Yet, this takes the cake. We have not seen such a display since the arrival of the Judean People’s Front Crack Suicide Squad:
Yet, this takes the cake. We have not seen such a display since the arrival of the Judean People’s Front Crack Suicide Squad:
Presidents are paid an annual salary of $400,00.
Can anyone imagine Obama accepting a $400 million gift of a luxury jet (100 times his annual salary) that required an additional $1 billion security upgrade? The nation making the illegal gift to Obama supports Islamic terrorist groups that attacked Israel on October 7.
Then Obama wanting to take the double-decker luxury jet with him when he left office, so no future presidents could use it.
Could you imagine the Republicans protesting and screaming if Obama had violated his Oath of Office like this? Not your granddad’s Republican Party!
Correction: it’s actually 1000 times Trump’s annual salary plus additional billions for security inspections and upgrades.
One unanswered question, do taxpayer funded Secret Service provide maintenance on the jet after Trump leaves office?
Obama bombed American citizens. Also, stay on topic. Like I predicted, the trolls come out to derail. What does a plane have to do with Hogg swinging his hog around and getting it smacked?
-Rabble
Maybe I’m wrong but thought Jonathan Turley focused primarily on constitutional rule of law issues?
Odd there are few articles on presidents trying to exceed their constitutional authority with unconstitutional (illegal) executive orders trying to overturn constitutional amendments or the emoluments clause of the U.S. Constitution like Trump is doing.
Ignoring constitutional violations also seems off-topic to many of us!
Well then, send an email to our gracious host asking him to extrapolate on these “violations”, so-called, and keep your conversation here on why your party is imploding at the rate of an impending supernova.
-Rabble
Something much more interesting,
Federal judge allows Trump admin to deport alleged Tren de Aragua members under Alien Enemies Act
https://justthenews.com/government/courts-law/federal-judge-allows-trump-admin-deport-alleged-tren-de-aragua-members-under
Which Executive Orders are you talking about? Has the Supreme Court ruled they’re unconstitutional, or just little keyboard warrior you?
Did you miss the part where Prez Trump was asked if that was his plane. He said no. Besides he has his own plane
Something much more interesting,
Southern border apprehensions drop 93% from April 2024: CBP
“Border Patrol made 8,383 apprehensions along the southwest border last month, down from the 128,895 apprehensions recorded in April 2024.”
https://justthenews.com/government/security/southern-border-apprehensions-drop-93-april-2024-cbp?utm_source=referral&utm_medium=offthepress&utm_campaign=home
Congress must say yes.
“Can anyone imagine Obama accepting a $400 million gift…? ”
Openly? No, Obama is far too much of a deceiver and liar to allow that to happen, it ain’t his style. However, he would be (and most likely has been) receptive to getting > $400 in various deferred concealed and/or plausibly deniable payoffs for political favors done while he was in office and working the puppeteer strings on the Person Of Tremendous Ubiquitous Senility who was nominally President before Trump.
Trump is doing a great job, and though the blog pundits fail to understand what is happening, Democrat Congressional leaders know the truth. Trump’s successes make them look impotent. They latch onto foolishness, like Qatar’s gift of a plane, knowing the ignorant will have a talking point.
1) If taken, Trump already announced that the plane would NOT be a personal gift.
2) Gifts of this nature are always given to the people, not the President.
3) Obama may not have personally taken the gift of a plane, but he swiftly became wealthy.
4) The Clintons also quickly became very rich and stole the White House silverware.
5)Trump turned the economy around, stopped immigration, something deemed impossible by Democrats, and is bringing peace to the world
6) All Biden did was start wars, permit millions of illegal immigrants in, and destroy the economy etc.
7) The Democrats, recognizing they don’t have a leg to stand on, invent something for consumption by the ignorant. You fit in that category and don’t even recognize it. Critical thinking requires a brain that is bigger than that of a mouse.
In summary, you were duped.
S. Meyer,
Well said and great summary. They were duped and continue to allow themselves to be duped. By their own party.
This is how the Democratic Party has always been. The difference now is that their boomer leadership is incapable of maintaining the facade.
The dems are (still) mad because Lincoln took their slaves away from them.
Is anyone surprised at this latest exercise in self-parody by the DNC? Is there any longer any justifiable reason to read Turley’s constant obsessing over the absurd internal machinations of the dying Democratic Party? If so, what could that be? Evidently Turley considers this thoroughly unsurprising development as more noteworthy than SCOTUS Chief Justice John Roberts’ recent pathetic whining over the richly deserved criticism of Supreme Court Justices:
Supreme Court Chief Justice: Critique Our Rulings, Not Our Justices
https://www.theepochtimes.com/us/supreme-court-chief-justice-critique-our-rulings-not-our-justices-5856667
“The U.S. Supreme Court’s chief justice on Monday told an event that criticism of the court should be relegated to its decisions and not the nine justices themselves.”
I suppose that the character flaws that result in SCOTUS justices issuing opinions and making decisions that are in direct conflict with the oath that each of them took to “support and defend the
Constitution of the United States against all enemies…” and to “…bear true faith and allegiance to the same…” should not be called out and made subject to the judgement of The People?
Yet, where was Roberts when the dems were threatening the the Supreme court judges.
Just gonna wait for the usual shills to come about and try to completely derail any convo here, because if there’s one thing lefties can’t stand, it’s criticism of their ever-shifting dogma. Don’t let them derail you, folks. The more you bring it to light, the less room the roaches will have to hide.
-Rabble
Curious if George’s contract requires him to report for duty and “clock in” before he begins polluting the blog. Anyone know?
As the DNC circles the firing squad, let us hope that there is an endless conveyor belt of ammunition for them to complete the task.
The idiom-switching is a little weird, but understandable. You usually “circle the wagons”, and “line up” a firing squad. However, in this case, it’s more them just pointing the guns inward instead of outward, not protecting their caravan, and placing the rest in more danger of friendly fire.
-Rabble (Overanalyzing)
Circular Firing Squad is a very old saying. The idioms were mixed before any of us were born. The self-destructive behavior of the Left is not a new invention.
In the party that one super delegate =10k primary votes has finally adopted “party policies are made on the spot to fit the occasion!”I’m shocked!
Both parties need to start listening to what their voters want and stop letting party leaders drive the agenda.
Maybe the parties should survey their voters with “Fill In The Blank” surveys (let voters drive the issues), instead of the party leaders providing multiple choice of things most voters place at the bottom of their priority list.
The surveys I’ve received for years list the bottom priorities of what many voters care about. Listen to voters in each district!
BREAKING NEWS
The Babylon Bee reports: Jake Tapper Uncovers Startling Evidence That Biden’s Decline Was Covered Up By Jake Tapper
“U.S. — In a shocking exposé, CNN anchor Jake Tapper has revealed new evidence that Biden’s mental and physical decline was covered up for years by Jake Tapper.
“These allegations regarding Jake Tapper are disturbing,” said Jake Tapper. “The idea that someone would use their power as a journalist to lie and withhold essential information from the American public is beyond the pale. This Jake Tapper guy, whoever he is, should be ashamed of himself.”
The bombshell report was detailed in a new book by Jake Tapper. It chronicles years of egregious cover-ups and collusion between the White House and a cooperative and corrupt press, including several newly leaked conversations between aides about putting Biden in a wheelchair for his second term. At the center of the scandal, it appears, is someone named Jake Tapper.
“I can’t believe the media would lie to us like this,” said one internet commenter. “It sounds like Jake Tapper needs to be held accountable.”
At publishing time, Jake Tapper had announced plans for a new book about his investigation into Jake Tapper.”
The Bee never misses.
Hits the nail on the head.
sadly 1/4 of the republican party are democrats as well.
Yes, at first blush it seems that way, but the question is, is it sad? Some might argue that the Republican party is more inclusive than the Democrat party and liberal Republicans are better than liberal Democrats. That one quarter you speak of may come around from time to time on important issues to Republicans. As sad as it may sound, I prefer the RINOs inside the tent rather than outside it but I get your point.
eventually everyone including democrats end up hating democrats
The Democrat Party is fighting a Civil War Against America, their 2nd. The Party should be abolished!
As despicable as it may be at times, the DNC and the Democrat Party are needed in this country for stability. The fact that it has turned too far left, embraces unpopular political theories like Marxism, and believes a synonym for Republicans is a four-letter word, are all manifestations of a dying party looking to make one last score before leaving forever.
But, not to worry too much. The invisible hand of the public will take care of this. The force of “we, the people” simply won’t stand for what the Democrats are telling us. To paraphrase Will Lewis of the Post, “People are not buying your stuff. I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.” The old dogs are hiding because the worst is yet to come before things get better. People like Schumer will disappear in a wave of AOC-likers but the damage will have been done. The buyers’ remorse over Hogg will be dwarfed by the remorse over AOC and the other imbiciles now taking control of the party of FDR.
Because Trump has taken over so many “traditional” Democrat constituencies, from Blacks to blue-collar workers to students, etc., the Democrats are left with the crumbs, the displaced, illegal aliens, criminals, weirdoes, and misfits. They speak for those who don’t vote and represent interests of importance to very few.
Trump has decimated the elite liberal class, the faculty loungers of another age that played up to each other and wrote poems for each other. Well, they too have crashed and burned and are left with nothing but self-repudiation in the most debilitating fashion. Trump’s victory is massive. He has taken out not only Hogg and the elites of the DNC but also has captured their men, women, and children. The DNC will be forced to rebuild in the image and likeness of the party and person they hate the most. There simply is no other emergency exit for them.
JJC,
Great comment. Right now the Democrats have nothing to offer. They keep backing the stupid and crazy. Bill Maher has been pointing this out for years. Yet, the modern and traditional Democrats seem too afraid to do anything about it out of fear of wokeness, cancel culture.
“. . . it will nullify the election of David Hogg . . .” (JT)
So the D’s are couping a recently elected party leader. Haven’t we seen these Keystone Kops before?
It almost makes one think that they cannot consider the consequences of their choices — that they wait for a disaster, then scramble to clean up the chaos.
I’m enjoying the laugh.
The Democrat party is nothing more than a collection of Corrupt, Radical, Woke wing Radicals who desire to control everyone’s life and nobody is allowed to think independently. They are a party of Fear, Violence, Corruption etc. Its leaders tell you its bad to fly on Private Jets or stay a luxury hotel but the Leaders such as AOC, Bernie, Raskin etc do. David Hogg should never have been a leader, totally unqualified and I question his motives?
As Prof. Turley has told us many times, he grew up in a Democrat home in the Chicago area.
Many of us readers also grew up when the Dem party was the party of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Humphrey and Gene McCarthy, and of course LBJ and Tip O’Neill……
This Democrat Party today bears no resemblance to the party and its principles of the past.
They’ve become more like George Wallace and Lester Maddox in their extreme views.
Actually I think that Gene McCarthy would fit right in with today’s Democrats. He was a radical far left candidate that used students to make his name. Of course let’s not forget that RFK saw what McCarthy was doing to LBJ and he jumped on the bandwagon late in an opportunistic way.
Is this the same Kennedy that sent ‘Advisors’ to Viet Nam? LBJ? Seriously? They is revered as icons of the Democrats? Even back then, the DNC was corrupted by it’s own hubris.
Yep, that old LBJ who couldn’t wait to start a war.
This is a perfect microcosm or metaphor of how the Democrats operate. You see if Republicans don’t like what Tom Tillis is doing we say so, we complain about him voting against our interests and we say we may put up someone more in line with our thinking in the next election cycle. The Democrats don’t like what Fetterman is doing and they use sleaze and innuendo to try to ruin him.
When EVERYONE saw and KNEW that Biden was toast the Democrats called us liars and cheats using “deep fakes” to malign him, but once he was of no use to them they said he was ill, that he had dementia, that he needed a wheel chair and that he should not have run.
Now comes George to tell us why what the DNC is doing is a good thing, why Trump is worse, why Turley is wrong and he will do so 15 or 20 times in the next 5 hours.
“No one is above the Law”. But the word “one” does not cover Democrats.
Once again I repeat “there is no Democrat party”! They should change the name and reveal who and what they are today.
national socialist party….oh wait even the National Socialist Party of 1930’s Germany didn’t HATE their own country. What Globalists and Democrats are doing is unprecedented. They are political groups expressly trying to destroy their countries, for pure power…I guess like a Mao or Pol Pot
And they wonder why they lost the 2024 presidential election?
what is shocking is they didn’t lose by much…of course when you print 20% of ballots and mail them in….you always have an advantage!
All Elections 1 day, in person, with ID, paper trail.
I don’t care if you vote
I care if you cheat.
Even Carter was against Absentee Ballots
Plus Carter was also was warned about Vote by Mail.
Pretty apt clip there. Maybe John Adams was right about democracy after all:
“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.”
The good news here DNC is pure of heart. They treat each other just as they treat Republicans. They have cancelled many of their numbers, but the big enchilada was to dump Biden and install Kamala. Now, with jobs at stake, they want to cancel Hogg. Due process? What’s that? Elections are binding? Nonsense, we have the “golden vote,” something akin to Xi Jinping.
The Dems need to clarify their grievance. Is he merely a white guy? Or is he trying to take their sinecures away. Both are fatal sins.