Minor quibble here, @kate_riga, but to clobber Alito, Raskin’s swing had to land, and it didn’t. Alito doesn’t care what Raskin thinks of him, and until the House is willing to impeach and the Senate’s willing to convict, he doesn’t have to.
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“tge dnsrt”
Wise words.
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The court purported to eliminate the right to abortion. I say they can’t do that; it’s unconstitutional. The right still exists, although the court purports to allow states to restrict or even terminate it. At some point a future court (hope it’s in my lifetime, but I wouldn’t necessarily count on it) will say the Alito decision was “egregiously wrong,” just as he said Roe v. Wade was “egregiously” decided.
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I suppose your mom could have volunteered that you would come back to Denmark someday and wash the vomit off his car.
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That’s what I heard from Michael Popok yesterday on the MeidasTouch Network. Regardless, we know the Trump defense lawyers have made the same specious claims about Trump’s immunity–in all cases!–over and over.
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And some of the “conservatives,” especially Alito and Thomas, don’t seem to grasp the concept of “the appearance of propriety,” which lower-court justices seem to take extremely seriously.
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Billable hours, of course. How long did it take them to compose motion? Although the concept of being paid for a bill to Trump is highly speculative.
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Totally specious reasoning, relying on Cannon’s totally unjustified ruling that the special counsel was unlawfully appointed by the Dept. of Justice.
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As my granddaddy used to say, “It’s always the quiet ones.” It is somehow stunning that we are on the cusp of a political, possibly geopolitical, power shift or realignment, and the media dwell on the lens lice rather than the players. Peter Thiel is the other half of the Musk dyad, the creator of the JD Vance-bot, and deeply involved in national security and corporate power projection through his Palantir business. Among other things, the New Zealand citizen since 2011 seek massive demographic adjustment, including real hardening of the US borders. His firm names (e.g. Mithril) are usually taken from Tolkien, of which he was a careful reader as a teen. He helped create Zuckerberg and Facebook, and seems to have soured on Meta. So why so little coverage? Remember this?
The second and greatest evil came upon Gondor in the reign of Telemnar, the twenty-sixth king, whose father Minardil, son of Eldacar, was slain at Pelargir by the Corsairs of Umbar. (They were led by Angamaite and Sangahyando, the great-grandsons of Castamir.) Soon after a deadly plague came with dark winds out of the East. The King and all his children died, and great numbers of the people of Gondor, especially those that lived in Osgiliath. Then for weariness and fewness of men the watch on the borders of Mordor ceased and the fortresses that guarded the passes were unmanned.
Later it was noted that these things happened even as the Shadow grew deep in Greenwood, and many evil things reappeared, signs of the arising of Sauron. It is true that the enemies of Gondor also suffered, or they might have overwhelmed it in its weakness; but Sauron could wait, and it may well be that the opening of Mordor was what he chiefly desired.
From Appendix A of Tolkein’s Appendices to Lord of the Rings.
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Going to Google a list of countries that don’t admit convicted felons. How embarrassing for one’s head of state. Canada is one of those… maybe that’s why Trump wants to make us the 51st state, so we won’t turn him away at our very porous border. /snark
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This is probably one of the most critical issues facing TCF (we’ll need to add an S to this somehow after today, should the sentencing go down) as POTUS after the next ten days. There’re quite a few places where he simply will not be permitted to go, President or not.
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Bookmark this one. The new administration will try to take credit for this and they will deny any degradation of the employment numbers during the rest of the year (or simply compel DOL to lie about them), but this is the reality:
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Yet all we hear in the news is about the failure of Bidenomics. It’s just that the US failed so badly at failing. It failed less than any G7 country, performing less bad in every year since the pandemic. And look at how hard it has become to be unemployed in America! Just 4 people out of a hundred can pull it off! Look at how many have had to assume the burdens of Obamacare instead of opting for the freedom of personal bankruptcy and financial ruin. Thank God that all this upward failure is about to stop.
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This has been the situation since the Presidential campaign began - Biden was destroying the economy. The fact that unemployment is at an all time low and the stock market is at an all time high was totally irrelevant to the voting public. They believed what they were told.
And now, when it all crashes, we will be told that all is well. Same batch of liars.
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How the hell did I look at that in context and come up with “the smart [money]”?!? 
She got out and helped 
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That’s “the smart” in auto-correct speak.
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So what you’re saying is you should get your math professor to give you 95 theses, you write them down on a piece of paper (might have to write small and go Legal sized paper) and then you borrow a hammer and nail from your neighbor and nail the paper to the door of the church?
I guess the theory is that they’re so far gone that they can’t work the logic, so will be well and truly fucked for a few generations?
I’ll admit that this approach does remind me of a few of the Artsie Majors we crossed paths with in college, but now with ChatGPT I’m not sure we can keep them all tied up for an entire Reformation…
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I mean, I’d cut out the extra labor, buy a blank ream of paper, a 3-inch nail, and a nailgun, and just nail that to the door.
Not like the Dolan cares what anyone not the Pope thinks. He’s never gonna read it, so why bother writing it?
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