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I agree in principle, but imagine what this would allow the actual owners of DC, the Deep State/Blob, and their useful idiots in the general population to do and the results for the intentional micro-majority (“we can’t do X because we have such a tiny majority”) of the RINO half of the UniParty in the midterms.
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@shortmagsmle
I don’t think the admin should wait for SCOTUS to rule one way or another on this. Agreeing to the ‘reasonable’ framework of “hey man let’s just press pause for a second so that everyone is on the same page” is to cede the ground that the judicial branch gets to dictate foreign policy as it relates to deporting non-US citizens.
Agreeing to “meet in the middle” on something that the other party has no legitimate stake in governing is a sneaky way that people implicitly gain authority where they have none. This is day 1 management stuff.
IMO, what Trump should say basically is, “Yeah, the courts can hash this out however they want to. They can spend years sending each other memos and decisions and doing Judge stuff; that’s fine. We’ll be deporting en masse people who are not US citizens. Non-citizens do not have a right to a jury trial, and our only bona fide due process is to make a good-faith determination about whether people are US citizens or not. And if they are not, our process is to deport them. This is an executive branch prerogative, and there is no way to violate the civil rights of someone who doesn’t have any. Try again in 2028.”
9:05 AM · Apr 19, 2025
Roll the dice and go ahead and deport them is what I say.
Agree 1000%.
I’d like to see this approach. I think the public would back him, and it would send the judiciary a message to back off.
And those doing the harboring are getting away with it so they must be above the law.
No one is enforcing the law. 8 USC 1324.
kinthenorthwest is correct.
Correct and it is in violation of 8 USC 1324. They should be in prison.
Felony for harboring and helping illegals
Maybe someone needs to enlighten the DOJ.
President Bukele cleaned up El Salvador by having the legislature impeach five corrupt supreme court judges and a corrupt attorney general. The US and the rest of the world was screaming democracy and sponsoring protests against him.
Our path forward has already been laid out by President Bukele’s example.
I was thinking about this myself recently. Exactly how did he get the needed support to remove the corrupt judges? Did he have evidence of their corruption?
FAIR Elections have consequences comes to mind.
When President Bukele was elected, there were no down ballot tricks pulled as there were in the US 2024 Election, both during the Primary and General Elections ….. President Bukele (unlike President Trump) had legislative support elected into office at the same time he was elected.
That explains a lot of things. El Salvador is also a lot smaller that the US.
Proof of corruption is not needed for impeachment charges. Check out the definition of misdemeanors at the time it was put into the Constitution…i.e….the Supreme Law of the Land. The word “misdemeanor” had a much more broad meaning that we have today.
Additionally, if they are impeached in the House of not shining their shoes correctly, and the Senate finds them guilty, who can refute that? Where’s the “check” on the Senate??
Need a real FBI to get the evidence.
And a real DOJ to follow up.
It was President Trump, then Milei in Argentina and Bukele…
We’re in a lather, rinse, repeat cycle…
POTUS needs to come clean of his Federal Government allegiance, and do the sovereign will of The People in securing Our unalienable Rights and ensuring Our domestic Tranquility.
The Alien Enemies Act IS due process…
For these particular acts of lawlessness.
This particular lawlessness includes any who aid and abet and further obstruct any official Acts of The Executive {POTUS}.
In God We Trust
Trust God
Fear not
Don’t shoot the messenger, I’m just stating what others have said. Some people say he’s a tyrant. So he may well be, but sometimes “tyranny” is a symptom of the disease. If regular people don’t stand up to injustice, the only solution is an extreme one.
He also had sufficient majorities in the legislature to do it.
Assuming the GOP Congress even wants to stop the judges – a big big IF – their best path is to slash the Courts’ budget and reduce the number of Federal judges. Then remove certain topics from their jurisdiction, and create criminal penalties for allowing Lawfare to be used in their courtrooms. Lawfare defined as abuse of the legal system to achieve ideological ends.
I wish OH GOD we had the republican equivalent of Nancy Pelosi as Speaker of the Republican House, the judges would have been impeached and the DOJ and FBI would have arrested over half a dozen politicians for criminal acts. And they would have been criminally referred by Congress.
Only We the People can fix this!!!🇺🇲
It certainly is destructive.
thats being kind
As described by Mike Benz as being a major goal of USAID et al in other countries, brought to you now in the good old U.S. of Amerika.
“What is rule by judicial coup?”
DDG AI Assist answer: “A judicial coup occurs when a court or judicial body uses its power to undermine or alter the political system, often in ways that are not aligned with democratic principles. This can involve decisions that favor certain political agendas or leaders, effectively allowing them to maintain or expand their power without direct electoral support.”
How to fight it? Take it to court…LOL. Take it to a compromised SCOTUS…LOL. Violate court orders…go directly to jail.
As pointed out by Mike Benz, the reason the blindfolded (NOT any more) Lady Justice holds a sword is because she represents the only part of government that can legally sentence a citizen to death.
The Judicial Insurrection Is Worse Than You Think
March 20, 2025
The point of all the injunctions and restraining orders is to preserve the supreme rule of unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/20/the-judicial-insurrection-is-worse-than-you-think/
The President cannot be arrested for disregarding court orders. He may only e impeached.
The question is whether it’s worth going through that again
“ He may only e impeached.”
Wrong…..
SCOTUS has no standing/jurisdiction nothing nada.
POTUS can’t be impeached for ignoring a court order that has no prosecutorial power.
Yes, but the DemocRats can if they get back in power.
Or if they lure enough Never Trumpers to their side…
Yep
If President Trump never was to deport another person, he will be impeached on a daily basis if the Democrats regain the House. There must be a dozen or more things he’s done already that they would impeach him.
Were you there for the first Trump admin? Congress can certainly impeach.
Both Presidents Jackson and Lincoln publicly defied the Courts when they attempted to exercise unconstitutional power over them. Jackson famously put it thusly: “He has made his ruling. Now, let him enforce it.”
I was referring to us peons, but I can see how you misunderstood.
oh I see now. Well yeah, us peons can get put in jail for just about anything. The process is the punishment
Fix the constitution. Time is proving it has weak spots. First, you can’t have three “co equal” branches. Nothing gets done when no one has the final word. Courts are democracy proof, and that is stupid.
“Fix the constitution”
The problem is “they” are disregarding the existing one.
2nd Amendment states “shall not be infringed”.
I rest my case.
You want to open up a Constitutional Convention with this crop of wack jobs in there at all levels?
Think about that.
AGREE 100%!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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There is nothing that a third branch can accomplish if the other two stand together. The problem here is Congress, doing nothing.
E.g. Congress could pass a law declaring that it affirms AEA, that deportees do not need advance notice, that habeas petitions may be prosecuted only individually, that habeas may be heard in absentia after an individual has been deported in the U.S. jurisdiction in which the individual last was incarcerated, and filing must include documentary evidence that a person deported via its auspices is under the age of 14 or is a citizen or legal resident or not a member of the terrorist group, and that the facts therein must be sworn to under penalty of perjury by the person/lawyer doing the filing.
E.g. Congress can pass a law immediately declaring that no Article III judge may utter any perliminary injunction that purports to affect members of a class comprising any unknown persons or any persons in another jurisdiction.
E.g. Congress can pass a law stating that any Article III judge in cases involving actions in which the President of the United States or his cabinet personally are named “SHALL” recuse himself whenever documentary evidence is presented alleging that said judge or his immediate family members have financial interests in direct opposition to the President’s position in the case, and that failure to do so ipso facto shall be considered to be contrary to the “good behavior” required by the Constitution, subjecting said judge to potential removal.
E.g. Congress can pass a law declaring that the intent of the Administrative Procedures Act was to protect citizens and legal residents with respect to actions and orders uttered by an executive branch agency judge, hearing officer, or other agency employee involving the application of an agency’s own regulations or interpretation of a statute, and was not intended to apply to orders uttered by the President under the authority of his Article II powers.
E.g. Congress can pass a law that for the following reasons [A, B, C, etc.], for purposes of deportation or illegal aliens or military action, including without limitation Posse Comitatus, the United States is “at war” with [A, B, C, etc.] terrorist groups, and they are declared to be “enemies of the state”.
I can think of plenty more. All of the above require only a simple majority.
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The Constitution doesn’t give the judicary the last word over actions of the President or Congress. The judiciary just seized that power for itself. The framers did not intend this.
Nails it!
“But on another, deeper level, this is an attempt by the judiciary to prevent the duly elected president from reclaiming control of the Executive Branch from the federal bureaucracy — the deep state, which has long functioned as an unelected and unaccountable fourth branch of the government. This unconstitutional fourth branch has always been controlled by Democrats and leftist ideologues who, under the guise of being nonpartisan experts neutrally administering the functions of government, have effectively supplanted the political branches. Unfortunately, to large extent the political branches have acquiesced in the usurpation of their authority.
Trump, with a strong mandate from the American electorate, has resolved to wrest control of the government from the deep state. The deep state in turn has been forced to fall back on its last line of defense: the courts.”
ECB Cuts European Interest Rates to 2.25%. Further cuts are expected.
The cost of borrowing has fallen across the 20-member euro area for the third time this year after the European Central Bank cut its main interest rate to 2.25% in response to slowing growth and Donald Trump’s tariffs. It’s the eventh Cut in the past 12 months.
The FED will follow, but not until they deal some damage to President Trump and investors first. That is their style.
Powell, like Greenspan before him, THINKS that he is much smarter than he is AND also has delusions of grandeur as to his importance…
The number of people in DC right now (including most of the members of SCOTUS) who are willing to destroy the future prospects of their children and children in order to “get Trump” is mind boggling! But unfortunately, as always, it will the be millions of everyday, hard working, law abiding citizens that will pay the price for the hubris of the few!
“The number of people in DC right now (including most of the members of SCOTUS) who are willing to destroy the future prospects of their children and children”
BREAKING: White House Acknowledges COVID Is From a Lab!
APR 21, 2025
(Tom Renz)
Compromised Politicians and Educational Control
“….My biggest concern is that they have compromised so many politicians from the smallest all the way to the grandest positions and that’s how deep and dirty this went. I think if you start to look at the connections between who was Maxwell’s father… and him wanting to control the education, he made a very, very, very big attempt to try to purchase McGraw-Hill and control all of our children’s education. You can’t find it in a lot of the books these days, Tom Renz, but I remember that there was a quote by Stalin, and Stalin said, “if you give me control of a nation’s youth, I can take over the country without firing a single shot.” And I think that’s what’s happening right now.
100%. Now, here’s the problem. Here is the problem. Epstein didn’t do this alone. No. Whoever was involved in it is still involved. The question is, who is it? Is it just one country or is it multiple? Because if he’s selling blackmail, he’s probably not only willing to sell it to one….”
https://open.substack.com/pub/tomrenz/p/breaking-white-house-acknowledges
YMMS
After watching the stock market, fake news reports about it, and listening to my investment company, I am becoming convinced that there is a massive coordinated effort to ruin Donald Trump’s presidency. This is much more planned and coordinated than his first term. Wall Street. et al is going along with it. There is no reason that the Fed can’t lower interest rates a quarter point other than politics. There is a coordinated world wide effort happening.
This is why Powell needs to be removed ASAP. He’s complicit in this scheme.
Inflation is a very good reason.
What inflation? It is lower than Biden.
Really? 1 quarter point reduction is not going to set off inflation.
That’s what the pandemic panic was really all about first time around . . . Stifling an economic boom created by low taxes, deregulation and free market forces.
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WvVet: I agree with you. The “get Trump” theatrics are quite obvious.
Hope they are not waiting for Trump to cave …..If they want to play chicken than I will enjoy watching them lose their ars.
“there is a massive coordinated effort to ruin Donald Trump’s presidency.”
Ya think? 😉
The mindless repeaters are on their perches squawking their heads off again this morning. Hegseth has to go. Hegseth has to go. AWK! Pretty Polly. AWK!
What a breath of fresh air it is to have people in a Trump administration who punch back and don’t take any guff from these crapweasels.
Oh, and while I am at it, even if it WERE true (which it is not) isn’t it a crime to disclose the contents of your boss’ (Sec Def) private communications? Time for a criminal referal and investigation.
I prefer chicken little media to fake news.
They didn’t oppose Blondi and Patel…that tells you something…Hegseth is a threat to their ideology…B and P no…
Who they don’t go after is just as instructive as who they do. Hegseth and Kennedy are definitely the two most wanted by the Deep State
Hegseth isn’t allowing the war profiteers to drive the military bus. The DS hates him and are intent on getting rid of him so they can take the wheel.
I heard an interview on the radio this morning with Stephen Feinberg, the Deputy Secretary of Defense. He said (I paraphrase from memory), “There are 36,000 people at the Pentagon with authority to make purchases.” A proposed project was budgeted for $40 million, so he decided to put it out for an RFQ in the commercial world. The RFQ came back at $1,400. He told the Army, and they said, ‘You have to do it our way.”
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??? I don’t understand this. Do you have a link? “The Army” isn’t a person to be “told” anything, or to have a “way” or an opinion contrary to the SecDef or his deputies. That insubordination easily is solved with an order to the effect that “my way IS ‘our way'”.
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One of the blocks to procurement reform are the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) requirements. Then, added to the FAR are the DOD Acquisition Guidelines, then the individual Branch (Army, Navy, AF, etc.) followed by any local guidelines as well. Our office copy of the FAR, DODAR, AFFAR & base guidelines took up five shelves of a standard office bookcase. Very little of that follows commercial guidelines because every Senators/Representatives personal social issue is reflected as well as every time some contracting officer breaks the law a new blurb is added to that above mess. Contracting cannot legally purchase anything without following those guidelines. As in go-to-jail cannot.
Just STFU already.
We aren’t other random websites.
We all know who you all are and wh you all post what you do.
You’re pathetic humans making money doing pathetic things because you have no career, skillsets or SME.
Just work the other grifter sites. You’re eating time and budget here.
Good Lord! GFY!
Scared are you that Secretary Hegseth will accomplish what President Trump has asked him to do?
I suspect there is much you know nothing about, particularly as it pertains to running a republic and its military.
This is a short video with Taylor Budowich, Stephen Miller and Karoline Leavitt explaining the need for tariffs and what President Trump and his administration seek to achieve with them.
It is an excellent resource to share with those in your circle that may not understand why this is happening and why it is so important.
Too late to edit, that is Jamieson Greer, not Taylor Budowich.
The video is mislabeled.
All quotes:
This week, I offer you a barefoot sermon from the battlefield of economic memory. A walk from Hamilton to Trump. From Ricardo to Argentina. From Abraham Lincoln’s top hat to the red-capped defiance of tariff diplomacy. A retelling of the American experiment through its most potent and most misunderstood weapon: the tariff.
I argue here that Donald Trump, however clumsy and chaotic, reignited a long-dormant Hamiltonian flame. Like Lincoln before him, who used tariffs not only to industrialize the North but to bleed the profits from slavery’s Southern engine, Trump reached for tariffs not as isolation, but as revolt. The goal was disruption of the quiet exploitation that still oils the gears of the global economy.
We begin with Hamilton. In 1791, he laid the blueprint for industrial sovereignty. While Britain imagined America as a spice colony, exporting raw goods and importing refinement, Hamilton saw something else. He saw factories. Foundries. Credit. Fire. His tariffs were not walls, but scaffolds. They wrapped the infant industries of the North in protection until they could stand on their own.
Then came Ricardo, bond guru, master of the ledger. He preached comparative advantage, but assumed capital stayed still. That the factory would never chase the lowest wage. That trade was neutral. That power did not intervene. Hamilton saw the flaw long before it became scripture. Ricardo’s theory, elegant on paper, became a passport for colonial subjugation. Had America followed it, she might have become another Argentina. Rich in soil. Poor in ambition. Governed by landlords. Exporting the future in exchange for someone else’s present.
Build the factory. Raze the plantation. Lincoln saw it in cotton. Trump saw it in Asian factories. In both cases, the profit was buried in the poison, and each man, in his own era and fashion, had the rare courage to call it by its name.
To strike slavery and build a more enduring republic, Lincoln and maybe Trump, did not reach first for cannonballs or proclamations but rather they reached for the balance sheet. They understood that if you make the ledgers bleed, the system follows. That is their courage.
Hugh Hendry
Lincoln was not thinking of slaves but of the politics of the South. Matter of fact history recalled Lincoln trying to recolonize the Blacks out of this country as he was looking down the road at possible problems with the Black population. Only their leaders at the time, were having none of it.
Except that now the bleeding ledger is not that of producers but that of our country. $39 trillion and counting. And our lenders are voicing their protests daily be selling US Treasuries and the US dollar.
*cough*
The Great Re-Shoring / On-shoring of American jobs and wealth.
LOL
That actually made me laugh!! It’s exactly how I feel…
Or we will all live in a van down by the river.
Wow. Y’all should hear the guest from The New American on the Alex Jones show that is blowing apart the OKC bombing Official narrative Bondi just came out and said was to be believed. Absolutely infuriating.
My phone won’t let me link to his webpage!!
If you subscribed to “The Spotlight” weekly newspaper back then, well – you know all about it.
Every one of those dump trucks carrying away debris was guarded as it went to a secure landfill so that the debris could not be tested for traces of other explosives.
The truck bomb would have did severe damage to the face of the building. However, air is not a good conductor for explosive force. Which is why shaped charges are mounted next to the material.
There were other forces at play to bring down that one ~3 foot column and the floors. Plus the dual shockwave recorded on a nearby seismograph.
I was 16 when that went down. I didn’t believe anything I was told by the “authorities” back then either.
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Retired business exec here. Love President Trump and all aboard MAGA from back in 2016. I am always willing to applaud good strategy and critique same. So let me raise concerns regarding the current positioning on tariffs and the economy.
PDJT was left a giant pile of festering s#*+ by the previous administration on many fronts. But the time bomb purposely planted was the financing of America’s enormous debt using SHORT TERM mechanisms instead of long term. The miserable Janet Yellen executed this as a means to maximize pain should Trump win. The President’s team is trying maneuvers to manage the upcoming refinancing this year of $7+ trillion while featuring Trump’s preference for tariffs. They are INTENTIONALLY seeking to draw down the dollar’s value while cooling the economy…in order to LOWER interest rates. The tariffs have short and long term goals. But there are problems.
Following Trump’s explosive nuke of “Liberation Day”, many countries were beginning to scramble for a solution, a “deal” they could live with. Stock market was reeling, and indeed Trump didn’t mind that. But, the BOND MARKETS PUKED, and that was a massive bolder headed toward this policy. Trump shifted, called a 90 day hold “to allow negotiations to finish”….but it was primarily to keep bonds from tanking, thereby raising rates. The pause disrupted their own strategy, and it took the rug out from under it.
Now countries are slow walking their next steps, China is positioning to punish other countries who accommodate America at their expense, and the Fed will not budge on interest rates. President Trump is having a fit. No matter what we think about the Fed, threats to dissolve it or even fire Powell are only damaging the current situation further. Stock market is tanking again, bonds headed down with subsequently higher rates, and the buyers of America’s debt are demanding even higher returns due to lower confidence/higher risk.
I hate it for President Trump, and for our nation, because the debt problem is the biggest disaster the nation faces, and it’s not getting addressed by CONgress, and the American people hardly understand it….but it’s laying at the feet of this administration. It’s ugly, it’s smothering our future, it’s driving up inflation and destroying the purchasing power of the very people Trump supports most.
My prescription? Some quick wins on the tariff front…and soon. The longer this plays out, the more ways nations will maneuver together to undermine impact. This will require give and take, especially with China. If the game remains to choke off China so their currency collapses, it will come at the price of a severe recession or worse. Lastly, public sentiment will flip badly if the economy tanks this year, and usher in Dimcommies for 2026. With so many good and strong initiatives underway against illegals, criminals and horrible leftist policy, we must not lose this thing due to an ugly economy clean up on aisle 4.
We need so much of what President Trump is trying to accomplish. Some is achievable quickly, more will take a lot longer than he may have patience for. The cabal is truly a hydra with hundreds of slithering, biting mouths.
JMO.
Yes, the beast, Yellen, at many folks’ direction put in poison pills and traps everywhere. So, besides tariffs not being there had Kamala won, what would their fix have been when time to renew the debt paper?
Print more money until the bottom fell out. Thats what the Dims would have done.
So the team PDJT formed of current business execs should ask for your help ASAP, please inform them of your availability
Ha, don’t claim to be anyone’s advisor…just commenting from the perspective of someone who ran a large business. Opinions are like…you know…what’s yours?
Yeah OK. Who gives a crap? Do you want change or to continue living in this hellscape called 21st century America, until your kids are murdered just because they are the second class citizens like in South Africa?
Do you want the lowest performing, stupidest, delusional perverts defining your existence and running your government and therefore your life?
The fact there are “people” that thought you can make real change and keep everything the way it was at the same time, is pathetic.
Everyone complaining about the stock/bond/whatever market aren’t patriots and aren’t actually MAGA.
Anyone who thought a true attempt at setting things right and following true constitutional and national interest governing (or even PDJT’s earnest attempts are governing according to our nations interest) would keep everything the same and just magically happens probably have cognitive disabilities.
I’ve “lost” over six figures and counting in the market and it’s not money I can “afford” to lose, and I don’t give two craps. I want my kids to be free Americans, not global slaves and then persecuted for being American, Christian and white.
You either want America to be an actual nation, like China or Japan or Russia, or you want to be a slave.
It wouldn’t be a bad thing at all if the market/S+P dropped to 0 and all bonds became 100% interest.
Do you not know that it’s all made up and we have the bigger weapons? Boom Booms are real, fiat ledgers are fake.
Concern yourself with real things not fake things.
So…total economic collapse is what it will require for successful reset? I’d respectfully suggest there are NO guarantees under such a drastic circumstance. Mad Max beyond anything we’ve ever experienced. Think the 1930’s were bad? At least many people still had practical skills to help sustain life, like growing their own food or making/mending clothing, mechanical abilities. Today? Panic and desperation.
When your “lost over six figures” isn’t enough to buy a loaf of bread you will think its a “real thing”.
Your opinion is based on solid facts and reality! President Trump, Secretary Bessent, and the entire economic team, is having to negotiate a minefield, blindfolded, and for that reason, I am giving them the benefit of the doubt and trying not to panic as my husband and I, retired seniors on a fixed income, watch, and wait, and pray !
Indeed, those of us on fixed incomes are watching our purchasing power dwindle. It’s not just the consumables. Health care continues to skyrocket higher. Just received our notice of an increased rate for Medicare supplement G starting in June…almost 20% higher!
Yes, it’s nerve-racking but something has to be done or none of us will have anything, just like Klaus and globalists want! I respect President Trump’s attempts to fix a system that has been slowly destroying our economy for decades, due to the actions/inactions of BOTH parties! Sorry that a few people are jumping down your throat for making rational observations…
Wish he would drop the Ukraine and Middle East distractions and focus on domestic issues. Perhaps then he could get more done and faster on the home front.
Both can be worked simultaneously but the Ukraine situation is lost. No way the comedian agrees to any settlement. Best for Trump to wash his hands and leave it to EU, so they can dicker and blather until Ukraine runs Z out on a rail.
It sure seems a whole lot of domestic issues are piling up while we dither with foreign affairs, so I question your simultaneous assumption — how is that so evident?
Domestic and global are always in action. They intertwine relative to economic scenarios more than militarily (typically). I just don’t think the Ukraine situation is nearly as relative to our economic strategy. Doesn’t impact tariffs. Relative peace is also a stabilizing force for Main Street business.
Appreciate your opinion – I had read elsewhere that the debt and the bonds were the problem but you explained it well.
I’m just going to grit my teeth and pray.
I don’t always like the way President Trump goes about things, but usually he is a realist when it comes to business. His “Art Of The Deal” strategy can be effective, but some things are outside his control. Prayer is always needed and helpful.
And, thus, why arrests need to be made, like, last week!
Cleared up the sex on passports issue for 6 Transgenders
Judge orders State Department to provide passports to transgender people despite Trump order
U.S. District Judge Julia Sobick ruled April 18 that half a dozen transgender and nonbinary litigants were likely to win their court fight by arguing the policy is “arbitrary and capricious” under the Fifth Amendment. Sobick also found the plaintiffs would suffer irreparable harm if they couldn’t obtain passports under their self-designated sex while the case works its way through the courts.
“The plaintiffs have also demonstrated a likelihood of success on their separate argument that, under any standard of review, the Executive Order and Passport Policy are based on irrational prejudice toward transgender Americans and therefore offend our Nation’s constitutional commitment to equal protection for all Americans,” Sobick wrote.
The passport lawsuit said 1.6 million people nationwide are transgender, 1.2 million are nonbinary and possibly 5.6 million are intersex, according to surveys.
“Having a sex designation on a passport that involuntarily discloses someone is transgender, nonbinary, or intersex can also cause harassment and discrimination while traveling within the United States,” the lawsuit said.
The problem described in the lawsuit is that even for domestic travel, if a driver’s license and passport identify a person by different sexes, Transportation Security Administration officials accuse the person of holding a fraudulent document.
The litigants who can receive passports by marking X for their sex on their applications, under the judge’s ruling, are Ashton Orr of Morgantown, West Virginia; Zaya Perysian of Santa Clarita, California; Sawyer Soe of Salem, Massachusetts; Chastain Anderson, who lives near Richmond, Virginia; Drew Hall of Wisconsin; and Bella Boe of Cambridge, Massachusetts. Soe and Boe are pseudonyms.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/judge-orders-state-department-to-provide-passports-to-transgender-people-despite-trump-order/ar-AA1DfbX5
Too bad there are not “one way” passports so that some people can leave, but not return.
“the plaintiffs would suffer irreparable harm”
I have a baby pacifier they can suck on; however, they are on their own for finding some “safe space”.
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Then just list people as XX or XY.
That is certainly never changing.
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Please suggest something workable. There indeed are many people who are not merely XX or XY, so this kind of statement isn’t helpful if the goal is to stop with the tranny thing.
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I’d suspect the percentage of the population that are “not merely XX or XY” is vanishingly small …. smaller by far than the percentage clamoring for they/them pronouns or passports
We’ve capitulated to loud activists of a small percentage, must we design policy to accomodate even far smaller percentages? Or treat them with an “exception” clause for cases that don’t fall within normal bounds?
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Yes, it’s very small. My only point was going to simplistic arguments that will not work. It one doesn’t anticipate and prepare a winning response to things that will be thrown up, then one loses.
Apparently, the government lawyers were not adequately prepared to respond to the issue of what to do about “intersex” or to have a good, workable description of what, conversely, is a fake trans-whatever. So they lost.
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Just arrest them for providing false information then. It’s a federal crime, punishable for up to 10 years in prison and / or $250000 fine.
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You want to arrest women and girls, who always have been considered female on all of their documents from birth certificate on, but are XY individuals plagued with complete AIS (androgen insensitivity syndrome), which usually isn’t even discovered until they are in their mid-teens?
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No, but that doesn’t fit the description of knowingly providing false information, does it?
A man masquerading as a woman (or vice-versa)… completely different situation. They can play… and get away with… their little games at work or at their university or whatever, but when it comes down to knowingly LYING about that on a federal form? That’s an easy one for me. Am I allowed to provide ANY other false info on a passport application or other federal form and get away with it? How about on a 4473… can a felon claim a non-felon status? “Oh, I IDENTIFY as a non-felon”
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Well, yes it does. Knowingly lying… Your description wouldn’t help the 14-year-old girl who finds out, after multiple treks to the doctor, that she’s really male. Or the “girl” with 5 alpha reductase deficiency who reaches puberty and starts getting chest hair and other things and finds out she’s a boy, but not much of a boy, and would prefer to stay female.
A better description of what we are going to prohibit is needed, I think. Has to be something more than “I know it when I see it.” (Justice Potter, 1964, re pornography, which description hasn’t worked well in retrospect!)
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Sorry, OC, but at this late date for our once Great Republic, for anyone, even one as astute as yourself, to give “aid and comfort” to the LBGTQIA confabulists in the utterly absurd gender wars is nauseating. Real (Retired) Counsel.
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Including people with actual birth defects as “giving aid and comfort to the LBGTQIA confabulists” is a losing argument.
We’re on the same side. Perhaps you could offer something more helpful than ad hominem, also a losing argument.
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If the sex declared on the passport application does not match the sex determined at birth and cannot be explained by a genetic abnormality then a false statement, punishable by up to 10 years and / or $250000 fine, has occurred.
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Okay. Good start. So we need some kind of workable procedure somewhere that people can provide this information, preferably not merely dingbat clerks processing passport applications. Also some kind of law passed in Congress because some states are changing birth certificates.
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We all know that congress is not going to pass such a law.
I was merely responding to your statement from above: “Please suggest something workable. There indeed are many people who are not merely XX or XY, so this kind of statement isn’t helpful if the goal is to stop with the tranny thing.”
This is a workable solution that can be easily implemented, right now, without any new law being passed. It is not really intended to punish anyone, particularly those with genetic abnormalities. Instead it is just a tool that can be be used to shut down one of the attack vectors that is currently being employed by the commies to further damage our society – the normalization of and acceptance of “tranny rights”.
And at this point the clerks that issue the passports don’t even need to get involved. The determination can be handled by the Immigration and Customs employees at the points of entry (or by whatever AI software is being used for immigration screening). If an anomaly is detected you will receive a notice in the mail that you need to either correct your passport or provide proof of that you did not falsify your passport application. Failure to do so in a timely manner might result in a 4am J6er-style SWAT raid on your residence (something that democrats love to do, so they can’t even logically argue against that).
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That is such a rare condition, give me a break.
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Everything is relative. These birth defects may be “rare” but if it’s still 100s of thousands of people, that’s enough to require a response when the left posits it, or you give the judge a way to get around you.
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What Jen proposed is workable…you either stand with it dangling, as God Almighty meant you to be, or you sit waiting on the bus, as God Almighty meant you to be.
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Research is that 1.7% of the population has something other than XX or XY, and that .018% of the population is plagued with a chromosomal sex that is inconsistent with phenotypic sex, or in which the phenotype is not classifiable as either male or female.
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According to Google, there are about 85,000 women in the US with Turner’s syndrome, XO (having only one X chromosome is survivable, with major mental and physical handicaps; YO is lethal), and about 250,000 men with Kleinfelter’s syndrome (XXY or other multiple X’s Y; this can be invisible). This is out of 340,000,000 people in the US (not counting recent illegal immigrants).
I have taught for 21 years and met many people; I have met only one true intersex person in my entire life.
Exactly!
This is beyond stupid.
A balding man with a pink backpack is still an XY.
No matter what.
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How do you know? What if he’s an XXY, or and XYY? What if it’s a female with congenital generalized hypertrichosis taking medicine that’s not helping. What if it’s a person whose birth certificate says “female” because it’s a male with 5 alpha reductase deficiency…
What if our lawyers also insist upon remaining uneducated on this subject.
Then we lose.
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What would be the argument against using those chromosomal designations on that small percentage of people to whom it pertains, along with the XX and XY designations for the vast majority?
If it represents the truth, what would be the objection.
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Were you here last week when so many here were carrying on about Fourth Amendment violations, and upset at the speculation that Real ID could lead to “biometric data”, medical issues, etc. being used for identity?
Do you think it’s cool to require men with Klinefelter Syndrome, or women with complete AIS,who otherwise have lived their lives as perfectly normal males and females to have to disclose what could be embarassing personal, private, medical defects on their driver licenses and passports?
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You’re so outraged by this you must have one of these chromosomal disorders yourself, no?
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Fortunately for me I don’t. Nor am I “outraged. But there’s apparently a lot of ignorance here, and needs to change so that we actually can win against the trans arguments and propaganda.
Read the judge’s order, and the briefs. If you can’t counter an argument in court, you lose.
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Strawmanning.
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
So what did trannys do before the left implemented this sex designation policy…and was the lefts policy arbitrary? Since when is it ok to lie on government documents?
U.S. District Judge Julia Sobick appointed by obama enough said!!!
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There is a legitimate problem with AIS “XY” individuals who always have been designated female (almost always from birth), as well as people with chromosomes that aren’t only XX or XY or who have abnormal hormonal issues (from where the activists get some legitimacy with their “assigned at birth” designations.)
This does need a thoughtful resolution to eliminate fake trannies (especially dangerous male perverts) that ignorant foot-stamping about XX and XY won’t help resolve.
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I sincerely do not understand.
I get the third chromosome abnormalities. But if listing gender by chromosome designation where is the problem?
I am not trying to be offensive, I’m trying to understand what you are saying.
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First, please I implore you do not use “gender” as a synonym for “sex”. People don’t have “genders”. The designation on legal documents is “sex”. Part of the problem is politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and judges who help the confusion by doing this. Plays right into the hands of the tranny propaganda.
Second, you want to list people by abnormal chromosomes? Is an XXY an XX or XY.
Third, look up, google, “androgen insensitivity syndrome” and “5-alpha reductase deficiency”. It’s not merely about “chromosomes”. We cannot (and do not want to — think it through!!) require people to put their medical conditions, i.e. sensitive biometric data, on their documents.
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well then, list those XXYs as XXY
if there’s an XYY, list it as XYY
problem solved
all the rest who are XX or XY can still be listed as XX or XY without upsetting anyone’s applecart
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Think this through. Just some days ago, the posters here were flipping out about “Real ID” and “having biometrics” in goverment databases. Having to reveal that one has a chromosomal birth defect is intrusive and offensive, especially if that person has been a seemingly normal male or female since birth.
Inconsistent positions, and positions that can have unintended long-term consequences in other ways are not good legal positions.
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I brought this up above without having read the whole thread.
If individuals who are not comfortable about revealing these designations have ‘adopted’ a sex from practically birth, I would suspect the political class could write a law claiming such people could legally claim (such has been done with legal marriage for gays) that sex for themselves, thus providing the consistency (legal definitions ruling) that could satisfy such objections . . .
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I agree. That means that the general public, as well as activists, politicians, and lawyers who are against the tranny nonsense must take care to be fully educated in the issues, including the arguments that will be thrown up against them). When they aren’t, when they don’t do this, they advocate for bad laws, lose in court, and/or just make themselves look ignorant and intolerant. (This applies to other kinds of issues as well.)
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I see what you’re saying but I don’t think it has to be that complicated.
XY –> male on all forms of ID regardless of how you feel or want to dress
XX –> female on all forms of ID regardless of how you feel or want to dress.
Tiny fraction of people that are neither will be allowed to choose — but they must be consistent across all forms of ID
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I think it DOES have to be “that complicated”, or, rather “nuanced”, and better thought-through, because taking the position that it isn’t is what gave judge in the passport case the hook to rule the way she did.
Because it can be shown, vis-a-vis individual chromosome and hormone cases, to be completely uncaring whether one humiliates a person who shouldn’t have to be publicly humiliated, depending on their “conditions”.
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I think you are gagging on a gnat while swallowing a camel.
Not choosing either only Male or Female is arbitrary and capricious, indicating a mental disorder.
Demonic depression oppression in YHWH’s mind
I’m just waiting for one of these MS-13 gang members to file a case saying they identify as an American, and some Commie Bastard Judge granting their request. As loopy as it is right now, this scenario would not shock me.
On the tranny passport issue: So boy Jones wants to be marked girl Jones on his passport. Internationally if this is allowed, Now Girl Jones, if this lunacy is allowed, goes overseas, untucks, is Now Boy Jones again and can hide in the country they went to, doing who knows what. Gee, what could go wrong/sarc
What is the purpose of a passport? Isn’t it to identify the holder? If so, the ID should be consistent with who you are, not who you think you are.
Using this judge’s logic, one could have to “involuntarily ” disclose the year he/she was born, revealing I am a senior citizen, thus opening me up to age discrimination and harassment. How humiliating, particularly if one had spent a fortune dying my hair, having face lifts, hiring a personal trainer, etc, all to maintain one’s youthful appearance.
IMHO, this ruling undermines the purpose of passports and opens up the path to falsify all meaningful information on the document.
I wonder when they will finally admit it? The west have lost.
2 charged after found with around 180,000 rounds of ammo during traffic stop
https://www.kktv.com/2025/04/17/mexican-nationals-charged-after-found-with-around-180000-rounds-ammo/
The Atlantic is one sick publication.
The full article does not even mention the FX controls that were established as a reaction to the German banking crisis of 1931… It reads like a rather arbitrary collection of sources related to the tariff debate but fully lacks the broader picture.
Hitler’s Terrible Tariffs
By seeking to “liberate” Germans from a globalized world order, the Nazi government sent the national economy careening backwards—and drove up the price of eggs 600 percent.
https://archive.is/5aCff#selection-599.0-605.173
“It reads like a rather arbitrary collection of sources related to the tariff debate but fully lacks the broader picture”
Just like “60 Minutes” editing video interviews.
That is to be expected.
POTUS is getting the Liz Truss treatment from the Fed. They know what he wants to accomplish, and know it can work, so they are doing what they can to sabotage it.
It is time to go 1776 on the tyrant judges in America. The people of this Republic are sovereign and they have chosen their President. Judges are now domestic enemies of the U.S. Constitution and, thus, the people of the USA.
Defy these tyrant judges and declare them criminals. They are no longer even citing relevant law in their rulings. Theirs is a flagrant POWER GRAB in defiance of the elected president.
Ignore their rulings and declare them illegitimate. Arrest and imprison them if they persist in their lawlessness.
Fox News personality Pam Bondi might even touch on this during tonight’s show.
Not going to happen. Too much TES (Trump Excuse Syndrome). If the people are not willing to rise up for their liberty, Bondi, Petal, etc., aren’t going to.
It is the responsibility and duty of the people to desire their liberties and be willing to stand up for them, not the political-class. This is a misunderstanding.
Whoa did anyone else see Dir. Noem had her purse stolen at Capitol Burger under The Secret Services nose? What is going on around here?
The Daily Mail has it up I am having a real problem getting links to post with this phone. Apologies in advance for my woeful tech skills.
Here you go:
https://nypost.com/2025/04/21/us-news/kristi-noems-purse-with-3k-cash-inside-snatched-by-thief-during-outing-at-dc-restaurant/
Hope to grab something that hopefully has incriminating material on the Trump administration? DS is desperate don’t forget.
That was what I thought after a moment or two of reflection . That the thief had to be some Instigation Community asset to be bold as brass enough to coolly walk out on camera with her belongings. Either that or no one is safe just about anywhere in the District of Criminality.
Maybe it was just a, Take Away restaurant ?
My takeaway is either the pickpocket was able to penetrate her bubble by incompetence or elements of the Secret Service were in on it. Neither option is exciting.
I lean toward the thief being a government agent. Something is deadly wrong when a stranger can get close enough to a protectee to steal her purse. That would be close enough to stab or shoot her.
This might have been a op by Secret Service agents themselves to frighten Kristi Noem. There is NO EXCUSE for this. Those SS agents present should be immediately fired for reckless conduct. There are traitors inside the wire.
Was she not paying attention?
What about her security staff??? Sorry to say, but if she’s that lax or not vigilant, then this is a definite wake up call for her. What about her cell phone??
Every woman I ever dated or spent any amount of time around knew exactly where her purse was at all times.
Yes! For goodness’ sake, yes!
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I have not heard that anything has been recovered.
Sure, her cell phone could be ‘pinged’ if it was in the purse — but could not both her passport and her badge be pinged, also . . .?
I am not impressed with this gal, whatsoever.
We pay for her security, don’t we?
There is a lot of anger and even (fake) protests over the Trump administration’s actions, deportations being on of the most contentious right now.
This highly recognizable woman is out and about, and a weirdo is allowed to get close enough to her and her grandchildren to steal her purse?
What the heck?
This scenario is so suspicious. What, did she take her purse and put it in the next room? Is she stupid? Has she not heard of a crossbody bag? Did she let a small grandchild hold onto it? Was there a trapdoor underneath her table that whisked it away? Are Maxwell Smart and Agent 99 on the case? Did she set it outside the “cone of silence”?
Tune in next time when Pam Bondi announces it’s on her desk, she has the makeup case and passport, thinks that’s all there is, but will get back to us in about a week!
How Great thou Art!
https://x.com/Kendra0Michelle/status/1914165495676260655/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1914165495676260655¤tTweetUser=Kendra0Michelle
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Cute meme but unfortunately misleading.
“Due process” (which is whatever “process” is defined by law) is the means by which we ascertain that the guy with the hat isn’t the owner who just arrived at his vacation house, and the guy with the gun isn’t a squatter.
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I’m pretty sure there are millions of squatters in the US…
But if you’re home and someone breaks into your house, you don’t have to go to court to kick him out. He can sue later, sure, but you don’t have to go get some judge’s permission before doing what the guy in the meme is doing. So the meme isn’t misleading.
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Who is “you”? The squatter who shoots the owner of the property as he’s breaking in? Many years ago I forgot my keys and was stopped by a cop driving by while “breaking in” to my own house. (He helped me after I showed my driver license. I think he also ran the license plate on my truck.) BUT I did show him my ID. That’s a form of “due process”. Due process is whatever the law reasonably requires before the government takes action. This “process” may be unclear, and also doesn’t necessarily require some kind of big trial in court. Suppose I had been out of town and a cop driving by stopped an actual burglar. He would have done the same thing, and, I would hope, hauled his ass to jail.
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Generally I would agree with you.
What would you have VSGDJT POTUS do?
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While fighting this (also see what I wrote re Congress, above), among other things, many of which I’ve suggested over the past couple weeks, and won’t repeat again, continuing in a less “transparent” way to deport as many people as possible as well as prosecuting those politicians who obstruct.
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The internet is like drinking from a fire hose.
You often seem to miss the point completely…and instead delve into absurdities. Let’s play your game.
A judge who happens to be walking by stops and states you can’t enter your house because you haven’t proven to his satisfaction that you are the legal owner of the house and directs the officer to arrest you and throw you in jail for B&E until the due process he defines is complete.
You must now go through a court process to prove to his satisfaction who owns the house, that the ID you presented is not a fake, and that you are indeed who the drivers license says you are and that it matches the proof he accepts as proving who does own the house. In the interim he issues a nation wide injunction stating before anyone can enter a house, they too must go through the same process before being allowed to enter what they say is their house.
Absurd? Indeed…much like the current court rulings.
Thank you
Do ‘they’ go through ‘due process’ before breaking in?
hmmm….
Pulling the trigger is due process.
Don’t look for any improvement in the TSA–who is vetting these people for POTUS? https://loomered.com/2025/04/21/exclusive-pro-daca-biden-holdover-to-assume-role-of-deputy-tsa-administrator
The dark secret Dem judge was hiding exposes ugly truth about activist judges…
April 21, 2025
https://revolver.news/2025/04/the-dark-secret-dem-judge-was-hiding-exposes-ugly-truth-about-activist-judges/
We watched them turn career criminal George Floyd into a saint. We saw them glorify accused murderers like Karmelo Anthony and fight for MS-13 gangbangers like they’re just misunderstood family men. And now—just when you think it can’t get more deranged—we find out a Democrat judge in New Mexico was literally housing a Venezuelan gang member and known criminal in his own backyard.
Judge Joel Cano, a longtime Democrat and sitting judge in Doña Ana County, resigned in utter disgrace after Homeland Security agents arrested an alleged Tren de Aragua gang member at his home. The gangbanger, Cristhian Ortega-Lopez, is an illegal alien who’s linked to violent crimes. He is also accused of possessing a multitude of firearms while living the good life in the judge’s house.
Also:
New Mexico Democrat Judge Resigns After ICE Arrests Alleged Tren de Aragua Gang Member in His Home
https://www.breitbart.com/border/2025/04/20/new-mexico-democrat-judge-resigns-after-ice-arrests-alleged-tren-de-aragua-gang-member-in-his-home/
It is not clear if Judge Cano or his wife, Nancy, will be charged with harboring an illegal alien or providing material support to a foreign terrorist organization.
Please make it clear that the answer to that is YES.
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happy to have young, virile males hanging around his home
delighted, in fact
George Floyd and Tren de Agua heroes of the communists.
Scourge Floyd.
Comment I saw of Free Republic.
I have driven and been driven around in a number of BYD models ,including the BMW 5 series clone. All of them electric or full hybrids. Those cars are every bit as well built, fast and solid as the BMW they nearly bolt for bolt cloned. Shanghai is full.of BYDs more than half of all new cars sold in Shanghai are full EV. There are L2 charge points everywhere. Every parking lot has rows and rows of GBT standard poles around the edges. Same for condo blocks and apartments. Shanghai has very low single.family homes it’s all huge condo blocks and apartments.if the high rise.building kinds. They utterly and thoroughly smash the myth you cannot put enough charge points in condo or apartment settings it flat out is a lie to say you cannot the Chinese prove in spades the exact opposite is true. They are petrol poor and electricity rich they put 400V triple phase to everything including condo units as single phase of that ground to neutral is standard 240V 50hz. It is America with its 19th century archaic 120/240 split phase that is literally a century behind in infrastructure. The Europeans also do 3phase 400V to everything using a single phase of that for.regular 249V loads but you always have the other two.phase to make a 400V 3p load perfect for L2 or even 100kw HVDC L3 single post chargers you see those in China attached to walls they cost $10,000 new and service 24 cars a day at one per hour. I have seen private condos in China with 4-6 of those stations in the garage wall for tenants and then a rack of L2 in the other end of the parking deck. China is killing it infrastructure, their subways,metros and high-speed rail make the USA look like a broken down last century crumbling empire.
Even without the rats fighting us the whole way restoring the USA is a huge job. Too many people have been whipped up and diverted to ridiculous causes while certain leaders make off with the remains of the carcass of the golden goose.
But, but, but the Bidenistas put up 1 or 2 charging stations and 0 rural internet in only 4 years !
Anyone know what happened to the money for this project? Seems like most of these supposedly good intentions are really fronts for transferring taxpayer $ to the rats in high places.
I sure as heck don’t want 400 vac in my house with a 249 vac stinger!
For what it is worth the electric grid in the United States was not rebuilt after being destroyed in a World War nor built entirely from scratch in the last several decades.
If we were to rebuild from the ground up it will absolutely outclass anything comparable by utilizing the latest and greatest of technologies. Ditto the rest of the infrastructure. Say… that could all be doable in the near future by shutting down a trillion+ a year trade deficit.
Yes I have no doubt great things could happen IF the democrats weren’t in charge – i.e. the debacle with the train in CA.
Too many in government have zero impetus to do things the most efficient way.
And the Washington grift machine.
Good reminder, Bill!
Yep, where were the desperate cries for “due process” when these jokers were being released into our country?
You hate to see it, but it happens much too often – the supposed beneficiaries of DEI see the opportunity to scam the system and they rip off the system until they are exposed as the grifters they are.
Star Academic Behind Million-Dollar Antiracism Center Races For Exit As Plagiarism Allegations Pile Up
Hardeman secured a landmark National Institutes of Health grant in 2021 — the sole NIH proposal for which she is the primary author — with a hypothesis and methodologies she copied from her mentee’s dissertation proposal, they allege.
The former mentee alleges Hardeman plagiarized the grant proposal with near identical wording, equations, graphics and even formatting, and that the university scuttled the misconduct claims to protect its star. A second employee, a coauthor of two papers underwritten by the NIH grant, alleges that when employees ran the center’s grant proposals through a plagiarism checker they “lit up like a Christmas tree.”
A third researcher who worked on the NIH project said on LinkedIn that she could corroborate the claims, sharing that Hardeman struggled to implement the proposal she said she had authored.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/04/16/star-academic-behind-million-dollar-antiracism-center-races-for-exit-as-plagiarism-allegations-pile-up/
I think anyone having a problem with the way Rudy ran New York is the one with the problem.
Herding the cats.
‘Misinformation’ Researchers Are Losing It After Trump Admin Cuts More Funding
Researchers slammed the Trump administration over the weekend after the National Science Foundation (NSF) terminated grant funding for research related to “misinformation” and “disinformation.”
As a result of President Donald Trump’s day one executive order “Restoring Freedom Of Speech And Ending Federal Censorship,” the NSF “will not prioritize research proposals that engage in or facilitate any conduct that would unconstitutionally abridge the free speech of any American citizen,” the agency announced Friday.
“NSF will not support research with the goal of combating ‘misinformation,’ ‘disinformation,’ and ‘malinformation’ that could be used to infringe on the constitutionally protected speech rights of American citizens across the United States in a manner that advances a preferred narrative about significant matters of public debate,” the agency’s frequently asked questions page updated Friday states.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/04/21/misinformation-researchers-are-losing-it-after-trump-admin-cuts-more-funding/
Ministry of Truth being dismantled.
Long overdue!
EXCLUSIVE: Trump’s Broad Ban On Risky Gain-Of-Function Research Nears Completion
President Donald Trump could sign a sweeping executive order banning gain-of-function research — research that makes viruses more dangerous in the lab — as soon as May 6, according to a source who has worked with the National Security Council on the issue.
The executive order will take a broad strokes approach, banning research amplifying the infectivity or pathogenicity of any virulent and replicable pathogen, according to the source, who requested anonymity to speak candidly about the anticipated executive action. But significant unresolved issues remain, according to the source, including whether violators will be subject to criminal penalties as bioweaponeers.
The executive order is being steered by Gerald Parker, head of the White House Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy, which has been incorporated into the NSC. Parker did not respond to requests for comment.
In the process of drafting the executive order, Parker has frozen out the federal agencies that have for years championed gain-of-function research and staved off regulation — chiefly Anthony Fauci’s former institute, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
https://dailycallernewsfoundation.org/2025/04/17/exclusive-trumps-broad-ban-on-risky-gain-of-function-research-nears-completion/
Interesting dynamic unfolding as Trump II proceeds. Clearly the deep-state, democrats, and GOP were ready for him this time. (courts too). In Trump I, they laughed at him up until about mid-afternoon on election day 2016. Then the panic set-in. We got some half-ass pile of Russian Collusion lies pushed out because they had no worry that Trump would win. Everyone involved, including the GOP, knew it was a pile of lies. Not true this time. They were clearly ready for him on all fronts. He was also much better prepared for them, so it’ll be interesting to see who wins.
If Bondi and Patel and the GOP are still farting around at Labor Day, Trump better be ready to go scorched-earth. People didn’t support him to play footsie with these creeps. Get going or get gone. Everything Trump is doing needs to be turned into laws and he better do something big on election integrity or it’s all pissing in the wind.
Too early to panic, but being concerned is a very sensible state of mind here. I don’t trust any of these MoFo’s as far as I could toss the Sears Tower.
I am so edgy I could fly waiting for the other shoe to drop. The Death Cult will not play nice if they get any kind of opening to regain power like the “Biden” Maladministration did. Ratskin made sure we knew. (like I needed that hair-in-can demonic vessel to tell me anything)
Yes, I too am getting impatient. I don’t think Pam Bondi or Kash Patel are calling the shots on this. Whether he is right or wrong, I think President Trump is the “go no go” guy and not Bondi or Patel.
Spot on. But nobody wants to hear that.
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Except, he could be holding back, trying to make deals with people to resign/retire — eliminating the canard that his critics could use with tripe about him going scorched earth with little regard for the people impacted . . .
Those would be unacceptable terms. Some of these criminals deserve punishment a bit more severe than resignation or retirement. And what about those who are already out of a job and / or retired? How about Mark Milley? Or Mayorkas… he facilitated the invasion of the country. That’s treason. He also has the blood of hundreds, perhaps thousands of dead Americans on his hands. Those should be slam-dunk no-brainer cases but nothing is happening. The real mystery is why.
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The ideal would be to get a statement of allocution — and for ‘popularity driven’ politicians such as Pelosi, McConnell, Biden to be outcast as the public dregs they are.
Those you mention are not so physical frail and elderly; they may not be being offered any deals due to the egregiousness of their actions, but in order to gain evidence, the former may be needed to indict.
I would hope scorched earth would start by Independence Day!
I think it will come down to, who has been out thought will be out-fought and my money’s on team Trump. Cutting out USAID has obviously stunned the DS and dislocated their plans to fund numerous covert resistance nodes, aimed at shaping the media battle space, hence the ludicrous, ‘hug a gang-banger’ repurposing and fall back positions, reliant on increasingly obvious judicial overreach. Both strategies are a meme free-fire zone that increasingly paint the Democrats as hypocritical, out of touch and utterly incapable of providing solutions.
Team Trump’s refusal to take the anticipated course of DOJ/FBI investigations is understandably frustrating for many who hoped for justice, but that feeling needs to be tempered with the knowledge that the DS is doubly, trebly frustrated that he has not done exactly that. I think the Gaetz failure was a glorious head-fake by ‘47, who convinced the DS he was going down this path and as they readied their pre-planned counter-strategy he hit them with Musk’s digital Delta boys, who stripped away a decades in the making political and culture-changing Ho Chi Minh logistics network. James’ fate in NY is a chilling reminder, to similar operatives, that there are more ways to skin a corrupted official than a full-out investigation.
The battles only started, but I get the feeling Team Trump is well and truly in their opponent’s decision cycle, and the conflict will be likely decided by both sides supporters. Here again TT have an advantage, MAGAites might feel a bit down, but they’ll never desert Trump, because he’ll never desert them, the same can not be said of the Democrats who are now at the mercy of their increasingly unhinged supporters, who increasingly view their leadership with contempt and suspicion. The independents go where the prevailing wind blows, but that is increasingly not under the control of the MSM, who have to resort to ambushing the Sec Def with a zombie story.
The wars only started and removing a structure that is so deeply ingrained, and benefits its defenders so greatly will take more than four years, unless there’s a cataclysmic preference break that confronts the DS with a nemesis of existential proportions or they go for the Samson option, which does not bear thinking about.
Is USAID really cut out? Or is it still active but covered by the State Dept where it now resides?
PDJT cannot make laws.
Mike Johnson is currently MIA…
“Too early to panic.” Perhaps. I’m not seeing a lot of offense being played. Labor Day a bit late. There is no off time for MAGA. There are some important off-year elections taking place in November: VA and NJ gubernatorial races. Don’t give the Left any momentum by losing these races. Rally time. Bang hard your bully pulpit Mr. President!
Good question
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Marx wrote poems to satan. Go figure.
cool
now do Crook, the Butler PA shooter
BREAKING: 3rd Would-Be Trump Assassin Plotted with Telegram Account Linked to Ukrainian Cell Number — We’ve Identified the Account and Individual It’s Registered To
Strange – Powell forcefully and repeatedly has stated that the Fed’s job does not encompass either climate change or equity and refused to set policies due to them as their only job was the so-called dual mandate of inflation and unemployment.
“When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation….
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.—That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness… it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
It is implicit in Jefferson’s statement that the People cannot, and are not, to rely on their present government to solve the problems. It is illogical. This is a fairy-tale for adults. Dreamers. Those who are afraid, for whatever reason(s). No government, not even PDJT’s is going to restore our liberties. THAT, is our job. We are fooling ourselves if we believe PDJT and his administration have got this. Or, if that’s actually their motive and intent.
But, I think that we also must realize that we do not have to destroy this nation and its government in order to save it. In a nation of more than 335 million people, there are only a few thousand people who are bent on attacking it from within. If we are unified in our determination to uphold the true rule of law, and if we steadfastly refuse to allow these evildoers to succeed – they will not. No matter for how long they have succeeded up to now. The fundamentals of this nation are not “broken.” Abused, yes, but not broken.
We’re not a nation, Mike. You are redefining language. Not saying you’re doing it intentionally.
And, again, Jefferson’s quote holds firm in our present time. You are dreaming if you believe the political-class has any cares about you. It does not care about your liberties, and never will. This is Jefferson’s point. If you do not want your liberty, just say so. The Founders understood the importance of liberty and how to achieve it. We want comfort. We’re not uncomfortable enough, yet, all the moaning and groaning aside. So, I disagree, the fundamentals are broken. We don’t want liberty. We want comfort. A savior. Not going to happen.
I’m not trying to be combative with you, Mike. I’m simply saying that I believe you’re failing to take in a full-orbed perspective of what the Founders fought for, and, light of what they said and died for, willingly sacrificing their lives, property and reputations, very naive. They fought for for their liberty. What are we fighting for? Immigration? Trans “rights”? The “economy”? A cult figure as president?
This is where the Founders would have differed from us. For them, it was all about liberty. And they willingly died for it. Search their stories and what they went through. How many of us would be willing to do the same? I honestly don’t believe we care about liberty enough. This is why we fail. This point is what we are missing.
How sweet it is 😃😍😎
When does Fauci get arrested??
After they undo his pardon?
Aren’t several State AG’s attempting such?
Maybe when bondi gets replaced.
When Bondi is done appearing on Fox news for at least a month straight…
Don’t know who Benz’s Deep State insider sources are, but his analysis is amazingly accurate.
It is LONG past time to revisit Butler PA and the first attempt. Now this:
“A newly unsealed FBI affidavit reveals that 17-year-old Wisconsin native Nikita Casap — who murdered his parents, stole $14,000 in cash, and plotted to assassinate President Trump using a militarized drone — was communicating via Telegram with an overseas phone number registered to Vodafone Ukraine, one of the country’s largest mobile carriers. The Telegram username “PoМаН ВіКТОВИЧ” — written in Ukrainian Cyrillic — translates to Roman Viktorovich, the shadowy figure linked to a foreign cell guiding a would-be Trump assassin.”
There is a continuing Ukraine connection to ALL the attempts. Some folks even believe that the body on the roof was NOT Crooks, and that he is actually still alive and in Ukraine.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/breaking-3rd-would-be-trump-assassin-plotted-telegram/
Some folks believe? Maybe some folks believe he became a sentient zombie, and is secretly awaiting the rapture in an Antarctica bunker. Why would you post that obvious nonsense?
Do some research on the photos of the body on the roof. Look at the ear. I’ll wait. Oh, and who did the white van belong to? Riiiiight. Where is it now? And where is the owner? And check the audio analyses that show suppressed rounds. Now where might THOSE have come from? And why do so many pieces of nefarious stink seem to have a Ukraine connection? Less than a year and the entire Butler incident has been memory holed. That alone should set off the alarms. We are being distracted with JFK and Bobby and MLK documents. Look over there! Shiny! Shiny! Nothing to see here. These are not the droids you are looking for.
She needs to have the full force of the law (and the Trump curse) thrown at her.
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New in the Letitia Files: Did New York AG Letitia James Commit Insurance Fraud, Too? It Looks Like It
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/04/new-letitia-files-did-new-york-ag-letitia
Unless NPR figures its Federal Government funding is soon to be gone, why publish Fake News about the Trump administration other than for retribution?
Also published by NPR
So sick and tired of Trump and other Republicans running to social media X/truth social to whine. Either ignore the rulings or admit that you can’t keep your campaign promises due to you allowing the courts to dictate your presidency.
It’s still early.
the right is very good at summing-up their injustices on TV and social media. They have that nailed solid. What they can’t seem to do is fix any of it or bring about corrective action.
As an example, I’ve heard enough from everyone on J6 injustice. Do something about it with your GOP majority and your GOP DOJ and FBI or just shut the flip up. This is a good example of why the GOP can’t hold either the house or the senate for more than one election cycle. People get sick of their crap really fast. Me thinks it’s purposeful. They have no real intension of fixing anything. Business as usual is fine with them. Sickening.
Easter was attacked bad this year. Marxists left and right are saying they need to “reclaim” it. All the more reason to say “He is risen” if someone wishes you a Happy Easter.
Hallelujah!
Salvation started in Galilee…a young maid and an angel…
If we don’t recognize this, we have nothing. No promise, no hope, no redemption. It all becomes an exercise in futility and violence to get ones way.
Eric Daugherty
@EricLDaugh
OMG.
This is glorious. El Salvador just DENIED the 4 House Democrats’ request to meet with Kilmar Garcia!
“Our request has been denied.”
And the reason? Because it’s *not* an “official” trip… not taxpayer funded.
Cont….
Dexter Arrives in El Salvador, Demands Release of Wrongfully Deported Man
U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter (D-Ore.) has landed in El Salvador, joining three other Democratic lawmakers to demand the release of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a legal U.S. resident who was wrongfully deported and remains imprisoned despite a U.S. Supreme Court order requiring his return.
https://www.wweek.com/news/2025/04/21/dexter-arrives-in-el-salvador-demands-release-of-wrongfully-deported-man/
Maybe she should be deported to another country like Iran.
Well now most people totally understand my reason for leaving Oregon–Seems its only gotten more crazy or is the word I should use more dumb.
i find her terms acceptable
WHY—Kilmar Aberg Garcia is in his rightful country where he was born and is a legal citizen of.
Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia was born in the Los Nogales neighborhood of San Salvador on July 26, 1995, according to a declaration by his wife,
The why is that means she’ll be there for the rest of her life 😉
So its not mandatory that a US Representative attend sessions and still draw a salary…just asking for a friend 😛
Of course the Democrats have alot of representatives to counter any action by Republicans. I doubt they will even miss her presence eh? Let’s see what happens when she doesn’t appear…
House of Representatives Schedule
Tuesday, April 29, 2025
Hearing: Answering the Call: Examining VAs Mental Health Policies
10:00 AM | 360 Canon HOB
Host: Committee on Veterans’ Affairs | Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations
Hearing: Member Day
10:30 AM | 2362A Rayburn HOB
Host: Committee on Appropriations | Subcommittee on Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies
Hearing: Dignity Denied: The Case for Reform at State Veterans Homes
2:15 PM | 360 Canon HOB
Host: Committee on Veterans’ Affairs | Subcommittee on Health
So that means one less Dem vote against President Trump’s agenda. Works for me… Can we deport the rest of the Dems?
This is what happens when you don’t purge three letter agencies when you take over.
Republican Political Ad
Tells one all they need to know. We cannot rely on the system or the politicians to extricate us from it all. It’s on us. This makes many uncomfortable, but what other reasonable conclusion can one come to in light of the facts and evidence. Their hands are tied in various ways. Ours are not. Do we want liberty or not? That is the most fundamental question everything else hinges upon. Not social media influencers (however articulate and bright they may be), not gaslighting between the parties and their hired-hands (oftentimes the influences we may cite and/or admire), not words. Words seem to be what keep us from acting. Ever noticed that? Methinks there’s a reason. It keeps us from acting. It keeps us from securing our liberties. It is a game that we often do not recognize to keep us subdued and subjugated. They’re all in on it. It’s their bread and butter. Tell me I’m incorrect.
Paul Ryan, from his perspective, didn’t waste anything. He got trump to sign off on tax cuts, which is what his donors wanted, then froze him out for the remaining time.
The statement by China’s commerce ministry, which was in response to reports that Trump’s administration planned to use trade talks with multiple countries to try to isolate China, called on them to instead join Beijing to “resist unilateral bullying.”
Translation – “We see the pain coming, join us so we can unilaterally bully them.” (Chyna obviously doesn’t understand the world unilateral either)
ZH article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/china-will-never-accept-it-beijing-warns-countries-against-trade-deal-trump-chinas-expense
The Chyna statement:
https://www.mofcom.gov.cn/xwfb/xwfyrth/art/2025/art_3277f51446f143eda489a1bd5de6f72f.html
Meanwhile behind the curtains, plastics factories in Chyna may be the first group in trouble…
But with 125% tariffs in place, factories would have lost $184 for every ton of US ethane they processed in the week ending April 11, according to Rystad data. That compares with more than $100 they would have made in profits if there were no tariffs.
According to Bloomberg, the extra costs are another blow for China’s plastics sector, which is already dealing with a glut as the growth in production capacity exceeds demand. The tussle is also threatening other feedstocks, including natural gas liquids and propane, and has led to sharp drops in US prices, hardly the inflationary shock so many have predicted.
And come to an end it will, because as even Goldman forecast in its latest China forecast, the country’s GDP is about to fall off a cliff: the bank now expects China’s Q2 GDP growth to crater to just 0.8% QoQ from 4.9% in Q1. And that’s just the start, if China is unable to unleash a stimulus similar in size to what it did during covid.
The ZH article:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-plastics-factories-face-mass-closure-us-ethane-disappears
Ouch…from a fellow BRICSer too.
LOL
I’m slow this morning . What do her teachers have to do with tax preparation?