
Excellent post, JK! Seems like we are witnessing the DC equivalent of the pulling back of the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, revealing the sputtering and incompetent boobs behind the DC curtain. Unfortunately for those DC miscreants, the entire world is watching as their corruption and grift is exposed and the normal people of the US are disgusted 🤮. Elon Musk is the perfect person to orchestrate the defenestration of the DC mob - he has no dog in the hunt as he’s rich beyond comprehension and seems to be indifferent as to politics. Trump can simply stand back and watch the 💩 show play out as Musk absorbs the media criticism and Trump takes credit for the success of DOGE.
While it’s yet to be determined just how much grift and inefficiency will be eliminated, it is clear that this will be the most successful attempt at reduction/restructuring of the federal government we’ve ever seen. Get your popcorn 🍿 ready for Musk’s review of the bigger targets such as DoD.
"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." ~Frank Zappa
Wow. Everyone was taking about it a few short weeks ago. But since you didn't like any questioning about your heroes, you never took really took it in. Now it has been completely deleted from your memory files.
To jog your memory or a place to start googling: Why was Vivek thrown under the bus. This is a perfect opportunity for you to learn something about yourself.
What I heard was a Man frustrated at what has become obvious in this country, we have changed from a national with a wonderful education system that covered needs for all the people, to a national that spends more per student and is #40 of 40 developed nations on tests. The Deep State has just about succeeded in turning us into a national that spends of know-nothing lemmings. When Vivek looked around, he stated the obvious, there are not enough “smart” people here to man the high tech revolution that everyone is expecting. He paid for it. That does not mean it is not the truth.
WE are becoming a nation of burger flippers, wait staffs, BS artists disguised as salesmen and marketeers, health care workers that burn out in five years, all to satisfy the Godhead of the Left, Obama.
Here’s is a good question for you. If we are becoming that desired service sector economy, why do we need college educated people? We supposedly educate all these “smart” people, for what? SO companies and corporations can bring smart people in from other countries to fill the unfilled jobs? Like MDs? When is the last time you went to a physician that was not named Patel or the like? So why isn’t American producing MDs at a required rate? Are we, as a nation, that dumb? And why? Look no farther than our illustrious government in DC. Like anything else, you want something to work properly, keep it the heck away from our government.
Destroy the DOE if you want future generations to have a chance.
One more. Even then, there is a spectrum of talent, intelligence and ability in any society, on this I agree with you. Our illustrious Deep State has forgotten this very basic fact as they have chased just about every manufacturing job out of the US. So if you hate computers, high tech, or AI and have no desire to work with them, you are effed in the future. Personally, when I lost my manufacturing engineering job to China in the 90s, I moved to Nursing. Luckily for me as 90% of my engineering co-workers never got their job back. I thrived for 17 years. They didn’t.
You clearly have zero understanding of what the DoE actually does, ArizonaBoy...it does not set curricula - that is done at the State level. DoE only ensures that the disadvantaged have SOME hope of getting a foothold in the education system.
Since the DOE has Ben in DC, the achievement scores have declined in 4th and 8th grades. My daughter is a fourth grade teacher and the cirriculum she aches explains why. The idiot education administrations need to do a class on child development as they ignore the stages of mental development totally. I have been involved in tutoring two generations of kids and have seen the lapse of the learning of math. The biggest deal IMHO, is the denial of the importance of Math facts and the memorization of basic arithmetic. Reading and writing have the same problems. Look at yourself, name-calling to express yourself. The last four years of DEI have just made things worse as tests still are going down and the idiocy of the Covid shutdowns supported by the head of NEA have created a three year period of pupils falling behind. These kids are handicapped for a lifetime because of the foibles of the DOE. Also, the disadvantaged have not improved any more than the rest of the kids.
Lugh, you are so full of shit. What to you is dark is light for most. I would never gauge myself against your darkness. Ever.
Why was Vivek thrown under the bus? I just answered and as usual you didn’t get it.
And yeah, by changing careers to one that had demand instead of moving overseas, I thrived. Luckily for me AS 90% who didn’t change course ended up in lower class jobs.
Money quote: "It is the President’s duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed, meaning that the departments under him do their jobs correctly, which would give him inherent authority to audit and restructure agencies like USAID."
Judge Engelmayer bases his injunction on 5 U.S. Code § 551, the section of Title 5 that defines certain words. The judge never states which word and its definition that he feels is pivotal. This is like Judge Merchan's unstated "other crime" in the Bragg prosecution.
Engelmayer does the same thing when he makes a blanket statement that DOGE is unconstitutional. He never states which part of the U.S. Constitution is relevant to his opinion.
"was a grown man dressed-up like an eight-year-old hollering nursery rhymes in front of a flash-mob"
Jim, you took the words right out of my mouth. I didn't watch the Super Bowl this year. First time since the last time the 49ers won (1994) I think that I had no interest. I was sick of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Taylor Swift montages every time they get a first down. The Philadelphia Eagles are just an ugly team. Ugly uniforms. Ugly colors. Ugly fans. Ugly stadium. Ugly coach. Don't know why anyone would want to be a fan of that team. Anyway, I digress. I gave up watching Super Bowl half time shows since the Janet Jackson accidental nipple exposure incident. One thing I have noticed is that out of all the "performers" they could have at a Super Bowl half time show it is seems to me that they always choose black rappers. All these idiots and all their dancers do is stand up there and rattle off inane poetry that none can understand and then gyrate around while thrusting their hips back and forth. It isn't entertainment. It isn't talent. I don't know what they hell it is. I'd take a marching band over this bullshit any day + Sunday.
But hey, what do I know. People like Jelly Roll (a fat 400 pound slob) or Post Malone (a skinny tatted up slob) are now famous. Gone are the days where the pretty people wowed the audience with their looks and talents. Gone are the bands like Def Leppard, Van Halen and Bon Jovi where they actually played their music and sang the lyrics without auto tune. Today popular entertainers are rappers and tatted up white guys who do everything in their power to make themselves look as nightmarish and disgusting as possible. And people like this!
But for the Orange Devil, they roared. The USA is back in the biggest possible way. We're going to storm the beaches off the Persian gulf. Countless Americans will die, heroes every last one of them. Nothing better than dead heroes, eh?
How many millions died for the bankers in the 20th century? My grandfather took a piece of shrapnel through the arm, got frostbite on his legs and feet, and had a building collapse on top of him in France to serve the bankers. He was too proud even to apply for a purple heart because he he didn't want to look like a pansy in comparison to all of his friends who died.
Great respect for that man, in an era where they chose to be known as "citizen-soldiers," rather than "warfighters," which is every other word out of the mouth of Peter Hegseth, who looks programmed to help stage-manage war both in the Mideast and in the Pacific. It was a 2-time Medal of Honor Winner who saw the light and wrote an epic book, War is a Racket(free on line at Gutenberg and a must-read.) But does Trump, who is inclined to make peace with anyone who will host a Trump hotel, casino or golf course, plan to rein in vastly wasteful military spending? He waved a finger at Boeing first time he ran and then meekly bowed to their billion-dollar refit of Airforce One and every other massive weapons appropriation set on his desk. A man who promised to balance the budget, and then signed off on- not once vetoed- 4 consecutive TRILLION dollar deficits. But he did hang Andrew Jackson's portrait- a man who did in fact balance 8 straight and leave the nation $0.00 in debt when he left office, in the Oval Office.
I take it you're running in 2028? Gonna show us how it's done?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Thanks for the reminder of why the last Stupor Bowl I ever saw was sometime in the mid-1990s. It sounds not only unwatchable, but an absolute insult to anyone with an ounce of intelligence. Not to mention that the halftime shows are basically homages to postmodernist utopia (aka luciferianism, satanism). Yep, you all get to be part of a satanic ritual when you partake. I'm glad my instincts told me to stay away all those years ago.
I'm a slow learner but my interest in American football is waning. Between the constant penalties, the Taylor Swift spots, the wokery, the bad play and the constant barrage of ads involving multi-racial couples and blacks, a 3 hours football game is almost unbearable.
Ha, good question. I guess waning wasn't the appropriate term. I don't watch football anymore except for 49ers games. I grew up loving the San Francisco 49ers. As a child Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Ronnie Lott were my sports heroes and at the time the 49ers were good. Very good. It's just something that I have always enjoyed and wanted to be a part of and it is hard to let something that was once so beloved slip by the wayside. That is changing, though, because the product just isn't as good as it used to be. Really, the only football that interests me anymore is a game involving the 49ers, if they are good. Otherwise I have pretty much turned off the NFL.
It was painful for me that the whole kneeling during the anthem originated with the 49ers and that idiot Kaepernick.
This season of the NFL really stunk. Every interesting team did not even make the playoffs and the games are cookie-cutter boring. I can't watch any sport without a rooting interest.
It did stink. All the teams that I thought would make an interesting Super Bowl didn't make it. Detroit - never been before, what a story that would have been. Houston - never been before, what a story that would have been. Washington - haven't been to a Super Bowl since 1991. Buffalo - haven't been to a Super Bowl since 1995 and have never won one.
Instead we get KC who has been in 5 of the last 6 and Philadelphia, a hideously ugly team that only those in Philly can love and who was in it two years ago. Bleck. Boring. Boring. Boring. And, voila, the game stunk.
The NFL created salary caps to prevent dynasties. Since the advent of the salary caps we have had the New England Patriots and now we have the Kansas City Chiefs. The rest of the teams all suck and can't figure it out.
Nothing against multi-racial couples, Don. My only issue is that that is all they portray on television as if the majority of American couples are multi-racial. That is not the case. Yes, it happens often but it is not the majority. People tend to pair off with those of similar racial ethnicity. Everything that is shown on television is an outright lie. From the happy beer drinking ads to the suburban white housewife coupled up with the black man with dread locks. All ads do is lie and present a false reality that does not exist.
Just by watching an hour of television ads one, who didn't know better, would deduce that America is a black nation and that white people are vast minority.
Until that little white girl down the street sees these adds and buys into them only to get knocked up and her credit cards run all the way up.
The ghetto way five girlfriends all knocked up credit cards maxed and on to the next.
One of my daughters' friends has dove deep into the mud life she just found out her boyfriend of three years has two other ladies on the side both knocked up.
How did she finally decipher it?
She didn't my daughter started looking around some facebook group and saw one of the baby mommas posting Jamals picture.
This is standard fare for the ghetto rap culture.
The worst part about it this beautiful girl went to school for a skill and he made her quit her job to work at Starbucks.
Why? He is such a dirty cheater he just knew she would get scammed on by other guys.
He is Jealous as fuck, tells her she can't hang out with her friends when he is not around and basically controls all aspects of her life.
Instead of dumping him she figured now he was all hers.
Side note to the story her mom also has a black boyfriend who knocked up her son's wife and now has a black grandson fathered by her boyfriend.
This is not the latest scripted episode of Gerry Springer I am literally seeing this play out in real life with several of my daughters friends.
Lives ruined, credit scores destroyed and stuck with some kid the fathers don't care about.
I know three girls living this nightmare right now and one of them stuck her own father with her two unwanted black kids while she is out drinking, smoking weed and sniffing meth. The father of these two babies JUST got out of jail for shaking at least one of these two babies so bad he will have lifetime issues.
My buddy is a good man I would have got this bastard shanked while he was in prison. I almost went to visit this sick bastard so I could loudly say his two babies he abused are doing great without him in their life.
So, you're just saying that there are scumbag young men out there - so what's new? It was ever thus...no, wait! You're actually pointing at them being black, as if no white boy would EVER be an asshole as bad as THESE black assholes. Got it, you racist piece of shit.
This was an expansion on ghetto culture and where it intersects with my life personally.
When I see some dirty little white boy knocking up two women and dating a third at the same time while ringing up all their credit cards, I will call them out as well. I have yet to see one act like this in 58 years of life but I am sure they exist somewhere.
Is what it is and the terms racist, Zionist, anti-Semite AND Fascist have lost all meaning.
FYI
I have three black cousins and a black aunt and NONE of them behave like this.
None of the black people I work with act like this.
The Black ethos in the deep cities is not the same as White American, or any other American ethnic group. The Family unit is NOT paramount in the Black world. That fact is used on the national attack on the core family. Men have little allegiance to a singular woman especially where kids are involved.
Not every Black group, but enough. The result? Women on welfare and men in gangs.
The hip-hop crap at the Super Bowl is a result of Roger Goodell, The Senator's Son, hiring billionaire drug kingpin and "recording artist" Jay-Z Carter to run events for the NFL in a half-assed attempt to buy off radical black activists. I don't think it's working.
Useful idiots yesterday: "I'm not worried about government surveillance, I have nothing to hide." Useful idiots today: "The government has no right to this private information."
I watched it with one of my boys and said, “They should have subtitles scrolling at the bottom!” I never understood one word that was said (not “sung”, “said”).
It's Ruger Goodell, aka the Senator's Son, who has dragged the NFL into the sewer. In the name of DEI and worship of St. George Floyd, he gave noted billionaire drug kingpin and "musician" Jay-Z the job of making the NFL more relevant to blacks (or some such), including booking acts most of white America has little interest in seeing for the last several Super Bowl halftime shows. Apparently this is supposed to bring everyone together by making the majority of viewers say, "What in the **** is this ****? I can't understand him"! I suspect not many people would want to understand him, given the nature of much rap is to bitch about how rotten America is, drugs, squalor, more hatred of the country (especially Whitey), and lots and lots of explicit talk about sex acts with women -- or with men if the rapper is female. Pat Boone and Marty Robbins, this stuff ain't.
Well - self identifying fraudsters and grifters will be those NGP's that receive funds during the time lawsuit was filed and the supreme court hears it. Trump should say simply, I am not following these orders and freeze any NGO payments.
I am no lawyer, but I believe that Secretary Bessent can safely ignore the court's orders. In any event, employees of the Treasury Department report to the Secretary and not the judge, and they take their orders from him.
It would be amusing of the attorneys for the President were to show up in court not to make an argument against the lawsuit, but simply to inform the judge that the matter that the AGs have brought pertain to policy and personnel, and that is not in the purview of the courts, who may concern themselves only with law. Remind the judge of this and walk out.
Someone in my family's full time job is to submit proposals for a fortune 500 company to try and win government grants (mostly to DOE, DOD, and DARPA). She is very skilled at this high paying job and has a support team of engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc. that work to put together these proposals to meet the guidelines that the Government Department outlines. There are still hundreds of billions of not yet allocated funds from Build Back Better & inflation reduction act.
This person now realizes they could lose their job but acknowledges that the majority of this funding is waste due to a myriad of reasons. Virtually all Biden admin grants have DEI requirements, they are encouraged to partner with certain NGO's and contractors that will get part of the funding (politicians friends and families), and they have to operate the project within a very bureaucratic framework of reporting, meeting deadlines, reporting, etc.
Overall, the biggest obstacle she runs into is that her company can have a hard time justifying the cost share for these politically targeted projects. Usually the proposals require a cost share of 10-20% and her company can't justify outlaying their own millions as the project's often are pie in the sky or have so much bureaucratic waste that they don't even expect to recover their 10-20% investment on woke government dictated projects.
I told her she should go work for DOGE as she knows the system inside & out.
In general, these grants are not intended to produce tangible, useful results. Rather, they are intended to funnel money to favored NGOs and individuals. Perhaps your family member's employer can glean some benefit from the project, but that is purely coincidental.
These issues raise fundamental questions about the division of powers among our three branches of government and, clearly, it’s long past due for the Supreme Court to reestablish where those divisions lie.
On the one hand, we CFN-types understandably wish for Mr. Trump to ride roughshod over all of the agencies and institutions that have brought this nation to its present existential crisis. On the other, those who wish for an Imperial Presidency with unlimited powers of disruption would do well to remember that the next president may be another Obama, eager to effectively use those powers against us.
I have long regarded Strict Constructionism of the Constitution as being as silly as the notion of Biblical Inerrancy but, in the present circumstance, it may be that we should hope for the Supreme Court to embrace the arrangement originally put in place by the Founding Fathers, and hope that still provides the president with the powers he needs to clean things up.
Congress was intended to make the laws, including, the details of such laws. However, Congress has pissed away much of its authority, sending it to the bureaucracies of the Executive Branch. Today Congress passes vague laws and then pass the responsibility on to the Bureaucrats to enforce. Here's an example. Let's say Congress wants to pass a law to require bakeries to make tasty chocolate bagels. They bicker and argue and come up with a vague law that says every bakery shall now produce tasty chocolate bagels. However, what they don't put in that new law are the details of that tasty chocolate bagel. How long should it take to make that chocolate bagel? What kind of chocolate should be used? How much sugar? Should those bagels be whole wheat or white flour? What baking temperature should they bake them at? How many chocolate bagels does each bakery need to produce in a week? No, what they do is produce a vague law. This then results in the Presidency putting together a Department of Bagelry tasked with making sure bakeries are making tasty chocolate bagels. The Department of Bagelry now sets the standards and the requirements because the Congress was too damned lazy to do its job. Thus we have runaway, rogue agencies doing whatever the hell they want because Congress won't do its job.
My point? Separation of powers are important. We need them. But first, we need a Congress that is willing to do its fucking job and right now all we have are idiots populating the halls of Congress.
I quite agree. Please provide us with a simple, reliable procedure for replacing the crooked, impotent idiots we now have in Congress with wise able statesmen.
Return to secret ballots in Congressional and Senate votes. Allow our lawgivers to vote their conscious, not necessarily the party line or that of their paymasters on K street.
For over 100 years we've been told we need "experts" running things. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and especially the incorrigibly evil son of a preacher, Thomas Woodrow Wilson believed that civil service and government should be run by experts and geniuses because average people are corrupt morons who have trouble putting their coffee in a cup. Wilson, a racist whose goal with education was "to make a man as unlike his father as possible," openly said the Constitution needed to be gotten rid of because it didn't fit with his (and Edward Mandel House's) plans to create an administrative state in which it wouldn't matter who was elected because bureaucrats would run everything. That has been one of the biggest goals of the Democrats and Establishment Republicans ever since. They've pretty much achieved their goals: Senators and Representatives seldom do anything of lasting import, unless you count endless blathering on tv important. On the rare occasions actual reformers or statesmen have arrived on the scene, they've been marginalized, assassinated, or assimilated into the Blob. Subversives like Obama are sold to us as reforming statesmen, and the public buys the argument because of their voices, appearance, and alliance with propagandists who call themselves "journalists"; these would-be guarantors of freedom only speak of imperial presidents when someone like Reagan or Trump comes on the scene and threatens the status quo by not following the Establishment's program to the letter.
Ever since I read "We who are about to die, salute you" as a teenager, I've been studying the steady decline of Rome and how our failing Republic is tracking it.
I am also quite aware that the situation is distinct, from top to bottom, but even so the parallels are eerie,
Your comment about an "Emperor" inspired this reaction.
IMHO, the Constitution has the same job as the Bible, to define a structure that defies evil, the spread of immorality. Both ID the evil and give suggestions on how to fend it off.
Of course, and that's why I have juxtaposed them. Both were worthy attempts, in their day, to provide guidance and a moral framework, and both have glaring defects that are unhelpful in today's world. Give up the notion of Inerrancy, and every verse in the Bible is opened to debate; stray from Strict Constructionism and the slippery slope could lead to a new constitutional convention and the dissolution of the union.
In that case, don't even bother opening it. We have ministers and priests in favor of gay marriage and worse. That's where you approach gets us. Tradition must be the guide to interpretation.
Leviticus 18 sets God’s limits on unlawful sexual relations. As this passage is the basis for what God considers sin, it should be the basis for all those ministers, pastors, rabbis and priests should be sermonizing and counseling. Read the passage and you will realize how immoral this country has become.
Some people want a living constitution. I like mine safely dead - Anthony Scalia, found dead with a pillow on his face. Some posters here believe he just liked to sleep that way. There is no end to human stupidity and cupidity.
When you drain the swamp, you get angry alligators
Very true. It's making me nervous, though. The alligators got a lot of traction with lawfare previously.
I won't link to it, but I happened upon a YT video, apropos of an unrelated search a while ago, in which a worker took a shovel and, as a big fat alligator swam up him, he wacked it smack on the noggin.
There are a few who could use a reality check. 2 yr olds throwing temper tantrums.
Please stop denigrating swamp critters, those dem's in Washington don't even rise to the level of the scum on the bottom of scum's shoes.
Take those particular alligators to the “zoo” and put them behind bars.
Then all the little kiddies can come by gawking and ask, “What are you in for?” Ha, ha.
I'm sure the DC judge doesn't have legal authority to stop Trump and his appointees from doing WHATEVER they want to do within said Executive branch department. So just do it and let said judge enforce his decree. How many unconstitutional troops does he have at his disposal?
However, it seems the controlling power in DC is the national-wide network of federal judges. Do you think that is what the FF desired? The Constitution does not give them the power they seem to have.
Meanwhile they judge shop for lawfare and juries they can rig.
To be fair both sides do it, but Democrats do it to the point of ridiculousness.
I am laughing at the hysterics of the Democrat party heres to hoping they all have a very rough four years.
Defund the DNC!
I lost track o this thread. The founding fathers warned of this systems weaknesses if the populace was not Godly and moral. Now we're hoping "good" judges, out judge, bad judges. I have no illusions about Trump, but he's the lesser evil I voted for. So far, he's been a pleasant surprize. He learned from the deep state ass whipping he got. "The People" seem to have awakened from the WOKE mind disease. I'm cautiously optimistic. We may not have to shoot our way out of this. THAT would be nice.
Yeah! Sounds like a bunch of pedophiles...a "nationwide network" of "Federal Judges"! Where'd THEY come from???? (Oh, right..the Constitution...)They're next for the chopping block, huh, JohnAZ?
You sound like Stalin. I hear he had a beautiful, pitch-perfect singing voice.
"I'm sure the DC judge doesn't have legal authority to stop Trump and his appointees from doing WHATEVER they want to do within said Executive branch department."
Oh! You're sure? Good...clearly you're not a constitutional lawyer.
"Article I describes the design of the legislative branch of US Government -- the Congress. Important ideas include the separation of powers between branches of government (checks and balances), the election of Senators and Representatives, the process by which laws are made, and the powers that Congress has."
"Article III establishes the judicial branch. The judicial branch interprets the Constitution and laws passed by Congress."
Maria, read it again. The Constitution does NOT identify the responsibility of judicial review at all and does not call out the function of Federal judges, only allowing their existence per acts of Congress. Judicial Review was started with Marburg vs. Madison and is not supposed to be political as it has evolved into. The only thing judicial review is supposed to do is test the Constitutionality of laws passed by Congress and approved by the president. It has been turned into a political monster, being used almost exclusively by the Left to attempt to make law and modify what Rightist presidents want to do. EOs are a target with Trump and were not so much with Biden. If EOs can be a target, why aren’t by-laws and regulations set up by unelected bureaucrats under judicial review. This is probably the number one success story of the Democrats over the last 70 years.
I lost track of this this thread, sorry about dropping my Notzee duties (FUCK STALIN!). Legal precedent was set at the beginning of the Bribem administration, when left wing judges set precedent that the President has , basically, dictatorial powers over firing and reconstruction the Executive Branch. What was it Lenin said? " You have to break eggs to make an omelette." what goes around, comes around. There's my "Deep Thoughts" for the chat.
All I care about is getting rid of the pedo, Commie, Satanist, Deep State, NWO. mo fos. The rest will sort itself out.
With the recent "Great Awakening", everybody's eyes are going to be on what's going on. Whistle blowers have new found respect. Transparency up the deep state ass!!! (not a sexual innuendo)
Alligator hides make good shoes.
When you get alligators make boots and BBQ.
I noticed one name missing from the list of people no longer having a security clearance, the ketchup lady’s husband, John effing Kerry. Who knows what devious S.O.B. is up to.
And Obama!
That was my first thought. Why not his, too? Or Clinton's. I can make a l-o-n-g list of people I don't trust with security clearances!
Obama security clearance has been rescinded today.
Wow! I have not seen that in my CNN (cyber network news) feeds! Thanks! Made my day!
Agreed! Once you are no longer in office one should automatically lose their clearance.
If, for some reasons related to National Security come along to make it necessary to “read that person in” on the Intel, than that could be handled strictly on a case by case basis, with distinct and narrow parameters.
Perhaps a law in this regard needs to be passed.
There would be major advantages to pulling security clearances when people leave office. But I would NOT have liked Trump losing his clearance 2021-2025.
Biden yanked DJT's clearance. For Insurrection™. No Joke©!
Yep and the demented old fool who has left secret documents scattered all over had his revoked for cause.
Clinton gave us the blue dress charade while hiding what he and Cankles had actually done: sell our military secrets to China. (Bill Gertz).
Gertz warned us back in the '90s that Clinton was selling us out, but not many listened -- and those of us who did were called "nuts" and told to shut up so we didn't hurt the economy. Thirty years later, and people are finally waking up to the tech that we've had several traitors in the Oval Orifice: FDR, LBJ, Carter, probably the Bushes, definitely Clinton, Obama, and Biden. So what's anybody actually gonna do about it?
One very specific thing in fact small tactical nukes.
LOL! Let's get our terminology straight. Kerry goes by "a haircut in search of a brain." Unfortunately for Kerry, still no luck on that front.
Has Newsom earned that nickname also?
Good chance it will be inherited.
It would be fitting, no?
His cranial cavity is wind tunnel.
Sounds like the roof racks on your car at 65 MPH!
Linda Li (former DNC fund raiser now turned conservative) has revealed that after the CNN debate debacle Hunter Biden was the local puppet master for "Joe Biden", sat in on all the WH meetings and filtered the news for his dad.
Oh yeah, and he never had a security clearance either. I bet BO was a bit jealous.
Or BO sat him there.
BO, with his headset permanently attached to his brain, is but just one speed dial away.
“Hey Boss?”
The list is endless.
If USAID were private enterprise, it would be subject to RICO prosecution.
I suspect there is no proviso against it being used against Government agencies as well.
Good question that should be examined by DOJ.
Excellent post, JK! Seems like we are witnessing the DC equivalent of the pulling back of the curtain in the Wizard of Oz, revealing the sputtering and incompetent boobs behind the DC curtain. Unfortunately for those DC miscreants, the entire world is watching as their corruption and grift is exposed and the normal people of the US are disgusted 🤮. Elon Musk is the perfect person to orchestrate the defenestration of the DC mob - he has no dog in the hunt as he’s rich beyond comprehension and seems to be indifferent as to politics. Trump can simply stand back and watch the 💩 show play out as Musk absorbs the media criticism and Trump takes credit for the success of DOGE.
While it’s yet to be determined just how much grift and inefficiency will be eliminated, it is clear that this will be the most successful attempt at reduction/restructuring of the federal government we’ve ever seen. Get your popcorn 🍿 ready for Musk’s review of the bigger targets such as DoD.
"pulling back of the curtain in the Wizard of Oz"
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"The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater." ~Frank Zappa
Indifferent to politics but not to profits. I assume the Plan to bring in millions of Indians is still in the offing.
What plan?
Wow. Everyone was taking about it a few short weeks ago. But since you didn't like any questioning about your heroes, you never took really took it in. Now it has been completely deleted from your memory files.
To jog your memory or a place to start googling: Why was Vivek thrown under the bus. This is a perfect opportunity for you to learn something about yourself.
What I heard was a Man frustrated at what has become obvious in this country, we have changed from a national with a wonderful education system that covered needs for all the people, to a national that spends more per student and is #40 of 40 developed nations on tests. The Deep State has just about succeeded in turning us into a national that spends of know-nothing lemmings. When Vivek looked around, he stated the obvious, there are not enough “smart” people here to man the high tech revolution that everyone is expecting. He paid for it. That does not mean it is not the truth.
WE are becoming a nation of burger flippers, wait staffs, BS artists disguised as salesmen and marketeers, health care workers that burn out in five years, all to satisfy the Godhead of the Left, Obama.
Here’s is a good question for you. If we are becoming that desired service sector economy, why do we need college educated people? We supposedly educate all these “smart” people, for what? SO companies and corporations can bring smart people in from other countries to fill the unfilled jobs? Like MDs? When is the last time you went to a physician that was not named Patel or the like? So why isn’t American producing MDs at a required rate? Are we, as a nation, that dumb? And why? Look no farther than our illustrious government in DC. Like anything else, you want something to work properly, keep it the heck away from our government.
Destroy the DOE if you want future generations to have a chance.
One more. Even then, there is a spectrum of talent, intelligence and ability in any society, on this I agree with you. Our illustrious Deep State has forgotten this very basic fact as they have chased just about every manufacturing job out of the US. So if you hate computers, high tech, or AI and have no desire to work with them, you are effed in the future. Personally, when I lost my manufacturing engineering job to China in the 90s, I moved to Nursing. Luckily for me as 90% of my engineering co-workers never got their job back. I thrived for 17 years. They didn’t.
You clearly have zero understanding of what the DoE actually does, ArizonaBoy...it does not set curricula - that is done at the State level. DoE only ensures that the disadvantaged have SOME hope of getting a foothold in the education system.
Since the DOE has Ben in DC, the achievement scores have declined in 4th and 8th grades. My daughter is a fourth grade teacher and the cirriculum she aches explains why. The idiot education administrations need to do a class on child development as they ignore the stages of mental development totally. I have been involved in tutoring two generations of kids and have seen the lapse of the learning of math. The biggest deal IMHO, is the denial of the importance of Math facts and the memorization of basic arithmetic. Reading and writing have the same problems. Look at yourself, name-calling to express yourself. The last four years of DEI have just made things worse as tests still are going down and the idiocy of the Covid shutdowns supported by the head of NEA have created a three year period of pupils falling behind. These kids are handicapped for a lifetime because of the foibles of the DOE. Also, the disadvantaged have not improved any more than the rest of the kids.
Teaches
You changed the subject. Why? Ask yourself.
Lucky for you that they didn't get their jobs back? Wow, that's dark. I just learned something about you.
Lugh, you are so full of shit. What to you is dark is light for most. I would never gauge myself against your darkness. Ever.
Why was Vivek thrown under the bus? I just answered and as usual you didn’t get it.
And yeah, by changing careers to one that had demand instead of moving overseas, I thrived. Luckily for me AS 90% who didn’t change course ended up in lower class jobs.
You are so sick sometimes.
mentally ill is the word.
Money quote: "It is the President’s duty to see that the laws are faithfully executed, meaning that the departments under him do their jobs correctly, which would give him inherent authority to audit and restructure agencies like USAID."
Judge Engelmayer bases his injunction on 5 U.S. Code § 551, the section of Title 5 that defines certain words. The judge never states which word and its definition that he feels is pivotal. This is like Judge Merchan's unstated "other crime" in the Bragg prosecution.
Engelmayer does the same thing when he makes a blanket statement that DOGE is unconstitutional. He never states which part of the U.S. Constitution is relevant to his opinion.
Useless!
"was a grown man dressed-up like an eight-year-old hollering nursery rhymes in front of a flash-mob"
Jim, you took the words right out of my mouth. I didn't watch the Super Bowl this year. First time since the last time the 49ers won (1994) I think that I had no interest. I was sick of the Kansas City Chiefs and the Taylor Swift montages every time they get a first down. The Philadelphia Eagles are just an ugly team. Ugly uniforms. Ugly colors. Ugly fans. Ugly stadium. Ugly coach. Don't know why anyone would want to be a fan of that team. Anyway, I digress. I gave up watching Super Bowl half time shows since the Janet Jackson accidental nipple exposure incident. One thing I have noticed is that out of all the "performers" they could have at a Super Bowl half time show it is seems to me that they always choose black rappers. All these idiots and all their dancers do is stand up there and rattle off inane poetry that none can understand and then gyrate around while thrusting their hips back and forth. It isn't entertainment. It isn't talent. I don't know what they hell it is. I'd take a marching band over this bullshit any day + Sunday.
But hey, what do I know. People like Jelly Roll (a fat 400 pound slob) or Post Malone (a skinny tatted up slob) are now famous. Gone are the days where the pretty people wowed the audience with their looks and talents. Gone are the bands like Def Leppard, Van Halen and Bon Jovi where they actually played their music and sang the lyrics without auto tune. Today popular entertainers are rappers and tatted up white guys who do everything in their power to make themselves look as nightmarish and disgusting as possible. And people like this!
They showed Taylor Swift on the Superbowl Jumbotron, and the crowd started booing. The look on Taylor's face was priceless.
LOL! Poor little girl. Life's going to be hard for her once the spotlight turns elsewhere.
But for the Orange Devil, they roared. The USA is back in the biggest possible way. We're going to storm the beaches off the Persian gulf. Countless Americans will die, heroes every last one of them. Nothing better than dead heroes, eh?
Lugh, there is treatment for that TDS now. By the way, with USAID going dark, are you sending out resumes?
How many millions died for the bankers in the 20th century? My grandfather took a piece of shrapnel through the arm, got frostbite on his legs and feet, and had a building collapse on top of him in France to serve the bankers. He was too proud even to apply for a purple heart because he he didn't want to look like a pansy in comparison to all of his friends who died.
Great respect for that man, in an era where they chose to be known as "citizen-soldiers," rather than "warfighters," which is every other word out of the mouth of Peter Hegseth, who looks programmed to help stage-manage war both in the Mideast and in the Pacific. It was a 2-time Medal of Honor Winner who saw the light and wrote an epic book, War is a Racket(free on line at Gutenberg and a must-read.) But does Trump, who is inclined to make peace with anyone who will host a Trump hotel, casino or golf course, plan to rein in vastly wasteful military spending? He waved a finger at Boeing first time he ran and then meekly bowed to their billion-dollar refit of Airforce One and every other massive weapons appropriation set on his desk. A man who promised to balance the budget, and then signed off on- not once vetoed- 4 consecutive TRILLION dollar deficits. But he did hang Andrew Jackson's portrait- a man who did in fact balance 8 straight and leave the nation $0.00 in debt when he left office, in the Oval Office.
I take it you're running in 2028? Gonna show us how it's done?
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Thanks for the reminder of why the last Stupor Bowl I ever saw was sometime in the mid-1990s. It sounds not only unwatchable, but an absolute insult to anyone with an ounce of intelligence. Not to mention that the halftime shows are basically homages to postmodernist utopia (aka luciferianism, satanism). Yep, you all get to be part of a satanic ritual when you partake. I'm glad my instincts told me to stay away all those years ago.
I'm a slow learner but my interest in American football is waning. Between the constant penalties, the Taylor Swift spots, the wokery, the bad play and the constant barrage of ads involving multi-racial couples and blacks, a 3 hours football game is almost unbearable.
At this point, it sounds like it's already torture - so why is your interest merely "waning?" My God, what would it take?
Ha, good question. I guess waning wasn't the appropriate term. I don't watch football anymore except for 49ers games. I grew up loving the San Francisco 49ers. As a child Joe Montana, Jerry Rice, Roger Craig, Ronnie Lott were my sports heroes and at the time the 49ers were good. Very good. It's just something that I have always enjoyed and wanted to be a part of and it is hard to let something that was once so beloved slip by the wayside. That is changing, though, because the product just isn't as good as it used to be. Really, the only football that interests me anymore is a game involving the 49ers, if they are good. Otherwise I have pretty much turned off the NFL.
It was painful for me that the whole kneeling during the anthem originated with the 49ers and that idiot Kaepernick.
This season of the NFL really stunk. Every interesting team did not even make the playoffs and the games are cookie-cutter boring. I can't watch any sport without a rooting interest.
It did stink. All the teams that I thought would make an interesting Super Bowl didn't make it. Detroit - never been before, what a story that would have been. Houston - never been before, what a story that would have been. Washington - haven't been to a Super Bowl since 1991. Buffalo - haven't been to a Super Bowl since 1995 and have never won one.
Instead we get KC who has been in 5 of the last 6 and Philadelphia, a hideously ugly team that only those in Philly can love and who was in it two years ago. Bleck. Boring. Boring. Boring. And, voila, the game stunk.
The NFL created salary caps to prevent dynasties. Since the advent of the salary caps we have had the New England Patriots and now we have the Kansas City Chiefs. The rest of the teams all suck and can't figure it out.
Nothing against multi-racial couples, Don. My only issue is that that is all they portray on television as if the majority of American couples are multi-racial. That is not the case. Yes, it happens often but it is not the majority. People tend to pair off with those of similar racial ethnicity. Everything that is shown on television is an outright lie. From the happy beer drinking ads to the suburban white housewife coupled up with the black man with dread locks. All ads do is lie and present a false reality that does not exist.
Just by watching an hour of television ads one, who didn't know better, would deduce that America is a black nation and that white people are vast minority.
Until that little white girl down the street sees these adds and buys into them only to get knocked up and her credit cards run all the way up.
The ghetto way five girlfriends all knocked up credit cards maxed and on to the next.
One of my daughters' friends has dove deep into the mud life she just found out her boyfriend of three years has two other ladies on the side both knocked up.
How did she finally decipher it?
She didn't my daughter started looking around some facebook group and saw one of the baby mommas posting Jamals picture.
This is standard fare for the ghetto rap culture.
The worst part about it this beautiful girl went to school for a skill and he made her quit her job to work at Starbucks.
Why? He is such a dirty cheater he just knew she would get scammed on by other guys.
He is Jealous as fuck, tells her she can't hang out with her friends when he is not around and basically controls all aspects of her life.
Instead of dumping him she figured now he was all hers.
Side note to the story her mom also has a black boyfriend who knocked up her son's wife and now has a black grandson fathered by her boyfriend.
This is not the latest scripted episode of Gerry Springer I am literally seeing this play out in real life with several of my daughters friends.
Lives ruined, credit scores destroyed and stuck with some kid the fathers don't care about.
I know three girls living this nightmare right now and one of them stuck her own father with her two unwanted black kids while she is out drinking, smoking weed and sniffing meth. The father of these two babies JUST got out of jail for shaking at least one of these two babies so bad he will have lifetime issues.
My buddy is a good man I would have got this bastard shanked while he was in prison. I almost went to visit this sick bastard so I could loudly say his two babies he abused are doing great without him in their life.
So, you're just saying that there are scumbag young men out there - so what's new? It was ever thus...no, wait! You're actually pointing at them being black, as if no white boy would EVER be an asshole as bad as THESE black assholes. Got it, you racist piece of shit.
Oh no Maria called me a racist...
This was an expansion on ghetto culture and where it intersects with my life personally.
When I see some dirty little white boy knocking up two women and dating a third at the same time while ringing up all their credit cards, I will call them out as well. I have yet to see one act like this in 58 years of life but I am sure they exist somewhere.
Is what it is and the terms racist, Zionist, anti-Semite AND Fascist have lost all meaning.
FYI
I have three black cousins and a black aunt and NONE of them behave like this.
None of the black people I work with act like this.
Horrible
I believe they call it "jungle fever." Yes, it is an illness of the mind.
The Black ethos in the deep cities is not the same as White American, or any other American ethnic group. The Family unit is NOT paramount in the Black world. That fact is used on the national attack on the core family. Men have little allegiance to a singular woman especially where kids are involved.
Not every Black group, but enough. The result? Women on welfare and men in gangs.
That's the whole point.
Bid was doing its best to look manly, though (no more Bud-Light-in-the Loafers ads.)
The hip-hop crap at the Super Bowl is a result of Roger Goodell, The Senator's Son, hiring billionaire drug kingpin and "recording artist" Jay-Z Carter to run events for the NFL in a half-assed attempt to buy off radical black activists. I don't think it's working.
Useful idiots yesterday: "I'm not worried about government surveillance, I have nothing to hide." Useful idiots today: "The government has no right to this private information."
GHETTO ON DISPLAY was the Super Bowl halftime show.
Was the NFL trying for some sort of redemption for past halftime shows?
To me the show script having a pseudo-narrator evoking the look of TransSiberian Orchestra was at best a poor imitation.
Daily Mail said it was the worst half-time show ever!
Huh?
If this Bowl was the Tay-Tay show, why didn't they have Tay-Tay for the halftime?
Tay tay’s 🤣👍🏻
Yeah, what the fuck was that all about? Apparently Jackson has embraced all of Ghettomania, trying desperately to stay relevant as a “Bro”.
I watched it with one of my boys and said, “They should have subtitles scrolling at the bottom!” I never understood one word that was said (not “sung”, “said”).
Careful. The Karens will accuse you of racism and being a Trumptard for such comments.
The appeal of rap would be to 18-30 year old Black males. <1% of the population. A great selection for the Super Bowl.
Biggie was good. Actually funny. But that was long ago.
It's Ruger Goodell, aka the Senator's Son, who has dragged the NFL into the sewer. In the name of DEI and worship of St. George Floyd, he gave noted billionaire drug kingpin and "musician" Jay-Z the job of making the NFL more relevant to blacks (or some such), including booking acts most of white America has little interest in seeing for the last several Super Bowl halftime shows. Apparently this is supposed to bring everyone together by making the majority of viewers say, "What in the **** is this ****? I can't understand him"! I suspect not many people would want to understand him, given the nature of much rap is to bitch about how rotten America is, drugs, squalor, more hatred of the country (especially Whitey), and lots and lots of explicit talk about sex acts with women -- or with men if the rapper is female. Pat Boone and Marty Robbins, this stuff ain't.
Roger, not Ruger. DYAC
Yup, the definition of Rap!
The death throes of the corrupt and the grifters playing out right before our eyes.
I prefer the FAFO approach.
Well - self identifying fraudsters and grifters will be those NGP's that receive funds during the time lawsuit was filed and the supreme court hears it. Trump should say simply, I am not following these orders and freeze any NGO payments.
Why not? Biden explicitly defied SCOTUS even AFTER they ruled his student loan bailouts were unconstitutional. DOGE to Dems: “How do you like me now?”
I thought he did exactly that.
“The actual objective by the plaintiff in these cases (the Party of Chaos) is simply to delay any corrective action.”
Precisely.
I am no lawyer, but I believe that Secretary Bessent can safely ignore the court's orders. In any event, employees of the Treasury Department report to the Secretary and not the judge, and they take their orders from him.
It would be amusing of the attorneys for the President were to show up in court not to make an argument against the lawsuit, but simply to inform the judge that the matter that the AGs have brought pertain to policy and personnel, and that is not in the purview of the courts, who may concern themselves only with law. Remind the judge of this and walk out.
Someone in my family's full time job is to submit proposals for a fortune 500 company to try and win government grants (mostly to DOE, DOD, and DARPA). She is very skilled at this high paying job and has a support team of engineers, accountants, lawyers, etc. that work to put together these proposals to meet the guidelines that the Government Department outlines. There are still hundreds of billions of not yet allocated funds from Build Back Better & inflation reduction act.
This person now realizes they could lose their job but acknowledges that the majority of this funding is waste due to a myriad of reasons. Virtually all Biden admin grants have DEI requirements, they are encouraged to partner with certain NGO's and contractors that will get part of the funding (politicians friends and families), and they have to operate the project within a very bureaucratic framework of reporting, meeting deadlines, reporting, etc.
Overall, the biggest obstacle she runs into is that her company can have a hard time justifying the cost share for these politically targeted projects. Usually the proposals require a cost share of 10-20% and her company can't justify outlaying their own millions as the project's often are pie in the sky or have so much bureaucratic waste that they don't even expect to recover their 10-20% investment on woke government dictated projects.
I told her she should go work for DOGE as she knows the system inside & out.
In general, these grants are not intended to produce tangible, useful results. Rather, they are intended to funnel money to favored NGOs and individuals. Perhaps your family member's employer can glean some benefit from the project, but that is purely coincidental.
Money for nuthin, chicks for free.
Great essay. Yes indeed, FAFO!
These issues raise fundamental questions about the division of powers among our three branches of government and, clearly, it’s long past due for the Supreme Court to reestablish where those divisions lie.
On the one hand, we CFN-types understandably wish for Mr. Trump to ride roughshod over all of the agencies and institutions that have brought this nation to its present existential crisis. On the other, those who wish for an Imperial Presidency with unlimited powers of disruption would do well to remember that the next president may be another Obama, eager to effectively use those powers against us.
I have long regarded Strict Constructionism of the Constitution as being as silly as the notion of Biblical Inerrancy but, in the present circumstance, it may be that we should hope for the Supreme Court to embrace the arrangement originally put in place by the Founding Fathers, and hope that still provides the president with the powers he needs to clean things up.
Congress was intended to make the laws, including, the details of such laws. However, Congress has pissed away much of its authority, sending it to the bureaucracies of the Executive Branch. Today Congress passes vague laws and then pass the responsibility on to the Bureaucrats to enforce. Here's an example. Let's say Congress wants to pass a law to require bakeries to make tasty chocolate bagels. They bicker and argue and come up with a vague law that says every bakery shall now produce tasty chocolate bagels. However, what they don't put in that new law are the details of that tasty chocolate bagel. How long should it take to make that chocolate bagel? What kind of chocolate should be used? How much sugar? Should those bagels be whole wheat or white flour? What baking temperature should they bake them at? How many chocolate bagels does each bakery need to produce in a week? No, what they do is produce a vague law. This then results in the Presidency putting together a Department of Bagelry tasked with making sure bakeries are making tasty chocolate bagels. The Department of Bagelry now sets the standards and the requirements because the Congress was too damned lazy to do its job. Thus we have runaway, rogue agencies doing whatever the hell they want because Congress won't do its job.
My point? Separation of powers are important. We need them. But first, we need a Congress that is willing to do its fucking job and right now all we have are idiots populating the halls of Congress.
I quite agree. Please provide us with a simple, reliable procedure for replacing the crooked, impotent idiots we now have in Congress with wise able statesmen.
Stop letting most people vote. And ban all campaign contributions.
Spot on.
Howard,
Return to secret ballots in Congressional and Senate votes. Allow our lawgivers to vote their conscious, not necessarily the party line or that of their paymasters on K street.
For over 100 years we've been told we need "experts" running things. Teddy Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and especially the incorrigibly evil son of a preacher, Thomas Woodrow Wilson believed that civil service and government should be run by experts and geniuses because average people are corrupt morons who have trouble putting their coffee in a cup. Wilson, a racist whose goal with education was "to make a man as unlike his father as possible," openly said the Constitution needed to be gotten rid of because it didn't fit with his (and Edward Mandel House's) plans to create an administrative state in which it wouldn't matter who was elected because bureaucrats would run everything. That has been one of the biggest goals of the Democrats and Establishment Republicans ever since. They've pretty much achieved their goals: Senators and Representatives seldom do anything of lasting import, unless you count endless blathering on tv important. On the rare occasions actual reformers or statesmen have arrived on the scene, they've been marginalized, assassinated, or assimilated into the Blob. Subversives like Obama are sold to us as reforming statesmen, and the public buys the argument because of their voices, appearance, and alliance with propagandists who call themselves "journalists"; these would-be guarantors of freedom only speak of imperial presidents when someone like Reagan or Trump comes on the scene and threatens the status quo by not following the Establishment's program to the letter.
It's too late. The greed of the special interests perverts all conversations. The Republic is over, and the Emperor has appeared.
Ever since I read "We who are about to die, salute you" as a teenager, I've been studying the steady decline of Rome and how our failing Republic is tracking it.
I am also quite aware that the situation is distinct, from top to bottom, but even so the parallels are eerie,
Your comment about an "Emperor" inspired this reaction.
Trump = Nero
Cackler = Elagabalus
IMHO, the Constitution has the same job as the Bible, to define a structure that defies evil, the spread of immorality. Both ID the evil and give suggestions on how to fend it off.
Of course, and that's why I have juxtaposed them. Both were worthy attempts, in their day, to provide guidance and a moral framework, and both have glaring defects that are unhelpful in today's world. Give up the notion of Inerrancy, and every verse in the Bible is opened to debate; stray from Strict Constructionism and the slippery slope could lead to a new constitutional convention and the dissolution of the union.
In that case, don't even bother opening it. We have ministers and priests in favor of gay marriage and worse. That's where you approach gets us. Tradition must be the guide to interpretation.
Leviticus 18 sets God’s limits on unlawful sexual relations. As this passage is the basis for what God considers sin, it should be the basis for all those ministers, pastors, rabbis and priests should be sermonizing and counseling. Read the passage and you will realize how immoral this country has become.
In today's society, "moral framework" seems to be the great unknown.
Some people want a living constitution. I like mine safely dead - Anthony Scalia, found dead with a pillow on his face. Some posters here believe he just liked to sleep that way. There is no end to human stupidity and cupidity.