Below is my column in the New York Post on the first 100 days of the Trump Administration in court. It is too early to handicap many of these lower courts decisions. I have been critical of some of these orders as either premature or unconstitutional. There is a reason for the hyperkinetic pace of the Administration. However, it needs greater focus and discipline in picking cases.
Here is the column:
The first 100 days of the Trump administration have been described in the same way on sites ranging from the ACLU to Vanity Fair: Chaos.
It seems like the Justice Department is battling everywhere on everything at the same time.
It is indeed chaos, but it is not necessarily as random or as reckless as it may seem to the naked eye.
I have been critical of a number of legal moves by the Trump administration, including policies that undermine free speech values. Yet there is a type of legal chaos theory behind all of these actions. In science, chaos theory suggests that, even in a system of seemingly random actions, there can be patterns and interconnections.
The hyperkinetic litigation around the country reflects two realities.
First, Democratic state governments and groups have a massive war chest to challenge any and every new policy of President Trump. In California, the Democrats actually pre-approved a litigation fund before the inauguration to do precisely that.
Second, and more importantly, Trump promised sweeping changes from immigration to transgender policies to education reforms.
If you know that you are going to be challenged, it is better to get into court as soon as possible to move critical cases through the legal system. What you need is finality. Even if you lose cases, you need to know what authority you have.
Immigration wins
This is an administration in a hurry. Trump learned in his first term that you need to move as fast and as far as possible in the first two years of a presidential term.
With the midterm elections looming, Trump knows that reforms may end and investigations and impeachments will begin if the Democrats retake the House in 2026.
Despite some losses, the Justice Department has succeeded generally in reaffirming its authority to seek the reduction of government and to root out waste. It has also made real progress in other areas.
Take the area of greatest success for the Trump administration: Immigration.
One thing that was clearly established in the first 100 days is that the entry of millions of unlawful immigrants was a choice made by the Biden administration and the Democrats. They could have stopped most of these entries at any time, but elected to leave the southern border effectively open for four years as millions poured over.
In a matter of weeks, Trump effectively closed the border. In February, there were just 8,326 southern border encounters, down from 189,913 in February 2024. Daily encounters this week declined 97% from Biden.
As many of us stated during the Biden administration, Democrats could have shut down the border, but clearly did not want to. Now with millions in the country, Democrats are calling for “pathways to citizenship” by arguing that there is no way to process so many illegals allowed in under Biden.
In the meantime, the public overwhelmingly favors deportations and elected Trump on his pledge to carry out such removals. Polling shows that 83% of Americans support deportations of immigrants with violent criminal records and roughly half support mass deportation of all undocumented persons.
A new CBS poll shows that, after the first 100 days, 56 percent approve of President Donald Trump’s “program to find and deport immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally.”
National injunctions
To carry out that policy, Trump is seeking to use new expedited systems. For the worst individuals, he has turned to the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act, a little-used act that presents a series of novel, unresolved questions.
Even with this smaller subset of detainees, individual hearings and appeals could make Biden’s decision to allow millions into the country a permanent reality. Many immigrants have been given initial court dates that extend beyond the Trump term.
Trump also pledged to reduce trade barriers for American exports and he is pushing existing laws to the breaking point on tariffs. He is right on the merits.
Even our closest allies impose unfair barriers to our goods and Trump sought to change the status quo with sweeping tariffs issued under his own authority.
Democrats have challenged that authority in various courts and, again, there are good-faith arguments that must be hashed out in court.
It is too early to tell how successful these cases will prove. However, a district court injunction (or even a dozen injunctions) a crisis does not make.
The Supreme Court is about to hear arguments on limiting the use of national injunctions and some of these district court decisions are highly challengeable on appeal.
There is no question that Trump is moving at a lightning speed and the Justice Department has to move at the same pace as the president.
There is also no question that it would better to slow down to avoid some of the unforced errors in the first 100 days.
However, Trump knows that time is of the essence. If he is going to realign the markets and make progress on issues like deportations, he has to put points on the board before the midterm elections. Ronald Reagan lost 26 seats in the House in his first midterm, Bill Clinton lost 54, and Barack Obama lost a breathtaking 63 seats.
The greatest problem for the Justice Department is that the White House and the political team appear to be largely dictating these moves. Political aides see these hills as worth dying on. Even if they lose in court, fighting to remove criminal aliens or to reduce certain foreign aid remains popular with voters.
Don’t alienate judges
The frenzy, however, can come at a cost. That includes alienating justices on the Supreme Court. The resistance to court orders and hyperbolic rhetoric seems to be wearing thin with members like Chief Justice John Roberts.
Trump will need these votes when they really count on big-ticket items like his inherent authority to act in areas ranging from markets to migrants.
Fights over Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia are burning time and effort. If he was simply returned as ordered by a court, Abrego Garcia could be promptly and correctly deported right back to El Salvador. He has no cognizable basis for remaining in the United States.
Richard Carlson, a Bay Area psychotherapist, famously wrote a book titled “Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff … and it’s all Small Stuff.” Fights like Garcia are small stuff.
Of course, much of what presidents do is “big stuff” and you have two years to make those things happen. In a curious way, the Trump administration is fortunate to have many of these issues in court early to gain greater finality on the lines of authority. However, it needs to focus on the big stuff . . . and a short calendar.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University and the author of best-selling book “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.”
Jonathan: After 100 days DJT does have a plan all right in how to run his second term. It may or may not based on the “chaos theory”. But it’s clear from his tariffs that he wants to make the US economy his 7th bankruptcy!
Dennis is clearly terrified of the potential success of President Donald J. Trump, which, when it comes to fruition, will reveal the lack of vision and abject incompetence of the communists (liberals, progressives, socialists, democrats, RINOs, AINOs) in America.
Opinion only Dennis.
You have been wrong on some many things. What makes you think is comment is right
OOPS So many things
Q1 2025
federal government expenditures fell 5.1%
fixed investment surged 7.8%
March inflation rate is down to 2.4% after surging in the late biden administration.
2.4% is still too high – but it is high normal, not low dangerous.
The US trade deficit narrowed to $122.7 billion in February 2025 from a record high of $130.7 billion in January
10yr Treasuries peaked at 4.8% on Jan 8, 2025, and are now down to 4.1% and dropping slowly, this reduces the cost of US borrowing and therefore the size of he deficit.
Total US employment was 161M accross 2024, it has been 164M since January. The highest ever.
Long term unemployment dropped from a 0.95 average for 2024 to a 0.85 average for 2025 so far.
While I am picking the positive economic indicators since Trump took office – there are negative ones too.
The economic outlook for the past 4 years has been a mixed bag. It remains at this point a mixed bag.
It is easy to cite as above improvements under Trump.
But you can fairly easily find some indicators that have declined.
While Trump has Turned many things arround dramatically – such as the number of border crossings.
All that is clear so far economically is that anyone claiming Trump policy changes would have a strong positive or negative impact immediately is WRONG.
But we do know from Trump’s first term that the deregulatory impacts and the tax cut impacts will be strongly net positive and will take time to have a strong effect.
John Say,
Well said. Simpletons like Dennis read the headlines without drilling down into the data itself to see what it actually says.
We should certainly wonder how Trump celebrated his 100 days by ensuring he saved Canada’s Leninist Liberal/Marxist NDP minority government that hated him with the heat of a thousand burning sons as they were facing political extinction in Canada’s upcoming election. Telling our Canadian neighbors and ally in our foreign never ending wars that he was thinking of annexing them as his way of thanking them for fighting beside us in our war in Afghanistan and our Gulf War from the first day to last.
One sure way to unit a divided family, a country, etc, is to threaten to attack them all. Trump played that knowledge like a fiddle in setting up the Canadians for their election.
That certainly wiped out the landslide victory that was being predicted for the economist who was not only the leader of the Conservative opposition, but frequently referred to as agreeing with Trump on many issues like growing the military, illegal aliens, etc. Electoral poison to be associated with Trump after he’s threatened to annex Canada! The Conservative leader even lost re-election in his riding that had elected him, election after election.
So instead of Canada getting what was expected to be a majority conservative government again, and wiping out the unpopular Obama socialism/DEI/”systemic racism”/Woke that Trudeau imported from the USA as the son that Obama never had, Trump ingeniously wiped out that Canadian conservative leader and shrewdly ensured American Marxism Obama/Biden style would continue to survive and live under the same Liberals.
I’m just wondering how this game of Trump’s underwater, upside down 4D chess and saving Lenin Liberalism (and Obama/Biden politics) in Canada is better for us here in America. Now that Trump has Canada’s socialists and Marxists still hating him (despite saving Marxism in Canada), he now also has Conservatives hating him for wiping out their expectations of a Conservative majority party that was focused on wiping out everything Trudeau has done.
If the Iranian Hostage Crisis or 9/11 were ever to happen again, at this point no Canadian leader would ever dare tell Canadian voters he was going to have Canadian embassies or Canadian troops risk and lose their lives protecting Americans or fighting and dying beside them in America’s foreign wars. Now it would be “Not our war”.
Trump clearly has a clever reason for doing this… I just can’t figure out how saving an Trump hating and Obama loving Canadian Liberal party pushing Obama’s cultural and economic Marxism is good for America. It wasn’t good when we had Obama and Obama’s Third Term pushing it here in America, and I can’t see how isn’t good save it from being wiped out and have it still surviving in Canada.
“So instead of Canada getting what was expected to be a majority conservative government again,”
DO you work for the media?
That’s the kind of twisting and misrepresenting that buoys the media. For weeks if not months, the Liberal Party was again expected to win. You know it. We know it. Pretending to point at Trump as the wrecking ball is frankly laughable. So are you.
Are there any canadian soldiers anymore ?
Obviously there are – but Canada was ONCE a significant contributor to the western military. Today they are inconsequential.
No Canada is not going to participate in a future war on Terror – that is not a Trump thing.
That is because Canada is unable to.
As you fixate on Canada – Alberta is nor threatening to vote for independence.
That is a very huge deal. The Oil revenues in Alberta sustain the entire Canadian government.
So idiot columnist asked where the Albertans would get their health care.
Albertan first minister Danielle Smith said that would come from the 30B/year savings from Albertains paying for healthcare for Ottowa
In the recent election the Albertan referendum law was changed making it easier for Albertans to decide on independence from Canada.
I suspect there will be a referenda. I do not know what the outcome is.
But if Alberta stays in Canada it is pretty clear right now that the Albertan govenrment has effective Veto power over Carney.
Albertans are furrious about what they are paying to keep the left wing nut ottawa govenrment afloat.
They are furious that the policies that Ottawa is imposing on them are harming Alberta employment and standard of living.
Smith has no official say in “Alexit”, But Alberta is REALLY angry with the liberal government that is ruining their economy.
In canada the provinces have the right to withdraw from the national govenrment.
I don’t know if you will read this, Mr. Turley, but I think you grossly underestimate just how politicized the judiciary is toward the Far Left. These are not judges. They are partisan activists working in concert with the Democratic Party, which has itself been taken over by the Far Left. Why aren’t the courts recognizing the lawlessness of the previous administration in letting in millions of people illegally? Why aren’t the courts recognizing the harms to the nation from that situation? Why didn’t the courts step in with injunctions when that was happening? I will tell you–the courts, like the media and the Democrats, wanted it to happen.
Yes, that’s obvious. It’s warfare and the scheme is and was implode every internal system by overwhelming it. The courts are riddled with these judges by design to overwhelm the criminal justice system and the fruit was 8 years of unending charges against Trump , the opposition at great waste of time and effort.
Same for education.
Same for economy.
Same for military.
Same for banking.
Same for State governments.
Whatever the system was it was overwhelmed by democratic people while saying we love America to hide the treason.
Mayorkas secure border is case in point. He was following orders.
Dugan is in law enforcement and has committed a felony. When cops start committing crimes , what have you with which to work? If she resigns Harvard will hire her.
It’s warfare. It’s an actual war. Barack Hussain Obama is the general of the anti christ and it has values. The values are the opposite of the Christian commandments. Where their is peace I’ll destroy it. Where there is abundance I’ll create scarcity. Where there is honesty I’ll burden it. Where there is marriage I’ll tear it apart. Where there is truth I’ll twist it into lies etc….
Congratulations…you’ve won nothing.
Is any conclusion of the whole sufficient to determine the outcome, when the conclusion is .0685% of the whole, 100 days of a 1460-day term. This is just the silliest use of data trying to predict the ultimate outcome.
Tch, tch. 6.85%
Mike Johnson, the judiciary that Congress established has gone frantically rogue.
Where are you on the now imperative juridical disestablishmentarianism?
“Don’t alienate judges.”
– Professor Turley
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Judges alienated the Constitution.
But one example: Article 1, Section 8, denies Congress any enumerated power to regulate interest rates.
The Supreme Court must have struck down the Federal Reserve Act, and interest rates must be the result of free market forces.
Google AI agrees.
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AI Overview
Without a Federal Reserve Board, interest rates would likely be determined by market forces, primarily by the interaction of demand and supply for credit. Banks and other financial institutions would set their own rates based on factors like risk, demand, and their own costs of borrowing, rather than a central authority dictating a federal funds rate.
Here’s a more detailed breakdown:
Market-Based Interest Rates: Banks would compete for customers and capital, adjusting interest rates on loans and deposits to attract borrowers and investors.
Supply and Demand: The amount of available credit (supply) and the demand for it would significantly influence interest rates. High demand for loans would likely push rates up, while a surplus of capital would tend to lower them.
Risk Assessment: Banks would assess the risk associated with lending to different borrowers, and incorporate that risk into the interest rate they charge. Higher-risk borrowers would likely face higher interest rates.
No Central Authority Guidance: Without the Fed, there wouldn’t be a central bank setting a benchmark federal funds rate to guide the market. Banks would be free to set their rates independently.
AI Overview
In Marbury v. Madison, the Supreme Court declared…the Judiciary Act of 1789 unconstitutional…[and]established the principle of judicial review, giving the Supreme Court the authority to invalidate laws passed by Congress if they are deemed unconstitutional.
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The Supreme Court must have struck down the wholly unconstitutional laws regarding admissions affirmative action, grade-inflation affirmative action, employment affirmative action, quotas, financial assistance “welfare,” food stamps, minimum wage, rent control, social services, forced busing, public housing, utility subsidies, CRT, DEI, WIC, SNAP, TANF, HAMP, HARP, TARP, NPR, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Environmental Protection Agency, Agriculture, Education, Labor, Energy, Obamacare, Social Security, Social Security Disability, Social Security Supplemental Income, Medicare, Medicaid, “Fair Housing” laws, “Non-Discrimination” laws, etc., per Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property.
At the outset, the Supreme Court must have struck down the denial of not prohibited and fully constitutional secession, which was the inflection point for the “Progressive” movement toward the implementation of the principles of communism in America.
The Constitution extirpated the dictatorship of the British monarchy, severely limited and restricted the new American government, and provided maximal freedom to individuals.
The Supreme Court has deliberately failed to fulfill its sworn-oath duty to support the Constitution, believing it is superior and omnipotent with complete dominion.
You can’t Judge a President and Administration until after the Midterms.
God Speed TRUMP God Speed.
This next week will start the real ‘Battle of the Budget’, and We’ll see who’s a RINO, who’s a Turn Coat, who’s Onboard, Who’s Who.
You can expect that there will be defectors, still we are not even near the Midterms yet. But the Talking Heads (Maddow) will be howling that the tide has turned and the Midterms are inline for a DNC landslide. A whole lot of Dis-Info Whoop-la.
No Pain – No Gain, and we ain’t seen the Pain yet, But by the end of this Administration, America will be a better place.
MAY 2025 Congressional Budget Battle
In May 2025, Congress is engaged in a budget battle where Republicans control both chambers but face internal divisions, particularly around the extent of spending cuts and the impact on programs like Medicaid. The debate revolves around deficit reduction, the cost of extending Trump tax cuts, and potentially cutting into Medicaid. The House and Senate are likely to clash over the specifics of spending cuts and revenue sources, ultimately testing the party’s ability to find consensus.
Here’s a more detailed look:
Republican Leadership and Budgeting:
Republicans are using reconciliation, a process that allows for a simple majority vote in the Senate, to bypass the usual 60-vote threshold. This process is being used to enact a budget framework that includes tax cuts and spending cuts.
Internal Divisions:
There are differing views within the Republican party regarding the depth of spending cuts and the potential impact on programs like Medicaid. Some hard-line conservatives want deeper cuts, while others are concerned about the political fallout of cutting Medicaid.
Key Issues:
The budget battle is centered around deficit reduction, the cost of extending the Trump tax cuts, and whether Medicaid will be cut to achieve budget targets.
Potential Impacts:
The budget battle could impact federal programs, including those related to education, healthcare, and defense.
Time frame:
The House has passed a budget framework and committees are now working on drafting legislation. The goal is to have the final bill ready by Memorial Day.
(Mon, May 26, 2025 ~ United States)
Reconciliation Process:
The House and Senate must work together to reconcile their versions of the budget and pass a final bill that can be signed into law.
Ref.: AI Overview:
https://www.google.com/search?q=MAY+2025+Congressional+Budget+Battle
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FYI: NASDAQ Seasonality SEAG
The Nasdaq 100, like other market indexes, exhibits seasonal patterns, with certain months historically performing better than others. Generally, the “best months” for the Nasdaq 100 include January, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, and November, while February, September, and December are often considered “worst months”.
Nasdaq 100 Seasonality – ISABELNET
Here’s a more detailed look at the Nasdaq 100 seasonality:
Best Months:
January, March, April, May, June, July, August, October, and November are generally seen as having positive historical performance for the Nasdaq 100.
Worst Months:
February, September, and December tend to have weaker performance compared to other months.
March:
While March can be positive, it’s also worth noting that March has historically seen the second-worst performance for gold, which has recently experienced a pullback from record highs, according to StoneX.
April:
April is generally considered a positive month for market indexes, including the Nasdaq 100.
Ref.: AI Overview:
https://www.google.com/search?q=NASDAQ+Seasonality+SEAG
[Link] tradethatswing.com/seasonal-patterns-of-the-stock-market/
So there is a lot of Wheeling-N-Dealing these next couple weeks. Budget Line Items are being being made ‘In Committee’ (particularly covert-ops).
these get packaged in to the final Appropriations Bill and sent to Vote.
This Video Clip describes what happens perfectly: [Link] youtube.com/watch?v=_Vy279cmdAw&t=155s
Dialog below starts at: 2:35′ (full length video link below)
Re – Dialog:
You know what Vickers just described back there could cost as much as $40 million.
– I can get the appropriation.
– But how? I want to know how are you gonna get the approval of Congress when they’re saying no to the Contras for nothing, for $5 million, a request made by the President?
When a black approp (appropriation) makes it through this Subcommittee, the full body has to vote on it blind. They know the dollar amount, but they don’t know what it’s for. So, theoretically, your $10 million can become 40 million without anyone ever noticing but the Russian Army.
Because Congress wouldn’t know what it was voting on. That’s the beauty of it!
All you need are the nine other Subcommittee members.
All I really need is the Committee Chairman.
– Doc Long.
– Doc Long.
And with Doc’s backing, you’ll get the votes of the other Committee members.
– Yep.
– I don’t believe you.
I don’t care.
And until the phone rang this morning, Charlie,
I didn’t know I’d never heard of you. …. .
Script Ref:
[Link] scripts.com/script/charlie_wilson’s_war_5337/7
Final Note: Trump is trying to end this War and the Dems are are trying their best to increase it.
You should watch this Movie (Charlie Wilson’s War) in light of our current standing in the Ukrainian situation. Charlie Wilson was a Texas Democrat that got ‘appropriation ($)’ though Congress to fund the War. The movie goes to show you why and how U.S. Taxpayer’s money is spent on Wars and Who pockets it. Neocon-Republicans and Democrats have this bad habit of keeping the Forever Wars on going.
Re: Charles “Charlie” Nesbitt Wilson (1933-2010) served 12-terms as Democratic United States Representative from Texas’s 2nd congressional district. He became widely known for his support for funding the Afghan Mujahedeen resistance to USSR occupation.
[Link] vault.fbi.gov/charlie-wilson
Video Clip:
“… The Method Behind the Madness in Court Challenges”
The Lawfair Lawsuits are just a diversion so that the “National Security Establishment” (frm. called Military Industrial Complex) can get Funding Appropriations through the Budget (Mon, May 26, 2025) process quietly.
The “Deal” today comes at a cost:
1st. Ukraine will not payback the Billions that Biden’s term gave them.
2nd. Come as additional cost to the U.S. as in “Investments”
** “The deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas,”
The Neocons and Dems are playing us. As we are currently in the Budget process, more Appropriations will be knit into it for Ukraine under the guise of “investment projects”.
But here’s the deal, What if Russia decides to continue moving forward and take it all? Then the ‘Deal’ is no Deal. But the Appropriations had been made and need to be spent.
(see: David Stockman explained this problem with must ‘having to spend Appropriations’, it Law)
Or worse, We go in installing the Investments and then Russia decides to take it over.
This is not a ‘win’ for the U.S.. I don’t belive it buys peace, and will not, with the like of; Alexander Vindman, John Bolton, and the Dick Cheney’s Acolytes lurking around D.C..
Who cares who we buy these resources from. If Trump would have just pulled out and let war take it’s course, it would have not cost us any more Money. Because one would just buy the resources from whomever controls the State (Area). And from past experience, the Ukrainians are not any cheaper than the Russians (they are actually more).
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* Ukraine, US say minerals deal ready for signing although last-minute snag appears
By: Tom Balmforth, Yuliia Dysa and Trevor Hunnicutt ~ April 30, 2025
https://www.reuters.com/world/kyiv-is-ready-sign-resources-deal-with-us-ukraine-government-source-says-2025-04-30/
** Ukraine Signs Final Trump-Brokered Minerals Deal, Giving US Preferential Access To Resources
By: Tyler Durden ~ 4/30/2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-ready-sign-trumps-minerals-deal-within-hours-breakthrough-reached
Argument Support (Real-time Reporting)
House Committee Advances $150 Billion Bill For Top Military Projects
While DOGE may have saved $160 billion so far, the Pentagon now ‘needs’ $150 billion of new funding under the guise of supporting various Trump priorities.
The Pentagon in Washington, on March 3, 2022. Joshua Roberts/Reuters
The House Armed Services Committee advanced the supplemental spending plan on Tuesday in a 35-21 vote during a markup hearing.
The plan was unveiled on April 27 by House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mike Rogers (R-AL) and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker (R-MS), with Congressional Republicans preparing it for reconciliation – a process which allows Congress to pass legislation concerning taxation and government spending without requiring the 60 Senate votes typically needed to invoke cloture and avoid a filibuster. Republicans have several such reconciliation bills in the pipeline.
By: Tyler Durden ~ May 01, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/military/house-committee-advances-150-billion-bill-top-military-projects
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Kremlin Mocks Zelensky Dragging His Feet On Peace: ‘US Can’t Sign Deal On Behalf Of Kiev’
The Kremlin has called out the US and Ukraine, for what looks like an emerging trend of Washington essentially dragging Zelensky by the ear toward a peace deal. Russia is saying that ultimately it cannot sign a deal with the United States – but that for the war to end, a legitimate settlement must be made bilaterally with Kiev.
Putin spokesman Dimitry Peskov said Wednesday that even though Russia welcomes the Trump administration’s mediation efforts, the reality remains that “A peace deal should be done with the Ukraine, not with America.”
“Unfortunately, we haven’t heard any statements in this context from Kiev, so we don’t know whether Kiev is ready or not,” Peskov emphasized, strongly suggesting that the Ukrainian side isn’t really seeking peace.
By: Tyler Durden ~ Apr 30, 2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-mocks-zelensky-dragging-his-feet-peace-us-cant-sign-deal-behalf-kiev
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Kremlin Reacts To Minerals Deal Signing: ‘Trump Has Broken The Zelensky Regime’
The Kremlin has said that what the newly signed minerals deal between Ukraine and Washington does is effectively force Kiev to pay for all future military aid.
“Trump has broken the Kyiv regime to the point where they will have to pay for U.S. aid with mineral resources,” Medvedev, a former Russian president and current deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council, stated on Telegram.
“Now they will have to pay for military supplies with the national wealth of a disappearing country,” he said of the Ukrainians.
By: Tyler Durden ~ May 01, 2025
[Link] zerohedge.com/geopolitical/kremlin-reacts-minerals-deal-signing-trump-has-broken-zelensky-regime
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Ukraine Signs Final Trump-Brokered Minerals Deal, Giving US Preferential Access To Resources
After some last-minute hiccups which threatened to derail it, the US and Ukraine have finally signed the much-anticipated and controversial minerals deal.
“The deal will grant the US privileged access to new investment projects to develop Ukraine’s natural resources including aluminum, graphite, oil and natural gas,” the breaking Bloomberg note says.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko signed it late in the day Wednesday in Washington, after the US side demanded that all aspects on the table be agreed to by Kiev. Below are some known details of the landmark agreement via Axios:
The government-to-government agreement would establish a joint fund, with each country contributing 50% of the financing and future U.S. military assistance to Ukraine counting as a contribution to the fund.
The fund will be governed jointly and will have three U.S. members and three Ukrainian members on its board.
The money in the fund will be used for investments in the extraction of Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, oil and gas. The revenue will be split 50/50.
Kachka said the agreement gives the U.S. preferential access to investments in any operator that extracts rare earths in Ukraine and the first right of refusal for such investments.
By: Tyler Durden ~ May 01, 2025
[Link] zerohedge.com/geopolitical/ukraine-ready-sign-trumps-minerals-deal-within-hours-breakthrough-reached
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50 Years On, Washington Has Learned Nothing From Defeat In Vietnam
Today, April 30, 2025 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the final, definitive defeat of the U.S. military crusade in Vietnam. The images of U.S. helicopters desperately flying American diplomats and Washington’s high-level South Vietnamese collaborators from the roof of the U.S. embassy in Saigon effectively captured not only the chaotic environment, but also the extent of Washington’s overall policy debacle. The outcome of the war was a humiliating defeat for the United States in every respect. Vietnam’s reunification under a communist government was now an indisputable reality. Indeed, the United States finally succumbed to the pressure to establish diplomatic relations with that government in 1995.
By: Tyler Durden ~ Apr 30, 2025
[Link] zerohedge.com/military/50-years-washington-has-learned-nothing-defeat-vietnam
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The 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, also known as the Budget Act
What in the hell are these DNC|GOP fiscal frauds thinking? The whole point of the 1974 budget act and its mechanism of budget resolutions and reconciliation instructions was to enable elected politician to curb their propensity to spend and borrow, and to thereby put an effective lid on the public debt.
The 1974 Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act, also known as the Budget Act, aimed to reassert Congress’s control over the budget and establish a formal budget process. It created the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), House and Senate Budget Committees, and implemented procedures for controlling executive branch impoundment of funds.
Ref.:
[Link] congress.gov/93/statute/STATUTE-88/STATUTE-88-Pg297.pdf
[Link] congress.gov/bill/93rd-congress/house-bill/7130
[Link] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congressional_Budget_and_Impoundment_Control_Act_of_1974#Congressional_budget_process
[EN] – This is why We have Trillion Dollar Deficits, Because They (Congress and the WH) don’t follow the Law [i.e.: Impoundment-rescissions (permanently canceling appropriated funds) rarely or never happens.]
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It’s really sad, Turley, that you sold whatever credibility you may have had for MAGA . Yes, Trump is signing EOs at a fast pace–why? Because the proponents of Project 2025 had them all drafted up and ready to go before he ever insinuated his stinking carcass into the Oval Office. They have to hurry because they KNOW they’ll lose the midterms. Turley actually tries to claim that Trump can, on a whim, enact sweeping tariffs, remove them, delay them–whatever. In fact, in the absence of an actual emergency, Trump has NO such power–it is governed by the International Emergency Economics Power Act that REQUIRES an emergency, and there isn’t one, which is why Trump keeps getting sued. But, he knows that Republicans in Congress won’t stop him–that is, until the midterms. Excerpted from “Wikipedia”:
“Congress enacted the IEEPA in 1977 to clarify and restrict presidential power during times of declared national emergency under the Trading with the Enemy Act of 1917 (“TWEA”). Under TWEA, starting with Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, presidents had the power to declare emergencies without limiting their scope or duration, without citing the relevant statutes, and without congressional oversight.[9] The Supreme Court in Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer limited what a president could do in such an emergency, but did not limit the emergency declaration power itself. A 1973 Senate investigation found (in Senate Report 93-549) that four declared emergencies remained in effect: the 1933 banking crisis with respect to the hoarding of gold,[10] a 1950 emergency with respect to the Korean War,[11] a 1970 emergency regarding the postal workers strike, and a 1971 emergency in response to the government’s deteriorating economic and fiscal conditions.[12] Congress terminated these emergencies with the National Emergencies Act, and then passed the IEEPA to restore the emergency power in a limited, overseeable form.
Unlike TWEA, IEEPA was drafted to permit presidential emergency declarations only in response to threats originating outside the United States.[4] Beginning with Jimmy Carter in response to the Iran Hostage Crisis, presidents have invoked IEEPA to safeguard U.S. national security interests by freezing or “blocking” assets of belligerent foreign governments,[13] or certain foreign nationals abroad.[14]”
And, while Turley tries to argue that Trump enacted tariffs to “realign” markets–that argument also falls flat. First of all, America is not being taken advantage of by other countries because there is a so-called “trade deficit”. But Trump’s massive ego and mental illness require him to create the perception that the US has an advantage over other countries. Trump is a sociopath and malignant narcissist who exists to feed his massive ego. He enacted tariffs because, as he put it, he wants leaders of other countries to “kiss his ass” and come crawling to him–just like he thought he could get Zelenskyy to come crawling to him to receive the aid Congress appropriated for Ukraine. He’s already lying about pending deals, including with China. Chinese government officials deny there have even been talks, much less any pending deal. There are no credible economists who support what he is doing with tariffs, and he continues to lie by claiming that China and other countries will pay the tariffs. Just HOW could Trump force the government of China to pay tariffs? Tariffs are paid by the party who ordered the goods, and at just the Port of Los Angeles, there is already a 35% drop in shipments, which means that stevedores and other dock workers will either get laid off or have their hours cut, which affects their landlords, local grocers and merchants who depend on the thousands of dock workers for their livelihood. And, the US cannot produce things like clothing, toys and other consumer goods as cheaply as China can. So the cost of goods will go up. There are already shortages, and by Christmastime, it will be worse. And, Trump, the bully, already strong-armed Jeff Bezos to take off the “tariff charge” that was going to be put on invoices because it would make him look bad. Why don’t you write about that–Turley? Don’t Amazon customers have the right to know how much the things they bought went up in price just due to the Trump tariffs?
Gigenius, may we end wholly antithetical and unconstitutional affirmative action and public assistance that you avail yourself of yet, or do you still need both?
Again, what a blow bag! Independent Bob.
I thought as well that the administration knew much would go to court and there would be losses, but that getting precedent was more important, hence the blitzkrieg. They figured out the dem playbook and are exploiting it, and I think it’s great to see the roaches frantically scurrying into the light so we can step on them.
The sycophantic, ignorant posters on this site are likely paid, given the random nature of their appearances (it’s all too predictable by now). This post is being troll bombed, make no mistake. You’d think by now they’d know the people that frequent Res Ipsa are not their brain dead constituents, but their arrogance is a powerful thing, and the pockets are deep. They have lost the narrative they never had to the extent they imagined in the first place, they know it, and they are panicking, mightily. Good!
James – with a few exceptions, they are definitely paid trolls. That includes, most notably, DM and George. They have all the hallmarks: always oppose Professor Turley no matter what (even if he says it would be good for there to be a cure for cancer). Always deflect, and what-about. Lie constantly. Mislead. And the most telling sign: never get into an actual conversation with someone. We know a little something of the personal lives of people like me (OMFK), Upstate, Edward Mahl, and others. People – or perhaps bots – like DM and George never engage in that type of banter. It’s a tell-tale sign. They are paid, and some of the pay probably depends on how many reactions they get. That is another reason I rarely respond to them — besides their comments being a waste of time.
OldManFromKS,
The trolls are without souls, character, morals, values, integrity, honor or courage. They are either low lifes who will do anything for a dollar or simply low lifes who hate America. They are pathetic. I do find it interesting how those of us who are real people get a sense of who each other are, what are back grounds are like and even our sense of humor. I would gladly have a cup of coffee or lunch (I am buying!) with the likes of you, Lin, Estovir, GEB, TiT, James, Edward, JJC, Daniel, S. Meyer just to name a few off the top of my head as well as the good professor himself. Dennis, Gigi, the slow and dumb one, Bug, not so much. However, it would be a interesting study of the kind of people they are in real life as compared to the hate and rage they spew on the good professor’s blog. I would be willing to bet they are just as ugly and useless in person as they are on the internet.
How sad.
And, how marvelous! 🙂
Likewise, Upstate. The one exception to the paid-troll category is likely Gigi. She is too hysterical and mentally deranged to be paid by anyone, even the bad guys.
Yep. She’s definitely not paid, or not being paid enough. Her personal attacks are far too telling. Plus, she addresses people by name.
-Rabble
Just like the analysis of the rise and fall of Hitler, when social scientists write about the age of Trump, they will marvel at how MAGA media, established by billionaires to evade taxes and to get rollbacks of consumer and environmental protections by turning people away from mainstream media, managed to get so many people to be devoted to a sociopathic narcissist who constantly lies, refuses to comply with court orders and who abuses the power he lied to obtain. Today, I wrote that federal law requires a “declared emergency” in order for the POTUS to unilaterally enact tariffs–AND that there is NO declared emergency. I also wrote that Republicans in Congress refuse to stand up to Trump, and that his tariffs are not only a bad idea, they are already resulting in shortages of goods and decreased shipments at the Port of Los Angeles. The situation is only gonig to get worse.
In response to this post, you MAGAts write that I lack “a soul, character, morals, values, integrity, honor or courage.” Upstate accuses me of being either a “low life” or a hater of America. I am accused of spewing “hate and rage”. Old Man accuses me of being mentally deranged and hysterical. That is exactly how Trump handles dissention–ignore the facts and attack the person who says what he doesn’t like, and that is exactly what the MAGA indoctrination does–attack people with whom they don’t agree.
What you MAGAts are doing is so obvious on its face. You cannot respond with any kind of verifiable facts, and, like MAGA media, just gloss over or ignore the truth. That is, assuming that you are just MAGA devotees, and are not paid–something I believe may well be the case. What you MAGAts are afraid of is people who are NOT Trump and MAGA devotees opening their eyes about what’s really happening and how this country is being controlled by a mentally unfit narcissistic sociopath who has NO plan other than to obtain as much power as possible and to use it to soothe his massive ego.
Regarding tariffs, it’s not like we haven’t been down this road before. From “Investopedia”:
“The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 raised U.S. import duties with the goal of protecting American farmers and businesses from foreign competition. The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act is now widely blamed for worsening the severity of the Great Depression in the U.S. and around the world.
Formally called the United States Tariff Act of 1930, the law is commonly referred to as the Smoot-Hawley Tariff or the Hawley-Smoot Tariff. It was sponsored by Sen. Reed Owen Smoot (R-Utah) and Rep. Willis Chatman Hawley (R-Ore.).
KEY TAKEAWAYS
The Smoot-Hawley Act was created to protect U.S. farmers and businesses from foreign competitors.
The Smoot-Hawley Act increased tariffs on foreign imports to the U.S. by about 20%. Over 25 countries responded by increasing their own tariffs on American goods.
Global trade plummeted, contributing to the ill effects of the Great Depression.
More than 1,000 economists urged President Hoover to veto it.
Hoover’s successor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, worked to reduce tariffs and was given more authority to negotiate with heads of state under the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act of 1934.”
The only time that gigs cleans up her messaging, and stops referring to
“fat pig,” “bottle blondie,” Pam Blondie, “hog,” etc. and calling Turley all sorts of names, —–is when she gets called out. Then she becomes civil for one or two posts, then reverts back again.
She even forgot here. Yesterday she referred to “you MAGAs” Today we’re back to “MAGAts.” ( a play on maggots).
She fools no one. Sick cookie, she is.
” they are definitely paid trolls. “
Kansas, I’ve thought the same. But I still can’t wrap my head around why anyone would pay someone to sound that dumb, unless the goal is to make dumb look respectable. Then again, Democrats are involved, so maybe that’s the point.
James,
Well said and I agree about the blitzkrieg then setting precedent forcing all other courts, judges to adhere to, least they by their own actions prove they are nothing more than activist judges and are not fit to sit on the bench. Right you are about them, Democrats and MSM losing the narrative, they know it and are panicking.
How marvelous!
Presidents by tradition put recessions in the first year of their terms.
Very smart.
OT
Democrats could not see Biden’s precipitous decline but are instantly able to know that a child needs a sex change operation.
And leftist Democrats think a two year old knows it is trans and needs medical removal of healthy organs or chemical castration. MSM did see Biden’s mental decline. But they either lied, gaslighted about it or just ignored it. And that is why the American people have such a low trustworthiness of MSM. Their credibility is in the toilet and circling the drain.
How marvelous!
The judicial branch is impartial and enforces the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution.
(SARC/ON)
For better or worse, Trump is a bull in a china shop. He is tearing up the norms and there are lots of upset people. That’s not going to change anytime soon either. Yet, the unprecedented amount of injunctions against his administration is telling too. I suspect he is playing crazy like a fox to achieve a bigger goal than he says. The good professor mentions the small stuff, but sometimes the small stuff hides the bigger reality.
Ultimately, I believe Trump gets more and bigger wins than originally thought and most of it is not going to be in the courts. He can lose in the courts, but win politically by forcing the Democrats to defend very unpopular stances. It is not by accident that the Administration has made sure Mr Garcia’s issues came out after all of the screaming. He is no angel and was slated for deportation. When 83% of the population is against what you stand for, you are asking for trouble by taking the opposite side and Trump will point it out loudly.
While much of your analysis is interesting
I think you are wrong on several points
The courts are publicly exposing themselves as highly politicized
Roberts and other justices need not like trump
But they had better grasp that their respect and credibility is seriously damaged
Trump did not do that
They did it to themselves
They need to fix it
Or it will be fixed for them
The executive ignoring lawless courts is a bad solution
Lawless court orders continuing unabated is worse
The legitimacy of the courts rests on the respect of the people
Obedience to court orders rests on the respect of the courts and the courts have lost respect
You criticize trump for acting fast and making mistakes
But he is forcing mistakes on his opposition
You point out the likely hood of a democrat house in 2026
The odds favor that
You beleive trump needs policy accomplishments to hold onto the house
But an outraged base is also a way of holding the house
The odds favor democrats
But democrats are alienating people all over
The left fixates on a supposed decline in trumps polls
But the approval of democrats is in the 20s
The party is split and the most extreme faction has power
You note their legal war chest
But do not seem to understand that whatever happens in court they are alienating people
You say Garcia is not the hill to die on
But Garcia is a litmus test for 2026 voters
Is he a Maryland family man
Or is he a drug dealer, human trafficker, wife beater, and violent gang banger
Whether you want him to stay or go may drive voting in 2026
Trump has many thing going at once
Clear failures in any harm him in all
But clear successes in any help him in all
If there are peace deals in Ukraine and Gaza
If there is a deal with Iran
If good trade deals occur
Or if tariffs do not tank the economy and do lower the deficit
These strengthen trump elsewhere
Including in court
Just as I think you misread the value of the Garcia fight
The recent Ruis Dugan mess is also a litmus test
Are you a nutcase that thinks it is ok for judges to sneak Violent illegal aliens out the back door ?
Or are you pondering why a judge is not doing everything she can to get a violent criminal out of y to he country
The left could have tried to make this about families and child separation
But they have chosen to use there legal warchest to defend the worst of the worst
And they are not even doing so on any clear matter of principle
This is not the aclu defending Nazis over free speech
This is thwarting the deportation of violent people who have had the due process the law requires
The public is not biting on the clock as I’m the deportation requires criminal due process
Right now trump is deporting about 1500 people a day
At that rate he will deport about 2m in 4 yrs
That is 1/4 to 1/10 those Biden let in
A major part of the deportation shock and awe is to get illegals to self deport
That is the fastest and cheapest way to remove them
Further it comes with the promise that you can try later legally
As production returns to the US there will be more jobs than we can handle
Trump is promising more legal immigration
When that happens
Leave and you might come back legally
Get caught here illegally and you will never get in legally
Further judge Dugan lawlessness and democrat support for it shocks people and further undermines the courts
Dugan actions amplify the perception that xinis and boasberg are lawless hacks too
And amplify the perception that SCOTUS must reign this in
SCOTUS had two recent school cases
Schools want to force children as young as 3 to be exposed to pornography
And schools want to sat FU to disabled children
The left is on the wrong side of these issues
What is going on is not about winning court battles as quickly as possible it is about the war of values that tipped the 2024 election
Trump did not win reelection because he won court battles
He won because he was fighting for what voters wanted and the court battles were perceived as desperate efforts to cheat to defeat him
My prediction is this all tips one way or the other relatively quickly
Trump will start winning everything or democrats will have a landslide in 2026 and trump will be impeached again and again
Though trump does not need to win court fights to win even more voters
Hope is a necessary of life.
Even the liberal Supreme Court of Wisconsin recognizes that judge Dugan is no longer capable of administering the law to protect the citizens of the state. In its two-page order, the court said it was acting to protect public confidence in Wisconsin courts during the criminal proceedings against Dugan. The order noted that the court was acting on its own initiative and was not responding to a request from anyone. Liberal justices control the court 4-3. The court has come to the conclusion that she is a Looney Tunes. Is that Daffy Duck laughing at George, Dennis McIntyre and Anonymous on the blog. Sufferin Suckerotash.
TiT,
I see that as a good sign that there are those in the judicial system who see this kind of lawlessness as a real threat to our country, the rule of law and the Constitution.
“Sufferin Suckerotash.” Awesome!!
UP
I so remember them days.
A highly public example of what happens when the Left need a scapegoat. They don’t want to be targeted, so they go after the sacrificial lamb.
Just like what happens when anyone in that camp questions the constantly-changing Bible of Thought. They are ostracized and removed from the camp by force. This is just the first public instance of someone farther left being sent out, rather than those closer to center.
-Rabble
Again, I blame media for polarizing America.
Under-reporting of one; over-coverage of the other.
“What is not being as fully reported is that Biden actually has racked up a litany of notable court losses that may now exceed those of his predecessor in his first six months. Indeed, the Biden administration has been found to have violated the Constitution in a surprising array of cases in a surprisingly short period of time.”
https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/559247-bidens-bad-run-is-he-doing-worse-in-the-courts-than-trump/
“US Supreme Court dealt Biden historic series of defeats.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-dealt-biden-historic-series-defeats-2025-01-18/
Lin,
Typical lying and gaslighting MSM. They either downplay something or when it becomes too big, too obvious they pretend it never happened. Kinda like Biden’s mental decline. There are a few who are now talking about it and how it was openly known but MSM lackeys are ignoring it. They carried on with the “sharp as a tack,” lie for so long, like a child caught lying they are going to ignore the fact they knew they were lying, we knew they were lying and their credibility continues to go down the drain.
When asked Elizabeth Warren said she really believed Biden was as sharp as a tack.
She should be removed from office. She isn’t as sharp as a tack.
Thank you JT for your obfuscation and failure to look at the bigger picture.
And I would once again like to thank trump for helping to elect a liberal as our Prime Minister. While many of your own citizens may be blinded by the lies of trump. The people outside your country see very clearly the facist he is. So when trump endorsed the right wing in the recent Canadian election, most Canadians knew who not to vote for.
If you think 51st state is a joke, Ha Ha, joke is on you. If you live in the midwest, look for your electric rates to rise because of all that Canadian power you buy. If you want to build a house, pay up buddy, that Canadian lumber you want to use cost money. And if you want any aluminum…pay up. We make it, you buy it, at our price. And if you want to use our Canadian oil in your refineries, I personally think we should tripple the price for you. You want it, pay for it.
So again, thank you DJT for supporting the loser in the recent Canadian election.
Hey there, why do you feel the need to tell us this? A little shaky after a close race? DId you learn your tricks from American MSM? Carney blasting Trump nonstop for weeks before election. Not to be proud of. And didn’t Canada goof before, accidentally voting in a Communist (Fred Rose)? Be careful with that “liberalism.”
My understanding is that the race was neck-and-neck close between Liberals and Conservatives, and Liberals fell short of majority. They will have to learn to get along with others to get things done.
“My understanding is that the race was neck-and-neck close between Liberals and Conservatives, and Liberals fell short of majority.”
Your understanding must have been arrived at after hiding in a closet for the proceeding months. The Lenin Liberals and their fellow Marxist NDP coalition minority government were headed for political extinction in Canada’s mandatory federal election no later than October of this year. The Conservatives and their party were expected to get one of the largest majority governments in Canadian history, and projections were that neither the Liberals or their Dipper partners would have even enough numbers to meet the requirements to be a party – the Canadian Official Opposition would be the separatist party that only runs members in Quebec elections.
That didn’t change when bankster Mark Carney, Trudeau’s advisor, was elevated to party leader as The DEI Hire was done here after Biden shyte the bed.
What immediately reversed the polls is when Trump decided to attack Canadians by announcing he was musing about annexing Canada as the 51st state (as though Republicans would allow Trump to give Democrats permanent power by adding a second version of California and those seats in the House and Senate).
One sure way to unite a divided country is for an outsider to attack them all. Trump knows that very well.
The Conservative leader and his party that endorsed many things Trump had done and was promising to do similar things to rescue Canada from the Obama Marxism of DEI/Woke/Black Liars & Marxists Trudeau imported from his mentor Obama was immediately doomed.
He not only lost an election he was predicted to win in a landslide – he lost re-election in his home riding that had repeatedly reelected him before this election.
Carney announced that he would be the anti-Trump, while his conservative opponent was obviously best buddies with Trump and would give him whatever he wanted from Canada.
I don’t know when Canada elected this communist you’re speaking of. But we’ve certainly had no problem electing Communists Obama and Bernie The Sanders (and only the Democrat party intervening from having Sanders as the DNC candidate for a presidential election). Is this Fred Rose better or worse than our AOC, Elizabeth Warren, Barack Obam?a
The only reason our American Marxism/Woke/DEI/”systemic racism”/hate speech/Tranny Revolution managed to survive being wiped out in Canada where Obama exported it to, is because DJT decided to intervene. That started here – not up north with our neighbors.
If you want to try arguing the Liberals would have come back from imminent defeat if Trump had saved his threats and attacks on our Canadian neighbors until at least after their national election, go ahead and try to make a rational argument that this enormous reversal in public opinion would have happened anyways.
Yes, Canadians will have to live with Trump’s decision to craftily engineer the defeat of a conservative leader far more fiscally conservative than he is, and quite possibly far more small government than he is.
Trump can happily claim that and point it out. How the resulting Canada as our neighbor and allies in our forever foreign wars is better for us…. well, I’ll let you go ahead and try and explain that to me.
A lot of businesses here beside the Canadian border will also have to learn to live with the Canadian reaction to Trump’s ingenious game of underwater, upside down 4D chess.
But in the big picture, how many Americans really care about those Americans and those results those Americans have to learn to live with?
” failure to look at the bigger picture…” A clown criticizing America.
Cans who go about killing people with disabilities. pedos running the gov.
Maybe your disability can get you a free death shot. You would be better off.
What election? No one here cares.
“pedos running the gov.” As opposed to a man found liable for sexual abuse. A man convicted of how many felonies? A man that buried his ex wife in his golf course to get a tax deduction. A man that has declared bankruptcy how many times? A man that has stiffed how many of his contractors building the buildings he could’t run (they went into bankruptcy). A man that failed to run a casino for a profit. Who fails in a business where the house always wins? trump. A man that couldn’t get a loan from a U.S. bank so he had to get his loans from a foreign bank. Where are his tax returns?
Believe what you will, trump is a blithering idiot his latest show case of idiocy is not knowing the photo of the guy he sent to El Salvador illegally was photoshopped. What a blithering idiot.
How’s that trade deal with China going?
200 deals all agreed to yet he couldn’t name one country he made a deal with. Liar much?
Get over it bud. Canada is runs by libs. Prez Trump making funny remarks wouldn’t have changed zip
But I did notice that Alberta is making noise about the outcome.
…Wake up! Trump is not responsible for the Liberal Win, the Conservative Candidate is responsible.. an inside job.. so please take your Trump Derangement Syndrome (‘TDS’) some place else. it’s obvious u do not understand political theatre.. Trump NEVER wanted to make Canada a 51st State, etc… he used that rhetroric to galvanize Canada into finally ACTING on long overdue measures to put our US-Canada relationship back in balance.. Vuctor Davis Hanson outlines this perfectly. Now, with yr Liberal Win, you can look forward to more mass migration tinto Canada and more loss of your Sovereignty.. just for starters.. the joke’s on you.
My non-legal thoughts this morning.
As I prepare for spring Goodwill donations, emptying closets filled with clothes that still have tags on them, and boxes of unused Christmas presents, I think of the tensile rubber band between America’s wasteful, landfill society….and the need to keep America’s economy moving along by continuing to purchase things.
The bottom line: the nation needs closet-cleaning.
No pain, no gain.
(Anyone want a good propane grill (there was nothing wrong with the old one but they were on sale and it’s easier than cleaning off the old grease), or a new Ryobi leaf blower (it was the battery, not the blower, that was bad, but 30-day return expired.)? A set of dining china? An old Peugeot racing bike? Contact lin’sgiveaway.com
Lin,
” . . . the nation needs closet-cleaning.
No pain, no gain.”
Well said.
“If (Garcia) was simply returned as ordered by a court…” Um, no, that’s not what the Order said, Professor. In fact, SCOTUS sent their own confounding ruling back to lower court in order to “facilitate his release” from El Salvador. Tell us exactly how would that be done? Garcia is citizen of – an currently in and under the jurisdiction – of El Salvador, his home country. Under which Article in the Constitution does a district court, or any judge for that matter, have the authority to demand the government ‘return’ an illegal alien, let alone another country’s citizen, to this country?
So your saying trump is a weakling and has no influence over El Salvador?
Yes, I agree he is a weakling, but he does have influence over El Salvador.
Some may think trump is acting dumb in this regard. I don’t think he is actin dumb, trump is dumb
It does appear SCOTUS didnt read enough to know it was Guatemala. El Salvador is fine.
Release from US custody. El Salvador is fine.
#. Paperwork to Bukele changing to simple deport. He’s repatriated. Zoom for show me your passport type thing.
He’s there problem and I’m sure that’s been accomplished already.
^^^^ sheesh, their.
The Dims are so far underwater that their Presidential aspirations appear doomed for the next 8 years. Given Vance, Trump is moving correctly to get the issues decided by a court with some finality. Vance, who is technically smarter than Trump but less so politically, can finish the job even if he’s only a one termer. If he’s a two-termer, well it’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUIgDKxQ-3c