MSNBC analyst and former Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill has long been criticized for unhinged rhetoric. That was evident on “Morning Joe” recently when McCaskill said that the deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members was akin to Putin “disappearing” people. It is not the first such analogy by McCaskill, who has called those opposing the censorship under the Biden Administration “Putin lovers.” However, just for the record, Putin does not generally disappear people by putting them on flights back to their countries. He tends more toward nerve agents than immigration agents to remove people.
McCaskill’s comments have been echoed by others on the left, even before the election. On ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg told viewers how Trump is already committed to being a dictator who will “put you people away … take all the journalists … take all the gay folks … move you all around and disappear you.”
I have expressed concerns over the alleged failure to comply with the order of U.S. District Judge James “Jeb” Boasberg in his order to stop such flights and return those in transit. To the extent that the White House is arguing that this is a non-justiciable matter, that is an argument to raise on appeal. I have criticized some judges for intrusion into areas of presidential discretion. However, the Trump Administration would only undermine such cases by defying court orders.
Trump struck the perfect tone after coming into office by pledging to comply with opposing court orders while appealing them. That is what he did in his first term with considerable success.
Nevertheless, the analogy of McCaskill is the latest example of the rising hysteria on the left. She stated on MSNBC:
“We’ve got to make sure that people cannot be picked up and disappeared like his buddy Putin does. Like his buddy. He does like his buddy Xi does, like his biddy Kim Jong Un does. They do this? They disappear people and many times murder them. So we’re not going to go down that road. I don’t care how much the president screams irresponsibly about impeachment, there’s no way.”
McCaskill tends to paint those with opposing views as Nazis or Putin sympathizers. After one hearing (where I also testified against the censorship system under the Biden Administration), McCaskill appeared on MSNBC to denounce the witnesses (Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Ron Johnson, and former Rep. Gabbard) as “Putin apologists” and Putin lovers. She exclaimed, “I mean, look at this, I mean, all three of those politicians are Putin apologists. I mean, Tulsi Gabbard loves Putin.”
She has also said that Trump is “more dangerous than Hitler” — a person who committed the genocide of millions and triggered a war killing tens of millions. Yeah, that Hitler.
The problem with the escalating rhetoric is that there is nowhere to go from here. You jumped the shark. What is left after saying that Trump is more dangerous than Hitler and is disappearing people like Putin? That leaves only Ebola and cholera.
There is a danger to such “rage rhetoric” when it gives a license to others to take violent action, including attempting to assassinate a justice or a president. Indeed, once the left hit the maximal level of panic politics, you cannot ratchet down without being yourself subject to attack from the mob. You have to keep the rhetoric at a DEFCON 1 level.
There is another possibility worth considering. Every administration has come into power with sweeping changes. They are hashed out in the courts. If history is any guide, it is likely that Trump will win many but also lose some of these cases. That includes challenges to the authority of courts.
You can criticize these moves without reaching for the Hitler and Putin analogies. We have the most stable, most successful constitutional system in the history of the world. This is no constitutional crisis. We have this. Our constitution and courts will resolve any conflicts and we will continue as a free people. The only thing likely to “disappear” are the ratings and viewers of networks who traffic in rage rhetoric and panic politics.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro professor of public interest law at George Washington University and the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Our esteemed leftists on this site believe that many people caught sneaking across the border, or arrested for criminal activity while belonging to a foreign criminal gang, might actually be American citizens. According to them we cannot know until they are given full due process, including probably appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court. They demand this knowing full well that the courts do not move at anything above glacial speed.
This is not is a reasoned and principled argument. It is a variant of the Cloward-Piven strategy which aims to utilize militant activism to facilitate a political crisis by overloading some important social system. That is what the unrestrained illegal border jumping was all about too — overload courts, medical, welfare, law enforcement, even private employment.
One and a half million people here have deportation orders; some going back to the Obama Administration. George would prefer they stay here to provide cheap labor and increase our national wealth through their initiative and inventiveness. Please, send them elsewhere.
What are you talking about?
There was zero due process provided, not even the minimal DP afforded to defendants in Article II proceedings.
Taking a valid point from an opposing point of view and distorting it (“including probably appeals all the way up to the Supreme Court”) is not a “reasoned and principled” response.
The Due Process protections of the 5th Amendment exist for a reason. Our Bill of Rights ensures fairness in legal proceedings by preventing the government from depriving individuals of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”
Like most other constitutional rights, the Due Process Clause protects all persons, not just citizens. As Scalia wrote in Reno v. Flores, “it is well established that the Fifth Amendment entitles aliens to due process of law in deportation proceedings.” Even if the AEA permitted the action – which it does not – the application of the statute is clearly unconstitutional as a violation of the Fifth Amendment.
Now, cue the — “Scalia must have been a liberal!” hysteria.
#74. It isn’t reasonable.
Anonymous says:
“There was zero due process provided, not even the minimal DP afforded to defendants in Article II proceedings.”
***THIS HISTORICAL RECORD, FROM CARTER TO CLINTON, SHOWS THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS USED AND THE FAVORABLE AND UNREVERSED
SCOTUS RULING FOR THE MASS DEPORTATION OF HAITIANS, IN FORCE WHICH CAN BE INVOKED NOW
ARTICLE FROM March 27, 2024
A Haitian Immigration Chaos History Lesson for President Biden
Cully Stimson | Elizabeth Holland | March 27, 2024
* We have a long and complicated history of responding to Haitians attempting to come to the United States. Presidents Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton all implemented extreme measures prompted by the excessive number of illegal immigrants arriving in the US.
* According to news reports, the Biden administration is considering housing Haitian migrants at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The base—which is best known for housing al-Qaeda terrorists, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the mastermind of 9/11—has been used as a migrant detention facility several times in the past.
* As a policy matter, there are suboptimal options, bad options, and terrible options. But given the Biden administration’s blatant abuse of mass parole for Haitian migrants in the last three years, it would be imprudent to import Haitians to the 45-square-mile Navy base in southern Cuba as there is a strong likelihood that many, if not most, would end up in the United States.
* Upon taking office, President Bill Clinton did not modify Bush’s executive order. The Supreme Court held in the Sale decision that neither Section 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 nor Article 33 of the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees applied to actions taken by the U.S. Coast Guard in international waters.
* The holding in Sale has not been overruled, which means that Biden could, with the stroke of a pen, order the U.S. Coast Guard to interdict vessels filled with Haitians outside the territorial waters of the United States (12 nautical miles) and return them to Haiti or other countries in the region willing to accept them.
History Repeats Itself
Cuban President Fidel Castro announced in 1980 that he would allow any Cuban who wanted to leave Cuba to do so, reversing his previous prohibition on leaving the communist dictatorship.
As a result of Castro’s edict, over 1,700 boats laden with people departed from the Cuban port of Mariel and headed north to Florida.
Some 125,000 Cubans and approximately 25,000 Haitians entered the United States during the so-called Mariel boatlift. On June 20, President Jimmy Carter declared a state of emergency and established the Cuban-Haitian Entrant Program, or CHEP.
As the Supreme Court recounted in Sale v. Haitian Centers Council, Inc., “On September 23, 1981, the United States and the Republic of Haiti entered into an agreement authorizing the United States Coast Guard to intercept vessels engaged in the illegal transportation of undocumented aliens to our shores.”
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan issued Presidential Proclamation 4865. This was directed at the “ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws,” which he called “a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States.”
Those arrivals, Reagan’s proclamation read, had “severely strained the law enforcement resources of the Immigration and Naturalization Service and have threatened the welfare and safety of communities in that region.”
As a result, Reagan signed Executive Order 12324, ordering the suspension of migrants coming to the United States by sea. He also ordered the U.S. Coast Guard to enforce the suspension by interdicting any vessel in international waters carrying migrants and returning the vessel and its occupants “to the country from which it came.”
According to a 2011 Congressional Research Service report, the Reagan administration established an agreement with Haiti to interdict (i.e., intercept and search) suspected Haitian vessels that departed from Haiti and were bound for the United States.
Most Haitians fleeing the country were considered economic migrants.
From 1981 through 1990, according to the Congressional Research Service, “22,940 Haitians were interdicted at sea. Of this number … 11 Haitians qualified for asylum in the United States.”
A coup deposed Haiti’s first democratically elected leader in September of 1991. U.S. officials debated whether Haitians should be forced to return to their country. The Coast Guard suspended repatriations for a period of several weeks.
President George H.W. Bush worked with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to persuade countries in the region to take a few hundred Haitians scooped up by the Coast Guard.
As described in the Sale Supreme Court case, “during the six months after October 1991, the Coast Guard interdicted over 34,000 Haitians.”
The Department of Defense set up temporary processing and screening facilities at the U.S. Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, which only had a capacity of approximately 12,500 persons.
The migrant flows from the island continued.
In the first three weeks in May 1992 alone, the Coast Guard intercepted 127 rickety vessels carrying 10,497 illegal aliens, causing the Navy to determine that it could no longer accept aliens at Guantanamo.
This left the United States between a rock and a hard place. Bush had to choose between “allowing Haitians into the United States for the screening process or repatriating them without giving them any opportunity to establish their qualifications as refugees.”
Bush chose the second option and issued Executive Order 12807, which revoked Reagan’s executive order and replaced it with a similar order suspending the entry of illegal aliens coming by sea and repatriating those interdicted beyond the territorial sea of the United States.
Upon taking office, President Bill Clinton did not modify Bush’s executive order.
The Supreme Court held in the Sale decision that neither Section 243(h) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 nor Article 33 of the United Nations Protocol Relating to the Status of Refugees applied to actions taken by the U.S. Coast Guard in international waters.
The holding in Sale has not been overruled, which means that Biden could, with the stroke of a pen, order the U.S. Coast Guard to interdict vessels filled with Haitians outside the territorial waters of the United States (12 nautical miles) and return them to Haiti or other countries in the region willing to accept them.
https://www.dailysignal.com/2024/03/27/a-haitian-immigration-chaos-history-lesson-for-president-biden/
Anonymous says:
“Like most other constitutional rights, the Due Process Clause protects all persons, not just citizens.”
Wrong!!!!!!
NOT APPLICABLE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SINCE 2014
ARTICLE FROM 2016
What crimes make immigrants eligible for deportation?
Nation Dec 28, 2016 5:20 PM EDT
* Since 2014, (SINCE 2014 – OBAMA) the Department of Homeland Security has prioritized deporting noncitizens who pose a serious threat to public safety or national security — and from October 2014 through September 2015, of the 235,413 people who were deported, 59 percent had criminal convictions.
* But federal data on criminal deportees does not specify the crimes they’ve committed — or how many of them are undocumented. Technically, if someone is undocumented and entered the country after January 2014, they are considered a high priority for criminal deportation, even if they have committed no other offense.
* Further complicating matters: what constitutes a “criminal alien” is not defined in U.S. immigration law or regulations, and is used broadly, according to a September report by the Congressional Research Service. A criminal alien may be someone who is undocumented or an authorized immigrant who may or may not be deportable, depending on the crime they have committed. He or she may be incarcerated or free, or have already served time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/crimes-make-immigrants-eligible-deportation
“This is not is a reasoned and principled argument.”
Why not? The Constitution outlines how to address this issue. Everyone within our borders has the right to due process. This right allows us to determine who is truly a gang member and who is not. Simply labeling someone as a gang member is not sufficient, even though it may be more convenient and straightforward. However, this approach violates our laws, and we have these laws for a reason.
“That is what the unrestrained illegal border jumping was all about too — overload courts, medical, welfare, law enforcement, even private employment.”
Congress has the opportunity to effectively tackle the immigration challenges facing our nation if they choose to take decisive action. A potential solution could mirror the approach taken by President Reagan in the past: providing amnesty and a clear pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Implementing such measures could lead to a significant reduction in backlogs within the immigration system.
By allowing undocumented immigrants to gain legal status, healthcare insurers would benefit from an expanded customer base. With more individuals able to seek health services without fear of deportation, we could see improvements in public health outcomes as preventive care becomes more accessible.
Furthermore, offering legal status would alleviate welfare demands. Many undocumented immigrants currently rely on social services due to their restricted ability to work legally. Once granted the right to seek employment openly, they would be able to pursue legitimate job opportunities, thus reducing their dependence on welfare programs.
Additionally, law enforcement agencies would be able to redirect their resources. Rather than spending time and effort on the pursuit of undocumented individuals, they could focus on addressing violent crime and other serious offenses within communities, ultimately enhancing public safety.
The economic benefits of such a policy shift are worth noting as well. Increased legal employment opportunities would not only raise the living standards of many immigrant families but would also foster entrepreneurship. Many immigrants possess the drive and creativity necessary to start new businesses, contributing to job creation and enriching the tax base, which in turn benefits the broader economy.
In summary, Congress has the chance to create a more efficient and humane immigration system by adopting policies that promote amnesty and a clear path to citizenship, which would lead to numerous benefits for individuals, communities, and the nation as a whole.
Trump has previously proposed an idea similar to this, known as a “golden visa,” which allows only the wealthiest individuals to gain citizenship by paying $5 million. This process would enable them to skip to the front of the line and receive citizenship much faster. According to Trump, even a criminal from another country could enter the U.S. through this program.
George says:
“This is not is a reasoned and principled argument.” “Why not? The Constitution outlines how to address this issue. Everyone within our borders has the right to due process. This right allows us to determine who is truly a gang member and who is not.”
Wrong!!!!!!
NOT APPLICABLE TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SINCE 2014
ARTICLE FROM 2016
What crimes make immigrants eligible for deportation?
Nation Dec 28, 2016 5:20 PM EDT
* Since 2014, (SINCE 2014 – OBAMA) the Department of Homeland Security has prioritized deporting noncitizens who pose a serious threat to public safety or national security — and from October 2014 through September 2015, of the 235,413 people who were deported, 59 percent had criminal convictions.
* But federal data on criminal deportees does not specify the crimes they’ve committed — or how many of them are undocumented. Technically, if someone is undocumented and entered the country after January 2014, they are considered a high priority for criminal deportation, even if they have committed no other offense.
* Further complicating matters: what constitutes a “criminal alien” is not defined in U.S. immigration law or regulations, and is used broadly, according to a September report by the Congressional Research Service. A criminal alien may be someone who is undocumented or an authorized immigrant who may or may not be deportable, depending on the crime they have committed. He or she may be incarcerated or free, or have already served time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/crimes-make-immigrants-eligible-deportation
#74. Thanks for the thoughtful response, Kevin. I shall look up Cloward-Piven.
It’s true. Trump’s version of “disappearing” people isn’t the same as Putin’s. It’s more like Stalin’s. Let the record be corrected.
I have been saying here for weeks that Congress needs to consider stripping these lunatic, Jacobin judges of jurisdiction.
Now Governor DeSantis, easily one of the best governors ever along with Governor Abbott, is saying the same thing.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/ron-desantis-offers-solution-dealing-activists-judges-who
“Congress has the authority to strip jurisdiction of the federal courts to decide these cases in the first place. The sabotaging of President Trump’s agenda by ‘resistance’ judges was predictable — why no jurisdiction-stripping bills tee’d up at the onset of this Congress?”
So along with the public turning against the demented federal courts we can add at least one great governor to the list of senators, congressman, and law professors who have had enough of these arrogant, robed tyrants.
And yet they keep digging…digging the deep grave of their reputations, respect, and power.
At the midterms it is possible one of the main issues will be what to do with the courts.
#74. These judges don’t have the entire nation as a “jurisdiction”. There’s the error.
Lefties losing it by Rita Panahi is good for a chuckle
https://youtu.be/cgtuWjoT3o0?si=JvmzKNgcFl3xZuoo
I wish I could subscribe solely to her clips, because Sky uploads way too many other clips that I don’t care about
Trump is sending people to be tortured in third world prisons without any due process. He is torturing and deporting people in American prisons. This is truth, not rhetoric.
Does a person who entered the country illegally have due process? I thought the Constitution applied to US citizens only?
“Does a person who entered the country illegally have due process? I thought the Constitution applied to US citizens only?”
Yes.
The Constitution applies to everyone within its jurisdiction, that is, everyone who is within our borders.
Only fascists believe otherwise.
Immediate deportation is the option.
If the illegal entry is prosecuted and then deported is an option and if murder was committed or other, yes, prosecution includes due process.
The truth is those people came into this country in violation of our laws and without due process. They need to leave on their own or with a little help from ICE.
Apparently you don’t understand what “due process” means. When individuals arrive here and surrender themselves to claim asylum, they are adhering to the law. It may seem surprising, but because they have taken this step and are now within the jurisdiction of the constitution’s authority, they are entitled to the right to due process. Anybody who is within our borders has a right to due process no matter how they got here.
Asylum requires legal entry.
“Asylum requires legal entry.”
No, it doesn’t. You can enter illegally and seek authorities to claim asylum. You can cross the border and request asylum. You can ride a boat to shore and seek the nearist cop or border officer and request asylum. You can request asylum after entering legally too.
No one is able to research this because journalism is corrupted. The constiturion does address the invasion and DJT has taken emergency , national security under profound consuderation and issued the EO.
In the Kahlil case it’s different because he’s a green card holder. He’ll be afforded due process.
It’s comical when The People ask for a president to deal with Criminals Crossing the Border, and he does, but it was not Demo’s idea, it must be an evil act. Prove it.
How do you know they are criminals? How do you know they aren’t US citizens?
Without due process, we don’t know.
Why is this so difficult to comprehend?
If they enter the country illegally that is a crime, hence they are criminals. Why is that so difficult to comprehend?
Anonymous says:March 20, 2025 at 9:39 AM
How do you know they are criminals? How do you know they aren’t US citizens?
Without due process, we don’t know.
Why is this so difficult to comprehend?
ANSWER
1. The first people who are happy about the deportations to El Salvador of the El Tren de Aragua criminal gang are Venezuelans themselves, because they know that if they arrive in Venezuela they would once again be on the streets. Didn’t you know that since Biden (who brought them by plane) crime has decreased in Venezuela?
2. The members of these gangs are recognizable at first glance because they have tattoos representing them. In the case of “Las Maras Salvatruchas,” they have a tear tattooed on their faces for each person they kill.
3. The first groups of deportees are those who have committed crimes here in the US and “the so-called due process” hasn’t imprisoned them; they have been returned to the streets.
4- Did you know that the governmental envy of all Latinos right now is Buquele and Miley and even for Venezuelans, Donald Trump himself?
They are gang members because they have tattoos. Lot’s of people have tattoos. That doesn’t mean they are all members of a gang. Secretary of Defense Hegseth has plenty of tattoos. Does that mean our Secretary of Defense is a gang member?
“The first groups of deportees are those who have committed crimes here in the US and “the so-called due process” hasn’t imprisoned them; they have been returned to the streets.”
How do we know they committed crimes? The government offers zero proof. They could be deporting U.S. citizens or legal immigrants with no criminal history. Are we supposed to just trust government? I thought we weren’t supposed to trust government.
Yes, hegseth belongs to the gang called the military and someone else another legal gang such as BLM etc.
“Secretary of Defense Hegseth has plenty of tattoos. Does that mean our Secretary of Defense is a gang member?”
1. Of course NOT, a tattoo, or all tattoos, no means that you belong to a gang, but all tattoos represent something, whether culturally or sentimentally, it is a form of expression and art.
2. In the case of Secretary of Defense Hegseth, her tattoos are of the Jerusalem cross and the Latin phrase “Deus Vult,” which means “God wills it.”
3. But YES, all gangs use tattoos that describe something; all markings have a meaning; they can show affiliation or indicate rank. So much so, that gang members develop techniques to hide their meaning.
Gang Tattoos Can Tell You the History of a Suspect
NCJ Number 213238
Journal Police: The Law Enforcement Magazine Volume: 30 Issue: 2 Dated: February 2006 Pages: 30-32,34,26,38,42
Author(s)
Richard Valdemar
Date Published February 2006
Length 7 pages Pages: 30-32,34,26,38,42
Annotation
This article describes the general meanings that gang-related tattoos hold for their bearers, followed by descriptions of the design and color of tattoos borne by members of specific gangs.
Abstract
American and European street gangs have traditionally used tattoos to intimidate those who view them, show gang affiliation, and indicate rank. They can indicate who a gang member is, what he believes, what he has done, where he has been, where he was imprisoned and for how many years, as well as the number of people he has killed. The more police investigators know about the tattoos of particular gangs, the more information they can gain from specific tattoos of gang members under investigation or in custody.
1- This article provides information on the tattoos of the following
* American Black gangs: the Black Guerilla Family; The Bloods; The Crips; The Kumi Nation, 415; and The Black Gangster Disciples.
* Information is also provided on the tattoos of the following Hispanic gangs: The Mexican Mafia and The Nuestra Familia.
* Tattoos of the following White gangs are described as well: The Aryan Brotherhood and the Nazi Low Riders.
2- Some general techniques used by gang members to disguise the meanings of their tattoos are also briefly described.
https://www.ojp.gov/ncjrs/virtual-library/abstracts/murder-ink-if-you-know-how-read-them-gang-tattoos-can-tell-you
National Gang Intelligence Center | Aragua Train (TdA)

PDF
3 sept 2024 — Tren de Aragua – Tattoos and Other Identifiers. • Tattoos: ‒ Stars on shoulder to indicate rank. ‒ Crowns (similar to Latin Kings).
https://gov.texas.gov/uploads/files/press/09.16.2024_TdA_Slides-Combined_.pdf
George says:
“How do we know they committed crimes? The government offers zero proof. They could be deporting U.S. citizens or legal immigrants with no criminal history. Are we supposed to just trust government? I thought we weren’t supposed to trust government.”
ARTICLE FROM 2016
What crimes make immigrants eligible for deportation?
Nation Dec 28, 2016 5:20 PM EDT
* Since 2014, (SINCE 2014 – OBAMA) the Department of Homeland Security has prioritized deporting noncitizens who pose a serious threat to public safety or national security — and from October 2014 through September 2015, of the 235,413 people who were deported, 59 percent had criminal convictions.
* But federal data on criminal deportees does not specify the crimes they’ve committed — or how many of them are undocumented. Technically, if someone is undocumented and entered the country after January 2014, they are considered a high priority for criminal deportation, even if they have committed no other offense.
* Further complicating matters: what constitutes a “criminal alien” is not defined in U.S. immigration law or regulations, and is used broadly, according to a September report by the Congressional Research Service. A criminal alien may be someone who is undocumented or an authorized immigrant who may or may not be deportable, depending on the crime they have committed. He or she may be incarcerated or free, or have already served time.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/crimes-make-immigrants-eligible-deportation
ANSWER
1- The first people who are happy about the deportations to El Salvador of the El Tren de Aragua criminal gang are Venezuelans themselves, because they know that if they reach Venezuela they would once again be on the streets. Didn’t you know that since Biden (who brought them by plane) crime has decreased in Venezuela?
2- The members of these gangs are recognizable at first glance because they have tattoos representing them. In the case of “Las Maras Salvatruchas,” they have a tear tattooed on their faces for each person they kill.
3- The first groups of deportees are those who have committed crimes here in the US, and “the so-called due process” hasn’t imprisoned them; they have been returned to the streets.
4- Did you know that the government envy of all Latinos right now is Buquele and Miley, and even for Venezuelans, Donald Trump himself?
PS: If you want to know how Latinos think, read the comments (use Google Translate)
These Are the Tattoos the Government Says Can Identify Tren de Aragua
https://www.newsweek.com/tren-de-aragua-venezuela-gang-tattoos-border-patrol-2007684
@Anonymous
They don’t. And they do comprehend, they are just paid to say the opposite. It is the equivalent of asking if you want fries. The trolls are basically serving up the side order on a supersized meal. Yes, it’s pathetic. Yes, it’s annoying. But it is what they are paid to do. Almost nobody is fooled anymore. It is all very stupid, and yes, it is a hamper on progress, but their patrons have a whole lot of money to waste. And make no mistake, they are wasting it. down the toilet.
You’d think smart business people would realize this at some point, but we are not dealing with smart business people, just those hungry for power. In a free country. The mind spins. And the minions seem to have no indication whatsoever that that is all they are, disposable tools paid a wage.
@Anonymidiot
That’s a good one. You clearly live on the East Coast, or perhaps even another country, and work on your laptop. Don’t pretend you don’t. Really: f*** off.
Professor Turley writes, “Trump is more dangerous than Hitler and is disappearing people like Putin? That leaves only Ebola and cholera.”
Sorry, Professor, President Obola already owns the Ebola brand 🙂
I agree with the Professor in general, but the Chief Justice—as an institutionalist—must know that these renegade black robes are dragging the courts into political disaster. Leftists, unchecked, will wreck anything. Roberts needs to address this malicious lawfare if he really cares about preserving the integrity of the justice system. It’s not enough to scold Trump. Not nearly.
Turley did not say that, he wrote what this nut case, ex-Congressional person said. Thank God she got beat years ago! She is really deranged! I have listened to her for years off and on, she and Maxine Waters need to be put in the same home!
Short Scott Adams video nails it:
Dilbert creator and Trump supporter Scott Adams used a recent portion of his podcast to rip Democrats and their incredibly destructive behavior.
Adams does a sort of side-by-side comparison, asking listeners to pay close attention to what members of both parties are saying.
He suggests that when Republicans talk, they’re talking about solutions and aspirations, bettering the economy, increasing energy production, ending wars, things like that. When Democrats speak however, everything is about destruction. Destruction of Trump, destruction of Elon Musk and Tesla automobiles, etc.
He then lists the various actions of elected Democrats in recent years and calls them out for the open border, our horrible education system which is beholden to teacher unions, DEI policies, and even the rash of recent swatting attacks.
He ultimately concludes:
“These are all insanely destructive, and it seems to be all they have. All they have is, let’s see if we can destroy Republicans by calling them domestic terrorists. Let’s see if we can destroy Trump and his entire family and his entire business. Let’s see if we can destroy everything. Everything they do has this characteristic that it would destroy the country. These are the major things they’re doing.
It seems like they don’t have any instinct for survival, and they have a great instinct to destruction.”
https://x.com/jayplemons/status/1902441780509065549?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1902441780509065549%7Ctwgr%5E27ddd4d5d0a76e7882009a4551fdae4748e82c92%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F03%2Fscott-adams-rips-democrats-everything-they-do-has%2F
You came to this blog to express your support for the cold blooded execution of a man shot in the back while peacefully walking down the street. The man’s family was destroyed by that senseless act of violence by a far left lunatic. It is true that as a general proposition, Democrat supporters are terrible people. You are no better.
Gee, I guess that somebody woke up on the wrong side of the bed.. .
Jesse, what the hell are you talking about?
Anonymous is like the mask wearing Hamas lovers and Antifa. Give us a real name. Coward.
The good news is that Trump, and by extension Turley, have George, Enigma, Dennis, Gigi, Anonymous and other poseurs defending foreign violent gangs being removed, Jew hating and terrorist loving foreign activists, fire bombing of dealerships and cars and boys in girls locker rooms. They can’t seem to figure out why Trump is more popular than at any other time.
Hey George and Enigma, did you ever complain about Biden flying illegals all over our country? Did you ever complain about people being arrested for praying outside clinics? Did you ever mention due process rights of J6 offenders? Did you ever, even once, write a comment castigating Hamas for October 7th and the violence done to women and girls that day?
George is busy today, it must be pay day from some phony baloney NGO.
Can you provide one example when due process was denied by the Biden administration?
1. https://law.ucla.edu/sites/default/files/PDFs/Center_for_Immigration_Law_and_Policy/No_Fair_Day_Children_in_Immigration_Court_White_Paper.pdf
2. https://reason.com/2022/09/15/biden-guts-title-ix-due-process/
Hullbobby, we are not defending criminals and those here illegally. We are defending the rule of law.
Trump is bypassing the law so we can deport people faster and in more significant numbers. He’s upset that the deportations and numbers are not as high as he wants them to be. He keeps forgetting that even criminals and illegal immigrants still have certain rights as long as they are here. The Constitution guarantees everyone the right to due process. That’s the issue.
“Hey George and Enigma, did you ever complain about Biden flying illegals all over our country?”
Do you know why that happened? Because there are laws requiring specific processes to be followed, and all have due process rights. There are also capacity issues. Since there were huge backlogs in immigration courts, some people could not be held indefinitely until their court hearings. That means several years in detention, and that is illegal. So, flying them to where they can be released until their court hearings is permissible. Even Trump is being forced to release immigrants they have detained. They just won’t let that be widely known.
“Did you ever complain about people being arrested for praying outside clinics?”
What’s there to complain about? Those arrested were being arrested according to the law. SCOTUS ruled such laws are constitutional. You didn’t know that? It was not just praying but also obstruction. Plus, I think you’re referring to a case in England, not here.
“Did you ever mention due process rights of J6 offenders?”
Yeah, they all had been tried and convicted and had their due process rights intact.
“Did you ever, even once, write a comment castigating Hamas for October 7th and the violence done to women and girls that day?”
Yes, I have. I condemned the attack and denounced Hamas for doing it. But I also offered a rationalization for why they did it. Both are excellent exercises of free speech.
“George is busy today, it must be pay day from some phony baloney NGO.”
Well, this article is the closest Turley has to addressing the Trump administration’s lawless actions and disobeying the courts. Obviously, I’m passionate about the issue, and posting more than usual demonstrates just how much. It’s pretty standard stuff.
The Chief Justice should have said what he said but he should have cautioned the left wing judges about their excessive zeal in pursuing these cases on very thin precepts. He might have also said something about the separation of powers and the fact that the there is a strong appearance of these courts and judges trying to hamstring the executive branch, especially about executive functions, and doing it from an extremely partisan point of view.
It has not escaped our notice that almost every one of these judges were pointed by Clinton, Obama and Biden (when he was lucid , whenever that was).
The actions of these judges seem to mirror the videos presented by several democratic politicians which all looked alike with the same wording and gestures even. I can see an administration wargaming a legal approach in it’s programs as any good attorney or politician should do, but I don’t believe that a democratic judge or any judges should be wargaming their responses with other judges or political parties on judgements. They are no longer supposed to be attorneys or politicians but judges. We had a Supreme Court Justice who actually tried to do that and it cost him his seat on the court and an appointment as Chief Justice. Does Abe Fortas ring a bell?
Sometimes things change and a stately stroll thru the appellate courts is no longer appropriate. Sometimes, but not always, accelerated review is appropriate. Or the Chief Justice could have laid out some guidelines or lanes in response to this plethora of challenges. After all the Democratic Party did lose both houses and the presidency. Maybe the people that won should get to run the country. Is not that the Democracy that the Dems keep screaming about?
“The Chief Justice should have said what he said”
Why was that necessary? Is Donald Trump not free to hold and express an opinion on the just fate for a judge who has made poor decisions? Donald Trump is not in charge of the Courts, or Congress, he knows that, and Roberts knows that as well . As far as I can see, Trump did not incite any illegal actions against the judge, which would have fodder for condemnation.
Yet another fine example of why The Food Network and Sponge Bob have better ratings than MSM.
This D is a fine example of those who do not live and work in the “real” world but decide to talk about the real world! It is reported that she spent all but 3 – just 3 – years of her adult life being paid by taxpayers. Just another lifetime hanger-on. At least the voters of MO finally woke up and ridded the USA Senate of her.
” It is reported that she spent all but 3 – just 3 – years of her adult life being paid by taxpayers.”
I don’t know her bio, but I would bet good money that those 3 years were spent sponging off her parents. Excellent career practice.
Thank you for confirming another reason for not restarting to watch MSNBC. I just erased it from my channel options so that it no longer comes up when I channel surf with the remote.
Yet another Dem projecting her own psychopathy onto others.
If Claire McCaskill was black, she would be Jasmine Crockett, or maybe Maxine Waters. Whoopi, even.
“If Claire McCaskill was black, she would be Jasmine Crockett, or maybe Maxine Waters. Whoopi, even.” OR CRAZY FLOYD!
Linking to a site that offers nothing but speculation about Navalny’s illness won’t earn you much credibility Turley. Moreover, why have you systematically ignored the most egregious violation of free speech this country has seen in decades: the deportation of legal residents because they have spoken out against Israel’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing? The Israeli government, through its AIPAC lobby, is the greatest threat to free speech this country has ever seen (not my words, but those of renowned political scientist John Mearsheimer). Yet Jonathan Turley, the self-appointed defender of free speech, either remains silent, or contributes to the FOX news roundup of pro-Israel propagandists.
Anonymous here would defend a green card holder violently protesting for Bin Laden on September 12, 2001.
It isn’t a free speech issue when you support a TERRORIST organization while being here as a guest. You know it, we all know it and that is why the fake student will be gone.
Hullbobby: You have drunk all the kool-aid the government provides. Too bad you aren’t as adept in history (for instance, the history of Israel’s occupation of Palestine) as you are in mindless projection and speculation.
Why don’t you tell us about Israel’s occupation of Palestine. Is that when the Jewish farmers were called Palestinians? Palestine is an area. There is no such thing as a Palestinian people unless you wish to use the invention by the Russians. You must be a Putin lover.
Except, yes, it is. Unless there was evidence of violence (by the individual), “support” here is just speech.
And where’s your links and proof of such actions? Did you make the pudding, or are you trying to shovel us store-made slop?
Anonymous says:
Moreover, why have you systematically ignored the most egregious violation of free speech this country has seen in decades: the deportation of legal residents because they have spoken out against Israel’s campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing?
ANSWER
The deportations are for people who praise and support terrorism, not for those who, according to you, denounce Israel.
In any case, what they are doing isn’t freedom of expression, it’s groups of people who pay them to “terrorize those who don’t support the current cause.” This can be varied, from BLM or CLIMATE, to defending terrorist groups.
The irony is that those who blame Israel for being genocidal, support Ukraine to continue a war!
If you’re a foreigner and don’t like our policies, go home or move to Iran to see if they’ll let you speak, or if you’re a woman, go out without the hijab, niqab, and burka!
The Screaming Banshee, aka McCaskill, only has one trick in her Grandma Handbag – hysteria! She was a ding bat bomb thrower in Congress and only stays relevant on MSNBC by being to WAY OUT THERE wack-job woman on MOURNING (meant this spelling) JOE! This is why people write off the Dems as IDIOTS!
I love coming to read post by deeply devolved magats.
Ad hominem. Lack of support. No addition to the conversation at hand.
Maggots devour dead flesh Wally and in nature make things healthier, kind of a parallelism isn’t it?! Think of Gangrene Wally, your mind is gangrenous…
@Wally
We don’t love reading your propaganda and regurgitation of said. It isn’t a perfect world. And yet, here you are, perfectly free to spout your boosheet. Guess the system is working.
It’s quite revealing that all that is left for the prog/left is fear mongering. They have nothing remaining but that, and judicial lawfare, to offer; and the stench of desperation grows stronger with every increase in the bizarro factor of each new claim of the evil of Trump. Escalating domestic terrorism and cultural fraction are the result so far. We have to ask just what will be their next step? Assassination?
Whimsicalmama,
There was, past tense, a website called “DOGEQUEST” that has gone dark after independent media began reporting on it. On the website they had a searchable map of the alleged names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Tesla owners and DOGE employees across the US.
Sort of reminds me of Torquemada, the SS, the KGB and even a whiff of the Salem witch trials. We have seen this insanity before.
@whimsicalmama
We really have. And the perpetrators today are just as blind and insane as they were in the past. Sanity won before, it will again, though it’ll be a long road.
Lighting things on fire, let alone *paying* people to light things on fire, is the opposite of sanity. It is telling when the only way proponents of certain ideologies can win is by deception, manipulation, and brute force. That is our modern left, globally, in a nutshell to me. Petty and small minded people. We would have never left the dark ages if there were no one to speak the opposite in the past. humanity would likely already be extinct had that been the case.
Sure. ‘Seizing power’ by being duly elected by a majority. ‘Disappearing people’ in broad daylight with full transparency and by promoting an app freely available on the App Store. This is all beyond ridiculous. There is nothing remaining on the modern left to take seriously anymore, only endless reasons to be wary of them.
He was elected by a plurality and not a majority. The latter requires 50% +1 vote.
IDK, 2M+ on Popular, and ~ 30 on Electoral seems like a majority to anyone not trying to change math
@Wally
You need to look up plurality. Since you insist on splitting hairs, it s a *type* of majority. Intelligent people infer.