CBS has long been a network in decline. With dismal ratings, the network has been mired in third place for years, and many view it as openly biased and partisan in its coverage, including pushing false stories with a political agenda. Bari Weiss was brought in to save the network and move it back to a neutral center. She has encountered continued attacks from staff who are outraged by the efforts, including her recent selection of Tony Dokoupil as the next evening anchor. Dokoupil is being attacked as too white, male, straight, and pro-Israel.
The one identity these staffers seem less interested in is that of a top news network. Weiss is trying to save their very jobs by reversing this trend. However, these anonymous staffers would prefer to lose their jobs than their bias.
For full disclosure, I worked (twice) for CBS News as a legal analyst. I have great affection for the network and want to see it return to its prior glory. However, years of staff and culture shifts have taken their toll. Great reporters like Catherine Herridge were let go despite their reputations for following stories regardless of the political impact or influence.
The objections to Dokoupil are particularly revealing. Past CBS hosts and anchors have destroyed the network’s standing with many viewers, particularly those in the middle or right of the political spectrum. The decline was summed up when 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl literally laughed on air in the face of President Donald Trump, after he said that Biden was implicated in the influence-peddling scandal involving his son, Hunter. It was not the smug delivery but Stahl categorically denying that Biden was facing a scandal and showing absolutely little interest in the documented millions of dollars that went to the Biden family.
CBS increasingly seemed to be reporting to a shrinking audience composed of themselves, other establishment media, and the far left. The result was a network that was underperforming and little-watched.
The owners and shareholders welcomed a new direction, but many in the staff want a return to the same disastrous path. It is reminiscent of the response of staff at the Washington Post to Jeff Bezos bringing in new editors to reverse the decline of the newspaper.
Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, who promptly delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom by telling the staff, “Let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.”
The response called for Lewis and other editors to be canned. Again, these reporters would rather give up their very jobs than their bias.
The attacks on Dokoupil’s race, gender, and sexual orientation captured the unhinged and hypocritical character of these critics. They are triggered by any mention of race or gender by others, but regularly move to cancel others using the same identity criteria. It does not matter that Dokoupil has a long journalistic career or that a major change is badly needed if the network is to reverse these trending numbers. His actual talents appear immaterial to the consideration of his race, gender, and sexual orientation.
For those of us who once worked at the network, we are rooting for Weiss and Dokoupil in turning this ship around. CBS has been one of the truly great news organizations. It can be again.
John Stossel Video – Inconvenient FACTS and Common LIES About Slavery
https://commoncts.blogspot.com/2025/12/john-stossel-video-inconvenient-facts.html
CBS = slavery?
Golly
I don’t feel good about being White… I feel great about it!
Most unfortunately, seriously unfortunate slavery as an economic system was worldwide from the beginning of man, the spoils of war. It was equally practiced in Africa. One documentation of this is in Jewish, Hebrew literature as 400 years of slavery in Egypt.
The United States was guilty of the economic system. It is also the 1st nation to declare the system illegal, forbidden. It’s a command in remember the Sabbath day, to rest in freedom.
You can argue but one imitates God in this. He worshipped no one. He rested and took a break from creation. He included the pause, the rest. So your livestock rests, you rest, your fields rest. Easy does it.
It sounds a bit quaint and abstract, but the truth is the hardest thing to change about any organization is its culture. It will take years. It will require strong executive leadership dedicated to making the change a high priority – including firing recalcitrant staff; hiring new people with different values; implementing incentive structures to effect the desired change; etc.
Kentucky elected Democrat says white children should be taught to feel bad about their skin color. This is demonic, just like everything else about Democrats.
https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1998853703470907768
She’s from Kentucky, you’re from Arkansas. What’s the connection? You hate liberal women?
You hate Trump- do you live in D.C.??? HA HA HA ANON!!
Define hate, be more specific in definition.
Poor things…
I’m sorry to say I’m cynical to the point of no return on this: the modern left is irredeemable, it’s too late. If they sound like they are making sense, they are just lying better. They will happily resume stomping your face if they ever hold power again, and without blinking.
Defeating the American left is an existential challenge. Without a resounding victory against the barbarians on the left, western civilization will not survive.
The questioning of Noem was 😂.
Divide and conquer, which means being able to recognize divisions within “the left”, and accepting the more moderate side as “redeemable” in your mind. This is a tried and true way to defeat the radical, unhinged left.
Marginalize them. It requires you embrace nuance, and not broad-brush all Dems as being “just like” their fringe voices.
Spot on. But it needs to be done with a drive and forcefulness that is unstopable.
Yes, it’s called oppression. Most people are repelled by it but remain silent. Just be certain not to engage in any unrighteousness but lawful justice. It’s temptation. Don’t confuse cowardice.
Deport abrego garcia to Costa Rica. They’re waiting with open arms.
We’re a narco-state. 😂. What exactly do the dems want? Mutilate your children and close your schools? Drug and kill your children? You’re dealing with cuckoo clocks, tictoc … it’s interesting in an ill sort of way to see all the vices in action. Certainly a first…
If Weiss doesn’t have the power to clear out the entrenched and deranged DEI wokesters there at CBS, she should resign herself before her own reputation is ruined by those subversive losers.
I remember being disgusted by what Dan Rather did to stain the reputation of CBS decades ago, and it only got worse, as did all of their competition.
I used to really look forward to 60 Minutes every Sunday, back before it just became obvious Democrat propaganda.
It will be interesting to see how Weiss does, although I think the odds are against her, and I would never watch until someone I trusted said the necessary changes had been made.
Doctoring footage to make Trump look worse and Carmela look better is as serious a journalistic offense as an accountant embezzling funds is a financial crime. CBS has a long road ahead of it to restore credibility.
An industrious young person could edit the 60 minutes and the news removing all emotional words. Put it on you tube as edited and let’s see what we get.
Yesterday I wrote:
The legislative branch makes laws, the executive executes them, and the judicial branch declares the law. In order to declare, it has to first do some interpretation to figure out what the words mean. This is because interpretation is basic to understanding anything put down in text, whether poetry, literature, or law.
X responded:
No. The judicial branch interprets law. They determine meanings of words, phrases, questions, intents, etc. They don’t declare anything.
WTF? I said they interpret, and X says, “NO, you’re wrong, they interpret.” WTF, X? What drugs are you on?
No. The judicial branch ensures that actions comport with law with modifying it.
‘”BALANCING PRIVATE RIGHTS WITH PUBLIC WELFARE.”
– The Judicial Branch
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The singular American failure is the judicial branch, with emphasis on the Supreme Court.
Rights and freedoms are absolute in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
They are not qualified and are absolute; they are the possessions of American citizens.
The courts have illicitly and antithetically insisted that they have the power to “interpret” law; “interpret” does not exist in the Constitution.
Change is inherent in “interpret,” and the judicial branch has no power to legislate, modify, amend, or modify by “interpretation” fundamental or statutory law.
In the early 20th century, communist justices began “interpreting” private rights, such as the absolute right to private property, to no longer be absolute.
From that point, the Constitution was incrementally nullified by the judicial branch.
The severe limitations and restrictions on government in the enumerated powers in Article 1, Section 8, and the absolute 5th Amendment right to private property have been deeply eroded if not completely destroyed.
The communist American welfare state has been illicitly and unconstitutionally established by the judicial branch.
Below, read that justices like Justice Louis Brandeis “emphasized balancing private rights with public welfare.”
That is not dissimilar and is most similar to Karl Marx’s maxim, “From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.”
One of the best examples of the diminution of rights is the decreasing ability of the owner of private property to determine wages, prices, rents, tenants, buyers, customers, services, products, etc.
Another is the corrupt, anti-American, and wholly unconstitutional regulatory state.
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AI Overview
While no single justice definitively declared property rights non-absolute in a famous quote around that time, the evolving understanding, especially with cases like Muller v. Oregon (1908) and New Deal era cases (1930s), saw justices like Justice Louis Brandeis, who often emphasized balancing private rights with public welfare, and Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., who championed judicial restraint and legislative supremacy over economic matters, chipping away at absolute property interpretations in favor of social regulation, though specific quotes on “not absolute” are hard to pinpoint to one person.
Good grief. It just keeps getting worse for the Trump DOJ. Another failed attempt to indict? Perhaps professor Turley will need to analyze why the DOJ is fumbling so many cases and hiring so many incompetent lawyers. Bondi will have some explaining to do.
Good grief. He just keeps getting worse for trying to show how many “failed attempts” (according to his words) vs. how many successful prosecutions the DOJ has accomplished. He hasn’t answered. He has some ‘splainin’ to do.
(meaning georgie, ,not turley
Good help is hard to come by especially with the ABA in place, huh?
Pretty much overwhelmed. Move to a red State and guard your roads and children. Don’t forget to build munitions production.
It’s what is referred to as the power-hungry communist juristocracy, which is beside itself, not possessing any executive power.
X – it is the job of the courts to “interpret the law” – but that does not mean problem their personal values and alter the meaning of the law and constitution to acheive those values.
To the extent that the courts can define words and interpret and impose values – it would NOT be their own values, or definitions.
It would be those of the authors of the law or clause in the constitution.
Where the meaning of a law or proivision of the constitution is not clear Judges are legal archaeologists it is not their job to decide what those word mean today, to to them, but what they meant to the people who ratified that law or clause.
This BTW is not some conservative legal theory – it is actually a requirement of logic and the rule of law.
The rule of law – stable government, trust in government, the ability for ordinary people to know when they are running afoul of the law requires that the meaning of the law does NOT change over time. It MUST mean the same thing today as it did when it was written, and as it did over the decades since.
If we do not like that – if time has changed things and the prior meaning of the law no longer works, then we are fee to change the law.
We do so by writing new laws or amending the constitution.
When we do so the new law or amended constitution means what WE the authors of that new law or amendment say it means until some future generation changes it again.
You wish to disagree ?
Fine, construct rules for statutory interpretation that can be strictly followed that will always produce the same results, no matter when they are applied, no matter the biases of the judge – until the law or constitution is changed.
Regardless, interpret does not mean that each of the nearly 1000 federal judges is free to interpret the law as they please.
That is anarchy. That does not work.
“The law” is subject to ambiguity because legislators don’t want to do the difficult work to be entirely specific. If they were to do so, then some areas that are really close won’t be covered. A typical example of the difficulty is in creation of street-drug control laws. It has happened many times that chemists create variations that are not illegal because they are not mentioned in the legislation. It becomes whack-a-mole.
For other areas of law, they try to give a broad scope, but then it can cover areas that should not be covered or are unconstitutional.
My favorite is the ruling “void for vagueness,” where a statute is so unclear that no reasonable person could argue about where the boundaries of the law are and so the law is unenforceable.
““The law” is subject to ambiguity because”
There are many deliberate and unintended reasons that laws are problematic.
There are rules of statutory construction to deal with that – your “Void for Vagueness” is one means.
Regardless the power of courts to “interpret” the law is not some unbounded grant of power to do as they please.
All you are doing is proving the problems with left wing nuts, and also demonstrating Halligans competence.
The purportedly incompetent just and insurrance lawyer, got two important criminal indictments within 6 days of taking the job.
Regardless I am not especially worried about this – The DOJ’s appeal of Judge Curries decision will win.
AGAIN I would strongly suggest listening to the audio of the current FTC case – which is expected to be a 6-3 or greater Trump win.
Virtually ALL of the Justices agree that the presidents executive power with respect to criminal prosecutions is at its apogee and the ability of the courts and congress to interfere is nearly non-existant.
Currie has misread the applicable law – but for those who claim that she has not – it is actually means what she says – it is not constitutional.
The oral arguments at SCOTUS made clear that – Congress under the appointments clause has SOME ability to put constraints on the inferior officers of the united states. But congresses ONLY power regarding Officiers of the United States is to confirm them or refuse to confirm them.
I do not think that SCOTUS or the appeals courts will find the law unconstitutional – because it is easier to reverse Currie for misreading the law.
The president alone can appoint people to positions of Officiers of the United states.
That is Cabinet positions. “independent commission members”, and US Attorney’s – as well as a few other posts.
If a person is not confirmed to that position within 120 days – they can not longer hold that position in an ACTING capacity.
Constitutionally congress can not give courts the power to extend that position – but congress passed a law that says they can. That law is unconstitutional – but I do not think the Courts will touch that. But nowhere in the law does it indicate that the President can not make successive Acting appointments – just not of the same person.
There are cases that Trump is going to lose ultimately.
While Trump is correct that the 14th amendment does not grant citizenship to EVERYONE born in the US.
There are two constitutional issues with his EO.
The first is that Illegal Aliens ARE “subject to the jurisdiction of the United States”. That portion of the 14th amendment is to preclude automatic citizens for the children of people serving foreign governments – such as Embassy staff and foreign military personell
Trumps 2nd problem is that the power to limit or extend citizenship is a legislative power not an executive one.
There is a small possibility that if Trump’ s EO was turned into a law and passed by congress, SCOTUS might buy it.
But I do not think so. Wong Kim Ark is not the problem – the text of the 14th amendment is.
The 2nd clear loser is the Lawsuit Trump is filing to challenge Senate blueslipping which is bottling up Trump appointments in Blue States
This is also part of the reason that Halligan and Habba can not get confirmed in the Senate. They can not even get a vote in the Judiciary committee because a State Senator fromt he state they would serve has blue slipped them
The Senate can change its rule regarding blue slipps – I beleive that in Trump’s first Term Grassley refused to honor Blue Slipps for Judicial Nominees and I beleive that is now standard practice.
The blue slip rule is a bad idea – unlike the filibuster. But it is still fully within the constitutional powers of the Senate to have its own rules.
That case will likely be dismissed for lack of standing.
Further though Senate Republicans are angry over the extensive blue slipping that Democrats are doing – blue slips were very rare in the past,
There were only a handful in the Obama administration.
It is still a rule that republicans and not likely to change.
BUT it is also a reason that SCOTUS will likely reverse Judge Currie.
SCOTUS is not going to take the blue slip case. But they are going to flush the idiocy that once a 120 day acting appointment has expired that a position of Officer of the United States must remain vacant – or be filled only by someone appointed by the Judiciary.
The entire point of Officers of the United States is that presidents appoint people committed to their policy agenda – the one they were elected to fulfill. While those people still must get Senate aproval, No one except the president can appoint them constitutionally.
You are not going to get SCOTUS to rule – especially with respect to DOJ, that Officer of the united states positions can be filled by courts putting in place people hostile to the policies that the electorate voted for when they elected the president.
The executive power of the united states is vested int he president. As was confirmed in the FTC hearings – the breadth of that clause was affirmed by the courts Very Early on. Marbury Vs. Madison affirms the presidents exclusive right to fill positions in the executive.
Currently Trump has a 92% win rate at the supreme court.
So do you really think SCOTUS is going to uphold Judge Currie who misread an unconstitutional law ?
The only question is how they revese – not whether.
I would further note that the failure to reindict increases the odds that SCOTUS hears the case and reverses.
SCOTUS is not going to allow judicial decisions that have nothing at all to do with the rights of criminal defendants to preclude prosecuting them.
Particularly ones that are as clearly guilty as James and Comey.
If DOJ succeeds in reindicting James and Comey – SCOTUS may dismiss the Halligan appeal as moot.
Halligan can only serve for 120 days unless confirmed by the Senate which is not happening.
I will note that Trump does have a way arround Judge Currie and Senate Blue slips.
Appoint Halligan or someone else or pick someone already appointed and confirmed and move them into the US Attorney EDVA position.
Latteral transfers of people who have already been confirmed by the Senate are constitutional.
This is What Garland should have done for the Trump prosecutions – it is what he did when appointing Weiss and Hurr as SC.
Alternately Trump can have Bondi appoint a Special Counsel to handle the Comey and James cases – again picking a previously approved US attorney.
Maybe Trump should appoint Halligan as US Attorney for Oklahoma, and they after she is confirmed appoint he as SC to prosecute the James and Comey cases.
Anyone else want to own up to your trump vote?
“Why did you vote for him?” a member of congress asked the veteran.
“Because I was an idiot,” answered the veteran.
https://www.alternet.org/trump-voters-betrayal/
MS NOW?? OH NO! ha ha ha ha Biden pronouncing America as Amerrraicakado
Is the story true? Yes. Why do you deny that trump has made a complete fool out of himself and anyone that trusted he was actually going to improve on a good econmy? The economy was very good in January 2025. trump has made a disaster of it. Own up to your vote.
Own up to you voting for COMATOSE BIDEN and DUMB KAMALA!! I voted for Trump and still LOVE IT!! BOZO ANON!!! Massive FRAUD under the Biden administration. Billions paid out to his donors/friends on his way out!! Political spying/witch hunts throughout administration.
Economy under Biden was artificial- Super High inflation with most jobs given to illegals and MOST ONLY GOVERNMENT JOBS- job numbers were PHONY and downgraded by MILLIONS!!. GDP inflated by mass dollars put into the economy with MASSIVE DEBT ADDED> Get your student loan BRIBE from Biden ANON???
“Quiet, Quiet Piggy” As he points his finger in the face of a female reporter.
Yea, I want a person found liable for sex abuse to be president. You must aspire to be just like him, a pedophile?
You forgot he owned a casino that went bankrupt. How in the hell do you be so incopetent that you loose money in an industry where the house always wins? That is trump for you. A complete failure. Can’t even make money running a gambling house.
LOOSE MONEY?? LEARN HOW TO SPELL!! ha ha ha MANY casinos went bankrupt in the same area(Atlantic City). Many also go bankrupt in Las Vegas too!!
Google Casino Bankruptcies- Trump not the only one. BOZO ANON!! What’s INCOPETENT??? ha ha ha ha ha
ADDED FOR LAME ANON: “2014 was a rough year for Atlantic City casinos when five out of 14 of the casinos in the city shut down (Atlantic Club, The Claridge Casino and Hotel, Revel, Showboat, and Trump Plaza)”
K – thank you.
The half life of a business is about 15 years – that means half of all businesses fail in 15 years or less.
There is no Fortune 10 company from 1960 that is still in the top 10. Most of the top 10 are gone.
The average entrepenuer fails 7 times before they succeed.
Most successful people fail on occasion.
You can not succeed if you are affroad of failure.
That would fly except everyone knows Trump is so far above average they have to leave him out to avoid skewing the results. The fact that everything he does turns to crap is not some mystery failure- it’s Trump’s intention to start up, gut it for cash, and walk away in bankruptcy.
The reason many businesses fail is simple under capitalization, an insufficient funding to get through the startup process. Trump should have no such problem, especially as his son made clear, the Russians are giving him all the backing he needs.
Trump simply doesn’t want the effort to run a business, he wants to turn a quick profit at the expense of suppliers and customers.
TRUMP WORTH 7 BILLION -DUMBASS ANON!!! RUNS MANY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSES !! JEALOUS MUCH??
Trump is a great businessman and would not buy into an oversaturated market unless he wanted to gut the business for as much cash as he could get out and then walk away from all the debts.
More telling is that American banks won’t loan money to him because he defaults so often.
“More telling is that American banks won’t loan money to him . . .”
And there is your lie-of-the-day.
Wrong, he sold the casino and was getting paid to have his name on the property.
Typical liberal democrat who is too lazy to do proper research and only goes with the script given from his democrat masters
ATS -As of Sept 2025 Forbes Estimates Trump’s net Worth as 7.3B
When you have 7.3B – I might have an interst in your analysis.
I prefer a President who doesn’t put his own wealth ahead of America. Had Trump made all his employees wealthy, that would be different. But Trump has never acted in any way to benefit anyone but himself. Telling people their donations were for children with cancer and keeping the money should be a clue.
The majority of his current wealth is by abusing his position as President and is mainly through his social media company – possibly contributions from investors paying for favorable treatment. It certainly isn’t for the profitability from advertising. Originally peaking near $100 a share it is now languishing at $10 a share. This is half what it was during the Biden administration.
“I prefer a President who doesn’t put his own wealth ahead of America.”
You have one – Trump’s net worth declined to 2.6B during his first term.
The current figure is based on gains that occured While Democrats were waging lawfare against him as a private person.
“Had Trump made all his employees wealthy, that would be different.”
It is not the job of the boss to make employees wealthy. It is their job to make owners wealthy.
They provide a job for employees. Good employees are rewarded bad ones fired.
Like almost every other wealthy person – Trump’s personal wealth is the tip of the iceberg.
The 7+B that Trump is worth is all invested – and that investment is creating jobs and wealth for a very large number of other people.
“But Trump has never acted in any way to benefit anyone but himself. ”
Since you wish to go that – first that is false – if you both to look into it – Trump pays a great deal of attention to the news. When he hears about personal tragedy;s quite often he sends a check. He has paid off people mortgages, all kinds of things like that. It just does not get reported and he does not call attention to it.
But honestly I do not really care all that much even about that.
The most important way that Trump has acted to benefit others – is the same way EVERY business person does – by investing in things that provide people with what they want and need, by investing in things that provide thousands of jobs.
The general rule is that the wealth of a person is 1/10th of their actual contribution So Trump is holding up about $70B in jobs and value delivered to people.
One of the most favored people in terms of giving to others was Mother Thersea.
Far More people have benefited from Trump than Mother Theresa.
Give a man a fish – that is charity, it is gone in a day.
Teach a man to fish – that is invest, create jobs, create value for others. That is how business works.
“Telling people their donations were for children with cancer and keeping the money should be a clue.”
You do understand that very very few people trust anything that you say about Trump.
Pretty much always it is a massive distortion of reality.
“The majority of his current wealth is by abusing his position as President”
False.
“mainly through his social media company”
That reached its current value AFTER he was out of office for several years.
“possibly contributions from investors paying for favorable treatment.”
Political contributions can not be converted to personal wealth – that has been true for nearly my entire life.
“It certainly isn’t for the profitability from advertising. Originally peaking near $100 a share it is now languishing at $10 a share.”
I though you said his current weath came from Truth Social – now you are saying it doesnt.
“This is half what it was during the Biden administration.”
Correct – once again Trump is losing money because he is president.
You keep citing examples that disprove your own claim.
The core of your argument is either
Orange Man Bad.
or People who make money for trading value for value outside of government can not be trusted.
While people who actually gained all of their wealth through corrupting governments service are virtuous ?
We need more billionarires in govenrment specifically because they can not be bought and because CONTRA your claim – they actually do know how to make life better for others.
Because that is the way you make money in the free market – by trading something people value more than the money they give you.
TDS RUNS WILD IN ANON!! POST AFTER POST PROVES THAT!! LOSER!!
It wasn’t a failure – you misunderstand Trump’s goal. He stole work and materials from the suppliers to get it built and then sucked as much cash out as possible before discarding the empty husk. He didn’t want to run a casino, he wanted to gut one for cash. This is a repeated pattern, one that he is using against the United States.
Sorry ATS – People RARELY get away with that ONCE – afterwords no one does business with them ever again.
In the free market you can not FORCE people to sell to you or to buy from you.
Every single exchange in a free market occurs ONLY when the seller and the buyer BOTH decide they will be better off if they trade. Adn 99.99% of the time they are. If they were not nearly always no one would engage in free exchange.
GET A LIFE ANON!! 5 OUT OF 14 CASINOS IN ATLANTIC CITY FAILED AROUND THE TIME TRUMP’S DID!! 1 MORE TIME FOR YOU- 5 OUT OF 14!
A HIGH PERCENTAGE!! CASINOS do not always win as you say. YOU NEED CUSTOMERS-AND THEY WENT ELSWHERE IN A.C
Hey Ano
You keep making these claims. But you have not posted any proof to back it up.
No, I’d rather be a thief, traitor and murderer like you, Anon.
^^^^ apologies for my speech. Anon, is Trump a convicted pea dough file? Then it’s slander and libel.
It matters.
Reporters who after getting their turn try to take the turn of other reporters deserve to be insulted.
The sex of the reporter is irrelevant – though YOU oddly fixate on it.
Women are as able to break the rules and try to steal the time of others as men.
Voter s heard the idiotic claims of sex abuse and either do not care or rejected them.
Regardless, there are no daughter diaries of Trump talking about him showering with his teenage daughters.
Nor is there decades of video of him sniffing women and girls hair and groping them.
Secret Service agents refused to bring their wives and daughters to WH events where Biden would be present.
The was only one perve in the WH – Biden.
Regardless, your lawfare did not work.
ATS the economy is doing fine. The Atlanta Fed is predicting growth of 4.2% for Q4 2025, we had growth of 3.8% in Q3 the final predicted growth for 2025 is 3%
That is a pretty good economy – more importantly it is a growing economy compared to that of Biden – who left Trump with an economy barely above recession levels.
I have no problem with those who voted for Trump.
Those who voted for Biden or Harris should have their heads checked.
Hopefully Harris is gone for good.
The economy looks like it is doing great because corporations jack up prices and siphon all available cash from the middle class. As long as one measures only the stock market and doesn’t remember what became of tulips then it all appears good.
BIDEN’S economy/GDP propped up by massive government spending/debt BOZO ANON!!
Wrong.
‘Opposite Of What Happened Under Biden’: Steve Moore Shares What He Likes Most About New Jobs Report
“What I really liked about that jobs report, Larry, was the wage growth. I just don’t get the left’s obsession about affordability and a loss of buying power,” Moore told host Larry Kudlow.
Moore pointed to five consecutive months where wage growth ran ahead of inflation.”
https://dailycaller.com/2025/11/20/steve-moore-jobs-report/
That’s PMSNBC.
ATS – I did NOT vote for Trump.
But I am happier with him as president than I have been with any 21st century president.
He is not exactly what I want.
I doubt he or any presidential candidate is exactly what anyone wants.
But he is the best president of the past 25 years without exception and it is not even close.
Next – no one can claim they did not know what they were getting with Trump.
Not in 2016 not in 2020, not in 2024.
He made campaign promises, he had a clear platform and more so that possibly any presidential candidate in US history he has or is seeking to accomplish that platform and those promises.
I would further note that Trump’s policies are more popular than he is.
Polling on the strikes against the Narco terrorists find a majority strongly approve and another 20+ percent moderately approve.
We find similarly with nearly all of Trump’s polices and platform.
To the extent Trump’s approval has dropped Trump’s approcal remains higher than Bushes, Obama’s at this point in their 2nd term and has been higher nearly all of the time since his election.
In 2016 it is likely that if Obama had been able to run again he would have won a 3rd term.
Trump is not getting a 3rd Term – talk of that is just bear bating of left wing nuts.
Many of us enjoy watching you Rant and rail about that.
But the fact is though there are 3 years to go – absent some dramatic change – Trump would be more likely to win a 3rd term in 2028 that Obama was in 2016.
Despite your rants – the american people are not suffering from remorse over their choice of president
As they were through most of the Biden administration.
Farmers have literally said they are suffering remorse over voting for Trump. Of course, most farmers will refuse to admit it – fear of being cut off is a powerful motivator. They are nearly $30B in losses and Trump wants to send them $12B, a smaller amount than he sent to some South American country to goose its economy, and the wealth a bunch of his co-conspirators who bought low, knowing the infusion of cash would raise the value.
WILL you ever stop the TDS posts?? Getting old ANON!! ha ha ha ha ha
Ah, but CBS isn’t ALL Margaret Brennan slant.
After all, cut it some slack.
Today it honestly headlined a piece on the Minnesota fraud involving Somalian immigrants, with the headline: “Minnesota fraud case is biggest among many multimillion-dollar pandemic scams.”
It then immediately went on to mute/downplay the fraud (just under $1 billion as known so far) by pointing out several other frauds,
“But the review of court files, government audits and investigative documents identified at least 20 other cases that each cost taxpayers at least $1 million. At least nine known cases cost more than $10 million apiece.”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/minnesota-fraud-case-biggest-pandemic-scams/
Ah, the good ole honest, objective, impartial, Trump administration-lovin’ legacy media.
Margaret Brennan is the best part of CBS: statuesque, Irish beauty and they shoot her from all angles. You might try mute and reëvaluate.
You might try horse blinders. We are not talking about appearance, we are talking about substance.
Brennan is known for, and has been criticized for, her biased, slanted coverage of a story.
https://usnewsmag.com/how-traditional-journalism-grapples-with-bias-perception/
and here’s yet another critique that was joined by many others
https://mynorthwest.com/seattle-red/rantz-opinion/rantz-aggressively-ignorant-margaret-brennan-blamed-free-speech-for-the-holocaust/4047539
but I can only post two links but you might want to check out allsides-media-bias-chart-version-11.
Yikes, I just realized that I’ve checked in at this blog for four or five days in a row, a record for me!
The absolute BEST and most enriching way to make sure that bad weather days do not go to waste.
THank you Professor Turley (and Darren for his clever “Bar Sinister”) for taking the time to stimulate our thoughts!
A SECOND grand jury has refused to indict Letitia James !!!!!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!
What a clown show !!!!!!!!
SAYS CLOWN ANON! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!!
The idiot leftist trolls are celebrating that someone can commit fraud and get away with it. They are taking orders from their task masters in the Chinese Communist Party. They are mindless drones.
Are you aware that Trump did EXACTLY what James is accused of back in the 90’s with 2 different properties.
In 1993, Trump signed a mortgage for a “Bermuda style” home in Palm Beach, Florida, pledging that it would be his principal residence. Just seven weeks later, he got another mortgage for a seven-bedroom, marble-floored neighboring property, attesting that it too would be his principal residence.
In reality, Trump, then a New Yorker, does not appear to have ever lived in either home, let alone used them as a principal residence. Instead, the two houses, which are next to his historic Mar-a-Lago estate, were used as investment properties and rented out, according to contemporaneous news accounts and an interview with his longtime real estate agent — exactly the sort of scenario his administration has pointed to as evidence of fraud.
Each of the mortgage documents signed by Trump contain the standard occupancy requirement — that he must make the property his principal residence within 60 days and live there for at least a year, unless the lender agreed otherwise or there were extenuating circumstances.
Trump’s real estate agent, who told the local press that the plan from the beginning was to rent out the two satellite homes, was quoted as saying, “Mr. Trump, in effect, is in a position to approve who his neighbors are.”
In the ensuing years, listings popped up in local newspapers advertising each of the homes for rent. At one point in 1997, the larger of the two homes, a 7-bedroom, 7-bathroom Mediterranean Revival mansion, was listed for $3,000 per day.
Note the Occupancy Clause 6 on page 3 of this mortgage document, requiring Trump to take up residence on the property within 60 days and maitain residence for 1 Year.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26342753/trump-mortgage-1993.pdf
Don’t expect an actual response from OldMan.
Or maybe some crap about it being the same lender, so the law doesn’t matter.
Here’s the part you left out, clown:
“…unless Lender otherwise agrees in writing, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld.”
People like you can be really dangerous to those who do not pursue totality.
Total BS in every possible way. Trump’s conduct was not even remotely comparable to James’s. Yet you celebrated when an innocent man was convicted of bogus, made-up-on-the-spot alleged crimes. You are so full of sh!t it’s coming out of your ears.
How was Trump’s conduct different ????
Try to be specific , without MAGA nonsense
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Oh, sorry, I thought I’d get a picture of you MOVING THE GOALPOST
NotSoOld: ( I wrote the anon reply comment at 4:36. (sometimes I reflexively hit “send” too early.)
The maturity of the comments attempting to strike out our comments is truly amusing!
It’s great in weather like we are getting here to sit at the laptop and read good and stimulating comments from the likes of you and some others. Unfortunately, I am not a coffee drinker to sip and enjoy while reading. And if I drink up all my chocolate milk, I will have to go out in this obnoxious weather to get more.
If Trump cannot get lawyers to handle “bogus, made-up-on-the-spot alleged crimes” then he’s the most stupid man on Earth. Which he is. It should be easy to demonstrate that they are “bogus, made-up-on-the-spot alleged crimes” to any judge who would immediately toss the charge.
Yet, somehow, that didn’t happen.
“The are mindless drones.”
They’re really more like ridiculously useful idiots.
^^^ CCP. Take a look at the listed AI Time mag cover . There is our superiors.
She didn’t commit fraud. That’s the problem. The DOJ, just can’t prove it and they have made such a mess of it that it’s now obvious the whole thing is just a vindictive prosecution gone awry.
Turley should be chastising the Trump DOJ for how badly they have handled this.
Nail on the head, omfk. Look at atime mag AI list.
^^_correction Time mag.
Strange list.
“Quiet, Quiet Piggy” As he points his finger in the face of a female reporter.
Who is the Clown?
Oh, you mean the female piggy who kept interrupting so she could get more questions in, to the detriment of the other reporters?
They stampede, too, and trample people to death.
You say, put his finger in the face of a female reporter. Implying it’s ok if it were a male reporter? How about – a reporter.
That dog won’t hunt.
Yea, Bummer, Kristi Noem made sure of that.
Look at the grand jury
Another fundamental flaw and jury nullification, also.
The US only functions if moral, ethical people use the law. It falls to pieces with rabble involved.
NY is really locking itself in. Poor people who couldn’t get out in time. NY is like nazi Germany with people running to get out.
OT, I watched Nuremberg. It was OK but too short. It needed an intermission like gone with the wind. There’s plenty of archived proceedings and dialogue from Nuremberg. There’s the diaries of the psychiatrists, too. It only covered Goering as the highest ranking Nazi of the 22 at trial. Goering asks Kelley how will they be remembered, as human?
No , as non-human.
^^^^ The people the camps starved to death. There was a food shortage throughout Europe. The camp victims received none. What a hideous war.
ll you are doing is proving that Halligan was very highly skilled.
Halligan submitted a false bill to the court. How is it highly skilled when the remedy was to go back and poll the grand jury with a new bill rather than create a fraudulent one?
Halligan’s competency was not in question. The legitimacy of her appointment was.
Is that why you show up in the early morning hours, so that not too many people will see how stupid your replies really are? G’won. get it off your chest.
How many new subscribers has the Washington Post gained since “Post owner Jeff Bezos brought in Washington Post publisher and CEO William Lewis, who promptly delivered a truth bomb in the middle of the newsroom by telling the staff, ‘Let’s not sugarcoat it…We are losing large amounts of money. Your audience has halved in recent years. People are not reading your stuff. Right? I can’t sugarcoat it anymore.'”? I’ll hang up and wait. “It does not matter” that the paper has lost 500,000 subscribers since the change and is hemorrhaging money. That fact would spoil your idiotic narrative.
The Trumplicans prefer alternative facts and, rather than noting that the Internet has been a huge draw away from conventional broadcast TV and has nearly wiped out periodical print media, prefer to claim that the viewership and readership is down solely due to the political message of reporting the news; the contrast being Fox Entertainment where gross misrepresentations and outright lies pander to the lowest common denominator of the conservo-ignorant white supremacist bigots by reinforcing their tainted world view.
Please join me in giving a warm welcome to the American Founders, who would like to say a few words.
Ahem, gentlemen, go ahead.
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“It is wonderful to be here today. Thank you all very much for inviting us and assimilating our words, which we issue certainly and absolutely, requiring no clarification, “interpretation,” or adjudication, as we do all our words.
“We the People of the United States…secure the Blessings of Liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY.
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“Naturalization Acts of 1790, 1795, 1798, and 1802 (four iterations for lucidity)
“United States Congress, “An act to establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization,” March 26, 1790
“Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That any Alien being a free white person, who shall have resided within the limits and under the jurisdiction of the United States for the term of two years, may be admitted to become a citizen thereof….”
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“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
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Once again, thank you, remember the plan, and best of luck.
“We the People of the United States…secure the Blessings of Liberty TO OURSELVES and OUR POSTERITY.”
Except the slaves. They don’t get the blessings of liberty. They get dirt floor huts and the bare amounts of food they need to live and beatings if they don’t like that.
They get compassionate repatriation as is the prime desire of all abductees – they just wanna go home.
Tis the season CBS testimony
A few years ago I was at CBS super studios in NYC for some technical training.
I got into an elevator with a CBS employee and we chatted. The CBS employee said, is this all life has to offer? I replied, you gotta do what you gotta do. By the way, I’m going to the CBS cafeteria, how’s the food? The CBS employee replied, watch out for the roaches.
Meanwhile, Otis the box turtle has been a bad boy. Roll the video.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uXbOUauF-B8
And Otis didn’t even procure a “Declaration of War!”
Turley,
A Google news search of “Dokoupil” and ‘too white” does not return any news articles other than this one.
Did you make up this commentary? You did not cite to a single article that opines Dokoupil is “too white.”
This fake news simply fuels your “Age of Rage,” which I suppose helps you sell more books.
(Cite your sources instead of making stuff up!)
In fact, commentariat, I challenge you to find a single article (other than this one) that reports CBS staffers labeling Dokoupil as “too white” to be the next CBS news evening anchor!
I will happily eat crow if it exists.
If it doesn’t exist, I hope you all let Turley know how you feel about fictional race-baiting controversies.
From The Independent
“ Many staffers at CBS News are not thrilled with editor-in-chief Bari Weiss tapping Tony Dokoupil as the next anchor of the network’s flagship nightly news broadcast, describing the CBS Mornings host as a “mediocre straight white man” who only got the job because his views align with Weiss’ pro-Israel stance”
Yeah, I saw that article. The article did not say he is “too white.” Being a “mediocre, straight white man” is not the same as being “too white, straight, male and Pro-Israel.”
Try again.
The epithet “too white” is a phrase used to criticize people of color for perceived assimilation into dominant white culture, often implying a betrayal of their own ethnic or racial identity. It is a form of racial marking that highlights the tension between navigating predominantly white spaces and maintaining one’s cultural authenticity.
“mediocre straight white man” is a cliche, rather than a serious criticism.
“who only got the job because his views align with Weiss’ pro-Israel stance”
This seems to be exactly true and exposes the chance that a Southern Baptist black woman of similar background – who are we kidding, no black woman would have been allowed to start on the path that Dokoupil is on, and being Southern Baptist would have been the final straw.
Here’s the only ARTICLE you really, really need: Article 1, Section 8, it precludes communism in its entirety.
Article 1, Section 8: Congress has the power to tax only for debt, defense, and general welfare (i.e. security and basic infrastructure).
Article 1, Section 8, Congress has the power to regulate only “the value of money,” “commerce among nations, states, and Indian tribes,” and “land and naval Forces.”
I was disappointed that he didn’t include a link to a headshot so we could judge race, gender, and sexual orientation ourselves.
It’s the communists, they go scorched earth cause they see it as an ‘in’.
Communists have finally taken over the democrat party. Democrat>Democrat Socialist>Socialist>Communist>Murderous Commie.
That’s what woke was all about; divide and conquer, but they get all the dumb ones on their side. LOL
This is one of the reasons for Trump’s success.
While I don’t watch CBS news, I do hope that this news organization will thrive. There seems to be a culture in many American news rooms that have values that don’t reflect that of most Americans. For example consider the percentage of positive stories about Kamala Harris and Donald Trump that were published during the 2024 election. The news coverage (15% positive for DJT and 78% positive for Kamala Harris) was no where close to how the public perceived the candidates. This jarring dissonance, in my opinion, must be largely attributed to widely differing values on what is important. These values guide the editor in the set of stories to cover but also guiding the reporter to include the set of relevant facts. (Many are the times I hear or read a news story that leaves out critical information.) I hope that Bari Weiss and Tony Dokoupil and steer the CBS news room values closer to that of the American people. Granted that we need to hear about distressing things but we need much fewer stories with a political indoctrination goal.
I think Fox News should lead the way and do 50%, the rounded amount of popular votes Harris got, giving favorable coverage to the Democrats. I believe they currently give Democrats 0% favorable coverage.
From The Column:
“Lesley Stahl literally laughed on air in the face of President Donald Trump, after he said that Biden was implicated in the influence-peddling–
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Trump and old real estate pal Steve Witkoff are currently engaged in the cryptocurrency business while the Trump administration is actively relaxing regulation of cryptocurrencies. Perhaps that’s why Leslie Stahl was laughing.
cbsnews won’t even start to get their rep back until they fire Lesley Stahl.
She is the poster child for biased media. aslong as she’s there, they can’t be trusted.
His son got $2B to play with from the Saudis. It’s blatant.
Even if Hunter was influence peddling, Joe Biden wasn’t delivering. Recall that Trump has been implicated in any number of heinous crimes.
By “straight, white, male, Christian,” do you mean unhyphenated, genuine American—as opposed to “illegal alien”—such as the men at the top of this page?
“We have to exterminate White people off the face of the planet.”
– Kamau Kambon
https://www.facebook.com/PatriotOneNews/videos/we-have-to-exterminate-white-people-off-the-face-of-the-planet/605197269351184/