Voltaire

Some of us happen to notice that in most instances (don't quote me, guessing 85% of the time or so, could be less) , it turns out that the Trump administration had indeed been interpreting the laws correctly the entire time and it is the activist partisan judges on the lower courts who get reigned in and overridden regularly. Its frustrating for SCOTUS to have to step in all the time since the lower courts choose to just ignore their rulings so frequently. Meanwhile the trump administration never disobeys any lower court decisions. They at best drag their feet or meet minimum requirements, then frequently prevail on appeal. On page eight here you'll see Gorsich writing (with Kavanaugh signing on) a concurrence lamentation that begins with: "Lower court judges may sometimes disagree with this Court’s decisions, but they are never free to defy them." and goes on talking about how that happened in California vs Department of Education https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/25a103_kh7p.pdf#page=8

Over the years, I've come to see both Glen Greenwald and Bari Weiss are respectable old school journalist with old school ethics (it seems to me). Two of the most reliable and trusted left-of-center news sources on the internet. That Greenwald doesn't like Weiss and accuses her of being a shill for Israel is disappointing. I guess in retrospect, she does always take Israel's side, but then again so do I. I'm not exactly struggling to figure our which side is the better one in this conflict. Anyway, if Weiss is given the leadership role at CBS, I'll be doing cartwheels of joy. She is/was as straight a shooter as exists in the world of journalism. She has all the scars from going through the ringer, the courage to jeopardize her career and reputation by speaking truth to power at NYTimes to prove it. Talented, tough as nails, and ethical as the day is long. If true, what an epic turn of events for her. Too bad she's kinda meh-looking though.

Its another slick move from Trump, another trap for the Dems. The Democrats now have to figure out if they want to play the 'These Drug Smugglers Are Victims' card or not at the same time that the supply of narcotics in the US will invariably go down and Trump claims credit for it. Gutterboy is already doing so. Is he getting out ahead of his skis? We'll see what the rest of them do.

I'm glad you deal with the abuse and continue to post here. You've threatened to leave in the past and taken abuse for changing your mind but I'm glad you stick around. A lot of people agree with your take, but not a lot of them post here. I know full well that you speak for a large number of people and its important to have that perspective around and articulated so well. The wheels of national politics turn in two year increments. 2026 can turn everything on its ear again. But for the present, right here and right now, it is a really exciting time for those of us that love and care about the country. Your side has poured so much hate, derision, and division on the US, on our history and on our founders for so long, but the US is now and always has been the primary conduit of all the good in the world for the last 250 years despite the lies and hatred you spew at us. Bright blue skies. Its exhilarating shedding the cynical and DEI induced shaming and guilt riddling and restoring the swagger, luster, and grandeur that had been missing. For the first time in our lifetime, there exists both the motivation and the opportunity to straighten out seemingly intractable decades old problems and restore what is good and right in the country. Solutions are coming about everywhere. Meanwhile its not a good time for you guys, These reforms are only be accomplished by being able to ignore your side completely, set you aside and roll over you. But this comes with the risk of an over-reach and backlash and your time will come to be on top again. Still voter registration trends are promising that this can last and make these reforms permanent. When the time comes and your side is back in office, hopefully you'll have regained your sanity. Because right now, you guys are a scary collection of really bad actors.

I stopped paying attention to Portland as a source of easily-avoidable leftoid created problem comedy a while ago. Maybe it was a mistake, but I just don't have the time I once did. In the mean time, surely due to being the home of one of the most retarded /worthless voter bases in the nation, Keith Wilson appears to have been deposited into the mayor's office directly from Ted Wheeler's ass. I wonder how the brainwashed lemmings there will react if/when ANTIFA gets around to burning the rest of the city down. They just keep looking left and right, wondering why everything went wrong, then bicycle past the homeless shelters hoping not to get mugged again today.

I don't have anything of importance to say on the matter. I just want to say that I found humor in your typo. Apparently Israel has a message that they'd like for all you Tims of the world to consider.

Dammit, I was going to post something along these lines. I now realize I had no chance that others would miss the opportunity.

Diseases were a scourge of humanity, wiping us throughout history, until Jenner came along with his smallpox vaccine. Coming up with vaccines was one of the greatest developments in human history, Notice how all of these plagues have ((poof)) went away. Maybe not. Nobody alive today has an active memory of those times, the entire reason we overcame is because the vaccine regiment of full vaccination has been a smashing success. That kid over there has an allergic reaction to the vaccine. Meanwhile that kid's mom is dumb as a rock. We, the healthy, have a civic obligation to the sick, the elderly, and the children of morons to protect them as well.

Maybe so. With the land routes closed, I've a feeling that shutting the sea routes as well is going to be a really, really effective way to keep drugs out. If that happens a lot of positive downstream side effects will start happening as well. If that ever starts happening, you can count on me to join you in protest.

I think your posts are well thought out and worth reading.

This is a terrible policy reversal and an over-reaction to the COVID vaccine situation. I've lived in Florida for 21 months now and in the next gubernatorial election, finding a Republican candidate in the primary who wants to return vax mandates will be a priority issue.

We got off to such a great start, everywhere, all at once. My only gripe is that I wish SCOTUS were working faster to quash all these out of control lower courts run by partisan activist leftoid judges. They flat refuse to follow the law nor abide by SCOTUS decisions always seeking to undermine the president and SCOTUS decisions.

Not true. Tim's politics are diametrically opposed to mine but not only do I not hate Tim, I believe that we could not just get along fine IRL but could be friends. I'll go even further htan that. I'm a better person for having him around. Really. My inclination is to be more of an a$$hole troll wrestling in the mud with gutterboy and Rusty and throwing insults around. It's because of Tim and some of the better posters on the left around here with better manners, I rewrite to change my mind and not post much of the snarl I normally would. The left is a rainbow coalition of idiot scum contaminating western civilization. They've got the communists, the DEI race baiters, the terrorist sympathizers, the criminal lovers/cop haters, degenerate perverts, ANTIFA, welfare cheats, rabid anti-American immigrant students from global sh*tholes, the open borders crowd, butt ugly rich trust funded white liberal women with useless degrees who wear nose rings dye their hair blue, weigh 300 pounds that have stopped bathing bathing and post on TikTok, and worst of all: gutterboy. It turns out the Democratic Party only works so far as the amoral elites in academia, government, Hollyweird, corporations, the media that run it can keep the animals in the zoo. They never offer any criticism of the freaks. Instead, the only tool they have ever used is to keep the kid on the freak show is to kiss the freaks' asses and promise to do what they're told, then only give them a third of what they promised or nothing at all. I think Tim is in this later category of liberals who kotow to all the freaks' desires without actually being freaks themselves. The Democrats are run apparatchiks who try to appease their freak show base and paint smilie faces on them to the broader public. You're a racist or homophobe or sexist for noticing the stench emminating from the left, stench which they assure us totally doesn't exist. I think in Tim's mind, he sincerely means well but it occurs to me that the road to hell is paved with Tim's and the rest of the left's good intentions. Now, I chose to live in a community and state where people who vote like him don't have any political power and am delighted at all the national level reforms that have been going on for the last eight months intended to extract the country from the country people like him.

I presume that this post meant for a different thread?

Somehow, the cupboards were left totally bare in Michigan at the most important position in all of football last year. There was a talentless void in the middle of the offense, only ever seen in the region once before: during the 90s when Scott Mitchell was busy destroying Barry Sanders' career. So a tag-team between personal recruiting trips by Tom Brady and the $bajillions$ that Larry Ellison's wife had access to, together hey went and backed up a bank truck in the driveway of the consensus #1 ranked QB in the nation last year and Michigan is now starting him as a true freshman. And the kid looked pretty good. He has loads of talent around him and a full season to get ready for the next Ohio State beatdown.

We learned last year that 2024 Michigan didn't need a QB to beat Ohio State, with their clownish Offensive Line who I was laughing at all game. Don't need a QB so much when so many drives start deep in opposing territory. We'll see what happens this year.

Hopefully true. Can't believe they all nicely assembled in one place like that.

I doubt it was an accidental omission but glad it was fixed. That young man has gone through his life with that unusual name and he should be treated the same as everyone else.

Sorry fellas. I really, truly was hoping that Uganda Dad would have been sent home before Labor Day. :sad: I still am holding out hope that Uganda see him there in early September, even if only for a flight layover.

Although to everyone with a functional brain, this is the clearest case of a hate crime in the history of hate crime legislation, the leftwing media refuses to allow its brainwashed followers to consider the possibility. Something clear as day to everyone else. Meanwhile as usual, the leftoid sheep just follow along, too stoopid to realize they are being totally gaslit. And in this instance, when the gaslighting is turn up to eleven, you really have to be deep, deep deep in the woods to swallow this latest load of MSM sh*t. Also, listen to how the left wing politicians are handling this: "while its sad and all about the dead Catholic kids, the most important thing to remember at this time of grieving is that the trans community bears zero responsibility for this. The transgender community needs your understanding at a time like this and also fock you to all of you who offer prayers for those dead kids."

I'm ready to finish my sentence now. Apparently, Robin Westman had been trans, but he had been musing about he he had gotten fed up with being trans, so he detransitioned. I guess we're just hoing to have to accept that we're still at zero trans shooters. You'll notice that even the MSM agrees to uses the pronoun 'he' when referring to our totally-not-transgeder Robin. Robin “was tired of being trans” and wished he “never brain-washed” himself. https://www.livemint.com/news/minneapolis-school-shooter-robin-westman-was-tired-of-being-trans-wished-i-never-brain-washed-myself-11756439047024.html

Biden couldn't figure out where his bedroom was, but he did have an autopen and she had access to it.

Bolton is/was/always has been a flaming pile of sh1t and is forever the biggest Bushtarded chickenhawk out there, despite working for / being ignored by Trump for five minutes. But that was Trump’s stupid fault for hiring a guy with a foreign policy diametrically opposite of his own in the first place. It was well established at the time what Bolton was when he got hired and yet he was offered a job anyway. And he can now forever be labeled a “former Trump official” because for some idiotic reason, Trump did indeed offer the guy a job in his first administration. Sone of us blew a brain circuit in this forearm when Bolton was brought on board and that decision has borne negative fruit ever since. Maybe they wanted to harness his reputation as deranged warmonger for some purpose or other, but a huge reason why we elected Trump in the first place was to get guys like Bolton as far away from foreign policy decisions as possible.

We all have to do our part to stay vigilant if we want to maintain that golden 100% of making all our threads about trannies.

Robin Westman isn't really trans because (_______________). Sorry fellas, I ran out of gas . We're in good hands though. We have a good half dozen posters who will take over from here.