Below is my column in The Hill on calls from the left for other countries to hit the United States with sanctions and other measures as a “bad actor.” After losses in elections and Congress, some are sending out a “broken arrow” signal for other nations to crack down on the United States.
Here is the column:
“Broken arrow” is arguably the most chilling and desperate order that an American military commander can issue. When faced with an enemy about to overrun a surrounded force, a commander uses it to call in an air or artillery strike on his own position.
This month, many on the American left are issuing their own “broken arrow” signals, including calling on globalist allies to hit the U.S. with sanctions and other measures. They are seeking to achieve through sanctions what they could not achieve through elections.
The most recent such call came from commentator Elie Mystal on “The Joy Reid Show” this week.
“Our country needs to be sanctioned,” he said. “We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point, and I’m not even going to say that we’ve only been a menace for the past three or four months.”
Mystal’s call was hardly a surprise for those familiar with his writings. A regular commentator on MSNBC, he previously called the Constitution “trash” and urged not just the abolition of the U.S. Senate but also of “all voter registration laws.”
Yet, he is not alone in signaling that his position is being overrun by his fellow citizens.
After Elon Musk bought Twitter with a pledge to dismantle its censorship system, former Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called upon Europe to use its infamous Digital Services Act to force him to censor fellow Americans.
Nina Jankowicz, the former head of Biden’s infamous Disinformation Governance Board, appeared recently before the European Parliament. She called upon the 27 EU countries to fight against the U.S., which she described as a global threat.
To the delight of globalists, she declared, “Before I describe the details of Russia’s recent online influence campaigns, I would like to call upon you to stand firm against another autocracy: The United States of America.”
This year, I spoke in Berlin at the World Forum and was surprised to see many Americans joining European leaders in support of the forum’s slogan, “A New World Order with European Values.” Attended by figures such as Bill and Hillary Clinton, the conference heralded Europe as key to countering the threat posed by the U.S.
Others denounced America as the world’s villain with boycotts and protests during Fourth of July celebrations. One leading influencer declared that “this country is beyond f**ked” and encouraged citizens to “walk away from the illusion that they built” around this country.
Democratic politicians and pundits have fueled the anger by claiming fighting the current U.S. government is like fighting against the Nazis, including most recently former Vice President Al Gore. Others like Rep. Pramila Jayapal have called ICE agents “terrorists” for enforcing immigration laws.
The crisis of faith on the left often seems to be triggered by any adverse decision or election. In 2022, the Pima County, Arizona Democratic Party tweeted “F–k the Fourth” after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
This year, Fourth of July celebrations were canceled in Los Angeles under the claim that officials feared a mass arrest by ICE — rather implausible, considering that protests against ICE will be held as planned.
Others are organizing protests this week, declaring “F**k fourth of July. We have a king that we need to get rid of first.”
The problem for those calling on the EU to fight the U.S. is democracy itself, something of a headache for the global elite in Brussels. European governments are cracking down on conservative and other groups, which are soaring in popularity, with calls for stronger borders and reversing mass immigration trends. Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and other countries have experienced a similar surge in the popularity of conservative parties.
The fact is, many of the triggers for these “No Kings” protests are the product of the democratic process from the “Big Beautiful Bill” to changes in immigration policy. Citizens voted for change and successfully secured it, and some people are angry about it.
At the same time, our courts continue to function as designed in reviewing these orders and policies. Trump has won some and lost some before the Supreme Court, as constitutional limits are defined and enforced.
In my forthcoming book, Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution, I explore the future of American democracy in the 21st Century in light of economic and political movements, including the current crisis of faith of many on the left over our fundamental values and institutions.
The irony is that this crisis is largely centered among the most privileged classes. Yet recent Gallup polling shows patriotism is at an all-time low. However, the drop is found almost entirely among Democrats. Only 36 percent of Democrats reported being extremely or very proud to be American, compared to 92 percent of Republicans.
Some are simply moving to foreign countries. The New York Times has fanned the flames of those claiming that the U.S. is a new fascist regime. Recently, it featured the declaration of three Yale professors fleeing American fascism for the free nation of Canada. In their piece, titled “We study fascism and we are leaving the United States,” the professors explain that “the lesson of 1933 is that you get out sooner rather than later.”
But what these professors call fascism looks a lot like the democratic process to others. The problem with democracy is that it does not always produce the outcome you want.
For some, support for democratic choice seems to extend only to fellow citizens who make the “right” choice, from their own perspective, of course. So faced with losses in elections and in Congress, many are shouting “broken arrow” and hoping for external help in crushing the opposition.
Yet the fact is, this country is not being “overrun.” Those are fellow citizens who are calling for these policy changes and rejecting far-left policies. Just as many in Europe are calling on the EU to block far-right democratic victories, many in this country are advocating for the trashing of the Constitution or transnational interventions to reverse political voting trends.
The fact is, the far left is not truly surrounded. They have simply retreated into smaller and smaller echo chambers rather than engage the rest of the country on these issues. Viewed from within the protected spaces of MSNBC or BlueSky, you can feel surrounded, but it remains a type of self-isolation. It is like watching wagons frantically circling on the plains without a hostile in sight. The problem is that most of America has moved on.
In the end, the calls for a globalist intervention are a final desperate call of America’s self-isolated left.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University and the best-selling author of “The Indispensable Right.”
Broken Judiciary
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/07/breaking-obama-judge-blocks-trumps-big-beautiful-bill
Obama judge blocks provision in recently signed bill that suspends payment to Planned Parenthood.
I wonder what the thinking behind that order is?
Didn’t know that the ‘power of the purse’ ultimately rested with district courts.
Whatever it may be it is unlikely to have much of the ‘legalese’ Ketanji hates.
The Left has apparently already sent a ‘Broken Arrow ‘ signal to select district court judges.
Here is the order. I dont understand how this is possible. Why not ignore her? She ignores SCOTUS so DOJ should ignore Talwani.
Next!
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TEMPORARY RESTRAINING ORDER
July 7, 2025
TALWANI, D.J.
Upon consideration of Plaintiffs’ Emergency Motion for a Temporary Restraining Order
and Preliminary Injunction [Doc. No. 4] and accompanying memorandum of law and supporting declarations, and finding good cause shown, it is hereby ORDERED that the request for a Temporary Restraining Order is GRANTED. It is further ORDERED that:
1. Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants are hereby enjoined from enforcing, retroactively
enforcing, or otherwise applying the provisions of Section 71113 of “An Act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title II of H. Con. Res. 14,” against Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its members; Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts; and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah;
2. Defendants, their agents, employees, appointees, successors, and anyone acting in concert or participation with Defendants shall take all steps necessary to ensure that Medicaid funding continues to be disbursed in the customary manner and timeframes to Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its members; Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts; and Planned Parenthood Association of Utah.
3. Plaintiffs shall promptly serve this Temporary Restraining Order on Defendants electronically or by another manner authorized by Fed. R. Civ. P. 5(b)(2). Within 72 hours of such service, Defendants shall provide a copy of this Temporary Restraining Order to all personnel within the Department of Health and Human Services and all state agencies involved with the disbursement of Medicaid funding.
4. Defendants shall file a status report with the Court confirming Defendants’ compliance within 96 hours of service of this order.
This Temporary Restraining Order shall remain in effect for fourteen days, unless vacated, modified or extended by the court.
IT IS SO ORDERED.
July 7, 2025 5:15 p.m.
/s/Indira Talwani
United States District Judge
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mad.286600/gov.uscourts.mad.286600.18.0.pdf
Estovir,
Margolis has a good comment on it here:
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/07/obama-judge-blocks-defunding-of-planned-parenthood-in-obbb-n4941523
“The ruling simply halted the will of Congress in its tracks, leaving Americans and even seasoned legal professionals scratching their heads. How does a judge order the executive branch to ignore a duly-enacted statute without first declaring that statute invalid? On what grounds?”
The rest of the comment is good too. I imagine Professor Turley will have much to say as well. I hope. I’m looking forward to it. A duly enacted law is much more than an EO. The judge’s action frankly astonished me.
Insurrectionists in black robes.
Young, I am not opposed to reading opinions and comments by PJ Media, Slate, Newsmax or New Republic. I would profit however in reading academic analysis by an attorney trained in such legal matters, to help me, a non-attorney, understand specifically how Judge Talwani erred. I believe what she did was an error but I have no training in legal matters and hence cant walk anyone through a legal argument in how she erred. The following X thread by @shipwreckedcrew helped me because it walked me through the legal errors of Talwani. Perhaps you are familiar with this attorney, William “Bill” Shipley, who represented many defendants charged by Biden’s DOJ in relation to Jan 6 chaos.
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
Planned Parenthood sued today over a provision in the One Big Beautiful Bill that made Planned Parenthood affiliates ineligible for compensation under Medicaid.
A federal judge in Massachusetts, six hours after the complaint was filed, entered a TRO without the Govt having filed an appearance or otherwise being involved.
What she said was, in essence, the Treasure must keep paying for services provided by Planned Parenthood, and it does not matter than Congress decided otherwise.
11:36 PM · Jul 7, 2025
Shipwreckedcrew
@shipwreckedcrew
The House should immediately move to impeach Judge Talwani. She usurped the power of Congress today. She told Congress they could not reverse by legislation a spending program that Congress had previously established.
The complaint is phrased as if the Trump Administration is to blame, and this is simply pushback against POTUS overreach.
But this is a Congressional statute.
Her TRO directing that she dictate disbursements from the Treasury, not Congress, has no legal rationale offered — none.
It is simply a naked power grab by her.
Impeachment by the Judiciary Committee should be fast and simple. Then send it over to the Senate.
Force the Senate Democrats to save her.
Force the Chief Justice to preside over her trial.
12:00 AM · Jul 8, 2025
https://x.com/shipwreckedcrew/status/1942433465888301346
Estovir,
Both Margolis and shipwrecked crew say the same thing:
“How does a judge order the executive branch to ignore a duly-enacted statute without first declaring that statute invalid? On what grounds?””
Sam [below] points more specifically to the absurd plaintiffs’ claims on which the TRO is presumably based.
Basically the error is this: Every lawyer is accustomed to seeing a judicial ruling or decision based upon existing law or authority. Usually the authorities differ in weight. At the bottom are administrative regulations and executive orders. They are trumped by actual statutes. Precedent can trump a statute although some explanation is due. Common law is more complex. If a statute is in derogation of common law it usually must be strictly construed, meaning it won’t put a bigger dent in common law than one cannot avoid. On top of all is the Constitution and Court interpretations of the Constitution [Supreme Court precedents].
A judges decision MUST stand on one of those legal foundations.
The judge’s error in this case is that it is based on nothing.
The only way she can rule against a law passed by Congress is by finding it is superseded by a superior law, the Constitution or a Supreme Court precedent and there is nothing in either to justify her ruling.
It is tyranny in the ancient Greek sense–rule without authority of law.
And it is despicable.
*. Congress merely blocked the purchase of mifepristone with federal money, medicaid. Use a credit card when purchasing from another State. States can use their money if they choose. It’s a loser case.
Women and girls , moms for the underaged adolescents will learn timeliness and the use of contraception as surgical abortions are deleted. Females are responsible for their bodies and not the federal government.
If not a million Hakeem Jeffries will be born yearly. Born dead . Stillbirth.
Adios
*. Estovir, you would agree God made everything? You would also agree God made feces. It’s not a perfect plan, Estovir. Sh1t happens.
OBVIOUSLY people are made in his image you would agree? Imperfectly.
Quit pretending you’re perfect, please, and don’t deface yourself in humility. 😂
“I wonder what the thinking behind that order is?”
The case pertains to Medicaid funding for non-abortion procedures offered by PP. The law now forbids PP from receiving such funding.
Plaintiff’s have a two-pronged argument:
1) The law unfairly singles them out (as opposed to other organizations who offer the same non-abortion procedures).
2) The law violates PP’s right to free speech.
I know nothing about how the law applies to 1).
2) is facially absurd. Unless I missed the footnote to 1A: Government shall not abridge a provider’s right to receive government funding.
The most recent such call came from commentator Elie Mystal on “The Joy Reid Show” this week.
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Wrote daily for Above the Law website, a bunch of left winger Koo Koo for Coco Puffs Looney Tunes….Was never a practicing attorney despite graduating from arvard Law School, and I am going to bet my life that he was a DEI admissions admitee at HLS and the same at Harvard College as an undergrad.
Ted Cruz just left for a summer vacation in Greece.
If nothing else he is very consistent and predictable.
Whenever disaster strikes in Texas, he heads off on an overseas vacation.
Ninety dead, including 27 young girls and he immediately hotfoots it out of the country.
Ya gotta love how consistent he is !!!!??
I just saw live coverage of a press conference down in Texas and Ted Cruz was there and spoke. Maybe you’re full of it.
waltrthompson,
OMG!!!
Yet another anony moron loses?? How can it be so???
How marvelous!!! 🙂
@Upstate
It is. I’ll take the wins.
Most people “consistently” hotfoot their vacations, in midsummer. Cruz more than likely booked his trip long before the tragedy. Barring clairvoyance (Cruz KNEW the tragedy was coming, which is not likely), your diatribe has no merit. DO better: mourn the dead and don’t use them to score political “hits.”
Thoughtful post, Dianna. Yes. Given the Texas catastrophe, let us mourn the dead and contemplate our own mortality. 🌼
Like the Mayor of LA during the fires?
No, not like the L.A. Mayor: Your comparison is not germane. The L.A. Mayor actively WORKED to make sure there was NO WATER for putting out fires.
Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) responded Tuesday to backlash for vacationing in Greece while flooding killed more than 100 people in his home state.
“The Senator was already in the middle of preplanned family vacation travel overseas when the flooding occurred on July 4. Within hours, he spoke by phone with Governor [Greg] Abbott, Lt. Governor [Dan] Patrick, Texas Emergency Management Director Nim Kidd, and President Trump, working to ensure that the maximum federal assets were available for search and rescue,” Cruz’s office said in a statement to The Hill.
“He and his team worked closely with local officials and with families of missing girls throughout that time. He promptly booked a flight back home. Given the time difference, he left Athens on Sunday morning and was back in Texas that night. And he was in Kerrville on the ground early Monday morning,” the statement continued.
https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5389520-ted-cruz-greece-flooding-response/
“Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) responded Tuesday to backlash for vacationing in Greece while flooding killed more than 100 people in his home state.
“The Senator was already in the middle of preplanned family vacation travel overseas when the flooding occurred on July 4. Within hours, he spoke by phone with Governor [Greg] Abbott, Lt. Governor [Dan] Patrick, Texas Emergency Management Director Nim Kidd, and President Trump, working to ensure that the maximum federal assets were available for search and rescue,” Cruz’s office said in a statement to The Hill…..
He and his team worked closely with local officials and with families of missing girls throughout that time. He promptly booked a flight back home. Given the time difference, he left Athens on Sunday morning and was back in Texas that night. And he was in Kerrville on the ground early Monday morning,” the statement continued.” —> https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/5389520-ted-cruz-greece-flooding-response/
Cruz should have been a California democrat.
And WTF is he supposed to do? Pointless photo ops? Look, he gave his little speech and moved on. Because, in reality, that’s all he can do. So stop acting like a child and demanding the world stops for you.
43,000 highway deaths annually.
Ted Cruz should stay home and never leave; he should bow his head and weep all year.
In the midst of life, we are always in death, Anon.
Such is life. Party on. 🥳
The authors of absurd childish tripe such as this should be
BANNED FOR LIFE!
I live in San Antonio, about 70 miles from ground zero flooding. Where do you live? If I’m Ok with Ted Cruz, what’s your problem?
So the Democrats would rather commit treason to their nation than lose power in a free and fair election.
It tells you a lot about the Democrats so called ‘democracy’.
Jake,
Short answer: Yes. You are correct.
OldManFromKS, posted a MSM, leftist, Axois article about how the far left Democrats think Democrat Congress people should be willing to take a bullet to fight against . . . something.
Long answer, what the far leftist Democrats call “democracy” looks a lot like more socialism and Marxism, by their own words and actions. As I have stated before, they are the antithesis of the Constitution. We, The People, need to fight against them from all corners. And if they want to bring a real shooting civil war first per their rhetoric suggests, we need to be ready and willing to counter them. At all costs.
Proclamation 80—Calling Forth the Militia and Convening an Extra Session of Congress
“On April 15, 1861,…President Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation calling forth the state militias, to the sum of 75,000 troops, in order to suppress the rebellion. He appealed ‘to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate, and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union.’”
Proclamation 92—Warning to Rebel Sympathizers
“[On] July 17, 1862,…I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, do hereby proclaim to and warn all persons within the contemplation of said sixth section to cease participating in, aiding, countenancing, or abetting the existing rebellion or any rebellion against the Government of the United States and to return to their proper allegiance to the United States on pain of the forfeitures and seizures as within and by said sixth section provided.”
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Abraham Lincoln was a Great American President.
Now President Donald J. Trump MUST implement his rendition of “The Lincoln Era,” close the border, rescind rebel sanctuary cities, compassionately repatriate all illegal and unassimilable aliens, revoke birthright citizenship, make English the sole official language, commence a war to defeat the rebellion, impose martial law, suspend habeas corpus, “smash” rebel printing presses, networks, podcasts, and social media platforms, and imprison political opponents and rebel judges, all in order to save, not the Union, but the Nation, eradicate the communist American welfare state, and place America squarely back on the Constitution and Bill of Rights, including absolute freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, private property, and minimal taxation and regulation, alongside infinitesimal constitutional government.
“At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”
– Abraham Lincoln, Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1837
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American freedom persisted for a mere 71 years before it was set on a path to intractable amalgamation, collectivization, and ultimate extinction.
Thank you, Abe.
Hey everyone, I’m too important to bother reading any of the previous comments, and I just wanted to let you in on some breaking news, the term “broken arrow” has another meaning another than the one used in the original post! Wow! And also, something something about Epstein, copied and pasted from the fever swamps of the left!
Hey everyone, I’m too bored by Anonymous commenter to bother reading any of their comments. I can’t tell all the different Anonymous commenters apart,so Anonymous just sounds like a loon.
You are correct but did not include the other meaning of “Broken Arrow”. In military parlance, a Broken Arrow is an accident involving a nuclear weapons, warheads or components that does not create the risk of nuclear war of which there have been 32 since 1950. Enter this operand into your favorite search engine for details: “list military broken arrow events”
“Our country needs to be sanctioned. We are the bad guys on the world stage. We are a menace to not only free people everywhere, but we are a menace to peaceful people everywhere at this point, and I’m not even going to say that we’ve only been a menace for the past three or four months.”
– Elie Mystal, Joy Reid et al.
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These people are terrified of American constitutional freedom. They fail without the unconstitutional redistribution of wealth and social engineering of communism. Oil and water do not mix; emulsifiers are required. The political emulsifiers required to accomplish the societal mixture they illicitly demand consist of unconstitutional financial assistance and affirmative action—”free stuff” and “free status.”
Adhering to economic enemies, they are direct and mortal enemies of the American Thesis of Freedom and Self-Reliance, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, Americans, and America.
Clearly, this is another iteration of their perpetual campaign of flagrant, actionable, anti-American, and unconstitutional insurrection, of treason.
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Article 3, Section 3
Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.
😂 😂 😂, anon, the lower classes will NEVER buy into communism.
. . . many Americans joining European leaders in support of the forum’s slogan, “A New World Order with European Values.”
To complement this story, Axios is no reporting that the Dem base is clamoring for violent revolution. During the Vietnam War they changed “All we are saying, is give peace a chance.” Now they’re saying, to hell with peace, to hell with the rule of law, because we have lost at the ballot box we now want violent revolution. It’s not just a few on the fringe either.
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress
I like the Axios headline
Democrats are being told to “get shot” for the anti-Trump resistance
https://www.axios.com/2025/07/07/democrats-trump-resistance-violence-congress
Welllllllll, it is their body, their choice. But wasting ammo on a Democrat? Better to flash them a crucifix and sprinkle them with holy water. Watch the demons howl as they flee the bodies of Democrats and jump into a herd of
swineonline DNC paid trolls.☦️🙅🏽♂️🇻🇦
Estovir,
Whoa!! Yeah, that is some crazy s***!
Might melt down some of my silver coins, cast hollow points 45-70govt, add a few drops of holy water and seal them with lard. Just in case the demons come knocking!
LMAO! Well played Farmer Bro!
Two of my neighbors, former Democrats like me, are begging me to buy a shotgun, and go with them on weekends to do practice shooting for a few hours. They each also own two vaults of bang bangs, plus ammo, and want me to stock up. I tell them Im not interested. If anything goes down, which is unlikely given we live in the styx, I’ll just throw a marmot at them.
Estovir,
Why would you throw a pair of shorts at them? 😉
https://www.marmot.com/men/bottoms/shorts/mens-juniper-springs-upf-50-quick-dry-short-5/AFS_195115293864.html
Our marmot is a beast. He eats the blossoms on our garden vegetables, devours chili peppers like a boss, plows below the electrified fence, digs holes under the shed, made a tunnel in the ground under the concrete wall that goes to the cemetery, and appears unstoppable. I think he’d make a great projectile though admittedly not as flammable as a Molotov cocktail. At least the marmot would scream in air as I hurled him at an ANTIFA leftnut.
Estovir,
Nice!!!!
I’ll trade you a dozen iguanas for one marmot.
Jonathan: I’ll get to your column shortly but first some BREAKING NEWS: As many predicted the Epstein files have been buried! Despite AG Pam Bondi’s statement in February that the Epstein client list is “sitting on my desk right now” and would be soon released there has been total silence–until now.
Yesterday, Axios obtained a copy of a DOJ memo that states there is no “incriminating ‘client list'”, no “credible evidence…that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals” and no “evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties”. How convenient. Case now closed. And this comes despite clear evidence that DJT is all over the Epstein files as “John Doe 174”.
While campaigning for DJT last year Elon Musk promised the Epstein files would be released during DJT’s presidency. After his falling out with DJT, Musk has since demanded the files be released. Here is his reaction to the DOJ memo this morning on X @3:12am: “We will release the Epstein list…We just need more time…The Epstein list in on my desk…There is no Epstein list”.
Rep. Eric Swalwell said it best: “No one who has walked Earth is more litigious than Donald Trump. If Trump is NOT in the files he would have already sued @elonmusk for saying he IS in the files. The absence of Trump’s legal actions speaks VOLUMES.” Amen!
Didn’t you already post this as “anonymous” elsewhere? Try to stay on topic, loser.
“…reaction to the DOJ memo this morning on X @3:12am: ‘We will release the Epstein list…We just need more time…The Epstein list in on my desk…There is no Epstein list.'” …. while, admittedly, this is not a good look, refresh your memory and remind yourself: this same outcome was going on LONG BEFORE Bondi was AG….
Garland made no moves toward truth and transparency concerning the Epstein List/Files; perhaps he was smarter about it in keeping his mouth shut and making a big to-do about J-6 instead, surely DEFLECTING, but don’t be fooled, many (from both parties) are being protected, and it goes waaaay back. More than likely, the very same people were on Diddy’s party list too [especially Obama]. Don’t be so quick to cry, TRUMP.
As for “no one on earth more litigious than Donald Trump?” Correction: that honor goes to the Marxist-democrat party. Get your head on straight, DM.
Dianna Bec,
Great comment.
Previously I was on board with the FBI’s previous assessment: Epstein did not kill himself.
In light of this, I am thinking there are way too many people, in high up places of power, on both sides of the isle and likely globally, that this is was the only possible outcome. But, that is just speculation on my part. I dont think we, the public, will ever know the truth.
In the words of the Great Limbaugh: D I T T O!
Dianna Bec,
HAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA! Thank you for the laugh!
And WHO, in their right mind, with any seriousness or veracity, quotes or invokes Eric Mc-Bang-Fang Swallwell???
Using Swallwell to make a moral point is like picking up an oily rag to wipe up mud. The downward spiral of the democrat party would be funny if its new-found confederacy weren’t so smutty and dangerous.
…Eric Mc-Bang-Fang
SwallwellSwallows-well…. because being impeccable with our English utilization is importantShow some respect, Missy!
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AI Overview
Rush Limbaugh and his listeners commonly used the term “dittos” (and sometimes “mega-dittos” or “quintuple-dittos”) to express agreement and solidarity.
UF – this will all come out eventually.
Though the current claims are odd – If Epstein did nothing wrong, why is Maxwell in jail ?
In addition to Dianna’s analysis, there is likely an issue with constitutional rules and due process.
If Law enforcement investigates and does not prosecute – it can not just dump all the derogatory allegations that it found. While constantly violated – especially by the left, the rule of law requires prosecutors to speak throuh the courts.
One of the problems we had with the left wing nuts in the FBI us that they would leak and absurd allegation, and then when the media reported it, that allowed them to investigate using the media as a source.
Epsteins victims need their privacy protected – and that is hard.
People who floated in Epsteins circle – even closely are entitled not just to a presumption of innocence – but to be tried in court – not the press.
My Guess is that Bondi may be up against constitutional rules. Anything about Epstien that suggests criminal conduct by others, must either be prosecuted, or it can not be made public by DOJ.
But the press can do their own investigating.
No client list and no “incriminating ‘client list’ have two different meanings. Yet how does the public know that the list is not ‘incriminating’ if the files are not released? Politicians are very careful about the words they chose to try to fool us.
Most of us would like the Epstein Files released – no matter whose ox is gored.
Do I beleive DOJ ? Not really.
Did I beleive them a year ago ? Not really.
As to your Trump is in the epstein files.
If that were True – the Biden DOJ would have leaked that – or even prosecuted Trump.
There is no evidence that Trump and Epstien had any more relationship than that their were both wealthy new yorkers and occasionally bumped into each other.
There is no evidence Trump ever went to lolita Island, or otherwise got entangled with Epstein.
If there was any such evidence – it would be leaked or the press would have found it.
Sometimes absence of evidence is evidence of absence.
There is no pee tape – if there was – it would ha v e surfaced.
There is no epstein evidence of concern for Trump – if there was it would have surfaced.
Trump is the most investigated person on the planet and you have come up with bupkis
I know this is hard for left wing nuts – but you can not just wish bad things to be true of your political enemies and expect their will magically be true.
Actually, a “Broken Arrow” in the military is the code word for a nuclear accident or incident.
Wow, thanks, it’s not like a dozen people here already mentioned that before you.
Wow, the gotcha mob is out in force. And as is usually the case, they are wrong.
That expression was also used by the military as JT described it. It was used in both Vietnam and Korea.
As a devotee of military history, don’t you think he’d know that?
We Were Soldiers starring Mel Gibson as Lt. Col. Hal Moore is a Nam use.
Respectfully, I don’t get my military history from Mel Gibson movies. I was in the original cast. Here, with Capt. William S. Carpenter, Jr. 2d Battalion (Airborne),502d Airborne Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade (Sep) 101st Airborne Division, Action Date: June 9 – 11, 1966, when he received the DSC. I guarantee you, he wasn’t yelling “Broken Arrow” into the PRC25.
Headquarters, U.S. Army, Vietnam, General Orders No. 4125 (August 14, 1967)
The President of the United States of America, authorized by Act of Congress, July 9, 1918 (amended by act of July 25, 1963), takes pleasure in presenting the Distinguished Service Cross to Captain (Infantry) William Stanley Carpenter, Jr. (ASN: 0-90703), United States Army, for extraordinary heroism in connection with military operations involving conflict with an armed hostile force in the Republic of Vietnam, while serving with Company C, 2d Battalion (Airborne), 502d Infantry Regiment, 1st Brigade, 101st Airborne Division. Captain Carpenter distinguished himself by exceptionally valorous actions during the period 9 June 1966 to 11 June 1966 while serving as Commanding Officer of an infantry company engaged in a blocking mission near Tou Morong Outpost. As Captain Carpenter’s company advanced, the lead platoon suddenly received intense fire from an estimated two companies of Viet Cong. Captain Carpenter immediately deployed the company to continue its forward progress, but it soon became pinned down by extremely heavy hostile fire from three directions. After Captain Carpenter organized a hasty defense, it became apparent that the insurgent force was at least of battalion size. The insurgents launched a determined frontal attack and were successful in overrunning one platoon. Realizing the severe consequences if the enemy forces were able to penetrate the entire company area, Captain Carpenter ordered supporting jet aircraft to drop napalm directly on the company’s position. The napalm bombs hit the top of the trees in the center of the company position and detonated 25 feet above ground. As a result, the fiery napalm carried directly into the charging insurgents and passed over most of the friendly troops. The skillfully directed air strike completely subdued the Viet Cong attempt to overrun the company. As the insurgents withdrew, Captain Carpenter repeatedly exposed himself to the hostile fire to reorganize his command and direct supporting artillery fire. Throughout the remainder of the three-day battle and in the face of almost overwhelming odds, Captain Carpenter continued to direct and inspire the company to repulse three additional determined assaults by the enemy battalion. Through Captain Carpenter’s heroic actions and courageous tenacity, his company was spared numerous casualties and was able to withstand the repeated attacks of the Viet Cong battalion until reinforcements arrived. Captain Carpenter’s extraordinary heroism and devotion to duty were in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, his unit, and the United States Army.
Shooter Six,
I thank you for your service. US Marine here. Afghanistan.
Roger That! Muah! (Me too, re: Afghanistan.)
It’s used in movies as military because it is, or was, a military term. Most people probably know it from We Were Soldiers with Mel Gibson.
DANGER CLOSE – CLOSE ARTILLERY SUPPORT – CIRCULAR ERROR PROBABLE
“We’re at coordinates X, requesting fire support on coordinates X”
Have Overrun Units Called In Artillery or CAS (Close Artillery Support), Not Just Danger Close, But Actually On Their Own Positions?
While calling in danger close artillery or CAS is certainly a thing (aim carefully because friendlies are within the nominal margin of error).
There are dozens of recorded examples of men calling in fires (sic) on their own positions. There are also cases of men doing what amounts to the same thing: calling fires (sic) within their Circular Error Probable radius, where any “shorts” will land on their own positions.
The ny times is finally helping US getting their readership to move to foreign countries.
Next step is to get them to renounce their citizenship.
In February, Pam Bondi announced that the Epstein client list was on her desk.
This past weekend, Kash Patel announced that the client list does not exist.
Which one of them is LYING ?????????
And WHY are they LYING ??????
Perhaps because Trump and many Republicans feature prominently in the list !!!!!
Perhaps you’re an idiot. Any of that would have been leaked already dimwit.
Perhaps the really are scrubbing out the identities of the victims of Epstein’s Democrat accomplices? Don’t you think that’s more likely?
Of course !!!
Why didn’t I think of that.
You are obviously much smarter than me.
Obviously Bondi and Patel want to protect Democrats at all cost !!!
They would do anything to protect the Democrats from any kind of scandal.
They have proven time and time again that all they care about is protecting Democrats.
Clearly they are part of the Obama-Biden Deep State !!!!
Trump should fire both of them immediately !!!!
Try reading what was said one more time, especially that word “victims”
Your rant falls apart since you obviously skipped over that word.
At this point there is algae in the pond that could probably outperform you on an IQ test.
Anon at 12:38
Try to keep up dimwit.
The issue is not what is being done with the Epstein list.
The issue is whether it exists at all.
Bondi said she had it on her desk in February.
This weekend Patel announced that the list does not even exist.
According to him there is no Epstein client list.
One of them has to be lying.
The only issue at hand is which of them is a LIAR !!!!!!!
Nope.
There is zero doubt that DOJ can using all of epsteins files product a list of people who were suspiciously involved with epstein – a GOVERNMENT created list of possibly clients.
Conversely did Epstien have a “little black book” with the names of all his clients ? probably not.
He probably is much smarter than you.
Bondi, Patel, Bongino et al. ran into some very, very biggly money.
Very likely, they were made an “offer they couldn’t refuse.”
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Deutsche Bank: Accused of similar negligence, fined by regulators, and reaching settlements with victims.
Barclays: Its former CEO stepped down amid an investigation into his ties to Epstein.
ATS – do I trust DOJ – nope.
But Biden’s DOJ had EVERYTHING for 4 years. No one but Maxwell has been prosecuted.
Short of video of Garland or Biden on the lolita express, if they had evidence implicagting Trump – even a little,
they would have leaked it or prosecuted.
If we go back to James Madison and Ben Franklin, “it’s a republic if you can keep it.”Ever since we’ve operated on the idea that loss of that republic is only one generation away. That fits logically with short 100 year lifespans. Which all start not knowing diddly. Respectfully, l would submit that looking after the republic today goes better with a message of hope that we can as we always have, and not a message of despair that asks the Old World for a solution. The Old World is why we created the republic.
I’m ex-Airborne Infantry, multiple combat tours, I never heard of such a signal pertaining to ground contact. Maybe somewhere, sometime, but I missed that briefing. What I DO know is this: Broken Arrow is a code phrase that refers to an accidental event that involves nuclear weapons, warheads or components that does not create a risk of nuclear war. These include:
Accidental or unexplained nuclear explosion
Non-nuclear detonation or burning of a nuclear weapon
Radioactive contamination
Loss in transit of nuclear asset with or without its carrying vehicle
Jettisoning of a nuclear weapon or nuclear component
Public hazard, actual or implied
agree. I was a nuke planning guy in Europe who ran a PRP and maintained target folders. Also the events less than a “Broken Arrow” were code “Bent Spear”
Turley and the MAGA mob never let a few actual facts stand in the way of a perfectly good fake conspiracy theory.
Yes, yes, your tears are delicious. Your anguish sustains us.
Perhaps, Turley was thinking about ‘friendly fire’?
*i.e. fire by friendly forces, ostensibly on the same side .. .
Maybe, maybe it was used that way somewhere, sometime … just an honest error/mistake, I think. The military is often a maze. I have no beef with Turley, his analysis and writing is priceless.
Shooter Six
I have to agree that Turley’s writing is priceless.
No price can be set on his writing because it is absolutely worthless.
What kind of an ass goes into a host’s house and proceeds to insult them? You, it seems. Grow up and get some class.
Smart Anonymous,
Ah! But something such as class is a alien concept to our anony moron. He thinks living in his parents basement, depending on them to take care of him, eating hot pockets is the ideal world! He has no inkling of how much of a burden he is on his parents and society as a whole. And he wonders why he is such a incel.
Yet, anony moron, the good professor is highly regarded in the law field. He is invited to make speeches on the 1stA. He writes columns to a number of news outlets like The Hill, USA Today. He has been invited to speak on Capitol Hill many times. He has a book that is on it’s fourth printing it is so much in demand and should be recommended reading for high schoolers and college students. And his blog gets many readers.
Tell us, anony, what are your accomplishments? And, living in your mom’s basement, eating hot pockets is not an accomplishment. Just saying.
Then why are you here ?
“I never heard of such a signal pertaining to ground contact.”
“Broken Arrow was a call for all available combat aircraft to attack enemy positions, even those close to the position of U.S. troops. The reason for calling in that order, is because a U.S. position is being overrun and can no longer be defended.”
That call was used in Vietnam.
Ah yes, the lost barrel.
Seeking some clarification:
Apart from the pro/con left-right political discussion, I have a bit of a problem with Mr. Turley’s use of the phrase “broken arrow.” Many decades ago, I was the spouse of a SAC* pilot, and quite familiar with the terminology and jargon used by the USAF. “Broken Arrow” (at least back then) referred to an accident (air, sea, or land) involving a nuclear-weapon.
* USAF Strategic Air Command, for those who’ve never encountered the acronym
See here for more specific explanations: https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/0208issbf/
There are any number of websites that describe such actual “nuclear” accidents, but this is a short and simple explanation (the only one that I found in my fairly quick search) that includes a reference to Mr. Turley’s [mis?]usage: of the phrase.
https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3ta6pb/when_was_the_last_time_us_military_used_the_code/
From what I can find on the internet, a less-common but valid meaning for broken arrow was a risky move to call in air support to bomb the enemy very close to where the friendly troops are. It is a last-ditch desperate measure when friendly troops are about to get overrun by the enemy. With that said, I don’t think its use in this article is accurate, as the hope was that the enemy would get hit but the friendly troops would not.
Oldman
If you are scouring the Internet for the meaning of some stupid irrelevant phrase, then you have WAAAAYYYYYY too much time on your hands.
You should probably try to get some sort of life outside of your mother’s basement.
Well, Mr. Anonymous, You’re being WAAAAAAY too harsh on the Old Man from Arkansas.
Thanks Shooter Six. I do not pretend to have military knowledge, but I did do some internet searching, which (contrary to anonymous’s implication) did not take me all that long, and is a good start when trying to find some basic knowledge on a topic.
With that said, I believe you have military experience, and so I would be interested to know if you’ve ever heard of broken arrow being used in the way I described, or are multiple internet sources all hallucinating the same exact alternative use?
Thanks,
-Old man from Kansas
The only way I’ve ever heard the term used was to describe the loss of a nuke (which actually happened in North Carolina), or a nuclear accident, never used as code for “drop on my position.” Maybe somewhere, sometime, but not in my 30+ years experience. Anyway, Military jargon is often ephemeral to time and place. No worries.
Wasn’t that technique of broken arrow rarely used in multiple wars, Vietnam being the latest?
OldManFromKS is 100x smarter than you. He also is/was/retired lawyer, which is a lot more than you have to say. And if anyone is living in their mother’s basement, that would be you.
It’s called projection, and basement boy is doing it, in spades.
Thanks for the support, Upstate. FWIW, I’m still a practicing lawyer. I may be old but I haven’t retired and I have no plans to retire as long as I am physically able to work. Thus far God has blessed me with that ability, and by his grace I will continue for a while yet.
OldManFromKS,
While doubtful, if I get out your way, I am buying lunch or making you and yours dinner! Got a old friend in OK whom I need to see again. Will make a point to drive out your way.
Please, keep up the good work!
Ok, they’re begging to be nuked.
Nuke it now before orange man escapes type thing.
The “Broken Arrow” comparison is highly inaccurate.
Using the above mentioned metaphor, it’s like two American soldiers in a foxhole together, both soldiers swore loyalty to the U.S. Constitution.
The loyal soldier finds out his own fellow American (Trumper) is the “domestic enemy” to the Constitution sharing the same foxhole. He’s not being overrun by a foreign enemy, the enemy is in the foxhole already wearing the same uniform.
Wrong.
It is the leftist who is trying to undermine the Constitution. We see it in what they say. We see it in the declaration they are Democrat Socialists, aka Marxists. We see it when they want to undermine law and order and protect illegal criminals. We see it when they proclaim “seize the means of production!” Those values of the leftist Democrats is the very antithesis of the Constitution.
Green background anonymous seems to be copy/pasting from stupid left-wing websites. He thinks all the garbage on those sites is the gospel truth. He’s just as dumb as they are.
😂😂😂
Trump tried to illegally overturn the 14th Amendment without the democracy of the constitutional-amendment process.
Now he wants to illegally overturn the 22nd Amendment – ignoring democracy!
@Anonymous
Does the cut and paste come as a list, or as a prompt? Fully automated, or does it still require human implementation? I’m behind on my engagement farm protocols.
Do you ever question what actually was establish in 1868 by the 14th Amendment?
It certainly wasn’t automatic birthplace citizenship for everyone. If you disagree, then kindly explain why nobody knew about this new “right” at the time you say it was established. Why did no immigrant parents came forward expecting to exercise this new “right” for their baby?
In 1868, nothing changed about how immigrant children got US citizenship. They obtained Citizenship by Derivation on the same day as the parents stood in a Naturalization ceremony. Hmmm…that’s interesting….the parents and children all get promoted to citizenship on the same day….no split status. Look into the history, and you’ll see that this common-sense idea was put in place in the Nationality Act of 1790 by the first Congress.
And nobody questioned it in 1868. It continued to be practiced throughout the 19th century.
You don’t think this history and practice will matter when a new policy limiting eligibility for birthright citizenship has been passed by Congress (HR569), is signed by the President, and is challenged in the Supreme Court?
BTW, Congress has the power under Article I to craft Citizenship policy, so the Constitution does not need to be changed. All Congress needs to do is clarify “and subject to the jurisdiction thereof”.
@Anonymous
Ah, so you are a person. One that never took a civics class, apparently. Sorry, there are too many of us that know history for you to attempt to rewrite it.
And that’s just how it is. If you are a crusty old hippy that hated the Vietnam war – I did too, so did my parents, and family mebers of mine served. A lot of us thought us was irretrievably stupid. That has absolutely no bearing on the present whatsoever. Wake your old, stoned, a** up.
The left you now support are pretty much the apparatus you used to rage against: Vietnam, the missile crisis, The Cold War (ban the nukes!), Afghanistan, you name it. It is so clear to literally everyone *but you*, and your ilk, and I suspect you are too old to claim millennial ignorance. Quite a bomb shelter you’ve built for yourself in your own mind. 🤷🏻♂️ You torture yourself; the rest of us are juuust fine.
Sorry for the typos, as many know there is no way to edit comments. Cest la vie.
Your left-wing talking points are out of date. Over two months ago Trump clarified he was just trolling about the third term. And since it is impossible to happen anyway, even if he had been serious, the idea of “overturning” the 22nd Amendment is childish. Give it up.
And now for you leftists, a disagreement about the interpretation of ambiguous text in the Constitution constitutes “overturning” and “treason.” Really, how much more childish can you get? I don’t wonder that you post your garbage anonymously.
OldManFromKS,
Trump was trolling MSM. MSM in their hysterics, reported it as if it were a fact. We see them do that with many things Trump jokes about. And then non-critical thinking, leftist Democrats then repeat the MSM false reporting as if it were fact. We have seen it many times.
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1866 – SENATOR JACOB M. HOWARD (MI) – AUTHOR OF THE CITIZENSHIP CLAUSE
Mr. HOWARD: I now move to take up House joint resolution No. 127.
The motion was agreed to; and the Senate, as in Committee of the Whole, resumed the consideration of the joint resolution (H.R. No. 127) proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.
The first amendment is to section one, declaring that all “persons born in the United States and Subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside. I do not propose to say anything on that subject except that the question of citizenship has been fully discussed in this body as not to need any further elucidation, in my opinion. This amendment which I have offered is simply declaratory of what I regard as the law of the land already, that every person born within the limits of the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, is by virtue of natural law and national law a citizen of the United States. This will not, of course, include persons born in the United States who are foreigners, aliens, who belong to the families of ambassadors or foreign ministers accredited to the Government of the United States, but will include every other class of persons. It settles the great question of citizenship and removes all doubt as to what persons are or are not citizens of the United States. This has long been a great desideratum in the jurisprudence and legislation of this country.[1]
– P.A. Madison, Former Research Fellow in Constitutional Studies, 2005
https://www.14thamendment.us/articles/anchor_babies_unconstitutionality.html
The Left Wing Radical Woke DEM’s and friends, along with MSM have all LOST their minds, same with the Europeans. Trump/MAGA derangement syndrome
The American Left hates America. To them, our foundational sin is rejecting Communism in the 20th century. They will never forgive us. The want the entire nation to fall, so they can rebuild it as a Communist dictatorship. They actually think that could happen. They are blithering idiots, as well as very bad people.
They would rather rule in hell, than serve in heaven. It’s an old problem with totalitarians.
Exactly. And the irony with people like that is, if their hell actually does arrive, they don’t rule. But their consolation is that everyone else is just as miserable as they are, so they still prefer it. Like I said, very bad people.
Republican Richard Nixon proposed “universal healthcare” a far more socialist policy than Obamacare. Closer to communism than anything Obama supported.
Maybe stop stereotyping entire groups with inaccurate labels? There are extremes on both sides, stereotyping an entire group is inaccurate and only makes you look bad.
And yet you people called Nixon Hitler and used the Intelligent Agencies to remove him from office. All because he was a Republican and he started his career rightly calling Hiss a commie.
Nixon made his political career as an anti-Communist. He never suggested America was in any way bad for rejecting communism. Green-background anonymous seems to live in opposite world.
It was not “closer to communism,” it was communism.
More importantly, it was and remains immutably unconstitutional.
Read Article 1, Section 8.
There is no legal basis or constitutional citation available for any rendition of public healthcare.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
I wish I could disagree with OLDMAN…but I can’t. I have been saying for years that the left truly hates America.
Why would they have supported opening our border?
Why would they force trans lunatics into the military if not to destroy our military? Notice under Biden and his trans activists the military couldn’t recruit and now they are recruiting like crazy.
Why would the left cut our energy sources, protest gas, coal and even nuke power while they never protest outside the Chinese embassies while the CCP builds coal plants weekly?
Why would they lower our standards of education as they sell of seats at our “elite” universities to radicals from other countries?
Why would they attack ICE as they try to remove CRIMINALS from our country?
Why would they spend us into debt for moronic left wing causes around the globe and not our military?
Why would they vote to cut off military arms from Israel if not to hurt Israel, the west and of course America?
Why would they sneak billions into Iran?
Why would they support the EU censoring our social media sites?
The left hates America, the west and capitalism.
BINGO!
The left hates freedom because it requires self-reliance, as in personal capacity and self-starting ambition.
And it’s not “capitalism,” a pejorative coined by Karl Marx; it’s freedom, free enterprise, free industries, free markets, and private property.