Minnesotans are familiar with the perils of “snow blindness,” a temporary blindness caused by overexposure to ultraviolet rays from the reflection from snow and ice. It appears that Minnesota politicians and prosecutors have a type of mob blindness, where they cannot see crimes committed in front of them by the far left. That condition appears to be tragically evident in St. Paul, where City Attorney Irene Kao made an absurd denial of any criminal activity at the demonstration in the City Church on Jan. 18th. While claiming that there were no observable crimes, Kao’s decision just happened to be enormously popular with the mob-driven politics and polling in her state.
In January, dozens of anti-ICE protesters, and former CNN journalist Don Lemon, descended upon the church and disrupted a mass because a church official had connections to ICE.
The demonstrators could have been charged with such offenses as disorderly conduct, interfering with a religious observance, knowingly participating in a noisy assembly and making or continuing a disturbing or excessive noise.
There was a demonstrator who was able to get her misdemeanor charges dismissed earlier. However, Emily Phillips was arrested for her conduct outside of the church and actually responded to police demands that she stop using her bullhorn.
Her case is a good point of comparison. Protesting outside is vastly different from entering a church or event to disrupt it or shout down speakers.
These demonstrators entered a church, refused to leave when told to do so, and abused parishioners while stopping the services.
Kao offers little more than a shrug: “Following a careful evaluation of the video footage, investigative reports, and other available materials, prosecutors determined that the current evidence is insufficient to meet that standard for criminal charges under Minnesota state statutes.”
There are 39 people still charged by the federal government under the FACE Act.
Kao insisted, “The right to peacefully protest is protected, as is the right to exercise one’s religious beliefs. Balancing these equally important rights is paramount to our decision today.”
This is not protected free speech. It is conduct. Indeed, it is criminal conduct.
While Kao stressed that there was no property damage, it is not required under these criminal charges.
What is missing is not the basis for criminal charges but the will to prosecute them. Once again, Democratic politicians are yielding to the mob and refusing to see the criminal conduct.
It is reminiscent of CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez reporting live from Kenosha, Wis., with a raging fire in the background over a chyron reading, “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.”
These politicians and state prosecutors hope to ride this rage wave back into power in Congress and the White House. Indeed, some have told voters to “let your rage fuel you.”
We have seen this pattern before in history. Establishment figures often try to harness the rage of the mob, only to be ultimately consumed by the rage themselves.
Irene Kao’s decision is a cynical concession to the mob. It is a decision that will give the Minnesota mob a further sense of license.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of the bestselling books “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” and “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
“The current evidence is insufficient to meet that standard for criminal charges under Minnesota state statutes.” And those statutes apparently read as “Any crimes committed by progressives, that are done in good faith to promote progressive ideology, shall be deemed as non-criminal acts.”
Ta da! Our current state of legal deranged syndrome. You know, boys and girls, we are in the midst of observing our beloved country deteriorate into wok madness live and up close. We are being overtaken and undermined brick by brick by very, very sick, disturbed, non-repentant traitors.
The left will find any reason to let criminals off. Check out what CA has done.
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Illegal Deported THREE Times Allegedly Brutally Murders a Young Mother, a Loving Grandmother and a Two-Week Old Baby
On May 29, 2026, in Modesto, California, Joaquin Escoto, 28, a Mexican national and illegal immigrant, was arrested and charged with three counts of murder.
The left doesn’t care.
More lies eh dustoff. And what’s the point of lying you fraud?
What lies did DustOff tell?
Illegal immigrant flashes courtroom grin after allegedly killing baby, mother and grandmother
“DHS says California sanctuary policies allowed Joaquin Escoto to be released despite June 2025 DUI arrest and detainer”
https://www.foxnews.com/us/illegal-immigrant-flashes-courtroom-grin-allegedly-killing-baby-mother-grandmother
Family ‘shattered’ after two women and infant allegedly murdered by illegal immigrant
https://nypost.com/2026/05/30/us-news/family-shattered-after-two-women-and-infant-allegedly-murdered-by-illegal-immigrant/
Just more leftists policies, protecting criminal illegals, and innocent people being killed by illegals.
Can’t you read? nypost and fox are sources for your insanity eh? You delusional perverted sicko.
Does it matter whom the sources are?
Are you denying the fact an illegal immigrant was arrested for the alleged murder of a 2 week old baby, the mother and the grandmother? Are you denying the fact he is charged with three counts of first-degree murder? Are you denying the fact he was in court, in shackles and a prison jumpsuit? Are you denying the fact leftist policies to protect criminal illegals harm the innocent?
Who is the delusional sicko?
That would be you.
Keep it it up wacko, you made anon’s argument. As for the sources, fox and the post are left wing nut media outfits.
Typical annony. Cannot even tell left from right. Up or down. Female from male.
BOY. YOU ARE GOOD. OUTSTANDING REALLY.
LAKEN RILEY
Just say you support the violent invasion of religious services you commie ghoul.
Keep whistling past the graveyard lefty. Eventually if govt doesn’t defend its citizens, the citizens will defend themselves. I pray we dont get there. That is always incredibly violent and mistakes are always made. So lets all pray that our govts wake up do their job and we avoid the absolute terror of the alternative.
Normality to Anonymous is killing 2-week-old babies, mothers, and grandmothers.
You’re the classic left winger….any fact you don’t like you simply call it a lie. Total morons.
Yeah you’re right anon, those 2 sickos, dustoff and farmer are total sicko lefty morons. always pushing sicko leftist lies here.
So, you continue to deny the facts and claim DustOff and I are pushing lies?
You are the perfect example why no one trusts leftists. You deny reality and then accuse those who point out the facts a spreading lies. By all means, please do continue to show us how truly delusional you really are.
A I Summary
Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, became the center of a national controversy due to its connection to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Protesters disrupted a Sunday worship service at the church because a resident pastor, David Easterwood, also serves as an acting director for ICE in the Twin Cities.
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One is hard-pressed to think of of two professions more dissimilar than law enforcement and the clergy. They don’t compliment each other in the very least!
So you have to wonder about David Easterwood. He’s a weekend warrior in the pulpit..?? What kind of congregation follows a pastor like that?
OR following the law. Nice try.
Is AI Making Your Kids Dumber? Over Half Of Teachers Surveyed Say It May Be
https://dailycaller.com/2026/06/05/teachers-ai-kids-dumber-poll/
“A 2025 analysis of how AI tools affect cognitive offloading showed a “significant negative correlation” between frequent use of AI tools and the ability to think critically in people across age groups and educational backgrounds. The researchers at the SBS Swiss Business School found that younger age groups exhibited a higher amount of dependence on AI models and lower critical thinking scores.”
“What’s more troubling is a Pangram/YouGov study in May that found only 55 percent of participants, all of whom were Gen Zers aged 18 to 28, were able to identify fake or misleading AI-generated material.”
https://www.theepochtimes.com/article/ai-content-is-swamping-the-internet-how-it-impacts-critical-thinking-6026954
People who use AI are dumber.
This is relevant How ?
You can dislike ICE, you can dislike Easterwood, You can dislike the the church.
What you can not do is disrupt others or trespass on private property
Are commenters herein required to be attorneys?
I am fully capable of understanding “shall not be abridged” and “shall not be infringed” while many supreme court justices and lower court judges are not.
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“25 out of 56 signers, and 35 out of 55 delegates”
AI Overview
While legal training was common among the Revolutionary-era elite, the founders represented a vast cross-section of professions. The men who built the nation included planters, merchants, scientists, and soldiers, with a remarkably diverse set of backgrounds.Prominent Non-Lawyer Founders:George Washington: A surveyor and professional soldier. He never practiced law.Benjamin Franklin: A printer, publisher, and scientist. He was notably the only non-lawyer on the five-man committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence.Samuel Adams: A businessman and brewer.John Hancock: A highly successful merchant and smuggler.Benjamin Rush: A prominent physician and educator.The Lawyer Representation:While not all were attorneys, the law was undoubtedly the most common profession among the Founding Fathers:Declaration of Independence: Out of 56 signers, about 25 were attorneys.Constitutional Convention: Of the 55 delegates who gathered in Philadelphia in 1787, around 35 were lawyers or had formal legal training.
Alabama and many As Southern in the states operated much the KKK was in charge. Politicians, judges, lawyers were all clan member. Leftist operate the same. After all they are the same groups that operated in Alabama.
But which party is criminalizing diversity and carving up Black congressional districts??
“Black congressional districts.” What a stupid moronic concept. That is about as contrary to the whole idea of America as it is possible to get. It is cultural Marxism pure and simple. Demonic.
Yeah, white male congressmen are better at representing Blacks. ..Not..!
These areas can pick who they want. Not forced like the libs love to do.
^^This is the simple minded people we are dealing with on the left. They cannot understand yet have egos that say they do.
I swear leftys are the stupidest idiots in the history of humanity. If this poster were an actual American citizen we would be in big trouble, fortunately his IP says foreigner.
People free to pick the person they wish to represent them – regardless of immutable characteristics is diversity. People given only a choice reflecting their skin color is not.
No one. Did you miss the fact. The court said you can’t do it by race. Which is funny. When did blacks or anyone else become a (new) race. Unlike human.
No one is criminalizing diversity.
SCOTUS is properly finding racist laws unconstitutional.
BTW Concocting all minority congressional districts is anti-diversity.
I doubt that this will effect the number of minorities in congress at all.
But it will mean more republican minorities.
Black and hispanic republicans can win in diverse districts.
Black and Hispanic Democrats can only win in districts that are not diverse.
Turley’s Concern Greatly Misplaced
The federal government has turned over evidence in the shooting death of Renee Good, according to attorney Eric Newmark.
The move comes after a district court judge ordered the government to turn over the evidence regarding a case where a man is accused of dragging ICE agent Jonathan Ross with his car in Bloomington, Minnesota, six months before Ross shot and killed Renee Good.
The legal team representing Renee Good’s family said they are “cautiously optimistic” that the evidence was turned over, but have “concerns about full compliance.”
“As of this evening, our multiple requests for information and evidence since January have gone without a reply. We maintain our commitment to providing transparency where the government is not”, said attorney Antonio Romanucci, part of the Good family’s legal team.
Minnesota state and county officials in March sued the federal government, alleging they are being blocked from investigating the shootings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti and Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis by federal agents.
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/government-turns-over-evidence-renee-good-shooting/
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A peaceful protester was shot dead in cold blood by an overly cocky ICE agent. Most of country has seen that shooting on tape. No one outside the rightwing media bubble believes that shooting was justified.
Agent Ross needlessly stepped in front of Good’s car, then quickly pivoted away, only to shoot Good at close range. And instead of cooperating with the investigation, Trump’s DOJ has stonewalled; making sure no timely examination was possible.
Yet Johnathan Turley is more concerned about the disruption of a church service where the ‘pastor’ was an employee ICE. Which begs the question, “What kind of pastor collaborates with an occupation army?”
I pick up my guitar and play, just like yesterday, and I get on my knees and pray — we don’t get fooled again!
Loser. She tried to run lover the officer. She was told to get out of the car. The video proves it.
There is no evidence that should be admissible beyond what we already have.
Do you think ICE has a different video angle ?
Renee good violated the law and escalated her violations – ultimately either recklessly or deliberately using her car as a weapon.
She paid the price for her poor choices with her life.
Regardless everything that happened is the consequence of her choices.
What exactly is it that you think ICE is in possession of that changes anything ?
I can think of nothing that might actually exist that could possibly be ordered produced.
Are those suing entitled to Kristy Noem’s underwear size ?
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I used to wonder about ordinary police and soldiers in Nazi Germany.
How is it that they weren’t cripplingly mortified by shame and guilt by some of the things they were expected to do?
One never truly knows what one might do in those situations but I can guess of myself because I have rejected opportunities that I thought would entail acts that would be beneath me and that would shame me or would diminish my self regard, my sense of self. I guess I might be turning arrogance into a virtue. But one never truly knows until tested I suppose.
But thinking of the Dundee Girl with knife in one hand and hatchet in the other, protecting her sister from a Muslim predator [he was later arrested on other charges against other girls] and how SHE was arrested and escorted to jail, walking down the street surrounded by burly, male uniformed cops.
How could these ‘men’ not feel humiliation, shame, disgrace for that very public walk of shame? It was indeed a walk of shame but it was the uniformed, immoral cops who were shamed . The girl, to me and to many others, looked a heroine, a reincarnation of Joan of Arc.
I believe I would quit the force or sabotage its goals and programs before I would participate in that girl’s arrest
Not enough people asked what these same, limp ‘officers’ were failing to do that a twig of a girl didn’t feel safe on the streets of a formerly civilized country unless she was armed with a bayonet and tomahawk.
Now, after the same ‘police’ force arrested and handcuffed the dying victim of a stabbing because he was accused of some sort of verbal racism, Gateway Pundit has an article about the degraded culture of UK police, and it is disturbing.
At the very least it is a glimpse into the hollow-souled police in Britain. And one sees the soul of the SS, the Gestapo, and other instruments of an evil government.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/shocking-muckraker-footage-uk-police-admit-anything-racist
One wonders how these people can ever look into a mirror.
Irene Kao’s decision is a cynical concession to the mob. It is a decision that will give the Minnesota mob a further sense of license.
Dostoyevsky comes to mind:
Now, what sort of psychological operation had been going on in that man’s soul? No man lives, can live, without having some object in view, and making efforts to attain that object. But when object there is none, and hope is entirely fled, anguish often turns a man into a monster. The object we all had in view was liberty, and getting out of our place of confinement and hard labour.
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky in The House of the Dead
e.g.
Graham Platner’s Wife Flagged Sexually Explicit Texts to His Senate Campaign
The wife of the Maine Democratic Senate candidate last year told the campaign about texts she had found between Platner and other women
“The revelations about Platner’s past have provided fodder for Republicans and stirred debate within the Democratic Party about his character and judgment”
https://www.wsj.com/politics/elections/graham-platners-wife-flagged-sexually-explicit-texts-to-his-senate-campaign-628ec832
Democrats care about character and judgment?
Next they will tell us Nazis are grand, don’t believe all women, misogyny is just dandy, homophobia is okey dokey, being a white slob with a shapeless body at age 41 is admirable, and having a nonexistent curriculum vitae are pluscuamperfecto traits when running as a Democrat for US Senate
Democrats want all of us to join them in their 9th circle of hell with their traitorous betrayal of family, friends and country.
Estovir– Great quote from Dostoyevsky. Thank you for presenting it and relating it to current events. Public schools seem to have given up reading to the extent that a large portion of graduates would struggle simply to read your quote and, if read, they would be incapable of engaging and understanding its beauty, despair and warning.
Great quote from Dostoyevsky…..(many)…would be incapable of engaging and understanding its beauty, despair and warning.
You are vey welcome, Young. I think it is very important, a requisite for survival, for everyone to engage in what Cal Newport calls Deep Work:
Deep work is becoming increasingly valuable at the same time that it’s becoming increasingly rare. Therefore, if you cultivate this skill, you’ll thrive. – Cal Newport
Dostoyevsky describes the potential that all of us have to become monsters. We see it today in every online forum and social media venue, every level of society, in our local communities, churches, universities, families and indeed even higher tiers of government.
In 1978 Alexander Solzhenitsyn offered students and faculty an opportunity to do deep work when Harvard invited him to speak. His speech was entitled “A World Split Apart”. Solzhenitsyn’s speech was an example of a masterful philosophical work. As someone who fled Communism, in my opinion Solzhenitsyn’s Harvard speech was prophetic and deeply profound.
Harvard’s motto is “Veritas.” Many of you have already found out and others will find out in the course of their lives that truth eludes us as soon as our concentration begins to flag, all the while leaving the illusion that we are continuing to pursue it. This is the source of much discord. Also, truth seldom is sweet; it is almost invariably bitter. A measure of bitter truth is included in my speech today, but I offer it as a friend, not as an adversary.
NB: go to the Solzhenitsyn link I provided and read/watch his entire speech.
Alas, the elite at Harvard, were not capable of understanding its beauty, despair and warning. In spite of being invited by Harvard to speak to a packed crowd at Harvard Yard, they rejected him. His speech was said to accelerate Solzhenitsyn being treated as an outcast by the West, thus being rejected by East and West.
If it is true that beauty will save the world, as Dostoyevsky described in The Idiot, Part III, chap. 5., then we need to get cracking.
Suggestion to all readers: stop engaging the dark shallows. Do deep work to stimulate the brain, develop an important skill and thrive, so as to be a sign of beauty that will save the world from the monsters
Pax
Estovir– “Dostoyevsky describes the potential that all of us have to become monsters. We see it today in every online forum and social media venue, every level of society, in our local communities, churches, universities, families and indeed even higher tiers of government.”
Only too true… I have been astonished at the rapidity with which so many on the Left, and at every level of society and government, have embraced what I think is pure Evil.
When I watched old films of ecstatic Germans at Nazi rallies I wondered how a country so advanced and so educated could be so completely seduced. And now I am seeing it here. I still don’t understand why. Perhaps the lack of intellectual deep work is a factor. I have met high school students with ‘A’ in Civics who didn’t know what Washington DC was. They were incapable of even reading Dostoevsky much less pondering and thinking deeply about his insights into humanity. We are in greater trouble than i thought possible.
Republican Newt Gingrich, already with a mistress, took divorce papers to her hospital bedside where she was being treated for cancer. So much for Republican family values. None since Gingrich has been one tiny bit better.
So much for in sickness and in health.
Recall that Senator Al Franken was forced by his fellow Democrats for posing a picture in which he pretended to touch the armored vest of a sleeping woman, not actually touching and only near ceramic plate armor.
In response the Republicans lied about a child sex ring run from the basement of a pizza parlor which, in fact, had no basement, causing one Republican to go nuts because he thought they were lying to him about the structure.
Meanwhile Speaker of the House Mike Johnson not only appears to have no bank account because he allegedly ties his money to a church and so apparently avoids taxes and scrutiny and the church makes him use software to see if he is looking at porn, along with his son who is forced to use the same application. The mutual not sharing of porn Johnson has spoken proudly of.
FYI – requests for gay sexual encounters spike in cities when and where Republicans hold conventions.
Talk about reaching… Don’t forget Bill boy Clinton.
Leave it to the libs to pick this loser. I have always read they were against these kids of people.
Shows you the direction of the lib/Nazi/party
Would you rather be a geriatric regular or a regular geriatric?
This sounds exactly like the problems in the South in the 60s when local officials would not go after those who were attacking Blacks. The solution then was the Feds ramping up the Civil Rights division and going after them in federal court
sounds like the same thing is appropriate here
Absolutely. Harmeet Dhillon should already be aware of this travesty.
@Anonymous
You are so right. So ironic, and so very awful.
James.
If the libs are allowed to get away with this. They will do it again.
This has been a fantastic read what with X getting all fired up about being proven wrong and posting up to his limit in desperation. Thanks guys, really good read here.
Not a stellar moment in the law, but what strikes me about this is the sense I get that the persons who disrupted services and scared a good number of people are to be coddled like little children. I do not know why I have this impression. I would like to be wrong! But it seems that in Minneapolis, where conflagrations are considered to be mostly peaceful, anything short of burnings are just trifles.
It’s just commies going to bat for other commies in violation of the law.
Look at these so called Learing centers. Far to many are getting very weak prosecutions for their crimes.
But again, it is a lib run state. I wonder how much $$ Tampon Tim was getting?
georgie goes silent and disappears after being challenged about whether he is === or ever was a lawyer.
Is it more significant and eloquent to be a manipulator of the law, for good or evil, well or poorly, or one who benefits from it or is oppressed by it?
He also claims to be a aircraft engineer. What a joke he is.
A serial fabricator demands that you give an example of something it fabricated. Suppose you give one.
What do you think its response will be?
You’re just TDS mad because Trump! was right about everything.
I think you misinterpreted the referent.
Looks like this is the time of the day when all the Chinese Communist Party bots wake up and start posting lies about President Trump.
Estovir, maybe some day you’ll wake up and realize Trump lies about everything.
Er, scratch that. I doubt if you’ll wake up.
“Trump lies about everything” is the kind of brain-dead stupidity uttered by sheltered Leftists who have never left mommy’s basement and never listen to anything but left-wing garbage media.
And I’m not estovir.
Trumps super power is that his supporters KNOW to take him seriously but not literaly.
That builds trust.
The weakness of those on the left like you is that you take him literally – often MORE than literally reading into what he has said things that are not there. But you do not take him seriously.
The Left pretends Trump’s statements are meant more literally than any prior statements in world history. The left is completely disingenuous on this topic (to use their favorite word against them – actually tied for favorite with “enlightened”).
Trump didn’t literally mean he would build the ballroom alongside the East Wing; you trusted that he would demolish it. He didn’t mean he would bring down fuel prices; you trusted he would nearly double them. He didn’t mean that he would lower food prices; you trusted that he would add more than 50% to them up until now, with no end to the inflation in sight.
Iran doesn’t take Trump seriously. They know he blows hot air, regardless of the military might of the USA, Iran stands unbowed. Putin doesn’t take Trump seriously; Putin is still killing people in Ukraine. Israel doesn’t take Trump seriously; Netanyahu goaded him into the war with Iran and it was really simple to do that.
I do take him seriously, as seriously as I would a rabid hippopotamus or any other brain damaged beast destroying America.
Trump didn’t literally mean he would build the ballroom alongside the East Wing;
Now you’re just lying your freaking face off. Trump NEVER EVER SAID, HINTED, OR IMPLIED that the ballroom would be built alongside the East Wing. He never said one word about the East Wing. He said it would be built alongside the White House and would not touch the existing building, AND HE KEPT THAT PROMISE. The White House building has not even been touched. Not one scratch on it. The worthless East Wing was demolished and the ballroom will be built on its site, without affecting the White House at all.
Again, you are simply a filthy liar and nothing you say deserves any attention.
Now the left claims the the blue water in the fountains are NOT blue.
You mean Bill& Hillary Clinton and biden too
This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.
The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
‘Drain the swamp’? What a joke! So much corruption, the media can only cover half of it.
Call the police, Karen!!!
Car 54 Where Are You???
Being called ‘Karen’ by Estovir is like being called a ‘fraud’ by convicted frauds like Trump.
Awww, has Trump Derangement Syndrome fried your brain? Poor psychotic schlub.
Who’s East of Vir?
Back in the good days of TV
Can you name one? just one. with a little detail too so we can make sure you don’t have TDS.
Are you James Comey? DeNiro?
This came from what new source?
Im sorry but, I am a bit confused? If the donor list is private? Then how do you know that 16 of the 27 donors were facing criminal charges??
He heard it from some left wing nut on the MSM – it does not need to make sense.
The donor list is private; many donors made public statements about their donations.
Yes! fume over that ballroom! screech! Doesn’t it drive you MAD??
Can you imagine a ballroom triggers TDS too.
We gotta get Trumps face on some currency for the sake of the TDS afflicted.
Ending corruption is trivial – the less power government has the less corruption there will be.
As Lord Acton correctly observed more than 150 years ago
Power Corrupts
Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely.
It is those of you on the left that constantly expand the power of government.
Sell the Kennedy center, agree.
The less power the government has the less likely there will be government corruption and the more likely there will be an overall increase in corruption. Nature abhors a vacuum and when there is a gap in power the most evil people will seek to fill it.
I want the USDA and the FAA and the FDA to stop checking for safety. Drop the screw-worm defenses entirely. If cattlemen want to protect their herds on their own and use 12 year olds in factories cutting up cows, that’s the way to go. If the screw worms get into pet dogs and cats and start eating them alive, then the owners can deal with it. We don’t need regulations that drugs are safe or effective; they should let anyone do an ad campaign like the old days when cigarette companies would have doctors tell which ones where healthy for the smoker. Get rid of the FCC; if I want a 1000W transmitter in the middle of the cell phone band, well, I paid for it and I should get to use it however I want. Not my problem if you can’t make a call with your puny phone.
There’s no need for Air Traffic Control – let the pilots sort things out.
All so simple if the government would butt out, the libertarian dream.
“More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.”
What you do not think that the people who contribute to democrats do not get government contracts ?
Do you think that if you contribute to anything political – you can not get a government contract ?
Should we purge all contributors to Act Blue or Win Red from the list of govenrment contractors ?
If it was your job to award people contracts – who would you give them too – your friends who you KNOW can do the job or someone you do not know or worse still your enemies ?
Should Trump be awarding Government contracts to people who stabbed him in the back in the past and will do so again in the future ?
Regardless, your claim, if True is correlation – not proof of corruption .
“Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. ”
Of course they were – we all KNOW that democrats weaponized the federal government against their enemies. 80% of the left wing nuts in the Civil Rights division left ON THEIR OWN when Harmeet Dillon took over. Might that be because Trump is purging and going after those engaged in lawfare.
With respect to your claims – do you know if any of those claims have merit – or do you just assume they do ?
“The White House won’t even release the full donor list.”
So what ?
The people who donated are CERTAIN to make sure that people KNOW.
Look arround most institutions ever built – the names of the people who donated everything from a building to a door are all over them.
People do not hide donations they flaunt them.
“They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive.”
I have no problems with daylight.
But you have not provided a single example of
“$5M foir hunter and $5M for “the big guy” and we will get the prosecutor fired”
You want to claim pay for play – you need an actual quid pro quo.
” A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.”
And has been overturned.
“Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder.”
Correct and you have not established any such auction.
Even Turely has openly admitted that several decades of presidents and m,any others in both parties have acknowledged the need fort the Ballroom.
The leader of the free world should not have state dinners with world leaders out on the white house lawn in tents.
“When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.”
Non-sequitur.
There are things you can control and things you can not.
You can control how much the govenrment spends, and what it spends it for.
You can control whether the job is well or poorly done.
It is NOT fraud to get something from government or anywhere else because of connections.
That is who the world works – it is NOT even a bad thing.
“all other things being equal, people exchange with those they know,
all other things being not so equal, people exchange with those they know”
There is GOOD reason for that.
I need someone to drive me to projects that I contract for.
I have a friend who will do the job.
Or I can post an add and hire someone.
There is little doubt I can hire someone who will do a better job than my friend.
But I will have to do alot of work to hire them and vet them – I do not know them.
I have no reason to trust them – and they are driving for me – so I am trusting them with my life.
I know my friend – I know his strengths and weaknesses – and I have to do no work to hire him
Just give him the job.
The world works that way.
Even when I do NOT know the friend very well – they are just an acquaintance – I still know them better than people responding to an add in the paper.
What you should be concerned about is NOT who gets the job – life is not fair – you are just a whiny toddler if you expect otherwise, but whether the job is done correctly.
37% of all PPACA spending is fraudulent – that is Far more important than where Friends of Biden or Friends of Trump got the work.
Do you think Donors to Trump got contracts from 2021-2024 ?
Do you think that Investigations were opened on all or most Republican contractors when Biden took office ?
Do you think your $hit does not stink ?
With respect to the Ball Room – the american people are getting something that we greatly need and the people are not paying for it.
With respect to your “the little guy gets screwed argument” – do you think ANYONE getting a federal contract is a little guy ?
Your merely ranting about choosing between left contributing contractors and right contributing contractors.
BTW many of these people contribute often equally to BOTH parties.
@John
Your last is a good point. I used to contribute to both parties and considered all candidates. I am a true centrist (and I am aware that you have stated you are aligned with Libertarianism). No longer. The modern left is simply not an option, and I will never support them ever again. That does not, as I’m sure you know, automatically equal ‘conservative’, as it doesn’t. And no amount of false identity shenanigans from the left will make me support them in their party malleability.
Honestly: I have always thought the upper echelons of politicians were arrogant pr**ks, but the modern, globalist DNC simply takes the cake. Never again.
Dear John, from the length of that reply it is clear the Democrats are living rent free in your head.
Getting the contracts isn’t a problem. Getting no-bid contracts with no deliverables is.
“37% of all PPACA spending is fraudulent” If so then it should be easy to arrest, charge, and prosecute those committing the fraud. There must be a reason Trump isn’t doing that. The simplest explanation is that there isn’t that much fraud.
Can we still buy Trumpcoin and Melaniacoin and cheap, out-of-date rebranded phones with AI generated logos (11 stripes on the American flag)? How’s Truth Social doing? Raking in the dough?
Trump loves the uneducated, many of whom post here, misspellings and all with ridiculous statements and fanciful adulation for President who is intent on strip mining America for himself.
You fools keep posting this. Yet where is the proof.
Communist protect their riff-raff, at least until they take power, then they imprison or kill those same people. Too dangerous to the Communist leadership to keep around. Prison camp or firing squad is in their future.
The above is one of those stupid comments merely for the sake of filling space and for no other reason.
That’s what a commie would say. or one suffering from TDS…
How’s that for filling space.
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump referred Justice Department attorneys to a disciplinary committee Friday after condemning them for misconduct so severe she said it had shaken her faith in the DOJ entirely.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy of Rhode Island issued the referral under the court’s Local Rule 210(b), citing both representations made by the respondents’ attorneys and the findings of her May 14 order — a 24-page takedown of DOJ conduct in a case involving a subpoena seeking the medical records of minor patients who received gender-affirming care at Rhode Island Hospital.
In that order, McElroy found that DOJ had “misrepresented and withheld information” from both her court and a federal court in Texas, where she said the department had engaged in blatant forum shopping to find a friendlier venue for its demands.
The judge saved some of her sharpest language for DOJ’s courtroom behavior, writing that a senior attorney “sat silently by” during a hearing while a junior colleague — someone who had been practicing law for approximately six months — “was forced to answer questions about DOJ’s blatant disregard for the proper course of negotiations.”
A declaration filed by a senior DOJ official in the Texas proceeding, McElroy found, was “clearly misleading, if not utterly false.” She called DOJ’s “reckless disregard for the duty of candor owed” to a federal court “appalling,” and a serious breach of professional ethics.
“DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case,” McElroy wrote.
She also quashed the subpoena entirely and enjoined DOJ from seeking, receiving, or using any patient-identifying records from Rhode Island Hospital, finding the subpoena lacked a congressionally authorized purpose, was issued in bad faith, and violated children’s constitutional right to informational privacy.
Nothing I have heard in any of this explains why there is a case at all ?
If a patient is receiving care paid for byu the government – it is absolutely the governments business. If it is not paid for by government – then there is no case.
That said in Texas so called Gender Affirming Care is illegal – and the TX supreme court has upheld that law.
There is no basis for a federal case.
Further the Judge seems to be running afoul of United States v. Skrmetti
There is no reason for this to be in the federal courts – so called “gender afirminmg care” for minors is illegal in TX and SCOTUS has said such laws are constitutional
Why is there a case ?
“There is no basis for a federal case.”
It’s an equal protection violation. The government has no fundamental interest in gender affirming care.
If it did it would ban hair implants, tummy tucks, breast reduction for minor male children, most forms of plastic surgery. It would especially ban the barbaric practice of slicing the flesh from the penises of infant boys.
Recall Irene Cow
When this happens again, as it surely will, those “protestors” have a get out of jail free card provided by this buffoons failure to prosecute the current case.
WOW In CALIF to beat all
A California jury deadlocked on Thursday over a woman charged with crimes for posting a video criticizing an abortion clinic.
Most jurors believed Anastasia Rogers did not break the law when she posted an August Instagram video about how Planned Parenthood seeks to “unalive” babies in San Francisco, according to court records and media reports.
Nice the see the jury used their heads.
I predict the prosecutor will re-file charges and get a new jury. We can’t have any anti-abortion speech around here, right? The process is the punishment. Let this be a warning to anyone else who thinks they have 1A protections to speak their mind about abortion! Not in deep-blue California.
“My Body, My Choice?”
Fetus’ Body, Fetus’ Choice
And here are some bonus scientific facts that prove it’s not just an organ or part of the mother.
During its early stages of development, the placenta of the unborn child secretes neurokinin B-containing phosphocoline molecules, which protects the child from detection by its mother’s immune system, because it can be interpreted as a foreign body and is subject to attack. This is because the fetus is of non-identical genetic material to the mother due to their different DNA.
Also present in the unborn child are lymphocytic suppressor cells which stop interleukin 2 (IL2) cells from signalling cytotoxic T cells to kill the child. The purpose of IL2 cells is to distinguish between self and non-self (parts of the mother and foreign parts). The lymphocytic cells would not need to inhibit the response of the cytotoxic T cells if the IL2 did not signal the feuts as a foreign body. This would not occur if it was one of her own organs because the response would not be initiated.
An organ does not have its own organs. The fetal heartbeat begins at around 22 days after fertilisation as I said earlier, and brain waves are detected at about six weeks, which means the unborn child has a heart and a brain. At seven weeks, all other organs are present, although not fully developed, which would mean not only did the mother have an organ with different DNA to her, but this organ also has its own organ systems, and so the mother has an extra heart, brain, stomach, liver, etc.
– Emma Greenland-Broadsmith
There is no heart at 22 days; there is only a pacemaker cell site. The same effect can be reproduced in a Petri dish. At 6 weeks the brain is developed to be about as complex as that in a guppy. At 7 weeks, if all the organs are present the fetus should be able to survive on its own rather than being a parasite to the mother – the chemicals released are how parasites escape detection.
=anonymous at 1:44, yours is such an uninformed and may we say ignorant understanding that it is laughable. Keep trying to use 6th grade biology to justify a moral stance.
1 Million abortions per year. 5 million people in 5 years. Churches used to run orphanages. The babies were adopted by parishioners. Perhaps going back to that would work.
Adoption is an option.
Many weren’t adopted so much as used as house slaves and turned out into the street the first that could be legally done.
California is seen as criminalizing syntax, but is using syntax to weakly prove criminal intent.
Babies are post birth, so that appears to be defamatory. Some think about partial birth abortions – where a dead fetus is removed from the uterus to save the life of the woman from the effects of the corpse rotting in the womb. Many conservatives believe that a woman dying of the toxins released by the bacteria as the corpse rots is the rightful punishment for a woman who failed to dam an offspring that a man sired.