Many people are saying that Kavanugh and Gorsuch are paying $1,000, 000 to eat Big Macs at Kremlin A Lardo with him tonight.
Clarence and Samuel get theirs free.
Biggie Sized too!
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President of the Heritage Foundation.
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Meaningless for now, but in the future it would essentially kneecap the Senate should Democrats regain control (or Republicans grow spines.) It would be a seismic shift if allowed to stand, and it would be far worse than the current display of incontinence by Senate Republicans.
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With a Bottomless Scoop of Freedom Fries!
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I suspect that this is a MINOR crime, compared to all the other stuff they have been up to, including impounding literally Billions of $$ in duly appropriated funds in the FY25 Budget, destroying multiple agencies and organizations, and firing thousands of civil servants with fraudulent statements of “cause”.
I am hoping that the Article 3 Courts put a stop to all this, but If I were a Democratic office holder, I would be threatening the GOP in no uncertain words that if the Democrats get the trifecta back, their first order of business would start with a very aggressive DoJ purge of ALL Article 3 Judges who have blatantly broken the rules on corruption and bribery -starting with ALL those “appointed” by the traitorous Federalist Society. I would include frog-marching Thomas, Alito, Kavanaugh and Gorsuch right out the front door of the SCOTUS and into a federal paddy wagon in route to a cold Federal holding pen in the middle of nowhere. The second order business would be at the rapid nomination and appointment of Judges who would work with Administration to reverse all the autocratic crap Trump and the Federalists have foisted on the rest of us.
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The Trump White House’s move… set off alarm bells within the legal community.
Project 2025 laid out the agenda. But these acts / counter-acts…? Donald Trump doesn’t have the deep legal knowledge for this. Musk isn’t steering the specifics either. Cohn is dead.
Who is behind this strategy? Heritage is a foundation. Not a person. Who is it?
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You leave Glusenkamp Perez alone. She barely, but skillfully won in a Republican district twice, over an ultra conservative. I wouldn’t be surprised that a few others on this list have the same story.
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“I have an Article 2…” Talking like he texts?
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So, Roberts finally realizes how deep that pat on the back and ‘thanks’ is.
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Find something else to worry about. He should have sung.
“2nd Amendment -
You only have one job.”
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This is all Project 2025’s agenda to impose a right wing presidential dictatorship. No agencies can be independent of Dear Leader. Their heads can be forcibly imposed with no Senate role. Agencies can be closed by presidential whim, and their funding stolen and used as Dear Leader wishes. The Senate and House would become powerless debating societies. Members would be kept quiet with death threats and “investigations” by the regime’s FBI and DOJ. Judges would be similarly intimidated, and no court orders enforced because federal marshals wouldn’t do their jobs.
It’s a recipe for an authoritarian regime.
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No, this is going to be a seismic election. Eliminate the unfaithful while at it.
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As if.
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We can do without this gambit.
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And no discussion of bottom-feeding Republican pols is complete without Lee Atwater.
“ Questioner: But the fact is, isn’t it, that Reagan does get to the Wallace voter and to the racist side of the Wallace voter by doing away with legal services, by cutting down on food stamps?
Atwater: Y’all don’t quote me on this. You start out in 1954 by saying, “N-word, n-word, n-word”. By 1968, you can’t say “n-word”—that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states’ rightsand all that stuff. You’re getting so abstract now [that] you’re talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you’re talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I’m not saying that. But I’m saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me—because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this”, is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “N-word, n-word”. So, any way you look at it, race is coming on the back-burner.[17]
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While Trump plays the waiver game and switches the on/off tariff buttons with Mexico and Canada, the new tariffs that have stuck are those against China. Moreover, Trump is playing nice with Russia to try and pull them out of China’s sphere of influence. Of course, much of Russia’s trade is now conducted in yuan (renminbi), and a large share of yuan in its foreign reserves (atypical). Russians now buy lots of Chinese consumer goods. So what is Trump’s plan, squeeze Europe by making it the enemy of the US? How’s that working?
Noah Barkin, a seasoned observer of European China policy, warns that “if the Trump administration isn’t careful, Europe could come to see Washington as a greater threat than Beijing.” The Trump administration’s course should not end up enabling China’s own quest for dominance, including in Europe.
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The next four years and beyond will be a bumpy ride come what may, but it will be more navigable after accepting that the world has fundamentally changed. For decades, the US was the champion of western values. The America of Trump, Vance and Musk has left them behind.
One topic of the far right that gets little play, and I have a cousin who won’t shut up about, is the genocide of white people. This comes straight out of the White South African trope about “Zimbabwefication”. The irony may be that when these people are done, the US economy will look a lot like the late-term Robert Mugabe economy.
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GOP Senators might as well resign now, because any who are not on board with this will be primaried in hopes of getting a veto-proof majority in 2026.
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