“Pam Bondi’s era —which paved the way by restructuring the DOJ and navigating the Epstein disclosures— is over. We’re in the Blanche era now.”—Jeff Childers
"[...] legal attacks against Mr. Trump, running back a decade, amounting to an ongoing coup, a comprehensive campaign of legalistic chicanery disguised as legality designed to overthrow the chief executive."
Would not such a circumstance allow for a special military tribunal to try those who have sought to depose the president? I don't know the answer, but if it can be done, we can cut through the BS rather quickly. As it stands, I believe the case against Comey passes the Brandenburg test. While the First Amendment protects even provocative or extremist speech, today’s volatile environment sharpens the issue: Comey’s post can only be construed as intentionally seeking to trigger immediate illegal acts. This is where that volatility becomes relevant - his message carried a real likelihood of causing such action. We live in an era in which a president has been impeached multiple times - once an extreme rarity - and has also faced multiple attempts on his life. What other conclusion could a reasonable person draw when viewing Comey’s photo?
"Would not such a circumstance allow for a special military tribunal to try those who have sought to depose the president? I don't know the answer, but if it can be done, we can cut through the BS rather quickly. "
I also do not know the answer, however, on the surface it appears to be a more efficient option. The ‘Lawfare’ tactics being routinely employed make tribunals worth consideration.
I need to ask if you intended ‘depose’ or ‘dispose’. Inserting both with a conjunction is an idea.
Also, military tribunals appear to be a slippery slope. Juxtapose this risk to risk of judicial tyranny as noted early in the history of the Constitutional Republic by some of the Founders, Madison and Jefferson in particular. It adds, in my opinion, some substantive cause for considering tribunals to keep the judiciary in its originally envisioned lane.
As soon as Iran is wrapped up, things are going to get very spicy.
I truly hope to see these traitors brought to justice, and that goes right to the top. Maybe the Obama library can be converted in to a prison, which is what it looks like it was designed to be in the first place.
I'm with JackStraw, it appears to look like a high security prison. Its so ugly I have to
assume that's what it was designed for even though even unintended. No wonder the community where it resides are so up in arms about it. Imagine seeing this monstrosity every day
"As soon as Iran is wrapped up, things are going to get very spicy."
If previous wars the USA has engaged itself in are any indication of what to be expected in Iran, well, sit tight. It's going to be awhile before anything in Iran gets wrapped up. A long while.
While the active war was going on, the USA was wearing down Irans ability to raise hell in the ME. Now? Ceasefire? For what? To re-arm? To toss rhetoric back and forth over the fence? To let the Republican Guard establish power?
To make the USA look like good guys? Right!
If war is the only alternative for humanity to make decisions or resolve conflict, may it be short and totally decisive. Otherwise, it returns and returns and returns.
As you know, I disagree with any war that puts the USA as the aggressor. But in this case, if the USA wants to quiet Iran then for God's sake do it quickly, make it the 51st state and move on with it. We don't need another 20 year engagement like the one in Afghanistan that accomplished diddly poop for anyone other than the poppy growers and opium dealers.
No, CP, not the 51st state. An ally like Germany and Japan. A member of the ME alliance that is forming under the Abraham Accords. BTW, Abraham Accords is a marvelous name as he was the father of both sides of the religions in the ME. A leader of the efforts to create a Fertile Crescent in the ME, along with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The answer? An Iranian Constitution that separates state and religion, ie a secular government. That should be the number one aim.
Don’t think the Comey case is weak, it isn’t. Don’t forget that when he pulled this stunt he was promoting a book about political assassinations and about using dog whistles for assassinations. Trump hasn’t had 3 assassination attempts, he’s actually had 19 when you count all the crazies that have scaled walls and attempted to enter ML. If any of those perps shared the 8647 Comey tweet, he’s done.
It is. It's telling about Hakeem Jeffries that he's said not one word about black illiteracy in the public schools. Nobody black in the democrat party has addressed black illiteracy in the public schools.
That is because white racist leftist Democrat swine going back to LBJ designed the public education system to fail to educate public school students, but to indoctrinate them to hate the American Republic. That paralleled the same evil Democrats to concoct the "Great Society," a perpetual taxpayer-funded welfare system designed to keep blacks and other minorities poor and dependent on government programs.
The same Democrats built a "welfare" system the same way a narcotics dealer builds an empire: get the victim addicted to the substance, then make the victim totally dependent on the "dealer" for the supply of the substance. The narcotics addict will do anything, destroy his family or friends, harm anyone, and will support and even defend his dealer to ensure his supply of the narcotic goes uninterrupted. The welfare-dependent victim will do the same thing to get his welfare payment. That is why I hold the Democrat politician with the same hatred that I hold for the most vicious narcotics dealer--they both promote addicting people to a substance designed to enslave and--eventually--kill its user. It's not coincidental, either, that Democrat politicians are soft on narcotics dealers and other criminals victimizing innocent people--Democrats, narcotics, dealers and criminals are just birds of a feather.
The other thing about Peter Daszak, which people seem to have missed, is that he was the “American” representative on the fact-finding team sent to Wuhan, which determined COVID 19 could not possibly have come from the lab….
You have to consider that Thune himself is not actually the problem. The Rinos on CONgress and the Senate seem to enjoy being the minority party. No big decisions need to be made, no need to take the blame for bad decisions. Just preen and posture, attend the billionaires parties, collect the checks and life is good.
Here in Georgia we are trying to figure out what the SCOTUS ruling on redistricting means for us, given that early voting is already underway.
The Morens indictment is a beautiful thing. Normally a peaceful woman, when it comes to the covid gene therapy genocide, I am Arya Stark, muttering the list of people for whom vengence is needed: Morens, Daszak, Baric, Faucci, Wallensky...it's a long list. I hope the guilty by not-yet-indicted are like shipwrecked sailor clinging to the wreckage and hearing the screams of men being picked off by sharks one by one.
I have to wonder if all the Trump drama was just kabuki theater to get us all focused on those goings on (and arguing about it-more division) instead of what our legislators were doing or not doing behind the scene. Trump seems no worse for wear and did get elected. Don’t focus on the preparations for the implementation of the WEF’s 2030 agenda. Right now we got a war to focus on. Never mind Stargate/Stardust. Most people probably haven’t heard of either, but they all have opinions on the Epstein files-nothing to see here on that issue says the President) ) AI data center proliferation, with Trumps stamp of approval. I knew we were had when I saw the state dinner he gave all the tech titans shortly after inauguration. Our filthy skies if everyone can pull their heads away from their smartphones and look up and wonder what the hell’s going on and why?
AI is a yuge concern, but like all higher tech installations, it will probably be welcomed with open arms.
I write about the effect of the internal combustion engine on agriculture in the 1920s, aka the tractor. Millions of sharecroppers thrown off their land, heading for the cities and the unemployment line. AI will make that a mere bagatelle. It has already started.
I am appalled at how fast it has descended on us. I do not know what Trump can do about it. Or anyone, competition with China is going to “put the pedal to the metal” so it may be a race to the singularity point as much as the moon.
From time to time, when I am bored or have a few minutes to waste I will hop on the "doom scroll" on YouTube and thumb through some of the stupid videos people post. Most of the videos posted today are not real but are creations of AI. Some of them the eye can detect due to small nuances such as perfect skin, blurred teeth or vanishing legs. But some of them are damned good and nearly real. Type "beautiful woman" into a Google search bar and see what comes up. Pictures of women so perfectly beautiful that it is almost creepy to behold. My concerns with this are that we live in a world where everything is already fakery and lies and what does this do to our daughters who are already struggling to fit in in a perfectly fake world? From women's faces to the music we listen to, it is all artificial and unreal. Now we have AI creating more and more fakery. If society doesn't get control of this we will find ourselves in a truly awful situation.
It's terrifying. Think about it. How many young men venture into looking at online porn. The porn industry undoubtedly will become saturated with AI and create women and sex far beyond the realms of human capability. Young men are already unable to pop a nobber at the sight of a real woman because of rampant porn viewing. What is AI porn going to do to their brains?
I truly fear for the future of our species if we don't get a handle on this shit.
Not just porn, just about everything the advertising industry hits. Boys, yes, but think about girls too, presented with the “perfect” image of what they should be or look like. Think about small breasted or late developing girls thinking they should be boys.
All technology changes can be used for good or evil, I am concerned that the propensity for evil overwhelms the potential for good with
AI.
Here is a story on Fox, right now about the Congress investigating the use of Chinese AI by American companies. National security anyone?
I fear this race with China is an other race like the Cold War arms race with Russia. A better thing in my opinion would be to focus on sabotaging Chinas efforts as we actually helped propel them to this race with selling defense technology and their outright stealing it. To what end will this race beget? The extinction of humanity? Nobody wins that outcome.
I don’t think the regime running Iran will ever relinquish power. The culture there (government) is actually one of deceit arrogance stupidity and immovable. They must completely be destroyed.
The good people in Iran will have to deal with it. In the end they benefit.
Wellll Houston is under a flood warning through the wee hours of tomorrow morning so any local communists are probably out of luck for their protests today. So sad.
"[...] legal attacks against Mr. Trump, running back a decade, amounting to an ongoing coup, a comprehensive campaign of legalistic chicanery disguised as legality designed to overthrow the chief executive."
Would not such a circumstance allow for a special military tribunal to try those who have sought to depose the president? I don't know the answer, but if it can be done, we can cut through the BS rather quickly. As it stands, I believe the case against Comey passes the Brandenburg test. While the First Amendment protects even provocative or extremist speech, today’s volatile environment sharpens the issue: Comey’s post can only be construed as intentionally seeking to trigger immediate illegal acts. This is where that volatility becomes relevant - his message carried a real likelihood of causing such action. We live in an era in which a president has been impeached multiple times - once an extreme rarity - and has also faced multiple attempts on his life. What other conclusion could a reasonable person draw when viewing Comey’s photo?
"Would not such a circumstance allow for a special military tribunal to try those who have sought to depose the president? I don't know the answer, but if it can be done, we can cut through the BS rather quickly. "
I also do not know the answer, however, on the surface it appears to be a more efficient option. The ‘Lawfare’ tactics being routinely employed make tribunals worth consideration.
I need to ask if you intended ‘depose’ or ‘dispose’. Inserting both with a conjunction is an idea.
Also, military tribunals appear to be a slippery slope. Juxtapose this risk to risk of judicial tyranny as noted early in the history of the Constitutional Republic by some of the Founders, Madison and Jefferson in particular. It adds, in my opinion, some substantive cause for considering tribunals to keep the judiciary in its originally envisioned lane.
Depose by way of disposing.
As soon as Iran is wrapped up, things are going to get very spicy.
I truly hope to see these traitors brought to justice, and that goes right to the top. Maybe the Obama library can be converted in to a prison, which is what it looks like it was designed to be in the first place.
It is firmly to be hoped. Seeing ANYone held accountable will do wonders for the soul.
Absolutely right👍
Nah, I want these criminals to be placed on an island in the middle of nowhere so there is as little chance of infiltration and escape as possible.
I think the Obama Concrete Monstrosity needs to be taken down and the area converted into something useful and lovely, like a city park.
I'm with JackStraw, it appears to look like a high security prison. Its so ugly I have to
assume that's what it was designed for even though even unintended. No wonder the community where it resides are so up in arms about it. Imagine seeing this monstrosity every day
"As soon as Iran is wrapped up, things are going to get very spicy."
If previous wars the USA has engaged itself in are any indication of what to be expected in Iran, well, sit tight. It's going to be awhile before anything in Iran gets wrapped up. A long while.
Here we agree and disagree.
I do not have a clue what comes next.
While the active war was going on, the USA was wearing down Irans ability to raise hell in the ME. Now? Ceasefire? For what? To re-arm? To toss rhetoric back and forth over the fence? To let the Republican Guard establish power?
To make the USA look like good guys? Right!
If war is the only alternative for humanity to make decisions or resolve conflict, may it be short and totally decisive. Otherwise, it returns and returns and returns.
As you know, I disagree with any war that puts the USA as the aggressor. But in this case, if the USA wants to quiet Iran then for God's sake do it quickly, make it the 51st state and move on with it. We don't need another 20 year engagement like the one in Afghanistan that accomplished diddly poop for anyone other than the poppy growers and opium dealers.
No, CP, not the 51st state. An ally like Germany and Japan. A member of the ME alliance that is forming under the Abraham Accords. BTW, Abraham Accords is a marvelous name as he was the father of both sides of the religions in the ME. A leader of the efforts to create a Fertile Crescent in the ME, along with Israel and Saudi Arabia.
The answer? An Iranian Constitution that separates state and religion, ie a secular government. That should be the number one aim.
Yup, a goal and a deadline.
When I saw obamas library, I actually thought if it was painted the right colors it would look like that creepy temple on Epstein Island 😅
And evil scientist Mr. Gain-Of-Function Baric seems to be cut off from his federal funding and professorship.
“A comprehensive campaign of legalistic chicanery disguised as legality designed to overthrow the chief executive.”
Bingo. Nailed it! There has to be repercussions for this otherwise it will only happen again & to a much more severe degree.
Hey JHK, how about a better, more desirable title: Indictment O-Bama????
Yes indeed
Don’t think the Comey case is weak, it isn’t. Don’t forget that when he pulled this stunt he was promoting a book about political assassinations and about using dog whistles for assassinations. Trump hasn’t had 3 assassination attempts, he’s actually had 19 when you count all the crazies that have scaled walls and attempted to enter ML. If any of those perps shared the 8647 Comey tweet, he’s done.
"Don’t think the Comey case is weak,"
He's got the mons pubis, as uplink suggested.
“maximum warfare, everywhere, all the time” sure sounds like a call to insurrection.
It is. It's telling about Hakeem Jeffries that he's said not one word about black illiteracy in the public schools. Nobody black in the democrat party has addressed black illiteracy in the public schools.
That is because white racist leftist Democrat swine going back to LBJ designed the public education system to fail to educate public school students, but to indoctrinate them to hate the American Republic. That paralleled the same evil Democrats to concoct the "Great Society," a perpetual taxpayer-funded welfare system designed to keep blacks and other minorities poor and dependent on government programs.
The same Democrats built a "welfare" system the same way a narcotics dealer builds an empire: get the victim addicted to the substance, then make the victim totally dependent on the "dealer" for the supply of the substance. The narcotics addict will do anything, destroy his family or friends, harm anyone, and will support and even defend his dealer to ensure his supply of the narcotic goes uninterrupted. The welfare-dependent victim will do the same thing to get his welfare payment. That is why I hold the Democrat politician with the same hatred that I hold for the most vicious narcotics dealer--they both promote addicting people to a substance designed to enslave and--eventually--kill its user. It's not coincidental, either, that Democrat politicians are soft on narcotics dealers and other criminals victimizing innocent people--Democrats, narcotics, dealers and criminals are just birds of a feather.
The other thing about Peter Daszak, which people seem to have missed, is that he was the “American” representative on the fact-finding team sent to Wuhan, which determined COVID 19 could not possibly have come from the lab….
Yes, the arrogant assumption that nobody would notice and that nobody would come to account for this.
That is the credo of the DNC.
You have to consider that Thune himself is not actually the problem. The Rinos on CONgress and the Senate seem to enjoy being the minority party. No big decisions need to be made, no need to take the blame for bad decisions. Just preen and posture, attend the billionaires parties, collect the checks and life is good.
That seems to be about it.
Here in Georgia we are trying to figure out what the SCOTUS ruling on redistricting means for us, given that early voting is already underway.
The Morens indictment is a beautiful thing. Normally a peaceful woman, when it comes to the covid gene therapy genocide, I am Arya Stark, muttering the list of people for whom vengence is needed: Morens, Daszak, Baric, Faucci, Wallensky...it's a long list. I hope the guilty by not-yet-indicted are like shipwrecked sailor clinging to the wreckage and hearing the screams of men being picked off by sharks one by one.
You do have a way with words.
It's good to see our host back to doing what he does so well today: sifting through the rubble of US politics and clarifying the issues.
As for that last line ...
Yes, very little today about America's warmongering and debt building adventures abroad. It was a refreshing read.
Of course, yet another prediction of an imminent ending to our latest quagmire.
"...finds himself in a sort of brand-new crossfire hurricane."
One night in General Population should do the trick.
Couldn't happen to a nicer prichard.
I have to wonder if all the Trump drama was just kabuki theater to get us all focused on those goings on (and arguing about it-more division) instead of what our legislators were doing or not doing behind the scene. Trump seems no worse for wear and did get elected. Don’t focus on the preparations for the implementation of the WEF’s 2030 agenda. Right now we got a war to focus on. Never mind Stargate/Stardust. Most people probably haven’t heard of either, but they all have opinions on the Epstein files-nothing to see here on that issue says the President) ) AI data center proliferation, with Trumps stamp of approval. I knew we were had when I saw the state dinner he gave all the tech titans shortly after inauguration. Our filthy skies if everyone can pull their heads away from their smartphones and look up and wonder what the hell’s going on and why?
AI is a yuge concern, but like all higher tech installations, it will probably be welcomed with open arms.
I write about the effect of the internal combustion engine on agriculture in the 1920s, aka the tractor. Millions of sharecroppers thrown off their land, heading for the cities and the unemployment line. AI will make that a mere bagatelle. It has already started.
I am appalled at how fast it has descended on us. I do not know what Trump can do about it. Or anyone, competition with China is going to “put the pedal to the metal” so it may be a race to the singularity point as much as the moon.
From time to time, when I am bored or have a few minutes to waste I will hop on the "doom scroll" on YouTube and thumb through some of the stupid videos people post. Most of the videos posted today are not real but are creations of AI. Some of them the eye can detect due to small nuances such as perfect skin, blurred teeth or vanishing legs. But some of them are damned good and nearly real. Type "beautiful woman" into a Google search bar and see what comes up. Pictures of women so perfectly beautiful that it is almost creepy to behold. My concerns with this are that we live in a world where everything is already fakery and lies and what does this do to our daughters who are already struggling to fit in in a perfectly fake world? From women's faces to the music we listen to, it is all artificial and unreal. Now we have AI creating more and more fakery. If society doesn't get control of this we will find ourselves in a truly awful situation.
Think what damage this does to kids in puberty. Think how the LBTGQ industry is chomping at the bit at this?
It's terrifying. Think about it. How many young men venture into looking at online porn. The porn industry undoubtedly will become saturated with AI and create women and sex far beyond the realms of human capability. Young men are already unable to pop a nobber at the sight of a real woman because of rampant porn viewing. What is AI porn going to do to their brains?
I truly fear for the future of our species if we don't get a handle on this shit.
Not just porn, just about everything the advertising industry hits. Boys, yes, but think about girls too, presented with the “perfect” image of what they should be or look like. Think about small breasted or late developing girls thinking they should be boys.
All technology changes can be used for good or evil, I am concerned that the propensity for evil overwhelms the potential for good with
AI.
Here is a story on Fox, right now about the Congress investigating the use of Chinese AI by American companies. National security anyone?
I fear this race with China is an other race like the Cold War arms race with Russia. A better thing in my opinion would be to focus on sabotaging Chinas efforts as we actually helped propel them to this race with selling defense technology and their outright stealing it. To what end will this race beget? The extinction of humanity? Nobody wins that outcome.
Yup, how does humanity protect itself from the folks that think that higher and higher tech is the answer to everything? BillGatesitis.
I don’t think the regime running Iran will ever relinquish power. The culture there (government) is actually one of deceit arrogance stupidity and immovable. They must completely be destroyed.
The good people in Iran will have to deal with it. In the end they benefit.
Wellll Houston is under a flood warning through the wee hours of tomorrow morning so any local communists are probably out of luck for their protests today. So sad.
LOL
Thank you for an excellent post!