The Democratic National Committee (DNC) appears to be doubling down on crazy in Minneapolis this week with calls to pack the Supreme Court and other extremist priorities. For voters who have repeatedly shown that they want to move to a more moderate center, you are left like Jack Nicholson in As Good As It Gets when his character, Melvin Udall, who declared, “Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here.”
As many know, I was raised in a politically active, liberal, Democratic family in Chicago and worked much of my life for Democratic candidates and campaigns. This week again reminded many of us how far the party has moved from its more centrist history. That includes another call to pack the Supreme Court with liberals to force or ratify sweeping political and social changes.
The meeting started in a signature fashion.
Lindy Sowmick, treasurer of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party (DFL) spoke to the delegates after DNC Chairman Ken Martin asked her to recite the land acknowledgment. Sowmick asked the delegates to think about her works: “As Democrats, I ask of every one of you to not allow land acknowledgments like these to simply be the checking of a box – be curious, ask questions, ensure our native neighbors are heard and work in partnership with your Indigenous communities.” Sowmick then declared:
“The DNC acknowledges and honors the Dakota Oyate – the Dakota people – who are the original stewards of the lands and waters of Minneapolis. The Dakota cared for the lands, lakes and the Wakpa Tanka – the ‘Great River,’ the Mississippi River – for thousands of years before colonization. This land was not claimed, or traded – it’s a part of a history of broken treaties and promises. And, in many ways, we still live in a system built to suppress Indigenous peoples’ cultural and spiritual history.”
From there, it was a free-for-all, including a fierce fight over a resolution to condemn Israel. Martin strangely forced a divisive debate, where he and others pushed through a resolution that only called for a ceasefire and humanitarian aid, which was denounced by others. After passing the resolution, he then moved to rescind it as an act of unity. It left many wondering what the purpose of the exercise was in forcing a debate and then withdrawing the passed resolution.
Delegates continued to show how out of touch the party has become, including one assuring delegates that the public really does not care about carjackings and migrant crimes despite the polls. Another insisted that today the nation is worse to live in than during the pandemic.
Laurence S. Zakson is a DNC member from California and a partner at Reich Adell & Cvitan in Beverly Hills. He and others called for Congress to act on changing the size of the Supreme Court due to the alleged partisan agenda of the majority and the failure to reach correct decisions. It is the same playbook that Democrats have used in the last two elections to pack the Court with liberals.
Some on the left have even called for the Supreme Court to be “dissolved.” That rhetoric has been matched by Democratic leaders. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer previously declared in front of the Supreme Court, “I want to tell you, [Neil] Gorsuch, I want to tell you, [Brett] Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) stated that she wants to impeach all six of the conservative justices. She was immediately joined by other Democratic members. Previously, she admitted that she does not understand why we even have a Supreme Court. She asked, “How much does the current structure benefit us? And I don’t think it does.”
Other members, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), have called for packing the Court with additional members to immediately secure a liberal majority to rule as she desires. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D., RI) has assured voters that Vice President Kamala Harris will support the packing of the Court with a liberal majority.
Polls show the public understands that such moves are madness. Some of us have discussed the expansion of the Supreme Court for years, but there is a difference between expanding and packing. This is court packing in its rawest and most dangerous form.
It is one last pitch for crazy in an already over-stocked nation.
You should be on the Supreme Court. Seriously.
Instead we got KBJ. What a deal.
WOW. Even the far -left AP gives Prez Trump good numbers.
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After more than six months in office and two weeks after ordering the National Guard into Washington D.C. to aid local police in fighting the Democrat-run city’s epidemic of violent crime, Trump’s job approval rating jumped five points, from 40 percent in July to 45 percent today.
We have needed a true campaign to wipe out violence especially in our large urban areas for five decades, and FINALLY, it is here. It is here.
you can not wipe out crime and violence – you can merely reduce them.
One of the problems that both parties – but especially the left have is expecting to acheive utopia.
The goal is incremental improvement in our lives – perfection does not exist, and efforts to acheive it do more harm than good.
With respect to crime in the cities – or ANY of the problems of the cities – those are local problems and they are the business of the local government.
The governance of cities should be determined and paid for by the cities, That of suburban and rural people by their communities respectively.
While I understand Trump’s desire – and that of much of the country to make our cities safer – that is still the responsibility of the citizens of those cities and the government they have elected.
If you do not like how your community is governed – vote to change that government – or move.
That is true whether you are urban or rural.
I personally do not see the value add in cities versus their problems – but that is MY choice.
I also do not understand why voters in cities continue to elect people who quite clearly do not deal with the problems they were elected to improve.
The Mayor of Chicago should have asked the governor for the national guard long ago.
While there are specific circumstances in which the president should and may step in – endemic issues – particularly ones that are the result of the choices of the people in a city are NOT justification for federal action.
I would further note that on many many many issues – both sides have serious problems.
Bail does need to be acheivable for the bottom third of the country – that is a constitutional right.
At the same time people accused of violent crimes should not be released onto the streets with no strings.
Further we have the means to address many of these things. While some of these measures could be improved significantly – house arrest, ankle bracelets and myriads of other means to dealing with people who are accused or even convicted of crimes can reduce the cost of our justice system AND acheive improved outcomes.
The left likes to champion things like “restorative justice” – while the right pisses over anything that is not long sentences at hard labor for trivial offenses.
Both are wrong. “restorative justice” – is not a panacea, it is expensive, it is not a substitute for law enforcement or punishment. But it does effectively reduce the odds of reoffending.
But odds reduction is not the same as a guarantee.
Further our entire justice system has a problem in that the most dangerous offenders – sociopaths are so good at social engineering that they virtually always are the prime beneficiaries of rehabilitation and early release programs while at the same time being the highest risk of reoffending and the most dangerous.
Most sociopaths never commit a crime. We can not lock people up just because they are sociopaths. Many here left and right constantly accuse people of being sociopaths as if that is the same as accusing them of being a crimninal. Many of the most successful people in our nation – our political leaders, police, teachers, ministers and businessmen are sociopaths – and that greatly benefits us. The meme from Wallstreet that “greed is good” is actually true – so long as government does its job and prevents those seeking their own self interests from using force or fraud to acheive them. Sociopathy is the ultimate in self interest – and quite often the people who do the most for society are sociopaths.
But it is also true that 1/3 of all criminals are sociopaths – far higher than the norm in society.
One of the problems with sociopaths is that they break taboos – sometimes that is good, sometimes that is very bad, regardless once they have broken a taboo they will NEVER respect that taboo again. There is absolutely no evidence EVER of successfully rehabilitating a sociopath.
And they are the ones who tend to benefit most by all the otherwise successful programs to improve outcomes in our justice system
I would remind those – left and right – the most important purpose of the justice system is to reduce future crime. We punish people as a deterent – to themselves and to others. When we have a better way that accomplishes our purposes – we should use it.
The left is correct that we have alot of problems with our criminal justice system that demand reform. The right is correct about the unconscionable abuse of power that Trump was subject to.
As well as catholics, pro-lifers, parents, and people who just disagreed with the left.
But the right is NOT correct that abuse though politically motivated was uniquely targeted at Trump or the right. The lawfare of the past several years not only exposed the political corruption and abuse of power of the left – but it also expose the general corruption and abuse of power in our legal system. The real damning thing about the democrat lawfare – is that myriads of people are treated as badly by our justice system.
The right is also correct – that most of the solutions the left foists on us – either do not work – or are not magical cures that you can just throw money at.
You can not just eliminate bail – some people must wait for trial in jail, and others must be subject to some kind of constraints to assure they do not offend while awaiting trial.
All too often the left takes a good idea – that when applied case by case carefully is beneficial
and converts it into a one size fits all solution that they throw money at and never bother to impose performance and success metrics and constraints on.
All but the most altruistic will take the money and accomplish nothing – even for a solution that works – if you do not demand performance.
One of the big problems we have with govenrment today is we equate spending money to solving problems.
“Sociopathy is the ultimate in self interest – and quite often the people who do the most for society are sociopaths. ”
I would summarize your analysis (with which I do not much disagree) as “Society may be classified into two exclusive groups: sociopaths and lemmings. Sociopaths can be further classified into two main groups: beneficial and harmful (criminal). Lemmings are just lemmings.”
*. Can’t refute this point fir point , John Say, but yes, crime can be deleted. Internalizing rational moral laws is one approach and deterrents is the other. Deterrents are the 2x4s.
Some people can’t leave. Those are the poor, ill, and handicapped and their care takers. They welcome the interest of DJT. They welcome the NG.
*. Correction ^^^ fir–> for
“Sell crazy someplace else. We’re all stocked up here.”
– Melvin Udall
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It’s not “crazy,” it’s unconstitutional communism.
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“MEN DO WHAT THEIR POWERS FORBID”
Ah, judges.
The ethos of adjudication is impartiality, with fidelity and honesty being presumed.
The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
The judicial branch has high criminally usurped and exercised the powers of the legislative and executive branches.
America is in large degree communistic because of the witting partiality, bias, and corruption of the judicial branch, which has acted not in support but to the detriment of the “manifest tenor” of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
From its failure to find secession not prohibited and fully constitutional (reprehensible slavery must have been allowed to “wither on the vine” or legally abrogated), through its grand imposition of redistribution of wealth in the forms of wholly unconstitutional Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Great Society, to its transformation of private property into public property at the behest of one Karl Marx, the judicial branch has failed America and the purpose of its Constitution, egregiously and in the main.
No constitutional article, section, or clause can be cited to allow the individual, specific, and particular welfare that constitutes Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Great Society, which constitute irrefutably unconstitutional communistic redistribution of wealth.
No constitutional article, section, or clause can be cited to deny the absolute and indefeasible quintessence of private property.
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“[Private property is] that dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in exclusion of every other individual.”
– James Madison
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“The theory of Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.”
– Karl Marx, The Communist Manifesto
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“…courts…must…declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void.”
“…men…do…what their powers do not authorize, [and] what [their powers] forbid.”
“[A] limited Constitution … can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing … To deny this would be to affirm … that men acting by virtue of powers may do not only what their powers do not authorize, but what they forbid.”
– Alexander Hamilton
Well, here’s the figures. SCOTUS has had NINE justices (longer than any other period in its history), from 1869 to the present. That’s what, roughly some 155 years?
During that time, it has heard some 25,000 cases but reversed itself only anywhere from 145 to 300 times, depending on your definition of reversed, overruled, or replaced (sometimes it was because Congress had changed the law, etc.) . Either way, that’s a pretty solid record, WHETHER CONTROLLED BY A CONSERVATIVE OR LIBERAL MAJORITY.
So Democrats are just crybabying about nothing. I even heard Peter Strzok mutter, “there’s no there there” as he left the SCOTUS courtroom.
Rabble: Only cries when the results don’t benefit them
“it has heard some 25,000 cases but reversed itself only anywhere from 145 to 300 times,”
I personally think that there should have been a number of additional reversals, but not enough to render your analysis incorrect. The biggest problem of our society wrt SCOTUS is unrealistic expectations. Members of both Left and Right (including those who absolutely have been educated to know better) are apt to complain bitterly when the decisions of the Court are not delivering Justice, as they see it. That ignores the plain, unalterable fact that delivery of Justice is not the role of the Court. Its sole job is to determine whether decisions by lower Courts comply with the law as written and intended, and whether the law as written and intended complies with its ultimate source of authority, the Constitution. All that other stuff is just deep, sloppy piles of h0r$3$h1t.
The corrupt and partial justices of the Supreme Court, 1869, brilliantly found that, because secession is not prohibited, secession is prohibited.
They also found that, since the 10th Amendment reserves powers that are neither delegated to the U.S. nor prohibited to the states to the states, the states shall not avail themselves of and enjoy secession.
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“That dudn’t make any sense.”
– George W. Bush
Professor Turley, In many ways it’s the same Democrat Party that you and your family supported for a long time: Still embracing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Education, Environmental Protection, and Civil Rights. – Concerned Citizen
“Professor Turley, In many ways it’s the same Democrat Party that you and your family supported for a long time: Still embracing Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Education, Environmental Protection, and Civil Rights. – Concerned Citizen”
Hardly. You’re now the party of illegal immigration, Hamas, and transgender insanity. If you don’t realize this fact, that’s on you.
ATS – it most definitely is NOT.
If you expect Social Security and Medicare to be there in 10 or 20 years – we should have acted two decades ago. We MUST act now. We MUST make them fiscally sound.
People live longer today – SS and Medicare must reflect that. That means increasing the eligability age – no one likes that – but it does not matter – the programs were not and can not be designed to work with people on SS and Medicare for 1/3 of their lives instead of 10%.
We have also learned the obvious since the 60’s – Keynes was wrong, Friedman was right, Hayek was right, Mises was right – incentives matter – there is a limit to how much ou can tax investment – or you do not get investment. That means corporate taxes must be low or non-existant. the same with upper margin taxes, and capital gains taxes. Put simply – you can not get the money you want by taxing the rich without reducing growth which hurts everyone – especially those at the bottom.
If you value SS medicare – you must operate them in a sustainable fashion.
You can not hand benefits ou like candy and expect that the money to pay for them will come by magic.
While SS and Medicare were from the get go bad ideas – and they remain so. The democrats conception of SS and Medicate a generation ago – was atleast not fiscal loonacy.
Democrats were not deliberately trying to bankrupt federal programs by opening them up to the entire world.
Turley’s democratic party was FOR free speech – the radical LEft in the 60’s was Mario Salva and the Berkeley free speech movement – not the micro agressions hurt feelings left of today.
It is generally correct that democrats favor “environmental protection” more than conservatives.
A lifetime of experience has taught anyone with a brain the greatest threat to the environment is Government. All the EPA superfund sites – GOVERNMENT – the leading cause of air and water polution – government.
Regardless the early – DEMOCRATIC environmentalists and conservationists sought to preserve the environment FOR MAN. Those on the left today seek to eliminate man from the envirnment entirely.
People like Thoreaux, emerson Roosevelt, and many many others would find todays left wing nuts to be bat$hit crazy. Man is a steward for the environment – NOT a virus preying on it.
Martin Luther King dreamed of the day man would be judged by the content of his character not the color of his skin. The modern democrats explicitly seek to judge people by their immutable attributes and.or Bad choices rather than their character or what they have contributed to the world.
No this is NOT your father democratic party.
“Keynes was wrong, Friedman was right, Hayek was right, Mises was right”
If this is true (and it is) the conclusion must be that there is no justification for “saving” Social Security, Medicare, or any other Federal program that embodies socialism. Some way must be found to bring those programs to as graceful an end as possible, without suddenly and totally disenfranchising those who have contributed in the past, and are collecting now. A tall order, but the only thing that makes any real sense. How can someone who has termed himself a libertarian seriously advocate kicking those foul cans down the road yet another time?
John Say, what does ATS mean?
There is a substantial culture in place which has brought prosperity and status to those who colour inside its lines. A big chunk of this organism is resident in the Democratic Party. This is a prime vehicle federal funding for what ever you got in whatever way possible. It’s a profitable business racket – milking the “ism”s territory. Beating the drums pays good.
If the money taps dry up the operators, the influencers will flip to any other issue or matter.
A judge is a judge in a judge’s courtroom. When a judge allows personal feelings to take over and goes somewhere else in a building to aid someone to evade or escape law enforcement: not judicial conduct.
This is what dem-o-rats do….
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The NY city released the illegal Dominican Republic migrant even though he raped a child under the age of 11. It’s a heinous crime, and still, they let him walk.
Never vote for a lib/dem
DEar Prof Turley,
I’m profoundly sorry to hear you were “raised in a politically active, liberal, Democratic family in Chicago and worked much of my life for Democratic candidates and campaigns.” .. but it figures.
I’m sorry you are ‘political’ at all. It doesn’t matter how you vote, if only Democrats and Republicans can win.. . pick a card, any card.
War, after all, is politics by other means.
There are no blue Judges, there are no red Judges .. . there are only United States Judges.
*you have no idea what your work means to me .. .
DG
There are no blue Judges, there are no red Judges .. . there are only United States Judges.
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Are you kidding me? The last few months LIB judges have done everything they can to stop Prez Trump.
Wake up
‘LIB’ judges don’t know their a hole from a hole in the ground, Dusty.
Again, the LIBs have tried every trick in the book, both fair and unfair, legal and illegal, to impeach, and otherwise impugn, the character of that paper hanging, gold-plated, self-absorbed Jabba the Hut in the Oval office .. . without much success.
The thing itself speaks.
Wake Up.
@dgsnowden
Yep. Though they may have appeared to take the proper stance over the years when it was politically convenient, the dems and their forebears have always represented the absolute worst of human impulses. If JFK were running today, he would not be running as a modern democrat, that’s for sure. That he is the faithfuls’ go to tells you how out of touch they are.
Newflash: 1960 was 65 years ago, and a great deal has changed since then. Get on board or dissolve.
A lib judge is a BLUE judge. You wake up, they don’t follow the rule of law.
I want to see this movie now.
Memo to Professor Turley: why do you remain a registered Democrat. Join the political epiphany initiated by Ronald Reagan: dump the Perfidy Party.
Why? Because he hasn’t permanently given up on the Party of his Chicago roots. I was raised in a Walter Reuther UAW Democrat Detroit family and union wages paid for my private high school, and secondary education. Hard to give up hope, even if you registered to vote in the GOP in despair. Maybe someday sanity will return to our politics.
Professor Turley, I believe lives in Virginia, the Commonwealth has no registration by party.
*. I’ve decided we’re in some kind of time warp. It’s maybe 100 years in the past? 150? Commonwealth hasn’t been used as language for at least 75 years. All kinds of things and language not heard of.
FYI. Bizarre
Jeanine Pirro fails to indict the Subway sandwich bandit.
She fails to indict a ham sandwich.
Jeanine just got a message from Door Dash:
“We’re sorry we were unable to complete your order, ma’am. The store has plenty of the boxed wine you ordered, but they are totally out of sandwich indictments”
If the bandit had ordered the combo, with chips and drink, she may have been able to get a triple indictment
It’s obviously open sandwich season in DC now
So you’re saying there won’t be a 10-day waiting period on my next sub sandwich?
That’s right
Anyone can open carry a sub sandwich now
😂😂😂
That this is in reference to something real kind of speaks for itself. These people are children. Violent and deceitful children. As with actual four year-olds, they don’t consciously realize they are full of sh**, that is beyond their capacity. Others that know better have to intervene.
James
When you refer to “these people who are children”, I presume you mean Jeanine and her motley band of loser prosecutors.
They childishly think that flinging a sub sandwich constitutes felony assault.
Thankfully, the adults on the Grand Jury staged the intervention that was required, as you so rightly suggested.
Aww Gigi, when you get around to being less of a spastic loser, maybe people in your real life will start paying attention to you again. Toodles!
“So you’re saying there won’t be a 10-day waiting period on my next sub sandwich?”
No, there will not. But there will be an 10 oz limit on the amount of lunch meat it can hold…
Aww, do you have the sadz again Gigi? Maybe try being less of a spastic loser.
But he’s still fired, right? Good enough.
Poor Gigi, too stupid to understand that grand juries aren’t the only path to obtaining an indictment.
Every single time you think the Democrats have finally hit bottom, they take out the shovels and start digging…
Sadly, the Democrat leadership no longer believes in our system of government.
@Anonymous
They don’t. And they will dismantle it at the first opportunity, lying through their teeth to get into that position. Anyone still buying this crap needs to have their head examined. This is no longer about right/left, red/blue: these people are generationally privileged to the skies (so much so they no longer even realize it), and they are insane. They are also a minority. Let us continue to reject them whole hog. They are not strong in any sense of the word, and it won’t be that hard if we continue to have solidarity. The rest of the world will notice.
Tom: was it a DEMOCRAT President who said: “I can do whatever I want”? That statement was made yesterday. Has a DEMOCRAT President ever required the sickening syncophantic recitation of flattery based on lies that were broadcast yesterday at the “cabinet” meeting? Was it a DEMOCRAT President who is trying to deny citizenship to babies born in the US, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment? Was it a DEMOCRAT President who called for an insurrection when he lost a free and fair election? Did a DEMOCRAT President try to fire the head of the Federal Reserve, or hire someone like Pulte to try to look for mortgage fraud so as to try to fire a member of the Fed Board, a power the POTUS does not have? Has a DEMOCRAT President ever made up lies about crime being out of control in cities in blue states only, when it has been consistently going down, and send in the National Guard, while ignoring higher crime rates in cities in red states like Louisiana, Tennessee, Wisconsin and others–all to try to intimidate people? Has a DEMOCRAT President ever been convicted of 34 felonies, gone on unhinged rants and rampages, insulting judges, prosecutors, Senators, members of Congress, television hosts and tried to intimidate mainstream media outlets that broadcast the unflattering truth about him by threatening to pull their FCC licenses?
Do you even understand what “our system of government” is and why we don’t have a king–something Trump doesn’t understand?
Yeah, King Trump. You are truly delusional.
Says Queen George / Svelaz / Wally / Gigi
Work it girlfriend
“was it a DEMOCRAT President who said: “I can do whatever I want”?”
Yes, not that it matters much.
We expect president to do what they promised – Trump has done that.
I can not name a single other president that actually has.
” That statement was made yesterday.”
So and similar statements are made all the time by those in power.
Regardless, what people say is somewhat important – what they do is FAR MORE important.
What has Trump done that is unconstitutional ?
I have heard you RANT constantly that Trump’s actions were not constitutional or lawful.
And often you can shop arround and get a left wing nut judge to agree.
But Ultimately the US supreme court – frequently by a 9-0 majority has said Trump’s actions are lawful and constitutional – which was OBVIOUS to most of us from the start.
In Many instances what YOU claim that Trump did that was illegal or unconstitutional – Biden, and Obama and CLinton and …. did before him.
What is the difference ? You Liked what Obama or Biden did and you do not like what Trump does.
No president can act unconstitutionally.
No president can act unlawfully.
But any president can do lawful and constitutional things that you like or do not like.
When the issue is personal preference – the resolution is at the ballot box.
” Has a DEMOCRAT President ever required the sickening syncophantic recitation of flattery based on lies that were broadcast yesterday at the “cabinet” meeting?”
Yup – pretty much all presidents do that.
Trump is tame compared to say – Johnson.
Regardless – What do you think the purpose of a cabinet meeting is ?
Article II of the constitution – “The executive power of the United States is vested in the president”.
When congress grants the executive branch power – that power is the PRESIDENTS power.
The purpose of the cabinet, the purpose of cabinet meetings is for the president to inform those in the cabinet what he expects done, and for those in the cabinet to tell the president how they have done what he expects.
“Was it a DEMOCRAT President who is trying to deny citizenship to babies born in the US, which is guaranteed by the 14th Amendment?”
Trough the 19th century I am sure I can find atleast one democrat who sought to do that.
Trump is wrong about this both as a matter of constitutionality and as a matter of what is actually best for the country.
That does NOT however mean that his position is evil.
Citizenship is an unearned right. Vested on most of us by virtue of where we were born.
US Citizenship is incredibly valuable, and completely unearned.
Select any two people in the world and there is no moral or ethical or otherwise compelling reason one has been gifted US citizenship and the other not.
The consequences of this will be life altering.
It is not Fair.
And it is a beautiful example of the FACT that life is not fair.
Get over it.
BTW the 14th amendment does NOT grant citizenship to EVERYONE born in the US.
The children of foreign diplomats, embasy staff, military are NOT US citizens jus because they are born in the US.
I do not think you can read the 14th amendment to exclude the children of illegal immigrants.
But that does not mean that those who argue otherwise are evil.
“Was it a DEMOCRAT President who called for an insurrection when he lost a free and fair election?”
Yes – ABSOLUTELY – It was President Obama who beyond any doubt now organized a coup against a freely and fairly elected president from inside the government.
“Did a DEMOCRAT President try to fire the head of the Federal Reserve”
Do I care ? The Federal reserve is unconstitutional, and the president can Fire anyone in the executive branch. One of the reasons that the federal reserve is unconstitutional is because it both is and is not part of the govenrment, it both is an is not part of the executive branch.
Nowhere in the constitution is anything that is not wholly a part of government and wholly a part of ONE branch of government allowed.
“hire someone like Pulte”
The president can hire whoever he pleases.
“to try to look for mortgage fraud so as to try to fire a member of the Fed Board”
The entire democratic congress conducted investigations in to all kinds of lunacy for the purpose of impeaching Trump.
Pretty much the entire democratic party is complicity in starting investigations of Trump to prevent him from being re-elected.
The constitutional requirements for a criminal investigation are reasonable suspicion.
That did NOT exist in the entire collusion delusion nonsense.
But it is self evident in a number of the current fraudulent mortgage investigations.
Regardless, what is good for the goose is good for the gander.
The difference between Trump’s actions and those of democrats – is that there is more than sufficient constitutional basis for the investigations Trump has started
YOU gave Trump the basis for these investigations.
YOUR words and conduct.
“a power the POTUS does not have?”
Of course the president does ALL the executive power of the united states is vested in the president.
“Has a DEMOCRAT President ever made up lies about crime being out of control in cities in blue states only”
Has a democratic president made that particular claim ? Probably. Pretty sure that Senator Biden railed about the out of control crime in big cities in blue states before passing legislation to send them Tanks and massive amounts of money that was wasted to not fight crime.
“when it has been consistently going down”
Not according to the National Crime Victims Survey.
“and send in the National Guard”
Personally, crime is NOT the legitimate business of the federal government.
But SCOTUS has gotten that wrong. And we are obligated to stick with that until we can change it.
Given that SCOTUS has found crime among the powers of the federal govenrment – then the president can send the national guard to fight crime.
Just as past presidents have sent them to put down riots, and Trump sent them to restore order on J6 after the CP instigated a riot by teargassing peaceful protestors – somewhat like Kent State a generation ago.
Or sent the NG to protect the civil rights of black students.
Do the citizens of these high crime cities not have civil rights that should be protected ?
“while ignoring higher crime rates in cities in red states like Louisiana, Tennessee, Wisconsin and others”
These are STATES – the Crime problem is in CITIES.
“all to try to intimidate people?”
Yes, he is trying to intimidate criminals – and so far it appears to be working in DC.
“Has a DEMOCRAT President ever been convicted of 34 felonies,”
Clearly several should have been.
Clearly Trump should not have.
Is there a reason you keep trying to argue a point that just PROVES your own abuse of power and moral corruption ?
“gone on unhinged rants and rampages, insulting judges, prosecutors, Senators, members of Congress, television hosts and tried to intimidate mainstream media outlets that broadcast the unflattering truth about him by threatening to pull their FCC licenses?”
Yes, absolutely – if you do not think presidents have done that – frequently in the past – you are clueless.
Adams did it, Jefferson did it, Wilson did it. Boy did Johnson do it.
Probably every other president did it – but we KNOW those – and several others did.
“Do you even understand what “our system of government” is and why we don’t have a king–something Trump doesn’t understand?”
Do YOU understand our system of govenrment – obviously not. You have repeatedly made claims that SCOTUS has rejected – many 9-0. That alone shows how little you understand this government.
In your Rant above you list a bunch of things that purportedly no democrat president has done – yet, we KNOW they have done them since the founding.
The Alien Enemies act that Trump seeks to use to deport criminals was passed during John Adams’ presidency.
Trump is not a king – he is not close to a King. ALMOST everything that he is doing that pisses you off is REDUCING the power of Government. He is laying off and firing govenment employees.
That INCREASES individual liberty and DECREASES govenrment power.
Tyrants GROW Government. They do not fight tooth and nail to shrink it.
Kings do not investigate the crimes of their enemies. They do not fire them. The execute them.
You tried to send an unlawfully appointed rabid dog after Trump over classified documents – when the constitution and the law and Democrat jusdges had previously found – and pretty mcuh everyone in the past agreed – the President can do whatever the F he wishes with Classified documents.
The one person who can legally do whatever they please with classified documents – the president you went after like a mad dog.
But a Senator and Vice president who deliberately misshandled classified documents – you pretended that was OK
A secretary of state who was intentionally and unintentionally leaking classified documents all over including to hostile foreign powers – that you pretended was OK.
And FBI Director who stole classified documents and leaked them to the press – he is your hero.
have all had to deal with the Jack Smith democrat nonsense.
Trump has carte blanche to go after anyone he wishes over their handling of classified documents.
Goose meet gander.
Our modern left just need to fracture or die. They offer nothing whatsoever to our society, and it is perfectly crystal clear they will settle for nothing less than absolute, permanent control by any means necessary. Really: we all think they are stupid and we are all just done. This is a Constitutional Republic, and they can take their communist boosheet somewhere else. Enough, and the quadrupling down on their part only continues to elucidate their madness for all to see. This is no longer a ‘party’, and it sure as hell isn’t an American one. They are not nearly as influential as they imagine themselves to be in their tiny, crazed, minds, and it’s time for it to stop.
Remember folks: the majority of us, even if we aren’t a pure democracy, are not on their side. That their mechanisms for deceit and chicanery to appear otherwise are dismantled more and more each day is something to celebrate. Good riddance. May the DNC rest in peace. May something far better replace them. Heaven forbid we actually have two sets of competing GOOD ideas to choose from. Soros, the Clintons, and Obama were like a self fulfilling prophecy for these fools. Free society had already historically rejected what they represent, and we will continue to do so, into time immemorial.
‘Party of the people’, my ass. They wouldn’t know human nature if it smacked them upside the head, the know only their privilege. Really. That’s all they know, just like the monarchy of old.
Trump has a 37% approval rating. You MAGAS do not speak for “we” or “us”–there’s no “us vs. them”, except in MAGAland, where you Trump fans are in the distinct minority. One of the reasons MAGA media preaches against mainstream media is that this is part of the indoctrination. Trump is a dangerous malignant narcissist who is trying to disrupt all of the pillars of our government that we have always relied on.
@Anonymous
Keep telling yourself that. I hope your cave is well-stocked, just as it was for Y2K or Hale-Bopp. Your brain, I have less hope for that. Maybe Trump will bring back mental institutions, too. The rest of us will heave a sigh of relief.
It looks good.
Mother said, it’s important to try new things.
Trump is in the process of trying to help Putin bring back the USSR, and to see just how much he can get away with. He paused arms shipments and withdrew tactical support for Ukraine, he supports rewarding Putin for territory it invaded by telling Zelenskyy that he’ll have to let Russia keep territory it stole, and said that Ukraine must agree not to join NATO. Since he took office Russia has ramped up attacks against Ukraine, all for the sake of leverage. And, what has the “master dealmaker” received in return from Putin? Nothing. This is from the one who praised Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as “genius” and who bragged that he would end the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine in 24 hours. This is one who told Zelenskyy, in a very public meeting, that he “had no cards to play”. WHY would an American President side with a murderous dictator over the president of a democratic country that was invaded?
Trump is, like Hitler, attempting to take over our public and private sectors, trying to enlarge Republican control of Congress by gerrymandering new districts from red states only and shredding the First Amendment to try to silence his critics. He is threatening to take the FCC broadcast licenses of mainstream media. As to universities, he is withdrawing federal funds unless anti-Israel protesters are shut down–under the guise of stopping antisemitism, and also claiming that they engage in “DEI” if they seek a diverse student population–he wants foreign students kicked out. For law firms, his administration is suing, claiming racial discrimination against whites if they hire minorities–claiming it is “DEI”. As to Israel, which is engaging in deliberate genocide by trying to bomb Gaza into the Stone Age and then starving to death those who survive, including refusing to allow in aid from outside sources. Since when is it OK with America for a country do to these things? I guess since Trump received hundreds of millions in campaign contributions from those who want him to unquestioningly support whatever Israel does, even blatant human rights violations. Trump refuses to speak out against these atrocities, and even has proposed allowing him to re-develop Gaza into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” That is, of course, after all of the Palestinian people are either killed outright, starved to death or driven from their homeland with the complicity of the American government. Just yesterday, a hospital was bombed–when the rescue workers went in to assist the injured, Israel bombed it a second time, killing even more people. Also, journalists are routinely killed in Israel, that doesn’t want anyone to bear witness to what it is doing. Trump is doing everything possible to silence criticism of Israel.
Then, there’s the Epstein Scandal that will NOT go away. According to Musk, Trump is in the file, and it’s obvious to everyone that he’s hiding his involvement. The dribble of documents that have been released are already in the public domain. Instead of voicing any empathy for the child victims of Epstein and Maxwell, Trump has sided with Maxwell, got his personal attorney, while the payroll of the American people for the job of supposedly bringing lawbreakers to justice, to cut a deal with Maxwell to say favorable things about Trump–in exchange for an immediate transfer to a cushy federal prison and a likely commutation or pardon. Trump has only expressed sympathy for Maxwell because “her boyfriend died”. It is KNOWN that Trump took several flights on Epstein’s private plane. We don’t know the rest, but if it wasn’t bad, he wouldn’t work so hard to hide it. As to Maxwell, she is an indicted liar.
Then, there are the tariffs–paid for by the American people. The cost of goods is already going up, and they haven’t all kicked in yet. Trump brags about how much money the tariffs have brought in–but that’s OUR money. How about the arrests and deportations of brown-skinned people, the overwhelming majority of whom have NO criminal history, and who are being rounded up and incarcerated without hearings? Most Americans oppose this. What’s going to happen at harvest time when we don’t have enough people to harvest our crops? People from south of the border are afraid to go to work.
And you wonder why the majority of Americans disapprove of Trump?
Reply to: “Trump is like Hitler” above
It was good to hear from you again Christopher Steele. How’ve you been? Haven’t heard from Milley either since he implied the legislature should be dissolved after Jan 6 – as the Nazi’s acted after they burnt the Reichstag on 27 February 1933 and it’s sounding like he was a constant leak to China when Xi was playing the entire Executive branch through puppet strings.
“Trump has a 37% approval rating. You MAGAS do not speak for “we” or “us”–there’s no “us vs. them”, except in MAGAland, where you Trump fans are in the distinct minority. One of the reasons MAGA media preaches against mainstream media is that this is part of the indoctrination. Trump is a dangerous malignant narcissist who is trying to disrupt all of the pillars of our government that we have always relied on.”
Care to try again, maybe this time with a poll that accurately predicted the last election?
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/trump_administration_second_term/prez_track_aug27
“The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows that 49% of Likely U.S. Voters approve of President Trump’s job performance. Fifty percent (50%) disapprove.”
Whoops. There went your perfectly good unhinged rant out the window.
Rasmussen polls MAGA subjects—it has NO credibility as a polling organization. Trump did not receive even HALF of the votes cast in 2024–49.8% of all votes cast–yet one of the brown nose syncophants yesterday at the pathetic “cabinet meeting” claimed he had a “mandate” from the American people. According to Gallup:
“WASHINGTON, D.C. — Six months into his second term, President Donald Trump’s job approval rating has dipped to 37%, the lowest of this term and just slightly higher than his all-time worst rating of 34% at the end of his first term. Trump’s rating has fallen 10 percentage points among U.S. adults since he began his second term in January, including a 17-point decline among independents, to 29%, matching his lowest rating with that group in either of his terms.”
Trump is in office because enough people believed the LIE about immediately bringing a precipitous drop in the cost of groceries–even he admits this. According to “Baller Alert”:
“In a post-election interview with NBC’s ‘Meet The Press,’ President-elect Donald Trump shared his opinion on why he scored victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. According to Trump, two pivotal issues are to credit for his success: border control and the rising cost of groceries.
“I won on the border, and I won on groceries,” Trump said. Highlighting the struggles everyday individuals feel, Trump referred to the rising grocery prices as the main focus of his campaign.
“Very simple word, groceries,” Trump continued. “When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time, and I won an election based on that.”
During the conversation, Trump reiterated his commitment to lowering grocery prices “starting day one.” On his campaign trail, Trump consistently spoke on the increasing cost of groceries under the Biden-Harris administration. As a result, Trump has decided to impose hefty tariff taxes on imports to combat the issue.”
Trump lied about migrants being “rapists, animals, vermin, murderers” and claimed that in Ohio, Haitian migrants were eating people’s pet dogs and cats.
“Rasmussen polls MAGA subjects—it has NO credibility as a polling organization. ”
Care to try again? Rasmussen was one of the most accurate pollsters for the 2024 election. You remember the 2024 election, when the American people reelected Donald Trump was president.
The rest of your screed is just hysterical, by the way. Keep it up, and you’ll do us all a favor and stroke out.
Most polls were within the margin of error. There was NO “mandate “—Trump barely squeaked by and did not get even half of the votes cast. He wouldn’t have gotten enough to win if he hadn’t lied. Rasmussen has no credibility as a polling organization and now, neither does Trump.
“Rasmussen polls MAGA subjects.” gigi clown, you come back here everyday because you know that Turley will let you spew your bile and lie yourself into a corner, as usual.
https://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/about_us/methodology
“Rasmussen polls MAGA subjects”
No they conduct random polling, and they are the only pollster that does so daily.
They have NEVER been off by more than two points on an election – and they usually are much closer than that.
Their numbers “appear” to lean slightly to the right – because nearly all other polsters are actually skewed slightly left.
“it has NO credibility as a polling organization”
Credibility is based on accuracy.
No one who has been in the business more than a decade is more accurae.
“Trump did not receive even HALF of the votes cast in 2024–49.8% of all votes cast”
Correct he is approximately 0.2% shy of half.
And several million votes MORE than Harris.
“yet one of the brown nose syncophants yesterday at the pathetic “cabinet meeting” claimed he had a “mandate” from the American people.”
Which he does – Trump’s Agenda 74 is MORE popular than he is. Most items on Agenda 47 have 70-80% support. That is called a mandate.
Currently Trump’s opposition – democrats are polling in the mid 20’s – that is HALF of Trump.
Generally 2:1 is considered crushing it. A MANDATE.
Regardless, the left has fundimentally altered the country on numerous occasions with far less support than Trump has.
President Biden barely reached 50% approval when he was inaugurated. He NEVER reached it again. Trump is running 5-10pts higher than Biden.
Trump’s polling is better than your god Obama;s was.
“Trump is in office because”
he won the election against the most vile opostion that any candidate has ever faced.
Yes, Trump won on the border and groceries – and grocery prices are down and the border is more secure than it has ever been
““Very simple word, groceries,” Trump continued. “When you buy apples, when you buy bacon, when you buy eggs, they would double and triple the price over a short period of time, and I won an election based on that.””
All of which was TRUE.
“Trump lied about migrants being “rapists, animals, vermin, murderers” and claimed that in Ohio, Haitian migrants were eating people’s pet dogs and cats.”
All arent, some are. When you lose control of the border – bad people come through.
I doubt you are paying attention – but Trump offered a reward for Venezuelan president Maduro because he was actively infiltrating the US with drugs and criminals – in 2019.
In 2021 – President Biden DOUBLED that reward to 50M.
The conduct of Maduro is MUCH WORSE than that of Panamanian president Noreiga – who Bush invaded, captured and then tried in the US.
Yes, the US has enemies that used the lax border to send criminals and drugs to our country.
Trump had the CIA and other intelligence services investigating in his first term.
Biden continued that QUIETLY.
While I do not expect a redux of operation just cause in the near future – both democrat and republican presidence have gathered the evidence to PROVE that foreign leaders exploited our weak border to send criminals in.
ATS – the crime rate in US cities is too high. If every claim you make was true – and none of them are – the NCVS shows crime RISING slowly not falling, crime would STILL be too high.
People are murdered, robbed assaulted, raped, …. everyday.
LESS of that is ALWAYS better.
To the extent there is ANY debate on fighting crime – the debate is ENTIRELY about how much are we willing to pay, and how much can we do while protecting individual rights.
But you have not addressed EITHER of those.
Your argument appears to be – Trump can not fight crime because “orange man bad”.
Or because a few dubious statitistics that even the people in these cities do not trust say crime might be dropping.
Why THAT is an actual lie. It still does not matter. Fighting crime is a legitimate govenrment function. And in DC the federal govenrment is inarguably responsible.
And that means the president.
Gigi, I’ve just looked at months of polls on RCP, which aggregates them. I don’t even see a 37 on there at all. Majority of Trump’s ratings are in the upper 40s, not even close to 37. Either cite your source or keep your lies living in your head.
James,
As the good professor points out, centrist Democrats need to either take their party back from the far-lefitsts, or form their own new party and leave the DNC behind to die. At this point, I think the latter is the only real, viable option. Based off the NYT data, if they do not, it might be a decade before they might regain some degree of being electable again.
@Upstate
I don’t think that there are any true centrists remaining there. They have gone all in, and there probably isn’t any coming back. Even the ‘centrists’ have bought into so much false boosheet it’ll take years of master level classes for them to even catch up to modern times. I really think it’s over for them, and heaven help them scrambling to find where they even stand in 2025. We are talking about people that have literally not paid attention to anything whatsoever for at least 30 years – this will not be fun for them, but it will be necessary. The first and seemingly impossible step is to get them to admit they were wrong. So, they can remain obstinate and wilt, or they can temporarily look the fool and then move forward. It remains to be seen how that will play out. 🤷🏻♂️
James,
Well, we have people like Elon Musk, Bill Maher, the good professor and my own sister all of whom I would call moderate or traditional or centrist Democrats. My sister is a member of her local Democrat party chapter. Of the hundred or so of them, they do not want any part of the stupid and crazy of the far-left wing Democrats. She has had a few of the far-leftists tell her, her thinking was, “wrong,” and she needed to get on board with the progressives. She was shocked and surprised by that. Before that, she thought it was just right wing talking points. Then she began to really look around and saw it was all real. She felt so strongly about it, she wrote the DNC and the Biden campaign if they did not change, she would dump them and vote third party.
The recent NYT article highlighting Democrats loss of voters and Republican gaining, people moving from failed Blue states to Red states could change the electoral map significantly in favor of the Republics does not bode well for the current Democrat party.
I think there still may be hope.
The crazies are multiplying by the day as Hollywood and social media makes being a socialist/communist look cool. Kids today have no concept of what life was under Soviet rule and why so many people defected. I have a friend whose family risked their lives to defect from behind the Iron Curtain. She is sick over the support her grandchildren and their generation give to socialism and how enamored they are of the politicos who support these extremist positions they are. Terribly frightening because social media just keeps pushing the same content that supports those beliefs to them through the algorithms. America will not survive as a free country, I fear.
Mary, people like your friend are essential to educating the younger generation about the horrors of communism from first hand experience. I hope she and many more like her take up that cause.
“…(DNC) appears to be doubling down on crazy…
~+~
“Loco” Motive
Kinda like the locomotive that steam rolled the Republicans in the Iowa special election yesterday
“Kinda like the locomotive that steam rolled the Republicans in the Iowa special election yesterday”
Still pushing this crap, Gigi? Care to explain how a couple of meaningless off-cycle local elections are now indicative of anything at all other than themselves? Oh that’s right, you can’t, because it doesn’t matter other than in your fetid head.
“locomotive”
Hahahaha, if you were spinning any harder you’d affect the Earth’s rotation.
My favorite quote from this movie is this: “Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of a man, and I take away reason and accountability.”
In context to this post, it by JT, it very easily reads as: “Receptionist: How do you write Democrats so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of a Republican, and I take away reason and accountability.”
Perfect olly
The dnc is beginning to resemble a syphilitic hooker who needs to offer more and more exotic and pernicious services to attract the dregs of her customer base since her good customers have moved on to safer options. This will only diminish the dnc’s attraction to sane, normal people – but the syphilitic brain is a damaged brain.
“but the syphilitic brain is a damaged brain.”
Oh so that explains our Gigi.
Anyone seen Tim?
‘Disturbing’ details revealed in Minneapolis shooting: ‘Tremendous volume of gunfire’
Given what we saw of Tom Waltz trying and failing to load his shotgun, I kinda doubt that he was the shooter here.
No worries, he’s a combat veteran that talks the talk, can he walk the walk? If not he’s got plenty of tampons to plug the holes.
BTW, on another topic, Trump’s tariffs have not caused inflation. The trolls on here were screaming banshees saying they were going to. Will they now acknowledge they were wrong? Nope.
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/what-fed-must-do-now-after-jerome-powells-jackson-hole-epiphany
Last Friday in Jackson Hole, Federal Reserve Chairman Jay Powell finally – and grudgingly – admitted what the Trump team has been saying all along: tariffs don’t fuel inflation. At most, tariffs create a one-time adjustment in prices, not the kind of runaway spiral that demands punishing rate hikes. And even that one-time bump may be negligible if, as we have long argued, foreign exporters – not American consumers – shoulder most or all of the burden.
“. . . foreign exporters – not American consumers – shoulder most or all of the burden.”
That is false (and misleading).
Tariffs are paid by domestic importers (American businesses) at the border.
And American consumers are already shouldering the burden. See the spike in the prices of, for example, coffee, chocolate, fruit, flowers, steel and aluminum (and all the of American made products manufactured with steel and aluminum).
*. Banshee. 😂 the Irish need to unleash the banshee…
https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/speech/powell20250822a.htm
Did you actually listen to or read Powell’s speech? Or are you basing this off of secondhand opinion articles on conservative news websites?
Here is what he actually said:
“Turning to inflation, higher tariffs have begun to push up prices in some categories of goods. Estimates based on the latest available data indicate that total PCE prices rose 2.6 percent over the 12 months ending in July. Excluding the volatile food and energy categories, core PCE prices rose 2.9 percent, above their level a year ago. Within core, prices of goods increased 1.1 percent over the past 12 months, a notable shift from the modest decline seen over the course of 2024. In contrast, housing services inflation remains on a downward trend, and nonhousing services inflation is still running at a level a bit above what has been historically consistent with 2 percent inflation (figure 4).4
The effects of tariffs on consumer prices are now clearly visible. We expect those effects to accumulate over coming months, with high uncertainty about timing and amounts. The question that matters for monetary policy is whether these price increases are likely to materially raise the risk of an ongoing inflation problem. A reasonable base case is that the effects will be relatively short lived—a one-time shift in the price level. Of course, “one-time” does not mean “all at once.” It will continue to take time for tariff increases to work their way through supply chains and distribution networks. Moreover, tariff rates continue to evolve, potentially prolonging the adjustment process.
It is also possible, however, that the upward pressure on prices from tariffs could spur a more lasting inflation dynamic, and that is a risk to be assessed and managed. One possibility is that workers, who see their real incomes decline because of higher prices, demand and get higher wages from employers, setting off adverse wage–price dynamics. Given that the labor market is not particularly tight and faces increasing downside risks, that outcome does not seem likely.
Another possibility is that inflation expectations could move up, dragging actual inflation with them. Inflation has been above our target for more than four years and remains a prominent concern for households and businesses. Measures of longer-term inflation expectations, however, as reflected in market- and survey-based measures, appear to remain well anchored and consistent with our longer-run inflation objective of 2 percent.”
In other words, the article misquoted Powell. The “one-time adjustment” Powell discusses is one possibility, while it is “possible” that more lasting inflation could result, whether due to the upward pressure on prices leading to workers demanding higher wages or whether inflation expectations drag actual inflation with them.
ALWAYS, read the PRIMARY SOURCE. Do not trust secondary opinion articles, whether Fox News or the NYT. Be a better consumer of news!
“In other words, the article misquoted Powell. The “one-time adjustment” Powell discusses is one possibility, while it is “possible” that more lasting inflation could result, whether due to the upward pressure on prices leading to workers demanding higher wages or whether inflation expectations drag actual inflation with them.”
Please explain how a constant tariff can result in an inflationary price spiral. If you can make your case, you’d probably earn yourself a Nobel Prize.
If you think we’ve been living in a world of “constant” tariffs, you haven’t been paying attention.
But ok I’ll bite. You are focused on the demand-side factors without considering the supply side effects of broad based tariffs.
The supply side of the inflation equation depends on real, economy-wide output, and here tariffs—especially broad ones—can have an effect by restricting that output (via higher input prices and economic activity pushed toward protected, less efficient industries).
Tariffs result in higher prices and fewer goods available for sale in the United States. The higher and more widespread the tariffs, the bigger the reduction in goods and the larger the price increases.
Learn how to cite properly. If each paragraph is from Powell’s speech^, then you need a quotation mark at the beginning of each paragraph. This is high school, maybe grade school stuff, clown.
Explain that to Lisa Cook: https://www.city-journal.org/article/lisa-d-cooks-careless-scholarship