Her resignation followed a ruling by a Trump-appointed judge that was about as blistering as anything I have ever seen from a federal judge. He basically used proper reasoning and legalese to call Halligan a liar and an idiot!
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Ms. Halligan’s Response asserts that she is free to act in an unlawful capacity, because she disagrees that she does so unlawfully. But that’s not how our legal system works.
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Ms. Halligan has no legal basis to represent to this Court that she holds the position. And any such representation can only be described as a false statement made in direct defiance of valid court orders.
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The Court recognizes that Ms. Halligan lacks the prosecutorial experience that has long been the norm for those nominated to the position of United States Attorney in this District. Consequently, and in light of her inexperience, the Court grants Ms. Halligan the benefit of the doubt and refrains from referring her for further investigation and disciplinary action regarding her misrepresentations to this Court at this time. However, this Memorandum Order provides notice that, should Ms. Halligan persist in ignoring Judge Currie’s Orders and this Memorandum Order in any matter before the undersigned, the Court will initiate disciplinary proceedings against Ms. Halligan and any other signatory to an offending pleading pursuant to Federal Rule of Disciplinary Enforcement V(A).
Here is what all that means in laymen’s language:
Part 1. Disagreeing with a law doesn’t give you permission to break it. Children know that.
Part 2. By using the title in defiance of a court order, Halligan has been lying to the courts.
Part 3. I’m not going to hold Halligan liable for perjury or recommend that she be disbarred, because she’s obviously too ignorant to know how to conduct herself in court, but this ruling remedies her ignorance. If she does this again, she will be disciplined. This also applies to any other official who co-signs a document where she misrepresents herself. (In other words, if Bondi and/or Blanche also sign off on her perjurious claim, the courts will go full Giuliani on their asses.)
Blistering, but another ignorant fool gets to maintain their status based on the benefit of the doubt only the privileged few get in this world. It’s like spineless Thom Tillis stating that he doesn’t blame Trump for the idiocy about Greenland and he blames his advisors. They’re all cowards and so is anyone who supports Trump.
All well and good if one is screwing up their own life, but to waste taxpayer money on stupidity, she should be disbarred because she full well accepted the position for clout and status. I wouldn’t sign on to take a position as nuclear physicist knowing full well I don’t have the knowledge to do so.
The legal system treats the rich and powerful with kid gloves when they err, but good luck getting out of something like a traffic ticket for a rolling stop or going 40 in a 35 when everyone else is going 50. They’re going to get their cut, when people like this fool get a tsk tsk letter.
Part 3 is bullshit. She should be put under the jail.
Agreed. I don’t know why the law “society” is so scared of actually disbarring lawyers. Even when they do shit like this. Especially when they do shit like this.
Trump keeps appointing people based on their “central casting” criteria. It’s just starting to catch up with.
“I will not hold Ms. Halligan criminally responsible yet, for while most humans possess brains in their heads, hers is entirely filled with fecal matter, and her allegiance is to a president with fecal matter in his noggin as well. This condition makes thinking impossible, so her ignorance and lies are understandable and forgivable for the time being, in the eyes of this court. Until next month anyway, when I will lock her ass up if she tries this shit again. Get a grip, you vile twat. Go back to doing Youtube reactions to Marvel superhero movies.”
These are the sorts of appointments we should expect from rapist pedohpile Trump.
Rapist pedophile Trump.
Pedohpile worked. And was a fun reminder that he wasn’t alone while he almost definitely raped children.
So are you saying that rapist pedophile Donald Trump was a pedophile gang rapist? Or that people were just there watching Donald Trump rape children?
Yes
Oh, uh allegedly.
Absence of evidence isn’t evidence of withholding evidence. You’re all living in a never ending cycle of confirmation bias. Why is it the “end of democracy” whenever democrats lose elections? I’ve watched liberals act like the world is ending for Trump twice, bush twice, bush elder once, and Reagan twice. It’s an old routine. You make us put the democrats back in power just so we can get to work on time. Is that the strategy? Annoy us to death?
Slowly boiling frog. Check out the deficit from the time Reagan got into office, and also check out the GDP to income distribution ratio from that point onwards. Gains in productivity go towards those who run the hierarchy and manipulate capital, protected by the arm of the state through invented legalese under the guise of justice.
Tell me the strategy with that one – give the high eight figure earners enough more to be half billionaires? Give the half billionaires enough to earn 11 figures? And then let those already there race to become trillionaires?
Tell me where this grand plan of “the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work for the benefit of all”. as Keynes says, ends up? Likely generational hell over time, with the Earth scorched, because idiots lost to the sands of time had an infinite obsessions with obtaining and controlling resources for ego, power, and decadence. And people like yourself who wholeheartedly support that because you’ve either ignorant to how systems work or malicious.
Recidivism and crime will continue to increase to the point all Empires fall, because of the greed and excess of a few at the cost of those who actually produce the goods and services rather than run hierarchies through opportunism. Good luck continuing to will the state to protect decadence over time, we’ve seen where this ends up.
Roman generals would burn people alive, crucify, and main with every method of torture imaginable for opposition and end the end it didn’t kill dissent obviously. It just eventually lead to the slow decline until Constantinople was sacked, and the cycle continues.
Keep voting under the warped principle of false meritocracy through systemic structures though, we’ll just continue to go through this cycle since apparently a few thousand years isn’t enough to convince people like you.
I’m with you. Let’s take on the billionaires and the multinationals. What the hell happened to antitrust enforcement? Companies like Amazon and Google have held monopoly power across multiple industries for decades. They routinely burn billions just to crush competitors before they can scale. That isn’t innovation, it’s market manipulation.
Wall Street is just as bad. An entire class of people makes money simply by controlling access to capital: charging outrageous interest, demanding collateral, extracting personal guarantees, and skimming value without creating any. There’s a word for that business mode it’s loansharking in a suit
Meanwhile, fraud, waste, and abuse are everywher, public sector and private sector alike. Too many people are getting obscenely rich by gaming the system, and there’s no effective mechanism to stop it. Virtually everyone agrees on this, yet nothing changes.
The core problem is that government is bureaucratic and corrupt, and big business is bureaucratic and corrupt—and they feed each other. Throwing more money at government isn’t the answer. Bailing out “too big to fail” corporations and billionaires only widens the income gap and entrenches the rot.
Enforcement is the only real solution.
I don’t want distractions about “woke,” “social justice,” or immigration. I want monopolies broken up, criminals prosecuted, and career bureaucrats shown the door.
I’m not sure how you have philosophical agreement with what you said and what Trump is doing with lack of regulations and unrestrained corporate greed. He lowered taxes on corporations with no restrictions on what they do with the money in his first term, correct?
Your position is at paradox with what he’s doing. He gives them tax breaks, rich execs give themselves more compensation through stock buybacks (which raise their own compensatory packages) or through mergers and acquisitions (which raise their own compensation through alleged ‘increased responsibilities’, or hands out gigantic golden parachutes, or enriches large investment firms.) None of this money goes to create jobs, it goes into mechanisms which to manipulate capital and ownership for enrichment without creating better goods and services.
I understand potentially every system has corruption, government and corporations alike, but the answer is to change the arm of the state to become more benevolent and just – because we already know what the motivation of unrestrained greed is and what they do without any checks and balances.
If you’re worried about fraud, waste, and abuse there is indeed a ‘deep state’ – but it’s absolutely certainly tied to the military industrial complex which prevents audit, freedom of information act requests, oversight from Congress, etc. And Trump absolutely gives them an even bigger blank check to do whatever they want, because he’s *his* bread and butter to maintain his authority. Iran-Contra happened under Reagan, and there’s no more parasitic organization for the taxpayer than the DOD/Intelligence Agencies/defense contractors – but the GOP are their biggest fan and absolutely LOVE to give them a blank check without oversight.
The issue is, you’re way more worried about anecdotal messaging than substance. I don’t get offended because a black or Hispanic person talks about equality with a platform and moreso than I get offended about a Christian conservative who believes what they believe but leaves others alone. You watch a conservative news source, I’m sure you see plenty of anecdotes of racial stereotype of a lazy black person who robbed three stores and committed welfare fraud, or a Mexican drug dealer. I can just as well find you a priest that was a child molester or a good Christian family man beating his wife behind closed doors. What does that tell me about anything, besides evoking emotions?
In the end, which party supports trickle-down economic that have ruined nations throughout history with the similar methodology of aristocracy and fiefdoms?
Fraud, waste, and abuse reforms have been pushed through before previously with little fanfare because the conservative content providers don’t talk about it like Musk’s DOGE and give simpleminded anti-solutions.
Do you understand how idiotic it is to believe the Social Security Administration that runs a database with data stored of every person alive since the start of social security doesn’t have a simple flag on deceased people to not pay out anything to 150 year? That’s what Musk and Trump would have you believe, even though even the most simplistic understanding of thinking about how someone who died in 1970 still has an active bank account and routing number is ridiculous.
We’re not even getting into the fraud, waste, and abuse committed by Trump. He’s run up the deficit more than any other President by time in office last I checked. How much money is being spent on ICE rather than diverting the federal money to municipal law enforcement? Even if you have no empathy to any of them, great, spending $20,000 a head or whatever the ridiculous cost is for personnel, detention, and flights to deport a 35 year old hard laborer doing work no one else wants to do accomplishes what exactly? Wouldn’t spending billions to combat crime of ANY type – immigrant, gang, violence, property, white collar – etc would be a better investment – correct? Or am I missing something and it feels better if you get attacked by a white heroin addict rather an immigrant?
Maybe consider a reality check, because your underlying philosophy doesn’t tie to an effective strategy and tactics of achieving what you want, and under the Trump administration. You sound easily manipulated by emotions and anecdotes based on biases than logical reality of how systems work. He’s either made issues worse logically, or actively been a bigger contributor of fraud, waste, and abuse than anyone else.
Indy, you are absolutely correct about the incoherence of (populist) right wingers like Steverino. Today (and yesterday) because of Davos I’ve seen (populist) right wingers go off about the wealthy, but two days ago I saw a bunch of posts from these same people on twitter/X where they were quoting from Niall Ferguson, the intellectual fraud historian who is a complete psychophant for the ultra wealthy elite.
What happened to anti Trust enforcement was that the Reagan Administration following the advice of Lewis Powell, the author of the Powell Memo who had subsequently been appointed to the Supreme Court by the Nixon Administration, ‘reinterpreted’ the anti Trust legislation on how it was to be enforced by the Justice Department. This effectively ended trust busting.
It wasn’t until the Biden Administration that the original interpretation was put back into effect. However, the populist, for the little guy, Trump (according to the rubes anyway), revoked this Biden Administration action in August 2025 effectively again ending trust busting.
While I’m not in the United States, I’m not going to engage in this self flagellation that many Democrats seem to enjoy of blaming their party over the Rethug Party since the Rethugs are responsible for probably 90% of the problems in the U.S that are government related.
So, while it is true that both Clinton and Obama were Presidents before the Biden Administration reversal of the Reagan Administration reinterpretation of the anti Trust laws, Clinton was President in the 1990s, a time that was even more right wing in the United States than the 1980s, and the one time he tried to seriously engage in anti Trust actions with the attempted breakup of Microsoft, he was pilloried in the media and by the Rethugs and was blamed for bursting the dot.com bubble.
Obama has less defence, but ultimately, he wasn’t responsible for the reinterpretation and it was again, another Rethug, Trump, who brought back this reinterpretation.
There is plenty of evidence that Trump is a pedophile. Far more evidence than that Clinton is a pedophile or a rapist.
Indy, my philosophy is completely consistent. I’m not a Republican and never have been. I’m definitely not a Trump populist. I’m a libertarian, in the South Park sense. I don’t trust conservatives, and I absolutely despise modern liberals. Everyone is full of shit.
Democrats aren’t going to do a damn thing about mega-corporations or billionaires either. They’re just as corrupt and just as owned by wealthy donors. Money doesn’t have a political ideology, it does what’s best for money.
I vote Republican because government is useless. At least big business has a transparent goal: make as much money as possible. Government is run by incompetent people who think they’re entitled to make decisions for everyone else.
I don’t want a dollar spent on anything that doesn’t benefit the honest, hardworking American taxpayer. I have no interest in equity, gender studies, or paying for abortions because people won’t use birth control. I do believe in individualism, a night-watchman state, clean streets, criminals in prison, a secure border, and legal immigration.
I’m not interested in funding virtue signaling or “causes.” I want outcomes. I don’t want homeless encampments in the streets or gang members in my neighborhood.
I don’t care what France or England thinks of Americans. Europe spent centuries conquering, plundering, and colonizing the world. Most of us are in the U.S. because of European cruelty. Then they got flattened in WWII and suddenly want to lecture everyone about morality.
I don’t watch conservative news. I’m a free-speech absolutist, and I’m not changing my language because a handful of people get uncomfortable.
I want electricity, running water, and safe streets. Protect my friends, my family, and my bank account and leave me alone. I’m a simple guy.
Clearly you are not consistent, though. Look at the contradictions in your two posts. On the one hand, you bash big businesspeople and say there needs to be legal enforcement against them and the breaking up of their trusts, in the other hand (and in the other post) you decry government actions against business.
Wrong. What i said was “
Democrats aren’t going to do a damn thing about mega-corporations or billionaires either. They’re just as corrupt and just as owned by wealthy donors. Money doesn’t have a political ideology, it does what’s best for money.”
I realize that if you felt this way, you’d protest against the injustice, but I have better things to do.
You also said: I vote Republican because government is useless. At least big business has a transparent goal: make as much money as possible. Government is run by incompetent people who think they’re entitled to make decisions for everyone else.
So, if you believe that government is so incompetent, it stands to reason you wouldn’t trust them to regulate trusts.
IGiven this, basically your complaining about corporations and claiming you want to see them broken up is just you engaging in virtue signaling.
Libertarian ideology is a paradox, because you don’t want any regulations yet things you benefit from requires enforcement by protections of the state. You pick and choose what counts and doesn’t count as free market ideology which no one should touch versus what’s allowed.
If I can buy a coke at the grocery store for a dollar, but it costs me $4 at a gas station, thats the ‘free market’ at work because the demand of it at that moment was what it is worth to me. However, the collective of the taxpayer isn’t allowed to yield payment for what it’s worth for billionaires and giant corporations through taxes? All those cargo planes that utilize the FAA and interstate commerce on roadways, etc, etc. Gee the collective of the populace is only allowed to say its for everyone, you can’t charge Bezos or the Walton family more for that, that’s just not fair – even though those collective investments are worth MUCH more to them because they’re heading towards a trillion dollars in wealth.
You want no government, but you don’t want toxins in the water, maybe you’ll want to check out Minamata disease and how that worked out in Japan.
You say no one does anything, but look at what happened post-depression: Keynesian economics got us out of it. Not trickle down econ. When we had the recession, what happened? No regulations, people suffered, then they got bailed out. You can’t have your cake and eat it too – all the things you want have to occur by enforcement. It’s absolutely ridiculous to say nothing by government EVER works. Do you like to breathe lead? Drink mercury? Have buildings still designed in the same way with the same materials as what caused the Chicago fire? I guess mandatory vaccinations are bad and we should still have Smallpox, because gee, some fucktard libertarian is having his personal liberties trampled on because he can’t kill a shitload of people out in public with his ignorance.
It’s absolutely ridiculous to say ‘well gee government sucks but at least big business admits it!’ and then benefit from the protections. Let’s not forget the standards and inventions funded by the taxpayer. TCP/IP was funded by the government, you wouldn’t be communicating right now if not for those types of investments. And countless others.
You bitch about decisions made for others, yet you benefit from the protections. You keep your currency in state issued denominations. You utilize the technologies from it. You utilize the infrastructure paid by the taxpayer. You’re not drinking mercury or breathing lead because of government regulations – it sure as hell wasn’t out of the goodness of the heart of the executives of those companies that these standards were implemented.
I never got the free-speech comment either. It’s not the fact that free speech is being attacked, its people’s actions that are being attacked and them actively making the world a shittier place, how hard is that to understand? Also, if its about what happens on the internet, how fucking hard is it to understand when people bitch things on the internet get censored or deleted you’re posting that one someone’s PROPERTY? Domains cost money. Servers cost money. Cloud resources cost money. Bandwidth costs money. If a website doesn’t want to hear ‘MAGAguy2026’ ramble on about immigration and throw slurs out, its no different than someone coming onto your property and trying to put up a sign. Everyone who says ‘free speech is being attacked’ about an internet site that deletes their comments needs read the most rudimentary tutorial on how the web works and understand its trampling on someone else’s free speech rights to try to force them to host content they don’t want there.
Basically, you want to have your cake and eat it too, like all libertarians. By all means, if you want that life, get the fuck off the internet and out of the city or suburbs go be a survivalist and find a plot of land up in Alaska with a nice hut and you’ll be free from ‘state tyranny’. Otherwise, you’re a hypocrite that only wants to pick and choose to utilize state investments for your own personal protection, enrichment, and comforts.
The Biden administration undertook numerous antitrust actions. Mostly combating the size of new mergers as well as making them more difficult to accomplish.
I wonder if Trump will do the same?
You’re arguing outcomes, not mechanisms.
Repeating “enforcement” doesn’t explain how institutions you describe as corrupt, money-driven, and historically ineffective suddenly start working.
If that part’s missing, there’s nothing to debate.
(Solid history lecture — B+ work.)
Indy: “I never understood your free-speech comment either. It’s not that “free speech is being attacked”, it’s that people’s actions are being attacked because you’ve decided they’re making the world a “shittier place.””
But that’s the problem. One person’s “hate speech” is another person’s truth. No one gets to be the arbiter of what may be said, what should be said, or what a “shittier place” even means. In a society this large, spanning ideologies, cultures, and realities. No one has the right or the capacity to be “correct.” That’s the first fundamental difference between us. You argue that one perspective is right. I argue that perspectives simply exist, and I choose mine without pretending it’s universal.
The second difference is your “cake and eat it too” point. You’re right. Completely.
Yes, I use the system. I compromise. I extract benefits. I make tradeoffs. That’s what operating in reality actually looks like. The distinction is that some people live entirely inside a moral theoretical world, debating history, purity, and who’s righteous, while others live in an operational world where outcomes matter more than posture. One world rewards pontification. The other punishes mistakes. I don’t march. I don’t teach. I don’t narrate morality. I do. Doing things in the real world is messy, compromised, and morally unsatisfying, but it’s the only place where anything ever actually changes.
Steverino, I’m not going to convince you otherwise or me vice versa, I just don’t see any consistency with your philosophy.
First on the free speech thing, you never addressed anything I said regarding personal property and allowing someone to say what they want on someone’s personal property. It has no distinction on what the first amendment is – which is persecution by the state over freedom of speech and press. It doesn’t have to be hate speech, it doesn’t have to be racist, sexist, or anything else – and you would think an alleged libertarian would get that. Calling your mother a whore inside your house, you’re welcome to kick that person out. The same applies to the internet and who owns the domain and server. I’ve never understood the free speech persecution complex, every analysis of what people actually complain about is dissent and consequences. Someone acts like a piece of shit, gets called out for it, and then doesn’t like the consequences of acting like a piece of shit. Being an asshole in someone elses private organization or on someone elses private property isn’t protected from consequences or backlash – why is that a difficult concept to understand? Virtually every platform from AM radio, to cable TV, to streaming, to content provides is LITTERED with right-wing nuts complaining about the free speech that they’re allowed to disseminate all over every form of communication and media, which in of itself is contrarian.
On the structures you talk about, I’m arguing both mechanisms and outcomes, any institutions that is an organization of individuals can become corrupt of any type, because individuals can inflict harm through free will. If you’re applying one to the government, then you have to apply it to everything. You believe in law enforcement, there’s plenty of corruption there – so what’s the difference between saying ‘well we should have as little government as possible because its corrupt’ and you could say that about any organization of people. Saying don’t have it because it’s made up of people who can be corrupt is a ridiculous concept, and you’re inconsistent applying it to what you pick and choose to wish to have as an institution.
Nothing I say is just pondering of the theoretical. You say you do? So do I. I have three degrees, I’ve worked for a decade plus in high paying engineering positions inside a Fortune 100 company who is also one of the largest government contractors. Your reasoning on fraud, waste, and abuse being a government artifact is something I have first hand experience happens in large private corporations as well. I’ve seen time fraud, I’ve seen people on the clock not be available for hours on end, I’ve seen incompetent people hired who didn’t know the basics about a computer, I’ve seen managers, directors, VPs not care even when it was explained because they didn’t want to rock the boat. I’ve seen extreme technical flaws not understood at the highest levels and lead to departments getting gutted and AVPs fired. I’ve seen public lawsuits by the government that chargebacks were illegals and fines levied because of oversight. None of this is exclusive to government.
You know the difference between the two though? That same organization pulled in $10 billion plus of profit just going back a decade, doing the same job that could have been done by the government, or contracted to public-trust or non-profit organizations. All while the executives were pushing stock buybacks, and then cashing out their compensation for tens and hundreds of millions on a daily basis.
That’s the point. The corruption and ineptitude you speak of is not mitigated by private organizations, but not only that, it enriches the executive and investor class at the cost of the taxpayer because the stated legal purpose of any large corporation is to increase shareholder value. It’s not balance profits with public good, shared fairly with labor and consumers, or to increase the function of goods and services that are offered.
You’re just led to believe via propaganda that anything state controlled is inept or corrupt, despite there being multiple examples of successes for the public good. The reason why that propaganda goes out, is because private organizations and the executives and investors that control them are largely made of sociopaths who wish to accumulate wealth, power, and excess. They don’t wish for a public, public-trust, non-profit or any other option to exist that they don’t personally benefit from.
Take my example of the large government contractor I’ve worked for, and imagine if consumers of the United States Postal Service had to pay prorated $10 billion over a decade in overhead? That’s what we do – constantly – with every government contract given out to the military industrial complex or other taxpayer funded corporations that privatize the gains. I’m sure FedEx and UPS love people like you that would love to abolish anything government owned, so they could charge $10.00 to mail a letter and then lie about how much more efficient they are.
You may want to look into the history of technology and learn about that world, and absolutely how much money came from the taxpayer, still on the national debt ledger, and how much of that money eventually went to the soon to be trillionaires to fund their excess because its the best modern example of the fallacy of the rugged self-made individual who so happened to take funding and inventions from the public domain with the benefit of chance, and then leverage the government to change laws to prevent competition to accrue their hoard of resources at the cost of everyone else.
Indy, I’m not trying to convince you, and you don’t need to convince me. That’s not the point.
I respect your view of the world. I don’t agree with it, but I respect it.
I’m not trying to resolve contradictions inside a moral framework or dismantle anyone’s philosophy. I’m describing how I actually operate inside broken ones. I already laid out my case on bureaucracy and corruption in big business. Where we differ is on ineptness.
I’m choosing the lesser of two evils.
Greed produces more efficiency than government job security. I don’t endorse it, it’s simply an observation.
I hope someone, anyone, takes down big business. But until that happens, I deal with the hand I’ve been dealt instead of pretending I’m above it.
It’s not absence of evidence when Democrats lose elections, it’s the evidence that is avaiable, Project 2025 and Agenda 47 make it clear the the Republican goal is a Republican dictatorship, and the fascist Federalist Society Supreme Court make this clear.
“Acting like the world is ending” is a far more vague that ‘end of democracy.’ I don’t recall any serious Democrat being concerned about the state of democracy with Reagan and certainly not with Bush elder. There were other concerns expressed especially about Reagan, many of which you yourself identified in your subsequent post as it was the Reagan Administration that put the principles behind the Friedman Doctrine and the Powell Memo into legal force.
Meant to say ‘the fascist Federalist Society Supreme Court’ (45 or so years in the making) makes this possible.’
I was referencing the child rape accusations. When there’s evidence, the left can act like it’s true.
As…the moron is back and still unable to conceptualize his stupidity.
“I’ve watched liberals act like the world is ending” yada, yada, yada
rino I watched trump throw a hissy fit and his sheep storm the capitol on Jan 6 when trump lost the 2020 election and then trump pardoned his fascist sheep. Indeed rino, could wrote a book re: clueless folk like you make laughable, unsupported arguments, but why bother?
rino, have a lovely day!
Anyone watch his presser yesterday or Davos speech today? The senile old kid fucker is so far gone – his stupid brainwashed cult won’t see it, but if he was livestock you’d put him down
Putting his stupid brainwashed cult down as well is the real way to make America great again.
After Trump is eliminated, this country is going to need a de-MAGAfication that will make Nuremberg look like an episode of Judge Judy.
There’s no path back to normal society for his cult. We need to fill the ICE warehouses and camps with these idiots and isolate the cancer from the part of the country that’s worth saving.
Not knocking the dream, but what we’ll get will be more both-sidesisms and even re-election for some of these pukes. Bari Weiss might lose her job, but CBS will still have a long road back.
Just as an example, look at what’s going on in Virginia. The new Democratic Governor-Elect is removing all the MAGA-appointed members of the UVa board, who of course have spent the last four years doing MAGA things to a previously-respected school, and the Republicans are screaming bloody murder that she’s making changes for political reasons (i.e., the same thing the current asshole did).
It won’t happen. The dictatorship of the appallingly greedy wealthy elite backed up by the fascist Federalist Society Supreme Court will continue with President Vance.
President Vance? Sofa King?
Sadly too much of the country is now pro pedophile rapists for anything to happen to anyone.
I think that anyone watching/reading some of what Trump has put out over the past few months must reach the conclusion that there is something seriously wrong with his metal state. And I do not mean that as just a partisan shot, but as something that anyone must see, regardless of where they sit on the political spectrum. Why is there not more discussion of this?
Because media hacks like Jake Tapper only care when it’s a Democratic President.
He’s been normalized over the last decade by the media – sane washing to brush off whatever he says or does as meaning something else other than him being a nut.
Also, many people don’t care – you either have his MAGA cult, or those who wish to avoid political or divisive talk altogether, which I don’t blame them.
People are also conditioned to fall for insanity if presented in a certain manner. Biden spoke slow, soft, stuttered, and misspoke – so he was unfit for office based on demeanor. Nevermind the fact he had a much more competent cabinet making decisions.
Today Trump referred to Greenland as Iceland several times, but its all been sane washed as typical his angry rambling manner. You better believe if it was Biden up there doing the same exact thing in his cadence and tone of voice, you would have a GOP led Congress pushing to invoke the 25th amendment.
Chimney, my opinion is that what you describe is caused by the wealthy individuals who own or run the mass media in the country are nearly all Republicans. And they want the Republican policies that have, for the past 45 years, benefited the rich more than anyone else to continue. They don’t care about the rest of the country, because they despise most of the rest of the country. Remember Mitt Romney telling a group of them that 47% of the American people were dependent on the government? That is what they think of the public.
And many of them read “Atlas Shrugged” at some point, and nodded at the parts that described how the country collapsed without people like them, and how it was right and just for them to rule the masses. Those people see themselves as John Galt, every one.
Or maybe I am just cynical because Trump’s lunacy continues untouched, and his ICE bullyboys roam the streets, free to break the laws as they please in the service of their hatreds and their modern Hitler. They never see footage of his decay, and wouldn’t believe it they did, and that’s the way most billionaires like it.
A sick country…only in a sick country is Trump still President.
After Biden, the media stopped caring about the health of the President, mental or physical. Maybe they’re afraid of being sued or FCC action. So we get the spectacle of watching Trump die in real time.
The absolute most amazing speech I’ve ever seen a POTUS give, and not remotely in a good way.
This country is done. And probably for the best, frankly.
Judge: “Fuck around and find out.”
A liar and an idiot? As I understand it these days, that makes her eligible for a Nobel prize…
A second-hand one maybe.
Ah yes because Fox News and Newsmax told you so with their conspiracy theories.
Congratulations! You have reached the perfect score for comments. It’s both unsupported and irrelevant!
1. Unsupported. No examples. Just a wild-eyed what-aboutism, the kind of crazy stuff you hear from the drunk at the bar who watches nutbag opinion shows.
2. Irrelevant. Even if we assume that’s true, it means nothing. If somebody once broke a law and got away with it, that doesn’t mean that everyone is now free to ignore all laws. As the judge pointed out, “The legal system doesn’t work that way.”
3. This opinion was not written by a Democrat. It was written by a conservative Trump appointee. It’s just that … well … you know – he’s not a talk show host. He’s a judge, so following the law is kind of his job.
Better stay in your bubble ..othercrap is dangerous for your state of derangement.
The less impressive part of this bold judicial assertion of authority is that it occurred on the 120th day of her 120-day temporary appointment, i.e., she was leaving anyway.