President-elect Donald Trump’s nomination of Matt Gaetz as Attorney General has consumed most of the media attention in the last week. Indeed, it seems to have sucked the oxygen out of this city. The media frenzy over Gaetz and a couple of other nominations has served to brush over an appointment that should be universally praised: William McGinley as the next White House Counsel. I had the pleasure of teaching Bill at George Washington Law School, and he is ideal for this position, particularly at this critical time in our country.
Bill was one of my students in first-year torts in the mid-1990s. He was a gifted student who knew early on that he wanted to work along the borderline of law and politics. It is an area where GW has long excelled, and Bill was quickly recognized as one of the rising stars among young Republican lawyers. (Notably, Bill attended my class a couple years after prior Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway).
Bill received a B.A. in history from UCLA and a master’s in history from California State University.
During his first summer, when other students were seeking summer internships with firms, Bill clerked for the Republic National Committee (RNC) and delved into the world of law, politics, and policy. Upon his graduation, his rise in the profession can only be described as meteoric. At a young age, he would serve as Deputy General Counsel to the RNC and coordinate the national campaigns for candidates and ballot initiatives. He also served as counsel to the RNC Standing Committee on Rules, the powerful group that establishes the framework for the party and its conventions.
Bill ultimately became the General Counsel to the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) before becoming a partner at some of the most prestigious law firms, including Patton Boggs and Jones Day. He also remained active as an alumnus at GW Law School, supporting other students in pursuing their careers in Washington, D.C., and other cities.
Bill has all the qualities of an ideal White House Counsel. He can offer the President the clarity of judgment and foresight needed in this position, which requires the authority to give needed direction on the best course for achieving goals and unwanted advice when needed.
That is the model of past successful White House Counsels, like the late C. Boyden Gray. It requires the trust of a president that, while the advice is sometimes inconvenient, his counsel seeks to facilitate, not frustrate, his legacy.
Bill is a tenacious and seasoned fighter with the “street cred” to be taken seriously by everyone in this city. He also has a deep-seated love for the law and legal education. Trump found a White House counsel who knows this city and how to get things done despite the deep partisan divides. Do not let his various degrees fool you. He is neither an egg-headed nor lace-curtained lawyer. He is an intellectual who knows how to scrap. He is someone who not only has a deep understanding of history but also someone who knows how to make history.
Trump picked wisely with Bill McGinley, and I am particularly proud of his success as a leader in our profession.
@catturd2
If Democrats had 53 Senators, and a Democrat won the Presidential race in a historic landslide – every single cabinet pick would sail through confirmation with 53 votes.
Republicans fight like 7th grade white boys.
I think Matt Gaetz is the perfect AG. As they say, it takes a thief to catch a thief. In this case, all those guys out there banging underage girls… Gaetz is going to catch you.
Indeed, I heard Clinton is handing out cigars in Gaetz honor. Obama’s bringing party favorites and Oprah is going to video the event!
“In this case, all those guys out there banging underage girls… Gaetz is going to catch you.”
Is that you posting from jail Harvey Weinstein, permanent house guest of the Obama’s and Bidens with their daughters in the White House? You’re already in jail.
The statute of limitations has expired on President Daddy Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers banging his daughter.
That would be the pedophile Pervert In Chief you voted for, Bribery Biden.
You want to flex and pose that you care if Gaetz actually did what you insinuate?
Traveller wrote: Thune was elected as a check on Trump, to assure he didn’t kill the cash cow so to speak.
Political observers have been pointing out that Mitch McConnell and the massive senatorial fund he built and controls (which in turn has a lot of control over GOP senators and would be senators) has been positioning Thune to be his successor since before the mid-terms.
Thune – if he can pull it off – will almost assuredly be McConnell v.2.0. McConnell had the beginnings of this already in place when most people believed Trump would be lucky to still be out of jail, much less win the election.
It wasn’t about controlling Trump; it was about McConnell and the cabal he has built retaining strong arm control over Republican senators, whether in the majority or in the minority.
Some would argue that they prefer the minority because they still hold office with all its power and privileges, but are far less accountable for what the Senate does and doesn’t do.
Republicans habitually get amnesia when the time arrives to do what their constituents sent them to do.
They get amnesia because voters prove every election that they have amnesia. And for many, they don’t want the media to speak badly about them.
For House members in purple states, it can be a very careful calculation when they face a re-election challenge every two years. Gaetz and Pelosi, Omar, etc can say and do pretty much whatever they wish: they are completely assured of re-election every two years as long as they wish to remain.
Those in purple states have to consider every vote as to whether it will be the one that sufficiently pisses off voters in their district to the point they vote for the other party’s candidate the next election.
Which is why when some of their constituents might want austere budgets (or wild Marxist spending) but the other half are opposed, they have to make a miserable calculus before casting those votes, least they lose the next election AND the opposing party adds another seat to their total.
Term limits and campaign funding reform ends that. Then they can quit stuffing their pockets and do the nations business that they were elected to do. No more worrying about appeasing the lobbyists, no more worrying about their long term political future. Same strategy as military, if you don’t progress you’re shown the exit. No more excuses
* Term limits again? Yeah, the voters just continue to reelect the same people for a lifetime. They must be stopped and not simply campaigned against. That’s right!
Empires inside of the Empire…
Term limits and campaign funding reform ends that.
If wishes were horses, beggers would ride. Why not go back to dreaming to rolling the Senate back to when the states chose their senators, who then served at their pleasure while that state’s government was in power. Campaign funding reform is never going to happen in a way you wish. Particularly when you’re expecting those benefiting to limit their benefits.
And House members in purple states, regardless of party, are always going to vote with an eye on the next election, which is always less than 24 months away.
In the meantime, I don’t see Thune being anything other than Mitch McConnell 2.0. I would be delighted to be wrong about that.
Jonathan: Yes, Matt Gaetz “sucked the oxygen” out of DC this week. No objective observer thinks DJT’s pic for AG was other than the most horrible in recent memory. First, Gaetz is a boot licker who would do DJT’s bidding. Second, the reason DJT selected was simple. Gaetz is the the only Rep. in the House who resigned just after being selected by DJT. Why? Because Gaetz was facing a House Ethics Committee investigation into his sexual misconduct with minor females and report that was coming out last week. By resigning from the House the Committee no longer has jurisdiction over the investigation and it’s unclear whether it can even issue a report of its findings. So it’s pretty clear DJT selected Gaetz to get him off the hook of accountability for his sex trafficking, plying young females with drugs to get them to have sex. One sex offender does a favor for another sex offender. Makes perfect sense.
Now to DJT’s decision to appoint William McGinley as WH Counsel. You call McGinley “perfect for this position”. He may have been one of your law students but that doesn’t mean he is qualified. He is not in the mold of Dan McGahn or Pat Cipollone, WH Counsel during the first DJT administration. They actually tried to keep DJT from violating the law. Cipollone was instrumental in preventing DJT’s plan to sack the acting AG and replacing him with Jeff Clark to advance the scheme of changing the 2020 election results. Cipollone was also an important witness for the Jan.6 House Select Committee investigating all of DJT’s illegal acts leading up to the Jan. 6 insurrection.
The Q is whether McGinley will be a gatekeeper, like McGhan and Cippolone, to reign in DJT’s worst impulses? If Gaetz is any indication this time around DJT wants his WH Counsel to be utterly loyal–to not question any of his decisions, no matter how they would violate the law and the Constitution. I don’t see McGinley standing up to DJT. It just won’t happen!
You shouted Wolf, Wolf, Wolf,
And now the wolf has come and there is nothing you can do, and no one is listening
I find the hypocrisy overwhelming. These are the very same folks that brought us Barrack Obama?! In his own book he admits to having sold and consumed weed and cocaine. The Larry Sinclair affidavit details his cocaine use and salacious homosexual activities, later supported by his love letters. I use Obama as example as he was elected to the highest position of our government, his resume’ was quite lacking in the jobs department when considering the position.
These are the same people that weaponized our federal institutions, introduced mentally and emotionally unstable individuals into ranking positions. Pushed their Woke diseased agenda on Americas youth, burnt our Cities, spied on us, persecuted us, and pushed us to the edge of nuclear war while bankrupting our nation.
Now they attempt to discredit and destroy Trumps picks?! You can’t make it up!
“Now they attempt to discredit and destroy Trumps picks?! You can’t make it up!”
NTM posters here who have been claiming they want to drain the swamp, but who are savaging the appointees that Trump has selected to best do that. I have never been much of a Trump fan, but I am 100% down with the program to drastically downsize DC, rescind all of its un and extra Constitutional power, and slash entire departments and levels of bureaucracy in the process. It is not possible to accomplish anything like that that without incurring some pain; I believe the idiom “can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs” is appropriate. Now that Trump has been elected with a mandate to accomplish that program, I am willing to 100% support his efforts, at least until such time as those efforts prove to be demonstrably inadequate or otherwise defective. I fail to grasp why others who claim to share that agenda are unwilling to do the same. Maybe they only claim to be concerned with the governance of this nation so that they can get a cheap ego boost from seeing their words and identities on a web page?
Anonymous
I agree, Trump has made his promises, he’s now been given millions of dollars by others. Let’s see what he does, let’s see if he reveals or if he is now endentured to others. If he doesn’t deliver it’s at our own hands, if he can deliver, it’s the beginnings for the saving of our nation. Despite all our rage, we’re still just rats in the cage.
God Bless our nation and all those that fight for it!
We will remain indentured rats in a cage until we eliminate Representation and insist on direct democracy under a constitution guaranteeing equal rights under our laws.
“We will remain indentured rats in a cage until we eliminate Representation and insist on direct democracy under a constitution guaranteeing equal rights under our laws”
Ah! A direct democracy Marxist country – determine how many of the largest cities it will take to win the popular vote. Campaign there and the entire rest of the country is what is now called fly over country.
The indentured rats in the rest of the city will slave to pay the taxes that the head Marxist rat demands to run the country as it wishes.
* Goetz is perfect. He’s fearless.
Perhaps you have gone a bit too far and are not on the right track. If you truly believe Matt Gaetz is guilty, then what is the FBI for? Why haven’t they arrested him for the crimes you mentioned? Why? House have been investigating the ethical aspects for a year without any evidence being presented. Now, suddenly, they want to make an announcement at just the right time, but there are still many shortcomings in that report, as House Speaker Mike Johnson has said.
(OT, sort of)
Two major reasons the D’s got shellacked: 1) They are completely out of touch with middle-class realities and struggles. (“The economy is fine.” “Inflation is where it is supposed to be.”) 2) Their chronic, holier-than-thou scolding — which amounts to: Don’t you know who I am?
Whoopi Goldberg embodies both.
First she claims poverty for why she cannot leave “The View” or the country (after Trump’s election). Her net worth is some *$45-million*.
Then she defames a family-owned bakery on Staten Island, with the vicious accusation that they refused to serve her because of her Leftist politics. Whereas the reality is: Their boiler broke down, and has been breaking down constantly.
As a small business, try updating or replacing an expensive piece of equipment — with Leftist politicians regulating and taxing your business to death.
But, hey — those facts be damned. The boiler should know who Whoopi Goldberg is.
I liked Golberg as a comedia.
I liked her as an actor.
I have no interest in her political views.
If she needs more money – go make another movie – hopefully a good one
Otherwise I will not pay to see it.
Wouldn’t use her for toilet paper. This is what we get from our MSM providing a bully pulpit to a bunch of racist victims comprised of menopausal women. How much are each of these bishes worth? Amerikkka right?!
Goldberg remains a comedian – always.
“Always…” -being laughed at doesn’t make her a professional.
“the vicious accusation that they refused to serve her because of her Leftist politics. ”
I’ll bet the hypocritical st’unt has not condemned FEMA for deliberately failing to conduct post-Helene damage surveys on homes in Western North Carolina that displayed Trump – Vance signs. Frankly, I would like to see a legislative remedy to outlawing the ability of businesses to serve who they choose, for whatever reason they choose.
It’s called gaslighting
As much as Whoopi farts on air that could explain it!
Explain why all of her statements seem to come out of her ass? I agree!
When Trump said he was one indictment away from being reelected, he hit on a basic truth. The mugshot, the lawfare, the assassination attempts including taking a bullet to the face, the attempts to remove him from state ballots … all those things had a huge impact in his favor, especially among minorities who began to see him as one of them.
Trump was elected to clean house.
When Gigi, and Dennis and George ranted abouyt Project 2025 or other idiotic claims regarding Trump.
I repeatedly refered them to Trumps 2024 platform.
Today I would refer Democrats – as well as reclasitrant republicans in the Senate and elsewhere to the 2023 Republican Platform.
That is what Trump promissed, that is what the GOP promissed that is what voters expect.
Not Project2025, Not what NeoCons or never Trumpers or others in the party or on the left or within the democratic party want.
Trump has made clear that his #1 priority is the betterment of the american people – improving their economic and other circumstances.
That is his top priority, but not his only priority.
His platform is NOT the 80 pages of Harris. It is little more than 1/2 a page.
That is his mandate, that is the parties mandate – nothing else.
Though I would note with respect to Gigi Dennis, George, the MSM etc – that when you call him a fascist, nazi, claim he is going to put all his enemies in camps, end democrarcy, be a dictator, ….
If you lose – which you have, you have actually opened the door to his weilding MORE power
If you call someone a fascist, and people vote for them anyway – either they decided you were a liar, or they decided they do not care.
Regardless, you disempower yourself and you empower them.
John said that Trump had around a half page platform and Harris had an 80 page one. Interesting since many people demanded more plan details from Harris and not Trump.
Yeah but her pages were blanks!
… and ably reflected her thoughts…
Redacted.
* Yes, he had to become an underdog to win. The people like underdogs. JD Vance and his hillbilly schtick.
Oooooo! Sour grapes!
I doubt Musk is autistic or Vance is a hillbilly…
You don’t have to be an underdog . Just be a top dog with honesty about issues affecting all Americans.
I’m pretty sure that Musk has self-described himself that way. Mild autism of the Asperger type is not necessarily a handicap.
Gaetz understands a recess appointment to be a meeting with a 16 year old school girl at lunchtime.
Bwahahaha Lawn Boy is soooo funny.
Sell that one to Colbert, dipshit. Its your best.
From the Party that brought you:
Bathhouse Barry
Cigar Bill Clintoon
Biden Bidet
Big Mike O
Tony the Weiner
and the rest of the freak shows unraveling daily, telling it daily zzzzz!
Traveler…..good one! And I wanna see that Diddy list pronto!!
Cindy- Have no fear!
Reportedly Debbie Dingle has teamed with Barrack Obama to investigate. The select Dingle-Barry committee will go to all ends in search of truth. They will go down in the anals of history for their Diddling endeavor. 🤡🤣 Happy Saturday and thank God Trump won!
Lest we forget the Leftist Botox Nancy Piglosi, Mattress Back,Harris, the Fagin impersonator from Oliver!, Chuck You Schumer, Adam Schitt, Eric Swallowswell, Mad Maxine, and, of course, Murdering Hillary the Hildebeast! Wow, I just realized the list of Dimunist criminals (but I repeat myself) is WAY LONGER than will fit in a comment section.
* Thanks to William McGinley a person with excellent references for accepting such a task. That takes courage.
The border will stop and deport. No more asylum claims. It’ll be a constant battle as it’ll be return after return.
People arrested for crimes will not be released but handed to ICE. It isn’t clear if the nation of return will prosecute at all. Possible returns there.
Kidnapped and trafficked children will hopefully be found. Many are being sold to foreign nations and will not be found.
Trump will pardon those who’ve been persecuted. That’s a good.
It isn’t so much that Trump won as it is that Harris and the dems lost. The upper crust in the democratic party knew they had no plan.
Trump won because he ran against the three stooges who were in the asylum of one flew over the cuckoo nest. Throw the mess to Trump to clean up after us. We’ll party and take a break with our ill gotten gains and blood spilled murderous.
Clean up our mess Trump. Get busy, boy.
Quite hopeless but good in the pardons and attempting a find of the children.
* Trump’s a temporary clean up man, a janitor hired to clean up but the boss will return after a little R&R recess to wreak even more havoc as you’ve thrown your pearls to swine and they’ve turned to rend you?
Mind your own business is sage advice.
“Gaetz understands a recess appointment to be a meeting with a 16 year old school girl at lunchtime.”
Democrats get wood thinking that for Ashley Biden, a recess appointment was being home from school being balled in the shower by Dad.
DOJ investigated and found nothing to prosecute.
Given that they have prosecuted so many things that were bald faced lies that speaks volumes.
There is lots of evidence that Gaetz is a playboy.
So was Trump, Biden, Harris sold herself as Arm Candy, Bill Clinton,
Once upon a time this would have mattered. Today if we got rid of all the politicianswith allegations of impropriety
congress would be empty.
Not aware of any allegations that Gaetz was boning other congressmen up the arse in hearing rooms.
Is that you, Dementia Joe, the little girl sniffer? I thought you would be napping…..perpetually.
It’s called a dirt nap.
Learned that from all the high brows–> dirt nap.
Hmmm, Electing Trump will help save thousands of lives!
Zelensky: “The War Will End Faster” Under Trump Administration
Update(1120ET): Merely a year ago or less, Ukrainian officials and Kiev’s staunchest supporters essentially considered it ‘treason’ to even broach the possibility of peace talks with Russia. President Zelensky himself had frequently made it clear that he would not consider it so long as Putin is in power.
But on Friday, Zelensky issued some remarks which constitute a glaring 180-degree reversal, in the wake of Trump’s election victory, on the prospect of peace in Ukraine. Zelensky stated that under the Trump administration “the war will end faster”. He laid out the following in a fresh interview, according to a regional source:
“It is very important for us to have a just peace, so that we do not feel that we have lost our best because of the injustice that has been imposed on you. The war will end, but there is no exact date. Certainly, with the policies of this team that will now lead the White House, the war will end sooner. This is their approach, their promise to their society, and it is also very important to them,” he said.
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-effect-putin-scholz-hold-first-phone-call-almost-two-years
FWIW, From an AI Overview:
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Sounds like Democrats to me.
Twitter (aka X) has lost 80% of its value.
When Musk bought Twitter he put up about half the cost himself, $20 billion.
The other $24 billion came from bank loans and other investors and institutions.
Fidelity invested $19.66 million. Their latest financial disclosures value that investment at $4.18 million, an 80% loss.
Barclays Bank is one of the banks that loaned a total of $13 billion for the leveraged buyout. They recently cut the salaries of the team who negotiated the loan by 40%. Most of those employees have resigned.
The annual interest due on the loans is around $1 billion.
In the first half of this year X produced $600 million in income.
Revenues have been collapsing in the second half of this year.
X is losing 1 million users a day to BlueSky alone.
The X app is no longer in the top 25 of downloaded apps.
The Wall Street Journal (owned by Rupert Murdoch) describes this deal as the worst leveraged buyout deal in history.
Looks like Musk is taking financial advice from Trump.
@Anonymous
Looks like you are posting the same old boosheet, and nobody cares, as ever. Go rant on Blue Sky where you are quite literally just pinging things around the echo chamber like a pellet shot from a bb gun. The difference now is that the rest of us will move on, we are no longer hesitant to speak out, and are indeed, moving on. Without you. And we do it with grace, no recrimination. There is something profoundly wrong with you. You are welcome to rejoin the ranks of the sane anytime you like, and you would be welcomed. But not like this, no.
We are here to talk, you are here to prove or foment something. Big, big difference.
* free to rejoin the sane? Really? Seriously, no, no trust ever!
An example in microeconomics comes from the paradigmatic case: when Elon Musk bought Twitter. He waltzed in carrying a sink, marched upstairs, and started cutting. In a matter of weeks, he had fired four out of five employees. Corporate America had never seen anything like it in the generations. No one even thought such a thing was possible.
What was the result? Yes, there were some hiccups and long hours put in by the survivors. But in the course of one year, the new company X had become the number one news source in the world. They started paying creators. They made available the best AI language model. They enabled calling on direct messages.
Most importantly, they stopped the censorship and gave people confidence that their voices would be heard. In doing all this, Elon overcame attacks by a dozen federal agencies plus an advertising boycott. Through it all, he knew precisely what he was doing and triumphed over all the critics.
This was the Olson thesis come to life. Completely destroying the distribution coalition paid off. It unleashed creativity. It compelled public attention. It attracted investors. It was exciting and new. It is easily the most important digital application and social-media source on the whole planet. All that was necessary was to eliminate the cruft from the system. The wealth creation follows.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/opinion/prosperity-disruption-and-the-trump-opportunity-5758320?ea_src=author_manual&ea_med=related_stories
How did that prediction that Truth would be a penny stock pan out ?
X is a private company. It also have no consequential tangible assets. It is not a real estate company, and it is not publicly traded.
It is very difficult to value
According to emarketer – Twitter’s advertising revenue in 2021 was 2.35B in 2023 it is 3.37B
That is inline with Business Quant’s reporting – though they have not made 2023 public yet
Musks current net worth is 309B and he is the richest man in the world.
Bezos is #2 at 233
“ I WOULD FURTHER NOTE” that John Say continues to make comments about things of which he has little to no knowledge.
He continues to simply make stuff up.
It may be difficult for outsiders to value X, but Fidelity is an insider.
They invested $19.66 million in the buyout.
They hold that asset in their Blue Chip Growth Fund, a publicly traded mutual fund.
They are required by the FTC to use due diligence to value that asset.
Their due diligence based on access to X’s internal financial data leads them to the conclusion that their initial investment of $19.66 million is now worth $4.18 million, a loss of 80%.
““ I WOULD FURTHER NOTE” that John Say continues to make comments about things of which he has little to no knowledge.
He continues to simply make stuff up.”
Again what have I made up ?
Name a single factually incorrect assertion and I will correct it.
“It may be difficult for outsiders to value X, but Fidelity is an insider.
They invested $19.66 million in the buyout.”
The deal was for approximately 40B.
They are in for 0.04% of the deal.
Further we do not know the exact terms of their deal
We do not know how it is structured to determine whether their contribution scales linearly with Twitters Real Value.
“They hold that asset in their Blue Chip Growth Fund, a publicly traded mutual fund.”
The mutual fund is publicly traded – there share of Twitter is NOT.
Presuming they are allowed to – again we do not know the terms of a private deal – and we can not even know them if a party comes forward and makes a claim – unless all other parties confirm.
“They are required by the FTC to use due diligence to value that asset.”
You calim that I “continues to make comments about things of which he has little to no knowledge.”
I OWN and run a due diligence business.
BTW it is the SEC that is the primary regulator of the valuation of things that are publicly traded.
“Their due diligence based on access to X’s internal financial data leads them to the conclusion that their initial investment of $19.66 million is now worth $4.18 million, a loss of 80%.”
False. It would be highly unusual for a party with 0.04% ownership to have access to internal financial data.
With few exceptions the primary financial regulations on private companies are STATES not the federal government, and in my state a minority shareholder needs approximately a 15% ownership interest to get access to financials data.
And YES I KNOW THAT – I was indirectly involved in a lawsuit by a 29% shareholder for abusing minority rights in my state.
Despite being REQUIRED by law to have access to financials. the court refused to order that.
ATS YOU are the one who does not know schiff about what you are talking about.
I would also note – beyond my personally knowledge which you have made stupidly false assumptions about,
There is this thing called the internet – where you can find out who the SEC regulates, who the FTC regulates
How due dilligence actually works, What the rights of minority shareholders are.
The Fidelity story has been all over the web – it is completely meaningless what an approximately 0.04% shareholder thinks their shares are worth.
Especially in a privately traded company where you know nothing about the conditions that apply to their investment.
“It may be difficult for outsiders to value X, but Fidelity is an insider.
They invested $19.66 million in the buyout.
They hold that asset in their Blue Chip Growth Fund, a publicly traded mutual fund.
They are required by the FTC to use due diligence to value that asset.
Their due diligence based on access to X’s internal financial data leads them to the conclusion that their initial investment of $19.66 million is now worth $4.18 million, a loss of 80%.”
An example of the transitive law of idiocy.
5 sentences with atleast 6 obvious errors or fallacies.
Not only is your data as wrong as your claims regarding DJT – is the stock a penny stock yet ? Is trump bankrupt or worth more than double what he was when he left office,
But Musk bet what 100M ? 200? on Trump and won.
What do you think will happen in Vrazill when Trump calls and says – No more censoring US social media or Tarrifs for Brazil ?
What do you think the EU will do regarding Twitter ?
Or does Trump even have to make a call ?
The EU already committed to buying billions more LNG from the US just because Trump is going to be president.
Ending censorship and chamioning free speech is in the Trump platform.
That is important with regard to the US. It is important with regard to the WORLD.
I think Trump and Musk are working to make themselves and the entire world richer. and a better place to be.
Trump is not yet president and all over the place things are changing in anticipation of his presidency
All GOOD changes.
If you want proof how weak a president Biden is- just look at how fast the Houthis, Qatar, Iran, Hzbolla, Hamas, Russia, the Ukraine, Mexico, and on and on made changes after Trump won.
Musk reallized that his vision of X as the free speech platform of the world was not going to work in Brazillian or EU courts.
That he needed more leverage, so he bet on Trump who was taught the value of free speech by being gagged and censored by the left.
Sounds like a good buying opportunity to me.
It would be a good buying opportunity at the discounted price, but X is private. I bet on Musk, so I think the true valuation is much greater. No one knows what the value is until there is a buyer and a seller. Judge Engeron thought MAL was worth $19 Million and Trump in a recent speech placed a figure of $1.5 Billion.
A buyer would look at the surrounding prices, in the hundreds of millions and then evaluate what he was willing to pay. That would be the value until another buyer comes around. MAL is a sensational place.
S. Meyer says: November 16, 2024 at 1:25 PM aka the Sabbath
S. Meyer, let me be the first to express outrage that it appears the WordPress server may be anti-semitic. You have told us repeatedly that you are an authentic Jew, know Judaism better than most, and that anyone who contests you is anti-semitic, stupid, ignorant, and uneducated, your go-to response for pretty much everything.
Given that you are an authentic Jew, the type that gave Donald Trump the election victory no thanks to Catholics, Protestant evangelicals, Hispanics and white men, it is truly unconscionable that your comment would be stamped as being typed on the Sabbath. Perhaps you should file a claim against WordPress for stamping your comment as occurring on the Sabbath because we all have been told you are an authentic Jew. Besides, any Jew who violates the Sabbath, per the Torah, shall have an unfortunate consequence
ב שֵׁשֶׁת יָמִים, תֵּעָשֶׂה מְלָאכָה, וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי יִהְיֶה לָכֶם קֹדֶשׁ שַׁבַּת שַׁבָּתוֹן, לַיהוָה; כָּל-הָעֹשֶׂה בוֹ מְלָאכָה, יוּמָת.
On six days work may be done, but on the seventh day you shall have a Shabbat of
complete rest, holy to Hashem; whoever does any work on it shall be put to death.
– Exodus 35:2
Shabbat’s Work Prohibition
Other activities that by extension are prohibited on the Sabbath include the following:
Painting, drawing, typing
https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/shabbats-work-prohibition/
Jews in Name Only
In 2008, Obama grabbed 78 percent of the Jewish vote. Even the most wildly optimistic polling today shows that Obama’s support remains high among Jews. It’s a result that Republicans simply can’t understand — why do so many Jews continue to support a president who has shown time and again that he stands against the State of Israel? Why the reflexive lever-pulling on behalf of a man who appoints anti-Semites to positions of high power, attends a virulently anti-Semitic church for 20 years, and sees Israel as the cause of the West’s conflict with the Muslim world?
The answer is deceptively simple: the Jews who vote for Obama are, by and large, Jews In Name Only (JINOs).
https://townhall.com/columnists/benshapiro/2011/05/25/jews-in-name-only-n783739
Almost all voting groups shifted toward Trump, except American Jews. Why?
It should come as no surprise Harris won the Jewish vote by a huge margin…
“President Trump’s embrace of anti-democratic, antisemitic, xenophobic, and racist conspiracy theories and tropes seeks to pit communities against one another,” Amy Spitalnick, CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, wrote after the election. “The Jewish community knows precisely where such hate, extremism, and dehumanization leads — and we will be on the front lines of the fights ahead because our values and our safety depend on it.
https://forward.com/opinion/672355/jewish-vote-trump-popular-vote/
Had Jews voted like Catholics, Hispanics and other major groups this past election, Democrats would have ceased to wield any power in the US House and Senate.
Orthodox Jews account for 10% of American Jews. Pity there arent more of them to counterbalance the JINOs
@Estovir whining, and I quote:: “You have told us repeatedly that you are an authentic Jew, know Judaism better than most, and that anyone who contests you is anti-semitic, stupid, ignorant, and uneducated, your go-to response for pretty much everything.”
Estovir, I never said anything about my being an authentic Jew . You slurred Jews who, in your view, fail to meet the standards you associate with what I presume you consider an “authentic Catholic.”
Moreover, I never said I knew Judaism better than most. In fact, I see a lot of non-practicing Jews who are atheists who know far more than I do. Finally, it is not “anyone who contests [me] is anti-semitic.” I say that to those who are anti-Semites and who hold Israel to a unique standard of conduct that no other nation is expected to meet. That double standard, in my view, jeopardizes Israel’s existence and undermines fairness.
Your hostility toward anyone who doesn’t conform to your expectations is evident. You’ve repeatedly expressed disdain for those who don’t share your beliefs about God, those who are overweight or less physically active, Americans, and others. This pattern suggests a deeper issue that, at some time, you need to address.
You say: ” Let me be the first to express outrage that it appears the WordPress server may be anti-semitic.”
I congratulate you on finding something that probably doesn’t exist.
“Given that you are an authentic Jew, the type that gave Donald Trump the election victory no thanks to Catholics, Protestant evangelicals, Hispanics and white men, it is truly unconscionable that your comment would be stamped as being typed on the Sabbath.”
You are beginning to hallucinate. I only provided one vote to Trump and counted on the non-woke population to vote for Trump as well so he would become President. Ironically, I even counted on your support despite your evident disdain for him.
“stamped as being typed on the Sabbath.”
So? As I said earlier, you don’t have a proper understanding of what a Jew is. I also drive a car to services and carry my phone with me. There are 613 Mitzvot, and no Jew follows them all. They can’t. Your idea of being a Catholic is strict observance while looking down on all others who are not as observant as you. By doing so, you are likely committing one or more of the seven deadly sins.
My focus is on doing good deeds and meaningful actions. Going to services weekly is not what I consider a necessity but something that gives me peace and pleasure. The weekly Parashah and discussions are very informative.
I understand you value fitness, and going to the gym is excellent. However, your frequent commentary often comes at the expense of those who don’t meet your physical standards. That judgmental attitude doesn’t reflect the humility I’ve seen in the good Catholics I know. Humility should extend beyond your prayers and into your daily actions.
There are also such things as time zones. Unless you know where a commenter is located at the moment, and what time zone the server is in, you can’t know whether someone posted on Shabbat.
I hadn’t considered that, Milhouse. Thank you for pointing it out, but I won’t take the easy way out. Normally, I walk to services, but with my injured knee, I’ve had to drive. According to Estovir, that makes me an “in-authentic” Jew. To him, authenticity is all about appearances, how you look and how closely you follow the book. But I see it differently. I’m Jewish because my mother was Jewish. Genuine authenticity, however, lies deeper–in one’s heart, thoughts, and actions.
Just mention the pedophilia and child abuse in the Catholic Church, for which they have yet to recompense and accept retribution, and Estovir will show his true Christian colors.
I have no desire to indulge in schadenfreude. What happened within the Church was horrific, but it was the result of the actions of a few individuals whose superiors failed to fulfill their responsibilities. This serves as a stark example of leaders feigning action while doing nothing. Rather than adhering to empty rituals, I choose to focus on uncovering the truth to protect children and others from harm. However, this does not mean that all religious organizations are inherently bad–they are not. It simply highlights that even those who claim to uphold purity can falter.
* Trump bought MAL for 8 million? Pretty good return… it went through some upgrades 😏 too.
only if sold or leveraged
What do you think property taxes are? How about maintenance and upkeep? It’s a rigged game
I really, really appreciate your ability and fortitude to stick to your principles, Professor, and sane commenters, thank you for this. I am not super thrilled with all of Trump’s picks myself but I possess enough wisdom to know when I am not being fair in my thinking. Thanks for letting us all get to know William better. The solution for the deep state and all that has transpired since 2008 (arguably earlier than that, but 2008 most noticeably) is not an easy road, there is a real and truly tangled web to untangle, likely the worst in our nation’s history, but with this kind of thinking, and with brilliant and compassionate people such as yourself, Tulsi, and RFK, in the effort, I really think we can do it. Thank you. i have never seen such a bipartisan and wonderful group of people in my lifetime, truly.
A new day has indeed dawned; let us make that into an era that works for everyone. I believe we can.
James,
I am in wait and see mode. We have a general idea of what their marching orders are. But let us see how they restructure, remove, cut the baggage. Thing is, they all know they are going to be under close scrutiny and will have to make decision that make sense.
@Upstate
Very much agreed. Still on pins and needles, this is not the time to gloat. Hoping for the best, but planning for the worst, and boy, did I not used to be so cynical. I am very, very sad that we live in a time where that cynicism is just being realistic.
James: Hold your head high. Your 1:42 comment above was positive and inspiring, yet anchored in reality. One of the greatest and inspiring songs of my young years was “He ain’t heavy; he’s my brother.”
If we all stick to our principles, help each other, and forge ahead down that road ahead, we will be better persons for it, regardless of particular outcomes that we cannot always control. There is no way to gauge how our individual words and acts may affect or influence others in the endeavor.
https://genius.com/The-hollies-he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother-lyrics
@lin
Thank you, Lin. I agree completely. Nothing matters anymore except that people love their kids and want peaceful lives. I think the tide is turning, I really do, but we are at the beginning. the destruction the modern dems have done in such a very short time is incalculable. Again, thanks. I believe in *us*, and not much more. We turn the tide.
I am optomistic.
Historically the rate of recovery in a free market is proportionate to how bad the left had made things first.
One of the huge deals about this election is the LEFT made it about rhe survival of leftism.
The LEFT made is an existential threat to the LEFT.
And voters not only voted the left out of power,
But they did so BECAUSE the left had gone too far.
And they did so with the left claiming this could result in their being hauled off to camps in chains.
While no one sane beleives that (a surprising number of people on the left as NET sane).
The FACT is that the majority of people mau NOT support hauling them off to camps in chains, but that does NOT mean they want no consequences at all.
I do not want Trump to overstep.
But I think that the left has so pissed people off – that might not be possible.
“ Historically, the rate of recovery in a free market is proportionate to how badly the left made things first.”
Historically, Democrats have left Republicans with a healthy and improving economy. Republicans have done the opposite. The last economic downturn occurred during Trump’s term, and he’s poised to make things worse again and blame it on Democrats as usual. Accepting responsibility is not a republican trait.
“Historically, Democrats have left Republicans with a healthy and improving economy.”
That is a false meme.
Wilson left Harding a depresion.
Hoover a Republican but also a progressive took the excellent economy that Coolidge gave him and made a mess of it.
FDR too that mess and made it REALLY BAD – the great depression lasted much longer in the US than anywhere else in the world.
Specifically because of the US’s POOR progressive policies.
Truman left Eisenhower a good economy and Eisenhower made it better.
Kennedy – a democrat but fiscally conservative improved ion that.
LBJ made a mess of the economy. NIxon made it worse.
Carter inherited a mess, he did the right thing to fix things – but that made them worse in the short run.
Reagan continued Carters austerity and the result was the longest period of sontinuous growth in US history – the great moderation.
Bush I had a mild recession, with recovery starting before the election – but too late to avoid defeat in a 3 way mess to Clinton.
Clinton is an abysmal person and was incredibly bad on foreign policy, but he was pretty good economically, and bears significant responsibility for building a more prosperous minority working class – by working with Gingrich to end welfare as we know it – Obama reversed much of that – but the improvement in the standard of living of the working class had already taken place.
The great recession of 2008 was caused by the FED (all recessions, depressions, and inflation are the result of bad monetary policy) with mistakes starting back in the Clinton adminstration. Regardless, even including the great recession – Bush is the 2nd best president of the 21st century with a 2% average rate of growth.
Obama’s was 1.48% average which considering he started in the valley of a recession is horrible – there was nohwere to go but UP. , Trump’s including 2020 was 2.2% and for his first 3 years was nearly 3%.
Biden is not done yet but adjusting for inflation he may be very close to 0% growth on average – it should not surprise that voters were pissed.
BTW Trump left Biden with 1.5% inflation and 6% growth. So much for your stupid claim.
Your stupid claim has been floating arround the internet for years – it has ALWAYS been garbage.
“The last economic downturn occurred during Trump’s term”
Incorrect – we had 2 qtrs of negative growth during the Biden admin – and adjusting for inflation it is much worse than that.
Trump did has the worst single Q drop in GDP in history – when he allowed the economy to be shutdown
He also had the largest single Q gain in GDP in history – immediately following when he said Stuff this nonsense.
He ended 2020 with approximately zero net growth for the year, and with 6% growth going into 2021 and 1.4% inflation.
“he’s poised to make things worse again and blame it on Democrats as usual.”
I am not sure what will happen in 2025 Q1 – we have been dancing arround a recession for the past 2 years.
But we were also approaching one near the end of 2016 and that flipped instantly with Trump’s election.
I am not sure that inflation can be fixed without having a recession first – Inflation went up 0.2% again in October.
Personally if it takes a recession to get inflation back to 1% – lets get it over with.
Regardless inflation was primarily cause by Biden and the price to get through it belongs to Biden.
While I do not know if we will have a recession in early 2025 – had Harris been elected that would have been certain.
I would be completely shocked if by June we were not seeing close to 3% growth.
Just returning to Trump’s deregulatory policies is good for $1T in REAL additional GDP/yr.
Historically, Democrats have left Republicans with a healthy and improving economy.
“If you aren’t lying, you aren’t really trying”
– President Joseph Robinette Biden
And Curious George, the Marxist Monkey is really trying, in yet another psychotic episode of self confessing Democrat guilt by attempting to channel it on Republicans.
If George didn’t leave himself an upvote after dropping his deuces, he’d have none.
“Historically the rate of recovery in a free market is proportionate to how bad the left had made things first. ”
That can be a valid observation and yet leave the resulting absolute measure of the economy at an unacceptably low level.
Correct, but with respect to the current situation, we are talking UP from what we have here and now.
* No, never again.
James,
I am expecting to hear our leftist friends to cry at every move anyone in the Trump admin makes. They are already having meltdowns on MSM. I hope Gaetz, Gabbard, RFK, Musk et al can find people within their departments who are willing to obey their oaths and serve in their civic duty and not to some party.
“will have to make decision that make sense.”
Long term sense, yes. Decisions that are predicated on have ZERO negative effects in the short to medum term, absolutely not. The program re the swamp foliage needs to be “slash and burn”, and it will be impossible to fireproof every single item of value first. Not a great metaphor, but I think the point should be clear.
Very good comment James. I suspect that everyone of us grew up during the time where these nominations were fairly predictable. Even worse, for the most part confirmations were equally predictable. In the end, we were left with this massive, weaponized, administrative state. This has to end. I have no doubt Trump has been strategizing with some very smart people over the last 4 years to execute on a plan that will be as positively transformative for our government (and the people) as Obama’s transformation was negative.
Trump has NEVER had smart people around him.
Just look at his nominees.
He has never “strategized”.
He is incapable of strategy.
His long history of business failures and bankruptcies prove his inability to “strategize”.
All he knows is bullying, anger and vengeance.
LOL! And yet with all those “stupid” people around him, he has made the greatest political comeback in 100 years. It certainly doesn’t say anything flattering about the anti-Trumpers.
Trump’s only expertise is as a conman.
He has conned stupid people, like you, into voting for him again.
Remember, 50% of the population is below average intelligence.
As it stands right now, Trump has 50.1% of the votes cast for President.
All he needs is a very few more votes than the 50% of people below average intelligence.
Trump’s only expertise is as a conman.
He has conned stupid people, like you, into voting for him again.
😁 Yeah, go with that. I believe I will be at peace with all those other idiots like Elon and Vivek.
“He has conned stupid people, like you, into voting for him again.”
It’s a brilliant Democrat Marxist Biden/Harris voter that got conned for YEARS about the ‘Trump Russia Dossier.
Conned with the Alpha Bank lie.
Conned with the ‘Trump said Nazis are very fine people’ lie.
Conned with the ’51 Intelligence agency experts say that isn’t Biden’s laptop – it’s just Putin election campaign disinformation.
Conned with the “My son did nothing wrong” lie.
Conned with the lie “I don’t know who my son’s business customers are, their names, and I’ve certainly never met with any of them’.
And of course conned with years of lies that President Biden was sharp as a tack and his young staffers could barely keep up with him.
Oh yeah… there’s another Marxist Useful Idiot born every minute.
Anonymous
Do you think if Trump went from orange to black face and cut his penis off anybody in libtartville would dare notice?
Olly, agree but remember it is the idea of making America better that swept Trump in. The blatant corruption and persecution helped as well. Trump is not the Messiah, he is the figurehead of those Americans trying to save what is left of our America. We all need to continue pushing for our Constitutional Republic and against those that seek to destroy it. Colonel Douglas Mcgregor is spot on.
👍
@Anonymous
And anonymous has not said a single, salient thing, in spite of years of haunting this blog. Whatever. 🙄
So, you believe that there is a single user here posting anonymously? So much for your critical judgement and reading skills.
Suffer baby, suffer! Your funding is gone, Ukrainian troll!
“Trump has NEVER had smart people around him.”
Sounds like one of the brilliant brain trust that Vice President DEI Hire collected from the Obama and Biden camps to run her campaign to crush Trump once in for all.
“All he knows is bullying, anger and vengeance.”
Oh yeah, it IS the Obama/Biden/Harris brain trust. The JOY of their campaign continues here since they got their ass kicked by Trump and his dummies like Musk.
The editor-in-chief of America’s oldest continuously published magazine, Scientific American, resigned after calling Trump voters “fascists.”
It’s a grand start. Hopefully more to follow. Like large numbers of CNN staff, maybe MSNBC, Washington Post.
Owner of LA Times fired the whole editorial board of the newspaper.
As far as Mr Gaetz is concerned. He simply could be a lightning rod placed there to soak up bolts of wailing and threats from the left while the Assist Attorney Generals go about laying waste to the whole Justice Dept.
It’s handy to provide a target so people focus on the big target and miss the important ones.
Yes, 😂. The dogs will chase that skunk!
Yes, 😂. The dogs will chase that skunk!
Yes, the Democrats and Anonymous skunks that won’t chase President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers and Merrick Garland will certainly have an ongoing Midol Moment at Gaetz replacing their favorite police state fascist, Merrick Garland.
Who’s gonna chase the Valor Thief Skunk?
Lil 82nd Bow Wow, what were your MOS, AWARDS, THEATER, AND CAMPAIGN?
Little cut like a marshmallow Airsoft Gravy Seal Sniper, I’m not the one who told your command you were playing show and tell with the little boys among the base brats.
You should spend your time being thankful they offered you a Hunter Biden type resignation to spare the military embarrassment instead of court martialling your pudgy yardbird ass.
This disgusting, pathetic fvck was NEVER a servicemember, Airborne. Get a grip.
He is Lawn boy, Elvis Bug, the drunktard who never served a goddam thing except fries at the Burger King drive thru
Yes, this time around Trump is making much better choices (I’m still thinking that there is an interesting backstory to the Gaetz appointment) and he also has a much stronger mandate but until he disinfects the swamp of partisan, agenda-driven progressives only superficial changes will be made that last only 4 years. We must clear out the “fellow travelers, brainwashed progressives and affirmative action/DEI placeholders” before real restructuring can take place. Otherwise there will be constant subversive grenades and mines always bedeviling any attempts at undoing the swamp and the parasites that reside there.
* Probably just having fun with the Goetz appt. He’s got another job lined up. Gauge the cooperation of the Senate.
See below as Dennis McInliar, who is being investigated in Ohio for his involvement in a child pornography ring, complains about a “minor attracted person” being nominated.
* you’ll need to move into red or blue States and guard borders. Calif farmland can’t be lost as food supply self reliance is paramount. There’s the entire west coast open so coast guard , navy guard. Feds can take ports.
It’s an incredibly huge job to pull this mess together. For leftys, California, you can do anything you want there.
Good luck
Professor Turley, the blog is rough, obscenity abounds. Savage and brutish…let’s hear it for free speech.
@whimsicalmama
I think so too. Trump seems to have learned from his past mistakes, and I’m glad about that. I have to say though, we are still two months out from inauguration, and I don’t think our modern dems are below anything whatsoever. They have redefined low over the past decade. Let us hope and pray they fail in their attempts, because we know they will implement whatever insanity they possibly can. We are still sitting on the edge of a knife. Whatever happens, and whatever it portends for the future, it will not be pretty in the moment, and we need to be prepared for that. The globalists and uniparty are not going to just roll over. We have to hold the line, even just philosophically, IMO. And you’d better believe this is geopolitical – the globalists are sweating themselves down to their bones.
Things are about to shift *globally*, and a great many of the privileged are not happy about that. America will be the bastion of freedom again, if we hold the line as the majority we have shown we are.
Jonathan: Yes. Matt Gaetz “sucked the oxygen” out of DC this week because he was the worst possible person to serve as AG. Even Republicans are saying Gaetz was a bad choice. This is a guy who has been investigated for years for having sex with minors and was under investigation by the House Ethics Committee, until he resigned, should never supervise the DOJ! But DJT loves Gaetz because both are sexual predators. DJY knows Gaetz will follow orders without question. When DJT tells Gaetz to jump he will say “How far?”
The question is whether William McGinley, DJT’s choice for WH Counsel, can control DJT’s worst impulses–when he demands the prosecution of his political “enemies”. You say McGinley is “ideal for this position”. When you say that I raise my eyebrows.
I am not sanguine McGinley will act like Don McGahn or Phil Cipollone. They were WH Counsel in the first DJT administration. After the 2020 election Cipollone told DJT he could not sack the acting AG and replace him with Jeffrey Clark to advance the illegal scheme to overturn the election. Cipollone was an important witness for the Jan. 6 House Select Committee that established DJT’s crimes.
Will McGinley establish any guardrails? Will he be a gate keeper to prevent DJT from going off the reservation? If DJT tells McGinley “Tell Gaetz to start investigating Jack Smith. I want him prosecuted”, what will McGinley do? WH Counsel is there to ensure the independence of the DOJ and be allowed to make its own prosecutorial without interference from the President. And calling for the prosecution of the President’s political “enemies” is not something the President should engage in. Will McGinley be able to restrain DJT? Time will tell.
The special prosecutor job would go to scotus. They’re, Trump, probably not interested.
“And calling for the prosecution of the President’s political “enemies” is not something the President should engage in.”
Fvck you dennnis, ya goddam retard.
US President Joe Biden has said privately that he believes Donald Trump should be prosecuted over the 6 January attack on the US Capitol, according to a report.
Mr Biden told members of his inner circle late last year that the one-term president was a threat to democracy and action against him should be taken, according to The New York Times.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/biden-trump-report-prosecuted-jan-6-b2049744.html
Among the many reasons I love free speech – it reveals the fools who’s heads only turn, wh’os eyes only see in one direction.
* You mean they don’t look over their shoulder or who’s creeping up from behind?
Talk about suck the oxygen out of the room! Help….I cannot breathe!
Jonathan: Yes. Matt Gaetz “sucked the oxygen” out of DC this week because he was the worst possible person to serve as AG.
Yes, Professor Turley: Dennis, your fake friend (and parasitic tapeworm inside your blog using it as his own) is here screaming in rage because Trump sucked the oxygen out of his Soviet Democrat world on election night.
And now every one of Trump’s picks is continuing to suck the little remaining oxygen out of Dennis McInliar’s world.
Dennis McInliar’s police state fascist world first lost oxygen when the sexual predator President Daddy-Daughter Inappropriate Incest Showers, the unindicted Kiddy Fondler In Chief was removed as the Democrat candidate by an insurrection that was typical of what Dennis calls “a threat to our Democrat Democracy”.
What little oxygen remained was removed by VP DEI Hire losing the election.
Professor Turley, your parasitic friend Dennis is not doing well as far as mental health goes. I don’t foresee him being able to restrain himself (or create his own blog elsewhere) anytime in the future.
And so we shall continue to mock and out him as the pathetic liar and political apparatchik that he is.,
“Professor Turley, your parasitic friend Dennis is not doing well as far as mental health goes. ”
I have to disagree with you on this. DeMac, if he is indeed is a real person, is immune to Disconfirmation. He has been denying Reality, and living in his own head for so many decades, that this complete rejection of the Left and their narrative, will have little or no effect on him. If anything, it will confirm his own delusional belief that most of the country is crazy, and reinforce his own elitist view of himself as an intellectually and morally superior person.
Remember, that DeMac does not just dwell in a liberal echo chamber. He comes here daily, and gets schooled on the errors in his thinking, and all to no avail. He is like the old liberal in A Clockwork Orange. He will not change his views until a gang of droogs rapes his wife, if he has one, and he is beaten up, and lands in a wheelchair. Or something dire like that, on a personal level. In the meantime, he will continue to dwell inside his own head, and live the good life, immune to the consequences of his stupid belief system.
And he will come here daily, to spew out whatever drivel he hears from the DNC or the Legacy Media or leftist echo chamber.
* You do understand there’s nothing to be done about insanity? They can be housed but they won’t stay there. They’ll be back sleeping in the streets, hungry, stealing etc. You do know that?
Dennis, Gaetz, Graduated from a far batter Law school than Harris – who you idiots want put on the Supreme court to replace Sotomayor.
I am not a big Gaetz fan, but that does not alter the fact that he is qualified.
Further he is the appropriate AG for the moment.
But here is a vidoe by Glenn Greenwald explaining the real Reasons that Washinton wants to tank Gaetz.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-KX3qcbRBk
Gaetz is an economic populist. There are economic populists in BOTH parties – Sanders and Gaetz as an example get along on many issues.
Gaetz has been a BIG supporter of Lena Kahn – who is hated by corporatists on both the right and the left.
Gaetz is advocating for Trump to keep here at the FTC – this is despite the fact that Big Business including silicon valley wants her gone and it was expected that even Harris would tank her.
Gaetz is one of the most significant opponents to US involvement in the Ukraine war.
Gaetz also advocated for pardoning Assange and Snowden – The FACT that Trump was even considering doing so was likely a major driver for Trump’s second impeachment.
MvConnell Told Trump that if he pardoned Assange or Snowden that Democrats would likely get enough Republican votes to remove him.
Gaetz was on of the leading advocates supporting Trumps efforts to get us Out of Afghanistan.
Gaetz is widely unpopular in the Republican party and widely unpopular with Washinton – but he is very popular in his district. He is not going away.
He is in many ways a sort of younger Trump,
I do not agree with some of his positions – while I strongly agree with others.
But the fact that he is not lockstep in agreement with me does not disqualify him as AG,
NOR does it change the fact that contrary to your claims he is actually well qualified and a good choice.
The AG is one of the more important positions that Trump is nominating.
The AG is the person that will lead the effort to remove – first from DOJ and FBI but then throughout government
those who were running the governments illegal and unconstitutional censorship efforts,
those who were participating in political lawfare,
Those who were sabotaging the president.
I know you STUPIDLY oppose those efforts.
But I would point out – these should not be partisan issues.
I do not know if Pres. Obama was sincere in his campaign promises to get us out of Afghanistan and Iraq.
What we all know is that he did not even try to keep those promises – While Trump and even Biden did.
It is likely that Obama was thwarted by “the deep state” – which as Sen. Schumer said, would have made his presidenency H311 had he tried to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan,
and Close Guantanamo.
We need presidents that fullfill their campaign promises – not absolutely or perfectly – sometimes it becomes clear that the right choice is not the campaign promise when you are actually in power. But it is the PRESIDENT that makes the policy choices for the country – not the permanent state.
We need that whether those elected are democrats or republicans.
Whether you like it or not – Trump was elected to CLEAN HOUSE.
Not of Democrats, but of those withing govenrment that think THEY rule the country.
It is likely true that MORE of these are democrats – but it should be pretty clear today that – NOT ALL are democrats.
You stupidly favor these people because Trump Derangement Syndrome poisons your blood.
Trump is a litmus test for every single thing you think.
Trump is a red flag for you.
If he is for something you are against it.
You do not even think first.
I am glad that the Cheney’s and the Kristols and the Frum’s and the rest of the neocons have been disempowered.
Getting on stage with Liz Chenney and the NeoCons may have been one of the stupidest things that Harris did.
While Joe Biden botched the withdraw from Afghanistan – HE STILL LEFT – and I CREDIT him for doing so – it is one of the FEW positive accomplishments of his presidency – even if he made a hash of it.
I strongly suspect that “the deep state” worked to sabatoge him in doing so – just as they relentlessly tried to sabotage much of what Trump did.
And I strongly suspect that the Ukraine war is more their doing than Biden’s – though I suspect he took a hawkish stance regarding Ukraine as a means of apeasing the deep state after they sabotaged him in Afghanistan.
I would also note that the “deep state” was heavily involved in the Biden corruption investigations.
THEY – not Guliani or Hose republicans determined whether Biden would be impeached and removed
And they could go either way – depending on whether they got what they wanted from Biden.
I am sure that Biden saw himself as the President who finally defeated Putin.
But I am also sure that the message was passed to him that The investigations of his foreign dealings could go favorably or badly depending on what the “deep state” leaked or decided to do.
Regardless you are stupid if you think these people have not been pulling the strings with BOTH parties in ways that are very damaging.
Gaetz is NOT the solution – but he is part of the solution.
These people MUST be purged from government.
I would note – this effects MANY things.
I beleive Obama made SOME overtures to normalize relations with Cuba.
It is way past time.
Cuba is likely to be an issue over the next 4 years – the country is in collapse.
Neither Russia nor China are keeping them afloat anymore.
The country is on the brink of failure.
They can not afford to keep the power on. And they can not fix failing systems.
Cuba could well be a massive humanitarian disaster in the next year or so.
And the US will either be its savior or be blamed.
John Say,
Good comment.
“Dennis, Gaetz, Graduated from a far batter Law school than Harris – who you idiots want put on the Supreme court to replace Sotomayor.”
Graduating does not equate to competence or real-world experience. Attending a prestigious law school does not inherently make someone more knowledgeable or capable. True value lies in practical experience, and Gaetz lacks genuine expertise in this field. His only “qualification” is that he will be loyal to Trump. The AG is supposed to be independent. Gaetz is going to be Trump’s personal lawyer.
Graduating does not equate to competence or real-world experience.
Curious George sometimes argues against those he supports.
Bolshevik Barack had practically no experience practicing law before he manufactured scandals to win the Democrat nomination to run for public office. “Marxist Community Organizer” is not a branch of law.
After a few short years of hiding on the Democrat back bench as a Democrat senator, he was then swiftly swept into the Oval Office as the Democrats Great Mulatto Hope.
No competence as a lawyer, and no real experience in governance before deciding he could fundamentally change America to be successfully Marxist with his phone and pen.
However much you hate Gaetz, simply because you’re a Democrat Marxist Useful Idiot or political appratchik, or a Republican who believes he’s a time bomb likely to explode, Gaetz has far, FAR more experience both practicing law and working in politics than Bolshevik Barack had on either score.
And in Obama’s case, it certainly could be used as an explanation of how he screwed the country and the free world up so badly.
@John Say
I agree with you! I’m in Fl. the Scandal it was Big
The effort marks the latest chapter in the ongoing feud between the Florida congressman and the former speaker, whose allies at the Freedom Patriots PAC have spent $3 million supporting Gaetz’s Republican primary opponent, former Navy pilot Aaron Dimmock, by attacking Gaetz — saturating his district with ads that revive past allegations, including accusations that Gaetz paid a minor for sex, and highlighting his past friendship with former Florida tax collector Joel Greenberg, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for sex trafficking and other crimes.
Gaetz, who has denied all accusations, was informed by the Justice Department in 2023 that they would not bring charges against him following a yearslong investigation.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/mccarthy-aligned-group-hopes-hurt-gaetzs-future-gubernatorial/story?id=112931395
DOJ investigated Gaetz and then dropped the investigation – there was no THERE THERE.
Gaetz is or was a playboy – much like a younger Trump.
I do not condone that. I do not condone his conduct. But it is legal and the investigation was always a farce.
Yes, the house ethics committee is likely to have a scathing report that says Gaetz is a playboy and he had inappropriate conversations with other house members.
Again NOT a crime.
Gaetz is one person that I can expect to go after those engaged in lawfare – as he has been the target of it.
It is not the WH Counsels job to “control the presidents impluses” – it is his job to tell him how to best legally accomplish what he seeks to do.
It is to defend the powers of the presidency not to limit them.
But you are correct that a different person is needed for AG than for WH Counsel.
Regardless, I do not expect McGinley to restrain Trump – and if he tries – he will not last long.
But it is his job to assist Trump in accomplishing his agenda with the least legal hitches possible.
Whjile this example was more one that commerce department lawyers in Trump’s first term got wrong.
There is zero doubt that asking citizenship as part of the Census is legal and constitutional.
It has been done for most of US history and only was dropped recently.
But the Commerce department lost that fight in the Supreme court – not because they did something unconstitutional.
But because they did not dot their eyes and cross their ts.
Personally I think SCOTUS got it wrong.
Regardless, competently legal review in Commerce would have resulted in adding the citizenship question to the census
in a way that SCOTUS would not have thwarted.
I would note – that could have served democrats.
Biden has been dumping illegals in red states – he has done so in numbers that will likely result in
significant increases in the number of representatives from redstates and declines from blue states.
CA as an example is likely to lose 4 seats in the house and TX gain 4.
Or congress could change the law such that only citizens are counted towards the aportionment of representatives.
Two decades ago – that would have hurt democrats. Today there are so many millions of illegals in red states,
that aportioning the house based on citizens would help democrats.
Or congress could change the law such that only citizens are counted towards the aportionment of representatives.
No, it can’t. That would take a constitutional amendment. The current constitution is clear that all persons must be counted.
Cipollone was incorrect – or your representation is incorrect.
The president can sack whoever he pleases.
And he can appoint whoever he pleases – atleast in an acting capacity.
Further you really should not be trying to shill the nonsense that the 2020 election was clean – when you have LOST 20M ballots since 2020.
Do you honestly beleive that Harris who ran a “flawless” campaign is only capable of getting 3/4 of the ballots that sleepy joe basement biden got?
Even many democrats – even left leaning ones are starting to wonder about 2020.
Harris did not conduct a perfect campaign – there is no such thing. But if 2024 was to be decided based on campaigns or GOTV or anything except voters comparing 4 years of Biden/Harris to 4 years of Trump – Harris likely would won easily. Harris lost because voters rejected the Biden/Harris presidency. Not because of the campaign.
Trying to push Joe over the line was a factor – but not because Joe was demented, but because Democrats hid from themselves and the people that he was demented for so long.
The switcheroo was a factor – but only as it was consistent with the lawlessness of democrats through the entire biden/harris regime.
Regardless – Democrats lost because the outed themselves as lawless liars. That covers many many things. But that includes the 2020 election.
Whether you like it or not the 2020 election has become an albatross arround YOUR neck – not republicans.
The same goes for J6. Which is increasingly viewed as a democrat massive over reaction to a legitimate political protest whose handling was botched – proimarily by Pelosi resulting in a SMALL riot. that should have resulted in a handful of charges and ultimately suspended sentences – just as happened to democrats in many other protests turned to riots.
Thanks, Dennis. Just another Turley column to find a way to avoid the big political stories out there–the absolute diasterous nomination of Gaetz–who, because of his conduct and lack of legal experience, couldn’t qualifty to get a job with the FBI, much less run it. I saw an interview last night with a Republican member of Congress who said that Gaetz bragged about taking Viagara and washing it down with energy drinks, so he could “last all night”, while he flashed around pornographic photos of women he had taken. My understanding is that this is one of the incidents for which he was being investigated by the House Ethics Committee.
Then, there’s RFK, a former heroin addict with a brain worm, who has absolutely NO medical expertise, and whose anti-vaccination policies have actually killed people. From “Vanity Fair”, 10/30/2024:
“HHS is the Department of Health and Human Services, which is in charge of protecting the health of all Americans. Among other things, it includes the agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid; oversees the National Institutes of Health, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; and works to prevent disease outbreaks and ensure food and drug safety. So the idea of letting Kennedy “control” such a department is actually insane, and if you’re wondering why, a quick reminder that Kennedy:
Is a huge anti-vaxxer
Penned an article titled “Deadly Immunity,” published in Rolling Stone and Salon in 2005, in which he alleged that the government had covered up a link between vaccines and autism. (Both outlets later retracted the piece, and the Salon editor who worked on it said that after it went up, “we were besieged by scientists and advocates showing how Kennedy had misunderstood, incorrectly cited, and perhaps even falsified data…. It was the worst mistake of my career. I probably should have been fired.”)
Wrote a foreword for a book that claimed COVID-19 vaccines caused sudden deaths among healthy young people; the book featured on its cover a 12-year-old who’d never received the COVID-19 vaccine and had died as a result of a malformed blood vessel in his brain
Has been accused of stoking fears about vaccines in the run-up to a measles outbreak in Samoa that killed 83 people
Once implied that Anne Frank, she of Holocaust fame, had it easy compared to what anti-vaxxers go through
Has more than once suggested that chemicals in the environment can make children gay and trans
Declared, “I am not a church boy,” following a sexual assault allegation
Admitted to staging an elaborate bear-murder scene in Central Park because he didn’t have time to eat said bear’s flesh
Sawed a dead whale’s head off, according to one of his daughters, and strapped it to the roof of the family’s car, causing his children to have to wear plastic bags on their heads to avoid the “whale juice” that was “pour[ing] into the windows”
Said in a 2012 divorce deposition that a worm “got into my brain and ate a portion of it and then died”
During a rally at Madison Square Garden on Sunday, Trump told the crowd that he would let Kennedy “go wild on the food” and “go wild on the medicines” if given a second term in November.'”
What we’re seeing is some of the reasons why Trump has demanded that the Senate convene and then immediately go into recess–so he could make recess appointments to avoid the public outing of the truth about his nominations. The recess appointment process was not established to circumvent the advise and consent process–it was enacted at a time when Congress only met for a few months a year and an emergency arose in which a cabinet member had to be replaced due to death or illness. It was intended to be used for emergencies–not to bypass the Constitutional role of the Senate to “advise and consent”. So, it’s no wonder Turley chose to ignore these 2 nominees and to praise his former student.
Gigi,
Gaetz graduated from a far better law school than Harris.
He is a firebrand and more of a libertarian populist than a Republican.
He has been a thorn in the side to democrats and republicans alike.
He has made many enemies.
He has also been the victim of extensive lawfare against him.
Opponents will cite the investigations against him – but ALL have fizzled – bcause there is a difference between conduct that one does not like and conduct that is actually criminal or illegal.
I doubt Gaetz can be confirmed by the Senate – but that would be more because he has rubbed those in power in both parties the wrong way.
Gaetz has ALWAYS done things his way. He is not in the pocket of the party or anyone else.
What is likely is that Gaetz will be a recess appointment and will serve as AG through dec 2027.
You are free to disagree with him as a choice. But he is franjkly significantly better than most of Biden’s appointments.
Blinken, Sulivan and Mayorkas have been disasters, as Have Buttigieg, and Austin.
And a long list of others.
I would note that Gaetz and Sanders often end up on the same side of issues.
Both are strongly anti-corporatist and BOTH strongly support Lena Khan at FTC – who was reviled by corporatists in both parties.
Harris was near certain to dump her – Harris has much stronger corporatist ties than Biden did,
and many many are seeking to have Trump dump her.
I am personally not a fan of Kahn – But I would like to see what she is stiving to do happen – but through the action of the free markets not government.
And I think there are strong indiciations that without the FTC much of what she seeks to do, would happen naturally on its own.
John, a recess appointment made during the 2025 session would serve until Dec 2026, not 2027.
(Assuming such appointments are even constitutional. If Trump goes through with it expect a challenge to Canning and a unanimous supreme court saying that Scalia was right after all, and recess appointments can only be made between sessions, and only for vacancies that arose during the recess.
Funny, I was scrolling bottom up and started reading this BS without knowing the poster, at the plastic bags and whale juice, I knew it had to be GooGoo.
RFK “is a huge anti-vaxxer”
Which is, of course, a huge lie.
Tell that to the families of the 83 people who died in the measles outbreak in Samoa brought about by RFK, Jr. spouting lies about the “dangers” of vaccination. He also lied about a link between autism and vaccination, and claimed that thimerisol, a preservative, was still being used in vaccines, even though it had been discontinued years before. He lied about young people dying of COVID vaccination and cited the case of a boy who had not had the vaccination, but had died of heart problems. RFK, Jr. is a hot mess.
Hey Upstate Farmer, apparently gigi likes your regular use of the phrase, “hot mess,” cuz now she’s using it. She loves to pick up new ideas and words here.
You say that Thimerisol has been discontinued – WHY ? Specifically because of the concerns of people like RFK Jr.
BTW it has NOT been eliminated – it has just been reduced and the amount has been reduced.
It is still in nearly all flu vaccines, and all multi vaccines even for children.
It is actually a very important organic chemical with many very important uses.
But a Small number of people have a severe adverse reaction to it.
Many of us know it under a different name “merthiolade” – it is a very potent antiseptic.
If you can not get your facts straight why should anyone believe you.
Regardless it is SPECIFICALLY because of the rare but very real concerns of the people you call antivax nutjobs like RFK jr. that we have seen the changes that have resuded our risk.
Your kids or grand kids are a little bit safer because of RFK jr.
Another change that has occured is NOW most people have the choice of NOT getting Multi-dose vaccines.
That was impossible before Kennedy and those like him.
* Vaccines are made where? China? Seriously? They could have antifreeze in them and no Vax at all.
Mifepristone made in China was brought in illegally by DANCO, fined 750 thousand and still testified before SCOTUS it was like mother’s milk? The FDA decided no exam necessary? Really..
Thjere are myriads of factors in the Samoan outbreak – which occured in other parts of the pacific too. Low immunization was a factor – as was low Vitamin A – despite the UN trying to white was that – Averages means HALF of all people are BELOW the average. and low Vitamin A results in FATALITY if infected by Measles.
Another factor was that poorly prepared vaccines had killed several infants in Samoa previously
Poor care is common in under developed countries.
Another factor is that island nations tend to have low vaccination rates – because they have low exposure to communicable diseases
But this also results in very low natural immunity.
I an go on – but the FACT is that RFK Jr. had nothing to do with the Samoan outbreak.
It is unlikely that anyone in Samoa even heard of him.
Gigi there are LOTS of unexplained Covid vaccine deaths. Getting one or two wrong is no big deals.
As is typical of leftists you make everything binary – when it is not.
1). As vaccines go the covid-19 vaccine sucks – it is poorly designed, and it has a very high VAERS report rate – including deaths.
All vaccines cause some harm and deaths. Most are WORTH the risk for most people.
Covid is likely NOT for MOST people. But it is likely a good idea for HIGH risk people.
2). People die from childhood vaccinations too. More in undeveloped countries like Samoa. The higher mortality rate from poorly administered vaccines in and of itself is
a good reason for vaccine hesitance. Regardless, ou can not apply the same standards to place like Samoa as developed countries.
3). The alteast peartion removal of Thimersol and the option of single dose vaccines is SOLELY the responsibility of “nutjob antivaxers
like RFK jr. While vaccine hesitance in places like Samoa has many factors – infcluding overall poorer healthcare and higher rates of vaccine deaths.
My point is these issues are NOT binary – and few of those you defame claimed they were.
RFK Jr. vaccinated his own kids. He is not antivax, he is anti stupidity or blindly following the dictats of public health offiicals who are frequently WRONG – sometimes disasterously.
Many imporvements in our healthcare – including better vaccine choices are the result of the effots of thoe like RFK jr.
You are a hot mess. Harris is a hot mess, Biden is a hot mess, The Biden administration is a hot mess,
RFK Jr. is just a bit quirky. NOT a hot mess.
I’m far more concerned with all the pregnant men that are now denied reproductive rights healthcare and forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term. Especially the ones that have been raped or subjected to incest…those poor men. Who will stand for them GiGi, who?!
Gigi, RFK jr has been reprenting plantiffs in medical malpractice cases invoving Big Pharma and the life for something near 40 years.
With little doubt he has EXTENSIVE medical knowledge.
If former (or current) drug use was an issue – most democrats could not hold office or work in government.
I do not care at all about your and the left’s character assassination of him.
Most of it is the same type of nonsense you use against Trump.
I have listened to RFK jr. and though I disagree with him on many things, the claims that he is some nutcase are ifiotic garbage.
He is NOT an antivaxer. His own children received all vaccines including MMR.
But he IS a strong advocate for improved vaccine safety testing and improved vaccine options.
My daughter was addopted from China – where they do NOT have the MMR vaccine. They give individual vaccines.
There is good reason to beleive first that the MMR compbination vaccine might have rare problems – and there IS actual medical evidence to support a link to autism is RARE circumstances.
Regardless we paid to have our daughter tested and based on the results she received only TWO of the components in the MMR because she was already immune to the third.
We were extremely fortunate to be able to do so. We likely would not have been able to do so except that our daughter was cyber chartered.
Regardless this is a common problem with foreign adoptions.
Another problem common to forieng adoptions is that the childhood TB vaccine used in many countries. results in gradually testing positive for TB with each subsequent TB test.
Out daugther finally tested positive for TB on her foorth TB test when she was getting vertificed to be an EMT.
The state was russhing to quarantine her and force her to take 6 months of pretty nasty pills.
Despite admitting that they KNEW that forieng adoptees often test false positive fo rTB because of the vaccine they receive.
We had to pay for a very expensive TB blood test to prove that she does not have TB to get the state to relent.
They would not even accept a clear Xray showing NO TB – because it could be in remission.
There are lots and lots of people who appreciate the value of vaccines, who Concurrently do not beleive every stupid thing coming from government regarding vaccines.
Whether you like it or not we absolutely BOTCHED the Covid vaccine.
While I WILL give Trump credit for getting it to market rapidly. And it SHOULD have been made available on a VOLUNTARY basis – and primarily to those at high risk.
The Covid vaccine was baddly designed – this is why it has had to be reformulated against variants.
In stead of building antibodies to the spike protein – which was mutating constantly, the vaccine should have focussed on a part of the virus that was unlikely to change.
Further the Covid Vaccine is itself a virus that works much like Covid – except instead of producing lots of covid virus, it produces lots of spike protein.
But it is the spike protein that causes most of the most dangerous symptoms of covid.
Developing the Covif vaccine in record time was a great accomplishment.
Using the MRNA approach was even a significant technological step forward that will prove very important in the future.
But many mistakes were made and the Covid 19 Vaccine is not even within a factor of 10 of the safety of most vaccines.
For the majority of the population the likely hood of death or long term health problems from the vaccine are greater than from Covid.
That is NOT true of those most likely to die from Covid, but it is for most of us.
Further even the vaccine trials revealed that the vaccine would not work as a means of eradicating Covid. The claimed efficacy of the vaccine was 97% – that is NOT enough to stop a virus with an R0 of 2.5-3.5 (omicron and XBB now has an R0 of something like 30).
Worse still the efficacy drops to 50%
You can not contain a virus like Covid with a 97% effective Vaccine
The vaccine is effective enough to protect the highly vulnerable, it is not effective enough to eradicate or even contain covid
It is not even close to good enough to do what we did with Smallpox.
BTW MOST vaccines are not good enough to work as anything except protecting the vulnerable.
The efficacy of the flu vaccine varies between 15% and 80%. That is fine – if you are looking to reduce your odds of getting the Flu.
It is useless as a public health measure to contain or eradicate the flu.
Different diseases are harder or easier to do vaccines for.
The efficacy of the smallpox vaccine is near 100% and it lasts for 70 years.
The efficacy of the pneumonia vaccine is only about 15%
There is good reason to beleive that for black babies under 24months the MMR vaccine may cause autism in rare cases.
It is also reasonable to beleive that the MMR vaccine should be reformulated, and that Measles, Mumps and Rubella should not be vaccinated for at the same time.
THESE are the issues that RFK Jr. has raised/
The NUT JOBS are the idiots like you that think that anyone who thinks we should do better with vaccines is a nutjob.
There are only an infinitessimally small number of ACTUAL antivaxers – both with respect to childhood vaccinations and in terms of Covid.
There are a very ;large number of people who beleive we can do better.
I have no idea if RFK Jr. is the right person to head HHS.
I absolutely beelive he is right about most of the health problems we face, but I am not sure about his solutions.
What is necescary is LESS government and more room for SMALL Pharma – which means LESS regulation.
What ALWAYS decreases costs and increases quality is free markets and competition – and that means more than just the 10 biggest pharma companies in the world competing
It requires a market with small, and medium producers too. Even better global markets.
The US regulatory system is designed to kill small and medium businesses.
We should not be surprised that does not work.
* Covid by Vax or by contracted illness is being studied right now and it has links to all kinds of long term effects theyre finding. Just unavoidable…
“in which he alleged that the government had covered up a link between vaccines and autism”
They DID. The link is small but real and seems to be confined to young black male infants,
and the CDC has been actively covering it up.
“Wrote a foreword for a book that claimed COVID-19 vaccines caused sudden deaths among healthy young people;”
It does – that has been established. While the rate of death and long term harm from the Covid vaccine is relatively low, it is more than 10 times higher than any other vaccine that has ever been approved. Worse Big Pharma has immunity so there can be no torts claims against those killed by the vaccine.
If you are young and healthy the risk from the vaccine nay be greater than if you get covid.
Regardless it should be a choice.
Further there is no good reason we should be vaccinating healthy people – Covid does not kill them. In the case of those under 20 it tends to be so mild many do not even know they have it.
There are TWO known contributing factors to the seriousness of Covid
The first is overall health – the 2nd is low vitamin D – BTW low vitamin D correlates incredibly strongly to poor health – as well as age, and Covid harm is exponentially greater the older you are.
If you are under 20 with no comorbidities – you may not know it if you get covid, and you certainly will not die – The Flu kills more people under 20.
If you are over 80 – the odds are near 100% that you have a comorbidity and the death rate is about 1:3
BTW All of this is something anyone who has lived through the last 4 years should KNOW.
You should not have to be told.
The recces appointments clause was created because our founders did not envision a federal government this bloated.
No the recess appointment’s clause Was NOT for emergencies. It was because congress is not supposed to be in session all the time,
or even most of the time.
Regardless, Democrats have been playing games for a long time.
II have zero problems with Republicans circumventing nonsense in the Senate.
I would note there is another reason for the Senate to do this.
There are only so many hours avaiable to the senate to conduct business.
The Senate can allow a large number of recess appointments and have that time to work on legislation or judicial appointments.
This is as constitutional as Biden resigning to make Harris the temporary president and save her the embarrassment of presiding over her own loss.
Or getting Sotomayor to resign and replacing her hastily with Harris.
Democrats have infamously gamed the constitution at every oportunity.
I suspect that Thune and other Republicans DO NOT WANT a vote one way or another on some of these appointments.
Regardless a reccess appointment can only serve until the end of the next congressional session – that would be Dec 2026.
The big deal is that Trump and republicans have only 4 years to fix the mess YOU made.
They MUST start quickly.
Trump is ALREADY started.
We are ALREADY seeing results – we are ALREADY seeing
Putin and Zellensky talking seriously about ending this war.
There could easily be a peace deal before Jan 20, 2025.
We are seeing Iran backing down.
We are seeing QATAR deporting Hamas leaders.
The Houthis have stopped trying to blcok the Suez Canal.
The EU is buying more US LNG to avoid Trump tarrifs.
The Mexican army has deployed to the US border to stop border crossers and drug dealers.
They have also closed their own souther border to immigrants from south and central america –
Caravans have stopped and people returned.
Illegals in the US are starting to self deport – because if you leave voluntarily – you still have a chance to get in legally.
Stock markets are up.
Outside of left wing nuts people are Hopeful about the future.
“recess appointments”
I have been seeing claims that recess appointments can only be made if the Senate has been in recess for 10 days or more, and that recesses of greater than 3 days require the consent of the House. I can easily find the latter provision in Article I, Section 5 of the Constitution (last paragraph), which applies equally to the Senate and to the House:
“Neither House, during the Session of Congress, shall, without the Consent
of the other, adjourn for more than three days, nor to any other Place than
that in which the two Houses shall be sitting.”
However, I have seen nothing about the origin of the “10 day minimum” part of that claim. It is not in the Constitution, including the Amendments. Was there subsequent legislation that established that provision? Is it in the Senate rules? What would it take to overturn it? If Thune could recess the Senate for 3 days without House consent, and that would allow Trump to make interim appointments (assuming that his promise not to obstruct Trump’s agenda was honest), it would appear to greatly increase Trump’s leverage in that regard.
The 10-day minimum comes from Canning. Anything less than 10 days is not a recess at all. Otherwise you could get absurd claims such as a president making a “recess” appointment on a normal legislative day, while the senate is off for lunch!
The thing is, it’s only the Canning majority opinion that says a 10-day recess is fine. Scalia’s concurrence, with which three current justices agreed, said ANY break within a session, no matter how long, is not a recess. Only the break between sessions can be called a recess. He and his three supporters also held that even during the recess, the president can only fill vacancies that happened during the recess. Any vacancy that happened earlier, and thus could have been filled by a regular appointment, cannot be filled by a recess appointment.
Now in Canning this position was defeated 5-4. But if Thune calls a 10-day break and Trump makes appointments, you can be 100% sure that the Dems will run to court claiming Scalia was right after all, and the court should adopt his view. The three who voted with him will presumably do so again, at least two of the Trump appointees will probably do the same, and some of all of the three lefties are likely to agree just to screw Trump. So it might well be 9-0 to vindicate Scalia and strike down Trump’s appointments.
IANAL, and I gave not followed Canning. However, I would thing that determining whether or not a pause in Senate business does or does not constitute a “recess” would, or at least could, be easily determined. If the motion for the pause stipulates that it is a recess, and the majority votes for it, should that not be sufficient? That would allow opponents to read their objections into the record, and those could be evaluated in the course of any subsequent legal challenge. Regarding the 10 day stipulation, I am very confused, as it appears that Article I, Section 5, last paragraph strongly and clearly implies that anything longer than 3 days meets the criteria, by virtue of that being the minimum requiting consent from the other House. Article II, Section 2, last paragraph clearly states “The President shall have Power to fill up all Vacancies that may happen during the Recess of the Senate, by granting Commissions which shall
expire at the End of their next Session.” There is no qualification or exclusion there regarding the cause of the vacancy. I think your conclusions about the likely outcome of the Democrats taking a challenge to Trump’s interim appointments to SCOTUS may be incorrect. While there is not doubt a risk tat your speculation might prove true, I think there would also be a chance the the Court would overturn or modify Canning so that the prevailing doctrine better conforms to a plain reading of the relevant Constitutional language. To my mind, by your description, Canning does not do a very good job of that.
No surprise a cheney/abortion death cult sycophant doesn’t like RFK jr
You were free to vote as you wished.
The majority of the country voted differently.
While most of us do not beleive most of your extreme claims regarding RFK jr. or Trump or others.
YOU have actually made things worse.
Most people new your FALSE allegations regarding Trump or RFK jr.
and voted for them anyway.
Many rejected those claims but did not care if they were true.
And BTW YOU made that worse.
Most people think RFK jr. is an antivaxer – and they do not care.
Many people think Trump is going to prosecute his political enemies – and they do not care – you brought this on yourselves.
The majoruty KNOWS Trump is going to try to go through the federal government like a knife through butter.
They expect that. They want that. Your ranting that Trump was a fascist dictator that would throw enemies into camps did not change that.
While Trump is not going to do that – the majority do not care if he does.
People knew about the whale and bear stories and all the other nonsense you rant about – and they voted for Trump knowing that RFK jr. was going to be put in charge of HHS or something similar.
Many voted for Trump BECAUSE RFK Jr. was going to be put in charge of HHS,
or BECAUSE trump was going through the deep state with a Scythe.
You have spent 4 years trying to terrify people that the WOLF was coming.
We heard you – and voted for Trump anyway.
People do not care if the wolf comes for YOU.
YOU asked for it.
While I do not want Trump to seek revenge – if he does people – voters will understand.
I will fight against ACTUAL political prosecutions that are not rooted in actual crimes and the law.
But my heart will not be in it – Because you deserve it.
Turn about is fair play.
Trump is not demoanding the prosecution of political enemies.
I know that you are clueless, but this is PRIMARILY about cleaning house – there MAY be some prosecutions – but only for CLEAR cases of abuse of power.
One of the reasons from appointing Gaetz – and many of the rest of recent apointments is to set this all in motion WITHOUT the WH involvement.
Most of the people appointed so far are going to CLEAN HOUSE – without much input from Trump.
No one is going after Hillary, or sleepy Joe, or even Hunter – If Biden does not, Trump will likely Commute any sentence of Hunter.
It is highly unlikely that anyone will try to prosecution Smith. But I beleive it is Bratt that tried to blackmail a defense attorney to flip a client – that will result in a criminal investigation – and may result in prosecutions.
There is conduct by several federal Judges – Beryl Howell in particular that was certainly unethical and possibly illegal.
Regardless there will be investigations into the unconstitutiona, unethical and possibly criminal behavior of a number of judges.
I do not expect any to be impeached, but the investigation sare necescary to stop that BEHAVIOR from occuring in the future.
Further I am talking specifically about unconstitutional, unethical, and possibly illegal conduct.
I am NOT talking about bad or politically biased decisions.
There are decisions by Judge Chutkan that deserve getting her wrist slapped. She is obviously partisan and made partisan decisions.
But to the best of my knowledge she did not do anything wildly unconstitutional or illegal.
She should see a rebuke by higher courts of judicial conduct boards – nothing more. But that will not happen.
There is an IG investigation of J6 that will get to congress in January or February – that is allegedly DAMNING.
There are many instances of likely perjury in prior J6 investigations. The Conduct of the house J6 committee and several wittnesses is going to be called out.
The constitution protects the conduct of house members inside their “official acts” – so they likely can not be prosecuted. But they can be investigated and exposed.
But those who committed perjury should be prosecuted. There are a long long list of others that committed perjury all the way back to Brennan Clapper, Comey, even Garland.
Some of those may be beyond statutes of limitations. Those that are not should be prosecuted.
Much of that may have to be in DC courts – though there may be enough conflicts to move the prosecutions elsewhere.
Even when convictions can not be acheived – there should be prosecutions.
Not of political enemies – but of those who abused power, perjured themselves or violated the law.
They should be prosecuted for CLEARLY illegal conduct – not for their politics. Not even for merely unethical and improper conduct.
Most of those engaged in the deep state censorship regime should be fired, and barred from future federal employment.
Only a very small number who specifically targeted individuals for political reasons should be prosecuted for civil rights violations under color of law.
The people who established Policies to violate peoples rights – not those who implimented those policies.
The people who targeted specific individuals.
I do not expect a large number of criminal cases. Nor do I expect DOJ to win those – as they may have to deal with DC juries.
But the cases need brought.
Again the PURPOSE is to CLEAN HOUSE, and to make this all public so that it is a long long long time before it is done again.
The goal isn’t to clean house; it’s simply political revenge. Trump and his supporters are angry about being held accountable for their illegal actions. John Say won’t care if Trump uses loyal proxies to go after his political opponents. The argument of “turnabout is fair play” ignores that this is purely about retaliation for accountability.
The goal isn’t to clean house; it’s simply political revenge.
Curious George the Democrats Confederate organ grinder monkey believes that prosecuting every Obama/Biden Attorney General, FBI Director, DoJ and FBI lawyer who repeatedly perjured themselves to FISA courts while committing the additional felony of uttering false documents to those courts wouldn’t be “equal justice for all”.
Curious George claims that would simply be political revenge. Definitely not accountability for the felonies they repeatedly committed. At least it wouldn’t be according to Curious George – because they were doing God’s work: hunting Trump.
George’s attempts at being lucid make about as much sense as a major league baseball pitcher’s mound in the middle of an NBA basketball court.
After these last several years I have come to realize that the human mind has been left in the dust and unable to keep up with the technological advances made. Whatever our beliefs may be founded upon, they have always been manipulated by those holding power and used as a means to manipulate the herd. From the conception of our nation, it has always been manipulated by those controlling the money and power it brings.
We shall soon see is it all a fiction or is it for real?
Where is General Flynn?
Thank you for calling attention to and providing insights on the William McGinely pick. Americans need to regain trust in the legal system and be assured that it will not be used as a weapon against political opponents against either party. We need highly qualified legal scholars and practitioners who possess impeccable personal and professional ethical standards and are committed to uphold the Constitution and rule of law equally and for all. Agree with another commenter that Gaetz may be a “burn card” and hopefully someone like you Professor Turley is selected to be the next AG.
“Agree with another commenter that Gaetz may be a “burn card” and hopefully someone like you Professor Turley is selected to be the next AG.”
Professor Turley’s has demonstrated his unwillingness/inability to call his friend Merrick Garland, whom he wholeheartedly endorsed and then defended for years afterwards, the malevolent corrupt police state fascist threat to the justice system that he is.
That is one example why Professor Turley is valuable in many ways as far as legal issues go.
But he doesn’t have the necessary qualities to be an Attorney General who will identify and eliminate the Merrick Garlands that are in the DoJ and FBI.
This column offers high praise for a former student while conveniently overlooking the chaotic repercussions of Trump’s poor nominations. It highlights how Turley steers clear of any criticism directed at Trump, a trend prevalent among Republicans. They are acutely aware that Matt Gaetz is a deeply questionable choice for leadership, yet they hesitate to voice their concerns, fearing backlash for not conforming to the party line. The atmosphere is one of loyalty above all else, where members worry about being marginalized for failing to align with the so-called “team.”
When John Thune was appointed to take over for Mitch McConnell, often referred to derisively as “Glitchy Mitch,” the MAGA faction erupted in outrage. Subtle but ominous warnings have already circulated, suggesting dire consequences if he deviates even slightly from the rigid party agenda. Considering the historical record of Republican governance and the current state of chaos within this Congressional Republican majority and the White House, it seems all but sure they will call for Thune’s removal if he doesn’t toe the line to the millimeter.
This column offers high praise for a former student while conveniently overlooking the chaotic repercussions of Trump’s poor nominations.
One would think a poor nomination would be an insurrection to remove Biden and replace him with his Border Czar as the Democrat candidate is the perfect example of a poor nomination.
When hysterical Democrats that were pimping for Vice President DEI Hire to be the next president are left in a psychotic mental crisis by Americans choosing Trump instead, they prefer to call their situation “chaotic repercussions”. Were did all those ‘safe spaces’ that were made available to them to hide in after the 2016 election disappear to?
And Curious George in his state of mental hysteria just can’t get through a post without inserting some criticism of his host, Professor Turley.
He has yet to win any agreement here or change anyone’s mind with his daily diatribes.
So why does he come here every day knowing that he will be personally offended by Professor Turley while at the same time being rejected by others here?
TDS is a biatch………and then you die, Lefty.
Some people just don’t like Law and Order backed up by the Constitution. This will be the first Administration in a long time to fully administer Justice according the great Constitution of the United States of America. And this Administration will abide by the law of the Constitution. Not like our previous administration who took Law and Order into their own hands and did great harm and Injustice to many families and businesses across this country. Call it retribution, call it an eye for an eye. But I will call it implementing the law according to the Constitution while putting all of the treasonous individuals in prison for the horrific crimes that they have done to the United States of America. Never in my lifetime did I or could I imagine that my country my government the government from 20 20 to 2024 would open the southern border and allow thugs and terrorists to with no vetting enter without question and put our lives and our country in danger. These government officials no matter who they are should be charged, and tried, according to the laws of the Constitution and if found guilty charged with treason! And the war that my father fought WW2, would bring the sentence of life in prison or the death penalty for each and every one of them. No sympathy. God help them and pray for them for they knew what they did.
One man’s poor choice is another man’s loyalist. Many of Trump’s appointees are those that were subjected to the same persecution he was. It’s Democrats turn to like the spoon of the poisonous pot they’ve stirred. America wants some justice for the corruption they are witnessing, we shall see.
Where’s Oprah?
@George
Why are you so continually so obtuse? What the hey do you even presume you contribute to this conversation, let alone your country’s? Nobody cares, George.
George
The People have spoken. Thune was elected as a check on Trump, to assure he didn’t kill the cash cow so to speak. Republicans habitually get amnesia when the time arrives to do what their constituents sent them to do. Given what our politicians have dragged America through, maybe just maybe they will do what needs to be done. Time will tell now.
Where’s Beyonce?
George – voters heard you in 2023 and 2024, and they determined that you and those you are echoing are liars.
They heard what you have to say and they rejected it.
Ranting and raving that Trump is the wolf and he is coming for you – falls on deaf ears.
We heard it from you before.
We either do not beleive you, or we do not care or both.
It was absolutely no scret that Trump was going to clean house in the federal government – and we elected him knowing that.
In many cases BECAUSE of that.
It was no secret that Trump was going to appoint a firebrand to AG
and that is what he has done.
no one is surprised that your frothing at the mouth and attacking Gaetz.
No one cares.
Voters will be fine – many exctatic, if Gaetz comes for you and yours.
You have told everyone that Hitler was coming, that fascism was coming.
And people voted for Trump anyway.
While they do NOT expect Actual fascism. They DO expect a thorough house cleaning.
And they are prepeared to let Gaetz and RFK jr and whoever else Trump nominates try to do that.
MAYBE Gaetz will go to far – though I would note – the Hitler, Fascist Nazi nonsense has set the bar for “too far” impossibly high.
Gaetz could be pretty damn partisan – falling short of putting the hosts of the View in camps and not face much pushback,
YOU created that.
Your lawfare set a standard – an expectation and a justification for Republicans doing the same to you.
Further most people KNOW there MUST be a consequence for YOUR bad conduct – or we can expect it to continue next time YOU are in power.
I expect Gaetz to clean house – if he does not he will be sacked.
I expect Gaetz to criminally prosecute those that clearly committed actual crimes – like the long list of perjurers, or those who lead the charge to violate the civil rights of others using govnrment power – if Gaetz fails to do that – he will be sacked.
conversely if Gaetz prosecutes the same kind of made up BS that James, Bragg, Willis and Smith did – they again he will be sacked.
The focus of the trump administration is:
Restoring the economy
Restoring peace
Shutting down illegal immigration.
But cleaning house is on the list – just not as high a proirity.
We expect many heads to roll and a few to be prosecuted.
But we expect those prosevutions to be real not fake crimes – and serious ones at that.
If Gaetz crosses the line from cleaning house and punishing actual wrong doers to seeking political revenge with government power – he will be sacked.
But voters do not cares about your oppinion on that.
Voters heard you and voted for Trump/
No one was deceived
Gaetz is what’s called a burn card in poker.
You wish.